In this essay I will be writing about sports and why they are good for your health. Sports are good for your health for reasons such as helping you make friends to helping you keep phsical fit. Sports are a good way to get out of the house and have fun. Practicing baseball everyday can be very beneficial on your physical health. Running around and trying harder and harder will make your bones and muscles stronger, and it will make your brain stronger. Sports are also a good way to interact with people and make friends. This can help your communication skills and have good friends to play baseball with for years. Sports also can build oportunities in the future such as college scholarships which can cut back on a lot of stress which will cause you to live a happier life. Being happy is a very healthy attribute to the mind, and it can make you more positive and inspiring to do things you maybe wouldn’t do to when you’re down and having a bad day. Sports are just a good way to have a over all better life if you like sports, but there are many sports to play so just see if you can find a one that fits you!

Happiness is a hard thing to achieve in todays society I feel. Many kids are on these anti depressants because everyone seems to have a rude atitude towards everyone. It seems everyone is really caught up in making there self happy, instead of others happy, which we should do both. But we shouldn’t be hateful to others, there’s no reason to. Theres so many things we see on the internet of bad things happening. and I feel this has an effect on us, and how we feel

                                                          Dalton Tilley
    I will be interviewing my grandpa, Joe Upton. He is 68 years old and is a great loving man, always helps other when they are in need. I asked him who were the most important Important people that contributed to you, both as a child and as an adult, and why were they important to you? As a child, he said his Dad was a very big inspiration to him. His dad was in the air force in World War II, and my grandpa always respected him for serving his country. It inspired him to become a police officer, which he was for 30 years. He was a highway patrol officer, in which he said he’s seen some crazy things happen. As in, he’s had drug busts, and has found bodies in trunks and so on. His Dad always cared for him, and supported him in every way. He also said his mother was very important. His mother tried to ride a bike out of the world war with my grandpa in it out of Germany, and his dad, was the one who picked them up and took them to the united states. The event in his life that were significant were him having his son, and when his dad died. He said his Son taught him how to care for someone. It taught him some important meanings of life, and how to care a love someone as much as he did, his son died at the age of 30 due to an overdose, which was terrible on my grandpa. When his dad died, it was devastating to him. Since his dad being a big inspiration to him, this opened his eyes that he wants to be a great, and a successful person. I also remember him trying to get me to join the airforce, He said aging has brought a lot more bad than good. With the diabetes, and the bad leg and back problems, he has to be on a lot of medication. Socially, he said he’s not really different, he just says people aggravate him easier. psychologically, he said he’s been a lot happier! He said not having the worry of working or anything is great! He loves to fish and do all sorts of things that keeps him out of boredom.  I asked him how did he feel about his life, and he said he doesn’t regret one decision he has made. He said you can’t live a great life, if you always regret what you’re doing. Rather than think negative on situations that are, be positive and enjoy them! Him being a cop brought him a good income being retired, and it’s allowed him to spoil his grandkids, which he said he loves to do. He said he loves all the people in his life and wouldn’t ask for anyone else, and he said that’s the most satisfying part, Having people that love and care for him and him being able to do the same back. He said he was least satisfied when he was younger, and didn’t know what to do with his life until he joined the police program, which has made him who he is today. He said the times before the struggled with money, and struggled with happiness. He said his favorite age range was from 18-23. He said he met some really great people, and remember having a full head of hair! He used to be a party type guy.

  I believe the pigeon's point of view on this was crazy, he was just after some food, and ended up getting locked inside of a hightech briefcase, then he started learning how to use it. And he basically went on a rampage with the laser rifle thing. He then started flying, he was insanely happy after he learned how to do this. He then tryd to kill for the donut, he was out for blood. He chased the guy, and the guy realized he needed to give him the donut. So the pigeon was about to end him but the guy offers the pigeon the donut. So the pigeon stopped, and waited for him to bring it, he was playing the. give at the same time game. When the pigeon thought the guy was fooling him he quickly went into a defensive mode and threatened the guy again.The guy then threw the donut in the air to fool the pigeon but it landed in the briefcase and launched a nuke.I think the pigeon realized it was his chance for the guy to pick a nuke, or a donut. So the guy releases the donut, and the pigeon let the guy go save the nuke. and he continued to eat the donut, he knew he could get what he wanted. The pigeon definitely was clever.

