Poem to the photograph

Life Is An Ocean!!
by: Susan zheng

Sun dawning in the morning,
beaming and glowing over
the ocean.

Ocean is life.
It is filled with seashells,
fish, and crabs.

Watching the ocean water slap against the rocks,
feeling peace and calm.
Waves dancing and prancing under the blue hot sky.

My feet deep under the sand ,
tiny particles touching my skin.

I lay down to to see the sun dawn.
Life is an ocean,
ocean is my life,
ocean is what life should be.
(i'm bad at poems) -____- !

Photograph of the Girl

Photograph of the Girl
Sharon Olds

The girl sits on the hard gorund,
the dry pan of russia, in the drought
of 1921 stunned,
eyes closed, mouth open,
raw hot wind blowing
sand in her face. Hunger and puberty are
taking her together. She leans on a sack,
layers of clothes fluttering in the heat,
the new radius of her arm curved.
She cannot be beautiful,
 but she is starving. Each day she grows thinner, and her bones
grow longer, porous. The caption says she is going to starve to death that winter
with millions of others. Deep in her body
the ovaries let out her first eggs,
golden as drops of rain.

            
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Response to the poem-

                     This poem is really strong because the poet studied the picture really closely. She notices details in the photograph like how hungry the girl is and how sad she looks.
           
                      She also uses lots of simuli "dry pan russia" to a drought. She tries to include evreything she can get of the photo like the date and location of the drought and puts it into the poem . She even has the caption from the photo " The caption says she is going to starve to death that winter with millions of others". That line also can give a clue to the reader that alot of people are also starving not just the girl and they are really suffering badly from the drought.
              
                     She uses powerful words like "golden as drops of rain" to show that the girl is in her puberty , and that also means that the girl in the photograph is really young because this is her first time getting her period.

               

This is the picture I'm going to observe on for the ELA homework.

Observations: uses lots of colors like pink,purple and green.

The painter doesn't show the vase or the place the flowers are places in.

The flowers look like real life flowers and i can some purple paint that got splash on the painting on the bottom left purple flower.

The top of this painting is very different , because the flowers aren't very clear , but it catches your eyes.

Inferences: I love the colors the painter picked because they make the flowers look very beautiful. i could tell that , in the middle of the pictures the painter might have taken a long time to paint it but as you look on the sides the flowers look like some paint just spilled on it , but i think the painter did it on purpose to make the painting of flowers very beautiful and unique.

I think this pictures catches the meaning of nature or the beauty of nature and you should always treasure it.

Response on my research article

             The topic I search on was child abuse and so there was many article on the ms51library.org. The title of this article is called "child-abuse claims vs. parents' rights"; and i thought that this article wasn't fair. Children shouldn't get abuse by their parents because that's just not right , and we can't hit them back . But the government's interest is moving quickly to the safeguard children from abuse or neglet and the right of parents to raise and maintain a family without undue government interference. Even though parents are older and have more power over kids , they should think before they act. Sometimes, children can get abused when they do something wrong , or if you have someone in your family that hates you ,could be your step-mom or step-dad . Or if your parents are drunk they they hitting you from no reason. Abusing really harshly ,can ruin the image the child gives you. State procedures to investigate allegations of child abuse have been a topic of nation concern after more then 400 hundred children from polygamist groups ranch in Texas were taken from their parents and held for nearly two months in foster care .
      Now parents can be aware of that ,if you really want your child and love your child; then you shouldn't hit them , because in the end you will just end up losing someone you are about , and be sent away as a foster child; a child as you can call it , with no parents. It's a scary thing for the child because s/he will have to live with someone they don't know, because they can't b safe at home.
     Parents also have right's for teaching their child what is right to do and what is wrong to do , but maybe hitting them and scolding at them won't make it an better ; it will just make them more scared of you as a parent.
       Th safety pan program began in 1995. Safety plans offered to an estimated 100000 Illinois families per year.There is no record that any parent has ever refuse to participate in a safety plan and risk having the state take custody of his or her children. Child abuse is a serious issue and will separate the child an the parent for safety of the child.

