Childhood

Childhood is a time in our lives that we are able to do what ever we want to do.  If we want to sleep, we sleep.  If we want to go to Incredible Pizza, we go to Incredible Pizza.  We have no limits, no bounds to hold us back or fenses to hold us in. We feel like we are truly free, even though we aren’t.  Childhood is a time when summer break seems like a life time and school seems like even longer. Childhood is the time when we would actually have parties at school and not really learn anything at all. Childhood is the time that we always remember. It’s the time that we always fall back on.  It’s what builds us up and tears us down.  Childhood is when we forget that there is actually stress in the world. But besides these things, childhood really shows the world who we will be later in life. Soon after we enter school, we figure out that we aren’t going to be always able to go outside and play basketball or capguns with our friends whenever we want to. We also figure out that our lives are going to be a little bit harder than what we had previously thought.  If life was just eat,  sleep, eat, play, sleep and eat, I would not have a single problem with that.  For a long time, I could never take naps, and to this day, I still cannot take a nap. I was always that kid that would actually stay up during nap time and watching t.v.  By the time that we reach fourth grade, we start to understand life a little bit more.  We have started to write things that are about a page long and even learn to write in cursive.  We also figure out that we will be learning a lot of worthless things over our school careers. Things that we will not even remotly use. We experience different things as we go through the system. Rather it be different classes every hour, mean teachers or a whole new thing to learn. We also experience girls. At first we do not know what to do, but later things change. No one can explain this quite right, but things do change. But its just one of the things that we go through.

Roses are Red

Violets are Blue

This poem is boring

But yet it won’t go away

And neither will

CHILDHOOD!

The Lorax; Talks about people cutting down forests. I liked it because the guy has nice mustash.
Green eggs and ham; eatting things that are green. My favorite color is green.

I think that it would be fun to write about what childhood as a whole and not just one specific thing that happend. Childhood is a very fun time, but without fun stories, it becomes long and demented. So in my humbled opinion, I think that we should write these childreens stories, and take them to a local school (field trip) and have the childreen judge us on which they thought was the greatest. We could possibly give advise or just make little kids laugh in our stories.

This photo could represent a lot to many different people. To some, it could mean a new beggining, or a new start in life.  To others, like pilots , it could be just another day at work.  But to many people, it could mean an adventure. Or even an exciting vacation. But to those who work their days in the clouds, it could also be a relief. But beyond that, if you actually take this moment in time and just freeze it, you couldsee what a beautiful sight this actually is. You look around and see all of the people that are just cluless that there are 300 people right above them, silently desending from the clouds to something that feels like you're getting hit in the back.

Elmo represents a figment of imagination from many of our childhoods. Elmo also represents an empire. An empire driven by money and greed. The desire to fill the airways with things to get children addicted so that when they see something Elmo, they have to have it. Sounds very close to someone that is on drugs doesn’t it? They can just never get enough.  The kids will sit down on the couch, watch Elmo, and have their Elmo toys right there next to them. It’s almost like a high for the little kids. For some odd reason, they just love that moment though. It’s also because of Elmo that that industry has really boomed in the last few years.  Many shows for kids these days are animated and just too fake.  For many kids these days think that Elmo is a thing of the past. To their credit, Elmo has been around for a while. But they have still been able to overcome that by reinventing the show entirely. Recently, they switched the cookie monster to the veggie monster. For my sake, I do not agree with this change. It is obvious that this change was a 100% political. As a kid all I wanted were cookies. That had nothing to do with the cookie monster.  Now that the change has occurred, what kid would really want to eat veggies? It seems to have drawn a negative light to subject in my opinion.  Even though kids are caught in the Elmo trap, nothing in the world could possibly make them switch to eating vegetables.  I just cannot believe that our society would allow politics to dictate what we eat and even in this case what we allow our children to watch or be exposed to.

Elmo represents a figment

of imagination from

many of our childhoods.

Elmo also represents

an empire. An empire

driven by money and greed.

 The desire to fill the

 airways with things to

 get children addicted so

 that when they see

something Elmo, they have

 to have it. Sounds very close to someone

 that is on drugs doesn’t it?

 They can just never get enough.

  The kids will sit down on the couch,

 watch Elmo, and have

 their Elmo toys right there next to them.

 It’s almost like a high for the little kids.

 For some odd reason, they just love

 that moment though.

 It’s also because of Elmo that that

industry has really boomed

 in the last few years.

  Many shows for kids these days

 are animated and just too fake.

 For many kids these days think

that Elmo is a thing of the past.

To their credit, Elmo has

 been around for a while.

But they have still been able

to overcome that by

 reinventing the show entirely.

