Patriot's Pen 2012

Why are rights so twisted during this time? Okay, I am from the future in 2012. The bill of rights you have been working on is very successful in the future, so I thank and congratulate you on that. However, you may notice how a lot of the actual people of your country never got much of a say in this bill. Believe it or not, in the future, everyone in America has equal rights. Yes, that includes women and other races. We should have started that way. 

Why is slavery okay? If you believe in equal rights for everyone, why does that only apply to white people? However I do understand slaves are what you rely on for work. If you were just to set them free, no work would get done. But like I said before, everyone in the future has freedom. If you don't give the slaves get freedom, then a civil war will be had over it. Now that doesn't mean you have to just let them go all at once and stop working. What I would suggest is slowly give them freedom, or in other words, get easier on them over time. Maybe even pay them eventually? You got a lot of money anyway don't you? 

Furthermore with equal rights, like I said before, let women have a say in this. Freedom isn't restricted to men. If you give women equal rights now, we won't need to go through the trouble later. Women are people too and deserve the same exact rights as you. Let them give their thoughts and ideas to the government.  

Doing this will likely fix so many issues. No civil war, little to no racial fights, and overall equality. We won't need to alter the rights that much later on, if at all. This country will start out a true free country. Not just free for rich white men. Everyone. Black, poor, female, everyone.  

The Power of Laughter

Authors Note: This is a Cause and effect of the Disney Pixar animated movie: Monsters Inc.

In Monster’s Inc, monsters rely on the power of screams of children to power everything in their world. Monsters’ jobs are to scare the children in their door. With each scare, they get screams, which work as power for the world. However, in this world, children and humans are forbidden and monsters are ironically afraid of children. One day,  the main characters, Sully and Mike, get themselves in a bit of an issue. A little girl, named Boo, follows Sully into the monster world without him knowing. Sully and Mike need to hide her or else they will get in big trouble. This caused them to change their daily lives and focus on not getting caught. By the end of the movie, the Monster World realizes they don’t need to scare the children for energy. They instead found that laughter was as strong, if not stronger that screams.

Boo following Sully effected the monster world. If Sully never got in the whole incident with Boo, he and the monster world would never find out that children are harmless.  They would continue scaring children instead of making them laugh. The monster world would never know that they don’t need to be afraid of children. They’re power wouldn’t be supplied as well as opposed to laughter.  

Harry Potter 5 conflict

Author's Note: This is a response piece on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix about the main conflict.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix the main conflict in the beginning is a Person vs. Society. In the beginning almost everyone, including the government or Ministry of Magic, is against Harry. Harry has discovered Voldemort’s return but everyone refuses to believe him. The ministry even ends up taking over Hogwarts and making the school go mad with all the uptight rules.  Harry also is in a bad mood throughout most of the book, so it also has some Person vs. Self in there too.

The conflict get’s resolved by Harry proving Voldemort had returned and from the ministry leaving the school. Dumbledore earns is rightful place as headmaster of the school and Professor Umbridge, a lady from the ministry gets fired. Harry is still not in a great mood by the end of the book, but he’s not nearly as stressed as in the beginning.   

Kidney Surgery

Author's Note: This is a short essay about the time I got my kidney removed.

When I was born, apparently something was wrong with one of my kidneys. Later when I was 4 I was told I had to have surgery for it. I was really nervous. I remember being in the hospital for probably a week. The first night I slept there, my mom slept in the same room as me on a booth chair. It was really dark. They had a lot of wires strapped on me to keep track of my health. Most of the wires were  strapped  to my arms and wrists. Slowly overtime, my arms started to itch. I scratched it seamlessly for a bit. Although by the morning, I found out apparently I did more than just scratch it. Some of wires were all messed up and I didn’t have most of them on me anymore; I think I bled a bit too! But all was well and I don’t remember getting in much trouble, I didn’t know any better anyway. I was only 4 after all.  

Within a few days of laying on a bed, it was already time for the surgery. I remember nothing of that day other than when the operation was over. I remember waking up being dizzy and finding it hard to walk. Later I recovered and was able to walk fine. When I looked at my belly I saw stitches around my belly button. I thought it made it look like a sun, with stitches being the light. Those stitches are still there to this day, and will be there forever. Later on the way home my family told me when they gave me the medicine to put me asleep, I was acting very loopy. So loopy I was talking to the little animals on my bed sheet! I remember absolutely none of this.

Having surgery was one of the biggest things to happen to me in my life. To this day, my mom doesn’t want me playing any dangerous sports to potentially break my remaining kidney. That means no football, wrestling, or hockey. That’s okay with me though, I never really cared for those sports that much anyway.  While the whole experience of surgery was very blurry, I’m going to remember it forever. It’s had a huge impact on my life. 

Harry Potter 5 Retelling

Author's Note: This is a short retelling of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for a book ad project.

The book Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix is the 5th book in the series. The book starts out right after the 4th one, with Voldemort returning from a downfall. Harry claims Voldemort is back to everyone, but everyone but his family and friends thinks he's gone mad. A women from the Ministry of Magic, the main people who refuse to believe Voldemort is back. She always punishes Harry for what he claims. She eventually even gets the Headmaster of Hogwarts, the school, fired. Eventually she ends up substituting him. By the end of the book, Voldemort is finally exposed and after several months of torture, everyone believes Harry.  

I recommend this book to anyone who like fantasy and or the other Harry Potter books.