The Glass Armonica

The glass armonica was invented by none other then Benjamin Franklin, this unusual instrument was unofficially his favorite invention. He got the idea when he saw a local musician gently rubbing his wet fingers against the rim of different wine glasses. As a musician himself he naturally wanted to make an easier way of making this beautiful noise. He came up with a crank powered version and played it avidly. The drawbacks from the instrument include it being to quiet and expensive thus there are few today. Once Benjamin woke up in the middle of the night and decided to relax himself by playing his invention. Hearing the noise, Mrs. Franklin thought she had died and went to heaven.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Book Review (Taking a Stand)

Harry Potter and The Deathly hallows by J.K. Rowling charmed me with an enchanting tale of a boy and his distraught past. The book keeps the reader wondering but more importantly gives many answers.
The book keeps to a specific theme thoroughly, standing up for whats right. Harry himself demonstrates this throughout the whole book by fighting against the evil Death Eaters and Tom Riddle. Harry could easily just run and hide however he runs strait into a possible death and risks his friends also. While they are on the epic journey to take down Riddle they, Ron, Hermione, and Harry, never loose sight of their values, mostly at the expense of Hermione setting them strait. Acts of righteousness such as never killing or hurting anyone not only kept them well hidden but also set strait who's side they where on.
The story can not be understood unless the first 6 books where read first. At the end of the 6th book the reader learns that Tom Riddle cannot be killed unless all six horcruxes,items that can be made to carry a part of ones soul, are destroyed. Normally the three friends, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, would be heading back to Hogwarts for their 7th and last year however Dumbledore had left a mission for them to complete, they where to destroy all of the remaining horcruxes, two had already been destroyed. They had skipped the train ride to Hogwarts and headed for where they thought a hohorcrux, a locket, was. They succeed in stealing it from a highly guarded building thanks to a well thought out plan. In order to destroy it they used a sword infused with a rare venom. Meanwhile they are informed of a myth called the Deathly Hallows. These three objects,a stone, a wand and a cloak, have unimaginable powers. After weeks of wondering around for another horcrux they decide to look inside of Hogwarts. When they arrived they found many new surprises. Will Harry, Ron and Hermione survive the last and final battle? What will have to be done in order to take down Tom Riddle? Who will go after the Deathly Hallows? Do they even exist?
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows absolutely flabbergasted me with an imaginative tale and a never-gets-old plot. Read this wonderful book right away.
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When Someone else Took a Stand

I had made it as far as i could have hoped for, I had a lot of new friends and the kickball fields were ours (if you have not read my other post "When I took a Stand" read it now for this one will not make sense). I thought that was it, people really cheered me on and gave me high fives a lot, but no more, they had forgotten about the incident. But oooo how much I was wrong!

They, my peers at Clover Elementary, had not forgotten that I stood up to Bobby the bully at all, in fact they too had decided to take little stands on every day stuff, like not letting older kids cut them in the lunch line or in the ball line, and not allowing the older kids to copy their homework. I had set of a ripple effect throughout the whole school! All of these acts put together made a better school and less bulling from the 5th graders. Once I remember Billy Zang was cheating of a much smaller kid's computer during computer lab. The little, tiny really, asian boy stood up and said "its time for you Mr. Zang to do your own work, and I am tired of you muching of my work.", then he sat down and continued working.

The thing I, and everyone else, loved about what the little third grader did was that he treated Billy with respect ,by calling him Mr. Zang, even though Billy was not giving him any.

When I took a stand

One of the most courageous acts I have ever taken part of took place on a dirty, sweaty, cement floored kickball "field". This act was such a simple but hard thing to do that I will never forget or regret it. On this cheap Los Angeles School District playground one group of kids ruled the swings, the 5th graders. No one ever questioned them, challenged them or most of the time even talk to them, they seemed soooooo big and tough, but one day i decided I was not going to take it.

I still remembered the day, so very cold to us, 60 degrees, but we still couldn't wait for recess. Us underlings, the 1st through 4th graders, knew we where not to touch the handball courts, they where 5th grader territory. We knew not to go to the soccer fields because we would get trampled. We even knew not to touch the playplace because that's where the bad kids would lay. So we would accumulate at the kickball fields. We where surprisingly nice to one another and kept the rules, rarely would kids try to cheat. But on this freezing, 60 degree weather day, something changed. The 5th graders decided to attack the kickball fields, they took over and changed all the rules to they're favor. We had no choice but to accept it. But it got worse and big, tough, 60 pound Bobby was coming through and pushed my friend Scott down. I decided not to take that and tackled him strait down into that cement ground, stood up and kicked him in the face and shouted "Freak You" (I thought that made sense and that it was a really really bad word. But of course I was wrong on both accounts). Everyone gasped and cheered me on.

Of course after the incident I was suspended and had to pay for Bobby's broken nose's medical bills with my allowance but it was more then worth it. Everyone, including some 5th graders, treated me with much more respect, not to mention I was the coolest kid from then till we graduated (or maybe for just a week or so).