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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Day I Tried To Esacpe The Games

  In the clear Summer sky there is something as size of a speck wondering around in the sky . That Speck is a small military private plane that will be sending five people to their graves. The people on the plane are in their mid 20’s to 30’s ready to face starvation and anxiety. Some of the people are just straight out crying or trying to conceal the falling tears.
  Besides the crying the pilot is a really getting annoying. The pilot of the plane is named Brain Johnson. He really has a good reputation of making jokes at a really bad time. He actually laughed when he saw the dead body of his friend at a funeral, yeah disturbing. Anyways back to the story. That’s how it was for the rest of the flight, just hearing people cry or hearing truck loads Brains dumb jokes.
  “We have arrived to your graves” said Brain. We are above of what was New York City. In school I learned that this place was attacked by Russia and Korea during 2025 in order to expand their never ending empires. Of what was left was a vacant New York City. Below us we notice a once thriving community that was once know as Times Square, has been replace with wildlife and thick patches of grass and rioting advertisement. Companies that I never knew heard of like Coca Cola and Apple had numerous advertisements posted every where. Wow, how I imagined a city of Millions of people fleeing this iconic place during the first days of war. Sky scrappers that used to make up the infamous NYC skyline has been eroded and partly destroyed by mostly Russia in WW3 . Other than that its just full of old Russian, Korean and American tanks. Everybody noticed that one part of the city has been cleared out in order to setup several high-tech equipment . A  tall bright red radio tower, a field satellites, and power generators that can power the capital of New Washington DC, have been installed to make sure the show goes on smoothly.
 When we made touchdown at what was a runaway but now that was reduce to a cobbed road.  Later everybody started to think about all the money they can win and all the fame they will get. Man the thought of money just gets wants me to go and kill.
  Soon enough we all abandoned the small crowded plane and started to let the atmosphere sink in. While everyone was talking to each other about first impressions of the island, a muscular man with a pair of Threadbare Jeans, White T-shirt, and jagged sandals came out of a trailer. He introduced us to the former city of New York city and then revealed that he was the host of the show. He looked real enough so we trusted him.
 The muscular guy that will be our host, prefers that we call him Cray. He has a very polite and gentle personality that he can work at a Nursery. He made all of us talk to each other and get to know each other. So I went over to meet this guy in his late 20’s, he had glasses and jet black hair with grease. He told me that he worked for the government working in the mutations lab in the capital city New Washington DC . Ohhh, how I hated the government.  On how they never care about the people. Maybe that's why the stock market completely crashed and why gas is thirty-six dollars per gallon . But most of all, why I hate the government over everything is that they made us five participate In the games.
  Soon enough the sun sink  into the barren asphalt and we were made to find shelter of some sort. All five of us made a two week act that allows no one to kill another. We split up into two groups the scavengers and the hunters, I was put in the scavenger group. I was told to look for helpful items through out vacant offices and apartments. With out a groan I agreed.  While I was searching for supplies I approached of what was a grand building with over sized letters that spelled out New York Stock Exchange, without a second thought I approached the building with great fear. I saw at what was the former flag of the United States of America, but beside of it was the Great Republic Nations of Great Russia flag. My Grandfather once told me he fought in WW3, in order to keep America free but we all now what happened. Inside I found nothing but dinosaur age equipment called computers. I found no use so of this stuff so I headed back outside.
  HELP! Wait I know that voice its on of our teammates. I sounded strange but at the same time it sounded real so I quickly grabbed my tools and gear and try to run where the source of the sound. Five minutes into my journey and I heard what sounded to be a group of men marching the city. In surprise I quickly hid in an old yellow sun powered taxi covered in a layer of dust. “OK we need the quickly end the games but how? “In a big bang!” By the sounds of their voices I can tell they were desperate and in a hurry. Later I started to think how can they blow up the whole city? For hours I thought of the answer. I know! When the Russians invaded NYC they planted under water and land mines and some of the mines are still around and they can be activated by simply stepping on one. But there might be tons of them thought the city so I now know my next step: to escape the games.
  After I saw the men leave from sight I quickly made I run for it hoping to escape this nightmare. I heard that there is a secret city across the Brooklyn Stalin bridge and the people who live there are a couple refugees from the war with Russia. I scanned around for bridges until my eyes settles of what was the remains of the Brooklyn Stalin Bridge. With excitement I ran as fast as I could toward the remains. It was all fun and games into a see a couple of soldiers marching viciously towards me.
 “You dirty human! Do you know what you are doing bloody fool?!” one of the soldiers said with a unease tone . With anger I erupted and did one thing that I man should never do, is to spit on a soldier.  He started at me with his empty eyes of death. “Shoot that fool and make sure he never leaves this place.” he said without care. As if I knew, one of the soldiers pulled out a standard army pistol and pointed it to my head. “So you now what happens next?    ...Cliffhanger.....

