Drilling In Alaska

Author's note:Picture this, white fluffy snow on the trees, snowflakes falling with the wind. The animals roam with their families, and the blue sky soaring above them in a wild and
untouched landscape. Clouds as if they were marshmallows stuck in the sky by a little kid. That kind of beauty is now in danger of being overrun by oil companies drilling and turning clean soil into dark toxic mush. As a team, let’s try stopping this cause and help the animals.

There are 1.5 million acres of federal lands in the coastal plain Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, also known by it's shorter name as ANWR. Drilling in ANWR will only get an estimated guess of 16 billion barrels of oil. On average the world uses 21 billion of barrels of oil a day. America would only get about 9 months worth of oil from the drilling. If Congress were to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, crude oil prices would probably drop by an average of only 75 cents a barrel.

The problem with the drilling in the ANWR is that it will not only harm the land animals, but it will also harm all the marine animals that live in the refuge. So many of the birds we see in our own backyards, in all 50 states, and across six continents, begin their lives in the area were the drilling would be. The land will be torn up by heavy equipment for the building of roads, buildings, and oil lines. There is also a risk of a drilling disaster that could harm the animals and environment.

We need to find other energy sources for the future, so that we are not tearing up any more land, drilling in ocean floors, and shipping it overseas. Oil spills are dangerous and expensive to clean up. The more oil we drill for the more there is a risk of an accident happening. Renewable energy and clean energy are the future so we need to spend money researching that instead of searching for more oil.

America should not be drilling for oil in Alaska. It will probably take many years before enough of the oil is even ready for use. We need to protect the area for future generations and the animals that live there now. Let’s save Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge instead of tearing it up.

Out With The Toys

Author's Note:Being a toy has many disadvantages and many great advantages. The authors Emily Jenkins and Paul Zelinsky wrote the book Toys Go Out. This book has many comparisons to the movie Toy Story. Many books have main characters that are boring, but when you read this book they are all funny. This story got my imagination going.

Toys Go Out tells the readers that No matter how smart you are you have to be thinking and be ready. Authors Emily Jenkins and Paul Zelinsky tells young and older readers, it doesn’t matter how smart you are along as you use that in the right way.

There is a fun loving 6 year old girl that always takes her favorite stuffed animal to bed. Lumphy, the buffalo, and many other fellow stuffed animals get into problems that they need help getting out of. Just like in real life we get into problems we need helping getting out of. like parents help out there kids and sometimes other kids too. In the book one of the main characters gets stuck in a shoe but then he gets help getting out. A lot of adventures happen in this book.

Do you like going to the beach? Going to the beach can be a really fun, but as a toy there is a lot to think about like being stolen of broken. In the book one of the toys go to the beach. Plastic was her name. She was thrown in to the ocean and started to drift off. A dog came and grabbed her. As she was told it was a dogshark, but was just an type of dog. Dogshark came into the attack as if the ball was a predator. The ball pops and had just enough air to get to the family and get fixed. These toys always have a problem they have to fix.

Lumphy, the buffalo, has a big problem to get around. When he slept on the big bed, he realizes that he doesn’t like it up there. A red ribbon was tied to his tail. Just as he jump the tail got stuck and came off. Lumphy was startled when it was off then realized that he is a strong buffalo.

Main characters of books are mostly boring but when you read Toys go out you will surly like each character. Also the authors that wrote the book tells young and old readers that we can be very smart but us that in a bad way. Like as an adult we always have to be thinking a head and watching for the bad drivers.

A Kid With A Diary

Author’s Note: Almost everyone is lazy in the summer like not wanting to do chores. For most kids these days they want to play video games or play outside.

Jeff Kinney wrote the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days to tell us that summer can be bad or good depending how you act or what you do. The main character of the book is middle teen boy named Greg Heffery. What he encounters is always going to be bad news, and doing things he doesn't want to do like playing outside.

As most children want to play outside with friends during summer, Greg only wants to play video games and watch horror movies. Greg starts off the summer with a easy job. The thing Greg didn’t understand was what he had do. Forgetting about things can be good or bad. In the book Greg forgets about a animals. A bad thing about forgetting, sometimes happens to animals. Abusing animals can be very dangerous, but it is done everyday around the world. Animals can be lift in a car on a hot day while people go and swim.

Swimming is a fun thing to do on a hot day, but for Greg that’s not so fun. For Greg swimming is fun but to walk though the locker room is an awkward thing. Once you got thought the locker room with men half naked you’re going to be scared for life. At the local pool there is a life guard the Greg liked then found that she likes someone else. holidays could be a good time to get someone you like over for dinner.

