By: Jack Eaton
Decisions, Decisions
Morning in the Woods The Castaway’s Journey
Power and Protection
Deep Under the Sea
Train Attack!
Work Hard, Play Hard
Accepting Your Peers
My World in Words By: Jack Eaton May 10, 2013 Eaton Publishing 123 ABC Drive
Acknowledgements All of these writings compile me as a person from my grade year of school. Without these people being involved in my life, these writings wouldn’t be nearly the same as they are now. The most influential people in school to me are my parents. They push me to end to get good grades, no matter what the cost. Without them, I might slack off and not accomplish the things I need too. They are the will that guides me on. I am just so thankful to have such great parents that care about me as much as they do. They inspire me everyday to do my best, and that couldn’t be any better of a blessing.
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Table of Contents Dedication Page Biographical Sketch for part 1: Freestyles The Castaway’s Journey Morning in the Woods Deep Under the Sea Traveling to the Past Train Attack! Biographical Sketch for part 2: Miscellaneous Lord of the Flies The Pressure on Me Decisions, Decisions Growing Older Following the Rules Biographical Sketch for part 3: Symbolism and Human Actions Working Together Why join a group Work Hard, Play Hard Accepting Your Peers Power and Protection
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Biographical Sketch for Part One: Freestyles This section of this book is definitely my favorite part. I express all my feelings as a writer the best when I have the freedom to write whatever I want. That is why freestyle writings are my favorite. They explain whatever thoughts I had at that time and place. However serious or silly they are, they tell my life. Looking over the year, I look over these freestyles and amuse myself wondering what I could have possibly been thinking at that point in time.
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The Castaway’s Journey Mick Trout was a English fisherman whose boat was shipwrecked on an inhabited island. He was the only survivor of his shipmates. He survived off of coconut milk, oysters, and whatever fish he was able to catch with his leftover nets. One day he was exploring the island’s forest and came across an injured monkey. His left leg had been broken and he wasn’t able to walk at all. Mick picked him up and carried him back to his living area. There Mick nursed the monkey back to health and named it Leo. On their 268 day on the stranded island, they spotted a boat in the distance. Mick began to jump up and down and yell at the top of his lungs. He started his signal fire and made as much noise as possible. The boat began to turn and started heading their way. They were rescued and were on their way back to England. When they returned to England, Mick and Leo were famous celebrities. They both starred in a popular British T.V. show based off their journey together on the island. They two enjoyed and great life in which they got to spend together.
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Cold Morning in the Woods A gunshot rings through the morning air. My heart skips a beat as I see its hind legs kick out. I hit the deer! As it crashes through the woods and out of sight, my mind races. I have to calm my emotions. I sit in torture for half an hour, wanting to give the deer time to get a good distance away, so I won’t spook him when I start tracking it. I climb out of the ladder, not able to wait any longer. My legs are stiff and rigid. This is why I did all the hard work preparing this spring and summer. Clearing the field from last year’s old plots. Setting the cameras. Spreading all the seed to in the hot sun to make sure the field is even. Restocking the feeders every Saturday morning. As I approach the scene, what I see isn’t pretty. Bits of bone are mixed with the blood. I must have hit shoulder. I kick the dirt in frustration. I was sure that I had made a clean shot. This means that the tracking will be a bit longer than I would have liked. I set out through the trees and branches, following the trail. 300 hundred yards later, my hope is beginning to distinguish. The longer he goes on, the more likely he will be to survive. I find a small tree and see a large amount of blood on it. The deer must have stopped to rest here. One false move and the deer could tear open the wound even more, and it would be game over for my antlered friend. Another two hundred yards and I’m started to get aggravated. My chance for the buck I had been waiting for the shot at for over two years. The beast had been first spotted in my cameras the spring two years ago. He was a solid eight, but you could tell it was an immature deer. The next year he was again seen eating corn, and was now a ten. I had a chance to bag him that fall, but couldn’t let myself pull the trigger. I wanted to see how big he could get. This year he skyrocketed, and I knew that was all he was going to grow. This was the year to do it. I just had to blow it away. I here noise in the distance. I look in the direction and see what I couldn’t believe. My wounded friend was at the top of the ridge, crashing through the woods. I have my gun up on him and following him with an insane focus level. I he comes to a stop all of a sudden. My crosshairs steady on the target. He could bolt any second. My adrenaline is on high and I can barely control it. I take deep breath and take the safety. One shot, do or die. I take a deep breath and slowly pull the trigger. 5 | Page
Deep Under the Sea I wish I was a fish, down under the sea. Where I could see many amazing things. Things many other people would ever get to view. Such as other fish that I had never seen. Seen until then, I might add. Adding would be something I wouldn’t have to do. Doing math isn’t a part of a fish’s lifestyle, despite their groups being called schools. Fish only need food and water to live, and everything a fish can do is what they may wish. Now, if I was this fish, I would have lots of fun. I’d just have to make sure to not get too close to the sun. Sunshine helps light show the way for all the fish near the surface. I wonder if all the fish can see at the bottom of the water. If all of them can, some of them probably stick to higher water to stay safe from the things at the bottom. Things that even science haven’t found yet, but all the fish are aware of these creatures. The Loch Ness Monster may even be deep in this murky darkness. Myths that we may never be able to know are true or not. Something even more dangerous than Nessie may be down there along with it. Some answers are always hanging in the air, to be or not to be answered.
