My Founding Fathers

Author's Note: This piece is very important because it is about our world and basically who helped create it. Make sure to pay close attention to what a founding father is. 

There were seven major founding fathers of America. Webster defines a founding father as;  a leading figure in the founding of the United States. Only imagine if you could meet the founding fathers and tell them something that you have always wondered. I would tell them many things, like that they have changed the United States for forever.

Most of the founding fathers believed that slavery was wrong, but there was one father who actually owned slavery. If I could ask one question to Thomas Jefferson, it would be why did you think that owning slaves was okay? I honestly think that slavery is brutal and wrong. To me maids are a form of slaves, but they have a chose to be controlled, so they are but they aren’t.

Alexander Hamilton; one of the founding fathers is on the ten dollar bill. George Washington is on the 1 dollar bill. You might think wow what’s so special about being on money? Actually being on money doesn’t mean much, just that it helps us remember the people who founded the United states and our the founding fathers.

In conclusion the founding fathers have changed the United states for forever. To me the founding fathers have truly changed the United states in many different ways. Their honor is showed on money, and they proved that slavery is not right, even though Thomas Jefferson still owned them.

Conflict And Resolution

Author's Note: When you are reading this make sure to pay close attention to how it really is a person  vs. society and not person vs. person.

There was a war between 24 tributes between life and death only 1 comes out on top It was person vs.society.(because they are all fighting against each other and they are all in the society) In district 12 theres two star crossed lovers. Will one give their life up for the other? The real conflict here is that the two star crossed lovers will be fighting against each other, for one will live and the other will die. This is such a sad thing that has to happen. Yet again, they both might die together. One of the other tributes from another district might win.

If only there was a way to let these two crossed lovers both live. It was becoming sudden death there was only 8 people left, the two from district 12 and the other 6 were from other districts. It was full on war. Suddenly an "announcement" came on, saying "there is a change of plans, there will be two survivors. In order for the two crossed lovers to be together forever, they would have to team up and go after the other last remainders. So they worked together to get it down to only 3 left, those two and one other from another district. They worked together and it worked one of them snuck up behind him and killed him. Just shortly after that happened another announcement came on, saying "change of plans again, there can only be one survivor. In the end they both decided to eat poison berries so that no one won. Just as they were about to eat them another annoucment came on, saying stop!! you both can survive, and that is the resolution.

Cause And Effect

Author's Note: Make sure to pay close attention to how this big incident happened.

The major event in this book is that this little boy went to heaven and back. This was caused because his appendix irrupted. This incident effected his parents also, because if say he were to die then his parents would have to make a funeral and do all this work for it (not saying that they wouldn't want to). It would still effect his parents even if he didn't die, because they would   still have him alive and there with them. 

This situation effected the little boy because he died and came back to life. I think that this will never leave him because it was a big part that happened in his life. Being the boys parents and all effected them because they had to pay for the bill to have the surgery done. Also it effected his parents because their son is still alive. 

The Hunger Games

There was a war between 24 tributes between life and death only 1 comes out on top. In district 12 theres two star crossed lovers. Will one give their life up for the other? The real conflict here is that the two star crossed lovers will be fighting against each other, for one will live and the other will die. This is such a sad thing that has to happen. Yet again, they both might die together. One of the other tributes from another district might win.

If only there was a way to let these two crossed lovers both live. It was becoming sudden death there was only 8 people left, the two from district 12 and the other 6 were from other districts. It was full on war. Suddenly an "announcement" came on, saying "there is a change of plans, there will be two survivors. In order for the two crossed lovers to be together forever, they would have to team up and go after the other last remainders. So they worked together to get it down to only 3 left, those two and one other from another district. They worked together and it worked one of them snuck up behind him and killed him. Just shortly after that happened another announcement came on, saying "change of plans again, there can only be one survivor. In the end they both decided to eat poison berries so that no one won. Just as they were about to eat them another annoucment came on, saying stop!! you both can survive, and that is the resolution.

The Best Game Ever

Author's Note: I decided to write this for my personal narrative because I think that it is such an amazing thing that happened to me and I just couldn't believe it.

"There is only one minute left on the court that we are playing on" said my coach. I could feel the butterflies coming. We walked up to the bench and set our bags down. "Start warming up" my coach said. I grabbed a ball and looked up at the scoreboard, we only had a minute and thirty seconds to warm up. My whole team was freaking out. My coach said "bring it in." He gave us a little pep talk before the game to help us boost up our confidence. As he was giving his pep talk I was thinking to myself, if we work together we can accomplish a lot. 

We started heading out onto the court. The game we have all been waiting for was just about to begin. We got into our spots, the girl I was jumping against was really tall. The ref threw the ball in the air; the other girl ended up winning the tip. The Sun Prairie Devils brought up the ball. We got matched up and made the other team turn the ball over, MacKenzie had a fast break, she sprinted down the court for a lap-up. Once we got the game started I could tell all of our stomachs had settled and we were playing like our regular selves. The score was 9 to 8; there was 6 seconds left of the first half. We had the ball, MacKenzie pushed the ball up the court, she passed me the ball for a three, everyone was yelling hurry shoot. I shot the ball and to my surprise I swooshed it. 

