Thesis.

In the book "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", by Mark Haddon, a boy with a mental disability, learns that taking on the world takes much more than just listening to other people, but listening to yourself sometimes gets your further.

hero.

my hero is my mom, i dont know what i would do with out her she got into a car accedent about 18 years ago and she has gone through so much and also she really is a strong person and she never gives up, she always knows what to do in tough situations, i tell her pretty much everything and she always understands. that is why my mom is my hero! (:

One year left..

I cant even start to imagine what it would be like if i only had a year to live, i think that most of my time would be planing my funeral. I would really treasure all of my time knowing i don't have much longer, i would live everyday like it was my last..I wouldn't let a day go by of me doing nothing. if my family knew i only had a year to live everyone would treat me differently. I don't know what i would really do if i only had a year unless it actually is happening to me. I think that it is so sad that some people actually have to go through this not knowing when they are going to die, not only them but there parents also knowing they don't have much time with there child. I hope i never have to go through this. 

history.

1. One cause of the civil war is economic and social differences between the North and the South.
2. Battle of Gettysberg, there were alot of people killed that they had to end the war.
3. One influencial person was abraham lincoln, because he freeed the slave.  

Interview.

Question #1: What were your first thoughts when they grabbed you and took you on the boat?

Response: I was scared and i didn't know what was happening.

Question #2: Do you have family at home?

Response : yes i have two wonderful kids and a great husband, and they were so scared when they found out i was a slave.

Question #3: What made you want to escape so badly with this little boy?

Response: well of course when i found out that i was a slave, i wanted to try to escape, and i felt for this little boy when he came up to me i remembered my kids at home and how much i would miss them if they were gone, so i thought that i should make his mom happy and return him, also i thought i should tell them to move far away because they will be looking for more people to take.

Free write.

Its Monday, today is so boring, and i don't want to be in school, I'm tired. I just want to go home, i have had a cold for like 3 weeks now. I slept over at Joanie's house last night and we didn't go to bed till like 11 and that is late for me because i usually go to bed at like 7 every day of the school week because i am just so cool like that. I hope that I have no homework today because i think homework is a waste of time, we are in school 8 hours, with 70 min classes, and we cant just go home and relax? I cant wait to get home because today i don't have any homework so far, i just want to go home and watch t.v and go to bed. I really don't like Mondays, I'm fine on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, but i don't like Sundays or Mondays. I am SUPER happy that spring break is only like a week away, and i already have all my plans figured out! I'm not going to Florida like i planed but that is okay i will be there in like 2 months.   

Free writing.

Friday, the end of the school week.
Cant wait to hear the bell ring.
Go home, get ready to leave again.
No homework no worries.
Hanging out with my friends.
Going to the mall.
Staying up until midnight.
Sleeping till noon.
Facebook. 
Classic weekend.

dialog.

Hi, are you okay? why are you crying?! 
I dont like this place, im not okay, im also not ready to become a slave.
I am also not ready, the only thing im thinking about is how to get outta here.  
If you escape will you take me with you?! 
Of course! I don't know how im going to do this..
Well im sure if we get a bunch of slaves to help us out we could find a way to get out and maybe even over power! 
Ive tried, i have been here for almost 3 years now, im surprised im still living.
What do you mean surprised?
Well usually most people don't survive these many years, my master just keeps me around because i do what ever he wants because my main goal is to free all those slaves in misery. 
Im sorry, i feel your pain! Lets try to get out of here.
So whats your name? 
John Paul, how bout you?
Harriet tubman.      

upfront magazine.

I thought that it was interesting that all of the slave states were so close together, also I thought that it was weird that more people were killed with disease rather than a riffle, which kind of shows how much different the times are, knowing that we have so much medicine for almost anything. Being a women dressed up as a guy in the war would be kind of scary. I think they wanted all of us to now this because maybe rumors or something was getting spread around and they wanted everyone to know what was really going on, or when people are writing papers about stuff like the civil war, they might not find some of the information that they do in this magazine. it was interesting to read and to find out more than i knew about the civil war. If our school had a 10 facts that they didn't know about the school i don't know what i would put in because we have a lot of things that no one knows about.

S.O.C.

