Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Do you Agree or Disagree? (#2)

1. Q: Is loosing a love one a positive thing in one’s life? (Agree or disagree?)

A: Agree and disagree. I agree because it would teach you a lesson in life and if someone else dies that you love, you know how it feels and your use tom it. And I disagree because it would hurt so much to loose someone, and you would probably hate yourself for the rest of your life.


2. Q: Sometimes violence is ok?

A: Disagree. I disagree because fighting is not a good thing to do and if you use violence, you’re going to have to face the consequences. (For example: go to jail, get killed, etc….)

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Story

The Journey

It was in the summer of Hawaii Honolulu, 1994 and Brad Smith, better known as the “Explorer” was searching and investigating for a very ancient artifact. What was the power to this artifact nobody knew, but the one thing they all knew was that it is very valuable and expensive. Everybody was after it, but no one succeeded. So now, it was his “turn”. This three day adventure was going to be a tough one. It would be the ultimate challenge that he would ever have to face. To get the artifact, you had to climb all the way up a very dangerous volcano. (From the base, up) This volcano was named Mount. Vigous. After all the planning on how to get up the volcano, and all the obsticales to defeat, he wasted no time on getting started.

The first day on getting up to the volcano was a really tough one. He had to overcome a lot of hard obsticales and dangerous animals; some that he didn’t even knew exists! One very dangerous obsticales was that he was following a path, and all of a sudden, the path had a huge gap in it! It was probably 3 foot across! To get pass it, he had to jump. Well, that was the only way to get across it. So what he did is he took a big deep breath, counted 1…2…3… and took the big “leap of faith”. For him, it felt forever getting across but really, it only took a second.

So then, the second day of the journey came and to his surprise-ment, he was still alive! So he was walking and walking up the volcano and for some strange reason, he felt like he was being watched or followed. So after he sensed this, he took that thought into precaution. But what Brad Smith didn’t realize was that he was actually being followed. He was being followed by a British spy named Jamie Oliver and his mission was to follow Brad Smith to the artifact and when reaching the destination, to terminate him. When Brad Smith was walking, he accidentally by mistake encountered Jamie Oliver. (The spy) When this happened, Brad immediately knew what was going on, what was going to happen and knew what to do. He asked the spy, “Are you going to kill me”? The spy didn’t answer. Then, as the fastest his body could move him, he hit the gun out of the spy’s hand and some how, the gun ended up in his hand. After this happened, Brad gad no choice but to finish the spy off. So again, he took a big deep breath and that’s what he did. It was his only choice. The following day a least got better for Brad. The sun was shinning and since he was such in a good mood, he ran all the way up the few miles which was left of the volcano. It now only took him 2 days to reach the peek of the volcano since he ran. Finally, the moment he was waiting for was finally here in reach of his grasp.

The entrance to the volcano was just like any-other normal opening… it was a door. He entered the volcano and in the middle of the volcano, there was a golden statue of a medallion! He walked towards it and he was about to touch it but then he heard and also felt a huge grumble! All of a sudden, the volcano was falling apart! So he snatched the golden medallion and ran as fast as he could. After about a few seconds… the volcano burst! Spreading lava and smoke everywhere hundreds of feet up in the air! After seeing this, he ran and ran down the very long path trying to survive the gulping lava that was chasing after him! He was at the end of a turning point in the path and in the corner of his eye, he spotted a huge lake to jump in! And without hesitating, he jumped in. He was saved! After the lava settled, he walked up to his plane and drove all the way back to his hometown.

Later on in his life, he sold the item which wasn’t hard to do because everyone wanted it and got a huge amount of money! Which then, he gave to charity.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Our ending on the Taste Of Salt Book

After the hospitalization that Djo had to go threw, he finally fully recovered from his ordeal. After about a month, Jeremie finally popped the question! But to Djo’s astonishment, he said, “No”! Because if anything would happen to him, he doesn’t want to hurt another one’s life again. So after this ordeal, Jeremie and Djo were split, they never saw each other again. Djo sometimes even cries at night under the piece of metal he was using for shelter. A year has passed now, and believe it or not, life in Haiti is pretty good. Well, at least it was better than it was before. Djo was enjoying his life but then, the new president left the country because he robbed a bank and stole a lot of money so he’s trying to run from the law. So after this incident happened, the people of Haiti fought and fought until one Haitian became president. But actually, Djo liked the other new president. And after that ordeal, Djo was just “chillin” threw-out his life.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Movie trailer

Movie critique



“LET’S GET ROCKING”






School of Rock is one of the most well thought out comedies I have ever seen! It was released in 2004 and it was a huge hit!

