Ruthie's Graduation Portfolio: September 2016

Sophomore Year

I got a puppy after my dog died and made a class out of my training him. Here is a short video of us.

Puppy Training

Equestrianism
More horseback riding and this time I made it to the teen world championship barrel racing competition!

Pre-Algebra

Started some pre-algebra my sophomore year.
Here's a few examples of my work.

Biology

Completed a biology course.
Here are examples of class work and lab work.

species diversity as evenness or richness in a species.

genetic diversity as the amount of characteristics that make up different species.

ecosystem diversity as the number of different ecosystems on earth

multicellular cells

homeostasis is the upkeep of internal conditions. example: when inhuman body overheats, your body produces sweat to cool down.

Natural selection removes the weaker animal of a species (for example) and so, only the stronger animals pass on their stronger genes and so leads to adaption.

judge work, teach, etc

an independent variable is changed by a scientist in an experiment independent variables are characterized as experimental data.

you would use a TEM because it transmits electrons through a piece of the organism

one poteinal benefit is being able to know if, in your genes, you may get a disease and also the benefit of using trangentic genes to cure certain illnesses. risks however include parents being able to pick certain genes for their children and the risk of genetically modified food’s effect upon humans and animals.

this is my system of my morning routine. i get up, i brush my teeth, i brush my hair, i put on makeup, and i eat. // ruth

it stays warm because of its fur and the black skin underneath the transparent fur reflecting more warm light.

PH TESTING

American History

History Assignment

The Civil War: 1861-1865

Reviewing Vocabulary

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.

1. During the Civil War, the Union was forced to resort to ________ to raise enough troops for the large armies.

A. attrition

B habeas corpus

C.emancipation

D. conscription

2. Because of the effectiveness of the Union navy, the Confederacy often used _______ to get supplies.

A. ironclads

B. blockade runners

C. cavalry

D. British warships

3. Union soldiers survived on beans and _______, while Confederate soldiers ate bread made of cornmeal.

A. hardtack

B. molasses

C. hoiminy

D. tomatoes

4. General Ulysses S. Grant employed a strategy know as a _______ to capture the city of Vicksburg.

A. battle

B. blockade

C. siege

D. charge

5. Union General Sherman claimed he would “make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.” He accomplished this during his March to the Sea as his soldiers __________, or looted, nearly everything in their path.

A. mandated

B. pillaged

C. foraged

D. conscripted

Reviewing Main Ideas

Choose the best answer for each of the following questions.

Section 1 (pp. 314-319)

6. At the beginning of the Civil War, which of the following was an advantage held by the South?

A. It had 90 percent of the nation’s factories.

B. It had most of the experienced army officers.

C. It had twice as many miles of railroad track.

D. It had most of the shipbuilding facilities.

7. Which of the following was part of the Union’s Anaconda Plan for defeating the Confederacy?

A. a blockade of Southern ports

B. a quick ground offensive

C. the assassination of Jefferson Davis

D. a defensive war of attrition

Section 2 (pp. 320-327)

8. The damage done by the Alabama and the Florida created tension between the Union and Great Britain because

A. it helped the Confederacy to nearly win the war

B. Great Britain had joined the war on the side of the Confederacy

C. the ships initially had been promised to the Union

D. Great Britain had allowed the ships to be built in Britain by the Confederacy

Section 3 (pp. 328-333)

9. Why were war deaths so high during the Civil War?

A. Doctors were hesitant to amputate damaged limbs

B. There was little medical care available

C. Women refused to work on battlefields as nurses.

D. Doctors knew little about infectious diseases.

10. In the Civil War, women made huge contributions as

A. nurses

B. soldiers

C. reporters

D. teachers

Section 4 (pp. 336-341)

11. What was the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg?

A. The British began to support the Confederacy

B. The British decided not to support the Confederacy

C. The British wanted to support the Union

D. The British decided to sell ships to the Union

12. After the successful capture of Chattanooga, Lincoln

A. recalled General Sherman to Washington, D.C.

B. issued the Emancipation Proclamation

C. began negotiations for peace with the Confederacy

D. made General Grant general in chief of the army

Section 5 (pp. 344-349)

13. By 1864, when Grant faced Lee at Spotsylvania , the nature of the war had changed in which of the following ways?

A. it had been fought mostly in the South and was n ow fought mostly in the North

B. Where there had been long breaks between battles, there was continuos fighting.

C. The Confederacy, not the Union, now began to win most battles.

D. Both sides now introduced new technologies, such as ironclads and conoidal bullets.

Critical Thinking

Choose the best answers to the following questions.

