all about me

You may think that I'm nice
but in reality I'm not
I don't listen
I yell at my brothers
and I don't know when to stop

In school I act good
but it kills me inside
that I act good because i have to.

Everyone says I need to stop
but I really don't care
I act how I want to
I know it's a habit to act bad
but it doesn't matter

When I said I was a devil
nobody believes me
and that hurts me because
nobody knows how I am
or see me so
they shouldn't know how I am

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

A poem isn't just a poem, sometimes they have a meaning that is important and they relate to something that happen in their past. Other time they don't have anything to do with anything. A poem that has a meaning is "Still I Rise." It was written in 1978 by the famous poet named Maya Angelou. This poem is an excellent poem because for many reasons, but there are three that are good and that make a poem a poem one, good sound, two, images, three, new perspective.

One of the things that make a good poem is the sound. The things that make sound is rhyme. One example of rhyme in this poem are, "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear i rise, into a daybreak that's wondrously clear i rise." In these two lines the words that rhyme are "fear and clear." Another example of rhyme in this poem is "Bringing the gift that my ancestor gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave." In these line the words that rhyme are "gave and slave." Another thing that makes a poem sound good is alliteration. An example that i found in this poem is "I am a black ocean leaping and wide welling and swelling." Here in this example the two words that alliteration are "welling and swelling." this counts as alliteration because the repeating sound is the "welling sound." Then, "Why are you baset with gloom? Pumping in my living room. The repeating sound is "oom" Finally, the last example of a sound is repetition. One line that repeats throughout the poem is " I Rise." Then, at the end of some of the stanzas it states "but like dust i rise." although the word after like changes its still repetition.

This poem is good because it gives you something to think about. By this I mean that it has very clear images. One image that you can see is history being made. In the first sentence of the poem it says "You may write me down in history." For me this means that she did something important and she is getting recognized. Next, " Out of the huts of history's shame." The image that is being shown here is that what she did was shameful and wasn't made for history but then rise and overcomes it. Another example of image that this poem has is that it shows a hero. When it says "I am the hope and dream of the slave." This mean that she was there for the slaves and never gave her back to them. Lastly, in the poem "You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air I'll rise." This mean that she wasn't going to let anyone get in her way and overcome it and go back and try again. The last image that comes to mind is a person that will never give up. in the first stanza it Say's "You may trod me in the very dirt but still like dust I'll rise" This means that she could be put down and she will still shine. Also in this line" You may shoot me with your words." I like this one because it means that words couldn't get to her and she didn't care.

One more reason that "Still I Rise is a good poem is because it gives you a new perspective. One way that you can get a new perspective is with a simile. one example of a simile is "tides just like hops springing high." this is a simile because it is comparing two things. Then another example is "Shoulders falling like a teardrops" This shows that when you cry the tears falls like your teardrops on your face. Another way that you can get a new perspectives with a personification. "You may cut me with your eyes" is an example because your eyes can cut people. In addition, "You may shoot me with your words." This one is good because you can't shoot people with words you can yell at them but not shoot them. Finally, irony is the last one. One example of irony is taste."with your bitter, twisted lies" here you can taste the dirty lies that someone was saying. Then with irony you can see. "'cause i walk like I've got oil wells." you can see someone walking with oil.

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou falls under an excellent poem because of sound, images, and because it gives you a new perspective of something.This poem has good sound because of rhyme, alliteration and repetition. Images because you can see a hero, history, and a person not giving up. New perspective because of simile, personification, and irony. "Still I Rise" made me think very differently because I didn't think that a person was always getting put down by people but she found the fate and always get back up and defend on what she believes in.

Friends

friends is a powerful thing
that you shouldn't play around

Friends will be there for you
when you need them

Friends are a good thing to have
so you have someone to be with

Friends are the ones that will listen to you
and will care about your issues

Friends will be there until the end
and will help you

one of my friends do all these things
and her name is not important.

sonnet

I wanted a small cute bunny
but I wanted a cat
who will aways act funny
and get that bat

I like them because they are sweet
they will sleep on your bed
but they smell like feet
can they turn red?

As i go to the car
and they start to cry
as i look back were far
and i say my last good bye

now I'll get someone new to met
now that's my new pet.

mini essay

Based on the question of "what is better, a relationship, or money?" I can conclude that people prefer a relationship over money. In one group people said that the the relationship is money. Paulette commented " relationship, the boy could give you money." Another student Kris responded by, "relationship because i can take money from him." Another group stated that money is not everything. Myles replied by, "relationship, because money at one point will run out and the love will be there forever." Lastly, the last group rather have money over anything. According to Sierra, she said "money because I rather have security over love." Saffronia also stated, " money, because you can buy things" In conclusion, this is what i had found during my time in Ms. Melville's second period class.

