Bagel

Every morning I go to Panera and get a bagel for my breakfast, but this morning was different.  I got up later than I usually do, which was okay because it was a Saturday and I was planning on sleeping in anyways but not this late.  I knew I had to get ready quickly because if I didn’t the bagels would be gone before I got there.  I got ready took a shower and cleaned my room like I do every morning and then left for Panera.  As soon as I got there I saw that there was only one bagel left.  It was a cinnamon crunch bagel, which are my favorite.  I was sprinting to the check out but right as I got there an elderly woman with her walker knocked me over right on the floor.  And then a man walked up and got my bagel I was so mad that I looked him right in the eyes and said " that is may bagel I was in line about to get it and that woman over there knocked me over ".  Now before this gets ugly why don’t you just hand me my bagel and we can just go on our ways.  But no that will not do for this man.  He took that bagel and stuffed it right in his mouth as if he was mocking me.  I turned around and was so mad that my day started off so awful.  This was a start to a horrific day.  As I walked out the door very disappointed I hear my stomach growl.  

Traditions

Author's note: This is a response to "The Lottery"  by Shirley Jackson about one of the important themes in the short story.

This short story has many themes but the one theme that stood out the most to me was traditions.  The reason this is one of the most important themes is because the lottery has been going on for 77 years, they have used the same black box for all of those years.  Each year they would be promised that the boxes would be replaced but never was.  The lottery starts every year on June 27th, everyone in the town comes and hopes they will not be picked which seems silly because the lottery now a days is you win something like money or a car.  Not during this time period the lottery was when the man of the family would have to pick a card in the old black box.  If there was a mark on that card your whole family would have to pick a card and a member of your family would be stoned to death.  To me this sounds more like a death ceremony than a lottery.

Many towns around this small town have decided to stop doing the lottery, but not this town.  They say that it is a tradition that should not be stopped.  Men in the town say that it is all of the young folks that are deciding to stop the lottery, because they are scared.  In my mind why would you not want to stop, if you know someone is going to be killed and it could be you why not stop the lottery.  

Crack in the Mirror

Have you ever heard if a mirror cracks as you walk by you will get 10 years of bad luck.  Well that happened to me the other day.  And it is completely true.  But before I get into my misfortune I will tell you how this nasty old mirror cracked.  I walked into a antique store to buy a cute little thing for my mother (because this weekend is Mother's Day and I needed something for my mother).  Just as I walked in I saw the most perfect thing, it was a little mirror that went perfect with the décor of my mother's bedroom.  Just as I looked into the mirror it cracked, I felt so bad.  A sales lady then came over to me and said did you do this? With the most angry face I have ever seen.  I said well no not really I just wanted to look at it because I was thinking of buying it for my mother.  She said so you broke it?  No I did not, I said.  Now you are going to have to buy it whether you like it or not.  I looked at the price tag and it said $1999.  I looked at the sales lady and said I am very sorry but I am not going to pay that much money for something I never broke will never be able to use.  Then she said if you are not going to do the right thing then you will have 10 years of bad luck for cracking a mirror.  I walked out of that store as quickly as I could as soon as I got out of the doors the misfortune started to happen.  It started pouring rain so I tried to go back into the store and wait for the rain to stop buy the doors were locked.  So I had to take a long, cold, wet walk back to my car.  Her car was locked and she forgot the keys in the store so she had to walk back to the store.  The day turned out horrible but after the day was over the misfortune was over. 

Organic Compounds

Author’s note: This is a research essay that is writing on the topic organic compounds for science, which is also for language arts. 

Have you ever wondered why you don’t feel the greatest sometimes, this could be because you are not eating enough or too much of the five organic compounds.  Your body needs five organic compounds to work properly.  These five compounds are fats/oils, carbohydrates, protein, enzymes and nucleic acid.  Without just these five compounds your body will not work right.  But giving your body too much or not enough of these compounds will also not make it work correctly.  These organic compounds are important in many ways, and it is necessary to eat enough of them.  Organic compounds give you many things, but if you eat too much of them then you may have a high risk of getting a stroke or cancer and other things around those lines.   

First off, the organic compounds give you many things.  Eating fats and oils is very important because they give you the “Fats that are needed to carry and store essential fat and vitamins for example vitamins A and D” (Ltd.).  Also digesting carbohydrates gives you energy (Mr Richomnd's Food Technology on the web).  Your body uses protein in your diet to build new cells, maintain tissues, and synthesize new protein that makes it possible for you to perform basic bodily functions (Mr Richomnd's Food Technology on the web).  Also, enzymes are a source of energy that if not used for activities will turn the protein into fat (What are Enzymes and Why We Need Them).  Nucleic acids are very important because this is what makes you unique.  

