It was just a normal day. I was taking a walk at night like usual when I couldn’t sleep. My parents were fine with that since I was 18, soon to be 19, and going to college. I was doing my usual walk around the neighborhood and local elementary school. After that, I usually went back home, but today I went toward the park instead. 

It was quiet out that night.  No one was there, and I usually felt safe… At least that’s what I thought. But today, however, I felt like someone was watching me. I kept going and found myself at the park. I felt safe there, so I walked around on some trails to calm myself down, and it seemed to work. After a little while I took a break, and sat down on a nearby bench that was sort of hidden to rest.

A little later, I woke up to the abrupt sound of a scratching noise or something being sharpened… Like a knife. It was very late at that point and pitch black. Under a nearby street lamp I saw a figure. At first I thought it was my dad looking for me. He knew I did this sort of thing of walking around the neighborhood, but immediately I knew it wasn’t him. So I ran and hid in a nearby bush. 

The figure was a big tall man, covered in black. I couldn’t see his face except for his strange wide smile. He stood around the streetlamp for a couple minutes. Then he reached into his pocket for something. I couldn’t see what it was at first, but after my eyes adjusted to the lighting my blood ran cold. I saw what he was holding.

It was a butcher’s knife. Caked with blood. I didn’t want to know where it came from. However being me and thinking the worst, it was probably from a person. Right as I was going to get out of my hiding spot and run he spotted me and darted straight for me. I took off and started running faster than I have ever ran before. 

I soon started to slow down, and I couldn’t run anymore.  I passed out right before I could get to my house. Soon after I woke up, I felt excruciating pain only on my right arm.  I reached over to look at my arm. My arm was cut and bleeding. There was a message carved into my arm! The message was very chilling. there was a message that gave me goosebumps. On my arm, the message said, “ I’ll be back.”

As I glanced  around me, I was in the same spot as I was before. My attacker had done it right where I fell. I didn’t want to  hang around any longer just in case he was still around. As I stood up, I ran to my house. As I walked up to open the door, it was locked. My parents were gone too. I forgot, they were on a trip. As I searched around for a window that was open, I was lucky there was one  open a small crack. Just enough for me to lift up and climb inside. 

Once inside my house, I tried to call 911. My phone was dead!  I tried to turn on the light, but it wouldn’t turn on. I quickly bandaged my arm. I knew the power wasn’t out everywhere because I saw some homes lit up inside. “That’s odd,” I thought, trying to see if anything else will work. I decided to check the fuse box to see if anybody was messing with it. 

Our fuse box was outside. While I stood by the fuse box fiddling with it, I felt a bone-chilling sensation that someone was nearby. When I turned around, nothing was there. But I knew someone was watching me. When I turned to face a nearby tree there he was… the attacker. I took off the very moment I saw him. I took off running blindly in the night hoping this would all go away. 

While running, I spotted my friend walking out of the gas station. She was holding some snacks and a bottle of water. As I approached her I saw the attacker.  I quickly grabbed her arm and hid behind the gas station. I didn’t want to leave her behind since the creep was running after me. 

“ What was that for, she said confused and angry at the same time. “ Shut up don’t let him hear us,”I said in a whisper. “ Who “ my friend Angela said. As she spoke, out of the corner of my eye I saw him lurking in the shadows.   “That’s no attacker that’s Eric. He’s a friend I met at college. “ “ Are you sure that this Eric is the person you met? ” I said panicking. 

 But Angela didn’t hear me and  was already walking towards Eric and walked away with him… After that incident, I never saw Angela again or the attacker. There was a police search but the case went cold after 5 years. That was the last I ever saw of Angela…alive that is.

I can’t even imagine without a farm there would nothing to do, no place to play, no place to hunt, nowhere to keep my pigs and were to have three chicken houses. With my life on a farm, there are plenty of places to go and I can and play in all the open areas. I can go and play in the woods and go catch fish and crayfish and go look for snakes and jumping across. I can go explore in the woods and build stuff out of sticks and I can go look for different animals. I do that all of the time. I would also not need to go and find a place to go fishing I can just go behind my house and there are lots of fish and I know where they like to hide. There are also a lot of steep hills where you can go sledding and it is a lot of fun. Also, there is a good area to hunt in and I love hunting. Almost every year I get a deer and that is my second favorite thing to do. I do a lot of work I plant the food plots and that takes a long time but it is all worth it when you get one and I also go sit in a tree stand every evening that it is in season and I sit there all day on Saturday. Those are some of the main things I love about living on a farm. 

Now here are some things that are bad about living on a farm. The big one is having a lot of work to do I do a lot of work in the chickenhouse and a lot of work it the barn with the cows and most of the time it is hard work. The other main problem of living on a farm is that there is lots of work and it takes a long time your work 7 days a week for 10 or more hours a day some times in the spring and fall you work all night it just depends on the time of year. That are some of the problems with living on a farm. There are some good things like getting to go play at the creek and getting to play in the woods and get to play in my big back yard. Then there are some bad things like lots of work and long hours. That are some of the goods and bads of living on a farm.

