Word On The Street

In school we are reading Lord of The Flies . The book tells the story of a plane full of children, specifically all male, that crash land on an uninhabited island. On the island one of the children named Ralph finds a big conch shell. The Conch is used as a beacon to gather the remaining survivors and symbolizes power. To be allowed to speak in the group, you must be holding the conch shell. It also symbolizes the children's humanity. The children at first act like crazed animals, some stripping naked once they reached the beach because of the blazing sun. However, they act more civilized when he with the shell is speaking. In chapter two of the book, the boys make a signal fire on top of a mountain. One of the main characters and leader like figures, Jack, has soot on his hands and holds the clean, delicate shell in his hands. This could represent corruption in leadership such as dirty cops and congressmen. The delicacy of the shell shows how easily leadership could be "brok

I recently started watching a TV show called Lost that aired on ABC over a decade ago. It is about a plane that crashes on a mysterious island while on its way to LA from Sydney. The crew believes they are alone but soon finds out they are not. In fact, there is a whole other island they are unaware of that is full of people, but these people aren't especially good. The characters in the show come across problems that force them to question their moral standards. I am currently watching season 3 episode 6 "I Do". Recently, a character by the name of Michael lost his son Walter. Walt was taken by the people from the other island that the characters in the show call "Others". Michael goes crazy looking for his son and ends up being captured while searching for his son. In order to get his son back, and an opportunity to get off the island, they ask Michael to bring them four people from the island, who were Michael's friends. They gave him a list of the four

  I Bet You're All Wondering Why I Gathered You Here Today         This is, as you could see, my first blog. This assignment is forced upon the children of Mr. Jackson's class. My day so far was swell. I purchased some sugar and salt treats from third period ROTC. It didn't last till this period.  I also started reading Batman: The Long Halloween which is a mystery comic. So far it is going well. It is about a killer that murders family members of gang leaders every holiday. Its a comic so i will probably finish soon. I have gym in two periods, I hope we go outside so i could play tennis, even though I am terrible at it. I always hit the tennis ball as if it were a baseball and hit at least 5 balls out every gym day. One of the few sports where power is not needed, but patients and skill is, such as golf, which i am also bad at. I am running out of things to say, it is my first blog however, I will probably push out more entertaining blogs in the future. This is it for