Cloze Passage

Ninety-seven 1) percent of twelve to seventeen year olds in the U.S. played video games in 2008, thus fueling an $11.7 billion domestic video game industry. In 2008, ten of the top twenty best-selling video games in the U.S.
2) involve violence.Violent video games have been blamed for school shootings, increases in the 3) percentage of students being bullied, and violence towards women. Critics say that these games make players less sensitive to real-life violence, reward players for simulating violence, and that children 4) interpret them to mean violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflicts.Video game advocates 5) interpret the research on this topic as deeply flawed and say that there is no relationship between video games and social violence. They argue that violent video games may reduce violence by serving as a substitute for rough and tumble play and by providing a safe outlet for aggressive and angry feelings.

Week 2 Vocabulary Defintions & Critical Reading Passage

Interpret- Translate orally the words of another person speaking a different language.
Involve- Cause (a person or group) to experience or participate in an activity or situation
Percent- By a specified amount in or for every hundred
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Yes people who play violent games tend to be aggressive. If and when i have children i will definitly let them play violent games. There are some benifits if i let them play violent games. They may learn what are the consequences of being violent. In the game they could be arrested, shot, hospitalized, and even die. Seeing this thay can infer that if they try to what they do in the game, they would recieve one of those consequences.

Week 10 Vocab Cloze Reading & Paragraph Practice

The word euthanasia was coined in the 17th century by Francis Bacon who defined it as “an easy, painless, and happy death.” Today, it refers to when a doctor 1) consents to help a critically ill patient commit suicide by injecting him or her with a drug that causes death; critically ill means that they have a disease or illness which will result in death.

Supporters of doctors who assist critically ill patients to die say that people have the right to end their lives in a painless and dignified way. One could say that a person’s right “to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” includes the right to decide to free oneself from a painful disease or illness. Doctors who support euthanasia 2) empahsize that the 3) criteria for 4) consent to help a patient die is that the patient is suffering from a terminal illness, has a poor quality of life, and has made a conscious decision to end his/her life.

Critics of euthanasia say that doctors take an oath to protect patients. Assisting them to end their lives goes against that promise. Opponents also 5) emphasize
the possibility of doctors taking this too far by helping the poor and disabled end their lives. Religious critics say that doctor-assisted suicide goes against God’s will. Others fear that a patient's age and inability to pay medical bills may be used as 6) criteria to determine who lives and who dies.

As of 2011, the Supreme Court has ruled against euthanasia, but many patients are still asking doctors for assistance. _________________________________________________________________________________

I strongly agree that doctors should be allowed to help a critically ill patient commit suicide. One of my main reason is that a patient has the right to relief himself of life no matter what circumstances arrive, because he has the right "to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness". This means that if ending his life would give him liberty or happiness then he has the right to end his life as long as he follows the criteria and emphasizes his consent to the doctor to help him do so. Also, if you were in horrible pain and knew you were going to die. Would you keep living and suffer the horrible horrfic pain of the illness/disease you have? I wouldnt i would decide to die and easy death instead of going through so much pain and agony. In conclusive, doctors should be allowed to help critically ill patients commit suicide, because its the patients right to have freedom to chose decisions that would make them liberty or happiness, aslong as the patient emphasizes his consent to the doctor and has it written.

Week 10 Definitions and Critical Reading Passage

Consent- Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something
Criteria-A principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided
Emphasis-Stress laid on a word or words to indicate special meaning or particular importance

I believe that euthanasia should be an individual right. I believe this because as they said in the report, people have the right “to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." And if the person decides that commiting suicide  make them happy and be free from the painfulness or suffering from the deadly disease or illness they have, then they have the right to commit suicide and have doctors help them end their life. Would you rather suffer day by day horrific painful suffering that would make u cry, than being able to just stop it all forever? I would. Though people may decide that euthanasia is something they want to do, I believe it may go too far. This may go too far because people who may be suffering but have a chace of living, would decide to end their life using the euthanasia. Though they would have a chance to live, people would abuse euthanasia and commit suicide just because they are not willing to deal with the suffering and pain for a short while.

T-Chart and Practice Paragraph Quarter 1 Week 9

Yes
1. it is unhealthy for students to eat junk food.
2. its a waste of money.
3. students will get high and munch on them

No
1. students should be allowed to eat what they want
2. if it is banned students would most likely ditch to get junk food from stores.
3. it allows students high to lower so they will be able to pay attention more.

I believe that the category of junk food in vending machines should take a role in schools. I believe this because it allows the students to consume the food they like and be happy. It will also satisfy the students that are high and be able to munch out on them. It will also let students just pay the junk food from the vending machines in shool, which would stop some students from ditching school to get something to eat. Finally, it will also profit the school when the students spend money on vending machines and the money could go to the school or school activities.

Week 6 Vocabulary Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

Verify - check, confirm, prove

This person had to verify if they wanted to really delete Ice Water.
Sequence - succession, chain

These movement and stunts were done in sequence.

Simplify - make simpler, make things easier, shorten

This equation was simplified.

Week 6 Vocabulary Definitions & Examples

Verify - Whenever you are absent, Julianna calls your mommies and daddies to verify your absence and make sure you are actually sick and not just skipping school!
Definition:Make sure or demonstrate that (something) is true, accurate, or justified.
Sequence - Your personal narratives should follow a logical sequence of your story - the "before" you, the story that changed you, and the "after" version of you.
Definition:A particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.
Simplify - You should try to simplify your life by simply listening to your teacher sometimes!
Definition:Make (something) simpler or easier to do or understand