The White Umbrella

Lilt, audible, discreet, credibility, illuminate, revelation, maneuver.
Many people may have a voice with a slight lilt, while having a very audible voice. Sometimes when these people are making a speech they make discreet coughs, but people wouldn't mind, because their words are very wise and strong. Since their words are very strong and trustworthy, many of these people rarely lose their credibility to others. As many people would say that these people "illuminate" or "light up" their lives by saying these wise things. Another figurative speech would be, that they have planted many seeds of Marigolds in the earth of society and watered them. Many of these people who hear these strong people suddenly notice their revelation, and move on with a different aspect of life. They have suddenly maneuvered their lives to a more optimistic point of view. Some of these great influential people is Martin Luther King Jr.

Marigold Quickwrite4

            As we age, we face more reality, at a small age we do not know a lot of knowledge of the open world. When I was a kid, I though that the world would be like star wars when I turned ten, later science hit me and I gave up on that dream. As a person turns into an adult and goes into college, they face fear and must go off by themselves. They walk into a school of more than five or ten times their high school, perhaps without anyone they know. They therefore, must find ways to communicate and educate themselves. This is a reality that many high schoolers fail to face when they reach college. After four years of meeting new friends and education, they are faced with yet, another hardship. Jobs, this is where a person will spend almost the next forty years of their lives doing. What the hard part is that they must yet, leave their friends again and go into another strange world just after four years. Another thing is love, many people marry from the age of twenty-five to thirty. They must have a strong financial side to take this risk, because of love,they must have kids. My mom told me, when I was born she thought it was just another human being being released into the world. She later found out that she wasn't as ready as she thought and could barely keep up; especially the fact that there was two of "me". "Although", she said," Dad was here to help," and smiled. I know now that the world is VERY open, sometimes too, but it is something we all must face. More and more strangers will try to barge into our lives like zombies trying to catch humans, and we must find a way to communicate with these people.

Quickwrite: Thank You M'am

The release of the communist prisoner Rachel was a mistake. Though she may have a barren face, her mind is very strong. In the past decade she has ruined other countries’ economy by adding other countries’ money to her frail country. The last time people saw her was when she in a presentable suit in North Korea discussing in a palace about use of nuclear weapons. 

Quickwrite: Thank You M'am

The release of the communist prisoner Raphael was a mistake. Though he may have a barren face, his mind is very strong. In the past decade he has ruined other countries’ economy by adding other countries’ money to their frail country. The last time people saw him was he in a presentable suit in North Korea discussing in a palace about use of Nuclear Weapons.  

Quickwrite: Helen on Eighty Sixth Street

I have dreams and goals to go to Harvard and yet, this goal seems so far away. Therefore I still have time to change myself and know myself. I also had many goals, to be nice to my mother and father. I told them to send me to Carnegie classes so I can change myself to a better person. Through that class I have leaned a lot of things that can motivate myself and others to do more. When our wishes don’t come true, we usually look for another wish, one that faces more of reality. For example, many children wish for Santa Clause to come in during midnight and give them good presents. When they grow older and found out that Santa is not real, they go on wanting to be a basketball player or be on the NASA team. As we grow older, we know more of ourselves therefore we know what to wish. For example, may students later will know that joining the NBA and NASA is almost impossible, so they have goals to go to college or get more education. There are also ridiculous goals, such as trying to get in a relationship and other miscellaneous things. I had a dream that I will once get the president award in sixth grade, and I did. My whole family made a big deal about this. Later I found out that this is not the last thing I will have to worry about, next is something bigger; college, a big word, and a scary one.  As a high school student, I now face many reality and horrors of the true education society. Goals are much harder to achieve and are very real. They are not just ones that you can choose to believe and wait for it to come by itself. You must work very hard and carefully to reach these goals, you must use yourself and test your abilities. That is what I am trying to do in high school, it may start off wrong, but eventually you will get use to it. Once you get that hard start off, you are clean the rest of the way; but of course, if you never change or adapt to new things and always keep with the old, you will become a bad student and your goals will walk further and further away from you.  We must adapt and challenge ourselves. 

How would you live if you were going to die at age 20?

I would waste all my money and go to the best vacation spots. I would pray to God everyday and apologize to everyone that I have hurt. Visit all my relatives and spend time with them, have some laughter given to me before I die. I know I would cry every night, because the frightening thought comes back to haunt me. Buying new clothes and eating at the best restaurants is what I would do, I would also spend some time with my parents. Tell each other stories and forgetting the fact that I will die soon. I will call all of my families to go on a vacation for 6 years and have some fun. I won't always have too much fun, sometimes I would go out and exercise, skate and play some basketball. My friends and I will go out and have some fun at Leofoo Village or just go out to Xi Men Ding to hang out. I will write down a journal everyday to let my family remember me and read my writing after I die. That is how I would live. 

If I could live anywhere...

