User:Stevenarntson/group spaces/Archive/English Composition/group 2

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 * Troy Thompson 00:31, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * TrevorLocke 09:18, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * AmberClements 18:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * KattGoberTriesThisAgain 02:32, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

summary
We wrote about Budapest, which is currently the capital and largest city in Hungary.

We have a Research paper on Hungarian Revolution of 1956. We also have two short stories about The Glass Ball and his journey to Budapest. The other is about a war in Budapest. We then finish off with a couple poems on different subjects involving Budapest in some way.

reflective assessment

 * 1) good: We relatively showed up to class every week.
 * bad: We never really got together and worked on the project. We changed are topic three times because no one ever worked on it after the mid term switch.
 * 1) future strategies: We should have worked more together on this project. We should have picked an easier topic to write about.

Research
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a event in Hungary which took place in Budapest on 23 October. This event fueled by the death of Joseph Stalin and the Polish protests is one of the most major events that occurred in Hungary. Though in the end the revolution failed it will be remembered in every Hungarian.

The start of the Revolution started when students of the Budapest Technical University started a peaceful march to try to put a end to the Soviet occupation. However soon as time passed more and more started to march and the once peaceful march turned into a mass protest. Soon a group of the protest went to the Stalin Monument and knocked it down. The crowd then tired to force their way into the Radio Budapest building to state their demands. After they got near the building the AVH was ordered to shoot the protesters. But after awhile the AVH was overwhelmed by the protesters and had to call on the army for back up. Once the Hungarian soldiers arrived they did not helped the AVH as planned but instead helped the protesters.

After the collapse of the Hungarian government the ex minister a few years ago, Imre Nagy by  the popular demand all over Hungary  became the minister again. Once in power Nagy formed  new government which abolished the AVH and the one party system. On the first of November Nagy announced that Hungary will withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact.

The Soviets after hearing about the withdrawal started their invasion. After Nagy knew what was going on he tired asking for the United Nations to intervene, but that never happened. And on the fourth of November, Soviet’s army finally forced themselves inside Budapest and cutting the city in half as a result. In 2 more hours the Soviets occupied the government building. And within the next few hours most of the main fighting has stopped with the Soviets only fighting the small group of resistance.

The Hungarian Revolution was both a tragic and hopeful event which ended in failure but is an event that will be remembered forever as it was the day they stood up for themselves.

Fictional Story
A long time ago, in what is now Hungry there was three major cities; Pest, Buda and Óbuda. For as long as anyone could remember those cities were Those three cities were in constant war with each other. In the year 1754, the son of the great king of Buda, wanted one thing and that was to unite the three great cities into one grand city. Árpád takes a deep breath as he walks towards the end of the great hall. "your highness, I ask that we attack Pest while we still have the chance." Árpád asked his father, King Béla IV. The King then sent away his personal guards and stood up and walk towards Árpád and whispered "Is there really a plague in Pest?" “Yes, so let us strike while we have the chance.” Árpád replied. The King went back to his chair and started to go into deep thought. “Very well, you may go Árpád”

“Thank you father, I will not fail you.” Árpád  bowed down to the king and left the room. Within days the Buda Army made it to Pest where hundreds of dead bodies could be seen on the ground. After marching to the Capital building Árpád declared himself the ruler of Pest. Once the Buda Army captured the city, they sent the medic team to try to cure the plague. Within weeks of always failing one doctor finally found the cure and the few Pestians that were still alive gave everything to Arpad.

After many years, Buda and Pest’s broader got closer and closer until they were right next to each other. And by the order of King Béla IV the two cities became one and was called Budapest.

After hearing this news the Óbuda feared the new city and decided they would strike before they had a chance to build the largest army the world has ever seen. At midnight Óbuda’s Army carefully snuck into the city and then started to burn the buildings around them but soon the Budapest Army slowly could be seen in the shadow circling around the Óbuda forces. Knowing they were defeated the Óbudans laid down their weapons.

Elsewhere the massive army of Budapest was preparing to attack Óbuda. Árpád heard the news of the attack on Budapest and decided that now was the time to attack and he lead his forces into Óbuda and soon the Óbuda was forced to surrender. And soon after was Óbuda was made into a division of Budapest and finally the three cities were one.