I have three brothers and one sister. My sister is nice and relaxed. My brothers, on the other hand, can be nice and calm but they can also be loud and crazy. Each of them can be nice but they can also be very annoying. Connor and Beckett are both so loud and both of them are always talking. Connor and Beckett are my two younger brothers. At my house, it isn’t quiet very often. Since I have three brothers and a sister my family’s schedule is very busy. Every night I usually am going to an event or sport for one of my siblings or myself. 

My older brother is nice and relaxed but I get in fights with him probably the most. The only sport he plays is baseball. When we play one on one the game gets very competitive and both of us improve by playing one on one but we both usually start to get in a fight and that leads to us to stop playing. 

Connor is by far the craziest one of my siblings. He is only 10 years old.

 He is very loud and he is always talking about something. He loves to play video games and sports. He is very competitive and never likes to lose at all. No matter what he is losing by in whatever game or sport he never gives up to try and to come back and win. 

Beckett is loud and is so funny. He is 6 years old. Since he is only 6 he doesn’t know that much. If one of my other brothers would make a joke or say something funny and we would laugh, he would most likely laugh as well but he would only laugh because we were laughing. Unlike my two other brothers and myself, my youngest brother is not very tall for his age. I really like to play around with him a lot by playing games where we would run around in our family room and fight each other.

Even though each of my brothers are loud and annoying they each are really nice and cool. They each have talents and skills at things that they are good at. They each mean a lot to me. If I didn’t have any brothers I don’t know what my life would be like. Would I have anyone to talk to? I don’t know. One thing I do know is that my life wouldn’t be the same without them.

While Jamal was out shopping for food his moose sense kicked in and told in that someone broke into his house. He quickly rushed home and tried to catch the intruder red-handed. But little did he know Julius was waiting for him to come into his house and attack him. As soon as Jamal walks in BAM… A five-pound rock drops on his head and knocks him unconscious.

When Jamal wakes up he has a trash bag over his head and is in the back of a van. But as soon as he wakes up and starts moving one of the scientists knocks him out again. Julius needed to make sure Jamal did not have a single clue where they were going to be.

Once Julius got to the dock he tossed Jamal out onto the speed boat. Julius jammed the go pedal down so that it would keep going until it ran out of gas. Luckily for Jamal, another one of his doppelgangers came through the portal and saw the speed boat heading off. Once Julius and the scientists left the third Jamal hopped on a speed boat and headed off quickly to cut Jamal’s boat off. ( The third Jamal will be called James) James was able to hop onto Jamal’s boat and stop it from going forward and turn it around to head back to the docks. When Jamal regained consciousness he was in a hospital on the outskirts of the city.

“Where am I?” asked Jamal. 

“You’re at the hospital on the outskirts of the city,” said James.

Jamal asks “Why am I in the hospital?”

“You got knocked out by your evil doppelganger,” said James. 

“Well, we need to find him and stop him,” said Jamal

After about four hours and twenty minutes of lying in the hospital bed, he started going to civilians in the city and asking if they have seen someone who looked exactly like him. After about five hours of searching, they finally found someone who has seen Julius. The citizen said that she had seen him going to the airport and that she was pretty sure he was going to Arizona. As soon as Jamal and James heard this they started heading for the airport. They booked the earliest flight to Arizona so they could get there as soon as possible.

Life with basketball

Life with basketball can be good but also can be bad. First good things. Some good things about basketball is that without it I don’t know what I would do in my free time because I have basketball every night for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Also I would only play baseball and that would eventually just get boring. But there are bad things about basketball too. Like last year, I broke my wrist playing basketball against CV when I went up for a layup. Also, sometimes I don’t like having basketball every night sometimes. But I would not know what to do without basketball I enjoy playing it and I even like to practice it everyday after school then at 6:00 every night. I even go to a trainer on Wednesdays to get better at the game and it has really improved. But like I said basketball can be bad sometimes, like when I’m over at my friends house and everyone can sleepover besides me because I have basketball and have to go to practice.

At the end, basketball is a great sport because you play it with your friends and if you like the game it makes you happy when you play the game. I think basketball is the best sport because it is a active sport and you are always moving and it is really fun! No i’m going to do life without basketball.

Life without basketball

 Life without basketball would suck because it is my favorite sport and I would not no what i would do without it because I could not just focus on baseball that would eventually just get old. But on the other hand, basketball will never get old. If I did not play basketball I would only play one sport and that would get boring like in the fall I do nothing because thats football season and I quit football on D team so I don’t play anything basketball is everything to me and I want to be in the Nba when I grow up and without basketball I would not know what I would do!