14. One advantage that the Confederacy held during the Civil War was that

A. it received military and financial support from the British and the French.

B. many battles occurred on lands with which Southerners were more familiar.

C. the largest weapons factories were located in the South

D. most people in the country agreed with the position of the Southern States.

15. One result of the Battle of Antietam was that

A. Lincoln decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

B. the Confederacy was split in two

C. Great Britain decided to support the Confederacy

D. Davis Farragut became a hero in the North

16. The Union blockade of Southern ports helped to win the war by

A. forcing Jefferson Davis to resign as president of the confederacy

B. destroying Southern morale through food supply and shortages

C. making heroes out of blockade runners

D. making it easier for enslaved people to escape to the North.

American History

Hoover Responds to the Depression

Reviewing Vocabulary

Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.

1. In the late 1920’s, many investors engaged in speculation, or purchasing stock

A. after considering a company’s earnings and profits.

B. and quickly selling the stock for profit.

C. by borrowing money from a stockholder.

D. to invest long-term in the future of the company.

2. The Democratic Party’s first Roman Catholic candidate for president was

A. Alfred Smith.

B. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

C. Herbert Hoover.

D. Calvin Coolidge

3. A ________ most often traveled by hopping a railroad car.

A. photographer

B. journalist

C. novelist

D. hobo

4. Which popular radio style of the 1930’s gained its description from its sponsor?

A. Amos ’n’ Andy

B. soap operas

C. Animal Crackers

D. American Gothic

5. President Hoover opposed __________, or giving money directly to needy families.

A. foreclosure

B. relief

C. public works

D. unionization

Reviewing Main Ideas

Choose the best answers to the following questions.

Section 1 (pp.628-633)

6. One of the major problems with the stock market in the late 1920’s was the number of people who bought stocks

A. on margin, with borrowed money.

B. in companies that they supported.

C. only after carefully studying a company’s history.

D. without knowing their stockbroker’s reputation.

7. Which of the following was a root cause of the Great Depression?

A. prohibiting the sale of alcohol

B. giving women the right to vote

C. uneven distribution of income

D. the end of federal control of banks

8. Herbert Hoover won the 1928 election in a landslide, in part because of

A. fears of another world war.

B. prosperity under Calvin Coolidge.

C. having been vice president.

D. his support for unions.

Section 2 (pp.634-637)

9. Drought and ________ brought about the conditions of that caused the dust bowl.

A. overgrazing at large cattle farms

B. the near extinction of the buffalo

C. famine

D. poor farming practices

10. The people who lost their homes in the Great Depression sometimes lived

A. in shantytowns.

B. in roadside motels.

C. on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol.

D. in public libraries opened to them.

11. Despite the poverty of the 1930’s, more than 60 million people went to the movies weekly. Why were movies so popular?

A. The special effects used in movies then were amazing.

B. People could not get over the fact that actors talked.

C. Movies offered an escape from viewers’ hard lives.

D. Theaters were air conditioned and offered free popcorn.

Section 3 (pp.640-643)

12. Hoover was slow to respond to the economic crisis because he opposed

A. all public works projects.

B. deficit spending.

C. investing in stocks.

D. private charities.

13. How did American citizens respond to the Great Depression in the 1930 midterm election?

A. by reelecting Hoover.

B. by electing socialist candidates.

C. by staying away from the polls.

D. by electing Democrats.

14. What was Hoover’s response to the Bonus Army marchers who came to Washington D.C.?

A. He ordered them to be paid their bonuses.

B. He had the army remove them.

C. He visited them and listened to them.

D. He set up soup kitchens to feed them.

Contemporary Literature

Here are a couple papers I wrote about 2 of the favorite books I read this year

Paper Towns

When Margo and Quentin were nine they made a horrible discovery, and responded in very different ways, Margo took two steps forward and Quentin took two steps backward.

Question: Do these descriptions still apply to the characters when they reach highschool?

