Friday, April 8, 2011

Four (4) Women Final Story

Four
(4)
Women
Antoinette “Netta” Thomas
Period 2
Creative Writing
Preview
Like Black Women Love
Wait.
I'm gonna love you like black women
love their men. Thick-lipped words
of encouragement will breathe icy cold
on heated epitaphs of venom-laced hatred.
My over-stuffed hips cache a resevoir
of strength. Like grandma's
hands I'll knead your worn-out pride
with kindred understanding.
I'm gonna love you like the whores
of masters loved the light of day.
Wait.
I'm gonna love you
like black women love themselves:
without reservation; strong.

 Ferida Thomas, Odara Stone, Uniquewa Smith, and Ramia Jones, each with different ethnicities and different backgrounds from different places with different personalities, but one thing that they all have in common, is that they are women. These four women that comes together throughout all of their differences and stand together as strong women and their names has something to deal with their problem which is that they are beautiful strong women.
            “You don’t have to do this Ferida. You can still have a better life without trying to do this!”
            “But I don’t think I have a choice.”
            “Yes you do, please don’t do this. We love you and there are other people that love you for you.”
            “It’s too late for me to turn back.”
            “No it’s not too late! What are you talking about?”
            Ferida had tears rolling down her eyes and she looked down at the water that was going to take her life.
            “I love you guys so much!”          
            Ferida starts to fall off and her friends run up to her and try to catch her but it was too late. Ferida starts to fall towards the water quicker than she expected and was ready for her death to come. Her body hits the water and floats in the water and slowly dies while she’s in the water. Odara, Uniquewa and Ramia looks down and starts to cry when they see that she is dead and is no longer alive.

The Strong Black Woman Has Died
While struggling with the Reality of being a Human

instead of a myth, the Strong Black Woman passed away.

Medical sources say she died of natural causes,

but those who knew her know she died from

being Silent when she should have been

Screaming, Smiling when she should

have been Raging, from being sick

and not wanting anyone to know

because Her Pain might

inconvenience them.

She Died from an overdose of other people

clinging to Her when she

didn't even have

Energy for Herself.

She Died from Loving Men who didn't

Love themselves and could only

offer her a crippled reflection.

She Died from raising Children Alone.

She Died from the Lies her Grandmother

told her Mother and her Mother told

her about Life, Men & Racism.

She Died from being sexually abused as

a child and having to take that Truth

everywhere she went every day of

Her Life, exchanging the

humiliation for guilt

and back again.

She Died from asphyxiation, coughing up

blood from Secrets she kept trying to

burn away instead of allowing

Herself the kind of nervous

breakdown she was

entitled to.

She Died from being Responsible, because

She was the last rung on the ladder and

there was no one under her She

could dump on.

The Strong Black

Woman Is Dead.

She Died from being a Mother at 15

and a Grandmother at 30 and an

Ancestor at 45.

She Died from being dragged down and

sat upon by un-evolved Women posing

as Sisters and Friends.

She Died from tolerating Mr. Pitiful,

JUST to have a Man around the house.

She Died from sacrificing Herself for

Everybody and Everything when

what She really wanted to do

was be a Singer, a Dancer,

or some Magnificent other.

She Died from Lies of omission because

She didn't want to bring the

Black Man down.

She Died from Tributes from her counterparts

who should have been matching Her Efforts

instead of showering her with dead words

and empty songs.

She Died from Myths that would not allow

Her to show Weakness without being

chastised by the Lazy and Hazy.

She Died from hiding her Real Feelings

until they became Hard and Bitter

enough to invade Her womb and

breasts like angry tumors.

She Died from always lifting something

from heavy boxes to refrigerators

All By Herself.

The Strong Black Woman Is Dead.

She Died from never being Enough of what

Men Wanted, or being Too much for the

Men She Wanted.

She Died from Being too Black and

Died again for not Being

Black enough.

She Died from being Misinformed about her

Mind, her Body & the extent of her

Royal capabilities.

She Died from knees pressed too close together

because Respect was never part of the

foreplay that was being shoved at Her.

She Died from Loneliness in Birthing rooms

and Aloneness in Abortion centers.

She Died in bathrooms with Her veins busting

open with Self-Hatred and Neglect.

And Sometimes when She Refused to die,

when She just Refused to give in, She

was Killed by the lethal images of

blonde hair, blue eyes, being

rejected by the OJ.'s, the

Quincy's, the Cuba's,

& the Kobe's.

Sometimes, She was stomped to Death by

Racism & Sexism, Executed by Hi-Tech

ignorance while She carried the

Family in her belly, the

Community on her

head, and the

Race on her

back!

The Strong Black Woman Is Dead!

Or Is She?

I KNOW I'M NOT!!

Pass this on to all the Strong Black

Women that you Love, Respect,

and Admire!

And the Black Men who care.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Daily Journal

In the class of creative writing, I had a really good time, and I actually learned a good amount from this class. I love the fun short stories that we had to do in class. It was much fun havnig people that I knew in class with me so I won't be alone. I loved the song presentation that everyone did I just hated that I picked the wrong time of song and I wish that i could start over. I loved some of the assingments because it had me show people what type of person I was through my poems and stories.

I didn't really had some Shakespeare unit because I didn't know how to make good poems in hkis units because of his language. But at other times I didn't like how the teacher would tell us millions of time to do something when we did or was about to. Also, the teacher was cool but the class could have been better.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Daily Journal

I was working at Burger King and I was working at the cash register and this one couple came in and ordered the Fish sandwich meal and the Double Whopper meal for the guy. After they get their food, that is when they ate some of it but then they started to complain about the food.  At first they said that the order was wrong, and then they kept changing their orders just to get some things for free. They also said that the food was not cooked all the way and then they left because they were causing too much chaos and the employees including me were getting upset about it.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Science Fiction Short Story (Final Draft)

The Day The World Came To An End
By Antoinette “Netta” Thomas
Period 2
Creative Writing

