The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I & Act II

Act I pg.832, #1-8

1.Respond: The rule that would be the most hardest for me to follow would be not moving at all because I cant stay in one place and stay like that without moving for hours, its pretty unconfortble and annoying.
2.(a).Recall: The objects that Mr. Frank finds in the secret rooms was that he had found a womans white glove, a colorful scarf, letters, notes, and Anne's diary.
(b).These objects connect with the rest of the act by that it's the things that were used through within the two years they were living in the rooms.
3.(a).Recall: The special meaning of Hanukkah have for the families is where they all gather together and give each other gifts.
(b).Deduce: What Anne's presents show about her is that she was sweet and nice about giving the though of actually giving out gifts on Hanukkah, she tried to make the most of it.
(c).Interpret: Others react with enthusiasm to their presents because it was unexpected and they had liked their presents.
4.(a).Evaluate: Anne proves that this is true by that she has a diary and she expresses herself there by telling how days go on.
5.(a).The historical cause that forces the Franks to go into hiding was that they didn't want to be killed like other families would so they instead hide and lie about going to another place to keep safe.
(b).The affects that this situation have on their daily lives is that they won't be living like an average family would be, they would always be inside the rooms, they would starve sometimes, the kids won't be able to go to school, and they would have to stay still for the most part.


6.(a).So that they could easily identify them..


(b).The whole point of the war was that leader of the Notzis was starting to hate on the Jews, so he came up plans and ideas of ways to kill them, nearly trying to extinct them.


7.Dialogue-


Reveals character and relationships-Anne would always be told to act more like Margot, she also though Peter was annoying.


Advances the action of the plot-Mr. Frank had taken his family and the Vanns to hide in top of his business.


Develops the conflict-Everbody is starving from not getting enough food.


8. That they are all just like everyone else, they want to be safe and stay alive.





Act II pg.870, #1-8





1.(a).Respond: What I like best about Anne Frank is how when she gets into arguments, she comes up with very good resonable explanations and has a good way to come up with good sense of humor. I would love having her as a friend because I would get along with her and we would probably both make up funny jokes.


2.(a).Recall: The distrubing news that Mr. Kraler brings on New Year's Day is how Carl blackmailed Mr. Kraler by that he knew that the Franks were living on top of the business.


(b).Connect: The hint that this give about the ending of the play is that maybe the Franks and the Vanns would be caught and sent to the camp, because probably Carl would want more.


3.(a).Recall: The time span of Act II is on the first Saturday of January on 1944.
(b).Interpret: The characters have changed since the end of Act I by that they have become more greedy and kind of crazy.

(c).Support: I know that Anne has changed because she has acts more differently and actually gets along well with Peter, she also talks differently.

4.(a).Draw Conclusions: Anne can believe that because she has a positive mind and view, she looks at it differently even though the Notzi's are killing thousands of Jews.

(b).Interpret: What Mr. Frank means is that he is ashame that Anne had still believe that those people were good people at heart, even though they had just killed her and killed other Jews.

5.(a).Mr. Van Daan had stole food because he was starving like the others, and the affect was that it had shorten the food for the others while he had made up the lie that rats were stealing the food, which made the others even more hungrier.

(b).Mrs. Frank wanted the Van Daans to leave because Mr. Van had stole food, and though there would be enough food if they had left, the cause to this was that Anne didn't want them to leave because she was in love with Peter.

6.Some possible causes of Mrs. Van Daan's attitude toward Anne and Peter's relationship is that she thinks that they are in love and are doing things behind their backs, also though that they would be making out like other teenagers.

7.Three affects that resulted from this single cause was that, they go tlive longer and stay together, people outside such as friends were looking for them, and workers such as Carl was getting suspicious.

8.(a).



Miep-
Brings flowers and cake to the attic rooms.
To try to have a little celebration for New Years, and make them happy.



Mr. Van Daan
Stole food from the freezer box and lied about rats steeling the food.
To take away the hunger he had.



Peter Van Daan
Had started letting Anne in his room.
To talk and become much closer with Anne.
(b). The characters motivation have changed by that they each think differently than they had before.
9.The possible motivations would be to keep them quiet, possibly as the same as their rules they have at daily.

Holocaust-50 things that I learned

1. I learned that the word "Holocaust" is a greek word meaning, "sacrifice by fire".


2.Germans attacked other kinds of ethnics, like Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and other ethnics.


3.The other kind of ethnics were killed because being homosexual, Jehova Witnesses, being related of someone, being ideological, being political, comminists, and your behavior.


4.In the year of 1933, there was a population of nine million and more of Jews in Europe.


5.The European Jews lived in places where the Nazi's would use or even having an effect for during the World War II.


6.When it was already 1945, the Nozi's had a conclusion of killing every two jews out of three


7.The leader of the German Notzi's, the Hitler, had made a book of plans of how to kill and extinct the Jews and other ethnics.


8.The Notzi's biggest racism on was on the Jews, they though they were danger to the Germans.


9.The Hitler wrote about 7 books when he was in jail.


10.The Notzi's also killed about 200,000 people that were mentally or physically that were handicapped.


11.Those 200,000 people that were mentally or physically handicapped were mostly Germans.


12.About two to three million Soviet prisoners were killed or died from starving, diseases, not cared well, and being treated like animals.


13.At first the meaning of ghettos is poor people, who dressed up poor.


14.There are three types of ghetto which are closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos.


15.In Poland, the largest ghetto was called the Warsaw ghetto.


16.On May 10, 1940 the Germans had taken over on Netherlands.


17.In the year of 1933 and 1945, the Germans put up about 20,000 camps for the Jews.


18.There are two different kinds of camps, which is the concentration camp and the extremanation camp.


19.The concentration camp is where the people worked and were starved, sometimes were shot to death.


20.The extremanation camp is where the people were killed using the camp with the gas.


21.A couple of ghettos had only lasted for days, some lasted for months or even years.

22.The Notzi's had begun killing the ghettos in the late of 1941.

23.The Notzi's would kill the ghettos by shooting them by the grave or sending them on a train to "Killing Centers" where they were killed.

24.Also the Notzi's had made the Jews wear badges and armbands; they also made the Jews do labor work for the Germans.

25.The Germans would also kill the people by experimenting on them and would also to atopsy to them.

26.The Germans would also use the Jewish policeman as whatever they desire to use them as for.

27.The Jewish women that were pregnant would be the first group to die in the extremanation camp.

28.The Jewish women that were pregnant from the Germans would often have abortion because the Germans though that the baby would not be 100% German blood.

29.When the Germans did experiment on the Jews they would experiment on them as if they were animals.

30.Mothers of small kids that weren't not capable to do any work were sent to the first group of

-Expository Essay

-Write an expository essay about one serious-problem on the streets. Make sure to give 3 solutions to the problem.

One serious problem on the streets is robbery out there. It’s something no one wants to happen to themselves. My three solutions to this problem are, get house alarm as for protection, try not to show off your expensive things, and try to be careful. In my oponion, I have robbed before so I know what it feels like to get robbed, it feels shocking and disappointment.

My first solution for robbery is get a house alarm as for protection. You might not think that you would ever get robbed, but trust me it could. So I think the very best solution to this is getting a house alarm for protection. When someone tries to get into your home, and if they do, the alarm would go on immediately and the police would be on their way. The robber would leave and would know not to ever come back to your home, because it now knows you have an alarm for your home. In my opinion, I think this is the very best solution so that you wouldn’t get robbed.

My second solution is try not to show off your expensive things. This is one of the things probably that are first known by the robber. The robber tries to see if you have anything that they would value so that they could steal from you. They are likely to steal something expensive from you, that is why they would break in your house. Unless the robber wants something much of value. For example, if you bought a new TV screen, and you have your curtains wide open and your new TV is right there, they would of course want to steal it for it is new and it is expensive. You would for in this situation close your curtains and make sure you have your windows lock and doors lock. Keep your fences also locked. In my opinion, I always keep my curtains close, unless I am home with everyone.

My third reason is try to be careful as possible. You should be cautious around yourself. Make sure you get to know your neighbors, don’t judge them by how they look. You may think that a neighbor looks like it would rob but you would sometimes be wrong about that. Also try to keep your jewelry away from somewhere where normally you wouldn’t keep it, or oddly somewhere where no one would guess it would be, but easy enough for you to get it out and in. In my opinion, I would keep my treasure somewhere safe to keep.

In my conclusion, these are my reasons for one serious problem on the streets. My first reason is to get a house alarm to have protection. My second reason is try not to show off your things or expensive things. My third reason is try to be cautious as possible. If you don’t want to get robbed like me, you would take these solutions and actually do something about it.

Hansel and Gretel by Brothers Grimm

Point of view of Gretel-

I was always hungry, never really full, I couldn't sleep because of hunger. All though my brother, Hansel was the nicest and caring brother anyone would ever have. He would always take care of me, for my mother didn't. I then heard our mother talk about leaving us in the forest the next day, I cried and cried. I didn't want to be part from my father but soon found confort in my brother, for he always knew what to do. I was just so demented at her, how dare she come up with such idea. I then just hugged my brother as I sleep.

