A Man Without Wisdom

What if you whole life or the live of another depended on a single fire? Your hands and feet are becoming numb by the minute. As you reach for the last match, it falls helplessly to the ground. You drop to the ground in a pile and you start to shiver. You think this is it I'm done for lives over. There is nothing left to save myself. "To Build a Fire" by Jack London is a story with nature showing the harsh weather of the Klondike.

First off let’s talk about the symbolism. One of the major symbols of this story is fire. In some cases fire means death. In this case it means life. Because that is how he has to save his life. Also a major symbol is the old man from sulfur creek. The old man represents wisdom because he has lived longer than the other man who apparently didn't understand that it was cold. 

Furthermore that made of this tale is tragedy. In a tragically mode of the world starts in conflict with the world or something else. Which was when he was out in the cold when the conflict occurs which he could not start the fir. Finally at the end of tragedy ends with loss of a person who decided not to listen to the other wise men who were trying to help him not cause a conflict for himself or for others around him. If he could just have listened nothing would have probably have happened to him in the first place.

Finally, trying to hurt another's life in order to save yours or someone hurting yours to save theirs is the worst thing that you or someone could do. It's not very intelligent and also not very kind to do. It would remind you every time and kind of haunt you because you would know that you had done something wrong and it would have been better if you would have not done that. You probably would also think that you should have thought it over before you had done something that would hurt you for probably the rest of your life. It would be the worst feeling anyone could most likely have. In the story the man tried to kill the dog to use its warmth, and he didn't end up killing the dog.

In the story there was a battle between man vs. nature. Nature ended up wining because of its harsh conditions it made it harder for the man to get around the camp where the wise man told him not to go in the first place. Because of that the man had to serve his consequences. 

The year was 2081 and it was a long time a bunch of people and things had changed since I had remembered. Everyone had gone to the future and forgotten about some of the past. There wasn't that many people I had remembered from all those years that had gone by. At least I could memorize some but not all things that had happened to me and to others.   

Wonderful Weekend

           

Having someone wake you up on an early Saturday morning. Hearing that you’re going somewhere, you probably get excited.... till you find out where and then you just feel like falling back asleep. Even if you don't want to go where your parents are going they still make you go because they say you can't stay home alone, and then you ask why and they give you a whole explanation about the reasons why you can't. Also if the place you have to go to is about an hour and a half or two it gets worst then it was before. Especially if they wake you up at around seven then come back to your room and find you still lying down that makes them mad. Parents just don't like to repeat themselves it just makes them get angry at you and they start getting angry at others when it's not their fault or it's not your fault. Then we leave the house start driving near the highway and your parents forgot something so that means another ten wasted minutes back. They also need to go look for what they forgot and not have it in a certain place to grab it and get out right away which would take less time to go get. That's what makes me mad most the time when they don't think about what they're doing or what they have to do or get before they walk out the front door. Also when they and are supposed to go get that one thing they decide that they forgot something else and they end up bringing things that are not needed at all. Then when you’re on the highway you end up falling asleep because it's so early in the morning, then waking up and not knowing where you are because you haven’t been there for a while and also because you had just woken up. Or after you fall asleep your brother decides to hit you on the back, and that just frightens you and it also make you very mad and you decide to hit him back and he tells on you and you end up getting in trouble because of his fault. Getting to my cousins house to visit them at around ten or ten thirty was interesting, they were actually sitting down and they were quiet they weren't running around like usual when we come to visit. That was because they were watching TV. They saw my brother come along with this time so they decided to go outside and play football in the cold weather outside and the grass was wet and muddy so that didn't make things better. I stayed inside for about half an hour then decided to go out also in the bitter weather with my cousin. Then she decided to make a fire. Everyone came and helped but since it was windy the flame kept on blowing out on the matches and the fire. My little cousin decided to go get marshmallows and throw them in the little flame there was. I found out when you put marshmallows in the fire that they start to get puffy and then they start to burn. Then my brother decided to put a stick in the miniature flame and then put a marshmallow on it and it started to melt and make bubbles. After about fifteen minutes I decided to go back inside, because I was truly getting freezing out there. My little cousin decided to fallow along also. After about twenty minutes I decided to go back out to make my cousin not feel lonely out there by herself. I decided to stay out there for another ten minutes and then go back in. About half an hour later she came in yelling because of my brother and her brothers they found a water gun in the garage and decided to fill it up and get her wet and also gets her little sister wet. So her little sister decided that throwing rocks was going to help but it made it worst she was chasing them all around the house and around the garage and all over the place. Then her little sister also came in. Then my mom and their mom was calling them in to tell them to stop but the decided not to come in at all so then everybody just forgot about it. My aunt told my cousin to go put the fire out but she said she wasn't because her brothers and mine were going to keep on getting her wet. My brother walked in and my aunt told him and my other cousins to put it out, they did and I was surprised that they actually listened to her. They all came back in we all ate and then it was time to go back home for us. We left at around seven. My brother decided to fall asleep on the way back so I decided to bother him like he also decided to when we were going. I was poking his back and then he woke up and yelled at me so then I stopped because I didn't want to get in bigger trouble then I was earlier for hitting him back. We got home at around nine. I decided to fall asleep but I couldn't till about ten thirty or eleven, I was really tired by that time. Next morning I got woken up again to go do my chores that I didn't do the day before.

