LaCole Anderson
World Literature
1st period
To me the greatest wrong people can commit is Murder! Murder is when a life is taken and there is no more coming back. Some people murder people because they are crazy; others do it because they feel as if that's the right thing to do and they want to fit in with others. I feel like this: If you have the heart to take someone's life, then your life should be also taken. When you commit a murder then you should get sent to jail with the death penalty. Why? Because to me, life is too short and some people seem to want to waste theirs.

I really hate it when people steal. I feel if you have to steal then you don't need it, or that you should work hard to earn what ever it is that you want. A person who steals is one who you can't trust. The punishement for stealing should be getting their hands cut off. Theives need to work to get what they want like others who work to get what they got.
I also feel that revenge can be good or bad, if you know what you are doing. Some people take revenge so serious, and some don't. Bad revenge can lead to murder or to someone getting hurt.Everyone loves revenge though.
Cheating to me is also serious because it's someone's feelings involved. People now a days are crazy and they fall in love so quick. If their partners are cheating it can lead to revenge. A person might end up hurt or dead.

My plans after Graduation
By Karl Mables


Graduation is coming up and my plans are sort of simple, I plan on graduating and walking across stage attending a college that fit my personality and my grades. This year was very tough and I had a lot of help from teachers and from friends and family members. I know everybody saw me as a person that plays a lot but I know when its time to get serious and it’s that time. I heard stories about the college life and the stories made me want to go off to a school that’s away for once I want the experience of the college life. A school that I wouldn’t mind going to is somewhere down there by Illinois State University. My mother and my brother really wants me to walk across the stage because I’m next in the family and they were definitely excited about when I told them I want to attend college it put a mile on their face and my face. My brother is considered as one of my best friends and for him to be proud of me it just lifts me up and my mother is just there I’m literally doing this for her my education is hers and nobody else. Every parent wants to see her child graduate and go off to college so that’s why I’m really working so hard so I can make proud, but I tell you one thing I’m also doing this for me its going to feel good walking across that shaking the principal hand and thanking everyone real good.

What should hell look like? Hell could be a place so close you don't even realize it. Is hell a place just for the undead? No, many people find hell right here on earth.
Hell looks like a beige medium sized house. It has a long black porch with a black gate door and the wooden door is white. It has three windows at the main level, two glass block windows on the lower level and one window at the top layer. The wood is chipping off the stairs, the paint on the banister is piling, and the walls of the house are corrupted. The wooden door has stickers on them that seem to say “Welcome to HELL”.
When you walk on the porch everything goes black; there's no color, not even gray just black but you're still able to see. Depression falls upon you. You feel sorrow and an unbearable pain. The pain is an emotional one. You're slowly dying from emotional pain that causes your body to vanish physically. When you place your hand on the knob you want to flee but the horrendous spirit is too powerful, so it abducts you inside. When you walk in, all you hear is screaming, the place is filled with awful emotions. You walk through the house then you suddenly come to a halt facing a negative spirit. It murmurs in your ear that you're nothing and your mind isn't ready for world. The spirits fill you with dejection. The spirits keep you from what you want the most: your felicities.
This place has your mind in total recall. You have to return because there's no place like home.
Tiarra Pryor
World Lit. 8th

My plan after graduation is to get a full time job,Find me an apartment and go to a community college. I choose to stay here because I feel I’m not ready to go out of state. I’m not the type of person that if you know your not the school type of person I’m not going to go out of state because that’s what my family are doing or that what my family want me to. I have been working towards my plans a lot,first off I’m trying to find a job that fits me. Something that I’m going to enjoy doing once I find a job that I’m comfortable with doing then that’s one accomplishment that I made. Second step I been looking around for an apartment in the newspaper. I first have to do some research on the neighborhood then finding a reasonable price for an apartment that I would be able to pay a month. I put a 100% toward achieve my goals. Because I have so much negative people around me saying I’m going to fail,I’m not going to make it I’m have a baby ,I’m not going to graduate or I’m not going to do anything in life. So not only do I want to prove them wrong, but I have a little sister. She looks up to me so much I have to set a good example for her. Really I’m not trying to prove anyone wrong because I can care less of what someone thinks of me. I want to prove to myself that I can do it. If I don’t I’m not hurting anyone but myself in the long run

Bell ringer 30A
What are your plans? What percentage (0-100%) of the work necessary toward achieving your plans have you accomplished?

I would have to say that 88% of the work necessary toward me achieving my plans I have accomplished. Graduation is near so I know that I can’t mess up now because it is to close. I am ready for the real world; I have equipped myself just fine. The steps that I had taken were passing all of my classes and get all of my credits. College is the next route for me because I want to succeed in life. I am going to major in architectural drafting because I am a wonder artist. I think that if I could get through the wildness of this city I could get through what ever the world throws at me. My expectations are very high just the thought of me about to graduate makes me happy because I know that I have completed another chapter of my life. I think that the real world won’t be extremely hard because I know that challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew: that would make me face reality. I know when I get into college I would have to work hard so I could achieve the goals I set for myself. I want to succeed because I want to show the world that I’m all about business. This is my plan for life after graduation toward me achieving my goals.


Antonio Kearney
Period 2nd World Lit.
April 1st, 2008

Melvyn Caison
Bell ringer 31a
Describe what you think hell looks like.
Post date may 1st, 2008






I believe hell is full of total chaos heat beyond unimaginable temperatures, I think hell is full of wasp, disease, three headed creatures and just pure evilness. The hell I think of will have lieutenant demons torturing the humans and people won’t be able to die, the same measure of pain will be inflicted. I also believe there are certain punishments for certain sins that were committed by the people while they were living on earth. Something like what happened in the short story I read in class called “Inferno”. Hell is a place no person is prepared to go to everyone talks and say there going to hell and there not scared but it will be a messed up scene, burned flesh from humans , maggots, mosquitoes, rats and everything that you can think of that brings harm will be in hell.

My plans after graduation are to go to a good college to maintain a great career getting paid a whole lot of money as well as taking good care of my child. I feel like I owe it to myself as well as my daughter to be successful in life. I think that going to college would make me a better person as well great provider for my daughter. College is a type of place where you gain more knowledge on learning new things and preparing you for a great career. What I want to take up in college is fashion but I feel that I should have a back up plan just in case my dream of being a fashion designer wouldn’t work out for me. What my back up plans for college is just to take up something in the medical field, such as being a nurse or a pharmacist. If I was to take up a career in the medical field I know for a fact that I would get paid a nice amount. I am a type of person that loves to succeed in anything that I do in life and I feel that looking how my mother grew up is not how I want to grow up. I want to be better than my mother ever was because she still is struggling now. My mother had made a mistake in highs school as well as I did but she chose not to go to college after she graduated form high school she chose to depend on a man and that’s where I draw the line at. I want to be my own person bringing in my own money and providing for my own child. That’s why I feel that college is the best place to get my life started at.



Del’sheena Hill pd.1

My Plans after graduation are simple now that am about to have a baby. I believe that I am going to get a job after I have my baby. I am going to try to get an apartment, and start a new family with my son. I wanted to go to the Navy but I believe that it is out of the picture now for me. I don’t want to go off and leave my son behind. I don’t want to be that type of mother. My dad told me that I can still go to the navy, and do what I want to with my life. But I can’t see myself leaving my old life behind especially my newborn son. I still want to go off college to become a nurse. When I become a nurse it will help pay the bills, and get me on my feet. I plan on having a successful life and doing all I can do to support my child. My child means everything to me that is why I dedicate my whole life to him. I’m going to college but I will not be going out of the state. I have a goal that has to be accomplished before I go off to college. I always have to stay focused because my mother always tells me that I am going to fail. I know that I am going to pass just to prove her wrong. I want to achieve something in my life, and I have to no doubt about it.

Mysha Moody

Describe what hell looks like.

It’s a beige building, with two parking lots. There’s a basketball rim in one of the parking lots. That’s where little demons play and older demons settle scores. There’s a field of grass where all music has been stopped because there is no more band in hell. Inside the building there are a lot of rooms and the demons in charge are called by their last names.

The halls are full of lost angel’s. They search these halls for trouble and they soon find what they’re looking for. That’s when you have wars between goblins, goons, lames, dummies, Crash Town, Mad Ville, Chocolate City and other gangs of people who don’t care about their future.

Those lost angel’s could make it through hell and see the light, if it wasn’t so dark in hell. This hell is sometimes too hot but most times really cold.

The students, I mean, lost angel’s have four years to make up their minds in what they would like to do for the rest of eternity. For most it takes longer for them to realize but for some four years is all they would ever need in hell. So they do what they most to get out of Harper, I mean, hell.


When the lost angels do get to their last two years they are put through many tests. One particular test is given in their third year. That test gives other places a knowing of how much the angel has learned in hell.

