"I am a thinker and I think thinks"

1. What concerns me in this world is that more people are concerned about the environment (forests, global warming) and animals (endangered) than human beings dying of diseases (AIDS, HIV) and poor nutrition because they are too poor. Environmentalists think more highly of animals than human beings. They believe than humans are the polluters of the world and that animals should be treated with more respect than the average human being.

Happiness

1. Happiness is: -feeling or showing pleasure, contentment, or joy.
-feeling satisfied that something is right or has been done right.
-resulting unexpectedly in something pleasant or welcome.

2. What makes me happy is seeing others become happy because of what I did. I'm also happy when I see others enjoy or appreciate my work. Working on something that will later be appreciated makes me happy as well.

3. I think my parents have a great influence on my happiness. When my parents are in a bad mood, I tend to not be as happy and vice versa. Weather also tends to affect my happiness as crummy weather or darkness at an early hour can decrease my happiness and vice versa.

4. I think I affect the happiness or my parents significantly as well. I believe I have some influence on the happiness of my friends too. In addition, I can influence the happiness of my cats by giving them attention or by playing with them.

5. My greatest need is probably to be happy which is directly related to happiness obviously. The most important thing is to be happy because as human being we have a right to be happy. To be happy requires effort and commitment which is difficult for most people.

Assignment #8

Brainstorm ideas for pictures to go with my poems in my portfolio:

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<---- Music

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Assignment #7

1. I really enjoyed writing poems in this quarter because I like to write poems concisely with rhyming.
2. I believe that the poems in my portfolio were my strongest pieces because I think that they were well written and some poems had a deep meaning to them. Surprisingly, I don't have much experience in writing poems.
3. I believe I need some due date and direction for assignment or else I won't ever get to do them. I also write best under pressure and need sort of direction or else I'm at a loss for ideas.
4. I think I would enjoy writing short plays next quarter.

Creating Fear

1. I like to be frightened only a little bit, however I love to frighten others especially my sister. Occasionally, I like to watch scary movies, but I don't normally watch horror movies.

2. I don't get scared easily, but there is only once thing that scares me a lot and that's a centipede- and only a certain species the one above. Every once and a while I see one crawling in my basement of my house.

3. To me a mad person is someone who has lost their morals and common since and isn't in their right mind.

4. Pressure can drive someone mad like money problems, divorce, being dumped, family leaves, no friends, humiliation, peer pressure, depression, and especially drugs and alcohol.

Assignment #5

1. It was a warm beautiful day in the park with a clear blue sky. There was joy and laughter in the atmosphere, but there was only one person who had a dark cloud over his head. That person was John who like always was depressed and lonely.

2. It was a day like any other for John. He would sit down on the same swing bench in the same park every afternoon.

3. Wham, then it went black. That was the last thing John remembered before he lost his family. but that was 5 years ago and now he still feels lonely and depressed as ever.

4. John was a very lonely and depressed man. He lost his family in a car accident and now he just strolls in parks wishing he could be there with his family.

Assignment #4

Task 1

A) The setting of Connie being alone adds suspense and some foreshadowing that something will go wrong.

B) I think Connie is a shallow person who doesn't appreciate her family. She is a self-centered person who only thinks of herself and boys. The crowd just feeds her ego of being popular and pretty which I think is distasteful.

E) I think it ends that Connie goes to ride with Arnold and his friend. To continue on the story (how I think it should end): Connie's family comes home to find Connie missing while Arnold Friend rapes and kills Connie. Later, police find Connie's body in a dumpster. Connie's mother feels no remorse and says she had it coming.

Task 2

1. Suspense-Connie alone
2. Thorough character development-Connie
3. Detailed character description
4. First person POW
5. Detailed setting description-house, restaurant
6. Concise plot development
7. Believable conversations
8. Background- Connie's mother
9. Intricate conflict
10. In depth character thoughts/emotions development