Police assembly

I am taking a class called A nations's argument. This is is about the different opinions and how to create a good argument. We had a policing Assembly which is a gathering of people talking to some people in higher positions such as police officer or a community organizer. Police suicides are dramatically higher than average. They are subjected to a lot more job stress which includes regretting shooting people. Also they are frustrated because they can't arrest known criminals. Also bad treatment by the public causes low self esteem.




In conclusion, its agreed that police rates are higher but some people think that the force attracts suicidal people already. Even if this is true the job stress still plays a big role in the cause.

America are you in or out ? ARG AP2

For my class A Nations Argument we are learning about the US entry test. We reviewed some of these questions in class and saw that they are not as straight forward as they should be. They are either too vague or way too many opinions to answer. I also think they should be a few community type questions. I think the community is a huge part of America and it is good to know if these people would help out there neighbor regardless of race, gender, and beliefs.

I choose these three questions because I feel like these questions can be different for everyone and I feel like there are other ways to answer these questions and I will also talk about could be a bit better.
What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
I think this is a question that is too vague
What is the “rule of law”?
I feel like this type of question is calling to to
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
I feel this is a way to bring general because there can be many answers such as the peace marches in the '60s or Martin Luther kind JR.
I feel like these are too opinion based questions and I feel as if the questions should be either right or wrong and not led in other interpretations. Not everyone has the same thoughts about morals common beliefs, Some of these questions have multiple answers, and some are too vague. That's why we need to amend some of these. I also think it should be a level of difficulty to it. For example, not what day was John F Kennedy assassinated, but more like who was John F Kennedy and what were some events that took place during his term? Here are some questions that I think would be better to determine if they are ready to be here

How do the three branches work together to prevent a dictatorship?
this will show if they understand why these branches are set up the way they are

If a neighbor of yours commits a crime and the police come to your door asking for information about that person would you help them

This answers if they are willing to assist police and law enforcement

who was the first African American US president?

This is to see if they know recent history.

My amendment is I propose that the entrance exam is changed to be a lot more of a yes-no type quiz like you would have in 8th-grade history. I feel like the questions that can have multiple answers and the ones that can be interpreted wrong or feel too vague.


Someone who agreed with me is a Peer of mine in school named D.S. "That's a very good point OL, I think that you're right. I agree with you." A good friend of mine named SB is willing to cosign this document. Also five out of six reviews in my class supported it.

This image is community helping out in the floods in New Orleans. This relates because this is the type of mindset that I think will be the most successful. That is why I asked the Police question.  Being involved in the community is a keystone of the American lifestyle and is very important.

Diddly Bow show

This second action project was about sound. In class, we made a diddly bow. what this is, is a 2x4 wood plant with a can and a guitar string with a battery to tighten the string and a few nails. In this, I will go into how it works and a few calculations about its frequency and wavelength.



The bow will use the string to vibrate all the way through the can and the can will amplify it.

The types of waves it makes are affected by the amount of pressure put on the string while playing it.  another measurement used in this is pitch meaning higher low lower sound. When you hit the string it vibrates and then gets amplifies the sound and leave through the resonator.


All together the Bow was 40 cm. I knew that the middle point was 20 cm. The 1/4 mark was at 10. The 1/3 mark was at 13.3. The 2/3 mark was at 23.3 and the 3/4 mark was 30. The thickness of the string was 0.04 inches. basically what I calculated was the

my string length was 15 inches. the frequency is 661 hertz then I divided this from 343 which is the speed of light and got .518.

I actually really enjoyed this project. I think it is because I like to work with my hands and less textbook type learning. I really enjoyed the woodworking workshop last year and this made me remember the fun I had in that class. I also think it was a really good way to learn about sound because we had to figure out how to tighten the string ourselves and really didn't have any directions which I liked.

Its time for light sound and time

This class is called Light Sound and time. We are learning about light and how it can change. For example this AP we constructed a pinhole camera and learned about how it can capture an image. We took a field trip to the Latin school of Chicago to visit the darkroom to develop a picture we took through the camera.





So what I hope you got from this was I made a pinhole camera and I learned a lot about light and how it can be captured and it can bend and shift. I actually really liked the FE to the darkroom and I wish it would be practical for GCE to have one but it really wouldn't. All in all, this was very interesting I really enjoyed learning how prisms work and I'm excited to learn about sound.

