There Goes the Neighborhood

     When the Europeans first came to America they were intruding on land that belonged to the Native Americans. They took what wasn't theirs and called it their own. The Europeans were happy that they could do whatever they pleased especially when they were taking advantage of the Native Americans with unfair trades, such as learning how to find food in the forests the Europeans gave the Indians beads. Without this skill the Europeans would have never survived and all the Native Americans got were lousy beads, which the Europeans tricked them to thinking they were priceless. This happens today, people take advantage of the naive and unaware, they sold them fake merchendise, or they raised the prices on their merchendise to make even more money and they make it sound like they're getting a deal. When I was walking down the street last year I heard a man say, "I'll sell it to you for $20." He was selling a lady a bottle of water near the White Sox game. She bought it and I felt so bad because she had no idea that you can buy 20 bottles of water for that much. This is just like what the Europeans did to the Native Americans they took advantage of their lack of knowledge and exploited it for their own good.

Introductions

     My name is John Doyle; however almost everyone I know calls me Jack. I'm 15 years old and I am a sophomore at Whitney Young High School. For elementary school I went to a small school called Keller, it's on the far Southside of Chicago in Beverly, there was only one class per grade and we only had 28 kids in my graduating class. I play football and baseball for Whitney Young and I really like it. With sports and some tough classes the work load can be stressful, but I learned how to get through it by doing my work on the train to and from school. I love sports; I have played them since I was able to walk. My favorite sports teams would have to be the Bears, Blackhawks (not just because they won the Stanley Cup), Bulls, and the White Sox. I don’t really like to read, but I am going to try to find a style of book that best suits me because I know that we’re going to do a lot of reading this school year. My favorite subject is probably math because the answers are definite and my least favorite is English, because I don’t like to read or write. My favorite color is green, and my lucky number is 13.