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Isabella G

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Hey my name is isabella i should be adding some really cool stuff to this

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The dentist

There we were sitting in that dull scary room again, with only that loopy thing with the beads as a source of light. Just as I felt my supply of oxygen depleting the dentist assistant came out calling my last name  loudly. With that I practically fell out of that dull maroon colored chair I was sitting as fear consumed me. As my mom hopped up I still sat there frozen in fear for once not wanting to get up out of that ugly chair. I closed my eyes wishing I could be at home in bed waking up from this horrible nightmare I was in or maybe on a warm beach but when I opened my eyes there it was again that dreaded dull gray office. (After all it wouldn’t be much of a story if it weren’t). My mom then angrily pulled me up as apparently five minutes had passed of me sitting there frozen in fear. Now I was being forced down a long hallway and into another dull maroon colored chair where they would drill and scratch at my teeth. And yet there I was sitting in that despicable chair. The dentist then walked in I began to become a bone crusher to my mother’s hand although she attempted to pull away. After the dentist emerged from his huge cabinet that undoubtedly contained syringes filled with Novocain, he then began to approach us in his baby blue scrubs. He neared the syringe to my mouth as I began to scream then quickly shut myself up realizing I had just given him the chance to put that long needle into my mouth NOT A CHANCE IF I COULD HELP IT.  Nearing me even more he simply said don’t worry it won’t hurt a bit but honestly do you ever believe the old man with the demonic voice in the baby blue scrubs with their sticky white gloves syringe in hand? ” no?” I didn’t think so! Reluctantly though I pursued to open my mouth already regretting my decision to do so, fear quite obvious in my slow motions. He then without what felt like any warning stuck the long sharp needle into my mouth it felt worse than what I imagined a bee sting not on your tongue but under it to feel. He did so as I tried to wiggle away like the usual reluctant five year old I was at the time. He then proceeded to have his doctor’s assistant pull out his “medical” pliers which I was sure had belonged to a plumber or a simple repair man at one point in time or would in the near future. He then began to tug and pull at my infected tooth causing me to whimper in pain as my “numb” mouth began to bleed. Finally Continuing to tug pull and scratch at my teeth he finally got it out. I felt myself sighing out of my relief he wouldn’t be anywhere near my mouth in six months or MORE! I could barely hear their faint voices in the background but I managed to hear that they were going to pull the one next to it for precautionary measures…

 

Book review scale : ***** = five stars

 

TURTLE IN PARADISE

 

Overall Turtle In Paradise is a great story. Turtle In Paradise is about a little girl named Turtle. Turtles mother is currently in a house belonging to a very rich family working as a maid/housekeeper as it takes place in the great depression. Turtle is sent to the keys to live with her aunt because the woman who owns the house hates children. Her aunt already has four children living in her small house with her low income. her cousins are all part of the "diaper gang".In the gang were her three cousins kermit buddy and beans and one of their close friends pork chop. Now you probably see the words "diaper gang" and think what in  the world is she talking about,but no worries I'm not going insane and just spitting out random words that have nothing to do with anything! :) the diaper gang is a group of those four boys and the babysit little kids and are known throughout the island for having the perfect formula to cure diaper rash with is a serious problem during that time.But turtle after induing out that unlike what her there had told her,her grandmother is alive s she goes to visit her and one day in her rotting piano she finds a map supposedly pointing to black caesars treasure after her cat had fallen through the piano.So her and the diaper gang decide to go looking for the treasure "borrowing" a close family friends boat. will they make it off the island? is the map real? will they even make it to the island?

I would say this story is a great story and would highly recommend it because it takes something hard to understand and turns it into something fun to read stringing together a bunch of interesting characters (that in this case have been shown to have very strange nicknames) that make the story enjoyable and fun to read.

final score=*****

 

 

thanks for your time :)

 

 

 

Can We Stop Bullying

 

Bullying is a serious issue in this country and throughout the world! It is such a big issue it causes suicide in fact it is the third leading cause of death in children! It also creates an unsafe environment for learning. How can we stop this?

I think if we work together to stop bullying and put into place more severe consequences for this we CAN stop this!

 

One reason a very prominent reason we need to stop bullying is because of suicide! Suicide is a major issue and is almost always caused by bullying! People that are killing themselves don’t see their lives getting any better ever because of all of the bullying. I think we need to create harsher punishments for bullying because of the suicide and depression it is causing. If we make harsher punishments like Saturday school or lunch detention the maybe people will get the idea!

