By the Rails

Every day I used to walk by the railroad tracks with my dad. Ever since he was killed in the house fire I walked 10 miles along the tracks, and 10 miles back. My school is funding me and my mother so we can have money for a new place to live. When I walked every day people started noticing, and soon after I had one or two close friends making the trek with me. A week later more of my friends joined in. I was happy that everyone could journey along the tracks with me. They comforted me and helped me through the hard times. Then all of a sudden yesterday the school threw out a walk-a-thon, just for me and the memory of my dad. The money the school made would be donated to my family. And the railroad tracks now have a memorial park next to them. I am so happy that these things were done just for me and my father. We will soon be gifted the money to buy a new house, and the rails will now forever represent the long journey that people had made for two insignificant people, and to have my name engraved and face engraved on the stone at the memorial park is such a great reminder of how powerful we can be if we stand together.

CROSS-GREEN-SMITH FAMILY TREE

Minecraft Update

Today the new Minecraft 1.4.2 update has been released. It includes features such as anvils, cobble/mossy cobble walls, Bats, Witch Huts, Witches, Withers, item frames, pots, carrots, potatoes, masks, and much more. This update is a big change, as it adds a whole new load of items and things to explore. Minecraft players everywhere are so excited about this huge update. You can use anvils to combine weapons and rename items. Use cobblestone walls to extend your fortress. Use pots to keep those flowers in place. Use masks to disguise yourselves as zombies. Farm potatoes and carrots. Show off your cool new diamond sword in your item frame. Fight the feared Wither. Go witch hunting. you can even find slimes in swamp biomes now! How exciting! All these new changes add a whole new variety of things to explore. Have fun!

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Undercover Hero

     Today me and my friend broke into a gas station, we were caught and sent to jail, and my dad posted my bail. Now I have to tell my dad my reason for doing what I did, as he thinks I did it as a criminal while I was only trying to be a hero. When I broke in to the gas station I was only going to use the money for my mom... She has been in the hospital for a whole month with cancer. my family is so poor and the only way I could help her was with money I stole. I don't know any other way I could do it as we only have a limited amount of money in our house and most of it was spent to bail me out of jail. Now I regret doing it and now it has made my family worse. I put a bad name on my family and it's all my fault. I will now be known to myself as the hero that failed, I only hope that sometime soon my mom may be healed.
     The next day I went to school to find a whole school-full of people that were supporting my mother, while they still didn't support my actions, I was so very happy I actually broke down in tears. The school actually started a huge fundraiser just for my mother. Some kids even had their heads shaved just to show support for my mother!! It took a whole week but the final amount of money was at last gathered up and we raised a finishing amount of five thousand dollars. That's enough to pay for my mom's surgery plus a couple hundred dollars. I will cherish this moment forever and ever. I am now planning to start a foundation for the poor families that have a relative in the hospital with cancer. I hope that everyone will have enough money to help someone who's relative has cancer and I have good wishes towards the families I can't reach, but I hope everyone has another chance at life just as my mother has had.

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Tech 8 Review

This year in technology I learned how to use spreadsheets, how to use citations, and how I should properly use a blog. I like Tech 8 because I get to do my favorite thing, use the computer. I like doing the surveys, biographies, the publisher project, and all the rest we did. I wish we could've had the whole school do the survey but it's not that big of a deal to me. I like having Mrs. Debolt as my Tech 8 teacher because she's fun and very nice. I like how she does things around here and I wish we could have her next year too and I'm upset we don't. But some good things we just have to leave behind.

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XBox 360 Review

XBox 360 is my personal favorite game console. It is my favorite because of a few things. One reason is because of the large social community. Another because Its great games. And three because its always being constantly updated until the next console comes out. All these things make the XBox 360 really great.

History of the Xbox360

Ghost-Batman

A movie that starred a Ghost-Batman would be awesome for a few reasons, one, they can finally make a movie where Batman dies then surprise all of the fans with a Ghost-Batman. Another would be that Batman could be twice as powerful when he can walk through walls and fly through enemies. Everyone will love the surprise sequel after Batman dies and returns from the dead. Batman would be able to be invisible, be able to turn from solid to able to walk through walls, and now Batman would actually be able to fly! How amazing would that be? I think anyone would love a movie about a Ghost-Batman, what do you think?



Atomic Robot's Batman Family Skins



Minecraft

Minecraft is a free-roaming, free-build game. It was designed and created by the British Markus Persson known to the players of Minecraft as Notch. It was oonly launched on the PC and it was in its Beta stage. Later on there was a Alpha release, which led alot mor video-gamers to find Minecraft. It was then released on  the Apple Store as a beta type game, was also released to the XBox 360 and it was already on the top ten most bought games in the first week of its release, that's amazing. Back to Minecraft itself. Minecraft is a game where you mine and yiu guessed it, you craft things too. But it's much more than that. There are so many possibilities! You can use pistons to build epic machines, You can build a castle, a dream-house, anything! The catch is that everything is made of cubes. Even your character! You can also play online with friends with some playermade servers! that's epic. All these things add up to to one of the best games I've ever played. Minecraft, buy it play it, get addicted.

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A Problem to Solve.

When I was sixteen my high school math teacher dissapeared. It is now several years later and I am at my high school reunion. just a week before I received a letter which was in code, when I got to my old high school I realize I'm not the only one who got the letter, everyone else did as well. When I look at the code it looks like the puzzles my teacher gave my class on some days! This is a big discovery, my math teacher may be found. If only we could decode the message. I guess now we have to do this on our own because according to the police, FBI, and CSI she will probably never be found. But I won't give up, not when I am so close, I will keep searching.

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