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16th December 2009

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Alone Forever

It had been a long time since I had seen just another human. Fortunately I had my one companion, me. I have been walking for what seems like forever, just walking, walking, and walking. I will start by telling you why I have been walking and why I haven’t seen another human for a long time.

Every thing was normal that day; I was with my family eating breakfast. Then as we turned on the news there was a red flag warning, the warning was for a new virus that had been released. The news telecast said that everyone should leave as soon as possible and that it is thought that there is no one that is immune to this disease. Fortunately I am which is why I am one of the only people alive. After I heard that I told my family that we had to leave at once. I don’t know if they are still alive today but I highly doubt it. Later on the news it is said that only and not even one percent of all the people on the earth are immune to this new virus. You may have been wondering why I said released the virus, but really a group of gang members had actually created the virus and made sure that only them and a couple other people were immune to the virus. And it just so happened that somehow I had become immune to the virus. The virus contaminated food and water and rotted it so that it was uneatable so you had to keep the food inside. Which was hard because I constantly had to move around the city trying to find people that hadn’t been killed and that I could help.

Now you know my story and know you can live the rest of the story with me.

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You may be wondering why I haven’t seen a human. You may think, “He probably sees a lot of dead people lying on the ground. Or he sees people trying to survive.” But your wrong I don’t see people because what the disease does is when you catch it starts to rot your body and your vital organs. You rot until you are just dust. Note this could only take a day or two.

As I walk through the abandoned streets I look for life. I look in houses I look through alleys I look almost everywhere I can but I see nothing, nothing but dust and rot and abandoned cars. As I keep on walking I hear a noise. I stop, listen wait… then I hear it again. I run after the noise. I hear it again coming from an alley that was just around the corner. As I turn and look down the alley and I saw a few of the gang members. Fortunately it was only two. The gang that released the virus, they were looking for food. I guess they hadn’t thought about that when they released the virus. As I stared a started to walk back but of course something bad happened, I tripped over a trashcan that I had passed on my way to the ally. As it fell over with a ‘clang’ they turned. As the bigger man turned his face, it was his face that froze me it looked like it had been partly damaged by the virus. It was partly rotted. I came around just in time to start running. It was a good thing that it was only the bigger man because he wasn’t very fast and I am not much of a runner. I am sure the smaller one could have caught me.  As he was yelling and screaming behind me I turned a corner to get away. As I slowed down I thought out loud,  “Great, first time I see another human they try to kill me.

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As I walked through the city I saw a couple of monkeys swinging through trees. Yeah you heard me monkeys. I guess their cages had rotted and they had gotten out. But the thing that I was most curious about was why they were still alive. I thought that the virus must have affected them somehow. As I went over to see what they were doing they didn’t seem to care as I walked over. You may know that usually when you approach a wild animal it will look at you and start to back away. But these monkeys just were swinging back and forth from the trees. As I got really close they stopped. They looked down at me. Then again it was the faces, the faces of the monkeys, the same face of the man before, rotten, disgusting and decayed. As I stared at the monkey faces I started to back away. As I did the monkeys just stared. As I kept on walking back two of them hopped down from the tree. Their faces, it was only the faces. Being so close, I could smell the rotted flesh; I could see parts of their skull. That was why I ran.

To my pleasure they didn’t seem to follow just to stand and stare. Well, know that I knew the monkeys had got out so that meant that at least some animals were out.  That meant I might be able to find at least some food. As I thought about that I went back to the abandoned house that I had been staying at. Fortunately I had a gun just in case some crazy gang member comes into my area.

As I walked around the zoo and looked for animals to hunt I wasn’t sure but I almost always heard someone behind me. Every time I heard a noise that was close I turned. But, there was always nothing. As I kept on exploring I came across a broken down food vendor. As I looked through it I actually found food that wasn’t rotted (probably McDonalds) I grabbed it, inspected it and decided that I would rather eat something that would help keep me alive than nothing at all. As I scrounged for more food, I didn’t see anymore so I kept looking through the zoo. As I kept on walking I heard a noise behind be again. This time I walked as it seemed to get louder, then as if the sound was on top of me I turned. As I turned I saw almost what I never really wanted to see in my life, it was a pack of lions. Part of their bodies were rotted some almost no skin some almost not rotted at all. Just at the sight I wanted to vomit up the food I had just eaten. As they started to close in on me I got out the gun I had and pointed it at one and pulled the trigger. As the bullet streaked through the air it went clean through the body of one of the lions. Nothing happened for a few seconds but after that it roared in pain. As the lions heard the roar some lions went to look at the dead body and some even seemed surprised that I had actually shot one of them. As I saw my chance I got out of there.