Recently, they switched the cookie

monster to the veggie monster. For my sake,

I do not agree with this change. It is obvious t

hat this change was a 100%

political. As a kid all I wanted

were cookies. That had nothing to

 do with the cookie monster.

  Now that the change has occurred,

what kid would really want to eat veggies?

It seems to have drawn a negative

light to subject in my opinion. 

Even though kids are caught in the

Elmo trap, nothing in the world

 could possibly make them switch to eating

vegetables.  I just cannot believe that

our society would allow politics

to dictate what we eat and even

in this case what we allow

our children to watch or be exposed to.

"You must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on"
From: "The Unnamable"
By: Samuel Beckett; 1906-1989
Also known for: Murphy & Watt
 Published: 1988

Summary:
 This book is very dictated by the narrator who , instead of talking about himself, wastes time and talks more about some people named Murphy and Molloy and also Malon. This book, because of the way it is written, comes off to be very secretive. Also because many identitries arej given for several of the people.

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-unnamable-novel

Review:

The book is mostly ramble that is mostly put forth by someone who is not given a direct name in the story but who has many possible names.  There is no plot or even a setting.  This book seems very illusive and somewhat very creepy. For those reasons  I would not really consider wasting my time on the ramble that is found in this book.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78457.The_Unnamable

"I'm an invisible man"
From the novel: "Invisible man"
Published in: 1952
By: Ralph Ellison; 1914-1994
Also known for nothing.


Summery:
The book is an African American's point of view on racisim during his time. The author speaks of an encounter that he has with a man, it is dark and the man insults the author.  The author assuming it is becasue he is black, attemps to stab the man.  But he later finds out that the man was just mad about the encounter.

Review:
I personally do not care to read books such as this. Because they tend to be too slanted or biased one way or the other. Therfore it is very hard to uncover the personal agendas of the people writting these books and the actual facts that could possibly lie within the novel.

Links:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/invisibleman/section1.html
http://www.bookrags.com/criticisms/Invisible_Man

Memorable Passage Assignment

To the everlasting credit of the people of district 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding the betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they knew me from the hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one can help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.
Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of district 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is and old and rarely used gesture of our district, and occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

This is very meaningful to me because sometimes in life there are things that you do not know what to do or how to even handle them.  Life is always so unexpected and just in your face and all over the place.  We are literally faced with life or death situations every single day and yet most of us, like Katniss, find a way to just keep going.  There are people out there who don’t make it to the finish line though.  People who just fall short of their own expectations or even just the world’s expectation.  I really hate that because life is such a precious thing that we have.  It is the most powerful thing in the universe that we have control of and I hate it when people  just throw it away for nothing.  We find ourselves only being so dominated by only caring about how we fit in and how society will look upon each and every one of us.  In 2001, more than 10 years ago, there were 30,000 suicides in the United States alone. These people were in situations they couldn’t handle, or going through life thinking that no one cared.  The fact is that we all care.  I could not go through my life thinking that I could have done something more to save someone’s life just by careing. By doing the gesture with their hands, district twelve showed their support for Katniss. They reached out to her, they showed her that they cared.  This could have been something that was key in her (possible) survival during the Hunger Games.  Saving a life is just as easy as caring. Even for someone that is lazy, that’s pretty easy to do.   And in this day of technology, we barely even have to raise a finger or even get off of the couch.  CARE!

Writers and Reader

 When I read, in order to be comfortable, I normally just turn everything off and just sit down in my comfy chair. But I do not really like to read unless I have to because I find it to be boring and unproductive.

Sense I don’t really read that much, when I do I have to have something, I just like to have something that keeps me wanting to read more and more and not stop.  If something is just boring, I will just drop it and leave it. So the books that I like are not exactly a specific genre, they are like their own bread.

I haven’t found an author that writes just like the way that I do because I take the perspective of the action that is taking place, and look at it from all angles. Then again, I don’t really read that much so there could be the possibility of there being someone out there that likes to right just like I do.

One of my best memories while I was reading was during a book that I was reading about traveling. A business man who traveled across all of the parts of the world.  He has just about beaten the world record for the most about of frequent flyer miles. He does nothing but travel. He seems like someone that I personally know. They both have similar personalities, so close that I made that person read the book to see if they thought the same thing that I did.

Yes, the Hunger Games. Because I really wanted to know how the story ended… Then when I did finish, I found out that there were two more books.  Anything that I have had to read for school.

I don’t really know who my first reading teacher was. I probably don’t remember them because they weren’t very good at it. It was a teacher, not a family member.

