John F. Kennedy

            John f. Kennedy was the 35^th president .most important thing as president, Kennedy helped the country with economic problems. He was a good president for 3 years. He stood up for what he believed and people did not like the justice so he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was a good example of choices which people did not agree with.

            John f. Kennedy had a nice family. he lived in Brookline ,Massachusetts. Kennedy was in the U.S. Navy. In his early child hood he was the first president in the boy scouts. When he was 10 he moved to Bronx, newyork, city. He was sent to Choate .school in walling ford, Connecticut. He was a good president and he helped lots of people who really needed the help .in 1963 john f. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

            John f .Kennedy joins the U.S. Navy in 1941. Kennedy first year began working on an economic program that would help the New England. He stood up for what he believed in despite the risk. John f Kennedy was against the war with Cuba and he helped stop it Kennedy was a man who wanted peace.

            Kennedy was a great example of the concept choices has results .the choices Kennedy did were the right things to do. Lots of people were against him. Kennedy wanted the best for us. He did not like the war with Cuba. He was murdered because he did what he thought was justice that’s why people chose to kill him.

            John f. Kennedy reached his achievement by becoming a great president. He did his best and wanted to see all of us succeed in life and with peace and no war. We should for give our enemies and love one and other. With violence no one will be motivated to become president with out being afraid of being assassinated.

WORK CITED

Hodge, Marie. John f. Kennedy voice of hope, New York, sterling publishing co. 2007

           

 “John f. Kennedy.”  Wikipedia (march 31, 2011): march 16, 2011 http://wikipida.org/wiki/john_f_kennedy

Frederick Douglass

Fredrick Douglass was an African American and a former slave in the south. He grew up in slavery and taught himself hoe to read and write. Fredrick was famous for fighting for the rights of blacks, and played a big part in abolishing slavery in the south. With his past as a slave and now as a public speaker, he exemplifies good citizenship and overcoming adversity. He was not afraid to spread his message of eliminating slavery by giving speeches. Douglass over came racism, abuse, and being treated unfairly and this is what got him to where he was.

         At the age of seven Fredrick remembers having some of his family in slavery with him. He was a slave for Thomas Auld. Thomas’s slaves never had much food, got clothes once a year and , and were weak while the had to work all day in the farms. Thomas’ wife did not think Fredrick was getting the punishments he deserved, so they sent him to a man named Edward Covey. Having put up with Covey’s cruelty for six months Fredrick decided to take a stand for him self and fight back never again did covey lay a hand on Fredrick. After Fredrick left Covey’s he went to go work for Hugh Auld, as a caulker in his shipyard Fredrick wanted to work so that he can buy his freedom and get his manumission papers that stated he was a free black man. In 1833 when Fredrick was 15 he taught himself how to read and write by using chalk to write and books to make sounds.

            Fredrick had many accomplishments such as, being A freedom fighter, he taught himself how to read and write, but the most shocking was him running away from slavery. Having been a former slave Fredrick wanted to fight for the rights and freedom of blacks. He wanted all blacks to share the same rights a s the whites. In 1833 Fredrick decided he not only wanted but needed to learn how to write and read. So he did by using chalk to write and books to make sounds. At the age of 20 Fredrick ran from slavery and headed north with his wife Anna Murray. While being in the north Fredrick noticed that whites were wealthy, had no slaves, and were nice to blacks. Fredrick decided to take a stand and make a difference for him and for the slaves that were left behind.

      Fredrick exemplifies good citizenship and over coving adversity. He was a public speaker who spread his words to help abolish slavery, so that blacks can have the same equal rights and freedom. No matter how hard his life was, Fredrick remembered the slaves, and it made him fight harder for the rights of those who have suffered. Blacks were treated like animals, so for Fredrick to do this for them was a good example of good citizen ship. Fredrick also overcame adversity and many challenges. Having been treated like an animal and being abused, while facing racism, he overcame adversity everyday of his life.

                 Never being afraid to fight for freedom and rights, Fredrick was a good citizen to his society. Wanting to see blacks free Fredrick fought for what his people needed. In the process of fighting for their rights and freedom, Fredrick overcame adversity and challenges. No matter what got in his way Fredrick over came it. Running away from slavery and later becoming a public speaker, he achieved his goal by putting his words out there, to abolish slavery. Many of us are to scared too put ourselves out there and do what is right, but overcoming barriers and challenges will help us become stronger, positive, influential members of our society.

Work cited

Ruffin, Frances E. Fredrick Douglass. Rising up from slavery. New York: Sterling, 2008

      “ Fredrick Douglass’’ Wikipedia (march 15, 2011) :march 16, 2011 wikepedia.com

Neil Armstrong

            Neil Armstrong had a brother and a sister younger than him. Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. Neil Armstrong had a great value in education, Neil Receive a degree on Aeronautical Engineer.

            Neil Armstrong was born on Americas’ great depression. Neil’s first airplane ride was on a ford Tri-Motor. At the age of eight Neil Armstrong was building model airplane

out of paper and balsa wood. Neil Armstrong was part of the boys scout and achieved the highest rank in scouting. Nail Armstrong was a very intelligent person. Like many young pilots Armstrong didn’t simply want to fly the airplane he wanted to understand them inside and out. Neil Armstrong received a degree in Aeronautical Engineer. Neil Armstrong was called by the navy on active duty. After Armstrong served his time on the navy, he joined the N.A.S.A as a research pilot.

            Neil Armstrong greatest achievement was that he was the first man on the moon. Neil Armstrong achieved his goal by focusing In school. Nail spend many years studying and that help him to reach his dream. To be the first man on the moon it isn’t that easy. Neil attended on a flight school in Pensacola. Neil was also called by the nvay in active duty.

            Neil Armstrong creed was that he really dedicated his time on education. Armstrong in one of his period of time, he was attending a flight school were he received a degree. Going to school really help Armstrong on his career. Armstrong also learned how the airplanes function inside and out. To know how an airplane works, it really takes a lot of knowledge. It takes years of experience.

            Neil Armstrong achieved his goal by being the first man on the moon. Neil Armstrong teaches us that with education you can achieve many things. Education is important to many people, because with education you can become successful. To become someone like Armstrong, takes years of study. Armstrong was a great influence to many people, he achieved many things in his life.

            WORK CITTED

            Jackson, Mike and Dixon, Tara. Neil Armstrong One Giant Leap for Mankind. New York; Sterling 2008.

Lance Armstrong

In Lance Armstrong’s early days, he had it where people weren’t accepted unless you were a foot ball player. Later in his life he got a disease called testicular cancer. His greatest accomplishment was he rode through the Tour De France and won 7 times. Lance is a great example of personal growth. After all he has been through, physically, emotion, spiritual, and mentally. He kept growing and learning how to be strong from his experiences.

Lance Armstrong started young doing triathlons. Then as he grew he became a triathlon champion. He kept continuing in the world by going to new and bigger races like the Tour De Pont. He later in his life had to find that he had cancer growing in his testicle. He was claimed to have testicular cancer. Then gradually he got out of the hospital and went off to go and win in the Tour De France.

Lance Armstrong’s greatest accomplishment is over coming cancer. It started that his testicles started to swell and that’s when he found that he had cancer. Then he headed off to several clinics to find help for the cancer he’s stumbled upon and on the way he had several chemo therapy treatments.

This is his greatest accomplishment because you never see people come out of cancer like Lance Armstrong did. He also stayed strong through all of his obstacles. This has got a lot of research going on about cancer to find a cure.

Lance did well in his personal growth in life. He went and had to use this in every race he had to tell him self he was stronger than what he felt. A lot of people like that because they go to school and have to tell themselves that they can learn as long as they are committed and study. He has also had to do that when he was going through cancer and telling himself to keep on going and not to give in.

A lot of people feel we are all like that whether were going through depression or just getting sick because we have to tell are selves to keep going. For instance getting through the cancer and going back to the riding and being so weak. A lot of people are like that when it gets hard they continue the best way they can. This all will take are wiliness to gain personal strength and growth.

Lance Armstrong learned in many aspects of life. He succeeded in so many different ways. He grew up from not being popular or even being liked to being one of the most liked and popular people. He grew up not really having friends and went on to doing triathlons. Then headed of to bigger races and came to realize that he had cancer. From there he went off to win the Tour De France after the curing of his cancer. He grew to have kids. He is a really great person to learn from because he shows when you’re going through a hard time in your life its better to try instead of trying to give up.

Work sited: Doeden, Matt sports hero legends of Lance Armstrong. New York: Barns and noble, 2006.

