R. W. BLAH

                  Have you ever walked into a room looking for something, only to forget what you were looking for? When you start concentrating on something else, you suddenly remember? This strange phenomenon is known as the doorway effect, which actually happened to me yesterday! Fortunately, there is an explanation. The doorway effect happens when you enter a different room. Psychologists say walking into a new room creates a mental block in your brain, which makes you lose your concentration, resulting in you forgetting what you wanted to do. The doorway effect occurs to many people like me around the world. Now while I am taking a break, hopefully I will still remember what I plan to do in a moment! 

                    The Mysterious Benedict Society is a popular award-winning children’s book. Written by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society was a New York times bestseller, won the Booklist Editor’s Choice, Books for Youth award, the Notable Children’s Books award, and the Texas Lone Star award.            The plot revolves around Reynie Muldoon, an orphan who sees an advertisement in the newspaper for special opportunities by going through a series of tests. Reynie stands up to the challenge. He realizes that the tests progressively get harder as they continue. The last academic test is so difficult that some kids start crying and whimpering. A few of the kids even leave the room. When Reynie is announced to be the only one who passes the test in his session of testing, he is sent to a room and he waits a pretty long time. Two other kids named Sticky and Kate who also passed the test eventually ended up in the room with him. Finally, they go through a few

          How did we create pollution? Pollution is definitely one of the largest problems today. But how does it slip through our grasp even though we try to prevent it?           Air pollution is a serious problem. Every time you forget to recycle a plastic bottle, or drop it in a lake, or just leave it in the environment, you are causing pollution. However, air pollution is mostly caused by factories, cars, planes, and fumes from spray cans. These objects are well-known today, and proof of that is that 88 percent of Americans own a car. Also, have you ever noticed that if you smell the air when a car passes by, it’s stinky? Most people have noticed that. That is air pollution through cars.           Not only do we cause air pollution, but we also destroy the things that destroy air pollution. The amount of trees being cut down is depressing, fifteen point three billion trees are cut down each year. This has caused a significant change in Co2 in the environment. Only a few people h