Coming of Age- To kill a Mockingbird.

I chose,"To kill a mockingbird", as my coming of age book.
In a small town called Maycomb, Alabama,  Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and her widowed father Aticus. As one summer goes by, they meet a boy named Dill who later becomes interested with a house called the Radley Place, who is owned by Mr.Nathan Radley whose brother Arthur, lives inside of. Then one the last week of summer before Dill leaves, the three sneak into the Radley house where Mr.Radley shoots at them and scares them off. While being scared off, someone loses their pants and later finding them hanging on Mr.Radley's fence. What i think that may mean is that Mr.Radley does not want any trouble and he does not want to be bothered because of his brothers mental issues. Then in other news there was a big conflict in where a black man was accused of raping a white woman, and then Atticus agreed to defend the black man in the trial. Later the family is accepted over the community.
I look forward to reading more of this book, and finishing it.

Student blog entries response.

Wolfe E. "Sport's in a new way".- In Wolfe's entry about, "The physics of baseball", Wolfe taught me much more things about baseball that i did not even know about. He describes many things about the real physics in baseball such as what angles and the bat speed of the bat. I also like how he describes himself on his blog post. He corrects his own baseball playing by using the book to help himself. By reading Wolfe's entry on his book, i am also thinking of picking it up, because i myself am also a baseball fan and a player and i feel that this book could help me as much as it helped Wolfe.

Joyce L. "Gale VS Peeta".- In Joyce's entry about Gale vs Peeta from the Hunger games, she gives two different perspectives from very important character's from the story. She describes how Katniss has to choose between two different people that both are in love with her. She makes me take a different perspective on the Hunger Games. She described Peeta, and how he is loyal to Katniss, and how he does things out of his heart, not thinking about what others would think. He stands by Katniss and would do anything to save her. She then described Gale, and how he has been Katniss's best friend for a long time. Katniss trusts Gale and Gale trusts her, as he tries to stand by Katniss. Gale also helped Katniss with many skills and he also had put the food on the table.

    Now that i read these two articles i am thinking of doing something similar to Wolfe's entry. I am thinking of doing more non-fiction articles and even comparing some of them to other things. I really like how he took it to a new level and added in all the information that is the real physics of baseball. Another way i would like to improve my blog entries is to look behind the big parts of the book, and look more into the small parts also and find other meanings of the book, not just the main story that goes on.

Nonfiction article response/Police resume search for boy dissapeared 30 years ago.

      Recently, police have resumed the search for a missing little boy that was first disappeared over 30 years ago. The boy's name is Etan Patz, and he disappeared in 1979, which was 33 years ago, where he would now be 39 years old. They went to a search site in  Prince street in Manhattan,New York. The search began near the bus stop where he was last seen in 1979. The police investigators decided to dig under the basement where a former mental patient, Jose A.Ramos lived. They searched his place because in the past he was accused of molesting a boy. After they had that covered they went to another part of the basement which was used as a workshop by a carpenter and a handyman that had lived in Ethan's building. The police had thought that the handyman had killed the boy, and then buried the body in the basement. The policemen got in contact with the handyman and was interviewed until they realized that the body may have been moved. They had no luck until they brought in a dog that sniffed out the possibility of remains. The body is still yet to be found. This is the result of a holiday called, "missing children's day" that was declared on May 25, 1986.

        I think that this is ridiculous, because the child disappeared over 30 years ago, and they resume it now. They should have finished the case so many years ago, and they would have closed the case much faster. Even if they ever find something, how would we know that that is really him? We might not even identify him. We also don't know for sure that he would be in the basement, he could have been moved to another part of the city, state, or even country. I don;t think that they will find Ethan Patz because it is a small chance that he is still there. I think they should go back to the more recent news.

My response on plaigarism

*What did the student do wrong?What could he/she have done to include the source correctly?
 
What the student did was that they included the text from the article without paraphrasing or using quotations. The student could have avoided this by putting in quotations. You can't put too many quotations in though, they should have mainly done their own story and paraphrased it besides copying and pasting it.

*Write a sentence using the original source correctly; use a quotation or paraphrase. Also, make sure to cite correctly. Consult my post on citing sources.

 

The author of "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings" , states,"Below the rolling hills of the horizon lies a small town. There is a peaceful essence flowing from the structures."

 

* What are at least 3 ways to avoid plagiarizing? 

 

One way to avoid plagiarizing is to read through the whole text carefully, you could find your own way to word it. Another way to avoid plagiarizing is to include quotations, and you could use the thing the author said in the text. One more way to avoid plagiarizing is to paraphrase your sentences, and you can do that by just putting the text into different words than the original text.

