The game of how to survive in the game

A wealthy man has adapted to the feeling of taking the life of a human being. He has got such a special talent that you could never see him he is so sneaky about his killing, and clutch and very good under pressure. He wanted out of his bad habits though, he was getting bored and too good at killing he needed something better for a rush. His undefeated record was just not even phasing him. It was almost like he was too good to be a killer. He was just about to be out of the game when he smelled the prey of somebody he had been hunting and looking for ever since his first kill. So he killed again and again and just went on his biggest killing spree so far.

The game of how to survive in the game

Child Soldiers

I think that having child soldiers is just not rite at all. There is no reason why a little toddler should be dealing with those kind of situations. I think that anybody who would do that to a child deserves to be given the death penalty! That is pretty much howI personally feel about having child soldiers. It should have never started in the first place it's just completely wrong.

Sierra Leone

There has been a lot of stuff that Sierra Leone has been put through. According to human rights watch, over 50,00 people have been killed and over one million have been displaced. The RUF-Revolutionary United Front has been accused of doing horrible things like raping people and amputating human limbs and more. Another really bad thing that's going on in Sierra Leone is that there are children that are being turned into soldiers which is to me the worst thing going on. These kids are not kids there like 8 years old but there being forced into doing things they don't want to do and almost turning an 8 year old into an adult. The whole child soldier thing is the thing that sticks out the most for me. That is just straight up wrong and cruel.

Why I Fight

The book that i read was Why I Fight by J. Adams Oaks. I think so far that this book is really good. This is a very exciting book about a boy named Wyatt Reeves who is adopted by his uncle Spade. As his Uncle already has a bad problem with gambling and when he finds out that Wyatt is a very talented street fighter he gets money hungry. What I love about this book so far is that it is very intense and you could almost feel every punch that was thrown. The author used a really good vocabulary too. So you could get a really good picture in your head of what is going on in the book. This book is a perfect size it's not too long and it's not too short. I think that this is a very good book for sports fans and people who like a lot of action.

Quotations

"It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder

How I keep from going under"

This verse comes from the song "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash. I think that this verse relates back to the book A Long Way Gone because it is like a jungle where he is and it makes me wonder how i keep from going under would be true because so many people died back then.

"I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise no more

Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice"

This is another verse that comes from the song "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash. This relates to the book very good because the smell in the air was probably nasty cause of all the dead corpses and what not. The noise would be lots of gun fire and people screaming so not being able to take the gunfire anymore. It's hard enough for them to even get food so they definitely don't have any money and they have no choice on what to do and what comes next for them.

RUF Sierra Leone

RUF stands for Revolutionary United Front. The RUF was also considered the death squad. The RUF was a rebel army that fought a 11 year war in Sierra Leone. There goal was to overthrow the government of Sierra Leone. They were fighting for control and freedom. They are still trying people for the holocaust and some of the people from the RUF were convicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Hip-Hop Growth

I’ve noticed myself that technology has probably played a major role in the growth of hip-hop. Also another big thing is the beats, the lyrics and clothing and what not. The environment that the rappers have been born into is also a really big thing with the changing of hip-hop. In old school hip-hop there was a lot more record scratching in the beat so it gave it a lot more of a jump around effect. The artists back then would wear more of a throwback retro look. Back then people would just write there rhymes around things that they actually have gone through or witnessed but now a days people just write there lyrics in a way so they rhyme, not things that has legit happened to them or that they have witnessed.

Book Review: Hole In My Life

Author: Jack Gantos

I read the book Hole In My Life by Jack Gantos. I thought that it was a really good book. It was just pretty much about a teenager who makes a choice of crime to escape his home life. So he ends up sailing a boat that is full of hash from St. Croix to New York City and tells about his life after being busted and put into a federal prison. I think personally that this book relates to a lot of teenagers cause a lot of teenagers make bad choices when they were young that affect them the rest of there life.

