summer reading part 4

Of the choices on the list I picked this one because I had heard about it from friends and it just sounded like a great story. And the cover is pretty cool and mysterious. And I think it’s a book that is really for kids are age and there is so much to relate to. And I saw some personal connections between me and the novel such as always worrying and never thinking things all the way through. I would recommend this book to freshman all the way to adults it has a really good story just a lot of cursing and inappropriate situations. And I think this book is just outstanding and would recommend it to anybody (obviously within the age group) because it’s just so relatable in so many ways. But I can see why some people would not enjoy the book is much as I did. Some reason would be profanity, some boring parts, and situations that are inappropriate. I mean half the book talks about him buying cigarettes for the colonel but besides that there is some humor some appropriate some not and some drama between Alaska and Miles. And I enjoyed reading this book and I feel others would to.

summer reading post 3

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.” Pg.220 (John Green) This quote is so true in so many ways. I mean we live like we only have one life until you get older and realize you need to live to the fullest with set standards. And honestly I think anybody can relate to this quote. This quote means you cannot change anything but the things you can change should be advanced and modified. And everyone any age shape or size should always live life to the fullest and this quote is one of my favorites and really shows what the book is all about and it shows a lot of thought.

Reading Project Part 2 Looking For Alaska

Miles: Miles is no different than any other juvenile, except miles seems to be much more intelligent than most of the kids there. And Miles is in love with this girl named Alaska who is supposedly everything in one package. And he obviously wants to have a more substantial relationship with Alaska for he likes her a lot more than just a plain old friend. And it seems he’s always looking for trouble like it’s a habit. And he shares moments with Alaska such as drinking and smoking which are prohibited at the boarding school and is obviously against the law.

Alaska: Alaska is a very intelligent, beautiful girl who is clever with her words and is very self-destructive towards her body caused by drinking and smoking. She also likes Miles and I think would like to have a better relationship with Miles.

New themes that are beginning to appear is Alaska is starting to smoke more without getting caught which in the case that she got caught its evident that she would not care. And Miles has started to take some of Alaska’s very bad habits such as drinking alcohol. And this book is centered around the view of Miles.

Summer reading Project Part One Looking For Alaska

The book I have read is titled “Looking For Alaska” By:John Green  some of the main characters names are “Miles Halter’s” who also goes by the name “Pudge” and of course Alaska Young who is a smart and pretty girl from how miles describes her in the book. Miles starts in the sunny state of Florida and soon after sent to Alabama for boarding school. Miles was a very juvenile kid and got himself into a lot of trouble. I also made a connection between me and miles and the connection is that we don t always think before we react. I am wondering will miles ever get caught buying cigarettes?  Miles also goes into this boarding school his junior year two years from graduating! I can also connect miles to Reese from the show “Malcolm In The Middle” Reese always grew up breaking the laws and prone to getting in trouble and eventually ends up in military camp. “Alaska swallowed a mouthful of French fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew smoke across the table at hank. “I may die young” she said. “but at least I’ll die smart. Now back to tangents.” Pg.52 this shows how clever Alaska is with her words.

Harry potter

Mysterious letters begin arriving for Harry. They worry Mr. Dursley, who tries to keep them from Harry, but the letters keep arriving through every crack in the house. Finally, he flees with his family to a secluded island shack on the eve of Harry’s eleventh birthday. At midnight, they hear a large bang on the door and Hagrid enters. Hagrid hands Harry an admissions letter to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry learns that the Dursleys have tried to deny Harry’s wizardry all these years.

Harry potter

Mr. Dursley, a well-off Englishman, notices strange happenings on his way to work one day. That night, Albus Dumbledore, the head of a wizardry academy called Hogwarts, meets Professor McGonagall, who also teaches at Hogwarts, and a giant named Hagrid outside the Dursley home. Dumbledore tells McGonagall that someone named Voldemort has killed a Mr. and Mrs. Potter and tried unsuccessfully to kill their baby son, Harry. Dumbledore leaves Harry with an explanatory note in a basket in front of the Dursley home.

