Kent Likes to Blogs

This week was amazing! And I was able to accomplish a lot! I was able to change all the information that I added to a separate document into my own words! Therefore this wont be count as plagiarism! Some successes that I experienced this week were succeeding and finishing all my paragraphs. Besides that I was able to add more relevant photos to my topic (plastic pollution). Photo that I added included a turtle eating a plastic bag. Which was relevant to explain how trash is always mistaken as food. The next photo I added was a photo of a mountain of trash. Which was relevant to explain how the amount of trash produced is crazy! Not only the amount of trash production was crazy, but it was almost impossible getting rid of it all! This week was a great week and I didn’t have any struggles at all. Since nothing went wrong, I had no adjustments to make. Next Friday I will pick up next time on my paragraphs and maybe add more information. Next week I will be working on my plastic pollution information and paragraphs and add more information, negative causes and effects to humanity about plastic pollution!

There are many ways to be a good neighbor and here are a few examples. First, whenever you see your neighbor it’s always good smiling and greeting to them! Who would not like to be greeted? Being friendly is one of the examples to be a good neighbor. Being friendly is also another great reason to make more connections/friends with anybody! Especially when you guys literally see/live next to each other. Better being friendly/nice than treating each others like strangers/enemies. It really depends on how you are as a person. Whether you’re a social or an antisocial person. But of course conversation with your neighbors have to come natural. Starts with eye contact then talking! Secondly, as a good neighbor is helping them. For example, if they go onto a vacation they might ask your help? You’re probably wondering what they might ask? Maybe taking out the trash and putting newspapers in their house. As a good neighbor it’s good helping each other. When you go onto a vacation they will return the favor (If they are fair). Lastly, as a good neighbor it’s always great including them with cards/post cards. Such as Christmas cards or etc. Doing this helps you both get to know each other. Such as family names, family members and age. Including each other makes you both feel the friendship going both ways than one. Not just one chasing for another.

This week was amazing and I was able to accomplish research and paragraphs of my goal (finding solutions to plastic pollution). Some successes that I experienced this week were links/resources that I was able to rely onto my learning of plastic pollution solutions. With a trustworthy site I was able to learn more! This week was a great week and I didn’t have any struggles at all. Since nothing went wrong, I had no adjustments to make. Next week I will pick up next time on putting the paragraphs in my own word. I find the information, copy and paste into separate google docs, then use my own words completely. Next week I will be working on adding the separate paragraphs with information that’s in the separate google docs into my final draft. On that google doc I will be sure to finalize all the paragraph as my own words. Therefore it should not be plagarized.

Once there was a platypus. Not just one platypus, billions of platypuses. It was one night. Not just a regular night! A hungry night! They all needed food! From where? Their pool! It was a dark verdant green lake. As they reformed for the slaughter, they started playing music with their beaks. Throbbing and splashing began, minutes later all the fish’s were all inside their warm stomaches in pieces. The billion platypuses destroyed the whole swarm of minnows within minutes..! maybe seconds…! The lake all of sudden turned from a dark verdant green color to a viscous red color. Blood red. Vampire red. Maybe red as lava. After eating their cravings, they could now rest. Billions of the platypuses then heads down in the sunken ships, go through the casement, and down to the main living room. As they arrive in their own rooms, down the snoring goes.

For the month of April I have been reading a book called PROJEKT 1065. The author of this book is by ALAN GRATZ. This is a historical fiction novel about World War II. World war II is raging!!! Michael O’Shaunessey, lived and came from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his mom and dad. With the other boys in his schoolmates Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth. But what differs from Michael to the other boys was he had a secret. And what specific secret? He and his parents are spies. Michael does not agree nor support everything the Nazis stand for. But he joins in the Hitler Youth’s horrific games and book burnings, playing the part so he can gain knowledge. One day Michael learned about PROJECT 1065, a very secretive Nazi war mission, situations gets difficult. Although this was a big information, he had to prove his loyalty to the Hitler Youth at all circumstance’s. Even if it costs his life.