People screaming and the floor cracked into half through the city of San Francisco, and there was nothing but fire at the bottom of the earth. Some were falling and others were still holding to something that was strong or to a part of the road that was not broken up badly. I was holding on to a mailbox that was built on the sidewalk and I looked down and saw someone familiar. It was the one lady that I’ve seen earlier in the day and she was holding on to a piece of the road that was getting loose. The lady looked at me in fear and I did the same back to her and got teary eyed. But she realized that the piece that the lady was holding was about to break and make her fall into the lava in the ground.
“HELP ME!” Cried out the lady, but it was too late and the piece broke and made her fell with the piece.
I saw her fell into the lava and see people burn and die in them. Crying even more and knowing that everywhere in the world that they were going through the same thing California was going through: Judgment Day. But I looked up and saw a bright spot in the sky and I couldn’t believe it. There were no clouds in the sky and the view I see is what makes it beautiful.
“Bring me home Lord.” I said to myself in a soft voice and I knew that God was coming to get his people.
God had broken a piece of the sky open and his beautiful face was shown and all of his people were rising up to him to go to Heaven. Even people that died, their spirits were risen up along with us. But I look out and see that a big wave a fire was coming to destroy the Earth. All I could hear was people screaming and burning to death knowing that they all didn’t make it and I couldn’t see it anymore and had to close my eyes until I left the earth. After we were all gone from Heaven, the Earth turned into Hell and Satan started to laugh at all the peoples’ souls that he took because he knew that this was not the end of it. While the people that he stole their souls from had started to scream and cry for God to come and take them and to have them leave hell to go to Heaven but it was too late.
I rose up from my dream and exhaled a deep big breath and I was sweating a little bit on my neck and face from the dream and she started to cry. My husband Jason turns on the lights and turned around to see if I was okay.
“Baby what’s wrong? Talk to me.” Jason says while he looks at me and holds on to me.
“I had a bad dream and it was horrible.” I tell him, and I was shaking a little bit from it.
“What it that bad? Are you able to go back to sleep?” Jason was concerned in his voice as he asked me that question.
“I don’t know, I might just need to stay up for a little and just clear my head before I do go back to sleep.” I said while I removes the blankets from my body and sits on the edge of my side of the bed.
“Let me stay up with you.” Jason wanted to get up but I stopped him.
“Oh no it’s okay baby you can go back to sleep. I know you need some rest since you came home late today.” I insisted to him while I had my hand on his arm.
“Are you sure?” Jason wanted to know.
“Mm Hmm.” I lied but I didn’t want him to stay up over my crazy dream about Heaven and Hell.
“Give me a kiss then before I go to sleep.” Jason requested and I give him a kiss.
“One more thing I need to ask you.” Jason wanted to know and I can tell it was about the dream again.
“Go ahead.” I tell him while I stand up and look at him at the same time.
“What was the dream about?” Jason asked.
“Judgment Day.” I responded with a little fear in my voice.
“What do you think it meant?” Jason asked me wanting to know.
“I don’t know baby, and I wish I had the answers for it but I’m confused just as you are.” I responded like it’s the truth after all.
“You sure I shouldn’t stay up with you?” Jason asked, wanting to be sure about my decision.
“I promise I’ll be fine. I’m just going to the kitchen to give me a bottle of water and to get it out of my head before I go to sleep. It’ll only take me a couple of minutes.” I tell him so he won’t get worried about me.
“Alright then baby I trust you.” Jason tells me.
I gave him a kiss and looked each other in the eyes. “I know you do.”
I gave her a husband a kiss and then he turned back off his lamp light getting himself comfortable while I got out of bed and went to the kitchen downstairs. He watched me as I left and knew that I would be okay and he went back to sleep. I was in the kitchen drinking a bottle of water, crying from what I had seen in my dream and knew that God was coming sooner than I thought but I didn’t know when. Was it today? Would he come tomorrow? What about right now? No one knows but that dream was a sign from God about him coming soon but I didn’t know what was going to happen after that dream had occurred.
A couple of minutes later I go back up to the room in the dark and look at my husband sleeping and know that he is in a good sleep and I don’t want to bother him. I climb back in bed on the same side I was in and my back facing his back. But a minute later, Jason turns around and put his arm around my waist and gave me a kiss on the neck.
“I love you Jess.”
“I love you too baby.”
He kept me close to him to know that I will be alright and that I always had him when I’m not feeling well. I felt protected with him holding me and I put her arm over my arm and I went to sleep with him.
I woke up from my sleep in bed and looks at the time that is shown on the clock. I realize that I have to hurry up and get up or else I would be late for work and my manager would yell at me. I get up out of bed and take a shower, brush my teeth, and puts on my work clothes. While I look at myself in the mirror, I realize that it smells really good and thinks that my husband Jason is cooking breakfast downstairs in the kitchen.
I get my briefcase and walks downstairs into the kitchen smiling at Jason because the food was ready for me and he walks up to me to give me a kiss on the lips. Jason and I made each other blush and smile at each other with his arm around my waist and my free arm around his shoulder.
“What is it that you cooked baby?” I asked my husband Jason while we walked up to the dining room table with all the breakfast food being presented.
“Eggs, pancakes, and bacon for me and you since we both need to hurry up for work. I didn’t want to cook something that was heavy but light. Oh yeah, and we got orange juice and water for you to not choke or anything.”
“Aw thank you baby.” I give him a smile and give him a kiss on the lips as well.
We both sat down and ate their breakfast food in a short amount of time. Afterwards, we both were walking to our own car that we use to go to work.
“Alright baby, I’m heading to work and I might be home late since I got to work on this project with my partner Damon.” Jason tells me while putting his things in the backseat of his Cadillac Escalade.
I do the same thing to her SUV Yukon, but after I close the door I walk up to my driver door and looks suspicious about something.
“Is everything okay Jessica? You don’t look alright.” Jason tells me while going to his driver door for his car. 
“Baby can I ask you something?” I ask while we meet each other halfway to talk.
“Sure baby. What’s up?” Jason asks me waiting for the question to come out.
“Are you ready for the world to come to an end?” I ask, worried about his answer.
“Yeah I’m ready for him to come. I did my part with following the Lord and doing everything that he the bible tells me to do.” Jason responds to my question but seems a little worried about me while looking at me. “Are you ready baby?”
I jump back into reality from being zoned out. “Yeah I’m ready baby; I just wanted to ask you that’s all.”
“You still thinking about that dream you had last night?”
“No I’m over it, I was just asking.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah I’m sure.”
“Alright then, have a good day at work.”
“You too baby.” I responded while he gave me a kiss on the cheek.
We both went to our cars and got in the driver seat and shut the door behind us and put our things in the passenger seat. Both of us drove out of the driveway and drove our separate ways to work.
I drove to the underground parking that was private to only the people that worked in their company. I pulled up in a parking spot and turned off my car when my car was parked well. I got out of the car with my things and closed the door behind me and pressed the button on the car keys. I walked out of the underground parking up to top which was the normal level that went out into the public. I had to walk a couple of blocks to my job and there were many things I saw that was stating about the world ending. Walking on the sidewalk, I saw a poor women talking to people about God coming soon.
“The Lord is coming! The Lord is coming! Give your lives to God before it’s too late, please.”
            “Lady shut up. No one cares about the Lord coming and if he was coming he would have come a long time ago.”
            “Yeah but you never know when he will come, even he don’t know himself when he coming. But if he comes unexpectedly you will beg for his mercy to bring you up there with him.”
            “Yeah, yeah lady shut up no one doesn’t want to hear your stupidest crap. That’s stupid to scare people like that when you just said that God don’t even know. So that means I got plenty of time to live my life before he come.”
            “Even if he did come this second, there’s no way I’m a give my life to god with all the crazy mess he puts Christians through.”
            ‘Exactly,” The girl looks up at her boyfriend. “You ready to go Troy?”
            “Yeah Keyshia, let’s go baby.”
            They both walked away from the lady while holding hands while the poor lady yelled at them.
            “YOU WILL BE SORRY. YOU WILL ROT IN HELL IF YOU DON’T GIVE YOUR LIFE TO GOD!”
            I stood there and we both stared at each other. The lady walked up to us and handed me a bracket about the last days that we are living in.

