Hello everyone! I am currently reading the book "The Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell. I is a very interesting book, and once I pick it up, its hard to put it down because there is always new ideas and morals or tips and explanations portrayed in the book. I am on the 254th page and the book has 304 pages, so I am close to finishing it. This book doesn't really have a main character, it's just many stories of people that tried to succeed and what makes the people who succeed so special. The problem that this book is portraying is the question: How do we succeed? and Do we need to meet certain standards to succeed? The characters in this book had to overcome problems that they cannot really change. Like what month were they born in. I know it may sound silly that the month you were born in, will determine your career, but research shows, that the people who were born in a certain month, tend to succeed more that the people who were born in another season or month. This may sound confusing, but once you read the book, it will all make sense. I recommend this book to people who are interested in seeing a different point of view, and to people who like reading non- fiction books.Sunday, November 16, 2014
The Outliers - By Malcom Gladwell
Hello everyone! I am currently reading the book "The Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell. I is a very interesting book, and once I pick it up, its hard to put it down because there is always new ideas and morals or tips and explanations portrayed in the book. I am on the 254th page and the book has 304 pages, so I am close to finishing it. This book doesn't really have a main character, it's just many stories of people that tried to succeed and what makes the people who succeed so special. The problem that this book is portraying is the question: How do we succeed? and Do we need to meet certain standards to succeed? The characters in this book had to overcome problems that they cannot really change. Like what month were they born in. I know it may sound silly that the month you were born in, will determine your career, but research shows, that the people who were born in a certain month, tend to succeed more that the people who were born in another season or month. This may sound confusing, but once you read the book, it will all make sense. I recommend this book to people who are interested in seeing a different point of view, and to people who like reading non- fiction books.
Witches
Hello!
In the book I'm reading for my book report, pretty weird things are happening. As I went further into the book I realized that the main character (for now) is Reverend Parris (mentioned in previous post). The daughter and niece of Reverend are getting worse. More people in the Salem Town are getting fits (fits- teasing from the devil/witch; for example weird signs like swallowing your own tongue or weird/impossible body shapes, etc.). Tituba, Reverend's slave, was very "worried" for the two girls. While Reverend and his wife were away for a few days, Tituba decided to bake a 'dark magic' cake that might cure the souls of the witches. In Salem (in most places) dark magic was strictly forbidden. She got the recipe from a lady in the neighborhood. She followed the instructions, added some weird ingredients to it and gave it to the dog (what was supposed to "scare" the witches' souls). When Reverend came back, he found out about the dark magic cake. He was full of wrath, because that might had cursed the family even more. After, the girls decided to confess something to Reverend. They said that Tituba is the witch and she is giving them the fits. Reverend couldn't risk and believed them. One of the reasons he believed them is that Tituba was a Indian, and Indians were said to be the devils servants/slaves. The girls accused two more women, which got arrested afterwards. Dum dum dum duuum!
In the book I'm reading for my book report, pretty weird things are happening. As I went further into the book I realized that the main character (for now) is Reverend Parris (mentioned in previous post). The daughter and niece of Reverend are getting worse. More people in the Salem Town are getting fits (fits- teasing from the devil/witch; for example weird signs like swallowing your own tongue or weird/impossible body shapes, etc.). Tituba, Reverend's slave, was very "worried" for the two girls. While Reverend and his wife were away for a few days, Tituba decided to bake a 'dark magic' cake that might cure the souls of the witches. In Salem (in most places) dark magic was strictly forbidden. She got the recipe from a lady in the neighborhood. She followed the instructions, added some weird ingredients to it and gave it to the dog (what was supposed to "scare" the witches' souls). When Reverend came back, he found out about the dark magic cake. He was full of wrath, because that might had cursed the family even more. After, the girls decided to confess something to Reverend. They said that Tituba is the witch and she is giving them the fits. Reverend couldn't risk and believed them. One of the reasons he believed them is that Tituba was a Indian, and Indians were said to be the devils servants/slaves. The girls accused two more women, which got arrested afterwards. Dum dum dum duuum!
The Life & Death of Adolf Hitler - Cosmo
Halla everyone!
Today I received another assignment to write a blog post about my book report, the book that I read, still "The Life & Death of Adolf Hitler", by James Cross Giblin, and I finished a long time ago, which indicates that I have read 226/226 pages. In this blog post I am to descriptively describe the main problem in my book, so lets begin!