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Changing A Life

    It was a warm tropic summer enough to make you clench with thirst. When we arrived all my family was relived that we arrived. We quickly flagged down a taxi and departed. When all this was happening I was a kid still thinking life is a game and if you did something wrong you can simply press RESTART.
    On the way to our destination, I enjoyed looking at all the bright colored Spanish styled houses along the coastlines. Soon after that we passed through thick patches of forest, you couldn't really hear nature because we probably drove them away with the sounds of our engine. I mostly spent the whole time fighting with my sisters.
    Soon enough we arrived to my Dad's hometown. It was  I was like a Mexican version of Kannapolis because it isn't a big city but a good number of people lived there. I was amazed by how much people there was at the heart of the town. Families enjoying time with each other, people having interesting conversions and so on. The look on may dad's face was priceless when he saw his family,  it was like a soldier gone at war and finally coming back home.
    The house where we will be staying at was beautifully done. It was stucco covered with a slight tan color with pumpkin colored tiles, enough to fool a kid to make him think that the house was an oversize pumpkin. Inside it had 4 Mid rooms, living room, kitchen, and all that stuff.I was surprised that there is no drywall but the walls were a hard out of clay/cement, just like your typical Mid Eastern Mexican house will be.
    The fallowing afternoon we meet with other family members and that we didn't talk to in countless years. All from uncles to cousins I was told countless stories of my really early childhood. Some Uncles I have all like professors and teachers at Universities and they always are giving me tips like "never quit", "don't stop because of one mistake", etc. .That just kept on happening until the sun sunk in the horizon of the Earth.
    There is one uncle that especially caught my interest,  is my uncle Fransisco. He is that type of person that never gets an attitude and seems that nothing brings him down.
    One Summer afternoon My uncle, dad, and left to go do some quick errands. My uncle and dad were having a conversion about some topic probably about politics or something of that nature. I was dozing off until he brought me into the conversion by asking "So how is school?". I simply responded  "good". It went on like that for a good while. Then he said "Did you think life is not easy is it sounds like?" I said "Really, so if I want something I will have to work hard for it?" "Exactly" After that my dad took him back into another one of his long day conversions.
 "Did think you life is not easy is it sounds like?" That one little phrase was jammed in my head for the rest of the day. As a kid I just decided to let it go and just went on with life.

  As sometime went on..... I did learn life isn't easy, you can't just ask for a guide book to life. 





Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Tell Tale Hearts Project


[The Pixton Project add-on  is more of a pun to entertain.]

At first I thought when I saw the title "Tell Tale Hearts" it sounded like some Japanese Cartoon, but it was really about a man that has been vexed by an old man's eye and somehow kills him. When I read the story a couple of times, I later got a deeper understanding of the book. One of those deep understandings is that I figured out the theme of the book. The theme of the book is "If U know you did something awful, you will haunted with that memory until you admit the truth"- Luis Carmona   It ties in because the killer was getting vexed by a beating heart and later he couldn't handle it and he ripped the floor planks up. In the comic the killer had a mustache, in old time cartoons the person with the mustache is most likely the killer or a suspect.



