why does the world allways get in the way....why can't they just let you play

Senior Remember Whens:

-Sadie Hawkins freshmen year, sitting at the loner table with Lauren, Ivy, and Molly.
-Going to Frisco for Spring Break freshmen year.
-Vote for Gary!
-Prank calling all night, Adrian has a big poop in her pants.
-The waiter at the Mexican restaurant with a fake accent
-Making Rachael ride in the back seat and always forgetting to let her out of the car
-The OC party at Adry’s where we stayed up all night watching the first season
-Winning state in cheerleading and watching Bring It On at Kristen’s house to celebrate
-Going to Andy Maul’s birthday party and being the only three sophomore girls there
-Stealing Quincy’s shirt and taking pictures
-When Adry fell in a hole while we were playing volleyball
-Playing JV soccer
-Tally nights and sleepovers
-Being so scared at the haunted house that I didn’t even finish it
-Spending an entire summer at Lauren and Lauren’s houses
-Making mashed potatoes in the middle of the night
-Yelling “He’s crazy! He’s crazy!” and dancing around Lauren’s living room while she was on the phone.
-Shopping for Andy’s birthday presents and getting him weird gummy food.
-Going to Elitch’s for Catholic School’s Night
-Playing all the games trying to win a simpsons doll for Gilmer
-TBONE! Steak is better than candy
-Candy is dandy but…
-Tiffany’s birthday party in Estes Park when we had a water fight and swiping
- Breaking Tyler Sullivan’s pot in photo class and then trying to put it back together.
-Mr. Good’s class with Ivy and Tiffany.
-Sucking on pretzels
-Mason’s world history class
-Mr. Nicholson is our BEST FRIEND!
-Who do watch the discovery channel with, your mom? No, with your wife
-Robo Mason comes with interchangeable sweaters
-Safeway sucker and lime lover
-Eating Pete’s burritos with the Hoovers every Wednesday
-Mary and Adry ditching Munnings at the movies
-Fangkisser
-Otter and Jen-Jen
-Save a tree, eat a goth.
-Red Robin talks
-Everything that comes out of Katie’s mouth is dirty…
-Drawing the spaceship on the kids menu.
-Making the valentine’s tshirts for the boys basketball team, and then switching with Gabby because I wouldn’t wear mine
-Being a member of the chillping
-Wild nights at cheer camp
-Squishys are bueno
-Getting on the jumbotron with Adry every rockies game
-Katie, Mary, Jennie, and Paul looking at adry’s scrapbook, “wow that was a good night.”
-Mary and Adry vandalizing Sammy’s truck after Paul’s Sin City movie night.
-“Were you just holding hands??”
-Taco Tuesday, when we snuck upstairs to eat tacos during mary’s party.
-Making lots of wonderful cakes
-Ah Snap!
-Stalking Kim Stockerson for 2 years.
-Wearing knee high socks and miniskirts to Kurt’s Halloween Party
-Going to Mongolian BBQ is Halloween costumes
-Getting balloon swords for Homecoming junior year, but they didn’t look like swords
-Singing the moose song on Gilmer’s lawn at a cheer sleepover
-Sneaking out of the bowling alley to buy Kangaroo Dunkers
-Panda watch! Making a movie for journalism class.
-When Brittany ran a fence by Comeaux’s house.

so today in art ms v. needed some boxes of art suplies brought up from the office...so she says i need 4 guys to go get them...they all come back complaining of how heavy they were and how hard it was to get pu the stairs...take the freaking elevator!! mind you one the guys she sent had a cast on his arm and she still wouldn't send a woman instead

then she sent two of them back to get a table from the theater...the freashmen carring that complained about the weight and allmost drpped it on me!

some ppl are so caught up in the thought that women are the weaker sex and can't do anything but backe because they are fagile little porcile dolls to be shown off...news flash boys my be stronger physicaly but women are stronger mentaly and physicaly strong then some boys...we are capable of lifting boxes and tables....i move all the furneture in my family because my father can't...i am woman but if you must think of me as a man inorder to realize i am equal then so be it...i am alex, a woMAN

woman was created because man refused to be alone, god created woman for man but now woman have develped brains and can see humanities weeknesses

okay now i'm getting down off my soap box...it just really pissed me off when ms v. said some of those things...sry

life is so complicatedly simple it's rediculouse
eveything said isn't ment and everything ment isn't said
a hug is just a hello and a hello is really a hug
love is nothing and nothing is love
oxymorans fill my life and leave it empty
nothing makes every bit of sence
people are stupid
boys are not worth the effort it takes to be noticed
school is a waste of my parents money
music is my only outlet short of writing
the smallest movement hurts
my life is moving at an idol pace
going nowhere fast but still moving foward
never lookin gback at what could have been
only looking at life with an eye for the implyed
reality isn't worth my time
my anti-reality is to close to reality
monocramtic feelings will never change
hearts can never be mended once their broken
but there will allways be a pice that can still be broken

i'm done sitting here doing nothing
i need to kick my life into overdrive
i am my anti-reality and my reality
i've got to keepgoing and never look back
highschool is allmost over and i'm growing up
neverland is unaccesable

