Monday, October 30, 2006

Monsters Are Due On Mapple Street


In Monsters Are Due On Mapple Street, at the end of the story, the aliens said a few words. What the aliens said is that you only needed to take a few of their radios, telephones, and other machines and leaved them in the dark for a few hours and they would go crazy. They also said that their worst enemy is themselves; they mean that while they go crazy, they start accusing each other and trying to find a scapegoat. The aliens only needed to sit back and wait for the people in Mapple Street to destruct themselves by fighting between each other. The narrator says that you don’t need massive weapons for destruction and conquering, only thoughts and ideas could work.

I think that Rod Serling is totally right. You can have control with ideas and attitudes. I think Monsters Are Due On Mapple Street is a very good story if you think very well. You have to understand it to like it; for example, I like how the Aliens took control by making them to fight between them, it is a good strategy and was well done. People are their worst enemy; I think it may be true for some people, the people who don’t think very well. The very intelligent people who think and can control themselves, wouldn’t have the problem in the story. This is how it would affect the people today; it depends on their intelligence and knowledge.

Today, that would be very difficult to happen. Know the governments have radars and very advance technology who could detect any strange object in the sky. Suppose that nothing detects a strange object or spacecraft; if it happened in a very big city, you couldn’t do how they aliens did, street by street. If you where making that in a big city, you would have to make it in the entire city at once. It would be more difficult but the chaos would be greater. Today, if the same happens, it could damage equipments like: cars, boats, airplanes, TV’s, telephones, Computers, Internet, radios, satellites and much more things. Today people know more about aliens and U.F.O's than what they knew in 1950's. Today, Tommy's source of information could be T.V or Internet, not comic books.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Motocross

Travis Pastrana ( Back-Flip)

Motocross is an extreme sport that consists in winning races in special off-road motor cycles build for jumping very high. I love motocross, I think it is great, the feeling that you have when you jump a ramp and your are in the air is very cool. There are different types of categories. There is Super Cross, Motocross, and Freestyle. In each of these categories, there are smaller categories. These are divided by the sizes of the engine. There are 80cc, 125cc, 250cc and 400cc.

Super Cross is the official races made in special dirt tracks. In a Super Cross race, there are about 20 or more athletes. In this category, the athletes made about 20 laps around a small dirt track. In the tracks, are placed lots of ramps and mini special mountains made for the riders to jump high. In Super cross are most common the 80cc's, the 125cc's and the 250cc, because the rest of the engines are too big to make that kind of jump. 80cc is a small engine for kids; 80 cc means eighty cubic centimeters (the engine's size). 125cc are in the middle class, it is for young adults. 250 are the best and the most interesting because they are full size dirt bikes for any type of age and size. The best rider, the one’s who are winning know are: Ricky Carmichael, James Stuart, and Chad Reed. These are the biggest rivals. Ricky C. rides a Suzuki, James S. rides a Kawasaki, and Chad R. rides a Yamaha ( the best for me); but it doesn’t matter because they are all big rivals. I think Carmichael is the best one.

Motocross is almost the same as super cross; only that the tracks in Motocross are open fields and rural areas. The race also last longer. Motocross is less famous than Super cross. In Motocross, the size of the engines can be bigger; this is because here there aren’t those tremendous jumps. The world most important motocross series are the: FIM'S Grand Prixs - the World Championship series and the AMA'S, American National Championship.

The last and the coolest of all is the Freestyle category. In these competitions are were the huge jumps are made. This category is new. In here it is not a race; it is who makes the biggest jump, the best trick in the air while you jump and the best landing. Here it all depends what was the trick that you make, and how difficult was it. The most famous trick is the back-flip. In the back-flip, you jump and in the air you give a flip back sides. The first man to do this dangerous trick was Carey Hart. Soon all riders began to perform this trick and to make it better. In 2006's X-game, Travis Pastrana, a well known rider, became the first man to do a double back-flip. He obtained the gold medal for it. I think Travis Pastrana is the best rider in the history. There are lots of tricks invented by people. Another very famous is the ¨Super Man¨. It consists in while you are in the air, you jump to the back side of the bike and grab it, and there you make a position that looks like superman. There is also the Knack-Knack, Heel-clicker, Lazyboy, and much more tricks. Riders perform jumps and stunts ranging from 80-150 feet in length. These tracks, you come at high speed and perform a jump in a much tilted ramp; then you land and watch your score.

