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These are my three poems that represent bonds between us. The first poem in the top left most part of the screen is a Acrostic poem representing the bond of poems and what we perceive them to be. When you read a poem, it generally has a meaning or a moral that you are meant to take from it, but these points are up for the reader to decide what it truly means. In other words, it is people trying to open others minds to a piece of literature that shows a deeper meaning than what is truthfully shown in the poem alone.

My second poem with the bolded word School at the top represents the bonds between us and school. School is where we go everyday as kids and teenagers, and this poem represents the feeling and bond we have towards school. In the end, this poem represents different meanings that can be taken differently entirely depending on what the reader perceives it as.

My third and last poem is the bottom most poem of this picture, and it represents how we view both people and humanity as a whole. Some people can be dark and evil, but there are some good and kind people out there commonly referred to as the "light". I made this poem for the reader to decide their moral values when it comes to other people and their views of humanity as a whole. As I have discussed in both of the previous paragraphs, this final poem I have made is meant to have a deeper meaning than what is showed. I put my own writing into a poem to describe a situation that can be interpreted differently based on the reader, and that is the true definition of a poem. The way of opening of someone else's mind to a new topic or view that they may have never seen before.

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Three Poems for Padlet.Com Project (English 9.1)

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The story "Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connects (by Frans de Waal) relates to our essential question because it shows the bonds between not only us, but animals as well. For this example, the author decided to use monkeys as the main focus to prove that even animals can connect similarly to how humans can. In text lines 12 to 18, it is stated that "The infectiousness of laughter even works across species." and "I often hear my chimps laugh during rough - and - tumble games, and I cannot suppress a chuckle myself." This just goes to show that even some animals have human like bonds similar to how we bond to one another. Animals are just as capable of feeling emotion as we are, and they are equal at expressing human-like emotions as well. This is the representation of bonds between not only us, but every other living creature on this planet that is capable of bonding together in feelings and emotion.

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The Gift of the Magi (by O. Henry) as a story entirely is a representation of the bonds between us and those we love and care for. It represents the struggles and attempts at pleasing and making others happy at what the cost must be such as the hair and the golden watch in the story. Both of them went so far just to get one gift for the other one's valuables, which in the end they had both sold to get the gifts. They are referred to as "Wise" in the end of the story because of their bonds and care for one another.

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The story "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses" (by James Waters) relates to out essential question through its consistent use of Brille's connection to his children throughout the whole story. Examples of this include lines such as 10 - 14, 118, 136 - 137, 170 - 171. It first references that he is a man of many children and what connections he has had back with them out of prison and back at home. This then comes back later in the story when Brille discovers that Warder Hannetjie is truthfully a child and acts childish. I repeat these order of events because it shows the relation between Brille with his family and with Warder Hannetjie. Brille is used to Span One's sort of brutality and hardships because he had already dealed with those sorts of situations back at home with his children. His children were ruthless and ready to fight at all times when Brille was not around, and that is now applied for the whole Span One as well. This is a connection to his life and his experiences, and that is why the story "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses" is a representation of our essential questions about our bonds between us and others around us.

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This video fits in with the theme of "The Bonds Between Us" because it represents just that, the bonds between us. We talk and have fun every single day with the people in our lives that we choose to spend the most time with, such as friends and family. This is a bond not only as people, but as an individual entirely. This shows who you are based on those you prefer to affiliate with, whether it is good or bad. These bonds can affect who you are as a person in those ways as well, and that just proves how much of a bond friends and family are entirely.

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My Cat (Clay) represents a bond in our family because he is a part of our family through our eyes. We see Clay as an important part of our family that would otherwise be missing without him. We all love him and care for him, and that is why he represents a bond not only to me, but to my parents as well.

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Laughter's Connection to the Bonds Between Us

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Laughter's Connection to the Bonds Between Us

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This Ted Talk video represents the bonds between us through the emotion of laughter. In this video, it is discussed that laughing is a way of not only showing joy and emotion, but it is a way of having a common connection with one another. When you laugh, someone else is more likely to laugh with you, and it is natural. That is, as I describe it, a natural bond that all animals and people share. I include animals in this because of the story we read in class called "Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect", which represents that even animals like monkeys can laugh similar to how we would when we find something funny. It is a connection that many lives on this Earth can share and connect to commonly. The fact that we all can share a common trait with one another is the reason I have chosen this video because it does a good job at explaining just that.

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Did you know that you’re 30 times more likely to laugh if you’re with somebody else than if you’re alone? Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott shares this and other surprising facts about laughter in this fast-paced, action-packed and, yes, hilarious dash through the science of cracking up.