Pursuit of Happiness

Happiness to me is a tpye of pleasure and satisfaction. when you are feeling joy or satisfied with something then you are happy. I most happy when iam celebrating EID, wedo all this get togethers with everyone from my family and all my relatives. we celebrate and have fun after, its really great. I get to see all my cousins who i don't see everyday, its awesome.
My mom is mostly where my source of happiness comes from. she is very understanding and really cares about me and my siblings, she givesme alot off lee way, she doesn't lose her temper often and she always treats me like a grown up even when i was a kid. me and my mom always understand each other and i like her alot. I impact happiness in my friends and my parents. my parents because they tell me a good kid, calm, mellow not short tempered or anything. my friends because i understand them and iam a very good listener. I think family is the greatest need in life, they support you and they are always 100% behind you no matter what you do. I know some people take that for granted but others don't even have families or anyone but themselves in the world.

assignment #8

I would like to use some of the poems I wrote and find some images or photos that go with it. The images or photos will correspond with the poem and that can create a photstory and then I could add music that will make it more appealing to the audience. Or one of the two short stories and collect some photos that go with it and maybe photos of real characters.

Totally new stuff like : a jungle, school, senior year, family, life back in Africa, new poems, a different short story.....

assignment #7

I enjoyed this quarter alot. I learned that you can be creative even if you don't mean to. the daily prompts were awesome, at first I didn't like it but then I came to enjoy them. the poetry was phenomenal and the short stories were the best.

The best thing about this quarter was writing poetry. I used to think that writing poetry was simple. You just rhyme a few words together and wala! you have a poem. But boy was I dead wrong. I learned that there was more to poetry than rhyming words. At first when Mrs. B. said we will be writing poems for a few weeks I will admitt I wasn't happy about it, but then I learned that writing poetry was actually fun. I found out that the words I used in the poems I wrote actually come from the heart and they were pretty good. I suprised myself.

I learned that I really enjoy writing alot although I knew that its just that I never tried to put it to test. I was writing a book over the summer ans still workung on it. After i learned about dialogue and how to use it in a story I made a few changes to the story I was writing. I think I'm self-driven.

I like suspense-romance genre. Either in non-fiction or fiction it doesn't really matter so I would really like to explore that area.

Assignment #6: Creating Fear

1. Maybe sometimes I like to be scared, if its not intense. There are limits to being frightened, like if you walk accidently in a forest at night then that's the kind of fear that can't be prevented. It just creeps up. But the kind of the fear that somebody or something creates in you then that can be prevented. because you can face it.
2. The worst thing that gets me shaking are anything that crawls. If I see one of those creepy crawly insects or animals, I just freeze and then start shaking with fear that it will touch me. thats just the type of fear that I can't prevent it just comes from within me. There isn't that I would consider horrific more than watching someone killed. I never saw anybody killed but watching it on T.V. gives me the creeps.
3. Madness is being excited intensely that it would lead to killing or doing horrific things. Being mad in my opinion can be if someone is driven to do things like killing or destroying things for no reason.
4. Someone can be driven to madness if they are alone and want attention they might do a horrible thing just to get the attention they need.

assignment #5

1st opening:
Dean was going home from school, when he got a bad feeling that something was wrong. He started running and his heart was beating hard. the minute he turned down his street and saw that there was a black SUV parked in his driveway, he slowed down and walked slowly to his house. when he reached the living window he crouched down and looked through the window.....

2nd pening:
Dean cruised through the dark alleys and was looking out for trouble when he heard a scream. He started running through the building to the direction the sound came from. when he turned to an alley opening he saw.......

3rd opening:
Everyone thought he was an ordinary man. he lived just like anyone else. But Dean was far from being ordinary. at thirty-three he owned his own business and was his own boss. During the day he ran his company and at night he was a different person altogether, while people slept he was roaming the streets.......

4th opening:
Dean wanted to know who he killed his family. He set out looking for the killers, when he came across a woman who was bound to change his life forever........

Assignment #4

The setting might mean that the author wanted to capture the readers attention. she is in the house all by her own and these guys drive up to her house and a guy she saw at the restuarant came out of the car and started adressing her by name and she didn't even know him. he tells her all these things about love and how he wants her. I think the author is trying to get the readers attention by Connie being alone in the house and the guy is trying to persuade her to come with him.



Connie 's character changes throughtout the story. When her friends dad takes her and her friend to the shopping plaza, she says they sneak out and go to a drive-in restaurant where older kids hang out. and while she was at the restaunrant this guy sees her and just leaves with him. while she out with this random guy, she sees Arnold Friend watching her and he says 'Gonna get ya, baby'. its like she's the one drawing attetion to herself so, Yeah I think she's the one who is asking for trouble. Connie's behavior is really weird when the guy tells her about all the stuff he will do to her, its really creepy.
The author's intention is to warn people for what they wish for they might exactly get it.
This story appeals to people because you get drawn to the part about Arnold Friend come to her house and she's all alone. You want to know what happens to her or what will she do to protect herself from this creepy guy, or what he will do to her. Its suspense and you want to know what happens in the end so you keep reading until the end.
i really don't know. Maybe he raped her. since sh didn't want her family with her so she got her wish.

Connie runs inside the house picks up the phone and she hears the dial tone, then there was a scream and the creepy guy told her to put the phone back, she did and then she felt numb all over and she was doing exactly what he told her and she followed him.

Task Two:
1. a very clear theme. a short story should explain what the story is about.
2. a short story shoul catch the reader's attention with the unexpected.
3. a short story should cover a short time span.
4. it shouldn't have too many characters.
5. make evey word count
6. a short story should have a narrow subject line
7. maybe it should be suspenseful
8. the plot should state the underlying message behind the words
9. a short story should be enjoyable
10.the reader should draw their own conclusion, meaning they could come up with their own ending.

assignment #3

Love

it comes to you unknown
at first it takes your breath away
its force greater than that of an army's
then it turns to be the most joyous feeling
the one time that you will never forget
its anticipation wild
excitement and frustration alike
love at first sight