Tristan

Tristan Emmons English June 11th, 2012

Writing assignment – June 11th I’m surprised no one else has done this, it’s way easier than writing about something you googled. Chapter 9, history. The Byzantine Empire – Roman emperor, Constantine, ruler of the byzantine empire renamed it Constantinople because he’s a bit cocky. In 330, byzantine empire became more and more successful due to trade and such. A later ruler, Justinian put the Byzantine empire at it’s highest. Justinian worked so hard gaining control of northern African and southern Europe, his successors lost it with ease. A great fire in 532 set Constantinople a blaze and soon just ash, but Justinian made good of the situation and made Constantinople even grander than it previously was. He was an autocrat, complete control of the empire with help from his wife, and co-empress, Theodora. Justinian had elected a patriarch to ruler over all churches and Christians under Justinian. Half of the population thought this was rubbish, and from their the eastern and western Christians split. Also due to how they should portray the lord, they never agreed. Splitting into the Eastern Orthodox church and the Roman Catholic church. From there on the Byzantine empire just started to collapse, especially after the crusades, losing money and trade throughout. After this, Byzantine empire artifacts and intellectual viewings pleased researchers, scholars and artisans around the world.

Goodnight.

Tristan Emmons English June 3rd, 2012 (june 11th)

Writing assignment – June 3rd

Since I don’t have anywhere near enough time to complete homework and study without showing clear symptoms of sleep deprivation. I’ve decided to combine them. So I’m giving you a little history lesson of what I’ve learnt in chapter 8 of my history text book. Royal power grows. Early middle ages, European monarchs has little power, by the end of their ruling they had started creating what we know today as government. Aroun the 1060’s William the conqueror had conquered England and made a census to keep track of all the land owned by who and so on. It was called the Domesday book and helped with taxes. After his ruling, Henry II improved on the justice system, which no one really cares about, and just as well made what we use as the grand jury today. His son, king john was a horrid tyrant that they had made a document for him to sign stating that an emperor has to follow all the laws a civilian does. Inside this document, Due process of law stated that you can’t be wrongfully arrested outside of the law. Also, Habius Corpus which stated that you couldn’t be arrested without being convicted. He would also raise taxes as he pleased, so they had to restrict him on that too. France’s most powerful ruler, Hugh Capet took over English lands in Normandy and South of France around the same time King john was terrorizing his people. Louis IV is not the nicest ruler out, he persecuted Muslims and heresies, for being Muslims and heresies. He also sent the first crusade to the middle east, and ended private war as well as serfdom. The Holy Roman Empire and the Church. Middle ages were highly influenced by the church and resulted in conflict. Arguments between who would elect the bishop sprang up in the holy roman empire and after excommunications and threatening’s for a new king to be picked, the pope elected the bishop himself. Fredrick I, holy roman emperor, tried conquering wealthy Sorthern Italy and failed. Instead he arranged for his son to marry the heiress of South Italy, Sicily and from there the grandson Fredrick IV tried conquering North Italy and failed just like his old grandpa. 1200’s churches reached their peak in terms of power. Stating supremacy and excommunicating almost every ruler, King Philip in the late 1200’s challenged the churches authority and won.

Tristan Emmons May 27th, 2012 English

Writing assignment – May 27th Aeromonas Hydrophila is a flesh eating bacterial disease that averages about 650 cases in the states a year. It’s a severe and “indescribably painful” but only 20% of the time fatal. Aimee Copeland, a very attractive college student in Georgia was on a trip with some friends about 50 miles out of Atlanta zip lining over the Little Tallapoosa River. The line had snapped and resulted in a large gash in her left calf that took 22 staples to close. She was rushed to the hospital and all seemed fine after she finished getting stiches. A few days later still hurting from the gash she went back to the emergency room and was then diagnosed with Aeromonas Hyrdrophillia. Her status was reported to be horrible, she couldn’t talk for days, only mouth words and couldn’t breathe on her own. Through her multiple amputees of both her hands, her leg, one of her feet and a part of her abdomen she found humor in it giving many people another encouraging story to make of. She was reported with one of the worst cases of the flesh eating bacteria this year. On another note, Keira Knightly is engaged to a British rocker as well as a rockslide in the Swiss Alps destroying 300,000 cubic feet caught on video. [|http://edition.cnn.com/video/ - /video/world/2012/05/17/vo-swiss-landslide.swiss-broadcasting]

Tristan Emmons May 21st, 2012 English

Writing assignment – May 21st

There’s no point in continuing my utterly confusing book review of The Power of Six because one it’s very hard recalling the sufficient details to make sense and I already finished the book, and if you want to know about it then just read it yourself. I recommend it! But you have to finish I Am Number Four first.

Who’s dead?

