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The Super Bowl: An Attraction for Advertisers

Football is one of the most popular games in America. The sport is a favorite of many and advertisers are not to be excluded. This sport attracts advertisers like garbage attracts flies. They are all showing commercials during commercial breaks, trying to get their piece of publicity. Once a year there is a big football game that attracts more than the usual number of people watching football: the Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl is shown on almost all sports channels and news about it constantly updated on news channels. Advertisers know that a lot of people watch the Super Bowl on TV, so the commercial breaks will be packed with advertisements. A lot of times the same commercial plays repeatedly over multiple breaks. The sponsors of the two Super Bowl teams and the sponsors for the Super Bowl itself are recognized before and after each commercial break. Sometimes ads will be shown on screens for viewers attending the game. Sometimes, based on the team that is winning, only certain ads will play. When that team is not in the lead other ads will play.

These ads cost the companies a lot of money, but they hope that by displaying all these ads they will have more customers and make a greater profit. These ads are meant to make you want to buy only their products. These products may not benefit you or may be more expensive than another brand that is just as effective. So when the Super Bowl comes around make sure that you are aware of the advertisers trying to convince you to buy their products.

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Gobble-Gobble-Gobble: The Turkeys take revenge

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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Soldiers and Space Wars

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?

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M31, Andromeda Galaxy [explored]

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Halloween Night: The Cat on the Porch


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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