I thought this movie was interesting to watch because it was original and there are not many movies out there like this. I was surprised how true the things they talked about were. Like when they said they used women in a sexual way to get more viewers and women had to be a certain way to be accepted by men. It was sad how people now are brainwashed to think a way that they shouldn't be thinking. So many girls and boys are now concerned about how they look rather than caring about how their personality is. I understand that people my age, especially care most about what they look like because it's the time when teens start to judge each other based on how they look and wear. And we have characterized our selves to be with people like ourselves without even realizing it. And I think that's just how life works. The only thing people most care about is what other people think of you and you start to make a reputation of yourselves based on what other people think of you. I mean everybody wants to be excepted by society but I don't think it's good for you that you change who you are to accomplish that. When girls wear make-up they think they are covering up. But the way I see it I think they are revealing who they really are. When I dress up I don't think about what other people might say about me. I think about what will I see in the mirror when I'm finished. I think it's okay for girls and women to change their appearances but as long as they are doing it for themselves. To be able to look into a mirror and like what you see is the feeling everyone should get to feel. That's what I think is most important.
I took this course because I thought with just girls I would get out if my comfort zone and it would be more fun. And I hope to achieve to like getting fit and wanting to do the activities we are going to do.
For self regulations I think I deserve 29/33. I listen to what Mr. Neuf has to say, but sometimes I tend to space out. I always finish my work, but not always on time. I always show up for class when I'm not sick. And I'm usually on task when not zoning out. I mostly use my device for blogging. And rest of the time, when free, I listen to music or on Instagram and Facebook.
ANALYZING/CREATIVE WORK
In this area I think I deserve 30/33 because I edit my work when reminded.
I give credits to websites when I use information from them. I've written formal and informal to my best level. I make connection to myself from what I read and write. I know most of the literary devices. I can define most characters, and what type of a character they are as well. When I wrote my short story and the narrative essay, I used what I thought would be interesting. Not only to others but me as well. One of the statements in the PLO's was "Support the learning of self and others". I do that by commenting on other people's blog, and by reading their blogs and getting ideas from them.
The second statement I chose from the PLO's is "Argue, persuade, and support". We do that when we discuss about things. Like when we did with the poem "Unentitled".
The third statement I chose was "Examining and comparing ideas and elements among texts". We did this when we did Romeo and Juliet. We disscused the play and the movie. And compared ideas on what was going to happen, what was happening or what the sentences in the play meant.
CONTRIBUTION TO LEARNING (Self/Others)
I comment when told and when needed to I guess. I do participate online.
When I comment I comment in things that need improving or fixing. I try to edit my work when I remember or am reminded. When we're discussing authors, I do my part by researching them also. When we discuss, it's mostly online and I do participate. So I think I deserve 27 out of 33 in this part.
OVERALL
Overall I think I should give myself 87% in this course including the bonus percent.
Today is the Open of Surfing in Australia, Queensland. It's the day where most teens come to have fun in the beach while watching professional surfers their age compete against one another for the surfing championship. I am one if the surfers. It is held every year in February, lasting up to 9 days.The first day of the competition went great. I got a new rash-guard with my name on it from my sponsors. To move to the next round you had be one of the 10 surfers who moved on out of 20. Which I was. I came in 7th place. That is pretty good for the first round. I got a total score of 8.4 out of 10 and $5,000. The score counts on how big your wave is and how you handle it. The money is what motivated you. Most girls competed and fought for a wave. But I, I waited for the right one. After the first round we would get three days to prepare for the next round. Same place, less competitors but stronger currents. I trained hard. Specially on my weaknesses. And I was sure I was going to bring home another trophy. But a little too sure.
Then on the second round, that is where I got full of myself. A huge, wave that was still building up was headed our way. No dared to go for it. But I thought getting this wave will make me a legend. Bigger than winning the championship. So I went for it. I headed towards the still building up wave. I could hear the cheers and motivation coming from the crowd. When I got close to the wave I turned my board around and stood up on it. I had made it that far. The wave made a cave around me and it was the most amazing feeling. Then I heard more cheering. I wanted to wave at them but I knew I would lose my balance. But I did anyway. I put one hand up in the air waving, and just when I was about to come out of the water cave, I fell against the crashing wave.
I felt my self floating in the water. I could hear the faint distance of the announcers saying "Bethany Tonkin has just taken a nasty wipeout!" Then I blacked out. I woke up with the sunlight on my face. I realized it was morning. Hoping the wipeout was a dream I went outside. Then a bunch of reporters rushed towards me asking me a bunch if questions. Cameras flashed and I just stood there like an idiot until my brothers and my dad came out and kicked them out, threatening to call the police.
