Stand Up Speak Out

                There are many people that we say we trust, people we label as best friends, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc.. As years pass by we find out we can't trust certain  people. There are many people that would lie and try to manipulate people just to find something out. they would try to find things out just to start drama. I call those people messy.  it is both male and females that are messy. we have our males that just want to see a girl fight, and we have our messy females that are just envious or hating on what someone else has.

                as years pass we figure out that we cannot trust everybody we thought we could. We also learned that the person we labeled as best friend, was not really a best friend, even your so-called boyfriend or girlfriend can turn their back on you. it is really hard to find someone you could really trust. trust may not be as important to other people but when it comes to me it is something that i would give you with in time, and i do not except people to give me their trust just like that.

                people fight because of dumb things. some people may not know what they are talking about but they go on based on what somebody else told them. some people need to learn how to keep their mouths closed. 

The Internet Essay

        Many people use the internet for a lot of different reasons. There are teens that use the internet for both academics and social reasons. I think that is mostly what every teen uses the internet for, but then again there are those kids that only use it for academics. I do not think that the internet is a safe place. There is no privacy, there are predators, and people making stupid decisions that gets them into stuff.

        The internet is open to the world. when it comes to privacy on the internet, I do not think there is any. There may be websites that say you can make private, but there are so many other websites that people discover or create to be able to go into your so-called private page. There is no privacy in the internet just by its name, "World Wide Web" (www.), it is open to the world that says it all.

        Posting things on the internet may seem cool but that is before they get in trouble for the decisions they made. "Many students post pictures if themselves holding cans of beer, and bottles of liquor--even when they are underage." I think that this depends on the person. Not many students do things like this, but then again there are many that do. There are many females that take pictures being have way naked and they posted in online, but little do they know it could come back to haunt them. When they get older and wiser they well realize the decision they made was dumb, but cannot do anything about it now.

        There are many child predators on the internet looking for little kids, young adults, or even adults. "Earlier this week, two men were indicted on federal charges that they used the internet to have sexual contact with girls from Connecticut."  I think that if you have a facebook or a MySpace or any other website like those, then you should only add or request people that you know, because you never know what the person wants or what type of person he or she is. There are many predators that make fake profiles so that they could talk to little kids, they talk for awhile, then they make a plan to meet somewhere, and that is when the kid gets kidnapped.

        I use the internet for both social and academics. I talk to people that I know, not strangers! When a person tries to add me as a friend I just ignore them, because like I said before I do not know what the person wants or who the person is, and I'm not trying to find out. I take my academics seriously so I do my school things first. I think that whoever uses the internet should be careful and be smart about the things that they post or say on the internet, the world is not safe, let alone the internet.

The Crucible Essay

              In many highs schools, there comes a time when we have to read plays either the famous Romeo & Juliet, or other plays. In my class we read The Crucible. This book is an interesting, exciting and a very dramatic play. the author of this book is Arthur Miller. In the play every character is important, but the most important characters are John Proctors and Abigail Williams. There is  protagonist in this story and it is the person who commits an action which well sooner or later lead to his or her defeat.

            The main character John Proctor in my eyes, is a good man, yet he had a some strong feelings for Abigail. Those strong feelings which were sexual desire for Abigail Williams, led to affairs with her. They had a trail because she accused John's wife for doing witchcraft and that was not allowed back in those days. Once the trials has begun , John knows that he would have to admit and confuse to the affair him & Abigail had in order for her to stop her violent acts.  John tries to call Abigail as  a fake person. He tried to call her a fraud through a testimony without letting the true information come out. John was a man who likes to keep himself looking like he did not do anything wrong ever, he liked to keep his reputation clean. He fails in trying to frame Abigail as a fake, fraud person, so instead he calls her a whore. In the book this line "How-do you call heaven! whore! whore!"(220). John only confesses when he gets arrested and is found guilty, and is convicted as a witch. They give John an opportunity to make a public confession of his wrong doings. He had written an confession, but he rips it because he wants to say his name. He say you took everything from me, let me just have my name. By him refusing to give his personal integrity, he says that such value will take him to heaven. Elizabeth says at the end of the story in response to Hal's plea "he have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him"(240).

            Abigail Williams is another main character in my eyes. She is a very good liar and she manipulates her friends into doing what she wants them to do. In the book she says "My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name soiled! goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!"(172). Many of her lies lead to nineteen innocent people who have died due to her lies. She is an unmarried girl and since she had affairs with John she decides to take advantage. It does not take much but a simple accusation from one of her troops is enough to convict and arrest any person in Salem, even the most well known person in that city. After that is done she has the opportunity to accuse anyone of the worst sin ever created which was devil worship.  

            Plays like this is kind of hard to compare with others because usually, the plays that I know of usually have to do with romance and things of that sort. One that comes to mind is The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, it was a play I read back in the ninth grade. The characters play a big role this play, the protagonist is known as the hero, yet he dies due to a downfall that occur.  Over all I really like this play even though at the beginning I found it boring but like that saying don't judge a book by its cover is what I exactly did but I know now that I should not.