The next day, early before the sun had rise, mother woked us up and had taken us to the forest, I was about to cry, for I knew what this meant, but I didn't. She gave us a piece of bread, I was so hungry but decided to save it for later for she told us to. As we walked through the forest, Hansel seemed to stay back, but I didn't know why. When we finally reached to the middle of the forest, they left us, for mother told us a lie that they would be coming back for us. But I knew they weren't coming back for us. I then sat by my brother by the fire and tried to keep warm and we then ate our piece of bread. We sat there and hugged each other, then as I looked around, I had started drozing off for I was so tired. I then woke up, it was late at night, I then remembered that they weren't coming back, we were in the forest alone, and I didn't know how we were going to come back home. I then started crying and asked, "how are we going to get out of the forest?"

Hansel had then hugged me and told me that once the moon is up then we can start finding our way home. Hansel then took my hand and we started walking. When we finally got home, I was happy and relieved. Then we both knocked happily, but then mother answered the door, and with a mad mood asked us why did we sleep for so long in the forest. I knew it was a lie, she knew it was a lie, but I guess she still thinks that we didn't know the truth. Later on, she started talking to father about how they would have to take us far away in the forest. We both didn't sleep. I then started crying quietly again, while Hansel went downstairs to get more pebbles. He then came back and conforted me. The next day, mother woke us up again, gave us a piece of bread and took us out to the forest.

It was like de-ja-vu for, everything is repeating again. We were walking through the forest, but this time mother took us farther and somewhere where we've never been before. They left us once again, and I was full of hatred for mother. It was getting late and I was getting hungry so I shared my bread with Hansel sense he used his bread as the way for home. We then again dozed off and went to sleep. We both later then on,woke up again late at night and Hansel had conforted me , I needed for I was scared and felt like crying more. Once the moon had rose, we were walking to the way for home but we couldn't find the bread crumbs that Hansel left. The birds must have eaten them, so then we started walking towards home. Though we didn't find the way home and we were starving for we only ate two to three berries. We then got deeper and deeper into the forest which frightened me and then we finally found a little house made out of what seemed bread. I was satisfied, we then went straight to the little house. We began eating, I was eating the window while Hansen was eating the roof.

Then a old women came out of the house and we both dropped from what was in our hands. She looked ugly and scary, like a witch. But then she invited us to her house, and made us delicious food and then had let us sleep in very confortble beds. The next thing I knew, I felt someone waking me up viciuosly from what I felt. I was then crying and heard that the nice lady from what I was getting to see was a witch all along, told me to cook for my brother. She even said that she would kill my brother and eat him after he'd turned fat.

I had feed my brother, and only ate crabs. The witch had said she waited too long now, he didn't turn fat, so she said she would cook him. Though she told me to make sure the fire was working, I knew what she was thinking, so instead I asked her how should I make sure the fire was working. She went inside, just like I wanted to and kicked her as hard as I could and slammed the door. Then locked it. I freed my brother and we took some pearls that were inside the bread house, we stuffed it in our pockets and left home.

When we finally saw home, we ran inside and hugged my dad, for the mother had died already. I was glad, wanted to smile but didn't. I was so happy, it would be the best day ever of my whole life. My brother and I then dropped all of the pearls on the floor, my father was surprised but happy. He looked like he just won a million dollers, but it wasn't a million dollers, it was my brother and I back home. We lived happily ever after. :)

"Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain

Adams View:

Saturday-
I don't understand? What is the meaning of this? Why did I exist? Well all I could really remember was how yesterday I was looking around and around for I was confused, didn't know really much about anything. That includes nature, but the fact that I exist, my body. I could breath, I could smell, hear, taste, everything! It amazes me, all though I question myself why do I look the way I do? I'm not complaining, but sure am asking myself. It is absurd not to know that life is a gift, and that this WORLD it's just beauty.

Later then on, I've explored more and more, I want to learn as much as I could.

The Cat and the bird-Fable

A cat walked outside trying to look for a place to get a nap, while the bird was chirping on the branch of a tree. The cat finally found a spot to nap on, which was under the tree. As the bird move around it's little crib, it dropped it's dinner, for it was a worm. It felt right by the cat, then the bird asked the cat,"Can you please hand me the worm?, for I am so tired from picking my dinner." The cat yawns and says,"I'm taking my nap now, I'll do it later if I have the energy." The bird knew that the cat wasn't by any chance give it's worm, so the bird went to get it itself. A couple of hours later, the cat awoke and went by the river to get some water, but as it went to get water the cat had slipped and had lost it's catch. The cat then yelled out,"Please! Help! For I am drowning!! Hurry!" The bird in response said,

"If you weren't nice to me, why should I be?"

"The Outcast of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte

If you had to blame someone or something for the outcast's deaths, who/what would you blame and why?
-Uncle Billy
-citizens of Poker Flat
-bad luck
-outcasts

I would have to say I blame the citizens of Poker Flat for many reasons. Some of the reasons is that first of all the citizens of Poker Flat though that sense they don't deserve to be in Poker Flat they should be thrown out of the town and also sense they were the outcasts of the town. They didn't really deserve that, they weren't really bad people, sure one of them drinks a whole lot but other people do too. Also there's lots of other really bad people, and just because they were the outcast they didn't deserve that.

My second reason is that if the citizens of Poker Flat hadn't kicked them out, then they wouldn't be dead, they would have been healthy and alive. If it wasn't caused for the citizens of Poker Flat kicking them out, the outcasts wouldn't have to go on a journey to move out from Poker Flat. They wouldn't have to go through hunger and cold weather, then death. If it wasn't for the citizens of Poker Flat, then they would have been alive, living their rest of their lives.

Kate Chopin

"The Story of an Hour"

What I liked about this story was how the women was having all these ideas of being free and
not being bossed around and her life also not being taken over by her husband. My reason for why I like this part of the story is because she is already having plans for what she is gonna do with her life and she was very satisfied. Though, I didn't like the part where the husband comes back and she gets her freedom but never enjoys it because she's dead. I didn't like this part because she didn't even enjoyed her years that were to come, she died just because her husband came back. The whole point of this story is that the women find out that her husband died, she then started having ideas and plans on what she wanted to do with her rest of her life now that she would be free, and finally she dies because her husband comes home and didn't really die.

"The Blind Man"

What I liked about this story was that the old man knew he had the whole spare time to do
watever he would have trouble with, like opening fences or finding the door bell. He was carefree and didn't ask for no ones help, he does it all by himself, he also tries to support himself which means that he lives his life. What I didn't like about this story was that everyone who was surrounded by the blind man didn't care for him, they ignord him and still misstreated him. All though the people who were surrounded by the blind man cared for the rich man. He was known but they couldn't even help the blind man? I see that the rich man was not blind but he got hit by cars, and though the blind man did cross the street without getting crashed. The whole point of this story was that the blind man used the rest of his senses and still used them to support himself, as it describes in the story he tries to sell pencils and no one even buys them, misstreat him, and ignord him, and in the end he is still ignord but he crosses the street without even getting crashed while the rich man did; the rich man was healthy as a horse.

"Desiree's Baby"

What I liked about this story was that as the story began both Desiree and Armand fall in love and he for the first time notices Desiree's beauty. He cared for her and loved her so much. I liked this part of the story because it's like another love story. What I didn't like about this story was that in the end Armand was all along an African American in which made the baby black and he had told Desiree that she was the one who had made the baby black. Then told her to leave, without nothing but her own baby, she had left to her mother's home.

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

I watched cautiously and curiously as my respectable friends take the glasses in their hands to their lips. Then I though to myself if they would really make a difference to their lives if they were given a second chance with this water from the Fountain of Youth. Though they are wise, and I'll see if they use it. They then drank their water and put the glasses on the table.

Then all of a sudden, a big change came, it just stunned me for a second, I winked three times to make sure it was what I saw. It was, they somehow turned different in a very low way, it had brighten them they don't really look as old as they really did; even though it was only a really little change of them. I focused on them. Though then, they all seem to want more of this water, for they wanted to turn younger. Though it could be that there is something to it that may had messed with their minds.

Hmmm, so I though for a second and then agreed to give them more water. Why not? I served them more water, carefully not to spill. Then a second passed, and they grabbed their glasses like as if their life depended on it and swallowed it in one gulp. Much more improvement, they change little by little allthough. They looked like around in their middle ages, but Colonel just didn't believe it, so she looked in the mirror

Desiree's Baby, The Sequel

He stood there, sinking the information from the letter in. He then put the letter in his pocket and started running for the door. He looked side to side, around, looked straight in the road but he didn't see Desiree.

"AAAAGHHHHHH!!!!!" He screamed outloud and was in madness. He needed to change this, his mistake. Mistake that he would regret for his rest of his life.

The slaves looked at him, then the same La Blanche's little quadroon boy came up to him, and asked scared, "Are you alright Armand? Do you need something?" It then started raining, pouring hard, and getting windy and cloudy.

"I want you to tell everyone to take the day's off, for a week. But I need you to do something for me," He took a deep breath and looked up."No, forget it. Just go."

Flowers for Algernon

If you were given a choice to have an operation that would make you much smarter, would you do it, especially if you knew the affects of the surgery would only be temporary? Why or why not? Use examples from the story?

