Grrrrrrrrrowing, we do it everyday!

It's hard to think of anything more tumultuous or unavoidable than growing up. It's something everyone has to do, with the exclusion of Peter Pan, of course. Growing up can be hard. As a child you make very few of your own decisions, and you just have to deal with what's thrown your way. This can be frustrating, as some of the decisions made by others can directly affect your own life, and can seem cruel or unfair. On the other hand, though, growing up can be the most exciting thing ever. When you're a kid, everything is new, unknown, and ready to be explored. You learn, see, and experience new things constantly. As you grow and learn, you get to do more and more new things. Not all experiences that people go though as they grow up are more exciting than scary. Terrible things can happen as you go through your life, but they help make you the person that you are, just as the happy and exciting things do.

Lies.

This was (in my opinion), by far, the most interesting document of the ones we that we had to choose from. I mean, what's cooler than a spy? I guess in this case the spying going on wasn't so cool, seeing as Benedict Arnold was spying for the British. It was still very interesting though. One of the letters I read was all about how much Benedict Arnold was supposed to get paid for being a spy and the other was full of information about the American troops and their locations. I learned that the code systems used during those times were really very complex. The letters were made up mostly of numbers which referred to the page, line, and word counts for a pre-determined book that the decoder used to fill in the blanks in the message. I was surprised that Benedict Arnold literally just sold out the nation that he started out fighting for. If he had been successful it would have a been a devastating blow to the American quest for freedom. Luckily he was found out and exposed for the traitor he was.