In they’re last year the devil herself gives the senior angels a gift of freedom, which is called their diplomas!

Bell Ringer 30- What are your plans for life after graduation? What steps have you taken toward realizing these plans? What percentage (0-100%) of the work necessary toward achieving your plans have you accomplished?

My plan after graduation is to go college. This fall I will be going to Wright College up North. I feel if you go to college it would help you better your self so you could be able to get a good job and a nice apartment and car. Graduating from High is just the first step the biggest step is to graduation from College. I think every body want the better out of life but it’s up to you to get your self every thing you want in need if you don’t what it is you have to do for your self why should same body else help you. I’m going to put a 100% into the work necessary toward achieving my plans in my life. It means a lot to me to graduation from William R.Harper High School because out of my Mother kids I’m the oldest and I’m going to be the first person out of us four to graduation. When I get to college I’m going to do every thing it to graduate from College and I know my Mother is going to be happy because she never graduate from High School because she had me and my brother at a young age. So I’m not just doing this for me I’m doing this for my family. After High School I plan to go to College and get an apartment and me a car and do every thing I have to do graduate and live happy ever after. I would to live my life right and happy.

KaDaisha Burrell
May 1, 2008
Per #02

Adriana Alexander
5/1/08 Period 3
World Literature

In your opinion, what are the greatest wrongs people can commit?

In my opinion, the greatest wrongs that people can commit would be: murder and revenge. All of these crimes can lead up to minor injuries, severe harm, or maybe even death. Each is not worth part or all of your life taken away from you. Life happens once and is too short for you to worry about damaging another’s.
I also feel that murder is the worst crime that anyone could ever commit in their lifetime. How dare you take someone else’s life just because you had an altercation with them? Some people aren’t into religion, but I know that if you take a life, you pretty much suffer the rest of yours. Nine times out of ten, if a person kills someone else and gets caught, then they are most likely to get either the electric chair or twenty-five years to life in prison.
Another crime that I feel is terrible would be revenge. I personally believe that revenge is the cause of gang violence everywhere. For example, if I get into an unnecessary situation with someone else, they might bring more people, including themselves to try to jump on me. Then, I would get beat up, thirst for revenge and have more people than the person I had an issue with. Then, I believe it continues from there to the point where there is war between the two gangs. Each gang wants revenge.
I believe that this insanity for killing people can deplete in due time. However, that would mean that everyone should pitch in and help stop this madness. Time and life are both running out.

In my opinion about the greatest wrongs people can commit is murder. The reason why I say that is if you kill anybody that is the most terrible thing in the world. If you just cheat on somebody that wouldn’t really mean a thing as much as cheating is something but I feel that it is really something you can get over when somebody steal from you I’m not going to be mad very angry. Especially if it’s somebody that you know really are going to be mad. For all these crimes I name like murder, betrayal, revenge, stealing, cheating a punishment that would fit for all of these crimes would be I think that they should go to jail for about three to four years because I feel like some of these crimes might not mean as much to some people but they should they should be punished in that type of manner that they can learn from what not to do and what they should do. Things are just crazy these days people can be just so sick these days. That’s why I feel that these people should be punished like that because they are crazy. Exactly like what I had stated above. I feel that they should be taught some type of lesson for these crimes so I feel that it should be approved like this.


Morolina Holmes aka lynn 2PDth

Describe what you think Hell look like. To me Hell look like a very dark and gloomy place underground with fire everywhere. The way to describe Hell is very hard and confusing. There are many ways you can describe how it look. Plus there are many ways people say what Hell looks like. I think that when you go to hell you will experience something you never existed. Hell will be all dark with no light with people working hard. When you first enter Hell it will be smoke everywhere. Then as you walk in you will see that this is not the place you want to be at. The people in Hell are working hard for the devil while he watches them. The devil is smiling in there face because this is what they have now. A place for people to go to when they have done something wrong is Hell. The way people talk about Hell they will never like to visit. Once you think about all the things you have done wrong you think if you will go to Hell or not. That’s when you start thinking about what you think Hell look like. You would want to consider yourself on being good and not doing wrong. I know in the end when you think about it Hell can only scare you or worn you. On the things you can do to not go to Hell. When you think about it Hell don’t have a look unless you been there.


Brittany Taylor

What happen to being real if I was a person who was like a president or something the rules would be if you murdered a person depending on your reasons you would get 50 years because people these days get killed because they have on Reebok and the other person have on ones or because he had 1000 dollars and I only had 100 or because u got 20s and he got 24s those reasons deserve 50 years no less than probation in 35 years Betrayal depending on what you do the way I feel u deserve to die because you supposed to be a true friend and they trust you but in 20 years they decide to get them killed for that you deserve to die Revenge shouldn’t be illegal because some people need what’s coming to them if someone killed your whole family and you know who did it why cant you kill them but that’s just me thinking theft what ever you take you hands deserve to get chopped off because you had no business stealing from a man woman older person crack head or child that’s not right just because you don’t have and want you take that’s what jobs or drugs are for and cheating you need your tongue cut from your mouth because if you love someone you should love them not lie to them and sleep with other women or men to me a relationship is a matter of emotion and trust.


CORTEZ JONES
ROOM 401
5th period

Bellringer 30E

Corderrius Gray




I think that Murder would be the worst crime that a person could do, because you is taking somebody life and future away. The punishments for a murder should be, go to jail for life, where there is nothing to do but set in your room for 23 hours, and the only time that he/she get is bath time for the 1 hour that they have left in the day, no visitors, no TV time, and the most no phone time. They should be sent to the chair and be kill for killing a person, then he/she will feel the same thing that the person that he/she kill went feel. I think that if a person that kills somebody that they had a bad life, they didn’t have anything to do, they didn’t like the person, or they where just mad at somebody and took it out on somebody that was near him/her. I think that the person that did the crime didn’t mean to kill the person, I think that all the people that murder somebody is very sorry now they is lock-up, they wish they where out-side playing like every body else. Now day’s people are kill people for fun. People is getting shot every for the past 2 months. There are 25 students this school year that have been murder or shot for being out-side or they was in a gang. Why doesn’t the killing stop in this world, why do people kill, why there are so many guns on the street, and why are there so many gangs on the street. Nobody knows but the people that kill for fun. That is what I think about murders.

b. butler

My plans for after graduation are to go off to college and to become a nurse. When I become a nurse that will be what will get me on my feet and from that point on that will be how my new life will begin. The steps I have taken toward realizing my plan is when I look at my mother. She took care of my brother, my sister, and my self and did not finish college and it was hard to find a good job. So I had told my daughter that I will make sure that it will not be that hard for me and her. I also told her that I will finish school, go to college, and we will make it no matter what just like my mother. Another step that pushed me to finish was when people use to tell me that I was not going to finish high school. Another thing that pushed me was seeing how people who did not go to school have nothing going for themselves and they live on the streets. To not end up like them, I had to pay attention in school so I could go on. My baby was my biggest step because without her I don’t think I will have made it this far. The percentage of the work necessary toward achieving my plans I have accomplished was 70%, so I only have 30% to go in these next 21 days. I know I will make the whole 100% by May 27

The Greatest wrongs

Many things are fake and these things are hard to see,
Being real is something that most people just cannot be.
Emotions tell lies and make you think that love is there,
But really only lust and hurt are truly there.
Use your mouth and make peoples hurt and hate grow,
Keep your eyes open only changes are fa show.
Real like the coldness you feel when you die;
Real like the expressions you hide from your face,
Real like wanting so bad not to be in a place,
Real like a word not clearly defined,
Something you can’t take with you, or see over time.
Can you be real like the heartbreak you feel?
From not being in love. Real like the world
You’re living in. only able to look up and pray for strength form
Above, real like the death, devastation and depression I see
Every day; real like jealousy, this is really what runs the world today.
Being fake is the greatest wrong one could ever commit, it makes
Me wonder if this world really is turning to shit.
The punishment for this
Should be a life as a manikin,
For ever standing there stuck in a hiding
Position, with your hands
Covering faces forever even after time. This is what I think
Should be the punishment for being fake,
Stuck in one way to never
Move again. Seeing all watching
The world passes you by, knowing all
That will come; but never involved in anything or ever feel
Another’s touch. This is your punishment for not being real enough.




Linda Moore
May 1, 2008

I think a man only needs as much land as his body can handle, but if it’s a choice in the matter do not try to be greedy because it will come back and haunt you. Like in the story “How much land does man need?”, the main character was offered a great deal for his rubles but he tried to take more than what his physical body could handle. It lead him to his death, so I think man only need enough that his physical body could handle. I think that the offer was a trick because the man knew that he would try to take to be greedy and take too much. If you read the story “How much land does man need” it teaches a lesson. When we went over the story and heard the deal, we said that we would have tried cover a lot of land too. This was before we found out what happened to the man; we would have met the same fate if we wouldn’t have read this story. When we finished the story we found out what happened to him our minds change about the deal that man got. This is why I think that he received a good deal and that he tried to take to much which lead him to his death. It taught us a lesson not to try and get greedy because same could happen to you.



