The Interesting Poems

The Interesting Perspective of the Cat

There I was, walking on the cold floor of my jail,

Trapped as I was, I couldn’t eat the things I wanted

Or even sleep on the couch or bed.

My bed was a super uncomfortable blanket in a cage,

Pain is what I live

When I see humans and sometimes my own kind outside and having fun,

I get to stay inside and cry because I’ll never be free.

If somebody could save me it would make all of my years’ fun,

I just want that one hero,

To come and break the bars,

Of this cold, dark, and horrible place,

So please save me otherwise I’ll never experience happiness.

The Perspective of a Lonely Cat

I’m trapped in the woods, with nowhere to call home,

I have to catch my own dinner and normally if I’m lucky it’s a rat,

I have to run away from all evil and distress.

What really angers me is those house cats,

They act like their life is horrible when they get housed and feed,

They’ll whine if they can’t go outside,

If I was a house cat I wouldn’t care if I could go outside.

If I was housed and feed I would praise my owner

I wouldn’t be sad and depressed I would be the exact opposite,

If I got one chance to get to be housed I would take it,

Please save me if anyone is out there.  

The Powerful Symbols

            Author's note: This is proving that this story has Death in it. Also this piece tells you that the color black means death.

            In the story “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, there are a lot of different symbols. One of the symbols represents death and the other on represents tradition. The last one is friendship. All of the symbols have one meaning which is death.

            The symbol that represents death is the black dot. It is the black dot because the color black normally represents death. Like how Darth Vader is death in Star Wars. That is what the first symbol is. The other two symbols don’t exactly mean death. The symbol that represents tradition is the lottery. This somewhat means death because of the reason why some people have stopped it. If a tradition was good, people wouldn’t want to stop doing it. The other symbol is the giant rock. This means friendship because the friend in the story just wanted the poor woman to get out of her misery.

            In the end, it is clear that all of these symbols mean death. The cool thing to realize that these symbols mean death is because they all have the color black. The color that means white is life. All the symbols mean death.   

             

The Worrysome Crack in the Mrirror

Dear Owner,

      I know you probably won't read this. You obviously  wouldn't care.  But I wish to share, something you most definitely would not want to bear. You know that fancy mirror of yours, well it isn't fancy anymore. We both know whose fault it really was. As I recall, it was you who made the final act. I am the crack in the mirror.

The Same Themes in Two Different Books

            Author’s note: This is about the themes in the book The Warrior Heir, by Susanne Collins, and it is comparing the themes with a different book. That book is Eragon, by Christopher Paolini.   

            The book “The Warrior Heir” has multiple themes. One of the obvious themes is trust. Even some people you think that are your friends could not be. Another great theme is to use the help you can get. If somebody offers you something, you should use it. Finally the last theme is never defying stereotyping. The book “Eragon” has a same theme that is trust. Both of these books have the same theme and they both have a thing to learn from.

            To start my journey, the obvious theme is trust. In the book “The Warrior Heir”, the main character, Jack, trusted his teacher to get him to safety. The only problem was that Jack’s teacher, Mr. Hastings, did exactly what Jack’s enemies wanted him to do. So Jack learned only to trust his really close friends. Mr. Hastings even told him that he was going to do what Jack’s enemies wanted him to do on page 303. Trust is huge in this book.

            On the other hand, you always use the help you can get. When Jack was trying to settle his problem with his enemy alone, he got in a huge problem. Then eventually his friends helped him and they defeated Jack’s enemy. Jack even said himself that he doesn’t need his friends help on page 84. That is a lesson to learn because you always should use the help you should get. The only problem though to that is to trust your friends.

             Finally, the themes that both books have are defying stereotyping. When Jack was practicing for his game, he underestimated his partner and she turned out to be really good. He even told her that she was bad on page 106. Also, the main character in “Eragon”, Eragon, underestimated Brom because he thought that Brom was just an old man. It turned out though that Brom was awesome at fighting. This theme could teach you that you should never underestimate people.  

            It is obvious that both of these books have amazing themes. The reason you can learn from these themes is because they are all life lessons. Trust is extremely important because people can use it as a double edge sword. The reason I say that is because you can use trust as a weapon or as a tool. That is why you should only trust you really close friends or your family members. The themes are life lessons that will come in handy to anybody.

The Amazing Facts of Cloning

         

            Author’s note: This is about cloning. The purpose is to teach you about the facts of cloning and what has happened in the history of cloning.

            Have you ever wondered about the information of cloning? Cloning has been leaving us in confusion for a long time. There are three types of cloning. One of them is called reproductive cloning. That means that you make someone look and might act just like you. It’s never been done on humans though. Today I’m going to tell you about the meaning and the information about cloning. Cloning has a lot of information and it has a cool history too.

            To start my journey, have you ever taken the time to actually ask yourself, “What is cloning”? “There are different types of cloning however, and cloning technologies can be used for other purposes besides producing the genetic twin of another organism” (Cloning Fact Sheet). They are basically saying that with the technology we have, you can get cloned. As I said before, cloning is when you have somebody that looks like you and acts like you. Cloning is basically having an identical twin. “The following three types of cloning technologies will be discussed: (1) recombinant DNA technology or DNA cloning, (2) reproductive cloning, and (3) therapeutic cloning” (Cloning Fact Sheet).  I already described reproducting cloning which is making a twin of yourself. Recombinant cloning means that you take some DNA and add to the baby of a host. Finally, therapeutic cloning means to treat diseases.

