Month: July 2020

From early in life, there can be a lot of pressure from other individuals to fit in. People might think they need to pretend to be a different person in order to be accepted by the world around them. However, being yourself is very important for success in life. It is important to be yourself, as it can establish boundaries, help people find focus and direction, and can establish ones identity.

When people are always themselves, they are able to know what their limits and boundaries are. When people cross their boundaries, the person will know, and can make sure that others do not take advantage of them. If an individual is always themselves and establish boundaries, they are more likely to be aware when people start taking advantage of them.

Individuals are more likely to have focus and direction in their life if they be themselves. Someone who is constantly trying to satisfy other people’s expectations would not have any kind of direction they would follow. When an individual stays true to themselves, they are more likely to know the goals they want to accomplish, and are able to stay focused on accomplishing their goals.

People are establishing their own sense of identity by being themselves. No matter what happens in their life. they will always know who they are. In times when one may feel lost or distracted, if they have their own identity, they’ll be able to get back on the right path. Without establishing their own identity, they might easily conform and lose themselves.

However, one may think, what’s wrong with fitting in and being someone who everyone likes? Although it will be less stressful to mold themselves to what seems most acceptable, people who pretend to be someone else will not be truly happy in their lives. They would have no control over their lives, as they would always have to satisfy other people and try to fit in.

Therefore, it is always important to be yourself, as it will help a lot in ones life. This is due to three reasons, people will know their boundaries, be able to stay focused on a direction, and know who they are. Although fitting in with other people may be less stressful, being yourself is very important in people’s lives.

During the short story The Ransom of Red Chief, two people decide to kidnap the child of an important figure in a town called Summit. This is the first ironic thing in the story since Summit is actually a completely flat town in the middle of Alabama. The two people then bring the child to their base and the child doesn’t want to leave since the kidnappers would play with the child, which is another ironic part of the story. They end up being abused by this child and the kidnappers become the victim by their victim which is also ironic. Though one of the kidnappers is abused especially harshly by the child and is almost scalped by the child. They then want to return the child as soon as possible to the father and actually end up having to pay the father of the child just to get rid of him.

“The Ransom of the Red Chief” is a short story about two men who decide to kidnap a child and hold him for ransom. However, the child is very rambunctious and energetic, so the men quickly get tired of needing to play with him. Also, the child is a bit violent and hurts one of the men, Bill, while they were playing. The narrator, Sam, writes a letter to the boy’s father, demanding $1,500 in exchange for the boy. When the men receive his reply, the boy’s father has them pay him $250 each in exchange for the boy’s father taking the boy off their hands. Bill immediately agrees, as he is the one who is feeling the most suffering, and he hightails out of there leaving the Sam to catch up.

I think this is a very funny story, and I enjoyed it very much. I could imagine the little boy and the robbers cooped up in a cave together, and envision him driving the men up a wall with his shenanigans.

I sympathize more for the robbers, because even though they were the ones who kidnapped the boy, the boy still acts like he is in charge. He makes them play games with him, and plays in a rough way. I think the robbers didn’t really know think things through when they decided to kidnap such a handful. Of course I feel slightly bad for the boy, but he is treated reasonably well and seemed to have a really great time playing and camping in the cave.

My interpretation of the theme is don’t bite off more than you can chew. I think this is pretty clear, as the men definitely bit off more than they could chew when they kidnapped the kid. They should have planned and researched more, because if they did they wouldn’t have kidnapped a hard-to-handle kid. Instead, they would have kidnapped an easier target.

I would recommend this story because it’s very funny and enjoyable, and also because it is very easy to understand. The characters have funny and unique personalities, plus the plot is very good.

In conclusion, ” The Ransom of the Red Chief” is a very good read and I definitely think you should read it.

The coronavirus was a new virus in 2020 the coronavirus started in China by a Bat (I think). People didn’t listen because they thought that it would only stay in China so they got careless and now the Coronavirus is in the entire world.

Now we did the background part of the story now we are in lock down and everyone is afraid to go outside so everyone just bought what ever hey could eat and ran to the house. Now if we go on streets we can see nothing but roads and closed doors. Everyone is in lock down so if this coronavirus is here foe more than a year is could get bad because the farmers could get sick one by one until none are left.

The coronavirus is a scary thing but even if things are scary we could learn important lessons.

In this story, I think that Johnny had higher ground instead of the criminals because he was using them as donkeys and he had cauterized one of Bill’s hand. On the other hand, the criminals gave him food a place to live and didn’t physically hurt him.

I still don’t blame Johnny for being mean to the criminals because I think he just wanted to play with them. Though I think the criminals got what they deserved because they are not supposed to kidnap anyone just for the ransom because it is not polite and it is also a crime.

I think the author of this story was teaching us a life lesson. It is to never do anything bad or else carma will get you!!! 😀

Counting Coronavirus deaths is hard; one has to figure out whether the patient died from COVID or from a disease caused by COVID or the patient died with COVID.

I think the main reason why government officials count COVID-19 deaths is to see the chance of one with COVID of dying. Usually, officials have medical examiners confirm COVID-19 deaths to create more uniformity and clearer documentation.  Also, I think counting COVID deaths can help doctors know where they need to help, and where they do not need to help.

What I think about the TED Talk for our lesson today “The Art of Being yourself.” Caroline McHugh talked about how being yourself is very important in a lot of ways. Superiority, interiority and inferiority. Those are the ways you think about others and what they think about you. 

