Author: SophiaK

Have you ever thought of being in Solitary Confinement? Well, it isn’t a very nice place to stay in. Solitary Confinement is just “Jail”, a place where “bad” people stay in. ADX is a place where people live a life of a Solitary Confinement person. Solitary Confinement can harm people in bad ways and also it is a good thing because it helps the world from danger.

Bad things from Solitary Confinement is people are treated very badly and are not supposed to be tortured that way. They get tortured from not being able to see even a glimpse of light in the crakes of the window. Rarely able to communicate with family and friends, and also being punished in very harsh ways. This affects the Solitary Confinement people because they might even forget who they even are. Searching themselves often get the brain to get together. Sometimes they even want to commit suicide, which is a very, very, very, dangerous thing to do to yourself. Some even succeeded in suicide.

Now that the bad things are covered up, let’s talk about the ways Solitary Confinement can help the world. Solitary Confinement can help the world with less “Bad” people in the world. This is because people in Solitary Confinement are “Learning their lesson” on how to become a better person. This is also helpful because when the people are out of Solitary Confinement they will try and help other people in Solitary Confinement how to become a better person than what they are that moment.

As we all know Solitary Confinement is a very Harmful and Useful thing to have around us. Many people think differently in the way it is harmful and why it is useful. It works in many ways of how someone describes Solitary Confinement.

There are almost eight billion different people on planet Earth, each with their own characteristics and features. During one’s life, they might tend to go off track and follow in the footsteps of someone else’s life. Although exactly copying the life of a successful person seems positive, it comes with many consequences. The short story The Moustache by Robert Cormier is about a boy named Mike who wants to look grown-up. When he visits his mentally ill grandma with his mustache on, his grandma mistakes her grandson as her husband. Mike ended up having to experience a very uncomfortable conversation. One should not try to be someone else because it is not why they were put into the world, and it can lead up to consequences.

Each and every human was born for a purpose, and that was to make a change. The life of someone should not be to hide in the shadow of another person but to live life fully as oneself. A TedTalk spoken by Caroline McHugh highlighted the importance of being oneself and not comparing oneself to others. She stated how being oneself is the thing many people fail to achieve in life. Successful people are those who realized who they truly are, not those who followed in the footsteps of other successors. As for Mike, he wanted to look mature, hence him wearing the mustache. His mustache hid who he truly was, which in turn made him “someone else”. His faulty choice to not be himself lead him into a pit of trouble. Everyone on planet Earth was born different and unique, but some turn the wrong way in order to become someone else.

Not only does being someone else limit one’s potential of life, but it also comes with a handful of consequences. When Mike visited his grandma’s nursing home, she mistakens him as her husband. This was because Mike’s grandpa also had a mustache and was named Mike. Since the grandma was mentally ill and her time was coming, Mike’s only choice was to go along faking to be someone else. This is just one of many dangers of being someone else. As previously stated, being someone else can also erase the success from oneself. Being someone else is like losing confidence. When one thinks they do not have the ability to succeed, they often tend to copy another person. This is the mistake millions make, which in return robs their lives.

The greatest achievement of life is to truly be oneself. Being oneself is the sole reason one was born into Earth and can bring one success. The many who hide in the shadows of others end up living lives far worse than they could have if they were themselves. Alfred Hitchcock, an influential film maker once asked himself, “If I won’t be myself, who will?”

As we all know MLK’s speech was very effective to the world. He said his dream. In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. If it weren’t for him. Then I wouldn’t be writing this. MLK was a wonderful man made many changes and fixes a lot of problems. 

He became the leader and spokesperson of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He gave his life to the community for the world just for peace. MLK said this speech because he wanted peace in the world. For little kids to be together. For people around the world to sit together, and for freedom to spread. 

MLK said his speech in front of thousands of people for the “Blacks”. This speech was a very powerful speech. Maybe one of the most popular speeches in humankind. He is one of the great leaders in this era. Saved many enslaved workers. He started for the history of their nation. 

This dream wasn’t any ordinary dream a kid wanted. Such as a dream toy or pet. This speech was a very big difference in changing lives. Just because of MLK we are all now safe and no more separation. 

Have you ever thought of traveling back in time?  Well if you have then it is a very very dangerous task. In the short story a group of hunters go on an adventure to hunt down a dinosaur (T-REX). The group faced challenges in their adventure in the past. 

Time travel is  just someone that is traveling back in time and living the life in the past. It may sound weird but it is true! Eckles and a group of hunters had a plan of traveling back in time and hunting this T-REX. Obviously they travel millions of years to get to the spot they are.  

So now we talk about how time travel is very harmful and dengerous. When eckles made the choice to go with the hunters and hunt the animal. He had one very very important task to do. The task was to ALWAYS stay on the path and not go off.  Of course at first when someone is seeing a dinosaur it always seems scary. That is exactly what Eckles felt like. He was really scared and then suddenly went into the bushes. It doesn’t sound that bad but it was a horrible idea. 

When they were back from hunting. Travis noticed a butterfly under Eckles’s foot. It was bad, very bad. Eckles had not noticed how much harm he had done to the world.  Just then Travis pulled out a gun and the lever clicked, and Eckles was gone.It is dangerous because when he stepped in the bush. He accidentally killed a butterfly. That butterfly probably meant so much to the word. This is because animals eat butterflies and animals eat animals so if the animals didn’t have the food they need then the animals might die. This shows that when someone is doing something they will always have to be super focused and have a good outcome unlike Eckles.

Many people think that reading is a very important thing to do. In life reading can lead to really good things. Such as becoming a very skilled reader, and a very talented writer like Jacqueline Woodson.

Jacqueline Woodson is a very talented writer. When Jacqueline Woodson was a little kid, she had the passion to read. Soon later it taught her more about writing. In the ted talk “What Reading Slowly Taught me About Writing.”  Talked about how she started to write from her reading.

