Thursday, February 23, 2012

ELA Showcase

My three top post are The Golden monkey, The Aztec's History and Mexico's Attractions, and My Childhood Memory. They're my top because they're my favorite topics and they have most genres I like.  The TTH prject shows my creativity because most people used online project makers like Goanimate and Toondoo. I on the other hand used the program paint that was already installed to the computer. The Golden Monkey show that I've had grown in writing because all my other posts are one or half a page of writing. But, this one is two pages long and it has four other parts to it. The proof of I'm a learner is The golden monkey because I started to use dialogue in my writing pieces.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Golden Monkey

   I have just rented out my new apartment (10 years from now). It might be a little hard to pay the fee. Then I might need to work double shift.
    I packed all my things from my college dorm ( If i ever get a scholarship) and moved my stuff to the new apartment. Once i got there i unpacked all my stuff and rearranged it in different places. I set up my room and went to go put things in my bathroom. I was done organizing the bathroom, I noticed that there was a box in side the bathtub. It had a sticky note on it that has the owner’s name scribbled out. What surprised me was that i had my name on and said open it. I opened it and what was inside was just a bunch of junk. It was map of South America, a scroll with dates and items, and a metal belt with weird buttons on it. That’s when the belt started talking.
“Insert date and year to travel through time,” it said.
“This is just bluff it’s not real traveling through time is impossible. Just fake I’ll just put in the attack of Pearl Harbor,” I said.
I entered the date and time of the bombing, December 7, 1941. I knew it wasn’t possible i thought to myself. It’s not going to happen. I’ll just step outside to go buy some food, when i noticed the temperature dropped from the mid 90’s to 30’s. I look outside my window to see what happened. The city turned into rubble and there was smoke rising above the buildings. I stepped out side to see what happened when the belt started to talk again.
“ You have entered the exact date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. You where lucky to have made it after the bombing.”
“So You're saying I was taken back to the 1900’s. So you do work? You’re a time traveling belt thingy.” It was kinda strange for me to talk to a belt that talked back.
“You know I have a name. I don’t like being called a thingy.” It seemed to be angry and it took me back home.
“ Let me guess your name is 2 by 4.” It seemed kind of obvious that it would have a robot name or something like that.
“Nope my name is Carl.”
“.................okay.” It was actually thinking that Carl would have a better name than that.
I started to look at the paper with pictures of relics and dates. I asked Carl what they were for.
“Carl, What do I do with the scroll of relics and time periods?” I had no idea what they were for. Maybe they were pieces for a puzzle to tell me the combination that could be use to open anything.
“They are used to find different pieces to make a golden...” Carl kept talking till I interrupted him.
“ Is it a golden car or a golden mansion.” I was actually excited to see what the golden item was.
“ No none of that it’s better than what you think.”
“What is it? tell me!.”
“It’s a Golden monkey”
“ You got to be kidding me.” I felt disappointed to hear that it was a golden monkey. When you usually hear the world you would think of something expensive, not ridiculous like a golden monkey.
“ My brother is working for a man named Stark.” It started to bug me how when there is a adventure you always seem to run into a enemy who’s trying to kill you or mess up the whole thing.
“What does the monkey do anyway Carl?” I felt that i should know what to do to not make go crazy and mess up the entire past and future.
“ It makes people turn it monkeys and Stark can use them to enslave the human race.” All this stuff about monkeys making me think about the movie Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. The golden monkey seemed to have been aggravating because it sounds fake and there’s no way it can turn people into a monkey.
    “ Well let’s get started tomorrow Carl.” I was tired and terrified at the scene of pearl harbor.
    “ Too Bad. You should of thought of that before you opened the box. Next Up the left leg at Machu Picchu.”
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Mexico's Attractions and Past

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The Aztecs History and Mexico’s Attractions
It all started in the beginning when the Aztecs Empire was made. There empire started when there god, Huitzilopochtli sent them a sign to where they were suppose to settle. They built the city of Tenochitlan was soon to become one of the largest cities in the world. The Aztecs became stronger as the made alliances. Their military became stronger too because they started conquering other areas surrounding them.
    The Aztecs empire was organized and strong, but ruled with fear. In 1519 the clash of culture began between the Aztecs and the Spaniards. After the clash between the two cultures, the Aztecs suddenly vanish.
    Mexico’s historical ruins bring attractions of the Aztecs, Mayans, and the Olmec.Somewhere around 1000 BC, the first of Mexico's ancient civilizations, the Olmec, established themselves in what are now the states of Veracruz and Tabasco. They worshipped a jaguar God, build cities,constructed massive stone head carvings, and spread throughout central and southern Mexico until their civilization mysteriously vanished around 400 BC.
The Maya, for example, were so advanced in mathematics and astronomy that their calendar was the world's most accurate until this century. They could also predict solar and lunar eclipses.Mayan history starts in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C., Mayan history rose to the peak of success around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador, and northern Belize.  Maya developed astronomy, calendrical systems and hieroglyphic writing. The Maya were noted as well for planed and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple-pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools.

The Conquest of New Spain, a great and tragic history, begins in April of 1519  when a Cortes lands in Veracruz, about 200 miles from the Aztec capital.  Cortes  had a singular mission: defeat the Aztecs and take their gold. To do so, he had  less than 400 soldiers, 16 horses, 14 pieces of artillery, 11 ships, plenty of guns and ammunition. Cortes landed on the coast at Veracruz on April 22, 1519 and the Aztec capital surrendered to him on August 13, 1521.