Sherrika 

May 23, 2008

Core 3

Admire

The person I admire is my mother. I admire my mother in so many ways and you are going to find out in this essay.

I admire my mother because she gets me anything I want. Just like I wanted a digital camera and I got it. But it didn’t really work out because it got broken within a month of having it. I can ask my mom for anything I want and if it’s not too high then I will get it. But eventually I would get whatever I wanted.

I also admire my mother because I can call her when ever I need her in any situation. I can call my mom at 12:00 am if I really needed her. My mom can be called when I’m in school if there is a problem and she would be there. And on the streets if I got a problem then she would come to my rescue and fix the fix the problem even if it evolves getting into a fight.

I admire my mother most of all because of her love. Her love means everything to me. When I need someone to hug, cry with or talk to she is always there. If I feel down then I can just call her to talk to and she will talk to me and solve the problem. She has love for me and everyone else that she truly cares about.

That is why I admire my mother and how I love her so much. I admire in so many ways I can’t even explain. From what I wrote you can see that I love her and admire her in some many ways and always will till the day I die.

Skittles are my favorite because they are so GOOD!

 Dru Hill is my favorite because they can really sing and they come out with some great songs.

 Keith Sweat is my favorite singer because he can really sing and he beggs all the time. My favorite song by him are “Twisted” and ” Nobody”

Last night i went to the shorebirds game and it was fun. I had a lot of food that i ate and ate then i walked around and went  playing. I had alot of fun exspecially on the bus bak home we were all loud and things. We were talking about people and things. It was all boring when we first got there but after a while it became fun.

 Dear Mother I’m so happy to have you for a mother. You are my everything and I just want to say I thank you very much. I want to say thanks for everything that you have been through with me.

 You have been there for me when I was done and I was up. It has been so fun through these years that I have been with you and how you dealt with me and my sister. I know that you have struggled with giving us everything that we wanted in the pass because both of our sorry dads weren’t there for us. But I’m happy that we got through that.

 I want to also thank you because of how your love for me is the realest things that I know.  I wanted to let you know that when I’m down I could come around you and feel so much better. I want to be that person when you need me I will be there for you just like you are there for me. You have been dealing with me for almost 15 years and Nika for almost 17 years. I know dealing with us is a big headache (LOL) but we have got over that stage in our life.

 We are almost grown and we will be moving out the house soon but I think that it will be hard. It will be hard for me moving out maybe because I am so used to you having you around and it will be different moving out and having my own place. That are  some thanks that I want to say thank you for.

Mother’s Day was fun, i gave my mother my poem and card that i bought and she was very happy. Then we went to ma mommom house and said Happy Mother’s Day and we ate there. Then ma aunt and her daughter came over and we took pictures of her baby. Then my uncle came over with his kids and we had fun and everyone was laughing and eating. Then I went around taking pictures without them knowing it and caught them off gaurd.

Lost and Found

By:Anne Schraff

 The book is about these girl name Darcy and how she got some problems that she has to deal with.  Darcy is in Bluford High School and she doesn’t have many friends there. She has this girl that she talks to named Brisana. They are best friends and her only true friends.

When she is in class she has to work on a project and she wants to work on one that’s about tidal pool and she has to work with a partner. She has to have a partner but the only partner she wants to work with is her crush Hakeem or her friend Brisansa. The only thing that’s wrong with that is that the teacher is picking their partners. When she calls on Darcy she chooses a girl name Tarah and she is big. So Darcy gets mad because she doesn’t want to work with her but she got no other choose. So she goes over there to talk about the project. When she gets over there they start talking about the project and Tarah says her boyfriend can take them to a place to learn more about the Tidal pools. Her boyfriend name is Cooper and then he says do you want to ride or not and Darcy says sure. Then Tarah realizes that Darcy doesn’t like being there because of how Darcy is acting. Then Tarah tells Darcy how every body talks about her behind her back and she doesn’t know. Then when the bell wrong to let out them Darcy ran out because she wanted to start crying because of the things people was saying about her behind her back. She ran down the road towards her house and thought about how people were talking about her and how she felt.

