Water Park Mayhem

Just think of being over 45 feet in the air and the only thing between the ground and you is a huge tube twisting and  turning until, you realize that you have hit the bottom and are safely floating at the bottom then realizing what you have just done and think to yourself “Did I really just do that?”. Well that is what it was like for me when me and my friends when to a water park and had to tell my friends the truth.

  

As we started to drive I could feel the anxiety rush through the air. I was going to tell everyone  we saw it; the water park. I could not believe my eyes when I had seen all of the huge slides from the outside of the resort. Just as we were entering the resort we were in our room getting everything unpacked and waiting to see what we would do first. Well, it was just my luck they all had wanted to go the water park.

So when they all were about to get dressed for the pool I had tried to talk them all into getting something to eat first before we go in the water park. I said that the restaurant at the resort was rated 4 stars in their rating. Surprisingly the said yes, so at least I had bought myself some time. I had already told my best friend this and he didn’t know what I was going to say for the rest of the guys. I had figured that I would tell them at the end of lunch so I wouldn’t ruin their time at the water park when we were there. So they almost about done with eat while I had only eat about half of mine. I was thinking and said to myself that I can do this and show my friends that I am not scared to go down to a water park slide.

When everyone was done with lunch we had all headed back to our rooms to get ready for the water park. We had all gotten ready and everyone was so excited to get their they all ran their like a bunch of mad men. We got into the park and it was bigger than I had normally expected. So I came into the park with confidence but now I don’t know if I am going to go through with it. So first we all had went in the lazy river so I thought that I would try to lose them in there and get away from them. As soon as I didn’t see them anymore I had made a run for it. When I ran out of the lazy river I went  by the basketball hoops and stayed there until I was sure they were gone. I saw them go right past me. One more step and they were gone. Then one of the worst things happen.

 I see one of my old friends from another city. Well turns out he was coming here too for spring break. Just as I was about to walking past him he stopped me dead in my tracks, and he wanted to see if I would go on a ride with him. I said that I was about to leave but he said one last ride. As I thought of what he would say to me if I chickened out I told myself that I can do this I said “Yes”. So we talked about which we would go on I tried to find the smallest one, but before I had anytime to answer he was already dragging me up to the highest and fastest ride. Then my heart dropped. I have heard about this ride before it is said to be one of the fastest rides in America. Then it got even better now my friends that I came here with are here now too. That is when I knew that my life would be over in a blink of an eye. So first three of them went and made it to the bottom safe and then I thought to myself maybe this wouldn’t be so bad. But as we go into the tube I got scared and jumped out. They both had asked what was wrong and I said nothing. Right as we were about to leave again I jumped out again. They said "Are you sure you are ok." So I was thinking to myself what would happen if I told them. I thought about it and said that I was afraid of water slides and that I didn’t like them ever sense I was a kid. As my friends looked at me then at each other  they both said that they were afraid to and that the only reason they were going to do it was because they thought I wanted to and they didn’t want to disappoint me. So we had talk for a few seconds but then stepped back into the tube to grab my friend the boat started to go, so then we all started to go down the slide we had all looked at each other and started to scream. As we were going down the tube it felt like we were flying. We hit turns left and right back and forth. We hit a huge drop and fell 10 feet in a pool of water. As we finished up the ride we all had realized what we had just done. And to tell you the truth I would do it again any day of the week.

We All Should Be Equal

Author’s Note: This Point of View is about the poem “Animal Farm”. It is teaching about how the pigs feel and how they are being treated compared to the other animals. They should all be treated equal and no different than anyone else.

In this Point Of View piece is about how the difference of each animal are treated and how they feel about equality of them. The first view is from the view of the pigs and how they feel.

I wish that we were treated the same as the other animals at the farm. Just because are skin is pink and are noses are a little misshaped doesn’t mean that we are all not equal. We do our part in the world just as any other animals do. Some animals in the world may be more important, but doesn’t mean you should give them more attention and treat them different  than other animals. I think that if more people appreciated us a little more we would be so mad and sad that you would make us feel this way.

I think that the other animals would not care whatever the pigs would say because that animal is treated different than the pigs and so that they feel more important. Also they would make the pigs feel worse than they already are. And because they are already making the pigs feel bad they may go something bad that would make the other animals feel bad about themselves.

If I was another animal in this story I would not treat a different animal any other way than I would treat myself or someone in my family. And that is how I think the pigs feel they are being treated.

