Nice To Meet You by Jessie J

A couple of days ago I have finished reading "Nice To Meet You", an autobiography by Jessie J, in which she talks about her life, starting out her career as a singer, how hard it was in the beginning, as well as getting to know her true self and then winning awards, getting recognized and just overall success. This book had a total of 214 pages which I have enjoyed reading very much. The moral of this book is to never give up, no matter how hard it can sometimes be to achieve your dreams.  I personally find it beneficial to be persistent because you never know, maybe you will find yourself in a position you never expected to be in, and really wanted to, and everything will then pay off. To someone who is discouraged, and someone who feels as though they cannot not pursue their dreams, I would recommend this book. After they read it I am certain, that they would be re encouraged to do something spectacular.  While reading this novel though it puzzled me how Jessie J wrote many songs for other famous artists and never once did she complain about it, also I was amazed how determined she was to make it in the music industry. One thing that I enjoyed in this book was that other people’s opinions of Jessie J were included in it. , I don’t have any questions regarding the moral of her autobiography other than when is her new album coming out, because I think that her songs talk about life, but also have a deeper meaning to it that affects everyone who hear it no matter what language it is in. 

Three cups of tea

Hi Guys,
For my book report I am reading a book called Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. I have so far read 280 pages out 331 pages. Here is a picture of the book:
 
This book has an extremely important topic the topic of this book is if you think something is wrong go and change it don't just sit writing for someone else to do something about it. I learnt that even little things are much appreciated. Also Greg is going around building school because he thought that the education in Pakistan is very low and he has been able to make 23 school so far with very little money spent compared to the Pakistani government.
The one thing I don't understand is that Greg is a kind and caring person and he wants to help every body but he has a wife and two children and he always is 5 months in Pakistan and then he comes back for two months and while he is suppose to be with his family he is around America collecting money for his organization that will help build schools in Pakistan. This is not a bad thing but he leaves his wife and children in America by them self for 5 MONTHS and he is generally a really caring person.
I so far do not have any questions but i wish that he would about his family a bit more because even though its really interesting about his work and the villages he is helping but I would also like to know how was his wife coping with the two kids and how are their education going.

AG

"I am Malala" By Malala Yousafzai

I am Malala

Malala Yousafzai

183/291 # of pages read

Hey guys so today I will be doing another blog post about my book project book written by teen author and bullet survivor Malala Yousafzai. I will be writing about how the topic of the book and things that I might not understood.

The topic that Malala talked about in the book was important because this problem is still going on and hasn't been solved. Woman and girls education rights. So I think that this is important because everyone has the ability to learn and to explore about the world and about new things. I think that it isn't fair that girls would have to just clean the house and serve the men while men got to learn, but didn't really respect it. Malala is inspired and loves learning, she wouldn't even wanna leave her city because she still wanted to learn in her school, she wanted all of her books, she wanted to keep on making speeches and poems and be top in the class (which she was anyways).

What I learned about the topic of girl's education and rights of women and girls a lot. I learned also how the women live, they aren't allowed to get out of the house alone, only with a male which is from their family. I would have never know these rules that people have and that Fazlullah made up. I learned about the difficult life of others. My life contains of a great school and education, I have food on the table and girls education is encouraged. The Taliban bombed many girls' schools in order that the girls will not receive education. The Taliban also didn't want girls to go out in the street with their face not covered. I understood the life of other girls.

I did not understand some parts of the topic. I didn't understand why the Taliban (who also eventually shot Malala on 9th of October, 2012) would just go and shoot people and just didn't want education. They also destroyed boys' school which made no sense because they said that they wanted boys to become smarter because its already the 21st century. Knowledge is kind of a must. But the Taliban just destroyed what every person thought was important. The celebrations and killed loved ones, stole and destroyed the televisions. I really was puzzled that they just wanted to destroy everything. Doesn't the leader understand that its not really going to help him. Yes, in the end the Taliban destroyed half of Pakistan or even more and killed important people who were against them but finally Malala decided she has to stand up for this, with support from her dad.

I don't really have any questions about the main topic. I mean I pretty much understood the main point. I agree with the main point and really want Malala to succeed with her point of encouraging people to let girls learn. I want to learn more about how Malala wants to do this. So far, all I know is that she had interviews and got prizes for giving speeches but I want to see if she had invented a school for girls or has some kind of project to do this. Although she's young at only 18, she knows what she is doing. She is a smart, brave and strong girl.



Pic link: http://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/19348_5280a9e3dbd74.jpg

Thanks for reading!