            “Please don’t make the same mistake that they are going to make when the time comes.”
            I nodded back at her and my eyes looked like that I will keep the promise that she asked for. The poor lady kept walking up the street just telling strangers about the Lord coming soon and I had looked at her until I couldn’t see her anymore. I went inside my job department building and went on the 3rd level where my office was located and went up to it by an elevator and some of my work friends were in there. Allen Smith, Star Jones and Christy Ali were in the elevator waiting to get on their level to work on the science project about the world diagram.
            “Hey Jessica how are you girl?”
            ‘I’m good how you have been doing?”
            “I’m doing well just ready to get to this science project about predicting the world coming to an end.”
            “Christy you just trying to scare people as usual.”
            “You are correct and I love it.”
            “Jessica what’s wrong with you?”
            “This lady was talking to these people including me and it scared me.”
            ‘What was she saying?”
            “It wasn’t just her; it was things everywhere talking about the world ending.”
            “What happened?”
            “She was talking to this specific couple and they were arguing with each other about turning their life around to God. It was just scary to me and she came up to me telling me to turn my life to God. But I had nothing to worry about because I know that I am living for the Lord, and then she walked away and then all of a sudden she had disappeared.”
            “That sounds scary Jessica. But yeah girls don’t worry about that, just brush it off and you will be alright.”
            “You right Star, Jessica don’t worry about the world coming to an end if you know you living right for the Lord. Just make sure you don’t let the devil get you to sin.”
            “Thanks guys I appreciate it.”
            It was Star, Christy, Allen, Jessica, and a couple of other people in the elevator waiting to get off the elevator until there was a quick shook that made us move a little and hold on to something looking around suspicious. The elevator door opened and we all got out seeing what was going on. Mostly everyone was looking at TVs that were close to them and was seeing that there were earthquakes going on around the world and there were people crying trying to see why is it happening and there was cities getting destroyed, having riots, and many other tragedies going on.
            “You guys we have no time to waste, we have to figure out when there will be an earthquake that will occur in the US. But most of all, if it will occur here.”
            “Why is it that I had a dream about this happening?”
            “Now you’re really starting to scare me Jessica.”
            They all went to their labs and got started on their experiments. Some people were coming up with conclusions that it will end today, or it will come sooner than people think. But I knew the answer but I was scared no one would believe me.
            “Jessica you’re acting strange and I’m concerned about you.”
            “When nations go against nations, rumors of wars going on and earthquakes occurring at different places, I am coming soon and have my children are ready for me to come.”
            “Jessica what’s going on?”
            “I had a dream that people were falling into the fire beneath of us, and then some of us were rising up into heaven with God and some people were holding on to things and trying to see what is going to happen. Then all of a sudden, there was a big fire wave coming through like a nuclear bomb has been dropped on the US from New York to California. All of a sudden you hear screaming and people burning to death knowing that they didn’t make it to Heaven. It was so scary and I couldn’t sleep that much after I saw it.”
            “Oh my goodness, you need to tell them this right now.”
            “No I can’t Star they won’t believe me.”
            “You never know now c’mon.”
            Star grabbed my arm and had me get up out of my chair and walked in the lab with the others and Star got their attention.
            “Excuse me everyone we have an announcement.”
            Everybody stopped what they were doing and all eyes were staring at us. I wanted to fall out but there was no time to be afraid to tell them.
            “What is it?”
            “There’s no need to figure out when he’s coming. Because it’s sooner than you think.”
            “What are you talking about?”
            Some people tried to do their work but not for long.
            “EVERYBODY LISTEN UP RIGHT NOW! JESSICA HAS SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY AND WE’RE ALL GONNA LISTEN! Go ahead and tell them.”
            “As I was saying, I had a dream last night that people were falling into the lava underneath us and God took all his people and then the Earth turned into Hell. God might be even coming today. You see what’s going on everywhere else in the world. What makes you think that is not the sign he is trying to show us?”
            “Is this some kind of a joke Jessica?”
            “No this is not a joke this for-“
            All of a sudden there was a big shook that occurred in the city and their building was moving with it. It stopped and the lights were acting funny and we heard a bad destruction happening outside and we all rushed to see the view and there was bad things going on and people running for their lives and we also saw that the roads were trying to crack. Jessica’s heart wanted to stop and kept beating fast because part of the things that is going on was happening in her dream last night.

