Harassment

                                                                                                             Hussein F.

                                                                                                                  6/3/11

                                                                                                                   per.1

                                                   Harassment

            One type of harassment is bullying. People get bullied almost everyday. When bullies see people that are not perfect like them, they start talking badly to them. For example, one time when I was outside my house their was a kid that looked like he was a nerd walking home alone and these to guys that looked like bullies started to follow him and call him names. They even said, "give me your money."

Then they started to push him and it was sad because the little kid was trying to run away. As soon as  the bullies saw me coming to help the little kid, the two bullies ran away and the kid was really hurt. Some people get bullied because they are gay and some people don’t like seeing guys with guys. When bullies these guys and look at how they are dressed, they make fun of what they are wearing.

Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the CST 2

Hector E.

4/8/11

Per.2

The CST

            The California standards test (cst) is a test we must take after every school year from Second to Eleventh Grade. This test is a multiple-choice test with one essay to be written at the end. This test is taken to determine how much you have improved in the school year and then they determine if you are smart or not.

            The problem with this test is that it’s developed by California educators and test developers specifically for California. They believe that were supposed to pass a test written by genius and they expect students to pass with a proficient or advanced score. This test is not taken serious by some students because it’s a boring test. The test has so many questions that students get tired of reading and answering questions. Each day you test on a different subject like English, Math, Science, and History.

            I think that students don’t really care about this test because you score good or bad you move onto the next grade. If the test had more consequences like if they didn’t pass they will repeat that grade then students would actually try harder and pass.

            The test takes a week to complete and students after a week get tired of sitting their butts down on a chair for three hours. If the test was really important to school then they would offer classes were students could come and see the test released questions so that way students wouldn’t be as lost as when they see the questions. I believe that when we get the test we blank out because the first questions are about what we learned from the beginning of the school year and then from what we learned recently.

            The worst part of the test is the English part because we got to read like 20 essays and answer like Five questions and then answer like 30 multiple choice questions and write a essay on a topic chosen by the test in like 20-30 min. the teachers hurry us up and tell us that if we don’t finish the test that we wont be able to finish. This is all a lie after the test if not done then students may take more time to finish.

            The math part of the test also has the hardest question at the end you have to solve a problem probably written by Albert Einstein. First we solve the general questions and then we get into a little bit harder questions and at the end then we get the hardest questions. To finish the test we must answer a word problem that is the most difficult one of test.

            The test is really dumb and I believe this test is just taken to put us down. The test should be taken in middle school and not high school and that way students get over the test and worry more important stuff then studying for the year-end test. I believe the state has control of schools and that way teachers don’t teach us what they know because they must follow rules.

Harassment

Johanna G.

Period 2

06/03/11

Harassment

         Harassment is all over the world these days especially in schools. If there is evidence from someone that’s being harassed, it is considered as a crime. There are different kinds of harassment like name-calling, bullying and sexual harassment. Many people don’t realize that harassment hurts others around them.

         Many people and kids name-call each other and the most common words that are used among each other is gay and fag. These words are referred to a person as a bisexual. Victims of these types of name-callings may feel threatened or oppressed.

Bullying is a type of harassment and form of abuse. Teens, kids and even adults find a weak person to target and just bully them around. Types of bulling is just pushing their target around, hitting them and hurting them. It is said that bullying leads to several cases of suicides every year because the person being target, can just take so much and they are fed up with it.

          Sexual harassment is common in every part of the world. The most common one is when people make hurtful comments about another person’s sex. One example is when men or boys, make comments about women in general. There is sexual harassment at work, school and even home. There is no way to stop it but people can prevent it and avoid it. By avoiding it people can just ignore it and know that all this harassment is childish and they have better things to do than sit around and worry about this problem.

        

         

Pit Bulls

Jocelyn C.

Per.2

June 3, 2011

                                         Pit Bulls

            I love all kinds of animals even though they can be ugly , fat, skinny, or deformed. I feel something very special for all of them. But the ones I can say get to me the most are dogs. Dogs are the most common animals to be abused. Especially when it comes to pit bulls. Pit bulls are the way they are for the same reason people make them that way.

             Most of the owners just buy them for fighting. They train them to be mean and to fight and kill. I know for a fact that if they were treated and raised like any other normal dog they wouldn’t kill or hurt anybody around them. Instead mean people get them to make money off them not only for their fights they win but also for the babies they have. If it would be them and if it was their choice I know they would rather have a normal life and not have a sad and short life. The pit bull dog does not last a long time with a life of just fighting and killing. If they don’t kill it’s a big probability that they will be the ones getting killed.

