Speak

 Melinda is a person who is afraid to take a stand and say what’s on her mind. Melinda is hated by her old friends. The toss food at her, tell her they hate her, and avoid her at all costs. All this is due to an event where she called the cops while at a major summer party and fled the scene. Leaving everyone else to deal with the cops over summer break. I believe Melinda will most connect with her art teacher because he speaks her language. He’s given her an opportunity to talk without using words. Mainly through her projects she’s creating. Mr. Neck on the other hand, I believe that Melinda and him will not get along to well with each other, because of the tension of the no hall pass confrontation. Qualities that make a great teacher would be one tat helps the students learn but on there own terms with little help and let them learn on their own pace. Students on the other hand. What make a good student is one that is willing to learn, like the art teacher having the students chose their own path and draw the name of an object to focus on during the term and turning it into art so that it speaks to whoever sees it.

How I can describe Melinda. Melinda is a quite girl she keeps to her self, so she doesn’t get into something that will get her into trouble. I think she still has a great personality ever after what happened in her past. She’s probably really out going and is a very fun person to hang out with. It would be way hard to go through the things she is, not having anyone to talk too, her parents are always gone and her old friends hate her. Melinda is a very likeable person, already. She just needs to talk to someone, to let it all out. No matter what, because it could effect her in the long run, just like it is now. Melinda is way scared and way nervous, I could understand why. She doesn’t know what to do and I don’t think anybody would either, she’s a lost teenage girl, and it doesn’t help when she can’t let it go. I think she is a good friend but no one knows that anymore because their to busy trying to be popular but when the popularity goes away, what will they have than, being popular is the only reason why they all left her alone, and Melinda says that they we’re good friends but good friends wouldn’t just ditch out on her like they did. 

Malcolm X

 Malcolm only met Martin Luther King Jr. once in his life. It was in a news meeting. His house was burnt to the ground when he was only four years old. His father was shot and killed when he was fourteen years old. He got denied of his dream job. His dream job was to become a lawyer.

Malcolm was born in Omaha Nebraska. He died on February 21, 1965 New York, New York. His role model Islamic leader, his name was Elijah Muhammad. He met Martian Luther King Jr, only once in his forty years he lived. Malcolm was six years old when his father died. He got shot and killed by members of the K.K.K. When he dropped out of high school, he moved to Boston to live with his sister. Then he got involved in criminal activity such as street hustling, drug dealing, and became the leader of the gang called the gang of thieves in Roxbury and Harlem. He was sent to prison his sentence was eight-ten years. He was released from prison six years instead of eight-ten years. Moved to Chicago to live with Elijah Muhammad. He got married in 1958. He had a total of six daughters. He learned Elijah committed adultery. At 3:10pm, in 1965 he was shot fifteen times at close range and confirmed dead on arrival at the hospital. His wife died in the year 1997.  Her name was Betty Shabazz.

One of his greatest achievements was that he helped free the blacks. He also was a cosmetic and powerful speaker. He organized The Afro-American Unity. He also met Martin Luther King Jr. at a news conference.

He was an example of personal growth, spiritually as a kid he grew up as a Christian as a young adult-an adult he was Muslimism. Another example is that he overcame adversities and challenges. He did this by overcoming his father’s death, mom going into the nut house, and going to jail for six years.

This is my report about Malcolm X. I want you to know that I loved doing this report. I think I could never deal with the things that Malcolm had to overcome. He was a very brave and courage’s man. I don’t think could ever be that strong with the kind of things I need to overcome. What ever happens in your life always keep pursuing to your dream and or goal.

Rosa Parks

 That she was in the bus and she was in the front and same guy side that she cant set there and she headed to move back because she was black and black and black people don’t have that mach rights because only where black and she did a speech about rights and hoe they can have more freedom and there life’s         

In 1957 Mrs. Parks and her husband moved to patriot and when she arrested on a Thursday evening and at the age of 11 she enroiled in the Montgomery industrial and that when she use the bus they cant set on the front of the bus or they well get arrested because they cant set there only white people can set there and they well get mad only because they are black

That when she was little she went to a private school  founded by liberal-minded women  from the northern united  states  

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth was one of the best baseball players that have ever lived. He had a challenging childhood; his mother passed away, and his father was very busy running a business. He led the New York Yankees, to seven World Series. He was also one of the first five players to make it into the hall of fame. He really showed personal growth in his life, he came from nothing and turned into an incredible baseball player.

