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Aschwin, Emerson, Wilbur
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The Trillion Billion Million Dollar Note
There was a guy named Jack and he was 30 years old, he lived in a city with many poor and homeless people, and he was one of them.
He lived in a ruined house in the junkyard made of recycled metal and wood he found in the junkyard.
His house has no furniture and no kitchen, his house has only one dirt floor and an old torn mattress on the floor.
He doesn’t have ANY money and no job.
His clothes are ragged and torn, and he only has one pair of worn-out shoes.
He eats with the neighbours, they are very kind and generous and they would let Jack go in and let him eat with them, but the neighbours are also homeless and poor.
The neighbours get money by begging and buying food with the little money they have.
In this community no one has a family and everyone is poor or homeless or even both like jack, but next to the community lives Jeff Bezos (The owner of Amazon and also the current richest man in the world!) and his family! He has 4 kids, 3 sons and 1 daughter adopted from China.
So one day one of the sons was riding in a limo going to the airport to travel to another country to tell everybody about his trillion billion million dollar bill.
He turned the window down when the limo just started to go, but suddenly a hard and strong breeze came to him and the limo and his only trillion billion million dollar bill came flying away towards the junkyard “ NO! Jerry! turn around!” Screamed the boy to his driver “yes sir!” Said Jerry. The limo turned around and at high speed they chased the note, the bill went in the junkyard over the ginormous fence surrounding the junkyard, the limo stopped in front of the fence and the son got out “oh come on! I spent one month working on that bill! How am I supposed to get the bill now!?!” Said the son “ sir there is no way to get it back, the sign says ‘restricted area do not enter’ “said Jerry “ I know Jerry, I can read” said the son “You have to try making the bill again, sir” said Jerry “fine” said the son. They both got in the limo and drove away back to the house.
While that was happening everyone in the Community heard the commotion and went outside to see what was going on, so they saw what happened and they thought it was a weird day and everyone got back inside, except Jack, he stayed outside and started to look for the bill. “If I find that bill I can finally be rich!” Jack thought.
After 2 hours of searching he finally found it “YES!!!” Said Jack happily, “I found it!” He quickly went inside his house and planned what to do.
“ I’m going to go to the bank, exchange the bill to bill’s’ and… get rich!” So he went to the local bank 15 minutes away by walking, when he was halfway through, he saw thin people in ragged clothing on the street, begging for money, and when the bank was 2 minutes away he saw old people sleeping on a small cloth on the street, next to the old people were children, begging.
“Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t use ALL the money for myself” Jack thought.
He arrived at the bank, and he handed out the bill, “ I’d like to exchange this bill for Trillion Billion Million dollars please” said Jack. “Sure,” said the receptionists calmly, the receptionist went away to the back of the bank, and Jack heard a loud unsatisfying noise. “That must be the vault,” Jack thought, the receptionist returned with a giant bag filled with money. “Here you go, sir” said the receptionist “thank you” Said jack the receptionist gave jack the enormous bag of dollars and went back to where she was when Jack came.
Jack had trouble carrying the money, but eventually he got used to it and started to walk out of the bank.
He went to the nearest 7-eleven and bought a lot of bags and filled them with money.
He saw the old people sleeping again, and the children, instead of ignoring them, he gave all the children bags of dollar bills. “Here you go!” Said Jack giving the last child a bag of money, the children all smiled happily and said “thank you, JESUS!” Jack smiled and walked to the old people, they were still sleeping, so he just put a chunk next to each of them.
He saw a taxi and waved, the taxi stopped in front of him “where do you want to go” said the taxi driver “The Junkyard please” said jack he stepped inside the taxi and they drove to the junkyard.
They arrived at the junkyard “ that would be 5 dollars, sir” Jack smiled and gave him 300 dollars and walked away to the junkyard, the taxi driver was speechless and just drove away.
Jack pushed the double gate at the entrance of the junkyard and walked towards his house and took out the money from the giant bags that covered his entire house.
“There we go.” said Jack.
He took a 5 chunks of bills and went outside of his house to one of his neighbor's house and knocked on the door made of scrap metal, and a head popped out “hello Ja-” said the neighbour “hello Max, here you go” said Jack while he’s giving a bag of money to Max “wh-where di-did you g-get this?” Said Max, super shocked, “the bill” Jack said, he went to the other house where Becky and Joe lived and gave the bag, he went to another house where Peter lived and gave the bag and Jack went to three other neighbors and gave the bags. A few hours later all the neighbours had a meeting at Jack's house.