Friday, December 9, 2011

How Wilderness Survival realte to the Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games featured a lot of topics that relate to society like government surveillance, dictatorship,etc. When I viewing my topics to talk about, Survival Skills quickly jumped into mind. Its really easily to relate to the Hunger Games because half of the book was featured in an arena that was filled with a big Wilderness setting. They were giving the clothes they bared and the players had to "..outwit, outplay, and outlast."(John A. Thomas)
    In the Wilderness you can easily could have died if you didn't have any sort of strategy. Hamitch told Peeta and Katniss to not go to do the cornucopia when the gong rang, but to run of to the dense woods and find a source of water as soon as possible. This basic strategy helped keep Peeta and Katniss live throughout the Hunger Games without dieing. Another Skill is to find your way to safety, it can easily save your life also. Take This Scene: A man that is up camping a tree vs. A man camping on the ground with no protection, we can easily tell who is going to last longer.
    Overall the most important tool is your mind. Trapping and Snaring can be an easy source to find and trap food. First of all you need to know what to trap and not to catch, Katniss knew somewhat about what is safe and what was not safe because her mother was an apothecary. When Many tributes died by eating stuff their not supposed to eat, Katniss was smart enough and knew what to eat and not to eat. The most important tip to snaring is not to alarm the prey by leaving clues to your snare/trap. If you let an animal know where your snare/trap is that animal will most likely not go in that direction.
    Effective Use of Camouflage clothing in the wilderness can also effect the results of you living or dieing. Camouflage can be simple as covering your self with the the things in your area like pine cones,leaves,mud,etc. In the Hunger Games the setting was a mixture of two settings: A meadow with a large lake and a thick forest. When Katniss went hunting or spying, she often hid in bushes and tried to muffle the sound of her footsteps.
    If you fallow this top 5 tips for Wilderness Survival you have a big chance of surviving. Build shelter, shelter can be easy as sleeping up in a tree or an abandoned cave. In the Hunger Games, when Peeta was bleeding out he quickly found a near by cave and camped their. You can be like Katniss when she found a willow tree for shelter. Study the weather around you, In the arena the Gamemakers often changed the Heat rapidly and rapidly drop down the weather to bone chilling temperatures. Water is the most critical tool for your body. Katniss was dieing for thirst until she a found a quaint source a water: a small pond of mud. The most major tool is staying calm, no matter what. Peeta and Katniss were losing their minds, but somehow they calmed down and headed for one goal: To win the Hunger Games, together. Avery, Luther.


"Top 5 Tips for Wilderness Survival." Akorra.com. 3 Mar. 2010. Web. 06 Dec. 2011. . Falk, Erik C. "Alone in the Wilderness." Wilderness Survival Skills for Safe Wilderness Travel. Web. 07 Dec. 2011. . Thomas, John A. "Effective Use Of Camouflage Clothing In Wilderness Survival." Article Dashboard Directory | Submit Articles | Search Find Free Content | Author Submission. Web. 06 Dec. 2011. . "Wilderness Survival: Food Procurement - Traps and Snares." Wilderness Survival: Free Info Covering All Aspects of Survival. Web. 07 Dec. 2011. .

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Hunger Gmaes Final Post


Hunger Games Pt.1
Hunger Games Pt.2
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Hunger Games Pt.3
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In this Project I was trying to show Katniss' Crucial moments during the book. During this project my mind changed about characters. Like when I was reading the book I thought Peeta was Selfish, lair, etc. But during the project my thoughts about Peeta Changed, now I think he is not really selfish  because he saved Katniss' Life two times. Mostly my thoughts changed about Characters during the creation of this project.




Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Hunger Games Blogout!!!

Peeta and Katniss have been this cave for a long time. Katniss eventually opens up to Peeta and both of them looked at the pass memories. I never knew that Peeta all this time liked Katniss. Maybe they might become Best friends or maybe Boyfriend and girlfriend.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Hunger Games Blogout

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I cant believe that katniss put Peeta to sleep by giving him sleep medicine. I think that it was a good idea to "drug" Peeta for she can go to the Cornucopia without Peeta fallowing her. Maybe after this Katniss can retrieve medicine for Peeta, then Peeta and Katniss can survive and win the Hunger Games