Motocross is a very dangerous sport, so you need a very safety gear. The most necessary equipment is the helmet, boots, special pants and jersey, goggles for their helmet, gloves, knee guards, elbow guards, deflector and other things. Wearing all this maybe a little uncomfortable and expensive, but it is for protection, any of those things can save your live and prevent other things to happen to you. I don’t like wearing them, every time I put them on, I said that I wont need it, but everything have a reason, I don’t known when I am going to fall.

I the freestyle history there have been lots of professionals. I said that Travis Pastrana has been the best, so said the judges and other people. The most famous have been: 1.Travis Pastrana for making the double back flip and other stunts. 2. Mike Metzger called the Godfather; first to master the back flip. 3. Brian Deegan; first ever to do a 360(some say an off-axis back flip because it isn't as flat). 4. ¨Mad Mike¨ Jones, Craziest guy on a motorbike. known for flipping over the handlebars and making the Kiss Of Death and the no handed lander. 5. Nate Adams, the only one who has beat Travis Pastrana three times. These have been riders who have make history in the Freestyle Motocross, but no one like Travis Pastrana.

Me and my Yamaha 250 cc

- Some information was found in Wikipedia.org

Monday, October 23, 2006

Short Story Draft


St. Thomas

" Hurry people, we are going to be very late and the cruise is going to leave us". That was the first thingI heared one morning in Miami. It was my mother screaming at us because we had to gert the cruise to the caribbean before it leaved us.
It was nine o'clock and we thought the cruise was leaving at eleven o'clock AM.
We hurry and took a short bath, putted our cloth, said good bye to all my cousins who lived in Miami and went to gates where passengers passed through a lot of heavy security and a lot of huge lines. We lived our mom and our sister, my father and me, went to give back the car we had rented. In the way to the car rent, we got lost. I was scared because I thought I was going to loose the ship. the we saw a patrol car besides us and we asked them where the car rent was.
"Hey, can you please tell us where is the car rent?" "we are los and we dont know how to get there", I said.
"Follow us", said the cops in a very show off way.
They showed us the way so we returned the car and a little bus with a Haitian driver took us to the Port. When we got there, we couldn’t find my mom. There where two entry's, we took number one. We didn’t find our mom, so we said everything to the security people and they let us pass through about five hundred people, because the cruise can hold more than a thousand. Everyone was angry and I laughed in their faces. When we pass everyone, we founded my mom. After it we could enter the cruise, now we had our tickets and passports, cause she had them. Then we made the last line to enter the cruise, it was much shorter than the security and the entrance lines. In our way to the ship's door, there was a huge window and we could see through all the river that entered through there.
When we entered, we went to our rooms and sleeped a while, we where tired of all we had passes through. When everyone was on board, about twelve o'clock, they told us to go out to practice an emergency pass, it was not cool, it was very sunny and hot and we were stand in there hearing them. After that, we walked around the cruise for a while and we ate and whent to the pool. The first day it was full! It was very crowdy. That day I didnt swim much, cause I got bored about the people. Besides the pool, there was a group from dominica or something like that called Flare. They singed tropical music and Bob Marley songs. Eveyone in the cruise was happy. At night, we went through every shop the cruise had. Then we went to eat to a very big and elegant dinner room. The menu was very big, you could order anything free. The cruise leaved Miami about at ten PM, we where very worried and hurried a lot for nothing.
"This was the best trip that I have made", I told to my mom.

