Album Review: 4 You're Eyez Only

            4 You're Eyez Only by J. Cole is his 9th album. For the second time, this album has zero features in it and manages to go platinum. This album isn't personally my favorite, but it isn't that bad. The only terrible is Foldin' Clothes which if u just listen to it, it would b terrible. J. Cole manages to combine lyrics and a great beat I'm his best song on the album Neighbors, which is inspired by when a S.W.A.T. Team raided his house. He also uses one of Bryson Tiller's beats in Deja Vu which combines good lyrics and a great melon beat to vibe too. He describes most of his life in his album more so then others he has created. He digs deep down more in his feelings which is a great way to attract people to listen to your music.

Lord of the Flies

            Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic novel about issues in our society. This story is about schoolboys from many different ages are on a school trip when their plane crashes on an island. This book take place around World War II so in the 1940s. The main character(s) in this book are Simon, Jack, Piggy, and Ralp. Simon is the most sensical one in this book. While others believe there is a beast on the island, he chooses not believe in what is not real. Jack is probably my least favorite, he killed Simon and Piggy, he also set the island on fire at the end of the book. He reminds me of Hitler almost. Piggy is kind of the outlier in the group. He has glasses and is overweight. He is kinda smart. Ralp is a leader. He leads one of the groups.

            The theme of this book is how many problems in our lives can cause us to go savage. As Jack was starting to accept his fate, it led him to kill and destroy. The fire was one of the main symbols and bad things he has done in this book because it destroyed all of the kid supplies that they obtained over timed and shows how much of leader he is being sarcastic. Most of the kids have no choice but to look up to Jack, that's why they believe what he does is right, and that they should follow in his footsteps. He claimed Simon was the beast, so he went and killed him.

Bulls Season Rant

            The Bulls honestly had a terrible season. For the second season in a row, they finished at the .500 spot. They finished at 41-41. In my opinion they should have finished with a way better record because they have a top 10 player in the league Jimmy Butler, HOF (Hall of Famer) Dwayne Wade, and good utility point guard Rajon Rando. There coach Fred Hoiberg is the worst coach in the league, THE WORST! He was supposedly going to be one of the best coaches in the league after being one of the top College coaches out there. Jimmy Butler can't win alone, so most likely this offseason the Bulls are going to have to rebuild their team, and guessing, trade Jimmy Butler to the Celtics since they are loaded with draft picks. One thing that was good about this season was that they came alive and went up 2-0 in the first round of the playoffs against the Celtics. Rajon Rondo was doing amazing and then he broke his thumb. This completely left the Bulls to dry and they ended up losing 4 games in a row to lose in the first round. If I were the Head of the Bulls organization, I would fire Hoiberg and trade Jimmy Butler.

Plans for Summer 2017

            This summer is probably going to go down as the busiest summer of my life. Every day is either going to be a baseball game, or I'm going to be at Fenwick. My plans are to study more of high school standards on every subject so I can be a step ahead of everybody else. One thing I'm also looking forward to is my baseball tournament in Pittsburgh. This is for my travel team, not my High School team. Being able to finally have the Freedom I have this year is amazing, I'm looking forward to continuing my future learning career at Fenwick and being able to thrive at a school a lot of famous people went to. It will also be pretty cool because my sister goes there and my dad went there. I am also hoping I'm able to win a state baseball championship at Fenwick, so it will require a lot of training this summer. It will be fun to retell how my high school experiences went and my summer.

Album Review: Beauty Behind The Madness by The Weeknd

            2 years ago in my opinion The Weeknd dropped there best album Beauty Behind The Madness. This song was probably more of a R&B based album with songs like Tell Your Friends, Can't Feel my Face, Often, and The Hills. Most of these songs were in the billboard top 100. The Weeknd is one of the best R&B singer and song writers of this generation alone. He also gave most of the beats to Drake in his album Take Care. Personally my favorite song in the album is The Hills, the best is very rhythmic and the words have a lot of meaning behind them. I give this album a 4/5 because it has soul and melody mixed in with meaning and great vocals. He explains his love and life story's in this album. Nowadays many albums are just a bunch of songs with no meaning, this album is like a book, every song is like a new chapter in a book.

Album review: Acid Rap by Chance the Rapper

            I will reviewing by far the best album (in my opinion) by Chance the Rapper called Acid Rap.  This is his second mixtape after 10 days. The leading hit song on this album is Favorite Song featuring Childish Gambino. This album mostly talks about his life story, and you can see this the most in Cocoa Butter Kisses. The chorus in this song goes, "Cigarettes on cigarettes, my mama think I stank I got burn holes in my hoodies, all my homies think it's dank I miss my cocoa butter kisses I miss my cocoa butter kisses Cigarettes on cigarettes, my mama think I stank I got burn holes in my hoodies, all my homies think it's dank I miss my cocoa butter kisses I miss my cocoa butter kisses" These lines clearly are well thought out because he is talking about how his past life wasn't so easy, and how is mama even see something different about him. Chance is a very original writer that and is a phenomenal lyricist. He is very explicit with his lyrics and shows how he deals with his struggles by going to drugs, and alcohol for help.