Animal Farm the last of it!

Even though you think it is only a book about old animals it is really based on a specific part in history. This story was written by George Orwell in 1945, based on the history in Russia and was turned into book. If you can get your way in life then you will survive, if you believe everything you hear, who knows what your fate will be. In Animal Farm, the way characters respond to the stories has a strong connection to their ability’s to survive.

In animal farm, one of the characters that got the good life was Squealer because he mastered the way to survive. First, one way was the problem with the beds. In one of the seven commandments it stated, “No Animal shall sleep in a bed.” The point was that they were not allowed. Squealer however convinced all the animals that they were allowed but you just couldn’t have any sheets. So the commandment was now” No animal shall sleep in bed with sheets.” Second, there was also the incident with the milk and the apples. The pigs stole the milk and the apples from all the other animals that need it as well. Squealer, with his excellent speaking, was able to convince the other animals to let the pigs have the milk and apples by” Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. We need the milk and apples to stay healthy for you. If we don’t drink the milk, and eat the apples, you don’t want Jones to come back?” Third, there was also the death of Boxer. Squealer told all the animals on the farm that he died peacefully in a hospital. He really got sold to a horse slaughterer. A lesson that was mostly picked up is that if you are like Squealer, then you will survive and you really picked up the game of life. As for Squealer he ended up rich and powerful and also a right hand man for everyone.


Another animal that had a strong connection to the story Animal Farm was Benjamin. He was in the middle of the entire process. When I said in the middle is that they understand but still need to put pieces together. Firstly, during the debate about the windmill or food, he never picked a side to go to. He is just an animal in the sidelines. He didn’t see the need for a windmill at all, but they needed the food as well. “Only old Benjamin refused to pick a side in the debate.” Second he saw the change in the seven commandments. He was the first to notice that something odd was going on in the farm. Since he couldn’t read as well he told Muriel to read them to him and then they finally found the change. However, if they talked out of Napoleon’s rules they will die. Third, Boxer death really hurt everyone. Benjamin said, ”Fools, do you not see what is written on the side of the van.” The van read” Alfred simmonds, horse slaughterer and glue boiler, willingdon” A lesson that was picked up for people like Benjamin in that you should be the way you are. You just need to be faster in figuring out what is really about to happen. As for Benjamin, he survived the game.

The last animal is boxer. He believes everything he hears and that is a problem. First when boxer believes every story he hears. One example is when he said, “ Napoleon is always right.” This is a lie, because Napoleon always lies every animal on the farm. Second, one story he believes is with the windmill. He believed that he had to work harder on the windmill to get it completed. He asked the cockerel to wake him three-quarters of an hour earlier instead of half in hour. While he was hurt, he kept on working on the windmill. Finally, he believed the story of his death. Before he died they told him that he was going to die peacefully in the hospital. Another lie that boxer believed. In reality he was sold to a Horse Slaughterer. Boxer should have learned a lesson to not to believe everything you hear because it is mostly all lies. In the end, Boxer got his tragic fate.

In Animal Farm, the way that they here the story impacts their ability to survive in the world. Many animals are important to the story but there are three that really gets through the story. Squealer for instance was important because he did all the chaos in the story. Next, Benjamin was the one that realized all the lies that were told to every animal and he understood what he needed to do next. Finally, we have Boxer. He was a horse that believe everything that he would hear and they were all lies. The story animal farm shows that those people that can't figure out the truth in time, will soon realize their tragic fate.

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Guthrie Woodrow Wilson
Guthrie Woodrow Woody Wilson. Was an n important person in his time of the great depression? He helps do so much during the time that was worse in the United States. He went through many issues. He was a really important person. While he was growing up he had many problems due to his family. While he grew up his family wasn’t there most of the time. His mom died of Huntington’s chorea. His sister dad and many more died of a horrible death. He never finishes his education when he had the chance to. To everyone his music was inspirational to many people around the world. His life was not as great as everyone thinks it was. He influenced many people such as bob Dylan, Robert Zimmerman, Billy Bragg and wilco, Pete Seeger, who is his best friend. Over all many people influence Guthrie to act the way he did for many people.
Guthrie made an impact because he wrote many songs and entertain may people in his time. Many people influenced him and they wrote many songs together. As his music went on he wrote songs like protest songs, and testaments to something that he felt that was wrong. Although it seemed that he had a good life with all of his success, he really had a lot that was wrong. As he was growing up he was a part if the merchant marines and he was in war world 2. In 1945,he was drifted back into the army. He never finished his education because he dropped out of high school when he only had two more years to go. His family was almost dead and his mom had a rear dieses then he soon developed. As many people don’t know this he was part of the great depression. To get his food he would entertain people and they will give him food, because the great depression was the worst time for America. When the stock markets crashed many people were left without jobs, homes and a lot of people died of hunger or they were dehydrated. They were feed because they had a soup kitchen to support as many of them as they could. One day Guthrie went away from this. He hitchhikes to Texas were he met the girl that he was going to marry. He had three kids with her.
I chose to do him because he was a part of the great depression and I was really interested in that. As people go on, they hardly even know who is gurthie and that is an issue because his songs are all over the world but just different people sing them.

