tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19961739346456146232023-11-16T06:25:48.091-08:00A Bookworm's MindAnna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-4381610025561062402011-05-31T18:52:00.000-07:002011-05-31T18:52:10.586-07:00Writing PromptsWriting Prompt #14<br />
What are some questions and concerns you have about growing up and adulthood?<br />
I know we have to go through somethings while we are growing up, but what are those things? and does everybody have to necessarily go through some of the same things? Another question is how are we supposed to know when and what to do when we grow up? Should we even try to grow up at all? Do we have to?<br />
Is growing up a requirement or a choice? What are the expectations of adulthood?<br />
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#5<br />
What are some important realizations and/or epiphanies that you have had about yourself, family, friends and the world overall? How did you arrive at these realizations?<br />
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<ul><li> Most people kind of thinks the worst of themselves: they're too ugly, they're not good enough, nobody cares about them, blah blah blah. </li>
</ul><div> I actually believe that people do this, actually I've witnessed it. I know a lot of people that have just given up on themselves and nothing you say can change their minds. I mean maybe they are just fishing for compliments but I don't know I think that people really need to stop with all of that. If you really think that about yourself, you need to change that, you have to be good for something.</div><div> </div><div>#6</div><div>What is rebellion? Why do so many young people "rebel"? Is rebellion a necessary element of growing up?</div><div> I think rebellion is when you know you are supposed to do one thing but you do the other just to annoy people and see what they do. I mean.</div><div> I think young people rebel because they feel like they don't have enough freedom and that is a big way of getting attention, even if the attention is bad.They also might have a problem with authority. I am one of those people that if I don't want to do something, I won't do it, and if I do do it, I'll do it halfway and with a "slight" attitude. So the people who rebel also just might not want to do what they are told. But then after a while ( im not there yet) they'll finally see that what they are doing is not the right way, even if they think it is.</div><div> I think that in some cases rebelling is a good thing because it gives the person a chance to experience that what they are doing is wrong. They'll just learn the hard way.</div><div><br />
</div><div>#12</div><div>How do family and friends influence are coming of age?</div><div> I think family and friends influence our coming of age a whole lot and in many different ways. Because sometimes they'll try to save you from certain things that you are probably not supposed to be saved from and it will mess up the natural flow of things.</div><div> You might have some bad friends who will lead you into things that will force you to grow up and learn the hard way like smoking and drinking. Or you might have some good friends who who will lead you into other things that will also force you grow up like hard decisions about your future. Your family on the other hand will always try to keep you from things but it doesn't always work out.</div><div> So really I think that they have the biggest impact on you and your life. There will be examples and bad examples, so you have to choose who to listen to.</div>Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-82812955801718692722011-05-24T18:53:00.000-07:002011-05-25T05:20:32.082-07:00Final Reading Response To: Sweet Dates in Basra<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The coming of age book that I picked is, Sweet Date in Basra by Jessica Jiji. So far I really like most of the book, just not the aspect of the main character, Kathmiya, having to be s slave/worker, to pick up the slack for everybody else in her family. I also don't like the fact that she can't get married because her dad favors her sister of her.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This book is about this girl named Kathmiya Mahmoud who has to work as a maid in an unfamiliar town of Basra. They say that "her only asset is her exquisite beauty, and that brings her more peril than peace". But then this Jewish boy named Shafiq kind of turns her world upside down. From what I've read so far, he is the only one who brings her warmth besides her mother Jamilia. She likes to hang out with him and of course he thinks she is extraordinarily beautiful. But he understands her in a way.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So right now what is going on in the book I don't really like it just yet. I mean it's interesting but it's kind of sad. I think that first Kathmiya's dad needs to stop being so stuck up and annoying. He doesn't even appreciate what she does for the family. Kahmiya's sister needs to stop being a b****. She's always telling Kathmiya that she feels sorry for her that she doesn't get to get married, but you can tell she doesn't mean it. She also treats Kathmiya more like a slave than a sister. So she needs to stop. Now her mom, I like her just fine. She treats her like a daughter. She give Kathmiya love and respect and I like her for that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Now Shafiq on the other hand has a nice life. He has a mom and dad and brother who loves him, and a friend that loves him like a brother, " I love you like a brother" Omar said. He doesn't have to work at all for anything he does. So compared to Kathmiya he is living the sweet life. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">He really likes Kathmiya and he wants to marry her but he is shy boy and he knows that she might not be able to marry at all. So he does the slightest things that he thinks might make her happy, like teach her how to read and write, so that they can write notes to each other.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Now I think that they should be able to love each other without having to hide it but they can't because their parents are bums. So they are forced to grow up the hard way. They are treated like adults on some things but then like children on others, which I think is really unfair. I mean it is like the carpet from their childhood was ripped out from under them, and they can't really get back up.</span>Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-81308338650724910012011-05-23T05:34:00.000-07:002011-05-23T05:34:15.156-07:00Writing Prompt # 2What are the main similarities and differences of childhood and adulthood?<br />
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Differences:<br />