If I were given a choice to have an operation that would make me much smarter, I would do it even though I would know the affects of the surgery that would only be temporary for a couple of reasons. First off, is that I wouldn't be made fun of because I am slow, like Charlie. He knew the affects of the surgery would be temporary as he started getting more smarter and became a genius. Second reason, I would have a chance to be smart and not be made fun of because I would be slow and dumb. Third reason, I would be smart and do something with my limited life time. Therefore I see a great oppurtunity and would want to take it. Like Charlie in the story he wanted to be smart and tried and struggled through so that he can be smart and not be made fun off. He also wanted to do something with his knowledge and smartness so he started helping out in the experiment witht he Doctors and scientists.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chapter 8-the end

Explain what this story says about each of these issues. Use examples from the story to support your explainations.



-Family

-Age

-Beauty


Family-
What the story says about the issue of family is not supportive and is not together in one family. They don't stick together like other families, the other families who stick together are the ones who truly do love each other and may have problems but they don't ignord it or treat it like they don't care about each other like they do in the story of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Like for example, in the story this family isn't so supportive of Benjamin and have troubles about him.

Age-
Benjamin is very different and is born differently, he is born old and dies as a baby. His family is concerned at how Benjamin was born and they didn't really believe him. Nor did they support him from the beggining. Friends from the Roger Button's act differently then what they would from acting around a normal newborn baby. They for example, in the story their friends get stuck at complimenting Benjamin.

Beauty-
The Roger Button's biggest problem about Benjamin is his looks, when he was born, they were surpirsed. They didn't expect this, so to make him look like he is a baby or child as you may say, they try to make some differences on his looks. They dye his hair, they dress him up differently then what they should be wearing, and they make him act like a child instead of an old man.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chapter 3-7

-After reading Chapters 3-7, predict three problems you think Benjamin will encounter and give your solution for each.

-One of the problems that I think Benjamin will encounter is the marriage will start to fall apart and will no longer work out. Even in the text it had said that he'd rather go to the army so that he could just get away from her. This is because Benjamin is no longer interested in her and doesn't want her the way he use to, so this may be a problem that can happen in the future.The solution to this is that to avoid any more problems is to settle a break up to the marriage as soon as posibble.



-Another problem that I think Benjamin will encounter is how Benjamin is growing younger and has a son. This can be a very big problem since Benjamin wouldn't know how to care for his son since he is growing younger and loosing his abilities. The solution to this is that he should leave his son with his wife that way there wouldn't be much problems.



-Third problem that I think Benjamin will encounter is his job that he has in the company and he is really making alot of money. As he gets much younger there will be a problem with him working in the company sense he wouldn't know how to work. The solution to this is that he should let his son work in the company when he turns eighteen or older.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chapter 2

Roger is so overly concerned with how Benjamin looks and is worried about what people are going to say. What should he do?

What Roger should do is just do a whole make-over to Benjamin. Try to make him look like a kid at least, like for example, cut his hair and beard, then color his hair. Make him wear kid clothes that fits him and also try to find out why this had happened. Make him play with toys and act like a kid outside in public and can act the real himself at home. He should find out how this happened by going to the doctors and asking them why and how this had happened. To keep this as a secret for a while, he should make up a lie that the baby was born sick and needs to stay away from people so that they wont get affected by it. This is a plan so that the public such as friends wouldn't come and see the truth that Benjamin is an old man, and was born as a old man.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chapter 1

-What would you have done if you were Roger Button in Chapter 1?

What I would have done if I were Roger Button would scream and say no there must be a mistake somehow. An old man be my son? It must be a mistake because my wife just gave birth to a baby, not an old man. It's unspeakble! I would react really differently from what Roger Button had, I would have freaked out and would just wouldn't accept the fact that the old man was my son. I would need prove of somehow. I would then run out of the hostpital and go to the counter and ask for my son or daughter.

-Confused

I am so mad all the time but I don’t know why
Sometimes I feel so confused, out of place, and shy
It’s like I want to know who I am, what I am, and why I live
I think to myself sometimes, it’s difficult , though I still thrive
I think about the future, forget about the past, and still no answer
I just do my things, things to be done, but I don’t know what I am reaching for
I want to scream out loud, out of reach of everyone, just want to think, stop the time
For once in a while, perspective of my friends is different, I act differently and just mime
I don’t know what I think about life, life is a pure gift, but I don’t know what is the meaning of it, what’s the point of it
Sometimes I just give up even though I am so close to reaching for what I don’t know, and give in, don’t ask why, I don’t know
I sometimes am confident, loud, a whole different person and people say whoa!
I hate people, friends, family, anything, you name it, I hate it for no reason sometimes
Sometimes I look up at something, then it’s no longer what I wanted, what I wished
I try to bring my old self again, it doesn’t work out, I’m no longer that girl
It’s like a twirl, I’m confused, and I’m mad but I don’t know why

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

It was another bright sunny day, another day of working on the farm. My mom dressed me up and did my hair like every other day. I then went back in the farm to milk the cows for breakfest while Johnny my oldest brother here was working back there with Pop. They were checking up on the wheat, they had driven to take some wheat for breakfest and to pack some up for winter. Though Michael, my little brother doesn't do anything, he would just help mom with breakfest and stay in. I'd rather do that. I sometimes can't stand him, it gets annoying. After I was done milking the cow, I brought in the milk and gave it to mommy. Mommy always looked tired but was satisfied today for some reason. I looked at her, strangely and she smiled back at me. She then asked me to rinse the cups and plates. I did and had dried them for her. Though she doesn't smile unless it's a special day or event. Or something really good had happened to her today.

The last time I ever saw my mom smile was when Pop had done the chores for her and she had the day off to do watever she wanted to do with her spare time. That was big, but that was three years ago. I remembered that Pop even had to do the loundry! Oh!, that was rich! He hates doing the loundry, but she enjoyed as he did the chores for her. Though she only got the day off because it was her birthday and he wanted to do something nice for her. But it's not her birthday today, her birthday isn't until winter, and it's summer. I then started wondering, maybe she found gold or something while she was gardening out in the front porch. Then, I smelled something so deliciuos and sweet. I stopped wondering and looked around, for what was that wonderful smell. My mom was poking something delicious in the oven. Thats where the smell came from. I then spoked out loud, "Mmm!, mom? What is that that your making?" She then turned off the oven. She answered with a smile in her voice,"It's a dessert, called pie."

Momma then put the pie on the table as I put some milk on the table, but then mom said to take out the apple juice instead, she usually wouldn't let us have apple juice in the morning, it's so sweet. Then I had put on a clean, white table cloth and with that put apple juice, plates, knifes, spoons, and cups on the table. I then ran to the bell and rang it as hard as I can, I was so happy and felt like this was not another boring day of farming but an interesting and happy day. I then yelled out with all my might,"BREAKFEST IS READY!!!". My brother came running and my Pop's came walking happily. As we all sat down, Pop went to wash his hands, while then my mom served us this dessert, called pie. It had blueberry as it was getting cut up, we were all so adoring the heavenly smell. So warm and baked on a windy summer day. I then smiled widely as I took my first bite, it was so delicious but as I took my third bite I was beginning to get full, the pie was big! I could maybe last a week, but Michael wasn't allowed to eat dessert because he was sick so he would have to take his tea.

But Johnny kept on eating and eating, and I then started wondering where would all that fit. My momma was just probably in a good mood and my pop just peeked in, enjoying the moment we were having on trying the pie. While grandma was knitting and then came along and had started cutting the wheat bread. My mom then just fed Sindy some pie also, Lacy was begging and begging for pie. We then all enjoyed the day and we didn't work for today, we took off the day and my pop was done with all chores that afternoon. We all then played games and ate more pie.

-25 Pet Peeves

-It's irritating when someone eats and chews their food without closing their mouth.
-When a person that doesn't even know me gets into my personal life.
-When my sister asks me to do dumb favors.
-Its annoying when my friend uses her phrase when I say she is mean.
-When my fake brother makes jokes on me.
-When a person, doesn't matter which gender but wears heavy and stinky perfume or colon.
-When I don't sneeze but had to sneeze.
-When people treat me like I am helpless and dumb.
-A person who puts on heavy, rock, metal music on,
-When my mom is cooking and uses the blender while I'm watching a really good movie or TV show.
-When my friend's brother treats me like a kid.
-My last year teacher thinking that he is always right.
-Little kids thinking that they are better than me, better than teens.
-When my fake brother mimics my laugh and my behavior. (It's not really how I act.)
-When men, like perverted men watch my mom in a wrong way. (It's disgusting.)
-When people call me E.T.
-When my brother is all day long on the computer.
-I hate it when I'm always getting embarrassed in front of cute guys.
-When people go to far when telling what to do.
-When people exaggerate something little to a bigger thing.
-When a person lies to me and I find out later about it.
-When I am the one being everywhere, being mentioned all the time.
-When my sister watches this annoying and dumb show.
-I hate it when my cat bites me while she is running around the house.
-I don't like it when people talk when their breath stinks.

