http://efsw26.edublogs.org Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death Fri, 29 May 2009 20:50:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Clint Eastwood plays the role of Walt Kowalski who pounds down Pabst after Pabst and spends time with his golden retriever who never leaves his side. Walt is an old man who has just lost his wife, once fought in the Vietnam War, and extremely racist against the Asians. The ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/05/29/gran-torino-movie-review/ The phone ring as you rub your eyes and squint over at your alarm clock. It’s three in the morning, so you rub your eyes one more time to make sure that your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. No, it definitely is three in the morning. The phone rings ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/05/15/persuasive-essay/ 1-2: Dusk starts to hit as the sky and clouds cover the reddened typical midwestern sunset. 2-5: The stadium fills with crazed rocker fans chanting "PINK FLOYD," ready to head bang through rain or shine. 6-12: With three hours of antisipation, the thousands of hard core fans decked out in faded blue ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/04/15/pink-floyd-sentence-combining/ Lowering the drinking age would decrease hospitalization, increase tax revenue, and lower prison admissions. http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/04/13/tricolon/ We all have told a white like or two in our days. If you are too honest, you look like a cruel person, and if you don’t tell enough of the truth, you look like a fake. There is a fine line between what is real and what is not. ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/03/25/the-undisputed-truth/   The Typical Teenage girl The blood started pulsing through my heart and veins. Every hair on my body was erect. Beads of sweat started slithering down my forehead, mixing with of tears. I knew I was over reacting, and acting hysterical, but the tears wouldn’t stop. They had a mind of ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/03/18/personal-essay/ The writer explains how rants are pretty much a waste of time. He talks about how another writer is ranting about how someone turned down a management job for the new york yankees. Is anyone really gonna care in a few years? there will be more things to rant about ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/03/06/the-lost-art-of-rant/ I learned the definition of the word happy when I was probably 2 years old. Happy seems like such a simple word, but there is so much more to it. To be truly happy takes a lot of work and effort. To be happy you have to be happy with ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/03/04/what-does-it-mean-to-be-happy/ Im guessing that the hook is where he mentions his grandmother, and how she is actually dead. she seems to have used story telling as a way to get through anything. He explains how if his grandmother were alive she would be telling those same stories she has for years ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/02/11/stop-me/ 1) as my nightly routine i channel surfed for a few minutes, when KING 5 came to view. With urgency the anchor man explained that hurricane ogla had appeared, the water was viciously pounced from house to house creating a raucous through seattle. my eyes filled with enjoyment as the ... http://efsw26.edublogs.org/2009/02/06/showing-sentences/