The Story of My Life

Today I was taken out of my bag and was put in the car and knew where we were going. As we started to drive to where I am used it got a lot cooler. It took us a while to get there but when we were there I got excited and scared because when I saw it was huge. When we got everything was set up he strapped part of me on and then head to the chair, as we got to the top he strapped the rest of me on we started to go down the hill and we when fast, really fast. When we came up to the first turn he made the first turn ok but then, we came up to the jumps and rails. We went off the ramp onto a rail and then down to the other ramp.

  As we finished up the trail I saw the big and thankfully he didn’t go off that one. We went down different trails for a couple more hours and then he decided to take a break.

 After an hour he want to use me again but I was all scratched up from all the rails and jumps. He went and used me for a few more hours and his friends wanted him to try the big jump. And every time he tried to go up it he would always end up falling. When we went back to the resort to rest for while until we went back out to try the big jumps with his friends until they had to leave. We got to the top of the hill and started to head to the terrain park to go to the black diamond jump. As we flew down the path I saw the jump and got scared the we wouldn’t make the jump.

 As his friends cheered out his name he ascended up the jump and as we left the ground we flew through the air everyone was breath taken. He  started to wobble and we were dropping towards the ground. And everyone was scared that he was going to crash, but then at the last second he strained it out and we landed safely on the ground as we passed his friends and his parents all cheering for him. We went back to the resort to sleep for the night as I felt pride of being with him as he had a high achievement in his life.       

How Would You Feel

Author’s Note: The poem “Animal Farm” is teaching about how the pigs feel about being treated differently than other animals and how they all should be treated equal and no different than anyone else.

In this story it about how the difference of each animal are treated and how they feel about equality of them.

I wish that we were treated the same as the other animals at the farm. Just because are skin is pink and are noses are a little misshaped doesn’t mean that we are all not equal. We do our part in the world just as any other animals do. Some animals in the world may be more important, but doesn’t mean you should give them more attention and treat them different  than other animals. I think that if more people appreciated us a little more we would be so mad and sad that you would make us feel this way.

I think that the other animals would not care whatever the pigs would say because that animal is treated different than the pigs and so that they feel more important. Also they would make the pigs feel worse than they already are. And because they are already making the pigs feel bad they may go something bad that would make the other animals feel bad about themselves.

If I was another animal in this story I would not treat a different animal any other way than I would treat myself or someone in my family. And that is how I think the pigs feel they are being treated.

The Surviving Duo

Authors Note’s: In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the main character Saba in the  book “ Dust Land Blood Red Road” and to Cole in “Touching Spirit Bear.”

In the book “Dust Land” Saba is a girl who is living in the after math of a destroyed world left by the Wreckers. Then as like any other normal day for her, out of the red sky comes a massive thunder storm that nearly kills her and her two other siblings. When they think it was ok to leave their shelter four men come in robes and turbans riding horseback take her older brother and kill their father. Then she is forced to leave her home and survive in the demolished world around her to try and save her brother from death. This story is like another book I had read called “Touching Spirit Bear.” In this story Cole a troubled boy is trying to avoid the fact that he is a criminal on the run. When caught he is put in a program for troubled boys that desperately need help. When he is sent to an island in Alaska and forced to live off the land for one year and survive on his own until he met a spirit bear that helped him get back on the right track. These two stories are related for their survival for not only themselves but for the greater good of others around them.

Their similarities are the Saba and Cole are to see what their actions had affected on other people in their life time. When Saba when to go to save Lou her older brother she burned her house with her father in it so that she had the proper burial for her father so that not only effected her but also her sister as well. Also when Cole was still in school he was known as a bully and got into fights with this guy named Peter who he barely knew. Another similarity was their fight for survival and not only saving themselves but the ones they cared about. When Saba left to go save her brother she had to leave her sister and her aunt’s house because she did not want anything else happen to any other family member. Cole didn’t want to go to the island but he didn’t want to be hurting anyone else that he met that he wanted to be friends with.

Although they may want to do better for themselves they also do have some differences in their stories. Even though Saba is trying to survive, she is doing it for her brother and not for herself and Cole is only trying to fight for himself and no other people than himself.

Even though these characters are from different books, I believe that they are fighting for the same reasons. And just maybe they will make it through this fight for life. 

