Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Lorenzo's Oil
The story is about a 8 year old kid name Lorenzo he was dignossed with ALD, this disease is very deadly the effects to this disease is deaf, brain effects, bleeding from the mouth, mute, not able to walk, or pick up utensils. His parents took him to the hospital after he had some strange reactions in school in Washigton D.C they moved there from Africa. Then Lorenzo had a great fall off his bike on christmas day which had caused him to get stiches and the other fall he had was from a chair trying to grab an ornament from the chritmas tree. The doctors at the hospital began to run some test on poor Lorenzo the doctors found out that he had the disease called ALD which no one never new about it had just gotten it's name like a year or so back. They told Lorenzo's parents that he was going to die by the time he turned 10 because at that moment the doctors or scientist did not have any cure to the disease Lorenzo had. Lorenzo's parents trusted the doctors but they kept Lorenzo on a diet which was only increasing his blood pressure which if he goes over c 24 he could die. His parents took him off the diet and his mother found a scientist that had pure olive oil with no fat or transfat in it so they gave Lorenzo his medicine mixed with the olive oil and the funny thing is that he loved when his parents told him stories so every time Lorenzo's father would tell him a story. The next day the scientist called and said that his results decreased by 50% great progress but the neat few days the percent stood still in one spot. The Odons were very depressed about the whole situation there son Lorenzo couldn't speak the doctors put him on a diet that could cost Lorenzo his life and on top of that no one beleaves the Odon's that they may have found a cure to the evil and deadly disease ALD. Lorenzos father has been every day struggling in the library trying to study the deadly disease that poor Lorenzo has. Lorenzo lives after the movie his father found a cure for his disease he was given an award and medical degree for finding the cure to ALD. Lorenzo can see, hear, but he still can't talk or move because there are some things that you can't fix in your brain but he communicates with his mom and dad.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Service Learning Reflection
Service learning is important because by doing service learning you are helping your enviorment and you are doing a favor for the city in which you live in and you are also helping yourself by making you live in a clean and well place. I think that we should write a letter to the building inspector so he can let the mural group do a mural on the side of Constitution High School, Last year I volunteered for the autism walk and I did my whole 10 hours fast in one day there are a lot of things you could do for service learning and get lots of credits.
NHD Reflection
My partners for NHD are David, Dimitrius, and Tomrell our project is on tattoos and we are doing a documentary. We won the competition in Constitution High school and a lot of others did to. I learned that when you have a team of people it is faster and you have lots of fun working on NHD but at a point it gets frustrating to everyone because it's so much work that you have to put in the project my experience with NHD was kind of new to me because I didn't do a documentary in 9Th grade so it was good working with someone that knew how to use i-movie. The success that i had working on this project was that I learned how to use i-movie and i got to do lots of things like do interviews and write the script and process paper, now I am more confident in my self and my partners. My biggest challenge was doing the interviews because since I am shy I intend to talk real low so it was hard trying to talk in front of a video camera I was a bit nervous to do an interview but for the grade and for my group i did it, The other success that I had was that I did a lot of work my partners kept me on track and I did it. The challenges we had were getting the project together like editing and putting every video clip or picture in there right spot that Dimitrius and Dave's voice overs were in the project we also had trouble with our thesis statement because we went ahead and started the project without all of us knowing the thesis statement. The changes for next year I think that we should have more time to do our projects when it was time to present a lot of kids didn't finish there projects in the documentary section and I think they should give us better topics because everything has to be based on Philadelphia or something historical.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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