Essay9

Life Can't be Held

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An Essay About My Life Related to the Song “Simple Man”:

By: Marcus Harris

Pine Point School

9th grade English

Everyday we live a more complicated life. Adding to our daily routine, we come up with a urge to make our life complicated. We like adding to our schedule so we can have a feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day but, this song is telling me to live as a simple man. We should live a simple life not carefree but with least amount of responsibilities and work as possible.

The lyric from the song Simple Man, “All you need is your soul” automatically
reminded me of my generation, of my world and of myself. The simple fact is
that, now days, all kids worry about are materialistic things ipads, shoes, hats,
computers, cars the list goes on. When I heard this lyric for the first time it
made me think “why am I worried about electronics and clothing when I have my
family, when I have my soul, when I have my health and my sanity?”. I remember
on the same day when I listened to Simple Man in English I had just argued with my mom that morning about ordering some lifeless insignificant hat. I argued with her as if I was entitled to getting a hat as if it was essential to life but, after listening to this song alone I felt silly and ungrateful and apologized to my mom that night. I think the title “Simple Man” also complements the feeling I got from the song. To live as a simple man means to only worry about the most important things, spend your precious time on earth caring about the most important things and let go of everything except the most important things. Ultimately to spend learning as much as you can and becoming happy rather than struggle and become frustrated worrying about things that don’t.

The lyric “you can do it if you try” has inspired me to try my best at everything. There is nothing in this world that can stop me from reaching my goals but myself. I am the only obstacle in my life that can permanently stop me.  If I do my best, there will be no limits, If I never say “can't there will be no limits, and if I try there will be no limits.  If I never try I can't accomplish anything, If I never try I can never achieve my goals. Life is a period of time to just see your opportunities to do something and then do it. Life is a time to see your limitations and pass them. we have to make our limitations end or our lives won't be what they could be.

So why do people still live a simple life? Perhaps it's because they believe that to live simple is to live boring. Maybe they think if you do live simple you won't be remembered by others but, if someone were to live simple they would be remembered because they would be unique and that's what life is about being yourself and to live a simple life by your standards.

Self Assessment

1.) Something I need to work on in this essay are my small mistakes that are so small that I read over the.

2.) Something that's good in this essay is the content, it's the ability that I have to put what's in my mind on paper.

3.) Something that I need to work on in all my essays is adding specs of gold in my writing or fast words.

Essay 8

Keep Moving Marcus

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An Essay About my Life and Two Quotes:

Pine Point School

April, 23, 2013

9th grade

Everybody has to keep moving on in life. From challenges, from mistakes, and from regrets, we all have to keep moving on because “What will be will be...”. When you move on things are bound to change so, your life will never be the same as yesterday and tomorrow can never be parallel to today. In fact, if you never moved on and things were always the same you would never learn anything new.

The quote “What will be will be and so it goes” relates to my mentality exactly. I believe the song is saying why stress over things when tomorrow is a new day, why stress over things when it’s only going to get better, why stress over things when someone else in the world has it so much worse than you? I think it’s important to learn from your mistakes but as soon as you figure out what you can learn from a mistake theres no need to think about it anymore. Thinking about a mistake you made takes away from the time you have to fix it, so over thinking your problems can actually be harmful to yourself. Mistakes are only as serious as you allow them to be, life problems last for as long as you let them,small problems last for as long as you let them, The time you spend thinking about your problems last for as long as you let yourself. Mistakes are only mental parasites that only conflict harm onto you until you find a solution to get rid of them. Whether it’s ignoring them, fixing your mistake, or talking to somebody about it, you have to get rid of your mental parasites or they will eventually kill your happiness.

The quote “ Somehow I know it will never be the same” relates to my future journey. Next year I will be leaving Pine Point, the second home I've gotten so accustomed to, and will be traveling to an unknown school called Stonington high school. There I will have new teachers, new friends and a new setting. I will be playing sports at a higher level, I will be attempting homework at a higher level and I will be meeting standards that are at higher levels. Its clear that next year isn't going to be a “walk in a park” but, I know I'm smart and that PinePoint has prepared me to tackle my next challenge. I've been taught at my years at Pine Point, things like being a leader, putting forth my best work and a good work habit makes school easier. Yes, next year will not be the same but it’s a necessary change.

If we don't learn from the past before things change we will make the same mistake. If we can't learn from our mistakes then how can we gain more knowledge about life? If we don't learn to move on we will hang on to the past and never see the beauty of the present. If we can’t learn to let things “be” after making a mistake how can we ever be happy? On the surface of song’s us humans hear a beautiful voice a nice beat and music but, underneath most songs is a life lesson that needs to be taught and learned.

essay 7

854,400 hours

An Essay about the song 100 “years” and my life:

Pine Point English

April,6,2013

9th grade english

Its hard for any kid to think 100 years of being a short time, but there is never enough time of living. No matter if you live until 200 years of age death would have still came too quickly. The song “100 Years” reflects this, in specifically when it says “15, there's never a better wish than this, whens there only 100 year to live”. This quote and this song in general has altered my thinking about my short life and how I should live it.

