Nature Writing

In Richard Preston’s book The Wild Trees he analyzes the concept of living on the outer limit of biology and on the edge of the possible. He expressed this through the characters Steve Skillet and Michael Taylor. Steve and Michael go on some adventures to find the world’s tallest tree by putting in time, effort, dedication, and near death experiences to find it.

The goal for Michael Taylor and Steve Skillet was to indeed find the world’s tallest tree no matter what they had to go through. Michael actually quit Humboldt State University to have more time to study and climb trees. After a while Michael realized that he needed to go back to college so he took a loan and decided to go back to college. But college was not going to stop Michael on what his dream truly was.

In climbing trees there is a lot of risks that they took every day to do what they love. One example from the book is that they said since your upper half of your body is heavier then your lower half your body will turn upside down in mid air. The shock from you hitting the ground crushes your skull and breaks the neck and destroys the brain and spinal cord of the base of the skull. Instant death. Mary Antoine one time climbing a tree almost died as she fell 40 feet out of a tree. One big risk that Steve Skillet took is that he lost his wife due to the love of trees. He wouldn’t spend enough time with her and she felt like they were not meant to be anymore.

With tree climbing and adventures Michael and Steve had explored and discovered. Fog Creek, Devil’s Creek, Tom McDonald Creek, Bond Creek, and Elam Creek, were some places that they explored through out tree climbing. When Steve went to field brook valley in front of him as the biggest red wood he has ever seen before. His heart was beating like mad, and he was fumbling with his instrument and all most crying. He started to measure the tall redwood’s top, but he couldn’t see the top. The tree ran out of sight. He had discovered the ultimate tree. Every time they climb a tree they create a name for it. For example one of the names they created for a tree was nameless.

Steve and Michael through out this book go on a lot of adventures discovering things that no one has found before. They went through a lot of obstacles between school, jobs, and regular life. They overcame these to do what they truly loved to do. Climb trees.

Wild Trees

1. Preston describes the wild trees as living "at the outer limit of biology, on the edge of the possible." Many of his characters seem to also live by this concept in their lives, near-deaths and through their discoveries. Analyze how this concept manifests itself in different aspects of the story (different aspects might include setting, characters, plot, etc.).

Outline

Motivation to climb the trees

-Find the worlds tallest tree

-What they love to do

Risks

-Stressful
-Story of falling of kevin hillery and the girl
-mom story of her falling out of the tree (the first anecdote in the book)

-Weather conditions

Addicting tree climbing and about trees

-mental effects climbing has

-friends make you want to still climb

-family or trees

-Steve lost his wife for trees

-taught him self how to use the 3d movement and the spider rope

-one tool that was made up to calculate the angles of the trees (around the beginning)

-create names for each redwood tree they see

Dedication (pg 202)
-michael quit college to focus on trees-bad idea goes back to college

Wild Trees

1. How did you react to the idea that even in the 21st century, there are still parts of California (and the world) that are completely undiscovered? What does this make you think & feel?

I think that it is uncalled for, and people should start discovering the parts of California and the rest of the world that has not been seen or found. There are complaints about how there is not enough oil, trees and water. So if people look to discover the parts that have not been found there could be more oil, trees, and what that we need. It makes me feel that people are not trying hard enough to solve problems environmental in the world.

3. Before people started exploring the tree canopies, many people assumed it was like a desert up there (barren of life). It turned out to more like a coral reef (teeming with biodiversity). Why were so many people so wrong? Why did they make the wrong assumption? What lessons should we learn from these discoveries?

People that do not climb trees or that have not been to the top of a tree does not understand how it is up there. They do not under stand the biodiversity that happens in side and through out the tree. People just make assumptions and just guess on what it is like for the trees. We should all learn and understand the discoveries that has happened.

Professional Exhibition

If you are having a professional organization exhibit your work:

1. Link to the San Diego Coastkeeper Wiki/Main Site

http://www.sdwatersheds.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/

2. Still have to find someone to get in touch with to talk about possible linking to our own media saves the beach.

Telephone	(619) 758-7743
Fax	(619) 224-4638
Email	info@sdcoastkeeper.org

3. Date: 12/11/09 Place: Possibly, most likely on the Coast Keeper site.

4. So far we have not contacted them at this point. But sometime later this week, we will either walk down to their NTC office, inquiring about possible web site sharing/linkage.

