The Fog Horn

“The Fog Horn” by Ray Bradbury

I am alone. I came to that noise because, despite the obvious answer, I thought maybe I did not have to be alone. November was the month that my son was born so I believed that if any day that someone would come to me, it might be that one. The journey was a long one. It made me think about why I was doing this and was this right?

As I was swimming through the water, I often thought about the chance of this being wrong, and if I should turn back or not. Most of those thoughts faded away as I got closer to half way there. Every time I hear the horn I have to keep myself from responding, because it might just ruin me. When I had reached the surface, I felt that I must have been right this time and that this time I would be free of all this regret and sadness.

When I finally reached the tower, I knew that I was never going to be saved and that it was all my fault what had happened all those years ago. This regret soon to to anger, and when the horn stopped, my only light in life was gone, and I was done. I attacked the tower in a fit a rage even when the horn went back on. This only made things worse, and I cried and cried until I had to leave the bay on last time. I will not tempt my soul again by going there; I will stay where I belong, in the valley of my family's bones.

R A F T

Today we have seen the worst in humanity, I've seen young men, not even twenty, cry out for their mothers and fathers in their last moments on the earth. The weapons we use could kill a man five times over in a single blow, and the ground will forever be scorched. I've seen men commit atrocities in the name of war, and I've seen brothers mourn over their brothers bodies, despite being on opposing sides, today I fear we have strayed from our original goal of peace, it is only war now.

museum of tolerance

I think that being a witness means that you value yourself over other people, which in most cases is fine but in the example of the holocaust, just helping one person, will make a difference. I think the museum kind of changed me but not really because I had already had knowledge of the holocaust but I think putting it all together really made it easier to understand and comprehend.

Reading, Outside

The protagonist Lee Waite, in the short story "60 Acres" by Raymond Carver is faced with making two important decisions. One being to let the kids go even though they were hunting on his land. And two, to decide to lease the property even though it's a reservation.

Those two decisions, although one being small, show a lot about the character and how he would act in other situations. The first decision shows that he cares about kids but is also very mysterious and reclusive. He acted the entire time like wanting to kill them or shoot at them, yet his real intentions were to always let them go. The second decision really shows how a property he once loved and cared about, has just become a trouble and how money and feeding his family are just more important to him than sentimental value. A decision that has changed me has been my decision to do what has always interested me and choose engineering as my elective for seventh grade which will change my life forever because now I can finally apply my knowledge of science to real life.

Time capsule

1) family: To represent family and childhood I would put science magazine to represent my love for science.
2) heritage: for heritage a would put a U.N flag to represent that I am a mix of a lot of European countries.
3) Acomplishments and achievments: for achievments I would put a trophy I won from lacrosse.
4) Legacy: I would put a piece of a comic strip that my grandpa wrote.

wesley in the west

Thank you for all the support, the sharks are better, but someone got lost in the maze, so make of that what you will.

Anyways I believe I have grown up a child of the west so to say because I have grown up in the western world, as in, I have grown up in one of the newest yet fastest growing areas in the world and have the luxuries of waking up in a good house to a good breakfast with my family and friends, without having to worry about war or civil unrest.

SCIENCE!

Again I can't stress it enough, but please use the map, some poor kid fell into the shark tank last week and now the sharks won't eat anything, not because they ate the kid, but because he landed on one and punched their noses.


The first thing on my mask that shows any significance is the mouse and keyboard, this represents my love for gaming and for the fact that it's on the front, it shows that nearly everyone I meet knows that I love gaming and usually asks me about it. the next obvious thing is the cat ears and whiskers, I have two cats and I love all cats. Finally, the spaceship shows my love for rocketry and space exploration, this has been one of my favorite subjects since as long as I could remember.

Now onto the back, there is more color here because people don't usually know my varied stances on many subjects and also because my favorite color is blue. Next is science, I love science and it ties into my love with rocketry and space, but since I love video games and will do whatever it takes to play them, many people would not expect that I like learning especially a slow topic like science. Last but not least, friends, I enjoy spending time with all my friends and they make me get up in the morning and dull long school days or boring classes (not that that happens a lot).