Tuesday, June 12, 2012

my character in the book the kid by sapphire is a story where the main character Abdul goes through many painful things that lead him to making bad decisions in life for example he was influenced by brother john who raped Abdul more than once according to him but we only ever see him get raped once.

unfortunately he makes the desecion that he wants to feel like a king as well and rapes the other boys in his dormatory which leaves the other boys unable to go through out their day for example Jamie who was one of the first boys that abdul had raped was after being raped for the first ime by abdul unable to even eat all he could think about was what had happened to him as he was sleeping.

 But i learn that he changes and he does it theough dancing which is abduls passion his love which was the only thing that had gottenhim to put away his past and transformhim into a whole new and completly different person. H e does change going from the kid who only knew how to fight his problems and not solve them peacefully

As he gets an new parent and house he starts questioning who he is especially who his parents are he dosen't know however that his mother was impregnated by her own father which would answer the question of why his father and the father of his mother had the same exact first and last name. H e decides he can decide his future as long as he dosent dwell on his past and so he becomes a new and changed adult torwards the end of the book.


Monday, May 28, 2012

Character description: Jose Hernandez, father of three children. He wears a hat everywhere he goes. He has a habit of making a joke out of everything, he is a very entertaining person. He is a very hardworking person, is serious when he needs to be, he is not tall. 

 My  Favorite Moment
It wasn't just once that we did this,
but once every week,
at the end
of the week we would,
go out
and buy a hundred tacos,
we would just share,
just me and your uncles,
we would eat till we were filled,
it was great,
"sigh"
those were some of the best days,
when we were,
Together.....

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Coming of Age novel: The kid by Sapphire

So far in the book "The Kid" by Sapphire also the author of Push my main character is already stacked with problems from being raped by a Brother in a school that took him St.Ailanthus, not only that but he also raped children. But that could have started from the influence of Brother Samuel, who raped the poor main character in his office. Not only can that influence my main characters bad behavior, but the early death of his mother Precious Jones whose cause of death was of aids, and his father who is not only his father but also the father of his mother. How i am able to know that he is influenced by this is because of the fact that whenever people talk of the death of his mother and how it's cause was by aids and how his father was also his mothers father. He denies all of it because of the fact that he didn't want to accept the truth, he thought that his parents didn't die that way he thought they died was not the way he wanted his parents to die so in his mind he created his own version of their death his mother was assassinated by somebody and his father died in war. this is the death he managed to trick himself into that they had and he argues with everyone who tells him otherwise.

Even when Abdul is left to confront all of this unspeakable violence, his past, and all the bad in his heart in this novel Abdul still is determined to claw his way to adulthood and an identity he can stand behind which is a important problem for him in this book he has identity issues he can never truly identify who he really is he goes from J.J to Abdul and other names throughout the book which causes him to face himself with identity issues of who he really is.   

Sunday, April 29, 2012

I'm reading the book Naruto volume 53 and what this series is basically about is this kid who is a host of a demon with incredible power to destroy the world and so since he is a ninja he has to try to put his saftey before others sometimes but he isn't really that kind of person. He is a kind of person who everyone who is attached tro people no matter how evil or bad they are. one example would be his close friend Sauske who was his friend for a while but then started hunting down people who are demon hosts , but even through that he didn't give up on sauske he still believes that there is small chance that somehow sauske will turn to the better he will one day become his friend again. this is what makes him such a cool guy to be around and his dream i think i accheviable him becoming basically the laeder of his village just for the fact that he is respected by everyone in the village. i think people should definetley try this book out from the begining especially if you like comic books.

Monday, April 23, 2012

 I've recently been reading a book called upstate where there is a guy who killed his father in dfense of protecting his mother from getting beat. In the book he writes several letters about his thoughts and feelings to his girlfriend back home. Many of these start revealing  a lot more about him as a person and so i am  reallly liking this book i want to see if their relationship is strong enough to get through this. or will his girlfriend give up on him i'm mean at this point their relationship with one another is veryy strong and so i think that will help the main character get through this mess. Soon i will finish the story and see how everything ended and i am sure it will be great.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Article post on article

I was reading a scholastic magazine article about Plight of the chimps it talked about the new Disney movie Chimpanzee which is going to theaters on April 20th. What is basically going to be about is this small chimpanzee called Oscar who is learning all there is to know about life around the Ugandan forests of Africa and what is happening during the movie is that you're following the life of Oscar. I think that it will probably be a pretty cool movie to watch it 'll definitely be great to watch. Another great thing about this movie is that for every ticket from that purchase 20cents will be donated to the Goodall institute. This film is trying to get out to the general public that there are only five species of chimpanzee left in the world and their close to extinction this is what i've learned from the article. the article stated all of this "
“Chimpanzees are disappearing fast because their forest home is being destroyed—more than 10 million acres of African forest every year,” says Jane Goodall, a primatologist (someone who studies primates like chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys) for more than 50 years. Goodall’s main focus of study is on chimpanzees.
In the film’s opening week, Disneynature will donate 20 cents per ticket sold to the Jane Goodall Institute, an organization that protects chimpanzees, an endangered species.
Chimps are a species of great ape. Only five species remain— the gibbon and the orangutan in Asia and the chimpanzee, the bonobo, and the gorilla in Africa. All are endangered." this is what i've learned from this very intearesting article about this movie Chimpanzee.

Plagerizing

What this student did wrong wasn't he didn't cite the source where he got this paragraph  from and so now it is considered plagiarizing or a crime. One thing he could've done to avoid plagiarizing he could of been like this for example- In the site .................... they describe the painting like this "........................................................................................................................................................................" this is a more complex way to describe the picture but i agree with the way he is able to describe this painting. After researching this painting i found a site that was able to describe it well the site http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.htm 
it described it like this " There is a peaceful essence flowing from the structures. Perhaps the cool dark colors and the fiery windows spark memories of our own warm childhood years filled with imagination of what exists in the night and dark starry skies. The center point of the town is the tall steeple of the church, reigning largely over the smaller buildings. This steeple casts down a sense of stability onto the town, and also creates a sense of size and seclusion.To the left of the painting there is a massive dark structure that develops an even greater sense of size and isolation." i agree with this description because of how well it describes every detail. 
Three ways that you can stop from plagiarizing are in-text citation, or using a works cited page. And just introducing and then putting your quotation. these are the three ways that you can stop from plagiarizing.