Portfolio Guidelines

You MUST make TWO copies of your Final Portfolio. These are the guidelines/steps:

1) The Portfolio is a collection of revised essays and a Statement of Belief.

2) It must be 10 pages long (minimum). It MUST include revisions of 2-3 essays and MUST include a 2-3 page Statement. It MUST be in 12-point font.

3) First, choose 2-3 essays that you'd like to revise.

4) For each essay, make a list of the corrections you have to make. (Use my notes, peer notes, old drafts, things you notice.)

5) Go into your files, and open up the documents so that you can start to change small things.

6) After you've made MINOR corrections, read the whole essay and decide on what MAJOR changes you will make (add ideas? expand ideas? include another comparison?). Work on those. Be creative and thoughtful.

7) Read the essays aloud--with corrections and changes made. What else needs to be done? Do the essays make sense?

8) Read the descriptions of each component of the Rubric. Are you doing work that strives for the "Excellent" description?

9) Make more corrections and changes.

10) Print up final copies of the essays. Read them all at once. What do they have in common? Think about your writing style and your ideas.

11) Write your Statement of Belief. This statement will explain what's in your portfolio and how you feel about your writing and ideas. (You should have started to think this over in class.)

12) In 2-3 double-spaced pages, answer ALL of these questions:

What is something in which you strongly believe?
How does that belief make you unique?
What have you learned/do you know about the struggles of individuals within systems?
When do systems work? When do they fail? Who gets hurt? Who benefits?
How do your ideas about individuals/systems connect to your belief?
How do those two things connect to the writing in your portfolio?
How have you used rhetoric to communicate these ideas?

It's not cheating when you're God.

In latest discovery by French scientists it has been recorded that God, in much of the United States population, has been denied and there is now a way for the “human race” to become God themselves. Following one man here in America who has accomplished this feat gave the public something new to look forward to in the few days to come. The beginning of this transformation began just before he, now “He”, started preparing for the Masters; setting the trend early along side Jesse James and Brad Pitt. In recent attempts to reappear in human form, tied to more than a dozen women, Woods now commercializes Himself with his dead father’s voice in the background in attempt to touch down on solid ground releasing some of the pressure of all his newfound followers. Many other attempts to become God have been made previously mostly by athletes but have never fully achieved it such as Tiger. “Swimming was my life,” said Phelps. “But I have to give credit to Tiger, he certainly took the better sport.” Phelps’s failed attempt may have left him higher than the rest, but certainly not to the level Woods has reached.

The now all-powerful Woods stated that, “Once the world catches wind of how to achieve such power, soon there won’t be anything to talk about.” Adding, “It ‘s just like the IPod, and soon like Saturday morning cartoons.”

In other news: One man in Chicago who got caught cheating on his wife now pays 1600.00 dollars a month in alimony and is only able to see his children once every month. In this world reactions to one situation will be recognized differently for those who are “above” others.

Sure Gang members have a life, to shoot little kids

Sure Gang members have a life, to shoot little kids

Gangs are all over Chicago and all they do is waste people's time. In the neighborhood of Little Village, they're everywhere. They think they're real "Kings" but in reality, they are wasting time for the people. The gangs pick on the little teenagers to be a gang member just like them.It's like they're a little recruit army to get the young ones in on it. SOme people from the hood refer to them as "gangbangers" or "bangers" because shooting things as well as kids is what they do.The gang members life is to sleep in until two in the morning and wait at the grammer school for the eighth graders to come out. They're usually around the age fourteen when the gangs go to recruit them.The people from the neighborhood are scared of them but for what;they carry guns yes but that don't mean they can aim right. A women from the neighborhood started hitting a gang member in the face and called him a "low life smelly bastard". The gang member named Insane ran from the lady with out looking back. They always run from people, just like they always run when they shoot a child. They look like clowns with all their tattoos and their pants hanging below their butts all day. An older Mexican guy said"They let their pants hang like that because they don't wash they're underwear". Some members are in that gang stuff for life because they really have nothing better to do. They all have things in common if you get to talk to them. One, they drop out of school freshman year, two, they use drugs before highschool and three, they have children already by the age sixteen. They think they protect the neighborhoods by standing on the corner everyday and throwing up their fingers but they just put themselves in danger. They recruit the younger kids and then you find out later that someone got shot in a gang drive by. It's a big problem in low class neighborhoods because the gangs cause the parents to fear for their child's life. The parents shouldn't have to fear anyone who doesn't know how to wash their underwear right.

New Research: Consuming Fast Food Every Day is the Healthiest for our Body System.