Scrolling down my CNN app I see story after story about another dead group of people here and there for this reasons and that. First one I see is the headline, a Suicide blast kills 101 troops in Yemen. There was yet another suicide bomber disguised as a uniform officer reported to injure 220 people aside from the death of 101. They couldn’t yet pinpoint who it was exactly, I would just assume whoever was split clean in half from the explosion would be the suicide bomber, however they did say he (or she) was from al Qaeda. As a result of the bomb the president went a-wire and fired his top security. The bomb was supposedly targeted towards a military parade rehearsal for the day celebrating the union of South Yemen and North Yemen. Next story, a school bus was carrying a couple Albanian university female students to school when it plunged hundreds of feet into a ravine killing 12 of them. Almost exactly like the Bus crash in Peru holding 49 students 19 of which dead and 24 severely injured after again falling almost 500 feet into another ravine due to a break failure. Next Story, A 6.0 magnitude earthquake killed ten’s and injured twenty’s. 11,000 people were reported to be displaced by the earthquake and only 3,000 were housed. The weather predicted had no sign of an earthquake, they never saw it coming. Finale Emilia, a historical neighborhood was destroyed after hundreds of years of generations lived there. Two died in a ceramics factory, one died when a shed collapsed on her, another dies not from the earthquake, but from a heart attack while being treated of her injuries and many more deaths were reported. This concludes my electronic graveyard.

Tristan Emmons May 13th, 2012 English

Writing assignment – May 14th

The first section of the Power of Six.

How the power of six starts off is with number seven. Like I previously explained, a girl named Marina in Santa Maria, Spain with here Cêpan, Adelina. They went from home to box to church. Hoping all over the world rich, poor but always subtle they finally found their calling in at Santa Teresa, a convent that doubles as an orphanage for girls. She had her disputes with some girls and made friends with others. Usually stayed quiet though. Eventually a little girl named Ella came, she was only 11 at the time, younger than Marina but they made the best of friends. Everything Marina couldn’t do Ella could and vice versa. They fitted like puzzle pieces. Walking to school every day, they made some friends; one was Héctor, he and his elderly sick mother lived in a lone house at the end of the road. You would always see him sipping on some wine giving life advice to Marina, of the sea. He referred to her as that but with much enthusiasm every single time. Basically every other chapter switches from story (seven) to story (six), but I’m writing it otherwise. Six is a little older, 16 or so, she’s placed in a truck stop in North Carolina with Sam (four’s bestfriend from Ohio Paradise introduced in the first book) and Four, John. Their all recovering from the intense battle wounds they have from Ohio, where Henri (John’s Cêpan) took his honorable death. They all step out of the motel room into their truck quickly, holding all their belongings, which include a chest, couple clothes, and nothing much more. They hop in the car headed for Tennessee with no real objective now. Their slowly pulled over by a cop car three quarters through their journey and then the chase starts.

Tristan Emmons English May 6th, 2012

Writing assignment – May 6th, 2012

This writing assignment will be about my book that I haven’t yet finished, but I figured I’d have so much to say about the first part I wouldn’t even get to explaining the second part until my next journal. I also found the authors website which is pretty cool. [] If you remember I read a book called I Am Number Four, I wrote a journal about that too, anyways this is about it’s sequel, The Power of Six. How it starts off is not actually with number six, what I like about these books is everything, but specifically the fact that even though the book is named after number six, it just as equally has background and story about another number to lead us into the next book, like the book I am Number Four, had number four and then three quarters through the book it was number four and number six. Like how the power of six starts off with number Sevens story, Marina. Number seven’s name is Marina. She came from the same planet as number four, Lorien. And if you forgot anything about everything I’ll quickly remind you that Lorien is a planet filled with people like us, although their not, they have legacies (Powers) Cêpans (Guardians) and Chimaera’s (shape shifting guardian animals.) When the Mogadore planet attacked Lorien Mogadorians, which are tall muscly beasts wiped the lorien planet clean of it’s population aside from two rockets that left to Earth, one filled with nine gardes (people with legacies) all kids, nine Cêpans and I suppose nine Chimaeras. The other rocket we still don’t know what was in it. When the first rocket landed the nine different groups set off in there own ways with a mission to fight protect and revive the lorien planet.

Tristan Emmons April 29th, 2012 English

Writing assignment april 29th

Linear Equations in Three Dimensions, we were given a paper with this title today in math class. Linear Equations in Three Dimensions is probably the coolest sounding thing I’ve ever done in math, listen to that name. I can’t wait to be older so I can do Quantum physics, can’t wait! That’s all I need to motivate me in a math class, a cool name. And a teacher that teaches me what to do, time to time I seem to find that lacking, I’m sure my classmates would agree. The significance of this essay is to realize the blue theory that pinpoints and focuses like a heat lead missile on the fact that math concepts teach more than un-valuable strategic values that can help you through life in more than the amount of way’s you’ve thought about. A class with even more significance than math, science, art, definitely art, can I quickly go through what I pull from an art class that has any value to me? The fact that my charger doesn’t reach to the nearest outlet to my designated seat. That is the most valuable thing I pull form art class. So I was saying math, science, maybe not science. Science is cool, but math, math is foolishness, and PE. Oh! French class! Ahahaha, French class a jokeee. This is such a pointless essay, I guess I’ll have to write another one for this to even qualify as a writing assignment. You should start giving writing topics to write about, that’d be great! Oh, yes. Before I was talking about how math, art, PE and French class can’t compare to the ridiculously informative, fun, intellectual English class I’m honored to be able to sit in 225 minutes a week. Thank you for that sir, thank you.