PROJECT 1065 is a great book explaining the secret Nazi war during WW II. As situations escalated, Michael O’Shaunessey had to stay calm and slowly tell this valuable information to his parents (they were spies against Nazis). Alan Gratz did a phenomenal job explaining all the secrets between the Nazi Youth’s camp. Alan Gratz also did a phenomenal job explaining the situation/setting, by using lots of descriptive words! For example instead of saying “I ran and hid inside a barn, and it was stinky.” Alan Gratz would say “I started with the barn.” “It’s where I would have hidden if I’d been on the run.” “The barn had the itchy of stacked hay and cow poops, and filled with both.” With this evidence you can see the amount of descriptive words Alan Gratz uses.

My most favorite character is Michael O’Shaunessey. Michael O’Shaunessey Is my most favorite character is because he is always sympathetic to everyone, caring and does not agree with Nazi violence. An example from the book was on page 7. “That man — they were hurting him.” “We have to go back and help him,” I said.” This shows how he is very caring and sympathetic to others, wanting to help the Jewish guy that’s getting hurt by a Nazi soldiers. He shows his genuine kindness! The genuine kindness of saving others from their horrible/unfair torture!

My most favorite quote from the story was on page 9. “I just wanted to do something.” “Anything!” This is my most favorite quote because during this situation Michael O’Shaunessey and his mom saw a Jewish man that is being shot, and wanted to help immediately! But Michael’s mom was against it! For what purpose? For both of their safeties! She was holding Michael down as he tries fighting back from getting held back! Michael’s mom was strong enough to hold him down to prevent him from approaching/helping the Jewish man. Due to it being dangerous/risky of getting caught as spies in the Hitler Youth. Or it being life threatening for them both! Hitler Youth does not spare any Jews, they eliminate every possible Jews out there. As an active student currently attending in the Hitler Youth (Michael O’Shaunessey) the Nazi soldier’s will definitely find it suspicious when they see both Michael O’Shaunessey and his mom trying to help save the Jewish man. As Michael O’Shaunessey mom still holds him down from trying, he still tries pulling back! He could not stand this! He wanted to help! But his mom also wanted what’s best for both of their safeties. They can’t risk both of their own precious life just for one Jew! Michael O’Shaunessey Is a very kind/caring boy, willing to risk his life to save a Jewish man! With these evidence I can prove why this quote was memorable to me. Because Michael O’Shaunessey said many times that he was free! And wanted to do something! Just anything! That would help that Jewish man! In the PROJECT 1065 book their’s a total of two graphic. The first graphic is the cover of the book. A picture of a solider on a parachute, two Nazi military planes flying, Nazi soldiers on the grass field searching for Michael O’Shaunessey, grass field, Michael O’Shaunessey running from the Nazi soldiers and war zone (open war zone in grass field). Back cover is a picture of the grass field which is the war zone.

For my twenty percent project I choose to learn about plastic pollution. I choose this topic because as a fisherman and a bird lover seeing trash where they lived, if they died because of it or it’s stuck onto them makes me furious! People can’t trash their own trash! My mentor is my older brother Toby. I choose my older brother Toby because he loves fishing, but as he fishes he would catch lots of crabs and fishes stuck onto trash. Such as plastic bags or fishing lines. This week was amazing and I was able to accomplish my goal! My goals was to Start adding links and paragraphs to separate doc. Links is to prove my evidence is accurate. Paragraphs is what I’ve learned about plastic pollution! Some successes that I experienced this week were: added photos of plastic pollution & facts on what I’ve learned about plastic pollution! This week was a great week and I didn’t have any struggles at all. Since nothing went wrong, I had no adjustments to make. Next week I will pick up on links I’ve provided to my self to look through! And write more on what I’ve learned about plastic pollution! Next week I will be working on finding various solutions to plastic pollution!

There are so many people I would want to invite to dinner, but these are my top three: Elon musk, Mr. Beast (real name-James Stephen Donaldson) and Bernard Arnault. First I choose Elon Musk to eat with. I choose Elon Musk because he is the third richest person in the whole wild world. With this advantage I can buy any expensive cuisines without worrying of my empty wallet. I would want to eat expensive cuisines because not everyone can afford these expensive cuisines! But! With him I can! Expensive cuisines equals delicious food! I love delicious food! Next I choose Mr. Beast. I choose Mr. Beast because I heard his beast burgers is really tasty. I would want to try eating there because of how good people are saying about it. I can internally east there for free without any additional payments charges. Lastly I choose the most richest person in the world. Bernard Arnault! With him (richest man in the world) anything is possible! We will go to the most expensive restaurants everyday! I would want to go to so much expensive restaurant everyday because whats the point saving? When you’ve got billions of dollar! We can go to more expensive food restaurant! That means more delicious flavors! All three of us will go to the most expensive restaurant, Sublimotion in Ibiza! Average of two thousand four hundred dollar average per dish! I choose this restaurant because its expensive and delicious. This is a seafood restaurant! Seafood is delicious yet very healthy! I want to eat to satisfy my flavors! Not satisfying my stomach hunger!

