Assignment #10

My Experience

Nobody likes it, almost everybody does it, and no one is taking charge.It happens everywhere you go. When I was in elementary school, I got bullied tons. It was by multiple people. The reason I believe that I got bullied was because of my weight, height and even my skin color. In elementary school, it was very horrible because there were little cliques just like middle school and high school. not everybody got along. They would throw things at me and tell me "Oh you're nothing but a little fat white girl! Go eat some more Twinkies." They would also say stuff like "Don't you belong in some other school you whit piece of trash?" It only got worse in middle school because I did not tell anybody. In middle school, nobody would want to hang out with me. I felt alone inside and out. At that time, i felt like i was worthless. They would tell me that i stink to go take a shower and that they should have used my stomach as the solar system. Once I got to high school I had nothing else to turn to so I started cutting myself. I cut myself one time so bad that my mom had to take me to the hospital and they had to admit me to make sure I wouldn't do something worse. I had hidden all of my cutting from my parents and fellow classmates by always wearing sweaters or long sleeves. My mom had only found out i was cutting because she saw the scars from previous cuts. Now I am just so self conscious about my body image and what people think of me. I think I will be scarred for life because of the bullies.

People need to just stop the bullying already! It is a waste of every body's time! The reason I think people bully is to build up their own confidence by putting multiple people down.

Assignment #9

Out in the desert in Tuscon, Arizona, There once lived a short, wrinkly, chubby, grumpy man named Phyllis who didn't care about anyone or anything but his property. If even a squirrel  tried to take a step on his property, ZAP! They automatically get hit by a spark that kills them once touched. Phyllis has been alone ever since his wife of 42 years passed away 10 years ago. He does not like having any company.

All of a sudden, what looks to be a UFO lands right near Phyllis's property and he cannot believe it so he goes out to his fence and yells "What the hell do you think you are doing near my property?!" A weird creature gets out of the UFO and starts trying to talk but Phyllis cannot understand his language and just stares at it and runs back inside. The creature is an alien and as he is walking into Phyllis's property, ZAP! The alien gets zapped but just keeps on walking as if he didn't feel a thing.It's like he is indestructible. He walks up to the door of the house but Phyllis is hiding in the closet of the living room and tries to make it seem like he is not home. The alien is not stupid so he starts knocking and finally hits the door so hard that he broke the door and just stormed inside. Knocking over everything as he is searching for the short, wrinkly, chubby man. Phyllis finally surrendered and asked the alien "What are you doing here? And what are you?" The alien starts talking in his weird language again and Phyllis said "Wait! Wait! Wait! I cannot understand you let me try and find a translator." The alien walked outside and came back with a machine with a microphone and handed it to him. Phyllis looked very confused. He plugged it in and told the alien to talk. He did. It was very so a translator. The alien was telling Phyllis how his UFO ran out of the stuff used to make it go. It was called googy. It was very similar to gas but it is made to power more powerful machines. All the alien wanted to do was find some googy to power his machine. Unfortunately Phyllis could not help him. The alien was very sad and Phyllis was feeling very lonely so he invited him just to stay at his house as long as he needed to. Phyllis named the alien Guiness. Guiness and Phyliss became very good friends and Phyllis taught Guiness how to speak english. Over the next few months, another alien ship landed and demanded that Guiness go bcak home with him because he did not belong there.

Guiness went home and Phyllis had for once thought he'd never be alone agaain. Once again, he was. Phyllis was depressed for the past year and then got over it finally when he met a new friend.. THE END

Book Report

Sloppy Firsts..

This is a novel about a young teenage girl named Jessica. Her best friend Hope moved away because her parents were worried that she would get all into drugs and overdose like her friend Heath. Jessica is forced to go through the rest of her high school year with the group Jessica calls "The clueless crew". There are three girls in this group and they are all stuck up. They all look at the modeling magazines and hate on them because they wish they looked like them. Then there is a guy named Marcus Flutie. He is a strange kid who everyone calls "Krispy Kreme" for what reason? I have no clue. Everyone thinks he will be the next one to die from an over dose. Halfway through sophomore year, a new girl goes to PHS and her name is Hy. Well that's what she goes by. She makes new friend's right away. She soon becomes pretty good friends with Jessica. Then betrays her for the "Clueless crew". All of a sudden, Hy disappears when summer time comes and everyone is wondering where she went. Then the "Clueless crew" finds a magazine saying that Hy went as an undercover celebrity in a "real" school to see how it was because she had never experienced a "real" life. Everyone was mad and Jessica decided to write about her in the school paper about how everyone lies not only Hy. At the end of the book, Jessica and Hope are reunited and that's where the book ends. This book is very good for teenagers because it show's what happens in a teenagers life.

Assignment #8

Thing's are not always what they seem!

The moral of this short story is: Things are not always what they seem. I chose this moral because in the short story The Necklace, a poor girl named Matilde wanted to live in fame and fortune and just be the most beautiful girl in all the world. She wanted to have all these materialistic things and the guy she married, got paid a very low amount of money so he could not buy her what she wanted. So she asked her friend to borrow a necklace, She felt like she was the prettiest in the world. All the guys were admiring her. When they were leaving, she lost the necklace! She freaked out and saved enough money to buy a new one so her friend wouldn't notice and when she took it to her, her friend asked why it took so long for her to take it back to her, and she said because she lost it and had to make enough money to buy her a brand new real one. Her friend laughed and said it hadn't cost her more then a few bucks.
Matilde had practically wasted her whole life trying to make back enough money to buy her a new necklace when in reality the necklace wasn't worth anything. Matilde should have just told her the truth from the beginning. Even though the necklace made her look rich and glamorous, it really wasn't expensive so things are not always what they seem.

Assignment #7

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. (Jennifer James)

This quote is practically saying that jealousy controls you. There is only one other thing that you have-self value. If you do not show yourself that you are loved and tell yourself you are loved, then you will not feel loved. You will always think that the good or bad things you do are mistakes and the good things you do are luck. What you need to do is stop paying attention to other people, and look what you have inside of yourself. You also have to find where the jealousy is coming from and find all of it and clear all of it from your body. Put all of your energy into focusing on yourself rather than others. Then, you will make others jealous and you can remember all the jealousy you had for them and reach out for them and try and help them.
I just re-wrote the poems in the words that i understood it in and i think that this quote is a very powerful one. The author is trying to tell everybody that you need to stop being jealous of others and clear out all the jealousy from your body. There are many jealous people in the world. No matter how old, young, skinny, tall, fat, short, tall etc. Everyone is jealous of something. James also says that you must love yourself or you will not feel loved. She is meaning that if you are always negative all the time about yourself saying stuff like "Oh I'm fat I hate my body", then other people will not love you, so you have to have confidence in yourself and believe that everyone loves you. James is saying that people need to quit looking at other people and being jealous of what they have and focus on yourself and what you have. This is a very good quote because James is talking about stuff that happens daily and people need to open their eyes and realize that life is too short to be jealous of what other people have. Everyone shall be grateful for whatever they have.