It was a bright sunny day in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was around 95 degrees outside on that beautiful
May 2nd day of 2011. That was the day my own dad was shot and killed
by the United States Navy Seal Team 6. He was just sitting there all innocent
watching his daily cartoon, The Power Puff Girls on his small 12 inch analog
television screen, and cuddled up in a blanket eating his favorite cereal
Special K. Then all of sudden around 6 o’clock AM, a loud bang came to his door
and men with guns drawn came shouting and screaming to “Give Up!” but my dad
said “NO” and through his Special K at one of the men’s face. Then there was a
loud BANG and that was the end, the end of my dad, his name was Osama Bin
Laden.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Not so Lucky
“This is a short response about the themes in the story The Lottery;
I will be supporting my evidence with text evidence.”
The story The Lottery is
about where a town has a lottery, but instead of winning money they play with
the fate of people’s lives. One example of theme in this story happens to be
tradition, because throughout the story they talk about how this has been a
tradition for their town for 100’s of years. Even one of the men participating,
who also happens to be the oldest man in the town, says that he has done this
town’s annual lottery for 27 years. Plus if this was not tradition to this town
they would hopefully think it is inhuman to kill a person with rocks, but the
reason why it isn’t inhuman to them is because it is a tradition to the town
folk. Another odd thing that helps back up this tradition theme is that the
friends of the woman, who is killed, pick up the biggest stones at her so she
can die quick and less painful.
Another theme that stands out in
this story happens to be death, because this entire town is revolved around
this lottery that ends up killing someone in the end. The theme death is not in
the beginning of the story because it starts out all innocent, like something
you see in the movie, but then it slowly starts to go downhill from the moment
the story begins. Those are the two main themes that stick out the most in the
story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
Friday, May 11, 2012
The Crack In The Mirror
As I sit upon an old mirror in a small compound in Pakistan,
I gain dust more and more each day. No one really knows my story, it may be an
odd one but people should know how I became a crack on a mirror. The year was
2011, as the new mirror sat above an old wooden dresser. A man, an evil man
named Osama Bin Laden was brushing his long black beard in the mirror, when all
of sudden the door came crashing down. 20 U.S. Navy Seals came running in guns drawn,
shouting on the top of their lungs to give up. Then all of sudden there were multiple
loud bangs and that’s all I can remember. That’s when I was created, a crack on
a mirror made from a stray bullet. And that is the story of how I became a
crack in a mirror.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
What People will do to Survive
“This is an expository piece on the theme
“Will to Survive” on the book’s Zach’s Lie and Jack’s Run by
Roland Smith. I will talk about how the theme fits into both books and how it
fits into the series.”
In the Zach’s Lie series, Jack
Osborne (Zack) and his family are endangered by a drug cartel after their
father is arrested for helping the drug cartel smuggle drugs into other
countries by plane. The drug cartels leader Alonzo thinks Jack’s father knows
too much and he is a danger to his business. Many people wouldn’t be scared,
but the Osborne’s were and they would go to any measure to keep their family
safe. Many people will do extreme things to survive even going to different
places or even changing their identity to live a peaceful life, living a good
life could be the most important thing to a human being. The will to survive is in all of us, we will
have to use our survival techniques sometime in our lives.
Even though there are two books in the
series they both have the same theme. In Zach’s Lie this is where the
real story begins, Zach and his family find out the hard way that his father
has been doing dangerous life threatening work. The real theme starts to kick
in when their family is put into witness family protection, which is just one
of the few things they have done to survive this whole situation. They had to
change their names, their hair colors, their eye colors, and even their
lifestyles. The Osborne’s went from riches to rags, they had to become poorer
and move to some random town in Nevada to survive which is another reason that
proves the theme in book one. Also when Zach meets this girl he likes named
Caitlin, he can’t tell her anything about what happened because he needs to
survive and he does not want the bad guys to find him or his family. Those are
just a few of the main points that make the theme “Will to Survive”.