            George Herman Ruth had eight kids in his family. He was raised in a poor family. He was raised in a poor family. His father owned a tavern, so he rarely spent time with his family. I think this information is very important, because it shows even if your family isn’t wealthy you can still follow your dreams. His mom died while he was young, that toke a very big toll on him, and that struggle made him even stronger.

            Babes’ greatest accomplishment is that he led the Yankees to seven World Series. He had 56 major batting records before he passed away. He was one of the first five players to make it into the Hall of Fame. Total in his lifetime he had 714 home runs. I believe this is some of his greatest accomplishments, because all of these things are incredible. Not many baseball players have accomplished these things in their lifetime.

            The aspect of the student creed that he follows is personal growth. He came up from nothing and no support and made it to the top. A lot of people come from bad circumstances, but that is no excuse to not to be successful. Babe was born into the great depression, and didn’t feel much love from his parents. He took baseball in and put a lot of passion into it. He was very grateful for all that he had. I think he was very grateful, for every last thing he had and because of that it made him an amazing person.

            Babe Ruth really showed personal growth in his lifetime. He was treated very bad when he was younger. He helped the New York Yankees go to seven World Series. I think every one could reach their dream. Just like Babe Ruth did. He had a great influence on me and showed me you can do anything you want if you set your mind to it. We should all have the motivation to reach our dreams just like Babe Ruth!

                       

            Work Citied

Fischer, David. Babe Ruth. Legendary Slugger. New York: Sterling, 2010.

“Babe Ruth Biography. “Encyclopedia of World Biography. (2011) March 16, 2011.

http://www.notablebiographies.com/ro-sc/ruth-babe.html    

Jesse Owens

When Jesse Owens was a child he was very poor and was abused as a child. When Jesse was in high school he set a world record for the 100 yard dash and the 200 yard dash. Jesse graduated from high school with pretty good grades. He didn’t go to college after high school. Jesse trained everyday to try and get into the Olympics. 

Jesse Owen was born in 1936. Jesse had a hard time growing up. He was abused as a child. Jesse was the first African American track star athlete. In high school Jesse broke the 100 meter and 200 meter world record while he was in high school. Jesse overcame adversity with school because his mother didn’t make him go to school but he went anyways and ended graduating with good grades.

            Jesse had accomplished a lot in his life time. But I think that he opened a lot of African Americans that liked to run. Jesse also has broke world records. One of the one’s that he said that he feels best about is being the first African American to win the Olympics

I think that Jesse follows education I’m going to school now and passing all my classes, getting A’s and B’s. Life long learning are the keys to life long learning. He was a leader and did what he wanted. He had a motto and it was like “Success is the best revenge”

Jesse Owens grew up around bad people. People that don’t go to school, people that do drugs rob people just all negative people. But Jesse could see through everything Jesse stayed out of trouble, Jesse went to school and graduated. He went to some tech school to go to a better school for track.

Giuliani, Jim. Jesse Owens. Gold Medal Hero. New York: Sterling, 2010.

“Summer Olympics 2008” Feature. (2007) March 16, 2011.
www.Factmonster.com/spot/summer-olympics-jesse-owens.html

Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong is a athlete and a professional bike cycler. Lance Armstrong was also in the Olympics to do achievements. When lance was thirteen years old he wanted to prove himself to others. So he started to do cycling and training to be an athlete.

In lances life he didn’t really have much friends and encouragement from others. Pretty much all lance had in his life was him, mom and his rude step father. Lance got punished a lot and brutally from his step father. He also didn’t like his father’s way of being disrespectful to him and his mom. so pretty much lance had an unhappy life. Soon after his mom left his step father. Lance still continued for cycling, and Olympic awards. He also continued training while his was beating and punishing him before his mom left him. And the most major things he had in life was what happent with him having cancer, super heart and muscle enhances.