Later that night as I decided I would stay in the same house as before I went into the room and looked through the window. I thought about all of the terrible things, the virus, the gang, the scary monkeys and the lions. As I lay in bed and drifted off into a slumber I noticed for the first time in a while, I missed my family. I never really had thought about it too much. I had mostly been thinking about surviving now that I was just lying in bed I thought about it the most. I missed my son and I missed my daughter. But out of all of them I missed my wife the most. The thing that was the hardest about this was just going for a long time without talking to somebody, when there is no one to just keep you company. That is the worst.

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As I got up the next morning I looked out the window and thought about what I had thought about last night. Then as I really paid attention to what was outside I saw a human shadow, just skulking around. It almost looked like it was coming to my building. I forgot about the shadow while I got ready for my day. Then I stopped. I thought that I had heard the door on the bottom floor. As I heard footsteps I ran and grabbed my gun not knowing who or what was coming up. As I hid in a closet with just part of the closet door open so I could see out. As I waited a couple of minutes two men entered the room. Both holding guns, one said to the other, “I thought you said you saw someone?” “I did. I am positive,” responded the other guy. The guy that must have spotted me was the shadow I saw. As they looked through my things my legs were starting to get a bit cramped up in the closet. As they looked for a couple more seconds the bigger one said, “Eh, there’s nothing here lets go. The others are waiting.” “You go,” The other one answered. “I’m going to look around a bit more.” As the big guy left and I heard him leave the building I jumped from my hiding place. I took him by surprise and knocked him down. After that I got out my gun and shot him a few times. Then just I shot him two more times to make sure he was dead. After that I would have thought that the other men outside would have heard the gunshots but apparently not. As I looked out the window (more carefully than before), I didn’t see anyone so I guessed they had thought he would catch up later. After I disposed of the body in a manner that I will not tell you about because it is far to disgusting and gross. I left my building (very carefully) carrying all of the most important things and I moved to another building because it was too dangerous if the gang members knew where I was.

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As I looked through the city to find a new house I started to notice that most of the house that I were coming to were worn down. I was starting to think that I was coming to the edge of town but then I figured that it was just the virus. It was destroying the houses. Just like it had done to the cages in the zoo. As I kept on walking I found a perfect building. It looked like a big office building that must have been very tall. Now it was only a couple of stories. You could see the rubble all around it so it must have fallen down. As I started to settle myself into the new building I noticed that I didn’t have any bed. Once I figured that out I was in a dilemma, I could go out and get some leaves or something soft to lay on, or I could just lay on the ground. I chose to lie on the ground because I decided that I would just get the leaves tomorrow morning. As I lay down to sleep I tried to just forget about all the bad things in life. I decided to try and thank God for many things. One thing that I thought about was that God had made me immune. He had made me immune for a reason; I was supposed to find a cure (that or I was supposed to live a long time and suffer). As I drifted off into a slumber I really hoped God had made me immune to find a cure.

As I woke up the next morning I thought about what I had thought about last night I figured that if God had sent me to find a cure then I would have found it by now. So as I got ready I was starting to think, I guess if I am never going to find that cure I mine as well just explore and wait till I die. As I left my house I looked out and thought should I explore east, west, north or south? I guessed that I would just walk and walk and walk until I die. And as I started I wished that I would just die now rather than having to walk all the way to Canada then die. Then I decided eh what the hell I’ll just walk and walk and walk. Then as I started to walk a song came into my head, Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day. As I walked I started to sing a bit to my self, “I walk a lonely road the only one that I have ever known, don’t known where it goes but it’s home to me and I walk alone. I walk this empty street on the Boulevard of broken of broken dreams where the city sleeps and I’m the only one and I walk alone. I walk alone I walk alone I walk alone I walk a. My shadow’s the only that walks beside me, My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating, sometimes I wish someone out there would find me. Till then I walk alone!” As i finished the first part of the song I thought if only I could have found the cure and walk home a hero. Then I thought well life can give you treats and sometimes it kicks you in places you don’t want to be kicked. As I walked I decided life had kicked me in a place I didn’t want to be kicked.

