Assignment#7: My Self-Value

 Everyone has their jealous days. Everyone can say they’re not jealous but everyone has a green monster in them. I always thought I wasn’t going to be the jealous type when I had a boyfriend. At first I wasn’t but then I started to get more feelings for him so I started to get more jealous. When we would be together I didn’t even like for him to say hi to girls, I never said anything I just kept it in. and now I think I’m even more jealous because my boyfriend doesn’t even come to the same school as me, he goes to a different school. I didn’t want him to go to another school because now I don’t know what he’s doing or who he’s talking to. So many things run thru my mind it drives me crazy sometimes. I try not to let it get to me and it works sometimes but not all the time. I don’t like having to be the jealous one but sometimes when you really love someone it might just be worth it at the end of the day because we’re both still together and stronger.

 Being jealous of someone doesn’t make you any better than them. All its pretty much saying that you want to be like them or you feel like you have competition against them. Girls are jealous get jealous about everything, just cause they don’t have big boobs or a big butt, maybe even cause they don’t have the boy that they like. We girls get jealous about the stupid little things that don’t even matter to people.

 Try not to be the jealous one and help other people not be jealous either. Tell them it’s not worth it. Because if you get too jealous you could probably, most likely get into some problems with other people. So if you have a little sister or little brother you be the bigger person and don’t let them see that you are a jealous person, cause every little sister wants to be like the big sister and if she sees that you get jealous she’s going to think its ok for her to get jealous.

 So don’t be jealous and put everything aside and be happy don’t think about what the other girls look like everyone is their own person and there is no reason to be jealous of someone just cause you want to be exactly like them.

Assignment #12: The Black Cat

The whole point in the story “The Black Cat” was just a message to other people saying that violence isn’t the answer to anything violence doesn’t solve anything. You may be mad or angry inside or at someone. But you DON’T have to go out and hit or hurt someone, because all your really doing is hurting yourself. Use words to say how you feel. You don’t have to hurt someone to feel better. Just because your mad and you want to hurt someone does not make it ok. Just imagine how that person feels. What if that was you and some one just went up to you and punched you how you feel? You might feel better cause you hit someone but deep down you know it wasn’t the right thing to do and you feel guilty.

Assignment #10: Bullying

I think everyone has been bullied at least one time in their life. I know I have. When kids get bullied its not always at school, it could be at home by older siblings. I say that because I used to get bullies by my older cousins they would always pick on me and make me cry. They would make me feel so left out I hated it.

 Once I got to middle school the bullying started all over again. The girls that picked on me were way bigger then I was. There was three girls an I am not going to lie I was scared I even used to eat in the counselors office with my other friend. There was days where I didn’t even want to go to school I was scared that if I even looked at them they would hurt me. One time the girls had even told me that they knew where I lived and that they were going to follow me home and jump me. That day I stood after school because I was scared that they were really going to jump me.

 I told my mom and she wanted me to tell the counselors, the principal, and the teachers. I didn’t want to because I didn’t want to be the rat of the snitch. But I know if I said something it would stop, but at the same time I thought things would get worse because I told on them. So I just decided to tell the counselor and she said that everything was my fault she pretty much took the others girls side so now it was pretty much like four against one. I told my mom what happened and she got mad she was so mad that she wanted to switch me schools because she didn’t want anything to happen to me.

 On the second of the last day of 8th grade the girls came up to me and said they were sorry for everything and that they felt bad. I didn’t want to talk to them because I was so mad at them cause they picked on me for 3 years and pretty much on the last day of school they say sorry? What took them so long to say sorry, I just didn’t trust them after that but I didn’t have to deal with them anymore so that was the only good thing.

 This is my experience with bulling.

Assignment #9

This is Fabio. I met Fabio when I was 13. We ran into each other at Wal-Mart . I was going to go try on some clothes and Fabio happened to be in the dressing room. No one knew he was there, I wasn’t sure if I should tell my mom. So what I did was I got some baby clothes to dress him as if he were a little baby. So I was waling around with him, holding him as if he were a baby.

 I happened to run into my mom and she had asked who I was carrying. All I said was his name is Fabio and I walked away. We went to the car to wait for my mom and she noticed Fabio in the back seat and I told her that he was an ailen. She looked at me as if I were crazy. So I took the baby cloths off of him and she didn’t know what to say.

