Joseph Poelker (United States) published:
PROMPT: Book Review Competition 2021
(Warning: This review and book has discussions about death, not meant for younger audiences)
(Warning: This review also contains mild spoilers for the original series)
The Hunger Games is a 3 book series written by Suzzane Collins. The series is about a teenage girl, Katniss, who lives in a dystopian world where the Capitol controls 12 districts, each producing an item or necessity for the Capitol to enjoy and be greedy with but in return, they give...
about 1 month ago
Joseph Poelker (United States) published:
PROMPT: Book Review Competition 2021
(Warning: This review and book has discussions about death, not meant for younger audiences)
(Warning: This review also contains mild spoilers for the original series and the prequel)
The Hunger Games is a 3 book series written by Suzzane Collins. The series is about a teenage girl, Katniss, who lives in a dystopian world where the Capitol controls 12 districts, each producing an item or necessity for the Capitol to enjoy and be greedy with but in...
about 2 months ago
Joseph Poelker (United States) published:
PROMPT: Book Review Competition 2021
(Warning: This review and book has discussions about death, not meant for younger audiences)
(Warning: This review also contains mild spoilers for the original series and the prequel)
The Hunger Games is a 3 book series written by Suzzane Collins. The series is about a teenage girl, Katniss, who lives in a dystopian world where the Capitol controls 12 districts, each producing an item or necessity for the Capitol to enjoy and be greedy with but in...
about 2 months ago
Joseph Poelker (United States) published:
PROMPT: Poetry and Spoken Word Competition 2020
When you first enter your new house, you find your seed being planted in your soul.
As you make friends your roots start to show.
Your family comforts you your roots damaged by the girl who used to love you.
They grow back stronger than ever prepared for another bad storm.
The roots are full and the seed is growing until it's your time.
To college, you go to get degrees your parents will show.
Your seed is planted once...
11 months ago
Joseph Poelker (United States) published:
PROMPT: Op-Ed Competition 2020
The world is burning both literally and figuratively. Global warming is bad, it always has been. Yet we still deny and don't try and help it. The world will burn the more we use coal and fossil fuels. The world will burn when the Millennials (1981 - 1996) give the world to Generation Z (1995 - 2012) the world will already be gone, there will be no Gen Alpha (2013- 2025) rule, the world will already be broken enough that...
12 months ago
Joseph Poelker (United States) published:
PROMPT: Environmental Journalism Competition 2020
Guns. They have never done anything good for humanity. Guns have always been on the rise for criminals. Criminals have been stealing from people, killing people, injuring people, paralyzing people. The people that protect us even have guns and they have gone wrong too. The guns that protect and attack us are made to kill and injure people. Why? It’s a big question. Why did humanity make guns, just to kill and injure ourselves? Why did we make war with...
about 1 year ago
Joseph Poelker (United States) liked Uncle Jeb by Joseph Poelker (United States)
about 1 year ago
Joseph Poelker (United States) published:
PROMPT: Writing for Children Competition 2020
Uncle Jeb is my uncle. He likes to play around with me, and travel here and there and everywhere. He is rich. He loves laying around in our house watching whatever sport he can find. He loves to play football with me, I even win sometimes.
One day, Uncle Jeb decided to go for a walk. He wanted to get what he called ‘healthy’. So he would eat and eat and eat. He ate a lot of greens, I thought...
about 1 year ago