Brian Robinson

11-15-13

value essay

The

True Value


In my life there are things that i hold dear and things that i don't really care about one of those this are my shoes you hear people talk all the time about their so called “shoe game’’ and i say to them”why buy a 500$ pair of shoe just to look at them and wear them once and never wear them again like what the heck you could save that money and buy something important. like food I mean food cost like 300$ now just to feed a family of four. Then there is some other things like my xbox and ps3 I mean I do like them but sometimes there a pain in the butt.


Another thing that i don't really care about is my xbox and ps3 i think that in the future when i will get new consoles i will appreciate the moment wasted to keep my little feeble mind entertained for a few hours. im not like those kid who use it for 24 hours 7 days a week i just use it when i really board. But the main reason I don't like them is because they have a lot of hidden fees that I don't know about like they have fees for games and for running it I mean when I try and buy stuff I get really worried that they will throw in a lot of cost and hidden fees that I don't know about you just can trust big companies like Microsoft and Sony but what do we do we give them our credit cards and cell phone numbers mean that is something I will never understand


one other thing that i could live without is homework because i learn a lot in school so i really don't think i NEED the homework also if you don't understand the subject material in class why would you get it out of class that is why I have some bad grade in my classes is because I don't understand the regular criteria. I'm not trying to point fingers but in all my math classes have always had a c or below and that I have really low grade it's because I don't get it and I just get mad because I try really hard and I don't get the grade I should. Ugh


there are thing that are precious to me like hockey and not just the game i play but the sport as a whole i love playing hockey and it can be a pain sometimes but i do love working out with my team and I really enjoy doing my best and working until I can't walk everyday i really need to work on my shot though.


Another thing in life that I love is the moment when I get in the shower after a sport and the hot water hits me body and I just feel clean I love it it's the best part of hockey and the only time it's better is when I bought mcdonalds and I got a soda and while I'm relaxing in the shower I drink my soda and I feel at zen


But the best thing in my life is my family because I would be nowhere without my parents they do annoy me sometimes I love them because they push me to be my best and I understand that they try there best but they sometimes don't understand how hard others work. which i admit can get annoying sometime but they know that i will work hard all the time thats why i appreciate them

The bloody battle of battle Royal

battle royal by koushun takami. Ohta Shuppan 1999     genre: fiction

in the story battle royal there is a very compelling twist that another popular book called the hunger games followed and the book that did the original book was called battle and this book is the r rated blood fest cousin of the hunger game series and the plot is that there  is a game that is held by the Easter Asia government and they knock out the class and the whole class awakes in there class room and they find a metal collar on there necks and a mysterious man comes in and tells them this is a death game that's all I will tel you because I don't want to spoil it

f i have never read any books by koushun takami but i really like his descriptive and accurate writing style and but accurate i mean the characters acted as i would have acted if placed in there situation though the book is a very fun and dark book the first though i had about the book was that it was like the hunger games but it was actually written before it.

here is a quote from the book its is found on page 367 “W-what do you mean, you’re fine either way?”

Kazuo lifted his chin and pointed it at the night sky, as if he were stretching out his neck. The moon shone brightly and cast a gloomy shadow on Kazuo’s well-defined face. He kept this pose and said, “I sometimes lose track of what’s right and wrong.”

Mitsuru was even more confused. That was when an entirely different thought occurred to him. Something was missing.

And then he realized what it was.

my personal opinion on the book is that it is maybe the second best book i read or maybe even the first i loved the book being a lover of dark survivel stories like gary paulsons "hatchet" seris and the hunger gamaes i loved the book even more than hunger games it was the r rated vson oh yeah they have a manga adaptation i would really check it out.

i give the book a 4 out of five the book is very descriptive and violent and gory but to me personally i give it a 5 out of 5

name Brian Robinson

1. in the story Speak malinda is best described by these five words:wallflower,woebegone,anchorite,sardonic,and brassbound

2a.I picked wallflower because the definition literally mean someone who is shy and unpopular

2b.I picked the word woebegone because i picture malinda as looking sad and the definition of woebegone is a person who looks or feels sad

2c.I picked the word anchorite for malinda because even though she isn't religious i would feel like she would live away from people

2d.I picked the word sardonic because malinda doesn't really show respect to her teachers or to anyone really

2e.I picked the word brassbound because she is a very extroverted and rigid person

3. Out of all of these words the best word for malinda would be Wallflower because the definition fits her really well. i think of a wall flower as someone who wont show there real colors until she knows you and that discribes her

4.

