Physics Project Reflection 1 -Sara Al Awam

I am currently making a a roller coaster/ Rube Goldberg project in science class, my group members are Sami, Lavinia and Janine. Our vision for our project is to have it galaxy themed, so stars and nebulas. We also want it to be part roller coaster and part Rube Goldberg. In the two classes we had  started of by planning our theme and roughly what we where gonna do, we then began to tape tubing to the wall and starting our spiral. Mrs Johnson then told us hat we cant directly tape the whole roller coaster to the wall, so we started over and used popsicle sticks to attach to the wall. the next class we decided to use toilet paper rolls cut into small pieces to hold our tubing on the wall.  Our first frustration we had was that we couldn't tape the tubes directly onto the walls so it would've been better to get a table spot. My hopes for next class is to have the the rollercoaster part finished and begin our Rube Goldberg.

 

Child soldiers day 4

Dear UNICEF

Hello my name is Sara Al Awam and I go to the American International School of Muscat in Oman. In my language arts class we are currently learning about child soldiers.  The topic of child soldiers seems to be an extremely conflicted subject, on one hand there is the view that points out that child soldiers are perpetrators, and the second view is that they are victims. Personally I think that child soldiers are victims because these youths are brainwashed, drugged and manipulated to do anything their commanders tell them to do. The good question is what happens to these kids after they have been picked up, are they immediately forgiven, are they punished? Is the correct way to handle these kids by giving them instant amnesty and risk them never learning their lesson.

Child soldiers are usually targeted for being easily manipulated (you probably already know that). Everything that they hold dear is usually destroyed in front of there eyes. These kids eventually get desensitized and distant from reality and common human morals. since kids as young as eight are targeted as child soldiers they have not yet reached the level of maturity to know if what they are doing is wrong. These children lose their family's and their siblings and are witness death and killing. Their homes and villages get torn to rubles. If you have nothing and no one a child is obviously going to go to the nearest available thing similar to a family. these children also lack basic supplies like food water and shelter so they have no choice but to participate in violence (story of child soldier we read about)s.

On the other hand these kids participate in the act of murder and violence. But are they responsible for their actions? or are the people who force them and manipulate them into war is it their fault? In my personal opinion the children should not be held responsible for their crimes and mistakes because children are easily manipulated and are forced to do something a normal child would never choose to do. I feel like these children should go to rehab but the people rehabilitating the children should emphasize the fact that what they did was wrong, but they should still tell the children that what they did the kids are not responsible for.

child soldiers day 3

Dear _______

Hello my name is Sara Al Awam and I go to the American International School of Muscat in Oman. In my language arts class we are currently learning about child soldiers. The subject of child soldiers seems to be an extremely conflicted subject, on one hand there is the view that points out that child soldiers are perpetrators, and the second view is that they are victims. Personally I think that child soldiers are victims because  these kids are brainwashed, drugged and manipulated to do anything their commanders tell them to do. The good question is what happens to these kids after they have been picked up, are they immediately forgiven, are they punished. my view on instant amnesty is that will these kids ever learn their lesson if they are forgiven? and if we punish them we don't really know if these kids deserve the punishment.

Child soldiers are usually targeted for being easily manipulated (you probably already know that). Everything that they hold dear is usually destroyed in front of there eyes. These kids eventually get desensitized and distant from reality and common human morals. since kids as young as eight are targeted as child soldiers they have not yet reached the level of maturity to know if what they are doing is wrong. These children lose their family's and their siblings and are witness death and killing. Their homes and villages get torn to rubles. If you have nothing and no one a child is obviously going to go to the nearest available thing similar to a family. these children also lack basic supplies like food water and shelter so they have no choice but to participate in violence.

On the other hand these kids participate in the act of murder and violence. But are they responsible for their actions? or are the people who force them and manipulate them into war is it their fault? In my personal opinion the children should not be held responsible for their crimes and mistakes because children are easily manipulated and are forced to do something a normal child would never choose to do. I feel like these children should go to rehab but the people rehabilitating the children should emphasize the fact that what they did was wrong, but they should still tell the children that what they did the kids are not responsible for.

Personally I think that the people who should be held responsible for the actions of these children are the people who got them into this in the first place, if it weren't for them these kids would live a normal life and have a family to influence them into making correct choices but without anyone these people influenced these children that makes them responsible to whatever wrong thing these kids do.

Child Soldiers Day 2

Child Soldiers on Trail in Guantanamo

In this article they talked about a former child soldier, Omar Khadir. I think that if Omar has not been exposed to the life of extremism and violence he wouldn't have become a murderer. What i noticed while reading the article is that Omar was proud to have killed a US Army Sgt and he also bragged about it. Omar clearly doesn't understand the value of human life and actively participated in violence and murder.

Analytic memo (Hope for Uganda Child Soldiers)

• At the age of 14 he was abducted 
• cutting off the lips ears and noses of innocent civilians to scare people
• he escaped by jumping in a fast flowing river
• both of his brothers had been abducted 

outline 

introduction

paragraph one 

why they are victims 
reason 1 
brainwashing and drugs

paragraph two 

reason 2 
all family lost 

paragraph three

reason 3
no other options 

conclusion 

Child Soldiers Day 1

                

I think that child soldiers are victims because children are vulnerable to manipulation and can easily be tricked by lies. child soldiers in my opinions are not perpetrators because they are not old enough to make the right decision and may not have enough life experience to do the right thing, children are known to be easily tricked into thinking what they are doing is okay but a child should not be a soldier but instead they should be going to school and enjoying their childhood instead of fighting in a war and risking their precious fragile lives. Children may not know right from wrong if they haven't spent their time learning. They may become numb to acts of murder this may distance them from society and have an impact in their future social development.

Armed & Underage

these children should not be held responsible for their actions because many of them do not have a choice or a say in what they do. in the article they talked about the children being easily manipulated and fearless which is proof that these people brainwash the children to such an extent that they no longer feel proper human emotions or morals.

Perpetrators

Innocent lives where lost
Some of them volunteer
menace to society
may seek revenge
participated in violent acts
inflicted pain on others


Victims 

They where threatened
Some where sold by their parents
Kids are easy to manipulate
No other options
No other family
Brainwashing
They are just looking for safety
To meet basic needs
Forced addiction
Lack of education 

Project X Blog Post #5

Maram and I worked very hard to create a slideshow that didn't have many words but lots of pictures so our audience wouldn't get bored. We also turned in our coloring book to the middle school library finally. In the end I am very happy with what this project taught us in working with other people and persevering when things got difficult like when I didn't have an Ipad pro but as a team we found a way out and we succeeded in our project. I think that success doesn't matter unless you learned something in the journey to success. The key things I learned where to always plan ahead but if you hit a roadblock there is always a way to solve a problem and if there is not a way to solve the problem their is no shame in failure as long as you learn from your mistakes.

Project X blog post #5

We are nearing the end of our project even though we still have plenty of things on our list of things to finish. We need to finish putting all of our images on the Ipad. That step takes a lot of time because the images that we put in our Ipads need to be trace over and they are our complete and final drafts so they have to be absolutely perfect. Our website is finished and all we need is to add the images in the end and that will be done and last week we finished all of our final sketches and they are ready to be put in the Ipad. I hope that our book ends well and that people will be able to benefit from our pages.