Post Eleven: Horror "Evil Whisperers"

Vera has been attending Churchill High School for a few months. She has been to four different high schools over the past year. They all kicked her out, because she was too mean and violent to the other teens. She never gets a long with anyone, but that was never her fault. She feels as if she has a demon inside of her. Vera doesn't have any control over her mind. Most of the time Vera hears whispers in her head. Every time she tries telling people about them, people think she's crazy. She hears the whispers mostly when she thinks mean thoughts. The whispers always put her in a bad mood and makes her do violent things towards other people. The demands are usually related to the mean thought Vera is having at that time. As Vera has been getting older the whispers have been getting worse. Since Vera doesn't have any friends, she sometimes gets lonely and likes having the whisperers to talk to. When the whisperers tell her to do a violent act or a bad thing she will continue to have a painful headache until it is complete. Vera feels like it is her job to do what the whisperers tell her to do. 

The whispers have seemed to stop when Vera has been around a boy named Jordan in her history class. Vera is always happy around him and never hears the whispers. Sometimes, she gravitates to him just so that she doesn't have to hear the whispers. When they start demanding something to her, she goes to see Jordan. He was her escape from them. He is the weakness to the whisperers.

Vera was on her way to history class, and suddenly started to receive a pounding headache.
She arrives at the class and glanced at Jordan from across the room. By then, the whispers had started. She heard the quiet demands, "kill him...kill him".
"NO!" Vera screamed. The entire class turns towards her.
"What!?" asked Jordan.
"Sorry..." Vera red as a tomato, walked towards Jordan and took her seat. She could never hurt the only friend she has ever had. This is the first time that the whisperers required her to kill someone. She didn't feel like she was capable of killing someone.
Her headache continued to get stronger. Sitting beside Jordan all the sudden didn't matter. She couldn't focus on anything. Vera kept moving her head from side to side, and decided to smack her head really hard. That just made the whispers more aggravated.
"I can't do it, not this time." Vera said to herself.
"What's wrong? Tell me." demanded Jordan as he gazed into her eyes. He saw that her pupils were extremely dilated. "Maybe you should go see the nurse."
"Yeh I should do that." Vera quickly gets up and sprints out of the classroom.
As she walks down the hall way towards the nurses office, she felt a force of wind. It was a force that she could not control.
The whispers threatened, "Do it, or we kill you."
Vera's headache became uncontrollable. Her vision has become blurred and feels her body slowly gravitating to the ground. Her ears start to ring with evil laughter. She feels a cold shiver up her spine.
"I'm not killing anyone for you. Haven't I done enough? "
Her brain has become numb, and her entire body has become paralyzed. Vera has decided not to give into the evil whisperers.

Post Ten: Mystery The "Safe House" Crime

• Setting: The story takes place in an old house that was deserted by the people who lived there years ago. The house has a nice big land with no close neighbours. Just surrounded by lots of trees and mountains. Nobody lives there now but it is known to be a hang out spot for all the local teens. A lot of different parties take place there. No one really cares that kids are in that house. The parents think it's a safer place to go then anywhere else. If there's no one living there, it shouldn't be an issue for anybody. It was considered the "safe house' for everyone in the neighbourhood. 

• One day, there was a young girl who just learned how to ride her bike. It was the first day where she was ready to explore different parts of the town. Her older sister decided to show her the safe house that everyone was talking about. It was considered to be the town's landmark.Once the two girls arrived to the house they went inside  and heard some footsteps coming from the background. That wasn't odd, there's always usually someone there doing something. They took a check together and discovered a body near the back door. The older sister checked the pulse and told her sister to get help. They both immediately ran home and told their mother to call 911. It was a 56 year old man that was lying dead in the backyard of the "safe house". The body was later to be identified as Charles Duran, a guy that the town looked up to. When people thought of Charles, there was never a hateful thought in their head. No one understood why he would be at the safe house. Only the teens go there. Why would an adult be there? Why was he there in that house dead? If only anyone knew. 

