Project I-57

Question:  What do you think life is like in a Southern Illinois mining town - the good and bad points?  What are the people like who live there?  Which is a better place to live - Fisher or a Southern Illinois mining town?  Why?

N.B.  The initials after each essay are the student's.  (m) and (f) refer to the student's gender.

Student 1  Essay#2 Rob

     I think life in a small mining town is sort of quiet. I think a good
thing about a small mining town is that it is so quiet that hardly ever
gets disturbed. I think a bad thing is that someone could trip and fall in
to a mine shaft. I think the people their are probably sort of ordinary.

    I'd rather live in Fisher than a small mining town. Another bad thing
is if you are a miner you could get black lung disease. The reason I think
it might be a quite town is that we don't  really need coal anymore so most
of the mines are abandoned.

I think life in a mining town would be noisy and dangerous.
The good things are that it is quieter because the towns are farther apart.
 The second thing is the towns are alot smaller and so they don't have very
many gangs so that you can't get
 robbed or hurt.  The bad things are that you could get hurt in the coal
mine because a piece of coal could fall on you.  The second thing is that
you might not have computers because you might not have enough or the
school might not have enough money to buy one.  I think the people would be
nice.
        I think Fisher is a better place to live because it is not as dangerous
and it is not as far from a different town.

        I think a small mining town would be kind of nice.  I would like to
imagine it nice and quiet.  But there is not as many jobs there and the
people are probably boring to me.  Some people just sit around waiting for
some thing exciting to happen ,but not me . I would probably do something
unordinary to them.

Fisher is way more exciting than a small mining town in southern Illinois.
All my friends are here not in some mining town.  I have lots more things
to do that are not unusual.

        It would be fun to live in a mining town. Why?  Because they dig up
coal.The people would be nice and a lot of fun. Why?  It would be fun
helping people dig up coal. Why?  Because they will be nice to people that
live in Fisher. Why?            Because Fisher Schools are nice and no robbers
come here barely. Oh by the way there's dangerous equipment in mining towns.

        I think it might be annoying  hearing the trains going  by at night
but I guess you would get use to it after all. I also think it might be
kind of cool  living by all those coal trains and getting up in the morning
watching them go by.
         I also think the people there are very nice.

 I think what is good about living in a mining town in southern Illinois is
that it has good farming, hunting.  It wouldn't be too noisy and it would
be nice to live there.  The bad thing is that they're not mining anymore so
some people might not want to live there.  I think that the people would be
nice and friendly.

I think that Fisher is a better place to live than living in a mining town
in southern
Illinois.

        I think life in a mining town is sort of weird.  Good points of a
mining
town are they dig up different kinds of gems. Then they can take them to
the banks and cash them in for money. Another good point of a mining town
is if a tornado comes along they could go into the mine and be safe.
 Bad points of a mining town could be if they went underground, and it
clasped they would be caught and would not be able to get out. People that
do mining underground could be hurt very badly. They could be cut by metal
or other sharp items. If they go too far down, they could die because of
heat and the pressure. Life in a mining town is not a good idea because of
all the coal dust. The people could die because they could get what was
called black lung.
        I would not like to live in a mining town because, if I went
underground I
could die. I would not be able to do things I am able to do now. I would
not be able to go to school, or have any fun with my friends because I
would be underground. If I was in a mining town there would be too much
coal dust in the air, and we would have a hard time breathing. If I lived
in a mining town, I would probably have no friends because everybody would
be underground with me.
        I would rather live in Fisher because it is safer. We do not have to go
underground. I can go to school and have my friends to play with in Fisher.
I can walk on the sidewalk by myself. I can go to the store and get things
for my mom or dad. I can go to my friends and play with them.

        I think life in a mining town would be cool because I think it would be
fun to watch them if you live near by. It could be dangerous too. I think
there are nice and bad people too.
 Southern Illinois would be better to live in because it is quiet there.

         I think life in a  mining town in southern Illinois is small . The
good
points are it probably is not so busy like a bigger town .It's bad pontes
are it could be polluted and dangers because it may have big machinery .
The people that live there are adjusted to the town .

I think Fisher is a better place to live because it is not as dangerous and
 it probably is not as polluted.  I like Fisher.

                 Well, I think that life would be kind of nice to live in
Southern Illinois.  There would be more doctors. There would be some bad
points too. Like the pollution. It would kill a lot of animals. I think the
people who live there would probably be pretty nice. I think some of the
people would be kind of mean.

                  I think Fisher would be better than Southern Illinois
because you wouldn't have to live with all the pollution and noise.

I  think  life  in  southern  Illinois  would  be  really  quiet  on  the
farms.
And  I  think  in  the  city  would  be  noisy.

I   think  Fisher  would   be  better  because  ITS  NOT  THAT  LOUD  AND
NOISY!!!!

A mining town is probably noisy and dangerous. Some of the people there are
miners who mine coal. There is a lot of dangerous points about mining town
because there is a lot of machines. Like for example, if your ball went
into a mine you could not get it out. A good point about living in a mining
town is that you can get a lot of coal. If you had a furnace that you had
to use coal with this would be a good town for you. Some of the people
there are very poor. Some of the people are more fortunate and work at a
nice place and can live in better homes.

         I think that Fisher is a better place to live because it is not as
dangerous as the mining town in Southern Illinois. Children do not have to
worry about where they play.

         I think living in a mining town would be dangerous.  It would be
dangerous because, if you ran into a big machine and, it was running you
would probably get hit or hurt badly.  Now for the good points.  One good
point about living in a mining town is that you probably wouldn't have an
electric stove, you could just use a furnace with coal.
Three are probably alot of mine workers.  I know that there are some bad
people and some good people.

           I would rather live in a town named Fisher.
I would rather live in Fisher because, all of my friends live in Fisher
and, I really don't like the sound of tractors and, machines.  Plus the
tractors and machines go really really slow on the roads and, if I or
anybody else were trying to get some where quick and, you were in a NO
passing zone you wouldn't be able to pass and, would have to go the same
speed limit ass the slow tractor.

                      I   think  it  would  be  bad   to  live   in  a
mining town  because   of
pollution, its  a dangerous  place,noisy , and  might  not  have  a
doctor. Some   good
things  are  more  forest,good   hunting  and  fishing.
                      To  tell  the  truth  I  have  never   met  an
southerner  .  But   I  think
I  would  like  too.
                      I  still  like  Fisher  better!!I   like  the
quietness  of   Fisher

I think it might be really exciting because they get to use dynamight in
the mines. It might be dangerous and people might get hurt from it. I think
the people would probably be very nice and friendly to live by. I would
like to live in Southern Illinois because they have dynamite.

(M

The good thing about southern Illinois is that they have coal mines.   They
are kind of noise and dusty.    Well, the bad thing about southern Illinois
is it is kind of polluted.
They probably have trouble breathing.

        They probably have good and bad people there.     But when I went there
there were a lot of people.    Well, I think southern Illinois  is better
than Fisher.because it is probably much hotter than fisher and it must be
pretty cool.