Honestly I hated doing blog posts this year and I think it just mad it worse going into class and seeing BLOG POSTS DUE EVERY FRIDAY! This didn't really help me notice anything new about myself as a reader because I believe that these posts are way too similar to what we had to do last year if someone had Mr. Ravin as a teacher. I guess i could benefit from this experience that I got used to doing extra work every single week so that could help me later on in life if I have something similar due at around the same time.
I personally like writing in a notebook than on a computer because I'm not a big fan of doing everything on a computer. It's similar to the feeling of actually turning a page in a book I just like writing with a pencil or pen. I don't think that many people are real online and I think we use have different personalities when we write publicly. I know I have done that a lot and in no way would I be saying anything similar to what I'm writing when I am just talking with a friend. As for teenagers abusing power on websites online. I definitely think many many kids talk badly about others more than I don;t think this is a very good thing to do but it is good that kids can express themselves online. (Or at least some of the time it's good.)
Overall I can't see myself keeping up with this blog anymore just like what happened to the ning (Mr. Ravin students know.) once in a while I will come back to check on this and reminisce but I will not be writing anything more about my book(s). So goodbye blogspot and blog posts.
This is Japanese Grilled Cheese and this is my last blog post...
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Prison...A bad bad place for people that don't actually seem so bad. Oh wait but the crazy bad people too. (Spoiler alert)
Alright so I just finished Life In Prison by Williams Stanley Tookie and I really like this book but it makes me feel bad for what happens to Tookie throughout his days in prison. The book was about his time in prison and what happened to him throughout those painful days behind those cold steel bars.
In the book, a man named Stanley "Tookie" Williams suffers life in prison with nothing to do except stay in a cell almost all the day. However he does find ways to keep himself from going insane and keep his body strength up.This book really taught me a lot about how I have to respect the rules and laws. Where ever I am. Otherwise I would end up getting strip searched, beaten up, and many many other foul and upsetting things.
As I said before, the book really makes you fell bad for Stanley, because he makes it seem that he did nothing wrong and he exaggerated about what they did to him in jail. With all the diseases, blather explosions, and severe injuries either caused by a jail guard or another cell mate. When Prisoners broke any rules within the cell they would have to serve time in the "hole". The hole is a dark cell underground that without any windows and many limitations to the cell store to buy supplies such as pencils, paper, etc.
The "hole" reminds me a lot of "time outs" that I used to have when I was a young boy.I used to have to stay in a corner or in the bathroom with only dinner to look forward to.
I don't think that Tookie actually deserved to be put in jail. I believe he seemed like a regular person that got in trouble once in his life for shoplifting or even maybe got accused for something he didn't do. Still I don't think he should have been executed. I thought you could only get executed if you committed a murder?
Tookie seemed like the only sane person in his prison. He drew, watched t.v, wrote books (including this one), read a lot, worked out at least 3 times a week (without getting into a fight once), wrote letters to his family, and so much more. He seemed like the only person that could actually keep their mind and not go crazy in their cell after being trapped there for over 4 years.
Overall the book really taught me a lot about how to survive jail (which I probably won't ever have to do, and that I need to follow rules correctly if I don't want to be executed on December 13, just like Tookie did.
In the book, a man named Stanley "Tookie" Williams suffers life in prison with nothing to do except stay in a cell almost all the day. However he does find ways to keep himself from going insane and keep his body strength up.This book really taught me a lot about how I have to respect the rules and laws. Where ever I am. Otherwise I would end up getting strip searched, beaten up, and many many other foul and upsetting things.
As I said before, the book really makes you fell bad for Stanley, because he makes it seem that he did nothing wrong and he exaggerated about what they did to him in jail. With all the diseases, blather explosions, and severe injuries either caused by a jail guard or another cell mate. When Prisoners broke any rules within the cell they would have to serve time in the "hole". The hole is a dark cell underground that without any windows and many limitations to the cell store to buy supplies such as pencils, paper, etc.
