The Sticky fingered Mouse

The mouse  ran inside the Wall

The Cheese, He stole it all

He left in a hurry

Taking my McFlurry

I think he's gonna rob the mall

One Nashty Poem

Authors Note: I got bored one day in Language Arts so decided to write a poem on Steve Nash. I decided to write it on Steve Nash because of a video I saw on you tube by Paul Brogan.

Steve Nash is in the NBA
Boy he sure knows how to play
He'll soon be in the Hall of Fame
His name will go by DR. J.

soccer was once his game
But now he thinks that's a bit lame

He isn't very tall
But he sure can shoot the ball

When you play him there's no time to rest
Because he is the very best

Even though he's Short
He still rules the court

Steve Nash is key
If you wanna beat the big three

Orlando's superman puts on a show night after night
but Steve Nash is his kryptonite

The Knicks may have Jeremy Lin
But against Steve Nash he'll never win

Kobe may be clutch
But Steve Nash is just too much

The Pacers may have Danny Granger
but Steve will put their title hopes in Danger

The Hawks may have Teague
But Nash is the best in the league

OKC may have KD
But the OKC crowd even agrees... Steve Nash is MVP

The Sixers have Iguodala
But Steve Nash is better if he uses his magic powa

Dallas may have the German
But Nash is their burden

The Nets Chris Humpries just lost his ring
But Steve Nash is about to get his bling

The Grizzlies may have O.J. Mayo
But unlike Nash he's muy feyo(very ugly in spanish)

The Clippers may have Chris Paul
But Nash would steal his ball

The Bulls may have Carlos Boozer
But unlike Nash he's major loser

The Bobcats may have Kemba Walker
but as the record shows hes just a talker

The Timberwolves may have Flynn
but unlike Nash he can't put it in

The Bucks may have Monta Ellis
but of Steve Nash he is Jealous

The Warriors may have Stephen Curry
But Steve Nash will win without any worry

Deception

How do you like it when a good friend of yours plays a trick on you? I like many others dislike it for the vast majority of the time. This time however I was deceived into thinking that The Lottery was about a person winning a bunch of money, but instead the winner of this lottery met a very painful death.

The theme of The Lottery is deception. There are many examples of deception throughout the story. The first example of Deception is the title itself. The title is a form of deception because when you here the Lottery you think that someone is going to win a lot of money, but in this case you do not want to win the Lottery. The winner will of this lottery is stoned to death because it is believed that this tradition will bring a good harvest.

Another example of deception in this story is the mood of the townspeople in the short story. In the beginning of the story people were very happy. The adults were talking just as if it was a normal day. As the grownups were talking the kids “eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys” It seemed like the kids were just passing time before they started the lottery, but they were actually gathering rocks to throw at the unlucky winner of the lottery. Even when the mood changed into more seriousness I thought that they were just anxious to see who was going to become rich not who was going to be stoned to death.

The reason I didn’t dislike the deception in The Lottery was because it came as a surprise to me. Whereas when a friend tricks me he makes me look silly which I don't like.  The surprise was the winner of this tradition called the lottery was I thougt people wanted to win because they would become rich. I did not foresee them being stoned to death.

The Lonly Pickle

Hello I am a pickle

I am yet to get tickled

I am alone in my jar

My taste isn’t quite up to par

I am only worth a nickel

Why Lebron's Better than Durant

Authors Note: This piece is a contradiction to the piece KD vs. LBJ if you want to see the original piece I am contradicting go to http://www.ryanlovesmilkandcookies.blogspot.com/2012/04/kd-vs-lbj.html. If you want to fully comprehend the information presented to you in this essay then please go to this link and read the KD vs. LBJ essay.

With five seconds on the clock your team down by two, the crowd holds their breath in anticipation. In the most important game of the year, a crucial game seven of the finals, who would you give the ball to? Kevin Durant or LeBron James? I myself along with anybody else with a brain would pick the best player in the league and future MVP LeBron James.


There are many things that are wrong with my colleague's essay “KD vs. LBJ”. First of all when your team is down by two with ten seconds on the clock, the crowd doesn’t roar with excitement; they hold their breath sitting on the edge of their seats in fear of their team might lose. Second of all why would you give it to Durant? If you give it to him, you know what he's doing… He is going shoot the ball. Knowing this you double or triple him and play good defense. With LeBron you not only need to double him but also play good defense off the ball because unlike Durant, LeBron is smart enough to pass it when he is covered.

