Do It! Endings

5 Different “Before I” Phrases:

Before I pull this sword out of this stone

Before I run and keep on going

Before I whip out these nunchucks

Before I die

Before I reach my final form

Poetry With Chosen Phrase:

Death has been around me
for as long as I could remember,
he taunts me with the lives he has taken,
but before I die….

Do It! Beginnings

5 Quotes:

“Et tu, Brute?” (Even(or And) you, Brutus?) (You too, Brutus?)
- Julius Caesar(his last words)
Found on Page 11 of “Quotology”

“Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.”
- Charles Caleb Colton
Found on Page 66 of “Quotology”

“Suum cuique pulchrum.” (What is one’s own is beautiful.)
- Erasmus
Found on Page 114 of “Quotology”

“And men go to admire the high mountains, the vast floods of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars- and desert themselves.”
-  Saint Augustine
Found on Page 137 of “Quotology”

“Death can make even triviality momentous, and delirium oracular. Last words have an aura about them, if not a halo.”
- Edward Le Comte
Found on Page 152 of “Quotology”

My Poem:
“Betrayal”

“Et tu, Brute?”
-Julius Caesar (his last words)

To trust is dangerous.
You don’t know what they are
thinking until it’s too late
to give their intentions a second thought.

You’ve already been stabbed in the back
once, but their desire is to finish you off,
once and for all.
They pounce on you

like a cheetah would a gazelle,
you don’t have a chance.
You lay dying,
with your eyes open to the fact that

To trust is dangerous.

Do It! Places

A Place Where I Don’t Like To Be: The Mall(my specific one is Sunrise Mall)(I would say school(NCC), but it gets me out of the house)

Adjectives: Huge, White, Gray, Black, Silver, Noisy, Whispering, Crowded, Ugly, Beautiful, Clean, Stinky, Perfume, Cologne, Soft Pretzels, and Fish Fountain, Frozen Lemonade.

Comparisons:

Roosevelt Field Mall is way prettier than Sunrise Mall.

Costco alone, is better stocked than all of Sunrise Mall.

Walmart has better prices than all of the stores in Sunrise Mall.

Hyperbole:

The mall is obnoxiously crowded, I can’t move!

The mall is huge, it isn’t possible for me to go through every store.

My school has less judgemental people in it than this mall.

Simile:

This mall is as white as a padded room in an asylum.

This mall is as noisy as standing next to an amp at a show.

This mall is as stinky as a guy who drenches himself in cologne instead of showering.