Bluffs Poem

The buttons are white,
looking like crystals.
From the sight,
it looks kind of mystical.
After we're done,
we all have to listen.
To our instructor,
When we are finished.
Done with this piece,
to the next station.

Snowboarding Gear

Snowboarding is a sport that you obviously do in snow. To go snowboarding, you will have to have a snowboard. It is a wooden board that goes from 5 feet long to about 6 1/2 feet long, depending on how tall you are. They measure it by centimeters so it goes from about 130-160. Most of the boards have a thin piece of metal that boarders the edge of the snowboard.

There are many different types of gear you will need. With many designs on the board, some brands are Burton, 686, Forum, Ride, and Rome. These are just some of the brands there are probably about 50-75. My favorite is Burton, Burton makes snowboards, boots, bindings, clothes and plenty of other things. Snowboarding boots are specially designed to fit into bindings, the go about half way up your shin, the main reason for that is so it is stiff that way your ankles cant bent and possibly break. The bindings are screwed into the board. They have two straps that go over your boot so they stay in place when your riding. They also have an about 8 inch back on it so your feet don’t slip out.

Snowboarding is a great sport. They have it in the Olympics and they have a lot of other competitions. So you will need the right gear to go. With many different varieties and brands you wont have a hard time choosing what you want. So sometime you should get out and try it.

Speak

In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, There are plenty of examples of symbolism. The main character is Melinda, everyone hates her because she called the cops on a party at the end of summer.

In this book the symbols are the couch, the mirror, the bedroom, the trees, and the mascot. The couch symbolizes having two different sides. The mirror shows that Melinda doesn’t like who she is, so she covers it up. The bedroom also shows that Melinda doesn’t know who she is because it is about what her friends like. The trees remind her about bad memories that she has had. Then mascot keeps changing at her school so that shows that the school doesn’t have an identity.

Melinda is a teenage girl in high school who called the police at a party where everyone was drinking at and she got a lot of people in trouble. When school starts everybody hates her and she becomes an outcast. In the book Melinda seems to be depressed and has no motivation in life. She says that she would rather sleep than do homework.

Science

Yes I think that patriotism still matters because people are still going to war for our country and people still care about our country. Patriotiism means support,love, and to be willing to serve and sacrifice for our country.

I think that the short story, "a body in henrys house" is a romance. The main characters get married then he tells her that there is a body in his house. She was like ok, its not too bad I guess. But when she goes in the cupboard she sees it. She told him to move it; so he did. They had kids and the kids played with the pinky. As the years passed, they passed in front of the fire.

Hemingway Essay

Throughout the world about 2000 people kill themselves every day. In the U.S., there are over 80 deaths from suicide a day, and about 30,000 a year. In this short story “A Clean Well Lighted Place” the old man tries to kill himself but his niece lets him free. This story is in the tragic mode of literature.

This story fits into the tragic mode of literature because the old man tries to hang himself so he is feeling kind of tragic. Then he is at the bar and is feeling good which is the rise to power. Then he has to go home without a wife or anything which is a tragic fall. The death symbolism in this story is when the old man goes home and has nothing to look forward to.

Like the old man the older bartender has a rise to power. He is a happy person while he is at the cafe because he has the company of others.He doesn’t have a wife and he doesn’t really have anything to look forward to. His tragic fall is when he has to go home; he has nothing to go home to.

Hemingway's tragedy is really about the older men in the story who don't really have anything to do in life. They need a clean well-lighted place to brighten the path to the rest of their lives.