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Coming of age blog post due 6-11-12

During this coming of age unit I spent some time reading the book "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" By: Sherman Alexie. In the book the main character Junior was being bullied at his school which was on a Native American reservation, and he took a step back and realized that all the people that live on the reservation have gone to the community school, and they have all ended up nowhere. This observation made Junior decide that he wanted to do more and better than all those around him and took it upon himself to go to an all white school twenty miles away off of the reservation called Reardan High School. This wan an very promising example of coming of age, taking on responsibility and being proactive. This could help me and I could apply it to my life by stopping and thinking about my actions and what the results would be. Although the main character Junior was considered a traitor for going to another school, in fact he lost his only real friend, and was beat up for doing so but he still continued because he knew it was what was best for him; He was also beat up at school by big jocks, but he fought back, he didn't just take it like he usually did, and by doing so the jocks stopped messing with him because now they respected him. There were many lessons that could be taken from this story, but the one that I feel is most important is being proactive, stopping and thinking before I make a move which is something that I will definitely apply to my life.

Coming of Age

In the book "The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian" Junior (the main character) is soon now attending his first year of high school. Junior has a lot of conditions/ disabilities that make him different, and more of a responsibility compare to what would be considered as a normal family. He is now at the age where other people shouldn't have to take care of him. since he is a young man he need to take the initiatives and stand up for himself as appose to letting people take advantage of him.

 

He has now reached the age where he is learning new things about himself, his family and his life in general. I can personally relate to this because I'm reaching a point and time where I am be held accountable for more and more things, and my level of responsibility has been increasing numerously.

These are majority of the "coming of age details that stand out me in th ebook that I am reading.

break hw #3 article

In the article "What Really Happened to the Titanic?" by Jennifer Marino seem to show the more scientific side of the tragic tale of the titanic that wrecked on April 14th 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Over the years many have said that the cause of the cruse ship the R.M.S Titanic to sink on April 14th 1912 (one hundred years ago from yesterday )was due to a crash in with an iceberg. but Matlin read weathers records and testimony from survivors plus facts from the ships log research supports his theory that the titanic sailed into a freezing Labrador Current and the air columns cooled causing layers of cold air to pile up below layers of hot air which is also known as thermal inversion. This caused light to bend and the horizon appeared to be where is wasn't (a false horizon). causing the iceberg to be hidden so those aboard the ship didn't see the ice berg until it was directly in front of the ship and the two were about to collide.

This theory doesn't disregard the fact that the iceberg was there but it just gives more explanation as to why the incident occurred.  The scientific explanation explains why and how the R.M.S Titanic sun st 2:20 am on April 14th 1912.

The article by Jennifer Marino clarifies and explains why the tragic death of thousands of people occurred on that day and why the captain, crew members and guest on the crews ship didn't see the ice burg causing many deaths.

break hw plagiarise

What the student did wrong was the student copied his/her source word for word. The "student" also didn't cite the sources properly, there was no author and or book cited.

"This sky keeps the viewer's eyes moving about the painting..." lines 3-4
(Cited Sources) www.vangoghgallery.co/painting/staryindex.html
(Article) "A Brief Understanding of the starry night paintings"
Author: N/A

Three ways to avoid plagiarizing... put the text into your own words, use more than one reference, and give the author credit for his/  her work.

break hw blogs that I liked

One blog that I very much enjoyed was Sofia's blog from class 807. Sofia's blog post on Picasso because it was structured in a way that wasn't confusing and made it easy to understand her work. She organized the paragraphs in a way that they focused on one topic and it covered all the grounds/ basics of Picasso. There was also a sense of effort in Sofia's work she didn't just do the bare minimum she really tried and it showed in her blog post, she even added a photos of Picasso's work.

Another post that I enjoyed and thought was a good example on how I should write my blog post was Diana's blog post on Much Ado About Nothing.  She split the post into three paragraphs the first paragraph talked about the cast members as a whole and what she thought they did well. The second Paragraph talked about the individual cast members and what was done well by them. And finally the last paragraph talked about the bad and how she felt about the plot and the ending, which is something I need to incorporate into my writing structure.

What I need to incorporate into my writing is structure. I also need to put more effort and time into my blog post. and lastly I need to make my post longer and incorporate more detail into my blog post.

BREAK HW READING RESPONSE

Katniss is having regrets, regrets about participating in the Hunger Games although she did it for her sister.

Katniss has a lot of stress she feels as if everything that she has done up to this point is her fault. Not only was it hard enough emotionally in the Hunger Games but the one person that she got close with in the arena: Rue was killed. A spear strait through her chest. "Who else would I fail to save?"  The mental stress of blaming herself for all that has gone wrong during this savage process.

 

The comfort from Gale is helping Katniss get through the after math of this mind bottling experience, especially after they had their moment in the wood where their lips met in such an unexpected turn of events.

What will happen to Katniss next.....?