• Which in class writing was your favorite? Why? I like the writing where we all used each others words we use on a daily basis. It gave me the ability to be creative with random words, that do not tie together at all.
• Which in class writing was your least favorite? Why? My least favorite was the writing where we had to come up with a phrase, and that was hard for me because I don’t really use a phrase or anything.
• Review all your writing chronologically (earliest to latest). List three interesting observations or changes in your writing. Which are the most profound (obvious and important)? Why? I got better at organization, and better with how I describe things. It made me not use the same words as much. This is important because these things make my stories more interesting, and not as boring to read.
• If you could change anything about your writing this semester what would it be? Why? Well, I would definitely write more. I’ve read very few books in my life, so it’s nice to be able to write, and strengthen my vocabulary and grammar.
• What did you like best about this course?I liked how Ms. A cared about us on a more deeper level than students. She worked with us really well and taught us tips in writing that really helped me.
  What did you like least about this course? I’m not a fan of group discussions, but I got over it.
• What would you have done differently this semester if you could have a do-over? Well, at the beginning of the semester I didn’t try, mostly because I was confused with how my classes worked online, and I don’t know why I didn’t ask for help, I wanted to, but I couldn’t get myself to until a month. So I missed a lot of homework in a couple classes, and I wish I could re do that, I know I’m smart, Im just really unmotivated to try, but I know I have to.
• What did learn about yourself as a student, a thinker, a writer this semester?I learned as a student that this is not like high school at alll. All the things are due when they are due. and there’s no turning stuff in late. As a thinker, I realized to myself that I have to get on this, and quit procrastinating. I’m only 18, I have time, but I don’t want to put it off and never do it, i know that it what would happen.
• What could I, Ms. A., have done differently to improve the course?I can’t really think of this, I thought it was a great class. There was nothing I saw that needed improvement.
• You begin this course with an engagement and participation score of an A.  Attendance, participation in activities and group work help you to maintain this grade.  Evaluate yourself and assign yourself a grade for the in class portion of this course.  Don’t forget the reasoning behind your self assigned grade. I would give myself a C, because I feel I could of done a lot better.In all of my classes, but I feel I definitely could of done better in here. I also feel I don’t have all my Which writings on here, I’m not sure though.

