For some reason I find myself struggling with the whole thing with the anyone compared to any one rule and I found this great web site that not only has this rule but a ton more check it out! But here is the rule I found for it;
The compound pronouns anyone or everyone mean "any person" and "all the people," respectively.
The non-compound modified pronoun any one or every one put a greater emphasis on the word one and mean "any single person or thing" and "every single person or thing." They are usually followed by a prepositional phrase beginning with the word of
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000274.htm
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Revised Paragraph
“We are the champions”
We are the champions, we are the champions no time for losers WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.!! The song boomed through the gym. I felt the tears starting to swell up in my eyes. As I looked around I saw the families everyone grinning from ear to ear. We did it, we won the 4A state championship. We were all busting at the seams with joy all the sweat, all the hard work had finally paid off. It a was a thrilling game, excitement permeated the air. I couldn't believe we did it, we reached our goal, the goal every team strives for. We played the Orem tigers a skilled team but we proved that we were better. Every squeak from the shoes, every swish of the net every cheer from the crowd made it one of the best days of my life. We were overwhelmed, as we wrapped out arms around each other jumping to the same rhythm, I took a glance at each of my teammates faces, some filled with joy, some filled with relief, but each one filled with the greatest amount of happiness that I have ever seen or experienced. I never wanted this moment to end, a moment of complete happiness. The sound of shears snapping together, each of us taking our part of that much deserved net. Every time I hear this song all of my memories from that game come flooding back to me. And all of the amazing things that happened that day return to my thoughts, bringing me back to that day of complete happiness.
We are the champions, we are the champions no time for losers WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.!! The song boomed through the gym. I felt the tears starting to swell up in my eyes. As I looked around I saw the families everyone grinning from ear to ear. We did it, we won the 4A state championship. We were all busting at the seams with joy all the sweat, all the hard work had finally paid off. It a was a thrilling game, excitement permeated the air. I couldn't believe we did it, we reached our goal, the goal every team strives for. We played the Orem tigers a skilled team but we proved that we were better. Every squeak from the shoes, every swish of the net every cheer from the crowd made it one of the best days of my life. We were overwhelmed, as we wrapped out arms around each other jumping to the same rhythm, I took a glance at each of my teammates faces, some filled with joy, some filled with relief, but each one filled with the greatest amount of happiness that I have ever seen or experienced. I never wanted this moment to end, a moment of complete happiness. The sound of shears snapping together, each of us taking our part of that much deserved net. Every time I hear this song all of my memories from that game come flooding back to me. And all of the amazing things that happened that day return to my thoughts, bringing me back to that day of complete happiness.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
My life sounds like...
“We are the champions”
We are the champions, we are the champions no time for losers WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.!! The song boomed through the gym. I felt the tears starting to swell up in my eyes. As I looked around I saw the families everyone grinning from ear to ear. We did it, we won the 4A state championship. We were all busting at the seams with joy all the sweat, all the hard work had finally paid off. It was a thrilling game, excitement permeated the air. I couldn't believe we did it, we reached our goal, the goal every team strives for. We played the Orem tigers a skilled team but we proved that we were better. Every squeak from the shoes, every swish of the net every cheer from the crowd made it one of the best days of my life. We were overwhelmed, as we wrapped out arms around each other jumping to the same rhythm, cheering loudly T-T-T T birds! T-T-T T birds! I took a glance at each of my teammates faces, some filled with joy, some filled with relief but each one filled with the greatest amount of happiness that I have ever seen or even experienced. I never wanted this moment to end, a moment of complete happiness. Whenever I hear the snapping sound of scizzors it will always remind me of that day when each of us took our part of that much deserved net. The net that helped us win the game. Every time I hear this song all of my memories from that game come flooding back to my mind. And all of the amazing things that happened that day return to my thoughts, bringing me back to that day of complete happiness.
