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First up, the Wii U. Unlike traditional four controller gaming, this new console brings an iPad- like tablet into the game. This allows four controller wielding players and a tablet-totting player to play at the same time. The tablet can interact with the players, giving them items or using it for minigame-like purposes.
Next, Halo 4. This game again has the plot of a space marine named Master Chief defeating an alien menace, but adds many new features. Players can now create their own Spatain and customize, upgrade, and battle with it. With great gameplay,this game is one to look for later in 2012.
Lastly, the Xbox 720 is going to be released sometime in 2013. No information has been revealed about Microsoft's newest creation.

I think a person’s perspectives can come from the way a person is treated. For example, if a slave escaped from his owner, and if someone took him in, he would be used to bad treatment and expect to be whipped. Parents are also a factor because a kid could be taught good things are bad and vice versa. Surroundings also count. A person could live his life in a tree and think life on the ground is bad. But, if any of the people from the examples looked at the other side of their situation, they might not be how they are.
Having multiple perspectives is important. Being able to look at both sides of an issue is a great skill in life, allowing people to make better decisions and try something else if their original plan goes wrong or doesn’t succeed. For example, if a kid wants to buy something expensive she’s heard people rave about, she will have to look at the good and bad sides of the product. If she chooses not to purchase the item, she may want to find a similar product for less money and is better. New things might have not have been created through the process of trial and error, too. By looking at the positive and negative results of a failed invention, an inventor is able to learn from his mistakes and fix the problem. So, if no one had these skills, none of the modern things around you would be there and the world would be much different.
If multiple perspectives did not exist, this world would either be much better or much worse. The results would probably be mixed. There would be nothing to debate about, but no wars and conflicts. Everyone would get along, but we’d all be the same. These affects would produce a world that is better, but worse.
Having multiple perspectives is a great thing about our world. They allow innovation, better decisions, and produce the fact that everybody’s different. Perspectives can affect the way a person leads his life or why he does what he does. This world would surely be dull if it were not for them.

Freerunning, by definition, is the usage of physical skills in order to do tricks. If you didn't understand that, freerunners are the guys who run up walls and do backflips off them. For more info, read this link to Wikipedia.

Note: The actual link is to the article on parkour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freerunning#Free_running

Old Sacramento is a very interesting town with a whole lot of problems. Fires and floods constantly plagued the capital and caused destruction. However, the Pony Express, the Transcontinental Railroad and Wells Fargo had their origins here. There are many other issues, but I think the most interesting topic is the floods. Happening three times in less than 20 years, floods were constant. One happened in 1850, the second in 1852, the third in 1862. Each time Old Sacramento tried to come up with a solution. They tried building levees, or a wall of dirt that surrounds a city. This worked for a while, but some were destroyed.
Then, it was decided that the city needed to be raised. Jacks were put under each building and, turn after turn, the building would rise. Over the course of more than 10 years, Old Sacramento was raised 12 feet. These floods sound bad, but some partied on their rooftops the whole time! Old Sacramento’s floods are really interesting. The floods themselves aren’t that interesting, but the story behind building protection against them is.

During my trip to Westminster Woods a couple weeks ago, I had the best cabin group EVER! We could've been described like this:

Cabin Group
joyful, loud, tooting
Cabin group

That one was my personal favorite. This next poem is about a mysterious and awesome cove we went to:

Cove
Rocky, mysterious
Wondering, Showering, Awing
Animals everywhere
Near the sea

This poem describes the large cargo net that pretty much all the guys there fought our teacher on:

People flying across the intricate rope maze
The sound of joyful laughter
The rough net underneath my feet
Sweaty boys hopping around
The meaty teacher I just lunged at

My final poem describes a hike.

Hike
Fun, challenging
Running, jumping, landing
Walking down the muddy road
Walk
Thank you for reading!

I've been reading a whole lot of newspaper comic strip reviews. This is my top 10 list (based on the reviews):

10: Mutts (Patrick O'donell)
9: Get Fuzzy (Darby Conley)
8:Big Nate (Linclon Pierce)
7: Beetle Bailey (Mort, Greg, and Briam Walker)
6: FoxTrot (Bill Amend)
5: Garfield (?)
4: Dennis The Menace (Hank Ketcham)
3: Peanuts (Charles Schulz)
2: Pearls Before Swine (Stephan Pastis)
1: Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Waterson)

The link below is to a website my mining team created shortly after playing a game about the gold rush. Now, I may present-our website.

http://goldenhunters11.weebly.com

Have you ever read the comic Pearls Before Swine? It is about Pig, Rat, Goat, Zebra, the dumb crocodiles, and thier adventures. Pig is the dumb one in the strip. Rat is arrogant, self-centered, and rude. Goat and Zebra are the smart ones. The crocodiles are Larry the croc and his family. Larry tries to eat Zebra, but always is unsuccessful. There may be a few inappropriate topics in the strip, but it is very funny.