Answer: Yes. Margo has less fear than Quentin and is more adventurous than him as well but when Margo goes missing Quentin becomes more adventurous and a little more fearless throughout the book. As for Margo she basically stays the same as when she was younger.

Question: Describe Q’s best friends. how do they fit into the cast system of Winter Park High? If you had to choose one of these characters as your best friend who would you pick and why?

Answer: They’re all basically nerds or geeks that get picked on. I would pick Radar because he normally always knows what to say at a bad or good time.

When Margo goes missing she’s always been known to leave “a bit of a bread crumb trail.”

Question: What clues does Margo leave for Quentin? How are these different from clues left previously?

Answer: They’re harder to figure out for Q and his friends, like the nail polish or the poems. they’re more advanced…She is really trying to test Quentin this time.

What Q finds in the abandoned mini-mall is nail polish and where Margo had been living for a few days. He learns that Margo really doesn’t want to live in “paper towns” anymore and that he has officially fallen in love with her.

The definition of “paper towns” means that most of the people there are as thin as paper and that most of them are flaky and rude from Margo’s point of few. It is the main reason why Margo leaves she hates it there.

Question: With which characters version of the “real” Margo do you most agree with?

Answer: I agree with Quentin’s because he knows her best out of all of them.

Question: Q’s parents describe people as “mirrors” and “windows” what does this mean? Do you agree with this metaphor?

Answer: That some people don’t see others as people. Like how Q thought that he never really saw Margo as person, just a mirror. I do agree with it in same ways.

Q comes to this conclusion: “Margo was not a miracle. She was not an advanture. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. Quentin is in love with her so he saw her more of a miracle who didn’t have to worry about anything he didn’t think of her as other girls because she isn’t like other girls but she still is a girl and he never really thought about that.

The last line of the book is heartwarming to say the least. Everything that Q had gone through to get to her was completely worth her being back with him. No matter what they will always find their way back to each other.

Question: Do you think the characters Margo targets fro revenge get what they deserve? Does Lacy deserve to be included?

Answer: Yes I think they do get what they deserve. Yes Lacy deserved to be included

When Margo disappears after her outing with Q, it’s not the first time something like that had happened. She basically runs away once every 3 years. She’s never gone as far as she did this time and they had always found her within two weeks. She ran away again because she was sick of the people around her and her friends had pushed her over the edge.

Question: Which philosophy of life do you most agree with?

Answer: I agree with Margo’s strings because it makes the most sense and because it has the most meaning.

The Fault In Our Stars

Question: During a disagreement regarding Hazel’s attendance at Support Group, her mother tells her, “Hazel, you deserve a life.” Consider the irony of this statement. Why is Hazel so resistant to attending her Support Group? Though she doesn’t acknowledge it. What might be some of the benefits of her attending?

Answer: She doesn’t see the point in it. She knows whats gonna happen at the end of it all so why go to Support Group if she doesn’t need/want support? Her benefits of attending are that she gets to meet teenagers going through similar things.

Question: In what way does Augustus’s introduction to Hazel’s world complicate matters for her? How does their relationship profoundly change her?

Answer: Because when they first meet he takes out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth. It makes her insanely mad cause first of all why would he be smoking after a cancer Support Group and secondly because she cannot breath, so to say the least their relationship kinda starts on the wrong foot. She has a best friend that is going through the same things as her and falls in love with him and realizes that he made her life worth living.

Question: Augustus inquires about Hazel’s background and tells her, “Don’t tell me you’re one of those people who becomes their disease.” In what was do Augustus, Hazel, and Isaac fight to keep cancer from defining who they are? How do they work to prevent it from consuming all aspects of them?

Answer: They focus on the good in life and the fun times more than the bad. They work on having fun with each other.

Question: Though they are intended to inspire and motivate, why does Augustus find humor in his family’s posted “Encouragements”? What can readers glean about him based on his reaction?

Answer: Because he finds them pointless in a way so he makes jokes about them. Because most teenagers are like that so they agree with him.

Question: Though her all-time favorite book is An Imperial Affliction, Hazel shares that she doesn’t like telling people about it because “there are books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.” What do you believe she means by this statement? Do you agree? Have you ever had a personal connection with a work of art? If so, what was it about the work that “spoke” to you?

Answer: That its a one of a kind book and it takes a certain person to understand it. I do agree. No I have not.