My Mom reassured me saying "You can't give up yet, you can still do this". But I knew I didn't want to face them again. I could still had time to choose. Either give up, or face my biggest fear : Being jugded and looked down on. I'm not scared easily, but what I'm really afraid of is what other people think of me. People say you shouldn't care. But I do no matter what. When people think of me, I want them to think something good about me not something bad. So to choose what to do I went out from my backyard to the beach, full of people who saw me wipeout. As soon I reached the beach, a bunch of teens wearing rash-guards that looked liked mine came up to me with surfboards asking me to sign their boards. I was ecstatic. So I smiled and signed their boards and they said "We thought you were so brave going after the wave."
"But I failed". I said. "Really bad".
"So? At least you tried. And you've got enough points to compete at the last match" One of the girls said.
"Yeah. Isn't that enough?" Another one asked. Then I thanked girls and left for home. As I was walking home I realized, I had people who looked up to me. All the things I thought would happened didn't even exist. I had just made it up in my head. Even after my failure my fans didn't want me to give up.
"So I won't" I thought to myself. "I can't disappoint them. No I won't disappoint them" I still had three days to win this champion ship. When I got home I told my parents I would compete. And they helped me train throughout the days.
The the day of the championship arrived. I had a good feeling about today. Reporters surrounded me. And I talked this time. They asked me if I could win this championship. I said "I'll sure try". I got in the water and I looked at the horizon. Today didn't matter if I won or not. At least not to me. What mattered was trying my best and not worrying about anything. Just going with the flow. Literally. I heard the sound of the horn. And it was a sound of a new beginning of the end.
So far reading this book has been amusing except how the dog died right way because I love dogs. Dogs always make stories better.
I feel like I'm understanding Chris and his father's situation. Chris thinks of things we wouldn't normally think about. But that makes me wonder if he knows what people think about him and if he gets labeled as "That person with autism". I don't know if he even notices but I know I wouldn't liked being labeled that way. He probably knows he is different and I think him being different makes him special in his own way. I also wonder if he gets frustrated when people say they feel sorry for him or gives him looks. This book reminds me of a TV series called "Touch". It's about a little boy with autism who can change one's fate with connecting numbers of pattern in the world, but he doesn't talk at all. He and his father finally start to communicate with each other trough patterns and numbers.
Overall the book is very different from all the other books I've ever read. It's nice to get to know other people's thoughts and perspective. You learn to think about others first.
I think people bully because they are jealous, or just plain mean. But, I want to believe there is good in everyone. People get so caught up feeling bad about the bullied victim, but never try to find out why bullies do what they do. But that's just my opinion.
Sibling bullying: 'I wished I hadn't been born'
13 November 2013 Last updated at 01:42
A recent BBC News Magazine article asked when scrapping between siblings becomes bullying. Readers responded with stories of being bullied - as well as tales of being the bully.
Deborah, US: My two sons (ages 17 & 16) got into such a fight in the car just this morning, I pulled them into the counsellor's office at school. It was a first for the school - which is a top-ranked high school in the US. Both my boys are well-known and well-liked at school, but privately we have a real problem. My oldest is a bully.
It's beyond sibling rivalry - today the oldest was snarling in the youngest's ear like a psycho - "I'm going to kill you. I'm going to destroy your (new French) horn, I'm going to destroy ..." He couldn't get further because I ordered him to shut up or face criminal charges. I've had him sent to jail for three days once for stabbing his brother in the stomach with a pen. His temper is psychotic, he's even slapped me across the face, and his brother has been in terror, shaking all over, that John's going to do something to him.
We have broken doors, walls, and furniture, and just this weekend the oldest smashed some of my favourite art while he was in a fit that I wasn't doing enough to help him apply to college. I've been trying to correct his behaviour all these years, and nothing seems to work - it just gets worse.
Louise, UK: We bullied each other very badly. I had aggressive physical fights with my brother all the way into our mid-teens. He told me I was fat and ugly until after I left home and dropped to six stone, when he seemed to realise the effect of his words and wouldn't shut up about how thin I was. I was scared of him physically and so I made comments to try and dent his confidence. I suppose it was a self-perpetuating circle of his physically punishing me for my comments and me making comments to punish him for physically beating me.
For my part, I said some absolutely unforgiveable things to him which even as an adult I feel incapable of repeating because I still feel so ashamed. My brother and I now have very little contact. He's struggling with life and has struggled with drug problems, relationship and mental health issues. I feel responsible for this and I don't think I'll ever be able to let that guilt go but I don't know how to apologise or make up for the things I said and did.
