Patriots Pen

Hello, I am here to talk to you about the good and bad things that may need to be changed about our country. I'll be talking about all the problems about our country and all the things that are wonderful! I am so grateful for the great things you have done for us.

There are some good and bad things in our country. I'll start off by stating the good things about America. Well first, we are all happy that we have a free country. It's nice to know that we aren't ruled by anyone. Next, were all glad to have freedom of speech. I personally think its great for freedom of speech so you can speak your own mind. Some other great things are, we have a president, we have great places to eat, everyone above the age 18 gets to vote, freedom of religion, and we also have opportunities. It's great that we have a great education system.

There are actually many things that do need work. Some of these things are, Pollution, Debt, Taxes and Economy. Taxes have been raised by a lot. It has been hard for adults to keep up and puts some people in debt. Racism is also a problem we have. A lot of people from different races like, African-American, Indian, Asian, even Americans get made fun of for being who they are. These things really should be changed.

We are all grateful for what you do for us. Thank you for your time. Out of all the great and bad things, I love where we live. Thank you again for having a wonderful environment for us to live it. We are all so grateful for the things you have done for us.

"Pictures of Hollis Woods" Cause and Effect

Author's Note: In these upcoming paragraphs you will read, are about cause and effects of the book, "Pictures of Hollis Woods". I really recommend this book.

Hollis had very hard times. Being alone when you’re very little is hard. She was in foster care her whole life. Whenever Hollis was put into a different home, she would run away. Hollis thinks that she will never have a family, until one house came, and she loved it.

The bond between Josie, the foster parent, and Hollis was extraordinary. She didn’t want to leave her. She began to be more comfortable around Josie and decided not to run away.
The whole cause in this story was the fact that every house Hollis was put in, she had ran away from. She didn’t feel welcome into their homes. Hollis had a past with a family of three, Steven, Old man, and Izzy. Hollis’s foster worker wanted to put her in a different, permanent, home. She began to pack everything up and decided to leave, but this time, she brought Josie with her. Hollis took Josie to her old foster family’s summer house.

How this effects the story, is that Josie gets homesick and must go back home. Hollis knew she had to take Josie back. Hollis called Josie’s cousin to come and pick her up, she did. Hollis knew it would be hard saying goodbye. She then saw a little boy, it was Steven. he invited Hollis to come live with them. Hollis knew she would see Josie again. She started living with the old family again. Hollis was finally accepted for who she is. She finally felt accepted and welcomed.

"Fact of Life #31" Conflicts.

"Fact of Life #31", favorites to many. So many people can relate to this thick detailed teen romance book in many ways. The conflict in this book is, Person vs. Society, and Person vs. Person. Katima, the main character, has a secret romance with this boy, Manny. I chose Person vs. Person, because throughout the book, Manny and Katima have some fights. As well as Katima and her mother. I also chose Person vs. Society because Katima isn’t popular herself,  unlike Manny, every girls dream. She has one friend and her friends boyfriend. She is the “nerd” girl who’s best friend wears hats every day and has a stick skinny shy boyfriend.

Person vs. Person, had been solved from making up from fights. When Manny and Katima had a huge fight, towards the end they made up. I will try not giving away the ending if you are interested in this book. Like every fight, you have to make up somehow! That’s what Katima and the victims of her hatred words had to do, makeup. Person vs. Society had been solved by Manny not being embarrassed from Katima. He stepped up and didn’t care about his reputation and in the end Katima had also turned popular, but never left behind her best friend.

Summer 2012

Summer 2012 was a boring, short, but fun time! Some things I did over the summer will be shared in this story! For the first weekend my mom took me and my friend camping. It was okay, some people on the trip got homesick and I got a little fever. We went swimming in a freezing lake full of tiny and big fish. While I was outside in the hot summer weather for five hours I had received a gift from the sun, a terrible sun burn. The five hours had cost my skin a second degree burn. This terrible burn caused blisters on my skin and I couldn’t be outside for two weeks! After the week of nothing was over, of course, I get the flu the next week! Now that’s three weeks of nothing to do in the summer break!

After my misery of sickness was over, the summer continued with being home alone not being able to do anything. About a week later, my mom was able to drive me places. I didn’t have the rest of my summer go to waste! July 10^th was my birthday, I had a lot of fun at my party. For my birthday I had received a load of money, so I went off and bought my very own IPod touch 4. That was an amazing day! Till this day I can’t live without my IPod! About two weeks after my actual birthday, I had my party. I had about 25-30 girls over, that’s a lot of people! While my party was going on, we wanted to take a walk down to the board walk by my house. When we walked down we had noticed that the neighbor down the road was having a big party. They were all freshman in high school and they chased us and threw water balloons! It was a great time though!

"Fact of Life #31" Re-telling

 Fact of Life #31 is about a girl, Katima, who has had a crush on this boy, Manny, for the past 4 years. As they ran into each other it was a start of something new. They had a secret  relationship until Katima found out Manny didn’t want to be with her.This is a great story for girls ages 12-15.