Dumb fairy tales...

The Mouse and The Lion

By: Alida Safsten

At 11:47 a boy was being chased down a very long street by a girl with a sharp item. The little boy was running until he got to 27^th street. Panting and sweating finally got rid of the woman. The wall behind the boy was cold and rough. The nearest house he saw was about 45 ft away. Jumping and crawling he reached the house. Then he heard a woman yell, “There!” He screamed and ran towards the front door. A little boy happened to ran into an old couple’s house in the middle of the night. The old man living in the house heard some smashing in his kitchen so he woke up and found a young boy. He grabbed the little boys arm and said “what are you doing?” he reached for the phone and the little boy cried out. “Please just let me go. If I am saved, I shall be everlasting grateful.”

The old man was very kind to the young boy and said with a smile it’s alright run home and gets rest young man. Then the boy pleased “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” He was astonished by the child’s gratitude. When the man went on a walk that morning he was robbed by a thug on the street. He started hitting the robber with his cane and started yelling for help. The thug made the old guy black out, he ran off with all of the man’s possessions.

Until the little boy down the street came and ran over the guy with his tricycle breaking all of his toes. The stealer fell to the ground sobbing in pain. He was in so much pain he surrendered to the young boy. Then he gave the boy all of the things he stole from the old man. One of the possessions he stole was his cane. All of the sudden the boy snatches the cane and hits the guy in the head very hard.

The young boy went to the old man and returned all of the items. The old man was eternally grateful. The boy said, "You laughed at me once, as if you could receive no return from me, but now, you see, it is you who have to be grateful to me." Then the man said, oh thank you kind boy, you’re a real hero. I saved you once now you saved me in return. Thank you very much for returning my items. So the little boy and the old man both were very kind and grateful for the heroic actions of one another. The moral of the story is that little things can do the same or more than people bigger than you. It doesn’t matter how small you are. You can still help people. That is the moral of the story because it shows that nothing is impossible for someone as young as 1 to one as old as 98 years old.

Name: Alida Safsten

Period 7.

Date: April 8, 2011

Title: Ghost City Symbolizes Cost of Nuclear Disaster

People went to a place called Pripyat. They weren’t supposed to touch anything when they went there.  They went to a place for children. They found tons of little toys covered in dust. Along with those toys were gas masks for toddlers. These had been left out had been left out for a quarter of a century.

Something terrifying had made the toddlers leave their innocent corner of the world. Their home town had become the set for a true-life apocalypse movie. This little place was considered a very happy place. It had good housing and schools, lots of young families, and the shops were filled with things you couldn’t get anywhere else. Everything was new here; everything was up to date and was very modern. The cities swimming pool echoes to the church full of broken glass and tile under your feet. Five percent of its annual budget is devoted to Chernobyl-related benefits, including payment of a small sum, know darkly as “funeral money”, to help people in very gross and contaminated regions buy clean food. Today this area is still abondened.

An atom bomb killed one American and reduced the weapons destructive power. Mr. Fuoco, dies in 2008 at age 84. He lived in Westbury, N.Y., never flew on the bombing run. The unnamed B-29 bomber at the center of the upheaval flew escort on the bombing run on Aug. 6, 1945, and took a picture of the mushroom cloud that appeared after the bomb. ”The book rose to number 24 in the New York times list of the hardcover nonfiction and was praised be Publishers Weekly in a starred review as wise, informed and dramatically heart stopping. The New York Times called it “sober and authoritative”. “The book mainly focuses on tales on survivors , adding to the bomb troubles an added more drama. Mr. Fuoco solved a top-secret puzzle. A huge blow out of radiation killed a young scientist, what cut more than  half of the destructive power cut the bomb’s assembly nuclear fuel. The birthplace of the bomb is in New Mexico. People say that the device suffered no accident and no technical failures. It is estimated to have killed 70,000 people. Mr. Pellegrino is the other or co-author of more than 12 books. Mr Cameron helped with the Titanic movie.

God said multiply, and Did She Ever?

