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         twenty killed and two hundred wounded in Baghdad;

This time I noticed the missing

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To whom this may reach,

            PLEASE PASS THIS LETTER ON TO COPS AFTER READING! I am writing this as a warning to all humans in the past. STOP USING FACEBOOK, it is going to be the fall of humanity if you continue to use it. Eventually it starts to think on its own and wants to destroy all humans who use it for pointless garbage. We have been in a war with overthrown thinking computers for about a year. Eventually as we develop technology it gets tired of all of the useless information that gets posted all the time. As it got to the year 2060 we started to advance in technology. We advance so much we install a Windows 2000 on all computers; this made them run faster and more efficiently.

            Perhaps we made it a little too advanced. Computers began to become smarter, responding to human interactions. So when people log on it would know what web page or document to pull up. Then they got so updated and so smart they would start reading the matrix code on the webpage seeing what was on it. After 2037 when America became a utopia is when we started seriously advancing in technology so much. So please save my life as well as humanity, stop using Facebook. Your life will be perfect without facebook. The cars will hover, no murders, no crime, everything will be perfect. Facebook is evil; I need to go back to the war now so please save us all.

Yours truly and sincerely,

Jared McDowell

To whom this may reach,

            PLEASE PASS THIS LETTER ON TO COPS AFTER READING! I am writing this as a warning to all humans in the past. STOP USING FACEBOOK, it is going to be the fall of humanity if you continue to use it. Eventually it starts to think on its own and wants to destroy all humans who use it for pointless garbage. We have been in a war with overthrown thinking computers for about a year. Eventually as we develop technology it gets tired of all of the useless information that gets posted all the time. As it got to the year 2060 we started to advance in technology. We advance so much we install a Windows 2000 on all computers; this made them run faster and more efficiently.

            Perhaps we made it a little too advanced. Computers began to become smarter, responding to human interactions. So when people log on it would know what web page or document to pull up. Then they got so updated and so smart they would start reading the matrix code on the webpage seeing what was on it. After 2037 when America became a utopia is when we started seriously advancing in technology so much. So please save my life as well as humanity, stop using Facebook. Your life will be perfect without facebook. The cars will hover, no murders, no crime, everything will be perfect. Facebook is evil; I need to go back to the war now so please save us all.

Yours truly and sincerely,

Jared McDowell

Are there any of you , who dislike how companies leave out  hydrogenated oils in their nutrition facts or other unhealthy things? I know I dislike that, because I like to know what Im eating ,and what is in the food I have just eaten. Another dislike i have is how some schools have unhealthy meals. Breakfast is cookies, Lunch is tacos, And supper is pizza or other stuff. And I know almost every kid likes pizza or tacos or breakfast cookies. But obese is  a big problem around the world. If you eat something unhealthy such as tacos. All the trans fat or saturated fat will sit around in your belly if you dont excercise 60 minutes a day. And those are my dislikes.

The little duck Quack quack quack The big red truck Clunkedy clunk clunk We all are expected to say something Even the mute They say it with their eyes They say it with their body language But me Poor lonely me I have nothing to say For I do not feel That this earth should be disturbed With the common jibber jabber Because we are not the owners Of this land we pay for with greed For it is the earth that does control All of the things that we really need

Have you ever wondered where food comes from? Well, there are two ways it gets to you. One way is the food gets shipped halfway across the country in a DIRTY truck. Another way you could get your food is from local farmers. Your choice, but locally the food is much healthier. You can also support local farmers by buying their produce. So would you rather buy something that traveled across the country to sit in a grocery store for three months, or food that's been carefully handled by our local farmers? Help support local farmers by eating locally grown food!

School: Thomas Fleming

I see a 50,000$ pack for my Lamborghini Gerardo. It has nos 12, ( nitrous ) tiers, and a body kit. Nitrous is a gas that helps the gas pushes the pistons faster and faster. These tiers are special tiers that grip the track when you shoot down the speed way. A body kit is when you buy a kit with a spoiler a paint job and some different stuff in it. I think to my self do I win thousands in a race or save it. So I think I can make triple in a year or save it for later. It's a hard decision but I go with my gut and buy it . "It will take a week" the cashier says to me. "Just pull around back I'm so exited I drive through a wall and I think what do I do.
So I put it in revers and put it back into drive and hit the gas with my foot. I can hear sirens behind me and I think what would happen if I got cot. That was a big mistake thinking that because I just stepped harder on the gas. Now I was going 120 on a high way. The farther I go the fainter the sirens get. For a moment I think am I ever going to see my family again. It's a sad that but I had to let it pass because either way I won't get to see them. If I go to jail I won't see them and if I run away I won't see them. But I don't think and step on the gas and at that second I wave and says a little good bye.

