Patriots Pen

Patriots Pen Rough Draft

Authors note: Sometimes I’m swayed to believe that our country isn’t doing this right, but who am I to judge? I’m just a thirteen year-old.

         

The question is “Am I proud of my Country?” Well the answer is yes/no. Yes because we have a surplus of faithful people willing to fight for our country. The brave military soldiers, they go out of their way to fight for our country, and fight for our freedom. That’s what I call a patriot. Our country is home to hopers, innovators, and believers that make thing happen for themselves and each other. America, land of the free home of the brave, I’m proud to be an American. On the other hand though, I sometimes question my own faith in my country. Why are we so involved in everything? Even things that we aren’t supposed to be involved in, take Osama Bin Laden’s death for example. All the people in Times Square and other areas in New York were celebrating like they had just won the Super Bowl or something. It’s not like any of them were involved in carrying out the operation. Also the brutal and senseless killing of humans in America is at a pathetically high number. Two-hundred sixty eight people are shot each day. One-hundred ninety thousand people get shot and possibly killed each year. Only in America, These things are terrible, but it does not sway my thought that things are getting better as we speak. I have no doubt that we can fix it and there is no way that we aren’t doing it right now. I still have faith in my country, but I’m going to lose it if things keep going the way they are. I know and hope we’re working on it but we better do it quickly, because I’m pretty sure time is running out. Fast.  

Persuasive essay

Persuasive essay 

How would you like it if you had to wear the same thing routinely every day? I’m guessing you wouldn’t. Wouldn’t you like to express yourself through your clothes? I do and that’s why I think that all the schools in the nation should ban uniforms.

I think that schools should ban uniforms because it’s our right to express ourselves in          whatever way we want. Whether it is shown by clothes, or words. Mostly because we all know our First Amendment clearly states that we may express our freedom of speech in a variety of many different ways. My main statement is that uniforms should be prohibited from schools across the nation.

Furthermore, why should we go against our founding fathers? In addition,

Many of my friends from schools that require uniforms agree with everything I say. They all hate uniforms and they wonder why they are forced to wear the same thing day after day. If we hold the 10 amendments so dear, why do we take away from them? Is that freedom of speech limited? If so I would love for the person in charge of uniformed schools to enlighten me on why they have to wear uniforms.

Admittedly, I understand why some schools want their students to wear uniforms. May it be because they want their students to look formal or, maybe there has been inappropriate clothing in the past, or maybe there have been situations where students have hidden things in their clothes. I think that if the students have to have uniforms the teachers should have to wear them too. It would only be fair. It doesn’t matter if they have one day of the week, like a casual Friday, to wear regular clothing. They shouldn’t be able to change a person whether it is by clothes or hair.

However, I think all these things should be considered. Maybe there should be a certain amount of misconduct that happens before uniforms are assigned. Even then it should have to be a reasonable amount of infractions that have occurred to be able to take away someone’s rights. Or maybe there should be uniformed periods. Where uniforms are assigned to people who are wearing inappropriate clothing must wear uniforms for the rest of the day. Maybe even resort to contacting parents and try to get them to bring an extra set of clothes

In conclusion, I still think uniforms are restricting the creativity of kids and teens of uniformed schools. Which I know should never be done. Who knows the mental or physical damage this could do to a creative child. No one, especially the United States of America, should go against our own founding fathers. Wasn’t it them who wrote the Amendment? We shouldn’t be able to change something we had nothing to do with. And that is why I think uniforms should be banned from all schools in America.

Blackout

Blackout

Authors Note: This is a story about the sun exploding and how human life is affected by this. I want this to be graded on creativity and quality.

By: Elias Dorsey

            Weak, vulnerable, unaware, these are the words used to describe all humans on the very day of the blackout. It was the year 2021, August 1^st 8:44am to be exact. We noticed an immense jump in solar activity. The temperature at the current time was 124 degrees Fahrenheit. At 8:44 in the morning it was 124 degrees Fahrenheit. I tried to tell researchers that it was something more, something we could never avoid. People say it would take a week to notice that the sun burst. The temperature was the highest it has ever been, the tar on the streets were melting, car tires, and even bus stops and phone booths. I was to get to the bottom of this before the sun did.

            I asked ever scientist I saw and they didn’t know anything that was going on, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. I funded a project that would, actually send a shuttle into space and measure the temperature of the rays it’s giving off. The numbers we saw were unbelievable. Right when we started measuring and recording, the sun exploded. It was gone forever. Then we realized the big picture. We remembered if the sun ever did burn out or explode, we would still have seven days left of sunlight. America sent a warning message to the entire world, but they didn’t believe us. I guess ignorance is indeed bliss.

Then, out of the blue, came an Idea that I thought of, that I knew had a very high possibility of success. Since life would be unsustainable on the surface of the earth, why don’t we just dig closer to the core so that would give of heat, rather than the sun? Everyone I knew thought it was a good plan. Mostly because they were in a state of pure terror that they only had seven days to basically live and breathe, and farm etc. Once we were done building this “survival hole” we tried to find some sort of food we could live off of while we lived underground. We did find multiple types of fungi that all supported our nutrients intake, and also, to be way less gross we found non-venomous reptiles that we could in fact eat.

It has been 6 years since I last documented my progress. We have adapted and thrived in the underground lifestyle. It is now normalcy. We have been successful in saving the human race, because we worked together to reach our goals. As one we stand and as one we live. We established a government and expanded our living quarters, and general area of space. We also took a big step in science, because our particle accelerating scientist found out what cells make up a ray of light. We actually made light. Rumor got out that we had figured out how to create solar rays, and everybody had to see if it was truth or not. People were mesmerized by what they saw. They saw light for the first time in six years. Tears of joy flowed forth from people’s eyes. This invention has brought us together as a single nation. It was a good day even if the sun went out 6 years ago. Finally, we were happy.