Cinquain

Leopards

Have spots

Very unique spots

None will have the

Same

Found Poem: Expeditions

Sometimes timing,
inspiration & a
little luck coincide
to great moments.
A modern voyage across the earth from
the Galapagos,
Tanzania,
Kenya,
Turkey
Alaska to Antarctica
and Brazil.
We normally take pride in our work,
but we will share our work with the world.

National Geographic Expeditions 

Travel Catalog 2010 pg 3 

Cinderella from the Rat's point of view

While I was hanging out in my rat hole, I heard a sad cry. The voice sounded familiar  So I headed outside to the house part to see what was the matter.

It was Cinderella. So I asked her why she was distraught. She said nothing, almost as if she din't know of my presence. In a hurry, she darted outside. I grabbed my lamp and briskly went after her. At that point in time I realized that a few friends had started to fallow me.

Then a bright light headed towards me. No, I was wrong! It was going toward Cinderella! So I madly ran to protect her. The the glowing orb exploded with light.

When the light died down, a fat old lady had taken its place.The mysterious lady headed singing and waving her spoon around toward Cinderella.

Then the old lady pointed the spoon at me, so I attempted to flee, but it was too late. She had shot a small light into my mouth and down my throat. I then began to a tingly sensation through out my limbs and I started to grow bigger and bigger!

It was my worst nightmare, I had been transformed into a human servant, or a Coachman according to the old lady.

I turned to see that two of my friends were turned into horses, and one into a giant pumpkin!

After midnight, we thankfully returned into our original forms. This would be an unforgettable night that I will never forget!

Aging and Death

Death cannot be avoided, it is just waiting to come at you when you least expect or at your weakest moment. When dealing with a death of a loved one, we most think of it as a horrible thing and want it to stop, but we all know it must happen one way or another. But you should consider yourself lucky, because "Everybody dies but not everybody lives.", quote Drake from "Moment for Life"

As people age now a days, it becomes harder for them to learn new things and adapt to change. They also, or at least my grandparents, become very bull headed and do not like to be told that they are wrong. But aging hasn't stopped my grandma from just retiring. Shes the type of grandma who likes to go out and do something, other than stay home, sit around, and do nothing. but as she has gotten older, my her son (my dad) and my Aunt try to convince her to not drive, because she has Alzheimer's disease.

In the story "The Law of Life", Koskoosh, a village elder is left behind during a camp move because he is too old to be any use to them and must be left behind for the better of the family. Unlike most older people, he had an understanding that it must happen if he wants his family to continue. So when the wolves come, he remembers a pack of wolves hunting a moose. The moose put up a fight, but it ultimately knew that it was the end. So Koskoosh willingly gave up, and let death com to him

Civil Disobediance

          Both "Gandhi's review of Civil Disobedience" and "Walden", were inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson. They both had a calm tone to them. Neither Gandhi or Thoreau supported the way the government oppressed the people such as 114-118 in Civil Disobedience, Thoreau had mentioned "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles." Here he is basically saying that prison is not a place of punishment, but a place to rest and think.
          Thoreau has been arrested for, refusing to pay their poll tax, as stated in Civil Disobedience 144-149 "I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up." In this state of mind being thrown in jail was pointless.

Live Simply

Live Simply

I gave up my favorite drink, ICE

Its basically coffee for me, and kind of addicting  I have a craving for them. To be honest I was jittery, irritable and just out of it. So, I guess if something as simple as this can be difficult to drop, I wonder how difficult it would be to leave your home for a week to live in a shack.

Personification Poem

I am swift as the winter chill

I like to chase rabbits and deer

I often sleep in the shade of a tree

I feel relaxed when I rest on a rock

I am secretive

I see a group of deer in the nearby field

I do my best to survive in a changing world

I hear the call of an in injured rabbit

I am a Mountain Lion