The Ways

Author's Note: This is a poem that was very heart-felt for me.

I miss the ways

You got me to laugh

I miss the ways

You hugged me when I cried

I miss the times when

You always cared

What happened?

Why did you have to leave?

I miss you

Tommo.

Author's Note: My inspiration for this poem was one of my favorite singers.

The sound of your voice

Is like a laugh

Hard to forget

back But the pictures it brings

Just aren't worth 

The tears I cry

Because of it

Falling

Author's Note: This is me being creative. Once I was done with this, it reminded me of Geronimo Stilton books with the adjectives in different font. Who knows, maybe it was my 3rd grade self coming back creatively?

 

The white, fluffy bits of cold

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L

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From the clouds

Like a snow-globe's fake snow 

B  r  i  s  k  i  n  g  your face

Leaving a chill

And your face tense

As though it has been permanently

FROZEN

I Wish.

Author's Note: This piece is basically me venting how I feel about people. In all honesty, people bother me in the way that they treat people because of the differences they might have.

Have you ever possibly wished that  things could be back to the way they used to be when you were younger? When no one cared what you looked like because we were all accepting of one another. When everyone talked to each other because we were taught to be nice to everyone. When everyone included everyone because differences didn't matter. I feel like I live in a world where judging is thought to be okay. Oh wait...I do. Nobody is accepting of one another any more because we all changed in many different ways and some people can't look through all of that to see what is hidden underneath.

People don't realize how frequently their so called "friends," talk badly behind their backs. This usually occurs because of problems within the friendship or because the two friends were changing and the other friend didn't like their changes. Especially being mad about stupid little things. If someone talks behind your back, you obviously never find out from them; always another friend. Then there becomes problems with how the friends act around each other and depending on the people, it can get better or worse. 

It seems, as you move through your teenage years, you begin to notice the changing in the ways that people act around other people. You lose friends, you make friends, you learn who is there for you when you mess up and who isn't. People don't stay friends because they can't accept differences and they don't want to see the changed person that you have become. Some people, once they reach a certain age, don't care about particular people anymore because they figure that those people don't care about them anymore because they both have changed. 

Throughout writing this whole essay and thinking about what to write, the main thing that came to mind was judging people. That is how you are classed in this society because people make judgments. Sometimes, the way you look at someone and how you picture who they are, is the total opposite. Many people in this world are as happy as clams by day but go home and cry at night because of things that go on that people don't notice. 

People are not willing to look underneath the layer of skin that is on someone to see how they really are on the inside. They jump on every chance they get to judge someone on their changes. Everyone is different and will change in their own ways to become their own person. Before you are quick to make assumptions about someone, give them a second look and set the differences you may have beside. 

The Surface

Author's Note: I just got creative because I was bored. :)

The frog leapt a       c       r         o         s         s

The lily pads

In front of it  -  with its baby

Carefully choosing where they landed

Trying not to fall

     below the surface

Room, Basement, Closet, What Else?

Author's Note: This is an essay on theme analysis and the theme I picked out of the book Room, by Emma Donoghue was hope. You will see in many ways throughout this essay how that theme is indeed expressed in the book as well.

Imagine being trapped in a room, disguised as a shed for five to seven years with nobody knowing you were in there...Tough thing to think about isn’t it? People have been searching for you for a while but you were kidnapped and nobody knew... try living with that one. Trying to get out but you just can't make it happen... Picture the pain. This was how Jack and Ma lived in the book, Room by Emma Donoghue. This story supports the theme of hope because throughout the whole book, they have a sense of hope that they can get past Old Nick and reconvene with their family.  (Donoghue, Room)

Ma always had hope that they could get out of Room. She says to Jack, "The point is, we need to escape before that. You're going to get back in the rug now and practice some more till you get the knack of wriggling out." (Donoghue) Room is only an 11x11 foot space; only in your dreams could you live in a place that small. You can sense the panicky vibe she is giving off because she feels so strongly about successfully tricking Old Nick into getting out of Room. This also represents the kind of person Ma came off to me as through the author's writing; strong-willed, confident, and brave- and hopeful. 