School of Rock was written by Mike White. Mike White is one of Jack Black’s best friends not just in the movie, but also in real life. (Jack Black is the character who plays in the movie, “Tropic Thunder”) Also, this movie was directed by Richard Linklater, and produced by Scott Rudin. I say all in all, this team of director’s, producer’s, and movie writer’s made one of the most memorable, and famous movie of all time.

The movie Stars are: Jack Black, Mike White, and Sarah Silverman. This was one of Jack Black’s first ever movie, and he became pretty famous because of it. Without this movie, I bet Jack Black wouldn’t be as famous as he is toady. School of Rock is about a man named Dewey Finn and his friend named Ted Schnibley which in the past, they had a rock band together. A few years ago, there band broke up, and Ted went to go look for another job. Well, everybody’s life has moved on now except for Dewey Finn. He still believes that he’s going to become a great rocker one day. So Dewey joined another band and they were doing well. But then when the years went on the other band member’s started to get sick and tired of him. So they voted him out. When he heard about this, he got really angry. But that didn’t stop him, he tried to make another band. Right now, he’s in a really bad stage in his life. He just got kicked out of his band and he also can’t pay the rent to his own apartment. So his friend keeps edging him on to pay his side of the rent, but he can’t. Then one day, when he’s the only one home, the house gets a phone call. He picks it up and it’s a director of one of the most well known and well appreciated school in the state. The director asks if Ted Schnibley is home because he’s a substitute and one of the school’s teachers broke her leg on the way to work, so they need a “sub”. So then Dewey realizes that he can do the job even though he’s not a substitute so he can just come up with the money to pay the rent. He accepts and goes to the school to teach. When he’s there “teaching” he finds out that the students he’s teaching are extremely good at playing musical instruments. So they make their own band. The objective for Dewey is to get revenge on the band that kicked him out, and also to win the Battle of The Bands. (Rock Concert)

Opinions
· I thought this movie was an excellent movie because it was so amazing how the students could play that good when they were only 10 to 12 years old.
· I also thought that Jack Black was really hilarious in this film, I thought he was at his best!
· I like the creative ideas that they thought of to put in the movie
· I like how it doesn’t copy any other movie ideas
· And also, I like that the movie has a point to it. That is to, “Keep on Rocking!”

Sunday, October 12, 2008

"Weapons Revolution"



What!! What’s this? can this be? Is this true? Oh yes it is. And people of are time, its bigger and better than ever! MasterChief-117 the genetically superior highly trained super soilder has finally ended the long ever lasting war with the alien species, "The Covenant". He did it without hesitation. He defeated all of alien creatures and saved the planet from destruction. But he couldn't have done it without the help of the new weapon the marine lab scientist’s made. (The people who made MasterChief’s armor). This gun is bigger and badder than any other weapon in the whole universe!! It's called... The v mark 50 a.k.a the dog. This weapon is equipped with a grenade launcher (fired out from the mouth of the "dog") two sub-machine guns (where the "dogs" eyes are) and possibly all the deadliest weapons in the universe are attached onto 'The Dog". Without the help of this new weapon they created, he wouldn't have been able to save us all.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Biography

The person that I'm going to do my bibliography on is actually one of the band members from my favorite band, Megadeth. His name is Dave Mustaine. You might not know a lot about Dave Mustaine now, but when your done reading with this bibliography, you will know more about him more then your little baby sister or little baby brother.