These are just some of the celebrities who were bullied or maybe still are. They showed their bullies they were more than what they said.
An Ivy League education proved to be less than magical for Harry Potter star Emma Watson, who reportedly dropped out of Brown University because she was bullied. Fellow students said that Watson was mercilessly taunted at school, with some classmates making comments like “Three points for Gryffindor!” whenever she answered a question in class. The 21-year-old actress and model announced in March that she would be taking a break from Brown, but claimed she was just trying to focus on her acting career. “I will still be working towards my degree… it’s just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought,” Watson wrote on her website. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Watson is worth an estimated $32 million—so she should be laughing all the way to the bank.
He may have won over millions of teenaged girls globally, but Twilight's resident vampire Robert Pattinson was not exactly on the good side of his classmates growing up in Britain. "I got beaten up by a lot of people when I was younger," the 23-year-old actor told Parade.com in March. "I was a bit of an idiot, but I always thought the assaults were unprovoked… I liked to behave like an actor, or how I thought an actor was supposed to be, and that apparently provoked a lot of people into hitting me." But Pattinson also experienced what it was like to have the shoe on the other foot—both literally and figuratively. "Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes," he told The Daily Express in August. "I still wear them and never put laces in them."
Being raised by a German mother caused Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock to receive cruel comments from her classmates. As a professional opera singer, Helga Meyer dragged Bullock from their home in Virginia to her performances in Europe, leaving the young girl culturally clueless in her native country. "I'd come back [to school] from Europe and I looked like a clown compared to the cool way the other students looked and dressed. So I got my ass whooped a little bit," Bullock admitted in 2009. "Kids are mean, and the sad thing is that I can still remember the first and last names of every one of those kids who were mean to me!"
Tom Cruise turned to Scientology in part due to childhood taunting. Young Tom struggled with reading, which did not escape his peers nor his school, forcing him into remedial classes and on the margin of the social circle. He moved from school to school—15 different ones over 12 years—but the small-for-his-age future actor still had difficulties academically and with his classmates. "Your heart's pounding, you sweat, and you feel like you're going to vomit," Cruise said of being bullied in 2006. "I'm not the biggest guy, I never liked hitting someone, but I know if I don't hit that guy hard he's going to pick on me all year. I go, ‘You better fight.' I just laid it down. I don't like bullies." At age 7, a school psychologist diagnosed him with dyslexia, which led to Cruise rejecting the study of psychiatry and his eventual decision to join the Church of Scientology. But school bullies were not his only problem—the star's father also knocked him down time and time again. "He was a bully and a coward," Cruise told Parade.com of his dad. "He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you."
Howard Stern suffered some serious flak for making fun of Precious star Gabourey Sidibe earlier this year, but perhaps the shock jock was just a victim of the cycle of bullying abuse. On his radio show in January, Stern discussed growing up in a largely black neighborhood in Roosevelt, Long Island, and then trying to fit in when he moved to a mostly white area later in his educational career. The mama's boy said his parents claimed to move out of Roosevelt to Rockville Center for him, but Stern did not find his new surroundings particularly comforting. "Thanks to my overprotective mother, I was the target of every bully in the neighborhood," he wrote in his book Private Parts. "A fat neighborhood kid named Johnny, who used to blow his nose into his Italian ices, then eat them with a wooden spoon, used to beat me up so regularly that my parents made me go to judo school to learn to defend myself."
Miley Cyrus may have the best of both worlds now, but that was not always the case. In her 2009 autobiography, the now-17-year-old pop star revealed how she survived her unofficial un-fan club in her pre-teen years growing up in Tennessee. "The girls took it beyond normal bullying. These were big, tough girls [known as] the Anti-Miley Club," Cyrus wrote in Miles to Go. "I was scrawny and short. They were fully capable of doing me bodily harm." And they seemingly tried to—shoving her into a bathroom during class and locking her inside on one occasion. "I spent what felt like an hour in there, waiting for someone to rescue me, wondering how my life had gotten so messed up," Cyrus wrote of the incident. Plus, there were also instances of verbal abuse, often directed at her "Achy Breaky Heart" singing father, Billy Ray. "Your dad's a one-hit wonder," she recalled one classmate saying. "You'll never amount to anything—just like him."
His father had endured more than his fair share of taunting during his years as a student, and in 2007, Prince Harry admitted that he had been bullied as a redhead and was teased " for being ginger." Harry's on-again-off-again girlfriend Chelsea Davy is said to have nicknamed him "Big Ginger," and during his time in the British Army, Harry's fellow soldiers reportedly referred to him as the Ginger Bullet Magnet, allegedly buying red wigs for themselves to make the Prince less identifiable to insurgents in Iraq.
