Today I took the AP Government and politics exam. I was really relieved because of how much easier it was compared to the tests that we did in my class. Some of the questions did cause me to really think through them and draw on my prior knowledge. I wonder how the board of education chose the topics. Do they base it on events that are currently becoming important and find some way to relate them to event of the past? Or is it just random selection of questions that they’ve already made up previous years? Because I had to sit still for so long my knee is really stiff and achy, I hope that I’ll soon get over this hurdle of pain, and be able to do more things with it. My PT said that I was ahead of the game based on my bending capabilities which makes me really happy. Looking ahead to the future it will take about six months to be able to do full fledged sports activities. The thing that really worries me though is the mental problem. During soccer games I know for sure that I will be constantly thinking about my knee, thus probably not playing to my full potential. This could be a problem if I’m ever to fully recover from this injury. I don’t know how I will train my brain to ignore my knee, but once I get to that stage I’ll be sure to ask my PT who has most likely been faced with this issue before. Lately I’ve been becoming really suspicious of white vans. This is due to the fact that in my Global Issues class we started watching the movie Human Trafficking. It is highly disturbing, and I’ve found myself wondering how even people with families and daughters are willing to sell their children, or use other people's children for personal gain or pleasure. Human trafficking has become such a serious issue, and it’s just so confusing to me why we haven’t used more measures to try and put a stop to this epidemic. In the future I hope that people become more aware and do try to at least put in a better effort to stop trafficking. This week was really exhausting for me, so I’m so excited for Saturday and Sunday to come so that I can use that time to relax and recharge to prepare myself for my AP Macro Exam next week. Studying will be a little different than my other one because I seemed to struggle more in class with this subject. I don’t know why I struggled though, because I’m good with graphs, and more than half of Macro is analyzing and interpreting graphs. Maybe it’s because of all the complicated underlying topics underneath the graphs that are what confuse me. Overall though I think it’s really interesting how politics and the economy interact and change with given events, even though I’m not very good at it. Anyway I’ll make sure to be ready for that test Wednesday by studying extra hard, and thinking through the topics a little more carefully.
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Mr. Klak
6/2/2017 11:51:59 am
Your topics were all over the map this time. Try to focus on a single topic and expand upon that. Thanks for sharing this.
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