Imagine

Imagine...............

not having anyone there for you

not knowing were you are going to sleep tonight

only having the cloths on your back to live

not knowing what food or even if you are going to eat today

not even knowing were your brothers and sisters are or if they are even still alive

having a mother that does not even remember you

being the only black boy in a all white school

having some teachers that have no belief in you and only think you are going to fail

sitting in class and having no idea what your teacher are talking about

kids looking at you and giving you looks and thinking who is that big black guy

This are all the things that Michel Oher in the movie the "The Blind Side" had to go through and think about almost every day.

Art

A swirl of blue
An exploitation of green
A whorl of purple
A splash of yellow
A whiff of Orange
A jolt of Maroon
This are breathtaking colors

Speak

Imagine being a girl who has all the power to chance her life from amiss, idiotic and disorderly to bliss, exceptional and assuage with only one thing. Laurie Halse Anderson created the character of Melinda, this character who could have made better decisions to change her given situation.

Melinda chose to isolate her self from the rest of the world. She chose just hide out in a closet all day at not talk to anyone. She chose to ignore anyone when they try to talk to her she would just blow them off and not talk back. She chose to brush off anyone that tried to get to know her; she would just put up a wall and shut down and go hide in her closet all alone like she always does. I do not know why people keep trying just let her be the insignificant person that she wants to be. The biggest thing is that she choose to do all of these things and she can fix them if she really put her mind to it. The character that was created of Melinda should let people talk to her and let people in and have people listen to what really happened at the party. However there is a way she could have avoid her lack of knowledge by not even going to the party in the first place. Which means that she would nave not got drunk and not have been in the place were she can not even talk or react to anything. Even though Melinda did not does kids in her grade think that she is cantankerous.

Melinda did not just do one thing wrong she did many it was not just how she isolated herself she should have spoken up at made her friends and parents listen to her. The book is called "Speak" for very many reasons one of them is because she was to afraid and fearful to speak up and tell someone what happened at the party. Even though on the first day of school she her "best friend" before the party made time to look at Melinda and stick her tongue out at. Melinda needs to make her friends listen to her and make them hear what she has to say. No Melinda is to scared to tell anyone. She had some merge problems that she needs to figure out in her head. Melinda can not even tell her parents what happened at the party on page 72 she was going to tell her parents but she chicken out and did not tell them and she just went and hide away from the rest of the world like she always does.

Melinda could have made some much better decisions in her life. Don't be afraid to speak your mind and not hold back and live your life to it's fullest.

Storms

The gusts of powerful wind blow on my window
The falling of the chromatic leaves getting stuck in the screen
The glowing lightening strikes and fills up the sky
The miserable rain is coming down harder than ever
The rumbling of the thunder in our souls
The hollers and screaming of the children all around me
The feeling of loneliness just laying in bed
The horrible darkness spread throughout my body
The storm is endless

Patriotism

Patriotism is the love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the actions of a patriot’s soul; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country. This is a definition of what patriotism means I believe that patriotism does still matter in this world today.

The American flag is one the most important thing that represents the hard work that of everyone worked for. The white stripes stand for purity and innocence in America. Red stands for hardiness, valour and the blond that we have shed for our country. Lastly blue behind the stars stands for perseverance and justice. Altogether the American flag means that all of the hard and growling times in our lives.

Patriotism does still matter in the world today. It is very important to understand why patriotism still matters.

" The Clean Well-Lighted Place

Once there was an old and a young waiter and they worked at the same bar where there was an old man who sat in the corner in shadows who was a little drunk. The old and the young waiter did not always get along or agree very much in the short story by Ernest Hemingway called “The Clean Well-Lighted Place”. There are many differences between young and old people.
  
Young and old people are different in my ways. Younger people can be either happily just married or still single and looking for someone to spend the rest of their life with. Older people can either be long and happily married or not married and my lonely or some people are not married and are happy with their life. In this story the old waiter was lonely and had no wife to go home to. Along the lines of the younger waiter he was married and had someone to go home to. My great grandmother lost her husband and now lives with my grandma and grandpa so she does not really have anyone to go home to. So as you can see there are many difference between young and old.
 
Relationships are not the only thing that old and young people do not have in common; they have different perspective on life. Older people can have more understanding about life and why some people doing things they do. The old waiter had more sympathy and understanding of the old man that was drunk in the corner. The young waiter said that I want to go home to his wife and that his life is more important than the old man's. Some people have more understand an life because of thing that happened in the past.
 
Young and old people are just in different states in their lives. Young people need to have a better understanding on life. They need to not be so stuck up and it is not all about them like the young waiter was.

