Masada Research Paper

Since the beginning of time humans have built forts for various reasons. Forts come in all shapes and sizes and can be in some of the craziest places for the most craziest purposes. In the 1st century BCE 960 jewish people built a fort on top of a huge plateau near Mesa looking down on the Red Sea called Masada, according to historians the reason for this huge fort was to keep the romans away from them, at this time the romans were persecuting the jews and this fort for the jewish people in Mesa was the last stand. Now today Masada is one of Israel’s top tourist attractions. You can build forts wherever and for whatever purpose, you can have forts made from snow, forts made in trees, mud forts, you can make a fort just about out of anything.
As I set out I wasn't having the best of luck trying to find the perfect spot to build my fort, as I was starting to lose day break, I found my Masada! it was this hill that was 15ft tall and 10ft wide I could not believe a hill was this big out in the woods and I never noticed it. As I climbed the huge slope of this monstrous hill covered in garbage, grass sod, leaves, and branches, it almost looked like someone was trying to hide it. as I reached the top I noticed that there was a little hole in the middle that looked like it fit 2-3 kids inside, also I noticed left over junk that someone forgot to pick up. As I was about to my leave the hill someone called my name, I didn't know where it came from and I didn't recognize the voice very well, then I saw the figure it was my neighbor, I got really scared thinking that he was mad because I was trespassing and this could be his and didn't want anyone to be on the hill. As he came up to me at the bottom of the hill he asked what I was doing, so I as a scared kid I told him everything, as I finished my story a smile