My opinion on the Death Penalty.

I think that the death penalty should be in every state because maybe it would make people think twice about what they want or are going to do. Because maybe if people knew that there was a death penalty they wouldn't kill people.


In one case there is this woman named Suzanne Margaret Basso. And what she did was kidnapped a 59 year old man retarded white male who purposely killed him by beating him with belts, baseball bats, steel-toed boots, hands, and feet. They later found the man in a ditch with such bad injures that the body was unrecognizable.
           I think that this poor lady should get the death penalty because 1, the man was retarded and didn't know what was going on. 2, You just dont go around killing random people.


In another case there was this male named Robert Gene Will, II, made an attempt to burglarize a car and was being chased by a White male officer Once the officer reached Will and attempted to put hand cuffs on him. Will then shot the officer seven times in the head, resulting in the officer's death.


           I think that this is a good reason to have a death penalty because he should have surrendered instead of shooting a cop seven times in the head. I mean wouldn't you rather go to jail for a few years for pursuit or sentenced to jail for the death penalty.




In one other case this black male named Jamaal Howard 05/12/2000 did something that is very similar to a book that we are reading called Monster. Jamaal Howard robbed a convenience store in Silsbee. During the robbery, Howard shot a 42 year old white female clerk once or twice in the chest causing her death Howard also took 114$ from the cash register durring the robbery.


         I think that this is also a good reason for the death penalty because the man was going to jail anyways for robbing and store but now he is probably going to die because he killed a man.

Book Review of: American Born Chinese

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang is a Chinese author as you can probably tell by the name. This book is a graphic novel and there are three separate stories in this book. Right when you open the book the first story that you will start ready will be about a monkey and that will go on for probably 14 to 15 pages and it is hilarious.

Then it will go on to a story about a little boy that moves to a new school from San Francisco and his name is Jin Wang. This story is one of my favorites because it is one of the longer stories and it is very, very funny, and this story last's about 18 pages long and then when you are done reading that there is one more story to come and this one is about, this kid named Danny and his cousin somes to visit and his name is Chin Kee and he is very funny. It is sometimes hard to understand what he is saying, like he will mean to say "love" and he will say "ruv." and Chin Kee bugs the heck out of danny all school year and this story goes on for about 9 pages. And then when you move on in the book it keeps going back and forth between all of the storys.

The one big conflict in the story is there is a big fight scene between the monkey and some demons and it is really cool. And there is some bloody graphics in here but nothing that bad. And then there are just some little conflicts between Chin Kee and Danny and Jin Wang and his friends.

The part that I loved most of all in this story is when Jin Wang gets this girl that he has a big crush on to finally go out with him, an then they go to the movies and there is a really funny scene...but I don't want to tell you because I want you to be surprised. This book is for girls and boys. This would be a Sci-fi book so if you like those kind of book then this is the book for you.

The length of this book is a pretty decent amount but it is a fast reading book, like there was a big fight scene and the where probably 10 pages of just pictures of this really cool fight scene. There are 233 pages in this book. This is also a graphic novel.
 

Speak out about Sexual Assault

To Whom It May Concern,

I think that the book Speak should not be banned for many reasons.  Mr. Scroggins says that it should be banned because it has “soft pornography.” I think that this book should not be banned because I think that it teaches kids life lessons and because it is a very good book. I don’t think that this should be called SOFT pornography, I think that this should be called NO pornography. 

This book also helps kids know that if one of your friends are raped you would know what to do, you have been with Malinda and you know what it does to a person. So you wouldn’t just be like “oh its not that bad you’ll get over it.” If you have been raped, SPEAK up people will get you help and it will also help you live your life easier and happier.

Sincerely, 

      Freshman Student from Maine 

Found Poem: Bullying

Terrorist, go back to Pakistan.

"You're Pakistani, they are 
really, really bad."

"Okay, thats what I am, but 
when you call me 
a terrorist 
it hurts." 

People threw paper balls at me, 
pushed me, and 
took my food. 

High school, 
my High school 
is very diverse. 
No one calls me 
a terrorist...
but things still 
happen.

A scary man pushed me down, 
no one stopped him. 
"Oh my god, it smells bad."

    I AM MUSLIM
NOT A TERRORIST