South Dakota

Over this summer I went to South Dakota with my church. We drove 16 hours to The Black hills and we went to Mt. Rushmore on our way there. When we got to the camp we were staying at it was called Atlantic Mountain Ranch, we eat and slept there. The placethat we worked was an hour way. When we got there we help special needs kids ride horses. It was so must fun. We have a lot of fun with 10 girls and 40 hours of driving in a 15 passenger van.

My Puppy

I am going to get my new puppy tomorrow and I am so excited. His name is going to be Wilson. He is a yellow lab. He is 6 weeks, he was born on Easter.

Spech Reflection

I thought that I did fine. That I did not look up enough. I also thought that I need to talk slower. One more thing that I need to work on is I need to study my speech better. Over all I thought that I did okay.

A Day No Pigs Would Die

While reading the book "A Day No Pigs Would Die" it was very eye opening because it thought you many moral lessons. For example one said by Heaven Peck the most important thing is not what you have or what you want but what you do in life. Also how much Rob matured though out the book is outstanding in about one year he went from being a boy to a man of the house that is a big responsibility. When you have to watch your dad, kill your best friend and your pet right under your nose. That has to lay heavy on your heart for the rest of your life. If I had to bury my mother or father I could not do it because I do not have the courage of the heart to see them like that it would kill my insides. After I was done reading the book I was sad and depressed because of Rob must have feeling in the end but at the same time I was kind of happy because now Rob can see all the little thing in life now.

The Third Wish

Although the old man is very pleased with his life there is just one thing he wants. He feels lonely and would like someone to be there with him in his life. Like the Disney movie Aladdin, where a man finds a lamp with a genie in it that will grant him three wishes, the story “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken a man also received three wishes because he was a very grateful and very deserving person.

Since the man in the story used his wishes wisely he did not use the third wish, unlike the movie Aladdin where he did not use his wishes wisely. He used the first one to be a prince, to let the genie go and to go back to the man he was. In the story he used the first wish to wish for a wife as beautiful as the forest, the second to wish her back to a swan so she could live with her sister.

Whenever you reserve three wishes you might want to think of what your wishes are before you them. So in life you want to be more like the man in The Three Wishes because if you want to me a good person like Mr. Peter’s, that would be a good choice.

The Circuit

Imagine you are driving down the road and you see many groups of poor immigrants working in the huge farming fields. They work all day in extremely hot weather, working harder then they should just to eat that day. They are fighting dehydration in the blazing rays of the hot sun knowing that they will be paid under minimum wage that day. The short story “The Circuit” helps the reader realize that if you want to achieve family happiness you must make sacrifices for the people you love and care about.
Sometimes it is very hard for some people to grasp that your family is one of a kind and you will not get a new family. When you make the sacrifices for your family,most of the time it helps for you to form a closer bond and make the love that you have for each other stronger. In the short story “The Circuit” the family is on the road and move many times a year for their work so they can have enough money for their four kids. If you have enough money for you and one or two kids why would you have two or three more, just to make it harder it on yourselves and the rest of your family They go through a lot of good and bad stuff together as a family.
In the family there are four kids, Panchito and his one older sibling and two younger siblings. That is a lot of kids and who live in a little garage that has dirt for the floor where they sleep, eat and live. Panchito gets to go to school for a little bit while his three siblings do not get to and they have to stay home with the oldest brother is work with his dad in the farming fields. Why should one of the four kids be able to go to school and the other three are stuck at home with their parents. When Panchito was at school he became really close with one of the teachers he was teaching him how to read English because he was Spanish. He should not get to close to the teacher because he forgot that his family moves a lot. These two story The Pearl and the “The Circuit” ,are very much a like because in The Pearl the main character forgot that he was poor and when he found a pearl that was worth a lot of money her know he had money now so he forgot who he was. They are also alike because they both forgot about their surroundings and much more.
You can make your family happier and closer by making sacrifices for the people you love and care about. “The Circuit is a very good short story because it has a great purpose: it teaches you a lesson and is very well written it kind of leaves you hanging and makes you think about making up your own ending.

Love is a Great Thing

Love is a very powerful thing that can change your whole life. It can make you feel away that you have never felt before. Some people will never fall in love. But some people will and it is a very happy and exciting thing. It can make you feel whole and a live again. That is why some people will fall in in love. There is also a whole day that there is a lot of love it is called Valentine's Day. Most people give there loved ones candy, cards and presents. LOVE is a very over powering thing.

The Clearing

Occasionally neighbors are sometimes hard to get along with. Yet if you set aside your differences some of your neighbors are very nice people if you take the time to get to know them. The short story "The Clearing is a perfect example of getting to know your neighbors and getting to know people.