Say lance Armstrong’s greatest accomplishment was finishing Olympic cycling, and winning awards also achieving goals to pass wards and gold medals. his accomplishment goals started when he was 16 years old through a lot of years. Lance started his career by getting in training for cycling in mountains and canyons. He did a lot of exercising and weight lifts to get strong and better for his accomplishments. This is one of his greatest accomplishments because he had cancer, muscle problems, and a super heart. He also had some pain problems that he really didn’t bug him but he did accomplish these. I think its cool for him having these problems and being a famous winner of the Olympics. 

Lance exemplifies self growth through these times. Lance showed self growth by all the training he did for these achievements because it helped him win medals and the cycling races. Lance also shows self-respect and achieving challenges by doing all the hard training and cycling training because he didn’t give up, he just continued the challenges. Another example is when he was getting tested for muscle, and super human jeans past down from family. Lance did not let these get in the way of his training and goals for the Olympics. He was pushing himself to go forward into the games and races for achievements. He also didn’t let anyone tell him he could not do anything even with his disrespectful dad in his life

     

Another way to explain the traits lance shows in his life is that by reading about lance Armstrong he was a leader role model to others. What I mean by  about that is while he was doing self growth and other traits. Also others would look up to him as a person who would not give up or put himself or others down. Lance was a type of person who could have changed publicity around him because he had muscle something, a really good pumping heart no one else could hardly have and strong mental encouragement for himself. People around him look up to him and see that because if you or someone had an issue or problem it doesn’t mean you have to give up, you could still do something and achieve a lot. Don’t let little things stop you from doing something. Work with a problem and keep going forward and at least achieve and think about the problem later.       

Work Cited page

   Doe den, Matt. Sports, heroes, and legends. Minneapolis barns and noble, 2006.

 Lofgren, Stefan. National geographic news. The science of lance Armstrong. July22, 2005. 3/16/11, http//new.nationalgeografic.com/news/2005/07/722_050722_arstrong.httml

Neil Armstrong

            When Neil Armstrong was a young child he has always wanted to be an Astronaut. He went to college and he started flying on the 16^th birthday when he got hit pilots license. Neil Armstrong is famous for being the first man to step foot on the moon, and his famous statement is “one small step for men, one giant leap for man kind.”  I think he is an example of Personal Growth, he showed he wanted to make his mind up on when he wanted to do. When he grew older he did what he wanted to do and he became an astronaut.

            At the age of 14 he started taking flying lessons, he went to college in 1947 with a us navy scholarship, after two years he was called into active duty and won his jet pilot wings at Pehsacola Naval air station in Florida where he flew 78 combat missions during the Korean War. After transferring to the NACA high speed flight station @ Edwards air force base in California, he was selected as one of the first 3 NACA people to fly the x-15 rocket engine plane.

I think the greatest accomplishment that Neil Armstrong is making it to the moon and back, he went to training and to college to become an astronaut and fulfill his childhood dream of being an astronaut. He’s made seven flights in the X-15 in 1962 Armstrong decided to become an astronaut and applied for NASA selection and training, in 1962 he became America’s first Non-Military astronaut. In January 1969 Armstrong was selected as commander for Apollo 11, july 16 @ 9:32 am he lifted off from Florida.

           

Neil Armstrong fits in the personal growth area because he always wanted to fly in the air crafts, and be an astronaut and he followed up on his dreams and he succeeded in his dreams. He has always liked air crafts and air planes, se because he liked it so much he became an astronaut. After his space travels he still continued to work for the government.

Neil Armstrong is a great example of personal growth, because he built his life up since he was a young child. He’s had his mind set on being an astronaut, also fly planes and become a pilot, and he also followed his dreams and is a successful guy now. Neil Armstrong is famous for being the first man to travel to the moon and his great statement is “One step for man, one giant leap for man kind.” Keep your dreams in mind and keep chasing them than one day you’ll achieve it.

Work Cited:

Dixion, Tara, and Jackson, Mike. Neil Armstrong, One giant leap for man kind. New York: Sterling, 2008

“Neil Armstrong.” Encyclopedia of world biography. (2011): March 16, 2011. www.notablebiographies.com

Harry Houdini

Erich Weiss, also known as Harry Houdini, grew up watching and performing trapeze and magic tricks. He would spend many hours practicing for his future career as a magician. Harry Houdini is known for his famous escapes from hand-cuffs, crates, and water tanks. Houdini resembles commitment to personal growth in his life by training and practicing his tricks so his body would be ready for when he would perform. Houdini would make sure he was perfectly applicable for his stunts and acts before he would perform them to the audience.

