To Kill A Mocking Bird!

To kill a mocking bird is a powerful American classic written by Harper Lee.told from the point of view of Jean Louise Finch(scout), the youngest daughter of the lawyer Atticas Finch. It tells a story of small town Southern America in the 1930's.Through the eyes of this little girl scout we see both the rich characters of her town and also the prejudices lying just below the surface of the town.

The dramas of the book are opened up when Scout, her brother Jem and their friend Dill decide to meddle with the isolated and vulnerable Radley family. The kids imaginations had always made up tales of the Radley house and the tragic story of the handicapped Boo (Arthur) Radley. Although they had never actually seen Boo Radley, their stories seem to over power them into thinking he is a creepy evil and mysterious person that they needed to catch a glimpse of.

The second part of the story is based in the jail house when their father Atticus Finch, a lawyer is chosen to defend Tom Robinson. This was considered unthinkable as Tom was coloured. It spreads rumours all over the town and eventually all the kids were being teased.The family was considered poorly they were called "nigger-lover". Discrimination was huge in this time and Atticus was the only one to stand up for Tom. He stood up in a situation that nobody else would.

These two story lines seem separate but throughout the book they become carefully interwoven. This is a profound book that has enchanted readers for more than 40 years. It shows the damage that racism can do in society. Atticus's only offense was to offer real defense to someone who was consider beneath everyone else. He offered a real enough defense to make the people of the town question the injustice they did to all the black inhabitants.It is an amazing book and I really recommend it.

I rate to kill a mocking bird one of the best books written in the 20th century and out of ten I would rate it 10 out of 10.

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Concealed Friend...

Ok, new English assignment . We were told that we had to write a paragraph about a friend without describing any physical characteristics. Sounds easy right well not really. Trying to describe someone without describing what they look like is like trying to describe eating an apple without describing what it tastes like, only harder.So I made an attempt. My first attempt was my mom and now im doing a friend and here's what I came up with when describing my concealed friend...

...There are many attributes of her personality I could start with, but the one that stands out the most to me is what a devoted friend she is. She is the kind of person that will always be there for her friend no matter what. If they need advice on how to devise evil schemes for sleepovers she will definitely be there. If they need to ramble to someone she makes it the easiest hour of talking ever and if someones being horrible to them she will help you yell at them.If she is scheming it would be best not to be the first one asleep at a sleepover (especially if shes teamed up with other characters from our group, for eg:Charne).
Rambling is a speciality of hers from things like school to things that make no sense at all like, I don't know, teeth( not really teeth but I couldn't think of anything).She puts up with my "out of it days" and when I tell dry jokes. Shell laugh at little things that noone else notices but deserve to be noticed, such as some people pushing their glasses up and scrunching their nose. (I wont say who).She is focused and determined. Her priorities all mesh and she can focus on her school, sports, and friends all at once.She is closest to normal out of our entire group she balances out all the craziness of our group. When were walking to class together we always get sidetracked easily and we are constantly late to class. Yet we never leave earlier because its so fun on the way to class to hear her say"oops I think were late again" and have to sprint there.She is a fun and hilarious person and she is one of my closest friends.

- My concealed friend is Cassie.

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Mystery Family Member!

Shes my best friend always.She inspires me to work hard and she always believes in me. Although she can get over protective, and there is no doubt she can be very embarrassing she sees the best in people. She is a fun and caring person. A great quality of my persons character is her outgoing adventurous nature, she'll think about the fun before she worries about the fear.Her fear of heights wouldn't stop her from jumping out of a plane,she takes everything as it comes. The amazing way she looks at things has an sort of silver lining effect on people, instead of the glass being half full its always completely full (and never any where near empty).Taking into account all the great things I've said about her, she does have her flaws. She is almost always late. So its always best to tell her the real time is half an hour earlier than it actually is, thus insuring shes on time.If your talking to her while shes txting she wont reply to anything you say until either ten minutes later or even longer once shes finished the text.The good and bad list goes on but ultimately my person is a smart, caring, enthusiastic, and most importantly fun person. She is my mother Marsha Marshall (no pun intended with the two M's just a mere coincidence).

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Creative writing assignment!

In class today we were told that our topic this term is creative writing. A picture was projected up onto the smart board of a young man in a bmx competition. He was half in the air and their was a crowd of people below him cheering. The assignment was to write a piece of creative writing using the picture as a visual starting point. Here, this is what I came up with:

The wind rushes past my face and slides across my skin like water over sand and in one moment I am detached from the rest of the world. I no longer notice the roaring cheer of the crowd. My feet are moving on the petals and I am performing my trick without even thinking of it. When I am riding I am free. Free from all the dismal feelings of the world, From the dramas and grievances it can create, From the feelings which portray the memories of my past life that makes me who I am today. Sickness seems to be less susceptible to me, War doesn’t exist where I am, drugs don’t corrupt so many people, the environment still contains the beauties it did decades ago and my family isn’t screwed up like it is now. All hopeful of these are just hopes and figments of my imagination because when I'm in this place, when I'm riding anything is possible. So even though I know at some point ill have to come rushing back to reality, I still close my eyes and hope that when I pull the brake and land my bike on the pavement all the horrors will be gone. Only the genuinely kind people will exist.