• One person did know of course...the criminal. His name Mike Duran. Charles Duran's second son. Mike is the youngest of two brothers. People around the town see him as a great kid, that is a part of the perfect family. His brother is only two years older then him. They practically did the same activities, which made it a lot harder for Mike to keep up with his brothers reputation. Mike always feels like he's chasing his brother and that got frustrating. It was never Mike's choice to do the same things that his brother did. He wanted to join the drama club at school instead of the football team. He wanted to take an art class, instead of gym class. The problem was that his dad never let him do anything Mike wanted to do. His dad would keep him in the exact path of his brother. He would always say to Mike that doing the arts isn't what the "Duran" family does. Mike's brother didn't like the fact that Mike did the exact same things as he did. They got tired of seeing each other everywhere they went. Mike's brother knew that this had to change. One day Mike's brother decided to quit the football team, because him and Mike were fighting way too much. When he got home he got punched in the face instantly by his own father. Mike saw it happening. There was screaming, crying, and of course punching. When Mike saw his father hit his mother, that put him over the edge. He decided that he needed to do something about it. Mike wanted to scare his dad somehow, just so that he would back off the family. He knew that his dad has never seen the "safe house" before. Mike asked him the next day if he would be interested in taking a walk down to the house with him for a bit. Mike always carries a pocket knife with him, it's just what people in the country do. He only wanted to scare his dad so with him he brought a small baseball bat, and said to his dad that they could practice a few swings. That day, they looked around the house and when they got in the back Mike swung the baseball bat at his dad. All Mike saw was anger in his dad's eyes. Mike saw two arms coming towards his face. As an instinct Mike took his pocket knife and stabbed his father viciously. He couldn't believe that he was capable of doing that to someone. The flashbacks of his dad punching his family continued to flash through his mind. Mike felt almost relieved seeing his dad lying there. Mike heard the front door open, dropped the knife, and ran away in a hurry. 

                                                          

• The detective on the case has been working murder cases on the country side for thirty years. He is very intelligent at these type of cases, and his motivation is to never let the bad guys win. His name is detective Dave. He is considered an old detective, but all the young guys go to him for help. Dave has dedicated his life to the job. Detective Dave is always first to the crime scene. No matter where he is when he gets a call, he is there. When he got to the "safe house" crime scene he noticed a pocket knife right away. He has exceptional observation skills and makes sure to pay attention to detail. It was lying on the floor next to where the body was. He could tell that the killer was inexperienced because there was blood footprints leading to where the killer left the scene. Dave knew that the killer must of been in a rush when he or she heard the two girls walking into the house. Those two girls were the only actual witnesses, but didn't actually see anything. Usually when people see something it makes it easier to identify the killer. As a detective, the first thing Dave's got to do is interview the family. He talked to the mother first. He saw that she had nervous behaviour and that she was very shaky. She was actually sweating from being so nervous. When the detective told him that her husband was dead she seemed to have no reaction. Detective Dave found that a bit odd for a girl who is now a widow with sons who will not have a father.  It was like she had already known. There was no actual physical evidence to prove that she was at the crime scene, but detective Dave's mind thought she was the killer. The detective decided to search her house. There was nothing out of the ordinary, but there was one pair of shoes with a bit of blood on it. Police found them in the garbage. It wasn't women's shoes. Detective Dave went to the two brothers. He put them in one room and asked who the shoes belonged to. The two boys looked at each other with a long gaze, then Mike slowly put up his hand. 

Romance Dialogue by Kara and Lauren

Setting: New York City.  Subway late at night. They are on the train, waiting for their stops.

                                       
                                                 

Eli is distracted by all the action that is going on in the subway. He finds it fascinating that everyone in the city has a place to be in a very short amount of time. While he was making observations, someone pulled his attention.