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Adulthood:<br />
You have a whole lot of responsibility<br />
You sometimes get respect but then sometimes you don't<br />
You don't depend on your parents<br />
You have to work for what you get<br />
You have so much to worry about unless you're a couch potato<br />
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Childhood:<br />
You don't have a lot of responsibilty<br />
You don't have a lot of respect<br />
You still depend on your parents<br />
You are carefree and you don't have to worry about anything<br />
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Similarites:<br />
You will always have people who love you and want to be around<br />
You always will always be someone to somebody<br />
You will always be you no matter what.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-42535166039414209712011-05-13T14:29:00.000-07:002011-05-13T14:29:53.061-07:00Coming of Age Reading ResponseThe coming of age book that I picked is, Sweet Date in Basra by Jessica Jiji. So far I really like most of the book, just not the aspect of the main character, Kathmiya, having to be s slave/worker, to pick up the slack for everybody else in her family. I also don't like the fact that she can't get married because her dad favors her sister of her.<br />
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This book is about this girl named Kathmiya Mahmoud who has to work as a maid in an unfamiliar town of Basra. They say that her only asset is her exquisite beauty, and that brings her more peril than peace. But then this Jewish boy named Shafiq kind of turns her world upside down. From what I've read so far, he is the only one who brings her warmth besides her mother Jamilia. She likes to hang out with him and of course he thinks she is extraodinarily beautiful. But he understands her in a way.<br />
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So right now what is going on in the book I don't really like it just yet. I mean it's interesting but it's kind of sad. I think that first Kathmiya's dad needs to stop being so stuck up and annoying. He doesn't even appreciate what she does for the family. Kahmiya's sister needs to stop being a b****. She's always telling Kathmiya that she feels sorry for her that she doesn't get to get married, but you can tell she doesn't mean it. She also treats Kathmiya more like a slave than a sister. So she needs to stop. Now her mom, I like her just fine. She treats her like a daughter. She give Kathmiya love and respect and I like her for that.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-20725565405023271172011-04-23T10:18:00.000-07:002011-04-23T10:26:24.906-07:00Final Independent Reading Book Response<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I 'm reading this book called Roses are Red, By James Patterson. I first found out about this book because I was exploring the other teachers blogger pages and I came across Gigi's blogger and a lot of others. She was talking about this book and how good it was. So I decided to give it a try and I don't usually read mystery books, I've never actually really liked just the idea of them.But I have to say, as my first real mystery book it was really good.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> This book is all about a guy who calls himself the Mastermind. I really believe that he is a mastermind by the way he plans out the bank robberies and killings that he orchestrates. It is also about this guy named Alex Cross who is trying to figure out who the mastermind is and catch him. Alex is the main character of this book and he is a pretty good detective, one of the best in the city and he can't even figure out who the mastermind is.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> I really like how the author, James Patterson, writes the book. He writes it so that the prologue is in the point of view of someone who is working for the mastermind. Then the book is written so that almost every other chapter is either the mastermind or Alex. And even though he is a bestselling author for adults, I don't think that it's intentional, but he writes it so that even me, a thirteen year old, can understand. I like that he does that, I think he does it so that everyone can understand it so then everyone wants to read and then BAM! Bestselling author.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> While reading this book it was frustrating and thrilling not to know who the Mastermind was. I like mystery movies that have a huge surprise at the end. This one wasn't predictable like some mystery books. I like how I wasn't able to figure it out until the end when the book told you who the Mastermind was. Also a lot of mystery books I read I sometimes get so annoyed at the repeating cases or something in the book that I just look at the end of the book to see who or what is causing the problems in the book. This one I didn't even think about doing that. I liked not knowing who it was, but I also didn't like it and I felt like I was trying to solve the case with Alex and Betsy ( Betsy is a fellow detective but also she is a rebound for Alex's wife, Christine, who divorced him). The reader of the book found out certain things before Alex and Betsy because we have both the Mastermind and Alex's point of view but we both didn't know who the mastermind was. But of course I couldn't really do anything ( like scream at the book: that would make me look like a crazy person) if I actually did find anything out, I just had to wait with anticipation while the characters in the book tried to solve certain things by themselves.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> I think that the ending was the best (don't worry I'm not going to spoil it for you). It was just so shocking I didn't know how to react to it. It was just like, BOOM, you know. It left me with my mouth open for literally like a minute. After that I rushed over to everyone around me and tried to tell them about the book but I only got to my brother, Elijah, because I ended up making the description so detailed, he wanted to read the book and I just had to watch for his reaction.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> This book was so good I think that anybody would like it , I loved it. I like all kind of fiction books, but I have to say I never really gave the mystery books a try and this being my first mystery book that i have read was a good start, and I think that I would like to read more of James Patterson books. or just any mystery books.