Snow Days

While most kids on snow days go outside and build snow men and make snow angels, I take a totally different approach. My day consists of staying in my warm house, reading books, spending time with family, drinking hot chocolate, and watching way too much TV. Snow days are the best for catching up on reading. On the last snow day we had out of school, I finished 2 books and started on another. They are also good for enjoying the natural beauty of the world from the inside of your house. The beautiful picture that is painted outside your window is like the snow is a blanket that is covering the earth while it sleeps. Snow days are also good for spending time with family. While so many hectic things are going on in our lives, it easy for one to forget the love of one's family. But snow days create the perfect opportunities for a family to spend some time together and reconnect.

Civil Wars

By definition, a civil war is a state of hostility or conflict between elements within an organization. A civil war can happen amongst a country, between co-workers, or even within a family or group of friends. One example of a civil war is the epic wars between siblings for their parents attention. Many children feel as if the other sibling is the favorite of the parents or loved more by the entire family, not knowing what else to do, the child attempts to out-shine there sibling thus creating a civil war within the family. Another example would be the Civil War that was in America during 1861-1865. USA was divided down the middle into The Union, north, and The Confederacy, south. This war brought family and friends to fight each other in battle and caused many deaths and casualties. Causes of this war were differences in beliefs about slavery, alcohol, Abraham Lincoln, and the effects that the war had on the country were astronomical. Civil wars are horrible things and should be avoided at all costs, but some are inevitable and unpreventable.