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The Poem of Poem Poem C2 Yesterday… I giggled at silly mistakes, But I wept when a close family member died. I feared the dark, But I never feared heights. I couldn’t stand playing piano, But I adore fairytales. I believed in revenge, But I don’t believe magic.

Today… I laugh at dumb jokes, But I do cry at emotional stories. I dread being alone, But I don’t fear challenges. I do love friends and family, But I really hate troublesome confusions. I believe in sheer luck, But I don’t believe in coincidence.

Tomorrow… I will chuckle when I look back at childhood memories, But I will sob when I face impossible decisions. I will fear wrong decisions, But I won’t hesitate when I’m taking risks. I will love intense competitions, But I will hate mistakes. I will believe in myself, But I won’t believe in ‘happily ever after’.

Halloween... Arise!!!

 A free verse poem does not have to follow patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. There is no set meters, not following any particular structure. It is just a poem you write on your own. It is in a way, “free”.

The sun goes down The dark night grins, Wait a while, Chaos begins: Vampires soar, Black cats leap, Zombies wander, Mummies weep. Ghosts wail, Jack-O-Lanterns smirk, Bats roam, Spirits lurk. Fires blazing, Spiders attack, Blood floods, Graves crack. Witches kill, Frankenstein frightens, Spider webs glow, Candles lightens. Wizards protect, Devils invade, Werewolves howl, Souls fade. Children flee, Grown ups mad, “O, it’s a legend, Don’t be bad” The stars goes down, The dawn has come, Wait a while, Big night has gone.

Candy Floss

Poem Lin C2

Acrostic poem

Colorful as a rainbow, A piece of sweet, edible, puffy cloud, Never bittersweet, but just plain sugary sweet, Decorative, delightful, delicious, Yum!

Flavor of every kind imaginable, Lovely looking, Overwhelming, Smiling kids waiting for it, So obviously the best — Candy Floss!

Rainbow Color poem Rainbow is Beauty Rainbow is Peace Rainbow is Colors Rainbow is a Miracle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rainbow smells like Mint <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rainbow tastes like Chocolate <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rainbow looks like Future <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rainbow fells like Heaven <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rainbow makes me think there will be Hope <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rainbow is in YOU.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Minute Poem- <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Chocolate

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Chocolate is extremely sweet, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">They’re good to eat, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Some are all right, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Some are delights.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Chocolates have many colors, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Some are duller, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Shapes and sizes, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Most are prizes.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Some chocolates have banana, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Gifts from Santa, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Some have almonds, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Some are diamonds.

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Freak the Mighty

My project is the “thousand word picture”. The scene I selected is in the classroom, when Freak the Mighty was presented to Kevin and Max’s class. In the actual classroom this is the scenery: Freak, small and mighty, riding high above the world, on Max’s shoulders. All the kids in the class picked up the chant: //Freak the Mighty! Freak the Mighty!// Max, huge and quite brainless, supporting Kevin sitting on his shoulders. While he felt proud and for the first time, like he had a brain, Kevin’s mind drifted “back in time”. In the time of King Arthur, Kevin imagined himself being a knight: __slaying dragons and fools and walking high above the world.__ His victory of some kind, and tens of thousands of people cheering for him, with the same words: //reak the Mighty! Freak the Mighty!// The reason that I choose this scene is because I think this is the real turning point for Max. He realized that so many changes that weren’t part of his old life, had become part of him. Since Kevin crept into his life, he has earned a memorable friend who made a significant impact on his life.

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Poem Lin 2014-5-13 C2  ** A World too full of People. **  The world is packed with people, but as long as the recourses can hold, that isn’t a problem. Right now, the ecosystem isn’t balanced. There are way more humans, or predators, to all the key animals on earth that are hunted or raised. The resources cannot always support all the people the would contains, there will be a time when there isn’t enough of anything. And that, is overpopulation. But we are not able to do anything about it, including stopping it, if we don’t understand overpopulation, learn the basics that everyone can do to help, and the history of it. In the world you see around you, you might not see a whole lot of people. But when you look globally, there are 7.1 billion and counting. China has a population of 1.7 billion and counting, whereas the country larger than it, Canada, has only 34 million and counting. The United States has 317.8 million and counting, while India’s population is catching up to China’s. Overpopulation is a problem of not having enough resources, not a problem of space. When humans exceed the Earth’s carrying capacity, which means how many people the plant’s resources can support, there will be deadly results. Plausibly, the consequences are war, starvation, diseases, natural disasters, and extinction. In the west, the Europeans and the Americans live in luxury. In average, an American uses three times the food, 250 times the fresh water they need to survive, and produces 2kg of trash per day. These rich countries use over ¾ of the world’s resources, developing countries use around ⅕ and the poor countries use less than 2%. If the Western world keeps demanding that much resources, then we need 5 worlds to have a sustainable amount of resources. Between 1800 and present, the world’s population grew from 1 billion to over 7 billion. During this period of time whole forests were cut down and used for homes, furniture, and paper. The oxygen level had decreased due to the lack of photosynthesis with half of the forests gone. To us, the ecosystem is like a huge Jenga building block game where you take out blocks and hope the whole thing doesn’t collapse. But the difference is, we’re playing blind. We don’t know how an extinct species would affect us; we don’t know which species’s extinction would cause our own. So, we need to watch the way we are using nature, we need to be careful about what we do, and not leave an ecological footprint that has too big of an impact to our little world and destroy it. To solve the problem of overpopulation, the government needs to step in. Several years ago, the Chinese government recognized that the blooming population wouldn’t do any good for their nation, so they laid down the One Child Policy. Experts predict that this policy has lowed the Chinese population by around 400 million people. We all know that putting down a law on childbirth isn’t the best solution, but it worked for the Chinese. Providing better health care for families can encourage them to have less children. When a couple has many kids, they are scared that not many would survive, or, they would be lonely and need to be taken care of when they grow old. If the families get clean and enough supplies, they generally will have less children. Educating women is also an effective way to lower birthrates. Women, when given all the same chances as men, and gains control over family, usually choose to have less children. The easiest way for everyone to be able to help is to clean up after themselves, use renewable energy, and the 3Rs. Reminding others to stop wasting and to be careful with the environment around you is a great way kids can help. When the population level is kept at a sustainable pace, overpopulation is implausible to happen. Overpopulation has a surprising and interesting history to it. A few decades back, on a little island a few thousand miles off the west coast of Chile named Te Pito te Henua — Isla de Pascula or Easter Island — in its native tongue has been in control of the Rapa Nui. That island used to be loaded with trees, fresh water, and animals to hunt, but when the Rapa Nui population flourished, the resources decreased and soon tribes began to fight for their own to keep alive. The carving of Moai (statues that represents a person) also stopped mysteriously in 1680 when they probably didn’t have enough energy or resources. Another example is in the fertile crescent, around the Middle East, it used to be a rich farmland and the nomads gathered there and formed a society. Their population multiplied, and effects of overpopulation began to show: The salt left behind from over-irrigation destroyed their crops and left behind a farmland full of sand. Their supply of rich land and food was gone, and so the civilization also faded. These events happened because humans didn’t understand the importance of balancing nature, and they aren’t careful with their surrounding. Whereas, now we know, and we need to do better than these ancient tribes. The world around us is evolving, and we need to make some changes before the fate of the Rapanui also applies to us. No one wants to end up experiencing war, and death. Resources are vital to us, we need to cherish them and know that they do not last forever. For us, there are no more ‘New worlds’ to discover, nor other planets we can survive on. We are stranded in our own island in space, and it is essential that it is well and healthy.

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