Chew On This, Blog 2

     Ronald McDonald was an actor for a show named Bozo's Circus but as mostly every show they canceled the show. After that Willard Scott was hired to play as the role of Ronald McDonald. The outfit Ronald McDonald wore was definitely different from the one he has today. The original one was Willard Scott wearing a tray on top of his head holding a hamburger, a milkshake, and french fries. He also had an exact one like the one on his head but on his belt. And he also wore a McDonald's paper cup around his nose. After a while McDonald's wanted a new Ronald McDonald because Scott was "too fat". After they hired a new Ronald it was a thin man who would be flying on a hamburger. Most times he would be fighting a man named Mr. Muscle but that was sometimes. After a while Ronald McDonald had been changed many times and had stayed as the same costume design and Person. I think that Ronald McDonald has a huge part of McDonald's because if it weren't for him, many children wouldn't want to eat McDonald's

Chew On This, Blog 1

Ray Kroc

    I recently started reading Chew On This Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food, the book starts out stating about how the fast food industry started long long ago. Many years passed and McDonald's was born, but it wasn't actually McDonald's it was a fine restaurant with kitchen utensils. After a while the McDonald's brother decided to close their restaurant, but that wasn't it. They then made another restaurant. It was famous for how great the quality was. Then a man from Illinois known as Ray Kroc met up with the McDonald brothers and said that he would build other McDonald's around the United States. Ray Kroc did what he said and McDonald's Became very famous from the decade after the 50's. McDonald's was like a new light. McDonald's was a part that made the USA the USA.
   
    After reading how fast it took to industrialize the United States I realized that how something so small can become so huge in some years. It started from a man in Wisconsin putting meatballs on a bread and putting one over. To restaurants serving them. And after that becoming America's favorite food. And the fact is that McDonald's had a huge part with the industrialization of America. Ray Kroc wanted all of the food to taste the same in each McDonald's in the Unites States. The fries came from the same place and the meat did too. He made companies bigger he bought out many things. He used the same assembly line that Henry Ford used. He made on person grab the bread and put on the patty. From the patty the cheese, lettuce and so on. I think the way Ray Kroc handles the business of McDonald's for the first decade is pretty astonishing.

My Goals of 2015

     In a new fresh start to the School year I have a goal for the rest of my school year. In the last half of school I was failing to listen, to do and of my homework and to turn many assignments on time. I disappointed myself and many other people with my behavior. So this year I am making a goal to do every assignment that is assigned. At the same time I will make myself stay after school every Tuesday and Thursday or when I need any help with any homework or if I'm confused. If I notice my grade going down I will stay after with any one of the teachers to get my grade up.

     Also for the new year I have a goal for myself in soccer. My favorite past time is to practice and play soccer with my friends. Yet not being as good as my friends I still play. It doesn't disappoint me or upset me that I'm not good as them but it makes me feel like a rookie compared to them. My personal goal's for 2015 are to practice more soccer and to pay attention in school (paragraph is above). I feel that if I push myself to practice that it would make me try harder and succeed to my personal goal. I also think soccer wont make it a huge distraction from school.

The Boy Who Dared Blog!

Three weeks ago I started reading this book called The Boy Who Dared. The book is about a boy named Helmuth who listens to a BBC radio broadcast in his room. Many events start to happen with the Gestapo (German Secret Police at the time). After a while Helmuth starts to have this really crazy plan that seems believable for a bit. The plan is working straight. Until one day the Gestapo keep seeing the Anti-Propaganda round and it even includes the German Government Swastika. It's believable but for a second. A lot of things happen from then and out but... You will have to read to know more

Imaginary Girls Blog Post

I started to read a book Imaginary Girl's by Nova Ren Suma. I only read up to 20 pages about what the book was about until I started to find it uninteresting! Even though it was a thorough book with many details it was too much too take in at the time. I decided to abandon the book cause it wasn't a just right book to me. If I were to pick it up again close to the end of the year it would comply and add on to my list but at the moment its too advanced for me.

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane

The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane  by Polly Horvath was a book about two girls, Melanie and Jocelyn. Tragic events happen to their parents thus ending up them both living with their uncle, Marten Knockers on a fairly large island off the coast of Canada. After a short time of going with the same ordinary things going around they get a house maid. Now she is fairly nice but is German with a thick German accent that they sometimes don't understand. Things start to change when she starts working for Mr. Knockers. They get new meals, and new supplies etc. After a while she gets annoyed of always having to go pick up everything the Helicopter drops off usually broken and asks Mr. Knockers for a Butler. He complied and he just did regular stuff butler's do. For a while the same goes on until Something happens with Jocelyn. Her emotions are set free and she starts to go outside and just sit there. That goes on for a while until Melanie decides to follow her outside one day and they start to get a bond by building... Planes. They are then accompanied by a dog that they pleaded for from Mr. Knockers. But if you want to know more you have to read the book.

Upstander Summary

     I have just learned about how in the holocaust there were people who thought that just standing by wasn't going to end what was happening in that time period.  People knew what was happening. They didn't agree with what the Nazi's were doing. They were the up-standers of WWII!
    
     One man that stood out to me was Schindler. After working with the Nazi's just trying to get profit acting like he agrees with them, all up to one day where he saw what kind of terrible things they did. He saw how the Nazi's had dogs, they would let them loose to look for the people who were hiding in their homes. Then everything changed for him. He then went out of his way too build a factory in Brinnlitz, Czechoslovakia. Doing that alone saved 1,200 Jews.

     But some people can't do what other people have done. They stand wondering if they should do anything or just ignore whats happening. I honestly think Germans were bystanders because they knew that if they were caught helping they would have been arrested or gone into what they didn't know of Concentration Camps

      If I was in the time during the Holocaust even if I could do anything I would be a by-stander cause it's a really huge risk to take to get caught by the Nazi's. You never know someone you know may rat you out. But yes even if I would like too I wouldn't. It's a scary thought to hear that people are going to concentration camps but some people would do the outstanding and save them. I couldn't do that if I was.