"we are in a time right now where we are hard to outrage, we don'e get up out of our chairs and do something." ~George Clooney

if you let time pass you by, you'll never catch it. time will allways be faster then you and if the off chance it laps you take a second and takle the chance you had because it won't ever come again. take a chance and dance, take a moment of bliss and kiss, don't close your eyes and fly, never give up and never surrender. if we all lived in the moment would we regret what we had done, if we lived for now would we worry so much. if you were told today that you would die tomorrow what would you do, who would you see, what would you say, what would you regret. if you put off what could be done today, would you ever do it. all i can say is i'm done regreting what i haven't done, and give up trying to wait things out.

prom was amazing except someone wasn't there (he knows who he is) and he ows me a dance...jk...but anyways it was amazing and i'm so tired along with everyone else but i just can't sleep because i'm on an emotional roler coaster and my mind is being pulled in so many directions...one friend is going through shit that no one should have to go through but it has happened to me so i feel their pain, and another one is just as spaztic as i am and it makes me happy to laugh with them and then all the other ones are just kinda there....graduation is coming up so fast and one of my two best friends is leaving me...*cries a little* and i really wanna go but idk if it is by invitaion only (so if you know please tell me) and then there is the end of my junior year and i'm gonna be a senior next year ahhhhh that is so wierd, collage and shit holy shit!! and then there is actually passing exams and all the stupid drama and then there is work....uggg...i wanna quit so bad but my parents won't let me untill i get hired by someone else so that's frustration. so much is going on i can't keep up, i am going to explode. i'm going to bed now before i fall asleep while typing.....

Segregation
Segregation in America has been a problem since it began. In the 1800’s war and hate began to dictate what people thought about black people, mostly slaves, north and south were put at odds in order to preserve basic rights and economy. The problem didn’t just blow over and disappear, blacks were persecuted, killed, and segregated until the 1930’s re-sparked the movement and people like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King and others fought for their rights. Segregation in schools, buses, and workplaces, killings and murders, and lynching’s African Americans fought for their rights out of slavery into society and are rising to better places.
The 1800’s were when the civil war took place, northern states and southern states fought against each other over slavery and the secession of southern states. Some white people thought that black people should have no rights and that they were property. Other people, called abolitionists thought blacks were people too; they assisted them in the escape from slavery and took them north.
The Underground Railroad was one way of escaping, with secret words, hideouts and signs, white folk would help the blacks get from slavery to freedom. A series of safe houses were the stations and the rail ways were your feet. It was neither underground nor a railroad. Conductors led the slaves to the safe houses where they could eat and sleep, on of the most famous of them all was Harriett Tubman, a woman called Moses, and she made many journeys to the south risking her life.
Blacks couldn’t attend school so they couldn’t hold jobs and couldn’t vote and couldn’t even walk on the sidewalk with whites. If a slave tried to escape their punishment was up to their master and they were typically beaten or sometime killed. It was illegal and a felony to transport slaves to the north and help them escape. Without rights blacks had no freedom, no land, no money and no way to educate their children.
After the thirteenth amendment, granting blacks the right to vote and abolishing slavery, there were still many obstacles to overcome. Tests were instated, in order to vote you had to pass a literacy test and these tests were created by white people to prevent blacks from voting, the black version of the test was very difficult and most of the whites couldn’t pass it, but fortunately for them they got a test that was very easy. Without the ability to vote blacks still and very little to no power in politics and most other jobs.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a white terrorist group that oppressed black peoples. These people would dress in white hooded robes and terrorize black people and white people who aided black people. They would lynch, hang, people for just being black and they killed without reasons other then color. The KKK was known for burning crosses outside black churches, and for their white face coverings.

In The Ministers Black Veil there could have been a number of reasons as to why the minister wore the black veil. It could have been to prove a point to his congregation, or it could have been because he did something horrible. I think it was because he felt there was so much sin in his community that he was going to try to make a point to everyone and make them think.
By wearing the veil and not explaining why he was wearing it, it caused every person in the town to question why, causing them to think. If he had committed a mortal sin and that is why he wore the veil then I don’t think he would have worn it because as a human you want to hide your faults form everyone else. The veil that is lifted by God and God alone, which is talked about in the story, is what the minister is trying to get his congregation to see, that we are all hiding something from everyone, this is demonstrated by the fact that he won’t even tell his bride why he wears it. If one person knew why he put on that veil then everyone would stop thinking about why and start thinking about other things. In my opinion it is because no one knows that they all start to think about their own lives and why they could be doing to stop with the sinning.
I think the minister was trying not to hide himself from the world but to open the world’s eyes to it’s own faults and mistakes.

Ceramic Glossary

Handbuilding Terms
Handbuilding - This term refers to the one of several techniques
of building pots using the only the hands and simple tools
rather than the potters wheel. The term used for creating
pottery using the potter's wheel is "throwing".

