What I Think

Authors Note: I am writing this little piece on prediction because I am reading a book where a boy gets sent off to a place in the middle of nowhere. I have wondered what his guardians thought what would happen to him so I’ve created these three paragraphs on what I’d think they would expect what to happen.

“I don’t know why I care so much about what happens to this boy, I mean I never cared about him when we had to take care of him? I just don’t understand.”Matt’s Aunt could not stop talking about Matt to her boyfriend. She had to take care of him after both his parents died in a car crash. In a car he was supposed to be in. As Matt’s Aunt and her boyfriend discussed this, she couldn’t help but thinking how quickly he would come back and have to go to prison.

“You know? I don’t think that boy will even last ONE month there. He has always been creating trouble for us so there is no doubt he won’t last long with that Ms. What’s her name? Deveril? Such a weird lady she was.” Matt’s Aunt went on and on about what she thought would happen to him while her boyfriend had some ideas of his own which he wanted to share and so he did.

“I don’t know, you might be wrong. So yea his parents died and that has to be very traumatizing. Maybe some hard work would be good for the lad wouldn’t you say? Ms. Deveril lived on a farm so I’m sure the boy is hard at work.” As soon as he said that he regretted it. His girlfriends face just lit like a tomato and she liked like she was about to blow. “Are you kidding me! That boy has never done anything good! I am so glad he is gone, he never appreciated anything we did! AH!” She stormed out of the room only to say one more thing. “Oh and by the way you can sleep on the couch tonight you piece of junk!”

Why Does It Have To Happen.

 Authors Note: I am writing this essay on theme to describe the theme of affects of war.

What would happen to you if your family was murdered because of war or if you lost everything because of it. Including your personality? In the book on the revolutionary war, Woods Runner the main character named Samuel loses his family to war, in the book MockingJay Katniss loses her house and her personality. Then in Divergent Beatrice loses multiple friends. War is a horrible thing that creates bad and good affects on both the government and the people.

War, not only does it affect you physically, but it tears away at you mentally on the inside.  In the book Woods Runner, 13 year old Samuel is the supplier for his family. He goes out into the woods to hunt one day and he comes back to find his friends and neighbors murdered by Indians and his parents gone. This would tear any kid apart for weeks. Samuel is only 13 and he has already been mentally affected by war. War affects everybody including government.

Now everyone has heard about the school shooting and everyone knows how bad it is. There is a little line that people have been talking about. It’s what a little boy said to someone. He asked if they’d ever seen someone die. Then they said “Yes sadly.” The little boy then looked up with terrified eyes and said “I saw my best friend die today.” In the book Divergent Beatrice see’s almost all of her best friends die. But not just her friends. Also her mom and dad, when your just becoming a adult you shouldn’t have to deal with stuff like that. No one should have to go through seeing close ones, loved ones, and just people in general fall down and have death take them away. War takes away a lot of stuff. For some people it takes away their sanity. For Beatrice it took away her loved ones.

Even though affects on government from war are usually bad, like debt. Some can be good like if  it’s a  civil war. The government changes for a good reason. In the book Mockingjay there is a big civil war and in the end it helps for the good. So affects on government aren’t always bad but they are also good sometimes.  Then a problem is after this then a big question is how do you rebuild you government? This is also an affect of war.

War is a horrible thing and the world would be a lot better without it but it still happens and it happens often and everywhere. In the big picture it usually has a good outcome but many people don’t understand the smaller pictures within the big picture. This terrible thing can also be called a tragedy because there are many tragedies from war. The government loses so much money, you experience death, and worst of all you lose friends and your loved ones. Even though the government loses money I think the worst part about war and having people die in it is knowing that they could have had a horrible and painful death. One thing is for sure though, war is horrible and affects two big things in our society, the government and the people.

Nervousness gets us all

Authors Note: I wrote this essay about the main character in one of my favorite Mike Lupica books. This essay explains how he changes throughout the book and how other characters influence him to change.

Nervousness, changes us all in the moment. In a football game when you’re having a bad day you get nervous and your personality changes a bit. When you do this and you’re the leader of the team then everybody else is going take this bad and get nervous too. Nate Brodie is an average teen who likes football, but he does have exceptional throwing skills. Nate gets the chance to win a million dollars by throwing a ball throw a ring at halftime of a patriots home game.  When you get the chance to win a million dollars and your family desperately needs it and all the weight is on your shoulders, when your best friend is going blind, and that can change you. 

 Nate Brodie's family is suffering from money problems, he is definitely taking a toll on this like his parents. He won a raffle drawing and now gets the chance to win a million dollars with a single throw that could save his family. If you've ever been in a situation with pressure you know it's not fun. This pressure changes Nate throughout the story especially when it changes him to actually complain. Nate is for sure not a complainer especially with his friend Abby going blind and not complaining. I think that is something else that helps him change back to the regular person he is.

 Abby is Nate's friend since they were little and she is now going blind but there’s one thing about her that no other child or teen could do. If you were going blind like Abby wouldn’t you think why it had to be you? Abby never thought that or complained. Throughout the book Abby influences Nate to just suck it up, Abby is really Nate’s best friend and they are both always there for each other. When Abby's dad loses his job her family goes from never having to complain about money to just as bad as Nate. When Nate hears this he is very comforting for Abby trying to help her. I think this changes his perspective on losing jobs because in the book after this it talks about how he thinks about that before he thought that it wouldn't be able to happen to Abby but it did so he realizes that it can happen to anyone.

 If you've ever played a sport or watched one where there is a obvious star one the team, then you know the feeling when he gets nervous. Everyone also gets nervous, and they get uneven with their playing the do good and bad. Nate is the captain of his football team and in games know he's getting nervous and doesn't want to throw. This is because of the pressure about making the throw on Thanksgiving, he keeps thinking what if I don't make it so this also changes him in a game. It's one of his favorite passing plays and he chooses to run it instead of throwing it. This is a good example of being changed by pressure.