The "hole" reminds me a lot of "time outs" that I used to have when I was a young boy.I used to have to stay in a corner or in the bathroom with only dinner to look forward to.
I don't think that Tookie actually deserved to be put in jail. I believe he seemed like a regular person that got in trouble once in his life for shoplifting or even maybe got accused for something he didn't do. Still I don't think he should have been executed. I thought you could only get executed if you committed a murder?
Tookie seemed like the only sane person in his prison. He drew, watched t.v, wrote books (including this one), read a lot, worked out at least 3 times a week (without getting into a fight once), wrote letters to his family, and so much more. He seemed like the only person that could actually keep their mind and not go crazy in their cell after being trapped there for over 4 years.
Overall the book really taught me a lot about how to survive jail (which I probably won't ever have to do, and that I need to follow rules correctly if I don't want to be executed on December 13, just like Tookie did.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
darkness in the heart.
So recently i have picked up the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and although it is a very well written book it is not very appealing to me. However it is rather easy to come up with things to write about.
I am only about 20 pages in the book so far and let me tell you, it is, as Ms. Rear said, a very dense book. In the book one of the characters Marlow goes into this long story (Please don't get angry if I'm wrong about this fact I wasn't exactly quite sure about this, and I kind of lost myself somewhere in the book.) about himself as a captain sailing up the congo. ( a river in Africa) later he was sent to a African Village to recover a man named Fresleven's bones, only to find that he was killed by the native tribe their when he tried to attack the village chief.
Later in the book I found out that, the village had been deserted because the natives were superstitious that because they killed a white man, a curse or something would be placed on them and this just made me think a lot about race and discrimination in the world today. Today not many people I know believe that a certain race or color is dominate or more educated or something than others. But years and years ago black and white people couldn't use the same, well, anything. They ere separated in almost every(if not all) public places. I started to question myself about how the discrimination actually started. I know the basics but why did people back hundreds of years ago think that blacks were a lesser race.
I think that they all had some kind of fear of change, and they were afraid to allow this other race into their ordinary lives. People thought that they were lesser and wanted white protestants to be the main race in much if not all of europe and many other places as well.
Anyway now I have to start that prep sheet so I think I'm going to end this blog post here.
Sometimes you gotta do homework earlier in the week....
I am only about 20 pages in the book so far and let me tell you, it is, as Ms. Rear said, a very dense book. In the book one of the characters Marlow goes into this long story (Please don't get angry if I'm wrong about this fact I wasn't exactly quite sure about this, and I kind of lost myself somewhere in the book.) about himself as a captain sailing up the congo. ( a river in Africa) later he was sent to a African Village to recover a man named Fresleven's bones, only to find that he was killed by the native tribe their when he tried to attack the village chief.
Later in the book I found out that, the village had been deserted because the natives were superstitious that because they killed a white man, a curse or something would be placed on them and this just made me think a lot about race and discrimination in the world today. Today not many people I know believe that a certain race or color is dominate or more educated or something than others. But years and years ago black and white people couldn't use the same, well, anything. They ere separated in almost every(if not all) public places. I started to question myself about how the discrimination actually started. I know the basics but why did people back hundreds of years ago think that blacks were a lesser race.
I think that they all had some kind of fear of change, and they were afraid to allow this other race into their ordinary lives. People thought that they were lesser and wanted white protestants to be the main race in much if not all of europe and many other places as well.
Anyway now I have to start that prep sheet so I think I'm going to end this blog post here.
Sometimes you gotta do homework earlier in the week....
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Escaping the law
So now since I finished the Alex Rider series I have started reading the book. On The Run. A Mafia Childhood by Gregg and Gina Hill. This book is basically a autobiography written by the two children of a mafia member named "Wise Guy" Henry Hill. In the book the two children talk about their life and what it was like being raised by a person in the Mafia.
In the book i found out that the two kids were only around the age of 5 when their father got arrested for a couple of years. This wasn't as big a shock to the two kids because whenever their father got arrested (Which was several times before this) their mother would only say that "Daddy's going away for a little while" Leaving the kids completely oblivious of what has actually happened. This really surprised me because I never thought a mother would lie like that. I know that their father got arrested but since it's already happened a few times and the children didn't know. When they get old enough to understand what prison is, it will scar them more than if they were told the truth at an earlier age.
