Yes I think Okeke will see his grandson and make peace with his son and daughter in law. The reason why I believe he would because I think that he will be more kind hearted. He has a grandson now. Okeke need to put the past behind him. He needs to be in his grandson life. I just don’t see a person still holding a grudge over something stupid. Okeke need to just let his son and daughter law live their lives. Only thing Okeke need to do is just be in his grandson life because boys need all the fathering they can get. I know if that was me and my son and I knew a women wasn’t right for my son. Then I would try to tell him but if he don’t listen. Then he would have to find out on his own. Only thing I would do is not deal with his wife. If I had a grandchild I wouldn’t hold a grudge against my grandchild. Just because I don’t like my grandchild mothers. A person needs their family I don’t care what they say. Nobody haves your back like your family. Sometimes families have their ups and downs but they will still be there for you. As an older person you just suppose to look past things and just keep living life. Once a family member is gone and the last word you had with them was an argument. Then you will feel bad inside because you held a grudge. Over nothing now you can’t even see that person again. So that’s why I think Okeke will make peace.

Denisha Brown
2nd period
5-6-08

I think the story ‘’how much land does a man need’’ It was very wonderful and understanding because it show you how working so hard can drive you into your own grave I say this because Pahom was trying so hard to get the most land and in the end he fall dead because he was so hungry for land that he would do anything in this power to have it .but I think in the end if he knew that being so hungry for land was going to kill him her may have changed his life all the way around, but I think all the talk that his wife and her sister was talking about drove him crazy and he just went out to the field and marked all the land before the moon when down and the sun was coming up .he didn’t understand that it really does not matter how much land a man has as long as he has some place to call home and a land to call your own .put if it was all up to me I would not even care about what other have to say about the thing I have and I really would not let it drive me to my grave just like pahom ,he gave his all in to getting all the land he wants that it drove he right in to his own grave that he marked off and ended right there in that same spot ,I wish some one would have told him that before he went off in to the moon light that he will never see again in life maybe the after life
TASHAREL STEVENSON 2 PER bellringer 32 a

“Jewel”

My conclusion to the story “Jewel” I felt that it was realistic, I say that because even when it’s not in the story it’s happening in real life. If women didn’t have a job to pay her rent how else would she expect to survive, I would say use a man for all he has. Being that Monsieur Lantin knew that she had no money he thought that all the jewelry was fake. He wouldn’t have suspected that she was cheating to get all the jewelry she had encountered; she was attending operas every time she felt the need to get out the house. Now if I was a man and both me and my wife had no job to pay our bills and she was coming in the house with money and jewelry and I’m knowing it’s not a gift from me at that point I would of start suspecting that there was something going on in her life that I knew nothing about. At the point of the story when she died from pneumonia and he had no way to live and he took it into his own hands to find out how much the jewelry was even though he thought it was fake. It came out to be that it was worth more then he could of imagined and at that point he then realized that she had a secret life but could do nothing more about but spend the money, he didn’t even think that when he got married six moths later that his new wife would be hell.

Jessica Sabbs

Christopher Chapman
Mr. Winfry
5/6/08






What psychological effects do the events that Wiesel relates have on the prisoners? How do I think I would have acted as a prisoner in their place? Brutal, unfair beaten, and just treated as if they are not human. I really don’t know how I would have reacted if I was in such a place. It is very shocking to see how one man can wipe out thousands and thousands of people and get away with it. The reason that I say that I don’t know what I would have done, is because of the fact that theirs nothing one man could do to have escape from the treatment and harshness’ that the thousands and thousands of people had to encounter. This is such a situation that can leave a really bad effect on a person for the rest of their lives. Survivors such as Elise Wiesely lived to share the effects that it has still on him today. What every last one of those prisoners been through is unforgettable, and I think it could damage a person’s mind if he or she survived. Elise Wiesely who is living proof that you could also recover from such a bad experience and still live a normal life, not to say that Elise Wiesel has no bad memories or effects form his bad experience, but he is now a professor at a university and has fully recovered on is health. All and all this really something that no one ever would want to go through nor experience.

