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It was a very exciting in English. We had three days to work on a personal narrative that needed a purpose, significance, and vivid details. For three days every student began to hammer down on their keyboards typing wildly so that they could do a good job on their next big assignment. Below I am going to explain my experiences and some concerns with my personal narrative. So far I am quite pleased with the work that I have done so far. I am very surprised with how much work that I have gotten done in the past week, and I only have a few concerns about the quality of my personal narrative. The first one being my vivid details. I believe that I need help with my vivid details because my narrative just seems bland. I really want to fix this so that my story can enrapture the reader. Another concern that I have is my sentence fluency. My entire narrative seems like it is made up of super long sentences.

Jacob got in the car in a slow and tired way. His mother right beside him said, "How was today?" "Fine" he said as if not to give his mom more questions to answer. "How was track practice today?" she asked. "Fine, everything was just fine!" "Why are you so moody?" "Because today was a long day, and I just want to sleep" he replied.

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I have another interesting topic for today. So just a fair warning, this one is going to get very technical because of the level of technology that I am going to explain. So far in The Last World War , two alien races are dueling it out with futuristic technology. One of these marvelous features of engineering is the shock wave guns that one of the alien races use. The basic idea is actually very simple. A wave is something that oscillates parallel to the direction of the transfer of energy that is happening. The premise of these weapons is to make a wave so strong, that is tears other things into tiny bits in pieces because of the amount of strength in the wave. And actually, creating waves this strong isn't very hard. Explosive shock waves are the very reasons why explosions are used by various military groups. The problem is shooting the wave in a precise direction, and harnessing that much power in a small form factor. Those are the two details that the author chooses to leav

Dear 9 year-old, A wise man once said, "If you don't take none, there wont be none." Take this with you everywhere you go. If someone pushes you back, push back ten times harder. Otherwise, they will just keep on pushing. Eventually once you push hard enough, you will reach a point where there will be no more pushing, and all will be equal. Also another thing. Please watch what you eat. You are not a teenager yet, and please don't just go around eating everything you see. Just trust me on this one. Eventually you will get to the point where you keep adding on weight, and it will be harder for you to exercise because of how slow you are. Then that just begins a never ending cycle of cholesterol coursing through your veins. Sincerely, A 14 year-old

Zoe: 9/11 : Stories in Fragments- documentay Robert: September 11th, 2001 Documentary Response 

September 11, 2001, is when America started to be conquered by fear. On this day, 2 planes struck the World Trade Center, 1 plane hit the Pentagon, and the last plane crashed down away from its initial target(White House). 2,977 innocent people died because of a large group of radical Islamic terrorists called Al-Queda. Only 19 hijackers took part in this attack, and yet they murdered such a large amount of people. Thankfully, the U.S. started to take charge for once, and George Bush initiated the war on terror. 9/11 sparked the invasion of Afghanistan. This was the first step of the war on terror. This was because the Taliban was harboring Al-Queda and the United States took it upon themselves to end it. We were mainly looking for one guy. Osama bin Laden was suspected to be the main culprit in carrying out the September 11 attacks. George Bush demanded that the Taliban should hand him over to them, but the Taliban denied any involvement of Osama bin Laden in the terrorist attacks.

Last time I discussed wormholes and the difference of language between two species in The Last World War . So far the book has taken a very drastic turn. Human and alien have finally made contact, and the result of this is quite surprising. For this reading response, I am going to discuss how language has added lots of depth to the plot line. Language is a method of communication. We humans communicate; in this book, aliens have their own language, and humans have their own language. This creates what is called a language boundary. The author took a very unique approach to solving this problem. Instead of equipping the aliens with translators so that there is seamless communication, the author decides to provide aliens with a device that turns words into pictures. So when a sentient life form uses it, an image will pop into the other party's head. I find this very unique because even if humans and aliens don't speak the same language, then they still have something in common.