Found Poem

Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam

It seemed there was hope for the poor                                                                      

Through the Poverty Program everyone adore

But the money went to war

With it, our boys and sirs

Our rights don’t exist

Yet why must we fight with our fist?

For another country we don’t know

Acquiring our rights is slow

This is an attack on the poor

Kicking the poor out the door

Our rights, they do ignore

But there was some good in the bad

Something that wasn’t so sad

We saw unity between the white and black

Segregation in the battlefield was lack

But now they stand together as a pack

Together, they will watch each other’s back

There are ways to fight oppression

We don’t need to use aggression

There are other ways to get attention

A protest to show our confession

Martin Luther King is the one who changed the world

Now we have a world where our races are mixed and swirled

This is the end of the poem

Of America, our home

 

Edward Snowden Essay

Is Edward Snowden a whistleblower, a criminal, or both?







     Edward Snowden is a whistleblower and a criminal. First, he is a whistleblower. He was the employee in National Security Agency. N.S.A. probably has a lot of important information that are secret. The employees in N.S.A. have to protect the important secrets. But, Edward Snowden who was N.S.A. employee leaked one of the important information and the information was terrible. N.S.A. were recording U.S.A. They were recording and watching everything people were texting, calling, and using SNS. It is definitely wrong. All people have their privacy and it is kind of secret. If it is opened, it is not a secret anymore.

      Some people think he is just a whistle blower. He leaked the information but we had to know that information. I think he did good job. Recording what the other people said, watched, called, and texted is wrong. Nobody has the cause to watch what the other people are doing and try to know their privacy. Everybody's privacy has to be protected and respected. Why were they trying to watch people with recording? People were not doing anything wrong. Usually people are recording when they don't trust the other people and catch something wrong or something that people are hiding. Recording people means they don't trust the citizens even though people don't have any reason that they don't trust people.

     If Edward Snowden didn't tell the truth to people, they would keep hide the truth to people and what people doing would be watched forever. I really think he did great job. He is just a whistleblower who reported the information that people had to know. And most of people are supporting him.

     I don't want to make him a criminal but he is kind of a criminal. He leaked the information that he had to protect. He probably promised with N.S.A. to protect any information of N.S.A. Recording what people said which is leaked by Edward Snowden is one of the information. However he broke the pledge. I think he wanted people to know the truth because he knew that was wrong. He is a courageous criminal who protected other people with sacrificing himself.

Lamb to the Slaughter by Ronal Dahl

     You don't know what is going to happen to you. Nobody knows what will happen to them. It can be good thing and it can be terrible thing. Do you believe your life can finish happily? In "Lamb to the Slaughter" author Ronal Dahl shows something that you can not even imagine could happen and how it is elaborate.

     The main character Mary Maloney was waiting for his husband Patrick Maloney. After he came home, Patrick was in bad condition. Mary tried to do anything for her husband. He told bad news his wife. She shocked and she didn't want to believe. After her husband went to upstairs, she got a leg of lamb from freezer. Then, she took it to the upstairs. She walked up behind him and without any pause she swung. What was the bad news that Patrick said? What did she hear from her husband? I don't think it was bad as she kill him.
     She might just as well have hit him with a steel club. She told herself "So, I've killed him". She carried the meat into the kitchen and placed in a pan. Then she washed her hands. She sat down before the mirror and practice her face looks naturally. She went to grocery shop. She talked with the man who was behind the counter. Maybe she tried to make an alibi because she could set up the alibi if the detectives and policeman think she is a suspect. Then she came back to home and called police station. She said "Quick! Come quick! Patrick's dead!"like she didn't know anything. She said in surprise and urgently like her plan.
     Two policemen , a doctor and two detectives walked into her home. A police photographer took pictures. The detectives kept asking her a lot of questions. She told her story, this time right from the beginning, when Patrick had come in, and she was sewing and he was tried, so tried he hadn't wanted to go out for supper, She told how she'd put the meat in the oven and she'd slipped out to the grocer for vegetables, and come back to find him lying on the floor. The detectives said Patrick was attacked with big spanner. They didn't even think about the lamb. She wanted to remove the lamb that she swung to her husband. She asked them to eat the lamb because she knew that they're hungry. THey ate the lamb. They didn't sense the lamb that they're eating was the weapon she used.
   At important point of the story is the main character planned elaborately and she acted naturally. Also, she destroyed the evidence clearly. The story shows how the main character planned her crime clearly without fail.

Autobiography

Autobiography

     Since I was little, I liked to play in the water. I loved to float and paddle on the water. My mother knew it and made me to go to the preschool that has a swimming pool. But, I was just interested in playing in the water. I got excited because I could playing in the water every day. I started to learn swimming when I was six.

     I didn't even know about any swimming skills. It was my first time of swimming class. I thought my swimming teacher is going to teach me how to swim. However, he put the children and me into the water. He didn't save us. He was just looking at me. My body goes down to the water and I was kicking my legs to try to come out of water. Water came into my nose. I came out of water and I could breath. The I came down into water again. I thought I was dying. I had the swimming class three times a week.
     The swimming teacher never let me grab the side or the rope that cross the pool. I didn't understand why he didn't save me and why do I have to keep doing this. I just wanted him to teach me how to swim. I had patience with that because I still loved to play in the water. I kept try to swim and float myself even though I don't know how to swim.
     A month later, I learned how to swim and float myself without helping. Probably he wanted me to learn how to swim my self. Then the teacher taught me how to swim easy and well. After that practicing, I could learn submergence, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and the butterfly. It was twelve. And that's why I like to swim until now.