Summer Reflections and Dreams: A Collection of Personal Essays, Lecture notes of English

Download Summer Reflections and Dreams: A Collection of Personal Essays and more Lecture notes English in PDF only on Docsity! Journal #1 8/8 - Throughout this summer break, I snuck out of my house every weekend to see my “friend”, as it was fun to do the day after was always so miserable. Another thing I did was visit many amusement parks throughout the Arlington metroplex. Such as six flags, hurricane harbor, lego land, Seaworld, Peppa pig world, etc. Another activity I did during the summer was hanging out with my group of friends. As this one time I invited them over to my pool and we ended up having a fun time while we ate pizza played video games and rode my 4-wheeler at this big-ass field we call “no man's land”. Journal #2 8/10 - What would I do if I had million dollars? How would I have even gotten these millions of dollars reward? Maybe t was from a lottery, a bank heist, or a drug empire. But besides that, the things I would do with this money would be to share some of it with my parents as it would be a sign of me repaying them for what they've done to me to get me to go this far. Then with the rest, I would just have my fun and invest around 25% of it. Into stocks or real estate so I could have some easy passive income. Journal #3 8/12 - If I were to have any sort of superpower it would be something with speed. Because you can slow anything around you down and could also visit every single place in the world, cross borders with no passport. Plus having a high metabolism would come with this superpower, so that'll mean I can eat so much and drink so much without getting drunk with just a few 5 shots. Some of the downsides to this would be that you would be going at sonic boom speeds through the city and it'll bother some people, and with having a high metabolism you would have to eat a lot just to feel full. Journal #4 8/15 - What is my favorite holiday? It will have to be Halloween. Just for one silent night, you can be anyone u would like to be. Such as a vampire, a zombie, a dinosaur, or maybe even batman. For example last year I was a gremlin an inflatable gremlin which was pretty uncomfortable but then I got comfortable with it. The costume got the attention of a few people like my family and friends. But the main reason that I really like Halloween as my favorite season is that of the cold weather climate, and the decorations all across the neighborhoods. Journal #5 8/17 - Out of all the presidents we have gotten these past and present years, I would have to say that there are only 2 that have done a very big change to our American history. Those presidents would have to be Abrahan Lincoln and Barrack Obama. Why them? Well because of the civil rights movement of Abraham Lincoln where he was the one who began it. And then on the other hand for Obama. He was the first African American president ever. As he was very fond of the community and started this thing called “Obama care” that really helped out the community when they were in need of something. Journal #6 8/22 - The quote said by Leonardo DaVinci “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence” Is something I've never heard about throughout my whole life till now. But what this means is like a guard some sort of protection security in the presence of trying to intimidate someone. Such as the queen of England (Queen Elizabeth lll) She has her own security which was the guards with long blackheads dressed in royal colors. These men are nothing but silent and intimidate those who try to come near. Journal #7 8/24 - What would happen if children ruled the world? That's something some kids have always dreamed to do every time they got scolded by their parents. They always said back to themselves “god I really want to rule this world to get free candy. This won't be good tho. Because if kids were to rule the world we would go into literal chaos. As crops would not be taken off, money would be laundered, the police system would go to hell, and the life expectancy would drop down to rock bottom as they are the ones who would be controlling this. As well these kids would die so much quicker because, since they'll be eating a lot of unhealthy foods their teeth would rot and there won't be any dentists people to take care of them. Journal #8 8/26 - For starters, someone in my life who has always been there for me would have to be my brother as he's the one I tell everything to even if he makes fun of it ill keep continuing with what has happened throughout my life. As he almost knows about all my first and does as well as some of his. It's a bummer now that he's in college I rarely get to see him anymore nor talk to him that much, so lately I've been talking to my dad more