Sun Tzu

dancing for me. They were swaying perfectly with the beat of the rope hitting the flagpole. The leaves joined in on the trees dance by falling off and landing gracefully onto the ground. They laid there, probably waiting for the heat of the sun to hit them. The sun was high in the sky, radiating heat to where I could feel it in the shady spot I was sitting in. Yet, the heat was the relaxing kind causing me not to be miserable. Soon, I begin to close my eyes and listen. The whooshing of cars on…

South America. The mask that I picked is the Inca Sun God Mask, another name to call the mask is Inti. It is used during ceremonies, to worship the sun. I picked this mask because it caught my attention by its shiny gold. The mask is very irregular by the shape of its face. Also, The history of the Inca Tribe is very interesting because the Incans had the best empire and army. The Sun God is on the flag of Peru, Uruguay, and Argentina. The Inca Sun God Mask was used for ceremonies, from…

A couple of us gathered around the calendar in disbelief, as if to check and see if today was really the 13th. Of course this was only a guess for no one in our silo had ever seen the sun. The dreaded date had finally arrived, just as the soothsayers had predicted. Our nonperishable food supply had finally diminished. Now everyone was faced with the same grim ultimatum. Either slowly starve to death in our subterranean home, or venture beyond the blast doors into the wasteland. Almost…

I was next to the water. The smell of the pine trees were in the air. A slight mist was on the water and hanging around me. It was beautiful, fireflies danced, and crickets chirped a tune through the trees in the distance. The lonely cabin looked so beautiful and ancient. And there she stood. Once again the magnificent creature who stood nearly seven feet tall was before me. The build of a horse the wings of a dragon, eyes black as night and instead of a mane there were spines with soft silk…

Our vacation to Mackinac Island started out normal, but the rest of the trip… not so much. My brother and I were having a nice picnic by arch rock, eating grilled cheese sandwiches, when I noticed a strange shimmer in the unique formation. “Does Arch Rock look like it’s shimmering to you?” I asked my brother, wondering if I was hallucinating. He glanced over at the formation and a look of curiosity quickly spread across his face, answering my question. “Yeah, it does,” he replied as he set…

almost entirely of ice water. Observations made by the Galileo spacecraft show that Europa has a metallic core and a rocky mantle (The Galilean). Europa may have an ocean with more then twice as much water as the Earth does. Europa’s distance from the sun has meant that the water has frozen over, giving it the smoothest surface of any object in the Solar System. Covering the icy surface are dark markings, which are also described as cracks. With an ocean believed to lie beneath the icy surface,…

The Wampanoag were hunting, when they heard a loud horn. Everyone turned and ran towards the sound. Once they got to shore they saw a huge ship, broken and mistreated. More horn sounds went off the ship was coming fast towards the men. They ran and the leaders told the men to stay back and the ship came to a stop. People after people started to come out of the ship. As the Wampanoag’s got closer, more started to come off. More of Wampanoag’s people come out of the woods. As they walked closer to…

Thoth is the name given by the Greeks to the Egyptian god Djeheuty. Thoth was the god of wisdom, inventor of writing, patron of scribes and the divine mediator. He is most often represented as a man with the head of an ibis, holding a scribal palette and reed pen. He could also be shown completely as an ibis or a baboon. As with most Egyptian deities, there were many different stories regarding the parentage of Thoth. Many sources call him the son of Re, but one tradition has him springing…

There are many physical, logistic, societal, and financial cons about the mission to mars. I think there should not have the mission to mars. I believe that the mission to mars is to dangerous for humans for many reasons. The mission to mars is dangerous for humans. First, The average temperature on mars is -61 degrees Fahrenheit which would be a physical con. Since the average temperature is below freezing we would have to wear multiple layers of clothing. For Instance, if any human wanted to…

Does Auggie deserve to look like this? In the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Auggie has some physical challenges that cause him to be different than other kids his age. He has to figure out his way through school, Beecher Prep, with his unordinary self and learn how to survive in the normal world. Auggie did go through some rough times at Beecher Prep, but there were more positive experiences in his life while he was at Beecher Prep than negative. First, one of the positive influences…