I don't want to be trapped in this room anymore, this boat is making me sick. I cant breath. I'm starving, i haven't eaten in the past few days. I don't feel comfortable standing so close to the person next to me. The handcuffs are cutting my wrist and cutting my feet, my hands are starting to go numb. I hear screams of people who don't behave. I don't want that to be me. I stay quite and listen to all the noises of people crying. I wonder what my kids are going to think when they see im not home. I can see them now. All I'm hoping is that they don't ever have to go through the pain im going through right now. I think im starting to bleed, the guy on my right isn't moving, i think hes dead, the mom on my left is sobbing and praying to God that her kids are alright. And the little kids across from me and yelling mom, where are you? I cant even imagine what they think. I don't think they know what the next years are going to be like....as a slave. As i'm standing here i here im trying to think of where they are taking us. I ask the person next to me, and right when i say that my owner comes in rips me outta my spot and drags me to the deck, i can finally breath, but not for long, he gets out the whip and starts to beat me. I'm in shock. I cry, and plead for help. He finally stops i get thrown back in. I'm still crying because of the wounds on my back they are throbbing, will they heal? will i ever get back home? will i be able to survive even to boat ride there? what will i eat? all these questions running threw my head and the only one i can answer is, am i ready to be a slave?...no.

civil war.

I think that the point of the book I'm reading is about food, i think its what it is like back then with the food, and how it has changed, also i think that it is also about how hard it was to cook back then and how it is so much easier now, we have ovens, microwaves and everything not like back then when they have to use fire, and they have to sometimes let there food sit out so it can like cool down or get cold because they don't have refrigerators. In my story I'm going to have a character being a mom for someone who is in war and 2 kids. This mom will want to always have food for her family. The conflict in mine is going to be that she doesn't have enough food for the dad when he gets home because he is really hungry and back then they only have around 1 meal and one meal is a small serving size, for example: 2 pancake things serves 2 people, and it is not like you can go out and buy groceries, its harder for them to get there food. I haven't really made up my mind on what i want to write about yet...

motivations.

One time (when i was 7) I really wanted something to happen was when my grandpa died and i really wanted his cat because i didn't want it to go to some other family, i wanted it. I tried to get it by asking my parents a lot, and making up reasons why I wanted it and how i "needed" it. Also i saved up my money so i could buy it food all the time, and a bed and a collar, also i thought about buying her treats and everything. I think that im the type of person where when i want something i never give up i just keep trying till i get it. I usually set my mind to one thing and try to achieve just getting that. Unfortunately i didn't get the cat because we already have a dog. So my tactics did not work, but at the time i was very motivated to get a cat.

free will.

I don't think that everyone has free will, because a lot of people cant do what ever they want, they do have like boundaries and laws. I formed this by observation.

newspaper article.

I read the news article where they say that 30 minutes a day you can check out a dog. This dog is supposed to relive stress, I think that this might help some people but i dont think a dog that they only have a half hour with is going to help with anything, maybe if they let them get a dog for them to keep for like a while would be fine, but a half hour is no good. Also the dog might start to get angry at getting tossed around from person to person and getting to know someone then never seeing them again.

This article made me think that it would be nice to have something to relieve someones stress, i dont know if a dog is the answer to it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/education/22dog.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general

moving.

At the end of the school year i am moving to Flordia with my family, we are going to be at panama city beach, Flordia. I am very scared for the big change. It is going to be hard to leave my friends from Pewaukee, I have been here since kindergarten, and making new friends is going to be hard. The most scary part is going to a new school, not knowing my way around, meeting new people, and not even knowing my way around the city. Not only that but the big change of getting into a new house, i have also been in the same house for 7 years therefore we have alot of stuff that we have to get ride of or pack up. I am truly going to miss Pewaukee because it is the place i have lived in for years, i have pretty much grew up here. I have never moved before or at least not that i can remember, all i know is that i was born in Clifornia, moved to Hawaii, then moved to Wisconsin, and i don't remember it so it will be a fun experience for me, my sister, my mom, and my dad. (:

Human Equility

I think that it would be possible for humans to be equal, but it would take alot of work and i don't think that would happen. For all humans to be equal there would have to be a law against being different, just like when someone commits a murder they go to jail, that same thing would happen to someone if they didn't follow the rules.

This world would be so boring if everyone was the same. There would be no uniqueness to anyone. No one would be able to express themselves. There would no longer be any stores because no one could go shopping for clothes if everything had to be the same. When you would walk down the street every house would look the same. Everyone would be sad because of how boring everything is. The jobs would be hard too because everyone working in the store or business would have to do everything the same. If the world ever came to this i don't know how long it would last. Everyone needs some individuality, its all part of growing up.

superpower..!

If I could have one superpower I would like the power to fly because then i don't have to get rides anywhere, and can go anywhere i wanted!

spring break.

Seeing the city get smaller and smaller as i go up into the clouds.
Im on a 3 hour plane ride to Flordia for my spring break! <3
beach, tan, ocean, food, and last MTV!
Since Flordia is the #1 spot for spring break..MTV will be recording it.
2011 spring break. (: