Brendan

Hi, my name is Brendan Doolittle. I am someone that will be friends with almost anyone. I enjoy video-games and math. I have four sisters, and sadly, no brothers. My favorite site is http://www.planetminecraft.com/ where I can find anything I want for Minecraft, one of my favorite games. I have several hobbies like acting, singing, getting good grades, and playing video-games. My favorite book is //My Side of the Mountain.// It is about a city boy named Sam Gribly, stuck in a big family who lives in a small apartment. He later runs away to a nearby forest and plans to stay there in the winter and for the rest of his life. He makes new friends in this adventure including a hawk named Frightful. I think you should read it to hear the rest of the story. I hope everyone likes my page and tell their friends about it. Enjoy. My MOST Painful Experience

Can you think of a painful experience you have had? Can you imagine pain so bad it seems death is knocking on your door? I have had many painful experiences. It starts with being born. I was born with a broken shoulder and I was also born with my heart’s two ventricles twisted and one working artery. I had three surgeries on my heart. I had one at a day old, another at three months old, and the last one as one year old. You may think that is the worst thing that as happened and the rest of my pains are small. Well, you’re wrong. When I was two, I was in my crib when red ants swarmed me and were biting me like a fat guy trying to eat a plastic donut. The next painful thing was at five when I was stung by a bee the first time. I want to teach who ever made the expression, “Bees are friendly,” a lesson. I grew up for three years without an extremely painful experience. I thought I would only have small pains from then on. I was wrong. When I was 8 a roasting stick burned me because my cousin tried lighting a stick before I let go of it. At 11 years old I received appendicitis and had extreme pain. The doctors at the Grand Rapids Hospital almost decided to wait until the next morning to do surgery. They did the surgery that night and said that if they waited until morning I could have died. Don’t think I’m done because I’m not. At twelve I almost lost my pinky to a folding chair when it caught my finger as it folded down instead of up. After that I only had a painful experience of almost breaking my leg when I ran and jumped off a second story tree house into the snow. Then two weeks later I fell out of a tree and fractured my arm. I had a cast and haven't had a painful experience since. I’ll stop giving you nightmares and end because those are my MOST painful experiences.

Mystery Story

Death. Everyone hates it, especially a victim’s mother and friends. It was 8:00 a.m. when a murder happened at the small house of Mrs. Joules. Her daughter, Nashay, was found dead in a vine, choked to death. Detective George arrived at 8:30 a.m. Once he got there, he asked Mrs. Joules what happened. “Well,” she said. “My daughter was reading a book while I was waiting for my husband for our date.” “So do you know what happened to your daughter?” Detective George asked. “Yes,” Mrs. Joules replied. “I heard a scream from upstairs while I was watching the news about the broken water tower nearby, the football game miracle, and a new survival show that went wrong. I ran upstairs and found her dead. I was so upset that I almost passed out crying.” “Does your daughter have any friends that might have been mad at her?” George asked. Mrs. Joules answered with tears rolling down her cheeks, “She has two friends like that. Vanessa, who lives two houses away, and Neola, who lives five houses away.” Detective George instantly left for Vanessa’s house. He asked what she did that morning. “Well,” Vanessa answered. “I was watching a survival show about how to use vines as weapons. Then I got a call from Mrs. Joules about Nashay’s death. I was so sad to hear it. We had a fight a couple days ago. Now I can never know if she forgave me.” “Okay,” George said. “I’ll have you meet at Mrs. Joules’ in an hour.” Detective George drove to Neola’s house as quickly as possible. When he arrived he asked, “Neola, do you know Mrs. Joules’ daughter was killed?” “Yes I do,” Neola replied. “I was here at home when the call came in about Nashay’s death.” “What were you doing when you got the call, and how did you respond to it?” George asked. “Well,” Neola answered. “I was taking a shower when I heard the phone ring. I got out of the shower and answered it. That’s when Mrs. Joules told me about Nashay’s death. I almost dropped the phone crying. Nashay and I didn’t get along well at times but we were still friends.” “Okay,” George said. “I need you to come with me to Mrs. Joules’ house. I know who did it.” When they arrived at Nashay’s house, Vanessa and Mrs. Joules were there. Neola and Detective George got out of the car. Then Detective George pointed to one of them and said, “You killed Nashay.”

Who killed Nashay? How did you know? Unscramble for hint: teawtwrerr

Comparing Percy’s Quest  From the Book to the Movie Who would think that a kid with ADHD would be stronger than the kids on the wrestling team? Who would know that one teenager could save the world? That kid is Percy Jackson, a kid who is considered the weakest kid ever. The thing people don’t know is that he is a son of a Greek God, Poseidon. There is a movie and a book. They have some similarities and some differences. There is a story called Percy Jackson, The Lighting Thief that is about what I just explained. I will show the differences and similarities between the book and the movie on their great quest. There are many similarities between the book and the movie. One similarity is the monsters Percy fights in the book and movie. He faces the Minotaur, Medusa, and a Fury in the story. Another similarity is that Annabeth and Grover accompany Percy in both the movie and book. The next similarity is that Percy and his friends get trapped in the Lotus Casino and almost fail their quest. The last similarity is that when Percy confronts Hades, he thinks Hades has the master bolt. Yet Hades thinks Percy has the bolt. Then Percy ends up with the bolt for some mysterious reason. Those were some similarities. There are many differences between the movie and the book. One is that when Percy starts his quest. In the book, he is given the quest. Yet in the movie, he sneaks away from camp to go on his quest. Another difference is how Percy got to the underworld. In the book, he walks and hitches rides all the way there. However, in the movie, he drives a truck all the way there. The third difference is the entrance to the underworld. In the book the entrance is in a recording studio in Hollywood. In the movie however, the entrance in right behind the Hollywood sign. The last difference is how Percy got the three pearls for the underworld. In the movie, Percy has to get them on the way to the underworld. On the other hand, the book has Percy receive them from a water spirit. Those are some similarities and differences between the book and the movie. I say the best thing to do if you want to hear the story is the book. It is filled with lots of details and has the entire author’s original ideas and thoughts. The book will always be better than the movie. Percy Jackson has been one of the best stories I have ever read.

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