Same scale as before.

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7: 89
Cubefield:* 90
Shaun White Snowboarding:95.7
Shaun White Skateboarding:95.9
SSX:** 96

* This is an online game.
**SSX hasn't come out yet, but I've seen the review on it.

I think that the author of the book The Terrible Wave, Marden Dahlstedt, is a really good descriptive writer.
The Terrible Wave is a book about the Johnstown flood in 1889, considered one of the world’s greatest disasters. The book is filled with very descriptive writing out of what we’ve read so far. For example, in chapter three, Dahlstedt does a very good job of describing the feeling of having the wave rush over the main character, Megan Maxwell: “How long she clung there in the heaving darkness (the water was black and yellow and with oil) she would never know. She was choking and spitting as the evil water surged about her, splashing over her face.”
After the wave hit, Megan was sent flying onto a mattress that was floating on the water with the help of debris. Horrific things such as a horse that got snagged onto a tree were floating in the water. Dahlstedt describes the scene like this: “ Gasping, Megan saw that it had been the great dark bulk of a horse, slack and floating on its side, its large, soft eyes staring sightlessly in the rain. The trunk of a giant tree came rushing past, its roots waving above the water like a hundred searching fingers. It snagged the horse’s body, and together they spun off down the rushing current, the horse bobbing up and down like a grotesque toy. Megan stared after it in fascinated horror.”
Later Megan met up with a boy named Brian O’ Meara, who had jumped off the house he was floating on to try and save her. He made it on to the mattress, but he failed getting back on the house. He failed because it was destroyed by a railroad car that went careening into the house. More descriptive writing is used to describe the destruction of the house: “But at that moment came a horrifying grinding crash!”
“The mattress began to spin madly, like a Fourth of July Catherine wheel. The young man (Brian had not introduced himself at this point) grabbed Megan and threw himself on top of her, protecting her with his body. They went reeling off in a sickening rush of water.”
“When their wild careening finally stopped, the young man raised his head. Megan dared to open her eyes.”
“Where the wooden building had just been was only a crazy pile of jagged timbers. A railway coach lay jammed against it. There was no sign of people.”
After that Brian saw a wagon floating upside down on the water. The two jumped onto the wagon, where they met a man, Septimus Shaw, and a lady, Mrs. Alderson. Soon two other people were rescued and got onto the wagon. Their names were Tom and Daisy Cox. The wagon then started heading toward land. The group got on the land and went up a hill to a small house Brian had spotted. On the way up they found a small child. They later named the child Stefan. Upon arrival the group received food and shelter.
The next day they all went up to the house for breakfast. The valley the house overlooked was silent. Great descriptive writing is used to describe the silence: “It was uncanny, unearthly. It was a silence so deep it could be touched. It filled the whole mountain valley and reached its cold, inhuman fingers down into the heart.”
After breakfast Megan, Stefan (he was clinging to Megan’s dress and wouldn’t let go), Brian and Tom started to make a makeshift raft so they could float back to Johnstown and look for family members. Septimus stayed behind. In Johnstown, debris was scattered everywhere. Descriptive writing is used here: “ They were forced to detour around piles of boards and bricks that were once houses. Pathetic remnants of daily living were strewn all about them-bicycle wheels, chamber pots, broken dishes. A bedraggled doll with one blue china eye and a stained pink dress floated in a pool of water. Parts of chairs, beds, cooking pans, sodden books, kerosene lamps, a smashed violin-all lay helter-skelter.”
I like Dahlstedt’s writing. I like the writing because the way she writes makes the reader want to continue with the book. Her vocabulary is great, too. Some of the words she uses, such as “bedraggled,” add flair and complexity to the writing and make the sentences pop. The long sentences she uses add even more complexity to the writing and are just really good.
I think Marden Dahlstedt is a very good descriptive wrier. She uses a great, very descriptive vocabulary that allows the reader to be part of the scene and is a good writer in general.

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