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The box
I’m about to tell you a story of another version of me. The way I heard this tale was that Roby contacted me in my dreams. I was having another one of those dreams where a villain is trying to take over the world and I take them to jail and save the day.(It’s kind of childish but I can’t control my dreams). Anyway, the dream stopped right in the middle where I put the villain in jail. The world suddenly swirled like a vortex or a whirlpool and everything froze.I found myself floating in a gray room with no bottom or top. A voice that was a lot like mine said, “Greetings other me.”I looked around and I couldn’t see where the voice had come from. “Your name might be the same or a bit different but my name is Roby. Roby Culmecr. I’m here to warn you about Evoy and his diabolical plan to take over all the other worlds. I’ll show you how I got this information.”All of a sudden the room began to take shape into something else. It started to change into a forest with Spanish moss, it had lots of decaying grass and there was tree with a bit of ash or something that wasn’t eco-friendly.Next to the tree was a bush with berries in the shape of a pentagon. Then I saw a boy who looked just like me!
He was wearing a leather jacket and a pair of shiny pants. He held a metal detector, which surprisingly didn’t beep with the look of his pants. He was pointing it at the trees for some reason. Soon the world started to add color. The jacket had a orange cameo print on it and the pants were made out of gold. He was crouching like he was trying to blend in, (but his clothes were doing just the opposite). He turned around and I saw that he looked just like me. His skin was a bit more tan than mine; he had some neon green on his face. It seemed that the birds flying by didn’t see him and almost flew into him. He pointed the metal detector at me, then walked forward and passed right through me. The voice of Roby echoed in my ears, “This is my memory. The clothes I’m wearing hide me very well to others in my or similar worlds.” I think the only world that the cloths he was wearing would hide him in is disco ’80s neon world but this isn’t about a disco world it’s about Roby’s world.Suddenly the metal detector beeped when it got close to the tree.
Roby found a handle and opened the side of the tree. Even in other people’s memories you can still have your sense of smell. The smell hit me like a really angry man charging at me. It smelled like something died in that tree and it was carrying a rotten egg. I looked inside and saw a few rat skeletons lying around like they had been tossed in. They all had rotten eggs in their mouths(go figure) but there was one thing that stood out. It was a group of four rats but they had a box on their backs. It was like they died trying to get it to their home. Roby picked up the box and looked at it from all angles. The box had a faded red coating with paint pealing off of it like a very old relic with the remains of what looked like ropes to hold the lid down. The ropes were actually falling apart and just mere strings were holding it in place. The whole box didn’t look faded; there was one part that looked like it was just installed to right on the center of the lid. The object in the center was in the shape of a golden hand with an eye in the center of it, etched with a 3 in the center. The center of the eye also had a key hole. There was a key on the back of another rat skeleton. He put the key into the 3 in the center of the hand and opened the box.When he opened the box needle pins shot out of his head making him look like a cartoon character when they are excited about something or they are startled. In the box was a key that wasn’t your average key. It was the color blue and was in the shape of a cylinder. In the place where the ridges would be, there was a bunch of holes in the sides of the key. It had a D on it with the numbers 3,18,27, 39 and 84. The sides of the key also had circles with spirals on the sides. On the bottom of the the box there was another key hole.It looked like it could fit the key Roby was holding in the sky like it was a treasure. He shoved the key into the bottom of the box. Suddenly the box had a swirling vortex like it was a whirlpool. It sucked Roby into the box and created a bright flash making me look away. When I opened my eyes Roby and I were in a whole new terrain.
We found ourselves under the sea but in a giant glass dome. There were tunnels that led into other glass domes. The whole city must have been connected by glass and these tunnels. Roby started to walk down the glass tunnels. There were doors that were air tight so water wouldn’t leak into the dome. There was a room that you had to go in before swimming out into the deep blue sea. There were also people who seemed to fit the theme of the sea. Each person had something to do with sea life and/or the ocean. Some even had tentacles splitting from their face . Some had gills on the sides of their faces. Some had coral for their hair and it somehow was neatly brushed. Roby continued to walk around and look at all the buildings. The buildings seemed to sway while staying still. It looked like the city was made to blend in with the ocean. Roby got excited and he accidentally ran into a fish person that also looked like me. He had a dark red skin tone but still had some tan to him. He also had gills under his chin. His face was out a bit like a frog’s but he didn’t have the lumpy skin.He took one look at Roby and said in a gurgled voice, “Hello! My name is Coy, Coy Kelpper. I can’t seem to remember but you look and I alike, have we met?”