Every time I land (even if it isn't a landing of particularly good quality)it brings me back down to earth. That is why I ride,to escape the rest of the world. To get a chance to dream what is just not possible when I'm not riding. As I begin landing the cheers of the crowd below me break through the barrier of my imagination. Although only a few minutes past while I completed my ride (and only a few seconds while I was in the air) by the time I had landed it felt as though I had spent a life time in the air or on that bike. It was a great ride but a mediocre trick and I didnt win the competition. None of that matters though. As I took my bike of the track a smile spread across my face. I wouldnt give up rideing for the world.

Just my first attepmt at creative writing. It will get better, I promise.Well I hope!

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Hard Times: Book Review

Hard times by Charles Dickens is a book i read recently and since were supposed to write a book report on our blog i thought id do it on that.
Hard Times is based in an industrial revolution sort of time where all the machines are just being made so alot of people were out of jobs. There was alot of beggars and alot of thief's. Mr Grandgrind who is the father of Tom and Louisa Grandgrind. He had raised them by nothing but fact, they were taught not to imagine not to believe in things unless they had been taught it. They were raised with repressed feelings and taught not to show there emotion. As Louisa grows up she gets married to Mr Bounderby who is at least twice her age. It does not matter that she does not love him because she doesn't care and she feels she can grow old with him forever. But when there is a robbery everything gets ruined. She finally realises all her repressed feelings when she falls in love with Mr Harthhouse and she knows that the way she was brought up was wrong. The mystery of the robbery is still intriguing them and by the end of the book they are shocked to find out who it was!

This book is a classic, it is a must read. It is the kind of book that everybody should read. It was intriguing and challenging. I really recommend it. I rate it 8/10

Hard Times by Charles Dickens: A must read.

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pirates of the caribean

*Pirates of the caribbean*

Since i cant think of anything to write about today im writing about the best movie ever.It seriously is the best movie i mean Johnny Depp is brilliant in it hes like a box full crazy and you seriously cant meet anyone who idolizes him more than me and my mate charne.Johnny Depp is our idol and not to far behind is Orlando Bloom.

SOME AWESOME JOHNNY DEPP LINES:
"no,if we dont have the key we cant open whatever it is we dont have
that it unlocks, so what purpose would be served in finding whatever need be unlocked-which we dont have-without first haveing found the key what unlocks it"

"no,you want you to find this because the finding of this find you
incapacitoraly finding and or locating in your discovering the
detectinging of a way to save your dolly belle,ol whats-er-face"

see awesome.....

So any Johnny Depp fans your always very welcome on my site because you rock.

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never drink and drive

I went to a birthday party but I remembered what you said you told me not to drink at all, so i had a sprite instead. I felt proud of myself, the way you said I would, that i didn't choose to drink & drive, though some friends said I should. I knew I made a healthy choice & your advice to me was right as the party finally ended and the kids drove out of site. I got in to my own car, sure to get home in one piece, never knowing what was coming, some thing i expected least. Now I'm lying on the pavement. I can hear The policeman say, "THE KID THAT CAUSED THIS WREAK WAS DRUNK." his voice seems far away. my own blood is all around me as I try hard not to cry. I can hear the paramedic say, "THIS GIRL IS GOING TO DIE" I'm sure The guy had NO idea while he was flying high, because he chose to drink & drive that i would have to die. so why do people do it, knowing that it ruins lives? but now the pain is cutting me like a hundred stabbing knifes. tell my sister not to be afraid, tell Daddy to be brave, and when I go to heaven to put "daddy's girl" on my grave. someone should have taught him that its wrong to drink and drive. maybe if his mum and his dad had Id still be alive. my breath is getting shorter I'm getting really scared. these are my final moments, and I'm so unprepared. I Wish that you could hold me mum, as I lie here and die. I Wish that i could say I LOVE YOU AND GOODBYE Source:i found this poem in the book "chicken soup"

Welcome to my website

Welcome to my web site!






Hi my name is Erica but my nickname is EJM.
So this is my site! I know not an original opening line but I couldnt
think of anything else. Today we started our own websites for the new year.I cant wait to see what happens this year in 2008.Should be so much fun.

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:)These are some of the links of some of the people in my class. (and my
teacher ) :)

Cassandra

My del.icio.us site

Lisa

Tishana

Jamie-Lee

Miss Wilson

Amy

Atarangi

Jade

Isaac .g.

Dylan

Kyle

Jayson

Richie

Charne

Kayla

Jordan

Salli