The Great Gatsby!

5. Evaluate The Great Gatsby as a criticism of the corruption of the American Dream.

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the American dream is portrayed by Gatsby. Jay Gatsby falls in love with Daisy Buchanan but Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. However Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. But Myrtle is married to George Wilson. The story of The Great Gatsby is told by Nick Carraway who is in love with Jordan baker. The American dream is portrait by Gatsby because of the amount of money he owns and likes to throw parties when even he wants. There are affairs happening a lot with Gatsby. He seems like this perfect person, he is always throwing parties that people go to from different places far away. Tom is an alcoholic and abuses his mistress, Myrtle, and Daisy married the wrong person, and she loves someone else now. The Great Gatsby is not the American dream.

In the second chapter of the book there is dinner party in which Tom, Myrtle, Nick, Catherine, Jordan, and Mr. McKee partake in at Catherine’s apartment. At first it starts out well and everything is going fine. Until things turn violent and they start drinking. Myrtle starts yelling Daisy’s name many times; tom reacts to this by slapping her face and breaking her nose. This party starts as an ideal American party and it is perfect in everyway. But soon after wards the party is not a good party because of the over drinking and violence. This does not portray the American dream because no one would want to go to a party where people are fighting and there is violence.

Gatsby is the ideal idol for the American Dream because he is perfect in everyway. Gatsby has a lot of money and is always having huge parties that everyone in town goes to. In the beginning of the book Gatsby starts out as a mysterious and questionable person. But as you get deeper in to the book you start doubting him. Everything Gatsby does is fake; his entire identity was created when he turned the age of 18. He starts out by changing his name from Jimmy Gatz to Jay Gatsby and lied about were his family was from. Gatsby’s was rumored as a bootlegger. In the end they find out that is was really a bootlegger.

Gatsby as you know has a lot of money and is popular. But the reason why Gatsby was doing this was to impress Daisy. He throws a lot of wild parties just for Daisy. Gatsby has a big obsession over Daisy. He spends most of his nights looking at the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock which is just across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby wants nick to arrange a reunion between him and Daisy. So that Gatsby can be with Daisy. Daisy comes to nicks house were Gatsby is also there. Shortly after Gatsby and Daisy’s love rekindled they begin an affair together. Gatsby takes the blame for the car that killed myrtle thinking that he will not get in trouble for it. But George got all the facts straight and found out. Gatsby was swimming in the pool at his mansion when George finds him and shoots him. Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was corrupted because he was not honest to anyone and because of his money. The American dream of happiness was ruined and over for the Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby started off as a book that everything and everybody is person and Gatsby has a lot of money. He has a lot of elaborate parties to try and get Daisy back. Tom is violent and breaks myrtles nose. Gatsby is fake ad has lied about this entire identity Gatsby tryes to woe daisy and get her back so that he can be happy with her again. The Great Gatsby does not represent the american dream and can never reach it.

More Current Events

Post an organized archive of current events that relate to your MSB project. Here's how you do it:

1.The Obama Administration wants to look closer at the Pacific Ocean for various problems. Overfishing, habitat destruction and global warming.

http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/10578-1

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3. This website is a high and professional website that i can use as an example. The topic is also related to what I am writing about.

http://www.farallones.org/e_newsletter/2006-04/LaJollaSeals.htm

4. This article talks about pollution. Which is the main point in my writing about the TJ river.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/17/led-by-china-carbon-pollution-up-despite-economy/

5. This article is about how birds and boats are getting effected by trash and garbage in the ocean. This is related because i am writing about the TJ river and that river is very polluted with this.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-11-16-plastiki16_VA_N.htm

Your MSB Organizations

1.Orange County Coastkeeper

2. The Mission of Orange County Coastkeeper is to protect and preserve the region's marine habitats and watersheds through education, advocacy, restoration, research and enforcement.


