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Life is like a pair of shoes

          newly bought, no experience

          ready to explore the world

Seeing world first time

          excited to see new things

Aging, getting tired of same things

          keeps going must finish

Old, worn ready to be done

          thrown away in the end

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That warm Summer's day

          called outside by father

Steeping outside was temperally blinded

          blinking, sight returning 

          warmth beating off my skin

          birds chripping all around

Looking at him jesturing 

          looked, heart stopping

          found a car looking back at me

 Happy to find my freedom

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Most of the time I am sky light blue

     relaxed and calm

     like a cool summer's day

Other times I can be stormy grey

     angry and unrestful

     like a typhoon

But today is okay

     I am light blue

 

 

 

 

wiki 5 0/20 -interesting post but you've already DONE an observation of Pastor Clausing. And this one is almost an exact copy of the one you did LAST WEEK... so sorry, but this can't count. Do you think I don't READ these?

Week ten

Pastor Clause on Monday did very well on his sermon.  He had good eye contact, because he did not just stare at one spot the whole time but looked at everyone while talking.  He did not use inflation while he talked so it sounded like he knew what he was talking about.  The rate at which he was talking was good he was not talking fast so that no one could understand what he was saying and not to slow as to put people to sleep.    Lately I have noticed the gestures that he gives like the okay sign is used a little too much to use as a gesture to indict that this is an important part of the sermon.  He used proper grammar while he talked.  His facial expressions were good, he looked happy to be talking to us.  He looked confident in what he was doing.  He seemed very organized will give his sermon, he was not jumping all over the place.  He had good movement he was not just standing behind the podium, but got out and moved around.  I have noticed that Pastor Clause is very consistant with his sermons and he always does well on them. 

wiki 4 - 20/20 Interesting... did you like the "visual aids" Mr. Flandermeyer used?

Week nine

10/30/09- Pastor Clause on Monday did very well on his sermon.  He had good eye contact, because he did not just stare at one spot the whole time but looked at everyone while talking.  He did not use inflation while he talked so it sounded like he knew what he was talking about.  The rate at which he was talking was good he was not talking fast so that no one could understand what he was saying and not to slow as to put people to sleep.    Lately I have noticed the gestures that he gives like the okay sign is used a little too much to use as a gesture to indict that this is an important part of the sermon.  He used proper grammar while he talked.  His facial expressions were good, he looked happy to be talking to us.  He looked confident in what he was doing.  He seemed very organized will give his sermon, he was not jumping all over the place.  He had good movement he was not just standing behind the podium, but got out and moved around.  Today Mr. Flandeymer did a good sermon and was not distracted by the band in the back ground.  He looked like he was confident in giving his speech.

 

 

wiki 3 - 20/20 - good posting.

Week eight

10/23/09- The pastor that we had on Monday did very well on his sermon.  He had good eye contact, because he did not just stare at one spot the whole time but looked at everyone when talking.   He had good jesters because he did not just have his hands glued down to his side and they were not just flying everywhere there was a moderate use of them.  He did not use inflation while he talked so it sounded like he knew what he was talking about.  The rate at which he was talking was good he was not talking fast so that no one could understand what he was saying and not to slow as to put people to sleep.  He seemed very organized will give his sermon, he was not jumping all over the place.  He had good movement he was not just standing behind the podium, but got out and moved around.  He used proper grammar while he talked.  His posture was good he did not slouch over the podium and he made it look like he was somewhat interested to be there.  His facial expressions were good, he looked happy to be talking to us.  He looked confident in what he was doing.

 

wiki 2 - 20/20 - good post... a very good assessment of how Mr. Stec did...and he did handle the tech snafu well!

Week seven

10/16/09- Mr. Stec gave an awesome speech in chapel today even though there were technical difficulties with the power point he was able to compensate for it.  He did well on the eye contact part, because the he looked around the room and did not just stare at one part of it.  His posture was well because he did not just stand behind the podium and actually got out and moved around.  He also did not inflate his words, so it did not sound like his was asking questions.  He had good jesters and his hands were not just glued to the podium, stuck in his pockets, or stuck by his sides.  The rate at which he spoke was nice too, because he was not going so fast that no one would be able to understand what he was trying to say and he was not going so slow that he would begin to bore people to sleep.  Also the two speeches that I talked about on last week's wiki were two of the ones that we watched in class.  The I Know Speech is the comedian that makes fun of speeches by doing all the things that you are not suppose to and the What If Speech was the senate one were the guy asks the questions use what if a lot but they don't sound like questions.

week six

 

wiki 1  - 17/20 - Sorry, but your entry is a bit confusing.... you talked about an "I know" speech... what was that??? Did you mean the "what if" speech? Or are you talking about TWO different speeches in here???

10/9/09- On the I know speech ??? there were many good things that the guy did when he was giving his speech for example he was making good eye contact with his audience which made him seem like he was involving them in his speech.  His volume was good too he was not to loud as to be obnoxious or not to quiet as to no one would be able to hear what he was saying.  He also did not make inflections on things which would make him sound like he was asking questions or did not know what he was talking about.  He also had some good gestures while giving the speech and he was not just standing there with his hands glued down to his side.  He also had a good appearance for where he was giving his speech and the type of audience that was listening to him.   For the Ron Paul speech there were many good things that he too did while giving a speech.  He did not make the questions that he was asking the congress like a question more of a statement.  He did not just read off his speech and he made eye contact with the audience.

