Leobardo

I Believe….. I believe that we are all equal I believe that call of duty is addicting I believe that the Chicago bulls are the best NBA team I believe that paintballing is the best sport ever I believe that we should live life to the fullest I believe that that firework’s are fun I believe that aliens are being kept at area 51 I believe that we should never give up I believe that what goes around comes around

I believe that I am done.

What I Know I know what it is like to the youngest in the family. Being the youngest in my family has its advantages but there are some cons that come along with it. It can sometimes be good to be the youngest or bad, depending in the situation. An advantage about being the youngest is that I do not have to take as many responsibilities as my 25 year old brother Jovan, or my 17 year old sister Julianna. I am not expected to have a job already or cook dinner when my mom does not. I still get chores but not as much as my brother used to, or my sister does. A con about being the youngest is that I still get treated like a little kid. I don’t have as much freedom as I feel I should have. My parents, especially my mom thinks that I am still too young to do a lot of stuff that my friends do. Every time I ask for permission to do something it is like playing 20 questions, sometimes I don’t even want to ask because of how my parents will react to it. I know what it is like to be the youngest in the family. Being the youngest has its fair share of pros and cons, I may not get as much freedom as I would like to but on the other hand I do not have to take on as many responsibilities.

Who Is To blame? Who is most to blame for the murder of Larry King? In my opinion Brandon Mcinerny is most to blame. I think he is most to blame because he was the one who planned to shoot Larry. Even though he was mad and Larry he shouldn’t have shot him, he should have talked to someone. Larry wore girth clothing and makeup to school; this drew a lot of attention to him. This gave him the reputation of the weird kid at his school. He began harassing boys in the P.E locker room. In class teachers would make complaints about his clothing being distractive to his other class mates. All the complaints went to joy Epstein, the assistant principal at E.O green middle school. She had said she would take care of the problem. Being gay herself, instead of asking Larry to try to tone it down a little she encouraged him to continue. This caused Larry to wear the girly cloths still. Larry asked Brandon to be his valentine in front of all his friends at lunch. This got Brandon mad and embarrassed. His friends said he and Larry would make gay babies together. Instead of Brandon talking to an administrator about what had happened, he wanted to take matters into his own hands and planned to soot Larry the next day. He thought about he was going to do overnight and he decided to go through so he shot Larry in the computer lab the next day. So who is to blame for Larry’s murder? I think Brandon is to blame. He planned his murder and went through with it; it was nobody else’s fault that he shot Larry. For this he has to pay the consequences.

30x30
 * Survive summer school
 * Graduate high school
 * Go to Las Vegas after graduation
 * Get a Shelby mustang
 * Go to UC Berkley
 * Visit Europe
 * Play on a collage paintball team
 * Open up a paintball store
 * Expand the store [[image:white-castle-logo.jpe width="294" height="207" align="right"]]
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Party!
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Graduate collage
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Go to white castle
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Travel the world
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Design a roller coaster
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Find bigfoot
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Go to a Chicago Bulls game[[image:chicago_bulls_logo_3120.gif width="149" height="173" align="right"]]
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Meet Derik rose
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Win the lottery
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Buy a mansion
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Get a Nissan Skyline
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Get married
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">[[image:naturevalley.gif width="141" height="115" align="right"]]Give Mr. Geib his granola bar back
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Keep the paintball store running
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Ride a bike off the grand canyon
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Drive on mars
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Live in new York city
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Have kids
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Finish this paper
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Find buried treasure
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Cooper Black','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Have fun

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; font-size: 37px;">Text VS Images Susan Sontag states that texts and words provide more knowledge than images. I disagree with her statement, I can learn more from looking at a photo of a topic than reading a sentence about it. Images provide proof of something and the actual reality when words can be changed. Words might be able to give you a faint image in your mind, but everyone gets a different picture in their mind from a text, but with an image everyone sees the same thing. Susan Sontag said “One never understands anything from a photograph”. This is a false statement, in watching the slide show of the poverty in New York and child labor I would never have gotten the same effect from reading an article about it. After reading the story of **To Kill a Mockingbird** I thought I knew what the poverty of that era was like. I thought I knew what lynched men on a tree looked like and how the racist reacted to it. But after seeing the slide show in class my perspective of it all changed, the raw pictures showed me the reality, when words can be bent and altered to make an event sound more interesting. Sontag’s opinion on images is that they can give you no knowledge on a topic, as words can give you all the knowledge. My opinion is that a picture is worth a thousand words and a text can’t do what images can. Raw pictures give you the reality on what is happening, as pictures can be altered and bent to make a topic sound more interesting

**//__ Important item __//** My most important object is the baseball that I caught at dodger stadium. It was the first and only ball that I caught. I chose this of all my objects because it was the first baseball game I ever went to. This item is important to me because it was the first baseball game I ever went to and my big brother took me to that game. Even thought it was a foul ball and not a homerun I was still exited to catch it. Now it’s on a holder on my dresser in my room. My baseball that I caught a dodger game is my most important item. It was a memorable first game and I thank my brother for taking me to it and that is why it’s my most important item

**//__ Tradit ional or Modern  __//** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Should marriage be arranged or should one be able choose for himself? I think that someone should be able to choose who they want to spend the rest of their life with. I don’t think someone else can possibly choose who should marry for you. It should be only your decision. It’s your life. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 19px;">In an arraigned marriage, if your parents choose for you it might be a better decision than you would make because your parents are much older and wiser. They have experience with marriage than you do. Your parents could know you well enough to know whose is a good match for you. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 19px;">On the other hand, when you choose for yourself you are not forced to be with someone you hardly even know. To marry someone you choose is what should be done. It’s your life and you should make your own decision on who you want to spend the rest of it with. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 19px;">My opinion on the whole topic is that you should choose for yourself who you want to marry. If your marriage is chosen for you it is on real love. It can’t be because you are forced to love them so it is not who you choose to be with. When you choose someone yourself you have time to date them and choose if you want to take it farther or date someone else. No one can choose for you or it is not real love but just forced. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Should marriage be arranged? My answer is no to that question. No one knows what you want and in doing that you don’t have time to date anyone else or have other options, you are stuck with that person.

**//__<span style="font-family: 'Century','serif'; font-size: 27px;">Adult or juvenile? __//** <span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">My opinion on this is that Brandon should be tried as an adult, it’s not like he killed him on accident. He had time to think it through and he decided o shoot king. If Larry is dead I don’t think that Brandon should get another chance at life. He should be tried as an adult.

<span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Although Brandon was only fourteen at the time the he committed the tragic murder of Larry King that does not excuse him from being tried as an adult. He premeditated Kings Murder. He thought about it over night and then took action by bringing a gun to school and then shooting Larry King in the head more than once.

<span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">I strongly believe that he should not be tried as a juvenile because that means that he will get out at age 25, and it is likely that he will do something like this again because of his messed up family. His dead father, crack addicted mother, and his criminal brother. Chances are he won’t get better.

<span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">So in my mind I think he should be tried as an adult and not juvenile. Larry is dead and he didn’t get a second chance so why should Brandon?