             People that do this to these animals have no heart and don’t care about them and just them self. They should think about things before doing them and give them the right to live and have a normal live. 

Abductions

Ivan O 

Period 5

3-23-11

English 

Abductions

Some people don’t believe in aliens while others do because they had experience one of the seven kind of encounters or heard stories about aliens/UFOs. To me, the fourth kind of encounter is the worse because this is when an alien abducts a person without leaving any evidence. You wouldn’t even know if they kidnapped you because they would erase aliens your memory, but they are some cases where the person does remember what happened to them on the night of the abduction.   

One of the most famous alien abduction cases was from Travis Walton. He wrote a book about everything he experienced, which led to a movie called “fire in the sky”.

This happened in Texas in 1975, when Travis and his friends finished working cutting down trees. They were on the way home when they spotted a red light coming through the trees, a hundred yards away and decided to check it out. On their way, they thought the light would be sun set or trees that went on fire, but when they got there it was something else. It was a golden UFO hovering well below the treetops. Travis then got out of the truck to have a better view. The UFO shot Travis with a ray, which threw him on the ground. When this happened his friends started to freak out and took off, leaving Travis behind. When they were really far they stopped. They were thinking about Travis and went back really frighten. When they arrived they couldn’t see Travis anywhere, plus there was no evidence. They decided to report this to the police.    

Travis woke up with pain all over his body. At first he thought he was in the hospital but he was in a room and saw three horrible creatures with huge eyes, and head, with a little body and were about five feet. They were trying to get him but he resisted them and knocked two aliens down with his elbow. He then got a pipe that was in the floor to defend himself. The three aliens gave up and left. Travis noticed that there were tools like the ones that are in a laboratory. He was really scared and left the room, walking down the hallway he found a human being that didn’t talk. Travis followed him and later found three other humans, which were two men and a woman. The human beings then took him into a room and tried to lay him down gently onto the table. The woman then put a soft plastic oxygen mask over his mouth. He then felt very weak and fell asleep. When he woke up he was on the highway in Herber. He then went to a gas station and called her sister. When they got there, they saw Travis all scared. Duane then told him “you’ve been missing for five days.”  

I am one of the many people that believe in aliens, but I would never want to be in this situation. I would never want to have contact with these creatures in any kind because the way they describe the aliens, it’s scary. I asked some of my friends “what would you do if you see an alien entering your room?” One of my friend said that he would ask the alien questions. If it happens to me, I would run away all scared. Do you believe in aliens?

Marinello

                                                      Evely R.

                                                                                                                           4/17/11

                                                           

When I complete my studies at Marinello I plan to open my own salon. I want to give all my customers tips on how to improve their make-up skills. I would also help people by creating a website that will that will assist them how to improve their appearance by use of make-up. My website will allow people to communicate with me. They would be able to ask me questions about applying make-up.

During high school I’ve been a very outstanding student. My grade point average is a 2.8 and all my grades have been excellent so far. I am a very trustworthy person that can be trusted to doing anything.Whenever I am asked to do something, I accomplish it with diligence. I thirst for knowledge about everything I can learn working with Marinello. I’m a person that never stops working until I complete my task. I am always on time for school and never absent. I am a very loving and, cheerful person.

My parent immigrated to the United States from Sinaloa, Mexico. My mother had the hardest time getting across the border. She got caught the first time she tried. So the next time she had to constantly be on the move. At times she could not sleep or eat because of the stress, but thank goodness she made it on her second attempt. My dad was luckier he made it on his first attempt.

In my family there are four kids. There names are Marcos, Yoselin, Melanie, and finally Evely.

Since I am the first from amongst my siblings to start my career early I want to give my parents a better life. I want to give them all the things they could never afford for themselves. I want to give back everything they’ve done for me in the past. They’re the greatest gift I could ever receive. We need to cherish our parents and especially love them the most.

Unauthorized Immigrants

Christian P.

Period #2

05/23/11                                    Unauthorized Immigrants

                       

                       

                       

            Unauthorized immigrant is another word for illegal alien. Most people use different words to describe people who don’t belong in the U.S .,who are not citizens. Therefore those who believe in open borders, non-regulation of foreigners entering the U.S, use the words “unauthorized immigrant”. A lot of companies hire people without papers because most of them don’t like their jobs or they’re just lazy.

            There’s about 2,600,000 illegal immigrants in the U.S. or even more. What I am trying to say is that many people talk bad about them and want them kicked out of the country. But then who would do the jobs that people don’t like to do? This country is really big, we just all have to learn how live with one another. Even though people lose there jobs because they’re other people who would do it for less, it’s not that persons fault.