            “Look what you just did Jessica.”
            “This is not my fault.”
            We all realized that the building was going to collapse so we all got out of the building by stairs, elevators, and other fire exits. When we all got outside we saw even more tragedies happening everywhere around us. There were accidents going on at the same time but in different areas of the city. My coworkers and I had run into different directions trying to see where it would be safe to protect ourselves. I ran up to a mailbox that was on the sidewalk and I had a tight grip that would help me not fall or get hurt.
            There were cracks that were forming on the streets everywhere in different directions getting deeper and deeper. Until all of a sudden, the cracks got so deeper that I was able to see the lava that was visible for everyone to see. I started to see people fall down into the lava and screaming at the same time, making my eyes close shut and looking away. The view of the people falling down into hell made me want to cry and I knew that God was going to be coming sooner than we thought.
I thought about my husband Jason and wondered where he was while this situation was going on. Until all of a sudden I see a figure that was running towards me but I couldn’t see who it was with the sun in my eyes.
“JESSICA!”
“JASON?”
“BABY IT”S ME, JUST HOLD ON TIGHT JESSICA I’M COMING!”
Jessica kept holding on to the mailbox and then her husband was behind her holding on to the mailbox with her and putting themselves close together to feel protected.
While all of the chaos was going on with the world going through a bad destruction, sprits from Hell was coming up on Earth and they were trying to get some people back to sinning or keep them sinning. But one of them came towards Jason and I, making us ready for what was going to happen.
“What’s the matter Jessica? Afraid that you will sin before God comes to get you?”
The spirits starts to laugh at me and Jason and I had kept our eyes closed while praying to God to keep us from sinning and to rebuke the sprits away from us.

“God please hurry and come to gather all your children so we can go to Heaven with you. But also help my husband and me to rebuke this spirit away from us. We know that the Devil is here to take as many souls away from you before you come. But we won’t let that happen to us and help others stay strong by living in your ways.”   
“God don’t hear you, you might as well give us Jessica. You and your husband should stop praying to someone that’s making you go through things like this.”
“REBUKE THE DEVIL PLEASE!”
“MAKE HIM GO BACK TO WHERE HE CAME FROM! REBUKE HIM AWAY FROM US!”
Out of nowhere a powerful force made the sprit scream and have him go back to Hell since the Lord has protected them from the spirits. My husband and I saw opened up our eyes and saw some people sinning while others were still holding it together strong or some Christians were becoming weak and getting back into sinning.
Jessica heard a scream coming from underneath her but she saw who it was that was about to fall into Hell. The lady that was holding on to a piece of the street was getting scared and had fear in her eyes and looked at me. I did the same back to her and I knew that it was too late for her to change.
“I should have listened.”
I was speechless as my eyes started to get watery and I realize that the piece she was holding onto was getting looser as she kept trying to hold onto it.
“HELP ME!”
But it was too late; she started to fall down into the lava while screaming for her life until we couldn’t hear any more of her but other tragedies and screaming coming from somewhere else.
“Just like my dream.”
Out of nowhere they look up into the sky and see that there is a piece of the sky that has been torn open and they heard a trumpet sound coming from it. Jason and I knew that this was the final step that was said in Matthews 24 in the bible. Buildings were starting to collapse and more accidents happen and more tragedies with destruction were occurring while the trumpet kept playing.
But then the beautiful face of God had appeared and it was time for his children to come home. Sprits from the dead were rising, and then bodies from different places in the city were starting to rise with them. Then my husband and I’s body was rising as well with the others. We could see some people started to scream and cry when they realized that we had disappeared and they were getting left behind expecting the worst. After God has gathered all of their children and brought them to heaven, the piece in the sky closed back up.
People were nervous about what was going to happen next. A big wave of fire started to come towards the city and it was setting everything in the way on fire including the ocean that was on the border of California. The Devil came to Earth and started to laugh at all the souls he had taken over and the Earth turned into Hell. People were having their flesh burn from their skin and it kept repeating the same procedure in the same order. They both got what they wanted: Souls.

Daily Journal

My restaurant would be named Chocolate City and it would be so beautiful in the inside as well on the outside. The outside would be made out of colorful bricks in different areas around the outside of the building. People would look and become themselves and everything would be served from national to international. SO that way every type of people would feel the right to be at home and be themselves.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Daily Journal

There was an old man reading a book with only a lamp light on in the living room. He realized that there was something moving under his carpet that he had on the floor that covered some of his living room floor. He didn't really know what it was but he had ignored it because he didn't really think it was there but just an imagination. He kept on reading but then he saw the bump start moving from under the sofa chair he was sitting in to under the small table that was holding the lamp. He was nervous because the bump wasn't normal, so he got ghis chair and lift it under his head. He didn't want to kill the thing that was hiding but he didn't want the thing to kill him neither. So before he was about to hit it, the thing that was under the carpet had crawled out and reveled itself. it was only a dog that was looking for somewhere to stay since his family abandon him and the guy put the chair back down. They became friends ever since and the guy was his new owner.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Daily Journal

Behind her the noise escalated... louder like a person stumping their way towards Kelsy. People was all around gathered around each other looking at the door to see who was going to come. There was a moment of silence but then out of nowhere the door busted open real fast making everyone scream. It was a person in a monster costume and the guy quickly took the mask off to reveal himself to the others. It was Max's dad and he was playing a prank on them to get them out of the house. But of course it didn't work because they wanted to catch th monster before they would have to leave.
Everyone laughed about it and they spent the rest of the night partying with the other guests downstairs in the living room and when ti struck midnight, everyone went home and got away from the house looking back at it with the evil face from the way the house looked. But we all knew that it was nothing but the monster.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Daily Journal

