business letter about lunch breaks

648 Maple Ave.

Las Animas, Colorado 81054

26 October 2010

Mrs. Goines

300 Grove Ave.

Las Animas, Colorado 81054

Dear Mrs. Goines,

As a freshman this year many different views on our lunch breaks have come to my attention and I think it would be better if we made the lunch breaks longer. I think that there are many pros and cons such as if we did this there would be less time for school work and students could become lazier and fall asleep in class. Teachers would have a lot of down time this could be a con but then again not so much because with the longer breaks teachers could run errands; such as if they have kids or need to pick up something for a class or something they forgot at home. If kids needed to see teachers they could take care of it at lunch also teachers would have more time to grade allowing them to be able to spend time with their families not grading papers at school on Fridays. Students would really like this because we live in such a rural area many of us would have time to drive home and get lunch if we lived out in the country or we could eat somewhere else outside of Las Animas. Students in sports could do homework during the day allowing them the time and chance to stay caught up in school. Also if we had longer lunch breaks the middle school would have more time to eat which from what I have heard from many of them they would enjoy. Also the many kids in the high school play sports in the gym with longer breaks we could play more which we would enjoy. I propose that we get longer breaks for lunch.

Sincerely yours,

Cheyanna Fritz

movie review

Cheyanna Fritz

Mr. Armstrong

4^th Hour/English I

12 October 2010

                                                The Birds

The Birds written by Daphne Du Maurier published as a book in 1952 was made into a film in 1963. The film was nominated for special effects Academy Award in 1963 but lost. Today’s special effects over top the ones used in the making of the birds.

The movie begins in San Francisco, in a bird shop, where Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) meets a dizzy blonde named Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) a rich girl. Mitch is looking for love birds for his little sister Melanie acts as if she what she is talking about in the bird shop he knows this isn’t true and that she doesn’t work at the shop and teases her because of it. She decides to visit Mr. Brenner at his family’s house in Bodega Bay. Mitch is there to spend time with his mother (Jessica Tandy) and younger sister Cathy (Veronica Cartwright) his father is deceased. Cathy’s birthday is the weekend that she is no in Bodega Bay. Melanie brings Cathy the love birds and lies to Mitch saying that he is friends with the school teacher Annie (Suzanne Pleshette) she turns out to be Mitch’s former girlfriend. When unusual events start to happen with the birds: a death, attacks, and other things, the Brenner’s being to protect them: boarding up windows and packing stuff in front of some of the doors. Mitch, Cathy, Mitch’s mother and Melanie are in the house and all fall asleep. Melanie awakes to the sound of flapping wings and slowly walks up stairs opens Cathy’s room sees a hole in the roof and walks into Cathy’s room. She shines the flashlight at the birds than they begin to attack her and when she cannot get out of Cathy’s room so she tries to protect herself from the birds. After a couple minutes of trying to protect her, she slowly slides down onto the floor after passing out exhausted. When Mitch and his mother find her they try to get her out but the birds just won’t allow it Mitch finally pulls her out, and fastens the door behind him. He picks her up and cares her in his arms down the stairs and softly lays her on the couch. She awakes frightened and begins attacking Mitch thinking that she is still in the room with all of the birds. Mitch’s mother begins dressing all of the injuries though they both no that she needs to go to the hospital. Mitch goes out of the house slowly and into the garage gets into Melanie’s car drive’s it to the door and packs everyone and the love birds in than drive’s it away. To get her out of the town and someplace with a hospital so her injuries can be taken care of.