“What!? You’re giving this money to other people?!?” Said Peter “we could be billionaires, like the Jeff Bezos family!” Said Joe “we could just KEEP the MONEY” said Max. “No! Don’t you get it? There are hundreds of thousands of - no millions of people like us! Some are even suffering worse! We can help them! So we can all be equal! Not like the Jeff Bezos family,-” “but they’re rich!” Interrupted Peter “so!? If they’re rich, it doesn’t mean they’re better than us! They don’t have a pure heart! They just want money! Money and money all the time! So, anyway, I wanted to make a non-profit organization that helps the needy, homeless and poor, so,*ahem* who’s in?” Said Jack “me!” Said Peter “me!” Said joe “me!” Said Becky “really, guys!? Are you kidding me!? He just said ‘non-profit’!” Said Max “Max, did you even listen to me?” Said Jack “fine” said Max.
So Jack took a lot of money and stuffed it in everywhere he could find in his clothes.
Jack and the community went to the store and bought nice clothes and went to the construction company to clean up their community.
They paid the workers and the workers used tractors to move out the trash from the junkyard, while the workers are doing that Jack and his community went to the construction company again to build a big fat building 5 stories high.
Jack knew this is going to finish in years so he told his neighbours to stay at the company while he’s going car shopping.
He went outside the company and waved at a taxi, he went inside the taxi “where would you like to go, sir?”
Said the taxi driver. “The nearest car shop please” said Jack.
They went to the nearest car shop, “that would be 10 dollars, sir” said the taxi driver, Jack smiled and gave him 500 dollars and walked out to the car shop.
Jack bought a nice car and drove to all the construction companies he could find and told them that he wanted to build a building, every worker came and worked on the junkyard.
So he came to the construction company and waited with his neighbours for the house to finish.
After 3 hours, the building finished and all the workers went back.
After that, Jack and the neighbours went to buy a sign that says “WeCare non-profit organization of homeless and poor” they put it in front of the building
“Finally, we’re done, let’s get to work”
After 10 years they have raised 3.billion dollars and donated 2.5 billion dollars to charity’s of orphanage and homeless, poor, they’ve also gained worldwide acknowledgment, and 1million volunteers.
After 30 years there was no such thing as poor and homeless people.
THE END
The Stones
One day in a small rainy town in the South African region, in the old days, Africa was a continent, but when a dangerous virus broke out in 2026 Africa closed its borders and united their governments. This prevented the virus from entering the continent, but sent the newly formed country into a state of poverty, because all of the country’s money was put into preventing the spreading of the virus.
AJ was a tall skinny boy, with dark brown eyes and short black hair, and his 13th birthday was coming up. He was walking down a muddy path, he liked the rain, it was very peaceful, and it was good for the crops. Today he was walking to help his mom, three younger sisters and two older brothers in the fields.
Everyday AJ would walk down this path, and into the huge fields owned by his family. They grew banana trees and they collected the fruit, then they would sell it at the market. They also had some farm animals: goats, chickens, a cow and some dogs. They sold all of the stuff at the market in the town of Pofadder, they had to walk about two hours to get to the market.
Today AJ was walking to the market in Pofadder with his older brother and one of his favorite dogs. He carried a pole over his shoulders, two bunches of bananas one on each side, his brother carried another pole, this one with two bocets one filled with milk the other filled with eggs cushioned with straw. As they entered the town and set up their stand AJ’s brother said.
“You can go home, I’ll sell the stuff.”
“Thanks,” said AJ.
As AJ was going home the sun glinted off something in the field caught his eye. He went a short way into the field and saw a small collection of stones the big of which were about the size of a ping pong ball. They were so colorful. They were all sorts of different colors at the same time there were, it seemed as though all the colors in the world had merged into this small piece of stone, it was mesmerizing. He collected them and there were about a dozen, only three were the size of ping pong balls the others were about the size of marbles. He wondered wistfully if they were valuable. He thought of all the people he could help. But after all they probably weren’t valuable at all.
When he got home he slipped the stones into a small bag and stuffed it into his pillow case, he didn’t want his brothers to see. AJ’s house was small but compared to the others it was large, it had four rooms, a bathroom, a kitchen and two bedrooms. He shared the smaller room with his two brothers. That night they ate dinner, they laughed, they talked and they ate.