Andre Taylor
3rd Period
How much land does man need
5/1/08

Cameron Currie
May 1, 2008
3rd period


My plan for life after graduation is to be in a good college. After college hopefully I will be successful in baseball or basketball but, if not I will plan on getting a good job. Once I get a good job I will probably try to invest in my on business so I can sit back and relax and watch my business get better as the years go by. After like five to six years I should have a wife and kids that I can provide for in the long run. I will teach my kids how to play baseball and basketball. I would also teach them how to invest in their own business so they can provide for their families when they get older. Also, when I get older I would like to coach a high school baseball team or even a basketball team. The steps I have taken to get into a good college are filling out applications for the colleges that I want to go to. I really haven’t taken any steps to becoming a successful business owner, but after college I will work on becoming one. If I do not become a business owner I will get my degree in T.V. broadcasting and try my best to become a sports commentator or sports analyst. Those are my plans for life after graduation. I know that when I get older I will have a good looking wife and my kids will be smart and good looking.

Facing all the difficulties and challenges growing up as a teen in Chicago its very rough having to look over your back every day when you walking down the streets making sure the area you’re walking around is safe. With 24 students killed in the city of Chicago this school year its very sad violence has become an unavoidable part of life for kids who just want a safe place to live and learn if I had one wish my wish would be for all teens to come together and be friends instead of arguing and fighting all the time. Now children and young adults fight over any and everything there’s one good reason they fight is if someone look at them funny. Now its really not safe to stay and your own house they shoot threw people homes just the other day a 7 year old little girl got shot and her home while she was lying and her bed sleep that’s a shame. By Debra Hart

Contrelle Wright
3rd period



My plans after graduation are to turn pro in boxing. Boxing is my dream and my life. I have been boxing since I was seven years old and I’m eighteen now, so that’s make me 11 years in the game. I am having a hard time trying to figure out what I want to do after graduation. In November I had surgery on my shoulder and people always tell me that my shoulder is never going to be the same. It will hurt me if I can’t box anymore because I want to be known in this world. I want to be the best boxer that ever lived. I want to be remembered as the fastest and the smartest in this game. If my shoulder never gets right I have to go to school to become a police officer, but I hate school. I want to be a police officer because the crime in this world is really bad. It’s like people are dying every day. The gangs are bad; this world is all messed up. Somebody needs to step up an make a change in this world. If I have a second thought I will become a doctor. I would love to become a doctor to save people lives. It would be like everybody would love you. My mom and people who care about me always told me you have to have a plan B in life because the first plan might not work out so you have to have something to fall back on. I pray to God that my shoulder gets right so I can turn pro and become the greatest boxer in this world. I want to always be remember as pretty boy trelle.

I have lots of plans for life after graduation and I hope that I follow through with them. One of my plans after graduation is to work with my grandfather making some good money. Another one of my plans for life after graduation is to go to a junior college and major in broadcasting while I am working at the same time. The reason why I want to go to college and major in broadcasting is because I watch sports and I always wanted to be the people on TV talking about it. One of my main plans for life after graduation is to graduate from college and try to find a job being a sports analyst on TV or the radio. I would love to be a big time sports analyst for ESPN, the NBA, or the NFL. Another one of my plans for life after graduation is to have some kids. I want at least three kids and I want to raise a great family. I want to put my kids through college and be able to see them grow up and have kids. I want at least one of my kids to become rich and famous. Hopefully all of my kids will grow up and be rich and famous. One of my most important plans for life after graduation is to finally be able to retire after working almost my entire life. I feel that if I follow through with my plans and do what I have to do I will live a great life and I will be able to retire and still have money.

Reginald Saul
2nd Period

Trikaric Crawford
April 3rd
3rd period






Hell is probably a persuasive place. I think when you die you may become confused when you say you can see the light and go the walk down the wrong trail. I think there is know certain way that you may be sent to heaven or hell, I think it maybe the way you would want to go. In my head hell is a normal place where all bad things happen everything. Basically what I am saying is that hell looks like earth but bad things happen to you everyday. I don’t think hell is full of fire like some people say because I never knew of heard of anyone that has been to hell and came back. I think the devil persuades you to do stuff in hell, stuff that you don’t even want to do. I think when your in hell the devil sends you back as a lonely spirit to hunt people. I think hell isn’t even on earth I think it’s on another planet in a different galaxy. I think when your in hell you can have everything you want like money cars females but you would have to pay a price, because the devil is a liar there is always a side effect on something. But on the other hand I don’t believe in supernatural things like spirits and hell I think when everybody die you go to heaven because you are forgiving for your bad sins and choices you make.

Johnny Davis
5/1/08
3rd per


My plans after graduation are to go out with my family and chill. I plan on spending time with them and enjoying the rest of my day. When I attend my institution of higher learning I would then take action to better my life. I also plan on playing football for NIU. My game is going to improve everyday because I am going to work like a monster everyday. Most people always talk about what they are going to do in the future but I’m not about going to do that because I hate the people that do that and don't back it up.
Out of our senior class I can say that twelve students that I have a pretty good relationship are coming to the same school as me. I know I might have some problems in the future with the work but with my determination I would pretty soon catch on. Plenty of teachers told me that the work is very difficult but if you go to class and to the study session it would make your life a little bit easier. I plan plan taking my game in going to the next level. Many people say that I’m too small to go pro, but I believe if I stay focus and commitmented to the game I can be just a better athlete than I once was.
I feel that I have a pretty good support group behind and with them pushing on can’t anybody stop me from reaching my goals I set for my life.

What are my plans for life after graduation? After graduation I have lots of plans, one of my plans is to attend college. I will not go to college if I don’t receive a scholarship from a college near my house because I don’t like being away from home. Some colleges I will like to go to are DePaul, UIC, Chicago State or Indiana. One reason I want to go to college is to play basketball and make it to the NBA. I have some friends that attend college one goes to Indiana and one goes to Memphis. If my college career does not happen like I want to I will get a job soon as I get out of high school and keep saving my money because I don’t have to pay any bills because I live home with my parents. If I keep the same job for a long time my pay will increase and after some more years I will be getting paid the same amount those who went to college gets Some reasons I chose not to attend college are, a couple months ago I was talking to a homeless man and he told me that he spent all his money on college and stayed all four years and after college he joined the army and after doing all that he was living on the streets so he made me change my mind about college. Some things I plan to do with my free time are, to coach a high school basketball team to state championship. I also hope to get married buy my own house and have some kinds when I get about thirty years old. I wish all my plan happen the same way I predicted it.



Leslie Boulden
2nd period
5/1/08
Bellringer 30A

jarvis beane per2
What is your plan for life after graduation? Am going to find me a summer job well I can get some money for the summer. I will be going to a two college’s then transfer to a four year. Am going to college to wrestling and win a championship ring at my weight class. I will work hard and do all my work in college. Am going major in math and automotive. I’m going to find me at a shoes store or be a lifeguard at someone park. After I get out of college I will go find a job in the sift I have major in. help my grandmother pay some bill in the house. Pay for college class and my book and food to eat. Go buy me car for college well I can get around to college. The step am take toward achieve goal is just work hard just be on my job right now. Make sure that no one get try to bring me down in college and do all my work. What steps have you taken is that is getting ready for college and get out of Harper high and get submit to a college. What percentage of the work necessary toward achieving my goal is 100%? Because you got to work hard at your work and come to class at all time. You must listen to the teacher give well she gives out note all day. I have never thing to say this the end.

jarvis beane per2

What is your plan for life after graduation? Am going to find me a summer job well I can get some money for the summer. I will be going to a two college’s then transfer to a four year. Am going to college to wrestling and win a championship ring at my weight class. I will work hard and do all my work in college. Am going major in math and automotive. I’m going to find me at a shoes store or be a lifeguard at someone park. After I get out of college I will go find a job in the sift I have major in. help my grandmother pay some bill in the house. Pay for college class and my book and food to eat. Go buy me car for college well I can get around to college. The step am take toward achieve goal is just work hard just be on my job right now. Make sure that no one get try to bring me down in college and do all my work. What steps have you taken is that is getting ready for college and get out of Harper high and get submit to a college. What percentage of the work necessary toward achieving my goal is 100%? Because you got to work hard at your work and come to class at all time. You must listen to the teacher give well she gives out note all day. I have never thing to say this the end.

