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Final Draft

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Regarding child soldiers in all regions; imploring amnesty to be given to child combatants upon ceasing of conflict. Dear United Nations: You are well aware of the declination of amnesty towards child soldiers seeking asylum, but the issue isn’t being addressed with the urgency it deserves. My name is Jonah Wimmer, I’m an eighth-grade student attending The American International School of Muscat ( TAISM ). TAISM advocates self-motivated learning, given the opportunity to further examine current events I researched the employment of children in conflicts going on all over the world. After extensive research I came to a substantial realization; that is: the exploitation of children in state and civil militias is the plight of the century. It is imperative that this problem is recognized with the significance it demands. Children are truly casualties of war. They are condemned to a life of war from birth because of their surroundings. In a study carried out in 2000, there were 300...
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Blog Post #8

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Jonah Wimmer Mr. Mongardi Media Literacy 23/2/17 Blog Post #8 I have a general outline for my Ted Talk, but I haven’t defined the particulars. I plan to speak about each record and display videos of our attempts, which will, in theory, captivate the audience and grab their attention. Afterward, giving an in-depth account describing the journey that we took to get here. But I can’t help myself but think that the audience will think our project was useless or boring since we didn’t actually break any records. Which is why I’ve decided to assert my full focus to actually breaking a world record. Because of time limitations, I’ve been forced to work at home, which isn’t an optimal workspace, but these conditions have allowed me to practice more. I’ve been looking into buying a chess board that would be easier to set up. The chess board I’ve been using during practice sessions held at my house is difficult to set up and was designed to look appealing. I’d be partial to a plasti...
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From my standpoint I don't know all the facts or the true nature of this child soldiers involvement in the war. Neither do I know if they were forced or demanded to volunteer to fight in the war. However, what I do know was that they killed people, and that on it's own warrants a sentence to jail. This entire debate seems rigged to me. One side benefits the logical thought process and one side benefits the moral thought process. One thing that is apparent is that after a war it is unlikely that the losing force will be welcomed by their opposition. Even being extradited to live in another country could be a risk for the country extraditing them. However, when I think about it this way, what is the right thing to do? I immediately conform to my moral beliefs. Regardless of their crimes they should be shown mercy. It may be that it isn't the most beneficial option or even the most popular, but it is the right one. After reading the text concerning the implementation of chi...
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Blog Post #7

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Jonah Wimmer Mr. Mongardi Media Literacy 10/2/17 Blog Post #7 The project deadline is approaching and while we haven’t came up with any records (yet), we have succeeded in carrying out our mission statement; to persevere while attempting to complete ridiculous world records. With Jacob in Australia and my dependence on his ability to send me our videos, it’ll be hard create content to upload to our YouTube channel. So for the first time in this project, our execution of iste standard 2a, has suffered due to poor communication. This roadblock, Jacob not being present, allows for me to stretch my ability to problem solve and practice critical thinking; iste standard 4. During this time I can work on a script for the impending Ted talks and try and continue the work we’ve done. Personally, I think that I can break a world record. Maybe not by March 8th, but someday, and someday soon. That doesn’t mean I’m going to be like Ashrita Furman, devote my life to the completion of world re...
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Blog Post #6

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This week Jacob and I have tried to get better at the balloon record by practicing catching and throwing technique. We came to the realization that we needed a more effective way of catching last week, too many balloons were just getting popped on the grass. His failure to catch my throws correlated with my inaccuracy and the brand of balloons. We've tried two brands of balloons, one of which worked much better and was less prone to popping. The other was much stronger and easier to fill up with water, it definitely helped to have the stronger balloons. Otherwise we thought it might be wise to get someone really good at throwing and have them throw the balloon, probably someone older with more experience. Then I could catch the balloon and it would go farther with increased accuracy. If two people could be fielding the ball at once the action of actually catching the balloon would be made much easier. We learned that the amount of people trying to catch the ball was strictly lim...
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Blog Post #5

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This past class we attempted yet another record, this time Jacob trying to break it. Despite our lack of practice I'd say we did well. The record we were trying to break required us to rip over 76 parcels of A4 size paper clearly in half. With scavenged scrap paper we lined up 80 pieces, a hopeful amount. With the few leftover pieces we decided to go over ripping technique and efficiency maximization. We decided to line the paper just over the table and for Jacob rip it at the edge. However we didn't get much practice so our results were of our own making. Jacob managed to rip 65 pieces of paper, 11 under the record. Afterwards we analyzed our results and made note of what we did good and what we could improve on. For starters, the paper was reinforced by ink. The paper we had found had on it pictures with lots of ink and that made the paper much harder to rip. After Jacob’s attempt he suggested I give the record a go because during a race to see who was faster at ripping I won...
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Blog Post #4

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Blog Post #4 It’s been over a month since we’ve started our project and we’ve made progress on all fronts, digital and physical. Combined, we now have enough videos to create a Youtube channel showcasing all the different records we’ve tried to beat and evidence of our improvement. But so far we haven’t gone too far with any one record, we’ve been testing the waters, waiting to see if we want jump into the idea with conviction. But we now know what we want to pursue. Photo credit: Public Domain The balloon throwing might work as we quite nearly tied the record, the chess set up we’ve deemed the most likely for us to break, and the sock challenge has proven to be too expensive, the silk stockings being out of our price range. Like our innovation with the sock record I decided to research the other world records and hopefully find videos of them breaking the records we’ve decided to spend our time trying to beat. During my search I found that the record holder for the longes...
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