Do you find this story (the jewel) realistic or unbelievable? Why?

I find this story realistic because I think it can happen to anybody and I also think that it has happened before and it can happen again in the future. Many people in real life are greedy and want to have everything especially the things they can’t afford or can’t have. Some lie about where they got things from and some lie about the things they don’t even have. I think it’s better for someone to be proud of what they have because either way they’re going to get caught in their own lies.
The woman in the story seemed like a gentle woman, someone who a man would be proud of calling their wife. What people didn’t know was that she was putting an act in front of everyone. When she died, her husband tried selling her fake jewelry. He then found out that the jewelry was real and stolen.
After reading the story, I then knew that this can happen to anyone in the world and it might be happening right this moment.

Johana Vizarraga
1st Period
World Literature

Bellringer 32A "How much does land does a man need"



I think it was a good conclusion was good for him because he was being greedy and he wanted too much.The conclusion taught me that

Chiamaka Mogbo


The greatest wrong!


I think that all wrongs should have their own separate punishments, unless it’s an honest mistake. Other than that everyone should believe in karma.


Murderers should be prosecuted with murder. In every aspect they should be killed the same death that the victim had to die. If murderers died a horrible death it wouldn’t bother me.

Betrayal is a wrong that can hurt a person physically, mentally, spiritually and most importantly emotionally. Your emotions can drive you crazy, one reason why people kill themselves, after they have killed the betrayer.

Revenge is just another word for karma and what goes around comes around. Every dog has his day and if I am the reason for your day to come a little bit earlier than fate expected, than so be it!

Theft is a minor wrong it also has its consequences. Minor consequences, like the hands should be burned to the third degree. Than they wont have any way to steal again.

Cheating is the only one that I’ll make exceptions for and that’s because everyone slips and falls. If a person is actually sorry for they’re mistake they should be given a second chance. Just one chance, if it happens again the cheater needs to be alone.

I know that a lot of people don’t believe in karma but everything does happen for a reason. Even if you didn’t believe in karma thinking that way would keep you out a lot of trouble, and I know the quote, “two wrongs don’t make it right.” But it does make us even!

Demeisco Ford
1st per




Do you think Okeke will see his grandsons and make peace with his son and daughter in law? Or do you think he will continue to stick by his traditional beliefs and die without seeing his? What makes you say so. I feel that okeke will eventually come to his senses and see his grandchildren. To begin with, okeke should want to see his grandsons. In today's life, growing up without a father figure plays a significant role in a young childs life. So what is their outcome: Drugs, Jail, or the result of murder. To me, with that there's never a situation where you could be comfortable with your life. Okeke is a good man, who made bad choices of how his life turned. He turned his son away when he needed him the most. Love is something in my opinion that you can't control, That's what happen to okeke's son. He fell in love with a woman, who was from another tribe. No matter who she was he had incredible feelings for this woman. So they got married and not caring what will happen tomorrow.

Eric Johnson
Per 1

Do you find the story jewel to be believable?

I find the story to be very believable because stuff like the happen all the time. We can't help but notice some type of history that occurred when things might have seemed to be just like the story but in a different prospective. The apprehension of the story to real life is that an husband's wife is hiding a private life and she is wearing mysterious jewelery that she claimed was fake but the husband soon found out that they were real and that her wife had some money because he found out that without her, his financial matters weren't enough for him, even thought he was the only one employed when she was living.

Wiesel relate have on the prisoners because he has also drawn attention to the plight of cambodians, soviet jews, south african blacks, and other victims of persecution throughtout the world. as one of Europe's millions of displaced persons, Wiesle at first settled in France.

No, I don't think Pahom met a fitting end is the master of the house was lying on top of the stove and he listened to the women's catter.

I think Okeke was trying hard not to think of his two grandsons. for eight years, Okeke would have nothing to do with his son, Nnaemeka. only three times (when Nnaemeka asked to come home and spend his leave) did he write to him.

He had left his wife's room untouched, and every day would shut himself in it and think about her. All the funiture and even her clothes remained exactly where they had been on the day she had died.