English
February 25. 2015

Dalton Tilley             

        
                                                          I believe we are done for
      I believe the generation under us, will be the fall of us. If you look at kids age 10-13,  look at how they act, what they got. Kids these days have iphones, every thing they want. They get to listen to any music and watch and movies they want. It’s mostly not their fault, it’s the system. The stupid ass songs they come out with has really bad subliminal messages in them and I feel children shouldn't listen to it. We have let technology control us and make us lazy. It’s going to be so hard on kids that don’t have guidance.They're even putting technology in schools, and I hate doing stuff online. I would so much rather do it on a sheet of paper. Online classes are just frustrating, I don't know if anyone feels the same, but I hate it. I just came out of high school, and I can tell you most the teachers at what is suppose to be one of the better schools should be fired. They don’t even teach! They have these A+ tutors do their work, because they are lazy. A+ tutors give 100's no matter what, teachers would even do that. I missed 17 days of my English class. Passed it with an A, turned in 2 things. This is how most my classes were, Imagine how it is from all the way up. I was home schooled, and was scoring 100% on every state test without trying. Soon as I got put in public schools I became lazy, and I slacked, because I was allowed to slack. Why try on something I don’t have to, we all take the easy way outs. I dropped out my senior year, for a few reasons. Never have failed a class. So now I’m in college. I’m probably the laziest, most procrastinating person. It’s all because of high school, friends I met in high school, and things I did. My point here is saying, all my influences and bad things I have learned, was in what was suppose to be a safe place. All these kids now, all have technology now, and it’s getting worse. I didn't have a phone till I was 13, but I had a phone that could only make calls and I could only call my mom when I needed her. Kids all have Iphones now, better phones than I still have. Kids barely even go outside anymore. They are always caught up in playing a video game or being able to have wifi to snap chat someone back.I always was outside. The average kid smokes at the age of 11 now. I know my sister does, and she is 13, just turned 13. Can’t really stop something you always have access too. It’s stupid what people are doing to themselves. I went down a bad, but decent path. I could of played college baseball at Arkansas. So, all in all, kids are getting guided down the wrong path. If they are doing things like cussing, fighting, any of that at pre teen, imagine when they are 15 or 16. They had a 3 year head start on when most people start becoming that way. A lot more bad than good out there. Pretty upsetting how hard it is to be nice, and not be hateful. That’s speaking for everyone. We do have good in us, it’s just hard to find it under all the bad. I do believe it’s what we put out there that children are accessible to, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. People observe people and do as they do, especially younger kids. We are suppose to teach good behaviors, not teach bad decisions. This is what we do, despite what we see, the behavior of all these people, we cause it. It’s all what we advertise, say, and do. Selfishness, the things we do not to be nice. It always seems that way. It seems everyone gets a good kick out of being jerks to one another. I don’t feel this way. I feel everyone should be helped out, no matter what they go through. A life is a life, no matter how you spend it. It’s important to be happy, as it is important to strive for greatness, which most people don’t do as much anymore. Myself, am not the greatest, but I care. I care about being successful and the way people feel about me. I’m nice to everyone, even the ones I don’t want to be nice to. It seems I’m less nice sometimes to the people I care about, but I’m sure this is due to negativity from others. I hate how I do that, it's not a lot, but it happens. People are to worried about a new boyfriend, how good they look, how much money they have, but it’s not really happiness. It’s hard to be happy in a world like that and we shrug it off. How are these kids suppose to be these kind of people if this is how we are. How do we guide them in the right direction, if we don’t even know how to do it to ourselves, I’m not saying everyone is unhappy, I’m saying a lot more aren't than are. I think kids are in an terrible environment. We all praise these famous people that talk about drugs and other terrible things, and we listen,say, and show this around the people we are suppose to set good examples for. As I said though, it is our fault. We are way to caught up in things, to really know what is going on in other peoples lives, we have therapists, but they are so expensive, people are not able to pay $100 an hour to talk to someone. In my opinion that is pretty ridiculous. This world is also getting pretty rough. I see so many young kids fight, and jump eachother. I actually went and took Muay Thai for a couple years, and got pretty good. I may not look like much, but I made myself so lean to be 154 pounds it's crazy. My friend Chris, which has been there for a while, he showed me the place, he's a pretty scary guy. My size, but his muscles are so freaking gross, they overlap each other. We could of traveled to places, he's going to, I had to quit due to school and work. We had the best trainer that just pushed us so far past are limits that it made us become so much stronger, and more agile that we we're. I really believe him and I don't need to worry about being jumped, I feel as if we can handle are selves pretty well. I think self defense is a great thing for EVERYONE to learn. Anything can happen, sometimes you don't have time to grab that pepper spray. I don't see the point in fighting though, Unless it is for a good cause. I also think it is hilarious when people are like lol got 5 days oss hmu. Like, alright, are you happy you're missing all that work at school, and are you not being punished. They praise people that do that. I just don't get it. I try to think about it, I do it on quite the daily basis. Never can figure it out, scientist have been trying it for years and no one can just think, what makes us do, what we do. We figured it out to an extent, but don't know the true reason what makes us do our actions. We have ways to condition people to do things we want. We can condition in positive ways, maybe this can be a way to stop kids from doing bad things, and acting out like they do. Just hopefully this can be figured out one day, we have these random thoughts that pop in our head on how to do things, maybe this is one of them

As I was sitting in my room, I realized I lost an item. This thingamajig, was driving me insane because I couldn’t remember what it was! So I called for my mom, and I explained the item to her, and she said, oh the whatchumacallit. I told her how much that helped me, and told her it would be excellent if she helped me figure out, then find what this is. The success this would bring me would be amazing. This is one of those things that bothers me, and that is forgetting items. This is one of those items that is probably vital to find, and I hope my mom and I can figure this out. I’ve been thinking about what, and where it could be, but the item has not come across my mind. I tried to make the implication of the importance of this to my mom, and she explained to me how we will find it, and I don’t need to worry. So we went for a walk. On this walk we tried to talk it out, but we ran into some crazy things. We saw a frog levitate, and I feel that is grotesque, considering how many people gave the frog weird looks. This frog is very extraordinary, as much as it is beautiful.  I was very content with people on the frogs behalf, and I made them quit hurting the frog’s feelings. I feel my argument was justified against the harsh people. So my mom and I brought the frog home, and my mom and I started to fambam, and talk about how forgetful our family is. My mom told me just to believe, and it will eventually come to me! I said really, I’ve tried to believe, and it hasn’t worked, she said to be patient. I told her I love her, and that this problem was a biggie, but I believe that something cosmic would happend. All you guys don’t know how frustrating this was to me. You are all queenies, and some how have better short term memory than I. So I was sitting in my room, and something awesome happen! The frog hopped under my bed, and as I went looking for it, tadda, I found what I was looking for. It was a concert ticket for a concert a year away. Like, it was amazing. I almost levitated my self. My friend Chris, tried coming to my house after all this, and I just told him to go home because I was stressed out. I sighed, and said dang. Realizing I would of had a better time having him there.