We were at my uncle’s lake house in Arkansas.
I was 15 years old and I had just sat down on the jet ski with dad sitting behind me . I started the jet ski and zoomed across the lake, going at least 50m.p.h. Dad used his thumb to slow down the jet ski. He never got on another jet ski with me again. I had fun, he didn’t.
Hello, my name is Daniel and I’m going to be writing about what I’ve learned over the break.
I learned how to use Zoom, Duo, and Google calendar to get assignments. I learned Duo from my friend Kim so we could talk face to face. I learned Zoom from Justin, the Computer teacher at SEEDs and I learned Google calendar on my own.
I use Zoom to take martial arts fitness classes with Mrs. Lee and with Mr. Benton who is my teacher for Tai Kwon Do classes. While it’s true that I can’t practice the practical aspects of Tai Kwon Do, such as self-defense, sparring, and board breaks, I can get practice in on my form and weapons.
I use Google calendar to get informed about what’s going on at Seeds for Autism.
I had my first zoom chat with Michele (Newsletter instructor), Francis and Brianna. I was included in the Zoom meeting with my peers from Seeds. I had to wait for recognition by the host of the meeting. I never knew how to navigate Zoom until I watched Justin’s educational video (that was on the Google Calendar) on how to use the application for conferring with colleagues who might be on a business trip for example. Google calendar has helped me stay in the loop.
I am staying active and connected during the outbreak of COViD 19 using online activities with Seeds and Tai Kwon Do with Mr. Benton and Mrs. Lee. Missing seeing folks in person. Hope see everyone in 21 days.
Hello, my name is Charles and I’m here to review The Muppet Christmas Carol. This movie was first released on December 11, 1992.
The cast of characters are Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge,
Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit,
Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchit,
The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens,
Rizzo the Rat as Himself,
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker as Charity Collectors,
Fozzie Bear as Fozziwig’
Sam Eagle as Schoolmaster,
Statler and Waldorf as Jacob and Robert Marley.
This movie features a muppet-version of the Christmas Carol that is filled with both songs and humor (most of this movie’s humor centers around Gonzo and Rizzo).
In conclusion, I found this movie to be hilariously rich in the fictional culture that is the Christmas Carol (especially when The Great Gonzo stars as the author of the Christmas Carol himself).
Ever since the first quarter of 2016, I’ve been enjoying doing Digital Art by using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro for desktop. A couple months later, I got myself a 12.9 inch iPad Pro along side the Apple Pencil and purchased the $10 app called Procreate and that’s what made me love digital art even more.
But out of nowhere, I became interested in creating animation and for years I’ve been struggling to find the courage I needed to practice animation and I managed to do it. However, after I practiced animation for a few months, trying to learn animation isn’t as fun as Digital Art and I became less interested in it. So I officially decided to quit animation.
After I quit animation, I’ve been having some second thoughts. Because during the time I’m learning animation, I came up with some interesting fictional stories. But since I’m no longer interested in animation, I asked myself this question and that is: ‘How can I tell the audience my fictional stories without any knowledge of animation? But somehow, I had an idea on how I can tell a story. What I can do is draw a single drawing from my iPad Pro, post it to procreate.art, and write down what this artwork is about.
-Ethan L.
Once upon a time…………………….
There was a hunchback named Tyler, who was shunned due to his appearance, until, one day, he saw a young woman named Ginger, who had a beautiful smile. They decided to fly to Milan and spend the summer there, basking in the sunlight and ocean waves. They also agreed to get married in Frankfort, Germany. They adopted quintuplets from France and also adopted a litter of 115 dalmatians. They lived in a huge mansion in Barcelona, Spain. They went skydiving in Japan and dived for pearls too. They hiked to the top of Mount Everest, where they held a wine tasting party. They also learned how to operate a twin engine jet ski. They ziplined across the Grand Canyon and bungee jumped into a dormant volcano. They did a lot of wild and crazy things together. They decided to work together in a bakery and created the world’s biggest red velvet cake. It was the size of a mountain. They invited everyone in Eastern Europe to eat the cake. Tyler and Ginger went white water rafting down the Colorado River in June for 2 weeks in a pair of small boats.
