The Beginning Of A Country

Authors Note: I wrote about this because I want to ask the founding fathers questions.

If I were to ask the founding father some questions on what choices they made long ago. I would ask about if they are happy with the choices they made or what they would change. Another would be what was were thinking behind their choices. There are a lot of them and also important ones.

The first question I would want to ask the founding father is, why did they pick the eagle to be the national bird? Why didn’t they pick the turkey, the duck, or the robin? You see Robins everywhere you go, in people’s trees and on farms all over the U.S. The turkey is one of the things that I see a lot in the morning on the way to school. I have seen many turkeys all year round. Lastly, the duck is a common bird too; I see ducks on the way to the store in small bodies of water all the time. Have you ever seen an eagle in person not at the zoo? I know I have not but I hope I will one day.

Onto the second question. I would ask them if they are happy or sad about what choices they had to make about this Nation. I would be happy because, we have the freedom of speech in this country and many other rights that they created. Also I know that I am safe because of all the protection that we have in this country. I also want to thank them for the bill of rights. They are the first ten amendments to the U.S constitution.

These are a few questions that I would like to ask the founding fathers. They made a lot of good choices a long time ago. They made them in the best interest of all the people of this Nation.  Most of their choices, they made a long time ago, are still being followed today.  

Hunger Games

Authors Note: I wrote about this because I enjoy this book.

In the book Hunger Games, Katniss makes a choice that affected her and changed her life forever. She was chosen to participate in a fight to the death with twenty three other people. They tricked her into believing that two participants from the same district can both win. So Katniss wants to leave with the other tribute from district twelve because he means a lot to her.  Katniss and Peeta the boy from her district are the last ones alive but they announce that there can only be one winner.

Katniss was furious which caused her to have peetta and her both swallow poisonous berries so they could both live. But this affected the outcome of the hunger games because they let them both live. This changed the course of the future dramatically because it started an uprising in the districts. They wanted to take control of the capitol. This one decision made lots of innocent people to lose their lives because of a war.

Fail Marry

authors note: I hate when the packers lose because they are my favorite team.

The Packers were affected by a call a few weeks ago. The replacement referees had no idea what they were doing. They made the wrong call and completely changed the outcome of the game. The commissioner of the NFL also knew that it was wrong and publicly addressed it. Since this event, the original officials have come back to provide fair and decent ruling.

The Packer lost to the Seahawks. This was the effect of a terrible call by one of the replacement officials. The Seahawks needed a touchdown to win and there was only seconds left. On the last play Russell Wilson the quarterback for the Seahawks threw a pass deep into the end zone. The pass was then intercepted by a Packer and the officials decided that it was a touchdown.

Given the information it is very simple to understand that the Packers were affected by the replacement referees; in a negative way I might add. To make things even more irrational, one of the refs that was standing near the play signaled an interception while the other signaled a touchdown! To summarize the whole event, the Packers lost a game because of a false call made by an inexperienced  official.

conflict of Mocking Jay

Authors Note: I wrote about the conflict of Mocking Jay because I enjoy reading this book.

Mocking Jay is about a girl named Katniss. She  is fighting against the capitol who rules all the surrounding cities known as districts. She is one of the leaders of the rebel group. They have only two towns left to take over to win the war. But they are the two strongest points the capitol has.

The conflict is somewhat resolved by the rebel group taking control of last remaining towns the capitol has control of. They do this after weeks of fighting The war is officially over when the president is killed. But part of the conflict is not resolved because Katniss was only  looking for peace but never found it.

So close, Yet so far

Authors Note: I wrote about this event because it is very important to me.

Have you ever been so close to something and then someone took it away from you? That happened to our team against our biggest rival Eisenhower in the state basketball  tournament. It annoys me because we should have beat them.  It is maybe my worst memory in a sport. 

Up by 11 with three minute left we thought the game was ours. Everyone wanted to win this game but we let up and back they came. Slowly chipping away at our lead. Eventually it was tied with thirty seconds left in the game.  Our ball we waste the clock down to 15 seconds. We get the shot we were looking for, a wide open elbow jumper.  The crowd on their feet as the ball rolls around the rim and rolls out.  Eisenhower comes down the court our defense gives up no ground so they throw up a three as time expires but not close so we are going to overtime.

They add two minutes to the clock and the referee throws the ball up for the jump I tip it back. Our ball to start we come down and I get the ball on the block. Ball fake up he jumps easy layup. Up two now here they come they throw a long cross court pass we tip it and it goes out of bounds. On their inbound they get a man open for a long shot but his foot was on three point line so its tied at two. A minute left our ball, we run the clock down to ten. As he starts he travels so Eisenhower ball with nine seconds left. As they set up their play the get an open player for a shot with five seconds left hits the rim rolls out. But they get the rebound and put it up and in as time expires Eisenhower 42 Pewaukee 40.

All in all, you can’t always get what you want but I think we deserved that win. But half our team lost focus for too long and we just could not hold on. It is a good lesson though because you need to learn to give 100 percent effort all the time to accomplish great things.