Mini-Research Project

My question was "who's better, Beyonce or Rhianna and why"? When I interviewed five students, four of them liked Beyonce and only one picked Rhianna. The reason why Shante and Lauren picked Beyonce was that they said "She gives better performance and she dances well". Jessie and James also said "Beyonce sings better than Rhianna". When it came to Lavon, he picked Rhianna and he suggested that "She sings better than Beyonce".

Barack Obama Reflection

When I found out that Obama was voted for president I was so happy and I knew our country was finally going to have change. If it wasn't for people protesting outside and people knocking on doors telling adults and younger adults to vote we would never have Barack Obama as a president. One thing that he said in his speech was "America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for this country that we love". That quote meant something to me because I knew he was telling the truth and he meant everything he said.

Animal Farm Rough Draft

Although Animal Farm appears to be a
Simple story about animals, it is actually
A satire of Russian society. It’s about a farm
That is taken over by overworked animals
And try to make it have justice and equality.
In Animal Farm, the pigs use stories to inspire
Others, to empower themselves, and to oppress
The other animals of the farm.

First off, the pigs tell stories that inspire the animals.
Old Major gave a speech before he died. He said he had a wonderful dream that the animals would take over the farm. He wanted all animals to be equal and can have freedom. Another story that inspired was the story of the windmill. Snowball said, “Electricity could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, beside supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.” This inspires the animals because they wouldn’t have to do any more work because the windmill will provide for them. The last stories the pigs tell the other animals to inspire them were the story of the rebellion. Frederick and Pilkington changed their tune and began to talk about how the Animal Farm is terrible. These are the stories that inspire the other animals.

Second the animals told stories to empower the animals on the farm. Napoleon changed the Fourth Commandments without any of the animals knowing. “It says, No animals shall sleep in a bed with sheets”. A different one is the milk and apples that empowered the animals. Squealer told them “Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We are brainworkers”. The third one that empowered the animals was eggs. One Sunday morning Squealer announced, “Hens who had just come in to lay again must surrender their eggs”. The rerason why he said that so pigs could have eggs for free so they don’t have to pay for them and these are the stories Squealer lied about for power.

Finally there are stories that the pigs told the animals to oppress them. Napoleon took away the meetings because he said there is no point in having them anyway. Another is Napoleon slaughtered the animals. He told most of the animals to come up and confront him and lie and say, “They saw Snowball”. Finally Napoleon changed the commandment to only one and it said, “Some animals are more equal than others”. These were the stories that oppress the animals.

So in Animal Farm the pigs used different stories to inspire, empower, and to oppress the other animals of the farm. In all my main points show how the pigs were mostly in charged and the other animals had to follow them. It matters because the same stuff that happened in the happens in real life. The book is based in Russian time.

Jackie Robinson Rough Draft

Jackie Robinson


Jackie Robinson was a hardworking man and the youngest of five children.

He was born in Cairo Georgia in 1919 during a Spanish flu. His middle

Name was in honor of former president Theodore Roosevelt. His family

Were sharecroppers and after their father left them in 1920 they moved

To Pasadena California. Raised by a single mother, Jackie Robinson grew

Up in relative poverty and joined a local neighborhood gang. In 1935

He graduated from Dakota Junior High School and enrolled in John

Muir High School. There he played on various sport teams and they was:

Football, basketball, track, and baseball. In 1936 Jackie Robinson won

The junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro

Tournament and the next year he played for the high school basketball team.

After leaving his high school, Robinson attended Pasadena Junior College

Where he continued to play sports. After leaving PJC in 1940 he transferred

To University of California, Los Angeles where he became the school’s first

Athlete to win letters in four sports. He was one of our four African American

Players on the 1939 UCLA Bruins football team. In 1946 Jackie Robinson

Came to Daytona Beach, Florida for spring training with the Montreal Royals.

He was banned from playing in Jacksonville and Sanford, but not in Daytona.

3rd Annotation

Jackie Roberson was born January 31, 1919 and was the first African-American baseball player. He died October 24, 1972 being the most talented person ever and played in many sports. He became a political activist in his post-playing days. Jackie Robinson was the youngest of five children and in 1935 he graduated from Dakota Junior High School then enrolled in another high school.

1st Annotation

When I read the article about Jackie Robinson it gave me a brief discription on how he bacame the first black baseball player. This article was secondary source and it was mostly about Jackie Robinson. This article was helpful to me because I got to learn more about him and how he started to become famous. Jackie Robinson was very smart and talented..

Jackie Robinson

I choose Jackie Robinson for my NHD project because I am interested in how he became the first African-American baseball player and how he started his career. This person is important to history because without his efforts it wouldn't be baseball and wouldn't became the first African-American baseball player.