“I’m not sure but my name it Roby, Rob-“
” I think you have something to do with the box I found while I was swimming in the reef” said Coy. I realized what he had found, a box just like Roby’s “I want to see this box that you found,” remarked Roby.
“Oh yes I’ll show you,” said Coy. Coy started to walk to his house and Roby followed. As we walked Coy explained some interesting things about life under the glass domes. “Some people haven’t evolved with fish features and that’s why we have domes. The reason we live under water to fit in is because God flooded the world to get rid of all evil. He told Noah to build a glass dome for his generations to live in.” I noticed that the creatures out side were a lot more adapted to the water, they had a few more fins.After all that talking, we finally arrived at Coy’s house. The house orange. It had the texture of coral.
We entered the house and it was weird because It looked like the inside of my house with a few aquatic touches. The candles were made out of what I think was seaweed and instead of a fire melting the candles there was a bubble. The floors were made out of sandstone and seemed to have a grain in the sandstone. The walls actually looked like the coral on the out side. We went down a hall (which had slime all over it flowing both ways), and entered Coy’s room .I saw a dresser that had a blurry rectangular shape. I realized it was another box just like Roby’s! Coy took it out and we slid it down the hall and out of the house and behind a kelp tree. I saw that Roby’s key looked different. The numbers on it now were 3,18,27,39, and 84. I looked at the box that Coy held. It had the design of a shark’s jaw bone with the number 18 on it. He pulled out a key in the shape of a piece of coral and put it in the key hole and it opened. Inside was a paper with the number 3 on it, a map with the number 2 on it,and like Roby’s, there was a key hole. Roby stared at it mesmerized, like it was a golden hypnotizing wheel. Suddenly a voice called out, “Coy come here.” Coy went to the voice. Roby pulled out his key and put it in the box. It opened the portal and was back in his world. “Phew that was close” said Roby he looked in his hand and was holding Coy’s box. Inside was a letter which read: Hello finder of this box. You are reading this from world number 3. Your key will tell you which world you’re in. There’s a threat rising that you need to stop. Evoy has a plan to take over every single world. If you don’t stop Evoy every single world will be in jeopardy. You need to contact all of the other versions of you and save everything. Some will work best through dreams, others through thoughts. I hope you know how to save the worlds.Signed… There was a giant tear that left the name unknown. Then I saw the world go into the white room and Roby’s voice echoed, “Help me stop Evoy so we can live free! Find the box of your world. I’m counting on you. Goodbye”. At that, my dream returned without skipping a beat.
US Immigration Timeline
Teddy Roosevelt Biography
Teddy Roosevelt appreciated world peace and fairness to all; that is why he was one of America’s greatest president. Roosevelt was born on October 27th in 1858 in New York. New York. He grew up sick and with asthma so he was mostly home-schooled. Despite his asthma, he was very energetic and his father encouraged him to get into physical activities which helped him grow up to be a strong person and get into hunting and hiking. He would grow up to be a very important president (v.i.p.). Growing up, he sometimes found himself in a tough spot, but he took responsibility for his actions and did not try to blame others. He once said, “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month” Teddy Roosevelt grew up to be an explorer, environmentalist, author, and the most important person in the U.S.A. ( the president(did I forget anything)) . There’s a lot more to this wonderful president than I just said. Let’s just look at some of his accomplishments.
Teddy Roosevelt was named Theodore, but he liked things to be simple, so he was called Teddy. He eventually went to Harvard College and became a magna cum laude graduate in 1880. After that, he enrolled in Columbia Law School an met Alice Hathaway Lee. He married her on his 22nd birthday. He didn’t stay a long at law school because he went to join the New York State Assembly as a representative from New York–he was the youngest person to be in that position. However he wanted more positions so he went to get more positions. He went on to be the captain of the National Guard and the minority leader of the New York Assembly. Sadly his wife and his mom both died February 14th 1884. He was very sad about his wife’s and his mom’s death and did not want to talk about it for the rest of his life. Due to this tragic event, Roosevelt left politics and went to the Dakota territory to become a cowboy.