            Another interesting fact is that cloning is acuatly quite diffucult. “The most common cloning method, known as "somatic cell nuclear transfer" or simply "nuclear transfer," requires two kinds of cell.  One is a somatic cell, which is collected from the animal that is to be cloned (known as the "genetic donor")” (Batra). Now unless you are a science teacher, you probably don’t know what somatic cell nuclear transfer is, or what a somatic and the egg cell. The somatic cell is any other cell than the sperm cell or egg cell. An egg cell is taken from the same species that the somatic cell was taken from. The egg cell is taken from a female species. After that the somatic cell is then put mixed with the egg cell and is put in the female species. Finally the baby will look like the female species.

            On the other hand, where and when has cloning actually occurred? There have been multiple clones. The animals that have been are snakes, mice, and much more. The most popular clone was Dolly the sheep. “Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA, was put down by lethal injection Feb. 14, 2003. Prior to her death, Dolly had been suffering from lung cancer and crippling arthritis” (Cloning Fact Sheet). Dolly was an excellent clone, or was she? She was the first mammal to be cloned. Although the day she died, she was in perfect condition the day she died not including the lung cancer and crippling arthritis.

            Most research has shown that the advantages, it makes it sound really good. Also this is very beneficial with scientists because they can use the research and expand it. As I said before, one of the greatest advantages is the Dolly the sheep. “The possibility of human cloning, raised when Scottish scientists at Roslin Institute created the much-celebrated sheep "Dolly" (Nature 385, 810-13, 1997), aroused worldwide interest and concern because of its scientific and ethical implications”  (Cloning Fact Sheet). The other advantage is that we can see if it would be safe to clone people. Cloning has approved in history by a long shot.

            Some might argue that the disadvantages make cloning sound really evil though. “More than 100 nuclear transfer procedures could be required to produce one viable clone. In addition to low success rates, cloned animals tend to have more compromised immune function and higher rates of infection, tumor growth, and other disorders”  (Cloning Fact Sheet). Also one interesting fact that is a disadvantage is that the day a clone dies, it is normal at the beginning of the day. So if people were cloned, we wouldn’t know how to stop their death. Since cloning is a very high risk and cloning is very expensive, it is not worth cloning at all.

            It is clear that cloning leaves us in many questions. Cloning in my opinion is that we should do it. We should try something new and reach the limits. If you were cloned as a really good basketball player, all you would have to do is grow up and be amazing at basketball. The only disadvantage is that it wouldn’t be you, but other than that it would be cool to be cloned. Also this topic is controversial because I think a lot of scientists would fight against cloning or not for our health. Cloning is very exciting to learn and its history is interesting.  

Bibliography

Batra, Karen. Process of Cloning. 2008. Tuesday April 2012 <http://www.clonesafety.org/cloning/facts/process/>.

Cloning Fact Sheet. Monday May 2009. Tuesday April 2012 <http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml>.

The Terrifying Life

I work every day very hard until I fall asleep

My bones ache every second trying to make just one shirt,

My whole family works super hard just to get food!

I hate my job very much.

It is not exciting and it makes me throw up

My dad says I need to help pitch in with the money

But it is not sweet and honey

When you get whipped and beaten,

Just if you stop working

So if you could help me

And the other helpless children

Please save me,

Or else I might die.

The Interesting Poems

              

                     Author's note: This is analyzing the two poems "The Big Yellow Taxi", by Joni Mitchell, and "Field Below", Regina Spektor.

                      In the poems  "The Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below", their poems have a really awesome meaning. The meaning is that you don't realize how lucky you are until you lose someone or something. Their moods and tone also are also almost the same. What's cool is that the poem "The Big Yellow Taxi" has a quote that I believe is absolutely true.  These two poems are very interesting with their meaning, moods, and tones.

                      To start off my piece, the meaning for "Big Yellow Taxi" is to tell that you don't know what you have until it's gone. The purpose is to tell that you don't know how lucky you are with the things that you have. You realize how lucky you are once you lose that thing. For "Field Below", the meaning is that she is longing for nature. The singer is trying to tell you that she misses the field below and a rooster crow. So she pretty much used to have a cool farm home, but now she lives in a city.

                   Secondly, the mood for "Big Yellow Taxi" is sad. It is sad because the character is saying that she doesn't realize how lucky she is to have a lot of things until she lost it. Also the tone is some what depressing because she says during the poem that her dad got stolen in the middle of the night and now he is gone. The mood for "Field Below" is sad and a little bitter because she misses living on a field. Also the tone for this one is depressing because she acts like she lost everything.

                  Finally, the music compares and contrasts with the actual poem. For comparing the music from  "Field Below" really explains sadness to you. The music is really slow and depressing so that twists in with the depressing tone. The part that contrasts with the poem is the music from "Big Yellow Taxi". It contrasts with it because the music is high energy and exciting. That doesn't bond well at all with a depressing tone. If I were to change it the music should be slow. Also if it were from a piano that might make sound a little more depressing. That is what a depressing music should sound like.

                  It is clear that these poems have really powerful meanings, moods, and tones. In "The Big Yellow Taxi" when the girl says you don't know what you got until it's gone, it's completely true. When I was young, I didn't like one of my video games until I lost it. Also what really was interesting about these pieces is that both of the characters miss or lost somebody. These two poems are very moving.