The actual physical treasure In the Alchemist is that Santiago ended up with wealth. Its all of the gold and how rich he was. Santiago found his treasure in Spain. He found his treasure there because The Alchemist told him that they had a dream of his treasure being buried in Spain under a tree that is by a church. After reading this whole book I think the real treasure Santiago was seeking was to realize what you have and appreciate it. It was to realize who you really are as a person and what you are capable of. Its also telling you to realize that money and treasure is not the only thing you need in life. There is so much more to it. Like how Santiago fell in love with Fatima he was very happy, he didn't really need the treasure. Over all its about you finding who you truly are as a person and appreciating what you have and not worrying about what you don't. Also that money and treasure isn’t everything there is more to the world than that.I feel like Santiago did find the treasure because in the book he understood the fact that he doesn't need treasure and money to be happy.He found out that there was more than that to the world, there is happiness and family and love. The book didnt tell us to not follow our dream but it was telling us to be happy with what we have, and appreciate it because although it may seem like we dont have enough and we want more we have so much more compared to other people so we should be happy and appreciate it. What i think i have learned from this book its to love and appreciate what we have because other people dont have that. I also learned never to give up on my dream and if something gets in the way I shouldn't let it stop me. I should follow my dream but at the same time appreciate what i have and not always want more.
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Lia was a 20 year old girl who lived with her two siblings Maggie andAmanda. Maggie is 16 and Amanda is 13 ,their parents passed away when Lia was just a 15 year old. They lived with their Aunt Jessie and she made them live the worst life ever. She treated them like they were garbage. They all hated her so much, she was so rude. Finally when Lia turned 18 she moved out and took Maggie and Amanda with her. Ever since then their life has been much better. It wasnt that great but it was way better than living with the wicked witch of the west, also known as Aunt Jessie.
One day they were all sitting on their couch watching TV when someone knocked on the door really loudly. Lia ran to the door and she opened to find 6 cops in front of her they instantly handcuffed her and took her to court without notifying her sisters in any way. Maggie took Amanda and followed the cops when they arrived at court they ran inside and found Lia. They saw her standing in front of a judge and she was being asked questions. Judge: How old are you? Lia: I am 20 years old. Judge: Where do you live? Lia: 9999 Flower Ave Los Angeles California. Judge: Who do you live with? Lia:I live with my two younger sisters. Judge: What are their names? Lia:Their names are Maggie And Amanda. Lia:Why are you asking me all these questions? Judge: I ask the questions and you answer no more no less understood? Lia: Yes Sir. Judge: Ok Next Question. Judge:How old are both of your “sisters” he said with air quotes. Lia:Maggie is 16 and Amanda is 13. Judge: I need to ask you something and you have to answer honestly. Lia: Okay? I said slightly confused. Judge:Are Maggie and Amanda your real sisters? Amanda and I both looked confused at each other. We wanted to know What he meant by your real sisters. Lia: Yes! Of Course they are my real sister why would you ask me that? Judge: Well that is because it seems to be that someone filed a report saying that these are her nieces and you kidnaped them 2 years ago. She also said that she has been searching for them and she finally found them. I want you to go home and come back tomorrow with your proof. Lia’s Pov: I was very confused about what the judge had said. What did he mean by your real sisters? Also it was really confusing me who the person that filed the reports was. I slept on it and woke up in the morning soon to realize that the person who filed the report was my aunt. I did not know what kind of proof the judge wanted but i just got dressed and decided i was going to go back to court and finish this case. On my way there i was thinkin and thinking and thinking. All i could do was think about who this person was i wanted to find out if it was really my aunt or not. When i arrived at the court i stood in front of the judge. Judge:Do you have your proof? Lia: I am sorry but i do not know what type of proof you wanted. Judge: What do you mean? Lia:I mean you never told me what you wanted so i did not bring anything. Judge: That is not exceptionable. Lia: I am sorry I don't know what you need! Judge: I need proof that these girls belong to you and you don't have it so i believe their is going to be consequences. I was in just complete shock what did he mean by consequences? Judge: You are going to be hung. Lia:What why what did I do ? Judge: GUARDS!! I could not think i didn't know what I was supposed to do i was in shock. I then started to run because i attempted to get my way out of this and all of a sudden i was shot. I woke up on a hospital bed and i don't know what to expect at all My Shoulder hurt really badly. I opened my eyes and say Maggie she instantly hugged me and i asked her what happened and she told me the whole story. Does altruism really exist?