I get a feeling that Jack is hoping that Old Nick isn’t ripping her to shreds for what she planned to do but he did. It would be his doing for her being killed. That she is still alive. You can sense it through what the author wrote down that he was thinking. Ma, Ma, Ma. I don’t hear her in my head, she’s not talking. His hands are so tight around her, tighter, tighter, tighter, she can’t talk, she can’t breathe, she can’t anything. Alive things bend but she’s bent and bent and—“  (Donoghue, Room) Jack seems like a child that is easily scared. Who wouldn’t be if they were kept a secret for so many years and suddenly exposed to so many new things?

Similar to the book Room was an article that I read was called, "Girl Was Kept In Closet For Years," this had the central theme of hope. Locked in through not the child's words, but what I took from the article that it seemed how the child would feel in that situation. This child was locked in a closet for approximately four years, and was kept there by parents and siblings. People pretended she didn't exist. Her real dad didn't even know she was alive. The only thing that could have possibly kept this child going was hope. Room and this depressing story are similar in that some of their family members did not know that they were in there, in the case of Ma and Jack, that they were even alive. (Prosecutors: Girl was Kept in Closet for Years)

Not only have people been kept in rooms and closets, but now in basements as well. "Wisconsin Girl has been Abused" is another example of extreme form of abuse that took place. A poor-sadly teen at only fifteen years of age was forced to stay in the basement with no food or water for long periods of time. You could tell the only thing she could turn to was hoping. Hoping that everything was going to be alright. She was, by her father and step-mother, required to complete certain "tasks" that were not pleasant. You can tell that she was hoping to someday get out of the basement and away from the torture because of how she decided to escape; through a window. This relates to Room, in the way that Ma was forced to also complete the same "tasks." (Police: Malnourished Wisconsin Girl has been Abused; Locked in Basement since 2006)

In hopes they can reconvene with their family, Ma and Jack cling to the sense of hope throughout a large portion of the novel, Room by Emma Donoghue. As you've read, you've have most likely noticed that this realistic fiction story isn’t just found in fiction novels. It is one of the thousands of things that happen to not only kids, but adults as well. There are many other tragic things that can take place and ruin someone for what could be, the rest of their lives. 

Jamestown

Author's Note: This essay is about the difficult times that the settlers of our country went through. I have sited all my sources that I used to find this information in the sentence that it is used in. After I had my conference, I was told that my sources were not cited correctly. My teacher told me that it was okay that I don't correct it so if you really care that the sources were not done right, mind them.

Since Europe brought difficult times to the settlers, they decided to move to a New World. As they boarded the ship to hopefully a better life, different thoughts were running through everyone's minds. They thought they had an idea in where they were going to end up because they thought it was going to be Asia. They had been to Asia before, but just going in a different direction. However, they ended up in America with the Powhatan Indians. Being with the Indians laid out even more struggles in their paths. A tremendous amount of colonists died when they settled in Jamestown because of sickness, starvation, and Indian attacks.

Many people died back in the 1600's because there was either no treatment for what was wrong, or they didn't feel like they would be any help to anything anymore because of their sickness. Sometimes they didn't even know they had a virus. Brackish water was also a huge problem for the settlers because they didn't know that it was, in a sense, toxic. It is a combination of fresh water and salt water and it is not safe to drink. (Doc A) Another large problem that occurred was that human waste was dumped into the river and it just sat. It didn't move down-stream, it just sat and festered. Therefore, the people that didn't know about that water and drank it or bathed in it, got sick and died eventually as well. (Doc A)

Though sickness took a huge toll on the population, starvation was an even larger killer. Starvation was probably the biggest problem among the English. Because they arrived fairly close to the beginning of winter, they obviously didn't have enough time for the crops they needed for winter to grow, so it was a very long and hard winter. (historicjamestowne.org) Another factor was that they had to share the land with the Indians and there honestly wasn't enough food for both settlements. The English began to strong-arm more and more villages in the area wanting food; relations quickly deteriorated and soon came to cause problems .(historicjamestowne.org) Drought was also a problem throughout the years at Jamestown. The longest unbroken period of drought was 1607-1612. (Doc B)