 

We also need to create a safer learning environment. This may seem like the same thing as preventing suicide but this has a slightly different meaning. If someone becomes hostile either the bully or the person who is being bullied (victim for lack of a better term) then people can be hurt physically. If we put more severe consequences for bullying in place so that school is a safe place for people.

 

We also need to create a better learning environment. Because everybody’s learning is affected when there is bullying in the school environment. People become distracted with bullying the bully and victim (once again for lack of a better term) become distracted and cannot learn properly. If we create harsher punishments for bullying then people will be able to learn better.

 

 

 In conclusion I think that if we work together and create harsher consequences for bullying then we can stop bullying all together and create an environment where there is less suicide and it is safer also i think we can create and environment where students can focus on learning and will WANT to learn!   

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Inspirational poem 

 

My mother inspires me

tough on the surface 

dying inside

 

My father inspires me

his hand full of callouses

wrinkled from hard work

 

My grandmother inspires me

blankets miles long

every stitch sewn with love

 

My dog lizey inspires me 

protective understanding sweet

crazy stupid and funny

 

My cousin Christopher inspires me

tough loving caring 

protecting us all

 

My family inspires me

their hard work

never a dull moment 

 

 

1st semester reflection    

 

In my first semester at MacDonald middle school I've had an amazing time in all of my classes and i honestly cant say that about elementary school because the teachers weren't as kind and caring. in MacDonald I've had the ability to make new friends try new things and a lot of other really cool stuff. This semester in language arts has been a really fun semester for me because i have had the ability to do so many new cool things in my writing this year which has been great for me because i love reading and writing so much!     

 

This semester we've have had so many really fun writing opportunities like our personal narrative essays,book of choice review,persuasive essays,PSA's and our poems. I have had so much fun this semester and i enjoyed doing all of these thing maybe some less than others but overall Ive had a great experience this semester.

 

Lets start with the book of choice review i had a really fun time doing that i mean for me it was just an excuse to read really who wouldn't want to do that! the only thing was that we had too much time to do the assignment in my opinion in some area and had way too little time for other parts of the assignment because i had a few days in class that i spent reading a book that was not for my book of choice review because i had already finished the book itself and the review and had also already posted it on the wiki page. but there was also the fact that since other people weren't done i couldn't pier edit and ended up having barely any time to do so in the end.    

 

Another thing we did this year was the persuasive essay which i loved i dont know why i do but i love writing persuasive essays maybe that's because i come from a family of lawyers and like to be able to prove my point but anyway i do. for my essay i wrote about bullying although we didnt get to choose what we wrote about exactly becuase mr.kabodian made a list of things some people thought would be good topics to write about 

 

Now lest talk about the personal narrative. okay so first lets just start with the fact that i absolutely hate writing personal narratives i don't know why so don't ask but i do. So anyway since i can never think of anything to write when it comes to personal narratives i became a very painstaking process! in the end i ended up writing about the dentist. i chose the dentist because it just about relates to everybody. when it came to my story it may have not related perfectly to me and i may or may not have exaggerated a tiny bit...

 

Okay so another thing

 we've done this semester is the poem and for our poems we were supposed to choose something that inspires us so i of course chose my family and it was fairly easy for me to find time for ,me to write i just had writers block so actually figuring out what i wanted to write about my family was a lot harder for me. overall it was a fun project the only thing i would have changed or wanted to be different would be having it be more structured of a process.

 

    The last thing we did this semester was a public service announcement. When we did this we used our topic for our persuasive essay. oi didn't like this project very much because i feel like we didn't have enough time to get done all of what we wanted to get done but it was still okay.

 

    Overall this semester has been amazing including all of things i learned in other classes like in science where i learned so many really cool things about DNA i have had so much fun this semester and hope it will be the same next semester if not even better i am looking forward to it.

 

 

 

 

THE TITANIC

 

 

     Ironically the "unsinkable titanic" did sink taking with it thousands of lives and leaving behind mystery and suspicion as it hit an iceberg in the early 1900s.the titanic's story through its construction voyage and aftermath of its sinking has touched many lives and also created major controversy.So when did it happen,where,why,who was affected and how did it happen, are some of the many questions asked about the titanics sinking and many of these questions still remain unanswered.