“Lance Armstrong Biography.” Biography. (2011) March,16,2011. WWW. Biography.com/Articles/Lance Armstrong-9188901

           

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali was known as the best boxier ever he started training to do boxing at the age of 12 because he said he was going to whoop who ever stole his bike which he received for his birthday Muhammad Ali between the ages of 18-19 he achieved one of his dreams winning an Olympic gold medal that was one of Muhammad Ali greatest moments of his life Muhammad Ali wasn’t just the greatest boxier of all time but he worked on developing integrity and live a honest life and he did this by following his dreams and doing what he thought was right by speaking out for what he believed was the right thing

Muhammad Ali was a child of two and at the age of 8 he once had all the kids in the neighborhood younger and older than him on his front porch and he was the only one talking by knowing that he could do that at the age of 8 that through out his life he is going to be a leader Muhammad Ali at the age of 8 was showing leadership skills by speaking to all the neighborhood kids then at the age of 12 he started boxing training all it took was an inspiring school principal to be always announcing him at school events as the next heavy weight champion then between the ages of 18-19 he won  an Olympic gold medal before he was 20 years of age he won his light heavy weight champion ship he was also announced 3-time heavy weight champion then he was also crowned sportsman of the century Muhammad Ali athleticness he spent most his free-time training for boxing career not only did he do that but he showed leader ship in his community this subject inspired me by to think so much because he was a great leader and a great athlete

Muhammad Ali greatest achievement was becoming a heavy weight boxing champion when nobody believed that he would and his next greatest achievement was him helping out the community that he grew up and being supportive of school and education that’s how he showed it by being supportive of education and helping out his community

Muhammad Ali showed 2 examples of the creed the first one is I am working to develop integrity and live an honest life he did that by standing up for the right things the second example of the creed that he uses is this I pledge to be caring toward others and live a life of service he did that by helping his community and being caring and helping his family

There are 2 things from the creed that Muhammad Ali showed in his life one was I am working to develop integrity and live an honest life the second was I pledge to be caring towards others and live a life of service Muhammad Ali greatest achievements was becoming the heavy weight champion we should speak out more for the right things and help our community

Rosa Parks

            Rosa park was a person that thought everyone should have rights. Rosa Parks stood up for her rights and was tired of being humiliated and treated unfairly. Rosa stood up to a white man, for equal rights, and shamed America into supporting civil rights for blacks. Rosa Parks cared toward others and lived a life of service. Rosa Parks never gave up she always stood up for her people/ American’s, and never gave up her dream, and risked her life.

            Rosa Parks is an African American woman who was being humiliated and treated unfair. When she was born she was named Rosa Louise by her parent’s. Rosa lived a crazy life she had to work to feed her family. Rosa was a woman who fought for her rights. Rosa parks was homeschooled until she was eleven, then she attended a private school, Montgomery Industrial school for girls. Her life was sad because when she would ride the bus she had to go to the back because she was African, all African’s were treated badly, and they had to pay for a white person’s fare, if they were on front of the bus seat. Rosa received a presidential metal of freedom from President Bill Clinton. Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005 at age 72.

            I think Rosa Parks greatest accomplishment was when she stood up to a white man, equal rights. Parks shared America into supporting civil rights for blacks, she risked her life. Rosa achieved her goal by ending segregation on public transportation.  Rosa did what was right for the United States. I think that these were her accomplishments because she got the rule she was a women who fought back. Rosa was a hard worker, she went to school, worked to help support her family and to make sure they were fed.

            Rosa Parks fits in the overcome, challenges, caring, and service aspect of the creed. Parks was caring because she cared for her family and cared about people’s rights. This African woman stood up for her rights and was tired of being treated how she was being treated. She overcome her fears and took her first tentative steps towards positive change, not just for her self but African Americans, and for all Americans. Her challenge was with the whites, she had to fight with them from everyone to have equal rights. Rosa got arrested because she refused to move seats on bus.

            Rosa Parks was an African American who overcomes, challenges, caring. And service aspect of the creed. Her great achievement was that she never gave up for her rights, received a presidential metal of freedom from President Bill Clinton. We should all try to live a happy life and not be raises toward other raise, because everyone has the right to sit where they want and do what everyone does, do the same things other raise do.

           

        Work Cited

Hoe, Susan. Rosa Parks. Philadelphia: Mason Crest, 2009.    Rosa Parks. “Garden Of Praise.” March 16, 2011. http://garden of praise. Com/bdrosa.htm

                       

A Walk in the Dark

As I walk in the dark, I see a bright spark. A part of me told me to go but I didn’t want to so I just said no. Then I saw someone walking towards me. I said to myself, please don’t hurt me. I turn around and sway, so I can get away. I fell a weird breeze and then I hear “Freeze”, so I just stood there hoping I wouldn’t get hurt. I hear a weird noise but it turns out to be a persons voice. The person comes to me saying “Cant you see, your not supposed to be her? not yet at least”. This person was a girl with beautiful long hair who lifted up the air and made it seem so perfect. I say to myself “what is wrong with this place? Am I invading there space?” why can’t I be here? “Come with me, then you will see.” She says to me. “BAMB” I get hit
On the head and black out. When I wake up, I’m back where I started, but with a horrid smell like someone sharted. I don’t know what happened and I don’t know why, but all I knew is that I had to say good-bye. I left, not knowing what had happened that day. Ever since that night I’ve been to scared to ever go out again. I would never take a walk in the dark, hoping I would never see that spark again.

Me

I am one, the one who went wrong the one who has one last chance one last chance to get straightened out
the one who feels bad for the ones that I had lied to
I , me ,my last chance there’s not another one for me
my next stop is D/T for me no more chances, explanations for me
I have to straighten up or get locked up
for me there’s two choices give up or straighten up
keep trying no not trying I’m gonna start doing
no more messing around
only no more doing to get by ,
I’m gonna be the best me

For My Son

I have loved you since
The day you were born
You are the greatest blessing
That I have ever received
I have helped to guide you through
Your life towards a good path
I have always been there for you
I want to see you go to college
Graduate from high school
Have a good job and have a happy family
And support your family
As a single mom
I have done the best I can
Because your dad is nothing but trash
Just like his family…
I know I can do it on my own
And see you grow
Because I have done it on my own
Sense you’ve been born
We don’t need a gangster in our life
That always lies to us
And is never there not even
For your birthday, or there to see you grow
But always remember that
No matter what happens this mom?
Will always love you and be there for you..

I messed up at school and they put me here and I feel stupid because my home is not near yeah my proctor is cool but I want my mother I miss going out or taking to my brother sometimes I complain about how life is so unfair how I’m all alone and no one seems to care the drugs took the chance my family my all but I’m still young and I can get back up when I fall sometimes I get visits but that’s not enough living away from home can get pretty tough being stupid changes your life and makes you think how your not always gonna be a prince or king.

My lil one
Though glass I saw you
It was romitic like a love story out of movie
Me in shackles
You getting ready to gotto court
All kinds of of sorts of thoughts went threw my mind
I don’t knowif I can find the word to describe my love its like you fell from above
I wonder why I tell myself
I still love you im still true waiting for you
To get realsed from the chains of the law its like you saw right threw me but
You still wait
Cause its my fate to be your date
Its never to late
To say
I love you

The Choices

Who chooses whether you can or not have resentments?
There are million of questions to be asked, but who do we let be the one to answer them. Who is the person who knows what is real and what isn’t
How we so sure what we think are real is really not I see it as a dream something you walk into with no thought about it.
All you see is what you want is reality we see.
Once is see the changing within me is thought where I can change the dream
I am lost in a bunch of choices and that to me is control over what is going on.
I am taking over my dream and the choices I have I am the maker of my reality.

My World

I’m tired of being put down and you messing with my head.
Everywhere I go I hear you saying I suck even when I’m in bed.
I’m sick of it you have put me on a lonely shelf.
But with all that I have done I can gladly say I’m proud of myself.

Don’t tell me to shut up who are you to yell?
Don’t tell me I’m not worth it because you can go to hell.
I belong here god died for me too and not just for you.
So like I said before don’t tell me what to do.

Giving me those looks and not even saying hi.
So when you’re all nice to me I know it’s just a lie.
I am beautiful and proud of being chunky.
I am not fat nor skinny I’m proud and lucky.

You can leave go ahead and shut the door.
And while you are at it keep on looking to the floor.
I don’t care what you call me word for word
Because all though you live here THIS IS MY WORLD .