Even though things were already difficult with sickness and starvation, the Indians started attacking.  When the English arrived in Virginia, the Powhatan Indians were already there and they had already made a place to call home. They weren't exactly what you would call thrilled to see other people take over their land. Nobody for sure knows why, but the Indians started attacking and killing the English starting in 1607-1608. (Doc E) They only killed 13 people within those two years which is pretty good considering how many people they could've killed. However, in the next summer, about 134 were killed in the attacks. (Doc E) Most people predict that these attacks occurred because when the English got hungry, they thought it was okay to kill people for what they wanted. (Doc D) Those raids for food are most likely what sparked the issues with the Indians. (historicjamestowne.org) 

As you've read, it was a dangerous and deadly period of time for the colonists from England. Due to sickness, starvation, and Indian attacks, hundreds of settlers died. What they thought would turn out to be an easy trek over to the New World, ended up being much of a hardship in many ways. They thought they would find gold and things to help them in the next years to thrive as a society. (historicjamestowne.org) Instead they encountered hunger and death as their main events. By May of 1610, only 60 of the 500 settlers that come to Jamestown, made it out alive. (Making Thirteen Colonies- Joy Hakim)

Babe in Boyland

Author's Note: This is my predicting piece and I have added what I think will happen to the love column in the school's paper and how it will affect Natalie.

Since I just started the book and I read the back cover, I already know what is going to happen. I will predict what will happen to Natalie's love column: Dr. Aphrodite. It didn't say anything about what happens to the love column on the back of the book.  It sounds like Chas and a large majority of the male student body want the column gone. This is a passage from the book that expresses this very thoroughly.

"Posted by: Shredder103- I've been reading your column ever since you started it last year, and I haven't said anything, but I've got to speak up because it's getting out of control. Every single week girls write you for advice and all you ever tell them is what they want to hear. You have no idea how guys think or feel about anything! All you're doing is helping girls at this school perpetuate their delusions about the world and how it works. Not once have you ever told them anything useful or sane from a guy's point of view. Do us all a favor and stop!" (Page 8)

I think that somebody will hack the page again like they said on page 6 and try to somehow manage to delete the website. Then, since there has to be some sort of Log-in name you need for the website, the person everyone will find out it was Natalie who was writing the page. People will keep picking on her because they know she has no love life. Why is she writing the column if she's never had a real relationship? Who does she think she is giving advice to people when she hasn't experienced the problem in her life? 

How I would end this section:

"Chas, I really don't think that--" cried Natalie. 

"No, it must be deleted. We are getting too much hate on this site. Either you take it down or someone else will," he fired.

As Natalie's day went on, it just got progressively worse... Until she got home. She logged onto her computer and went straight to the blog's site. But she couldn't log in. 

"I can't believe it," she muttered to herself, "someone actually deleted my account and the site."

She thought to herself, I wonder what they're thinking. Have they found out it was me this whole time? Oh who am I kidding, of course they know, my name was the password.

 

She sat on her bed and stared at the screen, awe-struck. Natalie had dug herself in pretty deep and didn't know how to get out. She thought again, whoever found out started the column is probably told all their friends about it...and who wrote it. ME. School is going to be horrid. Since people will know that I did it, they will pick on me for giving relationship advice when I haven't been in one...ever. 

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As I walked into school the next day, I got one glare after the next. Somebody knew. Actually, it seemed as though everyone knew. I just want to cry. I didn't ever mean for this website to go up in flames, I only wanted to help people and now I have turned it into a problem that didn't need to happen. 

Their Bodies

Author's Note: My inspiration for this piece was a short story called, "The Telltale Heart." Once you read this piece, you might then understand what happens in that story as well. This poem is somewhat confusing and my teacher told me to go all out and break all rules of poetry...So here it is.