Tristan Emmons English April 23rd, 2012

Writing assignment April 23rd

Our Cayman basketball tournament was held form last week Thursday to this week Sunday. What it was a series of games held at a school called CIS, Cayman international school that hosted five different teams from four different countries. Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman and of course Jamaica. How it worked was that each team would split their students up and send them along with one kid from CIS. Daniel and I got lucky however because our host kid’s mother was the manager of a hotel and we just stayed in one of the rooms, with two other Bahamians. Coming off the plane, the tournament was sponsored by Burger King so we all got lunch free. It was delicious. Thursday night we just ate dinner at some fancy pasta place where they cook the pasta for you on the spot, it was pretty cool. Friday morning we got to follow our host kid around school in his class, but since he was 13 they just put us in classes more our age. Cayman has extremely attractive females, I’m sure Daniel can tell you. The games itself, Friday after school, we had our first game, everyone nervous of the outcome because no one knew how good anyone way. Our first game was CIS, and we crushed them leaving them in the dust. Second game, was against the Bajan team and that was the game that had everyone out of their seats, we accumulated the most fouls and points combined in that game and lost by a measly four points, 34-38. Saturday morning we played another Caymanian team, Triple C and didn’t let them get past five points until the fourth quarter while we climbed to our double-digit score. Then the last game was against Wesleyan, which we played for the second time, and then 2nd place.

Tristan Emmons English March 25th, 2012

Writing assignment – March 25th

If there were a Macbeth 2, part 2.

Season synopsis, Malcolm is powerful and good-looking. Now king, he’s definitely got Fleance’s attention. Not that Fleance knows about the apparition stating his royal future. He still gives constant sneers in Malcolm’s directions. So Fleance goes and finds a murderer and thinks that will solve all his problems.

I left off at “So what will happen is that Fleance will…” and what will happen is that the murderer hired by Fleance to kill Malcolm is very committed to the job because he himself envy’s the king. So it will be a quicky his death, so you thought. Every other murder in Macbeth, Macbeth basically got away with it until they realized it was Macbeth and then he was already crowned, with authority and the ability to shut anyone up born of a woman. But Fleance’s murderer is a dunce to put it nicely. My little sister could have done his attempt at the death of Malcolm better, simply putting a sword through his heart during his sleep on Christmas Eve, “Scotland’s Christmas present from me to you” Fleance says. However, he tripped over santa’s hat Ironically and fell on his own sword. Fleance went mad how this simple task failed. Scottish police traced the murderer back to Fleance because he had a note in his pocket saying, “Kill that old hag of a King on Christmas Eve during his slumber, blessed Christmas to you and your Family! – Fleance J.” So Fleance was put to death. Didn’t receive thrown but…

Tristan Emmons English March 18th, 2012

Writing assignment – March 18th

If there were a Macbeth 2.

The worst ending I have ever seen to a movie, play, was easily that one. I understand the use of cliffhangers, because then it tells the audience that there is another movie coming, it actually catches you when you’re hanging off the cliff. Now, Macbeth, that ignoramus left us to die on the side of the Dunsinane cliff. Therefore, I’ll finish the story. As if there were a second Macbeth, the first one ended with Fleance sneering at Malcolm for receiving the crown after Macbeth’s pitiful death. I suppose it’s because he was expecting to become king, which isn't surprising because the apparition did say he would be. However, this is how Macbeth 2 starts. Malcolm is king; everybody loves him, hated Fleance scorns at him night and day from behind the throne, plotting proposals to extradite the process of him gaining control over Scotland. Meanwhile Malcolm getting girls and helping peasants Fleance has just recently found a man, a special man, a discreet man, a hit man. He plans on using his expertise in this field of accidental deaths to push his brother along with Duncan, Banquo, Macduff, and whoever else decided to play with the Macbeth’s sword. So what will happen is that Fleance will…

To be continued, on the next journal.

Boom! Suspense!

Tristan Emmons March 11th, 2012 English

Writing assignment March 11th

Jamaica, Obeah.

Obeah - a form of belief involving sorcery practiced in parts of the West Indies.