</div></div>Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-42868507186161834622011-03-23T18:46:00.000-07:002011-03-24T05:06:08.027-07:00Revised Reading Response of Roses are Red<div style="margin: 0px;">I 'm reading this book called Roses are Red, By James Patterson. I first found out about this book because I was exploring the other teachers blogger pages and I came across Gigi's blogger and a lot of others. She was talking about this book and how good it was. So I decided to give it a try and I have to say it was ridiculously good.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> This book is all about a guy who calls himself the Mastermind. I really believe that he is a mastermind by the way he plans out the bank robberies and killings that he orchestrates. It is also about this guy named Alex Cross who is trying to figure out who the mastermind is and catch him. Alex is the main character of this book and he is a pretty good detective, one of the best in the city and he can't even figure out who the mastermind is.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> I really like how the author, James Patterson, writes the book. He writes it so that the prologue is in the point of view of someone who is working for the mastermind. Then the book is written so that almost every other chapter is either the mastermind or Alex. And even though he is a bestselling author for adults, I don't think that it's intentional, but he writes it so that even me, a thirteen year old, can understand.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> While reading this book it was frustrating and thrilling not to know who the Mastermind was. I like mystery movies that have a huge surprise at the end. This one wasn't predictable like some mystery books. I like how I wasn't able to figure it out until the end when the book told you who the Mastermind was. Also a lot of mystery books I read I sometimes get so annoyed at the repeating cases or something in the book that I just look at the end of the book to see who or what is causing the problems in the book. This one I didn't even think about doing that. I liked not knowing who it was, but I also in't like it and I felt like I was trying to solve the case with Alex and Betsy ( Betsy is a fellow detective but also she is a rebound for Alex's wife, Christine, who divorced him). The reader of the book ( which was me) found out certain things before Alex and Betsy because we have both the Mastermind and Alex's point of view but we both didn't know who the mastermind was. But of course I couldn't really do anything ( like scream at the book: that would make me look like a crazy person if I was in a public place) if I actually did find anything out, I just had to wait with anticipation while the characters in the book tried to solve certain things by themselves.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> I think that the ending was the best (don't worry I'm not going to spoil it for you). It was just so shocking I didn't know how to react to it. It was just like, BOOM, you know. It left me with my mouth open for literally like a minute. After that I rushed over to everyone around me and tried to tell them about the book but I only got to my brother, Elijah, because I ended up making the description so detailed, he wanted to read the book and I just had to watch for his reaction.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px;"> This book was so good I think that anybody would like it , I loved it. I like all kind of fiction books, but I have to say I never really gave the mystery books a try and this being my first mystery book that i have read was a good start, and I think that I would like to read more of James Patterson books. or just any mystery books.</div>Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-49434533217770922892011-03-14T15:37:00.000-07:002011-03-17T17:57:15.079-07:00Extra Credit: Reading Response to movie and Book that I have read and Watched The movie (well not a movie) I've watched, and the book I've read is Heroes: Season 2. The books are comic books (which I don't usually read) and the series is all about these main characters who have different powers, and people don't know it yet.I think that all of their powers are really cool, so let me tell you what they are:<br />
<b>Claire Bennet</b>- Self Healing<br />
<b>Noah Bennet</b>, -Nothing really, but he plays a huge rule in the whole show<br />
<b>Sylar</b>- can absorb the powers of people he kills<br />
<b>Nathan Petrelli</b>, - flying<br />
<b>Peter Petrelli,</b> - before, in season 1, he used to be able to have the power of people he was around, now he has like everybody's powers because when he "killed" Sylar in season 1, I think he got Sylar's power<br />
<b>Hiro Nakumura</b>, - can travel through time and space<br />
<b>Mohinder Suresh</b>, - he is just like Noah, he doesn't have a power but he plays a very big role in the whole show, and he is a scientist for the people with powers.<br />
<b>Matt Parkman, </b>- read peoples' minds<br />
<b>Niki Sanders</b>, - can change personalities, but her other unusual side is way stronger, smarter, and more everything than she is.<br />
<b>Micah Sanders</b>- can do anything with any electronic like he can go up to an ATM machine and just touch it and get money out of it.<br />
<b>West Rosen</b>- can also fly<br />
<b>Maya</b>- can kill people by putting a darkness in them and making them kind of bleed black stuff out of their eyes<br />
<b>Alejandro</b>- when Maya's episodes come he helps her by kind of absorbing the darkness out of her, but he is immune to it.<br />
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I think that the book is very different from the show, because in the show different things happen than in the books. It's just like any other show that starts with a pilot. They start out the same way as the book but then by the third episode it drifts off the plot line. Except the books I think were made after the show.<br />
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Even though they are different I think they are both very good. I like the show a lot and I like the book not as much but it still very good.<br />
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The show and books differ a lot from regular tv shows that are based on books. Because first of all the books are all comics and they have very little dialogue and description. In the tv show they have a whole lot of dialogue and description, so I think that is supposed to be the other way around. Second the plot line is so messed up. Because in the first season as is in the books, there is this main phrase that says "Save the cheerleader, save the world". They have to save the cheerleader from Sylar. Claire is the cheerleader and since Sylar can absorb any power of any person he kills, if he gets Claire he will be unstoppable in destroying the world because he can never die. Now in the second season, there is a whole new plot line of this virus that this company made that can stop the virus but will also kill 93 percent of the worlds population in just a year so, pretty messed up.<br />