 

    The titanic was a monster ship, an amazing feat of engineering and one of the largest of the time period.  In 1909 the construction of the titanic began, it took 3 years to complete the construction of they titanic. not only did the construction of the titanic take 3 years it cost 1.5 million pounds (about 750,000 dollars). I also took about 3,000 employees who were paid about 2 pounds a day which is about 4 dollars in american currency now. 8 of these workers were killed in the process of building the titanic less than the excepted 15 (one for every million pounds).the titanic's gantry was about 220 feet and 300 million rivets were used just in the hull of the ship. 200 hundred rivets could be finished in one day by a group of 4 men at that rate 15,000 days were approximately the amount of days the men would have to work. The titanic was built at yard number 401 at the heartland and wolff shipped in belfast ireland in which 14,00 men were employed and usually the people working int the construction if the titanic worked 49 hours per week. The shipyard was owns by Lord Pierce, and his son in law was head of design. The Titanic had 16 watertight compartment with does designed to automatically close if water levels got too high, it was able to stay afloat if any 2 compartments or the first 4. Because of this it was tight the titanic was unsinkable but they were dead wrong.

 

     On April 10th 1912, after 3 years of construction, the Titanic finally set sail.  Delays had occurred because the Titanic's sister ship, Olympic, had collided with the HMS Hawke.  There was also a coal strike resulting in further delay as the Titanic would consume over 600 tons of coal per day.  After setting sail around noon from South Hampton there was a near disaster as the Titanic almost collided with the steamer New York.  The New York was so much smaller than the Titanic it was sucked into it's wake.  The New York's mooring was snapped in half and was dragged port side of her which is exactly what happened with the Olympic and Hawke collision.  After the near miss the Titanic was merrily on it's way to Cherbourg and Queenstown Ireland, to pick up passengers.  There was a total of 2,227 people aboard, 907 of these people were members of the crew the other 1,315 were passengers.  As the ship increased it's speed every day it covered 386 miles on the first day, around 519 on the second and 546 on the third.  The Titanic was at rest for 6 days in Southampton before beginning the main voyage to New York.  The trip was intended to cover 2,890 nautical miles in 137 hours.  It was said that the captain ignored the iceberg warnings attempting to set a new time record for the trip.  Four days into the voyage the collision occurred.     

 

     On april 14th 1912 at 11:40 pm on the third day of the titanic voyage the ship collided with an iceberg. Around noon of that same day the first of four messages that were received that cautioned the titanic about icebergs. the second came around 5:30 reporting 3 icebergs about 190 miles ahead of the titanic. About an hour before the collision a vessel named the californian messaged the titanic stating "we are stopped and surrounded by ice" to which the response was ,"shut up, I am busy I am working Cape Race". The Captain, Edward smith kept moving forward with orders to an officer  named Lightoller to alert hi if the night became too hazy and the caption would slow the speed of the ship. Lightoller was positioned on the captins bridge Fredrick Pheet and reginald lee were stationed at the observation post. By the time Pheet was eating the end of his shift he had spotted the iceberg and had called down to the captains bridge. A flu 37 seconds had passed before all things were shut down, this may seem like an insignificant amount of time but one second more could have caused an even more disastrous collision. Hopes were high but although William m. Murdoch had shut off all engines dropped all watertight doors in the bottom compartment and turned the ship away from the forward front end so it would hit the side, all attempts would fail as the titanic would have needed at least a half mile to make a complete stop but only 900 feet of space was given. Although at firs it seem as though the attempts had worked and had saved the ship and from the surface the ship had missed the iceberg although underneath the water a large jagged piece of ice ripped a hole in the titanic hull. The hole was less then the 300 feet they excepted and only 3.2 square feet, Murdoch had turned the ship from sturdiest pace to withstand impact to the most vulnerable where even a small hole could result in the downfall of the titanic, and that would prove to be true.

 

     In the early 1900's as the Titanic hit an iceberg it left behind with it many lives quit the mystery.  Now you know the story of the Titanic and hopefully this will leave you full of curiosity and excited to learn more as it did me.  When the Titanic sank it killed over 1000 people, 1517 in fact so sources have accounted for even more than that.  After the sinking of the Titanic safety regulations were made much more strict including having more lifeboats on board and 24 hour usage of radios for communication.

 

 

 

 

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Comments (6)

emmas said

at 5:55 am on Sep 19, 2013

hey izzy!

teema said

at 11:41 am on Oct 18, 2013

your performens in theater class were awsome, you were the best in class :)

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at 3:52 pm on Nov 20, 2013

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