Monsieur Latin, who was then a senior clerk at the ministry of the Interior with a salary of three thousand five hundred francs a year, proposed to her and married her. he was incredibly happy with her. she ran his household so skillfully and economocally that they gave the impression of living in luxury. she lavished attention on her husband, spoiling and coddling him, and the charm of her aws so great that six years after their first meeting he loved her even more than in the early days.
Yes, I believe in the adage 'birds of a feather flock together because birds are flying way up to the sky,and they also have wings. People who are a like friends.

I think Wiesel chose to title his autobiography night in 1958,Wiesel finally wrote aws his autobiography night, one of the most significant and powerful acounts of Nazi atrocities, ever written. since then, Wiesel has written many works about the Holocaust-the term her first used for the Nazi policy of systemmatic mass murder of European Jews. He has also described prewar Hasidic life and published several connectios of Jewish folktales. when the Nazis arrived in 1944 and rounded up all of the Jews, Wiesel and his family had no that they were being sent to Nazi death camps. They ended up in Auschwitz, the most informous of these camps.

When count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy died in an obscure railroad station at the age of eighty-two, he may have have been the most famous man in the world.his death from pneumonia was front-page news in England and American. Tolstoy was also a social and religious reformer and a symbol of of Russia's yearning for freedom. Tolstoy was born wealthy aristocratic parents, but he became an orphan when he was nine. he, his three older brothers, and his younger sister were raised by aunts on the family estate. As Tolstoy grew older, he like many young men of the Russian nobility, led an aimless life. At nineteen, Tolstoy split his inheritance with his brothers and became the master of his family's estate and its three hundred serfs.within three years, he managed to gamble away about one fourth of his inheritance. looking for adventure, he joined the Russian army and fought bravely during the crieman way.

Tysheika C. Young
May 6,2008
1st Period

I find the story realistic because it's a lot of wives that use their husband.The story

Kieana Owens
pd. 1

After his son's wife wrote that letter to Okeke he didn't want to die having pain in his heart of never forgiving his son and meeting his grandson's. I think that Okeke will not stick with his traditional beliefs because he probably thinks that family comes first before anything now. The last sentence in the story stated that he didn't want to go to sleep because he feared that he wouldn't wake up not knowing his grandson's.

Okeke now feels the shame and guilt that he has put upon himself over the years. I think that he misses his son and finally wants to give his son's wife a chance no matter what tribe she is apart of . When Okeke sees his grandson's thats when I think his eyes will fill up with tears and he would wonder why he shut his son out the way he did for so many years.

Love should comes first in a family and your family shouldn't care who you marry as long as your happy. All these traditions and beliefs should be erased from the world and let people live the way they want to live. Okeke was wrong for what he did and he realized what a huge mistake he had made.

I think the first big step his admitting your guilt or wrong then trying to make the situation right, now matter how long its been. I can never imagine myself shutting out my family for my spouse or the other way around. We all are going to be around each other everyday until there is love in the air.

That is what Okeke should have done he could have at least given his son's wife a chance before shutting them out, but I guess everybody doesn't think like that. Traditions are traditions and rules are rules and that is changing no time soon.

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Why betrayal is the worst crime.

The greatest wrong people can commit to me is betrayal. The reason I say betrayal is because if someone close to you betrayals you that’s close to being the worst thing that can happen to you and the reason I say that is because if you cant trust someone close to you like your best friend or your own family then there is no one you can trust because sometimes when “the tough gets going and the going gets tough” their almost always the only people you can count own because they always had you back before so it might not seem like their going to turn their back on you this time. To sum everything up someone who betrayed their friends or family or anything else is not someone you should be close with PERIOD.

Eric JOhnson
Per 1

My big plan is to get out of Harper high school and go to the real world. To me the real world is college and playing baseball in college. I want to get my name out there so people can know about me. I want people to feel my energy when I play the game. I want to show people that I could do what ever I put my mind to. I put my head in the book and then let my game talk for me. My coach, coach Hartwell of Harper high school, tells me before every game do not let my mouth play my game and use what god gave me. I also want to become a professional so I can give back to the community. I want the chance to help people with learning the fundamentals of baseball just as I have. I was told to help kids as people did for me. Some people I know would want me to help their kids.