A woman died last month and had many grand-children. She also had many great, great, great grand children. She could have 2,000 living descendants. She may have generated one of the largest clans of any survivor of the Holocaust- a thumb in the eve of the Nazis.

Mrs. Schwartz was like any other person and attended haircuts, bar mitzvahs, engagements and weddings of her descendants. With 2000 people in the family, these events took up tons of her year.

I think its very kind that she makes time to acknowledge each and every person in her family.  She schedules her time for everyone. She had tried to attend all of the special occasions. Her family tells her that she doesn’t need to remember everyone’s name and face.

She was born in 1916 into a family of seven children. During World War 2, The Nazis sent Mrs. Schwartz, and her husband and the six children they already had to concentration camp.

To help feed her children she used 12 pounds of dough to make six loaves of bread. Her husband died 34 years ago.

This woman is very cool and deserves to be famous.

A woman is requested to not publish a picture of a young boy lying in a vacant house on a mud floor. The lighting is very faint through the brush of the shack / house. His clothing is all torn and dirty.

I think that the women who would like to publish this article should be able to publish this. It may show the bad side of a certain country. But it shows also that people should be happy for their homes they live in now. These people who may read this article may interpret the wrong message for this country. It shows that the young children are sad and anxious and that they live in a pathetic background. It is sad to think that this may be the case but it may be showing the wrong message to the viewers of this article.

            The authorities didn’t want to publish this article for many reasons. One of the ridiculous reasons was they want people to look perfect. They want them to show a rosy-cheeked face, a beautiful face, as if the wise rulers rule so well that nothing will ever happen. “And 99 percent of artisans are afraid to get involved in anything problematic.”

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I think that she is a very successful woman and deserved to be in the Olympics. While being a little bit off time she somehow ended up going to the Olympics. She always I think that she is a very successful woman and deserved to be in the Olympics. While being a little bit off time she somehow ended up going to the Olympics. She always was a positive person and believed she could do whatever she put her mind to. Many people to become good at snowboarding to make it to the Olympics take many years. For her it only took 6 years total. This was how many years she took to go to the Olympics. That is pretty amazing.

If this ever happened to me I would be so grateful for the opportunities that come my way. I like how. She was very positive about what she does. She was a positive person and believed she could do whatever she put her mind to. Many people to become good at snowboarding to make it to the Olympics take many years. For her it only took 6 years total. If this ever happened to me I would be so grateful for the opportunities that come my way. I like how she was very positive about what she does.

Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with adultery was lashed to death.

        Hena was the youngest of five children in her family. They shared a hut made from. Khan's wife heard Hena's faint screams and when she found Hena with her husband, she dragged the girl back to her hut, beat her and corrugated tin and decaying wood and led a simple life that was suddenly marred a year ago with the return of Hena's cousin Mahbub Khan. On her way home from school she was bullied by Khan. Many months later on a winter night, Hena was walking from her room to an outdoor toilet when Khan gagged her with cloth, forced her behind nearby shrubbery and beat and raped her. Hena struggled to escape trampled her on the floor.

I don’t think that older people should take their anger out on younger children. Especially young girls that was innocent. An older man lashed a 14 year old girl because of having an affair with a married man. He is very rude to do that action to her. The punishment was: 101 lashes delivered swiftly, deliberately in public. She had dropped to the floor after 70 lashes. Her parents had been watching this scene and were threatened. They were not able to go save their daughter from Aklima Begum.

        Bruised, bleeding and near death, she was rushed to the hospital. Once they attempted to help her she died a week later.

The man that abused the girl should have been charged many things. He wasn’t charged for anything because he had 201 lashes for him to have. He managed to escape during the punishment.

The government had put body guards around this family to keep them safe. Their attempt had failed and she was raped and killed. The family should be able to sue the country for their actions.

                I think that this punishment should be illegal and that they should not be able to do mean things to people in your country. This girl had died in innocence and didn’t deserve to be killed. Especially since she had been 14 years old. Even though she had an affair she is still too young to be married.