Not spoken much about in Jamaica (reported no jamaican speaking about obeah, uncomfortable with the topic the said they were.) but if you know where to go you'll just keep finding more and more about it. Starting off with a local kingston Obeah shop called an occult, it has everything you need to practice Obeah. Powders, Candles, Salts, Sprays, oils, amulets, pendants and more. Each one has it's own use, for example, you have oils, oils for good luck, oils to make your man come back. You have aerosol cans with labels promising to enhance your sexual experience and make you money. It's like a pharmacy and a doctor. You go see an Obeah man, the doctor. And he basically tells you what to buy at the occult shop and gives you instructions for use. Wherever Walderston, Jamaica is, you can find many Obeah practicing elders there. I say elders because it's mostly old people that are very oddly dressed chanting awkward one sided conversations to a crystal ball. Explaining what Obeah was, the Obeah man said "god gave man the privileges to help themselves..." It originates from Africa he said. Not only crazed civilians visit and follow Obeah rituals, but doctors, police and even soldiers all find some way to benefit from Obeah. It's been reported that Obeah men were stoned, when the Obeah man was asked about it, he said the only Obeah men stoned were the con artists. The ones that chat pure foolishness for money. One of their main ingredients to being a successful is the backyard grown marijuana they all seem to use for incense, and to calm the nerves. He spoke for hours, reckoning he was under the influence at the time. To me the whole thing seems ridiculous, the owner of the occult shop said that not even he had tried it, only believes in it, what does that tell you?

Tristan Emmons English March 3rd, 2012

Writing assignment March 3rd

The polluted mind of our younger generation.Known that some parents here and there constantly remind their children to pull up their pants, or get ones that don't make love to your leg every time you walk, they're so tight. How we need to flip hat's front ways because it's disrespectful, and how shirts need to cover belly buttons (hoping this isn't a problem with young men). My big sister is now 19 and she always tells me the younger division in society will keep getting worst and worst in the future. She worded it better than I did, but what it means is that the group of children around 13-14 are doing the same things today as the group of 16-19 year olds. And with time the 10-11 year olds are going to be smuggling alcohol into 9 year old birthday parties. I'm not writing about this because I think it's a serious problem that needs to be addressed, I'm writing about it because I think it's one of the funniest things I've ever been apart of. Imagine a whole bunch of single digit kids asking their mum for lunch money, but they starve them selves through out the week because they want to save the money to buy any thing illegal they can put their hands on. That's 2015, (educated guess) 2012 we have the same things happening, although this devious generation of kids are a tad older than 9 and 10, it's still just as funny watching a midget being as sly as a 16 year old. They've made trends that should belong to young adults, kids so young wearing clothing so provocative they still don't know what provocative means. The irony in your little sister asking for "money to go to the movies" the same time you do just cracks me up. I love the polluted minds of the younger* generation.

*Younger - Does not include a select few in our class. Does include everyone else and younger.

Tristan Emmons English February 25th, 2012

Writing assignment Feb 25th

My writing assignment is about growing up as a teen in jamaica rather than in america, and all the lovely benefits and losses you have. Well first off, we have to clear that both are pretty good places and I'm sure when you're a teenager you don't really have the option to choose which one to live in, so this isn't a guide helping someone to decide either, it's an english journal that I was forced to write. By the way, I picked these two countries because I lived in em', so I'd know how much they suck compared to how much fun you can have on the weekends.

I'm starting off with how utterly dull Atlanta is. Everybody there is like a clone of their multiple best friends. Everyone is the same within the clearly depicted cliques spread across the city. We have the god rebellious, pot heads. The preps, which include dogs, Lacoste, Sperry topsiders and pale pink sweater vests. We have the nerds obviously, everywhere anyone goes there are the nerds. There are a couple more too, but you know the important ones, what I'm trying to get you to grasp is that Atlanta is actually like the movies. In Jamaica you come out of the movies saying, "I cannot believe Amanda did that to Austin at the end, he didn't deserve it." And then talk about that for the next two weeks. In atlanta you come out of the same movie saying "I can't believe Amanda... OMG BRITTANY WHY DID YOU CHEAT ON MARK!" (moment of clarification, brittany and mark are the real life friends while Amanda and Austin are just the people in the movie) I have never been so happy to live away from the most dramatic set of life fulfilling deprived teenagers I call my friends back home.

In jamaica, woah it's fun. Party every weekend, endless freedom, bbm mum telling her you're staying over Fagiels another night and she's fine with it, all in ten seconds flat. Realizing how many annual things Jamaican teenagers look forward too it's crazy, I could honestly make a calendar. Summer time, spring break! Christmas parties, Easter break! Long weekends, <3. School... That's a bummer, but you can't really avoid that up there or here can you?

Tristan Emmons English February 12th, 2012

Writing assignment Feb 12th

How much I love cricket. Cricket involves a bat, 11 players per team, a wicket and an oval field. If you’ve ever had the privileged to watch one in person I’m sure you aware of how life sucking this event is. It’s utterly boring to watch, you can’t see the ball, it’s ridiculous in 500° F degree weather. I don’t know how many people will agree with me, but it’s the worst. I played it one summer here actually and all I did was golf this little baseball on your knees, tippy toes, bunting it three feet in front of you, all looking like a fool. If I was forced to play cricket or be cremated alive, I would have chosen cricket at last but it wouldn’t be the obvious choice. The objective of the game is to get the most runs, but running around where the bowler is and where your wicket is, I believe, and you’re not allowed to murder your wicket I know that. I never understood why people found so much joy in this ridiculous sport. I do not understand how they dress! Why do some people wear little sombreros, and I haven’t see one glove by the way. How does this work! What if one of the people hit the ball into the air, what are you going to catch the mini asteroid with? You’re hands might hurt. And why do I always see people walking to the ball? I do not comprehend why they’re taking their time when the opposing team are making runs. I guess I’ll never find the love for cricket just like I’ll never understand how people eat octopus and escargot, and everything sea based meal for that matter.

