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In Northern Ireland at the end of 20th century, the country was at a period of unrest sometimes known as ‘The Troubles’. Different social and political groups were at a conflict between one another. Who should be running Northern Ireland and who does it belong too.  The Nationalist/Republicans wanted a free and united Ireland. The group was mainly made up of Catholics.The Loyalist/Unionist wanted to remain being a string partner with the United Kingdom and were mainly Protestant.

Why did this conflict begin? A lot of history was behind this conflict. Different groups viewed the history in differing ways. Similerly to in ‘Say Nothing’ the narrator speaks if the minorites and majority groups in Northern Ireland compared to the majority and minority groups in the rest of Ireland. Mainly speaking of Protestants and Catholics. Violence and segregation were both major cultural problems in Ireland at the end of the 20th century.

This week the whole basketball team got sent home and quarantined. To be completely honest, it has been amazing. It feels so good to be home enjoying myself and having freedom. Also, eating food at home is so much better and easier. I can actually eat healthy food the fills me up and I can eat it whenever I want. Whenever we are done doing the activity for the day in class, I get to go and do something else for the remainder of class, instead of just messing around for 20 minutes.

In the beginning of Corona, I was really against the idea of a lockdown. Over time my feelings have drastically changed. Now I would enjoy going into lockdown because I can play golf, workout, and do online school. Also, I am ready for Corona to just be over. Right now, it seems almost as if we are half in lockdown and half out of lockdown. For example, we are allowed to go to school and play sports but we can not go to concerts or experience LSU football games in its true greatness. I’m tired of it, I want our full freedom back or to go back into lockdown.

This has been an absolutely crazy year. 2020 is a year we will never forget, a year that will forever change the world. Believe or not, 2020 had one of the greatest of a year I have ever had. LSU winning the national championship was one of the greatest moments of my life. That was peak of the year and after that everything just went downhill. Corona completely smashed any other great possible moments. This year taught me something however, never take anything for granted because life as I know it can change at any moment.

I mean, I thought I was getting an extra week of spring break whenever the virus began. However, I have a theory. Since 2020 started off to such an amazing start, that is why it ended so terribly. With 2021 already off to horrible start, then that means that 2021 will end in a much better way. I really hope that is the case because at this point that is all we really can do. Happy New Year, and thank goodness 2020 is over.

I have recently watched the movie Atlas Shrugged. It is made up of a series of 3 different movies. I really enjoyed watching the movie, however the actual casting and directing of the movie is extremely poor. Every movie the actors are replaced with new actors and the movies do not pick up where the last ones left off. The reason why I really enjoyed the movie is because I really enjoyed the script and what the movie was attempting to portray.

The movie is about all of the greatest minds in the world disappearing. A man named Jon Galt takes all of the greatest minds and takes them to “Atlantis” to be on strike. All of great minds are tired of the government taxing and taking all of their hard earned money and business and just giving it away to people who have not worked for it. The world begins to run out of fossil fuels which makes the economy of the world completely deteriorate. The world no longer understands how to function and everything falls apart.

Today seems to be the end of my amazing fantasy football run. I am currently up by 1 in the semifinals against Ethan. I am very mad at myself, after all of my hard work and effort, I am still going to lose. Last week my quarterback decided not to play and my backup quarterbacks each got 25 points. I have no one to blame but myself. My players fought hard and well for me and I will always love them for yet.

I ended the season having a total of three first round picks. Ezekiel Elliot I acquired later in the season and I am so disappointed in, I traded my amazing James Robinson for him. Aaron Jones was my original number 1 draft pick and he has performed well. Michael Thomas I also acquired in a trade with Bennet. With Thomas I did get extremely lucky. Overall, I had a fun time playing fantasy and I can not wait until next season.

Where do I even start? I have learned so much this semester. In English class this year, this was the first time I really felt like I improved my actual knowledge. In past years, it seems that I am just in the class sitting there, but not actually learning from the class. The ability for our class to choose what we were interested in and what we wanted to learn, really helped me enjoy the class and get more into the discussions.