The income would be a big help to me and my family. I could get my mother things she always wanted. I could move my family into a safe neighborhood with low crime rates. Living in my neighborhood makes me want to strive to be better. Whenever I see an opportunity to be successful I take it. This life is too hard not to get the pleasures from it. Finally, I’m a senior and all I need now is to graduate and keep my motivation.

Douglas Brown
World Lit. 1st

Desmon Haywood
5-1-08
Per 2
I think the greatest thing a person can do wrong is to have sex with a child or kill a child. For that I think they should die. If they kill a kid they should go to jail for the rest of their life. Kids are the one thing that no one should mess with. You hear about kid’s that have been taken out of their beds off the street and from school.

There is no one watching them and half of the people don’t care if it’s not their kids. When they find out about it then that’s when they try to help and put flowers out on the street. In this world we live in today people die and get kidnapped everyday and most of the time if the news is not involved the killers are not found. That is because if it’s not them or it’s not their family no one cares . That’s why I think that no matter what if you murder some one you should die. It has gotten so bad that people have to kill just to walk down the street. No one has the right to kill another person. No matter what they have done killing is not right unless it is some one like Osama Din Laden. They can beat him like a dog for the things he had his people do to hurt us badly . 9/11 was like a another Pearl Harbor; just too many people died.

Scot Ferman
5/1/08
8th Period


When I was in grammar school it was pretty fun even though I got in trouble a lot. I’m pretty sure that most of my teachers said I wasn’t going to make it. Eventually I made it out of school with no problems. I always said that, “I couldn’t wait until I got into high school”, until I got there and wanted to go back to grammar school. People always told me that my high school years would fly pass really quickly. I never believed that four years could go by so quickly; it seems like yesterday that I was just a freshman in high school, nervous as I had ever been in my life. Seeing that I’m a senior now and ready to graduate I have the responsibility to decide on what I’m going to do after graduation. So far my plans are to go to Nevada, Las Vegas. I will be going to a small school out there called College of Southern Nevada (CSN). This school will be helping me get ready for the school I really want to attend. This school is known as University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). I am hoping to major in either journalism or Kinesiology. That way it will be easier to better my talents in film writing. My dream is to be a film director and I will try my best to fulfill this dream. I will never give up on this dream because my name is Scot Ferman.

Today I’m going to write about the story “How Much Land Does a Man Need”. I think that this story is a perfect example of how greedy people end up in life. I believe that when you have enough to keep yourself healthy, you shouldn’t take anything for granted or anything of that nature that you don’t need. For an example, if I had five million dollars I wouldn’t go around trying to get ten million more just because I can. If I were to do that it would be for a perfectly good reason. I think that five million dollars would have me set for life. The guy in the story felt like he needed all the land he could get and that’s not the way he should’ve been thinking. He bit off way more than he could chew and he paid for it big time at the end of the story. I have never known anyone that was as greedy as Pahom. The bad thing about Pahom was that Satan was setting him up and he didn’t realize it. When he wasn’t so wealthy, he felt like it was okay for people of his kind to get away with little mistakes. When he became wealthy he had a whole different kind of mentality. He didn’t want other people’s animals to eat on his property. I am glad that I don’t have that kind of mentality and I hope that I will go far with the mentality that I have today.