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I think theis book and tv show is unique to other tv shows that are based of of books and it is also a really good tv show, I don't to much like the books.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-41251811639281126192011-03-06T19:36:00.000-08:002011-03-07T20:42:16.052-08:00IRB Reading Response 1st Draft I 'm reading this book called Roses are Red, By James Patterson. I first found out about this book because I was exploring the other teachers blogger pages and I came across Gigi's blogger and a lot of others. She was talking about this book and how good it was. So I decided to give it a try and I have to say it was ridiculously good.<br />
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This book is all about a guy who calls himself the Mastermind. I really believe that he is a mastermind by the way he plans out the bank robberies and killings that he orchestrates. It is also about this guy named Alex Cross who is trying to figure out who the mastermind is and catch him.<br />
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I really like how the author, James Patterson, writes the book. The first chapter is in the point of view of someone working for the Mastermind, then the rest were of the point of views of Alex and the Mastermind every other chapter. I also like how even thought this author is this bestselling author for adult books it wasn't hard to understand what was going on at all.<br />
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While reading this book it was frustrating and thrilling not to know who the Mastermind was. I like mystery books that have a huge surprise at the end. That it wasn't predictable like some mystery books. I like how I wasn't able to figure it out until the end when the book told you who the Mastermind was. Also a lot of mystery books I read I sometimes get so annoyed at the repeating cases or something in the book that I just look at the end of the book to see who or what is causing the problems in the book. This one I didn't even think about doing that. I liked not knowing who it was and I felt like I was trying to solve the case with Alex and Betsy. The reader of the book found out certain things before Alex and Betsy because we have both the Mastermind and Alex's point of view but we both didn't know who the mastermind was. But of course I couldn't really do anything if I actually did find anything out, I just had to wait with anticipation while the characters in the book tried to solve certain things by themselves. <br />
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I think that the ending was the best (don't worry I'm not going to spoil it for you). It was just so shocking I didn't know how to react to it.<br />
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This book was so good I think that anybody would like it , I loved it. I like all kind of fiction books, but I have to say I never really gave the mystery books a try and this being my first mystery book that i have read was a good start, and I think that I would like to read more of James Patterson books.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-35054993697072330522011-02-15T16:28:00.000-08:002011-02-15T16:28:00.488-08:00Three Favorite BlogsGabriel Sturdivant<br />
I like his blog because even though some of them were short, they got to the point. I like that they were funny, serious, and sometimes in the middle. And there was originality in all of his responses. He puts what he cares about on the blog, and you can tell.<br />
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Sarah Safran<br />
I like her blog responses because they all really explain what she's thinking. Even though you haven't read whatever she read, you can still get a lot about it by just reading her responses. Also I think she really cares about the stuff that she writes and thinks deeply about all of them.<br />
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Jasmine Pacheco<br />
I like her blog responses because she's kind of a mix between Gabriel and Sarah. Though some of her responses may not be that long, you can see that she really cares about what she writes and she puts a whole lot of details in her blogs. And I just really like the way she explains herself in the blogs.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-45890401190966217142011-01-29T20:21:00.000-08:002011-01-29T20:22:22.965-08:00Response to "My Papa's Waltz" <br />
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</div><div> I first read this poem in the seventh grade with Mr. Ravin and he told us, well gave us the idea that the poem is about a father abusing his child when he was drunk. Now that I look at it in the way described in class, I think that it about a boy and his father actually doing the waltz. But there is still the doubt in my mind that it is really about abuse because of the title and because of the content in the poem.<br />
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</div><div> I really like this poem and when i talked about in class with my group at first I agreed with Peter that the dad was hitting him every time he got the dance wrong, or he was just hitting him and the narrator was trying to soften it up. But then I switched to Ruby's side because what she was saying was actually making sense and it made more sense than what Peter was saying.</div><div><br />
This poem is either about a boy and his father doing the waltz or about a father beating his kid because he is drunk. And what I usually witness is that whenever someone is drunk they start stuff with people and then a fight or beat down usually starts. But I could be wrong.</div><div> </div><div> <br />
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Violets are blue<br />
I love you<br />
You know you love me too.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-74309301618719509662011-01-16T20:32:00.000-08:002011-01-16T20:32:18.593-08:00Poem on important eventThe day they fell down<br />
was a day of chaos<br />
The day they fell down<br />
was a day of confusion<br />
The day they fell down<br />
was a day of hardship<br />
They day they fell down<br />
was a day of remembrance<br />
The day they fell down<br />
9/11Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-1377953233316193702011-01-13T10:50:00.000-08:002011-01-13T10:50:43.703-08:00Poem on a peice of artwork<a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artchive.com/artchive/l/leonardo/monalisa.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leonardo/monalisa.jpg.html&usg=__fAvOPiiwRsRZIOWEXEc4GMumH-s=&h=1155&w=743&sz=156&hl=en&start=0&sig2=qx6KWW2-2InL3ORc6oYo3w&zoom=1&tbnid=TI43fYf_OU_EQM:&tbnh=140&tbnw=97&ei=Y0gvTY_pMIH_8Abs7KjkCQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmona%2Blisa%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D604%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=442&oei=Y0gvTY_pMIH_8Abs7KjkCQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&tx=43&ty=64">Mona Lisa</a><br />