        Superiority, superiority means you think you are the most important person in the room. Which means you think you are the person in the center of attention. Which may lead to bad things. Not like it will or anything. A person who thinks they are superior than they most likely is someone who, like I said , wants a center of attention. But not just that. For example if you are a 5th grader that just passed a history test which was really hard. Most likely he or she that passed wants people to think they are very smart, like i said center of attention.

Interiority, interiority means you only think about yourself. As if your friend got hurt and you wouldn’t really care because you only think about yourself and what happens to yourself. When your friend gets hurt you don’t care but when you get hurt most likely you will feel very much in pain. Even though interiority is good like minding your own business. Sometimes it may lead to danger. When I thought about this for a moment. Interiority can harm and lots of more bad stuff. Such as when your friend got a broken wrist and may cause very very bad damage. A person you think has interiority won’t specifically care since they only think about what happens to them.

Inferiority, inferiority is when you think you are bad, and weak. Having an inferiority feeling isn’t always good. Sometimes you let yourself down when  you think in a way of inferiority because when you have a good attitude it always makes your day. Just like when there is always a day where you have the perfect hair and the perfect breath and clothes you are feeling the mood.  Having that mood always makes you feel better. After that attitude keeps going you won’t feel weak or think you are bad.

So in today’s essay i talked about the three ways of being yourself. Superiority, Interiority and Inferiority. All are very different in many different unique ways. So like i said. All of those three ways is how you think of someone and how someone thinks about you.

COVID-19 has devastated the earth in the past six months and has caused a ton of deaths. But, not all people with COVID have died because of COVID, but a combination of previous underlying diseases or body issues. Because of this, we are not certain among the actual death toll caused by COVID-19. There is also the possibility that the deaths but I will get to that in a short moment. Furthermore, countries like India and Brazil, two of the top three countries in COVID deaths and cases do not have as much testing. So, can the deaths be as much as 33% more? OR can it be 16% less? Let’s find out.

First off, COVID has a death toll of an estimated 542,000. Also, the CDC made a report in 2017 that 100 million adult Americans have diabetes or prediabetes. That means around 1/4 Americans have diabetes. so, if we multiply 133,000 (amount of COVID deaths in the US) with 125%, we get 166,250. This means that there could well be an additional 33,000 deaths. But in other countries, not as much people have diabetes because Americans eat a lot of junk food.

Also, the deaths might be overcounted because they might think that a person died of COVID, but they actually died from a stroke from cholesterol build-up. This might happen because COVID helps some underlying conditions to worsen. Therefore, there is a high chance that a person died of a different cause.

Lastly, Covid deaths can be under counted because of countries not having big technological advances like India and Brazil. India has over 1.4 billion people and it ranks third on coronavirus deaths. Also, a lot of people there are livng in farms and far away from big cities and hospitals so to them it is unclear what the cause of death is. Also, the poverty there does not allow big testing sites all over India so if a village catches it, they might not even know.

To sum it up, Coronavirus deaths to me seem undercounted given the two facts I gave. There is also a small chance that Coronavirus deaths have been overcounted.

Coronavirus has swept through the United States and many schools had been shut down. Even when a pandemic like this is happening there are still many people who have been infected due to lack of testing. For example, to have an official count of coronavirus, they will have to test every one first. However, data shows that the cases in the United States are probably being undercounted rather than overcounted. There are three reasons why that has happened.

primarily, In “How are COVID-19 deaths counted?” by  Stephanie Pappas stats that. “Death certificates can be signed by a physician who was responsible for a patient who died in a hospital, which accounts for many COVID-19 deaths.” This means that the counts counted a great number of people that have died, died in a hospital. Therefore it means that a lot of people have not been counted because that did not get identified. Same with getting the vires.

following, the next reason that this has happened was that “Contributing factors such as heart disease, diabetes or high blood pressure would then be listed further down. This has led to some confusion by people arguing that the “real” cause of death was heart disease or diabetes, Aiken said, but that’s not the case.” says Stephanie Pappas. And this causes people to not count some of the cases that they knew. It also makes people believe that COVID-19 is not that dangerous.

The last reason that the counts for COVID-19 were undercounted was that the leader of a state or country sometimes does not tell the real count. The reason for that is so they will not make their country look bad. In my opinion, that was not a smart house because people need to have a consequential number, in this case, to get alerted. And understand how dangerous COVID-19 really is.

To draw things to a close, the numbers of COVID-19 counts need to be accurate to keep people alerted, so they can keep themselves safe.

I think that coronavirus deaths should be counted more carefully. I feel like if the deaths are not counted carefully, people will think that the coronavirus is not dangerous when it actually is. I see many people not practicing social distancing out in public stores. Some people also don’t wear masks in public. This is rude and harmful to themselves, because they are increasing the risk of getting the coronavirus and spreading it on to other people around them. I think that if they knew exactly how many people were dying because of it, they would be more careful.

I do know that is is sometimes hard to keep track of these deaths because the coronavirus has similar symptoms as the flu. I understand that the doctors would be busy on other patients and not have time to keep track of everyone,(I think they are overworked) but I still want the counting to be precise. I mean, why do they put the numbers if they don’t put the right ones.

Overall, I believe that doctors and medical staff are overworked and need more time to rest, but I also think that coronavirus deaths should be counted more carefully. I think this because people will think that the coronavirus is less dangerous and be reckless out in the public. Also, knowing how many people are dying will cause more people to help donate money and masks.