Rick Riordan is my favorite author. He has written many works. Some of his works are the Percy Jackson Series, Heroes of Olympus Series, Kane Chronicles Series, Sword of Summer and his upcoming book, that has not been released, is called the Trials of Apollo. He is generally very funny. I will share with you some of the very amusing and inspiring twitter posts and quotes.
One of them says, “Me: Grover stepped on a twig. Reader: Ah, how could you kill that twig! That twig was my favorite character!”
Another one is, ” A fan asked : Will Percy ask Annabeth the “Yes” question? Rick: You wanna grab Mexican food? Probably”
Another one is, “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
Another one is, “Writing is like a sport. It’s like athletics. If you don’t practice you won’t get any better.
“With great power comes a great need to take a nap wake me up later.”
These are just a few of his quotes and twitter posts. Now I am going to tell you about him, the author himself. For fifteen years he taught as a teacher in the San Francisco area. In fact some of his characters have the same names of his former students. He came up with the story of Percy Jackson as a bedtime story for his son, Haley. After he told his son the story he came up with his son told him he should make it into a book. This is what I know about rick riordan.
Do you know who the youngest saint is? Maria Goretti, the youngest saint, was born in 1890. When she was twelve Her neighbor, Alessandro, tried to rape her. Instead of giving into sin, Maria said that she would rather die than submit. She died one day later after forgiving Alessandro. Alessandro went to jail for his sin. One day she appeared to him and he was filled with peace. I chose to write about Maria Goretti is because we share the same first name and we both lost our dads at age nine.
Maria Teresa Goretti was born in Corinaldo, Ancona, Italy on October 16, 1980 to Luigi Goretti and Assunta Carlini. She was the third out of seven children. The next day Maria was baptized in the church of San Francesco in Corinaldo. On October 4, 1896 she was confirmed by Mons. Giulio Boschi, Bishop of Senigallia and on June 16, 1901 Maria received her first Holy Communion in the church of Conca, today called Borgo Montello. On July 5, 1902, her life changed forever. Maria was sitting on her front porch mending a shirt when her eighteen year old neighbor, Alessandro, pulled her into his bedroom. When he pulled her inside he tried to rape her. Maria started screaming “No! It is a sin! God does not want it! You shall surely go to hell!” He tried to rape her again but this time she shouted that she would rather die than submit. Alessandro was prepared and pulled out a knife a stabbed her fourteen times. They hurried to take her to the hospital but it was too late. She lived for one more agonizing day. Maria dies at the age of twelve years, nine months, and twenty one days. The amazing thing was that she forgave her attacker, Alessandro. Right before she died her gaze fell upon a picture of the virgin Mary.
St. Maria’s family could never afford to send her to school so she never learned how to read or write. Even so she made the effort to walk to a school to study religion, walk back, and still make it in time to finish her chores. So when people heard that she would rather die than sin was amazing. The way that she put God before her own life is something even something people today struggle with. St. Maria Goretti is a role model for how to love god with all your mind, all your heart, and all your soul. Assunta, her mother, taught her to love God, to die rather than offend him. Assunta said “I taught her the fear of God and God did the rest”.
Alessandro went to jail for his sin. For six years he never repented.Then one day Maria, herself, appeared to him. The prison cell turned into a garden. She gathered lilies, the flower of purity. When Alessandro took each flower, each lily turned into a single white flame immediately after that Alessandro was filled with peace. He repented his sin and shamed himself for doing such evil things. When Alessandro was released from prison the first thing he did was to beg forgiveness of Assunta. She forgave him because if her daughter could forgive her murderer then she could to. On June 24, 1950 Maria was canonized. There was 250,000 people at her canonization including Alessandro and Assunta. Assunta became the only and first mother to be at the canonization of her own child.
Now do you know who the youngest saint is? Maria Goretti was an innocent 12 year old girl with a big heart full of love for God. She never learned how to read or write but made the effort to study to get her First Holy Communion. Maria knew will enough to love God more than her own life. Alessandro repented after Maria died and begged forgiveness. He attended her canonization with Maria’s mom.
Whatever you have heard about the Tower of Pisa and how it got tilted is all a lie.The president at the time and his officials have been keeping this secret for far too long.The people of the world have the right to know. We know it’s true since we have a witness. The protagonist’s friend, or so he thought.
It was a dark and foggy day. Actually, too dark and foggy to be day. A local Japanese girl looked at the newly built tower of Pisa which was at the time straight. She was said to be named Miyu Yakimora. She stared up at the tower and squinted. That’s when they appeared. Demons. Miyu spread out her beautiful angel wings. Her best friend Marco watched the whole thing and recorded it. He was astonished to see his best friend as a power angel. Miyu knew of one way to get rid of the demons. Since she was an angel she could make anything appear so she used that ability to make a rocket. She attached that rocket to the tower and it flew high up into the sky and went out of orbit. The demons got destroyed, but the rocket ran out of fuel and fell back to Earth.It then fell at a spot in Paris and was tilted. That is how the Tower of Pisa became tilted.