"Orange County Coastkeeper works with Federal, State, County and City agencies on our projects."
For all of their projects they work with the Federal, State, County and City.

Gatsby! Chapter 1-4

Nick is from an average household. He does not fit in with the popular crowd. For example when Nick goes to Gatsby's party her does not hang around with the popular people he is just by him self. Nick does not have the kind of money Gatsby has so he feels like an outsider.

Gatsby is a very wealthy man who everybody knows who he is but however he is all alone and does not have "friends." He has lots of money that he spends on party's, and girls.

Beginning The Great Gatsby

1. Who is the narrator? Describe his perspective, biases, character traits, etc.

Nick is the narrator of the story. He was able to show his perspective on what happened and was happening in side of the story. He comes from an avgerage household and is living in the east egg.

2. What do you think F. Scott Fiitzgerald accomplishes by chooses this specific narrator versus another choice, such as a different character or 3rd person?

He is able to tell in a perspective of him and he was there when everything happened. Its not an overall summary about the story it is what Nick saw in his eyes.

Critique a professinal example

1. What is the most successful element of this work sample? Why do you believe this?

I think the use of the evidence they have about pollution that ends up in the beaches is really good. It is strong and learn new things about pollution. Their voice over was good because they showed the evidence and talked about it.

2. What is the message of the work? How do you know?

The message shows that why the beaches in San Diego are being closed and how the water goes to the Tijuana polluting water.

3. Who or what is the intended audience for this work? How do you know?

This video is intended for everybody that lives close to Tijuana and live in San Diego. Because all of their facts is based in San Diego and Tijuana.

4. How do specific elements of the work sample come together to deliver the message?

In the beginning he show you what he is going to talk about in the movie. Then he shows you the 5 ways why the beaches are getting closed down in different sections of the movie.

5. Describe one technique the creator of this work used. Why do you think this technique was used for this specific piece of work?

Ben McCue the guy in the video he stands behind the evidence of why the beaches are being closed. It show that you are able to see the evidence of pollution in the beaches.

6. Why did you choose this work sample?

I choose this because it had a lot of good information videos and pictures. The video quality is not the best but the information is really good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sboyx3sKsWw

Newspapers & MSB

What lessons did you learn from the Industrialization Newspaper that you carry forward into the MSB project?

I learned a lot from this newspaper project that will really help me for the MSB project. One thing that I learned is time management. I did not use all the time we had wisely and all the resources that we were able to use. Resulting that my article was not good and could be a lot better and our group had to rush at the end to get everything done on time. Ask questions. I learned that I need to ask questions. If I were to ask questions my article and final newspaper would have been a lot better.

Write a reflective piece in which you identify specific things, content, skills, or habits that you will address in MSB as a response to your experience with the newspaper project.

The one big skill i brought to my group had to be organize the actual newspaper to make it look professional. So I will try my best to make sure that my final product for MSB is organized and professional.

MSB people, groups & orgs!

1. San Diego branch of Coast keeperI think I would want to interview someone from Coast keeper because i think they have good information to help me on my topic. I read their mission and part of it is how they want to have clean water and a healthy coastal ecosystem.
2.Grinning PlanetI think from Grinning Planet i could interview people there and about all the information they have on their website and everything they know about pollution because they are based on pollution effects. it could be good information so i can have lots of good facts.
3.Heal the BayI think Heal the Bay would have lots of good information on pollution in the ocean and nearby bays. So if I interviewed someone there i could get lots of facts from water close to my house.

1. Councilmember Ben Hueso

Ben Hueso is in charge of the communities in district 8 near Tijuana.

2. Councilmember Sherri Lighter
Sherri Lighter is in charge of the communities in district 1.

3. Councilmember President Kevin Faulconer

Kevin Faulconer is in charge of the communities in district 2.

MSB comments, ideas, plans, critiques and more!