 So she let me take him home I wasn’t sure what I was getting my self into by bringing home an alien. So we all got to my house and we sat him on the couch and just looked at him, like what are we going to do with this alien? My mom and I decided to keep him in our house.

 We even made his own room. Fabio was like the little brother that I never had. It was fun he talked like a regular person he acted like a regular person he did everything like he was a regular person. Fabio lived with us for about 7 years I was 18 when he moved out. Well he didn’t really move out his reak parents came back for him.

 Fabio didn’t want to leave cause he had gotten so comfortable at our house. When his parents had came for him he introduced my mom and I to them. He said he didn’t want to leave but he had no choice.

 His parents told him that my mom and I could move back to Mars with them, and that was the only way we woyld be able to keep in touch with each other. Then my mom said well how bout he can come down every other weekend and the weekend that hes not here we’ll go to mars?

 So they agreed they agreed! We all kept intouch. We were pretty much one big family. We all got together every holiday. Thanksgiving was the best holiday for all of us. We all got together at my house there is at least more then 20 of us for thanksgiving. But we are all one big happy family!

Book Report

  The book that I currently finished reading was “The Lovely Bones”. Im sure you have seen the movie, but the book is nothing compared to the movie. The little girls name is Suzie. She was only 14 years old when her neighbor killed her. In the movie he traps her into a club house ha created just to murder Suzie. In the book it goes into detail. The book says that he raped her and he cut her up into pieces with a razor blade. The movie does not show that. Her dad tries to find out who killed his daughter. He doesn’t find out till the end when he goes over to the neighbors house and he brings up his daughter. And something clicked in the dads head that he was the one who killed his daughter so the dad calls the detective and tells him that he knows it was the neighbor that killed had daughter. And the detective got mad because he shouldn’t have been at the neighbors house in the first place. So now that the neighbor know that the dad knows the neighbor gets his stuff and leaves. The most important thing he took was Suzie’s body. He had it in some safe with every single part of her body. So he goes to a dump and leaves the safe there. The neighbor leaves out of town and tries to do the same to another girl but she didn’t even pay attention to her so she pushed him and he fell off a cliff and died.

  I honestly don’t like the way it ends I wish thy would have caught the guy.

Show And Tell

  For my show and tell I would bring my niece Alina. I would bring Alina because she is the most bubbly little girl she is 4 years old. Alina is never mad she is always so happy, you just cant get mad at this little girl she will make you feel bad by the way she looks at you with her big droopy eyes. She makes everyone’s day in my house. You could be mad at the world and you see this little chunky girl and she just makes you smile. Alina talks so much. You might not be able to understand everything she’s saying but she will just sit there and have the biggest conversation with you, all you have to do is nod your head and she will keep going on. I have three other nieces and don’t get me wrong I love them all they just don’t make me smile as much as Alina does. Alina loves to dance and eat. All you have to do when she’s sad is give her a cookie and she will forget why she was sad in the first place. Well that’s who I would bring to my show and tell.

My Final Essay

   Hi my name is Samantha Nicole Marquez, I am 16 years old and I am a sophomore at Atrisco Heritage Academy High School. My best friends are Irma, Marissa, and Mariah. I have known Irma since I was in the 3rd grade. She now has a little boy named Jovanny; he will be 6 months in the first of June. I have known Mariah since the 6th grade. Mariah and I have been thru a lot in middle school we would be real close then we would hate each other, but now were as close as can be! And last but not least Marissa, I met Marissa at the beginning of my sophomore year. We have gotten so close to each other, we tell each other everything! We are always together and we always know how to have fun! In this essay I will be telling you some of the different things I learned and some things I have been thru at this school.

 I came from El Paso. El Paso is so different compared to over here in Albuquerque. Some El Paso schools are trashed and some are in real good condition, depending on what side of town you’re on. All if my family lived in the lower valley part of El Paso. All my Tia’s and Tio’s went to a high school called Riverside. I some from a family that struggles a lot! Every family has hard times but it almost seemed like my family was always going thru a hard time. My mom, my sister and I lived at my grammas house where my Tia and her 3 kids lived at so there were 8 people living in one small house. You could only imagine how crowded it was. My cousins were always pushing me to do well in school. But once we moved out here to Albuquerque a didn’t care of what my grades were. I slacked off a lot; I was hanging out with the wrong people. I would get in trouble and I never realized how much I was hurting myself and my mom. I just didn’t care.