A girl walks onto the train talking loudly into her cell phone, causing everyone to look. She seems to be gossiping.
Realizing everyone is staring at her, she takes her seat.
Eli is staring at her. He’s not used to loud city people. Something about this loud girl makes her interesting.
“Can I help you?”
He takes out the earphone from his left ear. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to stare. I’m not used to hearing people have such honest conversations in public.”
“If you don’t want to hear it, then you don’t have to listen.”
“No, no. That’s not what I meant. Or rather, I wasn’t eavesdropping. Sorry.” He walks over and extends his hand to her. “I’m Elijah Newman.”
She looks at his outstretched hand confused. “Um, hi.”
“I didn’t mean to offend.” He retracts his hand but still studies the profile of her face. “What’s your name?” His abruptness surprises even himself.
“Bianca.”
“Bianca…last name?”
“Why the hell do you care?”
“Sorry. I’m not from New York. Where I come from everyone knows each other’s last name. I don’t know how this city works yet.”
“You’ll learn quickly.”
“People here are so honest. There’s no polite bullshit.”
“No ones got time for that in New York.”
“I think that’s why I like it here.” His gaze fell on her again. “Why I like the people here so much.”
The subway rolled to a stop. “Well, this is mine.”
“Oh, alright. I’ll see you around.”
She snorted. “I doubt that. This is New York.”
Bianca gets up to leave the train and her wallet is left on the seat behind her.
Noticing this Eli quickly gets to his feet grabs the wallet and runs after her.
Bianca has her headphones in and doesn't hear him calling to her.
He touches her shoulder.
She turns around and instinctively takes a swing at his nose.
Bianca realizes its him and shouts “What the hell? You can’t just sneak up on people like that.”
He holds out the wallet as a peace offering.
She looked from the wallet to his bleeding nose and back again. “Wow, you really don’t know how this city works.”
Bianca notices the blood streaming down his nose. “Ah, shit, sorry. You really shouldn't scare a girl like that.” She digs through her purse and hands him some tissue.
“Its fine. No really, it was crooked before anyway.”
She laughs for the first time.
“You’re kind of funny.” She grabbed hold of his arm. “If your nose isn't too badly broken, call me.” She scribbled her number on his forearm in sharpie. “I will show you around.”
He watched as she walked away. Eli had a broken nose and an arm covered in ink that probably wouldn't wash off for weeks. Eli was totally mesmerized.

Post Nine: Fantasy

• There has been magical powers moving through generations. Their powers have the ability to save citizens all across the globe. The powers have reached one man, that is scared about misusing his powers. His name is Walter Crush. He looks likes the everyday business man walking on the street, but when there is an emergency, Walter is the guy to call.

• In a blink of an eye Walter could disappear or run away at lightning speed. If someone gets injured he can heal them with just one touch. If something or someone gets in his way, he can physically crush it. The one power that he is still learning how to use is his mind manipulation. He can't control when he uses it or how he uses it. His entire family has struggled with their minds and sometimes do not even know how to think. He has a lot of work to do in order to be fully developed in mind manipulation. It is Walter's turn to figure out how to use it in a positive way.

• Walter was born with his powers. His mother's family has gone through magical powers for many generations. It has been a long family legacy, that no one knows where it is from. It is a family mystery that will never be solved.
• Walter has a job with the FBI safe unit. He is involved in a program that is dedicated to save citizens in a quicker manner. As soon as they get a call, Walter can be there in two seconds no matter where the location. He is the first in his family to get a good job out of the powers. His mom didn't like the idea of Walter opening his powers to the public. It makes her feel mad because she always thought it should be a family secret. Most of his family members hid their powers from society because they didn't want to be judged. Walter decided to change that to use his powers for something good. He didn't want them to go to waist.  
• The captain of the FBI safe unit thought Walter would be a great addition to his FBI team so that they could save more civilians. They now save people much faster then any emergency vehicle. 
• The restriction of his powers is that when he gets extremely angry, his powers unfortunately shut down. He needs to really know how to control his emotions in order to use his powers correctly. It is very risky when he is trying to save someone because if someone for some reason makes him feel angry, his powers will stop. That makes the person who he was trying to save in danger.
• Also, he can't over use his healing power, or else they will shut down for 24hrs. He would be unable to heal anyone in that time frame.
• Walter is still in the process of learning new things about his powers and what he is capable of. The citizens know that he is a helping force that they need.

Post Eight: Sci-Fi What if...

What if poverty rates increased by a huge amount? What if it got so extreme there was no such thing as a middle class? What if there was no such thing as classes? What would happen to our society?

There is now a huge gap between the rich and the poor. This much poverty causes a lot of default on society. Every society that has ever been created is now collapsing. People everywhere hate their living environments and their lives in general. Schools continue to shut down and students now have to live in poverty. Children have no education, and parents have no jobs to support them. Everyone has become depressed and sad about everything. This increase has not led to happy lives, it has made people want to die.

The poverty surroundings does not look pretty. The streets are filthy, covered with dirt and garbage that no one can escape. Every house seems to be abandoned. People are now turning to the dirty streets and have no place to call home. Society is just a dark and scary place to be a part of.