From Magda's blog post I realized that i my idea to go for pollution focusing more on animals in general if i do a documentary. if I create a photo essay Magda's idea of how she wants it to look is kinda of like how I would like it with good color and make it look nice.

http://magdaaguirre.blogspot.com/

From Akari's blog I learned that i could maybe find a topic so I can compare a good with a bad inside of a subject. It made me think that my documentary could be a stronger idea and prove more things.

http://akari-adisa1.blogspot.com/

From Brent's blog i though that i could so pros and cons and how it can effect the community. I though it would be a good idea to get how it effect not just animals but the community.

http://bspringer-brent.blogspot.com/

Possible MSB Products

Interesting Ideas

-One idea that i have for this project could be a documentary.

-My second idea would be a picture essay.

1. Write a sentence describing the final product (such as, "A documentary video that addresses the question....")

- A video that talks about the pollution and how animals are getting effected by it.

-I could show a picture of pollution and how it effects animals, and for my essay can be about how the animals are getting effected by pollution.

2. Post an example of a professional or other high-level product that could serve as a basis for your work.

-http://www.mediasavesthebeach.org/

-http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/news/gallery/2007/jul/18/china.pollution/GD3997075@A-man-collects-dead-f-7985.jpg

3. List three specific ideas that you can take from your example to lead you to a high quality product. Write specifically how you will apply these ideas to your work here. Be as clear, exact & specific as you can!

-Tone of voice

-Meeingfull

-Shocking facts

-This picture had a deep meaning in it showing all the fish that are dead.

-Show a lot of my point

- Make the point stand out

MSB Questions & Resources

1. Main Question

Are there anyways to keep the animals in the ocean protected from the sewage water that goes into the beaches?

2. Subquestions

-How is the water getting to the animals?

-How much pollution is getting into the ocean that is effecting animals?

-What animals are most endangered?

3. Resources

-http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/12-05/water-pollution-effects.htm

-http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Environmental_Problems/water_pollution_-_effects.html

-http://www.healthebay.org/

-http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&resnum=0&q=water%20pollution%20that%20affects%20animals&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#

4. Ideas From Research

The video that I found had a lot of important information from the pictures and also the narrator that I can use.

The first website had lots of information on chemicals and also pollution.

HTB has a lot of information that I can use from pollution to animals.

It had a brief overview of pollution and animals.

Industrializations and Coastal Environments

Industrializations and Coastal Environments

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is issuing a final rule to ensure that safe and reliable drinking water is provided to aircraft passengers and crew......

1. What is the issue, controversy or event in the story? What are the basic facts?

the EPA is issuing that the drinking wanter for the passengers on the aircrafts would get safe, and reliable water to drink. It also provides the protections through coliform sampling, public notifications, and monitoring and operator training.

2. What information is missing from the story?

I think the information that is missing in the story is the big reason why they want to make this big movement to make the drinking water for aircraft passengers reliable and safe. Everyone wants safe and reliable water but what is the main reason why they decided to do this?

3. What would be your next steps if you were creating a follow up to this story?

I would try and look on their website or on google to find out the reason why they are deciding to make a big step to do this.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/41c2dde98f8ae1ee85257647004c601d!OpenDocument

The War is Still Going on

The War is Still Going On

“They say that war ended a long time ago. But around here it’s like it’s still going on.” Says David Westerman. The war is still going on in Kentucky and throughout the South because of the history of your family is the way you are viewed. Where your family worked, how they look and what they practiced reflects on you. In Guthrie Kentucky there were no public parks for kids to play at or pools to swim in; so local kids paid two dollars to swim at the motel. Two summers ago a problem occurred at the motel. Several black kids paid their two dollars to go swim in the pool. “It was like we sent an electrical charge through the water,” She said. As soon as the black kids jumped in, all the white kids got out. The whites demanded that Eskridge to tell the black kids to get out and leave. Her response was “kiss my grits,” She did not want to discriminate against the black or white people. She just wanted to be fair to everyone that was there.

Some former confederate soldiers also known as the Klu Klux Klan dressed up in camouflage clothes stood in main points around the square handing out propaganda flyers to recruit them. When propaganda started way back in 1622 with pope Gregory XV it has influenced many people in the past and still has changed their ways. The Ku Klux Klan handed around 750 propaganda flyers to join them but when they tried to convince people to join the KKK it did not work out well by only getting 10 people to join.