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Straight face<br />
Excited eyes<br />
Simple clothes<br />
Pained memories<br />
A new beginningAnna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-75645451936738494852011-01-11T18:51:00.000-08:002011-01-11T18:51:28.734-08:00The Starry Night Poetry Response I didn't even read the poem I only read the title and I thought that Anne Sexton was just going to describe the painting, The Starry Night. But then I read it and saw that it wasn't like that at all.<br />
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She kind of did describe Van Gogh's painting in a way because I remember the thing that our class thought was a tree, castle, or tower and I remember her describing that in the poem. And in our class discussion on the painting we also said that the town was silent and kind of dark. We said that the sky was the real thing we should be looking at and the contrast between the silent town and the active sky.<br />
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In her poem she took that painting and made it into something that she could relate to and something she herself would understand. It meant something to her even if it didn't mean really anything to us. I think she focused on the town more than the starry night because her poem was really dark and she incorporated the dark things of the poem and made it into a poem about death. And how she wants to die. And she put all the things she thought was dark in the painting and put that in her poem and said she wants to die by those things. Also I realized the only reason she put a little bit of the starry night into the poem she even finds a way to make that dark and says she wants to die under the stars.<br />
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Now me I wouldn't write a poem about the way I want to die, I would be writing about the good things in life and a way to live my life. I would not write about death. And even if I were supposed to I would write about the things I want to do before I die, fun things not emo stuff like that.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-41669851880631091552011-01-10T18:07:00.000-08:002011-01-10T18:07:31.607-08:00Analysis On Painting I did the Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci.<br />
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This picture doesn't have a lot of bright colors and it looks like Mona Lisa was cut and paste from somewhere else and put into the picture. But she still fits in with her surroundings because she looks kind of dull and so do the mountains and rivers and skies behind her. The only colors he actually uses are a very, very, dull yellow and green, and red. And of course black. The women herself looks like she could be a nun because she is not smiling a lot but looks like she wants to smile even more than that. And she is wearing all black and it looks like the clothes are really old and fit for one of the times where women couldn't express themselves.<br />
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Inferences:<br />
I think that Mona Lisa could be a servant girl in her time and she was really sad in life but then the smile that she has I think says that she is optimistic and thinks that things are going to get better than they are already are. But all of that is contradicted by the clothes that she has on because her clothes kind of look like silk or velvet. And I'm thinking that in her time servant girls didn't have velvet or silk. Barely even now.<br />
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Interpretations:<br />
I looked at Gabriel's to answer this and I agree with him. I think the painting is trying to capture one moment of life that is really good and is saying to kind of enjoy that moment while it lasts. But it is a pretty weird surrounding to put it in, if he was trying to capture that moment.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-42842373075706438982011-01-06T18:30:00.000-08:002011-01-06T18:30:35.267-08:00December Reading ChallengeThe book I read and the movie I watched for this challenge was, I Love You, Beth Cooper.<br />
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I really liked both the movie and the book because they were both so funny and also really kind of stupid at the same time. The movie is very much like the book up until the very end where they cut out a whole seen from the ending. I watched the movie first and then read the book after so at the end of the book while I was reading I'm thinking this book is so wrong, that doesn't really happen, but really it's the other way around.<br />
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All movies generally cut stuff out because all of the descriptions that are in the book, they show you in just one picture in the movie when it takes like a page to describe it in the book. The movie had almost all the lines that were in the book. All of the characters said what they said in the movie in the book.<br />
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The book was really funny and I like the Larry Doyle's style because it's not like he's trying really hard to make the book sound really professional and appropriate for some people by saying things in a different context. He's says it just how is is and that what I think all author's should do that to. Also some of the words that we had in vocab review were in this book also.<br />
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The movie wasn't as funny as the book because with the book you could imagine in your own way how that characters looked and you could make your own movie in your head while your reading. The movie kind of crushes that imagination and shows you what the author sees but it's not always how you wan't that world to look like. The movie also cut out a kind of important scene but the movie did good without it too.<br />
