A Review of Freshman Year: Lessons Learned I was at a diner with some of my friends from school (one of them being the girl Jordyn I wrote about in my “first day of school” piece— it turns out I actually had spelled her name wrong there) and we were eating plate after plate Read more…
Frogs What are frogs? What is their life cycle? How do they mate and lay eggs? What are the new types of frogs, and why do they keep appearing? How long have frogs existed on our planet. Frogs are amphibians. That means their young live in the water and as they grow up they will Read more…
Three Limericks There once was a man named Watt, Who always devised cruel plots, One tragic day, Watt turned to clay, So we hid him in a yacht. There once was a cat from Muscat, Who claimed to be thin as a bat, After many years, He ate human ears, And became Read more…
1996, he wrote and illustrated the famous American award-winning book “Palestine”. Joe Sacco currently resides in Portland, Oregon. When Sacco wrote his story, he divulged both his passion for the state and the state itself. His focus, preferring anecdotal to panoramic, excavates details that infrequently make it to the news or the history books. For example, in Oregon, it rains a lot. It’s rather simple to just say, “Oregon is a beautiful country and it rains a lot”. But the way he tells us that it rains a lot is more indirect. He gives many examples, implying constant showers. For example, Sacco tells us that there is a place that’s full of peril called the Pearl District. He uses an umbrella to protect himself from being jumped. And when he has to walk his awful embarrassing creature, the dog, he sometimes waits 20 minutes when there are clouds in the sky. Sacco also dislikes the heat. And when it’s too hot, his wife, Amalie, would want her tomatoes to receive hard heat for anther five or six days. Sacco thinks that it is unquestionably essential for a good writer to travel in various places and it is also ideal for him to visualize something when he’s walking around.
MAN In the morning I awake, With sweat, sorrow and with dread For I know there is no break In the days that come ahead. Oh, woe! The days are so grim, So sad, hopeless, and so bleak, Filled with bitterness and sin Of man’s penance on the weak. They care not for their shrill Read more…
Sebastian studied Edward Lear‘s limericks, and then produced some of his own: Limericks There was a young boy in a pool. Who would fiddle with a spool. Who would nap in the tide, And get o’ so very wide. That lazy, fat boy in a pool. There was an old man with Read more…
Ambition Ambition must be made to counteract Ambition, itself its greatest hindrance. Old ambitions are so often attacked, Crushed, replaced, leaving only an imprint. See, Ambition’s prey is satisfaction, Satisfaction, the result of getting. Getting, the end of a vast reaction, Catalyzed by a sneaky Read more…
We Can Do Something With Courage If you are a person who has no money and no power but a big idea, what would you do? Complain about the unfair treatments of society? Or just devote yourself to the idea hastily? When these situations take place, our natural instincts will usually resist adventure Read more…
The Source of Preservation Throughout Tolkien’s entire life, he studied languages. When Tolkien was very young, he learned Latin and French, during middle school, he learned Spanish, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Ancient Norse, Finnish, Icelandic, and Greek. Tolkien learned to speak 35 different languages! His study of words gave him the capability to invent new Read more…
The Plague When Mr. Watt comes to Hong Kong, I’ll find a place to hide, I hope I won’t be there for long, but that’s what I’ll decide. The wait may be long and weary, but it’s what I must do, I may eat my Read more…