The quote “Suddenly your wise, another blink of an eye 67 is gone.....” to me means enjoy your life because it goes by quickly. In particular I think it means appreciate the little things in life as a kid because if you don't you'll miss it when your older. Things as little as appreciating the sunlight you see everyday to things as big as appreciating the family that surrounds you everyday. The little things in life is what makes every day and night special so this song has taught me to enjoy and appreciate every little or big thing life puts on my plate. Furthermore this quote makes me think “life is short so I should try and or do everything I ever wanted to do”. If this quote is true, and years really do pass by with a blink of an eye, then I should hold on to every second of life i'm given and make the most of it. If we really do only have 100 years to live theres no reason to be wasting even a second of it because you only live once.

The quote “chasing the years of my life, 15 there's still time for you” reminds me to make every year rememberable. The simple fact is when im older im only going to have family, friends and memories so these are the years to make those memories and friends. After listening to this song, it reminded me to be kind to everybody because a good dead can go a long way, doesn't matter if it's holding a door, doesn't matter if its lending a pencil, doesn't matter if its saving someones life, doing a good deed can only help you in the future. Sooner or later, everything comes back around full circle, what goes around comes around. Furthermore, I feel like this song is trying to tell me to not chase time but wait for it, not everybody makes it to 15 so enjoy it, some people wish they could be 15 again so enjoy it, and some people had their best years at 15 so enjoy it. It’s clear in the song that the writer is specifically thinking about 15 because it was his favorite year of his life and now hes remembering it because he can never experience 15 ever again. Time in the future can be taken from you but time that has already past will be with you forever.

It’s hard for anyone to think what their best or favorite year will be . In fact, when you ask someone this they even start thinking about past years to answer the question. The truth is everybody's best year or favorite year is their current year because this is the year where you can look back at the past years. I think this is what the song means when it says “15 there's still time for you..”. No matter how old you are you can always look back into the past, enjoy and relive those years.

Assessment

1.)Something I need to work on is being able to find silly and small mistakes. It’s almost like its impossible for me no matter how hard I look to find mistakes.

2.)Something that’s not good in this essay is my small mistakes I know there in this essay I just can't see them.

3.)Something good in this essay is the content. The content in all my essays are always true and from the the heart which is a strength of mine.

2013 Essay 6

Hope my Savior:

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An Essay About Hope Affecting my life

by: Marcus Harris

February,12, 2013

9th grade english

Pine Point School

What is hope? Hope is not a feeling but an idea. Hope is something that you can’t touch but it still can be felt in the heart. Hope in everybodys life at some point acts as a rescuer, even in my short 15 years of living hope has saved me in more than one situation.

The quote “ Rescue me before I fall into despair” relates to my life especially when I go to Stonington next year. When I arrive to stonington next year I, a new student to stonington and public high schools, will go there unfamiliar with the school. I will have new teachers, new team mates, and new classmates. Being that I will be a new student I will need to be rescued from my awkward unfamiliar situation where as in Pine Point I was always familiar. I will be going to a possibly dangerous and weird new environment I can only pray that I will be rescued . Also, I need to be rescued next year from any temptations that come  with and from high school. Things such as alcohol, drugs and other things will be often found around me, just with other people. Since theres no guidelines on how to avoid this I will need some kind of rescuer to show me the path to a drug free sanctuary. Everybody needs help through unknown areas, but I can only hope that someone will be willing to help me.

The quote “Only hope can keep me together” relates and will relate to my life in the future. In every basketball game, hope keeps me together and pressure breaks me down. Whether its hope when we are down by 20, whether its hope when we are down by one or whether its hope when the game starts, hope is what keeps me together in basketball game. Ever game I have the faith and hope that we will win and when everything else doesn't drive me to win hope always does. Furthermore, another example of hope keeping me together was when I was taking the exams. In the beginning of every test, math, history, english, science, I, being worried about my time management and grade, would flip through page after page that I would have to fill out in just two hours. Not only were these exams the longest exams I have ever taken but, they counted as a huge chunk of my grade making each exam overwhelming. The only thing in these test taking situations that kept me going was hope that I wouldn't just finish but, finish with an admirable grade. Hope is what drives me when everything else fails. Passion, skill, rewards, these are all unreliable but hope is always there to drive me when I need it to.

Hope to me is more than a word its a game changer and a life savor. Hope is the most powerful idea a human can come up with in its head. Hope is what lead columbus to a “new” land, hope is what freed slaves and hope is what shapes our world. If this world had no hope there would be a world.