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I think that both the movie and the book were really good and I liked them both.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-31799331596406852672010-12-19T17:08:00.000-08:002010-12-19T18:09:29.357-08:00Final Draft of Author's Note<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">My picture book is about Prostitution. I'm doing an allegory so that the little kid picture isn't about giving sex for money. That would be wrong.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Prostitution is called "The Game" by people who are in the business. People are in prostitution for different reasons. Most people are people who get kidnapped and forced into it. And some do it for the extra money. Prostitution is very much harder than people might think. They get up at 5 am, and have to be out on the streets by 5:30. They stay out there the whole day, and at the time they are scheduled to come back, if they don't get the amount of money and the amount of people that their pimp told them to they get punished. After that whole day of "working" they, if they accomplish their job, would probably get a cheeseburger from McDonalds or something like that. They only get about 2 hours sleep.( "Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life in 'The Game' ") And to think that some places are trying to legalize it. (" Sex Work is Part of The Community.' ")</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I've never actually witnessed prostitution in the act, but I have watched movies and read articles, and from what I saw and read these prostitutes have no win in this situation. They don't even get all the money they raise, they have to give it to their pimps. They get treated horribly, they don't get fed enough, and they don't get a lot of money (from what I've read). ("Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life in 'The Game' ") I personally think that the way people react to prostitution now is bad. They think that it is not bad and that it is a way to raise money and they should legalize it. ( "Sex Work is Part of The Community."). I got the idea for this story form Gabriel S. He helped come up with a story line and turning it into an allegory.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Really what I'm trying to get out is: don't give yourself away for something you think you need. If the the thing you need is making you lose yourself and making you feel trashy, what's the point?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Works Cited:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life in "The Game"."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i>NPR </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">6 December 2010: 7. Print.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"They Need Rescue, Not Regulation." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i>National Post </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 6 October 2010: A16. Print.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Sex Work is Part of The Community."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i>Metroland Media Group </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">8 October 2110: A11. Print.</span>Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-54921278929187474122010-12-16T05:37:00.000-08:002010-12-19T18:05:23.636-08:002nd Draft of Picture Book<ol><li> In a land that is big and colorful, there lived a gnobble named Alby. Alby was a purple gnobble and she didn't like her purple color.</li>
<li>She wanted something better like green, blue, red, or even rainbow. Her purple was dull. Or so she thought.</li>
<li>Walking one day she came across a green gnobble. She liked the way the color looked on him and she decided she wanted to be green.</li>
<li>She walked over to him and asked if he would exchange a patch of his green color for a patch of her purple color. He happily agreed and she took the green and placed in on her body.</li>
<li>She continued walking and came across 2 green gnobbles talking to each other. She went over to them and asked if she could get a patch of each of their green for a patch of her purple each. They happily agreed and she placed the two patches of green on her body.</li>
<li>As she began walking again she started feeling wierd , but she ignored it and kept walking on. As she walked she came across three other green gnobbles and asked once again if she could trade a patch of purple for a patch of green each. They happily agreed. And she put the three patches of purple on her body.</li>
<li>After a while of walking around she realized that she was going slower, her back was bending forward, her heart was feeling empty and she was feeling horrible. She didn't feel like herself. She looked down at herself and saw that she was all green except for a little speck of purple in the middle of her body.</li>
<li>She realized only then that it was because she wasn't herself, she was filled with green and she didn't feel lively like she imagined, but felt even more horrible than before.</li>
<li>She wanted her purple back. It was what made her happy, what made her heart feel full, what made her , her.</li>
<li>She moved sluggishly around gnobbles and tried to find the green gnobbles that she gave her purple to, to get her purple back, but she couldn't find them and she was feeling more awful every minute she was without her purple.</li>
<li>She couldn't find the green gnobbles, but she did come across something she was not expecting at all. . .</li>
<li>A GOLD GNOBBLE!!!!!</li>
<li>She had never seen a gold gnobble before. It was so shiny, so bright, so beautiful. Something she knew she was not anymore.</li>
<li>"Can you help me?" She asked the gold gnobble. "What do you think I am here for?" He said. "Just tell me what you need help with."</li>
<li>"I need my purple color back, I don't like this green color; it makes me feel ugly, empty, and just not myself." She cried.</li>
<li>" I will help you but you have to promise not to give your color away again. You have to be happy with who you are, even if you may want something else, stick with what you have, it's best for youu." The Gold Gnobble said.</li>
<li>"Okay I won't, just please hurry, I don't like feeling this way at all." She begged.</li>
<li>"Okay, since you can't get the purples from the green gnobbles you gave your purple to, you have to find something good inside yourself and build on that. That little speck of purple still in you, you have to build on that." He explained.</li>
<li>"Is that is?" She asked quickly eager to go get the purple.</li>
<li>"That's it," the Gold Gnobble said, and with that he floated away.</li>
<li>As he floated, Alby turned around and ran. She ran to get her personality back, she ran to get her feeling back. she ran to get her heart back, she ran to get herself back.</li>
