I made this cover with the photo of Atticus because he is one of the main characters in this novel. He was probably the most respected person in Maycomb. He also had a great personality. I also put Atticus with a gun in his hands because he was a very good shooter when he was young and was known very well for that.

The Maycomb Daily Newspaper

Tom Robinson accused for rape: Tom Robinson, a local black resident from Maycomb has just ended trial with the conclusion that he is guilty for raping Mayella Ewell the year before. Atticus Finch, the lawyer defending Tom Robinson said: “It was useless to fight against the jury, to be honest, a black person will never beat a white person. It unfair but there is nothing else I can do.” The whole town of Maycomb (even blacks) and even people from other states went to see this memorable day. Bob Ewell, the father of Mayella, after the trial said: “If I were the jury, I would just hang Tom Robinson without even thinking it twice. He should be ashamed of raping my innocent daughter.” Now, soon, Tom Robinson has been put into jail until further notice.


Tom Robinson Dies in attempt to escape: “He probably did not have anything to live for, I mean he still was going to die.” One of the guards that witnessed the scene quoted. Tom Robinson’s life ended when he tried to escape prison by climbing up a fence. The guards shot him seventeen times. The witnesses say that he was a tad short from escaping the fence but he didn’t make it because he had only his right hand working because his left hand was useless. Many people are also questioning why would he do such a thing if he knew that it was a suicide mission. “He was obviously just trying to end his life, I guess, he was going to die.” Said another guard that was witness to the scene. This topic has been easily spreading out with many different sides to it.


Editorial: Tom Robinson’s death was not supposed to happen if it wasn’t for the unfair trial that concluded that Tom Robinson was guilty for raping Mayella Ewell.

During the trial, when Mayella was talking, you could clearly see that she was hesitating way too much and changing what she was saying frequently. This showed that she was most certainly lying that Tom tried to rape her.

I think when Tom Robinson was saying his side of the story; he was saying it with honesty because he did not even hesitate a bit and answered everything quickly. He knew what he was saying unlike Mayella.



Mrs. Dubose recently died at her early 60’s. Mrs. Dubose was taking a lot of medications and had become a huge morphine addict. Everybody knew her for her spiteful comments but really, this were because of her attempt to stop her addiction to morphine.







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LOTF book Vs. LOTF movie

There are three main differences between Harry Hook’s 1990 movie Lord of the Flies, and the book written by William Golding. The three main reasons where that the pilot never really dies, the dead parachutist that appeared in the book never showed up in the movie and the unnamed littlelun that died in the book never died in the movie.

In William Golding’s novel, the pilot dies in the process of crashing into the island. In Harry Hook’s movie, the pilot survives the crash, is deeply injured and goes into a cave. This is significant because William Golding did not put the pilot on the island because if there would have been an adult, there would be more order. But what Harry Hook is trying to say is that an adult would make do no difference in the kids saveragy.

In the book, there was a dead parachutist that scared off Sam and Eric thinking it was the beast. This scene gave the beast a greater significance in the story by making the kids really believe in the beast now. In the movie there was no dead parachutist therefore the beast was not that of a big part on the movie.

William Golding wrote that an unnamed littlelun died. In the movie, that littlelun did not die. Golding is trying to show the irresponsibility of the kids. That everyone is running wild doing whatever they want without paying attention in what is happening. But with the movie it was different, Harry Hook wanted to show that the kids are more mature and more civilized.
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WAR

WAR
Selected By Paulo Alfaro

Description
War has no rules. Most of the times it starts thanks to disagreements and end up with massive amounts of death. War is everywhere around the world. It is very hard to control once it has started. Peace is what people are looking for, and war is what people are trying to avoid.

Synopsis
The poems in this notebook will be about War


Memorial Day for the War Dead By Yehuda Amichai

The War Works Hard By Dunya Mikhail

The Fall of Rome By W. H. Auden

Eighth Air Force By Randall Jarell

For the Union Dead By Robert Lowell

A Poison Tree By William Blake

Fugue of Death By Paul Celan

The War After the War By Debora Greger

Snowfall White- Benjamin Moore OC-118

The earth shakes
in Cristmas eve

The Johnsons
ran,
but it was
already
too late

The snow
had arrived
the time
had ran out

The mom
the dad
and the daughted had
died. Exept-

the boy
the young
and innocent
boy
who's family
had died
thanks to the avalanche

Was trapped
in the kitchen
finding him
would be like
finding a
neddle in a
haystack.

confused
and
scared,
the boy could
do nothing

Days past
and the food
was running out

Without precausion,
he kept on
eating
and drinking

Until
finally
the food
ran out

Now,
the
super
scared
small
boy,
was
dead.