It was half time and we were up by 4. We had approximately 10 minutes for half time. My coach pulled us out into the hallway, of course he had to give a lecture about everything he saw us do wrong, but that is what a coach is supposed to do; it makes you better. He was just talking to us about how we have to keep the lead and we can't let them get back into the game. The buzzer went off and we jogged back into the gym onto the court. 

I took the ball out of bounds and passed it to MacKenzie. She started dribbling up the court, we were trying to stall so that the other team couldn't get the ball. After a while the other team finally took a foul. They had six fouls against us, so we were in bonus. I had to shoot two free-throws, I'm not the best at free-throws so I ended up missing both of them. They started bringing the ball up the court, we were only up by four with 1 minute left. You could tell the other team was desperate for points. One of girls from the other team chucked up a three and it banked in. Of course our luck ran out, when the girl was shooting one of our girls fouled her. She ended up tying the game. There was only about six seconds left when we were bringing the ball up the court. They fouled Claire. Claire was one of the better free-throw shooters, although this crowd was really annoying she couldn't focus enough. Lucky for us there was one girl from the other team who hit the ball out of bounds. There was one second left, our coach called a time-out. He made a play; I was freaking out though because the play was for me. It was called Dells. I ended up being wide open. Sky passed me the ball...

“Shoot the ball,” the crowd yelled. Swoosh, the ball went through the net. We just won the championship game! My team and I sprinted and huddled together. We were jumping up and down filled with excitement. Afterwards we went to Culver's to celebrate the big victory.  I guess it really is true, if you work together you can accomplish a lot. 

Heaven is for real

Author's Note: Make sure to pay attention to how old this boy is and had to go through such a difficult time. 

Heaven is for Real is about a 4 year old boy who has basically been to heaven and back. The little boy's appendix irrupted, when his parents found out they rushed him to the hospital to get the "poison" out of him. While they were operating on him; he was visiting heaven. They got the poison out of his little body and he was back from heaven.

The Best Day Ever

Author's Note: For my DWA I chose to write about a family trip to Six Flags Great America. I chose this because spending time with family is important to me.

It was a hot and sunny day. My family and I were on our way to Six Flags Great America. We were taking two cars; I was in the one with all my cousins and my aunts. On the way up we were jamming out to music, laughing, and having a good time. It was a long ride, you could tell my aunt’s were getting annoyed very easily. We were having such a good time that we didn’t even notice the two hour long drive. It felt like a thirty minute drive. I guess it’s true, when your having a good time; time flies by.

It was almost 9:50 a.m. when we arrived at the park. The park officially opened at 10:00 a.m. and everyone was so excited to be there and couldn’t wait to get on some rides. The other car pulled up next to us, they got out and we headed toward the entrance. As soon as we paid for the tickets and got in, we got a map and headed to the closest territory; which was the Southwest. Raging Bull -which by the way is one of my favorite rides- is in that part. We hit five rides by the time the clock struck 11:30. Usually we only get to two or three rides in that time. I could tell that it was going to be a good day, and we would get to a lot of rides.

As we were in line for the Raging Bull, we saw what I thought was really cool, a man was 221 feet in the air fixing the Giant Drop. He was just dangling there in a harness that I thought could break at any moment. Since the wait for the Bull was only fifteen minutes, I didn’t get to explore what had actually happened to the Giant Drop. After we hit the Raging Bull for the second time we headed to the food market to get some lunch. Everyone was so hungry, you could tell since our food was gone within ten minutes. As I looked at my phone to check the time, it said 1:30. I couldn’t wait to get on more rides and enjoy the cool breeze blowing against my face.

We started walking toward Superman, one of my favorite rides. As we approached the ride, I noticed something wrong with the it… the ride had been broken down, and the sign said RIDE BROKEN DOWN WILL BE BACK UP AND RUNNING IN 30 MINUTES. I was so angry that it was broken down, I should have guessed that it would have broken down at least once today; it is always breaking down. So we decided to head to a different roller coaster. The closest one to Superman was V2 also known as Vertical Velocity. After waiting in a huge line for about forty-five minutes, it was our turn to get on the ride. The ride is only about thirty seconds long, so we waited forty-five minutes for a thirty second long ride. That ride was pointless but the next ride we were going to hit was Batman, to me this is the coolest ride to wait in line for, because you go through an underground tunnel and you literally feel like you are Batman on your way to save someone. The ground even makes noises. Also there is a scene where there is a Police car that has crashed into a fire hydrant and there are bullet holes in the car, and it is like a investigation scene and then out of nowhere the rides goes right above the police. Three hours and ten minutes later, it was almost Six o’clock, since the park closes at Ten we had to get moving to more rides. X-FLIGHT is one of the new rides that came out this year, surprisingly there was only a fifteen minute wait. As we were in line we were getting situated. Mostly who was going to ride with who, and what wing were u going to ride on, the left or the right. We got everything in order just at the time where u get separated for the left or the right wing. We got comfy in our seats and we took off. I can honestly say that X-FLIGHT is now on my list for my favorite rides.

We got to ride a few more roller coaster but sadly it was time to leave after that. It was  time to go home and the ride home felt the exact same, except that everyone except my aunt was sleeping. Today to me felt like the time just flew by, well if you’re having a good time; time flies by.