Thank You, Ma'm

I think it was nice that Mrs. Jones helped Roger to stop being a criminal because when he tried to steal her purse she caught him and took him to her house and cleaned him up and feeds him, she then tells him why it is very bad to be a criminal and he should stop being one. She then let him go and Roger felt like a new person and promised not to steal again.

An Indispensable Friendship

1.Selfish can't be good friends because they can take advantage of you.
2. The author kept his friendship with his junior high school friends because he liked to talk to them about issues that he/she had.
3. a "real friendship" is different from other friendship because you are very close friends with this person, and you enjoy being around them.
4. The author means that the phrase "to give the best of ourselves" which means to give all your energy to your friends and help them out in difficult situations.
5. The title refers to one that can't be broken and will not change.

I found this essay to be very interesting about friendship. I think its interesting how it talks about different types of friendships and tells about the authors own experiance with friends.

Compare & Contrast

New York and Los Angeles have many similar things about them but they also have alot of different things too. Firstly and obviously New York and Los Angeles are cities. One thing different about the two is that New York is on the east coast and in the state of New York, while Los Angeles is on the west coast and in the state of California.

Both New York and Los Angeles have pollution with New York cleaning most of its pollution in the 80's and 90's but Los Angeles still has polluted fog and smog in its skies. One last thing about the two cities is that New York is now the safest city in the United States while Los Angeles still has some parts that are crime ridden.

Although New York and Los Angeles are different I still think that both are very interesting cities and are good to go and visit.

My Story

About two years ago in 2007, I went back to New Zealand for a visit in July, and visited my ancestoral home in the southwest of the North Island of New Zealand. It took about three hours to drive from the capital, Wellington, to my ancestoral village of Koroniti. It sits on the bend of the Whanganui River. It is almost always misty around the village and the road to the village is very narrow and right next to the river, so if you swerve in a vehicle you can easily fall into the river. It was a rainy day and my brother, dad and I was in a car driving up to the village, it was a very misty day so you could not see well out of the window. I was every excited to be going to the village because I always enjoy my time there. We turned off the paved road and onto a muddy road, we could see the farm house where our grandmother lives and the sheep in the paddock. we slowed down and turned into the driveway and stopped and turned the car off. We got out and got our bags and went inside to greet our grandmother. We stayed there for about a week until leaving to go back to Wellington. I very much enjoyed my time there.

The Best Part

1. Eating breakfast with the family and opening gifts.
2. "On Christmas morning, my parents and sisters and brothers and I have a light breakfast and open the gifts for each other."
3. The details are both specific and convincing.
4. It does have a topic sentence it is the very first sentence, the controlling idea is "in my family, we eat Christmas dinner about four o'clock.
5. I have always enjoyed Christmas, I like to open my presents.

My American Journey

1. General Powell and his wife visited Top Hill, Jamaica, because it is the birthplace of his father.
2. When they arrived at Top Hill with their escorts, it was extremely quite, but in one second the entire village came out to greet them.
3. Top Hill might be in central Jamaica, since he had to travel from gravel roads to muddy hilly roads to get to Top Hill
4. A huge bunch of groups met General Powell, the General was very amazed about how many groups came out to meet him.
5. General Powell knows the last group is his family because they look somewhat like him.
6. I think he reacted this way because he has met family he has never seen before.
7. I have not had the simaler story has General Powell's.
8. About six months ago, I met both the former New Zealand Prime Minister and the Maori King, I was very nervous, because these two people are well known to New Zealanders and the Maori King is the traditional head of my ethnicity
9. "We piled into jeeps provided by the Jamaican government and headed north into the interior", "We had arrived at Top Hill, land of my father's birth.", I think that both of the paragraphs have stated topic sentences.

The Beautiful Laughing Sisters

Before I read this story, the title was very interesting and I thought it will be about sisters that get well known for making fashion. Once I read the article I was suprise that it was not about fashion but about these two sisters and their family escaping war ravage Pakistan and going to the United States. I was pretty amazed by the story about how they survived a refugee camp and other horrbile things. I think that the story was very interesting.