The next morning as he was walking to his family’s fields, he saw a small poster, it said. “Any information given about colorful stones will be rewarded.” There was a picture, and it looked exactly like the ones in his room. AJ froze. The thought of the stones in his pillow case. What if he gave these people the stones, he would get credits, how much did they want for them?
Ten minutes later he was knocking on the door of a large house that wealthy people rent from time to time. A big burly man opened the door and said. “What do you want.” In a hard voice.
“I’ve got some stones that fit the discripechan on the poster.” AJ said a little shyly.
“Let’s see them.” The man said.
AJ showed him the stones. The man looked shocked. “Come in.” He said.
AJ entered a spacious living room with extravagant furniture, a thin man sat in an armchair in front of the fireplace.
“This boy has some of the stones you have been looking for.” The big man who had answered the door said.
“Really, what’s your name boy.” Said the man in the armchair.
“AJ.” Mattered AJ.
“AJ, my name Mr Jarimey, tell me where did you find the stones?” Said Mr Jarimey.
“I was walking home from the market yesterday when I saw the stones in a field, I went for a closer look and there they were, why do you even want them?” AJ said.
“The stones are very valuable, they are from the planet Averined. I work with NASA and we want to study the stones to see if the planet is sustainable for life.” Said Mr Jarimey.
“You work for NASA wow!” AJ exclaimed.
“Yes, I do”, Mr Jarimey said smiling, “and I will pay you to give those to me.”
“How much.” AJ said hopefully.
“Four point five million credits, does that work for you.” Said Mr Jarimey.
“Yeah! But I don’t have an account.” AJ said.
“That can be arranged, we will have an account made on a new computer.” Said Mr Jarimey.
“Awesome, but I get the money first.” Said AJ.
“Natural.” Said Mr Jarimey.
AJ left the house, the big man who had answered the door at his side.
When AJ got home he ran into his parents room and told them everything that had happened, they didn’t believe him at first but when there was a knock at the door and a man handed him a shiny new computer. AJ unlocked the computer with the pin on the slip of paper next to the screen, and there was the money that he had said would be there. His family was shocked.
“What are you going to do with the money.” Asked AJs dad.
“I’ll keep some of it and give some to you guys, the rest I’m going to use to help people in Africa.” AJ said.
“How are you going to help.” Asked his oldest brother.
“I don’t know yet.” Said AJ.
Three days his mom called him downstairs, there were three stories to their new house, it was about 4 times bigger than their older one.
“There’s a phone call for you. His mother said. She handed him the phone.
“Hello this is Mr Acan, you may have heard of me.” Said the man on the phone. AJ knew the man, he was a billionaire, he was very famous, the richest man in Africa and one of the richest in the world.
“Yes, of course I’ve heard of you, you're so famous.” Said AJ.
“You could be famous too, you were given a fortune, if you use it right you can live in paradise for the rest of your life, how does that sound?” Said Mr Acan.
“I was going to help the people in Africa, I could make a big difference.” Said AJ.
“Look, AJ you can give some to the people but keep almost all of it, that’s what everyone would do.” Said Acan.
“But I want to help people.” Said AJ.
“Do what you want, but trust me you’ll be happier if you keep it.” Said Acan.
“Are you happy?” AJ asked.
Acan paused then said “yes” but he sounded hesitant.
And that’s when AJ knew what he was going to use the money to help the people in Africa.
Four years later AJ was the head of a huge organization that was stopping the biggest problems in Africa: poverty, animal abuse, hunger, health issues and many others. His organization grew and grew and soon they were helping the whole world. There were still problems in the world but AJ had made a big difference.