The main problem in my story, which is a detailed biography of Adolf Hitler's life, the cause of a mass murder of millions of people is that he was a war leader, and of course he faced opponents to stop him throughout his mission, to give the empire of Germany more 'space', or territory and to exterminate the 'non worthy' people, the Jews and communists back then. Of course he faced trouble throughout this terrible journey to pursue his belief because there were many people from distant countries against his beliefs, and have them fight against his forces, creating war, so called 'trouble'. One battle that was vital to the second world war was the battle of Stalingrad, between Germany and the Soviet Union, now better known as Volgograd. This was the first defeat of the German forces, due to the army strength and bitter cold up there, and slapped some confidence into the other resisters such as Britain, France and the United States of America. Hitler faced a bitter defeat and loss of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in that fight, and the country was miserable due to the major loss of a large number of their soldiers. This is one of the many conflicts that he faced, though still determined to continue and thus resulting into a bitter end. After his successes He refaced wars between several countries such as Britain, resulting into similar fates, and finally becoming no more than a dead body, Hitler was still determined.
Thank you for your attention and time, and have a nice day :D
Cosmo
The main problem in my story, which is a detailed biography of Adolf Hitler's life, the cause of a mass murder of millions of people is that he was a war leader, and of course he faced opponents to stop him throughout his mission, to give the empire of Germany more 'space', or territory and to exterminate the 'non worthy' people, the Jews and communists back then. Of course he faced trouble throughout this terrible journey to pursue his belief because there were many people from distant countries against his beliefs, and have them fight against his forces, creating war, so called 'trouble'. One battle that was vital to the second world war was the battle of Stalingrad, between Germany and the Soviet Union, now better known as Volgograd. This was the first defeat of the German forces, due to the army strength and bitter cold up there, and slapped some confidence into the other resisters such as Britain, France and the United States of America. Hitler faced a bitter defeat and loss of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in that fight, and the country was miserable due to the major loss of a large number of their soldiers. This is one of the many conflicts that he faced, though still determined to continue and thus resulting into a bitter end. After his successes He refaced wars between several countries such as Britain, resulting into similar fates, and finally becoming no more than a dead body, Hitler was still determined.
Cosmo
Wesley the owl
Stacey O'Brien
156/224
The main problem is that Wesley (the owl) is now learning in a different way than he would have if he were in the wild. It's a lot more interesting to read about this owl because he can do things many other owls can not do. Later in the book, Stacey explains that Wesley starts to understand some words and replies in a "yes" or "no" form with body language. He looks away for no and looks at her if yes. There isn't really a problem in the book, but Stacey does have trouble with boys because of her Owl. Wesley doesn't like it when she isn't with him. Wesley doesn't like people he doesn't know, he gets into his warning zone when people he doesn't know is around, its very dangerous being close to an owl when he says no to you being there. Owls usually go for predators eyes when they are being annoyed in a way.
HN
ALLEGIANT
By Sarah Vazzoler
Hey guys, it is Sarah
and as I told you in my previous blog post I am describing Allegiant a 526
pages book by Veronica Roth.
The main problem in
this novel is that when Beatrice and Tobias got out from the city and they find
out that all they are is just an experiment and Tris is the one with the “pure
blood” and Tobias is not they both want to rebel since they don’t believe on
this but they both start to have different ideas on “rebellion”: Tobias wants
to follow a group of people that is rebelling against a well and they are preparing
a plan which the tell is for stealing the “deleted mind” serum and they ask to Beatrice
and Tobias to help them. Tobias accept sure that that is the right path to
follow but Beatrice is suspicious and decided to set the revenge in her own way
so, she plan to become friend with the leader of the experiment in order to apprehend
what he has in mind for Chicago, her old city.
Let it Snow
Hello everyone!
Yesterday I went to a book store, and bought Let it Snow by Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle. Lauren Myracle is one of my favorite authors, so I just had to get it. I couldn't put it down, and read for 2 hours straight this morning. :)
The first part of Let it Snow is about a girl named Jubilee who is named after a Flobie Santa Village building called Jubilee Hall. Flobie Santa Village is a collector's item village that you can make by buying each of the collector's items. Her parents are obsessed with their Flobie Santa Village (which is fully completed) and her parents were held in custody in jail for getting in a fight about the spots in line at the Flobie showroom. Now Jubilee has to go to her grandparents and miss her boyfriend's party. Soon, a snow storm begins, and gets really bad. The train stops in Gracetown, and Jubilee gets off and meets a boy called Stuart, and she gets to stay at his house for Christmas. She breaks up with her boyfriend after realizing she doesn't really like her back, and starts to have feelings for Stuart (which he returns).