I  feEl the tearS

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n  my cheek

Like raIn

Flooding down the window pane

The pain, the guilt 

The wanting to flee

I knew dOing what I Did

In the end

I couldn't Be free

So I will keep it a secret

And you'll never find their

Mr. Mason's Jars

Author's Note: This is about predicting what I thought would happen at the end of this story.

In the end, I think that Troy and Molly will break up because he went to see Mr. Mason's jars. Just because she saw what seeing the jars could do to someone, she didn't think he would be worth it anymore. Troy will most likely be offended that such a nice person like her would take such a position as to judge him on which teachers he likes because he offered to show him something he thought would be cool. However, Molly wouldn't find out until the end of the book that he went to see the jars; like he did it in secret. That would be when all of this would happen. Troy wouldn't think that Molly ever found out. I think that my prediction is correct because that is mainly how relationships end, disagreements and differences. 

I was not correct at all. Mr. Mason's made Troy open up the jar and look inside of it. He ended up being hypnotized by it and he couldn't get it out of his hands. He pulled the jar away quickly and made Troy leave. He left very differently than he came in. Once he left, Mr. Mason grabbed the jar off the table and put a piece of masking tape on it and with a sharpie, labeled it Troy and put it on a shelf with a bunch of others except for the fact that they were labeled with different names. That means that he has done it to a bunch of other children. That is why the one kid they saw walking zombie-like in the cafeteria. It all makes perfect sense. 

Little Lies

Author's Note: In this letter to a character from the book, Alison from Pretty Little Liars, you will find how she changed, who she changed, and a character she relates to from another thing. Overall, you will see how she changes throughout the novel. 

Dear Alison, 

Just knowing your name and your past chills me to the bone. I know you have some friends, but you are wicked mean to all of those who dare cross your path. Thinking about it though, you are mean to even those who know all your secrets and you know all theirs: your best friends. How could people have respect for you when all you do is stab them, verbally, in the back? No one could. No wonder you are dead. Obviously someone just couldn't take it any more. You changed many different people's lives in ways that maybe you wouldn't have thought you could. 

Not only did the way you made your presence known change, you changed how much you were talking to people and socializing. Your friends noticed how timid you were acting around them; questioning every word they chose to share with you. You stopped sharing things with them and they noticed something was going on. One things that was and odd step in all of this was that you weren't as mean as usual. It almost seemed as if you knew that something bad was going to hit you when you least expected it. Funny how dead-on the human mind can be sometimes. 

One person that you changed drastically was Lucas; the weird boy that lurks around school. Maybe he was lurking because he was afraid of you. You tormented him until he was scared to even attend school. First he was a happy young man who was nice to everyone. Quickly, he became the one that was a target for not just you, but the rest of your school as well. Since you picked on him all the time, people thought it was okay because Alison DiLaurentis, Ms. Popular, decided he was a vulnerable weak point. You made this poor kid's life a living tragedy.

Because you are the most popular in your grade and you have a bad reputation, you remind me of a horrible character from a movie, Mean Girls. Regina George is her name; everyone pretends to like her because they are scared of what she could do to them. Sound familiar? She says horrible things about people behind their backs and to their faces just like you and everyone despises her for it. Her friends don't even like her.

The ways you took hold of many people's lives was cruel, vile, and for you, deadly. You not only rattled many people's lives, you changed them overall. You are a very cold-hearted person and nobody appreciated you for that. Near the end of your life, you acted like a totally different person and people could tell. Somebody wanted you dead and they went to many lengths to make it happen. If you really think about it, you deserved it.

~A

What They Missed

Author's Note: In this writing piece, you will find out about what the founding fathers missed in the constitution that created major problems over the next 200 years. One thing that I worked on in this essay was understanding each of the different topics.


Thinking about our country and how it started is honestly boring to me. Our teacher asked us, if you could go back in time and talk to America's founding fathers, what would you say? Trying to answer this question boggled my mind a little bit because to start, I didn't even know who the founding fathers were. I also barely knew what the constitution was. Nobody ever bothered to teach us about the true meaning behind any of those things. After I looked into some information on the topic myself, I started thinking about things that they never actually added in the constitution that over the years, that created major problems in our country that would have made our country a better place if they were illegal in the first place. In the constitution, they missed talking about women's rights, slavery, and the environment and that created strong effects.