Terrifying Reptile

What would you do if you came across a huge monstrous reptile? A enormous 5 foot lizard was spotted in the city of Riverside. The lizard was wondering around a condo complex  in a neighborhood. It was the biggest reptile found in that city.

The animal control office was contacted by a resident of the city of Riverside, to save the neighborhood from the huge reptile. The animal control officer use a "catch pole" to trap the lizard. A "catch pole" is a tool used to trap animals by the neck. It looks like a stick with a loop at the end. At first the lizard was submissive but then it became aggressive.

Due to the size of the lizard officers believe it could have been someone's pet. They suppose the lizard escaped or it was left outdoors unsupervised. In my opinion I think that people shouldn’t be able to have large pets that could harm people in unexpected moments. People who have dangerous animals as pets should be fined and arrested for  owning an illegal and perilous pet.

The animal control officers are waiting for the lizard's owner to claim it. Nobody was harmed by the lizard but it could have happened, and this story could have ended tragically. Authorities should implement stricter laws regarding dangerous pets. If you are considering owning a pet make sure to stick with dogs and cats.

"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening."

In this poem Robert Frost is trying to hide the real identity of the character in the poem. All the things mentioned in the poem correlate with real things and actions of Santa Clause. The mysterious man covers up the real person's identity who would be Santa. Also, the horse would be covering up the reindeer.

The author writes the glorious poem of "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" to tell Santa's life. When he mentions "frozen lake," he wishes he could freeze  time so he could deliver presents to the children around the world. The reason why he also wants to freeze time is because he is getting to old and he wouldn't get all the gifts delivered in time to the whole world.  "And miles to go before I sleep," perhaps means that the man has a long time before he dies. When winter comes around children all over the world get very excited. Christmas goes by and then all the children forget about Santa and his reindeer. 

In conclusion, I believe the author is trying to make the readers understand and realize how Santa has many more years to go before he sleeps. Even though children forget about him, he wants to keep the promises he has made to them.

Melinda in Speak

"You talking to me? I'll answer….  in my head, but not out loud." This is an answer typical of Melinda Sordino, the main character in Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak.  Melinda is a character with many flaws.

First,  Malinda  is a very very quiet person. She says some things but not  much. She has a mom and a dad and she has no brothers or sisters.  She wishes to borrow one. She is also very confused about  her self  and her personality. She communicates  with her parents by leaving notes on the table. She also has a very low self esteem of herself.

She also does not really have a personality, because her room is still from fifth grade. Because she has not changed anything about it. She has a little of each of her old friends personality but not of hers. She is not a very known person in the school. People use to know her the year before.

While she is at school, Melinda spends time in a janitor's closet. This is a symbol in the book Speak because Melinda hides herself here. In the closet, she finally feels secure, that no one will see her now. Then she starts to skip school for a couple of days. Finally she starts to go to all her classes everyday.  A conflict in the book was that Melinda getting good grades. The reason why is because she wasn't attending school for a couple of days.

Another symbol is the tree. First she was drawing second grade trees for  art. The tree symbolism represents the growth of herself, like when the tree is dead she does not feel very confident of herself she is not proud of how she looks like and she  felt disgusted of the things that happen to her during the party outside.

My conclusion of this book was, that we should not drink at an early age because our brain has not fully developed,  and if anything bad ever happens we should talk someone we really truly trust and not keep it a secret, because It could happen again or something worse could happen.

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Speed	1.5	2.2	3	1.6	1.8	2.1	1	1.1	4.3	1.2

Problem  - How will the size of a sphere affect the time of the sphere when it falls?
Hypothesis - My hypothesis is that  the heavier the marble or ball the faster the marble will drop.
Experiment  - We will drop the spheres and graph the times to get the results
Procedure
1.  First we will gather all of our materials.
2. We grab the timer.
3. We will drop the spheres and start the timer so we can measure the time.
4.  We will repeat steps 2-3 ten more times so we can get the rest of the times.
5. Finally we will clean our materials up.
6. Materials
7. Marble
8. Ping Pong ball
9. Basketball
10. Timer
11. CV- Where the object falls from.
12. IV-  The size of the sphere, weight of the object.
13. DV- Time it takes for the object to fall to the ground.
Observations My observations were that the spear would fall
Conclusion  My conclusion is that the heavier the sphere is the faster the object will fall.