The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
In my book Jeannette, the main character practically raises herself. Her parents don't really want to take on the responsibilty of raising their 4 children. After living in so many places, she has seen many kinds of situations that make her strong. She is determined to make something of herself, she doesn't want to end up in the same situation as her parents, absolutley brilliant but doing nothing with their talent. She doesn't want to stay in the same place for the rest of her life, where she can't do what she truly wants.
The author is saying that not everybody has the same youth. Some people have it much worse than others, like the author, who lived a life of poverty but somehow made it through everyday. But that doesn't mean you can't have fun. She took the better of the situation and found her own ways to have a good time even with the little she had. She always tried to make things better than what they were and that made her who she is today.
I Love to Read, Read and Read!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Test Prep #3
The Bay Citizen
By Trey Bundy
Published: April 19, 2012
A center for mental health treatment in Sanfrancisco is being closed down. 14 teenagers that have come from traumatic backgrounds are being transferred to other places. The children are so messed up that other programs have refused them, only that center accepting them. I find this very unfair, for the city to close down the only place that they could go to. I disagree with the city closing down the center and using that money for other programs.
The most common diagnosis is post-traumatic stress disorder. They are the children with the highest level of any young person in the system. These teenagers come from abusive and neglected backgrounds. They are so scarred that they are even aggressive toward grown-ups and even other kids. The center was the city's only safe residential program these type of teenagers. It is unfair to send them away to other places where they are not accepted, to send them away where they cannot receive the enough attention they need.
By the time the youth reaches the age of 13, they have already been in 10 or 12 different centers. The center uses $15,000 a month to maintain each client. But the city has come to a agreement to use the remaining money for other programs that serve at-risk youth. Over the last 5 years, there has been an increase in the number of teenagers who are psychotic or have schizophrenic. This is bad because many of the youth are going to go back to their communities, where there is a bigger chance of them being sent to the juvenile justice system, while others are going to other programs that don't offer everything they need.
This is unfair. It is like sending a child who is autistic and needs to be sent to a different location to recieve different educational requirments to a public school who barely has any programs. It is like taking a animal that needs to be in the ocean and putting it in a lagoon. Some of the things that it needs are there, but not all. What will become of the teenagers? Will they go back to their old ways, or will they become worse?
Test Prep Entry #2
- What did the student do wrong? What could he/she have done to include the source correctly?:
- Write a sentence using the original source correctly; use a quotation or paraphrase. Also, make sure to cite correctly.:
- What are at least 3 ways to avoid plagiarizing?:
*citing the source
*not taking the easy way out
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Test Prep Entry #1
I really like Joyce's post on "The Hunger Games" on how she compares Peeta and Gale. She gives a very thorough overview on the characters and how we might look at them and decide for ourselves who is better. She makes both of them seem like they are the best people in the world, making it really hard for the readers to decide who is truly worthy of Katniss, even though most of us have already fallen pretty hard for Peeta and don't even pay any attention to Gale now.
The second post I really liked was Aidan's post on "Unwind" on who he compares three very different characters. He makes you think who is truly right in this kind of situation. Is it Lev, who believes that just because authorities tell him it is the right thing to do, that technically you "live on". But it won't be the same you. Would it? Or is it Connor, who will give it his all to do whatever he can to get out of this situation, to not be unwound. Maybe it's Risa, who wants to get out of the situation, but sees it as hopeless and impossible to get out of.
I really like how Joyce compared Peeta and Gale and made it hard for the readers to truly choose how is the best of the two and who Katniss truly deserves. I really like how Aidan got me thinking about being "unwound" and if you truly live on or as someone new and what would happen if this ever happened in the future and who's decision is it really?
How I can improve my blog posts is by making them more thought provoking and discussing a topic were the reader can't chose sides and is battling with themselves trying to decide which side is better.
The second post I really liked was Aidan's post on "Unwind" on who he compares three very different characters. He makes you think who is truly right in this kind of situation. Is it Lev, who believes that just because authorities tell him it is the right thing to do, that technically you "live on". But it won't be the same you. Would it? Or is it Connor, who will give it his all to do whatever he can to get out of this situation, to not be unwound. Maybe it's Risa, who wants to get out of the situation, but sees it as hopeless and impossible to get out of.
I really like how Joyce compared Peeta and Gale and made it hard for the readers to truly choose how is the best of the two and who Katniss truly deserves. I really like how Aidan got me thinking about being "unwound" and if you truly live on or as someone new and what would happen if this ever happened in the future and who's decision is it really?
How I can improve my blog posts is by making them more thought provoking and discussing a topic were the reader can't chose sides and is battling with themselves trying to decide which side is better.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
What We all Need - Sonnet
We all love each other so very much
We may not realize it at the moment
We may even deny it a whole lot
But the true answers we shall always hold
Which we ourselves barely know we have
Something so painfully hidden away
In the darkest corner of our heart
In a place so very difficult to reach
But we all wish to experience this
Something so hard to explain in detail
With very few words to describe this thing
Yet something so big and vulnerable
It is love we all so desire
Something every person requires
We may not realize it at the moment
We may even deny it a whole lot
But the true answers we shall always hold
Which we ourselves barely know we have
Something so painfully hidden away
In the darkest corner of our heart
In a place so very difficult to reach
But we all wish to experience this
Something so hard to explain in detail
With very few words to describe this thing
Yet something so big and vulnerable
It is love we all so desire
Something every person requires
Monday, February 6, 2012
What Happens To... Poem
What happens to a body without a soul and a soul without a body?
Do they just wander around
Not knowing what their
Pupose in life is
To live with
Meaning they have
None that they can even
Have is really hard to
Get not given recieved by
Work to live that is the
Way to survive in
A world like this one
One that is full of
Mystery
Do they just wander around
Not knowing what their
Pupose in life is
To live with
Meaning they have
None that they can even
Have is really hard to
Get not given recieved by
Work to live that is the
Way to survive in
A world like this one
One that is full of
Mystery
What is Poetry? Poem
Poetry is...Beautiful
Art
A way to express yourself
Words with meaning
Strung together to proclaim something
Poetry is not...
A half - baked job
Just left to sit there to gather dust
Words randomly put together
But it also can't be really clear
It must be a bit cloudy
The meaning hidden
Just waiting to be found
Art
A way to express yourself
Words with meaning
Strung together to proclaim something
Poetry is not...
A half - baked job
Just left to sit there to gather dust
Words randomly put together
But it also can't be really clear
It must be a bit cloudy
The meaning hidden
Just waiting to be found
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