The scariest day ever

          Yesterday September nine 2010 was the scariest day of my life. I went with my dad to his store and I worked ever since I got there till the time we were going to close the store. The weirdest thing happened, the streets all of the sudden got full of people and all the people on the streets beat up a drug dealer. The people that beat him up were also drug dealers. There were about 30 drug dealers all going off on one person. They were fighting over territory because if they didn’t have a spot to hide then they couldn't sell there drugs without the police finding out. Any way I went outside to see what was happening and I saw five people holding a man up and three other guys were punching his face in a also kicking his ribs. It went on for about ten minutes and I called the cops and just when I thought it was over some one threw a huge glass bottle at him and it broke on his head causing the man to bleed like a broken pipe, there was blood everywhere. The guy was on the ground uncontentious and someone else threw another bottle at his head also breaking and causing more blood to come out but there was no reaction from the uncontentious man. Just when I thought it was over another person stomped on his head and spit on him. When everyone had enough of watching the mechanic next door pulls out a rifle and runs towards the group and was prepared to fire. Everyone ran and my dad and I closed the store and got in the car and fled. As we were leaving we heard a gun fire and we were to far to see what happened. We got home not talking about it and went to sleep trying to erase the image of blood out of our minds.         

The Painting

            The girl in the painting that’s next to the window, looks like she just read a letter telling her that her husband just died and the paper in her hand I there to notify her. I think that she is going to live on the streets after that because her husband can no longer help her and provide for her so shes on her own. She will get really mad and eventually have to commit suicide because there is no longer meaning to her life. She is taking the short cut of whats going to happen to her in the future. The mood of the story is very depressing because there is a open window with light shining out of it which is supposed to be her husband and the rest of the room is dark and the picture kinda tells you that there is still hope the women is not going take it because she does not think that things are going to get better from there and on. The lady in the picture looks like she has been beaten up mentally and can't take any more bad news. Her clothing gives you the idea that she has been working really hard hoping for her husband to return and when he does she can finally relax and remove the burden from her shoulder.

 

        

The Aquatic Uncle

     Q often goes back and forth between prideful arrogance and shameful embarrassment.

In the story “the aquatic uncle” it has many examples of Q doing both, being ashamed and prideful. For example Q is always being embarrassed, like when his uncle took his girlfriend and she tour his heart into bits. One example of Q being prideful was when he thought he should man up and show his girlfriend the uncle that he has which is also a fish. Here is one quote from the story. “I could have sunk into the ground with shame. And he said I'm not fooling! The worms you find there will fill your belly alright.” As you can see Q has his time of need and he was a whole lot of time when he was ashamed of him self just like in the quote above.

      Another example of Q trying to be prideful and help his uncle was when he said to his uncle to come with them and no one besides him is in the water. Since Q doesn’t really know his uncle and what he is about to say then Q is totally absent minded. Here is the quote from the story “We had made various attempts to get him up on land with us.”Again Q does not know when to stop and how to convince any one with his prideful arrogance. This part even has a example of when he got embarrassed in front of his girlfriend because when they left, Ill his girlfriend was happy to see his uncle but Q tried to show her why he did not want to show her his uncle in the first place. Q always has his ways of hurting him self just like in the other books about him.

      Q is very complicated because when he doesn’t want to do something he does it anyway because it gives him the temptation but when Q gets mad he really will go off someone, this is how he talks to his uncle “Go on with you tadpole when you’re wet again you'll be back home!” For that Q's pride got to him because in the end Q looses his girlfriend because of what his uncle said. This is what Q's uncle says to Ill “ If you're game sweetie, I can teach you in a minute!”

Q: “And what do you think you can do with a old fish.”

Ill: “Marry him. Be a fish again with him.”

