Things I Cherish

       I cherish food, which is one of the three things I cherish. It’s the thing that actually keeps me alive today. With food, you can just eat it and eat it without realizing you finished it. Helps me even when I’m depressed sometimes.

Another thing I cherish is electronics. The electronics I have all my personal information in it. It helps me when I’m bored anywhere and need something to do. The tablet and laptop I have can help me with my homework and classes also.

The last thing I cherish is my friends . I cherish them because they are always with me no matter what happens.  They make me laugh and smile basically all the time I’m with them. Even though they are sometimes rude and obnoxious. Still, they are loyal and are still me friends.

Maus 2

Q: Write an overall impression of what Vladek went through in Auschwitz and how it changed him. How has it affected Artie and Francoise?
A : Vladek barely had anything to eat, making him go into starvation. He starts to find a way to save money, to prevent him from spending all of it in one sitting. Francoise and Artie feel bad for Vladek and sometimes can get pretty annoyed by him.

Maus 1 Q&A

Chapter 1 – This is a graphic memoir. A graphic memoir tells a person’s life through text and drawings. Why does Art Spiegelman use mice instead of people to portray the characters in the story? What do the mice represent?
Showing the differences between the characters and how they act. Mice representing Jews and cats representing the Nazi.

Chapter 2 -Why does Ms. Stefanska go to jail? What role did Anja play in Ms. Stefanska’s going  to jail?
She helped Anja hide a package. They found the package in her home and arrested her for helping someone hide it.

Chapter 3 – What does Vladek mean on page 50, when he says, “Well at least I did something.” Do you believe that he is justified in feeling this way? Explain.
It has to do with trying to stop his son from joining the war. Vladek’s father was certainly justified in feeling this way.Vladek’s father knew he had to try and save his son both from suffering himself and putting suffering on others.

Chapter 4 – Although Jews were allowed only limited rations under the Nazi occupation, Vladek manages to circumvent these restrictions for a while. What methods does he use to support himself and his family?
Vladek worked in the black market helping transport items and getting small rations in return. He also worked in a tin shop to get extra money.

Chapter 5 – How did Vladek care for Anja after the destruction of the Srodula ghetto? Contrast his behavior toward his first wife, during the worst years of the war, with the way he now treats Mala.
Vladek cared for Anja and would always try to keep her safe and happy. He would try to make her optimistic about the situation, and she still believed that things would get better. With his first wife, he cared for her and showed lots of love. However, with Mala, he continuously argues with her over money and what she’s doing wrong, addimg more stress to the situation.

Chapter 6 – Why does Artie call his father a murderer? Is he justified? Who else has he called a murderer, and why?
Artie calls his father a murderer for burning and destroying all of his mothers memories. He has called mother a murderer because he feels she murdered his happiness when she committed suicide.

Throne Of Fire~Book Review

   The second book of the series “The Kane Chronicles” Sadie and Carter Kane has been in big trouble. Ever since their dad released all the gods of Ancient Egypt from the last book all over the world, it wasn’t really a normal life the Kanes wanted to live up to. Being the descendants of the  House of Life they had made it a mission to train young magicians at the Brooklyn House. That is, if they can even manage their own magic. Now they have to fight their most threatening and dangerous enemy yet, the snake of chaos, Apophis is waking up from his prison. If they don’t prevent him from breaking free in a matter of days, it’s not only over for the Kane family, but the whole world.

     To save the world, Carter and Sadie must revive the sun god Ra. But first, they have to find the three books of Ra, and learn how to say the spells. Only one big problem, they don’t exactly know where Ra is. New magicians, Jasmine ( AKA Jaz),a healer  and Walt, cursed with a deadly disease, makes the plot even more interesting. Tagging along is Bes, the dwarf god, to help protect the children while Bast is away fighting Apophis. Sadie and Carter find the 3 scrolls of Ra, and have to enter the underworld. Once they enter the underworld they have to go in to the different houses of the underworld and the different houses represent the stages of sleep. Once they go through many different houses and get in to the fourth house they get help from Tawaret  to help guide them through the underworld.

   Sadie and Carter wake up Ra, but only a part of him, and have to find the other parts to fully awaken him. Soon, they visit their parents in the Underworld to eat and get helpful advice from them on what to do. The Kanes get  visit from their Uncle Anubis, and find out he is now the new Chief Lector and Ra does officially heal the people in the world, but he is not his full self yet. The series continues in the next book, waiting to see if Apophis will destroy the world and what will the Kanes do next. Well, it’s safe to know that everyone is okay, well a majority of people are okay, and to knowing that the world is not ending. Yet. We just have to see in the next book.

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Dear past me……

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This whole experience right now looks like a dream, but trust me it’s not. This is actually real life in the future. Hover-boards have been made ( well almost), and flying cars seem like the new trend. Everything you thought you couldn’t do, you did flawlessly. Just don’t give up in what you believe and that’ s what will get you somewhere. Maybe paying attention a little in your technology classes would have payed off instead of playing games, since technology now is used more than a lot and more advanced. No need for using a keyboard for the computer, or getting up anywhere. Basically, the future is really lazy. Tell you about what you, or I, am doing in the future? Well, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if I told you right now? That is for me to know, and for you to find out, well “I” can find out…..you know what I mean. Just keep on doing what you are doing, you’ll get there, soon enough.