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Traveling to the Past I would go back to when the dinosaurs were alive and inhabiting the Earth. I would go back to this time because I have always been fascinated in dinosaurs because of their humongous and oddly shaped bodies. I would explore the land when I was in that time, trying to see if there was any new species or type of animal that science has not discovered yet. I would also search for signs of civilization across the land, to see if there were any type of people that lived. Maybe they were like cavemen, who were brutes but not very bright. Maybe they couldn’t even talk to one another because they never found a common ground in which they could both understand what each other was saying. They lived together and worked together, hunting and killing their prey as a team when never actually knowing what the partner was thinking at that time. What a weird way to live. These people could be able to work together each other’s lives, being best friends, but never being able to express what they feel. It’s actually very sad. It would be like one boy really liking a girl, and the girl really liking the boy, but they couldn’t tell each other how they feel. But they would still understand the way they felt about each other, and there was nothing they could do about it.
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Train Attack! The train lights flicker a little, and then they go out. Boom, Boom, Boom! Gunshot noise rings through my eardrums. I immediately fall to the floor, and crawl under my seat. What is going on? A train robbery? All of a sudden, the gunshots stop. Heavy footsteps pound their way up the aisle. I hold my breath as the footsteps pass my seat. I hear a man yell, “Hit the Lights!” Soon after, my vision is restored as color fills the room. As I suspected, I see men with wearing masks and holding pistols. Thankfully, few of the passengers seem to be injured. The robbers must have went for the train’s crewmembers. They begin checking the rows for civilians. My stomach clenches because they can’t miss me in the position I am in. I know I will have to jump the guard to not get caught. As the man gets to the row in front of me, I pounce on him low. It takes out his legs, and I punch him in the face before he has time to react. He is out colder than a meat locker. I take his gun and hide back behind the seats. I peer around the corner, and see that there are only two more robbers left. I single out the one closest to me. When the other man looks away, I hit him over the head with the pistol. Another one down, now there is just one left to handle. As I walk up behind him, I stumble and fall to the ground. The noise the robber and he spins around. He points the gun right on my heart, and I know it is now or never. I lunge at him and hit his forearm with the butt of the pistol. He drops the gun and I kick him in the back of the knee. It gives out and I punch him in the face, watching him drop after it connects. I did it! I saved the train from being robbed!
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Biographical Sketch for Part Three: Miscellaneous These are writing pieces that I really enjoyed writing, but couldn’t find a good title that could sum up all these writings together. There was no one topic that all these writings could adjoin too. They were all writings I enjoyed though, and I couldn’t leave these out of this book. They are just too important to me. I also think the readers will enjoy this section, so this is another reason why I left these writings in this book.
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Lord of the Flies The only rule I would have on the island I ruled are that there are no rules! If you respect me and follow my lead we will have a great time together and have a lot of fun. If you disrespect me and don’t follow my lead, I will be a strict leader and will make the island a miserable place. That is why the people of my island will have to follow everything I say for them to do. If they don’t, the consequences will be very severe and harsh. You do not want to see what I have in store for the people that act out.
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The Pressure on Me All the pressure I have on me to do good in school and make all A’s. My parents push me very hard to get really good grades in school. I go home and have to study every night and I always worry about tests and if I’m going to do good on it or not. Just being able to relax and do nothing and not have to worry makes me very happy. I have something sports related almost every weekend through the spring and summer, which isn’t exactly resting at home, but it lets me blow off steam and hang out and have fun with my friends. Spring break couldn’t have come at a better time, because I really need to rest and regroup before I go back to the dreaded place called school. Those are the reasons why I enjoy spring break so much. It lets me have the fun I want to have, and at the same time it lets me relax and take time off that I need.
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Decisions, Decisions Whenever I went to the movies last weekend, I had some decisions to make. I wanted to be able to go to the movies, watch the two college basketball games on that day, considering that it is the elite eight, and be able to sleep in. It was quite a schedule to fit in to one day. The basketball games started at two p.m. This meant I could wake up at one, take a shower, eat breakfast, and then watch the games. After the second game was over, I got in the car and went to the seven o’clock movie I wanted to see. The game ended about five, so we went to Logan’s Steakhouse before the movies to eat. We left the movie theatre at nine, stopped for some ice cream, and then headed home. We arrived home about ten. I had such a great time that whole day. It was definitely a well time managed day.
