Arjun Agrawal Essays

Bike Accident!      I love biking. I, especially, enjoy the thrill of high speed, the fast moving landscape, and the breath of wind pouncing against my face. I can breathe the fresh outdoor air. Yet, there are times when this passion can cause pain, like when I crashed. It really hurt ??.  Here is one time of when this happened.      I was on my way to the park with my dad. I saw the beautiful landscape. The trees were green. The bushes were rustling. I was biking down the road at extreme speeds, leaving my dad behind in the dust. I was going so fast, almost everything looked like a blur! Then I saw a big ditch on the side of the road. I thought that maybe I could do a stunt jump in the ditch.  So I decided to go inside of it.          I felt like superman flying down from the moon, except on a bike. I was having so much fun I didn't see this ramp-ish like rock that was in my way. CRASH! I had flown about 2 fee...

The Son Of Neptune      Have you ever read the great book, The Son of Neptune ? If you haven't, I am sure you would enjoy it. Rick Riordan's book is great for three reasons: it has lots adventurous moments, consent action, and copious humor.      To start off, the book The Son of Neptune  is very adventurous. The main character, Percy Jackson, has lost his memory, and the only way he can revive it is by going to the antarctic and fetching a magical golden eagle. This golden eagle can heal anything, so Percy goes on a quest to the antarctic to get it. On the way he encounters many different gods, monsters, and cyclops. Percy has to fight and get through all these obstacles in order to achieve his goal. The book creates so many vivid images in the reader's mind. You can almost see Percy determined to achieve his goal! This book will create a whole new meaning of "adventure" in your mind      Next, The Son of Neptune is full of a...

Intro       "Who to meet..... Who to meet?" I want to meet Notch Persson, the creator of the popular video game called minecraft. I want to meet him for following reasons: to know next generation ideas for video games, to find out the key ideas to create a successful business, and to know what obstacles that might come in my way and how to overcome them. Body       First of all, I want to meet Notch Persson to know innovating ideas for video games. Notch knew the taste of young players, and how they evolve. So he gave the players what they wanted, a sandbox/violent game called minecraft. Notch knows the taste of the next generation gamers. Notch might help me get ideas for an innovative video game for the future. With those ideas, I can create an future generation video game.       Secondly, I want to know Notch's key to success. When Notch grew up he only started out with a computer in a garage. Now he is owns a...

Intro       "Who to meet..... Who to meet?" I want to meet Notch persson. Notch is a video game founder of the game called minecraft. I want to meet notch for three reasons: to learn how to program and create video games, to find out how he was able to become successful, and to learn about him. Body       *learn how to program and create video games                     -I want to learn how to program video games like minecraft.                                    -notch knows how to program video games. Thus he can teach me how to program video games.                     -Once I learn how to program...

INTRO  The temperature is higher than ever. Glaciers are melting. Oceans levels are rising. Eventually the earth will be inhabitable. T his is because we are burning too much fossil fuels. One of the major fuels is gasoline. We waste gasoline everyday on the streets. We have to reduce the use of gasoline. I believe the simplest way to do this is by charging additional carbon taxes on gas. We should charge additional carbon tax gas for the following reasons. BODY     First of all, people will drive less. They will plan on how to save their fuel. For example, a person might move close ti his/her work place. Thus they can bike or walk to work.     Second of all, people might use alternative methods of transportation. These alternatives are like bus, train, etc. For example, there are 50 people who need to go to work. Then there will be 50 cars driving to work. Yet, those 50 people could to all go in one bus. Each car weighs about eight hundred pound...

observation  Global warming has been higher than ever. Glaciers are melting. Soon the oceans will overflow and make earth inhabitable. cause   This is because we are burning too much gasoline. Thus polluting our atmosphere.   We have to reduce the use of gasoline. The only way to do this is by charging carbon taxes on gas. We should charge carbon tax gas for the following reasons. BODY  *Taxing gas     -people will drive less: they will plan to use     -People will use alternative methods of transportation: Bus, train, etc             people will alternative energies: solar roof/wind energy for charging electric cars instead. COUNTER ARGUMENT  *commodities will become more expensive. Producers will have to pay more to ship their items to he consumers. For example                -farmers will have to ship thei...