I don't know how thoroughly my colleague looked at what came up on his Google search because when I searched “how many buzzer beaters has Kevin Durant made” the only games that came up was one against the Mavericks on December twenty-ninth, another six days ago against the Mavericks, and then it also shows the Milk and Cookies blog. So he's not as clutch as you think. Also if you think LeBron doesn’t perform in the fourth quarter, I’m going to call you what you are, a Liar! Just a few weeks ago LeBron scored seventeen straight points in the fourth quarter to narrowly escape a brutal upset from the Nets, and if you think the only reason LeBron scored as much as he did is because they were playing the Nets (one of the worst teams in the league), you're wrong. He also dropped another seventeen points against the Knicks in the fourth quarter during the playoffs.

The reason LeBron passed up the shot earlier this season is because he was playing smart (something the author of the milk and cookies blog says he doesn’t do). The reason it was smart and showed his basketball IQ was because when you are being double teamed there are three decisions you can make. The worst of the three would be to panic and throw the ball away. The next option you have is to put up a bad shot that usually doesn’t go in. The best of the three options is to find your teammate who was being guarded by the defender who came to double you. LeBron chose the third option because he used to and still does trust his teammate to make that shot when it counts. Also if Durant tried to do his so called “shimmy” on LeBron, I can tell you right now that LeBron would swat that ball out of the gym.

Another inconsistency with the “KD vs. LBJ” essay is that the author said that Kevin Durant is smarter and has a higher basketball IQ because he went to college. The only reason LeBron didn’t go to college is because he needed the money from an NBA contract to help his mom pay the bills. He did this because he loves his mom. Even if Kevin Durant went to college, he only went to college for one year, and all that year did was help him get almost as smart as LeBron. LeBron definitely has the higher basketball IQ.

Even if it says that Durant is smarter in NBA2K12, if you simulate a season, it always has LeBron’s team winning. Which, if you look at the big picture, that is all that matters, winning it all and getting the ring. Some may say this is because he has two great players in and Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade; but Durant has equally great players Russell Westbrook, James Harden, and Serge Ibaka. Also I believe Durant’s team has a better bench.

And let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, Last time I checked Durant had just as many rings as LeBron… zero. So if you ask me it’s a little early to be talking about rings, but if we’re going to talk about who’s gonna have more rings you can just say LeBron James because we both know that he is going to have more than Kevin Durant. After LeBron wins the NBA Finals this year the doubters will start to see just how great LeBron is and then the chain effect that has started years ago will keep on going.

Also the author of the “KD vs. LBJ” essay may be right about the wingspan differential but he was wrong about the height difference between LeBron and Durant . Durant is only one inch taller not two. Also every star has been dunked on over the years. Even the NBA great Shaquille O’Neil and All Star Dwight Howard have been slammed on. One thing he doesn’t mention though is that LeBron has about fifteen pounds more than him and is stronger which helps him back people down in the post so he doesn’t have to shoot the off balanced fade away shots that Kevin Durant is forced to put up due to his lack of strength. This also probably the reason that Durant hasn’t been dunked on by LeBron because he is too much of a girl to take the contact from LeBron's two hundred-fifty pound frame when LeBron comes driving into the lane.

There is a fairly large gap between LeBron's greatness and Durant’s near greatness right now, but not only is LeBron the better player, but he is definitely going to be this year’s MVP.

Seperation

Authors Note: This essay is a prediction of what I think will happen next in my book Fallen Angels.

Have you ever been separated from your friends when you are out late at night, and been forced to find your way back to them with only the coldness of the night to comfort you? I predict that Peewee and Perry will become very familiar with this feeling later in the book. The only difference is the stakes have been heightened for them. They are in the middle of the Vietnam War and they will have to find their way back to base without being found by the Vietcong.

One reason I think that Perry and Peewee will get separated is because they are good friends, but don't really mix well with the rest of their group. This makes them more likely to get separated together because in most books when people get broken off from the main group they are usually are best friends or hate each other. Since Perry doesn’t hate anybody if he gets separated it will probably be with Peewee.

Another reason they will most likely get separated because they don't always do as they’re told. Also they are scared of being killed. Since they are scared of being killed they may run off and flee the scene if they think they are going to die. Or if they thought the army life was so hard and dangerous that they needed to run away they would probably tell each other and run away to the nearest city or village.

There are many reasons that Perry and Peewee could run away. No matter how they get separated in the end it’s all the same. it’s just them and the cold cruel Vietnam Jungle .