Beginning of Jame‘s SLP
The boy's name is Jame. He is 14 years old. He has gray eyes and brown hair, he lives in Thailand. He went on a trip during his holiday. He thought he would see a lot of good things but on the way he saw a lot of people living in slums. Jame went back to his own house because he got the idea of helping people in slums. He asked his friend who wants to help people in slums like him to help find the ways to help them. His friend came up with the idea of donating stuff for them but Jame thinks that is not enough. He thinking for a long time to find what else do they need and then he thinking about when he look at people in slums he saw some people is sick but didn't have enough money to make them back to healthy so he decided to make some little camp and ask his friend that like to make people healthy and know how to heal people to stay in that camp and make sure people in slums are healthy. A few months later he thinks some kids in slums don’t get to learn because their family didn't have enough money so Jame made some small free liberally that have books about learning and also comic books .Some time Jame will go to slums and be a teacher for kids there. He did this project for a while and he has a lot of people that want to help people who need help or have the money under the propertyline help his project. Jame was thinking if he can help dog and cat too but he thinks it’s too much for him to help people and animals so he changed his mind and incase of helping animals by himself he tried to find some project that helped animals and he found it. He contacts them and asks how he can help and they answer he can come and help give dogs some food and help them make sure all the animals that they help are healthy. Jame felt so happy that he got to help not only people but he helped animals too. And everyone that comes to help his project was thinking they changed the world into a better place by helping those who need help. A day later he shared with other people the information about what poverty is and how poverty works so if someone sees people in poverty need help they know how they can help.
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Once there was an 18 year old boy named peter. He lived with his mom, dad, grandparents, and brother, in their house next to a river in Bangkok, Thailand. It was march 2021. Peter really liked to play with his Rubik’s cube at home. He averaged 18 seconds.
One day Peter went out with his mom. He saw a woman and her child begging for money on the streets. He wanted to help them, but he didn’t have anything to give to them. When he got back home, he couldn’t stop thinking about the poor family on the streets.
He was wondering how he could help them. He was wondering if he could make money from cubing. He did some research and he found out that you can make money from cubing. He kept reading but he didn’t understand how.
Peter did some research on a different website and he found out that there were 2 main ways you could make money from cubing. You could either go to competitions and win cash prizes, or you could get sponsored by a company and they would send you cubes for free.
First, he thought going to a competition and winning a cash prize would be easy. So Peter went to his first competition at the cookie game tower. He was very nervous to compete - he did way worse than he did at home. Even though it was fun, Turns out it was really hard to beat the top cubers. His second option was to get sponsored.
Peter found an online cubing shop that he really wanted to get sponsored by. It was called Speed Cube Shop. They said he had to be able to solve a Rubik’s cube in less than 20 seconds. He also had to tell people to come buy cubes from the shop. Since he already averaged sub - 20, All he had to do was fill out a form and hope he gets accepted to be their sponsor.
After a week of waiting, Peter finally got a response. He was accepted to be their sponsor! All he had to do now was wait for them to send him cubes so he can sell some and give the money to the poor family.
After a month, Speed Cube Shop sent Peter some cubes. He asked his dad if he could sell some online, and his dad said yes. The next time his mom went shopping, Peter went with her and he gave all the money from selling the cubes to the poor family. He even taught the child how to solve a Rubik’s cube and gave him one of his cubes.
Peter asked the child for his name. The child said his name was Henry. Peter would invite Henry to play at his house every weekend. Later they became friends. Next time there was a cubing competition, Peter and Henry would go and compete there together.
It felt really good to help people. It felt so good that whenever Peter got some cubes, he would sell some of them online for money to donate to a charity.
Cats in the streets
One day I was biking around my house. When I biked to the front of my house I saw 3 kittens sleeping in the corner behind the house. They are small and is has brown and black fur. The next day I went out of my house I saw the cats again in the same place I realize that they were cold and hungry. I showed the cats to my family and my mom decided to take them the in the house to stay in our house. We named the 3 kittens Cookie, Ginger and Tiger. But if we want them to stay in the house we need to buy food,water and beds for them first. So me and my mum drove to the vet because there they sell all the necessaries needs for kittens. When we came back from the vet the we got the stuff out of the car and set them up. The cats came in they were hunger so we fed them and they were very playful. The next day we took them to the vet again to see if they are sick or allergic to anything. We told the vet that we found the kittens outside of our house and we took them in. The vet said Tiger got wounded and the germs went in the wounds while Tiger was still outside the house. My mum decided to keep Tiger in the hospital so the vet can find a way to help Tiger. My mum and I came back to the vet the very next day to find out that Tiger past away. I was really sad. The other kittens were still fine so we kept them in our house. I still remember him today.
Save Trever
Introduction
Carl
This story begins in Utah with a man named Carl and a pretty big dog named Trever. Carl is a 28 years old man with Grey colored eyes, curly black hair and he has a small small pimple on his forehead. He likes to wear a fanny pack.