Tristan Emmons English February 5th, 2012

Writing assignment Feb. 5th

I will be writing about a series of topics, because I’m just that much of an over achiever.

Cape Cod, Massachusetts 129 common dolphins were washed up on to shore, 54 of them had their life recovered but only 37 were successfully put back into the ocean. She says she has preformed Necropsies on nine of the dolphins and had put tracking devices on nine more that were put back into the ocean. Six of the nine dolphins are north of Cape Cod “where they should be.” They preformed Necropsies on nine dolphins and took blood and microbial swabs from alive ones to see if they could spot the obvious answer for all the beaching dolphins. It wasn’t obvious though, they still haven’t found a pattern or anything in common with all 129 dolphins. The only thing that Moore said she was suspicious about the unusual climate, it’s hotter than usual so that could very well be the reason.

Pedophilic teachers are real! Some school in California has had two cases of pedo teachers. The community leader Morris Grifton says “We’re saying enough is enough” but when I hear that I think that it’s been happening for a while, it’s only now that their doing something about it. Let me give you an example, I get picked on at school for the whole of middle school, and when I reach ninth grade, high school, I stand up to ever bully that tries to talk down on me and say “enough is enough!” That means I’ve been aware of the fact I’ve been bullied all through middle school and only now doing something about it. Why on earth would someone be aware of the fact that there are two teacher in one school who have one taken bondage photos of more than 24 in his classroom. Twenty four kids! How do you take a picture of twenty four kids in bondage! Do you know the definition of bondage? It’s a “sexual practice that involves the tying up or restraining of one partner.” (taken from the computer dictionary) This happened to twenty four students before something was done. That’s only the first teacher, the second teacher was accused of crude and offensive (in a sexual way) acts on children. Notice the acts not act, it was again more than one student. I bet South Gate, California feels pedo free.

Tristan Emmons English September 29th, 2012

Writing assignment September 29th 2012

I just recently came back from a trip form Boston, Massachusetts. I was there for something called MUN, or HMUN. The H just stands for Harvard. Model United Nations is self explanatory, it’s a model of the united nations conference held in New York. It’s utterly laborious unless you do your homework before hand and know what you’re talking about. For example, me and my partner were in the futuristic general assembly, FGA. We had been explained that what we needed to know are things like why we need genetically modified foods in 2020, however in Boston what we actually needed to know was every flipside, corner to corner, detail, inch of why we need genetically modified foods. We didn’t just go up to the stand and listen to speech after speech, we needed to know the regulations, as well as Kazakhstan’s perspective on it all. However, we debated, we asked questions, we made topics, we had mid conference dance off’s accompanied by a brief American (Boston) Idol, it was all fun in the end but one will enjoy it far more if they do their research. The opening and closing ceremonies were wonderful, it gave you plenty of time to sleep during the director’s speech. Boston weather is dreadful, I had found Goosebumps in the strangest places, towards the end I’m sure we all got used to it. We had plenty of free time to shop however, and when you’re conserving your last 40 dollars for food shopping is no fun. Oscar Liu, (Manley’s older brother) was a wonderful companion, he always gave me something to do when I was talking to him, to correct his grammar. I never knew someone could be less sophisticated in the grammar department as English is their first language than Manley, but it was done.

Tristan Emmons English January 23rd, 2012

Monday Jan. 23rd writing assignment (HAH! I MADE MINE LONGER THAN ISABELLA'S!)

For this writing assignment, I copied and pasted about forty randomly picked topics to do descriptive writing about so I got rid of the foolishness ones and the repeated ones, that were illogical to write about and I was left with this. So know my task is to write a story that intertwines the idea I have for each of these 11 things.

Words in bold are defined.

a waiting room

a basketball

a cell phone

a laptop

a closet

an accident scene

an unusual room

a child's secret hiding place

the inside of a spaceship

a pizza

a Halloween costume

(Message to 2012, Mr. bennet)