</ol>Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-18687699979495255392010-12-12T20:01:00.000-08:002010-12-13T06:40:22.444-08:001st Draft of Author's NoteMy picture book is about Prostitution. I'm doing an allegory so that the little kid picture is all about giving sex for money. That would be wrong.<br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;">Prostitution is called "The Game" by people who are in the business.</div>People are in prostitution for different reasons. Most people are people who get kidnapped and forced into it. And some do it for the extra money. Prostitution is very much harder than people might think. They get up at 5 am, and have to be out on the streets by 5:30. They stay out there the whole day, and at the time they are scheduled to come back, if they don't get the amount of money and the amount of people that their pimp told them to they get punished. After that whole day of "working" they, if they accomplish their job, would probably get a cheeseburger from McDonalds or something like that. They only get about 2 hours sleep. And to think that some places are trying to legalize it.<br />
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I've never actually witnessed prostitution in the act, but I have watched movies and read articles, and from what i saw and read these prostitutes have no win in this situation. They don't even get all the money they raise, they have to give it to their pimps. They get treated horribly, they don't get fed enough, and they don't get a lot of money (from what I've read). I personally think that the way people react to prostitution now is good and it should keep going like that.<br />
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Really what I'm trying to get out is don't give yourself away for something you think you need. If the the thing you need is making you lose yourself and making you feel trashy, what's the point.<br />
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Works Cited:<br />
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"Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life in "The Game"." <i>NPR </i>6 December 2010: 7. Print.<br />
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"They Need Rescue, Not Regulation." <i>National Post </i> 6 October 2010: A16. Print.<br />
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"Sex Work is Part of The Community." <i>Metroland Media Group </i>8 October 2110: A11. Print.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-73367389913018111072010-11-22T17:52:00.000-08:002010-11-22T17:52:34.292-08:00Picture Book Research # 2<a href="http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-3981&artno=0000308225&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Prostitution&title=Sex%20Work%20Is%20Part%20of%20the%20Community&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N">http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-3981&artno=0000308225&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Prostitution&title=Sex%20Work%20Is%20Part%20of%20the%20Community&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N</a><br />
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<a href="http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-3981&artno=0000308228&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Prostitution&title=They%20Need%20Rescue%2C%20Not%20Regulation&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N">http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-3981&artno=0000308228&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Prostitution&title=They%20Need%20Rescue%2C%20Not%20Regulation&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I think prostitution is a bad thing. No matter how poor you might think you are or how drunk or whatever, it's bad. I mean other than money that you probably are going to spend on drugs, since you're stupid enough to go into the prostitution "business", what are you going to get from ahving sex with random people for money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I also think that people who do these things are people who don't have respect for themselves and they think they are nothing. Personally I don't think that people should ever feel like that unless they're really trashy. And people aren't trashy. People make themselves seem trashy by doing these things among others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A lot people might not think that prostitution is a big important matter but it really is.</span>Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-78366965847127900412010-11-17T18:16:00.000-08:002010-11-22T17:42:03.496-08:00Picture Book Idea # 1<a href="http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-360&artno=0000308227&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Racism&title=Controversial%20Mascot%20Ejected&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N">http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-360&artno=0000308227&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Racism&title=Controversial%20Mascot%20Ejected&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N</a><br />
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Racial Discrimination is not a big thing for some people. Some people make fun of it, some people are really big on it, some people just ignore it. I'm in the ignore it column.<br />
This article is just ridiculous. How all of sudden names for teams can be racial. Like the name given, The Indians, how is that racist at all? It's not like saying, "The Black People". I don't really get how ,The Indians, is racist. I guess the name, The Denver Nuggets, is foodist.<br />
I just think it is ridiculus.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-30179872222344976802010-11-04T20:27:00.000-07:002010-11-04T20:27:09.077-07:00Social Awareness # 4 In the book that I am reading now, The Water Dancers by Terry Gamble, there is the issue of forbidden love, and I don't know what you would call it but the guy is haunted by battlefield memories.<br />
There is the rich family in the book, The Marches, and then there is the servant. The marches son is the kind of sun that has his whole life planned out for him by his parents. He's supposed to marry this one girl and inherit his family busisness. But after a plane crashes into a boat he was on he can't walk, he is hollow. The nurse his family has to take care of him, is a bad drunk and is never looking out for him, always drinking. So they let the maid, Rachel Winnapee, look after him. He is unexplainably dran to her and the story goes on.<br />
This boy is supposed to marry this one girl, but she breaks it off with him after he get's injured, and it is not allowed for him to fall in love with the help. So that is the one issue.<br />
The other is that since this guy is in the marines he is always having dreams and daydreams about his marine memories. All the bad ones. I think that this comes up in a lot of books, and in life to where it leads to issue of social pressure, which leads to possible suicide. This also a big issue because it's not really something that people can stop and it will keep going on because that is the way the world is, it's a cruel world, and messed up with all the problems that come with it.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-61861388940623898392010-11-04T20:15:00.000-07:002010-11-04T20:15:27.784-07:00Social Awarness #2- Observe Your Surroundings (school, home, neighborhood, media)People smoking right in front of you<br />