As you may know me, I am an extreme gamer. I play games day and night. I am so eager to play, I steal my dad's laptop when I know my dad is asleep and play until midnight, then I return the laptop back to him leaving no trace in his history that I was playing games on his laptop. After the following story, I learned my lesson. I stopped playing video games excessively. It all started when: I was playing the really fun game called Microsoft flight. Microsoft flight was a networked game. The creator of the game Billy Bob Jones was online to challenge people for fun. I was playing for hours. After 6 hours of playing, a thunderstorm came. At first I felt safe since i knew I was indoors and i could not be harmed. But I was wrong. On bolt of lighting shocked our house! The supercharge of energy overpowered my computer!! At first the screen went blank. Then the computer's screen shot some purple bolt of light at me!! At first I was paralyzed. I felt as i...

INTRO      The poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes describes a mother providing valuable advice to her son. The main theme of the poem is to never give up hope and to keep pushing forward when life gets challenging. BODY     Presented throughout the text, the theme of the poem is to hold on to hope. The mother compares her life to stairs. Crystal stairs means that everything is perfect. The mother's life was not a crystal stair. She had many broken holes and tacks in her stairs. This symbolizes struggle in her life. She says that she never gave up. Eventually, she reached the top of the stairs. Thus she succeeded happily in life. If she had given up, she wouldn't be happy. She would always be discouraged, unsuccessful, etc. Since she kept trying, she succeed. Thus she can live her life in happiness. For example, Steve Jobs. Jobs was struggling to sell his products. Even though Jobs kept failing, he didn't stop. Eventually people st...

INTRO      The poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes describes a mother providing valuable advice to her son. The main theme of the poem is to never give up hope and to keep pushing forward when life gets challenging. BODY     Presented throughout the text, the theme of the poem is to hold on to hope. The mother compares her life to stairs. Crystal stairs symbolizes that everything is perfect. The mother's life was not a crystal stair. She had many broken holes and tacks in her stairs. This symbolizes struggle in her life. She says that she never gave up. Eventually, she reached the top of the stairs. Thus she succeeded in life.      The poem Mother to Son is similar and different to the quote by Bill Cosby. They both tell us to reach our goals. No matter what gets in our way we have to keep trying. (Never give up) That is the only way to succeed. They are both different too. The quote tells us to dream big. To take the bi...

     Everybody needs a chance to decompress after a long day of hard work. For example, my dad. After a long hard day of work, he comes home and watches a movie. But kids are restricted from these video games. For example, I only get about 6 hours of playtime a week. It is not that much. Just like my dad relieves stress, shouldn't kids be allowed to relief their stress with video games?  That is why I believe that kids should be allowed to play video games. Video games relief stress, are very fun, and are educational.      First of all, video games relieves stress. Students come home after school stressed out. They need to relax. Playing video games can solve that problem. Video games allow kids to forget about their worries and relax. When all stress is relieved, his/her mood is back to normal and will do better in his/her work.       Second of all video games are very fun. Kids need to live their lives and have ...

INTRO      Should kids be restricted from playing video games? I believe that kids should be allowed to play video games for the following reasons; they relief stress, they are very fun, and they are educational. BODY ☺§ Reliefs stress -students come home after school stressed out -playing video games allow them to forget about their worries and relax -When all stress is relieved, his/her mood is back to normal and will do better in his/her work ☺§ Very fun -ex: Minecraft -You can play with other people from around the world in your games -You can go kill monsters and other players ☺§ Educational -Sometimes includes lots of thinking -Makes your mind sharper -Can make your reflexes faster CONCLUSION      In summary video games are very benifitial. Video games can relief our stress,  very fun, and educational That is why I believe that kids should not be restrained from playing video games

      One day as I was watching television, something random popped up in an advertisement. "BEEP, BEEP! We are Alien from the planet X,??? Prepare for battle! Introducing the new alien toy...." Imagine if aliens actually attacked us one day. This happened in year 2999 . Many unidentified flying objects (U.F.Os) had been witnessed flying in the sky. Day after day, more U.F.O.s were spotted. The U.F.O.s killed people, destroyed buildings, etc. It turned out to be an alien invasion. The aliens had superior technology shown by the weapons they used. In response, all of the world's armies combined together to face the aliens. There was a major battle fought on earth's surface. Aliens sent many strong aerial vehicles all over Earth's surface to destroy all of the armies. (including the navy ships) Aliens took over all of the surface. Aliens eventually killed all the humans on the land. Only survivors of the war was the world's submarine navy. The navy ...