For the month of March I have been reading a book called HEROES. The author of this book is by ALAN GRATZ. This is a historical fiction book about Pearl Harbor. A country that was ambushed attacked. And a friendship proven. December 6,1941 two best friends who were named Frank and Stanley who were with their dads stationed at Pearl Harbor naval base at Hawai. The two best friends enjoyed speaking in the water while writing and drawing their own comic books. While they enjoyed their time together, they did not know there was an incoming World War II raging overseas. So far America avoided the fight. December 7, 1941 war officially begun. Frank and Stanley were on a tour on a battleship when Japanese planes started zooming overhead. Bombs after bombs exploded as the planes dropped them. Explosion roared louder than a tsunami. Noises screeched inside the battleship. Sailors screamed but nothing was able to be heard. Frank and Stanley could not believe what was happening! Japan has attacked America! It was not a joke, it was official! The war has came to them. The disaster and danger was everywhere! Bullets flying everywhere in the beach. Submarines launching torpedo under water. Planes flying and dropping bombs everywhere! This was a madness! Because of this the boys struggles to find safety and shelter. After the war, the Americans lost to the Japanese. Stanley is suddenly seen as a “enemy”. Stanley who is a Japanese American faced discrimination and hate. His friend Frank is caucasian and could not understand the amount of hate and discrimination Stanley had to deal with. They both made it out in the infamous day, but will their friendship and dream continue? Or has everything they know will be forgotten?

Heros is a great book explaining the war during Pearl Harbor. Heros provided great dialogue between Frank and Stanley. As the friendship and bonding gets stronger as they face intense situation together. Heros was not only about pear harbor, but teaches you what a true friendship is! If you ever want to read a book that educational, but can one day help you with friendship bonding, read Heros!

My most favorite character is Stanley. Stanley is my most favorite character is because he is always brave and bold. An example from the book was on page 15. “Then we might as well die trying to do the right thing!” During this situation Frank said he and Stanley would die if they stayed a minute longer in the battle ship due to hundreds of Japanese planes dropping bomb. Stanley said it’s better dying for the right thing than escaping like a coward. This shows how brave Stanley is.

My most favorite quote from the story was on page 128. “Help means help, said Stanley. It doesn’t mean fight for me. It means fight with me.” Frank who is a coward, did not want to be involved with any of this war. Stanley pursued Frank to help him fight with a simple statement. He wasn’t forcing Frank to fight and protect him. But instead, to fight beside him! This is like a loyalty companionship! Instead of bossing someone to protect and fight for you, they fight beside you! This is different, but shows loyalty which each others! This loyalty goes both ways! Not just using one as a shield. They watch and protect each other’s back! One won’t die for another, instead they will die together. There’s a total of fifteen graphic. After the Heros story, it showed eleven pages of comic book stories on what Frank and Stanley wrote before the attack. The next two graphics was a picture of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor map. The last two graphics is the front and back cover of the book. The front book cover is both Frank and Stanley standing in the dock watching as the japanese attacks the Americans. Bombs, shootings exploding graphics. Battle ships sinking and exploding and Japanese airplanes shooting everywhere at the battleship. Lastly the back page book cover graphic is a picture in a beach with an exploded battleship.

