SCRUPLES

6. You see someone shoplifting in the neighborhood grocery.  Do you tell the owner?

I chose this one because I think it's a relevant problem. People steal evryday and there are people like us that witness this. It is our choice to act on it and tell someone such as the owner or to mind our own business and pretend like we never saw it. So my answer to the question "You see someone shoplifting in the neighborhood grocery.  Do you tell the owner?" is yes. It's the moral thing to do and I don't see what's wrong with doing the right thing. Unless you tell the owner that someones shoplifting and they really aren't. But if I saw someone in a grocery store sneaking food products or other items I would tell one of the staff members. I think alot of people wouold say no, they wouldn't tell because they don't want to be a stool pigeon and rat someone out but stealing is against the law and should be dealt with.

Are you more like a panda or a piranha? Why?

Are you more like a   panda        or a      piranha                 ?  Why?
1. Logan
"I'm more of a panda because their nice and so am I and they are very loving and affectionate. I'd rather be a panda because they are relaxed and sweet and piranha's are fiesty and mean."
2. Aaron
"I'd rather be a piranha because then I could attack what I don't like. I could deffend myself and scare people away."
3.Colton
"A piranha because I like to work in groups and pandas kill their children."
4.Mrs.Geurin
"I would chose a panda because piranha's just seem mean and evil."
5.Azima
"I think piranha because they are very fierce and you wouldn't expect it because they're a fish, which symbolizes women to me because people underestimate women but they can be just as fierce as men.
6.Madison
"Panda's because I've always wanted to go to China and I think it would be cool to experience a different lifestyle."

My Life Motto

The life motto I chose was Success. I think it's important to create goals for yourself and try to achieve it. As a child school was not important to me. I didn't care about the grades I got, how smart I was, or if I passed a class or not. When I got to middle school I told myself that I needed to change. I set a goal for myself to do better in school and to really try my best. I learned that with hard work, everything pays off. I got through middle school in a breeze. Math was my favorite subject. I could solve anything and my teacher would often call on me because I always had the answer. I also started writing and reading and I started to get an interest in history. Writing and reading though were still my favorite things. In gradeschool I was never good at writing. I would sit there and think of something to write about while every one else was writing away. So I set a goal for myself to become a better writer and to do well in school. So on weekends I practiced writing. With alot of hard work and integrity I pulled it off. I started writing historical fiction which was interesting to me because I could involve my love for history with my love for writing. Shortly after, I created a story that won a prize/award for young writers. The story I worte in seventh grade about Pandas got published in a magazine. Success is easy if you try hard and have a clear open mind to your goal. You have to be optimistic. My life motto is success is not just handed to you, it is placed in front of you and you have to grab it.

Feelings I Feel

1.      family and painting                            brings me great joy.
2. Seeing           war                     frustrates me to no end.
3.             death                        creates in me deep sadness. 
4. I am grateful for                      everything (too many things to name)                      .
5. Knowing                   there is peace                         grants me peace.
6.                 spiders                  scare me beyond belief.
7. I find acceptance from        my family and friends                                     .
8.            society                    surprises me.
9. I am utterly disgusted by          greedy and sellfish people                               .
10. Anxiety is created in my life by           work overload                        .
11. I am most offended when people       get into other peoples/my business with bad intentions.                            .
12. I have never felt more grief than when       my grandfather died                      .
13. More than anything I hope for      happiness, peace, and love                                .
14. I worry too much about       school                                .
15. Sometimes, I envy      no one...envying people will get you no where and theres no point                               .
16.      doing good in sports                                makes me very proud.
17.  I feel most              loved                       when I             am around my family and loved ones                             .

TU TUESDAY- MONSTER

A man tried to drown his infant son in a motel bathtub. My question is the man got six months in jail and ten years probation, what is the most time you can serve in jail for child abuse? "Authorities say the 11-month-old boy was left in the tub unsupervised Aug. 5 because he had soiled his diaper and the couple had run out of clean ones." The baby was saved by CPR and was taken to a child protective service along with the three other children. My other question is if you abuse one of your children can you get all of your children taken away from you and where do they go if taken? Also, can you get them back?
http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Man-gets-jail-probation-in-Tempe-child-abuse-case-2683531.php
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_years_do_you_get_for_child_abuse
http://markdaniel.hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Get-My-Kids-Back-From-Child-Protective-Services
My article was about how a man and his wife tried to drown their infant son in a motel bathtub. The man was,"sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years' probation." I was curious to if you abuse your child how many years of jail time can you get? I was wondering this because the man who nearly drowned his son barely got anything. I searched google and found multiple answers. I learned that your sentence is based on how harsh the abuse was and how many times you did it. I saw that in one case a man abused his son 18 times and recieved 43 years in prison. The average or normal amount of years though is around 14 to 15. At the end of the last link I leaner that if you get your child taken its usually from Child Protective Services and the children are sometimes put into foster care. The woman from the website said that she has been cooperating with the CPS to get her son back. So I assume that you can get them back after you have showed a judge that you have "cleaned up your act" or are suitable to take care of your children. The woman was an alcoholic and she has been in rehab and is taking baby steps to getting her son back.

Deep within my soul I am shallow

Deep within my soul I am shallow

But I know deep down my heart is hallow

Ive gone threw the toughest and hardest time

Now its my turn to rise and shine

My soul is shallow and I do not feel alive

My body motionless, as if I cannot survive

I reach inside and pull out my soul

And my body finally gains control

The monster inside taking over me

Is now thrown in a pile of debris

I dig my soul deeper and deeper

As if im going down stairs deeper, and deeper

I reach the end of my soul opening it up as wide as I can

I finally realize that I am more than

A shallow, lifeless lie

But a bird full of life ready to grow wings and fly

Nursery Rhymes ARE Relevant to Life

Go to bed, Tom

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Go to bed, Tom.
Go to bed, Tom!
Tired or not, Tom,
Go to bed, Tom.
I chose this nursery rhyme because my mom tells me this all the time. Im the type of person who can stay up all night and rather sleep during the day. I'm a kid so I have alot of energy. I usually stay up because I can't sleep so my mom tells me to go to sleep whether I'm tired or not.

On top of spaghetti

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On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table
And onto the floor,
And then my poor meatball
Rolled right out the door.

I had to put this next one because it was my favorite song when I was little. I thought it was funny, especially because I hated spaghetti. I would hate to have to eat my spaghetti and meatbgalls so I would just feed them to my grandmas dog. I think this nursery rhyme relates to me/ is relavent because I still hate spaghetti and when I go to my grandmas to eat it I still give it to her dog.