Two Stories, One Life

Authors Note: This essay is about similarities and differences between the movie The Patriot and the book Soldier’s Life.

Even though war is something many countries want avoid they can no escape it. This is one of the similarities between these two stories of men fighting their rights and also their freedom. The main characters in these story tails of their fight for their country are not so different. They both were in some ways were dragged into war and both didn’t like that they were doing it. All the things they have been through they still somehow made it through the war without dying.

In the movie the Patriot the main character Benjamin Martin is force in to war because of his son dying  by the hands of British soldier’s and in the book  “Soldiers Secrets” the main character's family member dies in the revolutionary war at                          

 the hand of a British solider. 

The Will Power of One Man

Author’s Note: This essay is about “will power” and not only being able to make the right choices in life but the smart one’s as well.

Many average American don’t have very good will power to make the right choices in their life time. Some people don’t have a role model to tell them not to make bad decisions. Some of the decisions are so drastic that they go to jail or worse maybe even death. But in the book Hatchet Brian is one of the hand full of people the has the will power to survive a life changing journey.

Brian is life a very famous person that has enormous will power. George Washington. He was a man that had enough will power to take responsibility for a whole nation. Brian is like this because when he was fling to Canada the pilot had a heart attack and died. Brian had to take the controls and land the plane in the middle of the forest. As if that wasn’t enough now he has to find his way back to civilization on his own with only a hatchet.

In the end Brian was looking for a  way out of the forest and had to have huge amount of will power to survive and I think that he could survive anywhere at any time

Survival in The Desert

I think that Ben will escape from Madec and the desert in time and will alert the police or FBI.  This will happen because Ben wanted to tell the police about how Madec shot the old man and left him for dead. Instead Madec had another idea. Madec tried to kill Ben so that Madec won’t get arrested for shooting at Ben and the old man. Years later Ben will eventually go back to living a normal life and will try to forget what had happened when Madec attacked him and the inanest man.

This can relate to another book called Red Hot High-Tops. The main character is a girl on her middle school basket ball team finds a pair of red Nike high-top that aren’t hers. Her friend wants her to do the right thing and return them but she doesn’t want to do that because the shoes are helping her do better so then she tells the coach about them and she decides to return them kind of like Ben. But over all I think that Ben will end up escaping and doing the right thing by telling the police.

The Story of Cole "Sprite Boy"

In Touching Sprit Bear Cole is a troubled boy dealing with problems with the law and everyone else around him. Because of his actions he is sent to North Western Alaska for a year on his own by a program called The Circle Justice. The Circle Justice is a program where they help people to realize what bad they have done and help them correct that. In the process he meets a Native Indian legend called Sprite Bear.To survive the Alaskan wilderness Cole must listen to the sprite bear and admit to what pain and suffering he has caused others. Also to take responsibility for his actions.

 Not only did the bear attack him but  I also think he taught him a lesson because Cole believed that it was other peoples fault that made him do this not his own. To  survive the Alaskan wilderness Cole must listen to the bear and admit to what pain he has caused others and take responsibility for his actions.

I think that Cole learn from the bear that you have to play the cards that you are dealt. Also he needs to forgive and forget because if he had done these things maybe he wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. 

I think that this would also affect Peter who he bullied as well, after he attacked him in the parking lot at school. It could also affect his classmates to thinking and believing that Cole is not only a better person but has a better soul. I think that I can relate Cole in another book that I had read, it is called The Hunger Games. Because in that book Katniss takes responsibility of being a older sibling because she volunteers for her sister in the Reaping for the Hunger Games.     

Reflecting Pool

I think that in the story that the wind was coming from the reflecting pool and that  the next time she looks into the mirror she will see the old woman. One reason that this could happen is because when she asked for the job she said that she wasn't suppose to take anything and she did. Another reason this could happen is because when see took the jewelry everything started to disappear, and then the wind blew. 

Patriots Pen Essay

I am very proud of my country. A lot of other countries are poor and want to have what we have. Another reason that I am proud of my country is because if any other country is in need of help our country will be there to help that country. I wish every country could have people who protect their country and help them whenever they are in danger.

Also other countries don’t have a source of food and or clean drinking water.  Other countries are poor and can’t do anything about it. Also their government is too greedy and won’t help any of their people if they are in need of help. Our country is lucky enough to have a good government to help us in our time of need and when we are in danger.   