      Imagine if there were aliens in the universe! I wonder what were to happen if they were to attack us. This happened in year 2019. Many undefined flying objects (U.F.Os) had been witnessed flying in the sky. Day after day, more U.F.O.s were spotted. The U.F.O.s started to kill people, destroy buildings, etc. It turned out to be an alien invasion. It appeared the aliens had superior technology because of the weapons they used. In response, all of the world's army combined together to face the aliens. There was a major battle fought on earth's surface. The aliens sent many strong aerial vehicles. These aerial vehicles went all over Earth's surface to destroy all of the armies. (including the navy ships) The aliens took over all of the surface. The aliens eventually killed all the humans on the land. The only survivors of the war was the world's submarine navy. The navy submarines were able to hide under the water untouched. The navy lived in their submarines. The...

     Everyone is special in their own way. I believe I am unique for many reasons; I am a professional in math, I have very creative ideas, and I am a very hands on and quick improvisor in computer games.      First of all, I am very good in math. Last year, I got a 99.5% in math. This helped me skip pre-algebra and I got into algebra one. I can also make complex calculations in seconds in my head. I know all my formulas, and math vocabulary. I even know more that an eighth grader in our class. I got many A's in test and quizzes, where others could not. This is why I feel proud about being a professional in math.      Second of all, I have many creative ideas. For example there was this program called Odyssey of the mind. In Odyssey of the mind my team and I had to create a skit. I had many creative ideas. Most of the people in my team agreed with me and we implemented. So I took top role in my team. When we performed in fr...

Should We Learn From Our Mistakes Or Not? By: Arjun Agrawal Intro                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           My family and I were going to India. We were so focused on getting on time to the airport, we forgot to ...

Should We Learn From Our Mistakes Or Not? By: Arjun Agrawal Intro      "Whoops, I forgot to do my homework!" We are all humans. We all make mistakes! I believe we should learn from our mistakes. We should learn from our mistake because, problems reappear often, problems compound over time and facing difficult situations build confidence to face an entirely different challenge. Body Problems reappear        First of all, the situation that led to event in question will likely arise again as history tends to repeats itself. I have experienced this situation before. When I took a math test I got a few answers marked wrong. I didn't care to understand what I did wrong. At the end of the year, there was a star test. Some of the same exact questions from my previous test, were on this test. I got a 85 percentile.  Maybe if I had payed attention to the questions I got wrong in the math test, I could have gotten a 95 percent tile. Problems C...

Intro                             WWIII 2014 By: Arjun Agrawal What happens: energy exhausted It's the year 2014. Aliens had invaded the planet. We humans, fought valiantly to defend our civilization. By the end of the war, a lot of coal and gas was depleted. After the war everything changed. At first, our electricity started getting cut. Then our fuel prices increased.  How I felt I woke up really late one morning wondering why my alarm didn't wake me up. To my surprise the alarm had stopped working! At first, I thought that my alarm was just broken. I tried to turn on the TV. It didn't work. This meant my house's electricity was out. I asked my neighbor whether he had electricity or not. He had the same problems as me. This meant my whole block's electricity was out. I tried to call my friend. There was no dial tone. Usually, the city always had some reserved power for phones. This meant the who...

