A Lesson to Be Learned in The Animal Farm

To finish up the 1st semester of ninth grade English, we read the novel, Animal Farm.  It was written by George Orwell in 1950.  He was from England and decided to write about the Russian Revolution and the main people and conflicts in that time.  All of his characters matched perfectly with the people of that event.  I enjoyed reading this book and I am going to write about a lesson that is to be learned from this book.  I thought since it fits both the book and the event of the Russian Revolution, i should write about being equal.  In the story the animals get tired of being slaves for their master, Mr. Jones, and revolt very early in the book.  They end up doing well on their own after some time.  Eventually there are two pigs who want to run a campaign and have votes on who should rule the farm.  One pig gets blamed for something he didn't do and gets chased out of the farm.  The other pig turns out to be a very bad ruler and ruthless towards his fellow animals.  The reason i chose to write about being equal is because the animals started off hating humans and said they would never hurt other animals, but in the end a few animals have 5X the power of others and claim to be more important and even start taking up habits that the humans did earlier in the story such as, trade, drinking alcohol, wearing clothes, and even walking on two legs!  The lesson of this story is to treat each other equal and make others feel important so you can have a good society and stay happy.

The Best Times of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is always great because i get to see all of my family in one house and have great food.  I'd say that my favorite part of thanksgiving is eating a great meal and then shortly after, going to watch football and eat desert.  This year will be great because a break from school is good but a few extra days of good eating is just perfect.  We don't really have many traditions at my thanksgiving, but one year on accident, my grandma got chicken instead of turkey for some reason so we always have chicken and turkey now.  I love Thanksgiving because of the fun we have with our family all on one day.

Career Day is NOT Boring

There were 4 sessions we had to go to and the careers i chose to go to were medicine, business, law, and engineering.  Medicine and engineering were just to fill out the sheet and to complete the session requirements.  But law and business really stood out to me.  Mostly law.  I thought that law was going to be boring when i arrived, but i actually ended up learning a lot from the speaker and the slide show presentation.  A few things i learned from the sessions was how much money those careers make on average, how much schooling you need, and what exactly you do on a typical day of those careers.  Out of all of them i think law appealed to me more because it is fascinating and gives you more of an understanding of the world by learning about law and attorneys.

My Julius Caesar Project

Making my project for Julius Caesar was a challenge but also very fun to do.  I like to have hands-on projects instead of power points and papers.  It is just more interesting to me.  The way i made my project was drawing 3 characteristics of the antagonist, Cassius.  I depicted them by drawing out what they meant with a picture and then filling it in with colored pencils.   It took me a while to color and to think of the ideas for my drawings.  I'm not the best drawer in the world but i do enjoy making those kind of projects.  I feel like sharing it with my class was easy and i  enjoyed that because they all got to see my drawings.  I hope I did good on it and I'm looking forward to being able to do another project similar to this one.

My Response to Spiritual Emphasis Week

I think our speaker, Brent, is a great speaker.  He is hilarious and knows what to say to get through to high school students.  He makes great jokes, and can relate to whats going on in our lives and really connect with us. He really turns us to Jesus.  I'm very glad that he is our speaker because he makes me want to go to chapel everyday.

Too Much Pride is a Bad Thing

In this blog post I'm going to be writing about pride being portrayed in the story Julius Caesar.  In the story Caesar probably gets killed because of 2 reasons, being too ambitious and having too much pride.  Pride is always a problem in stories like this because it can really get in the way of your goals and plans.  Too much pride is dangerous because people will dis-like you and know that you think way to highly of yourself.  In this story too much pride is being portrayed when the soothsayer tries to warn Caesar about his dark future and he just ignores him and tells him to go away.  That is a big reason why he dies.  Caesar also refuses to listen to his wife Calphurnia when she has dreams about him being killed.  His pride also gets in the way when Artemidorus tries to warn him about the conspirators plans to kill him in a letter form and he just ignores it and asks why his is so important.  This story applies to real life because if you have too much pride in yourself or are "big headed", no one will truly like you and you will end up like Caesar but emotionally.

The Lesson to be Learned from the Short Story "The Necklace"

The question in my literature book for English class that i am answering is, Do people still chase after wealth and social status today? Do you think the pursuit of status is worthwhile? In my opinion i think that mostly everybody chases after wealth and a high social status.  In our society today social status is a big deal and if you don't have a very high one or none at all then you just "aren't important.," which is not true.  The pursuit of social status is rewarding at times but it is more hard work to strive to be important than to focus on working for it and not worrying about it.  If you become rich sure you will be able to buy most things that would make you happy and make you enjoy yourself, but you would never truly find real happiness because you just don't know if your wife/husband/friends really love you for you, or just your money and physical objects.  If you don't care about your status then most of the time your friends and family will love and accept you for who you really are, not just what you have.  Most people in our world do not think this way, which is why they are always disappointed and not actually that happy. If you are too greedy then you will lose the people who truly care about you because you will take them for granted, kind of like what the women did in the short story, "The Necklace."

My 9th Grade Goals: Using Wordle's Word Cloud

My academic goals are to have all b's and a's this year and to pass all my classes and get the credits for all the classes.  Another goal I have is to not miss an assignment or due homework.  My social goals would be to have my friends I already have and make new friends that are new to this school.  My spiritual goals is to participate more in chapel, and I would like to learn more about God, and pray more.  Not just for me but for everybody else and their struggles.

The Symbol of Violence that both gangs showed in The Outsiders

This is  violence that both of the gangs showed in The Outsiders.  The ''Socs'' used violence just to hurt people that weren't as good as them in their opinion.  The ''Greasers'' returned violence in self defense and in fear.  The symbol is the rumble at the end of the book.  It shows that both gangs would fight if they needed to so that must mean they are all violent.  Even the shyest character in the book, Johnny, wasn't afraid to fight when he had to.