 The clock winked and I realized that I was not close to being done with the test that was given to me right in front of my eyes. So all I had to do was to think quickly or just to guess and hope to God for the best. The teacher realized what I was doing and he was on his way to my desk. I was getting worried and al of a sudden my worst nightmare came. The bell ranged and that meant the school day was over and that I had to rush with the answers. I put the best answers that might look right to the teacher. Until I looked up and I saw that he was very upset with me and that I had to give it to him. But instead of leaving with the paper, he wanted to grade in front of me. After a moment of weird silence, he looked at me in a very shocking way. He turned the paper back around to me and it says that I had an A on the test. I gave him a big smile and I got all my things together and left to my car. I drove home knowing that I was one lucky person that had the good things coming to me.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Daily Journal

I am taking a shower in the dishwasher because i have been used and put into a lot of people's mouths. No wonder how many jerms I have on me. Ugh ! But I can't complain becase I am getting super cleaned by the dishwasher. A lot of soap, water, and heat in here makes me suffocate so much and I need some cool air to come in. Someone please open the door or I'm going to die.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Daily Journal

If you could invent one thing to help mankind, what would it be?
That people should all do the same amount of work as others and that we should all get the same treatment even though we are all diferent classes and other things. That we should be more repsonsible for our actions and not blame others for them. Love one another and not have hatred get in the way of another person because then more people would have more hatred.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Elements For Science Fiction Story

Setting:
- Place: San Francisco, California
- Time: Evening, probably 1:30pm, July 7, 2111
- Weather Conditions: Sunny (no clouds in the sky)
- Social Conditions: Too much people doing sin in their daily lives when Christians are trying to get sould born into Jesus Christ.
- Mood or Atmosphere: People are scared because they know that God has had enough and that he is coming soon.
Conflict:
- External: I am struggling with why people are doing wrong when the signs from Heaven is very visible and clear that he is coming.
- Man vs. Society: We as christians are trying to have people turn their life over to God so he can have more souls go to Heaven and people are paying attention or they don't care. They don't want to be controllled by what we think is best but instead live their lives the way they want to.
Characters:
- Jessica Jones (me)
- Mr. Fibbs (World Diagramer Worker)
- God
- Devil
- Spirits
- Citizens
- Allen Smith (Scientist)
Plot:
- Introduction: People are trying to get people to join Christ.
- Rising Action: The Devil is trying to get Christians to sin, and God and his angels is trying to get sinners to join Christ and to guide them through it all before it's too late.
- Climax: They are seeing signs from Heaven that time is about to run out before he comes.
- Falling Action: At Jessica's job, they see what is going on in other parts of the world.
- Denoucement: The earth is fit to be destroyed and some rise up to heaven while some stay on earth getting destroyed with the Earth itself.
Point Of View:
- Some is followed through the Stream of Consciousness because the author is trying to have the reader make the story seem real like it's really happening to them in their head or just imagining.
- But most of the story is viewed in First Person because of the author being in the story as well.
Theme:
- It mostly shows you that we are living in the last days and not everyone will make it to Heaven. God is coming soon and we can't underestimate him or the what the word says in the bible. It also tells us that we should be living for the Lord and to not let the enemy which is the Devil, to bring us down and have us get back to sinning because then the Devil will have us for good. One last thing to learn from this story is to never wait to the last minute to join Christ because, you should be ready in advance for what's about to happen and know what to expect and just have faith when God comes to get his people.

Daily Journal

I once dreamed about... a lot of crazy things that I think would happen or just wouldn't happen because they were made up. It would be things like a killer chasing me and my family in cities that I've been to or never been to. Someone that wanted me to do a task in order to get something back. Maybe I would fight with someone and just things like that. I be even deaming about people dying and I would become depressed for so long. Even my true love coming and finding me after all :). Or it would be kidnapping or sometimes love and romance with someone I like and just things like that. I don't really want to get into detail because it's embaressing.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Daily Journal

I wish someone had told me... About a girl that was suppose to be my best friend talking mess about me. When I have been nothing but good to her and I have even lost friends just by sticking up for her. I wish someone would have told me the things she has been saying about me before I beated her up in her cousin's basement. But everyone told me afterwards like some cowards and that pist me off. I wish someone would have told me that Amanda's number was going to get pulled in '09 so I would have been able to talk to her and hang out with her more as a sister. I wish someone would have told me about that people will make things such as high school make them. I wish someone told me more understandable things about true love so I won't be desperate for a man that might not even love me like I love him. I wish someone had told me why people like me don't have as much friends like people that are backstabbers, haters, people that use the easy way out, etc.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Science Fiction Brainstorming

I believe i am going to talk about the worls coming to an end. I love science fiction but I am not a big fan of it and I don't mind writing my stories that are in the type of genre. So I think this would be a fun way to write different and cool genres of short stories like Science Fiction. Some examples I am trying to use for my title:
-          The Day The World Died
-          The Day The World Stopped
-          The Day The World Came To An End
-          The Day The World Made Everyone Feel The Same
-          Judgment Day
-          The Last 7(Seven) Days
-          B.R.A.V.E.
It would be either dealing with nuclear war or just God coming on earth because the world wasn't going to last and it would get destroyed. So I just have to figure out what is going to happen before I writie it but I am excited to start writing Science Fiction sotry tomorrow ! :)

Daily Journal

People walking down the street staring at something that was unfamiliar. It was guy driving in a shoe and having fun with it.
"Hey young man! What are you doing?"
"Testing my new invention!"
He kept on driving in the street and some were impressed and others thought he was crazy but he was happy with himself for making the invention.
All of sudden he was driving so fast that the shoe car got out of control and he was getting scared. Then he swurved left and crashed into a truck. Which had damaged the shoe invention and he got upset and ran away.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Daily Journal: "My Journey on a Pirate Ship"

I wake up into a cold breeze late inthe night as I try to see where I have ended up. I get confused and then i see nothing but pirates on the ship talking, drinking, laughing, partying, dancing and fighting. They see that I am a stranger but I am one of them because I am a female pirate but they think that I am a traiter. As I get chased around the ship by a big group of pirates, I try to hide but then I am in a dead end corner of death. All of a sudden I feel a sharp pain to my stomach and I see tha I got stabbed by a sharp knife and blood comes out. I slowly fall down to my knees to feel my last breath leave my body. Then I lay in front of them dead as a corpse.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Daily Journal