A million dollars, that's a lot of money especially to a person who's family is suffering from debt and money. When a kid is 13 years old and is basically being expected to make this throw. Thus throw is from 20 yards through a hoop which doesn't seem hard but it really is.  A million dollars is the reward for making it and it's a million dollars that will decide if his family gets to keep or sell their house. That is way too much pressure for a 13 year old and that can make or break you, but it most definitely can change you. 

Whatever You Do

Authors Note

Everything you do has a cause and effect. Literally for everything even if it is something small like a thought about you or something really big like going to jail. What can happen easily which maybe something you don't think about is what happens in between the small outcome and the big outcome. On my football team there was a big cause and effect with one of our best players. I know he regrets this with all of his heart but he can't take away that he still did it.

During our football game my friend pretty much freaked out on the ref's because of a bad call. Even though our head coach did too it is still very unacceptable and because of this he was suspended a game which to him and to the league was his "first strike" this is the first bad thing that happened to him because of something he did, cause and effect. Later that season he got strike two by saying something very bad to a kid on the other team. This was his second and last strike. He was kicked of the team, and again, cause and affect.

Letter to the Big Washington

Dear George Washington,

In class, we have been talking about our freedom and our founding fathers. If you were to look at our country now, and our country back then, what do you think would be different if our Founding Fathers didn’t create the declaration of independence?

The flag, the eagle, the national anthem, our freedom, these things all stand out when we are talking about our country. Symbolism will never be forgotten because of our Founding Fathers. Without the Founding Fathers, women voting, no slavery, and our independence wouldn’t still be here today.

During this time of year it is because of our great founding fathers that women can now vote. You go to vote and then you think that it is amazing of the independence we have. Since you started our country off so great, we’ve gotten to this amazing country with many ally’s that help us out.

Also since you made such a great country we have learned to bounce back. Just like you did countless times in the war. 12 years ago our country suffered a major tragedy. There was a terrorist attack on a great city which killed many people and destroyed many lives. We bounced back because of the way you taught our country to do so.

Over the years all these ups and downs our country still has the outcome of greatness. Bouncing back from 9/11, gaining independence for everyone including women, and with a government who knows who to have ally’s for. You definitely started off this country better than anyone else could have.

The Job

Authors Note: I wrote this piece because in my class we were working on conflict resolution and we had to write a piece about it. This isn't a true story.

Ah baby sitting, an easy way to get money. This job doesn't take hard work if your good at it like me. Right now I have both the kids sitting down watching a educational T.V. while eating some carrots. Of course I am watching them carefully to make sure they don't choke. "Ding Dong" Both the kids turn their heads while I start to get up to go answer the door. "Try to find a game to play I'll be right back" As I get to the door I find it to just be some punk teens who think they're funny going ding dong ditching."No!" "Aw man the kids are having a conflict again I better go resolve it."

"We are playing this!" "No! We are playing this!" "Hey what's going on?" As the kids tell me about their problem I desperately   try and thing of a way to resolve it and make them both happy. I finally come up with something. "Tony," I say "Would you be willing to try your brothers game for 30 minutes and then play your game after?" "Uh, I guess so" As I help set up the game for the kids I can't help but thing that there is no conflict with these kids i can't resolve.

Personal Narrative

Authors Note: I wrote this personal narrative about my football game against Tosa East because it was a really fun game and we also won it. Our team doesn't win that many games because we have to play players that aren't exactly the best. Since we have 40 players on our team we have a lot of players that aren't all that great.

"Set, Red, Set, Go!" "First down Pewaukee Pirates on the 55!" On Saturday my football team played a game against Tosa East on our home field! It was a important game for us because we had lost the last few games and had started to loose our moral. This game was a very fun game but to me the last five minutes were the most import.

After an unsuccessful play I jog back to the huddle to listen to Carl call the play. "632 counter on one, ready? BREAK!" As I walk up to the line I can barely keep in my excitement as I think of the moves I'm gonna make when I get the ball, but I can't get too excited because I need to remember to get the hand off on the inside and cut into the two hole. "Set, Red," By now I'm smiling in excitement as I see Mike go in motion, "Set, GO!" I take off down the line of scrimmage to see Carl right where he should be ready to hand me the ball, I take the ball and take a hard left up the perfect hole my blockers have made me. I can feel defensive players hanging on to the back of my jersey but they can't hand on for long since I never stop moving my legs. Then I see someone right in front of me.

It's a little guy who tries to wrap up my legs but I decided to be awesome and step over him in stride which was pretty cool. Once I get past him all I see is open field. Right when I'm thinking this is going to be a touchdown run I get tripped up by about three people. I jog back to the huddle to get a couple high fives and smacks to the helmet which don't necessarily feel good. "733 counter on one ready break!" As I walked up to the line of scrimmage I wish that I would get the ball again this play. "Set, Red," I take off in my motion, "Set, Go!" As I start to block someone I heard the whistle signaling that they play was over so I stopped blocking and turned around to see a nice three yard gain, now back to the huddle.

632 counter on one, ready, break!" I'm literally jumping in my steps, because I get to run the ball again. " Red, Set, Go!" I take a hard step to the right and start sprinting towards Carl to get the ball. I snatch the ball and cut up the middle. I run about eight yards before I am tackled. After the huddle I'm excited for the next play, 747 crisscross. "Set, Red," I take off down the line of scrimmage, "Set, GO!" I quickly grab the ball from Carl and in a split second I had it to Mike and start blocking someone. I turn to see Mike running to the end zone. "Touchdown Pirates!"

To me those were the most important moments of the game because it was to clutch our win in our football game.