Friday, October 13, 2006

24 Hours of Le Mans


LAMBORGHINI MURCIELAGO R-GT

Le Mans is the world's most famous sports car endurance race. It means that in every race is not like a NASCAR or Formula 1, a normal Le Mans race lasts 12 to 24 hours. Le Mans is the name of the race and the name of one of the 3 race tracks. The3 tracks are the 12 Hours of Sebring, 24 Hour of Daytona, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Le Mans race track measures 13.650 km. It uses most of the country roads that remain public for the rest of the year. The first race was made in May 26 and 27 1923 and has since been run annually in June, with some exceptions.

There are about 50 cars, and are divided in to categories. These cars are to fast that in 1971 during a practice, a Porsche registered a top speed 386 km/h, about 240 mph, that’s very fast. After that, during the 1970's, they make the engines smaller with some rules to follow because it was becoming too dangerous. During the 1980's, the fast speeds came again. A driver called Roger Dorchy, reached 405 km/h but after a while the cars engine got damaged. The next year, a driver in a Sauber Mercedes C9 reached 400 km/h without any special modification. The F.I.S.A, "Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile" said it was to unsafe, and added 2 chicanes to lower the speeds.

Le Mans is also known for it does traject accidents. In 1955, there was very big accident causing 80 spectators dead and more than 100 injured; this is know as the 1955 Le Mans disaster. This caused some races canceled, after this shocking accident.

The most successful marques in the history of Le Mans were made by Porsche. Porsche having more than 16 victories established this record. Then comes Ferrari with 9 victories. Ford makes an important role in these races. Ford made its so famous and special Ford GT40, only to defeat Ferrari. Le Mans has a lot of marques competing. Some marques are Porsche, Ferrari, Bentley, Audi, Ford, Jaguar, Aston Martin, corvettes, Lamborghini, Mercedes, and much more. There is also an American Le Mans called American Le Mans Series. It is the same only that it is in America. The 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans will be the 75th Grand Prix of Endurance, and will take place on June 16 and June 17.

I like this type of races because it is not like the Formula 1 cars. These are the same cars you can buy but with a lot of tuning. I think it should be an honor to win this type of race, 24 hours driving a car at 300 km/h and racing other 50 cars, its amazing. I like this type of cars, specially the Lamborghini, it is my favorite. What’s yours?
Some information is from wikipedia.org

Monday, October 09, 2006

Horrible Vacation

In one summer vacation, I went to Florida(1). I was in Miami about 12 days and then I went to Tampa and to Orlando. (2)When I get to the hotel in Tampa, It was horrible. I saw the brochure and it seemed to be a nice place with a big pool. (3)The Hotel was small, dirty, and very hot.
I didn’t like, neither did my family. We decided that we were staying there only 3 days. (4)In the morning, I went to run around the hotel, I play soccer with my cousin, and I slept a while. (5)After I slept, I went to see the pool. (6)When I got to the pool, I preferred not to swim in it. (7)The pool was small, dirty, and crowdie. You could see the dirt in the floor from the outside. After seeing the pool, I thought it would be a better idea to go to a mall with my family. (8)When we went out, as the car traveled more of Tampa, we saw it was very cool. I thought I wouldn’t like it because of the hotel. My father asked me if I had liked the trip. (9)I say yes, but I didnt like the hotel. (10)We where going to Orlando the next day, after Orlando we where going back to Miami, then we where going home. When I got to Orlando it was very cool, and we stayed on a very cool resort with a lagoon and a cataract.
1. Prepositional phrase
2. Participal Phrase.
3. Modifier
4. Independent Clause
5. Prepositional phrase
6. Prepositional phrase
7. Modifier
8. phrase
9. Yes, NO, Interjections
10 INdependent Clauses.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

My Favorite Movie


What is your favorite movie? Mine is Bad Boys 2. It is a very cool action movie. I also like other movie like Miami Vice, 007 James Bond and the 3 movies of Mission Impossible. I am a movie fan, I like alot to see movies but Bad Boys 2 has been the best movie that I have ever see.

