Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Snapshot of Kennywood

The view from high atop Kennywood's Phantom Revenge is simply stunning. The wind is rushing through your hair and around your face. It smells a mixture of  Potato Patch french fries  , cotton candy, and sweat. From its highest point you can see the rest of the park, the parking lot, the Monongahela river, and many building opposite the river. As you're going down you can almost taste the french fries, you can feel the wind whipping through your hair, and hear the screams of many excited roller coaster riders.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

A Good Listener.

In Of Mice and Men Curley's wife confides in Lennie.  She tells him about her life before she married Curley and moved to the ranch. She also tells Lennie how she doesn't like Curley and she doesn't really want to be married to him. She tells him how she is very lonely living on the ranch, and just wants a friend. 
        Someone who is a good listener looks at you while you are speaking. They also don't interrupt you. They wait till you are done till ask questions or make comments. They don't make faces or give glares. Every once in  awhile they make noises or say words to acknowledge that they're listening to you.
        I once confided in my friend with the boy I had a crush on, after I told her she went and dated him. I was really upset because she knew I liked him. I didn't talk to her or him for awhile. Later that year when I talked to her again she told me who she had a crush on. I handled it and didn't turn on her. I didn't go and date him or tell any one else that she liked him.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

A "Perfect" World

A perfect world. That doesn't sound realistic does it? That's because it isn't. Us as humans have never been able to achieve a "perfect" world.  Either our government is too much power or not enough power.Whatever reason it is, we can't seem to make the world "perfect". My question is what would be a "perfect" world ?
       In my perfect world there wouldn't be any violence, killing, or bullying. Everybody would get along with each other. Those to refuse to would be sent to a remote island where all of the people who didn't get along would go . I wouldn't make everyone the same though, because then the world would be boring. I also wouldn't punish anyone for being different like they did in Harrison Bergeron. Just for fun I would have everybody eat cinnamon toast every other Sunday morning! Also on one Friday a month we would all wear crazy outfits.  
        In conclusion I don't think that a perfect world is probable. If it ever did happen it wouldn't be for thousands of years. If it did happen I would be pretty strict on certain thing like violence,bullying, and other certain things. Otherwise I'd be pretty lenient and make sure there would be fun and creative laws. My government wouldn't be to strong or to weak. In the end my perfect world would just be nice people, cinnamon toast, and crazy-dressed Fridays!