Argumentative Essay: A Brief Story Of Blue

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Blue was born on October 6th in 1998 in NYC but moved away shortly afterwards. Although her parents didn’t know it at the time, she couldn’t see very well so as a result her other senses heightened. Her hearing got so good that whenever her parents opened the window onto the city, she would start to cry because the noise was too intense for her. Her ear sensitivity affected her even after she left the city, causing her to get sick every time they would go back for a visit. At the time her dad was working at the World Trade Center in the Stock Exchange, however they moved to Sag Harbour when she was one, about 3 years before 9/11. As a kid she believed she was a dragon, and that if she jumped into the sprinkler at just the right time off the …show more content…
She transferred to the Sag Harbour elementary school for a few years, and in for 6th grade she transferred to the Pierson middle and high school. She was homeschooled for her 8th grade year, and then for freshman and sophomore year she went to Buxton High school, a boarding school in Williamstown, MA. One thing about her Buxton school she liked was the art studio. It was a separate building, not very big, but just big enough, and it was always open. You could go at any time to relax and work on a project. Another great thing was the open campus, giving her the ability to go anywhere. However, there was one downside to Buxton. They had a slight tendency to forget they were in charge of the students, and so they would neglect to tell them important things. If you were failing a class or missing a grade on an assignment, they wouldn’t tell you until it was hard for you to do much about it. Other than schools, Blue did a lot of exciting things before moving to Cambridge. She went on a seven day hiking trip in Vermont while at the Saltash Mountain sleep away camp, and when she was 15 she went on a service trip to Nicaragua with her school 's dance group. However Blue’s time in Sag Harbour ended abruptly when her grandma passed away, leaving them her house in …show more content…
However, a different environment doesn 't affect some of the things she loves, such as pan fried pork dumplings and the Circle of Magic book series. After talking to Blue for only a few short hours, I already felt like I knew so much about her. Everything she had so much purpose, and all her opinions were backed up by strong and passionate reasoning. For instance, her favorite animal is the snowy owl because of its ability to fly while making absolutely no sound at all. I also learned that if she were to have a planet made in her honor it would be very similar to modern day earth, but instead of creating things out of unnecessary materials, we would find stuff in nature that already has a similar purpose, and genetically modify it slightly to serve our purpose as well. We would all be connected technologically in order to bring society closer together, and our footprint would be helping the planet rather than hurting it. In addition, the buildings would all be trees that were genetically modified to grow in the shapes of buildings, so that we wouldn’t have to build houses everywhere and disturb the environment. Her passion for things rubbed off on me as I was listening to her talk about her favorite tv show; Forever, so much that I started to believe I had seen episode of it. And

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