Kyle Tanaka
Ms. Shigemitsu
7:30
School
Woke'n up to the dumb alarm set to six
Blindly slamming the snooze button sleepily
Hoping to squeeze another 10 minutes.
dad pounding on the door like no tomorrow
Get up, swaying side to side half awake.
Morning routine, staggering all around.
Sit in a metal car for a long hour
get to school, avoiding people you dislike
Bell rings, still fighting to stay awake now..
Try to remember what homework you did,
The ones I didn’t do, must get done now.
Schools over finally, just go home and rest.
Day after day, it is always the same
Four long years to go, one day at a time
I wrote this poem, and it is more reflective on my own feelings more then other people feel about this subject. Some people enjoy coming to school like that it is the only way in which we grow, how we interact with people. I am not demeaning that school is not needed at all to learn and mature, but I wish that there were other ways that it could be done. School is a place that our minds get fed the knowledge that we need for the real world, how to question situations correctly in order to analyze it. School is something that is mandated by the government that we must have High School education. But the feeling that I get which is repeated in the poem is that, just the same routine gets tiring after repetition over and over again. For me, a feeling of change from the everyday routine of wake up, get ready, go to school, do tests, go home, and do homework, is needed.
In the first stanza was signifying the start of everyday. Waking up to the same routine everyday is just the start of everything. The reason of being tired is because of the day before, staying up late finishing homework, playing games, watching television is all reasons why we go to sleep late, and suffer the next morning. The start of the morning is always the hardest for me, keeping on wandering all over the house and school trying to remember what I was supposed to do, and trying to keep on time to not get out of the house late to get to school on time.
Next stanza is incorporating how our day goes at school. Once again it's the same customs that we go though. School has groups of people who hang out together, some people that you like and get along with, and others you just think are the most evil of all people. Another thing that is a significant part of school is tests. The tests see your knowledge and understanding of the subject that was assigned by the teacher, and if you weren't sleeping in class to remember something. For the homework that wasn't completed the night before, you hope to find a break time before the class to scramble to finish it, because you were too tired from doing it last night. Finally when the day is done, it feels that you accomplished a great task, and but yet there’s another school day tomorrow. Which will continue for a while until we are out in the real world working with other people.
The last two lines to me are the most meaningful, because that the same routine is tiring but yet, we must persevere to keep trying and to not give up. School is the key to our future and it depends on what kind of job we get, our character that will reflect us, and how we will act. Our future is important and how we want it to turn out, will start
with our present time school. So four more long years to go, for some the time is shorter. But all of us go down the same path.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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Heritage paper
World War II Experience
Kyle Tanaka
Feb 8st, 2007
Ms. Shigemitsu
Long ago in the far reaches of Asia in Kyoto, Japan. There was a young man still going through his senior year in high school. He was a star athlete in ice hockey and hardly anyone could beat him or even stop the shots that he would execute to make a goal. But during this time, a tragic war was starting throughout the world. The war was taking away the young man’s hockey teammates, friends, and classmates. This young man was Kenichiro Tanaka who was 18 years old during 1938, the start of World War 2 when Japan decided to invade China. Already, the war is starting to call for all able-bodied men to enlist into the army to go fight overseas for the country. But like America, those who have good grades and keep it above a B, do not have to fight in the war. The reason being that the smart students graduate from college then become an officer in the army, or use their mind to engineer new weapons. But education was important to young Kenichiro’s family and his father made sure that his grades were always A’s and made sure he did not slack off in school.
Finally Kenichiro graduated from college with great grades but he was forced into joining the army because the war against America had started and the demand for soldiers was greater then ever. Kenichiro was drafted into the army as a private, but because of his educational background he was easily promoted and pulled up in the ranks. He was the Ittio Rikui or the American equivalent of a Staff Sergeant, which was a very high rank for someone who came fresh out of college. The higher command promoted college graduates before the rest of the regular army because of the knowledge and background to make commands for his squad and platoon. Because he was a Staff Sergeant, Kenichiro was assigned his own squad consisting of about 10-12 soldiers under his command. For basic training and post basic training.