The Secret

It was my best friend’s deepest, darkest secret and it would be a hard one to keep. It was on a cold, wintery, and cloudy day that she had told me. We were walking through the forest deeper and deeper. I wondered why but I kept on walking, kicking the snow as I went through. I then finally asked her, “Nessie?, where are we going?” I looked at her with curiosity more than questioning her. She didn’t say anything, she just smiled at me. Then I looked around, there a whole bunch of trees topped with snow. It looked wonderful and pretty, I loved it.

We then began to stop and I then noticed where we were.We were at this park, but it was fulled of snow, but didn’t really care and cleaned out the snow from the swings. Nessie went on the other swing next to me. Next thing I knew we were both just swinging, quietly. Then she said,”I don’t know, I feel confused and just feel weird.”, I then asked, “Why?, Whats wrong?”. She looked around a bit and seemed from what I saw from my two own eyes, she blushed. She looked down as she did she told me, “Well I really like this cute boy, though I don’t think he likes me.” I then gasped and looked at her, studied her face for a second and looked around. “Well who is he?” , she then looked at me and said,”His name is Devin, and he doesn’t go to our school, he is my mom’s friend’s son.” I wondered for a second and asked, “ Well, what do you like about him?”, I first wondered if it was his looks but changed my mind when she was just thinking.

“He is so talented , funny, charming, and smart. He is also beautiful from the outside.” She then sighed and looked at me hopelessly and said, “I wondered if he likes me…” I didn’t know what to say, this was the first time she ever liked-liked somebody. There was silence for a moment. Then I though of a great idea, “You should maybe meet up with him again, and maybe if I can come with you then maybe I can help you.” I then smiled at her as she looked up at me. She nodded at me then and smiled back at me. We both then kept on swinging.
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About a week later, Nessie ran up to me afterschool and then told me that today she was going to go to his house again. I then smiled big at her and walked with her to her house. When we got there, Nessie’s mother made us hot chocolate with warm, and baked cookies. I was satisfied then about an hour later we left to Devin’s house. When we got there, I was then so curious. His house was so big, it was a three story house and had a lawn as wide as his house. When we got in, Devin had handshaked us and told us that his mother would come in a second. He disappeared quickly and seemed shy. In about 30 seconds he came with his mother. But I must agree, he was pretty hot, no doubt about that.

Nessie’s mother and his mother hugged and greeted Nessie and I, she said to make ourselves at home. They then started chatting as they walked to the kitchen.

-Her Mysterious Death

Her death was due to mysterious circumstances and I was assigned to the case. Many had tried to figure who was the murderer of Jayla N. Anderson. Jayla N. Anderson was 23 years old when mudered and wanted to become a singer. Jayla’s parents, Abella and Jack Anderson never stopped looking for her, they still posted up pictures of Jayla even after a deacade and a half from her death. I was surprised investigators, like my partner and I, had given up on the idea of looking for Jayla N. Anderson. This just wasn’t right. Even from fonding so much money to find who was the murderer of Jayla.

It didn’t matter how long no one has worked on Jayla’s case, doesn’t stop me from also stopping. I had done some reasearch from little what I know from Jayla. I had gone to the police station to find out about her. I had found out her history. She grew up in Ely, Nevada.Was born in Ely also, a town, in 1864 on March 29. When she was three years old she had wanted to become a ballet, young and smart as she was her parents basically gave her everything she wanted. Her parents was a wealthy family who owned a company of oil. When she got older, her parents took her to a private school, they though that it would be best for their daughter to be smart that way she wouldn’t be a failure in life.
She had also during in school years, taken music classes and loved singing. Her mother had reported in news that she was natural in singing and had gone in many competitions for singing. She had also taken singing classes. When she got to high school, Jayla had won many awards towards her singing. When she almost graduated high school she had her boyfriend, named Jonny McCail who had problems with Jayla, he had cheated on her and both got into an argument. Police say that he didn’t want to break up with her but Jayla did, anyways. This was one of the fights on her high school years that her parents had known about that had gotten violent.

Jayla later on went to college in Maryland, in 1882, her parents suggested that she would go to a school nearby that way it wouldn’t be so hard for her and could visit her parents on holidays but Jayla decided to go to Maryland for her College. She was still following her dreams of singing, her parents understood and wanted her to have her education that she wanted to have, they had also paid for her college. Jayla had a whole bunch of new friends, some friends who still knew her went to the same college she did. Jayla had also told her parent’s that she had found a boyfriend of her own and that they had problems. Jayla’s mother Abella feared that her daughter would have too many raltionship problems like she did with her boyfriend that her parents knew about. Though she did not want to go into her relationship with her boyfriend and though they would fix it together like every other couples.
Abella and Jack called their daughter months later, asking if she would want to spend the holidays together sense it would be coming in a week or so, but she did not answer. Abella and Jack called her friends, in which they knew. A bunch of her friends in which were going to a resturant to hang out on a Friday night said that they last saw her walking with her new boyfriend named, Dante Ross, to the movies. That’s all pretty much they knew, though later investigators found that she had checked out later that night at a hotel with her boyfriend. That was the last time anyone saw her, her parents had tried looking for her all these years. Dante was not found guilty and had told the investigators that when he woke up he didn’t find her anywhere around the hotel. Her friends were also not guilty or pressed with any charges. Investigators also told Jayla’s parent’s that they would asume she is dead by now sense there is no clue where she is or her body.

I thinked for a really long time, if I could get to that hotel and check everything I could then there might be a chance that she would be found. I asked my partner to call Jayla’s parents to see if we can help out and find where Jayla is or if she were dead then we would find her murderer, their reply was that it would be helpful that if they could just find the murderer and were breathless and almost with hope that if she were alive to bring her back home. I then knew I would have to start investigating right away with my partner, Syler.

We both then flew to Maryland and went to the hotel that she had checked out with her boyfriend. The hotel is called the, Pine Hotel, and we had talked to this young man in the checking room and asked the room number of which Jayla N. Anderson had checked in and showed him our badgets. He gave us the keys to it and said gave a smug smile to us. I then looked at every detail around this checking room and even looked back at him. Syler also looked back and then we went up the stairs. The door in front of us , now, was a red door with spots of chipped out paint on the bottom. As I unlock the door, I turned on the lights as soon as I could. Then I saw the room, it had the bed all neatly fixed and the lamps on each side of the bed just like any other cheap hotel would look like. I grabbed my bag and took a step forward and told Syler to get the dark light from the van. He then left, as he left I looked around the hotel room that once Jayla and her boyfriend checked in. I then noticed the walls were so neatly clean and I looked at the bottom of the walls. As I looked at the bottom of the wall, I then saw a speck of little blood that you would never notice it unless you take a really good look and actually bend down to look at it.

I knew it was Jayla’s boyfriend who had killed her!, or….was it that he had some how did something to her, had gotten into a fight and then took her somewhere else, and had left a blood stain as he had fight with her.There is no way that she could have just gone or could she?, it must be her blood. Then came Syler back, I didn’t want to over due his mind the way I did. I then went quickly to the bathroom but it was so clean, no nothing on the walls nor on the corner of the walls. I then went to check out the furniture, Syler was preparing the night light. Then came into back in the bedroom, I saw there the TV, I then grabbed a Q-tip and put water on it with my special bottle, and slide it over the TV. In conclusion, found blood on it, yes there musten been something here that had happen, really big. I must not get into conclusion actually, must get the DNA of the blood who may belong to Jayla N. Anderson.

Syler then had put on the night light and turned off the regular light. I put on my goggles because of the light and then I didn’t even have to look. I saw blood on the walls already that has been cleaned out and blood on the carped that has also been cleaned out. I then told Syler, “We are gonna get this room wrapped up for a couple of months.” Then Syler said, “Well, well, well, don’t you think it’s all coming down?, It must be Dante!, there’s blood all over, he lied, it can’t be anyone else…” We both then were silent and were taking pictures, notes, and samples of the blood in each of the spots where it is. I knew that it must be Dante, Jayla’s boyfriend, because it’s pretty obvius! That he was the one who was last seen with Jayla and had slept with Jayla! There can’t be any other reason or explanation for this.

We then called back up and also had them take samples and pictures. As they did that, both Syler and I were going to get the DNA checked out and also check the pictures. When we got there to our private building and left the DNA and pitures to get checked out, we were chating about how this could all connect. I then though about the side of the story that was given to the court and newspapers and everyone. I then just automatically started driving again to the hotel. Syler was confused of what I was thinking, then he asked, “What are you doing? Where are we going?”, I didn’t respond but kept driving. When we got to the hotel, I then went inside and saw the man again. He looked creepy and had something in his face that I couldn’t explain it, something. He said, “Hello”, again and ignord that and asked for the video of the date, 1882, December 21. He said then, “ Well just wait a minute and I’ll come back.” I nodded sharply and just stared at him with no expression, he then appeared to go to this other room on the left of the registration room and had disappeared into the room. While he was looking for the video, I then looked around the room. It was pretty simple, just the door for the costumer to come in and then the resgistration room. No seats, no pictures or posters on walls. Was neat and clean. I saw there on the wall of the register room and saw some weird looking keys on the wall.