Before he became a record-breaking Olympian with a collection of gold medals to his name, Michael Phelps was a kid with unwieldy limbs, "sticky-out ears," and a lisp that caused him to be teased by his peers. Phelps has openly discussed his "deep hurt" over bullying early in life. He also dealt with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, for which he spent two years on medication. A teacher even told Phelps' mother, "He's not gifted. Your son will never be able to focus on anything." These days though, Phelps' trainer calls him the "motivation machine," explaining, "bad moods, good moods, he channels everything for gain."
Apparently, there was a time when everybody really did hate Chris Rock. The comedian has talked openly about his struggles as the only black student in his New York school, saying, "I got beat up just about every day. I got called n***** every single day. I got kicked and whatever. What happened to me then, today kids come to school with guns and shoot everybody—but I couldn't find a gun back then." Clearly still haunted by the painful words of his youth, Rock turned the experience into comedy with his show Everybody Hates Chris, which actually inspired one of his former teachers to write Rock an apology letter for his less-than-pleasant elementary school days.
Before joining her showbiz peers like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake as a cast member on the New Mickey Mouse Club, Christina Aguilera's dreams of stardom rendered her an outsider with her classmates. "I would get a lot of cold shoulders because there was just no way they could relate to what I loved to do," Aguilera has said. "You know, it's not really normal for a child to just want to be in front of the camera and on stage. It's not something that all kids want to do—they want to play in the playground. You know, it was hard for me to relate to other kids because I didn't have the same interests. I was even more the oddball, I felt, because of that." After joining Mickey Mouse Club, Aguilera, who once had her tires slashed by classmates, says, "it was really exciting for me to almost feel I'd found my kind."
You might know him as Pierce Brosnan, but in school, he was known as "Irish" for his accent. The former James Bond was teased after moving from Ireland to London at the age of 11 and attended Elliott Comprehensive, where his dialect stood out amongst his classmates. "I was an outsider and that made it difficult. I was ribbed a lot because of my accent and was nicknamed 'Irish.' I was also very shy—which didn't help. But the important thing is I survived the experience," Brosnan said. According to The Biography Channel, Brosnan would train himself to speak with an English accent, ending up, instead, with a Cockney twang.
Long before Bill Clinton became our 42nd president, he struggled with self-image and body weight. During his fight against childhood obesity, the former president noted that his love for fast food was a likely contributor to his need for his September 2004 quadruple bypass. "I realized that one more time I've been given another chance, and I wanted to make the most of it," said Clinton. "I was the fat band boy" wearing unfashionable jeans. During a YMCA dance, an older boy teased Clinton for donning carpenter's pants. When Clinton jawed back, the boy, who stood a whopping 6-foot-6, punched him in the jaw. Clinton may have come out of it with a sore face, but after taking the hit like a champ, standing his ground, and earning the respect of the older student, the politician also gained a lesson in perseverance.
On Tiger Woods' first day of kindergarten in 1981, the future golf stud was tied to a tree and taunted with racial slurs by older schoolboys. While that incident seems to be the only one of such a level of severity, Woods also had to cope with a stuttering problem. "It was very difficult, but I fought through it. I went to a school to try and get over that, and I just would work my tail off. And I would talk to my dog," said Woods on 60 Minutes. Sometimes, we all just need a good listener.
Girls will be girls. And, as Demi Lovato knows, they can be all too cruel. On The Ellen DeGeneres Show, shed opened up about the bullying she endured in 7th grade – teasing that eventually prompted her to be home-schooled. "I never really understood why [I was being bullied] until looking back," she says, noting that she was already a working actress – which made her an easy target. "I had a different lifestyle then everyone else."
Kate Winslet still gets pestered for her fluctuating feminine figure, but in school it was apparently much worse, with kids calling her “Blubber.” The actress said, “I was bullied for being chubby… I was the girl that people would always say, ‘Ah, it’s such a shame, because you’ve got such a pretty face.’” That’s why the “I can lose weight but you’ll always be ugly” comeback is such a zinger.
Kristen Stewart might be hugely popular nowadays, but she wasn’t quite as beloved in high school—she’s told the press that she got bullied by her peers: “I’m glad I could do those films and I was glad to leave school. I couldn’t relate to kids my own age. They are mean and don’t give you any chance. I was never the type of girl to be walking around talking about acting, so in the beginning I didn’t get hassled, until someone realized. I tried to play it down but I got, ‘Oh, she’s such a bitch.’ Since I was 14, I continued my education via correspondence while concentrating on my career. The day I did the graduation scene in ‘Eclipse,’ I had just finished high school myself the week before.”