Dream connection

1.       She stated that the caged bird sings because it cannot be free and fly away in order to express itself, so in order to express itself it just sings. It means that if you break your legs and cannot walk, you would find something else to fill that void that now exists in your life. I 100% agree with the concept that she is hitting on in her autobiography.

2.       I do have that power which has develop from people being childish or completely incompetent.  I had to use it when someone in one of my classes was acting like they were five years old.

3.       If someone is trying to gossip or spread rumors, the only reason that they get bigger and spread more and more is because people talk about them or spread them around to their friends.  So essentially when you talk about them, you are giving them more power.

4.       Dreams are said to come from our subconscious, which contains everything that we do know and everything that we don’t know about ourselves.  So since the dreams come from a place that knows everything about us, they must be revealing things about ourselves that others may not see.  I don’t care for scary movies. I find them pointless.  My subconscious knowing this, I had a dream of a scary movie, which made me fritted and I woke up in the middle of it.

5.       In this day and age, I do not think that I would be able to go without talking.  If you define talking by only speech and not texts or something like that, than I could possibly do it.  I believe that I talk too much.  I believe that if I listened more and talked a lot less, then I would be able to teach a lot more about many of my friends or even about my family that I probably did not know previously. By speaking more, I would be able to grow more as a person by being able to communicate my opinions or just my thoughts on specific things and that could possibly reveal me even more to other people.

6.       Yes! I am very comfortable using another language, in my case Spanish.  I am in Spanish 6, but I would also like to get my degree in Spanish so that I could become completely fluent, more than what I am now, and become a translator. Because there is a large Spanish speaking population in the United States and it is currently growing, also because I am really interested in the culture. For most people, speaking English is just perfect for them, but the United States is slowly moving toward Spanish because of the rapidly multiplying Hispanic population, but for other like me who have to deal with the population that does not always speak English fluently, it only makes sense to know another language.  It also makes you stand out from the crowd.  The people who do not get mixed with people that do not know English fluently would not be able to understand the importance at times to be able to communicate thoughts at a specific time or period.

7.       It depends on the on the subject. I can have total recall in a subject such as History or Spanish but in a subject like Math or Science, I am just completely dead in the water. I think that it is better to be someone that almost all of the time because when you are someone who does not remember anything; it seems that you never get anything done or have good grades and sometimes tend to not be very successful in life in general. The clearest things in my life right now are sometimes a few days ago. The fuzziest things to remember are the things that have just passed, rather it is a day ago or twenty seconds ago, I just cannot recall it, it just does not register with me or my brain at all. 

8.       The truth could be just something that happened such as an earthquake.  Fact could just be something that is boring such as an 8.0 earthquake hit California. Yes, I do tend to think the same way as her in this situation.

9.       I just tend to use music or something to just mess around with. Sometimes watching TV will help.  My biggest distractions would first be being tired or lazy and not wanting to do anything but sleep, my second would be when I’m in the middle of doing one thing, and I’m asked to do something else, but I’m just concentrated on the thing that I was already doing.

10.   The easiest things that I have found to write are fiction or anything about history or even about airplanes. But at the same time, I find nonfiction to be the hardest thing to write because I tend to ramble when I am writing it.

 

Dream threads

I was swimming in a random hole while I was in Germany.  Soon after, a crocodile bit my foot.  I was taken to the hospital and I noticed I only had a pinkie toe.  I was losing a lot of blood and didn’t know what to do.  Andiy brought me a sandwich, so I ate it.  I soon became extremely tired and couldn’t sleep.

Before dreams

It takes forever for me to fall asleep.  At times, I could be up for more than an hour.   My mind just wonders about things that happened during the day or how I could have done something differently.  Sometimes my mind just drifts to thoughts about the future. To such things li9ke flying a C-17 in Hawaii, or hopefully going to college of the ozarks to get my degrees in Spanish and in Business management.  I even wonder about politics. Besides becoming a pilot, I’ve also thought about becoming a politicion or even becoming the President.  Especially with the elections coming up late this year.  I will only be able to set back and watch because I will only be seventeen, but I still care because it all still affects me and my future and everthing leading up until I can vote will determine how or who that I will be votting for. I seriously hope that Obama isn’t able to beat the competitor. In my opinion, that would be a complete disaste. ( Nobama 2012). But I don’t just think about things that are so broad. I’ll also think about my family and what we will be doing soon, such as go to the park or go on a bike ride or even throw a party for someone in my family. At times, I like to think of new places that could possibly be a good place to ride my bike, such as a good route through the city or a new trail that I have yet to try out.  I can’t handle just sitting in my bed and starring at the ceiling, I have to constantly think of saomething else to think of or do. I do watch t.v. before I go to bed, but after that is when my mind really comes alive.