Exhibition Night

I think that Exhibition night went good for me. I didn’t really have any problems during the presenting. For both parts of the night I didn’t really talk to that many people. So it was easy for me. My strengths were getting the dialogue across to the people who did come and talk to me. I felt that the people who came in had a better understanding of the story and of the pinhole camera lab when they left. The weakness was not focusing when I was doing my drawing
One of the difficult encounters were when people kept on asking the same question but I handled it by just answering it. I would have more visuals to show the audience.

When we were doing the character study today, I learned that my character is a little bit on the shy side. Since he just moved over to the United States from Berlin, Germany he doesn’t really know anyone there. I also learned more on the other main characters in my story. Such as, Max is a little more aggressive and is always true about what he says. Something that I learned about myself was that doing these dramatizations helps me overcome me being shy when it comes to performing in front of some sort of an audience.

While I was watching the other short skits that were being performed it was giving me new ideas of how I could add into my character. I think that I should show how he is scared because he doesn’t know anyone there. I think that it would be best if I showed and explained a little bit of how Abel felt about Hitler’s speeches. For my other characters I think that we pretty much showed and acted out how they were.

Character Bio And Story Synopsis

Character Novel and story Synopsis

PEOPLE OF THE STORY:

Abel Weber was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921 and he is 5’9” and weighs 181 pounds. He has blonde hair and blue eyes. Was a high school dropout and joined world war 2, and then he got drafted into the American army when he was 19. He moved out of Germany when he was 17 and He did not believe in Hitler’s speeches, his other family members and his friends all believed in his movements, and his acts. He was constantly made fun of and picked on because of what he believed in.

Max Whitfield was born in Washington D.C in 1918 and he is about 6 feet with dark brown hair and he is about 179 pounds his eyes are dark blue. He graduated high school and believed strong in politics.
He was always in shape and played a lot of baseball he was a big fan of the Yankees and his father was a former Yankees outfielder and he collected baseball cards ever since he was 7. He also got drafted into the army and was in the big red one division.

Adal Heilbronner was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921 and he is 5’8 and weighs about 176 pound and has light brown hair and blue eyes. He was a high school graduate, and graduated at 18. He was very educated in almost every subject and loved helping out people.

SYNOPSIS:

Abel was getting ready to leave class as the bell had rang at the end of the day. He walks back to his house and goes to his room to get his homework done. Living in Germany isn’t easy for him because of the conflicts with Hitler and his speeches. He is strictly against what Hitler says unlike many others that he knows. Abel and his friend Adal both believe in different things one follows Hitler and agrees with what he says and Abel doesn’t. They end up not being friends because what the two of them believe in.
Later Abel Moved out of Germany after constant teases and being jumped all the time by his other friends and other people. He couldn’t take any more of Hitler’s speeches and everything that was happening around him. He moved out of Germany in 1938.

Seminar-16, beautiful, voter

I read the article and annotated it by highlighting it, and writing down notes on the side of the page. I talked about how I didn't think that the voting age should be lowered because I don't think that eight teen year olds are even ready to vote. Others in my group pretty much said the same thing and almost all of us agreed that lowering the voting age would be a mistake.
I didn't agree with the author when she said "Why stop at voting". I thought that if we lowered ages for other things like marriage, six teen year olds would be making a huge mistake. If adults are getting divorced a lot, then imagine what the divorce rate of teens would be. I don't believe that they are ready to make that decision at that age. The part that I did agree with was how there should be a test to see if six teen year olds were able to vote. According that you would be choosing the president of the United States.
A major point was talking about lowering other things. Such as lowering the marriage age and drinking. If we lowered the drinking age then that would be a major mistake because then teens would be more tempted to drink behind their parents back. And marriage is to big of a responsibility. Teens are still in school and there is no way they could help support that, especially if they had kids.

Vocab Quiz

In the e-mail it says that a lot of college students are pumped about Obama. In Iowa there was a Coalition of students who supported him, and he got a lot of votes from that state. Throughout Baracks campaign he has been very Progressive by gather college students to vote for him. In the article it states that he focuses on the youth too. Obama has gotten more votes from the youth then Clinton, and more than Mike Huckabee, the Conservative Evangelicals. Even though Mike got votes from Christians he still didn't get as much as Obama with the youth. In one of the state's students 17 who would be turning eight teen by the general elections were Suffrage. Obama also targeted his speeches to them because he knew he could get some votes from them too. Obama knew that if he could get votes from the youth then he would have a better chance of staying ahead in the elections and could possibly become Incumbent when the new president is elected. Being able to get youth voters to vote for Obama has helped him out a lot. Obama would change the economy, and has targeted his speeches to the youth to help him get votes. He would be Liberal to help change problems and make our economy better and focus help out students.

Reflection on election

During this mock election I learned a lot about the different candidates and where they stood for many of the main issues in the United States. I also got a better understanding of how important it is to vote so that ways you have a say in what you think is best for the country. Throughout class we talked about voting statistics, and how people don't vote as much particularly in eighteen to twenty five years old. This gave me a good chance to understand how important it is to vote.
I thought this was a really interesting project because I got to see and act out what it would be like to be a candidate in the elections. To me I liked how we did this instead of just reading about every candidate in the running for presidency. From the other students who were doing other candidates I could get information on them to if I wasn’t for what there opinions were I might change my mind after their presentation.
The only challenging thing that I had encountered was picking out what I thought was most important to my topic because economy had a wide variety of sub topics. I liked this project because to me it was something that I had never done before, and I was learning about something that was actually happening and could affect my future, depending on who is elected president. Before I had never really followed the elections just whoever won in the end. After this project I have been seeing who is in the lead and watching the standings more frequently.