Animal Farm Essay!

After you read this story you will understand. Even though you think it is only a book about old animals it is really based on a specific part in history. This story was written by George Orwell in 1945, based on the history in Russia and was turned into book. If you can get your way in life then you will survive, if you believe everything you hear, who knows what your fate will be. In Animal Farm, the way characters respond to the stories has a strong connection to their ability’s to survive.

In animal farm, one of the characters that got the good life was Squealer because he mastered the way to survive. First, one way was the problem with the beds. In one of the seven commandments it stated, “No Animal shall sleep in a bed.” The point was that they were not allowed. Squealer however convinced all the animals that they were allowed but you just couldn’t have any sheets. So the commandment was now” No animal shall sleep in bed with sheets.” Second, there was also the incident with the milk and the apples. The pigs stole the milk and the apples from all the other animals that need it as well. Squealer, with his excellent speaking, was able to convince the other animals to let the pigs have the milk and apples by” Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. We need the milk and apples to stay healthy for you. If we don’t drink the milk, and eat the apples, you don’t want Jones to come back?” Third, there was also the death of Boxer. Squealer told all the animals on the farm that he died peacefully in a hospital. He really got sold to a horse slaughterer. A lesson that was mostly picked up is that if you are like Squealer, then you will survive and you really picked up the game of life. As for Squealer he ended up rich and powerful and also a right hand man for everyone.

Another animal that had a strong connection to the story Animal Farm was Benjamin. He was in the middle of the entire process. When I said in the middle is that they understand but still need to put pieces together. Firstly, during the debate about the windmill or food, he never picked a side to go to. He is just an animal in the sidelines. He didn’t see the need for a windmill at all, but they needed the food as well. “Only old Benjamin refused to pick a side in the debate.” Second he saw the change in the seven commandments. He was the first to notice that something odd was going on in the farm. Since he couldn’t read as well he told Muriel to read them to him and then they finally found the change. However, if they talked out of Napoleon’s rules they will die. Third, Boxer death really hurt everyone. Benjamin said, ”Fools, do you not see what is written on the side of the van.” The van read” Alfred simmonds, horse slaughterer and glue boiler, willingdon” A lesson that was picked up for people like Benjamin in that you should be the way you are. You just need to be faster in figuring out what is really about to happen. As for Benjamin, he survived the game.

The last animal is Boxer. You do not want to be like boxer at all because for many reasons. First, to defend my reasoning he was a hard worker. He was the one that pulled the farm together and got the work done.” I will work harder” will always get him motivated to do something. During on of the battles on the farm Boxer got hurt. Since he is a loyal animal, he decided not to tell anyone and keep working. Until one day when he couldn’t stand the pain he told clover the truth. Another statement is he will always put the farm first instead of himself in most cases. As the windmill fell down for the second time around he never lost hope neither did clover so they didn’t mind repairing it yet again. In some days that there was a lot of work to do on the farm he will usually wake up earlier than the rest of the animals. That is a sign of loyalty and he takes pride in his work. Lastly, not everybody is good like Boxer. He was sold to a horse slaughterer. I think that they didn’t have a good enough reason to do that to a very good worker and he was always there for them through good and bad times. During the story a lesson that I thought that was important in back in the days was that good people would die because they were unable to understand what was going on and maybe they never will. As for Boxer, he ended up the worst of all the animals because he died a very horrible death.

In Animal Farm, the way that they here the story impacts their ability to survive in the world. Many animals are important to the story but there are three that really gets through the story. Squealer for instance was important because he did all the chaos in the story. Next, Benjamin was the one that realized all the lies that were told to every animal and he understood what he needed to do next. Finally, we have Boxer. He was a horse that believe everything that he would hear and they were all lies. The story animal farm shows that those people that can't figure out the truth in time, will soon realize their tragic fate.