I would hate to be the son of a man who is doing illegal things almost every day and Gregg and Gina despise it so much. In the book they speak a lot about how it was really hard being away from their father so much, and when he wasn't in prison he was normally out getting drunk at his bar until 3 am.
Although i am not very far into the book I can already feel the pain that these kids probably went through later on in life. And using what I know about the mafia and what my Grandfather told me about when he was a detective against them. I can see that these poor children have or had a long and terrible childhood ahead.
In the book i found out that the two kids were only around the age of 5 when their father got arrested for a couple of years. This wasn't as big a shock to the two kids because whenever their father got arrested (Which was several times before this) their mother would only say that "Daddy's going away for a little while" Leaving the kids completely oblivious of what has actually happened. This really surprised me because I never thought a mother would lie like that. I know that their father got arrested but since it's already happened a few times and the children didn't know. When they get old enough to understand what prison is, it will scar them more than if they were told the truth at an earlier age.
I would hate to be the son of a man who is doing illegal things almost every day and Gregg and Gina despise it so much. In the book they speak a lot about how it was really hard being away from their father so much, and when he wasn't in prison he was normally out getting drunk at his bar until 3 am.
Although i am not very far into the book I can already feel the pain that these kids probably went through later on in life. And using what I know about the mafia and what my Grandfather told me about when he was a detective against them. I can see that these poor children have or had a long and terrible childhood ahead.
I...AM...DONE!!!
So i few days ago i finished reading the last book in the Alex Rider series Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz and let me just say I really liked it. Having spent a couple of months (I think) on the series from scorpia to this book I really started to connect with some of the characters and it made me very upset when... well... never mind I won't ruin the book for everyone who hasn't reads it. But when this certain event occurred near the end of the book it was hard for me to actually believe and I had to read it over and over again to make sure i didn't miss anything.
In the book many unexpected things happened and they shocked me very much but what I was thinking about most was how bad all the people in this series behaved. I thought a lot about how this would effect me if I came across any person who would want my organs or actually start a war. I don't know what I would do. I would fight back but not as cleverly as the main character Alex Rider would. This series taught me to observe my surroundings and use anything that I could as something to defend myself, kind of like when Alex used a fire extinguisher to... well... again won't ruin it. (yep I'm doing this on purpose).
Anyway the villains in these books have similar goals and now that i have finished the series I can compare every one of them. In all of these books they all wanted to do something illegal for their own personal gain. Not necessarily for money, but for joy. Many of these villains wanted to do something either to Alex or some other person/thing because that other thing, person or Alex did something to the villain that made him upset or angry.
These villains in these books all have somewhat of a certain goal and I wish there was a little more variety in the books but overall, it was a very good series to read.
In the book many unexpected things happened and they shocked me very much but what I was thinking about most was how bad all the people in this series behaved. I thought a lot about how this would effect me if I came across any person who would want my organs or actually start a war. I don't know what I would do. I would fight back but not as cleverly as the main character Alex Rider would. This series taught me to observe my surroundings and use anything that I could as something to defend myself, kind of like when Alex used a fire extinguisher to... well... again won't ruin it. (yep I'm doing this on purpose).
Anyway the villains in these books have similar goals and now that i have finished the series I can compare every one of them. In all of these books they all wanted to do something illegal for their own personal gain. Not necessarily for money, but for joy. Many of these villains wanted to do something either to Alex or some other person/thing because that other thing, person or Alex did something to the villain that made him upset or angry.
These villains in these books all have somewhat of a certain goal and I wish there was a little more variety in the books but overall, it was a very good series to read.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Finally I am on the last....um... oh. Book!
Alright so as you can see unless of course you cannot read english that I am on the last book of the series of Alex Rider. I just started reading the last book Scorpia Rising By Anthony Horowitz and I must say that so far it isn't very promising, but then again I just started.
