Arguments

Arguments

Fighting with your sisters is not a fun thing. I hate fighting with my sisters because I consider them as my best friends. When you are mad at your best friends or they are mad at you, it becomes actually kind of sad. The good thing about fighting with my sisters other than friends at school is you are kind of forced to be around them a lot so the fighting doesn’t last long. Usually it gets over with in a couple hours or so. But with friends I could hold a grudge with them for days.

I recently was in a fight with my younger sister. We usually fight just because we both think we are right She is the baby in the family so she has received what she has wanted ever since she was born. It is still occurring and my parents need to stop because she is going to continue being a little brat if they don’t.

I hate when people in general argue or fight because life is so short and you never know what could happen. I understand that there will be fights and arguments once and awhile but try to keep them at a minimum because you never know what could happen to the person you just argued with.

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"Crime is Pride"

“Crime is Pride”

In the excerpt from Antigone, Sophocles the writer shows a clear message that all people should follow. His moral in the excerpt applies to life every since it began. I really enjoy this excerpt because people can deal with this every day.

When he wrote “all men make mistakes” (line 1), he was telling the readers that everyone in the world today isn’t perfect. Everyone is going to make multiple mistakes in their lifetime. This phrase catches my eyes because it makes people realize that they aren’t the only people in the world that make mistakes, everyone does.

In line 2 when Sophocles uses the phrase “good man” it puts emphasis on if you make a mistake, a good person would try to fix it and deal with what outcome it produced. When someone realizes what they did wrong, they need to make sure they take accountable for it and do something about it.

After you figure out you know you did something wrong, an action needs to be taken. It’s one thing knowing you did something wrong and not doing anything about it than knowing you did something wrong and fixing the problem. A good man would know what they did wrong but also fix the problem.

From my own experience I am a teenager in high school and I have made mistakes that I regret. But I would consider myself a “good man” and that I “yield” my mistakes. I know what I did was wrong and I try to fix and do whatever I can to get things back to normal.

I have seen many people in my high school career do something to an extreme they know they shouldn’t have done. Some of those people fix what they did and some do not. The people who do fix what happened are considered as good people and more successful. People who don’t do much about the problem they caused have not been successful.

The phrase “The only Crime is pride” (line 5) I think is very confusing. This could mean a lot of different things. To some people this could mean that making a crime gives the person a sense of pride. To me that is not what it means.

We have all been told to take pride in our country and to have pride, I believe it means in some way to be proud. I think that the phrase used in line 5 is saying that the crime you make needs to have pride put into how you resolve it. The more pride you have in resolving the problem, the less the mistake seems.

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Decisions...Decisions

Decisions...Decisions

                Choosing a college is the next huge step in my life. I have started taking visits to colleges this past summer. I would really recommend visiting colleges in the summer going into your junior year and the spring of your junior year. It is annoying to visit a college in the summer because all of the students at the college are at home, but it is also the easiest time to set up a visit. That is a downfall of visiting a college in the summer because then you aren’t able to see what the campus is like when students are there.

                I have visited four colleges total including William Jewel, Rockhurst, Upper Iowa, and Cornell. I really enjoyed Rockhurst, Upper Iowa, and Cornell. Rockhurst is in Kansas City, Upper Iowa is in Fayette, and Cornell is in Mount Vernon. If I were to attend one of these schools, I would play either basketball or volleyball there. Playing a sport in college can really help bring down the cost of the school if you are wanting to attend a Division one or two college but if you attend a Division three college they are not allowed to give you sport scholarships.

                I most recently have visited Cornell, which was yesterday. I really enjoyed the coaches at that school and what their attentions are for me playing for their program. Also I liked the small classroom sizes and class schedule. They only take one course at a time for three and a half weeks. This caught my eye for a good thing and a bad thing. I think it would be nice because only having to focus on one class would be awesome, especially when playing a sport. The bad thing about taking one course at a time is if you fail the first test, it is hard to get your grade up because you only have eighteen days to do so.

            Also another good thing about the small class sizes is if you want to ask your teacher questions, you are more than welcome to do so. The professor will know everyone in the classroom by name. It isn’t like a huge university, where there are three hundred plus students in a class and the professor doesn’t even know who their students are. The average class size at Cornell is about seventeen students. The maximum number of students in a class would be twenty-five.

            I am a student that wants to be able to go up to the teacher after class and ask questions or ask for help. I wouldn’t be able to do that at a big university like Iowa. This is something huge for students to think about when deciding where to go. Many teenagers say they are going to go to University of Iowa or Iowa State but they haven’t even gone on other college visits. That is really stupid because there are so many great colleges out there in the United States.

            I would extremely recommend visiting colleges if you are a current sophomore or junior. The more colleges you visit, the more variety you will have to choose. It is better to go on more than one visit to see what is out there then just go on one visit and pick that one. Everyone get your butts off the couch and go explore! It is the next big step in your life…

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The day is coming...

The day is coming...

Prom is coming up and lets just say I have some mixed feelings about it. I am really nervous and I am also super excited! I have never been to a prom before like most other high school girls, which makes me feel a little more comfortable. I think I am just nervous because our plans are completely final. Our group hasn’t decided exactly what time we are going to start taking pictures and what time we should get to Grand March.

We don’t want to be the very first people that walk through and we don’t want to be the very last people who walk through. It is going to be kind of hard because we have a girl in our group that has a tennis meet in Dubuque and probably will not get home till three at the earliest. Before we knew this we were planning on having pictures at three and then heading to Grand March around 4:15, but there is no way she will be ready at three when she probably won’t even be home by then.

