Kerkenides,+Sierra

Memoir:

//__**Memoir.**__//

My favorite memory, is when my father cam home from Afghanistan for the first time. I was in fourth grade when he came back and I had made him a patch to put underneath his squadron patch. On my way there I had told my mother that I was gonna be tough and I was not going to cry! The hours we spent there waiting felt endless. Just sitting around with a bunch of lonely wife’s and excited children felt like my father was never going to be coming back. My older sister sat with my mom and I played with the long stretch of bubble wrap that they had laid out on the floor for the kids to run across. With every step that I took my feet created a instant POP as I rushed through the walk way. I felt like a bubble wrap model. But the bubble wrap still couldn't get my mind off of what I was waiting for!!!!!!! My own blood, my father was coming home I was more excited than I have ever been. The room we were in was like a giant garage for airplanes. The KC-130's were stored there. The walls were gray and the floor was cement. They were metal seats and plastic tables filled with food. Everyone was standing at the gate in hopes of seeing there families There were little kids all the way up to grandmothers just standing and waiting. I still remember every time a plane flew by every sprang up from their chairs to see if it was our heroes coming home, but with every engine noise there was bit of regret for getting up. My sister and I were dressed in cute little marine shirts and we had American flags in hand. The bubble wrap was destroyed from every kid who ran across it. I was so bored just waiting there. Until finally I heard the most beautiful sound in the world. The sound of a KC-130 bringing our family members home!!!! The plane flew above us and a made its landing in. Then the plane came to a halt, and the rear entrance lowered. My heart was pounding as the first man walked off the plane. His son ran up to him yelling "DADDY! You made it home!!!!!" I was starting to get worried though. At least 20 men came off of that air plane and not one of them was MY dad. But than when I thought the worst had happened, the last hero stepped off the plane. I ran to him with my smile facing from ear to ear. He than dropped his bags and got down on one knee and spread his arms open. I leaped into my dads arms and gave him the biggest hug a fourth grader could. I was thrilled to see him. My mother and sister soon followed behind me and wrapped around him. My life officially felt perfect. My family was together again and most of all I didn’t shed a tear. Until my father looked at me and removed his squadron patch. There on his flight suit was my hand made patch that had "I love you!" sewn in. I couldn't help myself, I started to drench my cheeks in tears. I dug my head into his shoulder and cried. I finally realized why my mother always cries when she sees someone, she loves that she hadn't seen for a really long time. When you are separated from someone for 7 months and you don’t know how the feel or what they are going through, you start to imagine the worst things possible. But when you see them and you realize that they are okay and they made it home and you are hugging them once again, you can't help but feel warm inside and cry tears of joy.

Autobiography:

Biography:  __He is a father, a role model, and a hero.__

 __Kraig Savas Kerkenides was born on the seventh of August in 1972. Born and raised in California he had a spectacular father who was a police officer, so they moved around California all his life. And he had a mother as well only she was a step. One day when Kraig was just a baby, him and his family where driving down the highway when all of a sudden CRASH! The small family car had crashed into a truck. Protected by tens of pillows and blankets Kraig was fine as was his father, but sadly his mother was killed on impact. Sam, Kraigs father, then married Caroline, who was Kraigs biological mothers sister. Kraig grew up with his aunt as his mother but it was okay to him because he never really knew his real mom. As Kraig grew from baby to toddler to child to teen he moved around California and went to a lot of new places. Then finally they moved somewhere that was going to change Kraigs life forever. He moved to the place where a teenager named Beckie lived.__

Bio Poem:

Auto Biography Outline and Brainstorming Short Story:
 * Age: Birth – 4 months
 * September 4,1996 ( my birth day )
 * 29 palms,California
 * time born: UNKNOWN
 * Lived in base housing for around four months then father got orders to North Carolina.
 * Age: 5 months – 7 years
 * The date that I moved
 * Moved to Havelock, North Carolina
 * Lived in base housing for around three years then discovered I was getting strip throat because mold in the walls ( later discovered asbestos in the housing as well )
 * Then moved to a new house that was the first house that my parents bought.
 * Went to A.W. E
 * Did Cheerleading for the Vikings little league team.
 * Age: 8 years – 10 years
 * Moved to San Diego, California
 * Went to a School with an otter as the mascot
 * Got picked on a lot and only had one true friend.
 * Did a little Cheerleading again for the school
 * Great grandmother went to the hospital causing me to drop out of my Modeling/Fashion Show with Children Gap.
 * Age: 10 ½ – 12 years
 * Moved to Cabot, Arkansas
 * Went to Cabot Middle School South
 * Had to friends
 * Started track team with the middle school
 * Got two wiener dogs
 * Moved up to Cabot Junior High South
 * Matured/ made more friends
 * Uncle passed away
 * Grandfather passed away about a year later
 * Age: 13 – Now
 * Moved to New Bern, North Carolina
 * Went to H.J MacDonald
 * Moved in with my Aunt Sonja until we bought our own house
 * Bought our house
 * Mom and Sister moved here finally
 * Got excepted to CEC
 * Life is still being written.. (:

