Summary:
Shorty is know knowing who he truly is. What all of this means and why he is marked. Marked in a way that links him with Toussaint L'Ouverture. Toussaint L'Ouverture is Haitian rebel who two-hundred years ago led the slave revolt and faced down Napoleon to force the French out of Haiti. But Shorty has a secret revenge towards Site Soleil and a burning wish to find the twin sister he lost five years ago. The only problem is, by the day he's getting weaker and weaker. He can't seem to focus well but still continues to try and find his sister in order to make him happy.
My Feeling (So Far):
Throughout the book I've there have been many feelings towards me. This book has rely set a serious mood towards me. Everytime I start reading this book I feel different. I mean this is a book about a young boy trying to survive in Haiti. He is trying to find his lost twin sister. I know that maybe there are kids right now fighting to survive somewhere. And if people really saw all of these problems they should and could help them out.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Tolerance
People could be tolerant by just not opening their mouth. Sometimes people don't know what they are saying. As a result, they are discriminating against one another. I think that people should just think before they start to talk. It's better to just think about the outcomes when saying something to someone. I mean yeah people will say "I wasn't trying to make someone feel bad." That's why it's always good to think before you say.
Friday, March 20, 2015
In Darkness
Summary:
Shorty a Haitian child that is going through a rough time. He's seeing things that many children wouldn't want to see at their age. Dead bodies everywhere, people starving to death, and just tragic things that we wouldn't expect to see here. Unfortunately, it's an everyday thing for him to see everything. He tries and tries to ignore everything, but every time he walks out they're right in front of his eyes.
Shorty a Haitian child that is going through a rough time. He's seeing things that many children wouldn't want to see at their age. Dead bodies everywhere, people starving to death, and just tragic things that we wouldn't expect to see here. Unfortunately, it's an everyday thing for him to see everything. He tries and tries to ignore everything, but every time he walks out they're right in front of his eyes.
So we can probably already guess what the conflict of the book is. It's Man vs. Society. Shorty is trying to live a better life but he can't. He can't due to everything he's experiencing. He talks about how everything is "unbelievable" and "nasty". No child should be dealing with a situation like this.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
More Calling.
Summary:
Coming back to this book. The team changes human management with new drivers and the new people don't seem to be very skilled. They’re bad drivers and end up killing everyone, including themselves. Fortunately, Buck is saved by a kind man named John Thornton, moments before the group had wanted to kill themselves by the icy river. Buck becomes attached to Thornton and even saves his life several times. As seen Buck tries to connect to John because after he was stolen he lost a bonding with a human.
Genre:
You may wonder what the genre is since the dog is the main character. Well of course it's fiction, but what type of fiction exactly? Well to be honest, I wouldn't know the answer, but if I had to pick a type of fiction it would be a adventure fiction. You really can't argue it like come on. In the whole book it has a dog talking. Like that really can't happen and of course adventurous because he has a journey when he is taken.
Genre:
You may wonder what the genre is since the dog is the main character. Well of course it's fiction, but what type of fiction exactly? Well to be honest, I wouldn't know the answer, but if I had to pick a type of fiction it would be a adventure fiction. You really can't argue it like come on. In the whole book it has a dog talking. Like that really can't happen and of course adventurous because he has a journey when he is taken.
Monday, March 9, 2015
The Call of the Wild
Summary:
Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be a dog while living the good life in California? Thats exactly how Buck, a husky, is. He's physical impressive dog but then after he got stolen. For him, this means pulling a really REALLY heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice. Buck is out of his touch until he begins to adapt to his surroundings, and learn from the other dogs. Buck also starts having strange dreams about the primitive days of dogs and men. Buck becomes involved in a struggle for power with another dog, Spitz. They end up fighting and Buck wins, taking over as leader of the sled dog team.
Conflict:
This book so far is a man (dog) vs self at this point. Buck is struggling to sleep because he tend argues with himself. He tells him self what he can and can't do because of how he looks and what he does when he is around other dogs/people. In my opinion, I found it crazy on how you could be living a good life and all to be gone in a blink of an eye. We should always be grateful for what we have and the things people do for us. Sometimes we tend not be appreciative on the things we have. So we have to appreciate everything because they could disappear from us in a split second.
Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be a dog while living the good life in California? Thats exactly how Buck, a husky, is. He's physical impressive dog but then after he got stolen. For him, this means pulling a really REALLY heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice. Buck is out of his touch until he begins to adapt to his surroundings, and learn from the other dogs. Buck also starts having strange dreams about the primitive days of dogs and men. Buck becomes involved in a struggle for power with another dog, Spitz. They end up fighting and Buck wins, taking over as leader of the sled dog team.