            


The conflict between the rich and the poor has escalated. Since the huge gap between the classes, the people in poverty are furious with the rich people that still exist in society. The working class is most of the population and it is a constant fight for money. This kind of frustration could lead to things like war and violence. It continuously keep causing destruction for society.

Moving to the streets, drinking from the water on the streets, digging through the trash on the streets, Deen used to have a life full of possibilities, but now it has full of disasters. Deen is a person struggling with poverty. His family used to be considered a person in the middle class, until society came to a halt. Deen is only 15 years old who was in school, until all schools in his area had to be shut down. Now he can't have any education or achieve a good job to support his mother. His mother is getting older in age and has been struggling with a sickness. She's been drinking a lot of contaminated water and hasn't been getting the nourishment she needs. Those things didn't used to bother her, but her body is becoming fragile. Deen knows that he could help her, if they had proper health care. For now, he watches as she continually gets weaker. He's constantly thinking of how there is medicine that can fix her.The medicine that he can't afford would make her healthy again. Deen would have been able to bring his mom to the hospital years ago, but now there is no money. He hates society and is angry at everyone in it. Deen feels like he has no purpose in this world anymore. Society has stopped him from living his life. He knows the only thing that he can do is attempt to make change. The thing that frustrates him the most is the fact that there are still people who are rich. He's mad at them for not helping people in poverty like him. It's just selfish money going to waste. Deen didn't used to be an angry person, but now all he feels inside is anger rushing through him. With this much poverty increase, there is no hope for Deen, his mother, or any other family struggling with poverty.

Post Seven: Poetry Reflection

I really don't like poetry so I wasn't very enthused going into this unit. I always find it boring and pointless. Poetry has never been something that comes to me very easily. It usually takes me a really long time to come up with ideas for a poem, and that always discourages me in making one. I surprisingly liked it better than I thought the unit better than I thought I would, once we started doing writing exercises.

 The most challenging part for me in this unit was analyzing poetry and song lyrics. I found those things hard to analyze because a lot of poems have a lot of meaning behind it and it's hard to get a good grasp on it. I love song lyrics that have a great meaning behind it but once I started actually reading the lyrics I stated to get confused, and wondered what the songs were really about.

 The assignment that was most effective on me was definitely the spoken word poetry. I didn't really know what spoken word was at the beginning. Learning about it was really interesting to me. It's a lot more open and has a lot less rules then other poetry. One thing that I did learn was that a spoken word has more impact if it has some sort of rhythm, but it doesn't have to rhyme. I also really liked how we weren't pressured into a topic. I was hesitant to present a spoken word in front of the class, but I wanted to challenge myself. Writing it was actually a lot easier than I thought. I picked a subject that I was really passionate and emotional about, so words just started to flow on the paper. The hardest part was presenting it. I did have my spoken word memorized when I was practicing by myself, but I was very nervous once I got in front of everyone. My paper began to be my comfort zone. I think if I practiced more I would have been a lot better, but I was definitely happy that I experienced it.

After this unit, I am now not as scared of poetry as I used to be. It made me more confident in my writing. I would still like to improve my writing and presenting skills, but I feel like I made a lot progress.

Post Six: Prairie Madness - Randompedia

Isolation with tough living
People are unforgiving

Affliction that affected settlers

The harsh weathers of the Plains

Cold winters filled with blizzards

Here comes the short hot sunny days.

{ CHORUS }
Depression and changes 

Families cramped inside for days and days

Land stretched out for miles and miles

Settlers affected in the Great Plains

Oh, the Prairie Madness...

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No transportation

Just trying to get by

Settlers far apart from one another

Missing friends,
they may never see

Trying to escape the trauma

Adapting a new way of life

{ CHORUS }
Depression and changes 

Families cramped inside for days and days

Land stretched out for miles and miles

Settlers affected in the Great Plains

Oh, the Prairie Madness...

 Attached to their way of life back in the  East,  

Making their new homes in the West

 Women turning towards an exit 

 Men turning to violence.

{ CHORUS }
Depression and changes 

Families cramped inside for days and days

Land stretched out for miles and miles

Settlers affected in the Great Plains

Oh, the Prairie Madness...

Oh, the Prairie Madness...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_madness