The Keys

No more tricks or sick games with those men so lend me your hand an lets go to places you never did let me stay true to you so open your heart up an give me the key. To your trust so you can see all the lys you heard from those lames an’t the same as me
Cause I don’t play games cause ever since you came in my life it hasn’t been the same
Without you
My life would expire you’re my fire
That keeps
Me lit up
Cause each bit with you
Is like a taste of heaven
All I want is the keys
To your
Heart

My life on ecstacy was quite a fun ride
But how fun is it to smoke when you have to hide?
Everyone is stupid and the people yes I blame this is why I’m here my words I could not claim it was fun it was a trip a trip that got me here and in my family it took a rip I feel some what bad but not all the way because I’m a teenager I live day by day. I still want to do it it was oh man fun but like I said getting caught you feel dumb.
I might seem like a good kid but I still have my troubles.

I HATE YOU…

I wish I could rewind
Go back to where we started
Before all this started
Before you learn what to say to me
How to manipulate me, lie to our son
Now you have done again what you did before
CRUSHED ME
HURT ME
LIED TO ME
HURT YOUR SON
Made me think you were changing
You were just tearing our
Love apart, our son’s heart
You made me just like you, love you more
But till this day I don’t love you like I did
You are just a guy I met when I was young
And my baby daddy I don’t have feelings for
It’s not the same like it was when we fell in love at age 14
I hate you but deep inside I still love you…
I just can handle you hurting me, cheating on me
And Lying to me that’s why
I HATE YOU...

Root Words 1

I live in a democracy
Where the democrat side is a dominating dynasty
With a blow of dynamite but free like a liberty of love
In a philosophy
A philosophy on a drive to pulsate like a spirit
A spirit on a warm spring day with a warm breeze
In the night of sympathy in a vital formation of loves philosophy
Trying to contact like a tractor in a liberal aristocracy
Waiting for the end in a vital tribute
Adding to life like an addiction to a vitamin
Confidentially at work trying to transform

What is the looming figure?

I loom in the darkness waiting
Waiting for what?
Boom the words go pop in my head it’s like a mystery
That hasn’t been solved I see people in the darkness looking unsure and lost. You can look and see they are scared they are trapped and not sure how to get out.
I look deeply in the darkness I understand they are there but gone still in the thinnest of days.
I’m different from them I can still see and understand. I am unconquerable to my fate and my soul.
I look deep in the darkness and see my self and not sure what to do. I am trapped like an addict and hate to see what waits there in front of me.
I walk out of the darkness feeling relieved I am the lucky one,
Because those chumps are dead as you see and can never be the captain of there fate and soul.

Hear You Me . . .

There’s no one in town that I know.
You gave us some place to go.
I never said thank you for that.
I thought I might get one more chance.
What would you think of me now?
So lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that,
Now I’ll never have a chance.
If you were here with me tonight,
I’d sing to you just one more time.
A song for a heart so Big.
God wouldn’t let it live.
May angles lead you in,
Hear you me my friend.

Love Is The Movement

She was just a little girl but very independent.
She was so beautiful but my actions chose to end it.
She was my, everything my thirst and my air.
In this dream I realized how much I care.

She came up missing all alone and afraid.
I thought the worst I thought it was to late.
Halloween is evil and a dark time to see.
Was I that bad that she chose to leave?

No yelling, no screams, and no prayers helped.
She didn’t come back no matter how bad I felt.
The days flew by and the nights a lifetime it seemed
I missed her and her smiled that beamed.

Days after depression and wishes of death
I saw her standing there and it took my breath
She smiled and ran to me and an “I love you’’ she sent
And it was then that I realized that, THAT LOVE IS THE MOVEMENT.

If I Was the Last Book

If I was the last book in the universe a message I would leave would be that no matter how much violence of crime in the world it all leads up to something because what ever happens it happened for a reason and people should leave it like that because you cant change it well unless you made a time machine but till then people cant make a difference another message I would leave is if you do something right people wont notice you did anything at all so you should let thing be as they should. One more message would be when you find out who you really are then you discover what you really like for some examples you would notice what you really want in a girl or what you favorite food or sport is also what your really good at, for some people it can take years to figure out who you really are and for some people it just one or two years to find out.

A story I would tell them would be of a guy who never was noticed until he tried something different out of his normal schedule he had once used every day then he realized that trying new things can make people and your self notice who you really are and what your really personality is like.

I would want future generations to know that people had different styles of life like if your in a building and you look around you would notice that everyone has a different story to tell kind of like a never ending book that when you read it you are sucked in to it like a virtual reality game of life even if you talk to a hobo then there is a story you will never here in your life.

Life Is What You Make It

I would leave behind what every I learned in Life, I learned how to leave my life in the system, how to be independent, how to do things on my own. And how thing in life is so complicated there so many things u can do, that you can on your own. I learned how to deal with things differently,


I love dealing with things that matter like my family, there are so important to me because if I didn’t had none of them I wounld know what I would do. with out them, I’m sure I would fig rout but it would be depress you just have to fig rout how to deal with things, there so many people that deal with drugs because they don’t know how to leave there life with out drugs. But they don’t know how to lose somebody I know I lot of people that pasts away from drugs, accident, overdose, just things you do and things that u get in to.

But I wanna leave behind is what every u choose for your life, it can be bad or good I just wanna let everybody know life is really hard when you do stupid things that get you in trouble I can speck for my self life is not easy I love my life right know because I’m learning so many things I have learned when I was in this program (journey ) for anybody that want to know is a girls group home with a lot of girls, I had to learn how to deal with girls I hated there because it was fool of girls nothing but drama I learn how to leave with them, I learn how to share the bathroom , food . Bedroom, everything that I had

I'm the Last Book in the Universe

If I was the last book in the Universe and I had to leave a message behind for you all to read I would probably tell all the people I love that life is what you make it. You choose the decisions in your life and you can make your life worth while. Be a good person, don’t make your life a living hell. Be the person that people want to talk to and be the one that they can trust like I said you choose what you do in life so choose the right thing and live your dream.

For my future kids and grandkids and friends, I want you to no that life is just life. You don’t have to be perfect or whatever just be yourself, if people don’t like you then that’s there problem not yours. Don’t let anyone put you down or make you feel like your nothing in life. Just be yourself and go live your dreams.

My story: Before I went here to summit high school I went to Timpanogos high and I didn’t like it so much because I wanted to be a cheerleader and the cheerleaders there didn’t like me there so I decided no to try out, but now I regret it because being a cheerleader was my all time dream ever since I was a kid I’ve wanted to be a cheerleader and be al popular and cool like my mom was in her teen years. My mom inspired me to be a cheerleader so that’s why I want to be one, so now that I think about it I regret not trying out because now I don’t care about what people think of me or anything, I just ignore and let them say what they want to say so I wish I was like this before and I wish I wasn’t so scared. Now I don’t want to be popular and cool and be someone that I’m not. Now I’m just me and I don’t care about the whole popular crap I just want to just blend in and be myself and next year I’m going to try out for the team.

So the moral of this blog is just to be yourself and don’t make the things or the people in life put you down, just live your dream and be happy.

My Last Book in the Universe

If you were “The Last Book in the Universe” what message would you leave behind? If I was the last book in the universe I would leave the message that gays should NOT rule world and that Obama was the worst president in the whole world. And that people should not criticize other people. We are all human so give everybody some respect man and respect Bob Marley. Let people do their own thing it’s their life let them live it like they want and should. Elect good presidents so the economy does not go bad like it is today.

What you guys in the future should do is build a monument of me. And name it Brad Hancock after me. And worship me as some god or something. Do something with your lives instead of sitting on your fat sweaty butt watching television. Go out and ride a quad or go swimming or exploring go on an Adventure and a half because those are really fun or just go play basketball with friends.

Go and skateboard learn how to do more tricks and stuff. Don’t give up on life just go till it ends because you never know it could end tomorrow so do something and make a difference in the world. Don’t let what other people say get to you and bring you down just be the bigger man and ignore it so you don’t start any problems with people. Only trust the people you care about and you know you can trust don’t just give out your trust or it can end really badly because people can betray you and you will get really pissed and kill some one which you don’t want to do or you will go to jail.

The Story I Once Knew

I once lived a life as a happy child who lived with her family at home. Growing up I started getting into trouble. I got suspended for the first time in elementary school for fighting and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I knew then that that was the life I wanted to live. I started skipping school and talking back to my parents. When my parents divorced I went down heel really bad. I started to hang out with gangs, and using drugs. When I turned thirteen I got into the system and ever since I’ve been in and out of group homes, detention facilities, and Procter homes.

I would want to let the future know how you have to make the best of life because one day it will end and you won’t have anything. And yes times do get hard and you have to learn how to deal with them in order to get by. That it is ok to mess up just learn from the mistakes you make. We have all gone through a lot so we know what its like to feel lonely, mad, frustrated, happy, and sad.