 I have made a big improvement on my grades and how I act towards school. I care about my grades because I don’t want to be held back a year just cause I wanted to go back to El Paso and be with my cousins. The only way I could go back to El Paso and be with my cousins is if I do well in school and get good grades. I might not have straight A’s but one day I will. I have learned that no matter what you’re always going to have to work for what you want. If you do badly in school just because you don’t care you’re probably going to end up working at some cheap place that pays you 6 dollars an hour. So just do well in school and it will help you later in the feature.

 This year as a sophomore I have learned many different things. I have learned that you’re always going to make new friends so it is ok to lose a couple. I lost a friend this year but it didn’t bother me because I knew that she wasn’t a true friend and I made 2 new friends and they are much better friends then that other one was. My friends and I have been thru a lot together. When someone needs help or if one of us is sad we all knew how to make everything better. We all had our ups and downs and the little fights that last like 10 minutes but we make up and everything goes back to normal.

 I have 2 more years left of high school I’m going to make the best if it and not let anything stop me from what I want to do!

My Anything Blog (Poems)

I Used To...

I used to say I'll never fall in love

But now i am.

I always think of you

But never will i forget you.

I once thought it was all just a dream

But now i realize its reality.

If i could have one wish,

I would hold on to you,

I never want to let you go.

But i might just have to sooner or later.

I can't, its too hard

But i can be strong and try

I wont cry

But i might...

I used to say i would never let you go

But now i did and your gone.

Wishes And Fears

I'm afraid of you

I'm afraid of loving you

I'm afraid I'm going to get hurt... Again

I'm afraid i might lose you

I'm even afraid to hold on.

I'm afraid of us

I'm afraid of our love

I'm afraid that we might lose each other

I'm afraid that you might not love me

I'm even afraid we might fall apart.

I want to be with you

I want us to last forever

I want your love

I want the key to your heart

I even want you to love me back

I want love

I want you

I want you to want me

I want you to need me

And i want you to tell me you love me back

Most of all I want you to be mine.

The poems ''I Used To'' and ''Wishes and Fears"  is about a young girl that does
not know how to choose between two guys one she loves and one she is falling for.
She wants to be with the one she loves but all he does is hurt her, she wants to be with the one shes fallin for
because she knows that he will treat her better and she knows that he wont hurt her.

Wisdom Quote

If today was my last day my wisdom quote for my whole life would be "I Love My Family". My family is the most important thing in my life because they will always be there for me when I need them, they will help me make the right decisions, they will care for me when no one else will and most of all they will always love me even if we fight.

You should feel the same way because your family is always going to be there for you even if you say there not they always will be. They care for you more then you will ever know. So they will always be there for you.

This is going to be my life’s quote because my family means more to me than anyone else in the world. They were always there for me when I needed them, they helped me when I needed help and they helped me even if I didn’t need help. I do and always will love my family.

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. (Fromm, Eric).”

My Poem

I miss you i really do

I sometimes wonder what it would be like if we didn't stop talking

I wonder if you still think about me, if you talk about me.

I wonder if you ever wanna talk to me... Again

I somethimes feel lost without you

I feel like i cant move on

I feel like you forgot about everything we had,

Everything we did

Everything we promised eachother

Everything you told me.

It sucks the way it ended.

I wish it could've ended in a better way

I hate seeing you with her knowing she is carrying your child

One day i hope you look at me and relize what you lost!

Kourtney Kardashion

 

  If I could be a person for a day I would be Kourtney Kardashian because, well first she is famous. Kourtney is a very beautiful girl. Kourtney has 2 sisters Kim and Kloe and one brother Robert Kardashian. Kourtney is the oldest out of all 4 of them. Kourtney and her family have their own show, you might’ve heard of it, its called The Kardashian. Kourtney and Kloe also have their own show, you might have heard about it also, its called Kourtney and Kloe take Miami.

  I would also want to be Kourtney because she has a son. She just had him in December. From what I have seen in her shows it seems like she has a pretty good, wild and fun life. Who wouldn’t want that kind of life style? I know I would.

  If I were Kourtney I would love to be out all day at photo shoots. I wouldn’t mind people taking pictures of me because I would get money for the pictures. Every one knows who the Kardashians are. If you don’t know who they are then you must be crazy. Those 3 girls are known for their big butt and the beautiful smile! Kourtney is my favorite famous person! I can pretty much say she is my role model!

Betrayal

 I'm sure everyone has gone threw a stage in their life where they have been betrayed or know someone that has been betrayed.