Reading is a really good skill to have in someone’s life. It doesn’t matter who but it is a very good skill. When someone reads really slowly he or she will get more in depth in the story. Sometimes even feel like they are in the sense. This happens to Jacqueline Woodson. She was a kid that read very slowly. Dragging her hands under the words she was reading. Unlike her sisters. They would read fast and wouldn’t get the important details that are in the story.

When Jacqueline Woodson said “Slow reading will lead to deep, committed friendship. The friends may be fewer but they will be very close.” This means that when you are reading and getting more deeper in the story you get closer to the characters. The part “The friends may be fewer.” Means when she was reading the story there weren’t many characters. But she knows the characters well. This shows that when she kept on reading in her life she kept on getting better. Soon later she became a very talented writer and started to write books for everyone all around to world to read and enjoy. 

Have you ever thought about being a pianist and musician? As everyone knows Mozart was a very well known musician. Wrote many songs for piano and had a very interesting life. Till his death, he went through a lot of challenges and dangers. 

When Mozart was little he always played his violin. By then he was already known as a musician. He was given a really good gift of having good talent as a musician. He got really good at viola but then soon later he started becoming a prodigy at piano! Got really famous, started getting really good and mastered at 4 years old.

After a few years Mozart had gotten really good at piano and started to compose some little pieces. His full name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. When he had gotten a lot older he was still holding on to his piano career. 

Bad things happened to Mozart. He had gotten really sick and soon later gotten a disease. He had to go through a lot of suffering. Soon he had gotten even worse and could not do his music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had soon later died on  1791 december 5th. He died at quite an early age of 35.

Even though Mozart has died , people all around the world enjoy his music very much, by playing his songs. People are even trying to become a very good pianist and musician. 

Mozart and Beethoven are two of the most talented musicians ever lived. Made lots of songs and pieces and was very impressive. Even though they are already musicians they also have a lot of differences in them.

Mozart was a very impressive musician even though Beethoven was older he managed to get a lot in his life. Was given a gift to play very well at a very young age. Unlike Beethoven, Mozart’s songs were very peaceful and calm. It always had the rhythm, that is there is a beat wrong the song sounded odd. This meant that Mozart was very “organized” in his writing. No one really knows but people are saying that Mozart got poisoned.

On the other side Beethoven was a fierce player. His songs were very strong and stable. If one shall say his songs have “emotion” in his songs. Beethoven has developed a lot through his years of being a musician. Soon later Beethoven got really sick and later died because of the disease that got really bad.

This all sums up on how Mozart and Beethoven songs  are very different. Even though they are two very famous pianists who have died. People still play their pieces and really enjoy them.

The Red Zone and the Green Zone are two different ways that people behave. Chickens are one example of how Red and Green Zone’s are different. The Red zone and the Green zone are very different. 

The Red zone is a zone where it is very competitive and strong and non-peaceful. In the Ted talk the speaker  used chickens as an example. When he showed us a picture of the Red zone. Their feathers were all plucked off and beaks were chopped off. When they say chopped they actually mean it.

On the other hand the Green Zone is very different. In fact there are a lot more chickens in the Green zone than the red zone. So the green zone is more friendly and calm while red is not. Green zone has more feathers than the red zone. The farmers are really trying many ways to separate the chickens from harm.

People all around the world can relate to this and it isn’t really that good. Exceptional being on the Red Zone. When someone is somehow on the red side they might “Drag” someone from the green side to the red side which is never a good thing to experience. Just like when the rotten apple spreads to the fresh ones.

COVID-19 has been very deadly. People are dying and getting infected. There are some ways to prevent that from happening. Those ways are. Always sanitize any package someone gets. Always wear a mask when near strangers. Most of all stay healthy and be quarantined and at home

When getting a package most likely that package has been touched by someone that got infected or tested positive to COVID-19. She or he will never know what is on that package. The best way to ensure that there are no more diseases on the package is to sanitize it. By spraying rubbing alcohol or anything that contains rubbing alcohol, hand sanitizer also works.

The second way to prevent getting infected is to always wear a mask outside of the house. From getting groceries to playing at that park. Even though some people already wear masks. The others half won’t Which is why more and more people are getting infected every day. Some dangers in wearing a mask is, when it is a really hot day. The mask might become more yet because of the sweat on her or his mouth and the mask might soften up, as in the fabric might start thinning. This leads to whole in the mask which is never a good thing. Not all people wear fabric masks. Wearing Cloth mask is also good. But just always keep in mind that wearing a mask is better than nothing.

That last and final way from not getting COVID-19 is also a very important thing to do, as the other two. The last way is to be healthy and mostly stay home. Being healthy is a very big part of not getting sick because. If someone gets infected, and is not eating healthy food. He or she will probably get even worse. Which is always not a good thing. Also when someone is infected and not staying home where it is safe. They won’t get the amount of care they are supposed to need which is not good.

Now that the three ways of preventing COVID-19 are covered. People all around the world really need to follow them orelse more and more people are going to die or get infected. 

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COVID-19 has been a serious outbreak lately. Luckily a group of creators has made a robot called Violet. Violet can help people in a lot of ways. 

The best way for the virus is to be sanitary. Violet does just that. Ultraviolet Light helps kill the virus on any of the objects. It also has a programmed way of if someone walks in front of Violet it stops the light. This is because LED light is bad for the human eye and skin. 

Why the creators made this is so that the virus won’t be scarier and also won’t be and risky for the doctors and patients to get infected. 

So the robot violet is very helpful because she helps kill the germ in the hospital and other places with the chemical. My thinking in this robot is that this may help because it is somewhat helpful and will cooperate to fight this virus.