In the second book Jack’s Run,
there are a few examples of this theme in this second book. One type is quite
similar to the first book and it is they had to move to another town, and
change everything using witness protection again because Alonzo and his men
found where they were before. Also more between the middle and end of the story
Zach and his sister get captured by Alonzo’s brother, they have to use their
minds in places they never have before. That is another piece symbolism of the
theme of “Will to Survive”, also Zach even shot this one woman because she was
going to kill him if he didn’t do anything to protect himself. Those are a few
examples of the theme in the second book Jack’s Run.
In the end Zach and his family had to
use their sense of survival to survive. Generally people wouldn’t believe that
two books have the same theme, but these too books do. They both fit nicely
into the theme “Will to survive” because in both books they are trying to
survive and they would end up doing anything to stay alive. Both stories have
their own ways of this theme, but there is some that are similar in both. The
main reasons why they are the same is that in both books they are constantly in
hiding from the cartels, and they can’t tell people who they really are so they
can survive. Many things are the same in the series but they both have their
own unique type of example for “Will to survive”.
Friday, May 4, 2012
John Brown's Raid
Who Was John Brown?
John Brown (1800-1859) was an American Abolishment, which
meant he did not like slavery and he wanted to get rid of it. He did not
believe in it what so ever, He believed that Christians should treat people the
same no matter what color their skin was. Also John believed that it was
acceptable to use violence to end slavery. Brown was a man of many children; he
had around 20 children which all believed in the same thing he believed in. John
grew up in Spring Field Massachusetts, before moving into the Kansas
Territory.
The Raid
In 1859, John Brown and his 5 sons were so fed up with the
slavery that John decided that he was going to pull an attack on Harpers Ferry
in Virginia. Harpers Ferry had a large Federal Arsenal of weapons, because he
was going to get the weapons to the slaves so they could attack and kill their
masters so they could be free at last. John thought his plan would work
perfectly, he thought him, his sons, and a few other black men would ambush the
arsenal, killing the guards/soldiers, taking the weapons and giving them to the
slaves. But the thing John did not know, was that most of all the slaves he
invited would not show up, causing them to be over powered by the Confederates.
Brown was captured when all of his sons were shot and killed, and he was hung
on December 2, 1859.
Why was this important the Civil War?
There are many people who believed that this is actually
what started the Civil War, because people believed that he had such a strike on
the states. There was never such a violent abolishment attack before this raid,
which is what shocked the Confederates. This is why this was a very large cause
for the start of the civil war.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Cell Research Paper
“This is a compare and contrast research paper on 4 different types of
human body cells, which the one that are in this piece happen to be Osteroblast
(Bone Cell), Erythrocyte (Red blood cells), Mytocyte (Muscle Cells), and Neuron
(Nerve Cell). There will be information about all the cells, and a compare and
contrast of all 4 cells.”
Cells are what make up all living things;
they hold everything together, somewhat like building blocks. The human body can
hold trillions of cells; all different types all different sizes, shapes, and
colors. They do everything from providing structure, change nutrients into
energy, and even carry out specialized functions. Another thing is that cells
also are what make up our hereditary material and they even make copies of
their own cell structure (Genetics Home
Reference). Cells are what make up the structure of every living
thing in the world, however many people wouldn’t believe that cells are
important when cells are the most important thing in all living organisms in
the world.
Although
there are trillions of different types of cells here are a few. Bones are made up of cells called
Osteroblast, that’s what gives the cells the hardness and toughness. The
Osteroblast help the bones grow and repair themselves over time. Blood is what
helps the cells, get food and takes away the waste from the bones. If bones
weren’t made up of Osteroblast, broken bones would never heal on their own.
That’s why it’s so important that we have cells in our bones called Osteroblast (Discovery Communications Inc.). Another type
of cell, are Erythrocyte’s or better known as Red Blood Cells. The main function of
the Erythrocytes or Red Blood Cells is to move oxygen throughout the body. This
certain cell has no nucleus and has a lifespan of about 120 days. They
circulate the oxygen through tissues picking up carbon dioxide as they go,
which carbon dioxide is the main waste product that is formed in the cell. The
cells have a doughnut or circular shape to them and they are relatively small.