My plans for life after graduation are to attend college and move on to a better life for me and my family. I have taken a lot of steps toward that goal. First off I made it to my senior without doing something really messing up my life. I have remained in school and I have applied myself to graduating. I also have been accepted into the college I wanted to attend since I stepped foot in high school, which is Eastern Illinois University. I feel that I have put as much as I can toward achieving my plans. I have stayed out of trouble, stayed in school, been accepted into the school I wanted to attend, and now I’m on my way to graduation so I can say I’m half way there, the only thing that’s there to finish is college. Those are my plans for my life and how I plan to finish achieving them.

Kwame Patterson
3rd period

Birds of a Feather Flock Together


Many people always use an old cleshe` birds of a feather flock together. Lots of people believe this
Statement is true, others live and go by it as a way of life. I can only tell you (the reader) how I see Why this old phrase is so frequently used. For that question to stumble across me, do I think that question is true?
First I would like to say yes to the question I believe that statement is true because I see it in my everyday life. I’ve broken the whole phrase into parts. (For me to get and give a better understanding) Birds of a feather,
Meaning people of the same kind. Referring to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, or style. They could even all eat the same food, as long as there is something linking them together to have something in common. And for Flock together, Meaning they are always around one another, (they hang together). But the world today is so caught up in the way of this phrase. You can so much as see the segregation this phrase brings. You can actually see the difference in each crowd of people. You can tell who the ball players is who the cheerleaders are and etc.
But in conclusion I would like to say I don’t believe in the phrase Birds of a feather flock together, but I do believe it exists. Because it is everywhere around us as well as we are around it, but each choice made by each person is the big decision on weather they want to be around that person who acts just like them or break the cycle and be with someone totally different with nothing in common. Some may think it won’t work, but I always say you don’t have to have common interest to share common interest.




An Opinion Written by

Antonio Pulley

Bell ringer 31E



I remember years back my mother always asked why I hanged around the people I did. She said its either you’re just like them or you will become one of them “because bird of a feather flock together, and sometimes you have to break your ties with some people.” All the way up until now I started realizing and noticing that the saying is a true statement. I believe that everyone should know that this is a true statement, because can’t anyone say they hang around people who doesn’t have the hobbies and perspectives of life. Everyone and every group haves fun in different ways, it might be like for example a couple of my old friends had some needs and robbed people and stole cars. But I wasn’t into that type of stuff and never wanted to jeopardize my freedom and they knew that. So when things like that would happen they let me know and I would go my separate ways away from them. After they do their dirt I was right back with them not knowing I could go to jail because I’m guilty by association, which I would be because they talk to me about it. After a while I noticed that I had to find friends to hang with because I didn’t want to end up like them when I took no parts in it. There’s a group and certain people for you to hang around at first it might be hard to sight but it is. Just that one experience mad me realize “birds of a feather flock together.”





Mitchell Jenkins Per.2

In my opinion the greatest wrong a person could do is murder, and I say that because I feel that no one deserves to have their lives taken away from them by someone else. If I had a choice I would do anything else but kill a human being it’s not right to me that a person who you hate so much is someone you would wish death upon. Every time I turn the television on I’m hearing “A teen has just been shot” or “ A women has been found slang. It makes me sick to hear that a person has killed and now don’t have a chance to live another day and see what life would have been like if they had been somewhere other then a place they weren’t suppose to be at during that time but as I always hear everything is in God’s plan we all have to go someday but we don’t know when that time might come I just pray that I see another hour, another day, and another year and many more to come that’s why I try to stay out of trouble because there are so many things I haven’t experienced yet I just want to live my life to the fullest and see how great my future is going to be and I want to see that my friends live their lives even longer I am so sick of going to funerals to hear the pastor say the same thing and then realizing that it doesn’t change anyone because they are going to go out and continue on doing the same stupid things they started.


Jessica Sabbs

My plans for life after graduation are to go to college to become a nurse because I love to be around children and other people and love to help other. I have been studying everyday turning in my work, doing homework, helping out with what ever need to be done. I think my percentage is about 90% because I have not did anything in life yet to get me ready for the real life out side of Harper high school . Achieving a goal in life is wonderful because you have something to look forward to in the next 2 to 5 years from now ,you could look back and say to yourself I did it ,I understand that many people don’t accomplishes anything .I feel that it is my job to set goal s so that the young people that will take my place will have my foot steps to walk in and not worry about anything going wrong .I really understand that some of my fellow classmates will not go to college or do anything with there life ,some will end up in jail or dead in the next 5 to 6 years because I think most of them already sell drugs ,taking peoples cars ,or even kill someone or knows somebody who has . All I can do is to pray and ask god to forgive them for all of there sin. To my understanding I feel that if they don’t care why anyone else should give a damn .because like they say birds of a feather flock together and they don’t understand that this is a true statement so if they walk in the foot steps of others there punishment will come as soon as it was done. Many of them know and don’t care if the go to haven or hell , but when judgment day come we will see how hard they are but I think it is just a act to cover up the sensitive side. TASHAREL STEVENSON 2PER

What are your plans for life after graduation?
First, I plan to further my education so that I may be able to take care of my child. When I do get to the next level in my education it will be in criminal justice.
The reason that I have chosen this particular career is so that I may be a police officer and make a difference in any neighborhood that I’m assigned to. After a few years on the field I’ll turn my attentions to becoming a lawyer. Sometimes the legal system can work in one’s favor, and If you know how to work the system then you can help a
Innocent man/woman who has been given 20years to life imprisonment, but in some court cases the defendant is found guilty no matter what amount of law you have stored in your head. After being a lawyer for a while I’ll then run for a seat in the Supreme Court so that I may become a judge, and then I know will make a difference.

What steps have you taken toward realizing these plans?
The first step I took was to look up any and all forms of law so that I may be familiar with this particular practice. Then I studied at least a page a day on criminal behavior
And sociology and I also hang around my aunt a lot because she’s an officer.

What percentage (0-100%) of the work necessary toward achieving your plans have
You accomplished?
The percentage of work I have completed is about 16%, and once I start collage I
Be at 20%, then once I finish collage I’ll be at 27% and after collage when I take
The police exam I’ll be at 55%, After many years as a officer I’ll be at 76%, next and last comes me becoming a lawyer and judge which will put me at 89% then 100%.

Stephanie Younger
5-1-08
Period 2


Plans after graduation!!!

What are my plans for life after graduation? My plans for after graduation are trying to get a good job so that I can live close to my junior college, and training for basketball. Now I will walk you through my goals. I plan first to pass all my classes so that I can walk down the aisle, then I will try and get my license so that I can buy my car this year.
My next step is getting a trainer so that I can get back in shape. I will be getting ready for the season of basketball. In that time I will be looking for a job so that I can find an apartment so that I can have my own space away from my family. Love them but I need my space.
After I do that I will be getting ready for my summer trip to Europe or México so that I can relax and say ‘’I did accomplish something next college’’. After that I graduate from my 2-year college I will go to a 4-year college. I don’t know which college that will be but I am going.
After that I will not go to the WNBA instead I will go over seas to play basketball, because they seem to watch sports and go to the games a little bit more then American do. Plus I will get paid more. I find that setting goals help to find where you are trying to go in life, and sets the boundaries that you can do anything that you put your mind to.

What do I think of the new syllabi and lesson plan for fourth quarter? I do not approve of the way Mr. Winfrey is going about this last quarter. He has set it up such a way that you get all the information and work for the entire quarter. I do not think this will be easy and it might affect a lot of the student’s grades. I do not approve of this because it appears I will struggle a lot this marking period because I do not have my system intact. I have a lot of work in other people’s classes that needs to be worked on immediately. The way it seems to me if I start doing work at home and do all I can do at school I might be able to stay on track. I would like to end my final school semester on the right path. Mr. Winfrey should have seen if it works or taken a vote on this to see if the majority agrees with this or not. I think this system is supposed to set us up for college. All this is doing is making our schedule tougher, but I believe this is going to pay off for me in my life later. So as long as the school year is upon I and I have the will to go on and stay on the right path. After this year I won’t have to worry about any more school syllabi.

Bell Ringer 30- What are your plans for your life after graduation? What steps have you taken towartd realizing these plans? What percentage (0-100%) of the work necessary toward achieving your

Terrance Smith
May 1, 2008
Period 2.
Bell ringer 30A

After graduation, first I plan to go on a vacation and celebrate my accomplishment. After I’ve celebrate I plan to take care of my business in college. I want to be a computer technician, so the class that I would take up is computer science. The steps I took to realize this plan was getting my self ready while I’m in high school. I took computer classes so I would know something about computers by the time I get in to college. I think I accomplished 70% of my goal because I know a lot about computer. I finally decide what college I want to go to and I think that Illinois institutes of technology would fit me the best, cause I love working with different type of technology, so if I wanted to change my goal I wouldn’t have to do much because I would be working with the things I love to do. But my goal right now is to get my masters degree in computer technology.
After I have learned more and get more advanced with technology I want to put my skills to the test, so I’m going to go around the city looking for internships’ and jobs that would better my self, and help me with my career in the future.
After I have graduated and found my job, I want to get my self settled down and get my self together. first I want to buy me a house so I can finely get out of my mothers. Second I want to find me a nice car so I won’t be traveling on the bus. Third I want to return the favor to my mother for taking care of me, I want to make sure she has nothing to worry about. Four live a happy and safe life. Those are my goal after I graduate out of high school.