Does altruism exist ? Is it a real thing? What even is altruism? Altruism is the act of helping others and not getting anything in return. What do people think? Do they believe in altruism or do they not? I was really thinking this through. Well its time to go to bed. BEEPPPPPPP BEEEEPPPP BEEPP i woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. I turned to it and looked it said 7:45 A.M. i was late i had to be at work at 8:30. I got up took a shower. brushed my teeth and got dressed. I didn't have a car so it was going to take at least an hour to get to work. By now it was 8:00 A.M i wa surely going to be late. I quickly walked outside to find out that it was snowing ugghh just great! I started walking and walking until i came to a stop. I stopped because i saw someone. He look so depressed, it was so sad. I walked up to him knowing that now i was definitely going to be late but i didn't care it was worth it. I sat next to him on the sidewalk and said “Are you ok? Do you need anything?” “Im ok but i just lost my wife and i have no one in this world” the old man said “But why are you sitting on the street” “Why should i live in a house if i have no one i don't deserve anything” He said while tearing “Well if you want you can stay with me i dont mind ill be like a daughter to you” “Why not atleast i have someone now Thank you” he said “ok come on lets go” i said completely forgetting about my work “Wait” “First i must know your name” he said “O Ok my name is Lelany” i said “Thats a beautiful name just like you” he said “Thank you” “Now you know my name can i know yours?” i said to him with a questioning look “My name is Joe” “Well Joe i would love to have you as my “dad” , now come on lets go” i said to him After that we walked off to my house. I loved helping people, not so that others can think im a good person, and definitely not because it makes me feel good but because i love helping people and making others feel good. We arrived at the house and i showed Joe where he would be staying. I had an extra room in my apartment so that wasn't a problem. After that i told him i said i had to run something quick and ill be right back, then i left. I walked out of the house and i called my boss i asked him if we could meet at the coffee shop on 177th street and he agreed. I arrived at the coffee shop and i got a table. I picked up my phone to waste time until my boss arrived. once he arrived i got up and shook his hand. He looked very angry. “Ok so do you know why i called you here” i said to him “Well Lelany, i was hoping for an explanation on why you're late for the fifth time this month” “YOU DIDNT EVEN COME TODAY” He yelled “Im sorry its because ….. and i told him the whole story” “Well thats not my problem i don't care if his wife is dead YOU'RE FIRED” he yelled again and got up and walked away I sadly walked home and got in to my apartment. I saw a note taped to my door and it said “Dear Lelany, thank you for trying to help but i know its not going to work out i'm sorry but i had to leave. I will always remember you but i love my wife too much and i had to be with her.” Sincerely Joe At first i though he left my house but then it hit me he committed suicide. I was so sad i actually liked him. I lost my job and everything for him, but i believe it was worth it I did what i can to help him and the rest was his choice i will never forget him but thats all i can do now. Money is a very important thing in this world. Without money there are many things that you can't do for example without money you can't buy food or clothes. Some people may agree with the fact that money can buy you happiness but others don't.
My opinion about this topic is a little different, i do think that money can buy happiness but at the same time i think it can’t. I know that may sound weird but what i mean by that is that money like i said before can buy many things,some people don't want anything but a huge house and clothes to be happy. Most of them just want as much money as they can get. So if they are able to buy a the biggest house ever and the amount of clothes they desire then they will be happy. At the same time i also don't think that money can buy you happiness because money is not everything in this world. There are so many things that can make a human happy. Not everything is about money. So many people would rather be poor but have a family and love than be rich and possibly have no one in the world or be hated by many, but i do think that money will not buy you happiness more than the fact that it will. That’s because there are many more reasons to why money can't buy happiness.Although money is a essential in this world, it can't buy you love or a family. It can't buy you the “perfect life”. I do realize that there is no perfect life but there are many people out there that are very happy and they may not be the richest people on Earth. You dont have to be rich to be happy. Yet not all happy people are poor. After i was finished with this essay and i reread it, i think i changed my mind.I now think that money can't buy you happiness but there is a possible chance. Even though that would only be true if you were a person who only cared about the money and yourself in this world. After all everyone on this planet needs a family, and a little love in their life no matter what. Its true money can buy you anything that you want but money is endless. money doesn't last forever. Family is forever. Love is forever. They are both endless and without them there would be no us. No humans, No family, No feelings, and No love. Imagine one day waking up being poor,and having no family. What would you do then? You would have nothing left in this world. No money, no