Gobble-Gobble-Gobble: The Turkeys take revenge

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On Thanksgiving day many families eat Turkeys. These turkeys seem to be unnaturally large sometimes. Some turkeys are injected with growth hormones which make them grow larger. People tend to enjoy eating larger turkeys, because there is more to eat.

For the fun of imagination, let’s say that one of the growth hormones caused a genetic mutation in the one the turkeys, and their strength and brain capacity was increased dramatically. Then they might give birth to a bunch of mutant ninja turkeys. So this one turkey runs into the woods. The farmer is wondering what happened to one of his turkeys, but he doesn’t care;his friend just gave him all of all of his turkeys for free.

After many years of mutated turkeys secretly existing and multiplying, we have an army of strong, angry, large, smart turkeys trying to get avenge their species. They have decided to attack us humans and eat us for dinner on their holiday known as Turkey Memorial Day. To remind you, the humans don’t know about this species of mutated turkeys. People continue eating turkeys on Thanksgiving day which is also Turkey Memorial Day.

One Thanksgiving day, turkeys on families’ plates jumped up before they could be cooked. They chased people around their houses and captured them in nets. Then the turkeys took the humans to their headquarters. The humans were out over the fire, cooked, and eaten. This happened for three more Thanksgivings until humans all over the world conceded to the turkeys. They wrote a treaty stating that humans would never bother another turkey again. All the turkeys on farms were then freed.

After the treaty, nobody ever saw turkeys again. After a few generations humans even forgot what turkeys were, except for the government and scientists, who were still looking for methods of putting a turkey on the dinner table again.

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Apple vs. Google

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I don’t really mind the maker of my PC as long as it is running on Windows 7 and is not a Mac. Simply put, I don’t like Macs. For minimizing, maximizing, and closing windows, Macs don’t label which button does which until you hover over it with your mouse. My judgement on their computers may be biased though, since before sixth grade I had never touched a Mac, but I could do almost anything with a computer running Windows.

My parents got a Google tablet when I was about seven years old. I thought that it was the coolest thing ever! It was even touch screen! Then by the time I was at the end of sixth grade I was issued a school iPad. I had seen from previous experience through the years that iPads were much cooler than our Google tablet. Our Google tablet was also lagging a lot. My dad argued that it was because it was old. I argued that iPads had so many more intuitive features. For example, the iPad has a four finger swipe up multitasking bar and I five finger swipe to exit the app. Many games that weren’t available on the Google Play Store were suddenly available on the iPad’s App Store, such as Light Bike 2. The iPad also has the ability to take screenshots, invert colors, speak what is on the screen, and turn on a restriction that stop little kids from exiting apps and spending your money while they are using your iPad. The only negative point I could find on the iPad, was that it was expensive. My dad also insisted that the iPad as worse, because it was made by Apple, and Apple’s stocks were going down. Apple’s stocks were also worth less than Google’s.

 I got a slide-out phone last year. This was obviously only for communication by text or call. This was neither a Google phone or an iPhone, This year my dad got himself a Google phone. I still prefer iPhones. The only negative about an iPhone is that they are extremely expensive. The iPhone 5s covers for that by  integrating a small fingerprint scanner. The iPhone 5s is also light, thin, and durable. I don’t see any Google phone able to do that.

All in all I prefer Apple when it comes to phones and tablets, but if I want something cheaper Google is the way to go for me. What companies do you prefer for phones and tablets. Feel free to comment below!

Soldiers and Space Wars

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When I think of soldiers, I think of brave fighters.Some soldiers fight for a cause, and some soldiers fight against one.

Soldiers in the modern world fight with chemical weapons, guns, and bombs. They fight for freedom. They fight for land. They fight to save lives. They fight for a better government.

Soldiers fight on Earth. We think this is normal, but in the future will soldiers fight in space? Will they shoot laser beams to take over another “New World”? Will that “New World” be Mars? Christopher Columbus once found the Americas with native people living there. Then the natives were attacked by Europeans for land. Will history repeat is itself? Might we find another planet and its species
and take it over by war, or will they find us first and take us over?

So many questions! I suppose then, that the real question is:

Will we be the hunters or the hunted?

Remembrance Day

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BEST Robotics

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On Saturday, October 26, 2013 a West Ridge team went and competed in a robotics competition. The program that organizes this is called BEST(Boost Engineering Science and Technology). This is a national project. There are many hubs (smaller regions within the regions of the country). Our hub is called Capitol BEST. We have 42 days to build a robot out of specified raw material. We also have to create a project notebook, a website, a display, fundraise, and show spirit and  sportsmanship during the competition. There is a theme each year and this year the theme was to “build a CPU” for another robot. Of course we didn’t build a real CPU, but we hat to carry game pieces and place them on certain spots. We tried our best and placed fourth in the finals. BEST also judges us based on the other aspects mentioned above and compile them to give the highest award called the BEST award. Last year we got third in that award, but this year we received first. We will be competing at region level (parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and all of Texas) in Dallas on Nov. 8 and 9. Wish us luck!

At the end of each competition at state BEST shows a game teaser, hinting what the theme of the competition will be next year. This video was the game teaser shown last year for this year’s competition. A lot of times the game teaser makes no sense until they reveal the competition on kickoff day.

This is an animation made by BEST of this year’s contest.

Halloween Night: The Cat on the Porch

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The porch was empty. There was nothing except for the spiders that called it home. Nothing else, other than the cat as black as this Halloween night.

It crept along the shadows without so much as a noise. Like a ghost it roamed the porch and the house behind it. No one ever went on the porch or inside the house. Those who did, never came out. No one ever saw what happened to these people, but we know that they that went inside the house bored and were looking for adventure.

Some people have claimed to see the cat. The claim the cat to look well-fed and translucent, almost as if it were a ghost. But it wasn’t a ghost because there is no such thing as a ghost, right??? Nobody has been able to prove their claims because after they describe the cat to someone, they lose all the sanity.

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These Shoes are Made for Walking

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These Shoes Are Made for Walking

By: Soham Roy
(inspired from a Writer’s Notebook entry)

My shoes are muddy, wet, and dirty
They are a size six
They do not last long
They are the only pair I wear
They are sneakers
They are wide
These shoes have taken me to places
Into the Taj Mahal
On the Great Wall of China
Inside the pyramids of Egypt
These shoes have taken me to victories
These shoes have sat on a shelf
These shoes are mine

 

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Preposition Poem

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                  Inside the iPad

By: Soham Roy

Inside the game room
Under the charger on the wall
Below my hands lies a case
Inside the case there is an iPad
Under the iPad’s screen lies a city of copper and silicon
Around the city there is a protective barrier
Without the protective barrier the city would be vulnerable to short circuiting
Without this city of metal and silicon the iPad would only be glass

 

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I am the One Who …

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I am the one who …

… drools at the thought of hot mouth-watering pizza entering my mouth, cheese oozing from the sides as sauce touches my taste buds.

… raises my hand for every question that pops into my head, itching for an answer.

… joins every extra-curricular activity that looks appealing to me, not wanting to miss any interesting possibility.

… attacks math problems like I will never see one again, because math makes me refreshed.

… steers clear of physical activity, wanting to work on anything but my upper body strength which cannot hold its own weight.

… is sucked into dictionaries, wanting to learn every word I am unfamiliar with.

… dashes to my Play Station 3 whenever I have the chance, attempting to reach the next level before time runs out.

… pops open my iPad cover the second we get them from school, excited about having an Apple product.

… crashes on my couch to read, ready to fall asleep.

… collapses on my bed, tired from the day’s work.

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