Respond to Maple Street's Monsters

I read this story called Monsters are due On Maple Street, it is a science fiction story written by Rod Serling, from an old show called The Twilight Zone. At the end of this story there was a clear message that two aliens talk about, they say that humans pick their most dangerous enemy they can find to destroy it, the aliens were kind of manipulating the people of maple street, that were eating themselves alive, the aliens said that the only thing they have to do is to sit back and watch. The message is that ¨Tools¨ of conquering were not onlyweapons, but could be thoughts, actions, or prejudices. One big example is when the car of a men called Les Goodman went on alone when nothing was working , especially electricity, the people blamed him a lot making a big conflict in the story.

I think this message is, in a sort of way, significant to the people but still has significance in today's world, by sying that conflitcts with contrys not only form by wars, or weapons, but they can form by one contry´s, opinion, or action. Same thing happens not to only countrys but humans, one example is, when a kid says to play one game that other kid doesnt like, there comes problems.

One thing of the story that I see that for the people to read it know is the date of when it was made. The story was made in the 1960´s, and now that we are in the 2000´s, I think the story needs a little of updating. The most important update they need is the use of technology. The the little thing they have to change is the using of words, or the way that they talk.

Why Sports Are Useful For People

When I see people in t.v that are pretty fat, that can barely walk, I receive millions of things that say to go outside to do something, to run, jog, play soccer, in many others.

Fat people, are people that have a lot of calories, grease, carbohidrats, wich is obiusly very bad for the heart. When you eat alot of calories, those calories stick to your vains and arteries, that makes the blood to circulate badly. Calories in eccess can give you alot of dissises, including heart attacks, and less life expectancy.

The life of a person that is athletic, or that practice sports at least one hour a week, burns a lot of calories, and keeps the calories from sticking to your vains, making you more fit, protecting you from deadly disises, making your life healthier, and giving you more life expectancy. The only thing you have to do is not only sports, if you only practice sports you will burn a lot of calories wich is very bad if you dont eat well. Doing sports ,eating proteins, and vitamins, is very good, in fact, is exellent, because with it it will improve your hearts health.

I have a balanced diet of proteins vitamins and sports. Iam doing very good with my health.

I feel very sorry for the people that are fat, or overweight, I hope that the people make special programs of health to help the fast people to reduce calories, etc.

Short Story Draft

A bright sunny Friday in the month of October, my friends and I were hanging out at the Campito 2010, the idea to play a soccer match came blazing to my head, I told everybody. They loved the idea, so I went immediatlyto make out the teams, I was playing with Juan, Jorge, Raul, and their teams. My team was with Jorge, and Raul. In the other team there was Juan, with his team that were other people.

Juan Gets angry easily with whatever thing they say to him, Raul makes lots of goals and he plays very good, Jorge he also plays good but he plays fair, and I am smart enough to figure out the other team’s tactics, and I also play good.

The match started, we had the ball," Jorge, Jorge, here pass!" I exclaimed.

Jorge yelled at me, "Here take...Look, Raul is open go ahead pass to him! Fast!"

The ball was going directly to Raul´s chest, he stopped the ball with his chest, he was wide open, he looked at the goal of the other team, he shoots... He Scores! "GOAL!"

All my team yelled, we went to celebrate "Yes! Good Raul, nice work!" Jorge said.

As always Juan was angry because of Raul´s goal. "Hey everyone we are winning one to zero" I announced, so that I make Juan even angrier.

At the center of the field, the other was kicking off to go off again. Juan received the ball, I went immediately to attack, I slide to the ball but Juan maked a tremendous jump, and he jumped over me with the ball, Juan went running very fast, he looked at our goal, Juan tooked the shot, the ball went to fast for human eye, it was extremely fast, our goalkeeper tried but he missed, it was a goal.

Now our team was a little angry about that goal, but never as angry as Juan.

"So, what’s the score?" Juan asked our teammates just to makes us even angrier.

Jorge answered "Hey Juan, we know your angry but can you stop? And we’re tied one to one",

But get ready for more goals!" Juan said laughing. The game was challenging, we were tied one to one.