A truly inspiring story , THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON is the story of Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to achieve his dream of being a student at the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck. A unique turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler, a small time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they embark on a wild adventure together and cross paths with Eleanor, a worker at the nursing home, who was charged with finding Zak and bringing him back there. But no one had ever asked Zak what he wanted to do, so he threw the car keys into the river and she was forced to go with them on a homemade raft down the river. Their journey was certainly wild. In my opinion, the movie should be 100 stars because it was a perfect example of the struggles some people face every day. One of the things that was so amazing about the movie was the fact that one of the actors had Down Syndrome, which made the movie even more fascinating.
I think there should be more opportunities in the movie,t.v. and music industries for people with challenges. The movie offered a unique insight into the world of people with special challenges. There are many different kinds of people who don’t often get a chance to really be heard. If only people would stop being prejudiced and really listen, the world would be a better place.
Hello, my name is Charles and I’m here to review the movie In Search of Dr. Seuss. This movie was first released on November 6, 1994.
In this movie, we observe and learn the life and history of Dr. Seuss while experiencing some of the stories and characters he created.
The stories that are featured in this movie are The Sneetches,
Hunches in Bunches,
McElligot’s Pool,
Horton Hatches the Egg,
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,
Yertle the Turtle,
The Cat in the Hat,
Green Eggs and Ham,
How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
The Lorax,
The Butter Battle Book and Oh, The Places You’ll Go.
The cast of characters in this movie are Kathy Najimy as Kathy Lane (a reporter for the FernCrest Times),
Matt Frewer as Dr. Seuss’ Butler/The Cat in the Hat,
Cristopher Lloyd as Mr. Hunch (Hunches in Bunches),
Graham Jarvis as the Farmer (McElligot’s Pool),
Brady Bluhm as Marco (McElligot’s Pool),
J.D. Daniels as Marco (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street),
Patrick Stewart as Sgt. Mulvaney (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street),
Billy Crystal as Radio Voice aka The Voice of America (Hitler Lives),
Andrae Crouch as Yertle the Turtle (Yertle the Turtle),
Robin Williams as the Father (The Cat in the Hat),
Zelda Williams and Eleanor Columbus as the Daughters (The Cat in the Hat),
Howie Mandel as Sam-I-Am (Green Eggs and Ham),
Eileen Brennan as the Who-Villain (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and Terry Lindholm as the Once-ler (The Lorax).
In conclusion, I found this movie to be extremely hilarious, wonderfully musical and highly educational. Thus I end this article with a quote from Dr. Seuss at the end of this movie. “I hope for the children a world of peace and that they never lose their sense of wonder and discovery. From there to here, from here to there. Funny things are everywhere.”
Hello, my name is Charles and I’m here to review Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5 Remix for the PlayStation 4. This game is comprised of 6 individual games on 2 discs.
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix consists of Kingdom Hearts-Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts-Re:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts-358/2 Days.
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix Consists of Kingdom Hearts II-Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep-Final Mix and Kingdom Hearts-Re:Coded.
In Kingdom Hearts-Final Mix: Sora’s adventure begins as he joins forces with Donald Duck and Goofy to save all the worlds from the Heartless, Maleficent and Ansem: The Seeker of Darkness.
In Kingdom Hearts-Re:Chain of Memories: Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy, adventure continues as they search for their missing friends in the mysterious Castle Oblivion while dealing with their first encounter with Organization XIII.
In Kingdom Hearts-358/2 Days: The story takes place from the end of Kingdom Hearts-Final Mix through the entirety of Kingdom Hearts-Re:Chain of Memories. The story centers around Sora’s NoBody, Roxas and his friends Axel & Xion.
In Kingdom Hearts II-Final Mix: Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy’s adventure continues as they Face off against the Heartless, NoBodies, Organization XIII, Maleficent and Pete.
In Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep-Final Mix: The story takes place 10 years before Sora’s journey began. The story centers around three KeyBlade Wielders in training: Terra,Ventus and Aqua.