People cussing in front of you when you have kids around<br />
People pushing out of the way on the street<br />
People talking really loud on the train, street, telling all their business<br />
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I think that pne that really maddens me is when people cuss in front of you and your children (if you have any). Because I know we hear it all the time in school and stuff, but then when teenagers or somebody else comes and is screaming it in front of you, it kind of makes you fell like your parents think that is how you are going to grow, and that is what you are you are going to do when you grow up, and you really don't want to hear all of that. Your parents know you don't do, but I think they try to make sure it is engraved into your brain so that you don't do it.<br />
When my parents see that kind of stuff, especially my mom, she always llectures us about it, then off of that she'll go off into other stuff she doesn't want us doing then the lecture turns into an hour long conversation. My dad just simply says if I hear those words come out of your mouth, there will definitely be consequences.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-24375169312038040012010-10-25T20:59:00.000-07:002010-10-25T20:59:12.387-07:00Mother To Son By Langston Hughes In class we went over this poem a whole lot, especiall part with the line:<br />
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"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."<br />
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We went over how it means that the crystal stair is a kind of a metaphor for the white peoples' life back then, how they had it nice and polished. And life for this woman has not been polished or nice it was more like a broken down, worn in staircase that has splinters and no carpet.<br />
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In the first part she is describing her life and how it was so bad. In the second part it was a kind of advice from the mother to the son, saying if your life is like mine, you can't give up, you'ce got to keep pushing, keep climbing, don't stop. Then she says that even after all that time she is still climbing still trying to reach her goal. And that is what the son will do.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996173934645614623.post-61852133319829559632010-10-25T20:50:00.000-07:002010-10-28T21:17:34.167-07:00Social Awareness Project. Media and News ImmersionDay 1: Shoot Out at Bedford- Stuyvesant salon: Off duty cop shot gun out of crook's hand to thwart robbery. By Oren Yaniv,John Lauinger and Helen Kennedy.<br />
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This article is about a cop who stopped a robber from robbing the salon by shootingthe gun out of his hand. They also say that one of Officer Ferris Jones's bullet hit the the lock on the door and locked the door. It was the first time the officer had shot her gun in 20 years. The officer was about to get her hair done in the salon when the robber burst in. I think that this kind of shows how the world is just evil in a way. This is showing how it is just natural for a person to think of or doing a bad thing before they think of doing a good thing. Crime is just natural part of the world.<br />
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Day 2: Time is runing out for U.S troops in Afghanistan, countdown to Obama's July 2011 withdrawl begins. By James Gordon Meek<br />
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This article is about how the troops in Afghanistan are kind of going down. They don't have much time left. What kind of stuck out to me in this article was how they said time is running out. What struck me about this was how important this time is compared to other times. Time could be running out while your taking a quiz in math class and your like oh that's not that big. Then there is the time on a bomb where you'll see time is running out and you panic. Panic is also something that came to my mind when I read this. Everybody panics some for different reasons. But the panic of one could affect a whole block, and city.<br />
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Day 3Canadian Omar Khadr, held at Guantanamo Bay, pleads guilty to avoid war crime trials. By The associated press.<br />
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This article is about a boy accused of killing an american soldier, pleaded guilty to killing the officer to avoid war crime trials. What came to me when I read this was how kids are kind of naieve. I know that sounds weird but I think they're kind of taking advantage of him bein a child, and thinking he is so unedcated to know anythihing and they are trying to take over.<br />
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Day 4 Ice Cream ad in Britain pulled for two male priests about to "Kiss Passionately". By Philp Caulfield<br />
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I think that this shows the issue of Acceptance vs. Tolerance. Because just because the people are gay they pulle the ad from going on air. This also shows social pressure because it's kind of saying that priests aren't supposed to be doing that. So it shows both of them.<br />
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Day 5 Worst tattoo ever? Amateur pranks friend by giving him obscene ink instead of Yin- Yang he asked for. By Meena Hartenstein<br />
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This article is about a an australian guy who is a tattoo artist that played a prank on his friend by tattooing a "male body part" onto his back instead of the thing he asked for. At first the guy didn't want to get a tattoo but then said yes after the australian friend persisted. I think this shows Social Pressure because the guy was under pressure to do something he didn't want to do, but then caved to please his friend.<br />
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During this whole proccess, I found out how to use the "socials" better and actually understand them. I thought that doing this blog thing every night for this assignment was hard and it was kind of tedious. Only because every night of this whole week, me and my siblings had track from 5 to 7, then right after that without going home we went to church. We came home everynight at about 11. After coming home that time then having to eat and shower then do this homework had affects on me during school.Anna Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15300958525071065933noreply@blogger.com0