Anyway In my book so far there has been a huge battle in the Museum of London and about 17 out of 50 soldiers have died a rather weird way in war. Many of these soldiers were injected with the tip of a very expensive cane. So during this battle the museum was destroyed and many innocent people were killed in cross fire. This just made me think a lot about how in some cases during war casualties are allowed and many important places are allowed to be destroyed.
And when are these things allowed in war? What do the circumstances have to be in order for this to be allowed? In the recent killing of Osama Bin Laden casualties were not allowed and the U.S navy seals made sure that they wouldn't be any. And the United States government decided not to bomb the compound so many important pieces of information was not destroyed.
So... When are these protocols allowed? As I said before do the circumstances have to be too high? Do the circumstances have to be save the world or allow the world to be destroyed (Which seems to be a lot of the cases in this book), and why is this person in the book so important that this was allowed to be taken, and a wonderful museum allowed to be destroyed.
Anyway In my book so far there has been a huge battle in the Museum of London and about 17 out of 50 soldiers have died a rather weird way in war. Many of these soldiers were injected with the tip of a very expensive cane. So during this battle the museum was destroyed and many innocent people were killed in cross fire. This just made me think a lot about how in some cases during war casualties are allowed and many important places are allowed to be destroyed.
And when are these things allowed in war? What do the circumstances have to be in order for this to be allowed? In the recent killing of Osama Bin Laden casualties were not allowed and the U.S navy seals made sure that they wouldn't be any. And the United States government decided not to bomb the compound so many important pieces of information was not destroyed.
So... When are these protocols allowed? As I said before do the circumstances have to be too high? Do the circumstances have to be save the world or allow the world to be destroyed (Which seems to be a lot of the cases in this book), and why is this person in the book so important that this was allowed to be taken, and a wonderful museum allowed to be destroyed.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
I'm Back!!!!
Alright so I took a break from reading Crocodile Tears and read the 2nd book in the harry Potter series The Chamber of Secrets By J.K Rowling. But I'm back to it again and plan to finish the series before the end of May.
Anyway in the Last chapter I read Alex the main character just escaped a GM laboratory (genetical modification) and he stole some computer files and a sample of what they were doing. However to acquire this information he had to grab and run. And by doing this he ran into the Poison Dome. A place where they experiment on poison organisms and make the about 500 times more deadly. I found it rather strange that the the people who own this laboratory left the door to such a deadly place open for anyone to aimlessly walk right into this dome and unfortunately puff up and start to well die a very painful death.
Just this small detail really made me start to think a lot. Why can some people be so heartless to their employes and allow their conditions to be so bad. I found a theme among my blog posts and many of them have something to do with greed and money. Well sorry people this one is about that as well. People care so much about money that they are willing and actually do treat their workers as trash. Just for some money.
Well now that I think of it. The idea of Greed and money is actually a big idea in this entire series. Is this series suggesting that all bad people come from the sin that is greed? And if not why does every book, or at least almost every book have a reference of these two ideas?
I wonder...
Anyway in the Last chapter I read Alex the main character just escaped a GM laboratory (genetical modification) and he stole some computer files and a sample of what they were doing. However to acquire this information he had to grab and run. And by doing this he ran into the Poison Dome. A place where they experiment on poison organisms and make the about 500 times more deadly. I found it rather strange that the the people who own this laboratory left the door to such a deadly place open for anyone to aimlessly walk right into this dome and unfortunately puff up and start to well die a very painful death.
Just this small detail really made me start to think a lot. Why can some people be so heartless to their employes and allow their conditions to be so bad. I found a theme among my blog posts and many of them have something to do with greed and money. Well sorry people this one is about that as well. People care so much about money that they are willing and actually do treat their workers as trash. Just for some money.
Well now that I think of it. The idea of Greed and money is actually a big idea in this entire series. Is this series suggesting that all bad people come from the sin that is greed? And if not why does every book, or at least almost every book have a reference of these two ideas?
I wonder...
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