Pinch"Pinch" - in ceramics is a method of shaping clay by
inserting the thumb of one hand into the clay and lightly
pinching with the thumb and fingers while slowly rotating the
ball in the palm of the other hand. Pots made in this manner are
called "pinch pots".

Coil - This is the technique of building ceramic forms by rolling
out coils, or ropes, of clay and joining them together with
the fingers or a tool.

Slip - Slip is liquid clay. The easiest way to make slip is to
gradually sift or spoon dry, powder clay into a small cup of
water. Stir well as you add because it will tend to thicken up
after it sits for a minute or two. You want it to be about the
consistency of thick cream.

Score and Slip - Score and slip refers to a method of joining two
pieces of clay together. First, score the clay; this means
that you make scratches in the surfaces that will be sticking
together. Then you slip it; that is you wet the surface with
some slip, using it like glue. Next, you press the two pieces
together. It is very important to always score and slip clay
that is leather hard. If you do not, the pieces will likely
pop apart when they are fired.

Molding - In this technique, flat slabs of clay are pressed into
molds in order to create various shapes or forms.

Stages of Dryness - When speaking of clay, we refer to three
basic stages of dryness: wet, leather hard and bone dry.












Decorative Techniques and Terms
Sgraffito - Sgraffito is a decorating technique developed
centuries ago. In its simplest embodiment, leather-hard clay
is coated with an engobe or slip of contrasting color and then
a pattern or picture is added by carving through or scraping
off the slip to reveal the clay underneath. Example of an
Asian jar decorated with sgraffito. Example of Mexican
ceramics decorated with sgraffito.

Wax Resist - In this decorative technique, patterns or designs
are created by brushing a wax medium over an area of clay,
slip, or glaze to resist the final glaze application when the
wax is dry.

Slip Trailing - Slip trailing is another decoration method. Slip
(a liquid clay) is applied to the greenware through a tube or
nozzle, much like icing a cake.

Stamping - This is the technique of pressing forms into the clay
to get decorative effects.

Mille Fiore - This refers to a method of creating designs by
folding different colored clays together into "rods" or bars,
then slicing them as if you were slicing rolled cookies. This
duplicates a design over and over for each slice. Here is an
example of glass beads made in this manner and another
explanation and example using polymer clays here


















Firing Processes and Terms Dealing with Firing
Firing - This is the process of heating the pottery to a specific
temperature in order to bring about a particular change in the
clay or the surface.

Bisque - The term bisque refers to ceramic ware that has been
fired once without glaze.

Greenware - This refers to ceramic ware that has not been fired.

Glaze - A glass-like surface coating for ceramics that is used to
decorate and seal the pores of the fired clay.

Reduction - A kiln firing in which there is insufficient oxygen to
consume the free carbon emanating from the heated glaze and clay,
resulting in the formation of carbon monoxide. Oxygen-starved
carbon monoxide pulls oxygen from the clay body and glaze,
forming color changes in the coloring oxides.

Oxidation - A kiln firing with a full supply of oxygen (as
opposed to a reduction firing). Electric kilns are this type.

Raku - Raku is a method of firing pottery that takes a ceramic
piece in its raw state, greenware, and quickly (in 45 minutes
to an hour rather than 8 to 18 hours) takes the temperature up
to almost 2000 degrees.



















Parts of a Pot

Mouth - The opening at the top of a vase.

Neck - The (usually) narrower part that leads from the body of
the vase to the mouth.

Body - This is the main part of the vase. It is usually the
largest part.

Foot - This is the part of the vase that meets the floor.

Alex Freese
Davis
History/ 2
12 October 2005

Thomas Jefferson, inconsistent and backwards in what he did and what he spoke, lived one way and had ideals of another way. Slavery was one of the issues he spoke against yet lived a different life. In practice Jefferson was a southern aristocrat but in theory he was a rebel and against many of his own practices.
On the issue of slavery Jefferson once wrote, “We have the Wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.” Jefferson found slavery to be a moral evil but he in-fact owned many slaves. George Washington freed his slaves upon his death but, Jefferson didn’t follow. A southern aristocrat and plantation owner the saw the “need” for slaves to keep the plantation way of life, the self-preservation and the reason to hold on to the wolf. Slavery kept the south running and functioning, so to abolish that would sink half the country, the plantations would fail and the economy would drop.
As an aristocrat Jefferson was used to living well and having lived in France for a time he acquired quite a taste for the French foods and wines. When he held parties his guests ate the best French foods and drank select wines. Jefferson ran up a tab of $2800 during one year in office on wines alone. For someone who is simple in his theories Jefferson lived like an aristocrat of Southern United States.
The simple ness of his thoughts showed in Jefferson’s clothes. He dressed plain and modestly without gaudy décor or embellishments, this didn’t match the wines and foods he enjoyed and parties. His rich tastes in foods were not shown in Jefferson’s clothing.
Practice one theory on issues and living by another was Thomas Jefferson. Unable to give up his rich life style Jefferson kept many traditions of the southerners of the time, Jefferson lived richly but talked of a simple life. Jefferson didn’t let go go the wolf.