Patriots Pen

I would tell America’s founding fathers how grateful I am for all the amendments, and also how I think some things could have been changed. I think that a lot of amendments could have been changed or tweaked so that they would work more in our benefit. I also think that some of them are perfect and have really worked in the United States favor as well.

I am very thankful for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press and the right to assemble and petition the government. If it was not for freedom of speech we would not be able to protest and share are opinions and what we think is right. If it wasn’t for the freedom of religion we would not be able to go to whatever church we want people would have to tell us what church to go to wether we were that religion or not. If it was not for the freedom of press we would not be able to talk about certain events and then people wouldn’t know about it. If it was not for the right to assemble and petition the government we would not be able to sign petitions and state our opinions. Another amendment that I am grateful for is the right to bear arms because it was not for the right to bear arms we would be unable to keep firearms to protect ourselves. The amendment to prohibit the forced quartering of soldiers during peace time is a good thing to because they won’t make you become a soldier in a war.

Some Amendments I am not so grateful for are that they prohibit excessive fines and excessive bail as well as cruel and unusual punishment because no matter how bad you hurt someone or kill someone nobody deserves to be treated that way no matter how evil or disgusting they are. I also don’t agree with the prohibition of alcohol because it doesn’t work people drink when they want to.

Some amendments are really good and I am very grateful  and appreciate them very much but there are also some that should have never been made or at least changed but I am grateful for all the founding fathers did for our country and this is what I would tell Americas founding fathers.     

The Alliance

Authors Note: I wrote this cause and effect piece on the hunger games and the few chapters where Rue was alive. I chose the book the Hunger Games because it was my favorite books. The Rue scenes were my favorite because I felt like Rue and Katniss’s relationship was very touching. It made me so sad when Rue got killed   

In the book the hunger games 24 kids go to a game called to go the hunger games if they get picked at the hunger games. There are several climaxes in the book the hunger games.  One of the turning points is when Katniss takes Rue in as an ally. This is a turning point because it made them take a liking to each other so this made a dramatic scene when Rue died which caused and outbreak in district 8 which also caused some of the trouble Katniss got into after the games. The main event that led up to this climax would be the tracker jacker incident. When the tracker jackers bit Katniss she passed out for 2 days so Rue looked out and took care or her, so when she woke up she decided to form an alliance with her.

Some things that happened because of this event was the riot in district 8. The reason they broke out in a riot was because of what Katniss did to Rues body, she decorated her body with flowers and gave the symbol for respect to the screen to show that she had respect for district 8.   

President of Panem

Authors note: I chose to write my conflict and resolution paper on The Hunger Games because it is my favorite book. I chose to write about Katniss becoming the president because it is the main conflict of the story.

The Hunger Games is a game where kids go to fight to the death. 2 children form each district get called at whats called a reaping and go to the capitol where the arena is. I think that The Hunger games is a person vs. society conflict because the people from all districts end up fighting against the government because they don't like the way Panem is being run.The conflict in The Hunger Games is hard to end at book one, The conflict is actually has very little to do with Katniss Everdeen herself. The main conflict is more about the government and they way they fight for their country.  The conflict is not resolved until the 3rd book Mocking jay where Katniss ends up killing the president and becomes president herself. This is important because she ends the hunger games so it ends the whole conflict and that is how its resolved

In book 2 Catching fire it tells you how she fought her way up to becoming president and she fought against the president and the people that were against her. She also had people who were rebels that wanted to help her get to the top because they like what she was doing and what she wanted for the country. In the end of book 3 the main conflict is resolved.

Best Dress

Authors note: The reason I wrote a personal narrative on me buying my first dress was because it was a very memorable moment for me and I will never forget it I can also recall all the details.

It was 3 days before my first communion when my mom got me and my sister into the car and drove us up to David’s Bridal. When we pulled into the parking lot my first thought was Bridal? Nobody was getting married it was a first communion not a wedding, so I made sure my mom knew that trust me. My mom  said that they didn’t only have wedding dresses they had all kinds. “ok.” I said we can see what they have.” When we walked in the door the store was full of dresses ceiling to floor It was bonkers!

 I didn’t know where to look they were everywhere all different colors and everything. My mom let me and my sister go off and look on our own but before she let us go she said. “You need to get a white dress and Allison you can get any other color except for white.”That made me heartbroken that I couldn’t get a colorful dress, but I got over it as soon as I saw all the beautiful dresses they had in white. When me and my sister parted ways  my mom also looked around even though she knew that she wasn’t  getting anything. I went  and skimmed through probably thousands of dresses and finally found a dazzling  one.

  I knew I had to get it. I ran to go find my sister to tell her I found the perfect dress as I found her she was looking at a delightful light green dress she said, “This is the one.”  We went to go find my mom and as we found her she was by wedding dresses and we  told her we  found them, the perfect dresses . Excellent  she said, “Let’s go find Isabelle’s first.” I took my mom to my dress and she grabbed it for me,” Where is yours Allison?” She asked my sister and we walked across the store so my mom could get hers.  My mom said “you have to try them on to make sure they fit.” We both went back  to the dressing rooms.

When  we were done changing we both opened the doors at the same time, and before we even got out of the dressing room we looked at each other in amazement.   Both of our dresses looked stunning,  we walked and both twirled to show my mom.  She actually started tearing up a little. “You’re getting so old.” She said (I was 7 years old can you imagine what  she’ll do when I graduate.) We finally bought our dresses and went home making sure to be gentle with them.  I was  ecstatic for my big day especially now that I had the best dress.