The message I would want to send is “get mad whatever you want to do, cry a river build a bridge and get over it’’ because if you cant do that you wont go any where in life. And always remember that “someone always has it worse then you. Appreciate life and live it to the fullest, put effort into \what you do and try to be as happy as you can.

The story I once knew was that I cried and I complained about how life was so unfair but hey! they told me “this is not burger king you cant have it your way.’’ And so I learned to get over it.

Life Behind Death

I would leave several messages behind with me. I would leave my kids with good stories to tell other people about how my life was when I was alive. I would also let them know the things I have been through in my life time and how they can learn from my mistakes. I will tell them how it wasn’t easy and if they listened to one thing I would tell them how worth wild it was when I fixed the mistakes I had made. Then I would leave behind videos and stuff that reminded me about my past and what they meant to me in life.

The story I would be about my life and the good and the bad things that happened in it. Such as when I was younger my family wasn’t always there for me but then again I still had a really good life but that was because of how I wanted it to be. Such as I grew up doing drugs from when I was a child and didn’t care what people thought when I was doing them because I had that thought that I was having a really good life at the time. I would tell them that it wasn’t worth going trough all those drugs because I wasn’t able to learn because I was to happy being high to care what people wanted to say or wanted me to do.

I would want them to know I was a really good person with a lot of mistakes and I didn’t care what people think of me. I would also tell them that the new technologies that has been made isn’t going to last for ever and that even though you think you need all that technologies doesn’t make the world go round. To me it’s having an imagination, being happy, and learning new things to tell other people is what makes the world go round. What you do later on in life is you own way of turning the world round.

Last Book in the Universe

If I was the last book in the universe I would talk about my life and how I lived and also the things I did for other people which this is the message that I would leave behind I would say that make sure when you vote if you vote to think about what the president before that had the same take to things as the person you might be voting for I would say make sure you live your life’s to the very fullest I would tell them that life is a gift and not a given right and that they should have no fears for things they want to do I would tell them to never forget Bob Marley or the reggae way of life that given cultures are to be cherished and also traditions they are not only to be cherished but also to be handed down a kept alive mainly because those cultures are they of living they are the things that we have lived by they are where we come from and with out those cultures traditions then we are nothing we would not be here if it was not for those ancestors we would not be here today in fact we would be worthless we need to keep those traditions and also cultures alive I think if I could leave anything behind it would be follow your heart not just your smart to prevent from being

What I Think a Hero is

I think that there are heros every day. There are people who help others no matter their color or gender, or how they are. A hero in my eyes is someone who never chooses themselves over anyone else. They wouldn’t talk crap on anyone, and accept anyone as one of them. They stand up for what they think is right even though everyone may criticize them, and make fun of them. They would know every situation and feeling people are going through so they would know how to help them. But the people who are heros everyday are people like firefighters, soldiers, or even people who wake you up in the morning because you were going to be late for a meeting. Stuff like that is cool how people do those things not just because they like the glory or the reward, but because they care about the other person. They care even though they are complete strangers. I think those people are true heros.

I think my old foster parents were heros to me because even though they had so many kids and foster kids, that they took me in. I was suprized how nice they were to me and my other foster brothers. But to other people, one’s hero might not be a hero to them. Everyones heros are all probably different. Somebody might have a basketball player as their hero, or an actor. But I guess all heros are kind of the same I think, because they all help or do something that inspires someone. Like superman or any other superhero, they all do something that helps everyone, not just one person. They help more people than any normal person, and they don’t give away their identities. Or a ruler like a president. Maybe the people Hitler commanded thought he was a hero. Those are some examples in my opinion are why everyones heros are different than each others. That is what I think a hero is.

Peeta's Story

Well I think that Peeta wants to tell Katniss that he wants someone to know before he dies and Peeta doesn’t want the people to know change him because I think that he wants his family and friends to know who he is still an how the people who are involve in the game there are changing people in the game but they don’t tell people who signs up for the game that they slowly starting to change them when there in training but Peeta does not want to change at all and I think he’s knows that there gonna change him I think it’s like a boot camp and it sounds like it to me so yeah

Heros of Life

What makes a hero to me? In my opinion a hero is some one who will help others when needed most and even when they don’t he/or she will help for nothing in returned and wont brag or tell any one he/or she will know in there hearts that they did good in a new persons or old persons life also they know they did something good which makes them wanna do more to help others.

Which character in the book do I think is the real hero? In my opinion I think the real hero would be Charley because he sent the latch runner to tell Spaz that bean was dying and if it wasn’t for him Spaz wouldn’t have come up with the plan to go see her and help bean get better or at least try to help.

I think he is more of a hero then the others because even though he told Spaz to leave the family he still cared to tell him that bean was dying so id say he is a hero because he’s forgiving and he cares for people even if he told Spaz to leave he is also a hero because he would do a lot to make someone happy

My Heros

I think what makes a hero is courage because if you’re a hero and you are scared of everything then you can’t really be a hero because you have to be brave and stand up for what you believe in. Being a hero isn’t just helping the world and saving everyone’s life, it’s like charity, you help someone without expecting anything back from the person you help.

Which character in the book do you think is the real hero? I think that Charley is the real hero because he sent for the runner to tell Spaz that bean was dying so that he can see her one last time before she dies even though Charley doesn’t really like Spaz0 and didn’t want him to see her he did it for his daughter because he loves her so that would be my hero for the book.

Well the other characters are heroes kind of because they helped Spaz get to his sister but I think that charley is the real hero because of what he did and yes the other characters were helping Spaz but I don’t think it was the same because they wanted to help but Charley was afraid, he didn’t want Spaz to see Bean but he sent for a runner so that he could see her because it wouldn’t be fair if he couldn’t see her before she died.

Ben my Brother

What makes a person a hero to you? What makes a person a hero to me is that they can keep on digging their holes deeper and deeper but they can always find a way and get the strength to get out of that hole. A hero to me is a positive role model like my big brother Ben he used to look at bad stuff on the computer but he found the strength to get out from those things and do what he knows is right.

My brother is my hero because he has set the perfect example to me he respects women they way they are supposed to be treated he hasn’t got to serious with anyone because he knew his mission was coming up fast so he didn’t steady date just so he could stay on track and actually be righteous enough to go on a mission. Now he is on his mission and I miss him but I wish I would have followed in his foot steps because now I’m locked up and I don’t get to talk to him which sucks because I really like my brother.

My brother is a perfect example of a hero because he would always help my sister with her kids so she could go to work he was always joking around and laughing but all his jokes were appropriate and that influenced me strongly because it made me realize that you can tell funny jokes without them having swear words in it or have any inappropriate things in it he was always making everyone laugh. So that’s why I consider my brother a hero because he actually could quit his old ways and earn his place to go on a mission which is really cool he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he is learning the Spanish language which will be awesome when he talks in it.

Mighty Brother

One way to describe my older brother. My older brother was nice, respectful, and honest and he had lots of pride in him self. my brother was gang affiliated, butt it still did not make my brother a bad person. The reason why I looked up to my older brother was because he was always self confidence about him self in the things he did and did not let any thing stop him from being who he wanted to be. One of the persons who I think is a hero? Would be spaz. And here are my reasons. He’s very brave, smart, loving and will not give up and will do what’s so ever he needs to do so can save his sister bean and for him to do all that’s what’s he’s doing just to see his sister is very amazing. The reasons who I choose spaz over the rest of the other characters. Would kind of jst say there’s nothing we can do ,there not that brave ,not so smart and I just don’t know why I just like spaz and there are my reasons why I think he’s the real hero in the book and also he’s going to do what ever it takes him to save his sister and I think that’s really cool and brave of him. So he can just be with his sister and to read her a story… the end

The Heros in Me

A hero to me is someone who has integrity as well as a strong belief in themselves and those around them. A hero for me is my grandma because even though she’s been through a lot she still stands strong. All her kids including my mom went down hill so fast that it almost looked like it didn’t hit my grandma, but it did.

In the book to me Ryter, is the real hero because Again he had a strong belief in Spaz, and even though spaz, ripped him off he still liked spaz and he saw potential in him. He put up with everything and although he knew he was going to get wheeled (die) he still made the best out of life. Ryter, reminds me of someone I want to be. I want to stick up for what is right and live an adventure and have fun doing the right things before I die.

The other characters were heroes to, because Spaz, never gave up. He wanted to see Bean. To get what he wanted he went through some dangerous stuff. He did everything he could do to get to his little sister. Lanaya didn’t want to be like the other proves so she wanted to help the normal’s. She did what she wanted to do, because she believed in herself. Even though they are all heroes, I think Ryter is still the real hero, he knew what was going to happen to him and he still lived in adventure.