In Kingdom Hearts-Re:Coded: The story centers around a digital Sora as he helps Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy uncover the mysteries contained within Jiminy Cricket’s Journal.
The unique worlds featured in these games are:
Destiny Islands,
Land of Departure/Castle Oblivion,
Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden,
The World That Never Was,
End of the World,
Traverse Town and Twilight Town.
The Disney worlds featured in these games are:
Disney Town/Disney Castle,
Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland),
Olympus Coliseum (Hercules),
Deep Jungle (Tarzan),
Agrabah (Aladdin),
Monstro (Pinocchio),
Atlantica (The Little Mermaid),
Halloween Town/Christmas Town (The Nightmare before Christmas),
Neverland (Peter Pan),
Land of Dragons (Mulan),
Beast’s Castle (Beauty and the Beast),
Yen Sid’s Tower (Fantasia),
Timeless River (SteamBoat Willie),
Enchanted Dominion (Sleeping Beauty),
Castle of Dreams (Cinderella),
Dwarf Woodlands (Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs),
Pride Lands (The Lion King),
Space Paranoids (TRON),
Port Royal (Pirates of the Caribbean),
Deep Space (Lilo & Stitch) and the 100 Acre Wood (Winnie the Pooh).
In conclusion, I found this to be the biggest collection of Kingdom Hearts games in one casing thus showing an unbreakable connection in the franchise which in turn should teach us to utilize said unbreakable connection to build strong bonds with everyone around us due to the fact that “our hearts are connected.”
Hello, my name is Charles and I’m here to review the movie Hook. This movie was first released on December 11, 1991.
This movie centers around a “What If” scenario where a grown-up Peter Pan must return to Neverland and his childhood roots in order to save his son and daughter from the evil Captain Hook.
The cast of characters are:
Robin Williams as Peter Banning/Peter Pan,
Dustin Hoffman as Captain James Hook,
Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell,
Bob Hoskins as Mr. Smee,
Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy Moira Angela Darling,
Charlie Korsmo as Jack (Peter Pan’s son),
Caroline Goodall as Moira (Peter Pan’s Wife/Wendy’s Granddaughter),
Amber Scott as Maggie (Peter Pan’s daughter),
Dante Basco as Rufio and Arthur Malet as Elder Tootles.
The locations in this movie are:
London,
Neverland,
Pirate Town,
The Jolly Roger,
Mermaid Lagoon,
Wendy’s home in Neverland and the home of the Lost Boys.
In conclusion, I learned from watching this movie the importance of preserving our imagination. I also learned from this movie that the value of living as well as living said life would be and is in fact “an awfully big adventure.”
Hello, my name is Charles and I’m here to review the movie The PageMaster. This movie was first released on November 23, 1994.
This movie mostly takes place in an Illustrated World of Fictional and Non-Fictional stories which are divided into three areas. The three areas are The Horror Realm, The Land of Adventure and The World of Fantasy.
The Fictional and Non-Fictional stories and characters featured in this movie are the Kraken from 20,000 Leagues under the Sea,
the Demon Dog from Sherlock Holmes: The Hounds of Baskerville,
the Raven from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven,
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde from Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,
Ghosts from Miscellaneous Ghost Stories,
Captain Ahab and Moby Dick from Moby Dick,
Long John Silver and his Pirate Crew from Treasure Island,
the Little People from Gulliver’s Travels,
Mother Goose, Pan the Satyr, Fairies and a Dragon from Miscellaneous Fairy Tales,
the Magic Carpet from 1001 Arabian Nights,
the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland and the Beanstalk from Jack & the Beanstalk.
The cast of characters are Macaulay Culkin as Richard Tyler,
Christopher Lloyd as Mr. Dewey the Librarian/the PageMaster: Keeper of the Books and Guardian of the Written World,
Patrick Stewart as the voice of Adventure
Whoopi Goldberg as the voice of Fantasy and Frank Welker as the voice of Horror.
In conclusion, I found this movie to be truly Inspirational as well as educational in teaching us on how to broaden our imaginations/horizons in a big way.
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