This book is very good it will have you off of the edge of your seat when reading this book. The book is about a lot of things it’s talks about how the her family is getting torn apart, how their dad left them, and how she gets into a argument with her sister and how her mother works all them hours at the hospital. Read the fantastic book to learn more.

Alice Walker; The writer of The book Color Purpleand so many other things. Alice Walker is a great person and writer she has wrote a lot of books and poetry. Some of her poetry is just like her books they are very interesting to read. Her books will have you off the edge of your seat. 

She was born on February 9, 1944 and was born from Minnie Lou Grant Walker and Willie Lee Grant Walker.

Her childhood was wild, When she was eight years old her brother shot her with a bb gun and caused her to loose her vision in one eye. It was by accident there were playing a game that had a gun in it. Alice’s family is her mother Minnie Lou Grant Walker and father was Willie Lee Grant Walker. Her parents were poor croppers but made their family wealthy of spirit and love. Her family is Cherokee, Scottish and Irish. Alice’s great great-great grandmother Mary Poole was a slave forced to walk to Georgia form Virginia with a baby in her arms. Then she met a man named Mel Leventhal who was a Jewish civil rights lawyer. She married him and became the first legally married inter-racial couple in Mississippi. While being married they got threaten by the Ku Klux Klan and then they got divorced eight years later. Her great grand mother on her mother’s side was mostly Cherokee Indian and Alice is proud of her cultural inheritances.  

She went to school in Atlanta, Georgia. Before leaving for college her mother her three special gifts They were a sewing machine for self-sufficiency, and a suitcase for independence and a type writer for creativity. She received her bachelor arts degree and got a scholarship at Sarah Lawrence College in 1965.  Sarah Lawrence is in New York and while there her junior year she went to Africa as an exchange student and got a scholarship at Spelman. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and has spoken in the Women’s movement, Anti-apartheid movement, and the anti-nuclear movement. She was also against the female genital mutilation and stared her own publishing company, which was the (Wild Trees Press). 

Her adult life was she got pregnant and had a baby girl and named it Rebecca. She also worked on lots of her most popular books now out today. IF she didn’t work on them they wouldn’t be out or some people wouldn’t have interesting things to read.  She was invited to Martin Luther King’s house in nineteen sixty-three (1963) and it was her freshman year in college. In nineteen sixty-two she traveled to Washington D.C. to take part in the March on Washington for jobs. It was her senior year in and Alice found out she was pregnant. She didn’t want to have a baby yet and she didn’t want her parents want to know that she was pregnant and they didn’t. She went so far of being stressed out that she wanted to commit suicide. She slept with a razor under her pillow for several weeks, then she got help from one of her classmates. She got a safe abortion from the help of her classmate and her parents didn’t find out. From the depression and anxiety she wrote a short story called To Hell With Dying.  Then she met a man named Mel Leventhal they got to know each other then they got married. She found out that she was pregnant and she wanted this pregnancy though but sad to know she lost it, she had a miscarriage. She lost the baby because Alice had found out that Dr. King had been slain. She went to his funeral in Atlanta, Georgia and after she come back home to where she lived she found out that she had a miscarriage.  She taught at Jackson State University. In one of her novels that she published received literary praise and criticism. They talked about it because she talked about men beating up on their love and the public.

She has wrote a lot of books. Her most famous one is The Color Purple, To Hell With Dying, Once, The Third Life Of Grange Copeland, A Life, Freedom Writer, Everyday use, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Light of my Father’s Smile: A novel, The Temple of My Familiar, Playing Cards: Alice In Wonderland, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women, The Way Forward is with a broken heart, Now Is The time to open your heart and Anything We love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism. Wrote some poems they are Gray, I Said to Poetry, and The Old Men Used to Sing.

She has interesting books and poems that are very good to read. I think if you don’t like reading than you would like her books because they would have you off the edge of your chair. And you would began to like me, I don’t like reading period but if I have a good book than I’ll read it. For me a book with a good cover and it grabs my attention than the book must be good so I would choose that book to read. 

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