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EXAMPLE1 I remember whenever I was in Elementry school and the one thing students prized having most in thier day was recess. We would work so hard just so we would get reess. We would work and work until that bell rang. We would take spelling tests, and read flash cards, practice cursive handwriting. We would do all this work & then whenever that bell rang we would charge like bolts of lightning to line up at that door to go outside. Then we would come in from running and playing and that would not stop us from working. Instead of being worn out it seemed we were energized to work more. What I am trying to get to is I think the children at Meece Middle School should be allowed to have recess. I believe middle school kids are more highly punished then they are rewarded. For Instance your child trys their best to school. But What do they get to show for it? Absolutley nothing. And then they get punished for not turning in one homework assignment when they are usually honor role students. I just don’t think that’s right. That kids don’t get rewarded for their good efforts and they do get punished. You get 1 day In School suspension (ISS) for graffiti on the wassl. You can get 2 days of In School suspension for using profanity. And for being late to class you can get up to 2 or 3 days of (ISS)! Nowhere are the few ways we are rewarded for honor role (As & Bs) on your Report card nothing. For minding your teachers & being good, nothing. For doing all your work, nothing. We don’t even get holiday partys!!! I think this is just unacceptable! Now my grandmother, Shirley S. is a woman that knows I am usualy a good student. And this is what she said, “I think that if students were given more rewards and given more praise, and not as much punishment they would do better at school and work more I think kids should get a break from work.” I know that you are probably thinking, well I know kids need recess & everything, but if they do get it they won’t want to work anymore. Well that’s entirely wrong. It would only make them want to work more. For Example, when you get in from work do you want to work more or lay down and take a nap? I think you would say take a nap. Well when kids get tired they don’t want to work anymore either. Don’t you think our brains get tired after a while? Well they do. That is why we would work because we would want to go to recess so bad we would work hard until time to go that way we would get recess. And after recess our minds would be refreshed and we would want to work just as hard so we would get recess the next day. Workshop 4, Beasley 2 Write in the Middle Id say you think us having recess would take up time from our school work. No it wouldn’t actually it would be saving time. You know how kids are just so tired by 6th period that they feel like all they want to do is sit there in the chair & not do nothing. That’s exactly how I feel by 5th period! Don’t you think that if kids got recess for just 13 or 14 min after lunch or something it would help? Cause 6th through 8th period might as well not be there cause of the little bit of work we get done. Most kids even fall asleep the last part of the day. Its cause they are tired. They’ve been sitting in small wooden chairs all day long. And the only break they get is to go to therye lockers. So really by having about 14 or 15 minutes of outside fun would be like saving 4 periods in a whole day! Maybe even more. In Conclusion I believe that if you will agree with my piece good things will happen at Meece Middle school. I believe better grades will be coming in on the report cards and teachers bragging. So please take my piece seriously.

EXAMPLE2

Emissions taxes- will we pretend to save the earth or actually do it? Does everyone realize what Goldman Sachs and other big investors are up to in the world’s forests? It’s rather terrifying. They are buying our air. I’m almost being literal. The scam behind the war against global warming is a fairly typical one in our current world of privatizing everything. The idea that is inching forward in government is to tax all companies that need or choose to pollute the air. This money would then go to groups that protect and maintain the world’s forests, rivers, oceans, etc. Any left over money could potentially go to improving public infrastructure. But since everything is privatized this is all screwed up. With only a few owners, such as Goldman Sachs (who, coincidentally, has orchestrated all of history’s economic crashes all the world’s taxes will go into their hands. They will then hire their own lobbying group and environmentalists to take care of nature. As capitalism goes, the trickle down method sucks. It doesn’t work for anyone but the people who are supposed to allow money to trickle down. Thus, the super rich will be concentrating a huge majority of tax dollars into their private pockets. They will then have a nice PR group make wonderful claims that they are saving the world. But how else could this look? This situation is very similar to our monetary system. Private banks create money and lend it to people as the economy grows. As more debt is created,  banks earn more interest. An alternative to this is allowing the government to create money and spend it into existence, eliminating the debt based system. As a result, public infrastructure would be bolstered beyond belief. Imagine a responsible central bank recognizing when it’s time for the economy to grow, and then putting more money into the economy by hiring more teachers and subsidizing the creation of fuel cell recharge stations along all highways. If emissions taxes were collected by governments, rather than Goldman Sachs, how many more teachers could be hired? How many fuel cell and electric cars could be put on the roads? If the point of collecting these taxes is to give mother earth a rest and minimize our production of CO2, than it is crucial that every single dollar collected (and be assured the aggregate amounts will be enormous) be spent on greening our world.

EXAMPLE3 Abercrombie & Fitch is a clothing store mainly selling preppy clothes. Some of its clothes are pretty nice. I feel that they over advertise - thus bringing the cost of their items higher. A t-shirt isn't really worth $20-30. A collar shirt isn't worth like $60. A pair of pants aren't either. What do you think? Don't you agree with me?