Unfortunately, if you have too much or not enough of one of these five organic compound then you are at a higher risk of getting cancer or something around that line.  “Eating too much fat may also increase the risk of getting diseases like cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure or stroke” (Ltd.).  Eating too many carbohydrates is not bad for you it just makes you gain weight (What can happen if you eat too many carbohydrates?).  Many people in other countries and our own say that there is no such thing as to much protein.  If you eat to hot of foods the enzymes will stop working and are then useless to the body (Enzymes ).  When you eat too much nucleic acid, your body creates too much uric acid, leading to gout, a disease of the joints (Redzic).        

Although getting the right amount of each organic compound is important they have a very important purpose.  Fat is a nutrient that is an important source of calories (Ltd.).  Carbohydrates do not just produce energy it also protects your muscles (Diet & Nutrition Glossary).  If the protein you have in your body is not used for activites the protein will be turned into fat (Mr Richomnd's Food Technology on the web).  Enzymes can build structures inside the body, can help provide the body with energy or can break down structures or molecules in various places in your body (What are Enzymes and Why We Need Them).  A nucleic acid gives you your outer features. 

        

Organic compounds are very necessary to have in your diet, but getting the right amount is key.  Although they can cause cancer and other awful things from getting the wrong amount, they are still something you need to have.       

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Conflict Resolution Piece

Author's Note: This writing piece is a conflict/resolution piece about the story The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

 Katniss and Peeta are very brave when it comes to the Hunger Games. Fighting until death is not an easy task. When Katniss takes her sister's spot in the Hunger Games her life changes forever. Peeta and Katniss are from a very poor district. District twelve.  The only District 12 victory that has ever come out of the Hunger Games alive was Haymitch. There are also important people that are apart of this story, like the game makers for example. They control everything that goes on in the Hunger Games. One thing that they did was when the games got boring they added fire bombs that tried to kill Katniss. I believe that the game makers made this a conflict, because this was repeated many times by the head game maker.  The main conflict in the book the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is the fact that the game makers and the capital thought that they could control the tributes.

First, during the Hunger Games the job of the game makers was to make it not easy for the tributes and for them not to be ever be at rest.  For insistent if someone hasn't died in a few days then the game makers will make a obstacle, such as throwing fire bombs at the tributes for days.  These fire bombs ruined many of the tributes camps.  The capitol thought that to have more viewers  and to get more money they would have to have more  tributes fighting so it would be more interesting.  Also the people that are watching the games in the districts want more action so the capitol tries to either kill or bring together the tributes to fight.         

While the game makers made it hard for the tributes they do this because they think they can control the tributes.  The game makers think that they have the tributes at their finger tips.  This is the conflict in the Hunger Games , the capitol thinks that they can control the tributes.  Katniss knows this so she tries to do her best and fight through the obstacles the game makers throw at her.  Because Katniss plays with their minds, she can get through anything that throw at her.  The game makers try to make it really hard for her, but she defeats them and fights until the end.    

Although the games were difficult Katniss and Peeta to get out they did.  They fell in love so that they can get out of the games alive. This helps them, because then they both came out alive.  This made the game makers and the capitol a little mad because they are in district 12 which means they have the worst tributes for the games.  So it was a big surprise when both tributes came out of the games alive.  If Haymitch was not helping them, and using the money form their sponsors to give them the things they needed it would have been very hard for them to make it out alive.  For example Haymitch gave Katniss burn medicine which was a good thing because it would have been very hard for here to gain back her strength without the medicine.       

The game makers made it very hard for the tributes to get out alive Katniss and Peeta did.  They surprised everyone, and told them they even though we are from district 12 we still can win.  District 12 is the last district which means they are the lowest is winning the games and the least amount of supplies.  Katniss and Peeta proved everyone wrong in the end. 

New Retelling

Author's note: This is a retelling piece that I redid to get a higher score.   The retelling is on the book "The Gorgeous Game".

A high school girl enter a literary contest,  which she wins and gets to work and write a book with a priest and novelist, Mark D. Brendan.   Olivia was ecstatic when she found out that she won, until she found out that he was a stalker.  Olivia finds the courage the ask for help which she gets from her mother, friends and the church. 

The difference of mood when a poem is put into a song

Author's note:  This piece is about two poems "Big Yellow Taxi" and "The Field Below" and the difference on how you feel when it is put into a song.

The author's purpose of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell was about how you don’t know what you've got till it's gone.  Also the poem was about nature and it is being taken away for buildings and roads.  The tone of this poem was depressed and sad.  The mood was sad and sympathetic.  The author's purpose of "The Field Below" by Regina Spektor was about you don’t know what you've got till it's gone as well.  Also this poem was about nature as well.  I feel that these poem were very similar in these areas.  The tone of "The Field Below" was sad.  The mood was homesick and again sympathetic.  These poems were very similar.

I feel that when "Big Yellow Taxi" was sung it was very up beat giving the listener confused if they really listened to the lyrics.  Once you listened to the song the tone was not sad anymore so the mood was not sympathetic.  So the music really changed once it was sung.  In "The Field Below" the music really fit the lyrics.  How it was sung was slow and nice.  You really did feel sympathetic.  I feel that "The Field Below" was sung a lot better with following the lyrics.