I like Wonder by R.J Palacio. It’s about a protagonist, August, who was born with a face deformity. The problem driving the plot is person vs society. What i mean is that August faces many challenges because of his deformity. The people around him make him feel abnormal and self-contouse.
I finished "The Fault In Our Stars," by John Green. It was about a girl named Hazel, who is battling cancer that is at bay most of the time. She meets a boy named Augustus and she falls in love with him. It is all going very nicely, until he tells her that he has cancer all over his body and is probably going to die. When he does, Hazel must learn to cope and move on with her life. A lot of other stuff also happens in the book, but this is the most important aspect of it.
This is absolute favorite book ever, right along with John Green books, it was so relatable and I loved it so much that it hurts. The main character, Charlie begins his freshman year apprehensive and hesitant as a result of the death of his only good friend Michael. Michael committed suicide several months before while they were still in middle school. Charlie does not feel that he can lean on his parents or older siblings for support, because they never truly understood him.
Bono may be better known for his work as the rockin U2 singer, but not many know his involvement as a humanitarian. Simply referred to as “the celebrity who keeps on giving,” he is a hero on and off the stages. In U2’s most recent concerts, Bono highlights the issues we have in our world. “Every time I clap my hands,” he says to the audience, “A child in Africa dies.”
In my free time I like to go on tumblr,a social media website where you can express yourself and on my dash, that shows what the people I follow like I noticed some quotes that sounded like they came from John Green books. So I searched them up on google and found out it was indeed a book written by him, it is his fourth book and was released in January 2012. I am very fond of "growing up" books because the characters are my age and I can relate to challenges and problems they deal with as teenagers.
My post is about character issues. It is meant to encourage anyone who stumbles across it to think about the positive character traits we admire and to consider how to respond when challenged with moral questions.
Every day that I get up, my day begins with what I need to do during
the day. Do you know what I think? Well I think of all the things that I have
to do before school, during school, and all the activities that I have after school.
This is you. I mean why can’t I go one day without you finding me and biting me
in the butt. I wish that you would go bother someone else or I could strap you
to a rocket and watch you fly away from me, but it always seems that even when
I am having fun, you always come find me and ruin the day.
Dear Jamee,
How are you doing? I’ve been better. These last couples of months have been hard on me; but you know that. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen you now. Almost a good two and a half years. How’s your baby, Trent? From the picture I’ve seen on Facebook, it looks like he’s getting big!
Anyways. Thank you for that letter you sent me back in December. Your letter on how hard your life has been. It’s such a big weight to know all of your deepest, darkest secrets. A weight; but not a bad weight. It makes me stronger, carrying it all the time. It makes me feel important.
AS of right now many students in Hyde Leadership Charter School are being aware of the Kony awareness situation. It is an injustice what this man is doing with the country of Uganda. In my project i plan to upload YouTube videos stating the importance of making Kony famous and encouraging many different people to participate in doing so. We must get him out of the way for the benefit of the young children and much more. I will interview people and ask them about their opinions about Kony and what they pan to do to help.
As I sit in my cousins house writing this post, I realize that this year I have had huge loses. Starting off the school year my grandmother dies. Then, in February, my sister gets sent to Afghanistan. Now, my grandfather is near death. This time though, I think that h will make it a few months before he actually dies. Personal as this may be, I have a point. When one goes through these hardships, some might think that one would be used to it. I wish I was one.
On December 27th Barbara Bagley and Brad Baur, husband and wife, were driving on a Nevada interstate with their two dogs, Dooley and Delaney, when Barbara fell asleep at the wheel and the car rolled several times. This accident killed Delaney and sent Barbara and Brad to the hospital in critical condition. Dooley bolted from the scene of the accident. When Brad died a few weeks later Bagley was overcome with grief. Then became a campaign that started on facebook to track down Dooley in the Nevada desert because Barbara had hope that he was still out there somewhere.
There are many ways to define what is trust; you can define trust as being emotionally comfortable with a close friend or family member. You being open to that person into revealing your feelings with that person, and you having belief in that person knowing they won’t reveal this to anyone and them not taking this as an advantage of a way back at you.
In my book Imani all mine I notice a pattern that is similar to almost every book, and in everyday life, a life changing moment....In my book Imani all mine her life changing moment was when she became pregnant....She took up responsibility,and Even though the book starts off with the baby already in it she describes her life before it even happen.. Just like in another book I read called A Piece Of Cake, her life changing moment was when her mom died. Her father gave her up to a cruel foster mother, she end up running away, selling her body for money, and getting involved with gangs...
What do you think of when you see the stars? Some may think of their beauty, some may think of the vast distance between their light source and us. The stars for me are a sign of hope. Constantly stars are burning out, bering created, and falling. Shooting stars are a symbol of hope of magic for many people. When I see a shooting star it reminds me that just like everything even the stars fall sometime. When I have a bad day and feel as if things could not get worse I go outside and look and the stars. I think of how beautiful and magnificant the stars are.
I enjoyed Ursula K. Le Guin fable Ninety-Nine Weeks: A Fairy Tale [ http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2011/11/21/ninety-nine-weeks-a-fairy-tale ] because it really puts out the Occupy Wall Street movement in a more familiar text for readers who can’t understand that much about the dilemma going on with Wall street and the government. Le Guin truly inspires a lot of readers by putting a protest into a fairy tale. To be honest I think it was brilliant.
Currently in my English class, we are reading 1984 and looking for examples in today’s society. I found a song by The Shins, which is relevant to 1984 through the government system and the need to be constantly watched.
You heard about it on the news, in the paper, everyone was talking about it. The March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It's June now, and other things are happening that pull your attention away from this disaster. But the struggle isn't over yet, even if you may not hear about it so much anymore. In fact, Japan's recovery will continue for months and years. It's important that we stand by the country and support the people, not just now, but in the years to come. What can you do to help?
Japan recently had a devastating earthquake which killed a lot of people, a destroyed a nuclear plant. There was also a tsunami added into all of this chaos. Here are some stories of some students who witnessed the earthquake first hand. This earthquake was truly a life changing experience.
Japan recently had a devastating earthquake which killed a lot of people, a destroyed a nuclear plant. There was also a tsunami added into all of this chaos. Here are some stories of some students who witnessed the earthquake first hand. This earthquake was truly a life changing experience.
This earthquake in Japan is a terrible event. But after reading the articles written by the survivors in their nation, I see that there is hope and love still in them. Nothing destructive can ever kill hope or love for your passion. Although there are hard times and tasks that are ahead of Japan, the care and the unity of their people seeks a new path of joy and recreation as an outcome of their hardships.
I'm learning more about the tsunami that happened in Japan right now, in particular what I'm wondering about is why is this little girl is writing a letter to her mother if she might be dead. I was researching this question online, and a news article caught my attention: Longing for her mother / 4-yr-old girl pens heart breaking letter to missing parent, by Norikazu Tateishi, Daily Yomiuri Online (April 1, 2011). It's a sad story in which a little girl has hope that her parents are alive.
Hi, my name is Nicole Katav and I am 15 years old. I am in the 10th grade and I attend tywls of Astoria. It is an all girl’s school and I have been attending for 5 years. I was born in uptown Manhattan on October 04 1995. I now like in queens. I have a little sister named Shani who is in the 5ht grade. She is 10 years old. I am from two very different countries. My mother is from Dominican Republic and my father is from Israel. Both of them were born and raised in their separate countries. They meet in New York. They worked together in a clothing store that my father had owned with a few of his close friends from Israel. My mom had come to New York after she had gone to college in DR for a few years and my dad had come from Israel after he had finished the army. They fell in love, got married and had kids.