As you can tell that is the worst kind of experience that any one can go through. All has been said and done by Q, he has his moments of pride and his moments of shame.  

a tipical day at asti

    the day of everyday

what i do every day at asti is go to first period and try to get there on time because karen is so lazy in the morning. After i am late to school  i try to go into class without without disturbing any one because everyone is trying to there work and i know that i hate it when people walk intro class and i am at them for not walking in with no noise and slamming the door. Next i go to second period which is the longiest period of them all gbecause we always have to listen to higashi talk and vin is never going to stop asking ?'s>.Finally when second period is over i go to the rest of my classs because i have to and they go by really fast and as i type karen id=s loomking at me and she is like so wired.

the ten words

approach
estimate
evidence
indicate
achieve
credit
final
feature
normal
maximum

the worst day

The Worst day

The worst day for me was today 9/20/10 because every thing went wrong. First thing that happened to me today was that I had to wake up in the morning to make me a sandwich which took me more then 30 min to make because I burned the first one. The other thing that happened to me today was that we had a time line due for history class and I was waiting for the glue to dry off. The thing that really messed me up bad today was that Karen and I had to walk 2.7 miles to get home because the bus took us the wrong way thanks to Ivan telling us that we had to take the 51a to get home. My feet were killing me because my backpack was so heavy and I already had back problems from a bad night sleep. I don’t even know why I am typing right now because I am really mad and this is how im going to end my day. 

the new house

                  The Creepy New House

I was only 5 when me and my family moved to the house three blocks away. The first time I seen it I was terrified of it because it was so big with a huge lone and a big-faced dog. I hated that house ever since I heard we were going to move into it. The first time I walked in it I thought that I wouldn’t make it a week before I died. Its been ten years that I’ve lived in it and so far I love it so much because its huge and I get my own bedroom and we got a huge front and back yard. People always ask me how do I like the house because on the outside it looks like it is hunted because of all the trees and shade. Now that I am a teenager I would never give it up because well its were I grew up and its the only place in the world were I can be happy. I want me kids to grow up in it. So a word of advice don't ever say no until you experience it.  

my day at sixflags

                          My day at six flags

My first time going to Sixflags was so much fun because I went with a lot of people that I knew. The first thing that I did when I got into Sixflags was buy some food because I was hungry after coming straight home from school. When I was done eating I went to try one of the games that they had it was supposed to have a Nintendo DS if I won I would keep it. I won and they kept saying that I cheated because it was impossible to put the ring through the loop. So I was pretty mad until I got one the roller coaster “roar” because I never rid a roller coaster in my life. You can tell I was pumped so I tried out all of the rides and guess what happened I barfed so hard that if I wasn’t barfing, I would be. Then me and all my friends went home and fell asleep and the day ends there. 

                                                                                                                                   Luis Alba

Bassam Alkabash

Prostitution shouldn’t be legalized

1. Prostitution gives females and males many diseases and parasites such as HIV/AIDS, STD’s, Herpes, crabs, and many more. This is important because if people don’t use protection, they can be in risk of having a disease. Health officials state,

25% of them have HIV or AIDS. 3-5% of the sexually transmitted disease in this country is related to prostitution (compared with 30-35% among teenagers).

2. Prostitution puts females and males into risk of being killed, kidnapped, robbed, and rapped. This is very important because you might not know if a person will do something wrong.

Eighty-two percent of these respondents reported having been physically assaulted since entering prostitution. Of those who had been physically assaulted, 55% of prostitutes have been assaulted by customers. Eighty-eight percent had been physically threatened while in prostitution, and 83% had been physically threatened with a weapon. Sixty-eight percent reported having been raped since entering prostitution. Forty-eight percent had been raped more than five times. Forty-six percent of those who reported rapes stated that they had been raped by customers.

In the 1990s, researchers Melissa Farley and Howard Barkan conducted a study on prostitution, violence against women and post traumatic stress disorder, interviewing 130 San Francisco prostitutes. Their findings indicate assault and rape are all too commonplace.

3. Most prostitutes are under the age of 18. This is important because people under the age of 18 shouldn’t be working on these kinds of things. A study in 1993 from Health Centers states,  

2/3 of prostitutes began working in prostitution before the age of 16. Young women often enter prostitution as a way of escaping an abusive environment and because they are poor.75% worked for a pimp.
Also, a recent study from Africa states,
30 and 40 percent of prostitutes are between 11 and 18.