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"