I looked at them for a long time, and then took my eyes off it as he came back. I didn’t want him to see that I was beginning to get suspicious of him, because everyone knows how when someone gets suspiciuos of someone then that someone would start panicking and might try to hide some more of the evidence and start to act different than who they really are. Then he gave me the video and I just walked fast to the van. When I got in the van I told Syler that we are going to have to look deeper into the this case because I felt like there might be more to it then it is. Then I drove to my house to watch the video with him. When we started watching the video, I have notice it was just the snowy day and cold. Around later at 7:00 pm, Jayla and Dante came to the hotel and had checked out. Then couple of hourse nothing happened, just the same registrator who is still working in the hotel, and around much later at 3 in the morning he had left and this other person was taking his place for now. But as he took off, he looked like he was thinking a lot and a seriuos face he had.

Then I replayed the video to see on the way he had left and what he did on those hours before the other person took his place. Syler told me to stop the video as I was looking around the room for any evidence. He told me to click closer to the casher and then told me to look at his expression and at what he is doing. I then saw closely, that he was grabbing what seem some keys, but he wasn’t off for the day until a couple of more hours. So why was he grabbing those keys then? I was cofused for a second, then though maybe he just wanted to keep them safe in his pocket, but he won’t loose them because he is just in that little room, how could anyone loose those keys in that little room? Syler then gave me a weird and suspiciuos look.

The next thing I knew was that he took notes on that scene and then he told me to drive back to the hotel. I told him we should just rest it for the night because it’s too late, but he did not listen to me. He took the keys and told me, “If you want to be succesful then you wouldn’t just not care about that little scence that can make a difference.” With that he then left out of the doorway. Ugh! I was so stressed out and confused now. I then ran out the door and got in the car as he was just about to leave. I then asked him, “Why do you think he took those keys, when he leaves in a couple of hours?” I was confused. Then he answered, “He might be involve with this.” Then, I though, are you crazy?, hello!, we already have our one, the one who took Jayla away from their loved ones. It’s her boyfriend. I just.., no that can’t be, we found blood all over in the hotel room that we just checked out earlier and theres the evidence! There is no other explanation for this.

When I was thinking half way through we were parking in the parking lot. Then he got out of the car and took his notepad. I just went along, I was so confused. Then we entered in the room that we were just watching. Syler then asked the same man we saw in the video if we can check out his room and the video room. He looked surprised a bit and then said it in a casual way, “Sure, no problem sir.” We then went in the little room and felt tight and cold. Like someone or something was about to hit me or kill me. I felt wrong. Syler was stiff and was confident, went on in the video room and took notes on his notepad. I looked around, it was just a video room and then he went on in the register room. I then asked the young man, “what is your name Mr.?”, he answered with a smile,” James Parson”. He then asked, “Is there seem to be a problem here?” Syler then spoked in a professional way he always does, “No, we are just checking things up for the investigation, we must get enough evidence and so. Do you mind?”, Syler was looking down at this cabnet. James looked confused for a second and then nodded. I was getting suspiciuos about him now. Syler kept taking notes, then after five long minutes he was done.

Syler closed the cabnet and then asked James, “Do you also mind if we can take a look in your car?, I mean if you have one?”, James replied was, “Well it’s pretty messy and dirty, haven’t gone to the car wash latel-“, Syler cute him off, “We don’t mind, we are just going to take a quick look at it.” James seemed kind of mad or pissed off and gave Syler the keys to the car with no hope and said, “I can’t leave the building, sorry but you can go ahead and check it out yourselves.” As we left, I though I heard him mumble something under his breath, but then just forget about it. When we got to the car it seemed like a really nice ride for a man like James. Syler then opened the car and had his expression of concentration. I was surprised because this seemed like it was going to be an end, this wouldn’t lead us to anything at all. Then Syler went on the back of it’s trunk and kept looking around thing after thing and then had found what seemed red; blood. I was not surprised and told Syler, “That could have been a nose bleed of some kind.” Syler took a sample of it anyways, and then went on the back seats and found nothing. Then went on the front seats and had found something that he would never wear. It was a necklace with a heart shaped, it was silver. He then had collected and had stored it in a plastic for forensic files.

This neclace was something that was unsual to find in a man's car. Though doesn't mean he had killed Jayla. We then gave him the keys back and had headed back home. Then, in a couple of days we had found out that the DNA in the hotel's room that Jayla and Dante had checked out was not Jayla's blood, but it was an undentified person's blood. To that, my theory would be that there musten been some other murder in the hotel room but what about Jayla? Hmmm..., so James had taken some keys in the registration room early before his hours out of work, Jayla was not with Dante when he woke up, and the blood indentified from the hotel room was an undentified person's DNA, then...

Syler had cut me off and said,"It'll take a couple of days to see the DNA of the one I had gotten from Jame's car, something about James is just not right, the way he acts, his behavior." So if it wasn't the DNA in the hotel then, it must be the blood that Syler discovered in Jame's car! But-t, it doesn't make sense?, or does it?

"Syler I think we should check out Dante's house first," Syler then looked at me, and rose one dark eye brow at me. I had the keys on my hand already, so we started for the car. When we got to Dante's house, I just needed some evident, anything that could have been used during when Jayla was with Dante. When we arrived at Dante's house, I had taken my notepad and recorder. It was a rainy, cloudy, and gloomy day and I knew something must be happening. I knocked at the door, a gorgeous and sophisticated women answered the door,"Hello there?, Can I help you with anything?", I had written this down,"Yes, we would like to talk to Mr. Dante please?","She hesitated for a second and left, then Dante came. He looked different from the picture that I saw in the files of investigation. He looked much older and looked tired, and darker from getting sunburned, I would guess. He rolled his eyes and said,"Well is there a problem?", "Well we would both would like to get some information for the investigation.", and showed him my badget and Syler then saw and had took out his and showed it to him. Dante then opened the door more wide and we stepped in. We then got to business and looked around. We looked in his basement first, and he half came along and just left us.

The basement was in bad shape and saw lots of packed up boxes, two bikes, a bathroom, and the heater for the water. Syler then knew what I was doing. I started looking for any evidence, looked around, and then something had caught the corner of my eye. I then turned looking in one of the boxes, there was this red and bright silky clothing. It was a PJ dress. Though it didn't look like something the young women upstairs would wear because it was the old fashion kind of dress and looked like some italian girl would wear. I then took it out and had stored it for evidence. Syler found nothing, but then looked at the wall, the wall was crooked. Like something was behind it causing it to look crooked. I then grabbed a hammer and took the nails out of the wooden wall, but it was already loose. Like it was being used but hidden. Then Syler took out what looked like a knife. It was not clean but dirty, dirty with blood. I just stared at it for a long time. Then Syler had also stored it. We began again looking for more evidence. But found nothing.

We then had also had the blood from the knife and if there was any blood on the clothing to be identified. The moment I had found this out, I called for backup and had told them to make Dante confess the truth about Jayla. I then left in a hurry and Syler followed along. I then drove to Pine's Hotel once again. When we arrived, I went straight to the registration room, but it wasn't James it was someone else taking his place. Then I asked him where James lives and replied that he is not allowed to give out personal informtion, so I showed him my badget and gave us the adress. He seemed suspicious as we left. I then drove to the adress, when we finally got there, I looked at the place. It was a building, he lived in an apartment so we looked for the number 26. Finally, I knocked and James answered,"Hello?", then I answered in my professional voice, "Yes, we would like to check your apartment for any forensic files or so," and with that showed him my badget.
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As I set my papers, both Dante and James glared at Syler and I. Then the court justice had banged three times and thats when it had set off. The court justice then began the introduction and had let Syler and I talk about the case. I started first,"I for a though, telling the truth and what forensic files can find out in which I did so too. I am saying that I know who had murder or as you may say adult-napped Jayla N. Anderson. He is standing right in front of the court justice and knows it too. On the night of December 21, 1882 on a Friday night, Dante and Jayla both were going out together, leaving their friends going out on a resturant. Dante, that day took her out to the movies and after the movies, they both went to the Pine's Hotel." I had to take my breath from talking without even taking oxygen. I looked around and everyone looked like they knew it must be Dante."Though when Dante woke up the next morning he didn't find Jayla. It was left unsolved like that and the case was just never retouched again." I paused for them to sink this in."Therefore, I believe that there is always a way to solve problems, always a choice. We then went to investigate and for the results found that there was blood on the walls on the hotel that they had checked out, blood on the TV, and blood on the bottom of the walls, but it looked so neat and clean if you ever had checked that room. Not only did we find that disturbing evidence but we had also checked Dante Ross's home.""We had come to known that we found evidence, and he was also on our top of our list and most highly suspected person, and in results found a dress that the women found in the home of Dante wouldn't wear it. It had also blood on the dress and looked like an Italian type of dress. Also found a hidden knife behind the wooden wall. The knife was not clean but dirty, was dirty with blood. This of course we were so positive, so sure that it must be Dante, but had changed our minds after we watched the video from the hotel on the night of Jayla and Dante had checked in."

