Liyah’s Thoughts

     In the beginning of the year, I was actually excited to be back at school. Well I guess that’s because I haven’t gone to school since before winter break of last school year. School started on August 12th. That morning I remember getting ready for school and being a bit nervous because I haven’t seen a lot of people in awhile and they haven’t seen me. I arrived at school with many goals, which were to succeed in all my classes, maintain a 3.0 or higher, and get back to being involved.      When Dr. Preston first told the class that our two options were to do book work or an online course. I was confused because after that, he left the classroom and left it up to our class to decide. That was the first time I have ever had a teacher do that. The whole class felt the same as I did, but we soon came to an agreement that we do the online course. Dr. Preston later explained to us what the online course was and what we will be doing throughout the year. ...

• a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. - hobgoblin means mischievous imp or sprite.  • to be great is to be misunderstood.  - not sure what this means, but I have an idea that it is saying that to be great is to be something like unique • character teaches above our wills - your personality says a lot about yourself 

• “..and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”   - you never know what you can do or what you’re capable of until you have tried • “A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best”    - you are most satisfied and happy when you have gave your all into something that you’ve worked hard on • What is it that makes children so courageous and parents so afraid?    - children are courageous because they’re minds are young but also open minded and they don’t know what they should think or not to think and it makes parents afraid because some kids are actually smarter than their age This made me think about all different things like truly made me think. Emerson is basically just talking about man kind and different traits about them but to be honest I can’t really describe how I see it. I see it as different quotes that mean something important and that goes for everyone and not...

   Ray Bradbury wrote an interesting story. The type of story that you might have to read a couple of times in order to understand it. Although this story maybe a bit confusing, soon you will start to put the pieces together and then it will all click. Let me tell you the gist of it.    In the beginning of the story, this man named Leonard Mead was a simple guy who enjoyed going on walks throughout November because he loved the weather. He was an author and he would write books and magazines, but soon they started to not sell so he wasn’t really employed. Nor was he married. This man lived alone and pretty much had nothing better to do than to walk for hours, it was a daily thing for him.    He was walking through a silent and dark neighborhood minding his business and talking to the houses. Talking to the houses was a thing he liked to do because well, he didn’t really have anyone else to talk to. As he kept walking along his way he noticed that he was...

 As young teenagers we all make dumb decisions. Some may not be as bad as others and other decisions might be worse. Now, if you know me right now you’d probably think that I wouldn’t do anything so stupid that could cost me my life. You’re right, me as of right now wouldn’t. However myself in 2017 did.   One day in the month of September, 2017  I was planning on going to a quince with some of my friends. I got ready, and had to clean the house because Mexican moms don’t let you go out anywhere unless you clean! After that my mom and I went out to eat some food. Later on that day at about 6 is when my parents took me to the quince. The quince was located at Telephone Rd. If you’ve been there you know what the road looks like, straight and a lot of gravel. So once I got dropped off I said goodbye to my parents and met up with my friends. The party was pretty boring at first, but then we saw a few of our other friends.   We asked them what they thought about the pa...

The reason why Ray Bradbury wrote “The Pedestrian” was to bring awareness that many people have been treated unlawfully by police offers for not doing anything wrong. What happened in his life contributed to this story because he was a simple, honest man who was simply just strolling the neighborhoods but also since his work wasn’t selling and he didn’t have a wife his life seemed depressing. Which is a reason why he would talk to himself and how the cop thought he was crazy.