These heroes are amazing and it might only be a story, but to me it was a taste into reality. These heroes I have and keep on my mind , and I often hear my self saying there names and this is why I call them “The Heroes In Me.’’

Opinion or Fact

To me what makes a hero is a person that reaches out to get help and is willing to be happy and help. Also I don’t think that a hero has to be better, stronger, and faster than anyone else. To me a leader can be there self and be a hero for some one else. A hero is someone a person can look up to. I like heroes to me it is someone who can be there self and still have those people around them look up to them.

For example if I had to choose a person in the book that is to be the leader it would have to be the little girl bean. For you people reading the hunger games this is a girl who is sick with leukemia. She has been separated from her brother Spaz for years and now she has sent out for her brother and he is now coming for her. So that is a little bit of what is going on in the book.

I chose bean at the character of the hero because all of the characters in the book live day to day on there own life like everything. I see that bean is the hero because she calls out for people and she is very inspirational. Because she called out for her brother and he left as soon as he could. His brother goes through all the trouble to go and save her sister. He ends up getting to his sister and she is sick and they think that she was going to die and then they had the idea of improving her. Improving in the book is like giving medicine to that sick girl. To me I think that she must have some power because if she can get people to do every thing they can to find a cure means something. Plus like I said earlier I don’t think it takes a better person than any one else to be a hero all I takes is someone to look up to that person.

How I think this character is the leader over them is that the Proovs aren’t suppose to care about the normals and that’s what Bean and Spaz is. So how I see it is if a proov goes out of her way to help Bean clearly shows that she is a hero with out knowing it. That is what I think now lets hear what you think.

What Makes a Person a Hero?

A hero to me is someone who helps to do what is right supports you in all the right ways lifts you up when you are down, and give you advice when you need it most will take the time to listen to you when you need to talk to someone for example my grandfather would always convince me when I wanted to give up on something to try again and every time he would do that I wouldn’t want to give up anymore in fact I would want it more than did before

The character in the book that I think is the real hero is Ryter there are many reasons that Ryter is the hero in the book to me but the main reasons because when they first began their adventer Spaz said that Ryter wouldn’t be able to keep up but Ryter did not just keep up he pushed Spaz to keep going and also when Spaz felt like giving up Ryter would give him reason to not give up and keep moving forward

The way Ryter would talk to everyone else and how he showed the care that he had for people he did not even know how he had risked his own life just to save Lanaya from the angery mod that were trying to get her off the takvee and when he saved Spaz when he had his attack was so kind and the fact that he did not have to save Spaz

Fate

"Fate do your work. We human beings don’t control our own destinies. What is fated to happen must happen. So let it happen!"

I personally agree with this quote. Simply, because this is coming from a person who dose not put their purse in the ground. You chose the decisions you make but with them there are consequences and they can be good or bad. And I think that’s where faith and destiny come in because it was meant to happen. Aren’t we all born to die? That’s destiny, and everything within that. Our lives are set and God knows everything that will happen to all of us. Some people say “life is like a book, you’re writing it as you go” and that not true! Our lives are already written.

An example, the biggest thing you see is when you’re dating someone and it’s not working out but you try so hard to make it work. He tries to change, she tries to change but it still doesn’t work out, because it just wasn’t meant to be! But if you aren’t very good at dating think about like this when you want to win a race so you train so hard and work your butt off to win but you lose. It’s the same concept.

Try to understand that not because you don’t want to happen to you, it won’t happen to you, because if it’s in your destiny it will happen to you. What it’s meant to be will eventually be. Because you can try so hard and you loose it all, but in the end it doesn’t even matter.

Fate is a big part of you’re life weather you want to accept it or not. You can’t try to avoid it and change it but you destiny is written in pen you can erase it its there to follow you. It’s your background. I believe that fate is true and that’s why things happen to all of us.

Fate

‘’Fate do your work. We human beings don’t control our own destinies. What is fated to happen must happen. So let it happen!’’


I agree on this quote mainly because so many people, including me, worry a lot on what will happen tomarrow and the next day and so on. We don’t live today, and were not here when we think about other days than today. That is something I need to work on, living in the moment . I don’t know if I believe in fate or destiny though. But I believe in the last part of the quote, ‘’So let it happen.’’ You don’t have that much control on certain stuff. So why waste so much energy and stress on something you cannot change? But I am one to talk, right? It’s hard because you automatically do it. But I guess if you learn to control your thoughts and think I don’t want to worry about it, it should help. Some people think that we all have certain spot in life. That it is destined and cannot be evoided. I don’t really know if I believe that either. I think it is true if you believe that it is true. Something exists only if you believe and know it is real. But that is what I believe, and people probably don’t believe me. So that is probably how it is with the fate/destiny thing on my point of view.

I think that you can control certain stuff in your life that are more longer in life, than stuff like, I want to get that job that I just applied for and had an interview with. Or I just got caught with something and I have to see how my punishment comes out. But the stuff that are like getting school done so I can be a doctor and go to college is up to you. So that is just my opinion on the quote above.

Beauty

"But oh, what a deceiver he turned out to be! Only really cruel people can be called deformed. Virtue is beauty, but someone beautiful and wicked is like an empty box decorated by the devil."

I think that some people can be really pretty on the outside when you first see them you think they are really friendly but when you tell someone that they look cool to talk to but the person you think that’s cool there not really a good friend to hang out with and that person can talk behind your back

But some people can be ugly on the outside but they are friendly also pretty to so it does not matter if there not pretty on the outside and all it matters about there personality.

The Beauty

" But oh, what a deceiver he turned out to be! Only really cruel people can be called deformed. Virtue is beauty, but someone beautiful and wicked is like an empty box decorated by the devil."

A lot of the meaning in the sentence is true like beauty is not only in just being pretty on the outside and you can also be as pretty and beautiful on the inside, lots of people focuses on the beauty on the out when the inside is on the inside and they don’t realize pretty girls can be pretty on the out but in the inside they can be bitter and mean on the inside and some can be both. The people who try to find beauty they never seem to notice what’s on the in they want a person that people want but the real to that situation is you can have a person that everyone wants but not for what’s on the out side, so in my words people need to focus on why they want beauty and how an they get it that’s on the inside and outside if they want.

2 Quotes

Fate

"Fate do your work. We human beings don’t control our own destinies. What is fated to happen must happen. So let it happen!"

I think that fate is not predetermined sometimes thing you don’t want to happen end up happening even though you didn’t think they would you make the path that you walk the choices you make set what you live with it those choices carve you way through live that how your fate is determined it’s the choices you make through your life determine how thing play out


The deceiver within


" But oh, what a deceiver he turned out to be! Only really cruel people can be called deformed. Virtue is beauty, but someone beautiful and wicked is like an empty box decorated by the devil."

In think that everyone has there bad side inside of them although there certain things that will bring that out in a person like having someone hurt you so bad that you would not take the chance again with anyone or they will have certain behaviors that will suggest that they had problem with those kind of things before

Fate

Fate do your work. We human beings don’t control our own destinies. What is fated to happen must happen. So let it happen!

Fate is that of the essence, it’s all reality. We live, we breathe, we eat, we love, we cry, and then we die. It’s who we are. We don’t choose our lives, we don’t choose what happens. We live we die simple. Life will be great at some times of your life. Life will be stress full at other times. I feel that no matter how hard we try were always stuck in this life till we die. There isn’t a higher power there isn’t a “choose your own way”. There isn’t an easy way or hard. We are not free spirit. We are what ever we do we cant play “God”. We live then we die. All the religions today are all false. There is no “God”. We find pleasure when were on a stable part of our life only by fate. Fate is a lot like love you cant control it. You meet someone special and then you fall in love you cant choose it, it just happens. So is fate real that’s your decision ill stick with mine and say yes but no. Simply short and sweet. Its simple we feel what we feel, we believe what we belive, we do what we want.

Beauty Doesn’t Matter How You Look!

"But oh, what a deceiver he turned out to be! Only really cruel people can be called deformed. Virtue is beauty, but someone beautiful and wicked is like an empty box decorated by the devil."

My Opinion to this is that beauty doesn’t matter how you look. There are guys that think because the girl is mean that they are ugly. I don’t think people should call anybody deformed just because they are cruel. I think that girls, who are cocky, conceited are the one’s who are rude because they think they are better then anyone else.

I think that theirs girls who try to be like other girls because they are pretty and are popular. I think the girls that are like that have the nastiest attitude. People sometimes make fun of the people who are really ugly but I think you should get to know a person before you say mean things about them because it don’t matter if their ugly there attitude and how they act makes them be cute.