If I could have any job in the entire world, it would be a landlord. A landlord is a person who owns multiple property and collects rent every month from their tenants. I would want to be a landlord because most people always have sleep deprivation because of staying up late for work or doing any other work related stuff to earn money. They would either do this for a salary raise or to avoid getting he/she targeted and later getting fired from the job. Most people work for the money than letting the money working for themselves. This means “to achieve financial freedom by using money you’ve earned before, to generate even more money ”. If you don’t understand the quote, it basically means to not chase money but let your money you’ve earned before, to generate even more money. It will take a while, but one of the ideas is to invest your money and continue investing throughout the years of your life to increase your wealth. By leaving your money in the bank without investing it, the value of it will deplete. Once you’ve retired from working all your money will only be enough for living expenses, food and clothes. While you invest your value of your money will gradually grow bigger and bigger. For example if I invested one hundred dollars, over thirty seven years I will have a total of one hundred thousand dollars which is enough for living expense and others! Imagine if you invested to a even higher value than one hundred dollar’s! If your still a kid and have a bank account? You still have time invest now! The value does not mater! The main point is the increase! Most people worked very long hours for their salary and yet used everything in life needs without being able to enjoy it. This is not applied to all works, but mostly it is. Additionally getting a raise at work is hard! And requires lots of your hours at work! But if you’re a landlord you can give yourself a raise! You don’t abuse it but when it’s time for a raise, you raise the price! Besides giving yourself a raise, there’s a lot of other benefits about being a landlord. For example you wont be afraid of getting fired from your side job. With the amount of money/income you receive as an landlord every month, you can use that as your full time job in case your boss fired you. Or if you want to retire and be a full time landlord and not wanting to do home repairs? Well you can just hire handyman to fix any repairs with cost. Lastly in my opinion being a landlord allows you to choose who you want to work with. Unlike a work environment where you have to work with people who you don’t like, but you have to pretend to like them to survive in the job and not be targeted and get eliminated. As an landlord you would choose who you thinks has a good personality with good income/credit scores to work with. You’re not trying to find a life partner but you have to find someone who you can interact with, and work with. You don’t have to pretend to like them. If you don’t like the tenant who you’re working with? No need to suffer feeling stress working with them and pretend liking them to continue working with them. Kick them out and find a new tenant that will suit your working style! But remember respect goes both ways. As an landlord you must do your part by being respectful towards your tenants. By having respect both ways, this will make your tenants to continue renting form you (long term renting)! Finally, Here’s how it would start as an landlord. As a beginner landlord you would start at zero and begin saving money up by working in a good salary amount of paying. Once you have enough you buy a house! Once that house is bought you save up you’re work money also, including your rent money that you get every month! As you get more house’s the easier is to buy another one. It’s like this if there’s a big mess and theirs just one person cleaning, it will take forever. But with with ten people’s help, the mess will be cleaned very fast (Just an analogy). This is just like buying houses as a landlord. Having just one property will take long to save up for the next, but as you continue saving and buying multiple property and listing them for renting, owning multiple property makes you able to collect so much more money in a faster time period for the next house for you to buy! For example, one house rent is worth one hundred dollars a month. The next house you wanted to buy is one thousand dollars. You may have to wait ten months to purchase it, but once you saved enough money you continue buying and expanding your properties and repeat the cycle! As a landlord you should continue expanding the amount of property you own. Once you get to five houses after saving a while, you just wait two months till you get the next house that costs (one thousand dollars). And that’s the main trick on being successful as an landlord (expanding the amount of your properties). Most landlord just buys one or two houses and stop buying. A successful landlord will continue to expand their rental houses collection. As simple as it might be, maintaining the houses is tough. The main key of being a landlord is to not fall asleep and be dedicated to every problem that’s out there. This means to always be dedicated and responsible for every problem your tenant reached out to you. Other wise they will take advantage of you. This means they won’t pay you rent, but still stay in the house. This will cause you to receive no rent money. If you’re not receiving rent for months then you must act quick. The worst case to solve this problem, you have to call a sheriff to kick the tenant out. Second reason why I want to be landlord is because you gain lots of financial knowledge. With this knowledge people will not be able to trick me easily with anything related to finance whether I’m making bill transactions, buying a house or making a financial deal with he/she. Third reason why I want to be a landlord because its nice collecting rent every month without doing anything if you’re lucky. Such as home repairs and tenant dramas. I basically collect free money without doing anything unlike real jobs. Real jobs requires hours and hours of your hard work and dedications in the office depending on you’re job level/role. I’m not saying being a landlord does not require you’re hard work and dedication, but it’s slightly different! Being a landlord is a whole new discussion of work. As a landlord it’s important to have time management, dedication, hard work, being focus at all times and not falling asleep on any problems. The main point that differs from regular work to landlord job is one thing, “you’re doing it to support you and you’re family not a company”. As a landlord everything is under you’re control which you have to be dedicated to what you’re doing, if you’re dedicate and hungry to what you’re doing, you will strive above and beyond to what you’re doing! It’s like this kids like playing video games, they strive to playing video games because they are dedicated to this! Another reason I want to be a landlord is because real jobs requires you to wake up at a certain time everyday and go to work early (such as going to school). if you’re a full time landlord you don’t have to wake up early unless there’s a problem to fix! It’s really relaxing being a landlord, but sometimes it can be really hard/stressing with an major house repair or recruiting people with good income/credit score to rent from you. Lastly my dream job is to be a landlord because with this amount of money and income I’m receiving every month, I would be able to help my family with any financial problems, or even giving them money for any kind of support. And lastly enjoying the money with my family by traveling all around the world. For me the main key of being a landlord is not just the money, but for me it’s always being able to stand by my family side being there to help them and support them, then being in the office for twelve hours! And what do you accomplish from being in a office for twelve hours? Getting a paycheck that will be spending every time you earn it!