"These are my people"
Throughout my life I have moved many times, nine times to be exact all in Utah. I would have to say that there is no place that hits home more then good old Nephi Utah. I only loved here for a couple of years but I would move back in a heart beat. This song explains exactly what my home town was like. A little hick town where everyone knows everyone, I wouldn’t want it any other way. My dad grew up there so I guess you could say Nephi is our families bread and butter. Each day was filled with adventure, there were friends everywhere you went. The words in the song say it best, these are my people, this is where I come from, we’re givin this life everything we got and then some these are my people! I have learned some of my greatest life lessons in this town. I learned how to work, I learned how to love and I learned how to live. I would have to say that my favorite part of the song is where it says “Well We take it all week on the chin with a grin 'til we make it to a Friday night, and it's church league softball holler about a bad call preacher breaking up the fight.” This part of the song totally describes my life, sports were my life in Nephi and the entire community including the preachers were involved. I think Nephi brought out the best in everyone and to this day it continues to do so.
We are the champions, we are the champions no time for losers WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.!! The song boomed through the gym. I felt the tears starting to swell up in my eyes. As I looked around I saw the families everyone grinning from ear to ear. We did it, we won the 4A state championship. We were all busting at the seams with joy all the sweat, all the hard work had finally paid off. It was a thrilling game, excitement permeated the air. I couldn't believe we did it, we reached our goal, the goal every team strives for. We played the Orem tigers a skilled team but we proved that we were better. Every squeak from the shoes, every swish of the net every cheer from the crowd made it one of the best days of my life. We were overwhelmed, as we wrapped out arms around each other jumping to the same rhythm, cheering loudly T-T-T T birds! T-T-T T birds! I took a glance at each of my teammates faces, some filled with joy, some filled with relief but each one filled with the greatest amount of happiness that I have ever seen or even experienced. I never wanted this moment to end, a moment of complete happiness. Whenever I hear the snapping sound of scizzors it will always remind me of that day when each of us took our part of that much deserved net. The net that helped us win the game. Every time I hear this song all of my memories from that game come flooding back to my mind. And all of the amazing things that happened that day return to my thoughts, bringing me back to that day of complete happiness.
"These are my people"
Throughout my life I have moved many times, nine times to be exact all in Utah. I would have to say that there is no place that hits home more then good old Nephi Utah. I only loved here for a couple of years but I would move back in a heart beat. This song explains exactly what my home town was like. A little hick town where everyone knows everyone, I wouldn’t want it any other way. My dad grew up there so I guess you could say Nephi is our families bread and butter. Each day was filled with adventure, there were friends everywhere you went. The words in the song say it best, these are my people, this is where I come from, we’re givin this life everything we got and then some these are my people! I have learned some of my greatest life lessons in this town. I learned how to work, I learned how to love and I learned how to live. I would have to say that my favorite part of the song is where it says “Well We take it all week on the chin with a grin 'til we make it to a Friday night, and it's church league softball holler about a bad call preacher breaking up the fight.” This part of the song totally describes my life, sports were my life in Nephi and the entire community including the preachers were involved. I think Nephi brought out the best in everyone and to this day it continues to do so.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Grammar Post
Alright so I know I learned this forever ago in elementary school but I always seem to forget the past things that I have learned. I usually get confused with the apostrophe rule. Especially with the word "it." I'm just not sure when to use an apostrophe. Then I looked up the rule on the internet and found this great site that really helped me understand it a lot better.
Rule:
Its is the possessive pronoun; it modifies a noun.
It's is a contraction of it is or it has.
The web site has many great tips check it out.
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000227.htm
Rule:
Its is the possessive pronoun; it modifies a noun.
It's is a contraction of it is or it has.
The web site has many great tips check it out.
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000227.htm
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Those four dreaded words.
When I think about defying moments there is one event imparticular that comes to my mind. I haven't had anything huge happen in my life and this one isn't very exciting but it was the day that I heard those four dreaded words... "you are under arrest." I started off just like a regular day, me and my good friend were sitting in the commons patiently waiting for basketball practice to begin. We had a good hour before we began our daily warm up routine and we sat there trying to figure out something to do.