Blogging

I love the fact that now we basically do all our work through blogging. I like this a lot because I am horrible at writing and on this all we have to do is type it up on our blog hit post and you just go there and give us grades. I think that starting the whole blogging was probably your smartest idea ever. It is so much more convenient to do the work on the blog then the paper. Thank you so much for making it easier on me, I hope you like it just as much as I like it.

Giving Back

When I make it in life and hit the jackpot and am loaded with cash I want to make a gym. I want to make a gym that is free for anybody and is open 24/7. I want to do this because I don't see why people should have to pay to work out and lose weight. I would make it so you just go there and start a membership that is completely free. When your done your membership you just get a pass and that opens the doors for you the you can go whenever you want.

Strength

Symbolizes unconscious powers
Terrifying Strength
Raw physical strength
Emotions will be set free
Never back down
Given strengths
Tough and indomitable
Hot passion

From Pieces To Weight

I read the book From Pieces To Weight by 50 cent. This book is about Curtis who grows up in Queens, who's mother is a drug dealer and has been a drug dealer for a while. It does not take Curtis long at all to realize that his mother is selling drugs. Curtis has a passion with rapping since he was a kid. This slowed him down on everything he did though when his mother was killed. He then started to take after his mother in the selling drugs game. Before you know it he gets kicked out of school cause he went to school with the wrong shoes which had crack in them. He sells drugs for a while, but when he gets older he ends up becoming a rapper. This book basically just shows from when he was a kid and how he aged and what choices he made during his life. I loved this book so much, this is the only book I actually enjoyed reading and would read on my free time. The length is not to long and not to short, basically it is perfect. I recommend this book to people who like hip-hop music and the culture around hip-hop music.

Tatted Up

The ink on my body,
Runs deeper than the blood in my veins.
Defined lines & shading,
Describes my birth month.
Each curve & line,
Make perfection on my skin.
September 5th celebrates my birth,
Virgo is my sign.

Born Distracted

Sitting in class with my friends talking and trying to have fun. Teacher is explaining the assignment for the day and i'm just talking away with my friends not paying attention. The teacher thinks i'm paying attention cause we are good at covering it up. Teacher finally finds out were talking and tells me to stop talking cause im distracting the class so I stopped... I am just sitting there now off in my own world, shaking my leg. Trying to concentrate but I can't sit still. I was just naturally born distracted. I blame it on the ADHD though. That's my excuse every single time someone says something about me not being able to concentrate. The teacher gets done explaining the assignment and sends us off doing our own thing and i'm just completely lost and have no clue what to do. That is basically the story of my life rite there.

Sandra Cisneros bio poem

Sandra
Who is an American writer born in Chicago
Who writes about her life
Who loves working with high school dropouts
Who feels colors make her happy and she loves creatures
Who says revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace
Who gives stories to read, gives her time to work with school dropouts
Who is known for writing The House On Mango Street
Who has worked as a teacher and worked with high school dropouts
Whose parents are Mexican and Chicana
Who is un escritor norteamericano nacido en Chicago
Who is a resident of Chicago
Cisneros

Soliloquy-Macbeth

"If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly:"
A soliloquy is suppose to let the audience know the characters feelings and thoughts. So Macbeth is showing that if he is going to kill him that he should do it now and get it over with. But he is not sure if that is the rite thing to do or not.

Haiti Disaster

A massive earthquake struck Haiti on January 12th about 10 miles south of Port-au-Prince. This earthquake was the worst quake in the region in over 200 years. Witnesses have said that this earthquake could be felt strongly in eastern Cuba more than 200 miles away. There has been estimates anywhere from 50,000 fatalities to 200,000 deaths. There was more than 30 significant aftershocks of a 4.5 magnitude or higher that rattled Haiti through the night of the 12th and into the early morning.

My blog

I think that getting our own blogs was a really cool thing to do. I like it a lot because I have really bad handwriting and now that we are doing most of our stuff on here I don't have to worry about writing. Another thing that is really cool about this is the cluster maps. I think that it is really cool that they can just tell where the people are from that are viewing your blog. My goal for the year on my blog is to have over 100 people view my blog.