Science Fair

                My science fair project was not like most of the students. It was related to persuasion. I always wonder what was the best way to persuade someone to do my dirty work or agree with me, but never could really figure out the answer. This time I decided to use school time to find the answer out myself. I made up a survey or rather a list of statements which had different tones and asked the high schoolers to rate them for me. They did not know which survey they receive. There were three types, humor, fear, and a neutral tone. The funny one ended up to be the best way that persuaded them. I concluded that by using a humorous tone, I was able to capture my audience better than the other two tones.    

Game

Shotwell and the narrator were put into an underground bunker for over a hundred days. Their orders were to insert their keys and simultaneously turn it to launch what they call a “bird” when a certain signal props onto the console. There was another twist to this order. If the other person was acting strangely, they will have to shoot the other person with the 45 they were given.  As you might have guessed, that never came to them in the story. Both of them acted weird. The narrator started to describe or write on a wall with the diamond he was going to give to his girlfriend natural things such as a rock or a tree. Shotwell read a book and played jacks all by himself. Shotwell would also jot down notes as he was reading his book. Both of them thought of ways to get out of the bunker. They also kept eye on each other’s 45 and the gun they brought with them which was secretly concealed on them. They are not well.

The Rules of the Game

Waverly is a young Chinese girl who lives in China. She lives with her family above a Chinese pastry shop. One Christmas, she and her brothers receive gifts from a nearby church. She sat on a obviously fake Chinese Santa, and chooses a gift. Her present contained candy called Life Savers. Her brothers, on the other hand, receive a chess game. The chess set is missing two pieces, and their mother tells them to throw it out because she does not want to use other people’s trash that no one wants. The kids think differently. They just want to play the game. Waverly wanted to play the game too. She exchanged life savers for each time she lost. One day, she went to the park and saw people playing. She met an old man named Lou Pao, and he thought her how to be a better chess player. She ends up becoming a national champion. People called her a prodigy. One day, her mother took her to the markets and as usual bragged about her. Waverly did not like this. She tells her mother, but the mother thinks she’s ashamed to be her daughter. Waverly ends up running down the street away from her mother and doesn’t come home until the evening. The mother, from that moment on, did not give Waverly any special treatment in her house.