14th December 2009

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Lossless?

Who would you rather see without losses in the NFL? New Orleans Saints or the Indianapolis Colts?

14th December 2009

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Fin de Semana Pasada

Mi fin de semana pasado.

En el sabadó yo tení un jugar partido de fútbol. Mi equipo perdió en penales. Y durante el diá permanecí

En el domingo mi hermano y yo fuemos al mercado compramos comida. Por la noche mi familia y yo fuimos a casa de una amiga de mi mamá. Mi mamá y las amigas de mi mamá cocinaron galletas de Navidad.

14th December 2009

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Medieval Project Reflection

For our middle age project my group studied diseases that were very common in the middle ages. The disease that I studied was dysentery. There wasn’t just one person that lead. It was sort of one person lead a certain day depending on how much work they got done and then someone else would lead a different day. Our group got along really well accept when someone was missing for part of the time we weren’t sure if they were working so we called them from school. What we created in our group was we created people out of clay and showed all of the symptoms that were outside of the body. For my model it was very hard because there were no outside symptoms they were all internal. The only thing that I would have done differently with our project is maybe have drawings of the people and show their organs if they have an internal disease but other than that nothing.

The other part of our project was that we each created about a 5-6 paragraph essay that told you about the medieval sickness, if it is still dangerous and some of the different treatments.  Our group got along really well accept when someone was missing for part of the time we weren’t sure if they were working so we called them from school. After we wrote our essays we had to go back and find all of the websites and had to make a biography.

Our group met our goals by completing the project on time and doing a good job on it. I also met my own goals by working hard and completing my model and my essay well and one time. Some things that I learned about organization is that you should make sure you know where you keep your files and also it is sometimes good to ask some to send you their essay so they have a back-up. Some skills that I developed is editing skills because we all had to edit each others essay. Another skill that I learned is how to make people well out of clay which could help in some art class. I think that we could have done a better job if we used our time a little better. Why I say this is because the other groups had already started and we were still trying to figure some things out. I think that I could have done better on my essay by adding a little more information on the medieval situations for the disease. I think that this project really helped you in many ways and also I really enjoyed it.

10th December 2009

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Español

Tu veeste.

Yo puedo hacerlo.

Tu no puedo hacerte.

Yo comerlo.

Nos estamos viendolo.

9th December 2009

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Quehaceres

1. Poner la mesa

2. hacer mi cama

3. sacar la basura

4. Limpiar mi cuarto

5. ciudar mi hermano

6. barrido el patio

7th December 2009

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Los rankings de fútbol de americano

Primero - New Orleans Saints y Indianapolis Colts

Segundo - Minnesota Vikings

Tercero - San Diego Chargers, Cincinnati Bengels y Dallas Cowboys

Cuarto - New England Patriots, Arizona Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos

Quinto - Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants y Jacksonville Jaguars

Sexto - Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers and New York Jets

Septimo - Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahwaks

Octavo - Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs y Oakland Raiders

Noveno - Detroit Lions

Decimo - Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Saint Louis Rams y Cleveland Browns

7th December 2009

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Science: Onion Root Mitosis Lab

In my science class we are studying cells and cell division. We did a project that had to do with the mitosis stage in cell division. What we did was we used an onion root and stuck it into a chemical called hydrochloride (HCl) waited four minutes then put it in Carnoy and waited four more minutes. After we did that we cut the tip off the onion root and placed it onto a microscope slide. We then put one or two drops of blue dye and waited for two minutes after that we put a tiny bit of water on it and put the slide cover over.

After we all did that we all went around looking at each others microscopes. Some peoples you couldn’t see any of the phases because they didn’t cut the tip off where it was still growing the cut the part that had already grown and they could only see some nuclei. After we corrected our slides we could see many off the phases. The phases I saw where the interphase where the cell double in size. I saw the prophase where the chromatin condense into chromosomes. I saw the anaphase where the cell nuclei start to divide and the last phase I saw was the telephase where you could see the two nuclei that had split.