"Not only did we found just evidence of some kind of murder at the hotel but also at Dante's home, fulled with suspicion for the video, both Syler and I had watched ourselves." I took another breath from explaning without breathing,"There was this man who worked on that night, his name is James, and he still works there.""We had also investigated him even though he was so low on being the one suspected as the murderer of Jayla, but we needed as much as evidence to see who was the one who had muredered Jayla or adult-napped her. In the results of this, it was pretty surprising. We had come to conclusion that Jame's had a heart-shaped silver neclace and a bottle of Belladonna also called Nightshade. This of course we knew that Jame's was healthy and we had talked to his doctors, and after we did we for sure knew what it must have been used." Then Syler finished what must have been finished a decade ago. Syler then spoke,"We took the blood's DNA and found that it was Mandy Cornege's DNA, another teen who has been murdered, it only took a couple of days until we found out. But we had also found blood on the knife from Dante's house, that was the same blood, and in which we knew that he had killed her with

-What would mak Logandale a better school?

-Essay

-What would make Logandale a better school?

Many things would make Logandale a better school. One of the reasons is that teachers should change a bit on their attitude. Another reason is that if we could have more exploratory, it would improve Logandale. Third reason, if teachers changed the classes by how they look it might help improve Logandale. Don’t you think if these reasons become reality, it would improve Logandale?

One of the ideas for what would make Logandale a better school is that teachers should change a bit on how they act. If teachers were still keeping their professional behavior, and still keep it cool, then it might be interesting for students. Students don’t like boring teachers, they like fun teachers. For example, Mrs. Stier is pretty cool and still keeps a professional behavior. Students also like things eased up, they don’t like getting detentions so if teachers eased up maybe also the students would ease up, too. Like, this Honor Class, room 212, teachers ease up and also the students ease up. We know when to stop and when to be quiet. If we change, then the school must change in many ways, like by it’s exploritories.

Another idea for what would improve Logandale into a better school is if there were more exploritories. Like for example, music class and computers. Every student is different, they like doing different things, so there should be more exploratory. Students got bored of having some boring exploratory over and over. If there were more exploratory then students wouldn’t get bored and be interested in school. If there were more exploratory then there is a better chance that parents would want their kids to go to that particularly school. Don’t you agree?

This idea for what would make Logandale a better school is if they made Logandale’s classes more interesting. What I mean by this is that if teachers posted up things in the Logandale’s website and made it interesting then there kids would be attracted to this school. If teachers also changed their homerooms into much attractive by putting things up on walls then it will be more interesting for students. Also if there were more ideas by the teachers for the students then classes also may be interesting. I would go to a school fulled with interesting classes.

There are many things that can make Logandale a better school. One idea is that if teachers changed a bit on their attitude. Second idea is that if we had more exploratory it may improve Logandale. Third idea is that if teachers changed the classes by how the look it might improve Logandale. These are many things that can make a big difference and save our school.

My Life

When I gave birth to my daughter it was the best thing that had happened in my life! I always wanted a daughter. My my god!, though the labor, it had hurt so much but it was worth it. When I had first looked at my daughter, I though she was the most beautiful thing. As I grabbed her in my arms I kissed her on the forehead. My husband was beside me and we both smiled at my daughter, though she looked sleepy. He named her Stephany, though I wanted to name her something else unique.

I though of my son, I will make a promise that I will take good care of her and my best. I don't want to ruin it this time, it had hurt me so much even though I was too young to have a child. Though this time I am going to take care of my child and will take her every where I go.
As months pass, my daughter started getting chubby and now know her that she really does laugh alot, but she gets on my nerves. She cry's alot and wants alot of attention. When she turned two years old, she began to talk simple words and tried to walk. On a hot, sunny day we went to back to the garage with my husband. That was when my daughter took her first step of walking I ran to get the camera and took a picture of her. She looked so adorable and then she fell and got a mark on her forehead.

Everyone loved her and wanted to keep her. My sister's daughter really loved her and wanted keep, she kept on taking her away from me. But I guess I needed some time alone, I'm always busy with her and everything. I got more stressed as the time really went quick, when my husband told me that we should move to Chicago, Illinois. He said that he would find a better job and we would move in to a big and better house. I loved California, I didn't want to move but the price for just a apartment size and a big family. Therefore, we left to Chicago and when we got there it wasn't like California at all. Chicago's weather here, they had winter and not as bad as rains as it is in California. It looked so much different, kind of a business city that it looked like.
We moved in to a nice home and my husband got a better job. I also worked, so I had a babysitter to pay and cook food when I came home from work. Though that didn't stop me from giving attention to my daughter, she grew much leaner and lost a big of her chubbiness she used to had. She started looking more like her father but she had the personality like me. She liked to play with her dolls and had interest in learning. Though she was very stubborn when it came to dressing up for church. She didn't like wearing dresses and went crazy when she got bored. She would scream, kicked, and play to get attention.

As she grew more, my relationship with my husband was ripping apart. This marriage isn't working out. We would always have arguments on bills and money. Then it came to a point where he took my first daughter and I took my other two kids. He had kept her with his sister and I stayed at my friends house while I looked for a job. I was upset and wanted my other daughter, I worried for her also. Some father, I don't even want to think about him. I then came to realize that I am going to get her back in some way, I have to.

It took about a year or so to get her back. His sister wanted keep her, but I wasn't going to let that happen. She tried hiding her from me, while my husband didn't care less. Yet, I went to her house and took my daughter from her. From then on, I never really liked my husband's sister and this whole family is pretty messed up. I wasn't going to let this ruin my life though, I will move on and live my life with my kids. From then on we moved to another home, I had also transfer my daughter to another school. She didn't like the school but she tried hard to make friends there. But even though she talked to them, she was never really with their click.

When she came back home, she always did her homework, usually she wouldn't understand it and had a hard time with homework. I didn't know what to do, I told her that I couldn't help her because I didn't finish school when I was young. I also told her a bunch of other secrets and she did kept it as a secret. Yet, she tried her best on the homework assignments. As she grew older she became more quiet, didn't ask much questions like she use to, and wasn't so shy as she use to be. She is loud and is stubborn with me all the time. She still grew, taller and skinny. No matter what conversation we have, she would get mad all the time. She still didn't like wearing dresses to church.

I then had wanted to get this job and knew that if I get it, I would earn a bit more money so we moved again. Though, my daughter didn't like the school, it wasn't going to work out. So moved again. There, this school called Avondale middle school did work out. She made friends, homework assignments were still hard but she got help from teachers. Plus I still stayed with the good job I needed. But she didn't have self-esteem and was even more shy from moving from school to school and trying hard to make friends. She grew taller later in the summer and developed more.

When she got to middle school she no longer was shy like she use to be, she knew that she wouldn't want to go to another school and would stay. She then started getting better grades. She hasn't heard from her dad in years, and I wouldn't want to even look at him. She already had best friends. In her about second or third year in middle school, she was preparing for which high schools she wanted to go.

One time, when I had taken her to the store with me, I had saw my ex-husband's sister, who kept calling her name. I was really mad but my daughter ignored her and didn't really remember her. I was kind of happy when she ignord her. Though I then left quickly with my daughter and she was confused. She asked me who was she and I told her that, that was your father's sister who had kept you away from me. She said nothing after that.

Now today I describe her as a funny, smart, and pretty daughter. She has come from a long way and made it through. We still have arguments and she also has an interests in reading big giant books, like the Twilight series. I stopped touching her hair because she then would get mad at me. She is also a crazy girl because she would do anything and amberrase herself, even in front of her friends and people she wouldn't know. She also plays a guitar and would take more lessons over the summer. Though I wanted her to play the violin, probably I'm gonna convince her. And most important she laughs alot, she would laugh at anything and I would ask her if she's okay. She is also still the stubborn girl, well sometimes, and now likes dresses that she picks out. Also, she would pick on me!, she would pick on me all the time and make really mean jokes about me with her sister.

What do I wish from Barack Obama?

Stephany Ruiz 2/27/09
212-8th R/LA


-What do I wish from Barack Obama?
-Essay
-Create a healthcare system that works


What I wish from Barack Obama is that he would create a healthcare system that works. Some of the reasons why I think Barack Obama should create a healthcare system that works is that some people can’t afford the cost, people in some other country has free healthcare, and it could affect the U.S. Don’t you think life would be so much easier if the healthcare system was something you could afford? Or get it free?

My first point for why I wish Barack Obama to create a healthcare system that works was that the number one first problem is that people in the country can’t afford the cost of healthcare. People in the country may work really hard but may get a low pay for the job and when they need healthcare they can’t afford it. Some people can barely take care of themselves because they get low pay. The cost for the healthcare is crazy, for example, Mrs. Steir’s brother pays about $800 each month for the healthcare. Wouldn’t it be much easier if this country had free healthcare like this other country?

My second point for why I wish Barack Obama to create a healthcare system that works was that people in some other country has free healthcare. In some other country maybe they are doing well and so on because they get free healthcare. I think that in my inference people that get free healthcare in the other country they are more healthy and get to live longer and work harder. I also think that they may get an easier life and also sense they don’t have to worry about any cost of healthcare they may concentrate on other important things. Wouldn’t you want this to happen in the U.S?

My third point for why I wish Barack Obama to create a healthcare system that works was that it could affect the U.S. The way some people can’t afford the cost of the healthcare affects them in many ways. For example, if the person got hurt than that person won’t be able to work and would get fired. The person could have some diagnose disease and it could spread all the over the U.S. because it can’t afford the cost of healthcare. It may also reveal to other major problems.