The Glass Ball

It was a beautiful warm sunny day along the banks of Rialto beach, which was unusual even for summer. Kelton’s parents owned a beach bungalow on Rialto beach, Washington and they spent every summer there. Today Kelton was stuck inside with a fever. He sat in the window seat of the living the room staring out at the ocean wishing he could go outside and explore and do some beach combing. As Kelton gazed out the window he noticed that his best friend Amelia was coming up the walkway. What was she doing? She knows that I am sick and can’t go play! he thought. He heard his mom open the door and tell Amelia that she could come in for a bit but Kelton is sick and can’t go outside and play. As Amelia came into the room Kelton noticed right away that she had something with her. “Look what I found on the beach this morning!” Amelia said. She handed it to Kelton and he studied it with amazement. “This is so cool “ he said. He then looked up at Amelia and asked “do you think that it is magic?” “I don’t know, that’s why I brought to you,” she answered. “Lets go upstairs to my room and find out!” Kelton said. Kelton’s parents let him have the upstairs attic as a room, he wanted the privacy and the extra space the attic had. Him and Amelia were infatuated with magic and they spent hours in the attic experimenting and studying magic. When they got in the room Kelton shut the door and locked it, he then lifted up the area rug and pried open one of the floorboards. He reached down inside and grabbed a locked chest. He then reached in between his bed mattresses and grabbed a key. As Kelton was opening the chest, Amelia was scanning the bookshelf trying to find their spell book. Once she found the book she joined Kelton on the far left side of the attic that they had designated for there magic area. Kelton unlocked the box and Amelia thumbed through the book looking for the right spell. “Ah, I found it Kel!” Amelia said excitedly. “What does the spell call for?” asked Kelton. “Hold on a minute” she said. After about a minute of reading to herself Amelia finally spoke, “Ok, this is going to be easy! We already have a thing of fairy juice made up and that’s all we need along with these words we need to say!” “That’s it?”  Asked Kelton. “Yup” replied Amelia. Kelton grabbed the bottle of fairy juice that they had brewed about two weeks ago. He also got out a towel and laid it on the floor. He then put the aquamarine colored glass ball on the towel. “Ok” said Amelia “we need to rub the fairy juice all over the ball and then repeat the phrase sim sala bim three times.” Kelton then opened the bottle of fairy juice and poured a little dab on the ball and began to rub it in all over the glass ball. He then looked over at Amelia and gave her a nod, and in unison they spoke the words “sim sala bim, sim sala bim, sim sala bim!” Suddenly there was a bright flash, and purple dust started flying out of the glass ball. The dust started swirling around the room and then the glass ball opened up and began to suck up all the dust. As this was happening Kelton and Amelia were being picked up off there feet and then they were sucked right into the ball! Kelton fell to the ground first and then Amelia. They were both dazed for a minute. They began taking in their surroundings, they were in a big grassy area, it was warm and sunny, and it looked like they were on a river. Amelia looked at Kelton and asked, “Where are we?” “Good question,” answered Kelton. They began walking towards the riverbank and they noticed that they were in a park. There was a man sitting on a park bench down by the rivers edge. The kids approached the man and Kelton said, “excuse me sir, this might be a weird question, but I was wondering if you could tell us where we are?” The man looked up at Kelton and Amelia and studied them for quite awhile before answering, “this is Budapest son.”  “Budapest?” asked Amelia “yeah Budapest Hungary” replied the man. Kelton and Amelia then looked at each other with dropped jaws. “How could this happen!” screamed Amelia. “We have to find a way home Kelton.” “Alright, calm down we will figure this out. The only thing we really know anything about is magic so we are going to use it again to get home. We just need to find a magic store!” Kelton said. “Now lets start walking towards town and find what we need.”  Amelia just nodded with a somber look on her face and the two of them headed towards town without speaking a word.

TroyThompson's poem
A day fades away

Still as bright as ever

City lights never fading

TrevorLocke's poem
Budapest a new

Budapest how we know you

With your grassy fields

Budapest getting grass mowed

So that the kids can walkthrough

Grass is not as tall

Swing set is put up by dad

Budapest going

Budapest leaving the world

Making it to space

Budapest passes the Sun

Soaring closer to the end

The sun is a spec

Orbit near the Dwarf Planet

Pluto is their home

AmberClements's poem
what is Budapest

Budapest is a city in Hungary

full of life Budapest is in its country

what is Budapest

I often sit and wonder

are there buddhas in Hungary

what is Budapest

Budapest is a city in Hungary

KattGoberTriesThisAgain's poem
Go back eleven generations, it's a dead end

Nothing before America

Besides Budapest.

A set of books

A chess set

Prove I have a history

And didn't appear from Pennsylvanian mud

Off the top of my head

A city with a neat name

That I can't give a damn for.

Did I think I'd have some epiphany

About my family's nonexistent history?

When do I have the time to think about the past

When everything else is the future?

So there I'll be in the Pennsylvanian mud

Plant some tulips on me

That's all I've got

Renga #1
Buda was in War

Pest was in war with Hungry

End in Budapest

It took them many years to win

But finally there was peace

War killing stopped

The streets were safe to roam again

It was like before

Children were free to run and play

Buda and Pest one nation

Renga #2
We go to art school

We are taking English Comp

Write on Budapest

Our Mid Term turned into Final

We learned all about English

Week eleven here

It is three am right now

Trying to finish

I only have one line left

This is the end of Renga