Michael and Hannah Westerman just wanted their first peaceful night since the birth of their twins five weeks before. Michael had planned to buy Hannah a nice dress before going out to dinner in Nashville, Tennessee, which is one hour south of Guthrie. They stopped to get gas at a convenience store called Janie’s Market on Guthrie’s main street. While the gas was pumping Michaels truck caught the eye of four black teenagers who were parked in their car not far away. The big red Chevy pickup was not hard to miss, especially when there was a big rebel flag flapping from a pole in the trucks bed. Michael just wanted to have the flag and rebel flag plate. Some people around the town interpret the confederate flag creates white racist. “Let’s go whip that dude,” he told his friends speeding to catch up with Micheals speedy Chevy. Because of the tinted windows the four black teenagers were not able to see that it was their former neighbor and classmate Michael Westeman was in the car. Freddie unjammed the gun and aimed, then shot a couple bullets. Hannah did not hear anything but just heard Michael moan, “Oh my God, they shot me.” Hannah grabbed the wheel and hurried to the emergency room back in Kentucky. But by the time they got there he was in shock. The black teenagers just assumed that since there was a confederate flag that they need to show them not to wave it around her. Instead they kill their innocent friend. It was during Martin Luther King weekend so they took it more in offence. The small wars are still happening between different races.

The war has ended but it still going on. After the civil war the KKK, the white league, and the red shirts keep the war on going. The carpetbaggers moved to the south during reconstruction era. They formed scalawags that supported reconstruction. The carpetbaggers tricked the African American people to fill out forms for jobs when they were actually getting all of their information about them. With that then the KKK would go to their house and burn crosses, and other things at their house.

What's The Deal With Reconstruction?

After the Civil War reconstruction started to happen. they were trying to reconstruct and put the country back together. They tried to connect and make the south closer to the union. Abraham Lincoln started talking about this. Talking about the 13, 14,and 15 amendments. The 13th amendment ended the slavery in the United States. The 14th states that anyone born in the United States is automatically a US citizen. The 15th Amendment states that the African American people are allowed to vote and are equal to the other citizens. These three amendments were not not legally used to protect and defend the old African American slaves.

Media Saves The Beach in the News

The Obama Administration wants to look closer at the Pacific Ocean for various problems. Overfishing, habitat destruction and global warming. The Obama Administration is looking mostly on the bay area for these problems. If you research this issue on the url provided or search: "Obama Ocean Task Force Focuses on the Pacific." The Obama Administration is trying to look at this issue about things that are happing in the Pacific Ocean to make it better. We could use this as examples to save the beach and oceans.

SAN FRANCISCO - An Obama Administration task force is in California this week to take a closer look at the Pacific Ocean. Officials are crafting the first national policy for managing oceans adjacent to the United States. They are in the Bay Area to learn about challenges facing the West Coast, which include overfishing, habitat destruction and global warming..........

http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/10578-1

Media Saves The Beach

I idea that I have is an informational brochure. I know how some brochures can be boring a lot of words

but i think it is possible to make a cool looking brochure that is informational and also not boring.

It would be cool to be able to list all the interesting and powerful information inside of a professional

brochure. I have made brochures in the past but i think if i do a brochure it will be a very cool project.

American Icon Project

Inspiration

Corey Murillo

It was two years ago when it was my grandparent’s fiftieth wedding anniversary, and all my cousins and family members came as we celebrated the event. When they showed a slide show of their life story and it really struck me of how special and thankful I am to have grandparents like them. They care for me and my family all the time. I ask my dad about the history of my grandparents and their life story. When he told me a brief overview of their life story I was shocked because of what they went through in their lives.

My grandparents grew up in two different places in the country of Mexico. My grandma lived in Mazatlan and my grandpa lived in Leon. My grandparents met and moved to Mexicali, Mexico just miles away from the border. When they were young my grandma smoked and drank a little but my grandpa just drank on a normal basis. In the year 1959 that’s when their lives changed and 50 years later so did mine. They found the Lord Jesus Christ and immigrated from Mexicali, Mexico to Lincoln Heights in Los Angeles with 3 kids. Then their lives’ went from bad to good and changed a lot of peoples live, like mine.

