Billy

My Life By   Billy Yang, Period B2

apples on the apple tree. blueberries in the bush. cranberries are better dried. durian smells awful. Eating them is fun and tasty. Fruits on the tree or in a bush. Getting healthier while eating them.

Although times may be hard. Because life has ups and downs. Crawling past is never a brave move. Draw yourself up and stand your ground. Eject the bad feeling and think of the good. Find the bright side of hard times. Good sides are always there. Hidden beneath layers of despair.

My future is ahead of me. Yields many possibilities for me to take. Fly like an eagle, free to roam. Unless there is free things to get that no one knows. There will be ferocious fights for free food and money. Underneath the ferocity there is always discipline. Remember that you can always try,never mind what others think. Even when things seem hopeless. media type="custom" key="24232116" Rich people throw money around. They sometimes work with each other. Rich people buy planes as toys Other people buy things way cheaper Rich people have mansions made of money Some people don’t have two cents to rub together Rich people’s things shine brighter than stars. But they can lose their money overnight, what a bother!

Future Unpredictable, Mystery Waiting, watching, plotting Strange and exciting feeling Destiny

Dreams Goals, desire Makes you work Try hard to reach vision

Yesterday… I disliked doing nothing, But I enjoyed playing my toys. I was cross when people make fun of me, But I was glad when people play with me. I was terrified of horror movies, But I was not afraid of homework. Today… I despise doing chores, But I find pleasure in playing video games. I get outraged when people accuse me, But am grateful when people help me. Spiders petrify me, But I’m not afraid to do work. Tomorrow… I will loathe getting old, But I will appreciate retiring. I will be fuming when somebody fires me, But I will be satisfied working together with someone. I will be panicky of having no job, But will not be afraid of doing what I want.

My presentation on my poem on rich and poor.

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My presentation on the Freak the mighty project where I made a dictionary of the words.

media type="custom" key="25476806" This is my persuasive essay on smoking. Smoking

Has it ever occurred to you that most of the deaths in the world relate to smoking? Every year, around 68% of the 56 million deaths are from noncommunicable diseases. Noncommunicable diseases are diseases that are not infectious. Smoking causes most cases of chronic obstructive lung disease, cardiovascular disease and lung cancer. Smoking is accounted for being responsible for 1 out of 10 deaths. I highly recommend the community to ban smoking for public safety. Did you know that cigarettes cause about 5,000,000 deaths a year worldwide? Cigarette smoking causes 10 times the fatality rate than wars fought by the United States. People who smoke are 6 times more probable to get a heart attack than people who don’t. The risk of developing lung cancer if you smoke is 23 times higher than non-smokers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states “ Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States”. Cigarettes are extremely harmful, dangerous and should be banned. The reason that cigarettes are bad is that they contain many dangerous chemicals. Cigarettes contain nicotine, which is a really addicting chemical that makes smokers hooked. Nicotine is extremely addictive because it makes your brain produce dopamine chemical and stops the chemical from turning it off. Your brain remembers the sensation and wants more of it. Some other dangerous chemicals inside cigarettes are Tar, Arsenic, Benzene, and many more chemicals. Most of the chemicals cause cancer and are very bad for health. The chemicals inside cigarettes are extremely dangerous and should be avoided. If you thought that smoking only harms the smokers, you are mistaken. Secondhand smoking is when a passerby breathes in smoke from the smoker. Every year, second hand smoking is estimated to cause 150,000–300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia in children. If non-smokers are subject to secondhand smoke in an indoor area, it increases their lung cancer risk by 20-30%. Research shows that secondhand smoke is responsible for 35,000 to 40,000 deaths per year in the United States. As you can see, secondhand smoke is very dangerous to everybody around the smoker. By now, you should know that why smoking is harmful to health and why you should be careful about standing next to smokers. If someone comes over to you and ask if you want a cigarette, you know what you should do. I strongly urge the community to do something about smoking. Smoking kills 480,000 people in America. More than 40,000 of these deaths are from secondhand smoke. Not only does it harm the smokers themselves, it harms the others around them. It is time to do something about this terrible massacre.