Archimedes war machines

  Syracuse, where King Hiero ruled, was a peaceful land.  But all around it, in the Mediterranean, there was war.  The fiercest struggle was between Rome and Carthage.  They, trying to find away to divide the Mediterranean between themselves, made an agreement.  They decided that no Carthaginian ships should trade in the ports of Italy, and no Roman ships should enter the ports of Sicily.  King Hiero knew that sooner or later Syracuse will be in the war.

  He asked Archimedes to help make war machines, but he refused.  At last the king used the argument that always worked.  "Think what you will be doing for the cause of science, Archimedes, think what it will mean if a man of science could provide the means to defend a city when the men of arms could not.  Finally Archimedes agreed.  When he started he already had plenty of ideas for the machines.  After they are created the army were trained to use them.  After  the king died, his grandson, Hieronymus, inherited the crown.  Hippocrates, a traitor who had been bribed by Carthage, murdered Hieronymus and seized control of the city.  Then he broke the long alliance with Rome.  And Rome was angry.  They launched an attack on Syracuse, Hippocrates asked Archimedes for help.  

Archimedes asked the army to use the weapons.  One of the machines were used to lift boats,  Another was to fire stones at them.  Archimedes enjoyed his practical Geometry lesson, but was only sorry that Heiro wasn't there to see.

Adventures with Ben and Karl 10

  Today at school during history class, Ben and I were reading about Achilles. It said in the book that his heel was not washed by the magical river so he was shot by Paris a poison arrow at his heel.  We felt pitiful for him.  That Sunday Ben and I went to the portal and we were ready for another adventure.

  We landed at the river and saw Achilles's mother bathing him in the river.  His mother held his heel to tightly.  When he finished bathing we took some water to wash his heel.  And we suddenly teleported to the time when Achilles was about to get shot.  I saw Paris and quickly hit his bow so the arrow missed Achilles and it is much safer.

  Achilles thanked us and we teleported to his old age when he was telling his children about us saving him.  He saw us and stopped the story.  He asked us why we are not older yet, and Ben said that we came from the future, thousands of years after his death.  Then we teleport back.

  When we went to school the next day, on the book wrote Achilles won the war, Karl hit the bow of Paris and made his shot missed.  The book changed?  Only the people know...

beginning of essay 1

  "Katie, have you noticed that?" asked Mr Smith.  "Yes, the water taps in our house has a problem." replied Katie.  Mr. Smith asked Katie to get the toolbox and a ladder.  "Time for fixing" said Mr. Smith.

Adventures of Ben and Karl 8

  One Sunday, Ben and I were invited to a party in our friend, Eddy's house.  We decided to skip the adventure day.  We started to his house, when we reached there, his house was deserted.  We went in and saw a book lying on the floor.  It was a history book, we opened the book and saw the picture of the portal.

  Below it we saw "built by Eddy in year 1700"  We were shocked.  Suddenly we teleported to the portal.  We saw Eddy there, I asked him, "Is it really you that built the portal?"  He said that he found it, and bot built it.  He said that he once went to the portal and slain a very evil wizard that wanted to take control of the universe.  He slain him and wear the beard and hat of the wizard and came out.

  When he came out he saw a little boy.  He pulled me to the city.  Many reporters rushed to meet Eddy.  Eddy faked the story and after that, he chanted some words to make everyone forget.  When he went to the bookstore the second day, almost everybody was buying the history book.  Once Eddy opened it to read, he saw the portal.  He chanted some more words so only one copy of that book would exist on  this earth.  He also chanted a very strong spell so that everyone in the whole world would forget about the portal.

  We went into the portal and found ourselves in New York city.  This time we did not really had an adventure. We were just taking a trip and see about in the city.  We went to take pictures with the statue of liberty.  We had quite some fun playing, eating etc.

  Later we decided to teleport home.  When we reach home (eddy's home), Eddy passed us the spell book and asked us to chant the forgetting spell and make him forget about the portal.  We did it and said goodbye.