Chronological Order

In the story "there will come soft rains" the house was damaged and destroyed fairly quickly. After the tree fell on to the house, it started burning. The author is trying to say that wars is bad for people. It kills innocent people that are not involved in the war. Which in the story, the family. When the nuclear bomb was thrown, everything vanished in a blink. The family that was outside the house made a burn mark from the bomb. You can clearly see what they were doing. The dad was mowing the lawn, the mother was kneeling down picking up a flower, the two kids were playing catch, and you can even see the ball in mid air which the kids never get to catch. It is really sad how innocent people were killed with no reason.

Thankful

There are a couple things I'm thankful of, one of them is my parents. I am thankful to my parents for raising me up, giving me a good place to stay, buying things I need, feeding me good food, and for the last one took me to this school. The reason I thank my mom for taking me to this school is because, I made lots of good friends here. Friends here had helped me when I have problems and we all had fun together. Friends are one of the things that a person can not don't have. This made be bring up to another thing that I'm thankful of, which is friends. Friends are one of my most important peoples. I am a only son, so I hang out with friends more because i don't have any brothers or sisters to play with. Friends help each other, and that's what we do in school. We all had fun together, and when there's a problem or trouble, we all find a way to solve it together. These are two thankful things that I am thankful of. For things that I am not thankful of is work. Work is always a pain for me. I know that we need to practice things over and over again, but sometimes there are tons and tons of work for us students to do. It can take us a lot of time on it.

My Invention

There are lots of inventions that helped us to have an easier life. For example, elevators. Elevators can transfer people or things up or down to specific floors in a building. Without an elevator, people would have to walk on stairs to get to the floor they wanted. Another invention is the telephone, before telephones are invented, people had to use mail to communicate with each other. Now, we can just dial a number and you can reach your friend or family member.
If I am creating a invention, I would invent a computer that it can control almost anything on it. Such as, closing your window, turning on or off the lights, making calls with you voice, and managing all your things. It will look like a normal computer, but with projected screens. You can have a much bigger screen with a projected one compare to a normal computer monitor. You don't need a mouse for this computer, you can just tap on the screens to do what you want (you still need a keyboard). You can also use your voice to control the computer, such as telling it commands to do. The warnings for this invention is that you can get almost full control on the things you need in your daily life, so you wouldn't need to move as much as before. This may affect your health conditions.

New Technology

During our life now, we are surrounded by different kinds of technologies for different things. For example, I am using a laptop to type my blogger assignments and I am using electricity to power my laptop and to have the lights on. A hundred years ago, without these technologies, what would life be in that time?
Basically they would have to do everything themselves. Without the help of technologies, they would have to do everything in a different way from us. Take light for example, a hundred years ago, there are no electricity (even if there is, not a lot of people have it), people have to use candles to light up their way during night time. They can't communicate with each other comparing what we can do now. In our life, we just use a cell phone to call a friend or a family member. A hundred years ago, they don't have cell phones. They would need to use mail to communicate with each other. It takes more time and you would have to wait for the other person to reply, and wait for the mailman to deliver it to you. With all these technologies around us, it had made our life easier, but technologies are not always good for us. If we all rely on technologies to do things for us, we will end up not knowing any thing because we never need to do it.

Compare and Contrast Dogs

I have a friend that owns a golden retriever, and at the same time he owns another beagle. The two dogs have way different personalities. The golden retriever is a very hyper, energetic, and friendly dog. It comes to you when you get close to him. It wants you to play with him every time it sees you, or if you have something on your hand, it will run to you and to check out what it is. Which the beagle does too. The beagle is a more calm dog. It just sits or lies there even if you get close to it, but if you have food with you it might stand up and smell what you have. Sometimes when its more hyper, it mights comes to you when you get close. Both dogs likes to play catch when my friend walks them, but still, the golden retriever is a lot more energetic then the beagle. Sometimes the beagle just sit there when my friend threw the ball. Both dogs are really cute and friendly. Sometimes I go to my friends house when he is going to walk the dogs, We just chat on the way to the park. When we get there, we throw tennis balls to let the dogs get them back. It is really fun.

Knowledge of Dogs

In the story "In Trouble" the author said "they had great, old knowledge; they had something we had lost". To me, it means that dogs have skills and knowledge that we don't have. For example, dogs are great at hearing and smelling, we can't do that. Dogs can also tell wether foods are edible or poisonous, which we can't. They are born to do these tasks. Some dogs are trained to do special tasks such as guard dogs. They are trained to tell wether a person is or is not a person that they wanted. Dogs in airports, they are trained to tell wether a person's luggage has things that shouldn't be carried. People can sometimes learn from dogs, such as how they act. When you are nice to a dog, it will be nice to you because of what you did to him. Basically, dogs followed the golden rule every time. Which is treat a person the way you wanted them to treat you. For example, if you give a dog a piece of cookie, or you petted him today. He might come back to you and starting to play with you because he liked you because of what you did.

Describe a Place You Know

The place that I can't forget is when I was on a vacation in China. During the vacation, it was winter time, when we need to go to other places we need to ride on the bus. When we were waiting for the bus, the climate was extremely cold. The wind was like a cold blade, ready to slice your face off. You can literally felt the wind hitting on your face as you are standing. After a couple minutes in the wind, my face started to turn red and it started to hurt. The extremely cold climate with the wind was a horrible combination. You can hear the deadly wind blowing into your ears, it felt weird and cold when the wind blew into your ears. As the temperature drops, I started to can't feel my hands anymore. It is so cold that I can't feel my hands anymore, so my dad gave me a cup of hot tea to warm me up. You can feel the dryness in the air with your tongue too. I started feeling that my tongue is going to crack if I don't drink water. Eventually, it started hurting. The wind, the temperature, and the dryness in the air are all things that will make you want to go back to your hotel as soon as possible

The Influence of Setting

The setting of a story can affect on several different things. For example, if a story's setting is in outer space, you can roughly guess on what this story is about. It would probably be something about the future when people are living in space or maybe it might be talking about when humans first went up to space. Settings in a story can tell where and when the story takes place. Another thing is that, the setting and the plot should be matched. For example, you can't have a monkey under an ocean. It doesn't make sense at all. All the parts in a story fits with each other, everything have to make sense when it's put together. There are some writers that match plots with unmatched settings on purposely, they do this to make the story more unique, special, and easier to grab the reader's attention. Writers use different descriptive words to paint a picture with words, this means that you can clearly have what the setting looks like in your mind when you read that story. The setting of a story is one of the most important part in a story. Without a setting, the story will only be characters doing actions. There will be no places for them to do the actions, obviously this will make the story really boring.

Setting

Take China for example, when I visited China last year it was during winter. The weather was cold and dry, the wind is just like an ice blade cutting on your face. You can feel the wind actually "hitting" you, it was extremely cold, After about fifteen minutes in the wind, your face turns red and starts to hurt. You smell the dry air around you, it smells like... nothing. You can hear the wind blowing into your ears, it was really painful to stand in the cold weather. The wind was blowing hard, the climate was dry, and it is very cold. When the climate is dry, it feels like it is going to rip your face apart. The cold climate and the mercy-less wind is a horrible combination. It makes you want to be in your hotel at that second. You can taste the dryness of the air with your tongue, you feel like drinking water after every time you swallows. Even though it was pain when we were outside walking on the streets, it is still a fun experience to visit China. As long as you wear a warm winter jacket and a hat, you'll be alright during the winter of China.