Spirit Bear
If you have ever seen a spirit bear it is life changing and you know it. I saw this proud silvery white creature in the face on death and it made me realize something. Without everything else I would have no purpose and I was part a circle. It made me feel terrible thinking about the awful mauling I went through but also reminded me of what I did to Peter but the attacks were different. I attacked Peter because he ratted me out on destroying the stupid little hardware store that I robbed and the bear mauled me because I tried to hurt it. All the bear was doing when it stared at me was because it was curious and it wanted to see if I was threatening its territory. There is something I still don’t understand. How can something that brings so much pain be so beautiful???

Two Majesties poem
Inspired by the Two Majesties
The sun is burning when I gaze upon it. Its reddish orange hue staining the beautiful landscape. Nothing is stirring in my kingdom. The sapphire ocean is serene. I am companionless as I watch the Great King of the sky sink into the water. He is the only one who understands me. He is the only other substance that I have seen alone. Forgotten we both sink to our places for twilight.

I really need to work on sentence beginnings and text evidence because they would help me prove a point in an essay or so I could have proof if I was trying to state something.

Waupaca

My home town
Relaxed
Good for just hanging out
Interesting
Cloudless lighthearted utopia
Perfect wilderness
Low-keyed tiny town
Unforgettable
Great memories
Pleasant people
Comfortable location
Awesome friends
Sad to leave

Pewaukee
Different
Scary
Seems huge
Different people
Feels alone when you get there
Feel startled
New place
Need to make friends
Feels different
Want to leave
Want to go back to Waupaca
People move on
Get used to new people
Find awesome new friends
Have fun relaxing
Pewaukee seems better now
Still miss Waupaca

There i was standing at the ping-pong table facing Gio brandon and My little brother Thomas. We were playing a game called pong which is when you hit the ball across the table then runs around before the person behind you hits it back. I hit the ball to Gio then sprinted around the pingpong table as fast as I could. Gio hit it to Thomas then ran around the table. On the third round Gio ran so fastthat he crashed into the wall and put a gigantic crack in it. we were all laughing so hard the my dad came downstairs. He asked us what was so funny so we told him that Gio broke the wall so he went over to Gio and said " Gio how the heck did you manage to do that."
We all started laughing again and that is the end of my ping-pong story.

I think that patriotism still matters because the people who fight for our country are dieing and they deserve some respect. Also they work hard to protect our customs and traditions that we keep. Soldiers protect us from terrorists from Iraq who hate us for our religion. they protected us in all the wars we were ever in and they help people in wars who need it. Those are some of the reasons that patriotism still matters.

Nick Knoke
9/24/10
Hemingway Essay
Try to imagine yourself when you are 80 years old. You don’t have a wife and you are deaf. It would be very lonely to only have a niece who checks in on you and the only place you go is a café to drink brandy all day. This is basically the life of the old man in the story “A Clean Well Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway shows a good understanding of depression and loneliness.
Hemingway connects the story “A Clean Well Lighted Place” to his own life because he never found love much like the old man in the story. Also the old man was depressed by this because he didn’t have anyone to love which is probably why he tried to commit suicide. There is definitely a connection between loneliness and depression because if you were lonely you would feel terrible and alone. If a person feels alone then they would feel like there isn’t a purpose for them and they kill themselves. This again ties back into Hemingway because he eventually kills himself too.
The reason the younger waiter doesn’t understand the old man at the café is because the younger waiter has a wife so he has a reason to go home every night where as the old man has no one to go home to so he likes to stay at the café for a long time. The older waiter understands the old man more because he is alone to. The reason the he also likes to stay at the café late is he is afraid that if he leaves then the people will not have a clean well lighted place to go to.
Hemingway definitely has a good understanding of loneliness having experienced it himself but he also has a very different way of describing it. Also he has a way of tying this story into his own life like him being depressed and lonely like the old man tries to commit suicide. This is strange because even though he didn’t know it at that time he would also commit suicide in the end of his life. This is also similar to the old man in the story because he doesn’t have a wife and Hemingway doesn’t ever truly find love.
Hemingway, being depressed and lonely, can understand and connect to the old man and his feelings. One of the reasons Hemingway was depressed was because he never found love but he also probably never did anything that he truly wanted to do except for his writing. His writing was the only thing he had to express himself and he always wrote about things that connected to his own life which might be why he was always unhappy. To stop yourself from being depressed and lonely live in the now and get everything out of life that you can.