Perfection is imperfect

I chose the proverb, "Perfection is imperfect" because I agreed with the statement. Nobody is perfect and everybody makes mistakes. That is why you can’t have perfection without imperfection. If you hand in an essay it’s not perfect. There's always room to add more and improve. In life nobody’s perfect. Everybody makes mistakes and has imperfections. No one can be perfect or society would be boring and life would be bland. Also characteristics would fade. There would be no clumsy or dorky people. Everybody would look the same, having a perfect figure and face. I’m not saying it’s impossible to get something to be perfect because it is possible. But with perfection there comes imperfection. Take this for example, if someone wanted to win an entire basketball season with no losses it seems to be reasonable. With a little teamwork and strategy, you could do it. But what if you were to say, someone wanted to win an entire basketball season for five years in a row? Now that’s just unreasonable. It's possible, but very unlikely to happen. I’m not going off on a tangent. You see if someone wants to have a perfect season and beat every team then those other teams are going to want to win back and beat them. Within time the team is bound to loose eventually which you can say is imperfect. That concludes that in perfection there comes imperfection.

DULCIS BREVIS poem

Cat

Furry
Fluffy
Innocent
Creatures

Wet
Tiny
Pink
Tongue

Face
Purring
At
You

Rolling
And
Prancing
Around

Like
There's
Music
Playing

Love You Forever

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0920668364?ie=UTF8&tag=top.100-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0920668364

Oh my god I love this book!!! My mom used to read me this book as a child. Before I went to sleep my mom always read to me and this is one of the books she read. The book starts off with a mother holding her child and telling him that she will love him forever. Then as the story progresses the child gets older and older. In every stage or year that he gets older in the book, it shows a picture of him doing something destructive. In one picture he is a teenager and he spills soda all over if I remember right. And the mother repeats the saying, "I'll love you forever." Even when the boy is all grown up and out of the house she climbs through his window and rocks him in her arms. My favorite part is the end because the boy grows up and is an adult and his mom can't really hold him. Instead of her cradling her son, her son is cradling her. He cradles her and says "I'll love you forever." This book was really good and as a child it reminded me of my mother and I and when she rocked me to sleep. Even to this day my mom still says, "I'll love you forever."
Its a book that tells you a moms love for her children is eternal.

L= Logan college Of Chiropractic University Programs

Five things that make you WANT to go:
1. Logan prepares students to enter the health care marketplace with all the requisite knowledge and skills required to become successful Doctors of Chiropractic
2. Logan has two master programs, a Master of Science in Sports Science and Rehabilitation, and a Master of Science in Nutrition and Human Performance
3. Logan has many sports for girls such as basketball and running which I enjoy doing.
4.Logan is one of the largest chiropractic colleges in North America with about 1,100 students
5. Logan offers Merit Scholarships
6. I want to be a chiropractor so this college is appealing to me
Three things that are NOT appealing
1. It is in St. Louis
2. Doesn't have housing on Campus and the college is in St. Louis so thats not good.
3. The apartments there are really expensive and I would have to find a job down there

http://www.logan.edu/

TU Tuesday

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Judge-Teen-in-assault-should-apologize-to-his-2224440.php#photo-1669018

This article is about how a couple of  high school students named Vincent Uzzo, Chad Sandercox, Robert jacon, and Patrick Chamberlain took part in a bad fight and beat students from an opposing high school. All three boys attend troy High Scool and pleaded not guilty. After going to court the judge told Vincent Uzzo that he should be ashamed of what he did because it puts a bad reoputation on his school. Uzzo beat a kid with a tree branch. "LeRoux suffered a concussion and Marchese suffered a broken jaw after getting hit with the tree branch." The boys beat up students from Catholic Central high School. The two main victims were Anthony M. Marchese, 18, and jack LeRoux, 17, who both were put in the hospital after the event. The fight started because one student from Troy named Robert Jacon offered Vincent Uzzo twenty dollars to hit the student. "Did someone in the crowd offer you $20 to hit him?" Rensselaer County Judge Robert Jacon asked, Uzzo nodded his head and said "yes." I thought that the punishment recieved was actually fair.

"Uzzo pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted gang assault and will be sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years probation." The article said, "Uzzo will serve the time during the summer break, Jacon said, reminding him that he must not violate probation or he could face 2 1/3 to 7 years in state prison." I think that by giving him a punishment such as that it is teaching him that not only was it wrong but its a crime, even for a student his age. Usually when kids bully other kids in school the consequence is limited to a suspension or being expelled. It gives me a good feeling to know that those kids were punished for their actions. I think it affects me because I often see my brother getting bullied and our school doesnt take car of it. because kids dont want to be the stool pigioen and tell the principal or a teacher. Vincent Uzzo wasnt the only one who got in trouble for the event.  "Stephaun Grinage, 18, and Patrick Chamberlain,17, each pleaded guilty to the same charge. They faces a sentences of five years probation. Grinage also was sentenced to 20 days on the sheriff's work order program." After reading this article I began to have many questions:

