December 2002

Every single day everyone has some type of journey. Rather it be small and simple, big and extravagant, physical, or emotional. Everyone searches for adventure. Everyone searches for answers. The question is, what is everyone looking for? What do they desperately need? Is it love, attention, questions that really can’t be answered? Something they already know the outcome of, but are too afraid to let go of? In the book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, everyone has had a journey in their…

The Loch Ness Lake is in Scotland, United Kingdom. There are stories and sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. People do not know if it is a myth or the real thing. The sightings of this creature date back to 1,500 years ago. In the Newspaper “Inverness Courier” on May 2, 1933 The Loch Ness Monster was born. A couple pf people had an encounter with the creature they say he was plunging and divining of the service of the Loch Ness Lake. The Loch Ness Lake is the biggest fresh water lake in Great…

What does Freedom mean to me? Philip Randolph once stated “ Freedom is never given, it is won”. When others comprehend the meaning of freedom they might say we get to live our lives, how we want and do not put much thought into it. They are not wrong, we do, but there is so much more than that. They do not consider the families whose husbands, fathers and children are in the army and who have even died. They do not think of the families and how they don’t get to see their husbands, wives, or…

For the class variable, I measured the number of emails I sent vs how many I receive. I decided to measure my school email instead of my personal email because I send more emails on my school email than personal email. One of my personal variables, I collected data on how many hours I listen to music at home vs. school. I counted this variable by having a stopwatch start as soon as the song started. I would pause the stopwatch when I press pause on the song at the end of the day or when school…

Freedom The idea of freedom can be seen throughout the collection 2 of our textbook. Freedom can be seen in the “I Have Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr.. The idea of freedom can be seen in the analysis of the speech "Nobody Turn Me Around" by Charles Eucher. Freedom can also be seen in the memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi. The topic of freedom can be seen throughout Dr King’s speech. Freedom can be seen in the "I Have a Dream" speech by King using repetition and saying…

The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint, is the dictionary definition of freedom and I can’t express how thankful I am for freedom. Freedom might be mistaken as something we just have, but some don’t know the expenses it cost. Families after families suffer from loss of their members and missing them so many days of the year. Here in America we have freedom, we can play games, eat at restaurants, visit our friends, and many more activities other…

It was not until I lost everything I took for granted that I was able to find myself. For much of my life , like many teenagers, I felt invincible. I later would realize this invisibility was only a fasaud and I had not experienced enough to accurately weight out the pros and cons of the decisions I made. As for myself i like to see what I can do and what I can accomplish outside of the everyday norm. I don’t want to conform to a certain ideology and way of life because that’s how I was raised I…

Would you want to continue to live if all your family was dead? Is that a decision you would want to make yourself, or would you like someone else to make it for you? In the book if i stay, by Gayle Forman, Mia Hall is a 17-year-old cellist with loving parents, and a younger brother. She lives in Oregon, and spends her time playing her cello, and hanging out with her rocker boyfriend, Adam, and best friend, Kim. Mia is very talented and has the prospect of going to Juilliard in the fall. That is…

We all have that one song we can relate to us or means something to us. Dej Loaf song "No Fear", is a song I can relate and fits me. Some of us grow up with some type of fear that we eventually outcome. Without fear we can overcome many of the obstacles that come in our way. We should never allow our fear to stop us from doing or accomplishing what we want in life. My main fear is losing someone I love. One of the reasons I relate to "No Fear" is through the lines "Even though I live my life…

As you ride around Saginaw, you see more homes destroyed or condemned, then new ones. Everyone says that there is no future here. That the best future any of us could have is anywhere outside of Saginaw. Some say that it's true or some may say it's whatever we decide. There are no new business here. No new places here at all. Maybe there is no future here, or no good paths to take. A statement from my mother “ I don't want you to stay here in Saginaw, or even in Michigan. I want you to go out…