You want me to sell something of myself, 

You may think that I will sell my strength, 

Strength may be bought, 

but I'm not selling.

My strength becomes me, with every-

thing I do,
whether it ,
Be
picking up
 
bags in the morning,

Getting myself off 

The bus when we get to school,

Leaning in my chair

in every class.
My strength shows,

 bequeathed me,
 
from my grandfather,

To my dad,
from him to me,
And I_
shall pass it to my children,

As the gene cycle

continues, 

And the circle
 of life keeps cycling.

So,

 you may be able to find strength

Somewhere,

But not here.

My strength is here to stay.

As the ball starts to drop,
 the countdown 
begins,
I anticipate excitedly,
The end of a great year filled,
With amazing
trips, foods, experiences
And more, 
While reflecting on all the great year to come.

As the snow falls, 
The hard 
ground like 
an empty corpse
lies cold and
 untouched

As the cold wind blows,
I cover my face,
to keep
 my  heart,
beating like a
blazing sun from
Freezing,
like an
ice cube
in the cooler.

My family and I were watching a movie last night, my sisters and mother on the sofa, and my nephew in my lap on the love seat and I realize that we hadn't done something like this in so long that it made me think, how long until I'm the only one with my mother surrounded by all these foster children, and then I came to the conclusion that it would be next year that this would actually happen. My sister is a senior in high school and is applying to colleges, so she'll be out of the house next year, my brother in his third year of college now and I barely see him. I will be the only child living with my mother come next year, not including the foster kids, and from there two years will fly by and then I will be starting college myself. It's hard to think that life makes it seem like you have all the time in the world until you wake up one day and you wonder, where is everyone? How did this happen? And it's because we are neglectful to our time now, we take the time for granted until we notice that it's all gone. The time with our families, our friends, until it's gone we don't want to think about it, then we wish that we could have it all back. It's such a big question that a lot of people are debating it even today in their everyday lives, what happened to the time? Everyone grows up so fast. It's awful for me to think that one day I will have a family and I might be working so much that I am neglectful and don't take the time to listen to them have fun with them, simply show love that I once felt. It's important to take the time because we all don't know how much time we have left.

Stephon. J. Kindle II
9th grade Fitz English Section 2
Thoreau Walden Literary Analysis#1
Due: November 7th, 2014
 ~Education~ 

“I cannot but think that if we had more true wisdom in these respects, not only less education would be needed, because, forsooth, more would already have been acquired, but the pecuniary expense of getting an education would in a great measure vanish.”
-Walden, Economy, Henry. D. Thoreau

Through education we gain intelligence and wisdom, but Henry David Thoreau said that through experiencing different events people are able to truly understand and learn. In Economy the first chapter of Walden by Henry. D. Thoreau, in particularly the sub category "Education", the reader  is able to learn and understand what Thoreau was trying to explain about education and what his definition of it was.

“Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.”
-Walden, Economy, Henry. D. Thoreau

It is believed in most people's minds that the only way to understand things are to live through them. For example when someone is talking about marriage, unless he has been married himself before than he cannot give you the knowledge of marriage and how to deal with it because he himself has never lived through it himself, or if you were picked on by an older sibling, an only child would never know the feeling because he has to siblings to bully or be bullied by. 

Stephon. J. Kindle II
9th grade Fits English Section 2
Thoreau Walden Literary Analysis#2
Due: November 7th, 2014
~Simplicity~

Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!!
 — Henry David Thoreau.

Life gets easier as you think less and live more. Henry David Thoreau did this at Walden Pond by thinking less about the less important things and living life simply. Thoreau lived his life while he was at walden with great simplicity, he although only for a small time at Walden, lived in a shanty that he built with his bare hands and tools that he borrowed got the parts of his home from different men that no longer needed these simple boards or could no longer afford it. He then set out to write and think as he sat for hours a day and thought about his philosophy and how people waste time with petty things when they could be out living their lives happily and two the fullest. 

“By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising.” -Walden, Economy Henry. D. Thoreau

 Through working diligently but simply, without rushing or worrying Thoreau was able to get the work that needed to be done on his new home finished and was able to fix his house to his likings, a place where he'd spend a little over two years living in, working on his writing which we all know today, and focusing on his work that he had to do to survive day by day, whether it was collecting firewood, or planting and harvesting his vegetation. Thoreau was determined to live life with less hardships and more self luxury.

 “It appeared to me that for a like reason men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life” Walden, Henry. D. Thoreau

From Walden I have been able to understand more about Mr. Thoreau and what he wanted to share with us, and through the harkness  discussions that we've had discussing the parts that we have already read, I have found an eagerness to continue in the reading, an urge for more if you would, about what Thoreau has to say. This was just the appetizer, I can't wait for the main course.

I am making progress on stitching together crucial details for my essay, I have finished the introduction stitching through all the way through, my seventh paragraph, I will work on my conclusion 

Yesterday I finished working on my narrative paragraphs on simplicity, education, and life. I'm trying to focus on stitching them together with the other paragraphs.