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Homes Front Heroes

By: Benjamin F. Shearer tertown, NY Brewster Press, 1947

October27, 2008

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Biographical

Guthrie Woodrow woody Wilson served in the merchant marine and in the army during the world war 2. His mom was with Huntington's chorea which was a rare degenerative disease of there nervous system. He had many problem as his childhood went on for various reasons. He dropped out of high school and her only had two more years to go. His families financial ruins were ruined. His sister and mostly his entire family died horrible. When he was growing up he hitchhiked to Texas where he met his wife. During the 1930's he hosted a popular TV show in Los angles. In 1945 be was drafted back into the army. in 1952 he was also diagnose with the same disease as his mother.

This book helped me on my project a lot because i learned more then i did before i read this article. It showed me that his life was not perfect as he was growing up. even though his life as grown up looked good his childhood was not good at all. He lost many people that he loved.

The author of this book Benjamin f shearer received his PH.D in history. He written many books that was helpful to many people all over the world. He written about people from way back then.

Animal Farm

In Animal Farm, Napoleon lies to the other animals because he wants to be the top pig on the farm. First, he lies to keep looking good. When a storm past by and destroyed the windmill he decided to blame Snowball. Instead of telling the truth he told a lie to all the animals on the farm. He said "Commrades, Do you know who is responsible for doing this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrew our windmill? SNOWBALL! Second, Napoleon can get anything he wants. In the passage it states that "He has a reputation of getting his own way!" To become the leader of the farm he ran Snowball off the farm by letting out his dogs so he can become the leader of the farm. Third Napoleon wants more power . He kill the animals if they talked out of him. When the puppies were born, he took them away from their mom an told a lie to all the animals. he trained the to become huge, fierce dogs to scare the animals on the farm. In conclusion, theses are some reason why I think  Napoleon lies to the other animals so he can be the top pig around the farm and become the leader.

Thesis Statement and Introduction!

         Guthrie Woodrow "Woody" Wilson was an important person in his time. He was a part of the great depression. He sang songs to entertain people during those bad times. Guthrie wrote many songs that reflected the great depression. He became on of the most important American folk musician of the 20Th century. Not many people know Guthrie because not everyone knows everyone in our history. Just like everyone in history the had an impact and made a difference. He made music during a difficult time called the great depression. These days were the worst in our history that might have died but even though this happened, he manage to make it seem not to bad. Though out those years not many people know who he is and now it's time for his history to come out to the light.

Ghost Girl

Title: Ghost Girl
Author: Torey Hayden
Page:169
Summary: Torey let the children have one hour free time on wednesday's. Brucie layed on the floor with his blanket. Philip and Reuben played in the sand table, or with the water in the sink. they will always get dirty no matter what they will do. Jeremiah and jadie never made up their minds on what to do. They will draw, play, color, or even read. Jadie was painting in the cloakroom because she didn't want anyone to see what she was painting. when the teacher went to check on her, she painted a cat that looked like a tiger.
Rating: 8.5
This section of the book was just mostly information about their free time on wednesday's. She was just concerned about what the kids were doing to entertain theirselves.

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 Woody Guthrie Portrait Misses His Vast Impact

 J. Freedom Du Lac Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 12, 2006; Page c05 October 21, 2008

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 This article is based on Woody's impacts and achievements.  His songs was unforgettable and he will always be remembered to many people to were there during the great depression. His songs alone had an impact to America because during the great depression nobody had a way to entertain their self's. One day he began to sing. He had his own way to write his music such as Protest songs, testaments. During the depression he became an itinerant artist, he painted and he was singing for his supper in towns and across the country. Although his career seems to be perfect, he had a terrible time in the beginning. He preformed at Communist Party's, rallies, and he wrote for communist newspaper.

The author of the article is J. Freedom Du Lac and he wrote many articles of many people. he works for Washington post.com

This article helped me during my research because more information came across that I did not know about. I learned that he was very popular during his life time and that he had an impact to many people in America. He wrote may songs that everyone remembers and he had his own t.v show. He went through a lot to get where his is. He will always be remembered to many Americans that knew him and his songs.