Just because you’re beautiful on the outside doesn’t mean you have the true beauty inside. I don’t agree with this quote. I know someone who is beautiful in the inside but on the outside there really cruel. This person is so fine but they have the nastiest attitude. They are so disrespectful to girls and call girls dirty names just because they are ugly or they hear things about them.

I don’t think a girl or a boy should be disrespected by any way just because they are ugly, because ugly people make them self look beautiful for by the way they are, the way they act. There’s a lot of people I know that are beautiful from the inside and outside those are the people you should respect, and either way respect the people who are beautiful in the inside and nasty on the outs because it don’t matter about anything beauty is in anyone.

Fate Quote

Fate do your work. We human beings don’t control our own destinies. What is fated to happen must happen. So let it happen!

I believe that quote is true. Everyone says things happens for a reason and it does. We can control something’s like our choices, our actions, emotions and what we want out of life. Sometimes things don’t go our way but that’s just reality. We’re put on this earth as an own individual. We live life wondering what’s going to happen next? We ask questions, why is this happening? But no one really knows because it’s Fate. God only knows what is going to happen to us and the reasons behind it. We may not like what happens and we may feel overwhelmed, but we always got to look on the out come out of it and realize we’re supposed to go through this. It may make you a
better person or destroy your work but, that you can control and make it better than it seems at times. For example, before I had come to Summit. I would always give up when something bad happened, at the time I didn’t know why it was happening and I would have a bad attitude about it. Which didn’t get me anywhere. I dwelled on it and wouldn’t move on. I didn’t care about anything. But than I got put into foster care and put into Summit and it taught me everything happens and I have to put it behind me and hope for the best. Now anytime something bad happens I tell myself this may suck right now but in the end it will turn out pretty good, I just have to keep my head held high and don’t let anything or anyone bring me down. Once I started doing that I had a better out look on life and what it’s about. It makes me feel much better when I do it.

True Beauty Covered Up

“But oh, what a deceiver he turned out to be! Only really cruel people can be called deformed. Virtue is beauty, but someone beautiful and wicked is like an empty box decorated by the devil.”

I think that’s sort of how I am, I’m sort of nice to people like I act nice to everyone but when I get in trouble or someone says I’m rude like it’s hard for other people to believe that I’m rude because I always cover my pain up with laughter and crying I don’t ever be rude to any one, I just keep it to my self.

Like I can be one of the most nicest people you could ever meet but when you do something to me like that would really hurt me at first I’m just really sad and I let you do it all the time and I don’t ever say any thing to you or any one, but than after a while I just get tired of it and I’m the rudest person like I don’t care what any one tells me because I just was covering up my feelings for the longest time so it just comes out in anger after a while.

Sometimes the most prettiest girls are the meanest girls out there they think there better than every one else, and a lot of people always want to be like them cause their pretty but they have the nastiest attitude.

If there ugly they get made fun of a lot but if you really get to know them you’ll think their so nice and you could become best friends, or maybe just really good friends with them.

Your looks don’t always determine everything about you sometimes you just got to get to know the real them.

My New Beginning

“She is one beautiful girl!” My heart beated shaking from a mixture of feelings!
I took a look at her as I held her in my arms, “She is!!” I said to the nurse. “How can you love someone so much that you just met?!” I was scared bringing a new baby into the world not knowing what to expect. Excitement filled me up as my mom took a look at her, “A new beginning” she said with a big smile on her face, “She is defiantly a Genesis.” As we drive home form the hospital she starts to cry. It was the cutest thing until the point where she wouldn’t shut up. We fed her some baby formula and she stopped. The first night was bad. She cried all through the night she just wouldn’t sleep. Since she was with me all day (because lucky for me it was summer vacation) I would not let her take naps through the day so maybe she would sleep at night, but it didn’t work. After awhile she got used to it and everything went better.

For her first birthday I took her to the store and I got her a new outfit that she loved! I showered her and got her ready, my mom threw her a birthday party. “She looks so cute and big!” My aunt said holding Genesis present in one of her hands, “She’s adorable” My older sister said, standing behind her. I knew Genesis was having a great time because like me she loves attention! Finally, it was time to cut the cake, she was ever so happy, and finally she blew the candle out! She was probably too young to know about the birthday wish so as I stood behind her and whisper “I hope you grow up to be a smart, strong and beautiful woman.” As for now I think its one wish that might actually come true!

When I take a look at her now (she’s three) it’s like I can see my reflection. She wants to be just like me.” When are you coming back?” she asks hoping I say today, holding back my tears I respond “Soon baby girl” I can see she wants to cry too. Her black, Chinese eyes can speak the words she doesn’t want to say, “Why not today? We can go pick you up, gather your stuff”, regretting every stupid decision I’ve made, wanting to cry, not wanting to hear what she’d say next “What’s wrong?” she asks confused as a three year old can be, not understanding the situation I have put myself in, I cant find an answer to her question. I hang up the phone, tell my fosters the call was lost. I can’t hold the tears any longer and I brake! Wanting to be with my little girl and whishing I was with her! I think of her again her face, her smile, her laugh, and it gives me hope! I find the reason I want to change, I find the reason why I need to straighten up... Because at home there is a little girl who waits for the day that I can be home to stay for good.

When I Walked Into the Court

“Claudia how have you been doing?” Asked my judge. I was 17years old when I walked into that court. It all started like this, the judge asked the group how I was doing and they said, she has got into a fight with a girl because of Miguel, and she has violated the Lightning Peaks rules, she has seen Miguel while she was in Lightning Peak. The Judge got mad more because I didn’t really go to school; i was just getting into a lot of trouble, not caring about my baby. I would always leave my baby with my mom when I was 15 years old I didn’t really think how it was being a mom. I was 15 years old when I first got into the system, that’s when I started being another Claudia. My baby boy was 10 months.

The reason I was in Lightning Peak was, because I got into fights, got alcohol tickets, curfew tickets the one that suggested me to be in that was the judge. When the judge heard everything she had to hear she said, “Claudia is put into DCFS, she has a choice to volunteer to take her baby with her.” I said, “I want him to come with me. I felt sad; angry towards this because I don’t want to put my son threw this. After court I said bye to my family I was crying because it hurt me being in the system because of a guy I love. My caseworker told us he was taking me to meet my foster parent’s. When I got to the DCFS I felt so sad because I was going away somewhere else away from my family but the good thing I had my baby. When the foster parent’s got their I said, “Hi”. They were white. When we got to their house they showed me my room, so I got in my room and started crying.

It’s been so hard for me being in foster care. I almost got my baby token away, but the good thing is I got a chance. The DCFS has given me lots of chances. The last chance they gave me I learned my lesson and started doing so well, and keeping my head up, because they aid any little thing I did I will get him token away. I know I should of change the day I had this baby, but I guess I was hard headed. I’ve been trough a lot in my life. I don’t have my parent’s, I’ on my own, I have 2 brother’s here, but I can’t move with them. I’ve learned not to give up and especially for someone I love, that is never their for his family.

In till this day I’ve never gave up, I have been doing well so I can support my son and I. I don’t need anybody I know I can do it by my self I don’t think I need his dad right now. I know I do but I have to do the best for my son, if he ever does change who knows we might be together, but till now I don’t want him in our life’s he has hurt us a lot, my baby doesn’t need that, but I’ll always have his back, and be down for him. In till this day I’ve learned to always listen to my parents, and never do anything for someone who is not worth it, always think about my baby first before I do something stupid because look what I’ve gotten my self and my baby into, but I’m almost threw this, I know I can do it on my own.

The Forever Proposal

“Hello? Mom, Guess what? I get to come home for a visit.” I said into the receiver to my mother. I was so excited to be able to come home and see my family.

“That’s great sweet-heart, what time do I need to pick you up?” my mother said to me as I asked my staff what was the best time. I then relayed the time to my mother.

Calmly and very suspiciously I asked my mother in a soft whisper “Mom make sure Ash comes with okay mom?”

“Don’t worry Hun I’ll make sure she comes,” my mother assured me. Then the line went dead, and I went to my room to get ready for the day of my biggest decision ever. I was so excited but at the same time, I was scared that what would happen if it wouldn’t go as I planned.

“Are you excited to go see your family Cody?” my staff asked me as I got ready to go to church. “Hell yeah I am why wouldn’t I be?” I asked questioningly. After church I went back to my room and was waiting very anxiously for my mother to arrive.

“Hey sweetie, are you ready to go?” asked my mother, as she checked me out of the place I was staying at, which in all consideration was a rhetorical question that I didn’t answer as we climbed into the truck to go to my home. The ride home was very short but quiet like my mom and dad were plotting some grand scheme.

“Hey babe” I said as I swept me girlfriend into my arms and embracing her with a big long warm hug and then released her and kissed her perfectly soft and beautiful lips.