1. Did the boys from Catholic Central High School fight back?

2. Did any of the students from Troy get hurt or injured?

3. Did the students have anything on each other or already have tension between one another?

4. Do the students who did it regret what they did or see that they were wrong?

5. How did the school react to such a horendous event?

"Howard Roark laughed." - The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Howard Roark laughed at me as the kids on the playground hit me. Howard was the schools biggest bully. He was plump and dirty and always had an evil grin on his face. Every kid in my second grade class was afraid of him, especially me. But one day everything changed. I was sitting on the swing set when all of the sudden a hefty voice from above said, "Josh that's my swing set." My eyes opened the farthest they could go and I didn't know what to say. Then before I knew it every kid had turned and was starring at Howard and I. There were a million things going on inside my head. Should I give Howard the swing set or not? I looked at Howard and said, "No Howard I was here first." Howard's face turned red like a tomato and before I knew it he was coming after me. With a whole audience of second graders watching I had to think fast. I was still on my swing set and I had a plan. I kicked off with my feet and began to sway slightly. My feet felt like they were on fire but I kept on going. When Howard came close enough I lunged at him with full force off the swing set. I landed right on him as he fell to the ground. All of a sudden the teacher peered around the corner. I quickly went back to the swing set and acted natural. When the teacher found Howard on the ground crying that I had jumped on him the teacher took him to the nurse and me to the principals. That day I got a phone call home saying what I had done. My parents grounded me for a week. I was scared about the next day at school. I was at my desk when Howard walked up to me and said, "I didn't know you were that tough Josh. I'm sorry that I was mean to you." Those words coming out of Howard's mouth was music to my ears. That day every kid that walked by me said hi and I felt great. Although I was grounded for a week the glory of being the schools hero would last a lifetime.

Vintage Photo

Here for your consideration is an aesthetic picture of a Hupa Mother and Baby in a Three-quarter Length Portrait. It was created in 1923 by Edward S. Curtis. The photograph presents a touching image of this Mother and Child. There is a look of pride in this woman's eye as she gazes at this child.

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I chose this picture because it made me think a little. I was amazed at how back in the 1920's the skill they had and the things they made are so amazing. It shocked me when I thought to myself that a woman hand wove that baby basket and didn't just go to a convenient store like us to buy one. Back then they didn't have much and they used everything they had around them, especially the Indians. Just by looking at the mother's hat I can tell that she made that too. I don't see any flaws in stitching which is very amazing to me. Everything from her babys basket to her necklace and clothes all look like their hand made. I think to myself how long did it take to make a baby's basket? So I fulfilled my curiosity by looking up the answer. I found that there is no exact time because everyone has different skills but I found that they used pine needles to weave twigs and other materials found. Imagine taking a pine needle and trying to weave a basket with it. It seems crazy to me. I also chose this picture because it made me feel fuzzy inside. The look the mom is giving to her daughter reminds me of my mother and I.

Haiku

A flower stands tall
But loses petals and then
grows and blossoms again

Poetry 180

#39

Snow

David Berman

Walking through a field with my little brother Seth
I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow.
For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels
had been shot and dissolved when they hit the ground.
He asked who had shot them and I said a farmer.


Then we were on the roof of the lake.
The ice looked like a photograph of water.
Why he asked. Why did he shoot them.
I didn't know where I was going with this.
They were on his property, I said.


When it's snowing, the outdoors seem like a room.
Today I traded hellos with my neighbor.
Our voices hung close in the new acoustics.
A room with the walls blasted to shreds and falling.
We returned to our shoveling, working side by side in silence.


But why were they on his property, he asked.

I think this poem is really good and it reminds me of my brother and I. I would always ask my brother about things and he would make up stories. I think this poems main idea or control is conflict can lead to distress. The examples is in the poem it talks about how a troop of angels were shot because they went on the farmer's property. The writer David uses a lot of literary devices. One thing he uses is similes. An example is, "the outdoors seem like a room." Another example is, "The ice looked like a photograph of water." I really like this simile. Instead of saying that he sees his reflection he says the ice looks like a photograph on water. The writer also uses many metaphors. One example is when the boy tells his brother Seth that there was a troop of angels that dissolved into the snow. I think the most powerful lines are:
Today I traded hellos with my neighbor.
Our voices hung close in the new acoustics.
A room with the walls blasted to shreds and falling.
I really like this stanza and part from the poem because in my opinion it explains how getting to know someone or resolving conflict can bring peace but causing conflict or not getting to know someone can lead to harm or distress.

Opinion Prompt 4 – You should avoid using plastic bags!

I agree with the prompt, "You should avoid using plastic bags" because it's bad for the environment. Have you ever driven on a highway or walked down the street and have seen a plastic bag flying through the air or just laying around? I have seen this situation many times before. I am a very eco friendly person and my family recycles and tries to avoid things that can be harmful to the environment. My parents buy special bags from Wal-Mart for grocery shopping and they use lunch boxes so they can avoid using paper or plastic bags. I agree with the statement because plastic bags are biodegradable. A biodegradable object is an object that causes degradation based on biological activity. Plastic bags not only make our environment bad but they affect animals. An animal can get wrapped in a plastic bag or get harmed by one. They sometimes mistaken plastic bags for food and they choke and die. I researched about plastic bags because I was interested in their other affects and I found out that they can spoil the landscape and ruin harvests and farming. It takes 1,000 years or more for a plastic bag to break down. For these reasons, I agree with the statement "You should avoid using plastic bags."