Moulton English

Liam Vereb Ms. Asuncion English 9 Honors, Block 2 13 January 2016 Conquering The Double Diamond “Wakeup! We’re going to be late,” shouted my sister as she jumped up and down on my bed. I sprang up out of my bed, showered, threw on my ski clothes and ran downstairs to join my family for breakfast. No trouble getting out of bed today as this was the day I would ski my first Black Run. I helped my father load the last of our bags into the back of the car, double-checked with mom that we had everything, and then we were off on our three-hour journey to the ski resort. "Look there it is," my sister said, pointing at the massive mountains that rose up above the clouds. Finally, after an exhausting three-hour drive we had arrived at the ski resort. Since we had been through the ticketing system before, we decided to divide and conquer. My mom and I would go and get in the line for the ski rentals while my dad and my sister would get us lockers. We would rendezvous in...

Arabella Chiang Asuncion English 9H 16 February 2016 What is Divergent?             Divergent is the tendency to be different. In the book Divergent , Veronica Roth portrays the main character or protagonist Beatrice to be a Divergent. In this utopian-like society it was split into five factions: Dauntless, Abnegation, Candor, Amity, and Erudite. In each fraction they value a certain virtue. In Dauntless they would value bravery. In Abnegation they would value selflessness. In Candor they would value honesty. In Amity they would value peacefulness. In Erudite they would value knowledge (Roth 52). Beatrice grew up in the faction Abnegation, and she always thought she didn’t fit in. At the age 16 they were allowed to choose which faction they wanted to be in for the rest of their lives. They would take aptitude tests to see which faction was more suitable for them. Beatrice ended up with three results: Dauntless, Abnegation...

Arabella Chiang Ms. Asuncion English 9H 1 October 2015 My Days as a Swimmer Everyday would start the same, my mom coming into my room screaming at me to get up. I would roll out of bed and run downstairs to stuff my face with food, then hurry to go get dressed in my purple and black swimsuit. I’d stuff my legs into the holes and pulled it up to get my arms through to get dressed, and ready to go. My dad would always nag when I put on sunscreen in the house because I liked to use the spray bottle kind and it would get everywhere. This meant that I had to go outside to put on sunscreen, and it became annoying because it was always extremely cold in the mornings. After getting myself ready, I would ask my dad to drive me to practice because it was on his way to work. Practices were always boring. All you do is swim lap after lap after lap. I thought the best part about swim team was the meets on Saturday mornings, even though sometimes I would have to get up at five in the mo...

Arabella Chiang Asuncion English 9H 5 January 2016 Abolish Animal Abuse Why would you want to hurt animals? They would never hurt you. Abusing an animal is a cruel thing to do. Reporting an injured dog you see on the road may save its life. There are facilities that can help these animals. Most animals are abused in their own households, by their owners. These owners may not just stop at the animal; many animal abusers also abuse their children or even their spouses. Physical abuse is not the only thing that animals suffer from. Several animals are also used for drug testing. The cruelty does not end here.  Animal owners often place their pets in a blood sport for their own entertainment and monetary gain. Doing something like this is absolutely despicable. Abusing animals is not any better than using animals as test subjects, and making animals fight each other is even worse. Abusing animals is a horrible thing to do. In many households there are several types of abus...

Arabella Chiang Ms. Asuncion English 9H 20 November 2015 Business Letter to Abercrombie 22961 Carters Station Ct. Ashburn, VA 20148 November 20, 2015 6301 Fitch Path   New Albany, OH 43054 Dear Mr. Martinez, These past few years I have loved shopping at your clothing store Abercrombie. This is one of the stores everyone around my age goes to shop. All the clothes that are sold here are very fashionable and pleasing to the eye. Many of the clothes that I bought are all very durable and the quality of the cloth is nice. These are all many reasons why teens love buying clothes at Abercrombie. The clothes are trendy, nice, and comfortable to wear. Everyone wants to have some of these clothes. Even though the clothes are nice, there are only certain amounts of sizes that can fit certain types of people. There might be people who are larger than others and want to buy these clothes, but they can’t because there are no sizes that can fit them. That isn’...

Arabella Chiang Ms. Asuncion English 9H 11 December 2015 Meeting Strangers             Finally, it’s the last day of high school. Ava, my best friend, came to pick me up in her beat-up Toyota. We blasted our favorite song, “Hello” by Adele and sang to it at the top of our lungs. The day went by so quickly that I was even kind of sad that I was never going to come back next year. This day was a new beginning of our lives. Tomorrow, my friend and I are going on a road trip we have had planned for years. We decided we wanted to travel across the country and stop at places we see along the way. The first place we stopped at was King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania. We shopped until there was no more room in the trunk. The mall was humongous. We met a pair of identical twins there. One was named Corey and the other Carter. They both had luscious blond hair and bright blue eyes, but it was easy to tell them apart since one ...

Arabella Chiang Ms. Asuncion English 9H 20 October 2015 It’s Time to Come Out One can say they don’t have any feelings,  but we all know that is a complete lie. Every night we all look at the ceiling,  and think to ourselves and sometimes cry.  Many things begin to run through our minds. We have to face our fears and our thoughts,  let them out, don’t let them be confined. Confining them will make us more distraught,  open up our walls and let someone in. Allow them to help us become better. Be a greater person than we have been. If it makes it better, write them letters. Become a butterfly and spread our wings, come out of the dark light for better things.