To Kill a Mockingbird 11/24

Evans, Walker. Sidewalk Scene in Selma, Alabama. 1935. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Selma. 

                    I believe that the picture that I chose is a good representation of the city of Maycomb from the book To Kill a Mockingbird. The first reason that I believe that this picture represents Maycomb is the way the streets is, the street appears to be smooth as though it was made by clay. A quote on page six where Scout says "In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop..." The red slop is describing streets made out of clay that can be extremely smooth.  Another reason that I believe that this picture represents the city of Maycomb is that there is a poster in the middle building that says all you can drink 5 cents. This is shown on page 25 Miss Caroline said "Here's a quarter," "Go an eat down town..." This shows the reader that many of the amenities of the country were cheap compared to now.

                     Another way that this picture resembles the city of Maycomb in the book To Kill a Mockingbird is that this town seems to be running at a slow rate. An example of this can be found on page six where Scout says "People moved slowly then." "A day was twenty-four hours long, but seemed longer." This is shown in the picture because many of the people in the picture are just sitting down and seem to be in no worry. My final reason that this picture is a representation of Maycomb is as well on page six "Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day..." On the picture many of the people are wearing dark clothing on what appears to be a hot day so a hot would not be out of place and be more common.  

Ripper 11-16-15

Prompt; Theme

Pages 140-280

The theme of the book Ripper is that the main character is coming of age. This is shown through out the book for example Carver our protagonist becomes a detective even though he was originally an orphan. This is shown on page 12 were it is stated " The board has also decided we can no longer house residents past age thirteen."  and on page 13 where it is stated "...focus on making the best-possible impression on net week's Prospective Parents Say."  This shows that no matter were you come from you can still do great thing with your live. 

            Carver action also show that the theme of the book is coming of age because at the beginning of the book Carver is petty and steals for his personal gain. This is shown on pages 6 and 7 where Carver thinks Of course this would be the only lock in Ellis Orphanage that ever gave him trouble. It wasn't his first crime, but it was the only that could change his life." This showed me that Carver still hasn't learned his moral because he still has not matured yet.   As the story progresses Carver begins to mature as he accept a job to help solve crimes so the law-breakers can be sent to justice.

    

          The setting of the book Ripper also affects the themes because the story takes place in the early 1900's in New York.  The city can be seen as a symbol of coming of age at that time because this is when new York started to hit its strides finically to be come the city we know as now. This is the same thing that Carver is doing as he is maturing  and becoming a "well oiled machine" in his work. The setting also helps show how Carver has to learn how to live in this "new world".

End of the Quarter Reflection 10-29-15

1.) What strategies have benefit you 2.) How have your research skills improved 3.) What have you learned from the world 

One of the strategies that I have used to help me is going over the list of things that I had to do for homework every night before I go to sleep so that I do not forget anything. This has helped me by limiting the times that I forgot things at home. It has also help not to forgot to do  my homework. This has also helped me with my organization because I have to keep everything in different sections so the process is much easier than if the papers and work were discombobulated. This strategy has also helped me see that preparation and organization can help you have everything you need and that it can help you be ready for what you needed.

   My research skills have improved in many ways the first being that I have founded easier to find information that is more accurate. I do this my finding the web address and seeing if the website is a .com, .org, or .net if the website is .org it is the most trust worthy while a .com is the least trust worthy. I as well get information from more than one website to compare and see which information appears the most.  I also make sure not use website like yahoo answers and I only use wikipedia if needed for extra information. By doing this I have been able to use better information and have the most accurate work I can do. 

My blogs have been steadily improving since August in a few aways the first being that it has become second nature once again. Since for over a month I had not done a blog I had trouble having ideas on how to write because it had been so long since I had written a blog. I have also been able to incorporate the vocabulary words into my writing even more so it become easier to diction. I have also started to read over my work so it become increasingly better and there are less grammatical errors.  These are some of the way I have been able to increase the quality of my blogs.

 

Ripper 10/14/15

Prompt 1.)  What have you found boring about what you’ve been reading? What made it

boring? If you were the author 2.) Describe the most important event. Give at least three reasons why you think it is the most important event. 3.) Describe a character that you would like to meet (which doesn’t mean that you think you would like the character, but that you think the character would be

interesting). List 4 questions that you would ask.

Pages 0-140

                    In the book Ripper most of the chapters are very intersting, but their are a few were our many character Carver is just looking for clues in a library and they can turn out to be boring. In chapter 19 where Carver goes to the Federal Immigration Station where records of immigrants that came to the country, are stored. Carver enters the building and he asks a worker if he can help him find the document where the names of the immigrants that came in the 1889 to lower the number of people that the counter literally pulls strings. This concept seems intersting, but the idea was not used to it's full potential making it seem dull intested of intersting.

                     I believe that the most important event to have happen in the book so far is Carver finding a letter from his father in the orphanage's file storage. The first reason I believe that this is the most important event in the book do to the fact that finding the letter makes him want to become a detective even more.  The second reason that I believe that this is the most important event in book do the fact that finding the letter propels Carver to join the Pinkerton detective agency. The third reason that Carver finding his father's letter because he uses the Pinkerton resources to find his father which leads him to get caught between a killer and the Pinkston.  

