statesman journal article reveiw

1. Experts estimate that a fraction of 1 percent of foreign species turn out to be invasive most of the nations domesticated animals and food crops are non-native species but are not invasive

invasive species are the ones who reproduce early and quickly colonize rapidly spread themselves in multiple ways have few or no natural predators and tolerate a wide range of conditions

2. european settlers brought plants and animals that reminded them of home or could be used for food and medicine other european critters simply caught a ride on an american bound ship

3. scientists estimate that new non native species are introduced to the columbia river gorge every five months

4.Invasive plants not only steal soil sunlight and nutrients from plants but they drive out native animals that don't have an appetite for exotic speicies

5. As many as 50,000 non-native species have been introduced into the untied states new ones are arriving every day-on airplanes, ships, cars. nursery plants and cargo

metaphor #3 self

I can't really say I've made progress exept I'm here almost everyday. My first month i made a lot of progress and now I'm back in the same position i was in before. I start doing good at something and i quit trying.

metaphor #2

When I started at the IKE BOX there were people I already knew and people I Didn't. people i knew id be close to and people i wasnt real sure about I dont dislike or not get along with anybody here. Im friends with everybody. Im closer to a couple people more than others. But thats just because stive been through "life" stuff with those people. Everyone here is pretty laid back and chill and isnt with the drama and thats my kinda atmosphere

metaphor #1 plane-crash

Last year I moved back to Salem from Washington and started at claggett creek. I was seeing grades on my report card i've never seen in my life. I was getting straight A's. my best friend died and i started to go down hill I then moved across town and switched to Adam Stephens. my grades then went from bad to worse. When i was at school I was in the principals office or i wasn't at school at all. I dropped out the last two months of school. I started at Mcnary and my mom would drop me off at one gate and id go right out the other. The one day i did go to school i was informed i was withdrew and was refered to Roberts. Things became better at Roberts but i still hated going to school. I asked Mary jean if i could go to the Ike box because i had heard about it from friends she said yes and its been the best thing thats happened to me in the past two years. I love coming to school everyday and wouldn't change it for anything

LOF. Destruction

I don't be leave that Destruction, breaking things and violence are only caused by young people. I know adults who are down with egging peoples houses, paint balling peoples houses, breaking windows etc. I don't think it's something that people are necessarily attracted to like it's something they do everyday. I think people do it out of anger or some other emotion without thinking of the consequences first

Children rule the world

The world would be scary if children ruled the world mostly because we don't have the knowledge to be able to do that. We don't understand boundaries. and We don't have the education yet

No rules

I think a world with no rules would be even more chaotic than it is now. A lot of people don't listen to the rules we have now and break those rules. So if we didn't have any the world would be madness and people who murder people and people who rape people would be running around freely and thats not cool