This year I have improved in so many different aspects of English. Before this year, I had no idea how to interpret poems at all, unless it was blatantly obvious. My overall vocabulary has drastically improved. I have also become so much better at analyzing poems and understanding when and why authors use certain literary devices in their writing.

This week we had to make our very own Fabliau. My partner was Michael and we created a very well thought out Fabliau. In the beginning it was very difficult, it is hard to create jokes that everyone will find funny. A lot of the time, whenever my friends and I tell jokes, it is normally somehow related to an ongoing inside joke or it is just something completely random. It was also very hard to make jokes that were appropriate for school.

I just had a mental block creating the plot and setting.It made it very helpful to have a partner for this assignment, Michael really helped me better understand how to develop the story in a more interesting way. I thought it was also very fun and entertaining to go over everyones creations in class. I do not love public speaking, but I really do enjoy other peoples public speaking. Overall this was a very fun assignment.

The regular season has finally ended, and I am the number 2 seed in the playoffs. Valentin got the 1 seed, although I have more total points scored throughout the year. It is not the biggest deal in the world, because Val and I both get byes. I have to play either Stewart or Ethan depending on who wins in the upcoming weeks. To be honest, my team is not is the best place right now, Aaron Jones, arguably the most important player on my team, is coming off of a calf injury. Jones has not scored over 15 points in the past two weeks.

Allen Robinson, the most important and deciding player on my team. Robinson is one of the most talented wide receivers on my entire team. The problem is not him, it is his quarterback situation. He started off the season with Mitch Trubisky who was later replaced by Nick Foles. Neither are great quarterbacks, however Foles is astronomically better then Trubisky. Foles was injured this week and now Robinson has a third string quarterback throwing to him. Things are going to get interesting.

This week in fantasy football I am still number 1 in the power rankings. This week I beat Josh, and Stewart lost, so things look very good for me. I have secured a bye for the first round of the playoff, unless somehow I have the worst week of fantasy football ever. I want to beat Val and secure the number 1 seed just for bragging rights. Val and I are both tied at 6 and 2 and he beat me in head to head but I have more points scored then him so I am ahead in the power rankings.

Stewart, Val, and I are the only people locked for the playoffs. Almost every other person in our league is 3-5 and 4-4. I also recently traded away Josh Jacobs for Ezekial Elliot, and this scares me because Zeke has not been doing too well since Dak Prescott got hurt. Zeke also plays a lot of good defensive teams during the playoffs and it has me extremely worried. I do not have important game until week 13.

For our graduating high school class in 2022 there are many important things happening in our life. The tenth most important thing to our class is; Climate Change, our class hears all over the news differing problems and ideas on climate change and we really want to understand more about it and when and how it will effect our generation. The ninth most important thing for us, the transformation of gas cars to electric cars, and when this will take place. Eighth, how the economy will change, for as long as I can remember a lot of our economy has been based on fossil fuels and there has been a lot of controversy, and eventually it seems like America will move away from fossil fuels but will America’s economy look like after this. Seventh, privacy, whenever a group of us are talking about a beach house for spring break for example, vrbo will actually pop up as an ad on our phones. Sixth, discrimination, our generation has seen of these discriminational movements and different people fighting for their rights, and we want to learn more about other cultures and how to stop discrimination.

Getting into the top 5, the fifth most important thing to our class is, Power, we have watched all of these college athletes complain about not getting paid and the NCAA and colleges making so much money off of them, we want to know more about why companies like the NCAA have so much power. Fourth, Social Media, we have seen the media who delivers all of the news to us be so bias on both sides and effect the country so heavily, we want to learn how to know whats true and what is false. Third, we want to understand politics, it has been so controversial and there has been rioting and all of this diversion in our country and we want to understand why this has happens and see both sides of the story. Second, entertainment, our generation has always needed to be entertained and we have fallen in love with movies, sports, and sports players. We look up to these sports players and we want to learn more and more about their lives and what makes them tick. Finally, diseases, we have had to deal with Covid and we want to learn how to further prevent these diseases and how to deal with them better once they occur.