Week 7- Literary Death Match

Okay so this blog is a bracket between battles of historic people. It is set up like a March Madness bracket. I am going to go through each battle and tell who would win for each match. Between Christopher Columbus and Patrick Henry, I would choose Christopher Columbus to win because he wasn’t that nice of a man and he completely controlled the Native Americans. If Edgar Allan Poe and Henry David Thoreau, Poe would definitely win because he knows a lot of tactics because of all the horror stories he wrote. He is the creator of violence. In a battle between Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas, I think that Douglas would win because he was a slave and so he is a lot stronger than Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln is too good of a person to fight. If Emily Grierson and Montressor were to fight I think that Montressor would win. He was very tricky and sneaky in his story. He was very smart and knew how to kill someone easily. He is also a man and is much stronger than old Emily. In the Final Four, it would be Douglas vs. Columbus, and Poe vs. Montressor. In the first battle I think that Douglas would win because once he is in more modern times than Columbus and Douglas could easily beat him up. In Poe vs. Montressor, Montressor would win because he actually murdered someone and been through it. Poe could write about it but overall I don’t think he was very strong physically. Montressor would win it all because he had murdered someone and has a lot of sneaky tricks up his sleeve and the way he was described he was pretty strong and I think that he could take all of his opponents easily.

Week 6 - What A Fright!

I have had both fun scary and scary scary experiences in my life. The scariest one I have ever had was scary scary though. Over the summer my grandpa passed away. My dad was home for lunch and he suddenly told me that my grandpa (who was battling cancer for the third time) was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital and they didn’t know what had happened. He said he was going to the hospital right then. After he left I couldn’t help but to continue to worry. I talked to my friend Hannah about it but my other best friend/brother was in New York. I wanted to talk to him but I didn’t know if my parents had told him yet. My phone started ringing and I immediately knew that my grandpa had died. My dad told me that one of our friends was almost to our house and would take me to the hospital to be with my family. Right when he said that our friends pulled up and I went to the hospital. That was truly the scariest and worst day of my life.

Week 5- Living In The Past

If I could live in any time period that I could choose it would be the medieval times. I would choose to live there because I love all the castles and clothing that they wore. I would look like a princess every day. The people also had a lot of feasts and I love food so that would be very good. I would look forward to hearing and gossiping about the kings, queens, princes, and princesses. I would have to live without TV, computers, phones, and other electronics but I would be okay I think. I could get my entertainment from the jesters. The only negative part would be that I would be ruled by a king and sometimes they were pretty ruthless. It would be hard to deal with sometimes. Over all I think I would enjoy living in the time of castles, wearing beautiful dresses, and eating a lot of food!