In 1886 Roosevelt left his ranch due to losing cattle and money, and he decided to move back to New York and continue his work as a politician. Eventually (on a happier note) he married a new wife Edith Kermit Carow on December 2nd 1886. They had 5 children.He became the New York Police Comissioner and worked with President McKinley and the volunteer calvary known as the Rough Riders. He became a war hero in the Spanish American War, and he was given the Congressional Medal of Honor. He became President William McKinley’s vice president, and when McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became the next president of the United States. He was actually the youngest president the ever was in the United States.
One of the first things he did when he became the president of the USA is that he made the Square Deal. That meant no more monopolies or someone could not own all of the businesses. This protected people from having to pay higher prices for any and allowed for competition to make the most reasonable deal. Big business had to leave some of the equal distribution for other companies. The next thing he did was make the Great White Fleet. This built up the U.S. Navy and its ships as a world power. After that he helped to make the Panama Canal completion which connected the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean which allowed trade and shipping to go so much faster. He also is one of the few presidents who won the Nobel Peace prize for helping to end the Russo Japanese War in 1906. He worked on Women’s rights and the rights of minorities. He entertained Booker T. Washington at the White House. As I said before,Teddy liked things simple so he was the one who renamed The Presidential Mansion to the White House, and as you know that’s the way it is referred to today. Sadly, he died in his sleep on January 6, 1916 at the age 60.
Teddy Roosevelt was a great president. He gave the White House the name it has today, he changed the economy with the Square Deal. He fought for the rights of peace and wanted rights for all. At the same time, he built up our Navy to protect the United States. All of these accomplishments made him a peaceful protector who suitably was the reason why the teddy bear was named after him. Teddy Roosevelt made a big impact on America.
Prompt #3
slow and settle
like tea in the kettle
what is made out of metal
and can be very settle
a plaster now lets get faster
with the blast of the past a mast
still stuck in a cast tied against the mast
what a blast and get fast with, the,
backtrack don’t get a snack and use a mac
book on a nook and keep away from a crook or give him a look
stay off their land when in a band. I’m like a master
can I go any faster
watch me do it
don’t slow down for a bit and you might want to sit
or go to the pit or pop that zit
or a least strive for a high five and low and lets go slow
and
end,
this
poem
I was inspired by the way rapers rap a song.I wanted to make it like you kept raping faster and faster. I hope you enjoyed!!!
Prompt #1
My heart raced My heart was behaving like somebody who can’t sit still I knew that it was moments away like the sudden take off on a roller coster I could not wait for it to come Then I saw it Carried by the rattling creature that goes to a ton of houses The creature dropped it into the box like so many others had this happen to them But the 1 it dropped was different I went to the box and took the prize of glory I opened it and I felt the breeze and the wonderful smell of a beach Bouncing on each step with excitement I took it to my mom and dad The prize was our plane tickets to Hawaii 🙂
I decided to write a poem about this because I heard my mom & dad talking about taking a trip to Hawaii. I thought it would be interesting to show a way of the tickets being dropped off at my house by the mailman
Compare and Contrast essay
Do you know what Socialism and Capitalism are? Both of these economic systems can be very similar but very different at the same time. Capitalism and Socialism each exist in many countries throughout the world, and there are variations of each of these from country to country. Sometimes politics get tied up into each of these and then it becomes more difficult to tell what kind of system there is. As you read on, we’ll look at the differences and similarities of Socialism and Capitalism, so we can focus on some key ideas.