One of the biggest things that was never mentioned in the constitution was Women's Rights. Everyone now knows that women have the exact same rights as men. However, that isn't how it used to be. Women were not given the right to vote up until 1920 due to the power of the 19th amendment. Another thing is that women didn't receive equal pay compared to men. Usually women were used for other things other than actually making a living like they do nowadays. Lastly of the many other things that created problems for women, was marriage by force. They didn't get to choose who they married; it was usually their parents who chose or the person who wanted to marry them. Even though women's rights were a large problem in our nation's early years, slavery was an even greater aspect of trouble in our country.

Slavery should have been abolished way before it was even started. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was the only president to think about abolishing slavery; he was actually successful. It is not right to judge someone by their skin color; they didn't choose what they look like. Just because someone was black, doesn't mean that they deserved to be sold to anyone to work in a field all day. It should not have ever crossed anybody's mind to have slaves. We are all the same people, we just have different, unique characteristics that make each one of us who we are. Really, slavery should not have ever made and impact on our nation or anyone's nation at all.

A problem in any country, especially the U.S.A., is that there is pollution everywhere. You may not even notice it, but it is in the air that you breathe. Pollution is anything from exhaust being let out of a car, to plastic bags being thrown in a landfill. Occasionally as you are driving on the road, you may look out your window and just see garbage scattered along the side of the road. The cause of that is because people don't want to keep gross trash in their cars, so they dispose of it out the window. In the constitution, they never had any laws about the environment. The earth is not a dumpster; people do sadly treat it like one. 

Slavery, women's rights, and the environment are three huge components they missed in the creation of the constitution that not being there, impacted our nation in many ways. There being many problems our country faced through the years, these were some of the ones I found that created the most predominant effects. Throughout the years as we became a stronger, more bonded country, we worked together to solve those problems. Now, we all work to keep it that way. 

Fruit Fluff

Author's Note: This piece is about my fun time on New Year's Eve two years ago. You will figure out what I did that I should not have done in the way that I did.

Have you ever thought about doing something, second guessing it, and then doing it anyway? Well that is basically my idea of decision making in this story. I probably shouldn't have done what I needed to do in the way that I did. As we approached my friends' house on New Year's Eve, all I had been thinking about was the fruit fluff that was in my hands. How excited I was the previous day when my mom had been making it. How it would taste squished up against my taste buds. How the first bite would make me react. Once my friend opened the door, the first thing she laid eyes on was the bowl in my hands. I brought it in the house and set it on the counter. As the night progressed, we had lots of interesting stories to share and things to do. When we gathered our plates with tasty food, we skipped loading up on fruit fluff because we consider that 'dessert' so we ate it last. Morgan and I made our way down to the family room and turned on the T.V. for a while. Once our plates were gone, we headed back upstairs for the mouthwatering fluff. As expected, there was a line to get more food. We waited anxiously in line with the fruit fluff taunting us as it sat there looking delicious. Once we got there, we slapped it on the plate. With eagerness, we headed back downstairs.

You may think that it isn't possible to devour luscious looking food while playing Zumba; you are only half correct. When the game first started, it was pretty easy to manage eating and dancing at the same time. I mean, you are only jumping around. Bringing the fruit fluff downstairs during our game probably wasn't a great idea in the first place. Once we got into harder levels, I had positioned the fluff's plate on the couch to make sure it wouldn't fall over. Sometimes having a fun time dancing and eating aren't exactly the greatest combination. I had gotten a little too excited and suddenly I found myself falling onto the couch. Of all the possible spots to land on the couch, I just had to land right into the fluff. I hadn't really noticed what I had sat in; I jumped back up and started bouncing around again. Morgan had seen the pink blob of fruit fluff on my pants and she told me and then it hit me. I sat in my favorite food. Fortunately, I was sleeping over at her house that night so I just went upstairs to her room to grab my pants. Since nobody else was in the family room with us, I just decided I was going to change down there. Let me tell you in advance; horrible choice on my part. 

