what do i want the most...

This is a very easy question for me because I have been thinking about it a lot lately. Ever since I was little I have been playing baseball. It is what I enjoy the most out of everything that I do. When I am stressed out, I just go outside and Hit. And it would always make me feel better.

 I used to watch it everyday and admire all of the professional players out on the field and I would just think to myself, "Man, one day I want to be out there". Making it to the Major Leagues is every players baseball fantasy. One day I am going to be out there. That is what I want more than anything in world and I will do anything to get there.

poem

Bing! Bang! Boom!
She hit him with the broom,
and sent him to his room

All he did was cry,
he did'nt even lie
he just wanted some apple pie

He did not like school
because he would always drool
so he looked like a fool

It was almost June
he picked up his spoon
and thought it looked like the moon

Poor little billy
he was just so silly
so he got a wet willy.



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                         april 15 55 minutes

umberella

For our blog post I chose Umberella by Rihanna and Jay Z. It is one of my favorite songs of all time. I have listened to this song at least 1,000 times and it still never gets old. I beleive that when you listen to a song, you really don't pay attention to the actual lyrics and what they mean. But , when you focus on the lyrics and what they mean you look at the song in a whole different way. I noticed right at the beginning that Jay Z says," Rainman is back, with little miss sunshine Rihanna where you at?" I think that he is showing somehow that they are opposites. Rihanna then says, "When the sun shines well shine together." I feel like this shows some sort of connection with each other. Rihanna then shows how she cares about Jay Z, "Now that it's raining more than ever, Know that we'll still have each other,You can stand under my umbrella,You can stand under my umbrella." I noticed what the song was actually about.

writing

I never have been an great writer and have struggled at this for a very long time. I find it hard for me to come up with ideas for my papers. Writing is very different from other topics in english and other subjects. It is putting the ideas that you have onto paper. I have struggled a lot in trying to make my papers longer. For example if I have a four page paper assigned, I struggle getting passed the third page.

The type of papers that I struggle with the most is defiantly research papers. I found the process very hard when writing my paper. It was very time consuming trying to find all of the information and citing my sources. I also have a hard time organizing my paper and knowing where everything needs to go to make my paper good. I try using outlines and sometimes this helps. I am certainly going to stop by the writing center at some point this week.

Jane Goodall

It has been a long time since I have heard the name Jane Goodall. I used to hear so much about her but not like I used to. I always remembered her from the monkeys she used to take care of and study. It never occurred to me that she had become and author of a few books. I always admired her work with the monkeys though.

Recently, I have been hearing things about her new book. There have been lots of people talking about her plagiarizing other people's work. I was amazed when I heard this and did not want to believe it. I could not envisage Jane Goodall taking other people's work and using it for her book. She seems like such a sweet person and to think that she would do that is unbeleivable. But, she acts as if she did not know that she did it saying, "It was a well researched book". I believe that she should start over and write a whole new book and get different information.

nervous contitions

I think that Nervous conditions should stay on the syllabus next year. It was not my favorite book, but I thought it had some good points and it answered our question in class. Even though it is fictional history it reflects post-colonialization in Africa. It makes the reader aware of the way things were in Zimbabwe.

Even though I thought this was a good book there were a few negatives about this book. At some times, the book would become boring and not interesting. This was because there would be chapters where absolutely happen; then there would be chapters where lots of things occurred. I think that the information in the book should have been spread out through each chapter.

Another problem that I had was the characters. I did not like some of the characters; especially Tambu. I thought that she was annoying at times I did not agree with the decisions that she made. I really did not like how Tambu complained about her brother Nhamo and how he had changed when he came back from the mission and when she came back from the mission she had acted the same way and this made me angry.

I think that Nervous Conditions was a really good book and it taught me a few things. I think I would have enjoyed this book more if I could have read this book like as a summer reading book where I would have a little bit more time. Overall, I think that this book should stay on the syllabus.

free blog post

This past weekend my baseball team had a tournament. We won all of our games up until the last one. When the other team began scoring, our team gave up. Everybody started to lose confidence in our ability to win. But, we did come back and tie the game 8-8. We started to see that we had a chance to win. However, it was too late because we let the other team score two more runs giving them the victory. If we would have played with more aggression we would have won easily.