While we'd never advocate taking revenge, there will be a day when you can be satisfied in a sense of accomplishment for surviving. Winona has a pretty rad story: "I was wearing an old Salvation Army shop boy's suit. As I went to the bathroom I heard people saying, 'Hey, f*****.' They slammed my head into a locker. I fell to the ground and they started to kick the s**t out of me. I had to have stitches. The school kicked me out, not the bullies. Years later, I went to a coffee shop and I ran into one of the girls who'd kicked me, and she said, 'Winona, Winona, can I have your autograph?' And I said, 'Do you remember me? Remember in seventh grade you beat up that kid?' And she said, 'Kind of.' And I said, 'That was me. Go f*** yourself.'"
Christian Bale starred in “Empire of the Sun” when he was 13 years old, but instead of an instant entourage, he was instantly hated on in school. Bale says, “It was not a great time. I was a victim of bullying and had other kids kicking and punching me every day. It was an early lesson in how making a film can set you apart. If you don’t want to live with the consequences then don’t make the film. But that didn’t help at the time. I was confused about other people’s reactions to me, both good and bad. It can mess anyone up.” I bet they got way nicer once “Newsies” came out and they realized what an awesome singer Christian is!
Lady Gaga recently went on “Ellen” and talked about how her high school experience influenced her persona: “I want to create a space for my fans where they can feel free, and they can celebrate. I didn’t fit in at high school, I wanted to be like Boy George and I felt like a freak. So I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with, and they don’t feel alone. It took a long time for me to be OK with myself. But I want my fans to know that it is OK. Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner.” Boy George is to bullying as the subway is to homeless people.
Tom plays our favorite hot villain in the Harry Potter franchise, but it turns out, a lot of kids were villains to him. "I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy."
Jessica Alba seems like the nicest person ever, which is probably why she was tortured in school. The actress claims she was shy and awkward and had to be protected by adults: “I was bullied so badly my dad used to have to walk me into school so I didn’t get attacked ... I’d eat my lunch in the nurse’s office so I didn’t have to sit with the other girls.
Michelle Trachtenberg is one of those actresses who’s not a household name, but after stints as Harriet the Spy, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and as Georgina Sparks on “Gossip Girl,” she’s one of those actresses most people instinctively like. That, apparently, wasn’t the case in high school, where she was bullied mercilessly. “This one girl threw me down a flight of stairs, fractured my ribs, punched and fractured my nose, and told the principal I used the word ‘bitch’ and got me detention,” she said in an interview with Complex Magazine. She just recently got revenge, when she saw this same woman outside a restaurant where paparazzi were swarming. “They were probably waiting for Paris Hilton, and I just happened to come out,” said Michelle. “I have never before or since said something like this, because it’s so disgusting, but I turned to her and was like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I’m really famous. They need to take my picture. Sucks for you.’”
"I was beat up in the bathrooms, in the hallways, shoved in the lockers -- for the most part for being the new kid," Eminem, born Marshall Mathers, told Cooper about getting bullied in grade school, mainly because he moved around so much that he was a lot of times the new kid on campus.
What helped Eminem overcome this tough phase of his life, though, was rapping. "I found something.. 'yeah, this kid over here may have more chicks or better clothes, but he can't do this like me,'" he recalled about when he began to rap. "I started to feel like, 'Maybe Marshall is getting a little respect.'"
"Respect" is what he's been searching for his entire career, Eminem said. "It might sound corny," he sid, "but I felt like a fighter coming up."
The segment is appropriately timed, especially since so many young kids, particularly LGBT youths, have committed suicide lately because of bullying in schools. Although Eminem is not Gay and has actually in the past been condemned for seeming be anti-Gay (something he says he isn't during the interview), I think the message will resonate with many kids contemplating an easy way out. Even the biggest of stars have gone through bullying and survived it and, furthermore, have come out on top -- so can you.
"I don't want to go overboard with it, but I do feel if I can help people that have been through similar situations, why not?" Eminem said in reference to his latest "Not Afraid" track.
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1. Emma Watson
An Ivy League education proved to be less than magical for Harry Potter star Emma Watson, who reportedly dropped out of Brown University because she was bullied. Fellow students said that Watson was mercilessly taunted at school, with some classmates making comments like “Three points for Gryffindor!” whenever she answered a question in class. The 21-year-old actress and model announced in March that she would be taking a break from Brown, but claimed she was just trying to focus on her acting career. “I will still be working towards my degree… it’s just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought,” Watson wrote on her website. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Watson is worth an estimated $32 million—so she should be laughing all the way to the bank.