                     The character that I would like to meet is Hawking because is the mentor to the main character Carver which means he has the most experience in being a detective. My first question that I would ask to Hawking would be what would intersted him in being a detective? Then I would ask: What was the most intersting case that you have worked on and how did you solve it if you could? Next I would ask if Carver was the first person he had "taken under his wing" if not than who was it before him?  I fould finally ask him how many cases has he solved and what was his hardest case to solve?

                      

Comin Home

"Comin Home"

It hurt my brother and me too

 see our parents struggle

Living in a desperate time, 

among a desperate people, 

among war 

among famine, 

among epidemic

There are only a few of them left now

thirty years of war made sure of that

My father started to wonder

DOES GOD HATE ME?

DID HE CURDSE ME BEFORE BIRTH?

I went back to the homeland recently

 to my family,

 to help

our separation was over.

"For today, 

we are not refugees, 

we don't live in adobes. Now we live back

 home among our people

 and we celebrate our 

new year,

and we dance.

They talked "Even stories fail

 me as I tried recall

I told them "Here, too, is money

With Money, you can do much. 

But exercise great care

 As I left my father told me 

remember your country remember us

OBAA and AOW Comparison 9/24/15

      The book Of Beetles & Angels and the article "Kerry: US to accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, 100,000 in 2017" have groups of people in the that are very similar to each other. In the Of Beetles & Angels Mawi the main character arrives to American and his father comes down with Malaria this shown on page 21 "My father lay shivering under a blanket, his head aflame in fever, and Beth, a nurse knew instantly that he had malaria. We did not have access to medical care, so she went to a physician friend to obtain the medication my father needed." This shows the reader that without the help of Beth they would not been able to gain the medice .  In the article  "Kerry: US to accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, 100,000 in 2017"  talks about how the U.S is going to accept refugees to help those in the war torn countries this shown on paragraph 2 of the first page "The U.S. will accept 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up from 70,000, and that total would rise to 100,000 in 2017.." This shows the reader how organziation and people help refugees when they are in need.  Another way that these to piece are similar is shown through the book which is that they both left their countries and lost their home, and their extend family for a better future. This can be interpretate as though they believed that America is a good country and better then the one they are currently. 

                 Events in the article "Kerry: US to accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, 100,000 in 2017" and events in the book "Of Beetles & Angels" are similar. This is shown in the article when the author conveys that Syria is being torn in the increasely long war "the uptick in migration five years into the civil war was being driven" Which shows the reader how the war is becoming increasely long and it not stopping any time soon.  In the book Of Beetles & Angels it stated  Mawi lives his country because his country is in a war that is extremely long "My homelands of Eritrea and Ethiopia fought in a deadly cvil war."  This quote shows the reader that Mawi's country fought in a long civil war. These two events are similar because they are both wars, cause many people to have to leave they country do to the voilence, and both are civil war. The second event is that America is bringing many refugees affect by the war to keep them save this is shown in Of Beetles & Angels when Mawi says "Then we enter the plane and took off from Khartoun. Next stop, Athens. Then Amerikha, and there, a new life." This tellls me that this family is coming to America for refugee, In the article they say "The U.S. will accept 85,000 refugees from around the next year" This shows the reader how America is helping those in need during war.

                 War has a very severe affects on scoiety do to the fact that they this event will destroy a country. Another effect that war has on society is that a large amount of money has to be used to rebuild the city. An indivual will suffer greatly do to the fact that many people will lose their loved oned and cause a depression to those. Also indivuals will have to leave their country and will have to leave the place they grow up. All in all war has nearly no positive affect and everyone involved is affect terribly.   

 

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets 8/20

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Pages 115-341 end

Prompt 1.) What is the main conflict of the book? 2.) What was the thing that surprised you the most in the book? 3.) Would you recommend this book?





             The main conflict of the book is about how student at Hogwarts are being petrified (petrified to be frozen in a coma state) and Harry Potter has to find out how is doing this. This conflict is man vs nature do to the fact that the character that have were petrified are by a magical creature. This is shown on page 290 where it is stated "This snake, which may reach gigantic size..."Which shows the reader that the thing petrified the student in the book is an animal, and animals are part of nature.  The conflict is resolved when Harry Potter eliminates the giant snake, this is shown on page 320 where it is narrated " Harry threw his whole weight behind the sword and drove the hilt into the roof of the serpent's mouth-" Which shows the reader that the snake would have been terminated.


 
               The thing that surprised the most in this book is the fact that J.K Rowling decided that Hermione could not be in the final act of the book. The reason that this excited me is the fact that most author are very care of not harming their main character to much. Another reason is that she had nearly no interaction or mention for over multiple chapters. She also completely uninvolved in the climaxed she is not reference or seen or even knowing that it has happening at all.  She only comes back into the picture until the last chapter of the book.



                I would recommend the book Harry Potter and The Chamber to my friends and family member for multiple reason. The first reason that I would recommend this book is because the character development is very good you can see how the characters are changing after experiencing new things. Another reason that I would recommend this book is the fact that the book is very hard to put down after you start reading you will be invested in the character so you want to know what will happen to them. Even though the climax of the book is not at full potential, the resolution makes you feel like the book has a great ending.  The book also has great moments that you will not see coming and surprise you.