A funeral for happiness

authors notes

1 i would like them to get that even though something is bad like a funeral something nice can come out of it like a friend

2 i thought that this piece was easy to write because i could relate to arnold

3  the hardest part of the essay was the transition to another scene of the story

4 nothing in particular maybe punctuation

summer reading essay

Arnold Spirit- the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian

Brian Robinson-real life

After my grandfathers funeral we went to the after party and thats were i met my good friend arnold or as he is more commonly called junior. So since i'm the only person my age i decided to walk around the lobby of the restaurant and thats where i saw a little indian boy with glasses who looked kind of nerdy. i wanted someone to talk to so i went up to him and said.

“hey, my name is brian nice to meet you” i put out my hand for him to shake.

“hello my name is arnold but you can call me junior.” he shakes my hand and says “what brings you to this fine funeral?” i said “this is for my grandfather.”  he said “oh so you're that brian,i'm sorry for your lose you know i lost my grandma and sister in the same year.” i said “ thanks and im sorry for your lose but i don't like to talk about sad thing.” he said” okay so how about we talk about sports?” i said “ sure what kinds,Hockey,Baseball,Basketball?” he said “sure well i play basketball but i heard you played hockey so anything is good.” but as i was going to say something his parents came in.

they said “hello,brian im sorry for lose i would like to say your grandfather was a great person.,” i said thanks nice to meet you. i was just talking to junior and he said he plays basketball.” his parents said”yes him and his friend rowdy play.” i said “oh they must be good”

i talked with his parents for a while until they went to eat dinner and after that me and arnold went outside it just so happened that he had a basketball for a while and i have to say he was pretty good at it he made a lot of threes but since i'm tall i made a lot of dunks but me and him played like five games but in the end he beat me 176-108 so he actually beat me by a lot i should mention that i'm not the best at basketball.

But i asked arnold where he was from and he said he was from a reservation and that he went to a school caller reardon which was an all white school until he went there and he told me about how he got really popular but he also told me about the struggle to get popular he told me about how his best friend almost killed him because he was so mad at him for moving that he punched him in the face and almost broke his nose but he also told me about how over the long school year he made amends with rowdy and became popular and i thought that was really cool.

and after the funeral we traded number and this is how i met my good friend and fellow athlete arnold who is still my very good friend to this day.

authors notes

1 i would like them to get that even though something is bad like a funeral something nice can come out of it like a friend

2 i thought that this piece was easy to write because i could relate to Arnold

3  the hardest part of the essay was the transition to another scene of the story

4 nothing in particular maybe punctuation

summer reading essay

Arnold Spirit- the absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

Brian Robinson-real life

After my grandfathers funeral we went to the after party and that's were i met my good friend Arnold or as he is more commonly called junior. So since i'm the only person my age i decided to walk around the lobby of the restaurant and that's where i saw a little Indian boy with glasses who looked kind of nerdy. i wanted someone to talk to so i went up to him and said.

“hey, my name is Brian nice to meet you” i put out my hand for him to shake.

“hello my name is Arnold but you can call me junior.” he shakes my hand and says “what brings you to this fine funeral?” i said “this is for my grandfather.”  he said “oh so you're that brain,i'm sorry for your lose you know i lost my grandma and sister in the same year.” i said “ thanks and im sorry for your lose but i don't like to talk about sad thing.” he said” okay so how about we talk about sports?” i said “ sure what kinds,Hockey,Baseball,Basketball?” he said “sure well i play basketball but i heard you played hockey so anything is good.” but as i was going to say something his parents came in.

they said “hello,Brian im sorry for lose i would like to say your grandfather was a great person.,” i said thanks nice to meet you. i was just talking to junior and he said he plays basketball.” his parents said”yes him and his friend rowdy play.” i said “oh they must be good”

i talked with his parents for a while until they went to eat dinner and after that me and Arnold went outside it just so happened that he had a basketball for a while and i have to say he was pretty good at it he made a lot of threes but since i'm tall i made a lot of dunks but me and him played like five games but in the end he beat me 176-108 so he actually beat me by a lot i should mention that i'm not the best at basketball.

But i asked Arnold where he was from and he said he was from a reservation and that he went to a school caller reardon which was an all white school until he went there and he told me about how he got really popular but he also told me about the struggle to get popular he told me about how his best friend almost killed him because he was so mad at him for moving that he punched him in the face and almost broke his nose but he also told me about how over the long school year he made amends with rowdy and became popular and i thought that was really cool.

and after the funeral we traded number and this is how i met my good friend and fellow athlete Arnold who is still my very good friend to this day.