That's part one. This book is officially my new favorite.
Kristina
Yesterday I went to a book store, and bought Let it Snow by Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle. Lauren Myracle is one of my favorite authors, so I just had to get it. I couldn't put it down, and read for 2 hours straight this morning. :)
The first part of Let it Snow is about a girl named Jubilee who is named after a Flobie Santa Village building called Jubilee Hall. Flobie Santa Village is a collector's item village that you can make by buying each of the collector's items. Her parents are obsessed with their Flobie Santa Village (which is fully completed) and her parents were held in custody in jail for getting in a fight about the spots in line at the Flobie showroom. Now Jubilee has to go to her grandparents and miss her boyfriend's party. Soon, a snow storm begins, and gets really bad. The train stops in Gracetown, and Jubilee gets off and meets a boy called Stuart, and she gets to stay at his house for Christmas. She breaks up with her boyfriend after realizing she doesn't really like her back, and starts to have feelings for Stuart (which he returns).
That's part one. This book is officially my new favorite.
Kristina
A Diary of a Young Girl - Yoonji
Hello everyone, for this book report I am (currently) reading 'A Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank, which was a book originally written by Anne Frank (in Dutch), but translated into many different languages for reading. This book was written throughout World War 2, when the Nazis took control of Germany and persecuted the Jews (the actual duration of the diary is June 14th 1942 - August 1st 1944). The one I am reading is the English version. I read 25 pages out of 283 (pages in total including the afterword).
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Since I didn't read a lot and haven't gone through most of the book yet, other obstacles throughout the book is unknown to me. Anyway, there was one obstacle, which I believe is one of the main obstacles in the whole book, which was the reason why Anne Frank, the main protagonist of this first-person non-fiction diary (which had entries all addressed to Kitty, the name of the diary), had to go into hiding. Most of the diary is written and is during the time of her and her family's hiding, so this is a very important obstacle. So the cause of all this is World War 2 and the control of the Nazis in Germany, and more specifically because Anne's older sister, Margot, has received an official summons (writ) on July 5th 1942 from the Nazis to report to a Nazi work camp located in Germany. Her family knew that sending Margot to a Nazi work camp would be bad, and did not want her to be sent off to a work camp, so they decided to go into hiding from the Nazis. They moved straight away into their "Secret Annexe", which was a building where Anne's father had his office in, then. The building is described as 'a very peculiar boardinghouse', 'an ideal hiding place', 'leans to one side and is damp', but a 'comfortable hiding place' by Anne. She also added that 'you'd never find such a comfortable hiding place anywhere in Amsterdam, no, perhaps not even in the whole of Holland.' (These quotes where all from the same page: 20.) Judging by these descriptions, the new home (more like a place to stay than home) isn't much of a problem for Anne (no misery, nervousness, etc.), but she still stated that she will never really feel at home in it. So it isn't much of a problem, but I think it also adds to their loss of home and freedom, which is the main/big problem/obstacle.
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Since I didn't read a lot and haven't gone through most of the book yet, other obstacles throughout the book is unknown to me. Anyway, there was one obstacle, which I believe is one of the main obstacles in the whole book, which was the reason why Anne Frank, the main protagonist of this first-person non-fiction diary (which had entries all addressed to Kitty, the name of the diary), had to go into hiding. Most of the diary is written and is during the time of her and her family's hiding, so this is a very important obstacle. So the cause of all this is World War 2 and the control of the Nazis in Germany, and more specifically because Anne's older sister, Margot, has received an official summons (writ) on July 5th 1942 from the Nazis to report to a Nazi work camp located in Germany. Her family knew that sending Margot to a Nazi work camp would be bad, and did not want her to be sent off to a work camp, so they decided to go into hiding from the Nazis. They moved straight away into their "Secret Annexe", which was a building where Anne's father had his office in, then. The building is described as 'a very peculiar boardinghouse', 'an ideal hiding place', 'leans to one side and is damp', but a 'comfortable hiding place' by Anne. She also added that 'you'd never find such a comfortable hiding place anywhere in Amsterdam, no, perhaps not even in the whole of Holland.' (These quotes where all from the same page: 20.) Judging by these descriptions, the new home (more like a place to stay than home) isn't much of a problem for Anne (no misery, nervousness, etc.), but she still stated that she will never really feel at home in it. So it isn't much of a problem, but I think it also adds to their loss of home and freedom, which is the main/big problem/obstacle.
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