Ferrets are Better than Dogs
If you have a small, black and white weasel, with fur on the outside and awesomeness on the
inside what do you have? A creature that sleeps in a hammock all day, which is to say a ferret. Ferrets are much better than dogs, so when you get your next animal, then you better think twice.
Ferrets are much more fun to play with than dogs for many reasons. First of all, they're just as
smart as dogs, if not smarter. You can even teach a ferret to go rabbit hunting, which only the Wiener Dog can do! Also ferrets are much better if your hunting in the woods because they're smaller so they can fit through tighter spaces. Another reason ferrets are better than dogs are that they are very playful and fun to watch. Some dogs bore you over time and bark so much that they drive you crazy, but ferrets always come up with new tricks.
Just as dogs bark too much, they can easily ransack your house and go to the bathroom all over
the place, dogs are just much harder to take care of. For a ferret, their feces are easy to clean up even if they go to the bathroom. Also ferrets can't ransack your house because they'll be in their cage. You can just take them out when your ready. They sleep about 18 hours a day anyway, but they can easily adapt to your sleeping time. Also they don't shed their hair all over the place like dogs do.
There is more important things about dogs that aren't very good than just shedding hair. Some
dogs bite! If the safety of my children were at hand, I'd go with the ferrets. They don't have humungous canines like dogs so they can't bite down nearly as hard as some dogs can. Also ferrets don't jump up on people like dogs do and they can be much less wild. Most dogs are extremely wild and more vicious than ferrets.
Some people may say that "Ferrets are way too smelly, I'd rather get a dog even if they're wilder.",
but this is a common misconception. As long as you give ferrets 2-3, five minute baths a week, they are no more smelly than dogs are. Overall, ferrets are much more superior to dogs than most people think and they are the ultimate pet.
Speak
"Welcome to Merryweather High" is the first line in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's
ironic because the school is not merry at all and it's called Merryweather. Speak is about a teenage outcast named Melinda going into her freshman year when she crashed a party in the summer. Something happened at that party that made Melinda scared and friendless As Melinda finds out, however, it's better to speak then to keep a deep dark secret inside you.
Melinda is one of the characters in this novel and is probably the most scared. Besides being
scared, Melinda is lonely and sad because she doesn't have any friends and she freaks out whenever she sees Andy Evans. Andy Evans is brutish, big, and intimidating. Melinda nicknamed him "The Beast" because something happened over summer break that included him. Another character is David Petrakis, a nerd that doesn't ever get into trouble except in Mr. Necks' class when he sound records the class so Mr. Neck follows the constitution. Melinda likes David because he stands up to his teachers. Another important character is Heather. Heather is the new kid that is trying to fit in, since she doesn't know about the incident in the summer, so she is Melinda's only friend. However, Melinda thinks Heather has fit in the wrong group, the Marthas which are super popular models.
The super popular Marthas are one of the symbols in Speak. They symbolize popularity and hope
because Heather and Melinda want to be just like them. Another symbol is the tree, which symbolizes hardship because Melinda can't figure out how to draw a good tree. Then Ivy tells her not to erase the bad spots on the tree, but cover them up with leaves. Still another symbol is the mirror in the janitor's closet. Melinda can't look at the mirror because she can't face herself so the mirror symbolizes disappointment in herself. The last symbol is the ho-ho. The ho-ho symbolizes what people think or say.
The ho-ho is in the conflict arising part of a comedy. The first part of a comedy is the normal
everyday life which is before the party. Then it goes to a conflict arising which is Melinda getting raped and Melinda's life spiraling out of control. Next it goes to the conflict being realized by the main character, and it's kind of obvious that Melinda realized she became a super un-popular person. The next part of a comedy is a resolution occurring. This happens when Melinda finally tells Rachel that she got raped by Andy and so Rachel dumped Andy and Melinda finally got friends. It goes back to normal everyday life because Melinda got friends back and her life back.
Melinda got her life back because she finally spoke. She let out her secret and good things came
from it. Mr. Freeman, Melinda's art teacher, said "You've been through a lot haven't you." How true that is.
