Streamm of Consciousness

Death is the hard part. I want to stay alive. I need to take care of my wife and kids. Everyone is counting on me to help fight for what we want. My gun is aimed. I don't know whether to pull the trigger or if I should just let this guy surrender. He's on his knees praying that he won't die. How will people look at my if I just kill this man. And in the face of sorrow, I spare his life. We will take him captive. I start walking again. I see the faces of two enemies. They spot my blue uniform and know that I'm not one of them. They charge after me...

I wake up. My head hurts and my body aches. They must have hit me with their guns and knocked me out. I'm chained to a wall. I lay in the wake of destruction. Death is soon to be near. They call me by the name soldier. I am taken out of my cell. They tell me to join them. If I don't, I face consequence. I decide not to join. I feel a sharp pain in the back of my head. Everything is now black. I am now dead.

Writing Historical Fiction

I think my thesis might be something like this...
In SPIES, when men can't watch their own back anymore, some women will have to step in and see what the enemy has in store. The main point in my book is, when men in the civil war need to seek out what the other side is doing, some women will have to step in and will need to spy on the opposing side. I haven't really started thinking what my historical fiction is going to be about because I don't really know a whole lot about the civil war. For my characters I might do a slave, a general for one of the sides, or maybe even just a wife of someone in the army. I will probably have the character living in the North where slavery didn't happen. The conflict will be that someone is fighting in the war, and gets injured and then kidnapped. My character will be trying to stop slavery by fighting for it in the Civil War.

Motivations

Many many things motivate all types of people, but not the same thing motivates everyone. Some people are motivated by money, power, or even to just accomplish a simple task. I do think that people put themselves before others sometimes. But, there are times where it is responsible to do that, and other times where putting yourself first just isn't the right thing to do. And yes, we are all definitely a little, if not a lot, selfish. One time I really wanted to buy this shirt but I didn't have the money to buy it. So I asked my mom to buy it for me and she said only if I cleaned the bathrooms first. The tactics I used were asking for money which didn't work, but then I did hard work for it when I cleaned the bathrooms. So overall, my tactics technically worked because I did get the shirt in the end.

Fighting

Fighting can be done in many ways. Sometimes it's good to fight. Rather it be for something you really believe in, or maybe to stand up for someone you care about. But then, there is also bad fighting. Examples of this is bullying somebody for lunch money, or just fighting for no real reason. I feel like you can fight in a peaceful matter. You can fight peacefully by talking it out (whether that be screaming or just talking) with the person/group that your fighting with. I would fight for my friends if they are being bullied, or my family if something is going on with them. I would tell the people that are bothering them to stop, and if they didn't, I'd have to take action and maybe get others involved if it really got serious. I would fight for these people because I really care for them, and I know they would do the same for me.

Free Will

I do not think everybody has free will. In some aspects we do, but not fully. We can't just go around steeling stuff from stores, and for some reason it's a law rather we wear our seat belts or not. I formed this opinion on observation mostly. Because we all have rules to follow, we can't just do whatever we want whenever we want.

School Changes

The rules here at Pewaukee, are the rules most school usually have. No running, no fighting, have respect etc etc. But if I were in charge of the school, I would have a few changes in mind. My first rule would be for our physical education department. I would change classes up by doing different things for different units. As an example, for the basketball unit, instead of separating guys and girls, I would have the good girls and good guys play together, and I would have the people that aren't so experienced go together. Another rule I would change is having only 3 people on a bench for lunch. We aren't all insanely obese and could fit 5 maybe even 6 people on a bench if we wanted to. This rule to me seems pointless. And the last thing I would change is the rules we have for dress code. Shorts that are arms length are NOT shorts. And if you can see the straps on tank tops, who cares? If it's not hurting anyone else, and if it is still appropriate, why should it matter? None of these rules would "Un-prepare" any of us for high school. The rules I'm changing are mild, and shouldn't be rules in the first place.

Sports and your Brain

Goggles were worn and screens were surrounding the varsity sports stars and the academic stars as people were tested. The test was to try and cross a road without getting hit by a 40mph car. The cars weren't actually real considering they would lose many of their testers. But they were virtual. Why would people want to test who could get across a road without injuries between the two groups you may ask? It all started at a the University of Illinois.

36 male and female students between the ages 18-22 were recruited the test. For the study,half were varsity athletes at the university,some of them possessed amazing endurance. Others, strength and power, and some precision and grace. The other half of the students were very healthy college students, but they were not athletes. They all wore goggles and were put in a room with 10 foot square video screens. The screens were surrounding them, and they had to try and cross a road with virtual cars going at speeds of 40-55 mph. When the students felt safe, the students were to cross the road. They were told to walk, and they had a limit of 30 seconds to try and get across. Each volunteer had 96 attempts; there was much success, but also many failures. There was a 85% completion rate where students made it to the other side without an accident. The athletes were more successful than the non athletes by a huge margin. All the students walked the same pace, but the athletes thought quicker than the non athletes. In conclusion, the athletes had a quicker mind when it came to reaction, because you need to think fast in order to win games.

Project Reflection

I thought our group did really well on our opinion project. We kept the audience interested, and everybody participated. I liked this project and I would maybe like to do something like this again.

Friends

F is funny. They make you laugh, even on your worst of days. R is for real. These people are the ones you should be able to trust through the good and the bad. I is for interesting. Expand your horizons with friends. You may not know who you will find. E is for energetic. If it weren't for your friends, what would really be your motivation to keep going? N is for never-ending. You will always need friends in life, so keep the good ones close. D is for detail. You seem to be always updated on who is with who, and what is the newest fashion trend. And finally s. S is for special. These people will always be in your heart and you will always remember the great times you guys had.

Humans Being Equal

As we all know, everybody in the world is not really supposed to be equal. We all are unique and different, and I feel that this is the way the world should really be. Imagine if you were walking to school in the morning and say everything the same. The same type and color of a car, kids and adults wearing the same suit; how fun would that really be? I really don't think that human beings can ever truly be 100% equal because of the fact that we all are already so much different than each other. It would be hard to come together and to have everyone wearing the same thing, having the same personality as one another, etc. We all have different finger prints, so why should we try and make them the same?

Superhuman Powers

Being able to have any super power I want would be very cool. There are many different possibilities to choose from, so it would be hard to choose only one. But growing up, I always thought it would be cool to be invisible. You could get into anyone's conversation without them knowing, and you could sneak out of your house easily. I also wondered what would happen if you were invisible, but one day you couldn't go back to normal. Would everyone think your dead, or would people think they are going crazy?

Summer

"Ring Ring Ring!"
Your annoying alarm clock goes off for the very last time this year.
Bright sunlight shines through your open window,
Warmth fills the air.
Birds chirping, Cars driving,
Children laughing, Parents crying.

You slowly get out of bed,
While thinking of all the great memories you've gained this year.
Short shorts and a blue tank.
The perfect combination for the last time you'll ever be in Middle School.

One last time you walk through the entrance of school.
The entrance where you and your friends would gossip about the cutest boy in school,
And the entrance where everybody waited before the bell.

Today class was not a normal day.
For some strange reason everybody was crying,
The only laughter left came from seventh graders.

TO BE FINISHED