SCM Writing
Silver
By, Cole Leahy
Scientifically
If you were to ask me how I would describe my family, I would tell you that they are a lot like silver. We may look tough but with the right tools, it's revealed that we are truly soft. We are easily changed and when we are changed, we rarely crack or break. Our limits are extremely hard to break; we can take a lot and deal a lot too. We are also really good at conducting information. If anyone hears anything that happened to someone we know or if someone we know told one of my relatives something, it will spread like wildfire. Our family is a giant group of gossipers, it takes only a few days for everyone to know something. Not everyone may think we are valuable. They just don’t how much we do for everyone.
Culturally
California is our home and it always has been our home. We rarely leave it and none of my relatives live outside of it. There is the exception of my mother and a few of her siblings who were born in Hawaii. She didn't live there for long, just for almost 10 years. Once she was around the age of 9, her parents decided to move back to California. The reason why her parents left California in the first place was so her Father could get out of the Vietnam War. He was drafted in but, he didn't want to possibly be KIA (Killed in Action). So he did research on how to get out of the draft. He could possibly get out of the draft if he worked an important job in an state that needed more of those workers. They moved to Hawaii as soon as they could and her father worked as highschool teacher for many years.
Our family has always loved doing family events, a little too much. We will have aunts and uncles who would get angry at each other because they wanted to host the party. This happens way more often than it should. If you were to host a party, you would have to set up the party so it has enough food and drinks for 40 people. Parties will always last for many hours, some even lasting for 8 hours.
Metaphorically
The family I live with are like plankton. We have little to no control on where we go and what we do. We just go where the currents take us and do what is necessary to survive. We don’t really mind, it's just a part of life. We may have little to no control but we contribute a lot to life. We have limits like everyone else, but it seems that it takes a lot to break that limit. My Mom resembles Zooplankton, still going where the ocean takes her, but still slightly controlling where she goes. She mainly eats vegetation, sometimes she will eat smaller animals. My dad on the other hand is a lot like phytoplankton, he has no control of where he goes, but he doesn't really care. The only thing he truly cares about is his own well being, making sure he does everything he needs to survive. I could claim that my sister is like Mycoplankton, but I truly don't where to put her as a plankton. She feel as if she just is kinda there, to fill up empty space. You don´t know how she contributes because you could never really got a closer look at her. Until one day you see something different. You realize that she does contribute, but she does it subtly. In a way that isn't noticeable unless you were to really focus on it.
By, Cole Leahy
Scientifically
If you were to ask me how I would describe my family, I would tell you that they are a lot like silver. We may look tough but with the right tools, it's revealed that we are truly soft. We are easily changed and when we are changed, we rarely crack or break. Our limits are extremely hard to break; we can take a lot and deal a lot too. We are also really good at conducting information. If anyone hears anything that happened to someone we know or if someone we know told one of my relatives something, it will spread like wildfire. Our family is a giant group of gossipers, it takes only a few days for everyone to know something. Not everyone may think we are valuable. They just don’t how much we do for everyone.
Culturally
California is our home and it always has been our home. We rarely leave it and none of my relatives live outside of it. There is the exception of my mother and a few of her siblings who were born in Hawaii. She didn't live there for long, just for almost 10 years. Once she was around the age of 9, her parents decided to move back to California. The reason why her parents left California in the first place was so her Father could get out of the Vietnam War. He was drafted in but, he didn't want to possibly be KIA (Killed in Action). So he did research on how to get out of the draft. He could possibly get out of the draft if he worked an important job in an state that needed more of those workers. They moved to Hawaii as soon as they could and her father worked as highschool teacher for many years.
Our family has always loved doing family events, a little too much. We will have aunts and uncles who would get angry at each other because they wanted to host the party. This happens way more often than it should. If you were to host a party, you would have to set up the party so it has enough food and drinks for 40 people. Parties will always last for many hours, some even lasting for 8 hours.
Metaphorically
The family I live with are like plankton. We have little to no control on where we go and what we do. We just go where the currents take us and do what is necessary to survive. We don’t really mind, it's just a part of life. We may have little to no control but we contribute a lot to life. We have limits like everyone else, but it seems that it takes a lot to break that limit. My Mom resembles Zooplankton, still going where the ocean takes her, but still slightly controlling where she goes. She mainly eats vegetation, sometimes she will eat smaller animals. My dad on the other hand is a lot like phytoplankton, he has no control of where he goes, but he doesn't really care. The only thing he truly cares about is his own well being, making sure he does everything he needs to survive. I could claim that my sister is like Mycoplankton, but I truly don't where to put her as a plankton. She feel as if she just is kinda there, to fill up empty space. You don´t know how she contributes because you could never really got a closer look at her. Until one day you see something different. You realize that she does contribute, but she does it subtly. In a way that isn't noticeable unless you were to really focus on it.
Speaker notes/reply
The speaker that came in on Monday was Joni Eisenstein. She works as a private Criminal Defense Attorney. She has been a Defense Attorney every since the age of 25, she has so far been working as a lawyer for 25 years. She was focused on being a lawyer since around the end of high school. She believes that everyone should an equal chance, and a fair consequence if they are proved guilty. Her most recent case has left a mark. Here client was accused of doing an hit and run against a husband his wife, they were out one night with their 5 kids at home waiting for them to come home. The man and his wife were hit by his car, the wife luckily survived but, her husband was not so fortunate. Now two families sit alone with a hole they don’t know how to fill, their dad.