“I’ve missed you so much babe,” my girlfriend said to me as my best friend walked up to me and embraced me in a friendly hug.

When we got inside we went to the living room and sat on the couch as my girlfriend cuddled right up next to me with the rest of my family around us, who were waiting to hear about what I had been up to for the past couple of months.

After a while we migrated to the kitchen for my girlfriends surprise birthday party, which she found out a couple of days before hand. We had some cake and mingled amongst ourselves tell each other what we have been up to for the past little while. When everyone started heading back to the living room I hollered at everyone.

“Wait Ash hasn’t open her presents yet” I said eagerly, stopping everyone in there tracks and they turned around and looked at me questioningly.

“Wait present? What present? I didn’t see anyone bring any presents in.” she asked as she looked around at everyone shaking there heads, until she met my eyes and realized I was on one knee with a little blue box.

“We have been through a lot the past few years there’s been pain, smiles, laughter, tears, but most of all there has always been love, Ashlie, I love you with all my heart and I want you to know that I want you, and only you, I want all of you forever and always. So now Ashlie Amanda Hansen, will you marry me?” as I opened the box and waited for her to answer. She suddenly broke into tears and smiled and said through all the emotion as hard as she could.

“Yes, yes forever I love you Cody, I would be happy to marry you.” As I slipped the ring onto her finger as she jumped on me and embraced me in another hug and locking her lips onto mine with a kiss. I felt overwhelmed and felt like my heart would burst out from my chest from the love I felt.

Best Day Ever

“Oh my god, Your so beautiful” said my dad. “Thanks daddy.” I said. It has been 4 years since I have seen my dad, it was the best day of my life to see him again. I felt like crying, just from hugging him.

“Look you have grown so much mija, I’m so glad I can hold you in my arms once again.” He told me. “ you to dad, you look like your doin good, I couldn’t wait to see you.” I said. “are you ready to meet your little sister, she looks so much like you, I get you too mixed up all the time” He said.

I was kind of nervous to meet Brooklyn, because I was the last kid my dad had and I didn’t want my place to be taken from me.“ yeah I’m ready” Later that day we got to his house and Brooklyn was inside sleeping, my step mom wanted to wake her up, but I told her I can wait till she wakes up herself, just so she’s not so ornery”.

Brooklyn finally woke up, she looked straight at me. My dad wasn’t lying, me and Brooklyn looked exactly alike. She walked over to me like she had known me forever, she gave me a big hug and didn’t let go. It felt so good to meet her.
“Its like looking in the mirror, but when I was little” I told my dad. “ your telling me, when I saw her I was so shocked, I told Tiffany do you know who she looks like? She looks like her older sister” he said. “I guess your gens are strong” Tiffany said. We all laughed. I told me dad why I was hesitating to meet Brooklyn, He just laughed, and told me “baby girl you don’t have to worry about Brooklyn taking your place, you have a special place in my heart, he said you’re my baby girl no matter how old you get.”

What I learned from this experience was that no matter what or who comes into my dads life I’ll always be his little girl.

My Cold Blue Night

It was getting late and the kids were getting fussy, I got the bambinos fed, washed and into bed.

He worked late evenings from 8:00p.m. To 3:00a.m. It felt like I never had time with him anymore. When he got off work all he did was eat sleep and go back to work.
I read a book then fall asleep. At three twenty seven a.m. he woke me up with the softest kiss and told me he had something he wanted to show me.

For a moment I was angry, but at the same time I knew he wouldn’t wake me for nothing.

I felt the cold still lingering from around his body from coming in from the cold.

He took me by the hand, up the stares, and rushed me towards the living room window, quickly and quietly so we wouldn’t wake the baby’s.

“He told me to close my eyes” I was hesitant at first, and then I thought to myself “he so bought me a new car”. He opened the window then said to me “open your eyes”.
It was the most adorable thing, and it made up for all the times he didn’t have time for me. There were about seven deer in the street and in our yard they were all equally beautiful.

They were running around in our front yard and looked as if they were playing tag under the moon light.

The sky was a dark, smoky blue. The moon was full and the light was reflecting from the moon to the freshly fallen snow, it was beautiful.
The deer and the weather made it perfect.

The snow, the moon and the stars all together made it even more romantic, almost like a fairy tail. We stared at the scene I could feel him watching me, I whispered “their beautiful.” He smiled and said “I think you’re beautiful.”

Back then I thought that we were perfect. Now my thought is blank. From then on, I left the sweet memories that I held in my heart to treasure, behind me and decided to make myself a promise for my own good; the word (LOVE), the emotion (LOVE), that tight annoying felling in you throat and the butterflies in your tummy (LOVE) will never be excepted in this cold dark heart of mine again.

“You’re saying its Controlling Behavior to Separate Her from Her Friend’s….

I think that guys should never be controlling over a girl, guys should let their girlfriend hang out with who ever they want. I think its bad when a guy is controlling, because they end up hitting you, in the book how Nick says that catline cant hang out with Elsa is not okay that is controlling. I remember when I was controlling with my boyfriend it was not good we always fought. When I was with my boyfriend I would tell him I don’t want you talking to girls but you know what I told him “you know what you can talk to who you ever you want you just need to set your limits.” I learned not to be controlling because being like that doesn’t take you no where.

I think Catline shouldn’t be with Nick because he is controlling , I think she’s going to end up getting hurt by him because mostly all guys that are controlling end up hitting their girl. This Quote remembers me also when my mom was with my little sister’s dad he was so controlling. He always hit my mom I was 10 years old when he hit her I still remember, No one should be controlling.

I slapped her not hit her.
Breathing underwater Pg. 23

When people say that I know they are lying and they will never tell the truth until they lose the one they love the most is gone. When its too late they want it back and its too late and too hard to get it back because when you do some thing like that it very hard too get their trust back, it takes a while to do it. That’s why people need too think before they do some thing they will regret or if they don’t they will lose the one they love, and when people say “Oh that’s the way I was raised” that’s a lie well maybe they were raised like that but if they didn’t like it then they shouldn’t treat other people like that. They have control of there own action.

When they do you need to let them go because once you get closer to them and have fun with them it get’s harder to say good bye. When you leave them they learn how to respect women and they will cherish they more then ever. For example when abusive men are coming to hang out with you and their friends call them to go smoke dope they ditch you or they tell you not to hang out with certain people.

Granted

Have you ever taken anything for granted? What makes you take it for granted? What makes you remember or appreciate what you took for granted?
Once I’ve taken granted of a special friendship that was important to my life. At the time I didn’t have a care in the world. But when I realized that this special friendship made me feel a feeling like never before and that I did care, I knew that I shouldn’t have taken it for granted. She was all I could think about and didn’t know what to do. It made me feel like I had just lost the world. Then I thought to myself “if I want this girl to be in my life then I need to do something about it”. I called and told her I needed to talk. I expressed every thought, every feeling, every expression and my heart to her. I did everything in my power to get her back. So I changed my attitude, ways and the way I expressed myself to her. I was able to get what I wanted most back in my life and don’t have the need to think twice about taking anything for granted. When you’ve taken something for granted you may not realize it and makes you feel bad. At the end of the day you realize what you’ve done wrong and messed up and that you lost what you wanted or what you were looking for in life. When you finally realize what you done you can always appreciate what you lost and maybe try to get it back if it’s possible, but some people choose to let it go so their left to wonder what could have happen. And now I know not to ever take her for granted again if I want to keep her in my life. I appreciate everything about her and remember every good memory spent together. That’s what I’ve taken for granted.

Final Words

If I was dying in my bed and my parents were there by my side I would tell them that “I love them”, and I would tell them to “take care of my son and keep him safe”. Another thing I would tell them before I die is to make sure they discipline my son right and put him in a sport so he can focus on his mind about sports not other things like gangs, drugs, sex. My parents are so important to me I would tell them I was sorry for everything I’ve done to them, and to forgive me for being bad for them in the past, and not listen to them when they told me to stay out of trouble, because my parents use to tell me Claudia your going to get locked up if you keep hanging out with your friends, so I did I got locked up, I felt sad because my baby was out there with out me. I always look back of what I did and I regret I should of always listen to my parents but I didn’t that’s why I ended up in foster care. I would tell my mom and that that I will miss them...

I think the only thing that is worse then dying is loosing my son. I think dying is worse because my son will be with out me when he needs me. Another thing that is really worse than dying is if anything really bad ever happened to my son. I think dying is worse than all these things because my son will be with out me and what if he tries to do suicide because theirs some children that do that I want my son to be safe. I’m my sons everything he follows me more than his dad, and I don’t know what they would do with out me.