As we sat on the bench more commonly known as the poly bench we caught a glimpse of the star football player shuffling his way toward us. He came up to my friend and and simply said "hey teach me I want to learn." I wasn't really sure what he was talking about and then they turned to me and asked of I wanted a cookie, i wasn't hungry but I agreed to tag a long and we headed to the vending machines. As I stood next to my friend I looked down and suddenly realized her arm was up the machine and she was grabbing a granny b cookie from the bottom shelf in the machine. As soon as I realized what was really going on I turned only to hear those four dreaded words, "you are under arrest."
The cop standing at the top of the stairs informed us that we were under arrest for theft. As the three of us slowly made our way up that long flight of stairs thoughts started running through my head. I'm not going to college, I'm going to be kicked off the team, my parents are going to be furious...my life is over. As he led me and my friend by our shoulders to the office and set us down as far away as he could from each other. As I sat in that chair these things ran through my mind over and over again. We sat there for about an hour as the administration debated on what to do with us.
This was the first time I have ever been in trouble. Growing up I was very shy and hated getting in trouble therefore I never talked when I wasn't supposed to and I made sure to always do what i was told. So as i sat here a freshmen in high school thinking my life would soon be over I remember being so upset when they let "our star football player" out with nothing but ten minutes of his time spent in the office when it was him who was wanting to do it.
The assistant principle came out very disappointed with two papers dangling from his fingers, I soon found out that he was bringing me a police report. I filled it out re living the moment on paper. And then I was called in to talk to the officer, i never realized until that moment that we had cameras in our school...yup they caught us on tape, that's when I really broke down. He told me to call my parents and I was so afraid that they would be incredibly disappointed because I knew better.
My parents showed up shortly and we talked for a long time to the principle trying to figure out what to do. Luckily enough for me I got off with nothing and my parents were not disappointed they were very understandable. I apologized to my team, me being the team captain I felt like I had let them down and I was very happy that I was still apart of the team, there was a lot of conditioning involved but it was worth it.
This experience was not a huge thing but it really kinda changed my out look on life, I realized at a good age how to better deal with things and this has really defied my life. The principle could never look at me and my friend the same he always kept his eye on the two of us throughout our three following years of high school. At the time it seemed like to worst day ever but we laugh about it now. And I learned a lot from those four dreaded words even when you think its the worst day of our life if you take it the right way it can turn out to be nothing but a hilarious memory.
As we sat on the bench more commonly known as the poly bench we caught a glimpse of the star football player shuffling his way toward us. He came up to my friend and and simply said "hey teach me I want to learn." I wasn't really sure what he was talking about and then they turned to me and asked of I wanted a cookie, i wasn't hungry but I agreed to tag a long and we headed to the vending machines. As I stood next to my friend I looked down and suddenly realized her arm was up the machine and she was grabbing a granny b cookie from the bottom shelf in the machine. As soon as I realized what was really going on I turned only to hear those four dreaded words, "you are under arrest."
The cop standing at the top of the stairs informed us that we were under arrest for theft. As the three of us slowly made our way up that long flight of stairs thoughts started running through my head. I'm not going to college, I'm going to be kicked off the team, my parents are going to be furious...my life is over. As he led me and my friend by our shoulders to the office and set us down as far away as he could from each other. As I sat in that chair these things ran through my mind over and over again. We sat there for about an hour as the administration debated on what to do with us.
This was the first time I have ever been in trouble. Growing up I was very shy and hated getting in trouble therefore I never talked when I wasn't supposed to and I made sure to always do what i was told. So as i sat here a freshmen in high school thinking my life would soon be over I remember being so upset when they let "our star football player" out with nothing but ten minutes of his time spent in the office when it was him who was wanting to do it.