home, and there would be no one who can be there for you. You would be all alone. Thats why money can't buy you happiness. One day all that money is going to be gone. Then what? You have nothing left, but no matter what happens there would always be a family out there for you. Read & Response- This article talks about how the energy of the sun is not directly going to the solar panels. It also talks about how some day the solar panels could destroy the sun, and solar panels would be known as the worst thing ever created by man kind. it also says if that keeps happening the temperature can drop 30 degrees in 20 years. It also says that if this keeps happening in 3 hundred to 4 hundred years we could die. I think that solar panels are unsafe and that people should not use them anymore.I think that solar panels are no longer good for the environment and may kill everybody.I also think that people should get rid of solar panels because they are just harming the sun and may destroy it, Because they are pulling the sun and forcing it to release more energy than its producing even though they are capturing the energy the are pulling it too close to earth which is not good for the earth. Halliburton corporation wanted to make and sell solar panels all around the world in 2011, which i now think is a horrible idea because solar panels are just harming our lives. The book starts off with Daniel and Paddy pick pocketing a man. They stole his wallet and got away they are good together. The wallet was full of bank notes. One good thing about there pick pocketing campaign is that they never steal from the people that really need the cash. They only steal from the more fortunate people. Although stealing is always bad they do need the money and stealing is there only option. In the first chapter they also meet Mr. Thomas Andrews designer of the Titanic. When he suspects that Paddy and Daniel are going to steal his wallet, instead of turning them into the law and acting angry, he talks to them in a friendly manner. He also challenges Daniel to find a way in which the Titanic could sink for Mr. Andrews thinks it is unsinkable. Daniel is obsessed with finding out a way it can sink and spends long hours thinking about it.Through out chapter two it shows a mother, Amelia Bronson, and her daughter, Sophie Bronson protesting for women's rights in Piccadilly Circus Amelia is very a obnoxious women that is stubborn and relentless. Her daughter and her quickly draw attention to themselves because of there obnoxiousness and the fact that they are Americans. They are soon being arrested by the bobbies. Luckily they have tickets aboard the great Titanic and will be back home in less than a month. In chapter three the book is shown in Alfie Huggins's point of view. He is a 15 year old boy ,temporarily alone, because his mom left him and his dad is working on a ship. In the chapter he tries to turn in bank notes that his dad had earned in his job. The clerk however will not let him because the notes are to his mom ,Sarah Huggins whom left him. Since he no longer has a mom to raise him and has a father that is always at sea. He decided that he would try to join the White Star crew with his father so he would not have to be alone. He has to lie about his age to do this.In chapter four, five, and six Daniel and Paddy meet back in there home, an abandoned printer's shop. As Daniel works on finding out a way the Titanic could sink Paddy gets food. Paddy gets distracted when he see's a drawing set that he wants to get for Daniel. Even though earlier Daniel told Paddy not to use the banknotes, Paddy runs to the hiding place where the banknotes lay and takes one. He picks up the set and asks the shopkeeper if he could buy it. The shopkeeper tells a boy to go make sure the banknote is authentic before he sells the set to Paddy. Paddy not realizing that the boy is actually going to get Mr. Kevin Gilhooley, the man Paddy and Daniel had stolen the wallet from. Kevin Gilhooley is brother of James Gilhooley and the leader of a very serious, very dangerous gang. Daniel and Paddy stole from the wrong man and now the were going to pay for it. Paddy quickly picks up a stool and throws it at the shop window shattering the glass as he jumps through it. He runs as fast as he can back to the printer's shop to find Daniel. He isn't their. He had left to go find Mr. Andrews and tell him what he discovered. Paddy ran to the docks to go find him. He finds him and tells him about the Gilhooley's. As they step on the dock to find Mr. Andrews to ask for advice and help, Paddy spots Kevin Gilhooley and his men. They catch Daniel as Paddy runs away. Paddy is blocked by a big box full of sheets he quickly jumps in it as he hears Daniel's cries of pain. The box with the linens is lifted and brought aboard the Titanic. Paddy knows his best friend is dead. He gets out of the cargo box and runs inside the ship. He is met with beautifully decorated walls , furniture, and elegant French doors. He decides right then and there that if he where to stay in Belfasthe would be caught and killed like his friend. He will stowaway on the Titanic until it reaches its final destination, America
2) How do you feel about what you read today?I thought it was very interesting i liked it very much!\ 3) Think about your favorite character. What happened to him/her today? The went on the ship to reach their destination. 4) How would you feel if the same thing that happened to him/her, happened to you? i would be terrified because i dont like ships. 5) What questions do you have about what you read today? none 6) What do you predict will happen next in this story? i dont know they might fall 1) What did you read about today? Be specific.
