Sam Keller's Writing Portfolio by Samuel Keller

Sam Keller's Writing Portfolio by Samuel Keller https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl English Honors en-us 2022-04-07 19:44:20 UTC 2022-06-01 04:43:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Dispatch #2 kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135243422 The metaverse is a virtual world where you can do anything you want and be anyone you can be. In the articles we just read about the metaverse, there were many example of Nature vs. Technology. In the Article “Metaverse clothing, travel, plastic surgery: Experts predict life in 2030” it says, Imagine scaling Everest, swimming with hammerheads or skydiving over the Grand Canyon — without ever leaving your living room. This quote is talking about how you can do things in nature without ever leaving you living room. Technology is taking over nature and soon, everyone will be using the metaverse to go to these cool locations with little effort. Technology can also not be as good as nature. While you can find awesome things in nature, the metaverse can be negative for teens. “minors were regularly exposed to graphic sexual content, racist and violent language, bullying and other forms of harassment on VRChat’s platform, which is typically accessed through Meta’s Oculus headsets.” That is some ways that Nature and the Metaverse compare and contrast.

Link to dispatch 2]]> 2022-04-07 19:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135243422 Where I'm From Poem kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135250567 I am from a little white house on the outskirts of a street,

Not forgotten, but alone.

I am from the cool breeze of the ocean,

Duck Diving under waves.

I am a set of legos,

The memories of building towns for tiny people to live in.

I am a sunset, so bright and remarkable.

Always making people’s day.

I am from the snow on the go

All the colors and the fresh ice

On a hot summer day.

I am from the backyard

Turf so hot it burns your feet,

Dog running back and forth

I am German

From the last name to the bratwursts.

I am from my family tree,

So many people I never got to meet

I am from a family with old cousins,

Being the youngest by a lot

Lastly, I am from my Mom and Dad,

Such lovely parents

Where I'm From Poem

]]> 2022-04-07 19:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135250567 Fear Story kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135253955 As I am looking to my left, the shadow looks a lot bigger than it did before. I then see some details of a clown mask. And then my heart stops. In the hand of the clown is a machete. I run and scream for help, but no one answers. Just as I feel a cold hand on my arm, I hear a whisper

“You don’t pick on people on my farm, boy.” Says farmer John.

Fear Story

]]> 2022-04-07 19:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135253955 Two Perspectives kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135292743 One day, I was running from Adrian, and I ran into a trash can. The remains of people’s snacks and chocolate milk splattered everywhere. Some yogurt got on Adrian’s face and I laughed. Adrian was upset, so he threw me into the trash can. I hopped out and threw kool-aid on his new kool-aid shirt. He was so mad, he threw me into the trash can again, only to find out this time, I had a cherry kool-aid and I was about to stain kool-aid man for life. When the pouch was empty, I screamed

“OH YEAAAAH” as Adrian ran to the bathroom.

I had never felt better.

Two Perspectives

]]> 2022-04-07 20:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135292743 Chains kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135297270 We see loyalty when Isabel says she is loyal to Lockton so her and her sister can stay safe while working for Lockton.

“‘He’s going to deed you and your sister, give you a place to sleep. He can order you sold, beat, or hung if the mood takes him. That could make a person feel a kind of loyalty.’I stopped, considering this ‘Someday I’ll find that lawyer and Miss Mary’s will and that’ll set free us. Until then, we need to eat, work, and stay together. So yes I am loyal to Lockton.’” Page 39

Chains]]> 2022-04-07 20:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135297270 Animal Testing Essay kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135302545 First, animal testing is not ethical because it is cruel to animals. According to a Pro and Con source from Britannica, “The US Department of Agriculture reported in Jan. 2020 that research facilities used over 300,000 animals in activities involving pain in just one year.” Animals can not express pain like humans, so the pain can sometimes even kill them. The animals being tested on have nothing wrong with them, so we are ruining their lives, by trying to save our own.“According to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force-feeding, food and water deprivation, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and “killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means.”(HSI) Scientists that test on animals torture them by forcing them to eat and drink. Also, they purposely hurt the animals to try to get results that could maybe help us. Scientists are even ok with killing the animals for results. People don’t understand that when they test on animals, they are torturing them and sometimes even killing them when the results could mean nothing.

Animal Testing Essay]]> 2022-04-07 20:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135302545 Propaganda kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135305710 First, the Nazis used propaganda against the Jews to make Germans believe it was the Jews fault for the problems Germany faced after World War 1. My example of propaganda is an image of a Jew behind the Allied powers flags. The Jew is shown to be planning something against the Axis powers. “Nazi propaganda often portrayed Jews as engaged in a conspiracy to provoke war” What the Nazis meant by this is that the Jews always conspired behind the Allied forces and had intentions to cause war, which was not true. One thing that the Nazis did to get Germans on their side was they prohibited outsider news. “Under the Nazi regime in Germany, it was a crime to listen to the BBC, broadcast from Great Britain, or to read an American newspaper.” They did this so the Germans could not receive any ideas that the Nazis were the ones who were the evil ones. Germany made so many people brain dead from prohibiting outside idas and and making it seem like they had the right ideas. That is how Germany used Propaganda against the Jews to make them look like “the other.”

Propaganda Essay]]> 2022-04-07 20:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135305710 Letter to FDR kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135308796 Dear President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

My name is Jerry and I am a Japanese American citizen. I am writing this letter from inside the internment camps that you have put so many of us in. I understand that you want to keep America safe, but most of us are Americans with Japanese ancestry. According to Executive Order 9066, because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, you consider us enemy spies and have reason to believe that we will sabotage the United States National-Defenses. The Secretary of War chose to put us in these camps and you allowed it. Both my wife and I were born in the United States, and yet you still put us in these camps, because of what Japan’s leaders did. The living conditions here are just ok. We have a small room, with a few windows and a fireplace. But at night, it gets really cold and the rain can get through the roof. The balloon bombs were also unrelated to us, as we were stuck here. According to the 14th amendment, if we were born in the United States, we are citizens of the United States, no matter our ancestry. I think it is very important that all United States citizens should have the right to be free and not considered an enemy spy. Just think about how Japan is thinking if you are keeping all of us in camps and you have some Japanese born people that are in these camps.

Signed,

Jerry Schwen

Letter to FDR

]]> 2022-04-07 20:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135308796 Mrs. Frank's Diary Entry kellers522 https://padlet.com/kellers522/zsphc9iphhwm0qgl/wish/2135312144 Dear Diary,

It’s Mrs Frank here. Today was a very hard day for all of us. We had one of those big family problems. Let’s just say that Mr. Van Daan is one of the most selfish people I know. In the middle of the night, I caught him stealing bread from our food safe. All this time, we thought it was the rats. His excuse was that he was hungry, even though we all are as hungry as him and the children are getting thinner and thinner every day. He is even stealing from his own wife and son. Mrs. Van Daan was ok with it, saying that he is used to eating more. That made me infuriated. I was so mad I wanted to kick them out. Anyway, Miep came by today to tell us maybe the best news of our lives. She told us that the invasion started early this morning from the Americans, British, French, Dutch, Poles, and Norwegians. That really brightened up the mood.

Anne Frank Scrapbook

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