Nick

Fail, but also Succeed

By Nicklaus C1

__** Yesterday… **__ I hated to go to swimming class, But I loved going running I was afraid of climbing the rock wall, But was not afraid of hiking I was nervous about leaving things hidden, But confident in presenting things

__** Today… **__ I hate to do homework, But love free time I am afraid of heights, But not afraid of being low on the ground I am nervous about failing, But confident of succeeding

__** Tomorrow… **__ I will hate to write essays, But will love typing I will be afraid of dying, But I will not be afraid of enjoying my life I will be nervous while I’m alone, but will be confident that I will always stay together


 * __ABC poem__**

Always I have my chin in the air

Because I am proud like a strong bear

Could always cheer someone up

Doubt that I can’t

Elephants are my favorite animals

Free and big but very slow

Great and tall not like me

Hairy and sometimes scary


 * __Free Verse__**

UH OH

Walking into school with my chin up in the air

As I look around everyone in despair,

I continue walking as if I don’t even care.

Until I walk to my classroom,

My mother and teacher are there

I start to get all weird

As I try not to get near

My mother calls my name

As I pretend not to hear

She yells even louder

And everyone starts to stare

And I look over,

As I wonder why my mother was there?

I started to walk closer as I started to get near

“Whats wrong I ask?”

And her face looks like an angry bear

I wait for an answer as if I think I am in her lair

“You pushed Tommy down the stairs!!!”

“No I DIDN’T HE DOESN”T EVEN CARE!!!

But that’s not what my mom wanted to hear

She took me away and told me to apologize,

To my worst enemy in years!!!

I said sorry,

But deep inside,

No one now had cared

But I know it wasn’t me who made the choice,

After all,

it was all a dare!!!

Acrostic

B ouncing a ball

A lways playing the game

S uper intensity

K illing the other team

E very day you show hard work

T elling team mates where to go

B oxing out

A ttention moves with the ball

L earning tricks

L acking the sense of loss

Pantoum

Sunlight

Shining bright in the sky

It never leaves us till its night

Giving us the light we use

Always all bright and

new

It never leaves us till its night

Making sure there is always light

Always all bright and new

Circling the world,

As if being sewed

Making sure there is always light

So none of us will make a fright

Circling the world,

As if being sewed

As if it constantly flew and flew

Dear Rodman Philbrick,

I am writing this letter to advise you on things I think you should have added in the book Freak the Mighty. Although the storyline and the suspense did want me to keep on reading, I have some points I have listed out. First off, I think that you should have given hints of the next situation a little bit more. I really liked how you made Freak say, “Sometimes, it is ok to break a promise.” That was my favorite quote of the book. I really think that if you added a little more of those quotes that gave small hints that made you wonder, would have made the story a whole lot better. In my opinion, this story was a story that had a good flow. I think that the subject liked to change a lot in probably each chapter. I think if you chose one subject and talked about it for quite a while, people would get bored. To me, the suspense of the story went up and down and up and down repeating every time. You would start to make readers clench the book in their hands for like a paragraph, and then let go. If you talked about the more exciting subjects a little longer, the book would have improved.

This was a great book that in the beginning was a little boring because of all of the detail and misunderstanding, but once I started to read on, this book decided to become a little more interesting. I think you made me and every other reader, clench on to this book eager to read some `more. It held some great suspense and problems, but it all ended in a very interesting way. I found a lot of morals in the story, which I liked how you included that. I felt like every passage had a little moral that can relate to life around you. I think of this book as one of the best. I have read this book and found some pointers that I have listed out. I think if you add all of the things I have mentioned, I would have liked this book a lot more. In my perspective, I think this book can relate to a lot of people. Some people don’t believe in themselves and always rely on their friend or someone else. But as you know, friends won’t always be there for you. You must believe in yourself too. To me, I think in freaks perspective, he thought of Max as someone he believes in. He did not think of Max as “stupid” as the others. He believed in him. Freak and Max both believed in each other.

I think Freak and Max think of themselves as to knights fighting for battle. They love to work together and complete quests. They like to think of themselves fighting dragons and

Sincerely, Nicklaus

__** My persuasive essay is about animal abuse and animal cruelty. I think that people are torturing these poor animals just for them to perform. I think they should stop and you will find out why. **__

**__ Animal Treatment __**

I believe that animal should be treated the same as everybody else. Solutions should be listed all over the park to remind the trainers. Animals are mistreated and tortured. They are beat and starved. Why do people do this to them? This is too cruel for anyone to bear.

Animals are living organisms just like us, why treat them differently? If you have been to one of those entertaining shows that show that the animal has “talent”, you never notice some of the cruel things that the people do to them before and during the show. If you look closely, you can see their scars and bruises that these zookeepers give them. Everybody underestimates these animals. Everybody thinks that they are stupid when really; they are smarter than you might think. These cruel people think the only way for them to learn is to beat them? They have already been taken away from their family, taken from their natural habitat, and being starved. Now people want them to perform and if they get it wrong they beat them? These organisms are not slaves, they are animals. Animals, which will soon become extinct. If people continue to treat these animals like this, they will probably die and become extinct from this world.

If you were put in an animal’s position, how would you feel? Do you think they really appreciate how they are being treated? You hear all of these stories of how animals have gone crazy and kill their trainer, but really they are just showing that they have had enough. They are showing that people that they should deserve some type of better treatment. Why hurt them, they have they done anything to you? Everyone, including animals, should be treated the same. How would you like it if you were treated differently from somebody else? At SeaWorld, it seems like it is fun for the trainers to beat the animal. When really they are just dreaming and wanting to die. They are dreaming about the past. Hoping that it would come back to them. When they were with their family, fed, and loved. They do not feel like they are at home.

Animals require the proper treatment just like us. They require an amount of food, care and help. We need to start treating them better. I suggest that we allow them to have more free space. They need to get the exercise that they need. Expanding their area to roam will help the animals significantly. Secondly, I propose that they should be beat less. They have scars and bruises all along their body. If they are better tamed, and they like the trainer, they would not fight back and refuse to train. If the animal likes the trainer, than the animal will train better. Lastly, I think that the animal deserves to see its family. Once it was taken from its family it had never thought of anything else. If you take one, it would bring the entire family into misery. If you let the animal visit its family once in a while, than the animal will be happy. All of these aspects could help these animals deserve the respect and treatment that they deserve. They are not meant to preform, they are meant to live peacefully. If people want to treat animals like this, why don’t they just perform themselves and see how it feels to be put in the animal’s position.

I understand people only beat these animals because they don’t know how the animals are going to learn. They repeatedly tell them what to do and they don’t understand. Although, people must remember, they weren’t meant to dance or jump through hoops. People have higher expectations to animals than animals have towards themselves. This cruelty needs to stop, these animals are suffering. They will soon become endangered and extinct from this world.

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