My post graduation plans are simple; pursue my dreams and live life to the fullest.
I’m gradually going to start off with baby steps to turn my aspirations from a blueprint to a full time career.
I know that being a well rounded business man is more than just selling things.
In reality you have to put in work and do your research to be successful.
My reason for saying that is now especially in the music business you have to be truly disciplined and dedicated to your craft.
There’s no doubt in my mind that I can prevail and see the doors of success slowly opening.
I personally vowed to myself and all the rappers under our young label that we’re going national soon.
That’s a vision that’s going to come into reality soon.
I’ve often hard this phrase from businessmen I’ve talked to:
“Rome wasn’t built in day young man”
To me that is just a reminder that I got to pay my dues
I’m just glad I’m getting so much on the job training right now which I feel is a great experience to have as a striving young businessman.
The way things are heading I’ll be making a splash on the market pretty soon rather than later.
But the funny thing is going to be someone is going to be like, “Hey I went to school him” or “He was the usher who showed me to my seat at Wrigley Field”.
To me that’s going to be the icing on the cake for me.
That’s going to signify I more than made it.
I’m going be able to say I actually made it in the door and overcame the odds stacked against me.

Michael Harris

The biggest wrong I think people can commit is murder. Murder is the worst thing that could happen in this world. Why would you want to kill somebody? These young people that form their own squads are the problem. They are the ones who are doing all the killing? Murder is the most popular thing going on in this world. This is a very wrong thing to say. It seems like the only thing people know now days is guns. If the police get on their jobs maybe they would stop harassing people who are not committing the crimes. Then maybe all the murder will decrease. The only people it seems like that are getting killed is younger people and innocent ones. Don’t anybody have fair fight anymore. They just run and go get a gun. They don’t even think about what could happen or the consequences. The mayor need to build something that could keep theses kids focused. Then maybe there want be a lot of shooting. If punishment could be made to fit this crime is life in prison. The reason why I think they should get life is because they have took someone else life. So therefore their life should be taken away from them. If the sit behind bars for almost the rest of their life then I bet they would have thought twice about what they done. People that commit murders should suffer. Just like the people that have lost their loves ones have to suffer. So this why I think this is the biggest wrong people can commit and what punishment should fit this crime.


Denisha brown
2nd period
5-1-08
Bell Ringer 30E

Is sex before marriage realistic in today’s society? I don’t think that sex before marriage is realistic in today’s society. In today’s society everyone is having sex. People are starting early. I don’t think that waiting to have sex until you’re married is a problem. If I had not already had sex I would try to wait until marriage. When I was young, I had planned to wait until I was married to have sex. I even see children who are still in grammar school having sex. Young people these days have sex because they don’t have parents or mentors to sit down and talk to them about the risks of having sex. I have little brothers, and cousins who I know is having sex. There are some people who do wait until marriage to have sex. I don’t think that having sex before marriage is a problem. Everyone wants to know how sex feels. I know I really wanted to know how sex felt before I had sex. People who want to wait until they are married want to save their self for the one that they truly love. There are many different risks when you have sex before you are married. You can catch a disease, and you can get pregnant by someone who you don’t want to be with. When you wait until you are married to have sex, you have a chance to share yourself with the one you really cherish, and love. I also think that it would be special to have sex for the first time when you are married.

Shawntell Taylor

Christopher Chapman
Mr. Winfrey




What are my plans for life after graduation? The plans I have for life after graduation are exciting. I plan to first graduate so Winfrey, hook me up. I call my plans exciting because I think they best fit my ways of life style. Plan one also, option one is to go to school for my football talent, football is something that I love to do. The comfort and excitement the game of football brings to me leaves me speechless to explain. I only have been playing football for four years but every since that day I have feel in love with the game of football. All of these are reason why I choose to play football in college as my first plan, to work towards after I graduate. My second plan I have for after I graduate is to major in criminal justice. I always wanted to become a police officer my whole life. The thought of me being a police officer is pretty believable. Reason being me think imp a real nice guy and could approach criminals on a different level from your average every day police officer. I also enjoy the power that the police officer’s have; they could pretty much do and get away with anything they please to do. Those are about all of the reason why I plan to later become a police officer after I graduate high school. All and all I think I have picked the best two options for me to work towards for my future, after I graduate.

Bell Ringer 30-Whatare plans for your life after graduation? What steps have you take toward realizing these plans? What percentage (0-100%) of the work necessary toward achieving your plans have you accomplished?

My plans after I graduation from William R. Harper High School is to go to college I was thinking about going to Wright College up North. It's a really good school as I heared from teacher and other people who go there. I really want to go to college to better myself and I was always told if you go to college you would always get the really good jobs. I want to get a job that going to help me into I get graduation from college. A job that pay good so I can have money to pay my bills and after have money for a apartment and so I could a car so I could get to work and school. Even now I feel good to see how far I have got because it really mean some thing to keep going fared in school because my Mother never did because she always had me and my brother and I see now that she us in school and about to graduation she is really happy. When I get to college I will work even header to stay in college and I will do every thing in my power to not drop out of school. Now I see why is every thing to some people because when you graduation you can always look back and say I did it, it take alot out of a person to do it but I did. I'm going to put a 100% into graduating from High School then College and by the end of this year I'm going to have my own car and apartment and on top of that I'm going to have a great paying job.

My plans for life after graduation are to go to college. I applied for thirteen different colleges. My top four schools were U of I in Champaign, Urbana , Michigan state, Grand Valley State , and Florida A&M. When dealing with college it can be so frustrating because this something new for all students. There are so many decisions you have to make and a lot of different paper work to fill out, which can be hard. While in school I tried my best to stay focused on my work, it was hard because of the environment I live in, but it’s almost over now. I came to school everyday unless it was an important reason why I couldn’t come. I’ve done all my work and I can’t wait to get out of High school. It’s Time. I’ve done well up until this point but I did make a few mistakes that I wish I hadn’t but it’s okay. There were also other mistakes like mail being delivered to the wrong house so I missed my dead line. I believe everything happens for a reason, so it wasn’t meant to be then. When I am in college it will be a lot different from High School because the teacher’s wont asked if you did your work, and you most likely won’t get second chances. College will be a long road but I think that It is truly worth the hard work. Every decision you make in High School has an effect on your college life so make the right choices.

ASHLEY MITCHELL

What are your plans for life after graduation? Well my plan after graduation is to party all summer. That’s just for starters. As a senior group we’re going to be having a lot of events planned so we can have fun together before we all go our separate ways in the fall. I also plan to take a year off just to work and stack my money up so I don’t get in real bad dept. I will have my own apartment and car to get around in. I know if I get this job working on the railroad then my plans will change. I will work and go to college at the same time. One thing I know out of everything that’s I’m thinking about doing I will never give up on life. I will always try to do my best and succeed in life. All I need to achieve this goal is a little help from my father because he already works on the railroad and if I can get him to recommend that I work there and that I’m a good worker then I will get that job with no problem. My father is what you call well respected so they listen to whatever he says. The percentage of work I will need is one hundred percent because I like to put my all into working. I really hope that everything I want to accomplish I will be able to do. Last but not less I plan to stay in contact with all of my friends at Harper.


08 RUN IT

Timothy Johnson

What are your plans after graduation? What steps have you taken towards realizing these plans? What percentage (0-100%) of the work necessary toward achieving your plans have you accomplished?
My plans after graduation are to go to a college where I can learn more about fine arts. My dream is to be an artist and I would like to accomplish that by going to the California College of the Arts. At first I didn’t know how to go or where to go to college, I was researching a lot of colleges where I can go and be more comfortable. I had thought of going to universities but none of them where my type. I thought of going to a college where I can stay close to my mom but I didn’t want to stick too close to her, I want to be independent and be on my own, I want to grow up. I’m going to work for a while so I can get money and then I’m going to college and I’m 100% sure that I’m going to make a career out of what I’m good at. I’ve only accomplished 80% toward achieving my dreams. Wish me luck on my journey!!!

Johana Vizarraga
1st Period
5/1/08

I would like to attend college to take up crimanl justice to become a parole officer. I would like to follow in my brother's foot steps

Demeisco Ford
1st per.


