The Holocaust

I believe that the Holocaust was a terrible thing. I dont think people should have been punished for being a certain race. I don't think it was right to put Jews through the kind of hell that they went through, just because Hitler thought they had something to do with Germany losing and having to pay the war reparations. It's a slap in the face to the jews, because they had to suffer and get killed because of their race. Every single Jew shouldn't have suffered the way they did. It would have been better if no one suffered.

We were at one of my softball tournaments and this mom from the other team was talking a bunch of hard talk about me. She was saying things that were not very nice and instead of my mom blowing up on her, she just told her that she wasn't being very nice and she would appreciate it if she kept her comments to herself. My mo is the type that if you get her real angry, then she will blow up on someone, but from that day she realized that she would be wrong for blowing up on the woman. 

To Kill a Mockingbird

If I transferred the story of Scout and her adventures to my neighborhood, it would be pretty boring because I live in a neighborhood with all grumpy old people. I would change the kind of adventures that took place and the people that lived there because if you would actually go on an adventure now, you would get yelled at by the old folks. The things that would stay the same would be the setting because I have a cool neighborhood where people have a bunch of trees in their back yards and there is a little creek to go on adventures in. I think I would be friends with Scout as a child because I always liked to use my imagination and go on mini adventures with my one friend. I would be friends with Jem and Dill too because they do some crazy things and go on some cool adventures. 

Mary Oliver

“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

Mary Oliver was right about the “instructions for living a life.” You have to pay attention to the little things in life to be astonished. When you are astonished, you should tell people about it. It makes life more enjoyable if you pay attention to all the little things. Instead of worrying about one or two things in life, look at all the other things. They could astonish you and make a great story to tell about later in life. It makes memories that will last forever.

The Constitution

I think I would make it illegal to smoke cigarettes. I honestly believe they are the most disgusting things in the world and they are so pointless. It kills the people that smoke and it harms the people around them. People do it so they look cool, they do it because their friends or family do it, and they do it because they see famous people doing it. There are other things people can do to look cool, besides puffing on a cancer stick. A lot of people I know think smoking is horrible. They don't like it and they think it should be illegal, and I think the same thing. 

I wish I could believe that my old friend didn't start doing bad things. She tried to convince me that she wasn't drinking, doing drugs, and things with different boys, but I heard the truth from too many people and I no longer believe her. I informed her that if she was really doing that stuff and she continues doing it I wouldn't speak to her because I didn't want to be around someone like that. I didn't want her to try to push those things upon me. I am not trying to ruin my life, I am trying to live my life while I am still young. I want to experience the things I am supposed to experience in my teenage years.

Personal Appearance

A lot of the people I used to consider my “friends” are big on the inside and little on the outside. They acted like someone they weren't in front of other people. They tried to act tough to impress people, but then when they were around me or their parents, they acted like a totally different person. I also know a lot of people that are little on the outside and big on the inside. I think I would consider myself one of those people because I am really shy and “innocent” on the outside but when I'm around friends and family It's like I come of of my comfort zone and I don't act shy anymore. I do think physical appearances are related to personality because the way you appear to someone can make them think a certain way to you. If my internal beauty was directly related to my external appearance, I would look different than the way I do now. I wouldn't look much different but I don't think I would really care about what I looked like every day. I wouldn't really worry about what every one else thought about me and the way I looked.