I'm a Sophmoore 1/2!

Overall my sophmoore year has really been an awakening to what I can do in the classroom, in band, and in athletics. I've got a 4.0 gpa, ran a 5:16 mile, and I'm also going to beat Preston at All-Region.

Thanks to all of my teachers for giving me a great 1st semester and I am really looking forward to a great Christmas break! I have learned so much this year, especially in math, goodness, I'm just wondering how these nerds who made this up sat down and actually...made this up!

Well, overall this semester has been a great one!
Thanks to all of my teachers!

Does Fate Control You?

Fate has been considered a constant threat for ages and people think a lot of the time it controls them. I on the other hand think that you as a person can control your future by what you choose to do. God gave us the choice to do good or to do bad, as in disobey him.

I could walk out of my house tomorrow and get hit by a bullet from a hunter's gun shot 4 miles away and that could be considered fate, but I still could've waited a few seconds and not been hit by the bullet.

In the book Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, fate was a constant threat to all of the characters in this play, especially Julius Caesar himself. Fate was shown to us in two ways in the book: Where the soothsayer fortold the "Ides of March", and where Caesar's wife invisioned his death by the conspirators.

So does fate control you, or do you control your own fate?

Caius Cassius

Cassius was a very pushy leader especially when it came to the assassination of Caesar in 44 A.D. He pushed all of his colleagues into thinking Caesar was a tyrant trying to take over Rome. He knew how to get what he wanted, to lie about Caesar and to convince Casca, Cinna, Decius Brutus, Caius Ligarius, Metellus Cimber, Trebonius, and most of all, Caesar's close friend, Marcus Brutus.
Cassius weaved and moved cunningly around to convince these noblemen that Caesar, a great leader, was a tyrant, willing to kill anybody in his way to rule Rome. He knew to get his way in convincing noble men like Marcus Brutus to kill Caesar, he would have to bend the truth. Told by Cassius, these noblemen tricked and condemned Caesar to death by stabing him over 100 times.
Dieing a bloody death, Caesar moved every Roman's heart against these noblemen, they killed every conspirator, no matter their status.

When I was the Win-Win Kid

Sometime ago, I was a Win-Win kid. I was the go to guy, the guy who people looked up to with pride and knew that they could ask me of anything. People called me "Will, greater than anything that has ever lived." They explained to people that didn't know of me and my talent of healing and all knowing knowledge like they were kids talking about how cool the last episode of superman was.
Yes, for a while, I was the Win-Win kid. Now, I am building back up to the dramatic plunge that I took during the 7th grade. Nobody knew I was the Win-Win kid, I became the new kid at Batesville. I was no longer the go to guy, the guy who people could depend on, all that is past now, and will never known of again.

The Day I was Pro-Active

Like in Sean Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, one day I was actually proactive. One day, a drastically long and drug out day, in sixth grade I was walking lazily to my seventh period class for the last subject of the day looking for an excuse to go home. All of the sudden a mentally challenged kid in the fifth grade couldn't get off of the floor because an older bully had knocked him over out of his wheel chair and scattered all of his books over the hall. I took the situation into my own hands and helped him into his chair and got all of his books for him. After I got him to class I walked up to the bully and pinned him, a six foot seventh grader, up against the wall and said that that guy couldn't help himself off the ground and how helpless he must feel on the ground like that, and that I thought that he needed to see how that felt. So I proceeded to wipe up the hall with his face and went along to class, a coach that had seen the whole thing caught my eye and winked at me saying that I did the right thing.


(Also one of my anecdotes)

White Lightning

The long dark streets of Rome are often not as lonely as they look. In the shadows, things, people lurking for someone to saunter their way taking the short way home, but where there are villains, there are heroes. In the long dark alleys of darkness, only one thing shines, white lightning. Armed only with his martial artist skills and his staff of lightning, he rescues the innocent men, women, and children from the burglars. White lightning is the savior of the darkness, he resurrects the light and relieves the minds of the peaceful, the kind, the lighthearted so they they may gallantly walk and play wherever they please. He ties them up and throws them into the river that leads on forever and ever. These innocent men, citizens of the ancient city, can saunter and stroll through the parks and streets as they please. They will live forever in peace with the cape of white lightning flowing over them.

Sci-Fi

Science Fiction is a very interesting topic of discussion, the Invisible Man by H. G. Wells has really re lit my interest in this genre. I think we should try as hard as possible to make all of the wonderful and crazy things that happen in Sci-Fi a reality.

Letter to the President

Mr. President, I think that we need a person that will think about the economy while still handling the problems of foreign affairs. We need to stay in Iraq until it is clear that what happened in Vietnam won't happen again, also, we need to cut the spending of the economy and resort to better fuels and invest in renewable resources as an alternate and maybe someday soon, the main source of energy that is cheap, and can be produced easily.