  I’m going to tell you a story about betrayal.

  So there once was these 3 girls named Judith, Nicole, and Lely. They all met in the begging of their freshmen year. Nicole and Lely were real good friends they were always together! They would go over to each others houses after school like any average teen girls. They would talk about boys, everything that was going on. Lely and Nicole would even get in trouble together over little thing. Lely had a boyfriend at the time so just because she had a boyfriend she sometimes thought she was better then us. But I thought maybe she would get over it… but she didn’t!

  Towards the middle of the year Lely and Nicole started to hang out with Judith more. So Nicole and Judith started to hang out more and Lely was getting jealous cause she thought Judith was taking Nicole away. So as Nicole and Judith got closer Lely didn’t hang out with them as much. Towards the end of the year Nicole and Judith got real close. They didn’t care if Lely was mad at them or not.

   So sophomore year comes. And Judith doesn’t go to the same school as Nicole and Lely. So Lely finds herself a new group of friends. Nicole hung out with a girl she knew from last year. Nicole and Lely still talked. They weren’t as close as they used to be. So if they had seen each other in the hallways they would say hi and bye(small talk). They pretty much fell apart. Nicole didn’t really mind. But Lely did! She liked to talk about Nicole behind her back. Nicole knew she was but she couldn’t do anything to her. So Nicole just ignored it, she didn’t care what Lely thought about her. Towards the middle of the year Judith came back, so Nicole started to hang out with Judith again. And once Judith came back Lely wanted to be Nicole’s best friend again. 

   So the only reason why she wanted to friends with Nicole again was because Lely was scarred of Judith. Lely would only tell Nicole stuff is Judith wasn’t there. Nicole always told Judith what Lely would say. It finally came to a point where Nicole couldn’t take it no more so she ended up telling Lely off! The only thing Lely did was go cry to her mom. Her mom went to the school and complained that Nicole was bullying her daughter so Lely just made it worse for her self.

   So Lely stopped going to school and everything was back to normal.

Courage!!

There has been many times when I’ve been asked to do something and it’s real hard for me to do it either because I don’t want to or I’m just really stubborn.

Like it is real hard for me to apologize to people even if I’m the one that’s wrong. But I have to be the bigger person and say I’m sorry. It takes a person a lot to apologize, it not easy! It might not have been a big deal to you but in might’ve been to the other person. If you’re the first one to say sorry it really does show that you’re the bigger person.

I know this because me and my step dad get into little arguments and I’m the one who messed up because I’m the one who shouldn’t have talked back or yell back. My mom always has to yell me to say sorry. I won’t say I’m sorry right away it might take a couple days but I will end up saying sorry. It is really hard for me to say sorry because I think I’m right but the other person is right.

When I say sorry that is all I literally say I don’t say why I’m sorry even though I know I should. If I do something to you and I’m wrong and I say sorry don’t expect a big speech of why I’m sorry just be glad that I said sorry in the first place. It’s up to you if you want to accept my apology or not.

Sometimes you really just have to be the bigger person and admit what you did or said was wrong. It will show the other person that’s your not a bad person. If you don’t say sorry the other person is going to think the worst of you.

Time Traveling Machine

If I could invent a time machine I would go back to El Paso and stay with my cousins, my grandma, and the rest of my family that lives there.

I would go back to El Paso because that’s where I’m from. I grew up there; I’m moved to ALB when I was about 7 years old. At first I liked it, and then as I got older I realized how much I missed El Paso! I, my mom, and my mom’s husband used to go every other weekend. We would go to see my older sister and he would go to see his kids. We don’t go as often as we used to because my sister finished school already, and he has custody of his kids. So when we get to go to El Paso I’m really excited and anxious to see everyone, to see how big the kids got from the last time I had seen them! Leaving is the hardest part for me! I get really emotional when it comes to saying goodbye to all my cousins. So I would have a time machine to take me back to El Paso. That way I could go back whenever I want and still come back to ALB.

I would also want to go back in time to when I wasn’t even born. I would go back that far because I would like to meet my dad and my grandpa. I don’t know neither one of them. I know very little about them. I know my dad left when my mom told him she was pregnant with me. And I know that my grandpa was in the army. That’s all I know. I say I want to go back to meet my dad, I would like to meet him because I want to ask him why he left, why he hasn’t tried to see, or why I never got a birthday call from him. I’m not going to turn into this spoiled little daddy’s girl; all I really want to know is why he didn’t stay? I have gone 16 years of my life without knowing who he was. It might not make a difference now, but at least I would be able to say yea I know my dad instead of saying I don’t know who he is.