For the month of February I have been reading a book called ALLIES. The author of this book is by ALAN GRATZ. This is a historical fiction book that’s about two boys named Dee and Sid. June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe! This was a hard war! They needed allies and somebody they could rely on to fight besides with! The only way to defeat Germany was to bring the whole allied nation together to sworn German-occupied France. Dee is a young US soldier, riding on a boat towards the French coast (Normandy). Dee, riding on a Higgins boat terrified as a chicken vomits and wraps himself into a ball. A Higgins boat is a large boxed shape boat that can carry lots of soldiers with one singular motor which is very loud! It was going to be a hard war but Dee was not alone! Behind the war zone stood a girl in France named Samara. Samira works as a spy trying to help the US win by sabotaging the German army. A patrooper named James leaps in his airplane daring a midnight raid. Now the most important one, the medic! Henry is a medic that searches for injured lives to save! Sid had so much hatred to the German Nazi soldiers because of hitler. Sid was Jewish while Dee was German. Dee was German but left Germany because of the dictator ship of hitler. Allies was a form of alliance with France to attack Germany and defeat them together. Every second of their life everyone had to fight and face reality and complete their dangerous missions. With all the betrayal and deadly risks at every movement they encountered, they both had to make it out alive again!

Allies is a great way of learning the history while having some great suspense! Allies provide great fictional dialogue from two point view helping you build up the story on the two points of view on what they are doing to help form an alliance by sabotaging the Germans. Also with this information it’s helping you learn what the allies are? And how they took down the Nazis soldiers together as an alliance! Not only that but Alan Gratz did a great job teaching us the history of the war while including some realistic characters to add some suspense. Rather than a huge book all about the Nazi war that has no story line between human to human dialogue. If you ever want to read something that’s has suspense but that’s educationally at the same time? Read allies!

My most favorite character is Samira. Samira is my most favorite character because she is always caring and loving not only to only humans but towards animal! An example from the book was on page 34. “Samira couldn’t take it. She could not let the soldier shoot the dog, even if it meant to be captured herself.” This shows that she is even willing to risk her life being captured to save a dog from getting shot.

My most favorite quote from the story was on page 35. “She wasn’t going to do what her mother told her. She was going to do the exact opposite. Samira had already lost her father to the Nazis, and she wasn’t going to lose her mother too”. This is a meaningful quote to me because in this situation Samira mom was kidnapped by the Nazi soldiers, dragged by a horse in front of her daughter. With a screaming dying message her mom screamed in a different language (French) to escape! Samira could not afford to lose her mom! She went after her not wanting to lose her just like how she lost her dad. There’s a total of one graphic. Which is the cover of the book. The cover of the book is a picture of Dee in a Higgins boat landing on the war zone (France Normandy beach) ready to fight the German Nazi soldiers. A Higgins boat is a large boxed shaped boat that can carry lots of soldier with one singular motor which is very loud! As the door opens, explosions and gun shots occurred in the picture. Other graphics included parachutes, tanks, explosions and hedgehogs(6 sided pointed ball ish pike) that was used for anti-tank and anti-landing craft.