I love to play pool, not the one that you swim in and has water, but the kind that you play on a table. I play pool because it's a way for me and my Uncle to do something together. When my Uncle was younger his Dad taut him how to play and how to be good at it, now my Uncle passes it on to me. My Uncle doesn't go easy or doesn't be cheap, because it's not about winning or loosing, it's just about us doing something together. The best part is when I do something that surprises myself and my Uncle, and he congratulates me.
Friends, friends are people who you are close with and understand you. In life you can have many friends but there is only one that is the best. In my life I have a really good friend, he doesn't go to the same school but he does live in the same state. We are the same age and have a lot in common, our life is almost the same, we know basically everything about each other and we can even have a conversation that if someone heard it they could not understand it. We don't even have to talk or finish a sentence because we know what is going to be said. One main thing that brings us together is how both of us have a tragic incident that happened in our lives, ever since I was two my parents have been dead, and his mom died from cancer a couple of years ago. We both stick up for each other and if something bad happens there is four words that's kind of like an inside joke that will just make it better. We both have the a lot of the same hobbies, we both like skateboarding, basketball, and playing video games together. My friend Daniel.
Brian
4/2/15 March of the Penguins The circle of life, this is the concept that defines how every species lives their life. You could be the lucky one and live or you could be very unlucky and get eaten. For penguins this is a very big deal because there are young that rely on the mothers to gather their first meal, and if that mother dies then most likely the father and juvenile. The circle never ends, because as one life ends another one begins. There are many obstacles that the Emperor Penguin has to face in there life, and it can either be the penguins fate to die or to live on and start a family. Storms are one obstacles that the male penguins have to endure at one point of there life. At this time in the male penguins life the females are off getting food, while the males keep the egg warm. Some, not even penguins yet, die in the egg. At this time, the females are out gathering food for the soon to be born baby penguin. The circle has followed the females though, although the females are gathering food they still have the chance of not making it. The Sea Lion, a menacing ocean creature that has young of its own and needs to get some source of food. Some of these females were eaten by the Sea Lion, or died along the way due to age. In conclusion, The Circle of Life will always follow every species and does not let up because of certain circumstances. The penguins except the fact that some will die they even will watch as a hawk tries to get there young. These penguins except fate instead of denying it. REFLECTION of March of The Penguins: This assignment shows the many obstacles that penguins have to face in there life. It also shows how all species struggle in there life, and how the circle of life is very important. This weekend, this weekend me and my Uncle went out to breakfast. This is something that we do every weekend on Sunday. Instead of us going out at an earlier time were people would normally eat we leave at around twelve. Since my Uncle doesn't like waking up we go later, this actually helps because when we get their it's the time between breakfast and lunch. The people that work there now recognize us when we walk in since we have always been going there. After we went to breakfast we always go food shopping, it's not fun to go food shopping but it's a way for me and my Uncle to spend time together. Once we get home we have to go and bring all of the food in and unpack. It may not seem like much but it's only a small thing to do and it's pretty fun because I get to spend time with my Uncle.
Brian R.
Halloween Story 11/13/14 I am a(n)_________________, My life is great, living with many of my family, it is peaceful inside our home. No worries just love, no one ever left all of us being encapsulated together and with nothing to bring bother to us. I wake up each morning and sit in the dark spacious room, and I always look up, because that was the strand that my parents lived on. We all had our own string that we lived on, no one moved from their string so I always know where my parents were in case I needed them. The same routine every day, the same, but calm, I would look up and my parents would look down, I look over at my friends and my siblings. I always worry what else is out there, what was on the outside, but I stick to my routine, my same routine… The Day Before Halloween; Loud scratching noises odd rigid spikes. The noise of laughter and jokes circling me, the spikes then ripped through the top of our house. I see light and people looking in our house just watching us, like it was some joke. Then all of us were being pulled up and out of our house. They then started burning us to where we got fully signed and crisp. I watched all of my friends, my parents get burnt, this tortures ritual. Now I’m just in here alone, only me, everyone of my friends, my family… Just me but not even me, I have been burnt and even lost parts of myself. Before, my life was perfect and peachie, now it’s all ruined. Was it luck to be left alive or is it a punishment? What did I do to deserve this? What could I have done? I was studying for a degree in biology, my life had so many things that now will never happen. I’ll have to start new, a fresh start could be good. It would never be the same, I would never be able to forget this day, and I would never get my old life back. In the beginning my life was great, living with many of my family it was a peaceful inside our home. No worries just love, no one ever left all of us being encapsulated together and with nothing to bring bother to us. I would wake up each morning and sit in the dark spacious room and, I would always look up because that was the strand that my parents lived on. We all had our own string that we lived on, no one moved from their string so I always knew where my parents were in case I needed them. The same routine every day, the same, but calm, I would look up and my parents would look down, I would look over at my friends and my siblings. I would always worry what else is out there, what was on the outside. but now I live in a new place, where I am new, different routines. But everything is different here, that's just how it works. On the “outside” this is how it works, and now I know what's on the outside, and I wonder if I can go back. Go back to how it used to be, but I stick to my routine, my same routine… REFLECTION of HALLOWEEN STORY: In this writing piece I took the perspective an in-adamant object, personification. Throughout the story there are hints showing what the object that is being personified could be, in the entire story there is no part that confirms exactly what the object is. Instead of just writing a piece that is meant to have the writer guess what is being personified, the story also is an example of how life can change rapidly. In the beginning of the story the personified object is describing how life is great, but in the duration of the story everything starts to change. As the story is read it goes from good to worse, and by the end a tragic event happens to the personified object. "Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."
