#8 9-11

9-11

My day started like no other. I woke up at 6 am in my small slightly furnish Brooklyn apartment. I stumbled into my bath to take a shower before work. The sun beamed in from my window while strolled out of my bath to grab a bit to eat. I checked my watch I was running out of time.

Went down stairs to call for a cab. While I was waiting my friend Roy that work across the street from Liberty Pizza. Liberty Pizza the place that I work at. “Yo, you want to share a cab” said Roy. I thought why not if we’re going in the same direction. “Yo Marchisio you have any plan tonight, I was wonder if you wanted to go to Stout (Our favorite sports bar in NYC).” Asked Roy. I had no other plans going on, also the Yankees were playing tonight.

The cab finally arrived outside our apartments at 6:45. We hop on in and tell the cab driver to go to 114 Liberty Street.

The cab pulls up to our destination. “That will be $9.10” Said the driver.  “I’ll pay for this if you pay for the beers tonight” I said “You got a deal.”

I arrive at work 7:05. “Marchisio you have a delivery for 71 Broadway.” Yelled my overweight boss Sal from behind the counter. I grabbed the pizza and rushed out the door to the pizza van. The pizza van was the funnest thing to drive. Theirs a giant pizza, soda and fries attached to the van. Also the van was painted red and on the sides there’s a streak of melted cheese painted on. I plug in my iPod and head out for my delivery

I make it to 71 Broadway at 7:20. The guy at the door was impressed with the serves and gave me a 10 dollar tip.

I notice my friend Frank at the corner of the street at his hot dog stand. I walk up to his stand and ask him what’s going on. I asked if he was free to go to the bar with me and Roy tonight and it a man’s night out. Frank slings me a dog while I’m leaving and says he’ll make it.

I make it back to work at 7:35. “Marchisio come help me take out the trash, it’s starting to overflow.” Yelled Sal. I open the doors the kitchen and see the trash overflowing with moldy cheese and opened sardines about a week old. The smell radiating from trash was that of a wet dog.

I finally finish taking out the trash at 7:45. Then Sal yells another order for 142 Cherry Street. I get into the van and depart for my delivery. The traffic for this is very harsh it will take me an extra 5 minutes to get to the destination. While I waited in traffic I blasted up some tunes witch helped pass the time while waiting to turn.

I arrive at 7:58 with the pizza still warm. The customer was mad of the time so I gave them some free coupons. Everyone love free coupons. After I dropped of the pizza I had a sick feeling in my stomach. So I walked over to the corner drug store to get some medicine.

I leave the block at 8:15. The traffic has gotten heavier than last time. I turn on the radio at 8:30 because I wasn’t going anywhere in traffic anytime soon. I get 2 blocks away from Liberty Pizza and I see something in the sky. I realize that it’s a plane. The time was 8:46. I wonder to myself why the plane is so low. Then I see it. My eyes are in disbelief. My ears hear screams of tragedy. I follow the plane with my eyes and can believe it. The plane crash right into the World Trade Center. I remember this morning my friend went to work in the World Trade Center. I got onto my phone and called my friend. He picks up the phone then I hear screaming. I asked if he was hit. “No we’re below the crash site.” I told him to get out as fast as possible.

I got out of my car and sprinted down the street to the smoking buildings. I see people scrambling out to save their lives. I see my friend run out of the burning towers. Roy and I both know what we are suppose to do now. We rush to the fire officers on site. We asked if they need assistants. They said they can use as much help as possible. We got suited and rushed into the building.

#7 Def Reflection

                 This Descriptive paper was harder than I thought to write. The subject I wrote about was snapback as an article of clothing. Doing the peer feedback session gave me lots of different views and ideas to implement into my final draft.

            I learned a lot about myself as a writer and the style I use to write. I write thing short and to the point. In the revision I expanded my paragraphs and put more details into them. I needed to write more about the people who wore the snapback and give more examples about them. Also I needed to add other style of snapback other than sport and rap. The other types were skate and casual wear hat.

            The pro of my essay outweighed my cons during the peer revision. The peer evaluation really help me find how to get the cons out of my rough draft and make my final better.

coolieoo: cats eye

coolieoo: cats eye

#6 Def 2.0

Snap Back

            Snap backs have been around since the mid 1900’s being worn by baseball players. A snap back hat is a baseball cap style hat where size of the hat is adjustable by a snap on the back. Now a day they are worn by more than just baseball players in different styles and brands. The snap was patented by a man named Frank K Lipschutz. The snap has two different designs, one the flat brim and the other the curved brim worm by two different types of people. But all have the buckle like snap in the back to change the size. So who wares what type of snapback and for what reason?

