12/18 Thank you for your good behavior yesterday while Mrs. Elmore was in class :)
Today's question: Which one of the characters from the book do you most resemble. I am sure that there will be instances where you act like each of the characters. However, perhaps there is one that you revert to most of the time. Give some examples.

the characters I relate to the most in the book is sciff and scurry because they both have good instincts. I believe I contain this characteristic in both school, life and athletics. I have to have good instincts when playing hockey and also when taking tests in class.

12/16 This weekend we had a small snow storm. Please comment on what you did to help in the community or at home. For example did you shovel or salt the walk ways by your house? Did you help a neighbor? Did you help with the fire trucks on Saturday night? Did you see the fire trucks.

To be completely honest i didnt do much, i didnt really help anyone shovel i didnt even shovel my own driveway because saturday night it rained and all the snow went away. However I did go to the smithtown christmas parade and so yes i did see the firetrucks ajd also sunday was my birthday so that was fun.

12/10 What is it that you really want out of life, a successful career, relationship, friends a pet? Be descriptive in your response the more details you give the better.
What I want out of my life is getting a career that i enjoy to do everyday and that also pays alot of money. If I can achieve this I can than enojy the rest of my life with ease and therefore enjoy the kuxuries of life like a big house lavish cars, boats etc. When I start having a steading flow of income and have all the pieces of my life together I would then consider getting married and having children. I also love dogs so I want to have an english bulldog when I get older. To sum up my goals in life is work hard now in high school and in college so that I can make alot of money and party later in life and enjoy my success.

12/6 Nelson Mandela passed away yesterday at the age of 95. What did you know about him, his life and his impact on society?

 he was the presidant of south africa, he was a key conponent in getting rid of teh appartheid in south afica and getting rid of terrorists. He is seen as a hero in South africa and as a international figure. That is really all  I know about him

12/2 Attention seniors. It's that time of year when we start to hear from colleges and universities that you were accepted. If you have been accepted and KNOW that you will be attending the college please let me know on your blog. I would also like a printout of the college or university you will be attending in the fall so that we may decorate our classroom/ business wing. 
I do not know where I am attending yet I have sent in my applications and I am waiting to hear back from the colleges now. I hope to attend SUNY Geneseo.

JQ 11/21 Last night was probably your last Business Olympics, let us know how it went, what you liked and what would you change. (Be positive in you comments please) If you did not attend or compete why?
I think my group didnt do that bad, so overall I think it went pretty well. The food was pretty good so I liked that but other than that not much it was too long as usual so again I would suggest to shorten business olympics to spare the other kids doing it in the future.

JQ 11/19 "Selfie" -

noun (plural selfies)

informal

• a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website:
• The term selfie has been recently added to Oxford dictionary and has been declared the word of the year. What are you thoughts on this do you agree with it being word of the year?
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I dont think the word selfie is the best word of the year. I personally like the word twerk and i think it should be the word of the year over selfie. there are many other words that are contendors with these words as best words of the year such as yolo, swag, etc.

JQ 11/19 Business Olympics is this Wednesday. What is your fondest memory of Business Olympics? How can you improve it. For those of you that have not done Business Olympics. What is the most influential event of your high school career.

 Personally I do not enjoy business olympics just because it is way too long. You get to sit in the overcrowded cafeteria for hours and then make your presentation for 10 minutes. However the food is pretty good and your with your friends but it could be cut down. Also last years business olympics was an interseting concpet but this years concept is very repetitive and boring. To improve my business olympics i can have a more indepth powerpoint and a better PSA.

JQ 11/15 What is your fondest memory from Highs School? Middle School? Elementary School?

My fondest memory from high school is still yet to come. I believe both prom and graduation will be the greatest moments of high school. In middle school my greatest memory was winning the the Long Island championship with my ice hockey team in the 8th grade. And my most fond memory of elementary school was my 5th grade field trip when we went to New York City and took a criuse around the statue of liberty with the entire grade.

JQ 11/13 What is your best skill in school? Are you a good test taker, presenter, or do you like to do hands on projects?
What do you do that makes this your best skill? (For example you read a lot.... helps you to do well on tests)
Will these skills help you in college and beyond?

I believe the best skills in school are both presenting and hands on projects. What makes these my best skills is I do alot of properation and practice in presenting in DECA for competitions and foe also business olympics. And I am also good at building things because I took classes such as DDP and also engineering in school. These skills I have will help me in college and make me more prepared for making presentations in college and also working with my hands and doing projects in college.

JQ 11/7 As the leaves are turning and the weather is getting colder, what is your favorite thing about fall? List some of the activities you like to do. Be descriptive in your writing.

In the fall my favorite thing is the change in the temperature and being able to wear wear and comfy cloths like, sweaters, sweat pants, scarfs, etc. Also Fall means the return of sports like hockey and football. All fall and winter I play Ice Hockey. My favorite thing about fall is the changing of the leaves and then the thousands of orange and red leaves fall on my lawn. Just kidding all the leaves falling on my lawn is actually quite painful and teriible because that means I have to spend hours of my time, doing the tedious task of picking up each and every leaf off my lawn.