Bucket List

1. See Kendrick Lamar live
2. Have a beautiful wife and kids
3. Become a professional baseball player.
4. Make a rap album
5. Have a nice corvette or Porsche convertible
6. Live in the country in California
7. Reach 6'1
8. See the Cubs win another World Series
9. Go skydiving
10. Go to Germany, Norway, Sweden, or Luxembourg
11. Go bungee jumping
12. Go see the DAMN tour.
13. Graduate college from University of Michigan or any other good university
14. Become a starting pitcher on Fenwick's baseball team
15. Win a state championship for baseball.
16. Hit at least 10 dingers in a season
17. Play catch with Kris Bryant
18. Have a golden retriever as a dog when I get older.
19. See Chance the Rapper live.
20. Have the best shoe collection in the world.
21. See my sister become a famous actor.
22. See my older sister become a professional graphic designer.
23. Meet my wife in high school.
24. If baseball doesn't work, become a science engineer.
25. Be able to wear a suit and tie to my job everyday.
26. Go to every ballpark in America.
27. Find the cure to cancer
28. Get a booster board
29. To play for the Yankees.
30. To live s really good life.
31. To try different food types from around the world.
32. Teach my son how to play baseball
33. Teach my daughter how to play Softball.
34. To try to make by high school basketball team.
35. To join a men's red league when I get older.
36. To be an all-American for baseball.
37. To meet our president whoever he is.
38. To meet Jimmy Butler or Lebrun James
39. To pitch an ERA under 3.00 in the MLB.
40. To visit Machu Pichu in Peru
41. To see Tom Brady win another super bowl.
42. To witness the bears win a Super Bowl.
43. Get my Drivers permit as soon as I can.
44. Try to do 10 sprints without panting
45. Cross Kyrie Irving over
46. Visit Dubai
48. Own a pair of something by supreme.
49. Live in New York for at least a year
50. Have a good life with good people

Bugs of the World

            The book I picked was Bugs of the World. This book is about the different types of bugs that live in all parts of the world. I chose this book because I have always been fascinated by bugs. One thing I learned was that the bullet ant sting is the most painful sting in the world. I always thought a tarantula hawks sting was the worst there could be. Another thing I also learned is that there is a cockroach that can be the size of you hand. It lives in Puerto Rico and lives in the trees and the treetops.

            I usually don't pay attention when I read books, but this book really kept my attention when I was reading it. Another one of my favorite bugs I saw was the Bullet ant. This was one of my favorite bugs because it has the most powerful sting in the world and it also is so small so it is really cool that they have such a good defense mechanism against predators.

Butterfly Thinglink

A Regret I have

            I have a lot of regrets in my life, but the one I am going to talk about today is about joining the musical in 5th grade. I didn't wanna do it, but I did it anyways. Sadly I hated it and I ended up embarrassing myself on stage. This is an ongoing regret I have because I actually felt like crying on stage. On stage acting is not for me, acting on camera is more for me than anything else. I also hated the tryout and I also missed 2 days of school just to get embarrassed. This is probably one of my worst regrets Ive ever had out of many.

Nazi Propaganda

           This piece of Nazi propaganda of trying to represent the population of Germany is for Adolf Hitler. The intended audience this poster was made was for the part of Germany that wasn't for Adolf Hitler. This helps people think differently because they could be worried or scared that they are out numbered and cannot fight back. This probably got a lot of Jews worried and scared because they know they they are out numbered and that they are mot likely gonna caught. This also doesn't just point to Jews, also to Jipsies and other cultures.

Celebrity I would like to hang with

            I have the choice of hanging out with a certain celebrity or famous person dead or alive. I would like to hangout with Jackie Robinson. The reasons I would like to hang out with him is because he was a really good baseball player, in a really bad time for America. He was playing in the negro leagues, which was a spereate leauge for colored baseball players. He enventually broke the color barrier and went to the pros to play with other white men. It would be good to talk about the time he lived in and how it was to cope with abuse from the world. I would also be cool to play a game of catch with one of the games best players. He was a very inspiring person to many colored kids around America.

15 things that make me happy

These are 15 things that makes me happy (not all time).

• Favorite show is one when I get home
• When the clock hits 3:17 every school day
• My favorite dinner is prepared
• Ice cream sandwich on a hot summer day
• Baseball in cool 75 degree weather
• Playing basketball with my friends for about 3 hours in my backyard
• Family parties
• My grandmas apple pie
• Throwing the perfect strike on the first pitch of the game
• Going to high school basketball games
• Doing football trick shots with my neighbor
• Throwing really fast while playing whiffle ball
• Playing Super Smash Bros. during a cold winters eve
• Going on long road trips
• Eating the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich while the sun it out

(Not my all time favorites)

Super Bowl Commercials

I am personally not that big of a football fan, but of course I have to watch the Super Bowl. A lot of commercials caught my eye but the one that I really liked was the 84 lumber commercial. This commercial was about immigrants from Mexico traveling long ways to cross the border into the U.S.. It was a mother and a daughter. When they got to the border there was a huge wall separating them. Sadly the mom started to cry and the daughter gave her something she made for her to feel better. At the end they found a door that opened to the U.S.. This commercial in my opinion really spoke to me about problems that we are having in the U.S. right now. It developed a theme on how hard life is for immigrants putting there lives on the border.

Arguments

            I once had an argument that was really bad with my sister. It was about her loving out of our house. The reason I got mad is because she is 24 and she is still living with us. Whenever we get into arguments for something stupid I bring up to show she is just as imature as I am. We argued for about 30 minutes, all she did was bring the same things up and it started to get annoying so I just walked out. She tried to follow me but I walked out of the house so I could stop the conversation. I same ha k like an hour later and she tried to start it so I just took a shower so she couldn't say anything. This was one of the worst arguments I have ever had because we were yelling really loud. We are good terms now of course because I think this wasn't last year. We also got both of our points across but I barely got to talk so I considered it on elf the worst arguments I have ever had.