By: A.N.A
Poetry
Haiku
Jellyfish come near
In many brilliant shades
Big, little, translucent
Tanka
In the coral reef
Many fish and plants live and
They dwell together
In their peaceful land until
Man comes and destroys it all.
Quatrain
The Beluga Whale
Cannot hold a pail
He has no hands,
But his teeth are like rubber bands
How could I forget the seahorse?
They are very cute
Though their skin is coarse
They’d make a good flute.
Couplet
The fish came
swimming
As the sea started dimming.
It swam so deep
That it couldn’t make a peep
And it didn’t come back
Until the squid started to pack.
Then it ran into a wall
And got caught by Paul.
Clerihew
Little Sally Sue
Dove into the ocean blue
She was
very scared
And
know is impaired.
Writing
Audrey Hepburn
She was the star of Breakfast at Tiffany's,
and worked for UNICEF after she retired from screen acting. Who was she? Audrey
Hepburn, born in 1929, was loved by all. She went from big screen actor to a
UNICEF ambassador. Audrey Hepburn went through many miscarriages and divorces,
but she didn't let that interfere with her acting or UNICEF career. Audrey
Hepburn affected change in the 1960s and influences society today.
Audrey Hepburn lived a life of
tragedy and glamour. Audrey grew up during World War Two. She lived in hiding
for part of her life because they were in fear of the German soldiers. While in
hiding, Audrey took secret dance classes. Once food started getting scarce at
Audrey Hepburn's house she had to quit dance lessons because she was so weak.
Audrey Hepburn's father moved to
Although her life was short Audrey
Hepburn had many great accomplishments in acting. In the 1950s, Audrey made a
hit movie called “Roman Holiday.” She won the best actress award at the Academy
Awards for this movie in 1953.Another hit that Audrey released was “Breakfast
at Tiffany’s”, a hit in the 1960s. This movie was where she got to show off her
chic style and queen likeness, like in “Roman Holiday.” “Charade” was another
sixties hit that Audrey played in. In this movie, Audrey plays a widow thats husband stole 250,000
dollars, and she is hunting for it with another man who she falls in love with.
In 1964, Audrey played a flower girl/ duchess in “My Fair Lady”, which is
somewhat like a Cinderella story. During the sixties, Audrey played many
sophisticated parts like the one she played in “How To Steal
A Million.” In 1967, Audrey played in a romantic film called “Two for
The Road.” In this movie, Audrey and her film husband played a couple who are
remembering the good old days from when their marriage was flourishing. Even
though Audrey had natural talent for acting she soon
moved to bigger issues and more helpful work with U.N.I.C.E.F. When working for
U.N.I.C.E.F, Audrey traveled to many poverty stricken countries like
While making movies like “Breakfast
at Tiffany’s” Audrey set many trends. In “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” she wore a
sleek black dress which is still in style today, even though it wasn’t that
popular in the sixties. In “Charade” she wore big sunglasses which everyone had
to have soon. Audrey was the new teen idle in the sixties. After Marilyn Monroe
everyone needed a break. Audrey was just the opposite as Marilyn. Marilyn wore skimpy
clothes and was also very appealing to men, but Audrey had a little girl like
charm and didn’t need to dress in skimpy clothes to be appealing. Audrey also
influenced the movie world by making it ok for women not to be judged by only
their looks. She wanted the world to know that she had a brain too.
Many actresses today still look up to
Audrey Hepburn. She was the perfect role model. Audrey was a humanitarian and
an actress. She was one of the first actresses to do this. Now many actors and
actresses are humanitarians too. Audrey is also looked up to by many mothers
today. She really cared for her children and loved their company. Just thinking
of how many miscarriages Audrey went through should tell people trying to have
kids to never give up. Now there is an extremely strong U.N.I.C.E.F thanks to
Audrey. She contributed most of her life to U.N.I.C.E.F and helped many
children who probably wouldn’t have even had a chance to live without her.
In conclusion, Audrey Hepburn was a great
person, who helped many people. Even though her life was filled with sadness
Audrey Hepburn still kept her cool in front of her fans and the children she
helped. People should be glad that Audrey couldn’t be a dancer because if she
was she probably wouldn’t have affected so many people’s lives. Audrey had a
short but meaningful life.