One day after running with his squad through some drills, Kenichiro was ordered to go in and see the Colonel. The Colonel was stout intimidating man my grandfather said, he was short but very muscular and could take on men twice his size. Kenichiro went into the room to speak to the Colonel who reassigned my grandfather to a different division of the army. Kenichiro’s educational background made him a good candidate of becoming a secret spy for Japan. It was a difficult task to become a spy; being dropped behind enemy lines to send valuable information that will affect the way battles would be fought. Kenichiro accepted the daunting task and hoped for the best because he was not feeling very strongly to take on this difficult task. He enrolled into the Japan Spy School for basic spy training, and specialized training, and language courses. After long hours of tedious training he was ready as a fully trained spy, and waited for orders to deploy. To Kenichiro’s horror it was one day that the American’s dropped a atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki where his family was. And then the following days the Japanese signed the official declaration of surrender to the American’s. Kenichiro’s family was luckily safe from the effects of the bomb. Kenichiro did not have to deploy to enemy territory, because the war was over.
Until this day, my grandfather mentions this story, he always credits that it was because of his education from high school to college that he was able to avoid going into war and losing his life because of spy school. If my grandfather were to still follow the path of being a regular soldier, his life would be different and probably he would be dead. My grandfather later discovered where his squad in the army journey to and the results were horrific. The squad was deployed to Okinawa and the Pacific Islands where the battle was fiercest and bloodiest. Most of the soldiers died in battle, and some others were captured and badly injured. The outcome by choosing a different path to becoming a spy was a hard one. But my grandfather is glad that the war ended before he would be deployed. All of his life was saved through the choice of studying and persuing a solid education. This story helps my family follow his way on how he studied, and have a enriching life.
Kyle Tanaka
Feb 8st, 2007
Ms. Shigemitsu
Long ago in the far reaches of Asia in Kyoto, Japan. There was a young man still going through his senior year in high school. He was a star athlete in ice hockey and hardly anyone could beat him or even stop the shots that he would execute to make a goal. But during this time, a tragic war was starting throughout the world. The war was taking away the young man’s hockey teammates, friends, and classmates. This young man was Kenichiro Tanaka who was 18 years old during 1938, the start of World War 2 when Japan decided to invade China. Already, the war is starting to call for all able-bodied men to enlist into the army to go fight overseas for the country. But like America, those who have good grades and keep it above a B, do not have to fight in the war. The reason being that the smart students graduate from college then become an officer in the army, or use their mind to engineer new weapons. But education was important to young Kenichiro’s family and his father made sure that his grades were always A’s and made sure he did not slack off in school.
Finally Kenichiro graduated from college with great grades but he was forced into joining the army because the war against America had started and the demand for soldiers was greater then ever. Kenichiro was drafted into the army as a private, but because of his educational background he was easily promoted and pulled up in the ranks. He was the Ittio Rikui or the American equivalent of a Staff Sergeant, which was a very high rank for someone who came fresh out of college. The higher command promoted college graduates before the rest of the regular army because of the knowledge and background to make commands for his squad and platoon. Because he was a Staff Sergeant, Kenichiro was assigned his own squad consisting of about 10-12 soldiers under his command. For basic training and post basic training.
One day after running with his squad through some drills, Kenichiro was ordered to go in and see the Colonel. The Colonel was stout intimidating man my grandfather said, he was short but very muscular and could take on men twice his size. Kenichiro went into the room to speak to the Colonel who reassigned my grandfather to a different division of the army. Kenichiro’s educational background made him a good candidate of becoming a secret spy for Japan. It was a difficult task to become a spy; being dropped behind enemy lines to send valuable information that will affect the way battles would be fought. Kenichiro accepted the daunting task and hoped for the best because he was not feeling very strongly to take on this difficult task. He enrolled into the Japan Spy School for basic spy training, and specialized training, and language courses. After long hours of tedious training he was ready as a fully trained spy, and waited for orders to deploy. To Kenichiro’s horror it was one day that the American’s dropped a atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki where his family was. And then the following days the Japanese signed the official declaration of surrender to the American’s. Kenichiro’s family was luckily safe from the effects of the bomb. Kenichiro did not have to deploy to enemy territory, because the war was over.
Until this day, my grandfather mentions this story, he always credits that it was because of his education from high school to college that he was able to avoid going into war and losing his life because of spy school. If my grandfather were to still follow the path of being a regular soldier, his life would be different and probably he would be dead. My grandfather later discovered where his squad in the army journey to and the results were horrific. The squad was deployed to Okinawa and the Pacific Islands where the battle was fiercest and bloodiest. Most of the soldiers died in battle, and some others were captured and badly injured. The outcome by choosing a different path to becoming a spy was a hard one. But my grandfather is glad that the war ended before he would be deployed. All of his life was saved through the choice of studying and persuing a solid education. This story helps my family follow his way on how he studied, and have a enriching life.
Monday, February 26, 2007
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