The Future of Flight

The future of flight

GCE says that it is about global experiences how could one have these if they limit what we learn. Usually, the information in school isn't too captivating to me but this will be. I want to become a pilot in the spring I'm doing ground training but I also want to know about the past and how flight stated with a though of humans flying and turned into a multi-billion dollar industry

The purpose of school is to learn things that might impact your future. Most things right now might not seem relevant but they might come back someday maybe not but its good to know so if it does you can look like you know what's going on. Some unalienable rights are the right to liberty. I am free to choose what I want to research and how that research might affect my future is my choice to use it or not. It relates to life because this impacts my future which can have a major effect on my life at a later time. This also affects the pursuit of happiness because I want to be a pilot and I feel like no job I might have would compare to being able to fly a plane and I know that will make me happy.

My guiding question is how will the past affect the future of flight? Three persuasion points I want to make our first, the aircraft industry always needs new ideas, second, there is a need for young pilots because there aren't many, third, The flight industry is one of the biggest in the world. I have a prediction, just like the invention of the wheel, aircraft designers are going to find something that will remake the whole entire idea of airplane travel and I want to be in the business when it occurs. Some things I want to learn with the course I will take are broad things. For example whats the lowest speed you can fly at in a Boeing 474 without stalling out. I also want to learn more about the thinkers who didn't invent the airplane but tried to with wingsuits and gliders. I will need a work area and I would want to meet with a historian and a pilot.

An idea for an AP would be to focus on the specific plane I will dive into researching that one. I will need my computer and I want to purchase a book called Flight: A complete history by RG Grant.




This is a good chance for me to learn something that I want and a good opportunity to affect my future.

“Silver Express by Flying Academy .” FAA Flight School Silver Express by Flying Academy, www.silverexpress.com/EN/flight-school.


Crouch, Tom D., et al. “History of Flight.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 3 Dec. 2018, www.britannica.com/technology/history-of-flight.

AP biomimicry 3 Redesign of old planes

In this class, we learned about how things decompose and how some things should be reused to save resources and prevent axis waste. For this action project, I designed a system to waste less material. I saw how planes just go to a graveyard like a place and rot and I thought why can't we just scape them and recycle all the aluminum in them. To wrap it up what I took away from this was that there are many different ways to reuse things that are "out of commission". I feel like this is a good idea and they should at least try it. I feel as if it can save a lot of aluminum and reduce the number of harmful chemicals given off

Stand by me

Movie title: Stand by me

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Director & Date of release:

Rob Reiner 1986

Main actors:

River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, Corey Feldman  

A group of 4 13-year-old boys goes on the search for a dead body. Throughout the movie, there are a few arguments which really make them think about how they are spending two days to find a dead body and they start doubting continuing the search. Gordie Lachance convinces everyone to keep going because he felt like there was something missing because his older brother Denny died in a jeep crash and since then his parents have been ignoring him. They finally find the body and then they run into Ace Merrill and his “Cobras”. They want credit for the find and Ace is willing to kill them. Gordie pulls out a Colt .45 that Chris stole from his dad and make them back off. They set the body to sea and forget the credit for it. They go back to town and all go their separate ways and talk about how they are going to see less of each other now because of junior high.


Something I noticed Old clothes Chris’ clothes is more worn than the others. This shows that chairs’ family does not have a lot of money like the others Stephen King said this was semi-autobiographical soi think he had a really close friend who was poor. Stephen kind chooses a lot of these amazing shots on purpose such as when they got back.

There is not GCI in this movie. I thought the train scene was GCI because they jumped past a train but the way they filmed it was just having the train a lot further away then what it actually was but they zoomed in on the train so it looked closer.

The film's score was unique and gives you a nostalgic feeling which doesn't occur with many other films now. Also, they use the radio as like kind of a mood meter in the day it's more upbeat and at night it plays slower songs.

There are many good sounds but one of the best is when he fired the gun at the barrel it was a lot louder than it should have been and it makes you jump a bit.

This movie plays on a psychological level because it uses some sense of nostalgia that makes you think back to a time that maybe you never experienced which is very interesting how easily human emotion can manipulate that heavily. It makes you feel like you have been there before which I really like. I read a comment on the score soundtrack video saying that they felt they connected more with these kids in the 89 minute run time than any other modern-day move that's 2 hrs or more.