I am really excited to go because it is my first time ever going to a prom and it is like a big thing in High School. Everyone looks forward to going to their prom dance.  Recently we found out that the administration is not going to let us grind. I think this is extremely stupid because how else are we supposed to dance? It isn’t the 1970s anymore. I think that if students want to grind they should be allowed to unless it becomes too inappropriate. If students are dancing with their hands on the ground and their dresses pulled all the way up, then something should be told to them.

I just hope the administration doesn’t ruin prom for all the seniors. It is their last dance in high school so why not make it a good one?

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Don't Give Up

Don't Give Up

When Ms. A assigned that poetry assignment I wanted to cry. Now that I have completed the assignment I am glad I did it. I think that having to write the poem was a very difficult task, but I learned from doing it. Many people including me didn’t want to do the assignment when it was handed out. Most of us now would say it ended up being an ok assignment.

I am writing this blog to explain how important it is to not give up. While writing that poem I wanted to stop and give up every five minutes but then I would say to myself that I couldn’t because it was going to be graded. After completing the assignment I am happy that I didn’t give up because if I would have given up, then I wouldn’t be able to be proud of the poem I wrote.

As I was writing the poem, I didn’t exactly know what I was going to write until I got to the next line, I didn’t have an outline in my head. I did want the poem to describe the object of a basketball and I think I did a good job with that.

Sometimes when you are doing something that you don’t exactly want to be doing, you have to take it in little steps. If you look at it overall, then you will get too overwhelmed with what you are trying to accomplish. That is why I took each line of my poem one step at a time, other than thinking about the poem as a hole.

Many people that don’t want to accomplish something that is hard will give up. Don’t be that person. Try to accomplish as many challenging things as you can and you will feel a lot better about yourself.

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Pets

Pets

                Many people now days have a pet. I think that owning a pet is a great way to teach kids how hard it is to take care of something.  All kids want to own a pet but at that time they don’t know what it is like to take care of one. To make kids learn how to take care of something, a pet is a great thing to get.

                Once you actually get the pet, everyone adores it, like it is some celebrity. When the pet actually arrives home, friends want to come over to see what the pet looks like. But as days and years go on, the pet becomes less and less exciting to see.

                I can remember when we first got our dog, Maverick. When our family got home from the pet store after buying all his food and toys we had visitors at the door waiting to see him. The rest of that day we had neighbors, friends, and family all in our living room watching the little white fluffy dog lay on the ground. Maverick was very shy at first. That first week he just liked to lie down and shiver. As weeks progressed, Maverick become rowdier, running through the house barking at every dog that walked by.

                Now Maverick is eight years old and is still running through the entire house to each and every window trying to look for dogs that are out on a walk. It is crazy to see how fast time flies. I still remember the first day we got him when I was the only child that knew we were getting him. We decided to get a boy dog because our house is full of girls and one male. My father wanted to have another male in the house other than himself.

                I cannot even imagine what it is going to be like when Maverick has to be put down. I have pretty much grown up with him the majority of my life. Even though he isn’t an actual person, I consider him a brother. He comes to cuddle with me when he knows I am down or sick and he is the only thing that can make me happy when I am upset.

                My friend is going through a really tough time right now. His dog has to be put down tonight after having a tumor in her stomach for a while now. The dog’s name is Amber and has been a “sister” to my friend and his brothers ever since they were toddlers. When I found out that they were going to have to put Amber down, my heart melted because I knew how close their family is to Amber.

                Having a pet die is probably one of the worst things that could happen other than a family member dying. Pets are usually kids’ best friends. When they have to see their best friend die or be put down, it is definitely tuff. I had a dog before Maverick and she passed away when I was about 7. I can still remember that day when I just balled and balled because she died. The weird thing is I don’t remember anything else about the dog other than her dying.

                Since I was old enough to remember when my family got Maverick, I remember all of the moments we have had/ are having with him. When that day comes where we have to put him down, or the day that he dies, I do not know what we are going to do. All I can say is, it will be a very and I mean very tough day.

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Nail Polish

Nail Polish

             I cannot go a day without a certain color on my fingernails. Every day my nails are painted, whether they are perfect or destroyed, I don’t mind. I don’t have time to paint them every week so I paint them every couple weeks. I usually try to match the color I paint them, with the season we are currently in or the holiday that is coming around the corner.

                I don’t see how people cannot have their fingernails painted. It bothers me too much when they aren’t. I think that having your finger nails painted makes the girl more girly, so I can see why some don’t paint their nails, because they might not want to be so girly. My favorite color to put on my nails is pastel purple and pastel blue. I don’t really know why the blue but purple is my favorite color so I like to wear a lot of different purples.

 I recently started to buy my own finger nail polish. I have mostly just used my mom’s nail polish but now that I will be going to college in a year, I will not be able to take her nail polish with me. My favorite place to buy nail polish is from Ulta because they have a very large variety of colors. The more colors the store has, the more I want to buy which is a bad thing.

I have never seen a store that only sells nail polish. I think that if someone wanted to start a new business, I think it would be to create a building that only sells nail polish. Just imagine a store that was called Nail Polish Central where they had five hundred different colors of nail polish. I think so many women and young teenagers would go to that store because if these stores are out there, there aren’t a lot of them and everyone will want to go see it.

If you are reading this and are a girl, I wonder if you agree with me. Do you think that creating a nail polish store would be successful?

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