Questions For Words Alive

1. If you were to be in Cupcakes situation would you have made the same decisions she made?
2. Whose your favorite subordinate character in the story, and why?
3. Do you think that everything that Cupcake wrote in the book is true?
4. Are you able to relate to Cupcakes drug use?
5. Do you believe that if Cupcakes mom wouldn't have died, Cupcakes wouldn't have suffered a lot?
   

Reasponding to Cupcakes Memoir

1. I think Cupcakes motivation was to prove people wronge. All the negative comments that people said to her, to make her feel worthless and put her down because they didn't have anything better to do then to hate on people that are trying to ccomplish something in life.


2. I think she believes that she is letting girls know that no matter what has happend in your past, and what mistakes you've made you are always capable of making important decisions for your future and a better tommorow.


3. I think Cupcake was just trying to tell her life story.

Manifest Destiny And Ethnocentrism

Manifest Destiny and Ethnocentrism

1. There were different types of tribes, languages, habitats, dress code, skin tones, diet depending on location, and different beliefs about God where you come from.
2. The Native Americans shared land, furs, planting techniques and food such as corn, beans, and squash.
3. For the Europeans it was common to buy and sell land, and could be own by a person with a legal document such as a title.
4. Whites believed that God wanted them to own/ control all of the land from coast to coast regardless of what the other cultures believed in or wanted.
5. I think the American history would've been different if Philip or Tecumseh had no private property, no imperialism toward tribes, and different languages.
   

Kumeyaay Tribe

1. The Spanish rename the Kumeyaay Digueno.
2. The main foods that the Kumeyaay ate where: mollusks, rabbit, and picked whiled fruits such as berries, and staple acorn.
3. The three bands that the Kumeyaay divided into the Ipai (northern dialectical form), Tipai( the southern dialect form), and the Kamia(the eastern dialectal).
4. The Kumeyaay did convert into Christianity.
5. On November 4&5, 1775 a force of Kumeyaay surrounded Mission San Diego de Alcala', set fire to it"s wooden structures and attacked a small Contingent of Spaniards.
6. Currently their are about 20,000 Kumeyaay descendants in the San Diego County, about 10% of whom live on it's 18 reservations, more than in any other county in The United States.
7. The Kumeyaay painted designs that represented something from their tribe.
   
8. Kumeyaay women whore willow bark skirts while men usually wore no clothing,only a woven agave belts to hold tools for hunting and gathering. They sometimes wore agave fiber sandals over rocky or thorny areas but usually went barefoot. In cold weather men and wore a rabbit fur blanket.
9. The Kumeyaay where experts at weaving fine, tightly stitched baskets, which where worn as hats by both men and women. In addition to protecting the head, they could be used as bowls for water or for carrying items. Larger baskets were traditionally used for processing foods, especially seeds, nuts, and for cooking.
10. Anybody can find artifacts of the Kumeyaay tribe, at Cuyamaca State Park on state Highway 79, 10 miles east of julian, Kumeyaay artifacts and a reconstructed village can be seen by visitors. San Diego's Museum Of Man also has an extensive display on the Kumeyaay.

The Reasons Why TV Is Bad For Your Children.....

Watching Tv Is Bad For Your Children

• Children watching tv is not healthy, parents shouldn't allow their children to watch tv no more than thirty minutes every other day. Here are the reasons why your children shouldn't be allowed to watch TV very often because each hour that your child watch TV it increse the chances of attention deficit disorder by 10%.

• 1,345 children that watch TV for three hours made children 30% more likely to have a disorder.

• Children who are exposed to the unrealistic levels of stimulation at a young age, continue to expect the same things later in life when majority of the shows on TV are not realistic. This Situation may be hard and difficult in the long run for your children.

Geisha Make Up

Geisha Make-Up

• The origins of white face make-up in Japanese culture is largely disputed. It has been said that in the middle ages, the white make-up was discovered when a Japanese traveler returned from Europe with stories of "pale faced" beauties. Which this sounds pausable, it is also been said that it originated from China and was adopted by the ladies of the Japanese court. Considering that the use of white make-up in Japanese history can be dated back as early as the Heian Era (794-1185 AD), a time when Japan was largely influence by the Chinese culture.

The way you apply Geisha make up is:

• First the wax or oil substance, called bintsuke-abura, is applied to the skin.
  
• Next the white powder is mixed with water into a paste and applied to the skin. The white powder is applied with a bamboo brush starting from the neck and working upwards.
• The white make up covers the face,neck, and chest with a two or three whitened areas forming a w or a v shape, usually a traditional w shape left on the nape, to accentuate this traditionally erotic area and a line of the bare skin around the hairline, which creates the illusion of a mask.
  
• After the foundation layers is applied, a sponge is patted all over the face, throat, chest the nape and neck to excess Moister and to blend the foundation. Next the eyes and eyebrows are drawn in.
  
• The eyebrows and edges are colored black with a little bit of red. Traditionally they could have used charcoal, to darken them but today the cosmetics is more likely to be modern in their places.
• Last but definitely not least are a her lips. The lips are filled in using a small brush. For their first year, Maiko paint only a little bit of colour on her center lower lip. This appears to originally originate from the fact that in Japanese history very small lips where once considered sensual and attractive.
• After their first year, Maiko start to colour their top lip, but never filling in the entire lip. When they become geisha, they continue to paint their lips smaller but eventually over time as her make-up becomes more clear and distinct, she starts to paint in her full lips.
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Jocelyn Bastida
February 27, 2008
Dawn Miller
History
Obama’s Educational Plan

In Obama’s State Of Union speech he mentioned several components for his educational plan. One of the components he mentioned that ¾ of jobs require college education and that less than ½ of Americans don’t have college education. In the U. S., we have the highest high school drop-out rate, and we also have ½ of college student’s drop-out rate. I believe that the reason for students to drop out of high school and college is because for college students may not afford the college tuition and for high school many students need the one on one education from the teacher but not all students can receive that help. It is important to know that there have been a lot of teacher’s layoffs and it does’t help. What Obama has accomplished to improve the education crisis is that he has expanded early childhood education, make college affordable, and prevent more teacher layoffs. I think that it’s great that he is expanding early childhood education because that way my son will receive the education that he needs to be able to succeed in life and be able to pursue his dreams in future. One last promise that Obama made the U. S. that he will stop wasting so much money in Iraq and that he will have comprehensive health care for the U. S. I honestly believe that Obama will accomplish all of his goals in the best interest of the citizens in the U. S.