Black Holes, White Supremacy, and an Online Community in English.

How do black holes work? What happens when matter is taken inside of them? What is the closest thing on Earth to a black hole? Watch this great video from Kurzgesagt to find out.


If you liked this video, check out Kurzgesagt's youtube channel.

Recently there have been some shocking events happening surrounding the removal of Confederate Civil War statues. To many, these statues represent the worst aspects of the Civil War: mostly the fact that it was fought to keep blacks enslaved as free labor for rich Southern farmers. Now many want these monuments taken down but some have come together to protest this. Watch this short documentary about what happened when protestors came to Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of these statues. Were they really there to protest the statues being taken down? Or was there something else on their minds? You be the judge.

WARNING: This video contains images of graphic violence and language that may not be considered suitable for some.WARNING! 


You may have heard this chant during the video, "Blood and Soil!" What does it mean? Where does it come from?


Would you like to find a community that constantly posts in English where there is an unlimited amount of articles to read, comment on, and read comments on? A place that is mostly populated by native English speakers? Where is there such a place on the internet? Heard of Reddit?

reddit.com

Here is a screenshot of what reddit looks like. Confusing? I thought so too.

Well. Here's how it works. Reddit is organized into categories. These categories are called 'subreddits' (/r/). A subreddit could have any possible category you can think of. From technology (r/technology), politics (r/politics), cute animals (r/aww), funny dogs (r/rarepuppers), to crazy nature gifs (r/natureisf***inglit), to video games (r/gaming). to see any of these categories in their entirety simply type Reddit.com + /r/(any category you want). E.g. I like pokemon soooo... reddit.com/r/pokemon  

Now lets look closer at a category. I also like funny dogs so I'll go to /r/rarepuppers. 

and lets click on that link I underlined... and heres what we get.

awesome. SO GO EXPLORE! Ask me if you have any questions! And also check out this link to learn more about how reddit works. 

Documentaries, News, Politics, Optimistic Nihilism!

A documentary! Louis Theroux, my favorite documentarian, spends some time with Americans who like to call themselves Nazis. If you've never seen Theroux before you will be amazed with his ability to keep his cool around some of the strangest people on this planet.

“I’m not a racist and actually I think it’s wrong to be a racist and so I feel as though by saying whether I’m Jewish or not I’m kind of, in a way, acknowledging the premise that it really matters when I think it shouldn’t and it doesn’t.” 

News:
A very interesting article about the summer of 1977 and a serial murderer known to all New Yorkers as 'Son of Sam.'

Son of Sam 40 years later and other New York News

Hit the link below the pic to watch a full
episode of the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

July 25th, 2017


How do you view life? You only get one shot at it...

Wonder Woman and What's going on with Trump these days?

First. A video that will teach you a bit about the origins of Wonder Woman and her inspiration. Hopefully this is the beginning of a series of awesome Wonder Woman stuff since we need more role models like this. After, please enjoy a quick recap of the insanity that has been going on involving Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. this week. Basically, he met with a Russian lawyer who has ties to the Kremlin after he learned that she had information that was damaging to Ms. Clinton in June of 2016... If it looks like collusion, smells like collusion, and walks like collusion... is it collusion? You be the judge.



And now... the Trumpageddon...

Podcast Project

This project is due MONDAY, MAY 1st

Ok! So here are the basic instructions for you podcast project. By your own admission you have fallen into the category of pessimist(realist) or optimist(idealist) when it comes to the future of humanity. Now I want you to take your views and express them in a thoughtful way by using actual information that you have gathered and to bring it up in a discussion with your assigned partner.

1. Partner Assignments

Angelica/Zaac
Elias/Henry
Faith/Carolina
Benny/Tabatha
Diana/Emil
Luis/Monica/Nadia

Lourdes (own opinion)

2. Research
Use various sources to back up your opinions on the future of humankind. You don't need to debate your partner but if you wish you certainly may.

Possible Websites to use
https://arstechnica.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/
nytimes.com
bbc.co.uk
washingtonpost.com
https://techcrunch.com/
http://www.popsci.com/
http://www.futureforall.org/future-technology-web-sites.html

3. Record

Record a 5 to 10 minute conversation with your partner where you BOTH express your views on the future on humankind. Your thoughts do not obviously need to perfectly reflect your choice of optimist or pessimist but you should try to defend and express your opinions in your conversation.

4. Grading

I will be listening for accuracy/clarity of speech, pronunciation, variety and usage of grammatical structures and vocabulary, as well as the quality of the content produced. Good luck!

Tips: I highly recommend before sitting down to do your podcast your write out your notes about what have discovered in your research in bullet point form to make it easy for you to bring up the information quickly if you need to in your conversation. People who make podcasts weekly do hours of research on the subject and are able to have the information ready immediately so that there is no dead space in the podcast.

Also, you may edit or cut out portions of your podcast if you wish with editing software. I recommend using Audacity for this purpose.

Looney Tunes

Why watch Trump when you can see the real thing!!!???

Living Longer B1.2

Here (Living Longer) is an article from the National Institute on Aging about how much longer people are living. How old would you like to be? Come to me with any vocabulary in the article you find difficult and I will be happy to help! Enjoy!

Argumentative Essay Examples

Please follow the links below to see a few examples of university student argumentative essays on some different topics.

Having Children
For 1
For 2

Against 1
Against 2
Against 3

Marijuana Legalization