In this chapter it really showed how crazy his mother really was. So, David was doing dishes and she gets mad at him when he puts his hands out of the water for some reason in my mind it really makes no sense. Davids mother was drunk and holding his new brother Kevin in her lap well he was five but his youngest brother. The whole time David was doing his chores she watched his every move and every step. She didn't like David stealing food she hated when he did that so every time she knew he ate something she would beat him. So for now on she was watching his every move, so anyways she was so drunk she had a knife in her hand which was weird, she stood up and wobbled back and forth. The women was so drunk she actually stabbed David. 2) How do you feel about what you read today? i didn't really like it because it was too depressing 3) Think about your favorite character. What happened to him/her today?. His mom would not let him eat and she would beat him if he ate. 4) How would you feel if the same thing that happened to him/her, happened to you? I would kill my self because i cant live without food. 5) What questions do you have about what you read today? None 6) What do you predict will happen next in this story? the end of the book. 1) What did you read about today? David says the reasons why he is is fighting for food. David's mothers habits had changed she wasn't the comforting person she used to be. His mother started to stay on the couch all day and watch television and get drunk. Everyday David came home he was punished for the smallest things possible or for nothing at all his mother would torture and beat him for no apparent reason. David's mother for example found out that David was stealing food or asking for food from neighbors she tried setting him on fire. She put him on a stove and tried burning him. Another horrible example she was so upset with him stealing food she made him throw it up and then eat it. David wanted help he wanted everything to just stop. The only person that he felt safe around was his father, but his father stopped helping and stopped trying. Davids father didn't like the way his mother was treating him he would talk to her about it and tell her it is cruel but it would lead to them both becoming drunk and fighting, and just becoming more violent. His mother didn't accept him as a part of the family anymore so his name wasn't David anymore his name was "the boy" He did get to sleep in his bedroom anymore, he had to sleep in the freezing garage on an army cot and that is about it. He didn't get any food so he was constantly stealing food. Which always got him into trouble. He is really living a horrible life.
2) How do you feel about what you read today? Im not really sure my feelings were mixed up but most i think i felt sad. 3) Think about your favorite character. What happened to him/her today? David was fighting for food and he got punished for the tiniest of things that are not even meaningful. 4) How would you feel if the same thing that happened to him/her, happened to you?. I would be really mad because I'm always hungry and i need food,also i would want to kill myself and my mom because she punishes me for the slightest of things. 5) What questions do you have about what you read today? none 6) What do you predict will happen next in this story? I think david might stand up for himself because he is being punished for the slightest of things . ) What did you read about today? Be specific.
In chapter 3 he is told why he was a bad boy. He explains how his mother changed from a really nice women to a wicked witch. His punishments were getting tougher and more frightening. He would have to stand in a corner for hours and watch people eat, and he would be scared to say anything because he didn't want his punishment to get any worse than it already was. One of the worst punishments he got was shoving his face into a mirror and his mother yelled at him and said to say "I am a bad boy". She would do that a lot because she wanted him to think that, then after a while he actually started to think that he was a very bad child. Another day David came home and she went to jerk his arm to go to the mirror and she jerked it so hard she broke his arm. So that night she told him to sleep on the top bunk, so when she went to the doctors she told them he fell off and that's what she also told her husband. His mother didn't want the whole family to know how bad he was really treated. 2) How do you feel about what you read today? I felt sad because a little boy was told he was a bad child that is disrespectful. 3) Think about your favorite character. What happened to him/her today? David was told he is a bad kid. 4) How would you feel if the same thing that happened to him/her, happened to you? Im not sure because i was never in a situation like that! 5) What questions do you have about what you read today? None 6) What do you predict will happen next in this story? think he might run away again. 1.)What did you read about today ?
David describes the "good times" he had with his family. He described his family as the Brady Bunch. He was saying how surprisingly wonderful his childhood used to be. David's house was like a normal house with pets and a loving mother. He described how his mother used to go all out for the holidays. She decorated the house and gave presents and told stories to her three sons and her husband. David's mother would take her family out on day trips and go out for picnics here and there. Every summer she would plan an amazing vacation with her family. She would make her kids life an adventure and make her children life magical. 2) How do you feel about what you read today? I was happy when i read it because it was nice to see that David has good memories with his family.' 3) Think about your favorite character. What happened to him/her today? David had memories of his mom and family. 4) How would you feel if the same thing that happened to him/her, happened to you? I always remember memories with my family and it makes me happy. 5) What questions do you have about what you read today? NONE 6) What do you predict will happen next in this story? This chapter didnt really give information,so im not really sure what will happen next. |
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