There was only five minutes to play, this was the last try for my team to score a goal. Jorge passed to me.

I was near the center of the field going to the enemy side."Hey! I’m open, high pass!" Raul said, immediately I looked at him and I pass the ball, everything was happening in slow motion.

Raul stopped the ball with his chest, he let the ball bounce once, and then he kicked... "GOAL!" I yelled with Jorge. Raul went up immediately to Juan's face and yelled "Goal! Your team sucks"

Juan's face was red because of the anger. When Raul went to celebrate Juan kicked Raul on the ankle so hard that the bone obviously broke, or even twisted.

I was extremely worried, I only saw Raul´s face and it seemed that something was wrong. Jorge went to Raul who was laying painfully holding his ankle, on the floor, Juan was at his goal ignoring our calls, talking to his goalkeeper about us , trough the lobby, where a lot of people was looking at us, we were carrying Raul to the hospital, to get his ankle revised for if something was wrong, he was cring because of the pain, I saw his face a lot of times, he looked like as if he was going to die, the pain must has been incredible. Later after we arrive to the hospital Raul, the doctor sent Raul to X-rays, that showed that Raul's ankle was broken, we were worried for Raul, we all visualized how will his life will change with the ankle broken, will he play again? We dident know .The doctor put cast on Raul's foot. The problem was a big deal , Juan didnt have a reason to kick Raul on the ankle, at last Raul got better. Many days later Juan apologize to Raul, now they are good friends again.

Why Messenger Is Useful For People..

The thing that many people say about Messenger, is that Messenger is mostly bad for many reasons. The only thing I want to clear out is why messenger is very useful.

First of all, what I do in messenger, when I don’t have anything to do, I only chat with my friends, and to talk about many things, problems, what you did that day, what are you going to do, with many more things to talk about. I think that doing that is helpful because, or you get to know new friends, or you can chat with friends you have a problem with and solve it, and many but many more things that can turn very helpful in your life at a certain time.

Second, is that, for example if your typing an essay in Word , and your printer doesn’t work, so in messenger you can send the document to a friend and to tell your friend to print the essay for you. In other examples , like using Blogger, when finishing what you were writing, and you hit ‘’Publish Post’’ and it says Network not working, you can copy paste, what you were writing to a friend and tell him to go into your Blog and to paste the information there and then to publish, all of this through messenger. This is helpful, for no getting in problems with your teacher for not doing the homework you should’ve done.

This are my opinions of why messenger is helpful, and in what only two ways I use messenger for. Messenger haves a lot of good things that can help you in your life for a moment, but not forgetting all the bad things it has, so I am always carefull with everything.

A Living Nightmare...

Imagine yourself going to a two years planned vacations. (1)You are going with your mother, father, sister, and your best friend. This was a perfectly planned vacation, nothing could ever go wrong; but I would think that twice. We were going to three main places (2) Cartagena, Barranquilla, and then back to Cartagena. We started at the sea in Cartagena. (3)The sea was dirty, filthy, and dark. Off course we didn’t think about it, we didn’t even went in, we just went to the car to go to Barranquilla, (4)the trip was in a chiva those long busses, it was long and horrybly hot!. I perfectly remember, (5) it was a Friday, it was in the afternoon turning into evening, and a pretty boring. We thought this vacation was going to be perfect, but as it looks, it was not. At the hotel in Barranquilla, the reception was hot, dirty, and they were slow to attend. (6) Yes, this is scary, but I had to get over it. What I was so a shame with was (7) while opening our apartment door,there was this nice family that thought there room was ours, so we had to fight over it, and all the hotel came to watch.Thankfully we've won it, but all of the sudden another family came saying that we were wrong, and that it wasn’t our room! Finally, we just went back home and didn’t have any vacations! At our house we found that (8) under the bed, we found the correct vacation planner!


(1): Independent clauses
(2): Prepositional
(3): Modifiers.
(4): Phrases
(5) Introductory adverb clause.
(6)Yes, No, Interjection
(7)Introductory participial phrases
(8) Introductory prepositional phrases.

