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=Shanice's Protfolio=

Letter
Ms. Justice,

I would consider myself to be a good writer. But there are some things I could still use a little help on. Like correcting my grammar on my own, and not needing help from the teacher. What I learned from writing all the summaries and all the paragraphs, is knowing where to put my the correct punctuation. Also knowing what word or words I would need to know to make the paragraph/sentence better. Writing a summary on a book etc. also helps me understand things better. If I have to know what the book is about then writing a paragraph between every chapter definitely helps me know what the book is about. I actually learned how to write a paragraph. Meaning, what needs to be in it. Like the introduction, body, middle, and end, and how many sentences each needs to contain. If I keep practicing my writing skills then that will also help me to become a better writer. Writing is something I love doing. I know how to put all the concrete details into a sentence. Meaning putting directly whats going on in that paragraph. My weakness in writing is before doing everything that has been taught to me I really had no idea what was supposed to be in a paragraph. I didn’t know how many sentences were supposed to be in the paragraph. What I would write for the beginning, body, and end. Some more things I could work on for my writing is putting commas where they go. By putting the apostrophes where they belong and to figure out what words they would belong in. If a sentence was needed to be combined to another I wouldn’t know where to combine them at. That's a big thing I' m still working on. There is still a lot of work that should be done with me for me to be a perfect writer. I don't think I’m far from it but there is still some errors I come across. That's why I just have to continue to practice, because it makes perfect.

Effects on Drunk Driving
Some people don't understand how serious drunk driving is. Everybody should be against it. Drinking while you are driving, or driving drunk, can cause serious damage. To the community, to peoples property, to humans, animals. ITS DANGEROUS.! You should be responsible enough to know that driving drunk is not okay. That's why there is a certain age limit for alcohol to be bought. The age when people mature and know what the effects will be after driving drunk. There are 99.9% chances that a drunk driver can take a innocent life. Is that fair, ? Its most definitely not...... People don't deserve to have their life taken because you were being selfish and acting a fool. The effects of driving while your drunk could get you serious jail time. One, for breaking the law, and two , for happening to kill someone. You could happen to get your license taking away from you. Possible community service, and if you happen to survive the incident, you would have to continue to live knowing you took the lives of some people. A civil law suit, court dates and fines .This is really a big deal. Everything's just gonna come back on you. Only if you survive it. And there is a strong high possibility that a lot of people wont get in a drunk crash and stay alive. There's a famous saying that speaks, if you drink, and you drive, you die! Do whats right.

Effects on Bullying
This is something that occurs in everyday life. People decide to kill themselves because they have low self esteem and what people say about them kills there emotions. EVERYBODY has feelings, so to get picked on about homo-sexuality, being poor , or personal hygiene problems shouldn’t be anybodies concern. Just learn how to keep smart comments to yourself. Killing yourself over what people think and say about you isn't the way to handle things. It should only make you stronger, words will never hurt you. Personally I think its sad to hear that somebody killed themselves because of what they been called or they just felt ignored all the time, like as if they didn’t even exist. I guess this is exactly how Jamey was feeling. He wanted to prevent suicide because he thought nobody wanted him around and maybe he thought there was no reason for him to be around if he got talked about all the time and if he felt like he was being ignored. Is was not fair that he had to go and kill himself. Well that's not what he had to do but it was his choice because he didn't want to be around to get picked on anymore. A lot of younger people need to realize that what you say and think about others may be funny to you and your friends but you never traveled in there shoes and know what they been going threw. Jamey did not deserve what he did to himself. He thought he was doing it so all the picking and everybody talking about him would just STOP! Treat others the same exact way you would want to be treated. He was only 14 years old and he was getting treated so bad. Its not fair because if he was to be gay or whatever he is then that's his business and nobody should be worried about his lifestyle.