Let’s start with their differences. Socialism got it’s start with Robert Owen. He believed that the power of a country should fall into the hands of the workers. However, Adam Smith was one who supported Capitalism. He believed in a free market or as he put it a laissez-faire system that emphasized competition in market. In Socialism, every citizen will give their taxes to the government who will fund them with equal housing, medical care, education, and transportation. On the other hand, Capitalism is more competitive. An individual works to become richer for himself, so that he can have better housing, healthcare, and education. In a country with Socialism the emphasis is that all people should be given equal wealth, and they are treated equally. There is no rich or poor; the people all have basic access to life’s basic needs. In a country with Capitalism the emphasis is that you have to compete to be successful. Every person in a capitalist society is expected to try and get the best education and make the most money so that they will have access to the best things in life for themselves and their families. The people of a Capitilist Society do not all have equal access to wealth, education, or healthcare.
Despite all of these differences, they are not completely different. First they are both types of economic systems. They both look at how the economy can be used to benefit the people, and they both can help mankind move forward. In addition, they are found in countries all around the world, and the ideas of each were founded during the Industrial Revolution. Each system uses production of goods to help people live life to the fullest. Both systems have freedom of religion because the emphasis in on economics.They don’t care what your religion is because it doesn’t interfere with the work that you do. Finally, each economic system may have alterations in the country it exists in. For example, the United States is a Capitalist Society but still taxes the people to help pay for the roads and education of all people. Meanwhile Canada is a Socialist country, but the people still may have different levels of wealth and education. These two neighboring countries are just the start of the variations that can be in each type of system.
As you can see, there are a lot of similarities and differences between Socialism and Capitalism. Both are systems in the world that we have today. Socialism is give equal access to the people type of system and Capitalism is about the competition among people. Both of them were founded in the Industrial Revolution and impact wealth, housing, education, healthcare, and transportation. They both effect how much taxes there are, and how many social programs to be around in a country. Many people might think that one of these systems is better than the other. These differences are often why people argue over economics or politics. But the real question is which system do you think is best?
strange key
“Scrape crunch”. A shiny object caught my eye. I dug it up and found it was a key. I wondered what the key could go to.I explored the yard and tried it on other things in around the yard. When I had no luck I dug around the area that I found it in. I found a strange metal box in the ground and I tried the key and it opened the box. In the box was a portal that sucked me in.
On the other side of the portal there was an Egyptian tomb. I found myself raped in toilet paper. I realized that it was mummy rapping’s. I searched around and I found my friend R.T. exploring the tomb like me.
“What is going on!” asked R.T.
” I don’t know” I replied.
We explored the tomb when we found a row of key holes in the wall. Someone was kneeling at the key holes and trying to fit the key he was holding in his hand.Under his wrappings he wore a tux and from the looks of his hair he was in a disco afro. He found a hole that he could put his key into. When he opened the portal to the next world he went in. When the portal closed I tried my key in some of the holes. When the correct hole worked we jumped into the portal.
On the other side we saw that we had boarded pirate a ship. Then I realized that I was wearing the cloths from my guy on a game I like to play with R.T. The game is called Pirates of the Caribbean Online. We started to use the cannons on the ship to grapple ships and then we boarded them. Eventually we saw a ship with the words Queen Anne’s Revenge on the side. We boarded the ship and were shocked to find that Jolly Roger was the tux dude with the afro. He now had cards in his hair and he wore the suit as a skeleton. We charged at him. We fought and fought with him.”How did you get here?” asked jolly roger.
“I found a key with the number 5 on it and I used a box to teleport to a mummy tomb” I gloated. “My name is Angyen” said Angyen. He pulled out a key with the number 4 on it and put it into his sword that he grabbed from the ground. Normally Jolly Roger doesn’t carry a weapon but this was not Jolly Roger ; this was a person who I thought was a threat. He put the key into his sword and he disappeared. I pulled out my key and put it into my sword.
“Buddy,” R.T. said.
“Yes” I said.
“I have something to show you,”
He pulled out a key with the number 3 on it. I realized that R.T. had found another key. I wondered why the key had those numbers on them. We put our keys into our swords and we teleported to a new world. We chased Angyen through Greek times to the Statue of Liberty to the size of an ant through a backyard to the dinosaurs to the moon. Eventually we came to an entrance to a maze. We realized that this was the labyrinth. We grabbed a sword and we marched to find Angyen.
We searched until we saw a giant bull. We realized that Angyen was riding on the Minotaur!
