Money Money Money Mon-ay *Mooooonay*

I do believe that some people's actions are driven soley on the idea of money. However, I do know people who would instead like to obtain the sheer enjoyment out of things rather than the thought of money. I also believe that money does lead to temporary happiness, maybe the sense of security it may provide you with, the idea that you can buy anything you want. People don't stop to think that once they have everything they want if they are going to be happy or not. Just because some people are wealthier than others doesn't give them anymore reason to be treated more humanely. For some types of people money runs in the family and they don't have to worry about financial status. Others are born into a poor family and usually stay poor. that certainly doesn't make the person with more money any better. Lastly I do not believe that the wealthy should be required to share their money with anyone they don't want to. I know poor people need it but I believe that is really up to the person with the money.

A real skater fight

Once upon a time in Woodhaven, MI (where i used to live) me and a couple of my friends went to a smaller scale skate park that was labeled SKATE AT YOUR OWN RISK. If i had known what was going to end up happening then we probably wouldn't have ventured to the skate park that day. Anyways me and a couple friends departed on a Saturday morning at about ten. Once we got there we played a quick game of SKATE (a skate version of HORSE in basketball). That went well, I don't remember who had won, but then we see a bunch of people walking up to the park. At the time we didn't think much of it and just kept skating and screwing around. Eventually the three guys get to the park and start pushing around. I get thirsty and I call to my friend Vincent, or "Vince" as we called him, and asked him if he wanted to get a drink at the machine that was situated next to the staff building by the pier. One of the other guys looked up from the top of the pipe(quarter pipe) and said "hey, nice shoes (name that's derogatory for a homosexual and starts with an F)." Let me tell you right now I never got that drink haha. I ran after Vince because he bolted in that guy's direction. He made his way to the top of the pipe and told the kid to repeat what he had said. Apparently the kid thought he was all tough as he stepped closer and repeated it. I'm standing there thinking that if he knew Vince he would shut up and walk away. Before the kid could get to the last word to finish the sentence, Vince cocks back and blasts the kid in the side of the head with a concrete punch and he falls backwards hitting his head on the coping of the quarter pipe(metal tube used for stalls and lip slides, google it if you want to see what I'm talking about) and then slides the rest of the way down the ramp. He realized what had happened and he looked at me. I was looking at the two other guys who kept their distance. They ran over to him and tried to move him out of the way; Vince looked at me and said that we should probably go to the Southgate skate park which wasn't very far from that one. So we left without saying goodbye to the other two guys who were frantically threatening us. We had a good time that day and I honestly to this day dont know if that kid had been hospitalized or just got back up and shook it off like most skaters do. Either way we had a good day. I'm not sure if that was the most productive way to handle the situation but I doubt that Ill forget what happened that day anytime soon.

Battle O' Trenton

I learned that the revoluntionary war was very intense. George Washington and his troops got lucky when they ambushed the hessians and made all 886 privates surrender their weapons. He did it without firing a single shot. Life during the war must have been difficult for a general with a rag tag group of troops. the part that stuck out to me the most was the ice from that day prevented them from making the whole lot of them prisioners. Ice sucks. I dont think i could have made it through the war like that. I need to eat.