Trever
Trever is a pretty big dog. He is about 2 and a half years old with black fur, white chest and white spots on him. He is very fluffy. He has blue eyes and big floppy ears.
How Carl got his dog
In 2001, Carl found puppy on the street. The dog was crying because he had a small metal rod through his back leg. Carl brought the dog inside. It was hard for him to get the rod out and when he did, the dog ran into the curtains. That was the story of how Carl got his dog. Now the real story begins here in 2003.
Chapter 1
One day, like any day, Carl said good bye to his dog and went to work. Carl was an engineer and he was best at his company. His head boss has given him 17M USD to use but, only for work. So when he arrived at work he went in and sat at his desk working on a brand new technology. He calls it an iPhone. He has 43 failed attempts, but this time he is sure it will work and not become a taser kind of thing because now the police paid him $700 for that thing.
After a long day at work, he went home opened the door and sees Trever coming running towards him and jumping right at him, just like every day. Carl went inside and played with Trever. He gave Trevor a new toy, as a reward because he hasn't chew on the couch while he had been away for work. After that they had dinner and then went to bed.
Chapter 2
Carl continued working on his new technology, he spent many hours every day working. After another long day of work he went home and saw that his window was shattered. He ran inside and saw the place was ruined, and that Trevor was outside. Trevor was playing with his toy in a very rough way. His company decided to help him pay for the damage. It took Carl a month to fix and pay for everything.
Chapter 3
One day, when Carl had new furniture delivered, Trever escaped the house. Outside the house he got sight of a rabbit and started to chase it. Eventually the rabbit dug a hole through the fence and Trever went after the rabbit. He ran for 2 hours and was then lost.
Chapter 4
Trever walked alone on the street, he didn't even catch the rabbit. Eventually he found himself in a China town. When he was walking down the street somebody came and grabbed him in the neck and pulled him into a van.
When Carl realized that Trever had escaped, he went out looking for him. At the same time was Trever put in a plane that was going to China. Luckily Carl has a tracker on Trever’s collar and Carl noticed the tracker was going fast and it seemed like it was going to China. So he called a taxi to go to the airport, he told the taxi driver to go really really fast. When he arrived at the airport he checked the tracker again and saw that Trevor has arrived in China. Carl went into the airport where you can rent a jet, and fun fact, Carl was a pilot for 4 year before he became an engineer.
It cost a lot of money to get that jet. He had to swipe 4 cards to get the right amount of money to pay for the plane. When he was on the starting line Trever seamed like he was on a van or something, so he went full speed and up he went going to China. Since he was driving a jet it only took about an hour to get to China.
Chapter 5
Trever was taken to a big cage filled with dogs to the brim of the cage or even more and they were shoved in there like they were nothing. Then Trever was thrown into a new cage because the other cages were just too full. Trever was very scared and was hiding in the corner when he saw 2 others dogs fall in and in that moment he new that more and more dogs will come until it will get too full. He even saw people holding a claw kind of thing and grabbing the dogs by the neck and putting them in a tight box.
While Carl was following the tracker, he saw that he was very near Trever. He landed his jet and the airport was just next to a big street market. He went to the street market and saw that people were selling dog meat. Carl was very worried that someone had killed Trevor.
Chapter 6
Carl went behind the shop and saw Trever among many other dogs. It was very cramped. He ran to the cage and tried to get Trever out. All of a sudden he felt a gun pointing at his head. Carl froze and said that he is trying to get his dog back. When Trever got through the crowd he saw Carl and started barking in joy, but then he saw the gun pointing at Carl and got sad and worried. The man told Carl to leave and thats what he did.
Chapter 7
Carl went to a nearby park and thought of a plan. When he was finished thinking he had a plan and it involved a dynamite stick. He went to a mining store, bought some dynamite and went back to the street market. It turned out he needed 3 dynamite sticks and luckily he bought 3. His plan was to light 1 dynamite and it was going scare everyone out and then light the other one to blow up the shop so people won't buy dog meat anymore and the last one was to blow up the two big cages. He took Trever and saw that the other dogs also needed a home, so he took all the dogs and put them in the jet. It was very cramped, but luckily it was just for an hour. When he arrived home, he gave all the dogs to 3 different dog adoptions so they could get a nice loving home. He kept Trever and gave the jet back to the people. Trever has learned his lesson to not run away.
The End.