            The reason why companies hire people without papers is because if something were to happen during the job the company wouldn’t have to pay for anything. Therefore, the people would pay from their pocket. For many years there been many immigrants coming form all over the world, and so far they are still coming to have a better life. Now there is more Latinos in the United States then blacks and white and our population is still growing.

            Although most of the students at Bell High School don’t have their papers, they still have high goals and ambitions.  One thing that I think should change is the way that students are treated. They are forced to pay cash or put of pocket for school when they are not natural born citizens of the U.S.  Lastly because of the economy schools have raised the price on books, and things like computers forcing students to pay more.

            For all these reasons, immigrants should have more opportunities that will allow them to become contributing members in society. Who knows what they could have been. If given the right education, some could make a difference. 

Me

         Christian Pineda

         Period 2                                    

         Nov.3, 2010

                                                            ME

          I am an athlete. My passion is learning how to play different sports and being good at them. One of my biggest passions  is football, the reason why I like it so much is because you compete with many different schools and you have to compete to earn your starting position.

         I was born in East Los Angeles on August 19, 1993. My mother named me Christian even though a lot of people have that name. Most of my friends call me by my nickname, which is Pancake. I’m a senior now at Bell High School and I play for Bell Varsity football team. I have been in football for four years now, and I plan to join wrestling after season.  One thing about me is that when it comes to making decisions; I sometime tend to pick the wrong choice. There are five children in my family and every one has graduated from Bell.  Now it’s my turn,  because I'm the last one.

         I been living in Bell for seventeen years. I have a pet lizard whose name is Fred. I got him on my birthday, he's four feet long and one foot wide. I plan to study animals and play football after high school or at a university. I love to work with animals because I use to work at a pet store called Kong Pets.

         Another thing about me is that I have a big appetite after football games. The reason why I don’t like it, is because I’m too tired to eat.

Are Immigrants Really Breaking the Law by Looking for a Better Life?

Christopher Velasquez

Period 2

How would I respond to people who say immigrants do not deserve a path to citizenship because they are breaking the law by coming here and staying here? 

I would be angry but I know that won’t help. I would go to a city meeting and convince the people that processing this law is cruel  to immigrants. Everyone deserve the right to. If the counsel members and the senators had any relatives that are immigrants would have something to relate to. Those immigrants left behind had just to come for a better opportunity in the U.S  If they want to get rid of illegal people then why are they working in picking cotton fields and other sorts that of fruit packing job that has a no decent pay and no health care benefits because. They could get a monkey to do it but that’s also against the law because that would be animal cruelty. No other Americans would do those certain jobs because they are considered slave work. When they use Americans they still complain when the economy is bad. You don’t see any Americans working in the factory, fields or Mickey D’s; they are concerned in putting them in offices. They take our jobs. They have the second highest crime rate in the U.S. Big companies hire them on as slaves to work cheap while hard working Americans that have built this country sit unemployed at home. 

Many government officials think Mexico is full of poverty and if you allow them to all come here, that's what our country will turn into. They are wrong if government thinks they have enough land to build new places to live and make more jobs. For example, if a city is adding more lanes in the highways wouldn’t that require more workers? Knocking old houses to rebuild more modern and stable ones, wouldn’t that require more workers? And fixing the pot holes in the city of Los Angeles, wouldn’t that require more workers? The U.S has lots of ways to solve this economic problem. It's just that they are to scared to deal with it and to waste money out of  their pockets to employ others.

ED "BIG DADDY" ROTH

JORGE M

PER.1

MAY20, 2011 

                                                                             ED”BIG DADDY” ROTH

           

In my opinion, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth is one of the most creative and intelligent people. A  former Bell High school student that started In 1937 and finished in 1940. When he was in school he took auto shop and drawing that’s where it all started. His love for fixing cars and drawing made him super famous. He invented the cartoon rat (rat fink) that most people like. Rat fink was used a lot in auto media and is still going on. He also invented the first car made out fiber glass, which he called the outlaw. Nobody has ever seen a car like the outlaw. People wanted buy it but he didn’t want to sell it because that was his first  car and it was different from every other car.  He lived in the city of Bell for several years and opened several shops to work on cars and pin strip,flames and air brushing shirts and sweaters with rat fink and creepy monsters that most people like. Several of his shops are still open now but have changed names, like Bell auto shop and Maywood auto shop; near the motel and the gas station.

      Rat fink all started out when Ed Roth was thinking about Mickey Mouse. He hated it so much that he wanted to make his own Mickey Mouse that looked so ugly, smelly, and was hairy. He drew it on a napkin when he was in a burger joint that was called the Greasey Spoon,  now it’s called Chris Burger in Maywood. Even though many years have passed, people continue to use the character Rat Fink.