Hobbling back downstairs, fruit fluff still covering my pants, I told Morgan what my plan was to just change down there. She said alright, and went into her brother's room which is also down in the family room. I was precisely half-way through changing and wouldn't you know her brother had to come get something from his room at the exact same moment? Frozen, I stood in the middle of the family room stunned with embarrassment. Without thinking, he ran back upstairs as fast as his legs would carry him. I precipitously slid my legs into the pant holes and told Morgan what had happened. She doubled over laughing. I couldn't believe what had just happened. Bradley, about five minutes later had come back downstairs and pointed at me and said, "We never speak of this." Of course I would never tell anyone after all that humiliation. As the night passed on, we never conversed or made eye contact. This was awkward at the time, but in reality, it wasn't after I thought about it; Bradley is basically like a brother to me, only because I have known him for so long. As the night wound down, everything turned out to be just fine between us.

Thirteen Reasons Why

Author's Note: In these paragraphs, you will find out about the cause and effect of one of the events in the book Thirteen reasons why and also about if the event were to change, which path would the story take.

In the book Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher, the event that occurs is that one of the most well known people in the city commits suicide. She leaves 13 tapes, double-sided, and each side has a person that it is about and it is blaming that person for some reason why she killed herself. The cause was that she ended her life because she wasn't happy anymore. People treated her very terribly. Once the first person is done with the tapes, they set it on the doorstep of the next person listed in the tapes. 

The climax is right in the beginning; Hannah Baker killed herself. Because climaxes are the turning point, peak, or change in a story, that is the climax. When she made the decision to end her life, she made many people have mixed emotions. She ended her life for a reason that could have been fixed. The effect on this is that all the people have to live with the guilt for the rest of their lives, being a small portion of why the girl killed herself. 

If this event were to change, the story would not be a story unless this was the smallest problem. Also, the author would've had a different plot in mind obviously, because this is the basis of the story. The author would definitely have some problems in life if they could come up with something worse than suicide by a  teenage girl. 

Conflict/Resolution for The Last Song

Author's Note: In these paragraphs, you will find out about the main problem and the author's way of it being resolved.

In The Last Song, the main conflict I would say, is the cancer Ronnie's father was diagnosed with and having Ronnie and her brother find out their dad isn't going to live much longer. When they arrive at their dad's house in Georgia, they didn't know that any of this was going on. I think that they really should have been told by someone so that they would spend quality time with their dad because once he's gone, there is no way to get any of the lost time back.

This conflict is extremely unpleasant to resolve for Ronnie and Jonah, her brother, because the only way possible for it to end in this story is death. The doctors had told their dad to prepare for his passing, and that is why Ronnie and Jonah came to live with him in Georgia for the summer; they hadn't really spent time with their dad in the past. When Ronnie finished the song her dad was composing, it gave her less sadness in her life because she felt she gave herself another was to relieve herself from her father's death. As we all know, death is a horrible way for anything from a book, to real life to end. 

Ronnie and Jonah resolve their sadness through being with their dad when he was dying. Also for Ronnie, finishing the song he was writing before he died. For Jonah, it was just spending the summer with his dad that meant so much; looking back on all the memories of things they did that summer. They both needed to forgive their dad for leaving their mom and leaving them.

The Last Song

Author's Note: This is about the book called The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. Its purpose is to quickly overlook the main events that occurred in the story.

The Last Song is about an edgy teenager Ronnie, and her brother Jonah, who move to live with their dad over the summer, when they realize he had cancer. As the days got shorter and sadder for all of them, he passed away. Before his passing, he was composing a song on piano and it wasn't finished when he died. Ronnie finished the song and titled it, The Last Song in her father's honor and played it at his funeral.

Fact or Fiction?

 Author's Note: As you see below, the four small sentences have a meaning. Three of them are facts and one of them is fictitious. We could choose any one of them to write about and then out writing group had to pick which one is fake according to the writing piece. If we chose to write about the fictitious one, we had to persuade our group into thinking it was real.