According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), people who consume fast food every day accelerate in sports and in every day work basis, but the best is it makes you healthier. This survey was taken mostly by Latinos and African American, when given the survey they were promised to be given a cheeseburger loaded with bacon and a side of obesity.
Today people in America consume a vast of Fast food which makes them healthier and more beautiful. Younger Kids consume the most, which makes parents proud to see their children round and full. When we interviewed the Health expert to ask him about his opinion on Fast food he quoted “The rounder the people are, the happier they are, just like Earth big, round and beautiful.”

Dear Mexicans, Please come back.

As the days go by without a Mexican here in America a chaos is beginning to build up. Things around the United States just have not been normal these past days. Americans are struggling with trying to make their lives back to normal. They have began by encouraging the youth to take the jobs the Mexicans left behind. The young Americans responded with complains and claiming “These are not jobs! This is slavery.”
Common necessities that were taken by granted before the Mexicans disappeared are now highly in demand. The restaurants have lost more than 90 percent of their workers. Many restaurants in California have now purchases thousands of dishwashers being that no one else is willing to wash dishes by hand. Thousands of fast food restaurants all over America have closed down. It is just impossible for these restaurants to continue working, since they have no workers and no supplies. Without Mexicans, American agriculture is going downhill. Production of fruits and vegetables has never been as low as it is now.
An example of how desperate the situation in America is without Mexicans workers are two Americans moms from Beverly Hills, California who have not been able to find day care for their children. They are forced to leave their children alone or with Rocco, the family’s dog. In Wisconsin as well, last week two children were lost for about 48 hours in their own backyard, due to the height of the grass and weeds. Since Pedro who was the family’s landscaper fled back to Mexico with the other millions of Mexicans.
Americans now wonder if the Mexicans will ever come back or what plans the government is making. No one ever realized what a big impact these so called “Aliens” make in America. Now that they are gone, America needs them more than ever. America is now praying that the Mexicans would come back as fast as possible. California’s Governor said last week to the press “I guess we should have treated them with more dignity and we should have been more grateful for the great service they offer America.”

Mexico Is The Richest Country In The World

Mexico, Mex- Thanks to Carlos Slim Helu Mexico becomes the richest country in the world. During the past years, Carlos Slim Helu's wealth has increase. Now, he is the world richest man whose fortunate is worth more than $53 billion. With all the money, Carlos Slim Helu does not know what to do with it. Last week, he gave an interview to the press saying that he would donate all his money to his native country Mexico than Lebanon the country where his parents were born.

"Why are you donating all your money to Mexico?" the press said. "Mexico needs money to combat poverty, hunger, violence, etc and I know that in less than 5 years I will reunite all the money that I donate" Slim said. People could not believe what he just said and they thought that he was lying. But, he was not. After a month, all the people started to see changes in Mexico and were satisfied with what was happening. The interviewed that Carlos Slim Helu gave to the press was seen around the world. All Mexicans who left their country long time ago decide to go back to Mexico after hearing what Carlos Slim Helu said. Not only Mexicans want to go back to Mexico all people around the world want to live in Mexico because they know that in Mexico they will have a better future. Mexico does not have a problem with people deciding to live in Mexico because that will make Mexico a popular country. Mexico is extremely happy to welcome foreigners and gives permission to them to stay in Mexico.

You don’t have to be sick to get the new iHeart

By Beelet

Today Apple’s CEO Steven Jobs announced a new item will be released by Apple Inc. in August 2012, just after the gigantic success that Apple Inc. had experienced with its products such as iPhone, iPod, iPad and recently iFood. The new product is called iHeart. It is an electronic alternative device for the human heart. Just like any other Apple product, iHeart has an enormous number of applications, and of course, all of these applications are interconnected with the other Apple Products.

One of the iHeart's applications will be measuring the digestive system’s needs,functions, and problems, and along with another application in the iFridge, certain food will be provided to you and others will be eliminated based on your digestive system necessities. Not only will the iHeart be working with iFridge, but also with your iPharmacy so you don’t have to think and worry about your intake of vitamins and medicine when you wake up in the morning.

Another application of the iHeart is called Emotion Detector, it works with Apple TV, so whenever the discrete of your nervous system cells changes, the application will detect the emotion difference and will attempt to set a list of matching TV shows and programs that suit your new mood and thoughts.

Online pre-ordering began, and the anticipation of Apple Lovers and “MacHeads” can only be described with the long lines that stood outside Apple Stores. Some of the people have been waiting in line for more than 72 hour just to see a display version of the iHeart. A cardiac medical condition is one of the requirements for an early eligibility for the iHeart; many who intentionally consumed an overdosage of cardiac medications in order to cause cardiovascular dysfunction which would be an immediate eligibility.