2013 Essay 4

Colorful Raindrops:

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An Essay About the Quote “It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you” and How it Relates to My Life and Treasure Island:  

By: Marcus Harris

9th Grade English

Pine Point School

1/17/13

The quote “It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you....” relates to every aspect of life and even in the book Treasure Island. This quote is a very popular saying just worded differently. Quotes such as, “the grass is greener on the other side” and “every cloud has a silver lining” are all figurative language for the real meaning, every time you mess up there’s something you can learn from it. In this essay I try to apply this inspiring quote to my life and Treasure Island.

Next year, I'll have “rainy days” but what's rain without sun? Next year, I'll be going to a new school but what’s progress without change? Next year, I'll meet new friends instead of the friends I've known for for my whole life. Next year I’ll have to get use to brand new teachers but what’s learning without new lessons? For the first week or so at my new school I’ll feel like an outcast, as if I don't belong. This would be an elite case of  “rain” but, I know later I’ll find new friends and new friends,which represent “rainbow”, will outlast the rain. Furthermore, I’ll have to meet new teachers. This will be a harder and longer downpour. I will have to learn how to gratify the new teachers and may have to adjust to adapt to their teachings. This too has a “rainbow” because this will further help reach my goal to continue school after high school. Rainbows can only be born after rainfalls. There must be sorrow before happiness just like rain and rainbows.

In Treasure Island there is also rain and rainbows, especially with Jim. Jim becomes captain towards the beginning section of the book, but he wasn't also captain, he had to first see rain drip down before he could witness a rainbow. The ship’s captain died, and as he died, so did the crew’s hope but with one death Jims uprising began. Jim surprisingly stepped up to the plate. Jim took on crew members twice the age of him, Jim took on a ship he had never captained before and Jim took on the wide, blue, and esoteric sea. Jim has killed evil ship mates as he should, Jim has lead his crew closer and closer to the treasure as he should and Jim has taken command and overcame everything so far as a captain, as he should. After Jim’s rain of losing his captain, he was rewarded with a rainbow of him becoming a successful captain. Jim has obtained respect a “loyal” crew and more treasure for walking into the rain to see the rainbow at the end.

For every error in life there should be success just like in weather, for every downpour of rain there’s an overcasting rainbow. Next year in highschool I'll go through multiple struggles, just as I did in Pine Point but my struggles will be different and will always have a benefiting lesson with them. Furthermore, in every realistic book about “life” there will be down’s but theres also an equal amount of up’s just like in Treasure Island. Seeing the rainbow in life is simple learning from your mistakes or acknowledging the effects of failures.

Self Assessment

1.) One of my flaws is not noticing where a sentence doesn't flow well with the rest of the paragraph.

2.) Something thats good in my essay is that i was very honest in my first body paragraph. I talked about my actual worries about next year and talked about things i plan on going through next year.

3.) I need to work on my flow of sentences and make what I want to say clear in my next essay.

4.) I would give this essay an A because I had good solid examples, wrote the

2013 Essay 2

I Carry My Future:

An Essay About My Life After Pine Point

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Marcus

11/30/2012

English 9th

Pine Point school

Everybody has to carry on sometime in their life. It’s human nature to evolve or to experience some kind of change in their life and my change is coming up after Pine Point when I go into stonington high. In this essay you will see and feel the struggles I will encounter when I go to Stonington High.

TS After this year I will be carrying on to Stonington high to embrace some of the biggest changes in my life since first coming to Pine Point. Cm The first major change will be changing my work ethic to prepare for harder sports mentally and physical. SD Pine point sports, a calm unconstrained work ethic with the idea that everybody gets to play on a team, makes it easy for me to excel in but, next year I will be having tryouts to make a team and if I’m not good enough I don't get to play. SD This means I have to practice not just at school but at home and have to stay fit before the season starts. CM Furthermore, Sports next year bring another difficulty which is having a unfamiliar coach. SD Since 6th grade I've known all my coaches from previous grades or from grades to come so I had a relationship with every coach i've had before even walking on the court or field. SD This made it easy to ask questions and feeling comfortable about making mistakes but next year will be different I will be guided in sports by an unfamiliar face. SD This slight change will make it a little hard in the beginning to ask questions or to feel fine with messing up. CM Lastly, Since I will be at a new school with a new coach I will also have new teammates. SD This will be the biggest change when I carry on in stonington high sports. All my life my teammates have been my friends, people I have grown up with most of my life. SD This will be  a challenge next year because I know, for the most part, my friends ups and downs when it comes to sports, over the years i've seen where they thrive and where they fall.SD This helps me predict things such as where they will take a shot, where they will pass the ball, where they will probably lose the ball, and where they will attempt a move where as next year I won't have this perk. CS Theres no doubt in my mind that sports will be different next year with new teammates, new coaches, and new work ethics but, overcoming challenges only make me better as a player and as a person.