        This man is a mean guy for beating her up. She is so sad now because she is dead. It is really sad that she died because she is not even old enough to be married.

Public outrage shot by that autopsy report prompted the high officials to order of Hena's body in February. A second autopsy started at Dhaka Medical College Hospital showed Hena had died of excessive bleeding and her body shed the marks of severe injuries.

Police are now leading an investigation and have arrested several people, including Mahbub Khan, in connection with Hena's death.

"I've nothing to demand but justice," said Darbesh Khan, taking a reporter to the place where his daughter was abducted the night she was raped.

He stood in very quietly and took a deep breath. She wasn't even old enough to be married, he said, testament to Hena's tenderness in a part of the world where many girls are married before adulthood. "She was so small."
Hena's mom, Aklima stared absently as she spoke of her daughter's last minutes. She could not even say her own words. "She was innocent," Aklima said, recalling Hena's last words.

Police were protecting Hena's family earlier this month. Darbesh and Aklima were scared for having spoken out against the village elders.

They had thought out the most severe punishment for their youngest daughter. They could get nothing past them.

Africa and Argentina on an island, high powered people say a massive penguin rescue operation is under way.

A jumble of island officials and resident volunteers are shaving troubles saving tens of thousands of Northern Rockhopper penguins threatened by an oil spill in the stretches of the south Atlantic, about 1,500 miles west of Cape Town, South Africa.

A cargo ship leaked thousands of heavy oil, soya bean and diesel fuel near Nightingale Island. At least 300 penguins have died.

"I've seen about 15 to 20 dead penguins just today," director Trevor Glass said.

"The danger now is getting the rest of these penguins past that oil slick," Glass said.

The rescue had begun March 16, when the M.S. Oliva, a Maltese, registered ship, ran aground, fracturing the vessel in two.

The ship was heading from Santos, Brazil, to Singapore and had been carrying 60,000 metric tons of soya beans and 1,500 metric tons of heavy fuel, according to islands' administrator Sean Burns and Transport Malta, the Maltese shipping authority.

The ship was heading from Santos, Brazil, up to Singapore. There was 60,000 metric tons of soya beans and 1,500 metric tons of heavy fuel.

The agency said in a statement that it "is investigating the grounding and subsequent complete hull failure" of the bulk carrier cargo ship.

There were 22 crew members that were on video during the dramatic rescue. It also showed penguins soaked in heavy oil.

The people who shot by an expedition team from eco-tourism ship.  While filming them camera men used inflatable boats to help carry the sailors back to safety.

Currently an oil sheen has been surrounding a chain around the island. Many officials say this could lead to a disaster in the environment.

            While using inflatable watercraft and fishing vessels, they are taking penguins to rehabilitation centers at the main island of Tristan da Cuhua.

Conservationists and volunteers are working in an effort to nurse the blackened penguins back to health.

"We need help," said Katrine Herian, a spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds who is also apart of the ongoing rescue effort.

"The priority is to get food into the birds as they are very hungry," she said. "We are trying locally caught fish and some are starting to take small half-inch squares of the food."

Someone noted that some of the islands' residents had emptied their personal freezers in an effort to help feed the animals.

By Friday, A team had corralled and transported a total of nearly 5,000 penguins, during horrible winds and high seas that had played with the earlier rescue attempts.

Their timing when they were there became risky.

The shipwreck, having come at the end of the birds' molting season, this is a period during which penguins shed their feathers, do not eat and largely stay out of the water,  left the birds "at their weakest possible state," Guggenheim explained. "They're very hungry."

Less than 300 people currently live on the island chain, next to the its massive penguin population, estimated at 150,000, which makes about 40 percent of the world's total.

It is amazing how they have saved so many penguins and that they won’t be in harm any more. But for all the ones that died they should have prevented this from happening and checked their cargo before they had left their ports. Thankfully the men and women who have been trying their hardest to save every penguin they could they were able to save so many. Now we are able to see penguins not harmed. Now 5,000 penguins are saved.