A old man name John works at home doing work in the farm. He was growing carrots, so that way it can help his wife make carrot cake. It was early in the morning a while before the sun was fully up in the sky and he got up and got himself ready for some yard work. Today was the day that he had to get all the carrots for his wife big dinner and when he went out to grab them for her, some have been eaten. He tried to see what the problem is and then he finds out that it was rabbits that has been eating them and he saw one that was hiding in the cabbages. He didn't know how he caught the rabbit but he did and he grabbed it by the ears and brought it back to the house and made it as his pet.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Daily Journal

Scooby Doo loves his scooby snacks. it makes him stronger in order for him to defeat the monsters that try to attack him and his friends. Scooby loves to solve mysteries and he is very passionate in what he likes to do. Shaggy and Scooby are the best of friends and they love to eat everything that looks good to them. But at the same time, Scooby loves to get attention from the gang that he hangs out with and he doesn't regret one bit. Without his scooby snacks, he would not be the best dog in the world that everyone loves like I do.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Daily Journal

Close to the edge of death as I'm seeing my afterlife flashing in my eyes. Should I jump towards suicide? Or should I wait 'til death comes to me. Looks like it has come and here I come to Heaven.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Daily Journal

Marian Bartsch and Joey Catsalgi met on his first day of work... They bumped into each other by accident trying to get a cup of coffee in the break room. Until, Marian and Joey couldn't stop looking at each other and they knew that it was emant for them to be where they are now.
"Hi." Marian said to Joey as she gets nervous by looking at him.
"Hi." Joey responds checking her out but then turning away to take a sip of his coffee.
They looked back at each other with a smile but they were both too nervous to say something.
"Have I seen you before?"
"I believe so, but I don't remember where."
"Remember the last thing we said to each other?"
Joey starts to laugh a little and so does Marian.
"Yeah I remember. You said that if we meet again it was meant to be but if we don't then God has better plans for us. But I was trying to tell you that this is the plan God had for us."
"I guess you proved me wrong."
"I'm glad I did."
"So,"
"So,"
"You want to sit down and talk for a few mintues before our break is over?"
"I would love to."
They both sat down at a table and it was silence for a mintue but then Joey started the conversation.
"What's your name?"
"Marian Bartsch, and you?"
"Joey Catsalgi. Nice to meet you."
They both shook hands.
"Tell me about your childhood, if you don't mind."
"You first."
"No you first. Please?" Mirian gave him a sad face and it made him laugh a little and he gave up.
"Okay then I will."
"My childhood was good, if I should say. I have three brothers and four sisters and I am the second youngest in the family. My mom died of cancer when I was 18 and my dad died of a massive heart attack when I was 12. But I have been trying to give my life to God so I can understand things like this."
"My life wasn't really good, I'm even surprised that I got this job to begin with. I am the only child and I never had a good life. My mom has been in and out of my life and my dad had died when I was 3. He was killed in a gang shooting and I really haven't had a good relationship with him either. I have been abused by him for a couple of years and it started when I was in my mom's stomach. He use to beat on her and when I born I had bruises on my body and then my mom started to do the same. We haven't heard from each other since and I always tried to reach out to her. But she always turn me down and no, I have not reached out to her anymore and I'm not willing to."
"Sometimes you're going to have to do that even when times are rough. Things are really going to go in rollercoasters and you're going to have to be happy when we go through struggles."
"I know you're right, you've been correct about everything so far."

Friday, March 4, 2011

Change Poem # 2 (Final Poems Project)

God

He
Is
Coming
Soon
And
We
Need
To
Be
Living
For
The
Lord
Or
Else
We
Would
End
Up
Somewhere
For
Eternity
That
We
Would
Not
Want
To
Be
At
Or
You
Can
Decide
To
Go
To
Heaven
With
The
Actions
You
Are
Doing
Now

Daily Journal

This is my last day to die, but I have all the money in the world that I want. What would I do to spend my last day on Earth? I would give money to every country including ours since we are in debt. I would give it to every family that is in need, to the poor people that are trying to make a life for themselves or was willing to give up. I would give it to countries such as Haiti, African and all the continents to share with their people, government , and other things like that. I would build schools, homes, jobs, and tranportations. I would give the money to my family as well since they have been there for me. I would give some money to people that I saw as a friend or a good person to me. I would even give moeny to my haters because I know that they would not expect it from me and they can realize what type of person I really am and how bad they have hurt me. I would give it to my true love Poly because he has never let me down and I know that when I'm gone he will miss me in soul but I am alive in his heart and part of him in his body, and same with mommmy :)

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Villanelle Poetry

Beautiful, What is beautiful to me or what does it means to you?
Has tried to show me the beautiful I am  from people that I love
If someone told you that you was an ugly individual what would you do?

Poly, mom, and everyone else thanks for loving me for me, all of you.
I know God has tried many different ways to have me see it from above.
Beautiful, What is beautiful to me or what it does it mean to you?

10 Most Accomplished Thing In My Life

- Saved a baby from getting hit by a car
- Have made the honor roll
- Sang at a talent show
- Took AP classes in high school.
- Kept a job for a year.
- Still a virgin.
- Mom's golden child :)
- Have not given up in life
- Has not got in no more fights
- Trying to success to leave Minnesota
this is not true list

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Etheree Poetry

Love
Feels Good
When There Is
A Good Man To
Hold You Down When And
He Does Cares And When You're
 In Need Of Someone Like Him
Him And You Don't Want Him To Leave
Leave Because He Cares About Your Heart
So You Show Him The Same Love To Poly

Daily Journal

How ridiculous I was as a... silly girl when I had laughed at an old lady that "supposedly" gets hurt when a girl's brother that I know had bumped into her by accident. It was because we were black and being loud when there was little kids, and people being goofy. But our manager was being a goofy with Hershal because they were talking abuot having a party with their friends and he said that he wouldn't mind hanging out and having fun with her just laughing with each other. it was weird twist though because we didn't get in trouble for the scene that we had caused at the swimming pool and plus the manager was having a good conversation with Hershal about some party they should go to. But before I left i was so drenched out because I was in the hot sun because I was in the swimming pool most of the time and I felt tired with me having fun in the pool wth my sisters and friends. But I do remember a little girl that was playing in a octopus floaty balloon because she couldn't swim and it was so cute because she was smiling and having a good time with her grandmother.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

A Name Poem

Antoinette Helena Thomas
Awesome person that will not let a person down
Never judge a person for nothing in the world
Too long for a name and might change it it Beautiful
Open-mided? Not really because I am very quiet
In love with my baby Poly and don't want to let him go.
Not into drama and I don't have friends
Everything is worth your time even if you hate life.
Time after time I wonder, what is my purpose?
Teaching myself everyday what I am capable of.
Ever dreamed of being gone away from the world for a very long time?

