This poem was written by a girl who has cancer and only has six months to live. It really makes you think about life and how fast you look at the world. Read this and see if you actually do this yourself. This story was given to me in an e-mail please send this to as many people as you can the instructions are at the bottom. She gets three cents every time this poem is sent to help with her treatments. This a true story. I am not making this up she really did write this.
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day On the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
Dear All: PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know - even to those you don't know! It is the request of a special girl who will soon leave this world due to cancer.This young girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will.She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own.By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know that we can at least send it to 5 or 6. It's not even your money, just your time!PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST.Dr. Dennis Shields, ProfessorDepartment of Developmental and Molecular Biology1300 Morris Park AvenueBronx , New York 10461
Friday, December 21, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Letter to Margaret Petterson Haddix
This is my entry for the Letters of Literature contest.
Dear Margaret Peterson Haddix,
Your book Among the Enemy really inspired me to stand up for what I believe in. I was inspired by the way Matthias was so brave and how he was so loyal to his friends, Alia and Percy. Also, I admired how he fought against the Population Police to help free the “shadow children.” Matthias had great and loyal friends that would do anything for him. I only wish that I could be a friend like that to my own friends.
Reading Among the Enemy made me realize how badly people could be treated in the world. I am reminded at how good it feels to live in a world that is free. I am glad that I don’t have to worry about how much food I have left to eat or how many people are in my family. If my own family was in this book we would not have been able to keep my little brother because of the laws that the Population Police had passed. Your book also saddened me because I didn’t realize some people could be so selfish and keep all that food for them self.
Your book was very meaningful to me because it made me think of what I would have done in the same situations and how I would have reacted to them. It made me think of how I could be a better person, to be less selfish and to think of others before myself. Matthias was a great example of those qualities.
Out of all the characters in the book I would compare myself to Matthias. We are very alike in a way and very different in another way. One way we are alike is by the way we react to things. If I heard that my best friends had died I would have been devastated just like Matthias. Matthias and I are also different because I don’t think I could have gotten the courage to escape from the Population Police the way he did. Just the very thought of getting caught would have kept me from escaping from their headquarters. I really envy Matthias for his bravery and how he handled things in the story.
Your book really grasped my attention. I did not want to put the book down. Reading it was like watching a really great mystery movie in my mind. I could picture the characters and how they felt in each situation that they were faced with. In fact, I have read your other Shadow Children books and I am on Among the Free. I keep reading your books because I can relate to each of the main characters. I look forward to reading your next book to see if they could finally be free in the world and defeat the Population Police at last.
Well, those are some of my feelings about your book, Among the Enemy. You truly inspired me!!! Your book was very meaningful and made me look at the world with different eyes. It made me realize how great it is to live in a free world and to have enough food to feed the whole country. Most importantly, it made me grateful to have a big family who can take care of me. Thank you so much for writing this book. It really made me contemplate on my own life experiences.
Dear Margaret Peterson Haddix,
Your book Among the Enemy really inspired me to stand up for what I believe in. I was inspired by the way Matthias was so brave and how he was so loyal to his friends, Alia and Percy. Also, I admired how he fought against the Population Police to help free the “shadow children.” Matthias had great and loyal friends that would do anything for him. I only wish that I could be a friend like that to my own friends.
Reading Among the Enemy made me realize how badly people could be treated in the world. I am reminded at how good it feels to live in a world that is free. I am glad that I don’t have to worry about how much food I have left to eat or how many people are in my family. If my own family was in this book we would not have been able to keep my little brother because of the laws that the Population Police had passed. Your book also saddened me because I didn’t realize some people could be so selfish and keep all that food for them self.
Your book was very meaningful to me because it made me think of what I would have done in the same situations and how I would have reacted to them. It made me think of how I could be a better person, to be less selfish and to think of others before myself. Matthias was a great example of those qualities.
Out of all the characters in the book I would compare myself to Matthias. We are very alike in a way and very different in another way. One way we are alike is by the way we react to things. If I heard that my best friends had died I would have been devastated just like Matthias. Matthias and I are also different because I don’t think I could have gotten the courage to escape from the Population Police the way he did. Just the very thought of getting caught would have kept me from escaping from their headquarters. I really envy Matthias for his bravery and how he handled things in the story.