I thought that it was very interesting being able to see cell division right in front of you. I never thought that you would be able to see cell division through a microscope. The reason you can see the organelles and things inside onion roots is because all of the organelles are clear. Then we dyed them so they were clear and blue.

4th December 2009

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Dysentery

There were many diseases in the middle ages, one of which is called dysentery. There are two types of dysentery, amoebic and bacillary. Amoebic dysentery kills about 100,000 however, bacillary dysentery kills about 1 million people each year. The word dysentery comes from the greek word “dys” meaning “bad” and “enteria” meaning intestine. So if you use the roots you get a disease that is a “bad intestine ’disease”. Dysentery is most common in poverty-ridden areas. There were some dysentery epidemics in France, Germany and Hungary when they broke out were in the sixth, eighth, ninth eleventh and twelfth century. There are many other names for the disease like travelers diarrhea and  in Mexico its called Montezuma’s Revenge. Dysentery also killed some of the English kings, Edward I, who died in 1306, and Henry V, who died in 1422.

Bacillary dysentery is the more dangerous type of dysentery. The bacteria that can cause you to catch bacillary dysentery is called Shigella. Each year there is about 165 million cases of bacillary dysentery but, out of all of those cases there are only about 1 million deaths. Some of the symptoms of bacillary dysentery could be just simply mild abdominal discomfort but, if it is really bad some of the symptoms would be cramps, high fever, loss of appetite, chills, dehydration, muscle aches and pains, vomiting and diarrhea. Some very severe symptoms could be that you get delirium, you could go into a coma or convulsions. If you have any of these symptoms it could be fatal in 12 to 24 hours. The way you catch the disease is by eating contaminated food like raw vegetables that aren’t washed or even some dairy products. Also you can catch it by eating raw or under-cooked meat. Or you could catch dysentery if you don’t wash your hands after using the restroom, before handling food or before handling raw meat.

The other type of dysentery is called amoebic dysentery. It is still deadly but not nearly as dangerous as bacillary dysentery. The amoeba that causes this certain type of disease is called, Entamoeba histolytica. The disease is most common in crowded areas that aren’t very sanitary. A place where it could be common to get dysentery is a military base because you are very close to many people and sometimes they could be not clean. This disease kills about 100,000 people a year. Some of the symptoms, are almost the exact same as bacillary dysentery except not as severe. Including, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, a medium high fever and you lose your appetite which will cause rapid weight loss. Some ways to stay healthy when you have dysentery is to drink plenty of water you that you don’t get dehydrated. Thus it could become fatal because you will lose too many fluids.

Dysentery came up in a few important wars in the middle ages. One was in the Battle of Crecy in 1346. In the war the French waited to kill the English until they were all sick with dysentery. Another war that Dysentery came up in was the One Hundred year war, Prince Edward died of dysentery during the war. Dysentery also appeared during the American Cival War from 1861-1865. During the Cival War the disease killed about 81,360 people.

Ways to avoid dysentery is good hygiene because the way dysentery enters your body is when you eat raw meat or infected or not clean vegetables. Also if you live in an area that has poor sanitation and you drink infected water that has not been boiled to make clean. You should boil the water for 10 to 15 minutes, but if you live at higher altitudes you should boil for a couple extra minutes. To treat dysentery you can use an antibiotics called Tinidazole, Fasigyn or you can use Flagyl tablets. What the Flagyl tablets do is they enter the bacteria or amoeba and messes with the DNA so that it cannot infect anything else. What the Fasigyn does is same thing except it connects itself to the bacteria or amoeba’s DNA and interferes with how it works. If you have caught dysentery you should try isolate yourself from others so that you cannot spread it to others. Also you should try to rest but, if you can try to exercise your legs in bed because you will be in bed for a while.

This was one of the five papers that my group wrote.

3rd December 2009

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El Pronóstico

En mi pronóstico el estacion es verano. Por que en mi pronóstico hay un hurácan por que nosotros sobre el tiempo en New Orleans. Durante un hurácan muy rapído vientos y mucho lluvia. Hurácan inicio en el playa por que inicio sobre el agua.