Welcome to my humble abode.

I am from endless books,

Acoustic guitars,

And a full pantry.

 

I am from a beautiful flower garden,

Circling the yard with an array of intermixing colors.

I am from dog toys and tiki torches,
I am from grass and pavement.

 

I am from Franklin School,

I am from pizza market,

The sweet slumber of West Newton at night.

 

I am from Uncle Chris,

I am from Road Island with the Hydes.

I am from Galen, talking to me every year.

 

I am from “Get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight.”
I am from “I’m not in the mood for this right now!”
from “I love you, goodnight sweetie.”

I am from huge thanksgiving turkeys,
from tiramisu and mashed potatoes,

From food that makes my mouth water

Every time I think about it.

I am from under my bed,
I am from in my closet,

I am from my computer and from my kitchen drawers,

Hiding little pieces of paper

With little secrets

And little emotions.

No. I REFUSE to eat sausages.

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY
I PAINTED MY NAILS (WELL)
..wait for it..
BY MYSELF!!
SCORE FOR EMMA, GIMME PROPZ, YALL.
14 years...
grr.

My sister can back me up on this:
My father is incredibly scary when angry.
REALLY. SCARY.

Holy shit. Oh my god. Crap. Wow. Shit. Woah.

Past weekend definitely in the running for best weekend ever. EV-ER.

Dear annoying kid at pool party:
Stop asking me for things. Stop bribing me with chocolate and then telling me to get in the pool. I don't want to go in the pool, I was already in the pool, and now I am obviously not in the pool anymore. I chose to be out of the pool, and if I don't finish this HP book, someone is bound to spoil it for me. I am basking in the sun, leave me alone. Also, on the ride home, you started bitching and moaning about how you wanted water. We told you that it would be 10 minutes before you could get it, but no, "I want it now! Mommy, I want water! Im really thirsty! I'll screeeEEEEEAaaaAaAAmmmm!" Shut up, kid, we're all thirsty, and crying out like, 45 gallons of tears over something as petty as having to wait 10 whole minutes for a fucking glass of water isn't going to quench your thirst. I hate you. Go die in a puddle. At least then you'd shut up. -Emma

I'm gonna dress like a man today - CALEB, CALL.

My video camera broke. Well, not like, snapped in half, but it broke, and this upsets me, and now I have practically nothing to do. My dad is dgoing to get it looked at, but I have no idea when, and he keeps saying he will, and I'm very antsy because that video camera is my life. MY LIFE.
I also miss my computer. like, my laptop totally works well, but like, sometimes I want the memory from it. So I'll get it fixed.

This is going to be a very expensive week.

I love America's Next Top Model.

I miss Ilana and Marissa and Miriam and Zuzia and all the people I haven't seen in forevers. :[

Marissa still has my bathing suit, wtf.

I miss livejournal. I keep wanting to make an effort to like, write my journal day-to-dayness here but then I don't. It'll happen, you guys.

En mi comunidad, yo leo a los ancianos. Los hace muy feliz, y yo lo quiero mucho. Pienso que los ayuda en muchas maneras.

 

Lee a los ancianos para mostrarlos que tiene interés en ellos y que usted los respeta.

La lectura a los ancianos los hace sentirse menos solitario. Les da confianza y ellos son más felices.

Wow I am so exausted - the sickness is really getting to me. Dad got me some more yogurt but my throat is killing me.

This is me. Sad. Sad me.



...Ew. Don't look at me. I'm hideous // somewhat resemble a frog with bullet holes in it's face and a red dishwashing rag placed convieniently atop my head.

 

Name: Marissa
Composition: Rocky
Distance from the sun: 65 million miles

Diameter: 2,900 miles

Avg. Surface Temperature: 1150ºF
Number of Rings: None
Number of Moons: None
Length of Day: 136 Earth Days
Length of Year: 59 Earth Days
Trends followed: Marissa is only 65 million miles away from the sun because in our solar system, small, rocky planets are closer to the sun. Also, it has no rings and no moons, because of it’s size and distance from the sun. It has a short year, which also implies it’s one of the hotter planets.

Name: Kara
Composition: Rocky
Distance from Sun: 650 million miles
Diameter: 5,030 miles
Avg. Surface Temperature: 886ºF

Number of Rings: None
Number of Moons: 1
Length of Day: 110 Earth Days
Length of Year: 64 Earth Days
Trends Followed: Kara continues the “Farther from Sun, larger the planet” trend, as it is larger than Marissa, but not larger than Kim. It’s also a Rocky planet and closer than the gas planets. It also continues the “Farther from sun, colder the temperature” trend, as it’s still very hot, but not as hot as Marissa. It’s year is shorter than it’s day, this suggests it’s a hotter planet, closer to the sun.