If I could live anywhere in the world, I would live in somewhere other than Taiwan, because Taiwan has weird people. Taiwan has a lot of homosexual people; a little is all right, but a lot is not acceptable. Also, Taiwan as copied a lot of things off of other countries. Shops, clothes, and the way they talk is all from other countries. I would also like to live in a country with less influence or a place that is much bigger. Maybe in the countryside in the states or Europe. I would like to live in a world where I can think freely and do many things freely without others disturbing me. Also, I would like to live somewhere that has dryer and colder weather. That is why I would live anywhere, but Taiwan.

Harrison Bergeron Quick Write

Nowadays, a lot of people don't like people who try to fit in. Clothings and style of talking is all about yourself. Many still think that to be cool you must be like the popular group. Usually the popular group hates posers (people that copy others), they rather accept people being like themselves. There is no pressure now, there is a pressure when you already copied other people. It will pressure you to go back to your original form, be yourself. I think it is better to be yourself and act on your own. There are more benefits and you will live a better life. For example, back in my old school, there was a kid called Chris, he always copied my friends' fashion. He bought the same thing and talked just like them. Chris was later pushed out and looked to us as an outlaw. The next few weeks, I explained to him that he has to be his old self. He started to change, and after a month, he was back into our group. Today, I still chat with him and he is still friends with my friends. Chris is happy that he is being himself. "I am never going to be a poser," he said proudly.

Character Chart on Pg.97

Most memorable character: Mr.Pignati
Most outstanding character trait: Forgiving and Patient person
Character's Appearances: In fifties and always has a disarming smile
Important Statements: "I'll buy you something, roller blades?"
Important Thoughts: He thought that to let kids have a good life, he must treat them well.
Important Actions: Mr.Pignati made a game to let the kids think about their lives.
Reactions of Other Characters: When the two kids (forgot names) ruined his house from a party, he came back the next day and forgave them. The kids were not expecting Mr. Pignati to just forget what happened.

Dog Star QuickWrite

Dog Star Quick Write.

Uncorrected One:

Yes, I have been in a special relationship with a dog before. People love their pet because the pets also have feelings. For lonely people, pets are like brothers, it seems as if they are knowing what he/she is talking about. They also can play with you and make you feel loved. Pets can be something you can talk to or something you can hug. Once you have one, it is part of your life to take care of them and love them. Ever since I moved to Taiwan, my beloved dog left me to live somewhere else. I miss his soapy smell and waggy tail. His eyes tat sparkle when I feed him that say, "Thanks, Bro" or "I love you". Pets is almost like humans, once they vanish, they have taken a piece of life from you.

Corrected One:

Yes, I have been in a special relationship with a dog before. People love their pet because the pets also have feelings. For lonely people, pets are like brothers, it seems as if they are knowing what he/she is talking about. They also can play with you and make you feel loved. Pets can be someone you can talk to orsomeone you can hug. Once you have one, it is part of your life to take care of them and love them. Ever since I moved to Taiwan, my beloved dog had to live somewhere else. I miss his soapy smell and waggy tail. His eyes tat sparkle when I feed him that say, "Thanks, Bro" or "I love you". Pets are almost like humans, once they vanish, they have taken a piece of life from you.

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A Christmas Memory Summary

On christmas eve, the two friends had a good dinner that had alot of expensive things in it. The friend also makes really good fruitcakes which she sells. The Buddy always give her the best one. These two friends have good breakfast on a Christmas morning. They were friends since they were young and still celebrating christmas. They gave each other presents and were very excited about it. The narrator usually was not satisfied with her presents, but Buddy was always thankful of her "not-so-good" presents. One christmas they decide to go search for a christmas tree in the woods and they cut it down. The narrator built a kite for her buddy and they decided to also play with it. After a few years, the friend dies in 1880 and on the last christmas she hands her the best fruitcake. In the end of the story, the narrator describes her feelings: "Instead of hearts in the sky like I used to see, it is now kites flying into heaven." She also says that "it is a fruitcake weather".

Crime on Mars Vocabulary

The first human replica ever made on Earth was made 3 months ago. It was made from the aboriginal English man called John Dub. At first, no one believed it but proofs of the replica's appearance made everyone thought that it was incredible. Although the replica was amazing they had to kill him in the end. He was too inquisitive and would always talk to himself. Always claimed that he is not the replica but John is. Jake, they called him, almost killed John once. His personality and mood is an enigma to a lot of people.

A Christmas Memory

Q: What were some of the scenes from the story that you thought were more powerful?
Quick Write:
When they walk way out into the woods to fly a kite that Buddy made. It showed me that friendship can last even from the smallest gifts or things. Although the best present her friend got was a sack of orange, she was thankful. Her favorite was still the kits. When I read that from the story, I looked to the friend as a hero. When I used to go to church they would tell me to think of the poor and then think of yourself. They would tell me that be thankful what you have. When at the end of the story where her friend dies, she uses an item that brings the most memory to describe her friend. This means that her friend is very important to her and she will never forget her. This is powerful because she used a kite as her friend and a fruitcake weather to describe her loss. At the end she says that instead of the hearts she sees when her friend was there, its now the kite flying to heaven. The kite represents her dead friend flying to heaven, it was touching.