Horrible things has happened in my life and I hate it very much
Everybody got to live a dream whether it's worth it or not, big or small
Leaving the past behind and worrying about the future for my life.
Eternal I am proud of what I have in my life and what good things will happen in it
Netta is what I go by but I might change it to something else next year
Akila is what I might need to change it to when I'm done with high school of this year :)

Too much T's in my whole name and i hate it at times.
Heaven is my goal of where I want to end up on Judgement Day
Over the top when it comes to making it in life
Mistakes are a person's enemy but you learn from it.
As long as I worry about myself and important people in my life,  I will be fine
Solo Dolo is what I am and I am proud of it very much.


Daily Journal

I wouldn't change the world because people are in control of themselves and we just have to make sure that ourselves is trying to do better before we change the world to do better.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Concrete Poem

Square

I am a regular quadrilateral shape and I have four points to my body figure. I have four
equal sides which means each point are 90 degrees and I equal up to 360 degrees total.
I have 2 hypercubes and 2 orthaplex in my shape figure and that might be real hard to see.
No one knows how it feels to be a square and other shapes call us plain and dumb at times.
But I just think they are jealous that they can't have good body points to their names and at
times they want to be like us but it doesn't realy matter because squares never cry when things
like that come int our way. We love ourselves and we love the things about us and we are smart.
Well if you ever want to know how it feels to be at our shoes just look at the things they has came
after our name like for example a rhombus or twisiting our bodies into diamonds, trapezoids and just
other good shapes like that. Triangles are super hatredful of four point shapes because they are lame
at being only three and nothing more than that but it's whatever because it's your choice to be like us.


Daily Journal

The house was made of…bricks and it made me love the house evevn more and I loved the look fo the bricks that made the house look more beautiful. But for some reason I felt that some things in the house was wobbly and I was scared to go inside the house and see what it was made of. Like for example, the door wasn't acting right and I was worried that it might fall off, and then the windows wouldn't open when I tried to fix it and see what was going on because the hot was a little bit too hot. Then there was twinkle noise that I heard from upstairs and I went to go see what was that racket that I heard. But it was only the old rocking chair that my grandma gabby use to sit in and I started to get sad because I missed her so much. But I went outside in the backyard and there was a wagon that we use to ride in with the horse that she use to own but it had went away to my mom's house so that way we can have it full time to ourselves.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Sonnet Poem

What Do I Look Like To You Everyday?
What Describes Me When You Think About Me?
Being Speechless Not Knowing What To Say.
Give A Kiss to You In My Favorite Dreams
Do Not Want You To Leave Me No Time Soon.
Thou Shall Not Hate But Have Even More True Love.
Wish That We Can Go Far From Earth To Moon.
If You Die I Know You'll Watch From Above.
Am I Beautiful When You Hold Me Close?
I Don't Want No One Else In Life But You.
Passion But Tickles When You Touch My Nose.
All I Know Is You Are Meant To Be True.
Together We Stand, Together We Fall.
Throughout Our Ups And Downs We Beat The All.

Daily Journal

If i could invite three people to talk to for an hour it would be my Auntie Tasha, my best friend Amanda Johnstad, and Tupac. Tupac is one of America's greatest MCs there has ever been in American history. Auntie Tasha had a baby girl name Tatyana and she passed away in '04, but she was real fun but crazy at the same time. Then my best friend/godsister died in '09 and she was a good friend to me and she inspired me to do half the things that i am doing. But they all have been an inspiration of me and they have taught me some things that I have learned from my mistakes or something I will use in the future and I really want them to tell me their feelings of how they are whereever they ended up. And also how they feel about how the world is ending up these days just things like that and what they wil do to live another day.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Assonance Writing Assignment

As I ran with a knife in my hand trying to keep myself protected from my dad.
I had trust in him until we started to fuss and now he's chassing me with anger in his body.
Telling me to get back here or I was going die but I knew he was going to anyway and I started to cry.
I run into my room waiting to see if he was going to come but it was silence until I heard a loud boom at the door knowing he was trying to come in.
He come in and we started to fight each other and knew this was going to be the last night I see and I tried to fight back but something happened to me.
He stabbed me and the time was Seven and as I layed down dead I knew my spirit was flowing to Heaven to be in peace for eternity.

Daily Journal

I remember during the summer before the 8th grade, we had we went to Valleyfair because it was hot out and we wanted to have fun before we went back to school. SO what we did was that there was a ride called The Wild Thing. The lately news of the rollercoaster is that it had broke down fo a while because it had fell off the trail of the coaster. But when we got on, it didn't break or do anything and I was happy and not scared of it but still caucious.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Onamatopeia Word Cloud

Wordle: Untitled

Daily Journal

I hate my life and I hate that I have to live through the pain of suffering when I just want to be in Heaven with God so I won't have to worry about Judgement Day. I really feel that God is trying to show me that if I give my life to him, them things will get better because being a sinner doesn't make my life no better. My sister's friend yelling at me over some tray that could have been done by herself in less than a minute. And the crazy thing about it is that she didn't stick up for me or told her that she was being too harsh on me which I felt like she was misusing me and she never listens to what I have to say and that makes me mad even more. But then it got even worst when I was in my math class and Ms. Hoffman had us pick groups with different instruments to make a band and I felt left out because I didn't know anyone that I could be with and I had to be in an all guys group as the only female. They didn't do anything but play around and I felt like crying but I'm very quiet as a person. That is why I want Amanda for stuff like this and to come back but I know it's too late because one she's gone she is gone. I don't want to live anymore, might committ suicide because I don't mind doing it just to get out of here.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Alitteration In Shakespeare

Cute Cuddly girl that Cries
Having Her wet and Hug Herself
Runs of Ruins in thyself as she Rides
Something Suspicious didn't feel right to her health
Walking through wacky paths but behind a tree she hides.
Blood in her hands and she tried to catch her last Breath
Knowing that her number is pulled as she stares and dies
Because she knew from God that she didn't love herself.