Ghost Girl

Title: Ghost Girl
Author: Torey Hayden
Page: 149
Summary: The school is back in session, and not much has happened. A month has gone by and it is now October. They have a new kid in their class and his name is Brucie. The children, are helping the teacher, Torey, decorate the classroom. As always, Jeremiah is the only one that talks a lot. He asked everyone what he or she is going to be for Halloween. He made front of one of the kid because he was going to dress up as a bunny. Then, he asked Jadie what she was going to be and she said she doesn’t have a costume. Jadie then said that she doesn’t like Halloween. As her character traits go on she is the type of person that likes to be alone. During recess, Jeremiah jumped the fence to the neighbors yard and took one of the puppies that were there. He was hiding in the basement of the school with Jadie. They were talking very dirty and she almost put her mouth in the puppy’s thing. If the teacher hasn’t come on time you don’t know what could have happened. Arkie Peterson came by and was talking to the teacher Torey, and they were thinking that Jadie might have been sexually abused.
Rating: 8.5
I gave this section of the book an 8.5 because it was really boring and a lot of talking until the last minute. The book can really go two ways because in the beginning it was really boring, in the middle it got really good, now it’s not really going the way I thought it was going to end. At the end, it really got me thinking and most books don’t do that to me.

Second annotation

• During my time at the Constitution center I found the person that I am researching is Guthrie Woodrow Wilson. 
• He did alot to contribute to the great depression. They also called him Woody. 
•  He was born July 14, 1912 and died in the  1967. The author of the article is Richard B. Hughes. 
  
•      This article helped me for my research because it gave me alot of back round information about him. I learned that he was but in a hall of fame because if his music during the great depression.
  

Ghost Girl

Title: Ghost Girl
Author: Torey Hayden
Page: 125
Summary:
In the book “Ghost Girl, it got really interesting. For example, it’s the last day of the school year, so to celebrate they canceled class and had a picnic outside the school. They had chips, hot dogs, and cans of soda. They even had games to play. An accident had occurred between Reuben, and Jadie. It all started when Reuben had to go to the bathroom and Jadie followed him there. The teacher got suspicious and heard Reuben crying so when she opened the door all she saw was the two kids naked, not all the way though. The teacher decided to tell their parent, but at the same time she didn’t know what to do. While she was at the parking lot, Jadie appeared between the two cars, and she gave Jadie a lectured on why what she did to Rueben was wrong for many reasons. During the summer she went back to work at the clinic and she investigated Jadie’s and she found maybe what the problem was with her. She found with the help of people at the clinic that she might have been sexually abused. How would the story end?
Rating: 9
I gave the book a 9 because it really explains what is going on in the story. Also it started out boring like all the books in the beginning, but then it stared changing the prospective on how I thought it was going to turn out. You never expected what is going to happen. There was always a point in the story that made you think what is going to happen next.

First Annotation

                  For the national history day project i learned that our money was worth nothing at all. The great depression is also called "Black Tuesday." It all started when the wall street crashed in October. It left many people without work, money or anything. It also had to do with the economic crisis. To end it they traded with other places for money. The great depression started in October 1929.        

The Most Dangerous Game

          In the passage, “The Most Dangerous Game”, one of the many character is, Zaroff and he values liberty over equality. One example is Zaroff thinks that he is better than everyone and he can do what ever he wants. One impression that led me to believe this was when he said, he said, “Life is for the strong, and to be lived by the strong”. Second, he thinks all humans are worthless. During the story, he insults Ivan and said that “he was a savage” because he couldn't speak, or defend himself. The reason why he started killing human was because he already knew everything there is to know about hunting. In addition. to him thinking that he is better than everyone he also thinks it’s all right to hunt, and kill people. All he cares about is himself and nobody else. He bong sailors to ship-trap island and trained them to hunt well. Zaroff main purpose of doing this was so he can kill and hunt those sailors.   In conclusion, these are reasons that lead me to believe that Zaroff values liberty over equality.

The great depression

                   For my research I am doing the great depression. this interest me because so many things happen. all the markets crashed and it's all because of bankruptcy. we need to stop relying on technology because it may happen again and we wont have anything to do. they lived very poor and they survived for a long time.  I still haven't found a specific person so i am just researching the period of time until i find a person then just finish the research on that person.

ABORTION is wrong

        Are you against abortion? Every baby deserves to have a life. If you don't want the baby, give it up for adoption, or to a family member, that way it has a chance to have an education. Did you know that McCain opposes abortion. Obama favors abortion. I disagree with abortion because that is called murder. When you get an abortion, you are killing a child and that is worse than killing an adult. When the baby is inside your stomach it is called a fetus. Just because it is not developed yet it is still a baby and a human being.

why I chose Constitution HS

            Since I like Social Studies I wanted to come to Constitution High School. This is a social studies theme school. I also wanted to start fresh away from my friends, get more, new friends. This school would help me become a lawyer. I mostly wanted to come here was because I hear a lot of good things about this school from all my teachers last year so i took a risk on applying here.