This movie’s special effects shouldn’t even be considered well nor great they’re horrible even for that time in 1963. The ending isn’t even a reasonable ending in The Birds it seems as if there is no ending they just drive away and it’s a pretty go movie up to that point but the fact that it just ends and there isn’t a second movie. I understand that the book has a similar ending but that does not mean that the movie has to be the same way. In the movie there are some cheesy parts in this movie. The fact that they call this and scary movie is depressing it is in no where shape or form terrifying it’s just plain depressing how not scary this movie is. This movie wasn’t mad but I’m not going to say its scary I’ve seen scarier children’s movies. The film was nominated for special effects Academy Award in 1963 but lost I completely understand why it did lose. I would give this movie three and a half of a star if that the ending destroyed this movie for me. It’s not just because I didn’t like the ending but loved the story plot and story line. I will give the actors credit they did a good job.

cause and effect

Crackling and crunching with every step General Zaroff made Rainsford grow more and more scared for his life. A sudden change, Rainsfords heart stopped as Zaroff stops right under Rainsford, smokes a cigar and than slowly turns around and walks away slowly. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, talks about General Zaroff who becomes bored hunting animals around the world so he starts hunting humans because it’s harder and more challenging.

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” cause and effect relationships, such as Rainsford was being hunted by Zaroff because Rainsford didn’t want to hunt along with General Zaroff, also like how Zaroff became bored hunting animals so began to hunt humans, and Rainsford knew he was trapped so he turned around and hunted Zaroff, these cause and effect relationships cause the story “The Most Dangerous Game” to be more suspenseful.

Zaroff becomes bored hunting animals and turns to hunting humans. He is bored with this because animals can’t reason unlike humans that can. Rainsford and Zaroff both have different feelings about Zaroff hunting humans. “If I wish to hunt why should I not? I hunt the scum of the earth-sailors from tramp ships –lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels-a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them” Zaroff told Rainsford (Connell 27).  Zaroff thinks the people that he hunts are worthless and that it’s fine that it’s okay to hunt people. Rainsford try’s to tell Zaroff that what he is doing is wrong but Zaroff doesn’t see it that way at all. Rainsford wants nothing to do with this crazy man and just wants to get off this island.

Zaroff hunts Rainsford because Rainsford sees what General Zaroff does as wrong, and tells Zaroff he wants to leave the island at once. Zaroff has another idea, and Rainsford realizes that from the look on Zaroff’s face. “He saw the dead black eyes of the general on him. General Zaroff’s faces suddenly brighten,” Rainsford thought inside his head (Connell 30). From the look on Zaroff’s face Rainsford already realizes that Zaroff plans to hunt him, and that he will never get off the island if he doesn’t go along with Zaroff’s idea. Rainsford also knows he may never get off the island if he gives into Zaroff’s idea, he may not ever get off the island but he may die there.

Rainsford knows General Zaroff is going to going to keep hunting him Rainsford swims away only to come back and hunt Zaroff himself. Zaroff doesn’t think this will happen and is surprised, and loses. “I am still a beast at bay, he said in a low hoarse voice” Rainsford tells Zaroff (Connell 36). Rainsford knows that there is no way for him to get away from the island, so he decides that the only way to get away is to hunt Zaroff himself. So Rainsford gets into Zaroff’s room, and Rainsford begins hunting Zaroff.

In this story “The Most Dangerous Game” cause and effect relationships, causing suspense. Such as Rainsford was being hunted by Zaroff because Rainsford didn’t want to hunt along with General Zaroff, also like how Zaroff became bored hunting animals so began to hunt humans, and Rainsford knew he was trapped so he turned around and hunted Zaroff. This story was a great book that caused a lot of suspense from the cause and effect relationships in it.

hunter and hunted

I would rather be hunted; come on who wins at the end of the story it’s not the hunter. Plus the hunter loses his own game one of his good dogs and Ivan a very strong man that worked for him. I don’t think I could stand to hunt after a human to me, that’s unlawful, rude, unnatural, and inhumane. I would rather out smart a killer than be out smarted. In this story the hunter is out smarted and I don’t understand because how could you loses at something he’s been doing for years since he bought the island. The hunter in the story isn’t very smart his animals and Ivan both get hurt he was a general so couldn’t he have saved their lives. Also I think I could out smart a crazy person that hunts humans at least I hope that I can, hope I never have to. This is why I would pick to me the hunted if I had the choice.