Question: Hazel shares that through his novel, Peter Van Houten is the only person who understands what it’s like to be dying and not have died. What is it about his perspective that makes Hazel feel so connected to this author?

Answer: Because they have the same struggles in life but yet they don’t at the same time.

Question: Why does Hazel feel so desperate to find out what happens beyond the ending of An Imperial Affliction. What does this indicate about her need for understanding about what comes “after”?

Answer: Because it’s cliffhanger and she feels like if she finds out what happens after she’ll have an idea what to except after her story ends.

Question: Compare the parent/child relationships in the story: Hazel and her parents and Augusts and his parents. To what extent are

Answer: Hazel and her parents are more funny and friendly with each other than Augusts’s but Augusts and his parents also have a special bound but its more caring.

Question: After hearing Augustus state that he fears oblivion, Hazel tells him, “…even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.” How does her pragmatic understanding of the frailty of humanity help her remain grounded?

Answer: Because she knows that one day everything will come to an end.

Drivers Education

I got my license after taking lessons and practicing ALOT!

American Government

Here is an example of some of the work I completed for American Government.

Constitutional Freedoms

Reviewing Key Terms

1. From the following list, choose the term that fits each situation described below:

8 shield laws

7 pure speech

2 prior restraint

4 libel

1 heckler’s veto

6 seditious speech

5 picketing

3 symbolic speech

1. Spectators threaten violence against an unpopular demonstration and, in order to keep peace, authorities break up demonstration. Heckler’s veto.

2. A government official tells a reporter that she cannot publish a story that might compromise national security.

Prior restraint

3. A group burns an American flag to show its objection to a government policy.

Symbolic speech

4. A newspaper publishes an untrue story that damages the reputation of a local resident.

Libel

5. Animal rights activists parade outside a store that sells firs and attempt to convince customers not to enter the establishment.

Picketing

6. An individual urges a group to fight the police rather than obey a police order to disperse.

Seditious speech

7. A person stands in front of a group and states her opinion on an issue.

Pure speech

8. A reporter is protected against being forced to disclose a source of information in court.

Shield laws

2. Recalling Facts

1. List four freedoms the First Amendment protects.

1.Freedom of religion

2.freedom of speech and of the press

3.freedom of assembly and petition

4.search and seizure

2. List four examples of how religion remains part of government.

Most government officials take othas of office in the name of god. The nations coins carry the motto “in god we trust” the pledge of allegiance contains the phrase “one nation under god.” Daily sessions of congress open with a prayer.

3. What is the significance of Engel v. Vitale?

Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.

4. Identify kinds of speech the First Amendment protects and kinds it doesn’t.

It protects pure speech and symbolic speech. It does not protect seditious speech, defamatory speech, or “fighting words.”

5. Under what circumstances would criticism of a public official not be defamatory speech?

criticizing a public officials opinions and ideas that do not help the future of the people would not be defamatory speech

6. How might freedom of the press interfere with an individual’s right to a fair trial?

A reporter could put facts from a trial into an article or online that haven’t been released to the public yet, making them believe facts that may or may not be true before the individual goes to trial. It can create bias in a jury

7. Why is prior restraint forbidden in the United States?

Prior restraint is government action prohibits speech or other expressions before it can take place. It prevents the government from suppressing information embarrassing to the government or even just critical of the government.

8. What is the court’s opinion on obscenity?

Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court wherein the court redefined its definition of obscenity from that of "utterly without socially redeeming value" to that which lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value".

9. Why may government require that groups first obtain permits to parade or demonstrate?

they have record of the date and area of parade/demonstration, so they can prepare for the crowds they may bring, so they can get proper law enforcement around, etc

10. What is the significance of the Gregory case in expanding the right to assemble?

The court ruled that there was no evidence that the march or the people involved in the march were acting in a disorderly way. So, under the principle *established in Thompson vs. City of Louisville*, the petitioners were not breaking the law. The court said that the petitioners were not convicted for the way they acted during the march, but for their refusal to obey the orders of the police.

Thus, the critical point is that they refused to obey a direct police order!

11. What is the Supreme Court’s position on picketing?

Picketing is a common tactic used by trade unions during strikes, who will try to prevent dissident members of the union, members of other unions and non-unionised workers from working. Those who cross the picket line and work despite the strike are known pejoratively as scabs.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Sophomore Year