Dave Mustaine was born on September 13, 1961. He is now 47 years old. He was born in La Mesa, California. His full name is David Scott Mustaine. Dave Mustaine's parents are named, Emily Mustaine, and John Mustaine. Well, when he was still only a little boy, his mom and his dad had a divorce. When they got the divorce, he mostly spent his entire child hood growing up with his mom, not his dad. They hardly saw there dad at all. When he was 15 years old, he moved out of his mom's house and rented his own apartment. During his teenage years, hestarted listening to Iron Maiden, and a lot of other heavy metal bands which then, got him into the taste of heavy metal. After he started listening to heavy metal he started to play and learn the electric guitar. And then later in his life, he joined a band called Panic. When he was in the band named Panic, and he was performing songs and doing all a person in a band could do, he decided to join the band Metallica. And that's exactly what he did. In 1981 he left his original band named Panic, and auditioned for the band named Metallica to be the lead guitarist. He found out this WONDERFUL offer by reading the daily newspaper, in the section called,” Recycle". The person who put that ad in the newspaper was Metallicas drummer, Lars Ulrich. So he went to the audition and he was getting ready to play a song with them to see if he gots the "stuff" and he was on stage waiting for them but he can hear them talking to one another in a different room. So he was tired of waiting so he just went in the room where they were talking and said, "Do I have what it takes or not"? So then they thought about it for a little while and they said, "Yeah sure, you're in" just like that, he got the gig. After he got elected to be in the band, a few years later, Dave Mustaine got kicked out of the band, for good. He got kicked out because there were a lot of bad things that he did including to the band members. One of them was that once, he brought his dog to one of the rehearsals that the band was practicing at, and his dog then jumped onto the car of the bassists of the band, Ron McGovney. When the dog did that, it scratched some paint of the car and then the bassists (Ron McGovney) got REALLY anger and shouted at the dog and then kicked it. When Dave Mustaine saw this, his face light up in anger and then he pyshically hit the bass player. After this happened, the band kicked Dave out for a day. The next day Dave asked if he could be back in the band and the band said, "Yes". Another bad thing that he did was that once he was drinking a lot, and he became drunk. He then walked over to the bassist’s bass guitar and poured a lot of beer on it. And when the bassists went to go play it, it gave the bassists a HUGE electric shock. After that incident, the band finally voted that it was time for Dave Mustaine to be kicked out of the band permanently.

After all this drama has happened, he wanted to form his own band. In 1983, that's exactly what he did do. With a little help with other people, they formed a band that shall always be remembered. They named it...MEGADETH!! From time to time they sometimes changed band members, but the present day members are named: Dave Mustaine- The lead guitar, also vocals- Chris Broderick- Also guitarist, backing vocals-James Lomenzo- The bass, also backing vocals-and the last band member is Shawn Drover- he is the drums. The first few years of the bands carrier was bad, but then it started getting a lot better. Over the years Megadeth made a lot of albums and had huge success!! That's what makes them the most rocking band ever!!
Bibliography-Dave Mustaine (2006). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 8, 2008. www.wikepedia.com/DaveMustaine

Monday, September 29, 2008

Do you Agree or Disagree?



#1-Agree. I say that I agree because adults are more wiser and more mature than children, If children did politics, they maybe would just joke around all the time and would not even bother to listen about the world around them.

#2- Agree. I say that I agree because if they work towards getting a happy ending, then what they worked towards, will happen.

#3- Disagree. I say that I disagree because you dont have to be able to read, to be free.

#4- Diasgree. I say that I disagree because they can still document things if they don't have a written language, they can record themselves insted of having a written language.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Mr. Whites life...




"THE PRIVATE LIVES OF TEACHERS"


OK... Mr. White... Ah yes! that's what I was going to tell you. I was going to tell you all about the cool, funny teacher, Mr. White.

Mr. White had a hard, but funny life. He was born on December 2nd 1991. He lived in the United States Of America. In Virgina to be exact. The first job that Mr. White got was to clean the toilets of the bars and restaurants. He was only 6 years old when he got that job! But to his astonishment, that actually worked out really well for him! until one day he was cleaning the bar toilets really fast and furious, that he actually got some excrement's in his mouth, and down his throat. Which after that day, he never cleaned toilets again. After that little accident that happened in his life, Mr. White wanted to go out and to explore the world, and maybe just maybe e hit it big...