Heat

I have now finished heat. It was a great book it had no explicit content. The pitcher was much improved by the end of the book and in my opinion was very inspiring and really reliable on what he did.

Heat Update

I am almost finished with this book. I read pages 100-204 and the book is getting alot more detailed as it should be but to me it seems to be missing that much anticipated big boom of excitement and joy that seems to come with every book like this. But for Michael Arroyo it seems through these pages he always finds new challenges when he cant finish the old ones which leads to more problems through out.

Michael Arroyo is very good at pitching and would seem to go professional but for some reason keeps struggling more and more.

Hunger games

Katniss goes hunting for Peeta and eventually finds him. He is wounded and camouflaged in the muddy bank of a stream. She nurses him back to health and realizes that by playing up the romance angle, they can get gifts from sponsors.

Eventually, Katniss and Peeta must face off with Cato, the only other surviving tribute, but before that they are all pursued by wild dogs which are actually genetically mutated killing machines. Finally, Katniss shoots Cato and he falls into the pack. They've won, right? Wrong. An announcer comes back on and says the rules have changed back: only one winner allowed.

Katniss and Peeta can't kill each other, so they make a show of taking poisonous berries in an act of double suicide. Fortunately, the announcer comes back on before they can kill themselves, and says that they win. Woo-hoo! They defeated the Hunger Games! Or wait…did they?

• The Montags read all afternoon. He is caught by one passage in particular, from an 18th century British writer named Samuel Johnson: "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
• He listens to the rain outside and wonders if that applies to Clarisse. All these books point to her, he thinks.
• Sorry I wrote in bullets again

• On the other side of the room, three of his coworkers and the Captain are all playing cards together. Montag comments that the hound doesn’t like him, but the Captain counters that a mechanical beast doesn’t have any such emotions.
• It’s threatened him more than once, Montag replies. What if someone programmed it against him? Secretly, he worries about what he has hidden behind the ventilator grill back home (more on this later).
• Sorry I wrote in bullets

Heat by mike lupica

Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws super fast  along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his skill is nothing compared to the pitching Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-year old brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system or they would be sent back to Cuba. Together, the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and anyone who asks too many questions. But then someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws. He had no way at all to prove his age. And no parent to fight for him, He secret world is blown wide open, and he discovers that family can come from the most unexpected sources. And I have read to about page 109 and so far the book is very detailed and gives me a lot surprises and is a very hard book to put down considering I love baseball.  And Mike Lupica is legendary in the world of sports writing, blogging, and journaling. I'd even consider him going into announcing. But seriously these first 100 pages have been intense! And he should definitely write a second book to the series. I mean there so much emotion and passion about this poor kid that's in a foster home trying to live his dream! And hopefully by the end of the book he does. And my predictions are some sort of serious drama will go on with the foster family and maybe even be sent back to Cuba. 

Krista Ramsey

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/03/08/krista-ramsey-new-adoption-law-ohio/6222347/

There is a girl not far from here that is an orphan fairly old (she is 23), but she wants to meet her birth parents. And shes been trying for a while to meet them or get any sort of contact with them and now court is letting her see her birth certificate with contact information. "The 23-year-old Western Hills resident is one of 400,000 Ohio adoptees who, for the first time in their lives, will have access to the names of their biological parents and the details of their birth ." This line shows  that out of that many people having the same problem as her so far she is the only one who has gotten opportunity. Her word choice is very nice like when she says "for the first time in their lives" that really made me want to read more. And she keeps her words really flowing. Her writing style is definitely to inform you could tell by looking at some of her titles and articles. But i really didn't enjoy reading that besides the first 2 paragraph's it was pretty boring.

QUESTIONS

Do you ever formulate more then one rough draft before publishing?

Do you sometimes or always confront the people your writing about?

How long does it usually take you to write one article?