Daily Journal

I remember when I was probably 9 or10 years old and I was very quiet but I always wanted to go somewhere with my family because I hate being in the house. But I was always close with my sisters and my mom since we had problems with our father and I hated it but now I am over it. We moved around a lot and it was very hard to understand why but we had to do what we had to do. The cities we lived in was Bloomington, Eagan, Minneapolis, and Richfield. But it hasn't been easy in the long road but we always tried to do our best.

Friday, February 18, 2011

SENSE OF TIME POEMS

December
December is White
The color of Christmas and Snow
December feels like pretty packed presents
It sounds like Christmas songs and Gospel music.
Smells like Cookies and Candy Canes
December taste like Cupcakes and Birthday Cakes
December is all about Jesus.

Daily Journal

A man/woman walks out into the cold night air. His/her hands are shaking from what just happened…There was a horrible accident on the side of the road where they were walking from. Worried about what is going to happen to the person that jus got hurt. They were foots away from being apart of it themselves. Their names were Melony and Jason that has witnessed the cara crash into the tree. Melony's eyes filled with tears and it starts to come down her face quickly as her husband Jason holds her tightly and lets her know everything is going to be okay. But the scary part about it is that she knew who the person was in the car and it was someone that she wasn't having a good relationship with... Her mother. They have been arguing everytime they try to work things out and it hasn't gotten them anywhere but where they are today, apart. She thinks in her head how much she wish she had more time with her but it's too late, because she was gone.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Parts Of A Speech Poem

A Life
Live and Die
Learning and Experienced
Too Short

Free Writing

I had just got yelled at and I have been unhappy about myself. I might run away and never come back to Eastview. I should just drop out since my mom wants me to take care of my own. My boyfriend and my only true love Poly cried because of me. I hate me. what is wrong with "me"? I don't know what to do. I ask God why does he have me stay on earth when I have done nothing but caused trouble in everyone's life including mine. Poly should just go out with someone else because I am a hot mess mentally, phsyically and emotionally. Then my mom should have aborted me when she was pregnant with me. I feel like my number might be pulled in any minute. I would write more but I feel that I can't trust anyone :(

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cinquain Poem

My God
Loves me always
No matter what I do
and I am glad there is a God just
for me

Daily Journal

I wake up and try to take a deep breath, but the deeper the breath the more severe the pain. The ground is hard beneath my back, and I feel a dull pain in my arm… I can't tell what it is and I am worried that it might kill me. But all I know is that I got to get up from this place where ever I may be. I have to get out of here and I realized that I have been trapped in a black hole and I can't get out. It's a far distance from the earth ground above me and there are stick figures I see looking down at me but my eyes get blurry and I don't know if they realized that I am stuck in the hole. I tried to call for help but no one answered me. I was going to be stuck here forever.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Sleep & Heaven

Sleep.
Heaven.
Sleep is the best time of the day
You can be in this position for as long as you want
Dreams come into your head
But no one can interupt you unless you have them
Sleep is another word for Heaven
But Heaven is a better place to be in
You see a new and better version of the Earth
But the best thing is that God is visible to you
These places can not do anything but make you happy
Addicted but you fall in love
Sleep can have think of things that you never think of
While Heaven has you experience your life in a better and you are alive.
No one can't take that away from you.
It's the best gift in life.

Best Friend, Family, Boyfriend - Happiest Things In My Life

Her name was Amanda Johnstad and ever since I came to Eastview , the friends that i was cool with in middle school didn't really talk to me and I felt left out all the time when it came down to being social. But ever snice I met Amanda, she was so sweet but crazy at the same time and she accepted me for who I was. I invited her to my 16th birthday party and it was very fun because my other Godsister Britney Hayes was there as well and I was glad to have them both here with me. But after Amanda passed away on the 1st of April, I got wost abouit myself and then i didn't believe in friends that much after her death. But last year I got over it and I still miss the person that I needed in my life.

But there is a guy Name Poly that I had met a week ago and he is such a nice guy and I am happy to meet him. Two days ago, I invited him to my church and it was very fun. But yesterday I wanted us to have a good date for Valentine's Day and we went to the Apple Valley movie theater and it was super fun and his brother Jackson came with us. He is 18 just like me and his birthday is Oct. 28 which is 14 days after my older sister Trisha's birthday. I really believe that we were meant to be after all and he is such a beautiful guy that I have met and no matter what people say about us, I will still always love him just how he loves me. Thank you God for him because without him, I would have been an unhappy person for my whole life.

My family and my mother is my best friend as well even though we are family but it doesn't matter. We are starting to get along more and understand each other more which is a good thing. But thank to the Lord that he gave me this crazy family that i really love and I am so glad that they are my bestfriends because they don't tell anyone my business and I do the same thing to them. My mom Pat, my sisters Diamond and Trisha are the best things that God has gave me and I don't want them to leave no time soon as well. I love you guys :)

God, I know you have Taken Amanda from me and I really don't want my boyfriend to be taken away from me no time soon. He is the person that has some actions of Amanda that I really honor from him. Thank you God for the family that you have gaven me and I am happy for them as well. But other than that, RIP Amanda Johnstad and Poly, here is the start of our strong good and blessed relationship :)

Monday, February 14, 2011

Similie Activity

A heart is like a life because it can make it through ups and downs and still be strong at the end.
A light is like God because it shines in our lives.
A job is like homework because it doesn't give you a break and you always end up doing something.
A meal is like money because you could never have too much.
Music is like an order because you can request what you want.

Change Poem

Peace

Just
Like
Nine
Eleven
Or
Hurrican
Katrina
Or
35
W
Bridge
Collapse
The
World
Needs
To
Put
All
Differences
Aside
And
Love
One
Another
For
It
To
Affect
People
In
A
Good
Way