Intro                             WWIII 2014 By: Arjun Agrawal What happens: energy exhausted It's the year 2014. Aliens had invaded planet. Humans fought using every bit of energy to survive. At the end of the war, alot of coal and  gas was used up. After the war everything changed. At first, our electricity started getting cut, constantly. Then our fuel prices were going up. Eventually it came to the point were all our energy sources were gone.  How I felt I woke up one morning wondering why his alarm didn't wake me up. To my surprise the alarm had stopped working! I soon realized that all modern technology had stopped working. My TV, computer, vehicle, etc. I came to know that after the war all the energy of the world was used up. I was very sad. It was almost a nightmare. I needed modern technology. I was too use to it. But now I had to adapt to the old ways. Such as using candles for li...

Characters      A king had fallen in love with someone without royal blood. Thus he could not marry her without giving up his title. But the lady, named Adley, wants to marry the king in three days. She threatens him to marry her with a photograph. This photograph shows a picture of the king and Adley, when they were in love. If Adley shows it to anyone that would ruin the king's title anyways. Plot      The king doesn't even want to marry Adley anymore anyways. So he had to get that photograph back. So the king goes to Sherlock Holmes for help. Holmes didn't really know what to do. So all he did was spy on Adley to gather some information. He soon finds out that Adley was also in love with someone else but couldn't marry him because of family issues. But Adley still meets that man everyday. Solution Holmes made a plan to go to the place where she will meet her "boyfriend" There Holmes played unconscious. Just liked Holmes had planned, Adley took Holme...

Character      A young lady named Mary's father died. Ever since someone has been sending her expensive pearls every month. This went on for a whole year. Soon  she was been asked to go and meet a stranger.  Plot      Mary goes to Sherlock Holmes for advice. Should she meet the men and why were they sending her pearls. Holmes was confused. He had no way of finding out who these strangers were. Holmes told Mary to go to the meeting so Holmes could get some information about whats going on. So when Mary goes to meet these stranger, Holmes follows her without being seen. From the meeting Holmes finds out that this stranger was the one who killed Mary's father. Now, the murderer was trying to force Lucy into marrying her. When Lucy refused the murderer also killed her. Solution      Holmes had found out who the dangerous murder was. Now all he had to do was arrest him. But Holmes didn't know where the murderer lived. H...

Characters Jefferson Hope was a man who had a loved one. She was killed, by a man named Debbren, because she refused to marry Debbren.  Plot Soon there was a murder. Debbren was poisoned and died. Sherlock Holmes tries to find out who the murderer was. He looked for clues such as, who was named Rache.  Solution Jefferson Hope turns himself in. He committed that he was the murder. Debbren had killed Jefferson's loved one. So Jefferson took revenge on him by killing him. Jefferson was taken to prison, and slaughtered. 

Characters/setting      This story takes place in a world called Kaglash. This planet has six suns. Thus night is something uncommon over there. The "humans" who live have never seen the dark. The humans hate the dark and get  claustrophobia  when in the dark. One astronomer named Beenay, discovers something that could change their civilization forever. To his calculations, in one year all five of their suns will set and the other sun will be eclipsed. Thus causing darkness on the top hemisphere.    Plot       When the eclipse occurs, almost everyone goes insane. T hey did everything to get light. They burned any thing flammable . Thus burning the city down. Fourteen hours later, when the  eclipse  was over, majority of the people were dead. the insane people killed each other in madness and  committed  suicide in fear. Only a handful of smart  individuals  who saw the darkness coming, survived. They ...

Characters         The borrowers were a family of small humans only half a foot tall. They lived with regular sized humans who provided them a proper home and food. Plot        One day the borrowers came to know that the regular sized humans they lived with were moving away. The borrowers were left with the home but no food. So they decided to go look out for a new home. They decided to go down a river to see where fate takes them. They used an old tea kettle as a boat.  Whenever they need food they stopped by the river to find some berries. They slept in the tea kettle everyday with little room.  They lived like this for days. Solution        Soon The Borrowers discovered an old house that was big enough for the family. By the house was a small farming land. The place looked like it hadn't been used in years. This house couldn't be handled by any other species other than theirs. The Borrowers soon realized ...

