Persuader

Jack Reacher is the Persuader, he is an ex-military cop and now, a drifter. One day on a busy street in Boston, he confronts an old dead problem that has been thriving for a decade. Lee Child is an expert at starting in the middle of the action, and then flashing back again and again to keep you hooked.

Jack Reacher is not a person anybody would want to mess with, he is an amazing fighter and an over-all beast. On his mission to finally end this problem thought long dead, 3 federal agents die, and he gains revenge for himself and for his past.


(2 Books, 497 pgs)

Call of the Wild

Buck took many different stands against foes he did not know existed. He learned in order to survive he had to stand up for what he knew was right and sometimes just plain wrong. Buck stood for his team; he knew he had to learn fast if he wanted to live to to learn from his mistakes.

Buck had many different abilities that made him superior to the other dogs so this made him a threat to many of the pack leaders that despised him. Buck made an excellent sled dog, he was made for the trail.

Antigone

Antigone was a book where the main character took many major stands. She loved her brothers and just because he was fighting for the other side, they wouldn't bury him. Antigone took a stand against this and she changed the life of a very crucial person named Creon.
I admire Antigone for taking this stand and standing up for what she believed was right. In her case as in many others, this stand led to her death or "negative consequences".

Taking a Stand

Like in Antigone, one day I took a stand for what was right. 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.

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.