Manatees are large marine animals that are also known as sea cows. Their name is appropriate due to their large stature and slow nature. Despite their name, their closest relative is the elephant. Manatees can range in length from 8 to 3 feet and weigh 440 to 1,300 pounds. They can swim about 5 mph but they can swim up to 15 mph in short bursts. There are 3 species of manatee. The Amazonian Manatee, the West Indian Manatee, and the African Manatee. The African manatee lives along the coast and in the rivers of western Africa. The Amazon manatee lives in the Amazon River’s drainage, from the headwaters in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador to the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil. The West Indian manatee lives in the southern and eastern United States, although a few have been known to reach the Bahamas. Manatees are herbivores, therefore at sea they prefer to eat sea grasses. In rivers, they eat freshwater vegetation. They can also eat algae.

Fun fact: A manatee can eat one tenth of its weight in 24 hours. That’s 130 pounds!  That’s all of the facts for my manatee rant.

All this pain,

All I see is a road of nothing. It’s just every morning the same sun coming through the same window at the same time to wake up to the same day to the same sorrow and pain to fight the same battle of the same frustration…

They said it was for the best

I said imma put it to rest

I put it to the test

It’s like I’m running a path to a dead end

Sorry I can’t contend

The demons coming as I distend

Wondering why I chose this dark path

Has me stuck in the bombing of an aftermath

Land full like a bloodbath 

To bad today wasn’t different another bleak adventure

I wish she was still her so I could be with her us forever together

But she gone so I gotta let it go I don’t want to feel tender

Life with technology is very convenient, because you have everything you might need in your pocket. You have entertainment, games, world wide web, calendar and notes. Also computers can help you learn, by helping you remember your homework, typing essays, and being able to contact your teachers. But if we did not have technology for jobs, school, and activities, then we would use a lot more paper and we would cut down more trees, then the air would be low in oxygen, and we could die(worst case scenario).

Having technology is great because you are able to solve an equation by plugging in some numbers, and getting the correct answer. Also you are able to order pretty much anything of your needs or desires right from your phone! Some kids play Xbox and PS4 games like Forza, and Call of Duty, and God of War, which can help with reflexes, and strategy.

Not having technology is so much worse, but most kids think they are going to die if they only get their phone or device taken away from them. Without technology we would not have houses, because they need cranes and other equipment that is technology. Also we would not have as many living people because they would die of many different diseases.          

Therefore devices are better than nothing.

There are so many uses for tools like working on cars which are a big thing and with that is bikes, dirtbikes, four-wheeler, and more automotive stuff and maybe just a project with wood or building a desk or bunk bed (which I call the top bunk).  you could just use tools for anything but just imagine not having any tools it would be a disaster.

You don’t really imagine life without tools until you need them and they’re not there and you can’t fix, make or finish anything an could. Could you imagine all the broken things that would be just lying around not to be used again or repaired well that’s how it would be but nothing would be the same. Some people may not even have a job like that’s what people do every day and millions of people would be homeless because no one can get money to pay for a house and no jobs would be open for anyone. some stuff can’t be opened because nothing to open like a can of something but since there are no tools no more resources could be used so then our plant would be better maybe. and nothing new could be made like to move on in our generation we can’t have better cars, houses, kitchen things, phones, computers, and many many more things that can´t be made. Many people would be just plain bored cause they would have nothing to do because you can’t work on anything and we would have to go back to using our imagination and I feel like if your not a person under the age of 5 that’s pretty hard cause our generation is all technology so. Pretty much lose everything that we all own because once it breaks its all over. But you would have the clothes that you have forever because we can’t make more. This is why life without tools would be difficult because you can’t do anything you can’t fix/make new things and improve our world to be better than it is now and all the little stuff that doesn’t seem big until its not.

Life without tech would be very different. No winning 3 million on Fortnite, or E-Sports. I wouldn’t have a Playstation and there would be no smart boards in the classrooms, I wouldn’t even be typing this essay. 

Without Technology most of the Scientific advancements we have today would be crazy, things like microscopes wouldn’t exist. No electricity, No discovering bacteria or parasites. A lot of people would be very sick, but also people would go outside more and exercise, no distractions like who made a new TikTok, or I got a Snapchat message. The world wouldn’t be as crowded and people would interact more with each other, there wouldn’t be so many wars, or extinct animals, there would be no mass production factories to pollute the earth. No landfills, plastic, or anything else that had polluted the earth and endangered so many species.

Unfortunately, there would be many downsides such as sickness, lack of medicine, and no electricity. With mass epidemics such as Ebola there would be no way to even slow down the process, no antibiotics or painkillers, and the common cold could kill. Without microscopes no one would have discovered Penicillium, the bacteria that created the antibiotic Penicillin. Without electricity we would struggle. There would be nothing like Lightbulbs, or Heating and Air conditioning.  

In conclusion for better, or for worse technology has had a HUGE impact on History, and has changed everything.