 

Sonnet

I walk alone in the shadow of earth.
Not a soul in sight where i may stand.
Where i collapse to the ground on earth's dirt.
A woman appears, and offers her hand.
She shows me the world as i have never seen.
Her smile cheers me up a little.
She makes me feel like i have never been.
She is hard to figure out,like a riddle.
She asks for my hand and begs me to come along.
To where i thought? Shall i return home?
I went with her even though it felt wrong.
But the place looked the same as where i have been.
Then i woke up and it wasn't much real.
But what is this tingly sense i feel?

Much Ado About Nothing, play review

Recently, i went on a trip with my class to see a play called, "Much Ado About Nothing".  It was nothing i really expected it to be, but the props, the characters, the mood, and even the music went along with the play throughout the whole play.

When the story goes on, war veterans from different places have all kinds of conflicts throughout the performance. There was lots of drama going on even in the background where the actors really were in the spotlight when they were not even on the spotlight.

There was one thing that i noticed that went on throughout the whole story, and that was the tables, where they were used as the main crop in the performance. There was lots of scenes going on around the tables, and lot's of trouble and drama around the tables.

All in all, it was a great performance, i really enjoyed the mood of the play, and how it went on smoothly throughout the entire play. What i really loved though was what the music gave to the performance and that was a lot of, sad,mad,and happy moods.

Song Review, "We are Young"

    Recently the song, "We are young", has been blowing up these past months. Why though? Some people like it just for the song lyrics. There is much beyond that than that. The song has a lot of meaning in it, that a lot of people may even get to relate to, and that is what makes a good song.

The meaning of the song is quite straight forward, its about a guy who has made mistakes and wants to amend and apologize but it was too late. The guy had had made some mistakes and is trying to get rid of them, but it is not that easy. He has friends that smoke and drink, and he is stuck between the middle of that, and he wants to get out.


One lyric that repeats a lot in this song is, "Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter
than the sun", and what i think this means is that you can do it if you set your mind to it, because he is trying to get away from his friends, and he can accomplish it if he burns brighter, or if stands up for it, and fights back.

Then at the end of the song the lyrics are, "So if by the time the bar closes
and you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home tonight", and what i think this means is that it ended, he got over his fear, and he doesn't have to go through that again.



 "Give me a second I
I need to get my story straight
My friends are in the bathroom
getting higher than the empire state
my lover she's waiting for me
just across the bar
My seats been taken by some sunglasses
asking 'bout a scar
and I know I gave it to you months ago
I know you're trying to forget
but between the drinks and subtle things
the holes in my apologies
you know I'm trying hard to take it back
so if by the time the bar closes
and you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home

Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter
than the sun

Tonight
we are young
so let's set the world on fire
we can burn brighter
than the sun

Now I know that I'm not
all that you got
I guess that I
I just thought maybe we could find a ways to fall apart
But are friends in back
So let's raise a cup
Cause I found someone to carry me home

Tonight
We are young
So let's the set the world on fire
we can burn brighter
than the sun

Tonight
We are young
so let's set the world on fire
we can burn brighter
than the sun

Carry me home tonight
Just carry me home tonight
Carry me home tonight
Just carry me home tonight

The world is on my side
I have no reason to run
So will someone come and carry me home tonight
The angels never arrived
but I can hear the choir
so will someone come and carry me home

Tonight
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
we can burn brighter
than the sun

Tonight
We are young
so let's set the world on fire
we can burn brighter
than the sun

So if by the time the bar closes
and you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home tonight"

Reading Response on "Out of My League".

      The book, "Out of My League", by Dirk Hayrust is about a rookie pitcher surviving in the big leagues.

       The whole book is not about baseball though,it is also about a family that is poor and not well. He meets a girl that in the future becomes his wife, but he does not know it yet. He has to equal the girl and baseball at the same time. He gets frustrated as the story goes on and becomes crazy with all the frustration between his future wife, and his future career in baseball. At this point  i thought he would choose the girl, because as i knew already, she would become his future wife. But he kept playing, and playing until he got to the big leagues.

        As the story went on, and as he was in the Minor Leagues, other players and umpires picked on him a little. An example of this is when one of the umpires told him where he needed to go after he hit the ball, and telling him how it is like to live in apartments when he is in the Minor's. Even when his mother called him because she saw him on tv giving up a home run to another player.

       I picked this book because i am a baseball fan, and i enjoy playing baseball, and reading it.  But this book has a lot more story to it than just baseball, it has relationships and other things in reading.  This text relates to me because i really enjoy baseball but i don't really have to make big decisions like the character has to do here. What i think the reader should feel is more than just sorry, because this happens to a lot of minor league baseball players. This is because a lot of minor leaguer's are poor and they don't have a lot of money. Lot's of minor leaguers also live in not so great places because they don't have much money.
      

A letter to my thee friend

 Hello dear friend,

It has been quite a while since i have left Riverwood, but i must tell you i am now proudly living in Riften. And im quite happy here, i now have a family. My dearest wife, and my 2 kids, Harold, and Gunthar. I am working as a smith in lovely Riften, as i also own a lovely house. But what is so tragedic about this fine, fine place is many thieves. And that is why i hired a personal bodyguard to protect my family. I don't know when we shall meet again, but let it be a unforgetful day. What is it like in Riverwood? Is it the same as i left? How is Clara doing? I hope you have a wonderful future together.

