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Yesterday my mom took me to see this house.  It had lots of rooms.  It had all these bedrooms and I just did not see any ah,  point to that house.  I liked  a  house I saw in Freeport. The Freeport house was great….!

For example, It  was nice and I  liked it because it had a sunroof. I could see what to do with that house.

The rooms were very small and the enviornment was not good.   I felt like somebody over dere was gunna pop a cap!

My mother thought it had gang influence….I did not say that though. 

 But my mother said she liked the house anyway though.—Like I said I liked  the house in Freeport…but she cannot move there because of her work.

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MY MOM AND I ALWAYS FIGHT OVER  THE COMPUTER….I GO ON GAIA ON ONLINE—

TOPIC:  MY MOM HAS NOT BEEN PLAYING THE PIANO ANY MORE.  SHE SAYS SHE WANTS A NEW PIANO…BUT I AGREE WITH HER THERE.

TOPIC:   I WANT NEW BARAKADES….ADDIAS SNEAKERS….COST $70.OO

i WANT THOSE…MY  MOM WANTS ME TO GET MORE TENNIS SNEAKERS…BUT I WANT SOME FOR LOOKS.

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I CANNOT STAND US HAVING MONEY PROBLEMS…IT IS TOO HARD…BUT IT TEACHES YOU HOW TO COPE.

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THE WHITE MAN AND THE BLACK MAN—YOU GOT SARAH PALIN FROM ALASKA,  OBAMA IS FROM CHICAGO,  JOE BIDEN THERE IS WAY THAT BIDEN can   HURT OBAMA AND WAYS HE CAN’T HURT OBAMA.

  MCCAIN HAS A LADY WITH HIM…BUT PEOPLE SAY SHE HAS NO EXPERIENCE BECAUSE SHE WAS ONLY A MAYOR AND A GOVERNOR.

rIGHT NOW THE COUNTRY NEEDS BETTER HEALTH CARE,  MONEY,  HELP FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS,  CAN CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY BECAUSE YOU HAVE ONLY ONE CHILD.

MY GRANDMOTHER ASKS HOW CAN WE GET MONEY?  DO WE HAVE TO GO OUT AND SCRUB FLOORS?

MY MOM WORKS,  BUT SHE DOES NOT MAKE ENOUGH….

SARAH PALIN,  IS WILLING TO GO TO WAR WITH RUSSIA.  I DO NOT AGREE WITH THAT.  BECAUSE  I FEEl  THAT there may be an unfortunate event that  MAY OCCUR…….

THAT IS IT.

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I read a book by Gary Soto called the Afterlife and it was very interesting. I wrote a summary for school for it and this is how it goes:

As a child you make many choices, but as usual every choice leads to a consequence.  In the book  “The Afterlife” by Gary Soto when you die that is not always the end.  For some people they believe that you go somewhere else.  People do not always have a choice.  But then later on you see mistakes you have made, meaning choices that bring on certain consequences.  These consequences may lead up to an ending factor causing pain not only for yourself, but the ones around you. 

Chuy, the main character in the story was in the bathroom looking at himself in the mirror, combing his hair trying to make himself look better for a certain girl.  Soon a guy came into the club bathroom.  It was a choice Chuy made to compliment the guys’ shoes.  The guy was wearing yellow shoes.  Chuy said, “I like your shoes.”  The guy said, “What ‘d you say ‘cabron?”  and then Chuy was laying on the floor gasping for breath resulting from the 3 body stabs he received.  From that choice Chuy made he did not know the consequence.  But, in this case by complimenting someone’s shoes—being nice is not always the answer.

After Chuy was stabbed his spirit left his body and he began to float up through the ceiling.  As he was floating he wanted to grip something to keep him close to his body.  But he kept moving up.  He noticed a couple of things happening. Chuy even noticed that there were sirens wailing for his dead body on the bathroom floor.  He imagined what his buddy Angel and him would do, if they could see each other.  Chuy soon found out that he could not pick anything up and he would move in the direction of the wind.

Later on in the story Chuy notices not just one person wears that yellow shoe style.  He saw  another person, a bigger chubby guy wearing the yellow shoes.  Chuy wondered if it may have been a type of new style for gangbangers.  The guy he was watching went to tried to steal a car. Chuy attacked the guy. The guy was so scared he ran off farting.  Chuy had discovered his power a while back with a police officer when he shoved his hand through the policeman’s body to his heart.  He learned that he could make people feel his presence with the coldness of death.  He even healed a man of sickness.

Chuy soon began to disappear one body part after another.  He soon finds a girl named Crystal who he met a long time ago working on her father’s farm.  He found her ghost as he was walking around in his town.  Chuy found our that Crystal killed herself taking pills because she could not take any more pressure.  She had 2 boyfriends,  Jason and Eric.  And on top of that she was a cheerleader so that must have made her very popular.  During the time Chuy spent with her they went over their past at the farm.  That is when I believe that he showed his true love for her.

In the end I would say in “The Afterlife” you have time to exlore your last days on earth. In those last days you  see how the choices you’ve made when you were alive caused certain consequences.  And now you can only watch people’s lives go by as you hang in the balance of the afterlife.

—–Have you read this book?  Check it out at your local Barnes and Nobel or Public Library

……..See Ya Ma Dude!—–FIREOFLIFEJAYJEWELS!!!

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In this day and age there is a lot of violence in the teenage years.  There are gangs in our lives that may interact with us no matter what,  friend or foe. There is also temptation in our lives that may distract us in many ways. Things like drugs, sex, and violence take our minds off our objectives of passing school and succeeding in life.  

What is the purpose of the supreme court

to make sure that peoples rights dont come up short

third branch acts highest in authority with superiority to…

interpret the constitution clarify the law

there are nine justices lemme tell you more

they hear cases appealed through the justice system

do you get my rhythm.

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