Something that I wish from Barack Obama is that he would create a healthcare system that works. My first reason is that the majority of people can’t afford the cost of healthcare. Second reason is that people in some other country receive free healthcare. Third reason is that the health can affect the U.S. So wouldn’t it do quite well if we all received healthcare for free?

Just Another Life Changing Event...

Okay, okay, okay....So what? I guess I have nothing to do..and I'm really bored...I've already bothered Julian... >=D
So....I'm making another one..just for the bordem of bordem....

When I was younger I had gone to Stockton Elementary School. I had all my friends there, I had lots of best friends. They all treated me well, I was usually the best friend who would help them out. Though I was really quiet and dense back then. I was so shy all the time and was really quiet. My friends would tell me not to be shy and to talk louder and more. But I was still the shy girl. As time moved on I had tranfered to this other elementary school, and to this other elementary school, and this other elementary school. From moving and trying to make friends had made me more quiet and shy. Then for the fourth time I had came to Avondale Elementary School, I had a good feeling about this school becuase it didn't feel lonely and cold like all the other schools I have been to. In Avondale it was more friendly and nice. Though the education was pretty still dense for me. By the time I was in fifth grade I had started picking up and tried many times. I then realized I shouldn't be shy and should speek up for myself and this was all caused by my friends who had helped me, well at least some, and who had helped me throughout the year.
By then in middle school as I am today, I'm not as shy as I have been back then and had suceed and became one of the smartest people in the class.

-Life Changing Event

Another life changing event, so yeah, I was pretty bored doing nothing and decided, eh wat the heck? why not make another one? So.....yeah?...Making this one :)

So my mom wanted a pet, or as I may say a cat four or five years ago. She looked for cats on internet and in stores. I asked why did she want a cat? She replied as that we didn't pay much attention to her, and didn't eat much, and that we don't play around no more like we use to. She wanted attention. So then she kept on looking for cats and she had already bought the whole supply that the cat would need. I hated pets, first of all she wouldn't take care of it later on and wouldn' play with her. I knew this of course because we had fishes before, they all died, this was caused by our mother. She forget to feed them. Now she wanted a cat. Ugh....

She didn't find the right cat. Once she told me about a cat that she said was pretty nice and cute but was mean and grunchy all the time. Later then on in that summer she had finally found the cat, and I had totally forget about it, so it was like it had came out of the bloom. The cat was pretty cute and all but I just hated it. She called it Candy but in spanish, Dulce.

Today now she doesn't really care for her because now, she got another fish. Great. Now I'm always the one feeding it, petting it, and when I'm in a really good mood I'll play with it. I hate doing all the caring for it but my mom had last time forget to feed it and the cat had came on the kitchen table and went to meow on top of my homework and had floded my paper left some kind of mark on it which pissed me off. So then I had gotten the habit of feeding her to keep her away from my homework and from annoying me.

THE END..

-Life Changing Event

When my brothers and I were young we went to the park on a hot, sunny day. We were playing in the park and having alot of fun. I remembered how I had used to push my sister out of the way when I wanted to go on the slide. We had played for hours and then a old, man had came with big, scary, drooling, dogs that were barking and were trying to pull away from the man. Then he musten though that we wanted to play with the dogs because the dogs were trying to pull away from the man. But we were just staring at the three dogs. The dogs were black and I think they were those kinds of dogs that worked with polices and this one dog that was a bull dog. Then the man had let go of them but had let go of them on the other side of the park. Though the dogs weren't running in the other side of the park but instead were runnning after all of us. We then got scared and hesitated and then ran to our mother.

We were so scared, and that the dogs were still running after us when we got to our mother. The man didn't do anything but stared for a second. Then the dogs were chasing us and we kept running around our mother. My sister and I were crying. (Haha!, go ahead and laugh.) Though they kept chasing us, my brother was also running like a maniac though he wasn't crying. Then the next thing I knew was that my sister and I were running on top of my mom, and I was trying to climb on her head. Then my sister too was trying to climb on her head so that the dogs wouln't reach to us. By the time the owner was running to get his dogs and he did. He had apoligized and my mom was surprised by what had happened. In the end, now, today, I am always scared of big bull dogs and any big dog that might look scary to me. I wouldn't even pet them, even if they were sweet, I have always been scared of them. =(
THE END..

Parents are the best teachers?

Stephany Ruiz 2/24/09
212-8th R/LA

-Parents are the best teachers?
-Essay


I agree, that parents are the best teachers for many reason. My first reason why I think parents are the best teachers is that they would know you better than a normal teacher would. My second reason is that they might know a lot of things because of what they had learned and their career. My third reason is that they would help you more than a normal teacher would. Don’t you think your parents would be a best teacher?

My first reason why I think parents would be best teachers is that they would know you better than a normal teacher would. Sense the teacher would be your parent they would know you better in which understands you better so that when you might not understand something they would help you better. Sense they know you better and are close then you and the teacher would pretty much learn from each other easily.They would both be close and confortable when there is a subject that is hard to learn and would have more time to learn than on a normal school day.Wouldn’t you learn easily better more from a person who has a career and can educate you?

My second reason is that they might know a lot of things because of what they had learned and about their career and teach these things to their son/daughter. The son/ daughter might learn something new from it’s parents on their career and may get good tips on how to work.When having a parent who has a career they can teach it to their son/daughter and the son/daughter might get really good at it. As the parent teaches the son/daughter about it’s career it can also teach it’s experiences so that the son/daughter won’t go through it too. Wouldn’t you want to learn this and get help from your parent/s than you would get from a normal teacher?

My third reason is that your parent would help you more than a normal teacher would.You would get more attention from your parent, and your parent could help you with problems than a normal teacher would help. Parent’s would be there for you when you would need them not like a normal teacher would. You won’t get so amberrased as you would have to by telling your school teacher than you would having to talk to your parents about things that are personal. So you would feel closer to your parent/s as your teacher than you would with a normal teacher.

I am positive that parent’s would be best teachers for you for many reasons. My first reason was that they would know you better than a normal teacher would. My second reason is that your parent’s may teach you different things than you would in school and also learn more things than you would in a normal school.Third reason is that you would get more help than you would with a normal teacher. Don’t you agree that your parents are the best teachers?

A Skill Everyone Needs

A very important skill a person should learn in order to be succesful in the world today is reading. I think reading is a very important thing today because almost everything we do basically has to do with reading. Some of the reasons why I think reading is a important skill a person should learn is that it may have to be needed in the job you would want or need. Another reason is that it may be a way of connecting or contacting people. My third reason but not least is that it is a good way of excercising your brain. Don't you like reading?

My first reason why I think reading is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be succesful in the world today is that it may be needed in the job you would like or need. It is important that you know how to read because in almost every job you would need to read, there is no way without reading. For example, if you wanted to become an actress than you would have to go over the scrips by reading in order to perform the show or movie. If you didn't know how to read than it would affect your career not only that but your life.

Another reason why I think reading is a very important skill is that it may be a way of contacting people. Like for example, your boss tells you to go somwhere you would have to read the instructions to where you are going in order to get there. Also for example, if someone needed help and had wrote to you then how would you help that person if you didn't know how to read? It could affect people in a bad way. Reading is also a way of reading other peoples songs, books, notes, or letters that may or may not be touching. Don't you think reading is a good way of excercising your brain?

My third reason why I think why reading is a important skill is that it excercises your brain. When you read it excercises your brain by learning new things by reading. By reading it also improves your english. Today it is very important that you learn your english because this is the U.S. in which everyone talks in English and because of this it is a way of also talking to people. If people don't understand your English than it can affect your life.

These are my reasons why I think it is important that everyone should learn the skill of reading in order to be succesful in the world today. My three reasons are it is needed in the job, it is a way of connecting to people or contacting in a way, and it is a way of excercising your brain. Don't you agree with me that reading is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be succesful in the world today?

The Best Day Ever...