Your book really grasped my attention. I did not want to put the book down. Reading it was like watching a really great mystery movie in my mind. I could picture the characters and how they felt in each situation that they were faced with. In fact, I have read your other Shadow Children books and I am on Among the Free. I keep reading your books because I can relate to each of the main characters. I look forward to reading your next book to see if they could finally be free in the world and defeat the Population Police at last.
Well, those are some of my feelings about your book, Among the Enemy. You truly inspired me!!! Your book was very meaningful and made me look at the world with different eyes. It made me realize how great it is to live in a free world and to have enough food to feed the whole country. Most importantly, it made me grateful to have a big family who can take care of me. Thank you so much for writing this book. It really made me contemplate on my own life experiences.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Thanksgiving Break!!!
Have you ever had a blast one week where you couldn't stop thinking about it. Well, I have over the Thanksgiving break we just had. I had such a blast. I had a great dinner, went to a movie, and got great sales on a bunch of stuff.
I think this year in my opinion was the best Thanksgiving dinner ever. We had everything that you could eat for a Thanksgiving dinner. We had turkey, marshmallow yams, stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, etc. And for dessert Pumpkin and Banana cream pie. All my favorites, but I could do without the marshmallow yams and mashed potatoes. We had Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's house with my aunts, uncles, and cousins. After we were all done eating (and showed my family VITAS) we went to a movie.
I watched the movie Enchanted. I have to say it wasn't the best movie in the world, but it was pretty funny. The story line was a great idea. Having it be a cartoon at the beginning, then having it become in real live. I am not going to tell you about it in case you have never seen it and are going to be watching it sometime in your life time. Going to a movie wasn't the best part of the Thanksgiving break. What I loved the most was the after day Thanksgiving sales at all the stores.
To me personally I think that the best days to go shopping for Christmas presents is the day after Thanksgiving. Just because that all the stores have huge sales. It is also fun to go to the sales because some of them start so early in the morning. Last year I woke up at about four o'clock and went shopping. I got great deals. This year I did it differently. My dad didn't want to wake up so early again so we went at about seven o'clock in the morning. We went to RC Willie, Target, Game Stop, and Radio Shack. We got a bunch of stuff that was regularly thirteen dollars for only four bucks. What a great buy!
I will never forget that Thanksgiving for the rest of my life. I had such a great time having a great dinner, going to a movie and best of all going to the after Thanksgiving sales. Did you have a blast for Thanksgiving? What did you do?
I think this year in my opinion was the best Thanksgiving dinner ever. We had everything that you could eat for a Thanksgiving dinner. We had turkey, marshmallow yams, stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, etc. And for dessert Pumpkin and Banana cream pie. All my favorites, but I could do without the marshmallow yams and mashed potatoes. We had Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's house with my aunts, uncles, and cousins. After we were all done eating (and showed my family VITAS) we went to a movie.
I watched the movie Enchanted. I have to say it wasn't the best movie in the world, but it was pretty funny. The story line was a great idea. Having it be a cartoon at the beginning, then having it become in real live. I am not going to tell you about it in case you have never seen it and are going to be watching it sometime in your life time. Going to a movie wasn't the best part of the Thanksgiving break. What I loved the most was the after day Thanksgiving sales at all the stores.
To me personally I think that the best days to go shopping for Christmas presents is the day after Thanksgiving. Just because that all the stores have huge sales. It is also fun to go to the sales because some of them start so early in the morning. Last year I woke up at about four o'clock and went shopping. I got great deals. This year I did it differently. My dad didn't want to wake up so early again so we went at about seven o'clock in the morning. We went to RC Willie, Target, Game Stop, and Radio Shack. We got a bunch of stuff that was regularly thirteen dollars for only four bucks. What a great buy!
I will never forget that Thanksgiving for the rest of my life. I had such a great time having a great dinner, going to a movie and best of all going to the after Thanksgiving sales. Did you have a blast for Thanksgiving? What did you do?
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