Author: ntrotter

A 90 year old man with aches all over his body and he just wishes he would die. All of his friends and relatives are dead, and he has no one to talk to. He had a great, fun, and happy life while it lasted, but he knows it is time for it to end. Unlike this man, many humans wish they could live forever, but what they don’t realize is that there are advantages and disadvantages of living a long life. One advantage of being able to live a long life is that there would be more time to do all the thing you always wanted to do. But a disadvantage would be that everything would eventually change in a way people wouldn’t be able to comprehend.

For example, with living a long life everyone would be able to do all of the things they always wanted to do. If a man wanted more time to have fun, and he could live an extremely long life, that would be an advantage.He also would be able to go to all of the amusement parks, go skydiving, and be able to see the world. Having a longer life would also give everyone more time to build up a family. If a man wants to build up his family name, he would want more time to be able to have more children. This would be a perfect amount of time to be able to raise the children also. To be able to do this he is going to need money. Another advantage of living a long life would be being able to have have more time to build up a bigger franchise, like a 39 year old man having a flower shop. With this money he would be able to have more fun. He would be more happy, sociable, and joyous.

On the other hand, there happens to be a downside of this also. For example, if Jared were able to live an abnormally long life, all of his friends that he once knew would die way before him. Not only would his friends die, his children will grow up and get old before he dies. He would also have to repeatedly make more,and more, and more friends during his life. Also as time passes on Jarrods body will eventually get older. As his body gets older, his body will become more and more weak. Eventually, his body will begin to ache and he will begin to do less activities. With him not being able to do as much work, he won’t be able to take care of his flower shop. He will have to hire someone to take care of his shop when he isn’t working. Therefore, all good times eventually have to come to an end. Long life has it’s perks but it also has its hard times. Like losing a loved friend or family member, or when bodies begin to get old and break down.

Therefore, long life is both beneficial and not beneficial. No one would be happy or sad about living a long life, because they would have both happy, beneficial, loving  times and hurtful, sad, uncaring times.

The game is tied, there is one minute left, and White Oak has the ball. All they need is one

touchdown. Will they make it? Yes! They are the champions. Because the White Oak football

team was able to persevere through the last minute of the game, they were able to win the

championship. Just like in this situation perseverance was very important. It is also very

important in life. Without perseverance the Write Brothers wouldn’t of built the first working

Without perseverance, the Write Brothers wouldn’t of built the first airplane. For example,

if the Write Brothers would’ve given after their first failed attempt, Humans be able to travel

across the world faster, be able to have fun flying in the sky, or be able to see the enemy for the

military. If the Write Brothers didn’t build the airplane the  military would have a harder time to

win wars, see the enemy, and supply backup when needed. Also without the first airplane,

humans wouldn’t of put the first satellite in space, sent the first man to the Moon, or sent the

probe to Mars. Therefore, without the Write Brothers having perseverance to be able to build the

In addition, perseverance is important because without it people wouldn’t be able to get

through the hard times in life, like Ellie in Night. For example, without perseverance of wanting

to see his family Ellie would’ve laid on the side of the snowy track and died.Also, if he didn’t

have perseverance he would of just died after his father died. Because he did he was able to be

saved by the Americans who raided the concentration camp. So then if we didn’t have

perseverance we wouldn’t of been able to of gotten through the Civil War, World War 1, and

Therefore, if perseverance wasn’t important many inventions wouldn’t of been invented,

like the light-bulb, airplane, and the car. Also many people wouldn’t want to live through the hard

airplane, and Ellie would’ve died.

first airplane, the whole world wouldn’t have the ability to fly in the sky.

World war 2, because we would’ve just given up and died.

times in life.

You might think I’m just

a six-teen-year old boy

with black poofy hair

and dark brown eyes

But I know I am more

way more than that

Not a rock or a box of nails

Not a wolf or a tree

A computer

a broken-down computer

When I’m sick

or in solitude

When I go home and cry

read a sad book

I am a frozen computer screen

not moving

adults getting mad

wanting their video to finish

But when I get repaired

my computer boots up again

grown ups faces lighting up

like a Christmas tree

I become an advanced computer

with brains as smart as Einstein

or Abraham Lincoln or Barack Obama

I’m constantly going

Until I overheat

and then I breakdown

and am thrown away

The black-poofy-haired, dark-brown-eyed boy

is a computer

a fast, entertaining, confident, all on one system