#16 The journey

I wake up to the noises of birds natures alarm clock. I get up and sit on the edge of my bed. throwing the bear skin jacket I made on. My feet are cold from the wood floors on my cabin. As I walk to the kitchen to make my daily fix of coffee I glanced through my front window and see the meadow in front. It looks different today. Peaceful. It looks like its calling me. I see it every day but today it looks different.

#14 Persuasive Essay

If I was called to the office right now an asked my opinion about if this school should have uniforms what would I say? I would disagree because I personally see no point in having them at all. If everyone is the same then how can we express ourselves and show who we are. We are not the same so why should we dress like it? As long as us students are dressing appropriate we should be able to dress how we wont.


People are different thats a fact. There is a lot of people who have the same stuff in common but never two people will be the same . Everyone has there own style and attitude. Uniforms will cause more problems then they can fix. When your not able to feel like yourself then how can you be 100% yourself? Life is about growing up and making choices for yourself. What better way to find who you are than in your clothing. How a person dresses tells a lot about how they think and how they act.


There is problems with not having NO uniforms. Gang members find out who the other gang members are, girls hate on other girls because of how they dress and what popular brand they have. If people grew up and realized how stupid they are for hating on each other for what they wear. Well school would be less stressful for them. If we can manage to express ourselves properly while in school then we should not have uniforms.

#8 The Necklace

The necklace is a short story about a woman and how she wants be rich and beautiful more than anything in the world. She finally gets that chance when her husband is invited to a work party. She barrows her friends necklace thats full of diamonds. She loses the necklace and instead of telling her friend about what happen she and her husband give all there money and more to buy her a new necklace to replace the one she lost. After spending everything they had they give her friend back the necklace. To pay off all that they owe on the new necklace. The woman and her husband end up spending the next years working there asses off. One day, years later she runs into her old friend and confesses what had happen. Her friend full of shock said that the necklace she let her barrow was fake and not worth much. The woman was so in shock and blamed her for everthing that she had to go through these last years. 

#11 Concrete Rose

Tupacs poem to me means that he come from a place where things do not grow and you stay under the radar and people walk all over you cause of where are you from. It also means that he rose above the expatiations of what people thought of him. He proved those people wrong. He got out of the rough life (concrete) and became something amazing (the rose). He broke through the barrier of the ghetto through a crack in the concrete of life and became something.

I can relate to this poem because I’m from the south valley. For those who don’t know it’s not the best or safest place here in Albuquerque. People in other parts look down on the south valley because of the reputation we have for having a lot of gangs and being ghetto and being the scary place they try to avoid. They look down on us and don’t expect anything from us kids. Are fate is sealed for us, you either go to jail or die. That is not true though most kids that I know from here are so smart and have more potential than anyone. Are life style is just different not because we chose this life but because god gave it to us. We deal with this lifestyle as if it’s nothing to us because it’s all we know. It does not mean we are not capable of becoming something great. In a way we are better and stronger because of the hard life we are given and that makes us stronger. We don’t sit around crying about how life sucks. We just take a deep breath and keep moving because we know everything gets better over time.

We can all become The Rose breaking through the concrete. That’s what Tupac was trying to say. He is telling us if we want to rise above the concrete of our hard lives then we can do it if we really want it.

#13Holloween Haiku

Its the night when ghost and goblins come out to play for one night only.

When the dead awake and travel the streets of the world they left behind.

Door to door they go tricking and treating to celebrate this one night.

#10Bullying

The essay im gunna write about is the case of Jamie Nabozny who was bullied for being gay. Since Jamie was 7 he knew he was gay,but didnt come forward about his being gay until 7th grade. Thats when things started to go bad. Students from jamies classes started to call him names and soon words turned into actions. Jaime went to high school thinking things would be better and people would forget about him being gay. The exact opposite happened tho. The problem esculated and the bullies went to harshed actions and things got real phyisical. Jaimie ran away,tried commiting suicide and so many other ways out to try to stop the abuse ,because the schools administrators were not protecting him. After he had enough he was given the advice to file a lawsuit and take the people to court who did not stand up for Jamie. This does not just go for gays but for everyone getting bullied. No one should be abused for who they are even if people dont agree with that. All schools need to be a safe haven for kids and schools need to inforce these anti-bully rukes and take them seriously.

