Interview

Being Canadain. It's more than just a citizenship status. It boils down to a few really important elements that everyone values in one way or another.

One of the main traits that seems to appear to everyone is that sense of pride. Of being happy your canadain. No matter who you talk to, immagrant or someone who was born and raised in Canada they speak about Canada with pride, they're proud to call it home. I think that so many people feel this way because when you look at all the great things that we recieve and take for granted.

Another big and commonly shared trait or belief of what it is to be Canadian is is to express your appriciate for what you have been given. Much like that whole sense of pride most Canadain's look at the country and say "whow I really love _____________." It shows that they know Canada is pretty great.

Doing this interview really opened my eyes. I learned that canada has always been a really cool place to live and that a lot of people want to come here becuase it isd just really amazing to be a Canadain and to have such privledges. Overall a really cool assigment that overall opened up my eyes as to what it means to be Canadain. 

Reflecting Me... One Posting Later

Yeah! I survived another unit and am ready to plow onto the second posting. the more I plow on the more i learn about myself. This unit i learned above all that not everything goes your way. There will be projects that you just don't get in on time, projects that just don't turn out the way you want them to. You just have to get over it, move on, and live with it. There's always tommorow, there's always another project.

This unit I also learned how to work with people who are used to doing a totally different thing than you are. Before now I had usually worked with people who liked/didn't mind/ already did things, in a way that was very similar to mine. This was a big change it meant trying a lot of things in new ways and I think I might not have always handled things that well. Amazingly enough though teamwork might be somethign I'm getting good at. Definetly not a strength but something I'm half decent at.

My favorite project this term was probaly our very first one, the individual logo. I liked doing the individual logo because it forced me to reflect on who I was, what was important to me and how that affected the rest of the world. It was challenging because like most of the assigments we didn't get exact instrucions. We had the idea or the outline but that was it. looking back at my humanities logo now I see the weak spots, where I let myself fall into patterns or being comfortable with my routine. I think that sometimes I just need to push myself so that instead of getting a good mark I could get a great mark. That's one of my weakness you know, being happy wiith mediocer.

As the year goes on things that really worry me worry me less and less. And this point I don't even really worry about getting along with new teamates because really absoulutley no one is completly impossible, everyone wants to to get along and make team assigments work. I just have to remeber to keep working a tthings that I'm not good at like, giving up control of an assignemt.

Well that's my big soul searching reflection, hope I didn't bore you too much.

Native North American Contribution Chart- Crowfoot

Contribution	Relation to Canada	Date
Negotiation of Treaty Seven between government and the Siksika tribe.	Gave fur traders rights over first nations that helped them settle the land.	1877
Saving the life of Father Lacombe in a Blackfoot raid. This not only lead to a lifelong friendship with Father Lacombe but also lead to traveling opportunities for him.	Allowed the town of Lacombe to be founded. Father Lacombe also helped convince Crowfoot to agree to more government control.	1865
Vicious warrior going to battle nineteen times  before he was twenty being wounded only six of those.	He refused to fight in the Northwest rebellion in fact he even stated that he would side with the fur traders, helping to prevent the war.	1885

Movie and Book Comparison

In our Humanities 10 class we recently read and studied the classic Fiddler On The Roof. After finishing the book we watched the movie which we felt was an okay but not amazing portrayal of the book.

One of the extreamly noticable diferences was scene four where Lazar asked Tevye for Tzietel's hand in marriage. Instead of happening in the original bar the scene started in Lazar Wolf's home. Tob us it seemed less of a fun drinking atmospher wich subtracted from the film because it downplayed how the Russians and the Jews had a good time together, which in the end downplayed the ability of the Jews and Russians to work together.

Another thing that happened in the book that we really didn't get from the movie was that the book had a far better use of humor. Almost every scene was played up so that at one point or another you laughed. In the movie though a lot of the things that made you laugh so hard in the book weren't  brought forth in a humorus sense, so they didn't even seem funny.

One of the things that was very clear in the book and also came through in the movie was Tevye internal struggle of wanting what's best for his daughters and wanting to keep tradition. In both the moive and the book he struggles to keep the rules of traddition while his daughters fight him to find happiness.

As an overall rating Active Rythym enjoyed the book far more than we enjoyed the movie because it had a better use of humor and a plot line you could follow.