Beast From Water (found poem)

Ralph,
unaccountably angry,
could do
nothing

Assembly after assembly
had broken
in laughter

They decide things
but,
they don't get done

Ralph,
unaccountably angry,
could do
nothing

Ralph shouted
and the last laugh
died away,
argument started again

The assembly
had broken

Ralph's anger was
like the deepness
of the ocean

The littleluns
were scared

But Jack
and the hunters
were crazy and fearless

The assembly
had broken

At the end,
three boys
stood in the darkness
powerless.

Where I am From

I am from Panama, from the loud city and the Cinta Costera

I am from the tall buildings of the city

From the high platano tree behind my house, and the beautiful smell of the roses in my kitchen

I am from the family dinners on Saturday with my mom, to week night dinners with my sister and dad, my nanny's arrepas and my dads french toasts

I am from the sports fanatics and the artists

From the "calm down" and the "stop running around"

I am from no religion.

I am from the days my dad broke his arms in a car crash, the day my uncle accidently burned his room, and the first day on my moms new school

I am from those moments all around the world, the good ones and the bad ones.

My life is like a palm tree divided in two
Planted in one seed, but then divided

Catastrophe in Japan

On March 11, 2:46 pm, in a country called Japan, a crucial and devastating earthquake their nation and then was followed by a huge tsunami that destroyed copious amounts of lives and houses. Both of these catastrophes left a pang of sadness around the world and in Japan.

The final magnitude of the earthquake was 8.9 (researched by adept scientists). Hours after the disaster, the government deployed groups of people to help the missing and injured. Not even that helped facilitate the situation. Japan will never be cured from this fitful day. There are copious amounts of damage done and the tsunami never decelerated from destroying everything in its path.

Now the world is fastidiously watching what happens next to this torn up country. Thankfully a lot of countries are sending capacious planes and boats filled with food, water, and supplies over to Japan.

Pray For Japan

Paulo Alfaro
Mrs. Meadows
Period F
March 2, 2011
Lance Armstrong
It’s Not About the Bike





This memoir is all about Lance Armstrong’s life. Lance Armstrong wrote this memoir in a way that shows every detail of his life, the hard time, the sad times, the good times.

This memoir is organized in a way that it starts you off from his early childhood and talking about his relationship with his mom and how strong it was. He goes on explaining about how his career as a cyclist started and all the triathlons he won.
Then tells us about how cancer almost ruined his career. Later on he tells us about how he won the Tour de France. He also talks about how he met his wife.

Lance Armstrong came to know about himself is that not every time things will go his way, that sometime things will try to hold you back, but you will have to keep on fighting.

I thought this memoir was very inspiring and I am sure it has made many teenagers to try sports and give it all they have. I loved how he explained little by little how he went growing up with his bikes and how he ended up being so famous by never quitting and giving it all he had. I also liked that he never stop talking about how grateful he was with what he had.

What Lance realized about himself at the end of this book was that everything he got through out his life, all the hard times of his career, and all good times he had, brought him to where he is now, a champion.

Lines I loved
1.) I made an acronym out of the word: Courage, Attitude, Never give up, Curability, and Remembrance of my fellow patients.
2.) I don’t do anything slow, not even breathe.

What I believe

I believe that everyone has a talent,
and with it comes a great opportunity

I believe in football,
its a real mans sport

I believe that friends bring happiness,
and so does family

I believe that technology is taking over the world,
and nature is being left behind

I believe in junk food,
although I know nutrition comes first

I believe that your past will determine your future,
even if you try to hide it

I believe a sibling can hurt you,
yet you still love her

I believe Yo-Momma jokes are disrespectful,
but funny

I believe in Christmas,
and that everyone deserves a gift

I believe in speed stick,
because, hey, I'm cool!

The Assasination of Micheal Armstrong

After a few years past, the boring man from Los Angeles decided to go back to his home in Chile and assimilate to his Latin people again. Micheal Armstrong new it would be a hard challenge because he had not seen his friends in over 40 years, but he was up for it.

Although his wife made dissension, saying that he should not go, because it would be a waste of time, Micheal didn't care, he missed his people. Once he got to Chile, the people immediately started lionizing him. He was loved by everyone except the President, he said Micheal was taking all the attention.

September 1, 1997, the President made a simple plan: to kill Micheal. The worst part was that he knew the consequences of this act. September 2, 1997, Micheal was assassinated in a bridge near the capital of Chile. No one knew who killed him, so they meticulously searched for every detail in the bridge until they found a fingerprint of the president. The people got so mad that they killed the president.