KSI English Student Work

Image: iPadizate by Tatiana Molina, Y11 Being a normal teenager like everyone else. I must comply with house rules and fulfill my duties both at school and at home. My day-to-day life is such a boring routine that basically I do the same as always, I do not know if my life makes sense and if I am really living it to the fullest. I only hear my mom say "You did your homework", "You have to do your homework" "Fix your room", "Take the dogs out" blah blah blah. Every single day is the same. I think I'm going crazy. Was Friday, a normal day. I was in the mall buying clothes. I realized that every time I went shopping I wanted to buy everything, I wanted clothes , shoes, computers,   to travel around the world, etc.   I made plans in my head but the reality was different. I stopped for a moment and I saw a young girl of my age, about 18, who was going from store to store, buying everything, without seeing the prices. A whole adventure went throug...

  Image: Kobo Only take a look around you, Who is the world's seventh-wealthiest person?, probably you think about some entrepreneurs, like Elon Musk, Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg, but what happens if I told you of someone who doesn’t necessarily create a company from zero, and it’s the owner of many important business in the world, and it has a net worth of 82.8 billion dollars?  Yes, it’s Warren Buffet, the most important investor of today’s time, but what make Warren Buffet no only the most important investor but also having 82.8 billion dollars? Probably is the estratropheric IQ?, or Insider Information?, or what ignorant says that it’s about luck?, instead what’s needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions, combines with an ability to keep emotions from ruining it.  In the “Intelligent Investor”, benjamin Graham presents such a framework together with logic that will help to keep your emotions under control. Arguably, he’s investing s...

  Image: Amazon  Luis Felipe Montoya Former navy seal Jocko Willink wrote this book back in 2017 to try and explain to anyone reading it why discipline is very easy to obtain and will always help you out. The book touches topics such as self-indulgence, lack of willpower, and how to become disciplined. My favorite quote from the book is “ Don’t count on motivation, count on discipline”. That quote itself is the entire book. Jocko talks about why you shouldn’t procrastinate at all “take action. And don’t let another day slip by”, the chapter “sugar-coated lies” explains it pretty well, it takes donuts for example. Sweetness and pure self-indulgence, zero control over oneself, and all forgiveness for one’s mistakes. But Jocko says no.  He says that every “donut” chance you get, avoid it, the only thing those actions will make is to put you down later, make you feel weak and gullible. He calls the metaphorical donuts poison. Because that’s what they are for you; all those ti...

  Image: Penguin Random House Jae Hwi Lee Sep 15, 2020  Me as the mania of fantasy and more from the Star Wars saga. Every time I was thinking about what would happen if Luke Skywalker joins the sith power with his dad Darth Vador. Fans like me and you would have this all the time in our mind. I would love to make a new story or bookmaking with different choice-making like the book doesn’t present.  I want to talk about the book from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back. A story about like all the sagas, going to destroy the death star, the sith power, and making peace in the galaxy. However, the interesting point of this saga focuses on the character “Luke Skywalker” starting with his unspecified family story and finding out his force, but in the end, he discovers by himself about where his force comes from, and his lost father.  At that point, in the lightsaber duel between Luke and Darth Vador, Darth Vador tells him “I’m your father” and calls him to become a sith, ...

  Image: Vulture Adriana Campos Ramos.                  September 22, 2020 I am not that type of person that expresses with words i would rather be expressing myself with actions and you will see why in a moment. In my story there is a lot to talk about and you will not regret to know me. I will describe myself as a very calm person and nothing really bothers me but my mother is another types of woman she is a really controllable person and as you now know my life is not all my own. Mother as always bothered me to get my own life because I am now in my 40s. never really been a people person I have always come out making a situation awkward even being the front desk of the Motel. Mary Crane was the woman wo came one night by surprise since there are not many people coming by frequently. Mary and I went to have dinner after talking in the front desk which made mother jealous and yelled “I’ll kill...

  Image: Business Insider Harry Potter           April 16, 1993 Today, Gryffindor defeated Ravenclaw in the Quidditch Match, it was incredible. Although some unusual weather was upon us during the game. Before we had won against Hufflepuff, but this time was even more of an important match, this game will take us to winning the Quidditch Cup.  This time, there were Dementors everywhere, later after the match, I was told that they weren’t Dementors, it was Draco Malfoy and his friends trying to distract me from winning the game, they had some coats on them trying to scare me, maybe it was out of jealousy, but I didn’t let them get me distracted, instead I used my Patronus, since I thought that they were actual Dementors, and ended up winning the game. Teachers told me I gave Draco quite a scare, that’s enough to make my day. Also, I had a brand-new broom, everyone was impressed with, they wanted to look at it, touch it and even use it. But of cours...

  Image: Amazon by Juana Vargas Have you ever done something crazy for love? In Nicholas Yoon book we see that the characters do crazy things for love, and those things bring a lot of teachings, and that is why I really liked the book ,very beautiful, and with many messages. I liked it because it shows us how you can do crazy things out of fear, and that love is not chosen if you don't feel it. We can see how fear makes you do crazy things when ****** SPOILER ALERT ****** the mother invents that Madie has a disease called SCID, and the mother invents it to protect her, since her husband and son died, and she did not want to lose her.And we see how love at first sight exists when **** SPOILER ALLERT **** Madie risks her life, just because she really fell in love, and wants to live her life with Olly.   This book talks about how loving someone can be so beautiful or so stressful.The book shows this when we discover that the mom of Maddie invents the desease because she w...