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The Library and the Writer

People to often take their local library for granted. It can be used for so much especially if you are a writer. Conversation can link you to stories. Librainans can link you to sources, and sometimes can even help themselves. The childrens section can help anyone with their growing idea of a childres novel. Free magazines to check out can get a writer more acquainted with editors of a particular magazine…and so much more!

The library is an infinite resource, as a matter of fact I am write there right now to find info on a piece I am writing….

Share your library stories here and other ideas, perhaps they can be of use to others!

Flash Fiction

Has anyone ever heard of the genre of flash fiction, I heard it can be an excellent exercise for fun for aspiring writers. I just read about it and i have a few ideas in my head.

Has anyone else ever heard of flash fiction? Tell me?

I should have some put up over the next few days….

Huck Finn and Literature

I wanted to know what everyone thinks about the word nigger and its excessive use in huck finn…was it really offensive?

leave commets and I will compile them into an essay some time soon.

Spanish Grammar

I just found a really useful link for anyone taking spanish…
It sure has helped me inprove my esssay writing in AP spanish…enjoy

http://tchaidze.com/spangram/

Yellow Pages

For anyone aspiring to be a writer of some sort…like me….
I just read about checking the classfied yellow page section of the phone book and look at the categories…they can lead toa whol treasure chest full of ideas

Try it..and tell me if it helps! :>

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Really Deep personal essay

I believe in living life to its fullest. Until the start of my freshman year I didn’t really do that. But as my freshman year drove on I found something to do that was fun and exhilarating…Ultimate Frisbee. With all of the running back and forth and absolutely no contact whatsoever it was definitely a change from sports I had played in the past. With nothing but band left I didn’t have much of a choice of something to do during my tutorial time. It was either Rugby or Ultimate Frisbee, and I had had some not so great experiences playing rugby, so ultimate Frisbee was really starting to look good. Another reason I chose Ultimate Frisbee is that My band Squad leader Josh had started it, and before him was my other Squad leader Jeff, everyone minus about two people in my section had played providing more incentive for me to play.
Right…on to why it changed my life and why it’s so important to me. To anyone who thinks that it is just throwing a Frisbee back and forth is crazy. It’s running, and a lot of it, and catching left and right, when I played on the field last year my longest dive was about three feet, and it was worthy it because I made the catch. And for a no contact sport you really feel the pain. Picture this, five people all with their heads up chasing on single flying object, as it slowly descends the people get closer together and all with one single goal to catch that one object. Of course tons of havoc and disarray is all that would come of this, people fall over each other, and land five feet away from where they started, I even crashed into the goal post on the freshman field once, and sprained my ankle. But it really is all worth it, because when you put this together with all of those other things I’ve said and it makes one of the most invigorating thrills in life.
Lately on Tuesday and Thursday we have been playing in the parking lot outside of the Band Hall. It just isn’t the same as on grass because you can’t jump and you can’t dive without the fear of getting eaten alive by gravel. We can’t play on the field anymore because the Sheriff said we weren’t allowed to. One good thing that comes from playing in the parking lot though has definitely got to be crashing into cars. I know it sounds stupid and it IS stupid, but it’s just part of playing ultimate Frisbee.
Life changes after marching band is over. With no incentive to stay after school nobody plays Ultimate Frisbee during the spring, or for that matter after November so I turn to baseball. I’m too lazy to go to practices so I never bothered to join a team, but I always have enjoyed playing. During the spring when marching band is over there really isn’t much to do. I decided to start playing baseball with the kids that go to my church’s school. It was great because I could pop in whenever I wanted pick up a glove and start playing. Baseball is to the spring to me what Ultimate Frisbee was in the fall. In baseball I got the same feel I did in playing Ultimate Frisbee. Playing in the outfield, and focusing on catching one little object, and diving so far only to catch the object, whether it was a frisbee or a baseball. And the running too, so much running. I always enjoyed running. In the fall it was running back and forth on a gravel parking lot, and in the spring it was running the bases or running to field the ball. Baseball and Ultimate Frisbee have really let me enjoy living life to its fullest.
Throughout life sports have defined who I am. I have been on so many teams with so many people, both in and out of school, but it was all to structured, and I decided by my freshman year that structure was just stupid, and I quit worrying about sports and having obligations to a team, so I could focus on just having fun. Since then, with so much less to focus on, I have just been able to live life to the fullest.