Sierra Kerkenides Mr. Whiggs May 9,2011 CEC World Dynamics

The Effects of Self body Image on the Teens Soul. **A teen human body is faced with many challenges, and one of them is confidence control and your own self body image. If a teenager has terrible self body image but is truly beautiful inside and out then that is a problem.** Three main subjects that have to deal with this terrible teenage problem are Magazines, Obsession, and sadly Suicide. Unfortunately, Many teenagers have commented suicide because of their self body image. Magazines are a very big contributor to TSBI (teen self body image). A lot of the negative effects come from the beautiful and perfect celebrities and models that are portrayed in those magazines. A teens views on a magazine depicts their level of hate against themselves. Teenagers start to become obsessed with their appearances because magazines make it to where the // need // to be skinny! Many teens look at the size zero models and believe that they should look like that or they will not be beautiful. Many magazines tell young teenagers as low as fourteen years old to loose a “couple” of pounds. Magazines don't just hurt young and innocent girls by weight, but also height. Some magazines believe that you must have their ideal height and weight. Another type of way that magazines make young girls depressed is the beautiful celebrities portrayed in them. Many magazines only put beautiful women or handsome men in their magazines and these “perfect” people are celebrities, makeing the teens feel like they have to look like them to be popular. They “must” have perfect hair, skin, nails, and the whitest teeth. Teenagers then feel pressured to buy certain items or beauty products that are supposedly going to make them look like they celebrities. But that is just what the ads want you to think. Teenagers and the obsession with their image. A teenager who is suffering from negative body images looses all sense of life. They will feel the need to take all of their time to get their body to perfection. If a teen uses all of their time to get themselves to look “perfect” then they start to loose all sense of their social life, friends, school, work, and even having a good old fashion fun. Teenagers who become obsessed with their can also face horrifying sicknesses like Bulimia and Anorexia. These are the most common diseases that young teenagers face when they struggle with their body image. When you loose your entire life based on TSBI you can start to feel depression. A lonely person has a ten times shorter life expectancy then a person who is around others. Therefor, when a young teenager is alone and she has nobody because she feels like no one can understand, then her family and friends must pull an intervention. A teenager can feel like she/ he is alone and that can lead to them thinking nobody wants them or cares for them, causing them to feel the need to think about or unfortunately comment suicide. Loosing your family, can hurt anyone. Suicide. Many teenagers all over the world have been commenting this dreadful act because they have no other options. Teenagers who have been made fun of and start to look at their bodies they way that the bullies do. When a teenager gets emotionally involved in an unhealthy obsession it can lead to teen suicide. Magazines bring pain to some teenagers by causing them to think that they are hideous and worthless. Teenagers may also want to comment suicide because they feel to pressured to look perfect. A Survey was made in Australia to find out the different ways young women, in that country, looked at themselves. The survey stated that over 1/3 of the population of Australian women thought or viewed themselves as ugly. Also many of the teenagers who responded to the survey said that they have viewed themselves as ugly and it may bring thoughts of suicide on day. The road to getting a daughter, sister, or friend to help. Any human being that is called out to an intervention is going into something scary, and they know it. When any aged human is has a problem then a family member or friend needs to reach out and help them. An intervention can be called at any time and it can really help somebody out. The helping of a family member is crucial to a friends life. When helping someone you must find out what the exact problem is. Then you can help them by making sure that they take the healing slow because if it goes by to fast then they can feel rushed. Teenagers all over the globe feel like they can't live life to the fullest because of their self body image. Obsession with your own body and thoughts of suicide are obviously dangerous but we can help.