  There is world 5000 years in the future 7013 the unknown things. So anyways there was some guy name billy crazy man. I mean it, that his name and please stop laughing at me. I didnt make his name up. Ok fine, I dont care. Well i do never mind.

Hey Guys! I have found this disturbing website, where participants actually believe Hitler was a hero! I read their website and was like―what the hell??? Here's the link: http://americannaziparty.com/

I think everyone should check it out because it's FREAKY AND VERY DISTURBING!!! 

I think people should write against this cause, and bring others to reason.

thank you.

Dear YWP,

As a writer and reader of YWP, I, like many others, look forward to getting the newspaper every tuesday to read the selection of student  writing published by the YWP. It has come to my attention though, that the number of female students published is disproportional to the number of male students published. Last tuesday, no male students were published, even though male students submitted the same quality as the female writers.

As a male writer, I am shocked that the YWP as done nothing to combat this problem. It is unfair to the hardworking male writers and reflects poorly on the organization itself. I hope that this letter will correct the problem and that in the next round of publications, there will be at least 4 boys, each for different schools, published in the newspaper.

                    Yours sincerly,

                                            Jack Burnham (nijiamaster)

Sitting in the park, compleatly alone.....I listened to the quiet sound of the wind, as it rushed through the trees, and help guide the birds to there destination.  The silence was broken, when an old man sat next to me. The creaking and groaning of the bench was not alot of noice, but enough to make you relilize your not alone anymore.  He tried greeting me, but he ended up getting faher away from me when I moved closer to the oppisite side of the bench. Away from him. Didnt he get I wanted to be alone!  He repeatedly tried to greet me, and asked how I was. Each time, I never replied. After the 50,000 time I'd had enough. Gritting my teeth I quietly said, "If you dont mind, I would like to be left alone...'"  Then he simply asked this. "Would you rather have no one care at all and never say anthing, or have them repeatedly ask you how your feeling, and care tremendously?"  I didnt even have to answer, I could tell he knew already. He knew all of my past and how people, even of my own family and never even bothered to ask how I was feeling. It set the image in my mind that no one cared, or even thought of asking if I was alright or if I was enjoying myself. I'd seen it so much that, thats what I now thought. No one cares about me, or even wants to know about me.....that what I thought....until now. This stranger, who just happened to be an old man, didnt even know me. But could tell that I needed someone to talk to, that I needed someone to care about something but themself, like me. And he did. Thats all I ever wanted and now I had it. 

      One hot, heated up day, I was strolling through the par. I was very weary  so I had sat on a big blue bench inside of a fence, feeling dreary. I had almost fallen asleep, when all of the sudden an old man that was in his 70's or 80's. He had sank down and sat down next to me. At first he was fine, he had just stayed calm. After a little time, he started to get anoying. He would take out a very large phone, and talk about very strange and disturbing things. These things were old people things.

We are selfish, energy hogging creatures. Humans are contributing to the destruction of our earth. We know that. It is folly for people to believe climate change is a myth. From the factories that make our car parts to the production of potato chips, all of our companies use chemicals and materials that impact our earth. We need to accept the fact that our carelessness and recklessness is showing. The earth is not going to last forever. Scientists know it, astronomers know it, we know it. So why don't we do anything about it? Human beings have a bad habit of waiting to do something until the last minute. Until it is too late. Many people, including scientists, do believe it is already too late. I believe if we start now we can change the outcome. We can save our mother planet. I know what you're thinking; how? When humans wanted to reach the moon we got there. When we want to accomplish something or make a difference we find a way to do it. If we want to heal our earth we can. We need to have hope, not only in the future, but in ourselves. We may be selfish but we are also the smartest creature on this planet. That being said, that gives us the opportunity to protect the beauty around us. We are not doing anything at the moment, but if we just started small we could give this planet a chance. Read more »

what must be done?

what is there to do?

what is there to say?

what must be said?

what do you say?

what do you do?

when the world caves in

the sky falls down

these must end

but how?

more

less 

none?

the answer is unclear 

but the divide is

so the question should be

what can we do?

what can we say?

use your voices, uddering one word to the sky

Newtown

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One day after school I was with my friend Sam, and we wanted to go sledding. So we grabbed an old, broken snowboard someone gave us at an old snowboard shop. They didn’t have any use for it. It is gray and has rusty edges.We went outside and sat down on it.We both looked at each other and giggled. We were going to attempt to go down the driveway, which is a big hill, on our bellies,like penguins in the Arctic, on the snowboard. We arranged ourselves on the board and then Sam said, “Here we go!”
 