Media/News Immersion

Saturday 23 , 2010 : (from the newspaper new york times)

Man Is Shot Dead in Manhattan Diner

By AL BAKER AND COLIN MOYNIHAN

an Is Shot Dead in Manhattan Diner

By AL BAKER AND COLIN MOYNIHAN

A 28-year-old man was fatally shot at a diner in Manhattan early Saturday morning, the police said.
The social issue for this article is that the death is increasing for this year.
lots of people are dieing and i think that people should be aware of that because this is a
dangerous action increasing.
An employee at the diner, at 109 West 14th Street, said a fight had occurred between customers. - Small things like fighting over something can lead to death because you may never know what the other person might think about you , and what will s/he do to you. Many of these clubs/bars/lounges are causing horrendous quality of life problems. That's why some people shouldn't go out at night.


Monday 25, 2010- (newspaper daily news)


A deranged creep attacked a women and her friends that was with her , in central park sources said " Ronald fox 47 allegedly pounced on the victim, who was with three pals, in the rambles near East 74 street at 11:05 am. He punched her, then threw sticks at her friends. This is another example of a social issue which is abuse. Lots of adults say that it better to hang out with friends when you are on the streets because you can help each other out when someone is in trouble. But still at the same time you still need to be aware of your surroundings because you may never know when some kind of drunk guy comes around.


Tuesday 26, 2010


From the newspaper i read this article called "murder making a deadly come back".
It was about how the city's murder rate has shot up nearly 15 percent this year, the NYPD recorded 437 murders as of Sunday , compared with 382 in the same period as last year. " It's not bad like it was years ago" said Frankie Bourn age 48 . " But with people losing jobs , It is only going to get worse " . The social issue in this passage is
losing jobs and murder. Losing jobs is a major issue because it leads to depression and many other problems.

Wednesday 27, 2010 ( newspaper daily news)
Bike lane Pains Gains-

The issue the department of transportation plans for new bike lanes around new york city. Those changes were implemented without any input from citizens , wasting money while new york city goes bankrupt. Worst of all, bike lanes paralyze commercial traffic, making life even more difficult. I think the social issue for this article is pollution , we need more bike lanes so that we won't have to drive our cars that put gas in the air and destroys the atmosphere. That's why the department of transportation is trying to build new bikes lanes which is doing a favor for new york citizens.

Write a poem or song responding to a specific social problem/issue!

Bullying- by: susan zheng ( I'm really not a good poet!)

Behold of them
Uncertain when they come
Longing for freedom
Lots of scary faces
Yikes
I want to become invisible
No, someone come save me
Gone

Read and respond to songs and/ or poems on social promblems!

One Friendly Smile

He sits on the swing, head dipped,
ashamed of something he can’t control
He holds his broken glasses in his dirt-stained hands,
thinking that being half-blind has to be better than this.

Shoving them in his pocket, he shuffles toward the door,
content to wait till the class is inside before he follows.
He shoots a fiery glare across the room at the boy
with the fists, the boy who makes his life a living hell.

And without a sound, he mouths, “someday,
you're gonna get it, you'll see.”  But for now,
he lays his head on his crossed arms and rests
as he dreams of retribution, and buries a sob.

Years later, in a television interview, students agree,
“He was a loner, but we never thought he could do that."
His mother, in her disbelief, imagined she could see her baby,
cradling his twisted glasses, crying “why don’t they like me.”

And now it was her turn to be ashamed of something
she could not control.  She only hoped that someone, somewhere,
remembered that day in the playground, and could finally see
how their actions tumbled into the future, how one friendly smile,

one invitation to play, one neglected impulse to strike or belittle,
could have changed history, saved lives, saved her baby.

( This poem was from writing.com )


I think this poem is talking mainly about bullying and how scary it is to the child begin bullied like when it states "He shoots a fiery glare across the room at the boy with the fists, the boy who makes his life a living hell." i think using the word living hell really makes the sentence really strong and stands out ,i think  it means that bullying is really painful that you can go to hell , with all the burning fire and devils. I think this poem is really well written because i feel like , i can feel what the person feels when he is begin bullied , because of the feelings and emotions written.