The contain pigment hemoglobin which is what gives the red color. They also
assist the cells when carrying oxygen and the carbon dioxide (Scott).
However those are just a few cells, here are
a few more types. Mytocyte cells are the main cell in the muscles;
the main function of the Mytocyte is to facilitate movement throughout the
entire human body. The way that these functions are achieved, are by adjusting,
or contracting the tissues that are in your muscles. For example skeletal
muscles allow you to move freely to certain consent. A great example is that
they allow you to turn your neck sideways but not 360 degrees (State Government of Victoria). The Mytocyte cell is the basic unit of all
the muscles in your body. The three main types of muscles are skeletal,
cardiac, and smooth muscle. Skeletal muscle cells form controllably, or
voluntary, for example like the muscles found in your legs. The smooth muscle
and cardiac muscles form uncontrollably, like the muscles that are in your
heart and stomach (Discovery Communications
Inc.). One more cell is the Neuron or the nerve cells; they are the main
cells that are in your nervous system. There are a few main functions of the
Neurons are to carry messages throughout our body, to receive, and to pass
electrical impulses. The neurons happen to be the smallest unit of the entire
nervous system, which sends signals to the rest of the body to do what the
brain, wants it to do, for an example our brain tells the heart to beat, your
diaphragm to breathe, or your eyes to blink (Poe).
Generally people wouldn’t think cells are
that important, but they really are, they do everything in our body and our
bodies are made out entirely of cells. Those 4 cells all had things in common
and things not in common. For example all of these cells have a different
purpose, the bone cell helps the bone keep its strong body and the red blood
cells help get bad waste out of our blood. Some things these cells have in
common is that they all support our bodies needs in some way, the nervous
system cells allow us to get senses and emotions to our brain to decode what is
happening, and the muscle cells allow us to gain muscle, and allows our heart
to beat on its own. They all don’t have a certain size or shape because they
all vary, besides the red blood cells. Their size is very small and they are
also doughnut or circular shaped (Scott).
However, in the end cells are the most
important thing in all living organisms. They hold us together, get the bad
stuff out of our bodies, and even make us have senses. Every single cell in our
body has their own job, to keep us and all living organisms living and keeping
us who we are as the world’s life forms.
Bibliography
Discovery
Communications Inc. Skeletal System. 2000. 17 April 2012
<http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000124.html>.
Genetics Home
Reference. What is a Cell? 6 April 2012. 17 April 2012
<http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/cell>.
Poe, Brandon. Function
of Neurons. 6 November 2003. 19 April 2012
<http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2003-11/1068145050.Cb.r.html>.
Scott, Ann Senisi.
"Red Blood Cells." Scott, Ann Senisi. Body Structures and
Functions . Delmar Cengage Learning, 2004. 384.
State Government of
Victoria. Posture . 26 March 2012. 18 April 2012
<http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Posture>.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Social Studies RAFT Piece
Dear American People,
My name is Jacob Norris, I have
been working in the coal mines since I was 3, I’m 5 now and I spend all my days
down in those dreadful coal mines. Trust me there are not fun, I work in the
dark most of the time besides the small light on my helmet, and some days I
even go without rest, food, or water. If I don’t get my work done the boss
beats me until I’m numb, that’s not right at all. The reason why I’m working is
because my dad left my mom, and my mom is paralyzed from the waist down so she
can’t work. Being the only child in the family, I’m also the man in the house,
so I need to work to support my family. I spend about 18 to 21 hours a day down
in those mines picking at the wall with my pick axe. Also, I’m five years and
smoking tobacco out of pipes, because we can’t afford cigarettes. We can barely
afford my habits, but I didn’t know any better. It’s my only friend down here
in these mines. But I don’t think I will be able to get to be 12 by the
conditions I’m working. I really need to get out of these parts because I will
end up dying at a young age, I will develop lung problems or even cancer, no
child deserves this, I can barley pick up my pick axe because it’s so heavy. I
just want someone to help me… Please
Sincerely,
Jacob Norris
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