Bad Boys 2 is about two cops who want to catch a drug dealer with all hes money and drugs.
They try everything but the onlything that they do is bother their captain. Johnny Tapia is the drug dealer. He is a very bad Cuban who wants to take all his money to the house he builds in Cuba. During all of these Mike, falls in love for Syd, Marcus sister. After Mike and Marcus catch the money of Johnny, he kidnappes Syd and take her into Cuba, so Mike and Marcu whent to rescue her.
This is a very good information I founded in a page called IMDB.

Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, who are part of the Miami PD's Tactical
Narcotics Team (TNT), still don't always get along, and now they're keeping
secrets from each other. Mike's secret is that he's been seeing Marcus' sister,
Sydney "Syd" Burnett, a reported paper pusher for the DEA's New York office.
Marcus's secret is that he has asked for a transfer, because he wants to spend
more time with his family, and less time with Mike. That's all set aside when
their boss, Captain Howard, assigns them to stop the flow of record amounts of
ecstasy into the city. This puts Mike and Marcus on the trail of the most
dangerous enemy that they have ever faced...Cuban drug kingpin Hector Juan
Carlos "Johnny" Tapia, who wants to take control of the entire ecstasy trade in
the USA, and is working with local dealers and club owners such as Russian mafia
boss Alexei. Every time the Miami PD has ever arrested Tapia, Tapia has sued the
Miami PD for false arrest, and won millions of dollars. This has caused the
department to back off and not go after Tapia. Well, everyone has backed off
except for Mike and Marcus, who have never faced Tapia before. Now, it seems
that Tapia is using a mortuary as a cover for his operations, smuggling ecstacy
hidden inside dead bodies, while sending his money to Cuba in hidden
compartments in the coffins. While Mike and Marcus try to bring Tapia down, they
also deal with the discovery that Syd is actually working undercover for the DEA
to bring down a money laundering operation run by Alexei, and as part of her
undercover job, Syd is in deep with Tapia. When Haitian gangsters try to steal
Tapia's money and kill Syd, the two investigations cross paths. Syd's cover is
later blown, and she is kidnapped by Tapia, who takes her to his compound in
Cuba. With the unofficial help of people from the CIA, the Miami PD, and
anti-Castro forces in Cuba, Mike and Marcus head out to rescue Syd, and bring
Tapia down. How far will Tapia go to keep his drug empire? And how far will
Marcus and Mike go to rescue Syd?

I liked this movie because it has alot of intense action. It has car chases, boat scenes and alot opf shooting. I recommend this movie to everyone. It is very interesting.

Monday, October 02, 2006

My Mistake

Everyone makes mistakes. You have make mistakes so do I. When I have a problem I tried to solve it without fighting or insulting with other people. There are times in which I get so mad that I start to throw things or kick things. I have made a lot of mistakes in my life.

One mistake that I would never forget is one that happened in my farm. I had a fight with my cousin. We fight because we both wanted to ride quad bike first, but I had already ride and I wanted to drive it again. My cousin got mad and we both started fighting. My father knew that I was wrong; it was my cousin’s turn to ride, so he let my cousin and not me. I got very mad and when my cousin passed near me in the quad bike, I threw a ball of mud in his head.

Later that day I apologize to him, it was very bad what I did. He was very mad, and he didn’t accepted my apologize. I understand that what I did was very bad for him; he had all his face dirty. When he said he didn’t accepted my apologize, he also said to me a bad word, and then we started fighting again. This time, I didn’t apologize, it was he's mistake. That day we kept fighting until we went to our home. I knew I had started and he had all the right to be angry with me but his insult was what makes me mad. I didn’t get punished because he also was looking to fight. In this problem, my father wasn’t involved too much. He stopped us and then he said that what I did was very bad, and I could have hurt him.

Usually when I have problems I am not to conflictive. What I don’t like is when people insult me. I always tried to solve it peacefully. There are sometimes that I’m not too peaceful but it is when I get too mad. One of my problems is that when I'm solving a problem, I get mad really fast.