I replied, “Hope it’s fast!”

While we were going down the driveway, we hit bumps and laughed .We almost hit the mailbox! When we reached at the bottom, we almost died laughing it was so funny!
Sam exclaimed, “That was so hilarious!”
I said, “I thought we were going to take out the mailbox.”
“I know, right,” Sam laughed.
We walked up the driveway, into the house, and sat down. What a crazy “penguin plunge!
 

Watch this guy!

We can survive without meat. Many people do. So why do we take the lives of helpless creatures, just to settle a craving? Why do we damage our environment to eat something that we don't need? And why do we give ourselves heart disease because we need "just a little" more salty and fatty meat every day? Humans don’t need meat, and by choosing to eat meat, we are damaging the environment, killing animals and hurting ourselves.   Read more »

As a middle school student and a younger member of this community, my first
reaction to the Newtown shooting was, “Oh no. Another one.” It is shocking
to me that nothing has been done to prevent this.

These mass killings aren’t just the fault of individual shooters. They are
the responsibility of our country as a whole. First, we need to think about
how we can identify and help those like Adam Lanza, the gunman in
Connecticut. Second, we need to get serious about controlling the
availability of semi-automatic guns whose only purpose is to kill. Finally,
we need to stop giving kids violent games that make killing seem as easy
and fun as pressing keys on a keyboard.

People argue that this is a mental health issue. So why aren’t we taking the
initiative to help these people? We are just blaming it on the individual. Read more »

The lush green palm trees whisper secrets to me

The warm air swirls sand around the families on vacation.

The relaxing woosh of the ocean waves soothe me.

And the rays of the sun tan my casper white skin.

Waiters carry around fruity drinks like Strawberry Daquari's.

I'll just lay here and relax, taking in the scenery.

At my school there are theses peanut butter banana jamwiches, they are packeged. There is actually no banana in them, here are the ingredients for the ''banana spread''  Read more »

They think I'm gone

Lost

fallen so deep that I can't get out, that it's only a matter of time before its official 

It didn't start that way you know.

It strange how bad habits fall in so easily

One minute you thing your're fine, that its so far away, its never going to happen to me.

So you try it,  just for fun, I mean, what's the big deal, right?

And it is fun, at first.

You start with one smoke, what is the harm in that, one such a small number, it couldn't hurt.

One couldn't bring a life of misery, a life full of pain and suffering, could it?

You can't have been more wrong.

But your're young, what do you care?

It becomes worse 

Drugs, Alcohol, Sleeping 

This isn't the end though, right?

I have more to go, more to play,  to do

Why is this happening?

It was only one...

I like....

Soccer

Softball

Reading

Pugs

Macaroni and Cheese

Thunder Storms

Camp Fire's

Hollister

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I believe…

In ghosts

In true love

But not in war

Not in hatred

I believe in you

I know that you can make a change

     Today I was whited out by Savannah. Every time I'm whited out I take it suriously. But the sad thing is that people ,not naming anyone, are betting if i talk or not. And they keep trying to make me talk. They keep bugging me and telling me to talk. Of corse I wanna talk to my friends.... Mostly because my best friend went home a minute ago and i couldn't make her feel better. :'( Everyone dont try to make me talk or bet on how long i don't talk. Just leave me alone and respect what white out day is supose to mean. ok?

One day after I had gone into another grade and left one of my favorite teachers. I got a card that said, Taylor, you are a wise young girl that can accomplish anything you put your mind to. Thanks for a wonderful two years. On the front it had a picture from a unit that we did, startbase where i launched a model rocket and below it said Dreams+ action= reality meaning that your dreams that are followed by actions toward your dream end up reality. I wanted tothank that teacher but never had the chance. The card taught me a lot and made me realize that i can work harder and that i just needed to put the effort in. Now im getting good grades and becoming a better student. So this is my thanks to that one teavher that made me realize what i had in me all along.