Sometimes, I wish that time could just wait. It never does though. Time is a car speeding down the highway. Time never stops moving, which brings me to this question: What do I plan on doing next year?
I would say that I don’t need to fix anything academically, but that’s not true. In my Language Arts classes I’ve gotten into the habit of avoiding writing prompts. Mainly, it is with prompts that I don’t feel like writing about. Truthfully, this assignment was (almost) one of them. I’ve been told time and time again that I should just write and not think about how much I don’t like it (the prompt). Yet, I would always over think it and end up writing nothing. Next year, I plan on overcoming this obstacle as well as a much larger (in my opinion) one.
My next goals for the future are to improve my social skills and make more (and better) friendships. I tend to have difficulties talking to people that I don’t know very well. Usually, it is with people around my age and younger kids. This is generally because I don’t know what to say or I am not sure if they would be the best sort of person to hang around with. From the sort of topics and words I hear from some of my peers when I am in the hallway or the cafeteria, I feel that they really aren’t the best. I don’t have very many close friends, although, I want to have better friendships and more of them. If you were to see who (or what) I spend time with, they are either toys or fictional characters. For example, Pandy, my stuffed panda bear, is nice to cuddle with, but isn’t much for peer to peer conversation. (Mainly she’s used in self talk).
So those are my main goals for next years. I will try my best to accomplish them.
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Research Questions==
When did America first use spies? How long has America been using spies?
What impact did American spies have on the outcome of wars?
Who were some famous American spies? What was their mission? Were they successful?
How do these real life spies compare to fictional spies?
Works Cited
Wilkinson, Burke, e. d. Cry Spy!: True Stories of 20th Century Spies and Spy Catchers
New Jersey: Bradbury Press, 1969
Widder, Arthur. Adventures In Black
New York: Harper & Row, 1962
Coleman, Wyman, Janet. Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: A History Of Spies and Espionage
New York: Abrams, 2006
James S. Michael "U.S Spy History Is Older Than The Nation Itself" ABC News
7 Oct. 2005. ABC News Network
24 May 2012. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1213034&page=1 This is the draft, sans quotes,some research, and visual aids Feel free to leave comments and to make edits
Do you feel that you could be a spy? Use the Code Key in the above textbox to decode the following message: Spies will send messages in code so the enemy will have a hareder time getting ahold of the information.
Decoding secret messages like the one above is just one of many tasks in the daily life of a spy. As the message states, information obtained from spying was written in a special code to make it difficult for the opposing side to read it.
Globally, spies have been around for thousands of years, in America a couple hundred. The main purpose of a spy is to retrieve information about another person or group or nation. Spying (Espionage) is used mainly in wars. The first war that America used spies in was the Revolutionary War. America has been using spies ever since.
Famous spies include the "Midnight Riders": Paul Revere, William Dawes, and the members of Culper’s Ring.
I would say that I don’t need to fix anything academically, but that’s not true. In my Language Arts classes I’ve gotten into the habit of avoiding writing prompts. Mainly, it is with prompts that I don’t feel like writing about. Truthfully, this assignment was (almost) one of them. I’ve been told time and time again that I should just write and not think about how much I don’t like it (the prompt). Yet, I would always over think it and end up writing nothing. Next year, I plan on overcoming this obstacle as well as a much larger (in my opinion) one.
My next goals for the future are to improve my social skills and make more (and better) friendships. I tend to have difficulties talking to people that I don’t know very well. Usually, it is with people around my age and younger kids. This is generally because I don’t know what to say or I am not sure if they would be the best sort of person to hang around with. From the sort of topics and words I hear from some of my peers when I am in the hallway or the cafeteria, I feel that they really aren’t the best. I don’t have very many close friends, although, I want to have better friendships and more of them. If you were to see who (or what) I spend time with, they are either toys or fictional characters. For example, Pandy, my stuffed panda bear, is nice to cuddle with, but isn’t much for peer to peer conversation. (Mainly she’s used in self talk).
So those are my main goals for next years. I will try my best to accomplish them.
==
Research Questions==
Works Cited
Wilkinson, Burke, e. d. Cry Spy!: True Stories of 20th Century Spies and Spy Catchers
New Jersey: Bradbury Press, 1969
Widder, Arthur. Adventures In Black
New York: Harper & Row, 1962
Coleman, Wyman, Janet. Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: A History Of Spies and Espionage
New York: Abrams, 2006
"History Of American Intelligence" CIA
3 Jan. 2012. Central Intelligence Agency.
24 May 2012.
https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/6-12th-grade/operation-history/history-of-american-intelligence.html
James S. Michael "U.S Spy History Is Older Than The Nation Itself" ABC News
7 Oct. 2005. ABC News Network
24 May 2012.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1213034&page=1
This is the draft, sans quotes,some research, and visual aids
Feel free to leave comments and to make edits
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Do you feel that you could be a spy? Use the Code Key in the above textbox to decode the following message:
Spies will send messages in code so the enemy will have a hareder time getting ahold of the information.
Decoding secret messages like the one above is just one of many tasks in the daily life of a spy. As the message states, information obtained from spying was written in a special code to make it difficult for the opposing side to read it.
Globally, spies have been around for thousands of years, in America a couple hundred. The main purpose of a spy is to retrieve information about another person or group or nation. Spying (Espionage) is used mainly in wars. The first war that America used spies in was the Revolutionary War. America has been using spies ever since.
Famous spies include the "Midnight Riders": Paul Revere, William Dawes, and the members of Culper’s Ring.