Going into high school

By my good friend Cassie Lee

Entering a new environment with new surroundings can be overwhelming, especially when told of how horrible it is going to be. However, every person must make his or her own assumption, instead of listening to someone else. High school freshmen had to learn this by listening to their junior high teachers and then finding out that high school is something completely different.
Being the top class at a school allows power, privileges, and confidence. As eighth graders, students showed no fear of anything. Instead they found humor in the fear of their younger companions, the sixth graders. Ironically, in a year, they would be placed in to a much more massive school, and become what they mocked, the school’s lower class.
Being eighth graders, students felt comfortable with their surroundings, and knew their place as head of the school. However, as the year ended, rumors began to surface from middle school teachers of untrusting, unforgiving, uncaring, high school teachers haunted them. High School became something feared. Middle school teachers lectured about how high school teachers would not put up with any nonsense or horseplay. Tardiness would be unforgivable, and punishments would be severe. Students at high school would be smothered with homework everyday, and all work would be extremely hard. Teacher after teacher explained how high school would be much harder than any incoming freshman could imagine. This “heads up” of which middle school teachers told their students would give every incoming freshman the idea of high school being a nightmare, when to some High school may seem to be more of a dream.
“High school was nothing like I thought it would be,” stated a current Clear Creek freshman. Year after year, about 1,200 new freshmen realize the difference in how they thought high school, and how it really is.
Once the panic of the situation dies down and the comfort begins to settle in, freshmen begin to comprehend and compare their eighth grade year to high school. “High school has much more freedom, and ability to do what you want,” said one freshman attending Creek. A majority of incoming freshmen every year often find out that high school is not even half as rough as they were told.
Changes can be good or bad, it depends on the person’s attitude towards the situation. After being groomed to fear high school, the reality begins to settle in. The difference in and making self-decisions, and believing another’s judgment could be completely dissimilar. The explanation of high school from television, movies, and middle school teachers is a fearful one. However, do not trust what you hear, for you must witness and experience, and make your own assumptions.

local student runs for school board

She lost, but we al hoped for her

Bobby Murphy

For only the second time in the history of CCISD a student has announced her bid for a position on the school board. Senior Mary Brown announced her bid late last month for the at-large position B on the school board, which manages affairs throughout the district. Her name will appear on the ballot of the May 5 municipal elections. Until the elections she will be encouraging students and teachers to vote, all while spending no money on her campaign. She will be facing long time Clear Lake resident Ann Hammond in the only competing race for a school board spot.
Until just recently, Brown said that she had no intention to run for the school board position, but after a number of kids in her government class began asking questions about the school policies that were being imposed, Mary Brown asked the one that no one had thought of. “How do I change the policy?” her government teacher answered “Run For School board,” so Mary Brown did just that, filing the necessary paperwork and making her candidacy official.
Brown is second in command of the school’s JROTC program, and she has a GPA that is considered by many colleges to be above average. She has also lived in the League City area for over ten years, and works as a tram tour guide at Johnson Space Center, making fpr a prestigious resume.
Brown said that the election would not affect her social life or her future. “My social life has only been affected by the increased number of handshakes that I give each day,” said Brown. She constantly reiterated in an interview that her graduation would come before her race, and that should she win the election she would easily be able to fulfill the duties of her position, and at the same time pursue her culinary arts degree at San Jacinto College. Brown plans to be a wedding planner in the future, after the elections are over and she has the chance to go to college.
There are more things on the mind of Mary Brown though than simply winning the election. Brown said that one of her main reasons for campaign was to encourage more people to vote. “I have been handing around voter registration cards, [and] I’ve really been spreading the word around to the senior class” said Brown. With voter registration at new low, Brown hopes that here bid for election will increase the number of younger voters, even if they are not voting for her.
Mary Brown’s candidacy is bold and innovative. If she wins her election she will be the youngest person ever to serve on the board of trustees. We all wish her the best of luck.