Do you believe in the adage, " birds of a feather flock together"? Is this a true statement? Why or why not? I feel that the statement isn't true at all. Tobegin with, I'm a perfect example of the statement. I hang with people who are a bad influence, make the wrong choices, and are not being very constructive with their lives. At the same time, I have to stay focused. My main motivation is to raise up from all this madness and became successful. Day in and day out I See the struggle. People today I feel don't really know the importance of higher education, The easily became a product of their environment. In my opinion, I think that people should open their minds and become mature about the situation. we as a community, or as a society, should stop spectators from their narrow minded opinion against our race. Our Culture as a people has the wrong mind set. we often feed into the media. Almost everyday there is something negative about our race, but still we do nothing about it. we kill each other and to us it's not even wrong. As for me, all I can do is look forward. Hoping for better days and a better overcome.

After I finish high school, I’m planning on going to Kennedy king college on 63rd and Halsted. I know when I graduate life will be much harder than high school. There are no more adults helping you with things because you are in pre-adult years. I know when I graduate my grandmother isn’t going to do as much as she used to do for me. I know I will have to look for an apartment and a good job. If I plan on staying with my grandmother she is going to start making me pay half on the rent. I believe that I’m getting my own apartment because I don’t want anybody telling me what to do after I graduate. I know that I will be grown and I will be able to make my own decisions. Things will be much harder than usual; there isn’t anymore buying shoes every two weeks. I know the money I use for shoes will have to go on rent. Making smart choices will help me after graduation. I have been talking to my counselor about financial aid. She start sending all my paper to Kennedy king college. I have talk to one of the counselors at the college but she really didn’t tell me a lot of things. I accomplished 10% of work towards accomplishing my goals in the future. All I have to do now is waiting until the counselors start calling me and giving me information. I have been thinking about college life since January.
Monique Steward

My plans after graduation is to find a decent job and later go to college and
get a degree in business or I'll probably go into another field such as real estate or technical engineereering. I look forward into making my dreams bigger and making
life easier for me. I don't know what I'll will be specifically doing after college,
but I get there. My work toward achieving my plans is first to achieve at high school
or to graduate from high school first,then go on from there making my way through graduating and being the first male not only to graduate from high school but to graduate from high school and going to college. I'll probably make a four year college or a trade school. I am looking forward to going to a university. I Believe higher education equal a better opportunity for a great job. I look forward to my future because I think it's very valuable to me. It's like an investment to me and my family. My future is up to me and I decide how I want to lead my life. It's hard but I was taught not to give up. I'd known people that drop out of high school and been through the worst and I have learned from that. that's not the the path I want to go down. I believe the only way to make it in the world Is the use of your brains
that's why I decide to go to college after I graduate.




Emanuel Cammon

My plans for life after graduation is to go to college to get a bacelor's degree in Mathematics. I've been submitting application to different colleges and universities, but I did get accepted to Richard J. Daley Community College. I put in 50% of the work necessary towards me achieving my plans, I will achieve the other 50% when I graduate from Daley College with my degree in Mathematics.

The Most strikng images I read in canto 33 is the sinner. The sinner who lives in hell and also have a bloody mouth and sharp teeth. The canto 34 image is the satan. because satan is a red devil of hell, also he was the King of hell.

I think hell is a bad place. There are red demons and the devil. they have horns on their heads, and there also fire in hell. The fire makes hell a very hot and uncomfortable place.

Tysheika C. Young
May 1, 2008

Kieana Owens
Pd.1

How much land does a man really need?

A man needs enough land so he can be content with the things he have. Why should a person be greedy when god has blessed them with so many things already? Being satisfied is never enough in our world today. You have to have more of this and more of that and for what reason at all? I feel it is because of the movies we watch, the television shows, magazines, posters, etc all of this has an affect on why people want to be as high as they can. I'm not saying its a bad thing just don't become GREEDY and INCONSIDERATE.

For example with the man in the story his first big move was enough, he was happy his family were in good living. As soon as he saw he could get more that's exactly what he did and look what happened to him, he died. He was being INCONSIDERATE because now his family has to deal with his death and GREEDY because he wanted more land, for no reason at all!

If people don't stop being so selfish they're going to end up dead or with nothing at all. Happiness is the key to life. So again I say a man needs enough land to take care of his family, responsibilities, and most importantly himself.

The ending of the story I feel Pahom got all that he deserved! Greed never gets any person far in life.

You should love your life and live it to the fullest!

My plan after graduation is to go to Virginia Union University and live on my own. I have received the acceptance packet and I have to mail them my final transcripts after I get my diploma. I have so much to do within two months, the biggest challenge being able to convince my mom to let me go out of state. My mom really wants me to go to Kennedy King because it’s close by my home and it doesn’t cost more than an out of state university. I told her that I want to go to Virginia Union University because it gives me a chance so see what it really is like in the real world and to live in a different state other than Illinois.
If I don’t go out of state then I want to get my own apartment and go to Malcolm X College. I think I’m ready for the real world. I want to be independent just like other people; I look forward to having a job, getting a degree, and paying bills that are in my name. After high school I want to do something with my life. I want to make something of my life unlike other people that don’t want to do nothing after they graduate from high school. I want to see myself ten years from now being the next Bill Gates working with computer and technology. I know my mom and family would be proud of me for doing something with my life. Ashanti Wilson April 30, 2008 P-2nd

From School to home, teens walk perilous lines
Reading from school to home, teens walk perilous lines. It’s sad to me because we live in a world that not safe to go any where. I really think about that everyday because I’m the only girl my Mother has four kid’s three boys and one girl. By me being the oldest I have to look out for the younger one everyday. And now and day how every thing going I have to think about what if some thing happen to me or one of my brother what would the others do or what would my Mother do. In the old days guys was always a target but now everybody is a target now old people, young people, and even little kids people just don’t care any more and that is sad. It’s sad that we have to live in a world that’s so cold and you would that black people would look out for each other but they don’t. Black people talk about each other and do things to hurt one in other every day and you would think all the things we have been though with each other we would be as one. Gangs are taking over the world now it’s sad to say but it’s the truth. Every day that you walk out them doors of your house you have to think about if today is your last day here in earth and I know that it hurt to think like that everyday but you have too. People are getting killed everyday I say about 10 to 20 people a day some time more than that, that just on a good day. I’m not even worry about myself because I know if I go today or tomorrow I’m okay with that because it’s my time go I really think about my brothers I know that sound crazy but that just how I feel. My brothers are every thing to me and I can’t see myself here on earth with out them and only like that people that I really do care about and it’s not a lot of them. My Mother, my brothers, and I have been though so much together but we have over came it all. And I feel we could over come war that we are in now we can overcome any thing. The days that we are in now is war it’s like going to war with people you see everyday because you ever know when one of them will take your life.

KaDaisha Burrell
04/30/2008
Per#02

I believe Tim Wise has a great point. There is no reason why Obama should be held accountable for Jeremiah’s actions. Everything that came out of Wright’s mouth was his beliefs and opinions. Even thought this is true many of African Americans agree with Obama’s former pastor including Bill Cosby. Wise stated the same Bill Cosby that white America loves. The difference between these men is that Wright said what he had to say bluntly while Bill’s statement was the American way to say it. I guess they feel as Wright stepped out of line by stating the truth.
It does not make any sense that Wright’s words are such a big controversy. The real problem is not what he said; it is the fact that it has been said. White America does not want to stand up and accept the truth including the destruction that they took part in. They aren’t able to look back on history and see hat they were in the wrong. Instead they feel it’s best to hide it and act as if it never happened. That truly that sickens me.
How can you expect for a man to sit there and not say how he feels? He sees his people stuffer because of America. The same America that is supposed to be the big brother of other nations. It’s about time that someone spoke out about the problems that we are facing. I believe it was just too much for White America to swallow.




Tiffany Lewis

Karl Mables Paper....

From School to home, teens walk a perilous line

By: Karl Mables

 

 

            I found this article to be very interesting. I am a teen growing up in Englewood, so I can relate to the trials of fellow teens in high violent communities. I think that this school year is the worse one yet. According to the article, 22 cps students have lost their lives due to violence. The latest kid was beaten to death with a bat. That's just the murder, that doesn't even include the students who were shot and didn't die.

            It's at the point that I'm almost scared to walk down the street. The article also talked about turfs. In my community, we called them blocks. We fight to defend the pride of the block. Sometimes there are friends fighting friends, cousins fighting cousins. It's a sad situation. The article mentioned that kids would fight over something as little as a dollar. In my neighborhood, kids would fight just about anything. It's to the point where u can't even look at someone.