We will meet again in Sovengarde brother.
your dear friend,Jarl Billkuf

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What happens if you die?

What happens if you die?
Do you go to heaven?
Or hell?
Or nowhere at all?

You get put into the ground
But thats all we know/
What happens in that coffin?

Maybe you do get sucked up into the heavens by the angles.
Or get sent to labor by the devil.
We all look at it differently,
And we believe different things.

What is life?

What is Life?
Life is just a shallow gleam
seconds away
from bursting out

Life means that you
are never going to know
when to fall
and when not to fall

Life can grab you to different ways
in life and death
poor or rich
weak or strong
we have life .

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Zundert,Holland in March 30,1853. In 1860-1880, he had made his life decision, and he discovered he had wanted to be an artist. Then in 1886, he went to work to his brothers art gallery in Paris. Vincent Van Gogh did not seem to get so popular, as  his art, was not sold that much. Which he had sold only one piece of artwork. He had then went and cut off his own ear. Years later, he had gotten sent to the crazy house. Vincent Van Gogh spent his time painting the stars at night, and he went outside to paint all day and night. That had lead him to paint one of the most biggest paintings in the world, "Starry Night". Then in 1890, he had went to live with a trustworthy doctor called Dr.Gachet, 2 months after he had moved in he had died. He had killed himself by shooting himself to the stomach. But why did he do that? You might ask, he maybe did it to ignite his fame. He wanted to be famous, but at those times, who really was famous. And you could consider that more artists get popular after they die. But it did really work, his paintings crashed the market. He was more famous he could ever be than when he was alive. in the 1990's Vincent Van Gogh's paintings were over 82 million dollars. And now in these times, millions, are influenced by his work, and he had inspired them to do something great..

His very last painting was called, "Wheat Fields With Crows", and it was created in 1890, which is the same year as he died. People believe that this is his last painting ever, but it is not. Vincent Van Gogh actually painted 2 more paintings after this painting.It strictly just shows what it is called. It is a wheatfield, with crows. But there are three paths, but we do not know what they are.




Poem on Vincent van Gogh - Wheat Fields with Crows - 1890

 How you see these crows
Flying by, up above
On this starry night

You see the moon shinig
Straight to you
But then you see
The sky is pointing at you

You saw these
And thought about your last words
This may be your last painting
And maybe not

Throught these wheat fields we go
Through the rough grass
And to the sky we fly
On this easily made path
Just for you

Reading Response on Catching Fire

The title of the book "Catching fire",brings you to a fast hypothesis about the story. I think that is why the author had named the book that, to give the reader a sense of what might happen, but you would never know until you actually read the story, and that is the mystery behind the titles of books, that they give the reader an big idea of something, but it may not be like that at all.. Now in this book the title of the book, "Catching Fire" is significant to the text because it may show some hope that thins will not catch on fire, but thinking what will catch on fire, which in this case are districts, but if you look deeper into the book, you really notice that the real thing that is catching on fire, is the government, but what is actually burning is everyone´s homes, and loved ones, because the government does not know what to do and it was their fault.. The title catching fire shows that the fire had just started and there is a way to stop it. Now if the government had already dropped, it might have been called Caught fire.And that is how the title Catching Fire really actually shows hope. i think the author did a really well job on capturing the emotions and feelings of the story, and how he still leaves hope, even when there might not be a lot left. This story actually does relate to real life, because it shows that the government is overruling their citizens, and not giving them enough freedom than they should have, and that relates to real life because there are governments that are doing that in real life, and overruling their own people for their own good, and its sort of like their are mind controlling them.


        So Katniss, and Peeta go around all the districts to honor those who died in the games, but it all went wrong when chaos had went down, and fires spread. But they do nothing, they could not do anything, they were dragged out.. When the people had needed them the most, they really couldnt do much. Throughout the book, they want to set the districts free from their own little handcuffs surrounding them.

      I think i can relate to katniss a little bit, because i have sometimes wanted to burst out and help people, but i felt that there were some things holding me back, preventing me from grabbing them and helping him out of the cage. That is what i like about Katniss, her eagerness to help people, but at the same time, to hurt people who try to block the way. And their society is much different than ours because their society is much more cruel than ours.Their culture is like more poorer than our culture, where ours is much more complex, and theirs is a little messy.

        The narrator in this book is in 3rd person, and i think that the author had chosen to write this way, to give a point of view in all the characters, not just one in all, where that may not be as exciting. Something that is really wrong in this text is that these people from another society do not have everything we have to run a smooth society with no harm done. But it really is tough to think that there are governments like this in the world that do this. just like in North Korea where Kim Jong Il died, and the government threatened people to cry over his death.