Holidays are a great get together with family. One thing is that Greg has a big family and every holiday they sleep in a small house. Most of Greg's family are annoying so it’s hard for Greg to manage the yelling. Some families have nice parties and some have bad parties and for Greg his is bad. Now all Greg can wish is to have a normal family. real life families there is mostly the annoying family and if they sleep during the holidays it can be a real struggle.

Sleep is a good thing but over summer it just makes you lazy. Jeff Kinney wrote the book to make our summer better than Greg's summer. This book has some things that happened to the author when he was a kid. Go outside and play with friends and don’t be like Greg.

The Ladder For Jacob

Author's Note: Adventure and bravery are the two words for this book. There are nasty adventures and great adventures and you are the only one that can choose this. This great book tell real life problems while using a fiction character.

Jacob has encountered many problems in childhood that separated him from his parents and now he’s in a new world. Jacob came to the new world not knowing anything from the fatal past that brought him there. This new world had many missions for Jacob to discover the true meaning of the world. The author, Brian Keaney, wrote the action packed book Jacob’s Ladder to tell everyone that we all will have struggling times in our life that we need to fight through.

Jacob had found the meaning of the world that he lived in. Now Jacob has entered a deadly quest. The quest made Jacob excited to encounter the truth. There where two friends with Jacob to find the truth of the mystifying world they walked on.

Jacob got tricked in to going in to a cave. A man took his shoes and his socks. the cave was dark and scary.Jacob couldn’t see at all. Now Jacob was tricked in a blink of an eye. In real life people always get scammed like in the book Jacob got tricked. This happens to most people in their life. It’s a bad thing cause that happens to most old people, and then they get tricked into paying a lot of money for something that’s really cheap.

Everyone has a mountain to climb also known as having to be free and have a adventure for just yourself. Have you had an adventure? In the book Jacob went through a live or death adventure. He almost quit on him self but he look forward at the good the he will have when he will succeed. Jacob did get what he wanted and in the end did change his life to what he wanted. Brian Keaney wrote this book to tell us that we live one life and we should do what we want.

There was adventure in the book that made you think and see what the main character, Jacob saw. It’s hard to find interest in a book but, in Jacob’s Ladder there is adventure the first chapter. The book made you feel as if you where there in the book with Jacob.

Trudging Through The Snow

Frosty is the morning;(When I wake up the windows are all white with the frost of outside)

But the sun is bright,(Under the sun it's nice and warm felling)

Flooding all the landscape( The snow is all over the ground no green to see)

With its golden light.(The way the sun hit the snow)

Hark the sounds of laughter(Everyone is playing in the snow)

And the voices shrill!(The kids are laughing and all happy)

See the happy children(They can't wait to go sleding)

Coasting down the hill.(Going as fast as they can to go fat down the hill)

There are Tom and Charley,(Some kids that love the snow)

And their sister Nell;(Little Nell cant wait to go sleding)

There are John and Willie,(Freiend that came over to play)

Kate and Isabel -(The sisters that always fall)

Eyes with pleasure beaming,(Eyes are staring at the snow)

Cheeks with health aglow;(Everyone full of joy and energy)

Bless the merry children,(They will be outside for a long time)

Trudging through the snow!(Snow up to there knees)

Now I hear them shouting,(Made the coolest ramp in town)

"Ready! Clear the track!"(Testing the snow)

Down the slope they're rushing,(They made a good track)

Now they're trotting back.(Though the deep snow they keep going)

Full of fun and frolic,(They don't care if they're cold they have fun)

Thus they come and go.(Up the hill and down they hill they are alway moving)

Coasting down the hillside,(Now they're ready for hot chocolate)

Trudging through the snow.(In the deep snow they came back home)

The Quote

"he course of true love never did run smooth."

 

Author's Note: William Shakespeare is well known for his quotes. His quotes means many thing. What's your favorite quote from William Shakespeare?

This was written by William Shakespeare. To me this quote means that love has ups and downs. the really people that love eachother well fight but that's because they love eachother. the ones that dont have fight mostly mean that they don't care. Shakespeare wrote this to tell us that true love has consequenceses and you have to take it.

Marines

This picture of the marines makes me think about the future. I see the future as if I there in that time. In the future I see what I would look like and how I will act. The marines will always be my favorite branch of the military. When I think about the future i can always see my self flying in AC-130 or a hornet. My step dad was a marine and he always pushes me to do things.