            I am most afraid for the girl. They seem to fight more than the guys. Girls at my school will fight their friends over a boy. I don't know why these girls are fighting about things in which they have no control. You cannot control how someone else feels. According to the article, girls and boys seem to fight because of jealousy. I feel that we are all in the same situation. There is no need to fight about who has new gym shoes or new clothes. School should be getting a education, not getting hurt or killed.

 

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Scot Ferman
The things I like most about Mrs. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter. First and for most I like the way she dances, sings, and acts. The main reason I wanted to do this assignment on Miss Del’Sheena’s book about Beyoncé is because as soon as I open the book, the pictures caught my eye. I mean if I didn’t open up the book and see those pictures I would probably be writing about the 24 kids in Chicago public school that just recently got killed. So I figured why not write about something that I really like. Personally I never liked writing about bad news that wasn’t interesting to me. But let’s get to the book about my baby Beyoncé. In the book there were mostly pictures that I was staring at, because my girl looked so good in the book, especially when she had that bathing suit on. But one thing I found out about Beyoncé while reading the book made me mad. I found out that Beyoncé was getting married to hip-hop star Jay-Z and not only that but she was also pregnant by him. I promise I was so pissed off. I mean as fine as she is why would she want to go and do something like that? I just don’t get it. If I would have known Beyoncé before she got married I probably would have tried to talk her out of it. Seeing that I don’t know her, I just have to live with the fact that the young pop star the one and only Beyoncé Giselle Knowles has thrown in the towel for an ugly dude like Mr. Shawn Carter. That’s crazy and I don’t believe it.

Kids are being killed everyday like its nothing. It seems like every time I turn on the TV, I hear some thing about some CPS student has been killed. Along with many other of the Chicago citizens feel that it is not safe to stay in this city. This article makes a lot of sense about the violence that is going on around the city. This article also touches many key points to things that are contributing to the violence level in the city of the Chicago. Trying to stop this violence will take lot of time and lots of work, by both the Chicago Police Department and the CPS student body and administration. Without help from all of these people nothing will happen, the violence will continue to climb at an alarming rate. I myself will put forward my best foot to help stop any violence that I witness or take part in. Many teens here at Harper have already signed a document that says they will not use any guns to solve any problems or disagreement. Kids these days do not understand that a gun can take more then just a life. It also takes away your freedom, somebody’s child, grandchild, cousin, etc. Teens today have a lot more to fear, then teens from 10 years ago. So I believe that with lots of help, support, and love these killings will stop. We have already lost 24 CPS students do to violence. Every CPS Students does not want to become number 25.

My top five greatest WNBA players. Lisa Leslie is number one. I picked her to be number one because she has accomplished goals that other WNBA players haven’t. She’s the first player to reach the 3,000 plateau. She’s the firs to garner regular season, WNBA Championship and All-Star Game MVP awards in the same season, and she’s the first WNBA player who has ever dunked.
Tamika Catchings is my number two. She plays for the Indiana Fever. She has accomplished many goals in her career also. She was rookie of the year in 2002. In 2004 she was a Olympic Gold Medalist, and in 2005-06 she got the WNBA defensive player of the year award.
Sheryl Swoopes is my number three. She also has accomplished great goals. As a member of the Houston Comets, she has accumulated over 2,000 career points, 500 career rebounds, 300 career assists and 200 career steals. Her extraordinary scoring and defensive ability have made her the first three-time WNBA MVP 2000, 2002, and 2005.
Theresa Weatherspoon is number four. She was a great player too. She has been awarded through out her career also. Up until the 2003 season, she held the distinction of being the only WNBA player to start every one of her games. In 1997 she was the first winner of the league's Defensive player of the year.
My number five is Cynthia Cooper. She was a great player too. She earned great awards too. Cooper was voted the WNBA’s MVP in 1997and 1998 and also won four WNBA Championships with the Houston Comets.
Shawntell Taylor

“She’s a genius” I thought to my self when I read the words on the cover of the book. She’s my kind of girl. She loves movies; she has a man who she’s obviously in love with, and on top of all that she’s smart as hell.
This brilliant young lady’s name is Tiarra Pryor. She’s so organized and creative. She has a table of contents so you can see what you want and don’t want to read. She has all types of genres: poetry, lists, short stories, and more.
One of my personal favorites is a story that she wrote called “My first REAL Valentine”. This guy sounds like a keeper. The way she describes him is like a prince out of a fairy tale but with a sense of humor. She’s one lucky lady; she’d be a fool not to keep him.
Now here’s where her creativity comes in. She has a poem called “Time for School”. She has the whole poem written in scrabbles. Why? Because the poem is provocative and she didn’t want to give anyone the wrong impression that she was a “Girls gone wild” type.
She’s intellectual because she’s interested in her culture and her history. She has a web on lynching. She’s showing how it traces back to her. She must be firm on how she sees her self as an African American in today’s society. Talking to her made realize that you must be successful in this world in order to make it.
Not only does she write well but she also has a little bit of art skills up her sleeve. She drew a street block and it was unbelievable. She must be a bright girl because there wasn’t a page that didn’t have color. That means bright colors, a bright future. You can tell what type of person she is by reading and looking through her book. You can tell that she’s happy, successful, creative, bright, and knows where she came from and knows where she’s going.

Tiarra Pryor
World Lit. 8th

BY Darius "Atamisk" Bright.

Response to bell ringer 30-D newsletter.


In response to the newsletter, of bell ringer 30-D, I believe immediate action should be taken. When I walk, through the halls at school and, through the neighborhood, I notice many things aren’t what they are supposed to be. It is obvious that that many of the cess pool spawn, that inhabit these schools and neighborhoods should have, long ago, been aborted. They are making chances for decent living and successful lives, almost impossible to experience and achieve.

It would have been more convenient if the trash took out the trash. However, many precious lives are being thrown away with them. Some who are pure lose their way in the confusion and desperation. They find themselves stepping in to the tracks of filth left behind by the spawn, Becoming stained by them.

I may be an extremist but I do have, what I believe, are solutions to the mortality rates and dangers:

Guns

There needs to be stricter gun laws. I don’t think it really matters what pro gun activist argue. They may say “guns are not dangerous! People are.” That statement became a cliché very quickly. It’s true that if a gun is left alone it’s harmless but what is a gun used for? It’s used for hunting, games, and in war, it’s used to kill the enemy. Now it’s used too frequently to kill civilians. Guns seem to be the choice of weapon to kill and it gives the wielder the power to do so easily. If people are dangerous, why grant them this power? It’s used for other things; however it’s used for killing mostly.

Cough syrup is supposed to be used to stop a bad cough but there is a restriction on the amount you buy because of how people may use it. If guns aren’t that big of a problem then why can’t I go through the airport with a gun to protect myself against terrorist? I believe we can say the same for bombs. Why can’t I own a bomb or make one? Bombs aren’t dangerous! People are! Let’s say the same for nuclear bombs. They aren’t dangerous! People are! So why does America police the world, putting restrictions on them? I have the answer to those questions. The answer is that they are trying to stop potential threats to safety. However, anyone with a gun is a potential threat to the safety of others around them. There is a serious hypocrisy that often plagues America.

Is there anyone who is pro guns that live where they must constantly lie on the floor, frequently, and pray they are not hit by a stray bullet from an outside conflict that has nothing to do with them? What about being afraid to let their children go outside or play, on the playground, because there are drug dealers and gang members carrying guns, playing Russian roulette with there lives, just by being there in a potentially dangerous area? How would they feel then? Stricter gun laws are needed and that’s the bottom line!


Community

There are too many liquor stores in my neighborhood. The only thing the neighborhood has too much of is churches and liquor stores. On my way to school I pass 6 liquor stores. One of them is on the next street, at the corner of my school, tempting the rogue teens to intoxicate themselves before and after school. That leads to them becoming more and more reckless. To think that no owner would sell minors some liquor for a profit would be naïve. It would be more foolish to think that the teens wouldn’t find other means to get the liquor.

Along with getting rid of some liquor stores, more things such as skating rinks, grocery stores, bowling alleys, and arcades should be built in the neighborhood. This solution may give people something else to do besides get drunk and high.

People

Parents need to know who their kids hang out with, where they are and what they do outside of home. People speak freely in school about what types of weapons they have, what crew they hang with and what they plan to do at the end of the school day. I believe there should be anonymous tips giving to prevent future danger.

Government

If these violent offenders need an outlet then send them to war instead of rotting in prison. Put them on the front lines. They would make excellent shields and great fertilizer. Perhaps they should all be put in a quarantined area and a bomb should be dropped in the center obliterating every thing in the set area.

I believe all my methods are effective and should be considered.