The best day I ever had was in a summer day last year. My family, a friend, and I were going to Wisconsin and we were going to do alot of things in Wisconsin. We drove in car for about days that it felt but really maybe about 2 or 3 hours. I was really excited and happy and felt really fresh. Before we left Chicago we went to the store in the morning and bought a couple of things like chips, water bottles, sandwhiches to make, and some other things. I got my favorite kinds of cookies which were oreos and vitamin water. Then we drove off to the highway and then as we drove farther more, I started seeing more farms and less stores, parks, and people. As we drove more farther I just saw big farm homes, farms, trees, grass, and road signs.
I then told my sister how could anyone live like this?!, I couldn't survive a day without stores or malls, I'll basically turn crazy and then die. My sister laughed and she agreed with me. On the way I started eating chips and threw some in the air and tried catching it with my mouth but it landed on my laps. My sister and brother laughed at me and then they tried it and they got it! I was like surprised and then I did it again but still didn't get it. Then as we saw a couple of small stores and resturants and houses we saw this small, red resturant. I then knew we were going there becuase my mom was parking in front of it. I though it would be awsome because I've never been out of Chicago. So as we walked to the resturant I saw this place where there were boards to put your head in and take pictures and there were piles of wheat stocked on top of each other and though it looked like a farm kind of thing. We all took goofy pictures and smiled as we put our head on the board. Then we went in the resturant and saw old people and with very different style than I had, almost all of the people inside the resturant kept staring at us. I was kind of shy and though I looked like I was rich or something and too colorful compared to them.
We then took our seats and were happy, we went to take our plates of food and serve ourselfs. As I saw the food that was on the counter, It looked delicious there were mostly potatoes, alot of meat, french fries, pies, and fruits. I then started grabbing all kinds of foods and enjoyed it. My mom loved the eggs and my sister loved the bread with jam. When we were finished we left and didn't know where we were going so I asked my mom's friend and she told us that we were going to drive to a farm and then to a grocery store here. I was wondering how everything would be like. We then drove a big farther and we got to this farm, I was excited and saw this cute boy and this pretty girl. The boy was about my age and the girl was about my sister's age. I wanted to be friends with them even though we just came. My mom's friend said that she is going to milk a cow and get her milk from there, I was surprised but I laughed at the though that she would be milking a cow. We went to this farm place where they kept the cows and then my mom's friend milked a cow and put the milk in a clean bucket and we then went to this other room where we put the milk in this machine and it would clean the milk. It was a big machine, it was silver and had this like meter. There was also a small table and a box with money and a piece of paper that would tell how much it costed for the gallon or ounces. I asked my mom's friend why they had it out like that and why didn't they stay here with us to watch if we are really gonna pay, in her response she said that people here trusted each other and would just leave out this to pay for the milk for whenever they wanted to come. This was new to me and though it was kind of cool.
When we left we went to this small store where they selled food and fruits. We bought strawberries and cold drinks sense our water bottles were too warm. Afterward we went out to drive around and see how everything is in Wisconsin and it was in the afternoon. We took more pictures around the streets, cows, and farms. There we also saw pretty horses but they were big as we got closer to it. We then headed back again home and I dozed off to sleep. By the time we got there we were pretty close sense we were at the highway again. My sister was talking and telling jokes and we all laughed, so did my mom's friend and she joked around with my sister. I laughed really hard that I though I would pee on my pants becuase my sister's jokes were too funny. Then my mom tickled my sister and I tried tickleling my sister to make her laugh. Then as we were in Chicago again, we were pretty tired from a long day and we all wanted to go to sleep. We dropped off our mom's friend and we went home and had the best day ever.

Nature Haiku

Red so rich, splendid

exquisite, beautiful, fine

blooming flower flush

Her Smile

When I looked at her smile, I knew she was up to something. I kept staring at her with no expression, and looked away because I knew she always came up with something, something just so terrible each time she even though of it. I didn't want to get in trouble, besides. I went to watch TV, and started watching Family Guy. She came with the smile on her face and I just ignord her like every other day. She then tapped on me and I turn to look at her. She then told me that she wants to go to the store to get some stuff. I asked her what kind of stuff, but she didn't answer. I then asked her if she had asked our mother for permission to go to the store but she nodded a no. I then told her to call our mother, but our mother did not answer. So then I told her that we would go to the store really quick and come back home. She then said, "okay!" We then went to the store and she had went to the cake section and got a big cake with strawberries around it and then went to the paint bottles and got a whole bunch of bottles. I asked her, "whats that for?", she didn't answer. She then went to get a glass bottle of coca cola. She then paid for it and I just didn't care less, as long as we went home quickly.
Later that day I was taking a shower while my sister was calling some friends. I didn't even bother worrying who she was calling becuase if I do, then I'll find out something I didn't expect and later would get in trouble just like in the past. I then dressed up in my confy pj's and went to watch my favorite show, "Food Network". Later then a past few minutes passed and all of a sudden I see people. People who I don't know!, people that are freaky and crazy looking. I just stared for a moment and screamed for my sister's name, "Maggy!!!". She put on music really loudly and started taking out the stuff she had bought earlier and some other junk food. Then I saw what was happening. I gasped.... I went up stairs and changed to something appropriate for whats about to happen.
When I came downstairs I saw more people coming, and they were dancing like crazy, putting flour all over the floor and on each other with chocolate syrup, people playing around, people talking to each other and laughing. I was worried, our mother could come at any time, I would be so sure she would come at this time from her meeting, but I got worried every second. I was looking for my sister the second I was coming and getting a view of everyone. There was just too many people, I tried finding my sister. Just what I needed! I was so furious I pushed those skinny, tall people. Then I found her.., she was the one with the most colorful outfit and punk-ish looking, her hair so messed up, looked like she went on a roller coaster with her hair standing up. She was dancing with this cute dude, but I grabbed her by the arm and pulled her out. I told her, "What is wrong with you!?, do you have any idea how much in trouble we are going to be in?!, are you crazy? nuts?! What is wrong with you?! Take everyone out of the house! OUT!", though she just ignord me screaming at her and rolled her eyes. I though she was a snoty little sister. Then she left like I wasn't even talking to her. I then got really pissed at her. If I called mom and told her about this then she would come from the meeting and see this and would take everyone out and I would be the one getting yelled at instead of my sister. So then instead I was making a plan, but then I saw this dude who was checking me out. I was stunned. He was so perfect, his face so perfect and beautiful! I wanted to yell at him and tell him that I'm not any special than the other girls in this party. I then just kinda of looked around and tried to look like I didn't notice him.
He came closer to me and asked me if I would dance with him, I looked at him for a second at his beauty, I forget what he had asked for a second. Then I remembered and said yes to him. I have seen my sister danced to this type of music, it was a hard, metallic kind of music. Some musics she had heard and danced to were elelctronic kind. So then I took her steps and danced with him with her moves I've seen, he was a bit impressed. I saw how he had smiled at the way I had danced and just looked away because it's amberrasing. I'm not really into dancing, all I knew was that I tried my best. Then some other teens had sprayed whip cream at us and sprayed chocolate syrup. I screamed... He then covered me so that I wouldn't get sprayed on myself much, they then sprayed at some other couples and teens. Then he asked me if I was okay and I had said yes and told him he gots a little something on his face. He laughed, at the though that he had chocolate all over his face and whip cream. Then I said thank you.
I hugged him and then he said if I would give him my digits but I said in one condition, and he asked "what?", I told him if I can get another hug and he chuckeled and gave me a hug. I then gave him my digits. I looked at the time and I then knew that she would really come at any minute so I had to do something really quick, I then grabbed my money in which I was saving for my dress that I really wanted to get at Nordstrom, from my pocket and then I had turned down the music and said "free money!!", and threw it outside on the lawn and a whole bunch of people went to attack the money and some tripped and felled and had then only the dude that I had just met and danced with was standing there, he then said he had to go and saw that he was amberrased becuase he was alone with me. He then left.
Then I saw that my sister taking pictures with this dude I had seen him danced earlier together and then I just rolled my eyes at them. I cleaned up really fast, it was about to be 8 in the afternoon, I then had mopped and saw that the kitchen was still a mess, I panicked and yelled at my sister that I would pay her a hundred dollers if she cleaned here, she just smirked at me and went to the kitchen and gaved her goodbye to the dude, then I went upstairs and cleaned every mess in the rooms. And then I went downstairs and saw through the window that she was parking and went to the kitchen and my sister was just cleaning the table. I went to turn on the TV and put on "Courage the Dog" and sat down, and I heard the keys going through the door and my sister jumped on the couch and sat down. My mom came in and my sister had greeted her liked nothing had happened, I still had the expression of having a awsome time which my mother usually wouldn't see. So I kept staring at the TV, and she said sorry for not answering the calls earlier and told her in my normal voice it was okay. She sighed and asked us what was this smell, I said that we had ice cream and sandwhiches for dinner. I knew by now she would have a suspicious face though I didn't make no expression by then on my face and then she said well hope you guys had a nice day. I said we did. My sister smiled at me like at the very beginning.
THE END

25 Things I want to do in my lifetime

1)I want to tie a cherry's stem with my tongue.
2)I want to take lots of pictures with my sister in the vacations.
3)I want to go to Japan in China.
4)I want to have lots of friends to go my house when we are all adults.
5)I want to go to metro stations concert one day.
6)I want to go to six flags just with my friends.
7)I want to have a sweet sixteen.
8)I want to wear a awsome dress and go to a fancy resturant.
9)I want to have a porsche.
10)I want to eat ice cream outside the poarch on a calm day.
11)I want to be crazy and do funny and stupid things when I get older.
12)I want to wear crazy funky things someday.
13)I don't want to have kids to be honest with you, maybe just maybe get married.
14)I want to have a boyfriend someday that would be the most awsome-ness person I would ever meet.
15)I want to have a pool party.
16)I want to hug a hotty emo.
17)I want to dance like an idiot in high school and college at least twice or once.
18)I want to go to Las Vegas and stay at the Palms someday.
19)I want to graduate from college.
20)I want to go shopping all day long one day with none-stop.
21)I want to go watch a movie in the theaters and make fun of some dude.
22)I want to go to a party where it last till 8 in the morning.
23)I want to make fun of Yana in high school and pick on her sometimes.
24)I want to stay with my bestest friends till the end.
25)I want to make a video of a song with my sister while we are still young.