~Morihei Ueshiba~ To me this quote is saying that one of the only ways to learn is to fail. By failing you then figure out a way to solve Whatever happens. If everyone went through life without mistakes or mess-ups, then there would be no progress. In my perspective everyone has to make at least one mistakes sometime in their life, one mistake that I have made in my life that almost everyone makes is: procrastination. I almost always procrastinate, when doing homework, or something around my house. From this I have learned that getting things out of the way is a lot more comfortable, and after you don't have to worry about it. This quote can help later on in the High School because I'm sure that I am going to make mistakes with many things, by knowing this quote I can feel more confident with my mistakes. Brian
Writing Workshop 3 1/22/15 In The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, Brother is guilty of the death of Doodle. “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.” This shows how Brother had disliked Doodle from an early age, also the fact that Brother wanted Doodle dead. If Brother had tried to kill Doodle then, then subconsciously he always wanted Doodle to be dead, because Doodle was an embarrassment and “invalid”. “...that streak of cruelty within me awakened. I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us.” This quote shows how Brother left Doodle behind, it even states how Brother left Doodle behind out of cruelty. Brother knew what he was doing, and he knew that Doodle was not able to handle the strain. Jacob, Brian, Luke
12/19/2014 DOODLE “Brother don’t leave me”... I knew that brother would w-wa-want me to try my hardest, he had never let me down, he always helped me. I can’t let Brother down after all of our work we had done so that I can walk, run, and swim. Brother was the only one who believed me, everyone else thought I was going to die, they made me the coffin. Maybe Brother left me out here to die… Maybe they all just wanted me to die… Like the bird. I started to use all of my strength but I had only made it about 5 crawls, I then tried to stand up. My legs started to wiggle and I couldn’t do it anymore, but I had to, I took a step, but when my foot touched the ground I collapsed. All I could feel was pain, I couldn’t breath. My muscles started to tense, I huddled up into a ball next to a red bush-plant. I started to cry again, sometimes i wonder if i should be dead what's it like to be dead, will Brother be their, will anyone be there or will I be by myself. *Cough* *cough* *cough* blood came flowing out spilling on my t-shirt, my Mom is going to be angry at me getting so much dirt on my clothes but now blood, blood would make her lose her mind she doesn't like blood. I don’t think I’m going to die so I started to make lies about the family, stories about how we will run a bakery baking the best cakes in the world reaching 6 ft high. my brain was slowly slowing down but the dream became more detailed, more life like, like it was almost right in front of me. the pain was still there but I stopped feeling it now I pulled my legs up and stuffed my head into my knees I started to cry as realized bother wasn't coming back. I knew now that something was about to happen to me I didn't know what but I knew i wasn't going to see my family for while, i shut my eyes for a long sleep. “Doodle Doodle Doodle..” Brother shouted “bye…” I muttered but he didn't hear me I was now going to my deep sleep… death. in his last moments he started to reflect on his life thinking of only of the good times then the bad times and then the future what would of he done would of he went to school would have he made lots of friends and finally whats death... REFLECTION of The Scarlet Ibis-Doodle's Perspective: This was the story of The Scarlet Ibis written from the perspective of Doodle. In the original story the perspective is from Brother, which is given no name, and doesn't understand how Doodle can be the same. Doodles perspective starts at the point in the story were there is a storm, and Brother leaves Doodle behind. Since we don't know what actually happened when Doodle was by himself, so we have to infer what could have happened. One of the techniques that we used was perspective, we had to look at all parts of the story that were close to the storm, during, and after so that we could make the story really feel like it is in Doodle's perspective. To make this piece better I could expand the moment and use more upper-level vocabulary. I enjoyed writing this assignment because I feel like Brother is guilty of Doodle's death, by writing this we were able to show how and why. Brian
Argumentative essay 2/27/15 Visual Interaction Does Enhance Ordinary General Academics More Exceptionally than School Video games, the constant concern of every parent, and the constant enjoyment of every kid. Video games have been around since October 1958, and just recently doctors are discovering that they CAN do more good than bad. Despite the fact that some are violent and may require a specific age, they all help in some way. As can be seen, in a video game you are interacting with others (improving social skills). Playing video games, including violent shooter games, may boost children’s learning, health and social skills, according to a review of research on the positive effects of video game play to be published by the American Psychological Association. This study shows how video games provide social interactions, this is because when you are playing you play with others. So you are not really sitting by yourself being anti-social Another fact is that, Video games improve eyesight, hand eye coordination, and memory. At first, neither of the two groups had an advantage over the other with this eye and hand coordination task. However, over time, the gamers improved faster, becoming better at the game than the non-gamers. This suggests that gamers have an advantage in learning patterns that require sensorimotor skills. This was an experiment conducted by University of Toronto graduate student Davood Gozli. Over time gaming had improved, the participants who play regularly, memory of the square and the coordination of there hand based on eyesight. In addition to the positive there are some negatives, for example,Video games can cause people to be anti-social. The study is published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The author’s findings were troubling: As the students spent more time playing video games, the quality of their relationships with peers and family declined. This study shows a study in which college students were surveyed, and the “Journal of Youth and Adolescence” and the college students who did participate in video game activities were usually isolated in a room. All in all, video games provide mainly positives to people that play. Although there are some negatives like being anti social, people who participate in video games have the free will, and the ability to not always be playing. So, all of the positives will happen by playing naturally, but the negatives are “option able”. REFLECTION of ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY: This essay is about how video games can be helpful and are not as bad as people think. If someone were to read this that thought that video games are bad for you, there opinion is supposed to change. I cite psychologists that study in this field, and I also show how they can be bad for you as well as being good, but by reading the essay you can see that there are more positives than negatives. By using this writing technique of showing both sides (but more for the positive side) people that read it have a comparison right in front of them, the entire time. I liked and disliked this assignment because, I liked it due to the fact that it was about something that I enjoy, and I don't like it because argumentative essays are not something I like to write. |