Andrea P. Martin

 Author's Note: This is a poem of my name acrostically and some words that describe me.




Awesome
Nice
Daring
Radical
Exciting
Amazing

P.eculiar

Marvelous
Ambicious
Risky
Tough
Intelligent
Never say never

HAHA- You just said it twice.

All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth

Author's Note: Everyone wants something for Christmas. You just have to find out what it is.


“All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, my two front teeth.”

We have all heard that song on the radio. Yes, in some people’s opinion, it is the most annoying song on the earth. Some people love it. I might have sung that song when I was in kindergarten when I really did want my two front teeth to come in. However, I am older and all I want for Christmas is uggs.

I know that I already got my Christmas gift this year. My parents decided that it was time for me to get a piccolo. They let me pick one out and they said it was a Christmas present. I love it so much! I know that I got something already but that is just another wish that I have and if I don’t get them, it’s okay because I might receive them eventually.

E.T.

Author's Note: WARNING: THIS PARAGRAPH CONTAINS EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTENT!

You're an alien

Your, touch so foreign

It’s supernatural

Extraterrestrial

My dad always talks about how aliens are going to abduct us in the middle of the night. My mom says that he watches too many programs on television about alien abductions. I’m really not sure if life exists on other planets. How can anybody tell really? It isn’t safe to find out. There has to be another way.

Author's Note: My inspiration was rhyming words believe it or not think about what rhymes with cuisine, and you will get SOY BEAN.

Soy Beans

What rhymes with cuisine?

Why not soy bean?

They’re nutritious

Not to mention delicious

They are grown annually

And are packaged manually

Oh how I love soy beans

And they love me too!

Dreams

Author's Note: This is a story, well an idea that you could try. See what you think.....Dream.


Someone once told me that when you dream about something, it is because you were thinking about it before you were about to fall asleep. I wondered if that was really true, so I tried it. I layed down in bed and thought about one thing and then shut my eyes. Slowly, I drifted into a deep sleep. It had seemed as no time had passed when I had to wake up and strangely, I had dreamt about the thing that I thought of. It was very odd to me but hey, that’s what dreams make you feel like, right?

Live and Learn

Author's Note: In this story, notice how each sentence in each paragraph starts with a different word. It gives the story more structure rather than having repetition. N2SSWTSW

Live and Learn

Many lessons that you learn are life lessons, things that you could use to benefit how you treat people and how you, personally, act. Those who do use life lessons have a tendency to want to learn things more thoroughly and tend to follow rules better. Lisa Yee’s, Aloha Kanani, really expresses how to use life lessons and think about ways to make yourself and others feel better.


When you were young, your parents might have given you a spanking or sent you to your room for twenty minutes if you did something that they didn’t like. If you didn’t know what you did wrong, they thought you did so that was their way of teaching you a lesson. In the story, Kanani thinks that her cousin is snooping on her just because of an assumption. However, she turned out to be wrong and then started reading her cousin’s diary and her cousin barely wants to speak to her because it was personal. Nobody should stoop so low, as to hurt another being’s feeling even if it was an accident. Usually you feel sad after a consequence, and you just want to cry, somebody will always be there to give you a hug no matter who it is.


As you are watching tears fall down someones’ face, you don’t just sit there and watch. You would turn the situation around and put yourself in that person’s spot. Maybe you would stand up, try to talk to them, and see what the matter is. Sorrowfully, in the story, Kanani watches her cousin sit in the backyard and cry because she missed her mom and thought that she didn’t love her anymore. It is very important to ask someone what is wrong instead of watching them suffer.


 A book that really expresses how to use life lessons and to think about ways to make yourself and others feel better is Aloha Kanani, by Lisa Yee. Life lessons and caring about people will help you later in life, not just in the present time by watching out for others not only yourself. Everyone still has lessons that they could learn to help make people feel better.

Proud to be an American

Author's Note:  When I was thinking about what to write for my essay, I was thinking about soldiers and what they do for our country. That was my inspiration for this piece.

When you see a soldier come home to their family, what do you feel?  Maybe you hope that they weren’t a person who had to fight. Maybe you feel proud that you are an American and that you can live in a free country. But you feel in the bottom of your heart, pride and bravery within that person. Just knowing what things they have possibly seen and gone through. People in America see more value in their soldiers than in any other country in the world. 

Each year we celebrate veterans and what they did for our country with Veteran’s Day. We also have Memorial Day to celebrate the soldiers that have passed on making our country a safer place. Sometimes while you are sitting in a classroom or you are at work you’re not thinking about what the soldiers on the other half of the world are doing. They are fighting so you can work where you want, go see a movie if you want, or even go to a restaurant. Some countries have limited times that you can do those things because they are not a free country. Luckily, the United States is not like that.

We always celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks and sparklers but does anybody really think about what that means. Probably not. It means independence, how we are independent people, we make our OWN decisions and we have our OWN actions. Being human, we don’t always do what others expect us to do because it is another piece of freedom. Americans have the right to choose what we want to do and that makes us independent, and our soldiers make that possible.

Our country sees more value in their soldiers, than in any other country in the world. Every day there is somebody fighting for us and protecting our country and we appreciate them for that. No family member wants that knock on the door saying that their loved one isn't coming home and we have to help others through that.

The Unexpected Day

Author's Note: When I was writing this paper, I was thinking about how 9/11 had just come around and I thought that I should write something along these lines because it was an important, tragic, day.

People sprint out the doors of the World Trade Center in a panic. Not knowing what to do, they just kept running. Nobody had a clue what was going on. They didn’t know what happened and they didn’t know why.  People crying and running into buildings that were miles away so they could save themselves. Everyone’s brains were only thinking about one thing. Why did this happen? And for a while, nobody had an answer. September 11, 2001 was one of the most tragic days in United States History.                                                     

Imagine how many people died instantly, right as the planes hit the buildings. All the American passengers that were aboard those planes had no idea that they were being used in war against their country; innocent people who died for no reason. Firefighters and EMTs tried to save as many people as they could from the collapsing towers. Most of the people that died were above and in the burning area of the towers. While the people up above were waiting for the building to fall, their family members, friends, and colleagues were watching from below just couldn’t bear the horror, pain, and suffering.            

Sadly, people frantic people milled around watching from the ground, calling their family and friends, to see if they were still alive waiting for something miraculous to happen, but it just didn't come. The horror only got worse. Some people were talking on the phone when the buildings went down and they heard dead silence on the other end. As people watched on T.V, they couldn’t believe their eyes. Envision the pain that people were feeling. On the other hand, you have to think of all the brave people who went in rather that just running out. One person saved 12 people rather than just saving himself. When an event as horrid as this occurs, that really makes people stick up for others that they possibly never new.

           

One of the most tragic days in the United States History was September 11, 2001. There will always be somebody that wants revenge or for something bad to happen to another place or person. That is why people need to help one another and stay together. Next time there is a danger somewhere, anywhere, no matter if it little or large, stick together and don’t give up.