The assistant principle came out very disappointed with two papers dangling from his fingers, I soon found out that he was bringing me a police report. I filled it out re living the moment on paper. And then I was called in to talk to the officer, i never realized until that moment that we had cameras in our school...yup they caught us on tape, that's when I really broke down. He told me to call my parents and I was so afraid that they would be incredibly disappointed because I knew better.
My parents showed up shortly and we talked for a long time to the principle trying to figure out what to do. Luckily enough for me I got off with nothing and my parents were not disappointed they were very understandable. I apologized to my team, me being the team captain I felt like I had let them down and I was very happy that I was still apart of the team, there was a lot of conditioning involved but it was worth it.
This experience was not a huge thing but it really kinda changed my out look on life, I realized at a good age how to better deal with things and this has really defied my life. The principle could never look at me and my friend the same he always kept his eye on the two of us throughout our three following years of high school. At the time it seemed like to worst day ever but we laugh about it now. And I learned a lot from those four dreaded words even when you think its the worst day of our life if you take it the right way it can turn out to be nothing but a hilarious memory.
Critical Thinking
At a literal level in the story calling home it tells about a girl to decides to shoplift a snoopy button. She thinks that no one is looking when she takes it but she does not realize that a man caught her steeling it and he calls the police. As the thirteen year old girl is escorted out of the mall she realizes that she is not mad about just steeling but she is more upset that she will have to call her parents and tell them that she is sitting in jail. She called and she could hear the disappointment in their voices but when they came to pick her up they had forgotten about the wrong she had done and the incident was not mentioned again.
In the story and American Childhood it tells an exciting tale of how children would spend their time in the winter months. It told of a group of kids that find it exciting to throw snow balls at cars. They had never been caught until one incident. A black Buick was coming up the street, the perfect target. They hit the car with a smash and to their surprise the man jumped out of the car and chased the kids all over town through neighborhoods he finally caught them and the kids learned how exciting childhood can be.
I think in that situation it would be very easy for the girl to be afraid but I think she had so much adrenaline that she was more excited then scared. I think its okay that she wasn’t scared I believe she knew that he wouldn’t so anything he was simply an angry man.
A well told story consists of many things. A well told story need structure, it needs details and vivid imagery, and great imagination and creativity. The story explains how she is filled with excitement whenever she plays these games. It uses strong vocabulary words that better help you understand the emotions of the story. It never really explains what happens to the children so it keeps you wondering which I think is a good thing. It uses amazingly descriptive words and overall it was a very good story. This story is a good example of how a well story is told.
In the story and American Childhood it tells an exciting tale of how children would spend their time in the winter months. It told of a group of kids that find it exciting to throw snow balls at cars. They had never been caught until one incident. A black Buick was coming up the street, the perfect target. They hit the car with a smash and to their surprise the man jumped out of the car and chased the kids all over town through neighborhoods he finally caught them and the kids learned how exciting childhood can be.
I think in that situation it would be very easy for the girl to be afraid but I think she had so much adrenaline that she was more excited then scared. I think its okay that she wasn’t scared I believe she knew that he wouldn’t so anything he was simply an angry man.
A well told story consists of many things. A well told story need structure, it needs details and vivid imagery, and great imagination and creativity. The story explains how she is filled with excitement whenever she plays these games. It uses strong vocabulary words that better help you understand the emotions of the story. It never really explains what happens to the children so it keeps you wondering which I think is a good thing. It uses amazingly descriptive words and overall it was a very good story. This story is a good example of how a well story is told.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The arrow maker in the story took a huge amount of risk while he decided if this person outside does not speak he is my enemy and I will shoot this arrow through his heart. Just like the arrow maker we too are taking risks expressing our opinions and posting your writing where others can see it can also be a huge risk there is always that chance where someone may not like it or not, never knowing where that arrow will come from. Blogging has become huge in the past years, it is a way for people to post their feelings, writings and maybe just writing helps them release things that they wouldn't have said otherwise. Blogging can be a way to stay connected with family and friends and updating them on what is going on in their lives. Blogging has become big just for that reason to stay connected to others express feelings in an open mannor.
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