            The flat brimmed snap back became popular around the time the hip-hop came out. The Flat brimmed snap backs are worm by hip-hop artist like Tupac, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube. Most rappers now a day promote the snap back by adding to their lyrics or wearing them on their album covers. Like Mac Millers song names after the Snapback and lyrics “Had a fitted cap, now I rock a snapback”

            There is also a different type of flat brimmed snap back that sport fans wear to support their team. They have the logo of the team on the front and sometime the league on the side. You could also get a custom stitching on the back of your initials. Now a days people are wearing the sport snap back around schools and around town.

            The other type of snap back is the one worn by baseball player before the late 1990’s. Now a days they are wearing the fitted cap with no snap or adjustment. But most fans wore them to support their team. The main reason player wore a hat was to help keep the sun out of their faces. This type of snap back has been out of date for some time now getting passed by the flat brimmed style.

            Even though they came from the same design, they are worn by two different types of people. In my option I prefer wearing the new flat brimmed snap back with the Colts logo on it. It doesn’t matter if you like the curved brimmed or the flat brimmed you can find both of these styles at Lids hat store.

#5 Def

Snap Back

            Snap backs have been around since the mid 1900’s being worn by baseball players. Now a day they are worn by more than just baseball players in different styles and brands. The snap was patented by a man named Frank K Lipschutz. The snap has two different designs, one the flat brim and the other the curved brim worm by two different types of people. But all have the buckle like snap in the back to change the size.

            The flat brimmed snap back became popular around the time the hip-hop came out. The Flat brimmed snap backs are worm by hip-hop artist like Tupac, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube. Most rappers now a day promote the snap back by adding to their lyrics or wearing the on there album covers.

            There is also a different type of flat brimmed snap back that sport fans wear to support their team. They have the logo of the team on the front and sometime the league on the side. You could also get a custom stitching on the back of your initials. Now a days people are wearing the sport snap back around schools and around town.

            The other type of snap back is the one worn by baseball player before the late 1990’s. Now a days they are wearing the fitted cap with no snap or adjustment. But most fans wore them to support their team. The main reason player wore a hat was to help keep the sun out of their faces. This type of snap back has been out of date for some time now getting passed by the flat brimmed style.

            Even though they came from the same design, they are worn by two different types of people. In my option I prefer wearing the new flat brimmed snap back with the Colts logo on it. It doesn’t matter if you like the curved brimmed or the flat brimmed you can find both of these styles at Lids hat store.

#4 Classification Essy

Title: Games I Own.

Topic: Video Game Collection.

Personal Connection: I have a ton of games and can classify them very easily.

Audience: People that enjoy video games.

Purpose: I would classify the games into different groups and tell why each type of game is enjoyable.

Paper: Classification

Potential Categories: Adventure, Shooting, Strategies, Survival.

Examples: I will write about the different games and how they relate to that category and why they are good.

Techniques: Lists, Details, Definition, quotes

Potential Problems: I don't believe that any difficulties would accrue.

#3 Concrete Introduction

In my introduction I used the main characters apartment as the setting in the intro. I talked about his everyday morning routine trying to show he is an average everyday person.

My day started like no other. I woke up at 6 am in my small slightly furnish Brooklyn apartment. I stumbled into my bath to take a shower before work. The sun beamed in from my window while strolled out of my bath to grab a bit to eat. I checked my watch I was running out of time.

Question:
What would 9-11 be like if we had as much security as we do now in airports back then? Would the Twin Towers both be up? Would we have a different President? Would we still have troops in the Middle East? A lot of questions could be asked about this topic. The world would be a different place.

Before-and-After:
Nothing but blue skys no clouds or planes in the air. The streets were calm for the first time in a
while. Opened my window and could smell the fresh air blowing from central park. The sky were
darkening, clouds appeared out of no where. I could hear a plane fly outside my window. I see smoke
outside my window. Chaos happening down the streets. New York will never be the same.

Shocking Fact:

Hero's of 9-11 gave their lives to save others. 343 Firefighters and 23 Police Officers died trying to save the victims of 9-11 but doing so made them victims as well. In all 2,977 victims of 9-11 died in this tragic event.