Why I Sail...

Sailing has been my life of my great grand father, my grand father, my father, and me. Its my life and I hope it continous to be my life until I get really old.

To know how all started I had to first set an investigation of my great grand father, my grand father, and my father.

All started with my great grand father, he was born in 1909, and sadly died in 1998, he was nick named ”Lito” , during the 30’s he bought a big sailing boat like about 39 to 40 feet long, It was specially made to race with really strong winds, for it to move it needed winds stronger than five kilometers per hour, only to move , in english it was named “The Great”, it participated in many international tournaments, that took place here in Cartagena, Colombia. It won five of twelve tournaments, “The Great” had fame all over the world during those times. When my great grand father went a bit too old for sailing”The Great”, he passed this boat to my grand father, he continued to participate in the tournaments, he took really good care of the boat. In one of the tournaments, “The Great ”, was in the 6th position, hurryng to get to first, awfully it crushed with the 5th boat, leaving a big hole, that was imposible to repair ,that hole send the boat to the “trash” ,leaving good moments away. My grand father after this tragical moment was left with nothing but his life ahead but nothing else.

When my dad was born there was no “The Great” , so at the age of 16 he started to sail a different boat called sunfish wich is a boat that is around 12 to 14 feet long. My dad went really good at this, and participated in tournaments. The most importants were the nationals wich he went to 16 of them, his best position was a 1st, another tournament were the world wide tournaments, he only went to 6 of them, his best position was a 17th of 134 boats to compeit with, he was known around the world because of his fight to win tournaments. All of this happiness and popularity, finished when he joined the army, now he is working for them. He is 44 right now, he is still sailing but not compeiting.

Now it was my turn, I was born in September, 13 ,1994, but until 5 or 6 month I started to sail, a different kind of boat, the Optimist, this great idea came to my grand father when he saw that my dad was not compeiting, so he told me to start to sail, so I stated to sail. I don’t have anything great to say about my little sailing life I got. I have participated in only one tournament wich was an international one, I won 1st place amateur, 8th place general, off course I was really happy with those results in my first tournament, also my ranking in Bolivar, Colombia, for optimist, is 2nd place, and amateur in Colombia, I am # 1 .

Why do I sail? Well, because it has passed through my family , this tradition has been the gratest, and also because sailing is in my blood! I hope to sail until I died, and pass this history to my children and then they to theirs and so on…

(The first Photograph is something like “The Great”, The second is a Sunfish boat, and the third one is a optimist).

:.My Problems and Solutions.:

Have you had problems? Well everyone has, but I have special ways to deal with most of the problems, if it comes to me to deal a problem, I always breathe slowly, I calm down and start to talk and think how to deal with it, if I don't know how to deal with it I usually get help from other person, who can deal with it or help me with it.

There are different situations, the most hard to deal with is when I have little time or when I am under pressure; first, I tell the person to calm down while I do the same thing;second, I tell the person to repeat what is her/his problem , while I think of something to solve that problem, If the person is hurt(not physically) , I make that person feel happy, telling her/him, special things. The thing that I usually do is to tell every body to calm down and not to hurry, that is a habit I usually do while solving most of problems.

A perfect example, when I use this strategies was, when I was about 11 years old, when I was at a soccer game in Cartagena, in the Campito 2010, and I was the goal keeper for my team. Almost at the end of the match everybody from my team was at the other side of the court traing to make a goal, something happened and it was one of the other teams forward coming to me with the ball on his feet ready to kick, so I also went running to him, to stop him, and I tackled him very hard, and he finished on the floor, and he was hurt, to the other team came up to me to complain, I had little time, and I was stressed, my mistake was that it wasn't necessary to tackled him. Not to lose was the most important factor to make that mistake.Some thing happened when i was tryng to solve this problem that was that they didnt calm down so I just went to the hurt player and apologize, because i couldnt do any thing.I couldnt make anything about it, just apologize, and the foul was counted as a goal. I hope not to make mistakes like this in my life, and I hope you dont make mistakes like this also.