Choosing A Theme

I would honestly have to say, my first choice for a theme would be criminal justice. I have never studies about criminal justice or law, although i am very argumentative and if i like you enough i bet i could be your lawyer ; ) . no, but i really do feel strongly about this topic; the thought that famous celebrities and the wealthy are allowed a "get out of jail free card" intrigues me. is this not America? are we no longer protected under our constitutional rights; were we ever really? These people are even allowed a second and extra " get out early card" when on a daily bases we send innocent people to jail everyday.

 Although i have always been an "at sea" kind of girl, I've always felt somehow connected to the ocean and the marine animals living within it. I'd love to do my theme on marine life( nature) , its always interested me since i was a little girl. i hope to one day become a marine biologist if i can ever go through with it.

Writers Autobiography

My experience as a writer goes as far back as i can remember. even now, i can see my first grade class room like i was there yesterday. My teacher, giving our class a writing assignment; usually to write non-stop without picking your pencil off the paper for five to ten minutes. We did this often and i always found myself being the last one to hand in there paper. We would write on this huge lined gray paper; the texture was rough and when you erased a word it smudged into a big gray blob. We had other paper like this, i always hated it but it was all they provided. I could never write for only ten minutes, it seemed like when my stories began to get good she would tell us to stop. How could i just stop when i had so much to say?


With all my class mates handing in there two page papers i always felt confident walking up last with my five page papers. It was at this time, that my teacher and parents told me "one day you could become a writer". I now see this as a great opportunity for myself, but at the time i looked at it as a huge expectation to live up to. Although as the years passed i shied away from writing, to the point that i wouldn't pick up a book to read.


By the seventh grade i fell into a major depression and began to write again. At this point my whole outlook had changed, i showed no one my work and felt very self conscience. I found this therapeutic for me, even reading has become a hobby of mine on an everyday bases. By high school, i had notebook's filled with stream of consciences, poems, short stories ..etc and it happened again. A creative writing teacher my junior year; who literally thought i was having something else write my work for me, (this was obviously false) thought i was a great writer. She was intrigued by my stories, and this gave me a new hope to keep writing. I'll never forget what she told me ; " You can make someone believe anything, even if its not real, and that's not something most people can do."