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Book Review~The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

 

Sunshine was an ordinary girl in Washington, well except she was adopted, but that didn’t cause her any trouble. Until her adoptive mother, Kat, gets accepted to a new job she always wanted, but one problem, it’s in Austin, Texas, a place where Sunshine isn’t welcome to stay. Everything is creepy and surrounded by fog.Right when she enters the house, she begins to experience mysterious noises, cries, giggling of a little girl. It soon becomes clear that someone is haunting their home. Maybe even more than one ghost. And even more frightening, it seems that only Sunshine can sense it. What starts off as small shifts, slamming doors and alarming sounds, quickly goes  into something else much scarier.Sunshine, becomes  determined to prove the paranormal activity her mother seems to just say it is her imagination and should put it to bed. Soon her mother begins to act strangely, and become more far away, breaking their relationship.  In the days that follow, things only get stranger. Sunshine is followed around the house by an icy breeze, phantom wind slams her bedroom door shut, and eventually, the laughter Sunshine hears on her first night turns into sobs and screams. She can’t even believe it, but as the spirits haunting her house become more frightening,  it becomes clear that Kat is in danger. Sunshine must accept what she is pass the test that was sent out for her before she was even born. Sunshine meets a classmate along the way , Nolan, who has family ties to the paranormal. Also having feeling for her, he becomes Sunshine’s only friend in Ridgemont, Texas, as well as her partner in crime. Nolan is intelligent, kind and willing to help Sunshine unravel the mysteries that haunts the air of her new home,even being the one who protects her throughout the book. Time is running out and Sunshine has to make a decision, to stop her test and be a normal girl again or to let her mom experience a faith worse than death.

The author of the book is Paige Mckenzie. A fact about the book is that it was a mini series on Youtube  by the author, soon becoming a novel.
A opinion about the book is that more details about the main character should have been added to it.

Book Review~The Girl Who was Supposed To Die

Imagine waking up beaten and battered and missing fingernails, not even knowing yourown name. The only thing she remembers is being dragged out into the woods, about to experience death. However, she suddenly gets a instinct to fight back her attacker only taking the gun, car keys, and wallet he had along with her. Hiding and on the run, she go across Newberry Ranch where she goes search for help from a security guard on duty. Even though he isn’t actually a real police officer, he does everything he can to help her. Just when she thought everything was going to okay and fine, a series of unfortunate events start to happen. Using the name from the attacker’s wallet, the police officer calls up a local one using the name. After getting off the phone, he informed her that she wasn’t actually kidnapped but a person who escaped from the local mental hospital. After hearing this, she takes matters into her own hands and goes back on the road not even knowing where to go and who to trust. When she stops at a local McDonald’s for food, she meets a guy name Ty who promises to stay with her and recover her memories, and most importantly, believes she is not a mental psychopath. They go through a journey darker than they realize, bit by bit, finding out the secrets hidden this whole time. Her parents actually working for a company that discover a disease that can kill local farmers , but the bright side is they discovered a cure for it. The down side is now that the company figured out they do, they were going to spread the disease over a football stadium full of people for everyone can get it, giving them more money. When her parents figured out what they were doing and what could happen to the cure and them if they figured out how to make it, they fled along with her little brother.The company supervisor interrogating her to say where they are to great lengths, even pretending that her brother is dead, making her to go to shock and making Cadence’s brain to shut down, not remembering anything. Not only that but her brother was infected with the disease. In the end, Ty and Cadence destroyed the lab the company was harvesting the antidote they were trying to make and stop the company once and for all. Letting it all be a happy ending and Ty and Cadence being together.

The author of the book is April Henry. A fact about this story is that Ty actually have a dark past where his father died and his mom married his boss, being kicked out of their home he had to live in the streets, until he made a friend and became roommates with him. A opinion of this story is that even though it is very short, only having 213 pages ( not including the acknowledgements ) but the book itself makes up for it.

What’s The Most Important Thing You Learned In School?

Book Review

The book I have read was is called “Can’t Look Away” by Donna Cooner. The book is about a young teen named Torry Grey who tries to let go of the past and tries to look into the future. Not only that, but she is  famous for her fashion and beauty videos from Youtube. Until a terrible accident occurs, killing her little sister. Her life starts to get stressed and in pain after that incident.

Now, strangers online are hating on Torrey. Saying she is a bad sister and deserves to be mistreated. Making the matter worse, her ex best friend posted ( and deleted a few minutes afterward ) a fight Torrey and her sister had before the accident. Moving out of her home and state, she went to a new school.  Soon trying to make friends with the “popular ” crowd. The queen-bee Blair seems like to her  since the only option is to become popular and then replace her. Her cousin Raylene, who isn’t popular but  accept Torrey for who she is. Then Luis, who’s family runs the local funeral home.

Being betrayed by Blair by being left in a graveyard she goes to her sister grave and speaks to her and says she is sorry. Before that, Luis teaches her about the Day of the Dead, where spirits come to their families to meet them once again. Soon she accepts herself and then stop worrying about the past and looked into the future. Soon going out with Luis after, even though he’s Blair’s ex boy friend. Her family begins to stay strong and not give up on hope, being in the trial for the conviction of the drunk driver who killed Torry’s sister. At the end, kissing Luis and finally being happy.