Summer, Jan. 23rd 2040, I had just been shipped in my daddy’s spaceship to Hospital with my sisters while mum was watching us. I was taken out of school by a videoage and told it was emergency, I had to leave my nerolight toplap 4650 on my dex with all my note ebook. I grabbed my Schaefer (little sister) and we ran to the ship with chandler beside us (older sister) and mum met us there telling us to hop in and she’ll explain everything when we get there. Schaefer kept asking where daddy was, mum kept looking ahead. We got in the ship and lights flickered red everywhere, it was like a disco, but no one was dancing except my sisters teddy bear in the emergency cabin at the bottom of our closet Schaefer calls her secret hideout, she’s convinced we know nothing of it. We arrived at the hospital’s emergency room and all showed our own form of emotion towards ER’s, it’s far to common of an occurrence for me. We all look over at mum in a questioning way, she has tears pouring down her face. Times like this I rely on chandler because she knows second best, but she seems to know something I don’t because she’s oozing tears just as much as mum. I look in the direction there eyes are pealed too and see dad on a stretcher being rushed into a room with large dourz with the notable red-cross on them and a little trigoniananial plasmindow on either side. We were sent to the waiting room, where they had nick knacks here and there to try to keep you from realizing where you are. I don’t know what happened but I couldn’t stop thinking about it, the only time in my life I wasn’t distracted. I was playing with the basket ball they hid in the corner behind the tablet top because it reminded me the countless hours we’d play basket ball. I guess apart of their scheme to trick you into missing the fact that you’re in the waiting room for an emergency is the way the room was made, it had heart and smiley face cut outs on the wall and filled it in with more hearts and smiley faces. You’d get dizzy for sure looking at it, I assume that’s what my sister thought I was blankly staring at, at least that distracted me. A lady with a very skimpy nurse outfit caught my attention while she walked towards us with an orange pad with the written name “Emmons” on the back of it. Mum took it, it had pictures of the accident scene. Apparently while dad was skyling home he had hit a pizza man with a gorilla suit on, on the high high way and got permanent paralysis from the pizza sphere’s sharp, broken edge plunging his spinal cord around his upper back. But then again it’s 2040 and permanent paralysis is no where near permanent, then five minutes late dad walked outside and we all went for pizza. Then the same thing happened with the pizza man that had our pizza just with some other family. The End.

(Everything explained looks cooler than it’s equivalent does in 2012)

daddy’s spaceship - this is basically like having your own car now. Because it’s 2040 and we’re cool like that.

Videoage - It’s like a text message, but video and hologram, because it’s 2040 and we’re cool like that.

Nerolight toplap 4650 - It’s the equivalent to a laptop, but more sophisticated than rocket science but so easy my technologically deprived grandmother could use it. Because it’s 2040 and we’re cool like that.

Dex - it’s a desk, but because it’s 2040 we can put an x at the end.

Notexebook - It’s the same thing as a notebook but because it’s 2040 we can put an x, and an e.

Teddy bear - Except the teddy bear, this doesn’t look cooler, because it’s one of the only possessions our family has from 2012.

Sxtxrxextxcxhxexr - Now, the stretcher looks way cool. And of course we put an x’s in between every letter.

Dourx - it’s a door, except we don’t have to open it, way cool.

Trigoniananial plasmindow - the equivalent to a window, but it can also be the mona lisa, or maybe a movie.

Tablet top - It’s a giant ipad basically, durable enough to make a table and make it still work after coffee’s spilled on it.

Skyling - It’s what driving it, although it’s not with a car. It’s with any common day appliance. Like your spork.

pizza sphere’s - We figured that we were far too cool for pizza’s boxes, so we made pizza fit in sphere’s.

high high way - It’s the 9th dimention of a high way, way cool.

Tristan Emmons English Jan. 8th, 2012

Writing assignment January 9th

Do you think that there is life on other planets? I think there is, and I think there is such sustainable life on other planets that we should all take a field trip to the north of mars, park our bus, and explore the local museum that has interesting artifacts like the tin foil from Buzz Adrian dinner. It would be the coolest, I’d love to go to mars. Imagine if there were people on mars, I don’t think they would be like in the movies, enlarged heads, crazy tints, technology of 5012. What it would be is something more like aliens vs. predators. They’d look like overgrown wookies with dreadlocks and thermal vision. They would have acid green blood, that they cook with and use for fuel for their transportation. I think they would act like us, have a government like ours, although! They’re not corrupt, their currency is from multi purpose moon rocks. They range in size and appearance, just like we do. They have their own language, just like we do. They he their own countries, buildings, and oceans. Although their oceans are made out of their green acid blood, which is just as much multi purpose as their moon rocks which they also use for building material, and since their government isn’t corrupt and their crime rate should be in the negatives, people don’t go around stealing money from the sides of buildings. So basically, mars is way better than us, and if I were to compare the two, well we are boring.

Tristan Emmons English January 3, 2012

Writing assignment - Christmas Break

My Christmas was amazing. I didn’t get quite all I wanted, but I thought you’d be impressed by what I found in my stocking. Like The Sound of Fury a large, large, large SSAT guide to life. The mayor of Casterbridge, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the scarlet letter. So, I felt sophisticated. I got a new backpack, some shoes, shirts, things as such. However, my little sister got a dip and dot maker, ice cream maker, easy bake, popsicle maker and many more making machines. I feel as if it’s customary for your little sister to open six times as many presents as you do. Every single year as well, however, she won’t be using it with in a month, so according to plan I will have a new easy bake in due time for a very reasonable price, free. I have just recently embarked on the story of a young man named Huck faking his own death with a dear friend of his Tom Sawyer. When I say the brief summary like I did, it sounds like a book you actually want to put some time and effort into reading, but once you read it, it’s like you were shot with tranquilizer. It feels as if it was meant to be read in a monotone with a hint yawning. It’s agonizing however my mum bought it and told me to read it, so I will finish it like the nice child I am.