 My dad owns two military trucks.
My oldest sibling is 23.
My brother lives in Florida.
If I could go anywhere, it would be Paris.




Usually when you see a multi-colored shade of green, giant vehicle coming down the road, you think the military is just driving around their vehicles. Not with my dad. We have two military trucks. One of them is quite large and the other is a Chevy that was used in the military, so it appears more normal. However, both are camouflaged in color. The larger truck sits in my driveway at home. When I go to my grandma’s house and my dad opens the garage, the smaller truck is the first thing I see and he is always trying to show me how awesome it is. I don’t exactly prefer the smaller vehicle because the larger one looks much cooler and is more fun to ride in. Sometimes he takes the bigger truck in the parades; my dad comes to pick me up from school in it periodically. Our family hasn’t done anything major that we can say about the smaller truck because we received it in April and still don’t have the registration to drive it yet. Overall, the trucks are pretty amazing; most families don’t get to say that they have two military trucks. They just say they have two jet-skis, and those are fairly common.

Raging Bull

Author’s Note: This is a piece about an ‘adventure’ I had to Six Flags with some friends this past Saturday. We have so many inside jokes now between all of us; this is a story of one of them.


Imagine going on a ride that rises about 100 some feet into the air with some of your best friends. Just the name of the ride is a bit intimidating. Raging Bull. Picture them trying to scare you out of your mind as you are rising up for the drop. Molly, myself, and Grace, in that order, were seated in a row and Molly and Grace were holding hands across my harness. Before we got on the ride, Molly pointed out the cameras hidden in the ground where they would take our picture and we came up with a pose to strike when we would meet up with the camera. Once we saw the camera coming up, we all struck the pose. Thumbs up smiling like everything was cool. Afterward you can usually find the pictures in the photo booth at the exit of the ride and we COULD NOT find the picture. We were all sad, but at least the memories will last forever.

My Mom.

Author’s Note: These are some things that not only describe my mother, but some things she’s good at too! This is showing how much I appreciate her and what she means to me.  <3   :)

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I love my mother

And she loves me too

She cares for me everyday

 That will never go away

She is super nice

 And gives great advice

She brings happiness to my day

And she really loves to crochet

She does everything a mom could do

And always some more too

There’s always love in her heart

We will never grow apart

Music

Author's Note: This piece describes how I feel about music. I don't say it entirely directly but you will get the gist.


Music. It lives in me. It’s like a disease that is 100% incurable. Music is something that can take me away from the world for just a few precious minutes, leaving the imprint of the lyrics and emotions in my head. I do not believe that anyone on this earth will ever understand music like someone else, therefore what is the point to try. When someone is enjoying something, don’t bother them. Let them be; put you in their spot. I know that music means something different for everyone but this is what it means to me.

~After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

Baby

 This is the symbolism assignment that I did on the book called Baby, by Sarah MacLachlan. I did this assignment with Carly V. and Sara G.


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Crushed

Author’s Note: When you tell somebody your dream in life, they don’t always support it, or they tell you that it is highly unrealistic. This is a poem describing the pain that is felt when told that.



Doors opened
Only to be closed

High soaring
Only to fall down

Feeling the rush
Only to be slowed

Big goals
Only to be shoved away

A large dream
Only to be crushed

Part of Me

Author's Note- I wouldn't say that this song sums up my life, because it doesn't. Katy Perry is one of my inspirations, and she deserves to be recognized for how and what she feels and writes.


Days like this I want to drive away-- When you put me down, I don’t want to be here anymore

Pack my bags and watch your shadow fade -- Leave and watch you crumble

You chewed me up and spit me out - You used me and threw me away

Like I was poison in your mouth - You didn’t need me

You took my light, you drained me down -I was used and frail

That was then and this is now - That was before and now here I am

Now look at me- Look at me now

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no - You cannot do
anything to me because I am me

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no - You cannot do
anything to me because I am me

Throw your sticks and stones - Throw your words

Throw your bombs and your blows - Throw your feelings

But you're not gonna break my soul - You can’t ever get through me

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no - You cannot do anything to me because I am me




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