Assignment #14:Persuasive Essay: Uniforms

 I think that all students should be able to wear whatever they want and show their personality with what they wear. The administration should give us a chance to show that we could wear what we want but still follow the rules that they give us. I'm sure that the students wouldn't want to mess things up because nobody likes to wear uniforms. I think that most students will agree with having no uniforms at our high school, but if some students disagree than they should wear uniforms if they want as long as the rest of the students wear the clothes they would like to wear.

 Students would like to wear their normal clothes to school because it expresses their personality and shows their style. If everybody wears exactly the same thing everyday, I think it will be boring because nobody wants to look the same. There might be other ways to express yourself, but it's kind of hard when you have to dress a certain way and only wear certain colors. In elementary and middle school, I had to wear uniforms and honestly I didn't really like it but I didn't have a choice. There were only some days when they let the students wear their normal clothes and everybody was happy we didn't have to wear the uniforms for a day.

 I think that the school uniforms are kind of ugly. They only have certain styles and colors you could pick from. Maybe if they made the uniforms more fashionable or something, the students probably wouldn't mind wearing them. Once in awhile you could find normal clothes that are the colors of uniforms, but I don't think that happens very often. If you don't follow the dress code it seems like you get in a lot of trouble just for that and I think that it shouldn't be a big problem because they are just clothes. It's like there could be worse problems at the school, but the teachers and administration end up going after the students that didn't follow the dress code.

 Another thing about school uniforms is that our parents have to go buy us new clothes just for school every year because eventually we will grow out of the clothes from the year before. Uniforms aren't that cheap either and there's a lot of families that don't have much money to buy their children new clothes. Just for their children to go to school they have to find ways to buy the uniforms and once school is over it's not like we are going to wear them again. We will either throw the old uniforms away or we will give them to somebody else, so they could use them.

 Also, students aren't the only people that don't like the uniforms, there are teachers that don't like to follow the dress code either. They only follow it because it's their job and they don't want to end up getting fired. Another thing the students don't like is when the school bands certain clothing because it's "gang related". Just because it could be "gang related" doesn't mean that the people who wear it are in gangs. Like to me it's just clothes that you wear, it doesn't mean I'm in a gang. If I wear those certain clothes, I will get in trouble for sure and then the administration will probably call my parents. It's like they think the parents have all the time in the world to bring their child a change of clothes. Most parents have jobs or they are out getting things done and they can't answer their phone or something.

Assignment 12: The Black Cat

Assignment #10: Bullying

Assignment #9: Alien Contact

 Well one day humans on earth figured out that there could be life on this new planet that was discovered. They were watching this planet all the time and they never seen anything, so they started thinking maybe there isn't life on that planet at all. So they all went on with their lives and forgot about that planet completely. On that planet there actually was life that we didn't know about because they never let us see them, they would hide. They would be considered as aliens to us, well they were also watching us from their planet. They were planning when they would visit earth, they been planning this for years, but they never wanted to go because they were scared we would do something bad to them.

 Well one day they finally decided to travel in their spaceship and they came to earth, but they landed where nobody could see them. They all got out of their spaceship and walked around. They figured it was okay and they started walking towards places where people lived. As they got closer, humans started noticing that these creatures were not human at all. They looked very different from us. They had really big eyes, they were very tall and each of them had a different skin color that was either green, purple, or blue. They would wear these weird space clothes and they also talked in a weird language that we never heard before, but they also learned to speak all the languages we use here on earth.

 The aliens didn't want to make trouble or cause problems, they wanted to talk with us and make peace between our worlds. When the aliens tried to speak to the people everybody went crazy and didn't know what to do. The humans weren't ready to meet aliens and they never expected they would see other life like this because most humans didn't believe there would be other life in space. The aliens tried telling the people "we come in peace", but nobody would listen. Then this old man walks out of his house and says "why is everybody going crazy" and he looks up and he sees the aliens looking at him, but he didn't get scared at all.

 The old man looks at them from their head down to their feet and says "what are you?", one of the aliens says " My species comes from the planet ziggy, were here to make peace with your planet earth but once your people saw us they started running around going crazy". Some people seen the old man talking to the aliens and they "old man you are really crazy, those things might eat you or something", but the man ignored them. After that, the old man invited the aliens into his house and they all decided to go. They all talked for hours and they learned a lot about each other. 

 As the days went on the humans finally calmed down and actually wanted to try talking with the aliens. The humans found out that the aliens have a lot of things in common with us and they started treating the aliens like normal people.  

Assignment 11: The Concrete Rose

Tupacs poem was a great poem, it was about his life and how he grew up, but he put everything in a poetic way. I think it has to do with the way he grew up because his mom was a single mother taking care of kids and he had to learn how to do things without being taught. Instead of becoming something bad, Tupac decided to make his life into something good. He made songs and kept all his dreams alive and that's what made his life successful even though there wasn't really anybody to care about the things he was doing.

Assignment 13: Halloween Haiku

The night of horror. This scary dark night returns, the spirits arrive. Kids dress up tonight. A full moon lights up the night. The scaring begins. I hear all the screams. It's a terrifying time, and it just begun.

Assignment #8:The Necklace

 In the story "The Necklace", there are more than one moral or teaching to this story. Those morals are that she needs to trust that she can tell her friend the truth about her losing the necklace she borrowed, another moral is she needs to be herself and try not to be something shes not and money can buy everything. She was too worried about the way people would think of her at that party, so she had to make herself seem like she had money by changing the way she looked and borrowing a necklace from her friend.

 When she lost the beautiful diamond necklace, she didn't know what to tell her friend, but instead of just telling her friend the truth she ended up trying to buy a new necklace that cost a lot of money that she didn't have. Her and her husband worked their butts off trying to pay off the guy who sold them the necklace, but after ten years they finally paid it off. Mathilde finally went and returned the necklace to her friend. She told her that she lost the one she borrowed, but her friend just laughed because the necklace she borrowed was just a cheap necklace that was not worth anything.

 Mathilde's whole life changed over that necklace because she didn't want to tell her friend that she lost it, but it would of been better if she would of told her the truth because she wouldn't have spent ten years paying off a necklace. Even her appearance changed because she worked so much. So in life everybody should just tell the truth about things. If you do that you can save yourself from a lot of stress and everything else.
 She should of been herself and not care what those people at the party thought about her. It would of saved her a lot of money and kept her out of trouble. Another thing is that she shouldn't just want money and nice clothes and jewels. Money isn't everything and because Mathilde tried to be something she's not she wasted her life trying to pay off a necklace and she also looked older than she was.

 I try to apply these morals to my life because I don't want to be something I'm not. I like being myself and having my own style, I don't want to be a follower. I would want people to like me for who I really am not someone they think I am. Also money isn't everything, yes it can buy you some nice things, but money can't buy happiness. I would rather be around my family whether we have a lot of money or not, they are the people that make you happy. I also try to tell the truth about everything, even though sometimes I don't want to because it's better to be honest with people then to tell them all kinds of lies.