Works Cited
An Audrey Hepburn Biography.
<://www.audreyhepburn.org/grahamspage/biography.html>.
Audrey Hepburn- Ambassador of Children.
<http://www.audrey1.com/unicef.html>.
Reel Classics. Audrey Hepburn.
<http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Audrey/audrey.htm>.
Spritzer, Carrie . A Tribute to Audrey Hepburn.
<http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/3522/films.html>.
“Kidnapped by Aliens”
By: Alia
Hi,
I’m Alia . Many of you have probably heard my story, right? You haven’t!
Then I’ll just have to tell you… Last Tuesday when I was in school I noticed
something different about all of the teachers. They were weirder than normal.
In first period, my math teacher Mrs.Connoley, was acting way to nice. She was acting like we hadn’t done
anything wrong, even when Tommy threw a spitball at her. I thought that was
totally weird because she usually would write him a detention right away if he
did this. The other teachers acted the same way she did, and by the end of the
day a lot of the kids were missing from class. In fifth period I was still a
little suspicious and was walking down the hallway when suddenly somebody
grabbed me into the janitor’s office. Right when I got in I knocked my head on
something and passed out. A few hours later, I think, I woke up and I was in
some ugly bright pink room. Kids from all of my classes were being escorted out
and taken somewhere. Suddenly I saw my friend Bri and
asked her what was going on. She said, “We’re being kidnapped by aliens
disguised as our teachers!” I totally freaked out and by the time I calmed down
it was my turn to go into the room. A thing that looked like a human with an
oversized head escorted me into the room. It was orange and there were kids all
around m being put into grey suits. After I finished putting mine on they
escorted me into yet another room where they put you in lines marked with a
weird language. I soon found out I was put in the line to go to the human
testing room. I thought, “Oh no! They’re gonna kill
me!” I had to get out of there.
Suddenly
I saw a small space shuttle that I knew I would have to take to get out of
there. I took all of my friends that were sent to human testing and put them on
the ship. I had no idea how to work the craft so I started shouting commands at
it. The ship finally went up and we went back to Earth.
We
had no idea aliens surrounded us on Earth. We thought that everyone was normal,
but that wasn’t true. Many of my friends were hunted down and killed, but I
escaped. I now have to live in a sewer in what used to be
Final Draft- Flag Burning
At
first I had mixed feelings about flag burning "Am I against or for" I
said to myself. After reading many great articles on the Internet I made up my
mind. I am for flag burning because it is protected under the first amendment
of the Constitution, and a new amendment is not necessary. If congress took
away our right to burn the flag then they could take away our right to protest
against injustices.
Flag burning is our natural right
under the first amendment in the Constitution. Cannot and should not take away
our right to burn the flag. The first amendment of the Constitution states
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or
prohibiting the free exercise there of; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances." If Congress were to make a
law about flag burning the Supreme Court would have to reject this law because
it is a violation of our rights.
Have our rights gone down a hole? A writer at
Flag burning is not Speech said that "Burning the flag is protected under
freedom of speech." We the people should be able to choose if we want a
law against flag burning, instead of our Congressman choosing for us. If
Congress took away our right to burn the flag in protest then they could take
away our right to protest anything. If this happened we would soon live in a
communist country and would have no rights at all.
The law against flag burning has been
going through Congress for a while now. Matt Dilworth at Earlham Word Online
said, "Flag Burning did not pass through Congress." That was a couple
of years ago when flag burning was going through Congress for the first time.
Now it is going through again. Many people right now would probably say that
that would be a good law because of what happened on Sept. 11. If that law
would be passed in probably twenty years we would get freedom of speech taken
away altogether.
Now you can most likely see why I
think we shouldn't have a law against flag burning. Our children would have no
more rights left if they did pass a law. Some people might say that it is
disrespectful to burn the flag in protest, but it isn't. It helps someone show
that they're in disagreement to the law. If Congress were to pass a law that
would make flag burning illegal then I would definitely protest.
Bibliography
Dilworth, Matt. Earlham Word Online.
Flag Burning is not Speech.
U.S Constitution-Bill of Rights.