Winter Poem

Snow Flakes

Sunshine through empty hands,

moment ends instantly,

untouchable but reaches for you,

Father and Son

The man cares for his son’s life more than his own, and the only reason he still doesn't commit suicide is that he wants to create a life for his son. Even the mother knew that the "boy was all that stood between him and death"(29). He doesn’t want his son to suffer dying, and that’s the reason he leaves the pistol with him. Rather a bullet to the head than the fact that he might get eaten alive by the cannibals. If they lasted any longer without food he would have let his son commit suicide. Many people are scared of dying but the son has no fear because the man is trying to make him as joyful for as long as he can without worrying about death. The treats that he gives his son like the Coca-Cola and letting him go into the water near the waterfall. He allows the boy to have toys allowing him to be distracted from reality. He doesn’t want to talk about the things that there were before the disaster because he only wants to mention the things that the boy will experience; he doesn’t want to raise his hopes of seeing them and then topple them over.

The man is acting just like any man acts in modern day, except there is no suicide if necessary going on. Fathers today would act the same if that disaster happened to them; their child would come first and they would do anything to protect them. 

Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

God, he has the ability to punish does who sin. The Puritans have fear in God when they think they are sinning. This fear is still present even though they think that they are the chosen ones that will go to heaven. That has made the Puritans live in a very strict manner as if their lives are on the line. 

I am not religious at all so I can't say much about the powers of God and what else he is able to do if you disobey his rule. I think that the Puritans had lost their reasoning when they thought that God would punish them for all the tiniest things that they did like read a book that's not the bible, and basically anything else from the bible. Like I said earlier I don't know anything about religion so I don't understand why people follow the bible in such a strict way as the Puritans did. What made the Puritans think that God prefers them over other religions? Why do they believe in predestination?

Introduction

Hello everyone, I’m Ivan Gil a sophomore at Whitney Young High School. This is the first time I have actually made a blog for any reason. Well, I’ll start talking about things I like. I’m a big soccer fan and my favorite team is Pumas, a team from the Mexican soccer league. As for music I will listen to pretty much anything at least once, but I prefer Jimmy Eat World, Lupe Fiasco, and Coldplay. I play a lot of video games on my Xbox; right now I mostly play Cod4 (in my opinion the best game ever). Now as for siblings, I only have one younger sister. At home I only speak Spanish because my parents don’t now English. That makes tings hard on all of us because I’m not that good on translating things for them, but I’m proud to have the Hispanic heritage in me. That’s all I have to say about myself.