Big Yellow Taxi and Field Below Response

Authors Note: in this piece I am describing the similarities and differences between the songs and poems Big Yellow Taxi and Field Below. I believe that in the poem

Big Yellow Taxi

poem was very depressing and the song was very upbeat and happy. They were two complety different view points on the poem/song. The Poem

Field Below

is also a very depressing and sad poem. The song was also very sad and depressing. The song made me feel sad and depressed.

Chocolate Milk

Chocolate Milk is good
I got mine from the hood
It tastes very yummy
And goes into my tummy
I drank it where I stood

Party in Canada

Authors Note: this is a parody of the song Party in the USA that I made with two of my classmates.

So I jumped on the Plane heading to Canada
Welcome to the land of maple syrup, whoa can we eat it all
Jumped on the dogsled, here I am for the first time
I look to the left, and see a gun toting French mime

This is all so crazy, everybody keeps on saying Aye
My tummy’s turnin and I'm feeling kind of homesick
Too much snow so I want to leave today
That’s when my pocket radio played my favorite tune

And the Beethoven was on
And the Beethoven was on
And the Beethoven was on

So I put my hands up, they’re playin my song
The Yetis fly away
I'm noddin my head like “Aye”
Movin my hips like “Aye”
Got my hands up, they’re playin my song

I have the urge to say Aye!
It’s a party in Canada Aye!
It’s a party in Canada Aye!

Got tavern in my dog sled
Eskimos are lookin at me now
Like whos that chick rockin the beaver skin
Shes gotta be from outta town

So hard with peeps not around me
Its defenetly not an American party
Cause all I see is beaver pelts
I guess I didn’t get the memo

My tummy’s turnin
and I'm feeling kind of homesick
Too much snow so I want to leave today
That’s when my pocket radio played my favorite tune

And the JB song was on
And the JB song was on
And the JB song was on

So I put my hands up, they’re playin my song
The Yetis fly away
I'm noddin my head like “yeah”
Movin my hips like “yeah”

Got my hands up, they’re playin my song
And now I'm gonna be okay Aye!
It’s a party in Canada Aye!
It’s a party in Canada

I feel like hoppin on a flight Back to the U.S. tonight
Something stops me every time,
every time The DJ plays my song
and I feel alright

So I put my hands up, they’re playin my song
The Yetis fly away
I'm noddin my head like “yeah”
Movin my hips like “yeah”

Got my hands up, they’re playin my song
And now I'm gonna be okay Aye!
It’s a party in Canada Aye!
It’s a party in Canada

Mother to Son Response

Authors Note: this is a response to the poem Mother to Son

Mother to Son is a Poem about persevering. It is about a child's mother giving there son or daughter the Life can get rough and at times when you want to quit you need to persever the pain and moving forward.

The "Free" Blacks

Authors Note: this is a piece is about how free the free blacks in the north actually were In the North the blacks were free, but my question is how free were they? I believe that they were only partially free. The reason I think that they are only partially free is because they have some of the rights as white people did, but not all of them. Some political freedoms that about half of the free blacks in the north had was voting. The reason only about half of them had this right is because some states gave blacks the right to vote and some of them didn’t. No blacks had the right to serve on a jury until 1860 when Massachusetts gave this right to the blacks. Blacks had next to no social freedoms in the north. They were not allowed to mingle with whites, be in a jury (except for Massachusetts after 1860), attend their churches, go to the same concert halls, marry white girls, or sit at the same table as whites. One right they did have was to own property. Also they could pay taxes. The black community almost had the same rights as the white community. They were allowed to own property and get a job. Although they could acquire a job not many whites would hire you if you were black. It didn’t matter if you were the smartest and most skilled human in the world because if you were black they viewed you almost like an alien, a weird looking creature from mars.

Peewee's Fatal Flaw

Authors Note: This piece is a character description on Peewee. He is one of the characters in the book I am reading, Fallen Angels. Peewee walked into the room, over confident in his prankster sort of way. His eyes scanning the crowd looking for his so called “target”. Once he found his “target” he performed his mediocre trick on the six foot six inch brick wall of a man he decided to pick on. His trick merely annoyed the brick wall making him madder than before. He shot up from his chair like a speeding bullet ready to charge like a bull. The brick wall was getting ready to beat the crap out of Peewee, but luckily for Peewee’s sake the Lieutenant came in and told them that they had to go on patrol. The Brick wall gave Peewee the death stare as if to inform him that his time was coming. When we got back to camp Peewee hid behind some bushes while we waited for Johnson (the brick wall) to get back from the chopper into camp so he could get a couple cheap shots in before Johnson beat his sorry butt. If you asked me he was a little bit scared, but I don't blame him. He has a man like a rhino for an enemy.