Tristan Emmons English December 5th, 2011

Writing assignment Sunday 4th - Do you really want to go to AISK?

Our school is so much different compared to Jamaican schools, it’s like a video of the sun put in a black and white movie. What I like about it, it has both American and Jamaican holiday’s off, majority of the teachers, basically only the fun subjects (English) and the social aspect. Now what I hate, is just about everything else. Dr. B’s tests, Mr. Genzer’s strict personality, I know it’s needed to run a school, but I feel as if he’s just so stern. From dress codes to plagiarism, he covers the whole nine billion yards of things you can get signatures, detentions, suspensions, expulsions and what seems to be his favorite are ISS’s. However I don’t expect Mr. Genzer to comprehend that physical abuse is a if not the main aspect of our friendship. However, I haven’t come to complain about his harsh principaling, I’ve come to bicker and moan about what I think needs to change in our school. First, basic hygiene, the water fountains were a great addition to our middle and high school at the beginning of this year, but when I finish PE on a Wednesday, I every single other class of the day to attend because I have double PE in the morning. One tiny little shower will solve our stench. Two, signatures. Signatures are a brilliant way to keep track of which student is fond of demerits and misbehavior. But tardy signatures are probably the stupidest idea since electing Bush for president twice in a row. This is probably the most Bias journal entry I have ever written, but that’s why it’s my journal entry. Third, I guess this isn’t really focused on the school, but do parents really give their children $500 dollars a day for food? Because that’s what I’d spend If I had a real lunch. I eat about a quarter of what I regularly eat for lunch because food at school is so expensive, but nothing about that now. Because we can’t even really change that. Now, this list doesn’t comprise of every single thing I despise about AISK but, I guess you can say it’s the basics. And If I gave it some time I could think of more things, but what’s important to know is that our school does have a tremendous amount of flaws that other students would agree with me on, but it’s also the elite of all schools in Jamaica. The education that we receive truly is phenomenal along with the staff, that are brought from all over the world, like ms. B the lunch lady. She’s so awesome, she always makes my grilled cheese just right.

Tristan Emmons English November 28th, 2011

Writing assignment November 27th - A day at AISK in the eyes of Mr. Bennet

Everyday I wake up to my lovely family, get dressed and my snazzy polo, kiss my wife goodbye, hop in the ol’ truck with my two wonderful children, and grab my self a cup of coffee. Fridays are my favorite days except for the dreadful four hours I have to bare before I get jovial my ninth graders. Oh, those bloody saturnine tenth graders, they drive me crazy. My ninth graders have such a vast vernacular it’s like teaching them the semantics of connotation and denotation is like a stroll in the park. After I’ve given Toby some lunch money, were off and ready to start our day learning archaic pidgins from the 13th century. Trispan’s witty mention galvanized me to flip through the atlas to find a small city in Africa where they were known for their solecism, but never found it, it was so small. Talk about Sisyphean. When were done gambling over Daniel and Matthews quixotic dreams of being in a heterosexual relationship we glance over the cover of our archaic Shakespeare and begin reading. I was interrupted by Reuben’s argot when he said “click clack click click clack” which really meant can I please go two the bathroom sir? I corrected him with the denotation of his sentence and said Reuben, the word two means equivalent to the sum of one and one, so how can you go tqo the bathroom? As he apologized, corrected himself and proceeded. After my Ninth grade leaves, there’s not much for me to do other than sit through inadequate lessons with the rest of the school.

Tristan Emmons English November 20th, 2011

Writing assignment - November 20th

I had just recently finished a book called I am number four and the author of the book is Pittacus Lore and it was published 2011. I am number four was a book about a boy from a planet called Lorien that was in constant battle with the Mogadorians which is a neighboring planet that has these humongous creatures which are the Mogadorians. They’re six feet at lease, paler than the characters from twilight, have a large black trench coat and black sun glasses covering their bright red eyes. On the Lorien planet they have two different types of people, the Cêpeans which are assigned to each person with a Lorien sign, and a Lorien sign are your legacies and your legacies are your powers. Each Lorien would get three legacies, some examples are invisibility, ability to see portions of the future, telekinesis, ability to heal rapidly, sensoirs to control others emotions, lumen and many more. When Lorien was under attack by the Mogadorians there were nine, kids all a young mate with a legacy put into a rocket and sent to earth with their own Cêpean each when they were itty bitty. When they reached earth they spread out in varies places, some Italy some USA some England. They grew up in a normal life, except each kid had a number, 1-9 because there were nine of them. The Mogadorians eventually came to earth on a search for them and had to man hunt each one down one by one, but the catch was that they had to go in order, one first, the two and so on. If they didn’t, say they had just killed one and two, and now they attempt to kill five, whatever they do to five, will happen to the Mogadorian. So, the Mogadorians killed each one, one by one until they got to number four hence the name I am number four. By the time you’re thirteen you should start getting your legacies, you Cêpean is there to guide you and help you with advancing in your legacies. There is a book called the power of six which is the story behind the sixth person, which in this case is a girl. I can’t wait for it to come out, because I am number four is easily my favorite book. Also, I had read the book, then watched the movie, If I were to compare the two there is no comparison. If you ever have to choose between a movie and a book based off the movie, or vice versa always pick the book. They detail in the book was much better than the movie.