Jamie Nabozny from age of seven knew he was gay. The only other person who knew this was his grandmother. Jaime was very secretive about his sexuality. When he was in 7th grade he became open about him being gay. Thats when the trouble started. Children at his school started teasing him and it soon became physical. They were tripping Jamie,hitting him and even throwing objects at him. Jamie was so stressed and afraid of being at school.

 One day Jamie went home and went to the bathroom and took alot of pills hoping he would fall asleep and never wake up. Once injesting the pills Jamie became scared and realized he didnt want to die and ran to his mother. His mother rushed Jamie to the hospital quickly were he got his stomache pumped. After that Jamie was checked into a psychiatric hospital. Later after leaving the pyschiatric hospital Jamie returned to his middle school in 8th grade. Things escolated even more and the bulling repeated.

High school. Jamie hoped people would forget about him being gay and just leave him alone and maby fit in this high school enviroment. Well Jamie soon found out he was wrong. The bullies didnt forget. One day while Jamie was using the urinal at school. A group of boys came into the restroom and saw jamie and the bulling started. The boys surrounded Jamie and pushed him into the urinal when another boy started to pee on Jamie. The abuse was on another level. Jamie started hiding with his books at school so that the bullies could not find him. Well one day Jamie didnt hide well enough and the boys found him. One boy approched Jamie and told him to fight him. Jamie told the boy that he would not fight him and he ignored the boys. The boy who wanted to fight him kicked the books Jamie had out of his hands. When jamie bent over to pick up his books the boy repeatlly kicked Jamie in his side. After the beating the boy bent down and whispered to Jamie,"If you tell anybody ill kill you"!.

 Frightened from the beating Jamie went home packed his things and ran away. He left a note for his mother explaining he was leaving and never coming back. His parents quickly packed and headed for the big city. They guessed Jamie would be there. Posting "missing" posters on every pole,bus stops and just every where they thought someone who was running away might be. Jamie came upon a shelter and later that day his parents called the shelter looking for him. A lady from the shelter told his parents that he was here and she told Jamie that his parents were going to come visit him. When his parents arrived there was alot of emotions. Jamie hugged his parents and was so happy to see them. His mother said if he came back that they would get him home schooling and he wouldnt have to go back to the high school. Soon after being home his parents told Jamie that they couldnt aford to pay for home schooling. So he returned to the high school. 

Jamie ran away again. This time he told his parents to let him stay out there or they would have to wait to see him until he turned 18. With his parents not having much of a choice they let him go. While he was out there it was advised to him that he should file a law suit against the school district. Jamie talked this over with his parents and confirmed that they would go and file the law suit. After the case was dismissed they didint give up and finally the case went to trail.One boy who bullied Jamie confessed all that he and the other boys had done. A parent of another bully also comfirmed she had benn contacted about her son bullying Jamie.  

#5 Race in America

Its been nine years since the Twin towers were attacked by the two high jacked planes witch killed thousands of innocent Americans, But America still hasnt fully recoverd from it. Nine years ago the small muslim group of the taliban marked history and destroyed the reputation of the muslim people. Nine years ago we went to war in Afganastan to take out the taliban and nine years later we are still there. Nine years later a muslim community wants to build a mosque near the site where the towers once stood. Should they be allowed to build it? Does the first amandement apply to them? The freedom of religion. Some say no and others yes. What about the burning of the muslim sacred quran? Is the pastor from Florida doing that because of religion or race?

Race. That four letter word causes so many problems all over the world. Its caused problems for African Americans,Mexicans and other hispanics,Whites,Asians and right now the Muslim community. After 9-11 everybody racial profiles muslims or anybody that resembles them. I know because I used to racial profile people like that because I was uneducated about the situation. Now that I know more about what happen and whats going on I dont racial profile. The only reason I did is because I listened to fools who knew nothing and I knew nothing so I thought they were right ,but when I learned the truth my eyes opened to a whole new world and whats happening inside it. If people were educated properly race probably would not excist or as much.