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Growing Older I feel like as I get older and more mature, I will start to feel more depressed, because I know that before long my life is going to end. I will have lived a good and healthy life, but I don’t think that I will be able to handle that sadness of growing old. I will look back and think of all the things I never got to do that I wanted too. I will also be sad because I will have to see other family members pass on to their graves. It will just be sad as an old person, because you lose so much of your past live.
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Following the Rules I have to follow many rules, some that I like, and a lot more that I don’t like. The purpose of those rules is so that things stay in order and that I don’t get in trouble. My life would definitely not be the same without rules. The world would be a different place without rules. There would be more crime than anyone could ever imagine. Criminals would flood the streets and hurt and kill innocent people. Nobody would be safe and would have to hide in their homes in fear of the crime outside. That is why we need rules on this Earth.
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Biographical Sketch for Part Two: Symbolism and Human Actions This section made me dig deep into my mind to decide what my input would be on these topics. I talked about things that had real thought put into them. There was no joking around in this section. Everything came straight from the heart and had my true meaning. These writings are very humbling to look at and think that I actually wrote these.
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Working Together Picture this: You and a couple of friends want to go get something to eat for dinner. Pizza and Mexican food are the two options to eat. Both your friends like both, but they seem to be leaning towards the Mexican. That would be fine with you, but you had just eaten at that restaurant the night before. You don’t say anything for a while, because you don’t want your friends to suffer just because of you. When they ask you what you want, you say that if it’s alright, you would rather go to the pizza place. Then you explain that you had eaten Mexican food last night and didn’t think your stomach could handle two days in a row of it. Your friends agree on the pizza place because of your situation. You all go there and enjoy it. Working out problems isn’t always a hard thing to do. You just need to be polite in the way you ask and most of the time, the problem can be resolved. Sometimes even just speaking your mind in a nice way to someone can fix all the problems that you are facing at that particular time and place.
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Why join a Group? Why do people choose to join groups? People choose to join groups for many reasons. Some people join a group because the group is focused on a certain topic that they like, such as the chess club or FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes). People might join a group because their friends were in the group or their friends wanted to join that group. People choose to join groups because they want to do things that will help them something, like homework or maybe to make friends. Some join groups to impress colleges that will end up looking at their resume. They can do things like community service that can make colleges more interested in you. There are many reasons why a person would join a group. It can be something as little as just trying something new. Or it could be as important as getting into a good college and making your life a much better place than it could have been.
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Work Hard, Play Hard After my eighth grade year of school, during the offseason of basketball, I hit the gym almost every day with the indent to improve every aspect of my game. From strength and speed to the fundamentals, I planned on getting better. I lifted, shot, ran, pass ed, and sweated my way through that summer. I was proud that I pushed myself as hard as I did. The rewards I received were amazing. I gained 30 pounds on my bench and 20 on incline, as well as 45 more on squat. My vertical was four inches higher, which really pays off when you are skying for a rebound. On came my ninth grade year in school. During that season, my game was taken to the next level. I averaged sixteen points, which was a team high. It was six points more than the next leading scorer. I also averaged 5 rebounds and 4 assists. My coach was very impressed with what I had accomplished. Nobody was more impressed than me. I may not have enjoyed having to put in all the work, but it was so worth it. After this season, I have a new respect in myself that I never knew would be there. It proves that you can do anything you set your mind to with the right attitude and work ethic.
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Accepting Your Peers People don’t always accept others in their group because they might smell funny, act different, dress like a star wars character, or constantly quote movies. They may also not be accepted into the group if they are new to the school. Before you shun one of these people, talk to that person for a little while. Get to know the person better. You may find something out about the person that you didn’t even know about them. I have an example of how actually talking to the person can be the start of a friendship. Until sixth grade, I hadn’t even met one of my best friends. In the grades before sixth, I never even talked to this kid because I thought he was weird. In sixth grade, this kid ended up in my class. Towards the beginning of the year, I talked to him a little. As the year progressed, we started talking more and more. By the end of the year, we were best friends. My point is, don’t just assume that a certain person is not a person you would most likely hang out with. Otherwise, you might not ever meet one of the best friends that will ever be in your acquaintance.
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Power and Protection I would symbolize power, because the human population holds power over the whole world. Out of all the living things in the world, the humans have taken control over Earth and are building It up, but also tearing it down at the same time. We tear it down by polluting it with car and factory fumes. We treat our natural resources care-free. We treat life on Earth like it’s nothing. If something doesn’t change soon, our futures as people on Earth will be awful. We have made steps backwards in trying to preserve our great planet. Recycling is the biggest contributor in preserving Earth, but too many people aren’t locked in on recycling. Some people just don’t care about Earth. If everyone was dedicated to go green, that effort would be a lot more suitable for the planet. Instead, people litter and treat their place to live as if it is a garbage hole. They should be thankful to just live on a beautiful place this. Without respect from everyone and more contributors, the planet will be burned into the ground, and all the careless people will be headed down with it.
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