As a young boy Houdini was fascinated in trapeze and circus acts. As Houdini grew up he practiced circus acts such as the trapeze standing on a pole. He was always learning new magic tricks and death defying stunts. Soon Houdini was noticed by Martin Beck, who hired Houdini to perform at famous venues. Houdini became famous for his amazing escape acts.

Houdini was exceptionally well known for his amazing escapes especially his hand-cuff escape and straight jacket escape. Houdini would get a challenging act and overcome his challenge no matter the cost. To this day Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) was and still is the greatest escape artist that has ever lived. After becoming a magician Houdini also became a movie director and stared in his own movies.

In all of Houdini’s life he overcame many adversities and challenges. Houdini would go into a stunt with confidence and would accomplish his escapes in a mind-boggling way leaving people wondering “how in the hell he did that.” Houdini having a life of moving around didn’t lose faith in his dreams and followed them even through all the tough times. Houdini would complete his act even though he was weak or unsure, he still would take a step foreword and accomplish great things. Houdini truly is the greatest escape artist who was faced with many trials and errors but still overcame it all just to follow his childhood dream.

Throughout Houdini’s life he accomplished and overcame many things in his life. His greatest accomplishment was fulfilling his dream and making it came true. Houdini truly resembles a person who started out with something small and made it into something big and grand. He made himself a life. We all have that ability. It’s our dream we have as a child. What we do with that dream is what matter. We all can over come the greatest challenge in our life and fulfill our dreams. We all have one we cling to. If we do whatever we can and whatever it takes to follow them and make them come true, we too can fulfill our dreams just like harry Houdini did. When we live our dream that’s when we truly have lived.

           
                        Work Sited

Mullin, Rita Thievon. Death Defying Showman. New York: Sterling, 2007

A&E Television Networks. Harry Houdini Biography. Bio.true story Biography.com. (2011) March 14, 2011 http://www.biography.com/articles/Harry-Houdini-40056

Jackie Robinson

            One of the things that made Jackie Robinson the most valuable baseball player of his time, was when he was younger he led more than one sports to a championship.  And that lead him to be in the National Hall of Fame. His greatest accomplishment was breaking the segregation barrier with sports.

            Jackie Robinson as an African-American baseball player was on display for the whole country to judge.  Jackie was the first baseball player to break Major League Baseballs color barrier that segregated sports for more than 50 years.  I think that breaking segregation in sports is huge, because if blacks weren’t able to play baseball now then I don’t think baseball would be as interesting and exciting.

            One of Jackie Robinsons accomplishment that I think was his greatest, was being a black male and making it to the Hall of Fame.  Jackie Robinson became National League Rookie of the year with 12 homers, a league-leading 29 steals, and a .297 average at the end of his season with the Brooklyn Dodgers.  !949, he was selected as the NL’s most valuable player of the year and had a .342 batting average that same year. He was inducted into the Baseball Hal of Fame in 1962.  I think this is one of his greatest accomplishments because he was one of the first black males emitted into the Hall of

Fame.

            The aspect from the creed that I think Jackie exemplifies is Overcome adversity and challenges.  His family overcame prejudice encounters that his family encountered.  And it strengthened their family bond.  I think that it’s amazing that he and his family still keep their heads up even though people were being prejudice towards them and others of there color.  His life legacy will be remembered as one of the most important in American history.

            Jackie Robinson had many other accomplishments like how he became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: Baseball, basketball, football and track.  Dealing with segregation wasn’t the only struggles he had to deal with in his earlier years of his life.  He had to leave college and enlist in the U.S Army due to financial difficulties.  And his mother raised him and his four other siblings on her own.

Cited Page

Book: Teitelbaum, Michael. Jackie Robinson. Champion for equality. New York: Sterling publishing Co, 2010.

Internet site: Pioneer press. “About.” Jackie Robinson. March 16, 2011. http://www.jackierobinson.com/about/.

Stop It!

You yell and can’t seem to stop

STOP IT!

You keep sipping on that whiskey bottle full of your addiction

STOP IT!