In Dying Days

Do I believe that something can be worse than dying?
I think that depends on the person. For me something worse would
probably be stuff like losing a loved one, or being so ignored, disrespected and not
noticed that I just wouldn’t feel like even trying. That would suck. Or being
paralyzed permanently would suck hardcore. I don’t know how those people take all
that crap and get through it somehow. I would also hate to be one of those people who make fun of people who have serious problems. That would be like the worst
Feeling anyone could live with. Or those people that live through some serious
Traumas and are half alive with machines keeping them alive and they don’t even
Say or do anything. Also there are people with mental problems like schizophrenia,
And a bunch of other stuff. That would be enough for me to welcome death.
I feel bad for those people who go through that, but I feel even better when I hear about people who go through that and succeed. That’s pretty crazy how people can fight that
Without killing themselves. So it totally depends on the person. If you can take a lot of crap, or the opposite. Being so sick with a disease or sickness and living through that
might help you remember that suicide isn’t that that far away. I would hate to be put through that and live. So I believe that there is stuff worse than death out there. Or people
wouldn’t be committing suicide so much now days. Having everything taken from you wouldn’t be a good thing too, like your spouse, your house, family, anything. Also being addicted to something is worse than dying, I think. Committing your whole life to getting enough money for your next high on anything without you wanting to would set me over too. Some people know what I am talking about and it sucks. Well those are the reasons I believe that there are things out there that are worse than death.

Final Words

My final words would have to be are paths will cross again. I know that sounds cheesy but I wouldn’t want my family to get all upset or do something stupid just because I died. At least when I told them that they would hopefully feel better. Then I would be able to move on.
If I was to say something to my mom I would
Hope I said something I would want her to hear before I died. Hopefully I won’t die before her

If I was to say something to my little brother it would be don’t turn out like me please. Because I have done some pretty bad stuff

To my dad I would say thanks for your time with me
Thanks for putting up with me all these years. Hopefully I won’t die before him as well.

To my older brothers I would say six different final words to each one cause there is exactly six brothers older than me in the family!
To all of my friends I would say thank you for being my friend all threes years even when I would not be a good friend sometimes.
Hopefully I will say my finals words to people every time I see them because no ones knows exactly when their going to die. Except animals but I am not talking about them.

People take a lot of things for granted, life is one thing that we should not. We act as if we have the rest of our lives but life can be taken as just as it is be given. We can be gone today within a blink of an eye. Tomorrow is not promised to any one of us so we have to live for today, and that is a must. I don’t know maybe we get greedy and think that our problems are the biggest and that we are the ones that need to get help first that we are the most important people well that is not what I think.

I think we need to take time out of our day look to the person to the side of us and get off our asses and try to help them and do what we can to help them and at the end of the day look back and thick what we did and that we as a individual have helped a nother person and in the end sleep in peace knowing that you get what you give and that it will come back to you in the end whether it is at judgment time or the very next day.

I love you

Would I want to my family I love you before they passed away. Yes I would because I had an aunt that passed away and she was my favorite aunt in the whole wide world. When she passed away I didn’t even get to say good bye or anything because she passed away before I could see her again and it broke my heart into a million peaces. She was always traveling and to this day it still kills me, but I know she’s in a better place now and not in pain any more. One thing I wish though is that she could of seen my son before she went, she didn’t even get to see him once she was supposed to come see a day after she died and I feel so bad for that but she can see him now and that’s all that matters.

But what she would have said I am always there. When ever I think of her I can see her in my memories of her. The thing I miss most about her is her laugh and her personality, you know in my house I had to take down all of her pictures because it hurt so bad but there all going back up slowly. She didn’t die that long ago only two months ago. I wanted too jump in the casket with her I didn’t want her to go I wanted her to stay.

When I found out my aunt died I fell on my knees and stated crying I couldn’t believe it I just wish she was still her I miss her so much. When she laughed every one laughed, when she smiled every one smiled.

I love you aunty and R.I.P I’ll see you soon you are always in my heart and in every one else’s.

Marriage

I think that they had arranged marriages back then so that the parents can have their child in a family they feel okay about. Also so that they know their child is in a safe family. The benefits from this would be that the family’s that have known each other for awhile could all be one big family instead of just friends.

The disadvantage would be that the couple getting married has a big chance of not liking each other. Or they just want to be friends. The big problem would be what if he/she is in love with someone else. This leaves a question. Did the parents really care about their children’s own feelings? My opinion about this idea is that it never should have been thought of. Because a lot a kids had parents that didn’t like each other and probably fought a lot. I’m just glad that doesn’t happen here in Utah. If any religion or country says that you have to do that then that just Wrong not just in one way but in many ways. Because these days people can get a divorce. Which then leaves kids in a bad spot.

Living in 1793

If I was living in the year 1793, I would not be happy. That would suck really bad. But it would be kind of cool to live back then. I don’t know exactly what I would do. Probably live the normal life of a 1793 person. I think I would go crazy without technology though. That would be one of the many hard parts of living back then. I would prefer the mid-evil times. That would be awesome. But I don’t know what I would do for jobs though. Maybe build houses, because that’s what I do is build houses with my dad. That would be a good job for me. I would like to have a wife and kids. Just live life like normal and have fun. But there wouldn’t be much to do like now days. No heavy metal. No video games, no legend of Zelda. Not as many sports as now days. No television, no head banging, no mosh pits. No nothing! Those are some of the reasons I would hate it back then. I would not like not having those things.

But a couple of reasons on why I would like it would be that there would not be as much evil a there is now days. The air would be more pure, people might be nicer, stuff like that. But those might not be true. But that is how I view it would be. I wouldn’t mind the music from back then. But still, it would suck. But this paragraph is about the stuff I would like. I might also like the food. You would be more healthy back then. I wouldn’t mind being a farmer either. That would be cool with me. As long as I got paid a good amount for how hard I worked. Those are most of the reasons I would like/hate living in 1973. I still would prefer the mid-evil ages over the 1700’s. but that’s my point of view.

Funeral

I think attending a funeral is really important. Well it really depends on who it was, how about if it was someone that you don’t like right? I’ve attended a hole bunch already, I hate going to them. Because I hate seen mothers cry so when I do it hurts me like no other. Especially when it is the mother’s of some of my closes home boys. I love all my homies, but when I see them dead in front in their funeral I fill like they are just going to wake up. And say what it do dawg. So if that will happen I will proplably put him to sleep myself lol. And its important specially if you really considered him or her your homies. If don’t go to the homies funeral chales that’s some really mest up stuff. I have attended all of my dead homies funerals even if I have to leave Utah for a couple of days.
But then again that’s me and theirs no one like me. So if your reading this don’t be a punk and be a two face to them when their alive. Go to their funeral to ok dawgy’s don’t be mest up.

Being a Snob

A person who is stuck up and thinks that they are better than others, makes fun of people because how they dress. I think in the book Fever Jeannie is a snobbish because she makes fun of Jeannie’s family coffee shop saying that there shop is grog shop, and a grog shop means that they let people drink and fight. The coffee shop doesn’t serve alcohol.

Jeannie is a mean girl who thinks’ she better than Matilda’s family, like in the book she doe’s means things to Matilda when mom doesn’t see ex: she sticks her toung out at her. I’ve been told before that I was a snob because I use to think I was better then everyone else, and I have in the past, I always thought I was better then my cosines which we were all the same but I always thought I was good, and I was stuck up but not anymore I’m my self it is always good being your self not someone who you aren’t really.

I remember when some girls in my school use to always think they were better then me, I don’t know why girls always think that there better then another actually all girls are the same no one is perfect than anyone there’s no one in the world who is perfect. There are a lot of girls who are snobs and those are some girls who are rich, and girls who think there better then everyone.

I would have some one rather tell me the truth then be nice,
Because truth means a lot more then some one being nice to me.
Even if that person is an a hole to I wouldn’t really care because its one person
Being not nice, it really doesn’t bother me. But if that person cares enough to tell me the truth about things then at least I know they care a little about me in some way.

Honesty is very important tom me because it’s something that builds up trust, bravery, integrity, and stuff like that. And it shows care in people, shows that people are willing to take back that much. And that you can ask someone to do something and you know they are going to do it and be able to come you to you and tell you that they did it.

An example is when my brother was on drugs like heroin and I asked him, my aunt asked him, and my mom asked him if he was on something and he was and he said he wasn’t but, we could tell he was on it because he never acts stupid when he’s sober he doesn’t talk with his eyes closed drooping to the floor he sleeps right and doesn’t stay up all night for 3-4 days, and when he lied I go upset cause he acts like a dumb ace. And be because he wasn’t telling the truth, and that he has my niece to take care of.