 

 

John Maloney

Mrs. Staude

Symposium

9/22/09

The Illness

            It was a warm summer evening and I had just got done sharpening the blade on my katana and was heading out to the field, where I had set up some dummies to hone my swordsmanship.  I got to the field and was reaching for my sword to unsheathe it, when all of a sudden my younger brother, Viper, came running towards me yelling, “Willy, hurry!  Mom has become terribly ill!”  Upon hearing this news, we sprinted as fast as we could back to the house.

            When we reached the house I found mom lying on the couch unconscious with a damp towel resting on her forehead.

            “What happened to her?” I asked Viper.

            “I was helping her make dinner and she fainted, so I moved her over to the couch and put a damp towel over her forehead,” Viper replied.

            “I am going to run to get the doctor,” I said as I rushed out the door.

            I was running so fast that I almost didn’t realize my old rival Bojack walking towards me, he was a big guy around six feet five inches tall, with a well built body, he had long flowing black hair that went half way down his back.  He must have been walking to our house to challenge me to another fight, because the giant hammer that he wielded was in his hands on its way to smashing me into the ground.  It was a good thing I was well skilled with my sword, because I was able to draw quickly enough to reflect the hammer with the blade, while using the momentum to back up.

            “Bojack, I don’t have time to fight with you right now,” I yelled at him.

            “What am I not good enough for your time,” Bojack replied.

            “It is not that, you are a skilled fighter, but I have to fetch the doctor, for my mom is ill,” I said.

            “That is none of my concern, I just care about being the best fighter,” Bojack said.

            “Well I will fight you once my mom gets better,” I said while sheathing my sword.

            “Fine I will come back tomorrow to see if you are ready to fight,” he replied.

            “That will be fine by me,” I said as I sprinted past him heading for the doctor.

            I had been running for a good ten minutes before I reached the doctor.

            I opened the door and walked in. I looked around and didn’t see anyone there.  “Doctor are you here.  I need your help!” I said.

            “What do you need,” a short plump man said as he waddled out from behind the counter.

            “My mom has become ill and is unconscious,” I said.

            “Let me grab my instruments and we will be on our way,” he replied.

            He disappeared into a back room and five minutes later he reappeared carrying a small bag of instruments that made a clunking noise when he walked.

            We walked out the door and made our way to the back of the building, where a small shed looking structure jetted out of the back of the building.  The doctor waddled over to the half door and unlatched it.  He walked in and a minute later he came out riding on a black horse.

            “Let us proceed,” the doctor said.

            I jogged while the horse trotted behind me and after fifteen minutes we reached the house.

            The doctor dismounted his horse and tied him to a nearby tree and we went into the house.

            Upon entering the house we found a worrying Viper sitting in a chair facing an unconscious mom.  Hearing the door open, he stood up and turned to us.

            “Hi doctor,” Viper said.

            “Hi,” the doctor replied as he walked over to the unconscious woman.

            He set down his carrying bag and unzipped it.  He reached into the bag and pulled out a stethoscope and put the earpieces in his ears.  Then he took out an instrument and put it on her arm.  He then put the other end of the stethoscope on her arm right below the wrapped instrument.  He started to squeeze a ball and then starred at his watch for a minute.  Twenty minutes later he was done with his examination.

            “I have some good news and bad news,” the doctor said, “the bad news is your mom has a potentially fatal illness, but the good news is that there is a cure”.

            “Where is the cure,” I said.

            “Unfortunately I don’t have the cure, but rumor is that you can obtain it from a city about one hundred miles away,” the doctor said.

            “How long does she have until it becomes fatal?” I asked.

            “I would have to estimate about a week to live,” the doctor replied as he put his instruments back in his bag and zipped it up and headed to the door.

            “Well then I must take on this journey to find the cure,” I said, “Viper you will have to watch over the house”.

            “I will do,” Viper replied.

            “I will leave in the morning,” I said as the sound of a horse galloping fades.

            Morning has come and after a breakfast, I set out the door with my trusty sword on my way to go to the city gate to leave the city and start my journey.

            On my way to the gate I come across Bojack, who was on his way to see if I was ready to fight with him.

            “Are you ready to fight?” Bojack said.

            “Sorry Bojack I am going to have to disappoint you for a whole week, because I am going to a city one hundred miles away,” I replied.

            “Ok well I am going to be going with you, because I don’t want to you to be skipping town, trying to get away from me,” Bojack said.

            “Fine and you will be getting some good training along the way, because the desert is going to be very dangerous,” I said.

            “That will be fun,” Bojack replied.

            Together we walked towards the gate and they left, but were never seen again.  I waited the whole week for my brother to show up with the cure but he never did, so my mom had died.

 

Week five

wiki 5 - Great job on your posts both this week and last. You have a lot of interesting ideas and I enjoy hearing them. I especially like your #10 item on the list!

