"I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."       -Nicolo Machiavelli

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver." -Nicolo Machiavelli

"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil." -Nicolo Machiavelli

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." -Nicolo Machiavelli

"Never was anything great achieved without danger." -Nicolo Machiavelli

"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived." -Nicolo Machiavelli

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." -Nicolo Machiavelli

"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."  -Nicolo Machiavelli

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." -Nicolo Machiavelli

"Before all else, be armed." -Nicolo Machiavelli

2. Lemur

3. Tokyo

4. Fight

5. Paris

6. Luke1

7. Hwood

8. Jane4

9. Cairo

10. Death

11. 26N76

12. Julie

13. Booty

14. Curie

    

     The British used Lydia’s house for meetings because of its big parlor. Lydia noticed that the British became more active a little mysterious and were ordering more weapons.

     On December 2nd, the British held a big meeting at Lydia’s house.Lydia noticed that there were many important officers. They told her and her family to go to bed early. Lydia sat in her bet and started getting curious. She could take it no longer. She snuck down stairs and pressed her ear to the parlor door. She heard the officers plans to launch a surprise attack on Whitemarsh on December 4th. Having heard enough she tiptoed upstairs and went to bed.

     The next day Lydia got a pass to cross the British lines to get more flour. When she got to the flour place she left the flour bag and said she was leaving to see some friends. She met a officer and told the British’s plans. The officer told George Washington. Then returned to get her flour bag.

     The British attacked as planed on December 4th, but George’s army was ready. The British could find no weak spot so they returned to Philadelphia.

     The next night a British Officer asked her if her family was asleep the night of he meeting. Lydia replied yes. She offered her sympathy for the attacks failure and was no longer questioned, but there is not doubt that Lydia Darragh helped greatly with the American Revolution.

There is this awesome book called 39 clues. It is about Dan and his sister who have to travel the world collecting clues and racing their relatives. I love the book, but Dan isn’t the only one in on the race. I am to! You could do it also. just buy the trading cards and go to http://www.the39clues.com/ to solve the riddles. The family is the Cahills. We are all Cahills, but there are 4 different branches. I’m a Lucian, but you could also be Janus, Ekaterina, or Tomas. Have fun!

I was so glad it was over. A month or two passes and I walk into dreaded gym class. I am not very active with sports such as soccer and basketball which I generally suck at. My class mates are always asking me if I’m stuck to the ground. I reply to them "I’m just doing my job, staying away from the ball and trying not to mess anything up." Lined up against the back of the gyms were target. The dreaded target. And on a rack was a bunch of my arch enemies, bows. Lets just say my class mates didn’t take a target anywhere near me.

YouTube - Ozzy Osbourne - Dove and Bat

Ozzy is awesome. Some of my favorite songs are by him like: Crazy train, Iron man, and Flying high again. He did some awesome things like bite off the head of a bat, and dove. He pissed of Alamo “You piss on Alamo you piss on America, boy.” Watch this movie to learn more about o\Ozzy’s crazy stunts.

No. 2 pencil lyrics:

No. 2 pencil your my pointy friend

No. 2 pencil I love you till the end

Filling in bubbles nice and dark

Your made of wood with lots of bark

You never yell or give me fleas

You never try to prick my knees

No. 2 pencil the trend you see

No. 2 pencil your No. 1 to mee!

     The book The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is about outsiders. The story takes place in a city called Tulsa in the state of Oklahoma. Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy are three Greasers. Greasers are the poor, tough guys who live there (they are named Greasers after their obsession of greasing their long hair.) Randy and Bob are Socs. Socs are the rich guys who jump random Greasers, and of course the Greasers hate them. In The Outsiders Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy all make important decisions that change their lives, for better or for worse.

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     “He was the gang’s pet, everyone’s kid brother.” (page 14) That is how Ponyboy describes Johnny. Johnny had been quiet and scared ever since a group of Socs jumped him. It was really bad, too. His parents beat him also. Johnny is like a shadow, a shadow that everyone in their gang loved and took care of. One day a group of Socs jumped Johnny and Ponyboy. In the group were Randy and Bob. Bob held Ponyboy’s head under the water of a fountain and was drowning him. Johnny stabbed Bob in self defense and ended up killing him. Randy and the others escaped. Johnny and Ponyboy knew that if they stayed they would get the death sentence for killing Bob, and so the went to Dally.

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     Dally was the tough guy. The guy that owned a gun, and shop lifted for fun. His Dad was wild, but Dally did not live with him much. Dally loved Johnny like a brother. Johnny was the only person he loved; he was Dally’s life. Dally would risk anything for Johnny. Dally told Johnny and Ponyboy of an old church were they could hide for a while. Johnny and Ponyboy went there and Dally went to check on them. They all went to get some groceries and when they got back to the church, it was on fire. There were a few little kid in the burning building and Ponyboy, Dally, and Johnny went in to rescue them. They got all the little kids out. Ponyboy was fine, Dally was burned but healed in about a week, but Johnny was in bad shape. Johnny was so burnt that he died in the hospital. Dally was so sad when Johnny died that he took action that led to Police Assisted Suicide. He shop lifted then when the cops were chasing him, he pointed an unloaded gun at them. They shot him. He died.

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     Johnny was a good guy and he only killed Bob in self defense. Just because he was a Greaser did not mean he was bad. Greasers and even Socs can be good. Johnny definitely was not bad; he saved the lives of the kids in the church. He just did some bad things like kill Bob. Just because Bob died did not make him an angel. Johnny killed him because he was drowning Ponyboy. “I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade… they were gonna beat me up…” (page 57) Killing Bob could have been avoided if they were not there when the Socs showed up, but they were. It could have also been avoided by only knocking Bob unconscious.

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     Dally’s choice to send Johnny and Ponyboy to the church was a good choice. If he did not Ponyboy would have gone to jail and Johnny would have faced the death sentence. Of course, they could have made sure that their cigarettes were not still burning before leaving to get groceries.

Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally’s choice to save the children from the fire was good. They saved lives, plus proved that Greasers are not all that bad. Of course, the whole situation could have been avoided by stomping out their cigarettes. Since it was too late and the fire had already started, it was good that they saved the kids. They could have avoided being hurt by going quicker, and getting out more quickly.

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     Dally should have never committed police assisted suicide. He should have toughened up instead of making a spur of the moment decision to kill himself. Johnny would never have done that, he always had hope. Any last bit of hope Dally had died with Johnny.

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      The decisions that Johnny and Dally made changed their lives. Some of them were good, like Dally’s decision to send Johnny and Ponyboy to the church. Some of them could have been done without bad things happening, like Johnny did not have to kill Bob. And some of them were really bad such as Dally committing suicide. All in all, they could have thought all their decisions through a bit more and perhaps some of the bad things might not have happened.

OK so get ready to scream OMG! They are coming out with a new DS! No scream? Well keep listening. It will have a camera and a SD slot. Cool I know! There will be a power button at the bottom left next to the touch screen. But there’s a downside. The GBA game slot wont be there! You wont be able to play guitar hero on tour!

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I knew nothing about poverty until I looked it up to write this post. Poverty is all those people who go to bed on a empty stomach, don’t have any clothe to wear or a bed to sleep in. We can help them.

You can:

• Send letters to government officials discussing poverty
• sign a petition to help those in need
• Helping out at charities
• Donate or start donations for people in poverty.
• Spread the word by blogging or just talking to your friends over the phone about poverty.

You may think “What can one voice do?” One voice can help a little bit, but many of one voices can helps a lot, spread the word because WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!