Characters      Oliver is an orphan. His mother died giving him birth, and his father went missing. Plot       Oliver works at a workhouse. The owner was very abusive. He abused Oliver daily. So  Oliver ran away to London. There,   a criminal named Fagin , takes Oliver into his gang. Oliver quickly becomes a pickpocket and a burglar. One day, w hile breaking into a house he got shot. A gentleman named Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver home. Mr. Brownlow healed and cared for Oliver. This was a life changing event for Oliver. Oliver learned the value of life. Oliver let go of his life as a criminal, and lives with Mr. Brownlow. Soon his father was found dead. He was a wealthy man. He left Oliver lots of money. Oliver  successfully  claimed the money.  Fagin conspires to get the money. Solution      A young lady named Nancy was a gang member of Fagin. She cared about Oliver. So Nancy warns Oliver that Fa...

Characters Aiden and his sister, Meg are the main characters. They were in Los Angelos on the living in 5-star hotels. They were trying to run away as fugitives Setting: Plot Aiden and Meg's parents had been accused of a crime. But their parents didn't do it. They lost the case. They ended up in prison. Aiden and Meg are in the hunt to find evidence. They want to prove their parents innocence. Harrison was a detective. He saw that if Aiden's parents stay guilty he gets a promotion for "solving" the case. Harrison and his fellow FBI members were chasing Aiden and Meg to stop them from finding the real evidence. Aiden's Uncle, Frank, had witnessed the crime. They thought that Frank might have some evidence. Frank could bust their parents out of jail. But Frank had moved out of his old home. Aiden and Meg were on the journey to find their uncle. Solution Aiden and Meg searched many places like Frank's old house and they talked to people who knew h...

Main Characters      There were once three children that lived with their mom. Their father had died in a war. He left a magic baseball for his children. This magic baseball grants wishes when people hold it.  Plot      The family was in debt. They needed money. In their home town, Louisville, baseball was very popular. In fact, Many games were played for money. The mom decided to play a baseball game for the money. So she created a baseball team called the Travellin nine. They trained hard and became the perfect team. Soon they competed in a baseball game. This game was very important. The family bet every little of what they had. If the travillin nine lost this game, then Elizabeth's family would go bankrupt. Once the game started, the travellin' nine met their new opponent. Unfortunately, the opponent team was very strong. In fact they were so good that they couldn't let travellin nine get a single point for half of the game. While the oppon...

    Imagine building beautiful structures using  Lego  blocks! You can do just that in Minecraft. Minecraft is a world of blocks where you can use your creativity to build structures. Minecraft is appropriate for all ages as it has no graphic violence or gore. I will give you some tips on how to start out in Minecraft. I'll tell you what are the challenges you may face. I will also tell you how to  address  those challenges to improve your experience in the game.     First of all, here are the basics for starting out in Minecraft. First, go to the website:  Minecraft.net . Then make an account, purchase Minecraft, then download it. You should be able to start the game without any problems. Then you just play! When you are in the game, you should collect resources such as wood. You can collect wood by punching trees. Then find an empty  place with plenty of sunlight, trees, and water. This is the site where you should build yo...

Surfancyipeecto the  flying  dog  By Arjun Agrawal  Once when dogs ruled half of the world before humans and the rhinos a baby dog prince that was named Surfancyipeecto and was born from a rich king in the U.S.A. Surfancyipeecto was very weak and couldn’t even move. Surfancyipeecto had some type of infection. So the king went for a mad scientist to make Surfancyipeecto stronger and heal him. He found a cheap mad dog scientist and asked for a 999   power-up-potion also a medicine at the same time. Once Surfancyipeecto drank the p...

Intro       Imagine being dropped at 100 ft down at 60 mph! I experienced this ride in the theme park, Great America. Last Tuesday, I went to Great America with my class for a field trip. I had a good time at Great America. I experienced the thrill rides, I shared special time with my friends, and had great food. Body        The thrills of Great America                                                                   There are many great thrill roller coaster rides in Great America. Here are my top three rides I enjoyed. The best ride of them all was flight deck. It is an extremely fast. During the ride, I could barely move head. I would recommend it to people who like to experience extreme speed and thrill. The second best was the gold striker. It is a ride with huge drops. ...