After they found the Lord they went to go spread it with other churches around the United States and around the world. And they took all five of their kids and sung songs in Spanish that they made which are stories in the bible. My grandparents were the 2004 it was my family with my grandparents. It was the first time we actually got to go to church and share the bible with them. When they sang I really took it in and their music inspired me. In total there are three generations in the Murillo family. My grandparents were the first, the second was all their kids, and the third was with my sisters, my brother, and my mom and dad. When we went on vacation we did what my grandparents did which shared the word of God. Now it is my responsibility to make a fourth generation with my family.

They showed me never to give up in life and you can do what ever you want in life because in Mark 9:23, And Jesus said to him “All things are possible to him who believes.” My grandparents showed this to me with a huge change in their life and did what they wanted to do. I have set the bar higher for me to do what ever in life I want to accomplish.

Citations

Murillo, Robert. Personal Interview. 10 September 2009.

Murillo, Pablo. Personal Interview. 9 September 2009.

{Mark 9:23 Kings James Version}

American Icons Reflections

1. What I discovered about my writing during this project is that it was just a lot of words on a piece of paper. The order of my writing is good but just making all of my writing sound good, flow and professional was difficult for me.

2. In my writing I used "avoiding -ings." I looked a my paper and edited allmost all of the -ings in my writing. This really helped because when I read it with the -ings it sounded really bad and not as good as it could be. But when I took out all the -ings it really made my writing a lot better.

3. If I had one more draft to do I would look at all the advice that Randy gave us for writing tools and try to use a least one more of those to make my writing better. I would also look at every sentence and make sure it is the best possible sentence I can write.

4. " In the year 1959 that's when their lives changed and 50 years later so did mine." I think this is a really powerful sentence because when you read it it makes a statement in your mind and when you read the words "so did mine"really changes the way you read the sentence. It also shows how when their lives changed mine did 50 years after them.

Pictures

I took 4 of pictures for this project and I do not know which one to choose. Comment and put which one you think is better.

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Artist Statements & Critiques

Well the feedback that I got in class was good enough to change some of my first draft to make it better. She told me to add maybe some quotes and just some grammar. She also gave me ideas so that I can make my artist sound better and in more depth about my icon.

Artist Statement Draft # 2

It was just about two years ago when it was my grandparent’s fiftieth wedding anniversary. All my cousins and family came as we celebrated the event. They were showing a slide show of their life story and it really struck me of how inspirational my grandparents are to me. I have been asking my dad about the history of them and their life story and now it has all connected and makes more sense to me. When I heard a brief overview of their life story I was shocked because of everything that happened in their lives.

My grandparents grew up in two different places in the country of Mexico. One lived in Mazatlan and the other in Leon. My grandparents met and moved to Mexicali Mexico just miles away from the border. When they were young my grandma smoked and drank a little but my grandpa just drank on a normal basis. In the year 1959 that’s when their lives changed and 50 years later so did mine. They found the Lord and immigrated to Lincoln Heights in Los Angeles from Mexicali Mexico. Then their lives’ went from doing nothing to making their lives mean something and change a lot of other people’s lives.

After they found the Lord they went to go spread it with other churches around the United States and around the world. And they took all five of their kids to sing songs in Spanish that they made which are stories in the bible. In total there are three generations in the Murillo family. My grandparents were the first, the second was all their kids, and the third was with my sisters, my brother, and my mom and dad. When we went on vacation we did what my grandparents did which is sharing the word of God. Now it is my responsibility to keep this tradition going and make a fourth generation with my future family.

They showed me never to give up in life and you can do what ever you want in life because. It says in Mark 9:23 “If you can, said Jesus, everything is possible for him who believes,” with the Lord everything is possible. They showed me by changing their whole life around and did what they wanted to do in life. I have set the bar higher for me to do anything I want to do to complete my life and to keep the tradition going with the fourth generation of the Murillo Family.