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Tristan Emmons English November 13th, 2012

Writing assignment November 13th – Technology Changing the Speed of Awareness

In the past if you walked into a business and got bad service, then by the end of that week about ten of your closest friends would know. But today, because of technology if you get bad service you update your Facebook status saying to reprimand the company because of the service, that’s almost a 1,000 people on my Facebook that would get a peak at it. Then you’d tell your friend from Atlanta on Skype and it turns out his Dad works at the rival company of the company you just received horrible service from and soon enough it’s a Blackberry Messenger broadcast to the company group that the CEO required him to add. And as soon as the CEO updates his Twitter status bragging about the tremendous service they provide and how no other company can compete, and slyly tag’s the other company in the Twitter update. Now look at how that company’s reputation has changed because of technology! Another scenario, I went to Pink Berry just yesterday, It’s a frozen yogurt franchise that was absolutely phenomenal, I had to tell my little sister and my friend how amazing it was. They have just about twenty different flavors and different flavored yogurts too. My mum asked what the empty cup on the counter was, I told her it was this frozen yogurt place, It’s like ice-cream but much healthier and taste better too. So she told all the other mums that she works out that there’s this new Pink Berry place right down the road they should all try after the gym one day. After I told my sister in college over Skype, she found one right on her campus, and ate there everyday after classes with her friends. And while my dad’s occupation is to improve efficiency within a business, he searched up Pink Berry after he saw the coupon in my wallet and sent an email to the marketing manager and asked if he could provide his services. All because of technology!

Tristan Emmons English Nov 6th, 2011

Writing assignment November 6th – Futuristic General Assembly

The futuristic general assembly includes foods genetically modified and how they affect countries of poverty, climate engineering on how it will drastically control climate changes worldwide as well as corporation wars and how they conflict each other.

Genetically altered foods in 2040 is not steroids shot into potatoes or vitamins combined with chips and popcorn and twinkies or even addictive substances like nicotine in broccoli so America can loose some weight, what fatties. Genetically altered foods in 2040 is in a way apart of climate engineering where in places like the Sahara desert climate would be engineered to be able to grow plants in order to feed the whole of Africa, Sahara desert being their number one source to food and soon enough their largest civilization because of the drastic whether change and the large crops spread all over the Sahara desert.

Climate engineering in Africa will change Africa socially, economically and if the chain reactions of climate engineering take effect on the populations personality then their could be another country that’s 100% literate and also politically un-corrupt. When the climate is controlled in the Sahara dessert it could grow enough to not only feed Africa but also export and made Africa one of the leading sources of agricultural trade. A from of climate engineering is “cloud seeding” which provides better ground water

Corporation wars, not only do private companies give out health benefits to their employees and care packages to their most loyal customers but now they have military services made to replace the us army.

In thirty years or so technology will be so advanced that there will be numerous changes in the world like this and hopefully for the better.

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Tristan Emmons English Oct. 30th, 2011

Writing assignment Oct. 30th

Halloween in Jamaica isn’t the same as it was when I was a little kid up in the states. Halloween in Jamaica is slightly different, safety precautions are taken to the next ten levels by worried, protective parents. If I was a parent in Jamaica of a maybe nine/eight year old. I’d never let my child roam on the streets even with another trusted parent I know well. Not if I ensured it was a gated community with a security guard I’d probably even take their number for the occasional call asking if my child’s been kidnapped, abducted, followed, the usual.

I think I’d be one of the parents on a school committee devoted to an AISK held Halloween party for kids, it’s a brilliant win, win situation. Candy + high security = Happy parents and happy kids. In the states, I lived in a gated community for about three years. The other ten, my family would live in a house next to main streets with the front windows over looking the long side walk and the tall trees shading the asphalt road. Every year my mum would let me walk up and down this enormous road for hours collecting pillow cases of candy. I’ve stated the basic differences between Jamaica and Atlanta, but I couldn’t compare them because since I’ve lived in Jamaica I haven’t been such an avid candy gatherer, more of a partier.

I have a nine year old sister, Schaefer. She just told me what she did for Halloween and she said she first went to our school Halloween party, afterwards she went to her friends house with her friends and trick-or-treated in their neighborhood, my mum had to fill in the blanks. It was a gated community, with six little girls, and two mums. So, aside from the minor safety distinctions of Jamaica and Atlanta their two different experiences I was glad to have experienced as a child.