Conflict:
This book so far is a man (dog) vs self at this point. Buck is struggling to sleep because he tend argues with himself. He tells him self what he can and can't do because of how he looks and what he does when he is around other dogs/people. In my opinion, I found it crazy on how you could be living a good life and all to be gone in a blink of an eye. We should always be grateful for what we have and the things people do for us. Sometimes we tend not be appreciative on the things we have. So we have to appreciate everything because they could disappear from us in a split second.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Presidential Years of Bill Clinton
Summary:
After winning most of the election back in 1992, President Clinton had promised to some good things or the people and economy. He swore to boost the country's weak economy, make immediate progress on health-care, to act on gun control, crime prevention, and increase police protection for citizens, to sign NAFTA and GATT that would help make trade from North America to the rest of the world, reform the welfare system, and to make the government less WASTEFUL. The economy is doing good right now by the way. When President Clinton was in office, many Republics took office too. Leaving the Democrats out of most of the government. Coming up on the 1996 election many people thought that President Clinton could have lost to his opponents, Bob Dole and Ross Perot. But it didn't happen because President Clinton had won 39 of 50 states, Dole had 19 states, and Perot only 8% of the popular vote.
Theme
What I believe to be the theme is to never give no matter what. In the book, the author writes that Clinton had lost for governor back in 1976 to Frank White, he didn't give up. He lost but he still went out to go help the people and gather their respect and love so that they could vote for him in the next election. And surely, with the help of the people Clinton was now the governor ofArkansas. This shows that even famous people had to go through struggles to get where they're at now. You can't just give up. And don't. Stop. BELIEVING.
After winning most of the election back in 1992, President Clinton had promised to some good things or the people and economy. He swore to boost the country's weak economy, make immediate progress on health-care, to act on gun control, crime prevention, and increase police protection for citizens, to sign NAFTA and GATT that would help make trade from North America to the rest of the world, reform the welfare system, and to make the government less WASTEFUL. The economy is doing good right now by the way. When President Clinton was in office, many Republics took office too. Leaving the Democrats out of most of the government. Coming up on the 1996 election many people thought that President Clinton could have lost to his opponents, Bob Dole and Ross Perot. But it didn't happen because President Clinton had won 39 of 50 states, Dole had 19 states, and Perot only 8% of the popular vote.
Theme
What I believe to be the theme is to never give no matter what. In the book, the author writes that Clinton had lost for governor back in 1976 to Frank White, he didn't give up. He lost but he still went out to go help the people and gather their respect and love so that they could vote for him in the next election. And surely, with the help of the people Clinton was now the governor ofArkansas. This shows that even famous people had to go through struggles to get where they're at now. You can't just give up. And don't. Stop. BELIEVING.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Older Years of Bill Clinton
Summary:
Later after finishing college, he campaigned for the Attorney General of Arkansas in the 1976 election. Eventually he won and the Republicans liked him so much that they didn't put a candidate against him. Four years later he ran for governor in 1980 but lost to other Republican Frank White. Later in 1982, Clinton grew more and more popular that he got many people on his side and he cruised off with the votes. He was then elected for governor and reelected four more years and another year in 1990. Back in 1989 President Bush asked him to be his co-chairman of a national meeting full of governors. And in 1990, Clinton was named chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. Even later in 1991, Clinton admitted to run for president in 1992. By November 1991, Clinton started campaigning in New Hampshire, site of the first presidential primary & by late November, he had swept through the Democrats to win states like Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Illinois, and California.
Aha Moment:
After losing the election for governor in1980, Clinton stepped aside from politics and wasn't really known anymore. But after seeing that Governor White was doing a poor job as a governor, that's when Bill Clinton stepped up to try and help his people of Arkansas. On page 22, it says that "Clinton was soon back in public view, making speeches critical of Governor White." This shows that Clinton was setting a strong voice towards the people about Governor White that he was hurting the people instead of helping. And in 1982, Bill Clinton was now the new governor of Arkansas.
Later after finishing college, he campaigned for the Attorney General of Arkansas in the 1976 election. Eventually he won and the Republicans liked him so much that they didn't put a candidate against him. Four years later he ran for governor in 1980 but lost to other Republican Frank White. Later in 1982, Clinton grew more and more popular that he got many people on his side and he cruised off with the votes. He was then elected for governor and reelected four more years and another year in 1990. Back in 1989 President Bush asked him to be his co-chairman of a national meeting full of governors. And in 1990, Clinton was named chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. Even later in 1991, Clinton admitted to run for president in 1992. By November 1991, Clinton started campaigning in New Hampshire, site of the first presidential primary & by late November, he had swept through the Democrats to win states like Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Illinois, and California.
Aha Moment:
After losing the election for governor in1980, Clinton stepped aside from politics and wasn't really known anymore. But after seeing that Governor White was doing a poor job as a governor, that's when Bill Clinton stepped up to try and help his people of Arkansas. On page 22, it says that "Clinton was soon back in public view, making speeches critical of Governor White." This shows that Clinton was setting a strong voice towards the people about Governor White that he was hurting the people instead of helping. And in 1982, Bill Clinton was now the new governor of Arkansas.
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