Invention Limerick

Nuclear Warheads go boom, boom, boom,
With mushroom clouds in glorious bloom,
They’re fun to set off
And we just can’t stop
Perhaps the world will end too soon.

Invention the World Would Be Better Off Without

An invention that the world would have been better off without is nuclear warheads. After considering the invention from all angles, there is really nothing good that came out of it. All it does is destroy things and people. It didn’t lead to the further development of good inventions, it was all just a bunch of crap! That’s why people even stopped producing the atomic bomb. All nuclear warheads ever do is destroy things. That’s what they were created for. And that’s why the world would be better off without them.

"Balloon" first paragraph

It was 7:13 A.M. and eighty-one degrees Fahrenheit in the field in which I was standin’, and yet I felt so cold that I was shivering. I was surrounded by one of the thickest fogs I have ever seen in my life. The only thing I could see in the field around me were the tall green and brown reeds of grass that prickled against my legs and thighs. Everything else that was more than ten feet away from me disappeared behind the fog. The promising sun was rising somewhere in the distance behind the fog, giving it the glow of a faint baby blue haze. Crickets were screamin’ in the grass all around me as loud as they could. Standing there in this cool blue dream, huggin’ my arms against my trembling body as the crickets hollered made me feel like I was losin’ my mind.
My name is Carly

(I haven't thought of her last name yet, so I'm leaving it blank for now.)

Entry #3 Short Story Brainstorm

1.) The protagonist of my story is one that I cannot name yet (because I haven't thought of the name) but she she is a teenage girl (16 years old), who wants desperately to escape from her nothing life living out in middle-of-nowhere Georgia near the town of McRae. She wants desperately to be famous, rich, and live a glamorous life, but she feels imprisoned within her town and her lifestyle. She doesn't understand why her parents have no real goals or aspirations. She can't recieve a good education from her school, her family is poor, and they live in a permanent mobile home.

2.) When the story begins, the girl hasn't taken any significant actions towards achieving her goal. She is trapped. It is the summer before school and all she does is wander around the fields near her house and spends her time dreaming of a better life. She watches really glamorous movies on her VHS player (her family still doesn't have a DVD player).

3.) The main things that ramp up the emotion of the story is the girl's emotions. The most exciting point of the story would be when she tries to escape at night in her father's truck but gets stopped by a cop. She also reveals an emotional account about the insignificant loss of her virginity.

4.) The details that help me to tell the story is the overall dark mood and tone of it, the feeling of the blazing Georgia heat and sun, and the feeling of vast emptiness and loneliness. We also follow the girl's relationship with a boy she spends a lot of her time with. A balloon plays a significant role in the story as a major symbol.

5.) The protagonist doesn't make a morally significant choice at the end of the story. The audience makes it for her. The story ends really rather bleak, and the audience can choose to interpret it as even more bleak, or hopeful.

*the included picture is the idea for the girl's family's house.

Things that happened over the summer ('09)

Here's a list of things that happened to me over the summer:

1.) I began work on a documentary to benefit the homeless
2.) I went to the beach for a week.
3.) I went to North Carolina and got stung by three bees.
4.) I made a movie about a closet monster.
5.) I worked on AP Latin Homework.
6.) I finally finished the last "Harry Potter" book and was relieved of my fear that someone might spoil it for me.
7.) I watched the entire first season of "True Blood".
8.) I went to Six Flags.
9.) I took a breathilzer test on the first day of summer (and passed.)
10.) I got grounded.


Now for more about my documentary:
I decided that I wanted to do something good for the community before I graduated from high school (in 2010), and I've always liked making movies so I decided to use my talent to help people out. I founded an organization which is made up of my crew of friends that is helping me to make the documentary. In the documentary we are going to show what some of the homeless people of my town struggle through, while at the same time documenting our attempts to complete the construction of a house for homeless children. It requires raising a lot of money though. I fed and met with a lot of homeless people, and I am currently still working on the project. I hope to show it at the small art-house theater downtown once it is completed. This blog is boring because I am bored so I'll stop right now and come back when I have something interesting to say.