Inspiration of America

Authors Note: The prompt to this Patriots Pen Essay, is "What would you say to the Founding Fathers?". I decided to talk about what question I would ask them, and explain how much I would like to thank them for everything they've done.

The founding fathers, such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson were major parts of our countries history. They were the ones who created the constitution and changed life as we know it. They wanted to form a country that was different than all the others. Without them, America wouldn’t be what it is today. Even though it’s been over 200 years, the Founding Fathers have inspired so many changes that have happened today.

The government that we have today was majorly affected by the Founding Fathers. The type of government that we have, laws, branches of government, and the way our country is run would all be different. If I had an opportunity to ask the Founding Fathers a question, I would ask them, “What made you do what you did?”  The reasoning isn’t very important, but I think that many Americans would be wondering the same question. They were brave, by making a move to make things right in America. To make the people have a say in what we do and for everyone to be equal with one another. They took a stand for their country because they knew that something needed to be changed. They decided that the citizens of our country should be free, because people shouldn’t be forced to do something they don’t want to do. And I would want to thank them, for all of the risks they took for America, just to make things right. It is hard for me to imagine life if the Founding Fathers didn’t do what they did.

So many changes that have happened today, were inspired by the founding fathers over 200 years ago. The United States of America would be very different if they didn’t do what they did. The Founding Fathers were a part of forming America, and we owe them everything.

I Just Want to be Me

Authors Note: This piece is about a girl like me, who just wants to be herself. And how people treat her different than they usually did. This piece is very emotional to me, and describes how I sometimes feel. 

I’m sick of everybody giving my so much pity and talking to me, and asking me how I feel. I’m sick of people wanting to know how I feel now, when no one talks to me at all when I’m just walking down the hallways. I don’t like when people besides my friends talk to me. I don’t like when people ask me how I feel when I know they don’t really care, they’re just trying to look good. No one really gets how I feel. I’m not the kind of girl that tells everyone how she feels and complains about how she’s feeling. I keep everything to myself. Even some of my other friends don’t even care. But no one knows how badly I just wanna be myself around everyone. No one understands how other people don’t like me because I’m shy. Some of my friends just don’t get it. I just want to yell at my friends to get all of my feelings out, but again, I don’t share my feelings. I keep it too myself, and just express myself in writing. Writing is the best way I can express myself because I’m not rushed into anything. I can take my time to really think about what I want to say. And when I get in fights with my friends, they just keep on fighting, when all I’m really trying to do is express how I feel. All I want to do is be me.

Cause & Effect of Moving

Authors Note: This is a piece about cause and effect, based on my experience of moving to Wisconsin.

An event that happened in my life was that I had to move from Michigan to Wisconsin. My dad got a call from MetalTEK one day, and they had heard that he was very good at his job, and they wanted to have him work for them. He went and interviewed, and he and my mom decided that it would be a good family decision that we would move there. It would make my dad happier, and possibly make my family happier.

The thing that caused this event, was that my dad answered his phone the day MetalTEK called him, and offered him a job. This event effected my life, and my family’s life because we had to leave all of our friends, our school, my parents jobs, and just go move and start all over again. This event might not have happened if my dad didn't answer his phone. If he didn’t answer his phone he might’ve gotten a voicemail still, but we will never know.

Conflict & Resolution of "Spoiled"

Authors Note: I decided to write my Conflict & Resolution piece on the novel "Spoiled", because there are some obvious conflicts that have great resolutions. 

The novel “Spoiled”, by Jessica Morgan, is about Molly Dix, who has to move to Los Angeles to live with her celebrity father and his spoiled daughter, Brooke Berlin. The main conflict in this book is that Brooke feels like Molly is taking away all of her spotlight, and she feels like her dad doesn’t pay any attention to her anymore. But Molly feels like everyone is pushing her away, since she is the new farm girl who moved to the big city. Brooke tries to sabotage Molly’s life, but nothing works out the way it was planned.

This conflict gets resolved because when Brooke tries to sabotage Molly’s life, it just ends up ruining her own. Molly ends up getting more attention than ever, from her classmates, paparazzi, and their father. But Molly realizes that Brooke has had a hard life, being an only child and having a movie star dad. They each take a place in each other’s shoes and realize what great friends, and sisters, they can become.

Major Life Changes

Authors Note: I decided to write my Personal Narrative on moving because it was an experience that is still fresh in my mind. Also because it it an experience that I feel like I can best write about.

I stood on my front lawn on a sunny, warm, Friday afternoon just watching my house trying to remember all of the little details I loved about it. I hugged my best friend while saying our final goodbye just wishing that the moment would never end. I remember when I said the last final goodbye to my school, neighborhood, and my friends. I realized that after that moment, I would just be a distant memory to the people that I once called my best friends. I couldn’t believe that I was moving.

I remember that I only had 5 minutes until I had to get into the car and say goodbye to my Michigan life. I used the last few minutes at my old house that I had lived in for 10 years. I walked up the red-brown creaky staircase up to the white front door while remembering the time we had to carry my 90-pound dog down to the car to take him to the vet. I entered the house and saw the dark purple wall on my right, and the big bookcase on my left. I walked up the 3 steps from the entryway to the living room and turned to my right, to get my old room. Just seeing the bright blue walls, and the automatic lamp that my dad had just installed made me wish that I would never have to leave.

The entire time we were in the car I was still crying from saying goodbye to my best friend Sam. My legs were stiff and I just couldn’t get my mind off of Michigan. It’s the place that I remember growing up in, and I always will. Having a major change in my life like that was very traumatic, in good and bad ways. The worst thing was leaving all of my best friends that I had known since preschool, and coming to a new place where I didn’t know anybody.

Coming to Pewaukee School District was an experience I will always remember.. Walking into school on the first day was the most terrifying thing that I have ever had to do. Seeing so many unfamiliar faces, and walking down strange hallways was very overwhelming. For the first couple of weeks I knew I was going to be known as “The New Girl”, but I didn’t know how bad it felt to be called that. After about a month, I started figuring out who my friends were potentially going to be. I started putting names to faces and recognizing the hallways. After a while, things weren’t as bad as I thought they were going to be.

Although moving was a terrible idea at first, it got better as the months went on. I learned to love my new house, friends, and school. I kept in touch with my old friends in Michigan and I will always miss them. But when one door closes, another one opens.