Kadar Bell
8th Period
5/1/08

Taylor Hollis
8th Pd.
Bellringer (30E)


The Worst Crime Ever


In my opinion, the greatest wrong people can commit is murder. I think everybody deserve the life that they have, despite of what they’ve did in their lifetime. Murder is a harsh crime and I would think twice before I think about doing it. The appropriate punishment for murder is life, in prison.
Revenge isn’t really a bad crime, depending on what type of revenge. If it’s like prank revenge then it’s not a bad revenge. Now if it’s like the revenge of killing another person because someone killed a person in your family, then that’s a bad type of revenge. I don’t really know an appropriate punishment for revenge.
Theft is a patty crime because I don’t know why someone would steal something that’s not theirs. Stealing is what I call patty, especially if its money. Some people would kill you for stealing their stuff. The appropriate punishment for stealing is community service. If someone steals something like really valuable then that’s when they should get some time behind bars.
Betrayal isn’t a crime in my eye. Betrayal is a choice you make or decide on should you do it or not. I don’t really know an appropriate punishment for betrayal but I’ll say don’t trust the person who betrayed you.
Cheating can be a crime depending on what you’re cheating on. If you are cheating on a test or something like that and get caught by your teacher then your punishment would probably be an “F” on the test. If you’re cheating on your spouse or mate and get caught, then you’ll probably lose that person who you cheated on, especially if you really loved them. Those are the only punishments I know for cheating.

LaTricia Redmond


My Plans After Graduation


After Graduation, I am going to the Army. I ship off June12, 2008, but before I leave, I am going to have the most fun that I have ever had in my entire life. I am really looking forward to attending my basic training, and AIT. I know that it is going to be a lot of work and exercising, but it is nothing that I can not handle! Many people are trying to discourage me and talk me out of going to the Army, but I have made up my mind and I am already enlisted!
A lot of people tell me that I should not have joined the Army because I am going to get killed, but from the way I see it, I am not going to die until God is ready for me to. I rather die in an honorable way any day, than to die because of gang affiliation. I can die just as quick, or perhaps even quicker, walking down the streets than being in the army. I do not think that the Army is about life or death. I think that the army is about being a better person and helping out my country.
I think that the army will help me better myself and motivate me to do better and believe in myself. There are over one hundred and fifty jobs to choose from in the army. I chose to become a Chemical Operations Specialist. I chose this only because when I took the ASVAB test my scores were higher on this portion of the test. I am suppose to serve in the army for three years and twenty one weeks, but I plan on renewing my contract after it expires. I plan on making the best out of being a soldier.

DeAnte Montgomery 5/1/08
8th

My plans after graduation are somewhat cloudy. I really want to act and I plan on pursuing an acting career. Every since I stepped into Mount Carmel I felt I needed to achieve in something. My Acting Abilities grew in my sophomore year and opened up the blinds of my hidden talent. I plan to visit Columbia college over the summer to enlist in its theatre arts program. Football is another one of my goals after graduation. I had to sit out my junior and senior years due to several injuries. I broke my big toe, my 6th and 7th vertebrate, and also fractured my ankle during these last two school years. I know for a fact that I want to play college football. I am dedicating my whole summer by getting in shape for practices and games. Another love of mine is music. I’ve been writing music since I was young and I’ve always had a way of putting words together. So far I have recorded only one song. Each day in class I write about a verse to a new song and place the new masterpiece into my rap book. In this book I have about thirty pages of lyrics. Basically for the summer I have a lump sum of things I want to do. I want to record more music, work out and get in shape for college football, and to pursue my dream of acting. My first step is to graduate and then to proceed in all my goals afterwards.

My plans for after graduation are to leave Chicago and make a better life somewhere else other then here. I am tired of seeing people get shot or shot at for no reason; I think that violence is pointless. Many people say that they will never leave Chicago, but there is more to this world than Chicago. Even though Chicago is known around the world for many other things the bad out weigh the good. This city has more murders then whole countries. Britain doesn’t have ass many murders in a year then Chicago has in a month. We have 46 in a weekend they have 300 in a year. That’s crazy 46 murders in 2 days compared to 300 in 365 days. Chicago has got to the point as to where it is just too hard to get a job. Being a teen out here in these streets is a risk at all time. By this I mean I risk getting shot by going to a party, to school, the store, or even just kicking it on my porch. Nowhere is safe anymore. Not even the so called “safe zone” is safe anymore. The police pick with the wrong ones, they get the kids that are on their way home from school, instead of the ones that are at the school with the guns. That doesn’t make any sense at all. This is why after I graduate from Harper High I am leaving all this drama, violence, and nonsense behind me.

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