“Once you 2 are out of the way I will use those keys to open a portal to make an army to take over the world!”said Angryen
“Not if we have any thing to say about it” I said
“You ready to lay some smack down on this foo” said R.T.
“Yes buddy”I remarked.
The Minotaur charged and we raised our swords to defend. The Minotaur’s head ran strait into our swords. It fell back and disappeared. Angyen was left without his monster. We found our way out of the maze and put him into the dungeon and ran away. We found are way back to the real world. When I got back to the real world. Suddenly a bright light shown. I heard the words get up. I realized it was all a crazy dream.
problem solution essay how to smoke better
Mark Twain once said, “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.”Twain was pointing out how addicting tobacco smoke can be. This hasn’t changed even today. People still have a hard time quitting, and public officials are still struggling with how to conquer the problem. In fact, C. Everett Coop (He used to be the Surgeon General of the United States) said that “smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.” If we banned smoking, all those addicted would revolt. Also, many jobs would be lost, causing them to revolt as well. We’d have a smoke revolution. No, we can’t just ban cigarettes. We need a replacement. To change the ways of smoking forever, we must replace traditional cigarettes with electronic cigarettes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 45 million Americans smoke. One out of five American deaths is caused by smoking. However, smokers aren’t the only ones hurt. Secondhand smoke is a major danger. Therefore, most people realize that smoking is a problem. The problem is that few people see a way to solve the issue. Smokers believe they have the right to smoke. They say it’s their choice. In addition, many people would not want to ban cigarettes because of the effect on sales rates. They are afraid that the economy will not do as well. Tobacco farmers would have no crop to sell. Truckers would lose goods to transport. Factories would lose manufacturing jobs. Merchants lose would sales and jobs. As a result, smokers would have to suffer their addiction. Because so many people benefit from smoking, banning smoking would be virtually impossible. Something else has to be done.
The way to solve the problem is with electronic cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes have recently been produced, and scientists have discovered that they do not have the harmful effects like regular cigarettes do. An electronic cigarette is an electronic inhaler that vaporizes a liquid into a type of mist. This simulates that act of smoking. The electronic cigarette looks like a pen combined with a cigarette. The user can choose the amount of nicotine.
The electric cigarette is a device that is a lot like the cigarette we have today. The electronic cigarettes have nicotine in them, they are the same shape of the regular cigarette, and they are still as addicting as the ones we have today. But it’s not the same; it doesn’t have second hand smoke, and it might not harm the user (scientists are not 100% sure about this fact) It “mocks” smoking, and it has an adjustable amount of nicotine to help people stop smoking by putting less in it every time they use it. If you are wondering what nicotine is it’s what makes a cigarette so addicting. It is a chemical or drug that makes the user feel calm and after the users have it, they want it more.
The way that the electronic cigarettes can stop people from having cancer and dying is doesn’t create second-hand smoke, and it is made to continually reduce the amount of nicotine used. When nicotine reduced, users are not as addicted and won’t want it as much. They will keep decreasing the use until they don’t smoke at all. People who smoke say they have the right to smoke, but they might not be aware of the dangers that it gives to others. With electronic cigarettes second-hand smoke would not happen, so it doesn’t harm others.
The problem with just switching to electronic cigarettes that when traditional cigarettes are no longer used by people, it will effect the jobs and economy. In the beginning, the change would cost the United States a lot of money because a lot of people’s work is related to the cigarette industry. One problem is what do the farmers and their tobacco crops? They would have nothing to grow, and they would have anything to take a big expense to grow a new crop. The way to solve this problem is to give them money to NOT grow tobacco; later the farmers would learn to plant a new crop and get paid for that crop. The government could subsidize their pay and save money in the health care they give to others for cancer treatment.
Another way that electronic cigarettes can help our world is that people will keep them and not throw them on the ground. The pollution would decrease and global warming would decrease
As you can see, the electronic cigarette can stop pollution, stop second-hand smoke, and it would make the world a better place due to the decrease in the amount of smoke in the air. Smoking may be the next thing that gets a way to solved.
My Timeline on the Industrial Revolution
