This I believe - Essay

Pursue your passion

Lee Dewyze, Will Smith, Leonardo da Vinci. These are all famous people that were driven by passion. “Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t do something,” my mom repeatedly declares. Wouldn’t you regret not following and pursuing your dreams because of a negative comment from someone else?

Lee Dewyze, American Idol winner (season 9), said that he wanted to live being a singer until he dies. He believed that he could do it. And he did. He didn’t let anyone tell him that he can’t do it. He is confident in himself.

I have a very strong passion about acting and singing. I’ve always dreamed of becoming a star. I want to be a star because I want to give people hope by showing how great you can be if you never give up and I will keep on striving for my goal. I can do this because I am confident in myself. I became confident in myself because there are so many models that I can look at and follow. Then other kids like me could look up to their hero. I have learned that you can’t give up and just throw your dreams away because then it is like you are throwing away your life.

I am just now starting to pursue my dream and I won’t give up because I know that I can do it and I believe that I can be whatever I want to be. I believe that you should pursue your passion. So if you really believe that you have a talent and you enjoy doing it a lot, then you should show it to the world and not be shy. Express yourself!

You should never let your dreams run away from you because it is you running away from yourself. And you should always stand up for yourself. You should always follow through with your passion, this is what I believe.

Matilda Bone Paragraph

The book Matilda Bone, by Karen Cushman is a historical fiction book. This book includes the themes lack of hygiene, religion, and medicine. A few moods in this book are loneliness, longingness, and appreciation. The book includes lack of hygiene because especially for the way the doctors prepared their “miracles”. Sometimes they didn’t turn out well because it wasn’t clean. Matilda Bone includes the theme religion. She is really religious and she is very strict with it. She prays to the saints all of the time and doesn't eat "unclean" food. It also includes the theme medicine. Again with the doctors, their job is important but most times it ends up that the patient dies. Although, some do get cured and live.

Battle of the Hastings game

The game Battle of the Hastings is about having a war between the three heirs of the next throne. You have to choose your soldiers and place them and make them fight against the enemy. You have to protect the base from the enemies also. I enjoyed taunting the most in the game because I learned many different taunts and the language that they would use. While playing this game I gained a better understanding about the battle and who won and more facts about the war because of the short clip they showed at the beginning and the end of the game. In the Battle of Hastings there were two wars. The first war was between Harold Godwinson and Harald Hadrada. Godwinson defeated Hadrada. Then the second war approached Harold and Duke of William although William conquered Harold. As I said earlier, I think that because the game sort of taught us what happens in this war and gave us an explanation, the style of the game has a valuable learning experience.