So if I could create a time traveling machine that’s where I would go, who I would meet, and I would ask them.

My Family!!!

My family is really big. My grandma had 7 kids, so you can only imagine how big my family is. She had 6 girls and 1 boy.

 I don't know much about my family history. But what I do know is allot of my family is from El Paso or Mexico. My family does have a specific event. That event is every Thanksgiving all of my Tias and Tios come down to El Paso and we all meet up at my grandma’s house. My Tias and Tios come from California Austin and New Mexico. Once everyone is together we all start cooking. The kitchen gets really crowded. But it doesn’t matter! The best part is you hear laughter, everyone catching up with one another, kids running, playing, and laughter. You can never get tired of hearing those noises; it’s a little something that I look forward to every year.

My family is like any other we have problems... Which family doesn't? But at the same time my family is real close. We may be far apart but in our hearts were always together. Like take me and my cousins for example, we are real close I would always be with them any chance I got. But I moved here to New Mexico. It was really hard for me I didn't have no one over here. But we talk every night so it’s like were still together we just don't see each other like we used to.

As you noticed I didn't mention my Grandpa. Well I don’t have one, I did but he passed away before any of the grandkids met him. None of my cousins knew who he was. We know his name, the little things about him. I do know that he was in the military. My Grandpa and Grandma were 10 years apart. My grandma had her first child at 15 years old. It was hard but they did it. My grandma is a very hard worker till this day she still works real hard to help everyone out as much as she can.

Well this essay tells you a little about my family.

10 Quotes Of Life

"It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you (Unknown, Author)"

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  "There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it (Chalmers, Irena )"

"A good neighbor will babysit. A great neighbor will babysit twins (Unknown ,Author)"

"Love is blind; hate is deaf (Unknown, Author)"

"Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye (Unknown, Author)?"

"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police (Richards, Keith)"

"Angels, pixies, faerie dust treading love and living lust (Tyler, Jaesse)"

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  "Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble best to seek out a relative's open arms (Unknown, Author)" 
  
  

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water

(Rivarol, Antoine)."

"Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smile again (Harte, Brete)."

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

I learned that this little girl named Nujood.

Nujood is only 10 years of age.
She has written a book of
what she has been threw in her
life.

Her parents forced her to get
married at the age 10 to a 30 year
old man.

Standing in the corner of her own wedding
she cried, she was scared. She didn't know
what was going to happen.
Even though her husband promised
Nujood's dad that he wouldn't have sex
with her untill she started menstruating.
But her husband pretty much
raped her the first night
they were married.

Nujood's husband forced her to drop
out of school. Once that happend he stated abusing her
in any way you could
imagine.

She finally had enough of him, she heard about
divorce.
Nujood had to runaway from her husband
in order to get a divorce.
She jumped in the back of a taxi and
had asked to be driven to the
nearest courthouse.
The judge was shocked to see such a little
girl demanding that she wanted a divorce!

The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters is a good movie.

I learned alot from this movie!

I learned that back in the day if you were

black and if you passed by white

people they could burn you.

There was a part in the movie

where the debaters were in theier way to

a debating match and they

noticed that there was a bunch

of white people were burning a black

person.

The youngest debater was

scared because

he didnt know

what was going to happen to the rest of them.

Diego Rivera

I think that this picture means this lasdy

is strtuggling to pick up all those

flowers.

Im sure the flolwers are heavy and it even

looks like there is alot of flowers too!

I noticed that Diego Reivera's paintings 

all kind of have the same meaning

to them.

 Because i see alot of his paintings

and it looks like the

people

are struggling.

Freedom?

The New Colossus



By Emma Lazarus, 1883

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

     I think that this poem would've been more true. It might have been many years ago but the poem is not so current now. Now their building a wall between the US and Mexico. So now in order to come to the US you MUST be illegal.

Dog Fights

I think that dog fights are not good at all! I think that people hosting dog fights should go to jail for some time. like michael vick. If you agree with this you can go to the website below and sighn a petition. Thanks for supporting this!

http://www.theliteracysite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=5&campaign=DogFighting

My name is Samantha, i'm 16 years old and im from el paso!

The Sunset

The sunset is beautiful in many different ways, it shines brightly.