Your making me hate you more and more everyday

STOP IT

You complain to my little sister for getting touched by her brother just

Because you are drunk

STOP IT

You ruin everything you touch. And everything

That I walk past

STOP IT

You complain that our family just isn’t good enough

STOP IT

We can’t move anywhere in our relationship like a father and daughter

Should because you’re powerless

Your powerless over your addiction your killing yourself slowly dad

STOP IT

My fingers want to grab that bottle and smash it cause

Then I could...

STOP IT

 You taught me to never leave someone you love behind

But I seem to be getting farther and farther away from you

MAKE IT STOP.

I want you to live a healthy life and not kill yourself with something that you can not control so if you don’t

STOP IT

I WILL!!!!

Pain

How could you!

Where do you get

Off going behind my

Back, Smoking, Drinking,

 Doing DUSTER!

I hope you know

That I’m going

To start up again

Just to prove a point

To you! Uhhh….

“F” that I know how

Addicting that is and

I’m not going to put

My self in that kind of

Situation ever again!

 You have made me so mad!

I have know

Idea how I feel right now!

Relationships

I like that twinkle in you eye’s

When you stare me deep in my eyes,

I can’t believe all those times I

Made you cry,

Than I began to wonder why,

I caused all this emotional stress

For you

When all you were trying to do is to stay true

And not leave me hanging in the blue,

Then I found out it was true

With you and my cousin Drew,

You both lied,

You both tried to hide it

You tried to make a food of me,

When you weren’t staying true to me,

Now it all turned into a democracy,

Are you freaking kidding me?!

Marines

They are the few

We are the proud

We’ll always serve

As well as protect

You know the saying

We’ve made it quite clear

We’ll quick in your door

To show you what we’re fighting for

This is a simple game

A game of strategy and survival

It’s a mission of success

A test of truth

Our main goal

Is to gain honor and respect

It’s who we are

This is what we’re here for

We fight for truth

We fight for freedom

We’re listening because

We are the MARINES

Lost Your Trust

It didn’t take much to lose your trust

Just one time for you to f*** up

Knuck up

Buck up

Take some ownership

But you can’t even do that much

So you just dip

Try to come back to me

You’ll get hit

I’ll make you look like a fool

And laugh in your face

It sure didn’t take long for you to be replaced

Yes! I’m trying to rub it in your face

You started this all in the first place

You think I’ll take you back

Only if I was wack

So lay off the crack

I’ve moved on.

And starting my new song

The Gold Sun

As the gold sun hits my soul

Laying there, the gold light

Coming from every direction.

It can never be lost.

Ad I lie there blinded

From the beauty

Blinded from the soft tenderness

Of the feeling I have.

The words can’t explain

The feeling I have.

It fills my heart

And soul with loyalty

Love and….

So much more.

Music

This is the best thing in the

World

In my mind it’s the answer for everything

It can help all your problems

It’s indescribable

It’s my therapy

It can help me cheer up when

I’m down

It has all sorts of different

Meanings

If you listen closely

You can hear the message

It makes me feel untouchable

Like there is nothing but peace in the world

Everyone should listen to it

It’s my life

I Hate You…

                        I hate you when you lie, I hate you,

                            I hate you when you steal

                          I hate you, I hate you when

                       You Act like a fool, I hate you, I hate you

                      When you think your cool, I hate you, I hate you when

                      You pick on me, I hate you, I hate you when you

                         Cry like a little beep, I hate you, I hate

                       You when you act like someone else, I hate you

                              I hate you when you disrespect.

Walking Away

Listen to me baby

I think its best  for

You to walk away before you do anymore damage a cavaste the hardest

Part of being alone I’m gussing  its noting compared to having you don’t even wanna be here I don’t know why your lying its like your hiding from yourself something are feeling inside hell I was always afraid that one day you would walk away now that faced with what your giving noting more that I can do try to keep you here so many nights crying my self to sleep and you went here with me and I was thinking about you ever day inside my hart I well always say your name.

Loves & Friends

Your hands touching

My face, rubbing your

Thumbs back and forth

Looking me in my eyes.<3

Holding my hand

Smiling and laughing

Laying down beside each other.<3

Walking down a narrow path

Never knowing what’s

Going to happen when

We’re together.<3

The warmth.

Your soft tenderness

The smile that lets me know

That you care.<3