TS Another way carrying on relates to my life is after I leave Pine Point I will have different expectations. CM During next year I will walk into a school that already has the expectations for me to be completely independent as far as homework. SD No redo test, no redo quizzes, no study guides, I have to work hard and study with no guidance.  SD Pine Point, where the teachers give you one on one attention and are very involved in you homework and study habits, will make this transition harder as far as academic independence. CM Furthermore, I will be expected to be able to keep up with classes and homework. SD Classes in Pine Point are always close to each other, its very rare to have a class in a whole other building. SD This being said it will be challenging at first to get use to the classroom changes. CM Finally, I will have to deal with the fact that I had no spanish since 6th grade so I could participate in tutoring. SD This puts me at a slight hindrance because next year I will have to catch up to the level of spanish that everybody else is taking. SD Because of this, I  will have to work twice as hard as everybody else just to make to the norm spanish level. CS There is no doubt that next year, the year where i will be going to a public high school, academics will be a challenge,but a challenge I will overcome.

Overcoming challenges in your life doesn't come from preparation but from will power inside. Like our caveman ancestors we have to adapt to new things or challenges in this case its me going to stonington. whether i'm ready or not at the end of this summer vacation I will have to carry on to a new setting and sounding.

Self Assessment

1.) I  think struggles i have in this essay are my small mistakes like no capitalized I’s and misplaced commas.
1.) Somthing i need to work on in my next essay is proof reading. I need to give myself more time to proofread for better grades.
3.) Something good about my essay is my content or the things i write about. Also my anaphoras and appositives are solid and good.

2013 Essay 1

Success is the Aftermath of Failure:

An Essay About My Life and the Lyrics in “The southern cross”

PinePoint School

November,6,2012

9th grade english

By: Marcus Harris

In life, everyone has failures from small forgettable everyday issues, to ones that permanently scar you and stay in your mind. Although Failures can be painful, Disappointing, sad, frustrating, and sometimes confusing they always have a silver lining. In fact, when it comes to failures you can succeed from them but only if they teach you a lesson. “When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade or forever have sour fruit.”.

During summer vacation I spent a portion of my time sitting on the couch socializing through facebook,texting, and xbox. It became a  clear routine that I would witness my brother leave everyday at twelve in the morning. Although this routine did continued to carry on throughout the whole summer, There was one astonishing instance. One day, my brother was about to leave but right before his foot was all the way out the door he turned to me and said

“If I don't come back just know, that I love you Marcus”. This threw me off balance and I found myself getting angry at a guy I didn't know that could be hurting my brother. Not knowing what he meant, not knowing who might hurt him, not knowing how to handle this my, my anger was building up but I had no target to point it at. The fact that I couldn't control my anger pushes me to believe that I failed in this situation. Looking back at my actions, I realize I should have controlled my angry, but this isn't the only way I failed in this situation because not once did I think  to seek help. I tried to handle and overwhelming incident by myself and tried to keep it a secret from my parents. Self consciously I knew I couldn't handle such an intense situation but I silenced the voice in my head and took on the challenge anyway. Furthermore, my brother made it back home safely, but I failed because I soaked in as much anger as I could take in, instead of handling the situation; by speaking up.
Another time where I have failed is when I had a chance to redo a test after a horrid grade, and I didn't do much better on the retake. This failure is worse than my first one because I failed more than just me. I failed not only myself but my parents and Mr. Mitchell when it became time to take the retake test. I failed myself because I ignored my urge to study harder by covering it with laziness. The fact that I didn't take the time to study just a little bit, that I didn't care about my next grade, that I blew off my second chance, shows how little will power I have to do something academically. Furthermore, I failed my parents because they expected me to study and to do better after receiving a failing grade on a test. I promised my parents I would study harder and to redeem myself but I did the exact opposite. Finally, I failed Mr. Mitchell because right before the retake test he told me I was doing a lot better than last year and told me to keep up. I failed Mr.Mitchell again because he generously gave us a retake (which is very rare in 9th grade) and I didn’t take advantage of it. Although this was a bad failure, I have learned from it which makes it not a failure but a learning experience.
My conclusion is overcoming failures is considered succeeding. It takes time and effort overcoming a failure but no effort and less time to put you deeper in failures. Failures aren't downfalls but opportunities to succeed, If you don't fail you won't learn and if you don't learn you won’t get better.

Self Assessments
1.) One of my flaws is not noticing where a sentence doesn't flow well with the rest of the paragraph.
2.) Something thats good in my essay is that I wrote this essay with feeling, I could relate completely with the topic I choice.
3.) I need to work on my flow of sentences and make what I want to say clear in my next essay.
4.) I would give this essay an A because I had good solid examples, wrote the essay with feeling, followed the requirements, and have very little mistakes if not any.