DeAnte Montgomery 4/17/08
8th Period


The Chicago Public School (CPS) shootings are getting way out of hand. There should not be one reason in the world why a student should be afraid to commute back and forth from school everyday. School is supposed to be a place of safety and an environment for learning. This school year alone 22 CPS students have been killed. Just yesterday as I was watching the news, it was reported that another student was murdered on the Westside of Chicago, making the list 23. We as a community should be ashamed of what’s happening. Students that really want to learn and graduate shouldn’t have to fear for the lives everyday. I as a CPS student sometimes worry about my going to and from school every morning.
Every single day you have to watch your back because you never know what’s going to happen. Everyone should get involved in order to find the solution to this crisis. If we can’t solve it we will only lose more students. Not only to the gun and gang violence, but also to the drop-out rate due to the fear of our students. CPS students who want to learn should feel free to walk home from school without fearing someone’s going to rob them, beat them up, or even worst kill them.
As a CPS student I feel like there should be constant police surveillance around these schools and their areas. Police vehicles should circle each block and secure the safety for our students. What we’re doing now isn’t working. Each community needs to have and stick to new plans for our upcoming school year. Next years students should not have to face this. Let’s all pitch in and make our neighborhoods a safer for our students. So that we can all live a little better and keep the CPS Student death rate down to a minimum.

DeAnte Montgomery 4/17/08

8th Period





The Chicago Public School (CPS) shootings are getting way out of hand. There should not be one reason in the world why a student should be afraid to commute back and forth from school everyday. School is supposed to be a place of safety and an environment for learning. This school year alone 22 CPS students have been killed. Just yesterday as I was watching the news, it was reported that another student was murdered on the Westside of Chicago, making the list 23. We as a community should be ashamed of what’s happening. Students that really want to learn and graduate shouldn’t have to fear for the lives everyday. I as a CPS student sometimes worry about my going to and from school every morning.



Every single day you have to watch your back because you never know what’s going to happen. Everyone should get involved in order to find the solution to this crisis. If we can’t solve it we will only lose more students. Not only to the gun and gang violence, but also to the drop-out rate due to the fear of our students. CPS students who want to learn should feel free to walk home from school without fearing someone’s going to rob them, beat them up, or even worst kill them.



As a CPS student I feel like there should be constant police surveillance around these schools and their areas. Police vehicles should circle each block and secure the safety for our students. What we’re doing now isn’t working. Each community needs to have and stick to new plans for our upcoming school year. Next years students should not have to face this. Let’s all pitch in and make our neighborhoods a safer for our students. So that we can all live a little better and keep the CPS Student death rate down to a minimum.

I would like to talk about the violence in the community. I personally think that guns should be off the street because it’s killing most of the kids in the community. People would pick up a gun and shoot innocent people, but they wouldn’t pick up a book and educate themselves. It breaks my heart to turn on the 9:00 news and hear that a young and innocent kid was killed. Children can’t even walk to the store or the park safely without someone on the streets acting a fool. The Board of Education should have more programs where teens and children should go to right after school; that’s a must. I would also like the Chicago police to put 100% effort in trying to get guns off the street. Even though they try to get guns off the street, somehow or somewhere it keeps coming back. The world is not full of perfect people; we have some dangerous people that need to be in jail and not in the streets killing our youth. School safety is very important to me because the principal should have several exit plans where children and teens should go to get out the building. Everyone should be able to know where to go when its’ an emergency. Our schools have to be safe as well because the criminals are finding a way to get in the schools. I truly believe that we can get the bad guys off the street and in jail that way we can live our life happily. Ashanti wilson
April 17-2008 p-2nd

It's sad that now the world seems to belong to ruthless uncaring people who think that your life is not important as theirs.I believe that people who think or will do that,don't deserve to live themselves.Because it's them who bring everybody down and
make it harder for everybody to live. I knew a friend, Daniel McCullough his whole family had got killed,his older brother, Allen McCullough the 3rd, his father Allen McCullough Jr, and his mother Denna Mccowen McCullough and Daniel McCullough is in jail for arm robbery. It's mess up that gun violence is aiming at CPS student on a younger generation who will be leader of our future. it's hard to raise a child positive, in a negative neighborhood and police is helpless to our community and they are useful after the crime scene. I think if all the goodness that come out of the community come against the bad or evil,we might can take it back over and we, the community need to come together as a family I think that guns should'nt be sold period. Martin Luther King march for our rights and know we have are rights we jeopardize and take advantage of it its mess up that someone died for what we now sabotaging. innocents dying from what ingnorance doing to us.

Emanuel Cammon

Michael Jordan was one the best player to player in the NBA. Michael Jordan was one of the people that I like in the NBA. I thing that Michael Jordan could not be stop in NBA. Michael Jordan made an impact in college for North Carolina. Michael was ACC freshman of the year. Michael Jordan decides to leave North Carolina to enter the NBA draft. Michael Jordan was selected with the third overall pick by the Chicago bulls. Jordan rookie for bulls he made an immediate impact averaged an amazing 28.2 point. He had a six game where he scores 40+ points for the Chicago bulls. Michael Jordan went to the all star his rookie year. Jordan win six NBA champion with the bulls .Michael Jordan father murdered while sleep in car .Michael Jordan retired at the age 33 in 1993 . Michael Jordan went the baseball and signs a monior league contract with Chicago white sox. In the 1994. Jordan went back to the NBA and them beating the New York knick. He lit them up for 55 point on March 29th. He would go to lead the bulls to three more NBA championships. Then Jordan became part owner of the Washington wizard in 2001-2002. Jordan return. To the NBA as a member of the wizards. He was dismissed as president of the Washington wizards. In June 2006 he became part owner of the charlotte bobcats. Michael Jordan flied for divorced from Juanita. His wife of 17year in 2000 he was name part and director of basketball.

Reginald Saul

I think that this article is making a great point about the violence in the city of Chicago. I think that there are many reasons why are city is becoming the most terrible place to live in. One the reasons why I think that is because the police spend to much time trying to follow, and arrest innocent people for petty thins when we have people walking up and down the streets with guns every day. Another the reason why our city is becoming the most terrible place to live is because teens are looking up to drug dealers, and gang members and wanting to be like them, instead of looking up to people like Lebron James, Barock Obama, or Oprah Winfrey. Another reason why is because schools aren’t having enough activities like open gym on weekends, or school dances. Another reason why is because of the guns that are being brought into our neighborhoods. The guns are getting passed down to teens that want to act tough and get respect so they take others lives. One of the main reasons why Chicago is becoming the most terrible place to live is because the parents are not strict enough. The parents have knowledge that their kids are in the gang and selling drugs, and instead of trying to guide them and give them knowledge they kick them out on the streets without giving it their all. Those are the reasons why I think that Chicago is becoming the most terrible place to live, and the ways that we could make it better.

Reginald Saul
I think that this article is making a great point about the violence in the city of Chicago. I think that there are many reasons why are city is becoming the most terrible place to live in. One the reasons why I think that is because the police spend to much time trying to follow, and arrest innocent people for petty thins when we have people walking up and down the streets with guns every day. Another the reason why our city is becoming the most terrible place to live is because teens are looking up to drug dealers, and gang members and wanting to be like them, instead of looking up to people like Lebron James, Barock Obama, or Oprah Winfrey. Another reason why is because schools aren’t having enough activities like open gym on weekends, or school dances. Another reason why is because of the guns that are being brought into our neighborhoods. The guns are getting passed down to teens that want to act tough and get respect so they take others lives. One of the main reasons why Chicago is becoming the most terrible place to live is because the parents are not strict enough. The parents have knowledge that their kids are in the gang and selling drugs, and instead of trying to guide them and give them knowledge they kick them out on the streets without giving it their all. Those are the reasons why I think that Chicago is becoming the most terrible place to live, and the ways that we could make it better.

I think that it isn’t safe anywhere in Chicago. It is bad that some mothers and fathers have to think about if their child is safe. They carry their burdens of their king and their kids still lose their lives over something stupid or an accident. The police are not doing anything about it; all I want to know how and when are the police going to stop this insanity. I mean every time you turn on the television someone has lost their mainly high school students. The mayor of Chicago Richard Daley is doing more talking about the killing of teens then really taking action about the thing. I really think that the mayor don’t care about what going on in the Englewood community. He sees this as a minor issue and not a major one this should be on top of his list not those pot holes in the street o, the CTA money problem or the Olympics, but the death of 24 Chicago public school student that have died and people seems to be getting away with.
The police, do we even have police in this city if we do they are not making there self seen in the streets. The police don’t be out enforcing the law like they should. They need to get out in the street and make a statement to the violence that is going on in the streets. I feel like the police don’t do anything because they fear for their life, but if they don’t do any thing people are just going to run all over them.
Some of the kids that died have died for wrong reason. Sometimes I don’t feel safe walking to and from school and that should not be.



Douglas Brown
1st Period
4-17-08