Our military I believe is one of the best in the world. Because if a other country attacks our country our military will be there to protect us in minutes. America has been a lot in the past few years with the terrorists. America has been looking for the people that have caused the 9/11attack on New York in the Twin Towers. Over time America has prevailed and we kill Osama Bin Laden and Schiedam Usane. Another reason that I think that our military is one of the best is because we have so many different types of uses for the one military

So in conclusion yes I am very proud of my country. I am also proud of every man and women who serve this country and all who have died for it.

Cause/ Effect

Author's Note: This is a piece analyzing the causes and effects of WWII as seen in the novel D-Day, by Anthony Beevor.

n the book D-Day, the author, Antony Beevor, will tell you about the stories of soldiers that fought in WW II, from 1939 through 1945.  You will also learn more about the history of WWII. This book will teach you about hard times and learning to trust people that you will work with for years to come.

This book is much like the book”World War II”. It tells you about the hard life of some soldiers in the war and what had happened. It will also tell you about the stories of veterans of the war and soldiers that are in the war now in Iraq. Some of this book will teach you the tactics of the enemy and America’s tactics. Also it will give you some of the journals that some of the soldiers had written in the war to their families.

WWII was one of the most frightening battles in US history. Everyone that had a relative that was in the war can relate to the pain of those who fought in WWII. Both countries in the end regretted that either country started that war. There was over 6 million casualties in WWII and could have been prevented.

My grandpa was in WWII so I can relate to those people who were scared for the loved ones in the war. My grandpa told me stories of how he was saved by a little Chinese boy in Omaha after he was shot and got left behind by his whole platoon. Then he told me how when he went up onto the beach and most of his friends got shot while he just stared and watched. When he said that he left he wished it was him down dead on that beach and not his friends.

Hunger Games Conflict and Resolution

                                                  Hunger Games Conflict and Resolution    

The conflict in Hunger Games is that a girl named Katniss is going to go to the hunger games instead of her little sister Prim. I think that this can be resolved by Katniss refusing to go to do the Hunger Games or win it. One way she can do this is by not fighting anybody or not getting killed.

 Another way she can is by trying to form an alliance with people that she can trust of be able to beat later in the Games. Also she can try to protest against the person who rules the Hunger Games. 

Retelling Piece

Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss Everden who is forced to enter the Hunger Games because her sister  got picked in the reaping and volunteers for her. She ends up meeting a boy named Peta who is also from her district and they fight together in the Hunger Games. In the end only one of them can win.

The Hit That Changed It All

    I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a warm summers day. My baseball team the Pewaukee Pirates had a tournament that day at Five Fields. We went in there knowing that it would be a tough that we would be playing tough teams. 

We were wining all the games up until the semi-finals. We had to verse Waunakee. They were much harder than the other teams. When we played the first inning we were couldn't make an outs. After the first inning it was 3 to 1. We were starting to lose this game. All of my teammates were thinking that we are going to lose, but after a couple more innings things were looking better, the score was 6 to 5 in the ninth inning. It was the last inning. We ended up tying them 6 to 6. Then we went into extra innings.

They put the California rule into effect. Which means the batting team starts out with a man on 2^nd and one out. We held them for there at bat. Then it was our turn. So my teammate in front of me got to go on second base. So when I was up to bat the first pitch was a ball and the catcher missed the ball so my teammate stole 3^rd. Then he threw it 4 more pitches. Two were strikes and 2 were balls. The count was full. Then pressure was on. I stepped up to the plate, as he got ready to pitch the ball. Then as I saw the ball leave his hand I thought about all the time that is I had let my team down but not doing what I was supposed to do. But this time it was going to be different. Then as I swung the bat as hard as I could,  I heard the pop of the bat as it hit the ball. It hit the ground and when right to the short stop I started to run to first I while I was watching my teammate run to home plate. I looked at him when he slide into the plate. As I stood on first base my team watched suspense, the umpire said safe as I cheered for joy. After my coach ran towards me and lifted me up onto his shoulders as my team cheered for me. So even though we went on to lose the champion chip game I still felt proud about myself for helping my team. 

My Favorite Football Player

My favorite football player is Aaron Rodgers because he is the QB of my favorite team the Green Bay Packers. He can throw fast and accurate to the WR. Another reason he is a good QB is because he is a great leader. Also he always thanks the fans and always is respectful to the other team which gets my respect.