JQ 10/30 Please respond to the following comment. In five years from now I will have accomplished ________________________"
Let me know what your short term goals are completing college, what you would like to study, will you come back to Long Island after graduation, marriage etc.

In Five years I see myself finishing up college and hopefully starting a career in engineering. I would like to either come back to long island or live in the city and persue my career here. I will hopefully have my own appartment in five years if not live with my parents. I dont think I will be married possibley have a girlfriend and hopefully no kids in five years.

JQ 10/29 It has been one year since Super Storm Sandy. What do you remember about the storm? What did you do while we were not in school? How long were you without power? etc

I do indeed remember super torm sandy, it was a pretty bad storm. I remember not being able to  get gas and my dad had to go online for gas at 4 am. I had no power for about a month but I luckily got a genrerator a few days after the storm. And Since we werent in school I pretty much just hung out with my friends and slept all day, I was pretty nice. So other than not having any power for a few days until i got my gemerator hurricane sandy really wasnt too bad it was a nice vacation.

JQ 10/28. Breaking news McDonalds will no longer use Heinz ketchup. Is this a problem? Why are they no longer using Heinz ?

            The reason that mcdonalds is no longer using heinz ketchup is becasue the new board of directors of heinz ketchup is the former CEO of Burger King and he has cut the 40 year relationship between heinz and mcdonalds. This may cause a problem for Mcdonads for its customers that are used to heinz ketchup and perfer it. It may cause mcdonalds to lose customers if people do not like the new ketchup mcdonalds decides to use. Personally it doesnt make a difference to me because i dont really ever eat mcdonalds or ketchup so it doesnt have any impact on my life. But however it may save mcdonalds money on the other hand becasue they wont haver to pay heinz for advertising sand trhe rights to use their products anymore.

JQ 10/ 25 Safe Halloween is today at WEST. Are you participating in it today? , if so what club are you working with and what are you doing? Please also share if you participated in Safe Halloween as a child and what it meant to you then and now. 

Yes today I will be participating in safe halloween, I am participating with DECA. I am either working in the school store or working in the actual haunted events. When I was a child I didnt know anything about safe halloween, so therefore safe halloween didnt really mean much to me as a child, and now it means something to me now that im involved in the event. I think it is good for the community and for the younger children in the school district and it is nice to incorporate them in to our school activities.

JQ 10/24

After reading the Newsday article below, provide your opinion on Starbucks' attempt to capture the tea market.

 

The new marketing campain that starbucks is trying to achieve with opening teavanna shops i think will be actually very successful. I believe people would reach positively to the new tea shops and would respond positively because i would cause new hype and a new expeience to consumers. Even though it will be a similar experience because of the different product offering i believe it will appeal to a different demographic of people who enjoy drinking tea more so than drinking coffee. Another option starbucks and teavanna have is to partner the two into one store and sell both tea and coffe in the same building. I also believe this option will be successful for the business. Overall I think Teavanna will be a successful business either way. I found it very interesting that starbucks owns teavanna

JQ 10/23/13
After reading the article in yesterday's Newsday state your position on Inbloom and the idea of posting academic information with a third party. Is this an invasion of your privacy? State your position and at least 4 supporting facts.

The Inbloom project I believe is  a complete waste of government spending. The government is spending over $500 million dollars of our money to form this database with our personal information attached to it. Yes I do believe it is important for civilians and tax payers to see how the students in the district which they pay taxes are doing, but I believe there must be a best and more cost efficent way in doing so. Another problem I agree with is the problem with privacy of our personal information. The government is planning on giving our personal information to a third party business to make this database its not even directly linked to the federal government. I would not want to be one of the 400,000 long island students whose information gets taken down for inbloom, because once this database has some if your information it opens a gate fro other people to get more of your information and possibly get access to areas of our info which we dont want people in access of such as bank accounts, social security, etc. So overall I dont agree with the creation of this program and I think it is unnecessary and a big waste of government money which they really shouldnt be spending in the first place esspecially because of the governments current money situatuation now.

I necessarily dont have one specific favorite type of music. I listen to almost every genre, but I do listen to Rock and Roll more than any other genre. I dont really like rap music particularly. The reason I like rock music more than other genres i listen to is because I like the Sound of hard guiatar and drums beats, I just overall like the sound of the music, that is really the only way to explain why I like the music i like to listen to.

Journal Question 10/18/2013
Even though the government claims they have fixed the debt ceiling problem and have technically put the governemtn back into operation, i believe that the governments problems are not solved at all and are just prolonging the large debt problems for the near future. The governments answer to all of or debt problems is to just borrow and print more omney and therefore go deeper into debt and at the same time lessen the value of the dollar. I Think the government is just going to continue to sink the country deeper and deeper into debt and solve the debt problem the same way in january that they did in october.