A few years passed and Mr. White finally got another job! He was 20 when he got this job.This job was to be a window cleaner. That to also worked very well for him. He would wake up at 4 in the morning, (yes a.m.) put his suit on,(because all window cleaners have to wear a special suit) and he would ride to work on his little INSANE moped. I have to tell you, life was going quite well for Mr. White. He was earning quite a good paycheck, and he just got engaged. Everything was going well until one day, Mr. White was riding to work on his INSANE moped. He got up to the top of the building he was going to clean for the day, and started to clean. He was cleaning, and cleaning until after about an hour he was so tired from moving his arm around in little tiny circles all day, he just fainted! Right after he fainted, he lost his balance and he started to hurdle to the ground like a speeding comment that's coming from outer space! When he hit the ground you could feel a force field of so much energy exerting from his body. Some people saw the hole accident happen and called police and the ambulances right away. When they got to the scene, and they saw how Mr. White looked, they were horrified... They took him to the hospital straight away without any hesitations. When they got to the hospital, they rushed him to the emergency room. he was hurt, badly... It took the surgeons a total of 6 hours to reconstruct the bones in his face and feet and hands. They also had to give him a prostetict leg because one of his legs were to crushed to save. After the 6 hour long surgery, they put him in the V.I.C.U, The VERY intensive care unit. From the day the surgeons put him there, he was in a comma for a month. After a month he woke up to experience life again. He had to stay there another 4 months, doing therapy and other mainly important things to his body to get back in shape. When he passed all his fitness testing, and all of his therapy for his body, he was free!! The very first step he took when he went out of that hospital was like a miracle for him.

5 years has passed since this tragic accident has happened, and Mr. White got back up on his feet and started his life all over again. after about 2 years since the tragedy happened, Mr. White got married with the one true love he loved. Her name was Daisy. They got married in 2004 and had 2 kids. There names are James, and Tulip. Ever since then, Mr. White and Daisy been living a pretty good life.



Friday, September 12, 2008

Q: Which media clip do you prefer, why? Which one would best help a reader to understand the actual story? (150 word min)


A: I prefer the second media clip better than all the others because it gives you more detail about the story, what the story's about, where it takes place, the characters, and a lot of other stuff. I think the second movie clip would be the best to help a reader to understand about the actual story because, instead of the fist and third movie clip that Mr. White presents us, I saw that this one is more detailed and easier to see in the sense of animation, rather than pictures or puppets. In the second movie clip you can hear the actual words and what the character is saying rather than in the first and third movie clip. I also like the intro and the ending to this movie clip.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

This is my favorite band. They are called Megadeth. They are the most insane band that I know! The band originated from Los Angeles, California, and the United states. The type of music that this band plays is: Thrash metal, speed metal, and heavy metal.Megadeth started preforming in 1983 and there still rockin' out hard!! In all, this band made 11 albums since they started. That's a lot!! The first album they made is called Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! and that was realesd in 1985. The second album they made is called Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? and that was realsed in 1986. The third album they made is called So Far, So Good... So What! and that was realesd in 1988. The fourth album they made is called Rust In Peace, and that was realesd in 1990. The fifth album they made is called CountDown To Extinction, and that was realesd in 1992. The sixth album they made is called Youthanasia, and that was realesd in 1994. The seventh album they made is called Cryptic Writings, and that was realesd in 1997. The eighth album they made is called Risk, and that was realesd in 1999. The ninth album they made is called The World Needs A Hero, and that was realesd in 2001. The tenth album they made is called The System Has Failed, and that was realesd in 2004. And the last but eleventh album that they made is called United Abominations, and that was realesd in 2007. Those are all there albums! There are 4 band members in it. There names are: Dave Mustaine - The guitar, lead vocals, Chris Broderick - The other guitar, backing vocals, James Lomenzo - The bass, backing vocals, and the last band member is Shawn Drover -He is the drums.This band has been rockin' out for quite a while now. There is the drummer, two guitarists, a bass, and the singer. The singer was one of the first lead guitarists in the band called Metallica, but they kicked him out, and he started his own band Which in my opinion, i say that they are way better than Metallica!! hands down. There last tour was theTour Of Duty 2008/ in Gigantour on 2008. That wasn't that long ago. ROCK ON!!




Sunday, September 7, 2008

Hi, my name is Jeremy Smith. I have 2 brothers, and 1 sister. The names of my other 2 brothers are Jordan and Jason, and my sister's name is Tulip. Most of the time, I like to play my xbox360 and play Halo3 (the best game known to mankind) But since its school.. i cant anymore, only on the weekends, but that's still good. There are a lot of other games that i like on the Xbox360, like Call of duty 4 Modern warfare, but i like Halo3 better. I also love Mexican food and playing Basketball with my brothers. Well that's all about me!!