David's Home Remedies - David was asked, "If someone would open your back-to-basics home-cure manual, what treatment would it prescribe for common ailments such as headaches, toothaches, warts and the flu?"  See what he came up with.  Warning - I wouldn't actually try these.

Alien Armageddon - A myth by David Shealy
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When asked the question, "Why should we respect the flag?".......
I think we should respect our flag because it represents us. If we use it for a rag, we're basically saying our country is an old worthless rag. Our flag is also really old, about 200 or so, and you know the old saying, "respect your elders." Those are a few of the reasons I say we should respect the flag.

I think that if we respect our flag, we respect Betsy Ross. If we respect Betsy Ross, we make ladies look good. The flag also went through wars, and we respect war heroes, so we should respect the flag.

If the flag were a "who" instead of a "what", it would be smarter than Einstein, because it saw wars, documents, and other important events. So we should respect our grand old flag.

Superman vs. the Cheesinator
One day in the city of Gothem, the chief of police ran to Batman's office to warn him about the Cheesinator's big jail break. Suddenly, he saw the Cheesinator jump out a window! Robin suddenly dashed outside to tell the chief that a piece of cheese was sitting at Batman's desk. The chief asked Superman, "Can you help us get the Cheesinator?"
Superman replied, "Sure!", flew over and defeated the Cheesinator, and the only boo-boo was a cheesey cape. Robin later found Alfred eating cheese at Batman's desk! Oh no - poor Batman!!

A Letter to a new pen pal
Dear Pen Pal,
My name is David James Shealy. I have the usual type of family; a mom, a dad, a small annoying brother, a younger sister, and a fish. I highly love science fiction, and some monster movies now and then. I am a bit sensitive for a kid my age, and love cute little puppy dogs. Do you like dogs too? Are you as big a joker? If so, I think we'll be good pals.

"Write a different ending to Cinderella from the first-person point of view."
I was just re-twigging my dam, and suddenly I saw pirates coming in on surfboards! I could've sworn that I heard them planning to steal Cinderella's magic slippers. I was a greedy little critter then, so I stopped their plan, but nobody saw me do it! AHHHH!

Nov. 3, 1998

My name is David James Shealy, but you can call me Dave. I just woke up from a year and a few months of hibernation. I checked my air, brushed my teeth and all that stuff. After I ate, me and my team began our mission. We launched a probe, checked Pluto’s temperature, and we landed on the planet. I was amazed at the fact that we travelled 3,545,000,000 miles from Earth! We found that the atmosphere was made of methane and a gas our scanners couldn’t identify. We found one natural satellite named Charon. They are probably named that because they are both cold and dead. Pluto was the Roman god of the underworld, and Charon rowed souls across the river Styx. The thought makes me shiver, or maybe it’s the cold. Our surveyors said that Pluto is 4,800 kilometers around. We tried to play baseball (to test gravity), but we failed due to Pluto’s gravitional pull is 0.04 of Earth’s. When the pitcher through the ball, it went flying out of the atmosphere! Mission control said we shouldn’t make a colony on Pluto because of how cold it is, and Santa would only visit every 248 years (that’s one Pluto year). A day is 6.4 Earth days.

After dinner we did more experiments, refueled, and said “bye-bye” to Pluto and Charon. Mission control said someone else could explore Charon. Before we went to sleep, we talked a while, then did stuff like brushing our teeth. We woke up when it was time to land on Earth. Even though we were sleepy still, we got through landing and were greeted by a man who said he was the president. He must have been elected while we were sleeping. A few weeks later I found my team in the Bahamas, and we sat down to drink birch beer.

Aug. 14, 1998 David was interested in learning about Hitler and the nazis. He did some self-study and watched several shows on The History Channel. Here's his final opinion paper.

After he learned about politics, he made his rise to power. Then he got corrupt about his power. The reason he got everyone to vote for him was the fact that everyone in Germany wanted Germany to be more powerful. In other words, he told everyone that he would make the country more powerful. When he won the election, he made all kinds of lies about Jews. Hitler also said only people who had blonde hair and blue eyes were true Germans. Due to he hated Jews, he'd make Jews wear yellow stars on their shirt, so everyone would treat them badly. Even worse, he started sending Jews to concentration camp. Concentration camp started as a prison where Jews went to rot in jail. Then it became a place where the people who were young and/or old enough would work while they killed the women, children, and weak or old. Near the end of WWII Hitler committed suicide to avoid capture!

I myself think he was the cruelest man in Germany. Most people that weren't Nazis thought he wasn't that nice, especially Jews. Ditto for me. Still, I can see why he decided to die a quick, painless death instead of being captured by America, which he probably thought would be painful. Serves him right!

Books I read: The Importance of Adolf Hitler; Hear, O Israel; Rose Blanche; When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

Mission log: We’ve just escaped Earth’s atmosphere. In three minutes we’ll make our jump to hyperspace. “Commander Ben, report.”

“Huh? What do you mean, ‘report’? I don’t watch Star Trek!” Ben answered in a slightly irritated voice.

“I mean, where are we?” I asked.

“Oh, ha ha! Sorry. We just passed Mercury.”

“How far till Mars, Commander?”

“Just 659 light years away, sir,” Ben answered.

“Better make the jump to light speed,” I ordered. “Another thing, Commander.”

“Yes, Captain David?” (I’m the Captain.)

“How long will we be in hyperspace?” I asked.

“Just two minutes, sir.”

“Good,” I responded, “get ready to go. On my mark: one, two, Mark!”

EEEERRRR - POW! So we went into hyperspace. On the way we used our experimental animals, but we got a little carried away, and the ship turned around without us noticing it. By the time we got out of hyperspeed, we found that we were heading for the Sun!!!

“We don’t have enough fuel to change course, Captain!”

“Transfer fuel from the cargo bay tanks to the main engines, and steer us away from the sun toward Earth,” I ordered.

Commander Ben responded that that was a good idea, because we only have enough fuel to return to Earth. We finally got back to Earth, even though we didn’t make it to Mars.

Megacruiser VII, mark X. If we hadn’t tried again to find Mars, we’d have lost our careers as astronauts. So, we blasted off. We’ve been in space for eleven months, twenty days, twelve hours and ten minutes. We’re just about out of fuel; our fuel that isn’t in use is a bathtub’s- worth. Ben was getting more worried by the hour. Then we saw a planet. I asked the computer to run a scan.

“Population - zero. Elements: solid nitrophobin.” That’s the same element that our fuel is! We turned it into fuel and our tanks were full. We found Mercury and we mistook it for Mars. We wondered why we saw Mercury bubbles all over. So, after we claimed it, we journeyed to Earth.

The trip was a real challenge. We never had to miss a meal. Space ice cream isn’t as good as Earth ice cream, but we did fine.

End log.