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**Every-time, Everything, in EveryLife** By: Leo Period B2 **Yesterday…** I failed at badminton, But I succeeded at baseball. I whimpered when I was terrorized, And laughed when fireworks were set off. I got angry when people had a conflict, But felt happy when everything was nonviolent. I used to trade toys the number of the stars, To acquire change. I fail at basketball, But I succeed at soccer. I retreat when somebody shouts at me, And laugh when YouTube creates more videos. I’m enraged at people, who cheat in soccer, But feel satisfied when people follow guidelines. I develop soccer abilities When I pay cash. I’ll fail at American football, And will succeed at soccer. I weep when my relative passes away, But will feel pleased when I’m with family. I get angry when someone is murdered, Though I will be happy if I get promoted. I will take a house, But pay money.
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**SOCCER**

By: Leo Chao

**HAIKU**

Sticking his foot out

He knocked the ball miles away

Much faster than sound

The ball traveled miles

Faster than the speed of light

Crashing in the net

His feet were a blur

He moved them right, left, right, left

Like a foot forcefield

__**RUN OR BURN**__ By: Leo Chao B2 **COUPLET**

Fire, Fire, Everywhere

Fire, Fire, here and there

Animals Running fast as lightning

Everyone is Scared no smiles flashing

Fire, Eliminating This and That

Fire won’t extinguish with a Splat

Fire trucks Arriving, will they be too late?

Firemen saved the day they’ll be known as great

**ABC Poem**

**A**wesome **B**est of the rest **C**ool poem **D**ebonair for a poem **E**pic poem **F**or amazing people only **G**reat for making projects with **H**ysterical to read sometimes **I**ncredible for all ages

__**Acrostic Poem**__ By: Leo Chao

**P**oetry in Japan **O**r America or Ireland **E**veryone knows this type of Poetry even **M**y friends that are aged 2 years

**E**xiting **P**rofessional design **I**ncredible **C**ool

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At school, we had a project about Freak the Mighty, here it is! Hit Counter Dear reader, during Language Arts class, our teacher asked us to write a persuasive essay on a current event. Here is my persuasive essay.

Leo Chao June 3, 2014 B2

**Shinzo Abe’s Military Policies**

__Abe__ (full name: Abraham. Pronounced: Aeb) Lincoln was a president of the USA who strived for peace, fought for freedom even in the depths of the Civil War. Shinzo __Abe__ (pronounced: Ah-bey) is a Japanese Prime Minister who may be striving for war and will try to change his own constitution for an excuse to start one. Unlike Lincoln, who used war to free people, Japan’s track record has shown that they have used war to enslave people. Shinzo will declare that Japan did no wrong in World War II, change his own country’s constitution and laws, spend huge investments into their military, and write a book in an attempt to change history which resulted in Japan’s relations with its Asian neighbors and/or former World War II military rivals tensing up. So the question of the day is: Have Japan changed since the last World War?

Let’s answer the question of the day and discover if the main members of the Axis Powers in World War II who have nearly destroyed the world through war have reformed. There were the Germans(Nazis), the Italians and the Japanese. Germany reformed and transformed from evil global superpower into one of the leaders in the European Union. The Italians switched sides in the middle of the war so it seems that they have changed too. What about the Japanese? Have they changed? Well, recent actions of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan suggest that maybe they did not change. Last December, Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine (a shrine dedicated to the dead Japanese that attacked and killed millions of people in Asia and America). It is said that the prime minister did it to deny that Japan did anything wrong in World War II. The grave includes //14 class-A World War II criminals// //celebrated// as //war heroes.// Abe removed the death penalty for seven Japanese criminals during their trial, claiming that they are not criminals anymore under Japan’s domestic law. This is all the proof we need to prove that Japan hasn’t changed the slightest since World War II. In fact, it seems Shinzo Abe thinks they did nothing wrong.

Not only does Japan think they did nothing wrong in World War II, they might be trying to start the third war. Even the loyal Japanese liberal paper is scared that Prime Minister Abe’s strategy will completely “undermine[s] Japan’s postwar pacifism.” Abe is also saying that he will fulfill his pledge to change Japan’s pacifist constitution set by the United States of America after World War II. This part of the Japanese constitution clearly states that Japan cannot do any military activities except defending itself from invaders. However it seems that Japan is on the brink of rearming its military after World War II almost completely destroyed Japan’s military power. Japan is spending nearly three percent of what they earn in a year for the next five years into military investments. That may seem like not a lot, but if you consider how much money Japan makes in a year, three percent is not a small number. They are also spending one //BILLION// dollars to buy //FOUR// F-35 and the training of the pilots. So the pilot plus one plane equals two hundred fifty //MILLION// dollars. Yes, //US// //DOLLARS//! Japan claims that these are for defensive uses, but if Abe is successful in changing the constitution, all this military could be very bad for the world, specifically Japan’s Asian neighbors. A specific neighbor would be seriously angry at what else Abe has attempted to change.

A country’s constitution is a lot like history due to the fact they are not set in stone. That does not mean it can be changed or rewritten easily by publishing one or two books. That is definitely not how Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe thinks. In December 2013, Abe published a book with the author Hyakuta declaring that the US fantasized the idea of the Nanjing Massacre to “cover their own crimes”(the atomic bombing). The New York Times has reported that the Prime Minister claims that the Nanjing Massacre never happened. The Nanjing Massacre happened when Japan conquered Nanjing (China’s capital at the time) during World War II and proceeded to kill non soldiers and sexually harass women on a massive scale. Some Japanese who admit that the Nanjing Massacre happened claim that 40,000 people were murdered, but the Chinese believe over 300,000 people were killed or sexually harassed. There are still descendants of victims who argue against Abe’s revision of history and some of Japan’s own admit their mistakes in the terrible event. But the conclusion is that Japan has to either accept their terrible actions and admit fault or continue believing the myth which claims their innocence.

As said before, Abe Lincoln started a war to free people. Shinzo Abe is trying to start a war to enslave people. Lincoln helped shape a constitution while Shinzo is trying to change one. Lincoln admits his countries’ mistakes and tries to solve them by how he thinks is right. Shinzo claims that Japan is innocent in World War II in which they influenced and killed many people and he stands for these criminals and murderers as heroes. Lincoln changes history for the better while Shinzo changes it with a book. Lincoln is remembered as the world leader that ended slavery in the USA. Let us hope Shinzo will not be remembered as a world leader that started World War III. We need to help Asia pursue a destiny of peace and not let Shinzo Abe destroy that with the start to World War III.

Thank you for reading