9/18/09-There are many things I want to do be for I die and here are the top 10 on my list.  1. Go into outer space and explore.  2. Graduate from college.  3. Get married. 4. Have kids. 5. I want to go sky diving. 6. I want to buy my own house. 7. I want to own a very nice car that is not seen a lot. 9.  I would like to travel the world to see things that I have never seen before. 10. I want to have lived my life with no regrets of what I should have done in the past.

 

9/17/09- I have started my short story.  The main character is named willy and we wields a sword and he gets told by his brother viper that his mom has become terrible ill and so he has to go and get the doctor but runs into his old rival Bojack who wields a hammer.  That is as far as i got so far and I think for the illness for the mom that she will only have 2 months till it becomes fatal, but the characters are going to be walking, because the family is to poor to own a car, so I don't think it is realistic enough.

 

 

 Week four

 

9/11/09-When I read the story D.P. it made me think about how sad it would be not having any parents that love you are around and that being an orphan would be terrible, because the people who run it don't really love you like a parent would.  It was also depressing that the kid thought that the didn't know much about his parents, because the first black guy that he saw he assumed that he must be his father, because he looks just like me.  Though he was lucky to find nice people that gave him gifts like the D bars, which are chocolate.

 

9/10/09-I think that the speech that the president gave that addressed all the kids and told them that they should stay in school if they want to succeed and get a good job.  I also see no reason why the parents of some of the students were complain about it.  The speech was aimed at the help are future by having the kids of today having the knowledge that is needed to help society.  I think that all students should have been able to watch the speech if they wanted to because the speech was aimed at all the students and there should have not been any censorship on it.

 

Week three

Great job on wiki 3!

9/4/09- Also, feel free to discuss how the author manages to make you "feel" sympathy for the house.  The way he made it so that we feel sympathy for the house was very cleverly done.  He made it seem like the house was actually alive by the way he makes the house seem like it has a schedule to do, then it catches on fire and it starts to scream fire like it is in pain.  For the other story "The Sniper" I thought it was very sad, because the sniper was was fighting with his his brother but he did not know it at that time and later on he kills him and he finds this out when he checks the body and another sad part is when he kills to other people.

 

9/3/09- For my short story I think my main character will be named Willy.  I think I will make it so that the ill will be fatal with in either one month or two months.  will meet two friends during his and their names are Bojack and maybe Phil.  The setting that the main character will go through to get the cure will most likely be a dessert, because they are very dangerous with the heat and dangerous creatures.  The main character and his two friends will have to fight ten dangerous monsters to reach the cure.  I don't know what the monsters will be or what they will be called as in their names or what they will look like.

 

 

Week two

Good work on wiki 2!

8/27/09- I think I might have an idea about the short story that we have to do.  I think I am going to make it about some guy, who is amazing with a gun, receives word that his either mother or sister is fatally ill and the person has a year to live and the only cure is on the other side of the world.  The guy has never been out of the village before and there are millions of evil monsters and people that he must defeat to get to the place with the cure.  I think I might also throw in some people that he befriends and they join him.  I didn't like the story Sixteen.  <Sorry, but I laughed at the end of reading this... you gave a lot of detail about your writing and then ended with your comment on "Sixteen" rather "out of the blue! A tip about your story.. be careful that the guy's journey doesn't get so long and involved that your story becomes a short novel. See what you can do to put him under some sort of time limit to get the cure... that will tighten it up and make it more intense!

 

8/24/09-Your thoughts? Is it right or wrong for Mike to do what he does to (for?) his grandma?  I think that what Mike did to his grandma was wrong, because he was pretending that his grandpa had come back and that he had forgave her, which he did not because he had died forty years ago.  Would you consider what Mike did an act of deception? Is he lying or not?  I would consider it to be an act of deception, because he did not tell his grandma that his was not her husband, even after he realized that she had mistaken him for him which I think was the wrong thing for him to do.  Overall the story was okay though it was not the best that we have read so far.  I have not even started to think about the short story.

 

Week one

 

8/20/09- Was Sammy a "winner" or a "loser" for making the choice he made in the story?  He is a loser because he needed the job that he throw away and he did it to try and impress a girl but she did not even see that he did it.  Now if he had did it and got the girl then he would probably be a winner, because he could just go and look for a new job.Good start but this isn't 100 words long! (-4)

 

8/18/09-  Now the really fun question: Should Grannies go about giving little kids sticks and sending them out to "battle" other kids??? (personally, I am a granny... so I am very curious as to your advice on this!) :-)

  I think that grannies should not go about giving little kids sticks and telling them to go and beat up other kids because they will always use force on others to get what they want.  It is irresponsible to teach them this because they will assume that that is what you are like and how the world works.  If you encourage violence in a kids life then that will be the only thing that they will know how to do.  If the kid did go out and beat up the other kids then they would get mad and learn how to be violent so they can be ahead and it would be an endless cycle of violence.

Good work on wk. 1 - you lost a few points for one short answer... but your second one was solid. So now I know you're on the right track! 16/20