Name: Kim
Composition: Rocky
Distance from sun: 993 million miles
Diameter: 12,380 miles
Avg. Surface Temperature: 439ºF

Number of Rings: None
Number of Moons: None
Length of Day: 91 Earth Days
Length of Year: 73 Earth Days
Trends followed: Rocky planets are closer to the sun, and the further from the sun, the colder the average surface temperature is. It’s year is shorter than it’s day, this suggests it’s a hotter planet, closer to the sun. This planet is not consistent with the larger that they are, the farther away from the sun, because Miriam is smaller than Kim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Miriam
Composition: Gas
Distance from sun: 1,999 million miles
Diameter: 7,670 miles
Avg. Surface Temperature: 286ºF

Number of Rings: 2
Number of Moons: 1
Length of Day: 76 Earth Days
Length of Year: 100 Earth Days
Trends followed: I’ve learned that generally, the gas planets are situated father from the sun. Also, as the planets get further from the sun, the surface temperature goes down and the Diameter of the planet goes up. The more moons there are, the bigger the planet. Also, generally only gas planets have rings. It’s year is longer than it’s day, which suggests it’s a gas planet, or farther from the sun.

Name: Ilana

Composition: Gas
Distance from sun: 2,783 million miles
Diameter: 19,470 miles
Avg. Surface Temperature: -293ºF

Number of Rings: 3
Number of Moons: 2
Length of Day: 45 Earth Days
Length of Year: 123 Earth Days
Trends followed: The colder planets are farther from the sun, because in our solar system the planets become colder. Also, the larger they get, the more moons they get, and for gas planets, the more rings. It’s year is longer than it’s day, which implies it’s farther from the sun.

Name: Nuala

Composition: Gas
Distance from sun: 4,286 million miles
Diameter: 24,384 miles
Avg. Surface Temperature: -640ºF

Number of Rings: 7
Number of Moons: 5
Length of Day: 3.5 Earth Days
Length of Year: 598 Earth Days
Trends followed: This is the last planet – from what our solar system tells us, this means it’s the coldest, because the cold planets are always farthest away from the sun. It is also the largest, which leads us to believe it has the most moons and rings. All of these are true – because it’s the largest, this also implies it has the shortest days and the longest years (which is true). It’s a gas planet so it’s far from the sun, and it has rings (because it’s a gas planet).

Mi Viaje a Martha’s Vineyard

 

By Emma Hyde
Anaranjado 8-1

           

En mi viaje, fui al Martha’s Vineyard. Fue muy divertido. Fui con mis amigas. Llegamos de noche, y nadamos en la playa. Nosotros nos sentamos también en el jacuzzi, pero éramos muy fríos y nosotros salimos. Comimos la cena y luego nosotros dormimos.

Por la mañana, los padres de Marissa nos manejaron centro comercial. Compramos ropa y fuimos también a la arcada. Cabalgamos también el carrusel. Fuimos a la casa de Marissa y dormimos otra vez.

Por la mañana, en el paseo del barco a Boston, yo me sentía muy enferma y pensé que iba a desamayarme. Jugué muchos juegos de naipes mientras estuve en el barco.

El barco fue morado y azul y fue muy fuerte. Yo lo pasé muy bien y mis amigos y yo tuvieron nos reímos mucho.

Después de que volviéramos de nuestro viaje, yo fui a la recitación de baile del Nuala. Ella fue muy impresionante.

Tuve un fin de semana muy bueno, y yo lo adoré.

Angels and Demons
Emma Hyde
Section 2

 

Both Bryan’s last speech and the excerpt we were given from Angels and Demons were written differently but said basically the same thing. Bryan’s Last Speech was written more formally, much more like an ending argument to a case. However, they are both trying to make the point that science will destroy us, and that we must stay true to our religious roots.

Bryan begins with a lengthy first paragraph that first speaks of how science has no morals, and then trails into how science makes war worse and worse, and makes more and more people die. He speaks of how science makes us more violent. He also mentions that the only way we can be saved is by religious morals, or Nazarene (Jesus). Bryan speaks of the malignance of science and how, even though we discover more through science, we are not taught what is right or wrong. He backs up his point with such phrases as “…and now we are told that the newly discovered instruments of destruction will make the cruelties of the late war seem trivial in comparison with the cruelties of ways that may come in the future.” This quote supports his point that science is slowly destroying us, and the reason that it’s a good quote is because it’s true. Our weapons probably will get more and more dangerous as time goes on, and who knows what might happen. He tells us that we need religious morals to keep us from doing wrong.

The camerlengo from the Angels & Demons excerpt thinks the same way that Bryan does. He also states that science will destroy us all, and that religion is the only thing that truly keeps us grounded from becoming completely erratic. The camerlengo powerfully states “The promises of science have not been kept. Promises of efficiency and simplicity have bred nothing but pollution and chaos.” This is true; nuclear wars and bombs have gone completely out of control; radiation killing thousands of people. Wars are getting worse and worse. He preaches to the masses, “Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?” This suggests that we have so little morality that we would rather, as he says, believe an equation than something better than humans.

I both disagree and agree with the camerlengo and Bryan. I agree in the sense that we are getting more violent; our wars are becoming more deadly and thousands and thousands of people are dying. I also disagree; I do not believe that religion has more place in this world than science and discovery; however, there are some morals that must be kept. Society should keep a place for their morals, as well as discovery. Overall, I believe people are too defensive on both sides, and if we just put both of them together and meshed them into one culture, I think that there would be less arguing (not that this is likely to happen). A meshing of the two opposing arguments, I believe, would work better than we suspect.

"organs stolen by a model"? thats disgusting.

Ewww.