Photo Techniques

1. Rule of Thirds

I think I could use the rule of thirds just like in this picture because in this picture it has her eyes are like right on one of the lines and I would like to try and portray that so it looks cool with my head on one side of the picture.

2. Backlighting

I think this would make my picture look really unique and make it stand out if I take a picture using backlighting. I could do something like this picture to make it look cool.

3. Reflection

I think this would look really cool especially if I took one and my reflection was on water that was still. I know water is like never still but to get it as still as this picture would look so cool.

American Icons Resources

Roberto Clemente
1. Baseball Stats-To see what he did on the baseball field.
2. Story's about him- To see what he did off the field to help others in everything he did.
3. His trip to Nicaragua- To show that he gave his life to help other people out with their lives.

Grandma and Grandpa
1. Music that they made- Im going to use this resource because it shows their music and their lyrics describe them and about Jesus
2. Interview with them- If Interviewed them I would get their perspective on their life and how it all happened.
3. Interviews with family members- It will have the perspective on their parents and what they went through also.

Pastor Mike
1.Book: Falling in Love with the Bible or Falling in Love with Prayer- To show what he writes about in his books.
2.Interview-I could interview him to get detail about him and his life.
3. One of his messages- To show him as a preacher and how he shows it and how it shows people about the bible.

American Icon Ideas

1. Roberto Clemente was a very good man not just on the baseball field but off. "Growing up in Puerto Rico we got to learn a lot about his character, it was obvious that not only was he one of the greatest players, but a great human being as well." Bernie Williams, New York Yankees. "Clemente is a great hero for all Latin players especially Puerto Ricans." "Not only was he one of the best baseball players ever, but he was a great human being as well." Juan Gonzalez, Texas Rangers. Clemente finished his career with a .317 avg. with 3,000 hits and 240 homeruns, won the MVP in 1966 and was the first ever Latino in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

On December 31,1972 he decided to personally help Nicaragua out because of the tornado that stuck there. Him and four of his other friends were fling in a small air plane with food and supplies to bring to Nicaragua but it never made it there. It crashed in to Caribbean sea. They found 5 people dead but never found Roberto's body. it was a tremendous loss to everybody.

In 1973 commissioner Bowie Kuhn honored Roberto by making a "Roberto Clemente Award." the award represents the person who has the biggest sportsmanship and community activism which is selected each year. "He was so very great a man, as a leader and humanitarian, so very great an inspiration to the young and to all in baseball, especially to the proud people of his homeland, Puerto Rico." Bowie Kuhn

Why did Roberto Clemente decide and help a county that had no significance in his life?

Roberto is very important to me any several ways. He would help out a lot of people and was recognized as a good human being with charities and in Nicaragua. He also was arguably the best right fielder of all time. i look up to him as an inspiration to do the best i can in baseball.

2.For my grandparents before they got saved very little was important to them. But after that they realized that they needed God. Then everything was important like all their grandkids, family and friends. Everything that is important to them really changed their lives around.

My grandparents have always been important to me. When I herd both of their life stories I was shocked and surprised everything worked out in the end. They had to go through a lot of struggles in their life. One was they were addicted to a lot of drugs and could not stop them. But then the Lord came in to their life and changed it all. Then they had 3 kids when they moved out of TJ over 40 yrs ago. When they moved they had 2 more kids and started to preach the word of God all around the United States and still to this point.

For my own question how and when did your lives change?

3. Pastor Mike Macintosh represents a lot to me. He shows that he knows the bible a lot and can preach it to everybody so they can take a deep understanding of what he reads.

Pastor Mike Macintosh is a huge icon all around the world. He goes around the world on trips and to preach at churches and events all over the world. But his main place is at Horizon Christian Fellowship. Almost every Sunday he would preach and show the gospel and his complete understand of the word. The gym would always be filled for the 1^st and the 2^nd service. He would make sure that everyone that goes to service understands what he says and that they know what the Lord is going to do in their lives each day.

What made you want to be come a pastor?