Shelly

Alex Ferguson by Sir Alex Ferguson #4

     Hi guys! The fourth post about my book is here. If you still don't know for this book report project I choose to read a book called "Alex Ferguson" by Sir Alex Ferguson, for more details read my other posts. I finished all the 350 pages this week and I'm really happy that I chose to read this book.
     The main topic in this book is football (soccer). For me this topic is important because it's my favorite sport and I love this sport. For others might be important because it teaches them about this wonderful sport. Also I would say that another topic of this book is psychology. I would say that because in some parts of his book he talk a little bit about how he was able to make his players more focused and how he worked with missed behaved ones but it has very few parts like that. I didn't learn much about football as a game but I learned about how Sir Alex sees this sport and to learn and read about how the greatest manager of all times sees this sport is a really nice thing. I didn't have troubles understanding this amazing book and that's good. I honestly have no more questions about this topic and I learned a lot already so I don't consider asking more questions or learning more about it.
Hope you enjoyed reading this post! 

Long Walk to Freedom

Author: Nelson Mandela

625/625 pages



As this is probably my third or fourth post about this book, most will have a good understanding of my books topic; equality and fighting for what you believe in. Although this mainly is about African freedom, it focuses on how people should be treated not by their religion or race, but personality. Standing up for what you believe in is also a hard choice to make, but sometimes life needs sacrifice. I think that this is a really important topic because even now in the world, there is segregation, discrimination, injustice, and people fearing to make a stand. Nelson Mandela put a new light to this topic and writes of his struggle that all was worth in the end. I learned that much more to sticking with what you believe in and there will be times in life where you´ll look back and think, what if?
There were some parts in the book which I found slightly confusing because they spoke of the ANC, MK, SACPO, COD, and so on; they were basically the African National Congress and other organizations. These parts were particularly boring and I had to really push forwards to go on. They didn't last but three to four pages, but they were long indeed. I couldn't understand what exactly the SACPO and so on meant and what they were arguing about. However, it wasn't the main point of the book and I believe that I didn't miss any crucial information. I'm still very confused as to what politics is and I may never really understand, yet I am curious to learn and hope to read more autobiographies or biographies of political heroes and whatnot. I think that's it. Goodbye, and thank you for reading, I think. 

The hive detectives By: Loree Grifin Burns

LXIII/LXIII

I have finished reading this book. The book helped me understand what I will have to do to protect  my bees as I have them. In my last blog post you could have read that Dave has not found the COD(Cause of Death) of his his colonies. The American beekeepers have lost 38% of there colonies over the 2006-2007 winter. Because all three types of mites were not proved the beekeepers called in Diana Cox-Foster who is an expert on honey bee viruses. Diana was working to determine which of the known bee viruses could be found in the CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). She found out that the bees were very sick and that in their dead bodies were huge numbers of viruses. The viruses spread very quickly (it is the same like a human flu virus). The bees bring the virus from the nature and leave it with their spits everywhere. Diana begun to suspect a fast-spreading and very powerful virus to cause the bee disaster. She concluded that it must have been a virus called Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus. To prove her theory she was obliged to build an airtight greenhouse not to endanger the healthy bee hives outside. In the greenhouse it was also easier to find the dead bodies and to make the experiments. It seems that many things have changed in agriculture and due to that also in bee life. The farmers grow the mono-cultures on the field for several years and to protect their yields they use huge quantities of fertilizers and also deadly pesticides that kill insects which harm their work. Now, imagine a bee coming to the field where the farmers grow only one type of plant which means only one type of nectar and pollen for the bee. It would be the same for YOU going every day three meals  a day to McDonald for Big Mac.. it s not healthy and you would lack the nutrients. Your immune would fail after some time. It is what has happened to Dave's bees.

After one year Dave Hackenberg and his son have started again and have built their beekeeping operation back up. They are trying to give the bees a rest so they can recover. They feed them with a high protein bee feed and they co-operate with farmers to use only pesticides that are proven safe for honey bees.

Anne Frank: A diary of a young girl

Hey everyone.
Today I will be writing about the main problems in my novel.  I have read 136/283 pages.  The author of the book is of course Anne Frank and her father, Otto Frank named the book A diary of a young girl.

Lets start with the main problem, War.  According to the Oxford dictionary, war is a conflict between two countries  that fight with armed weapons.  They take place in World War II which was when Germany declared war and wanted to take over the world.  Anne Frank's family lives in a small house in Amsterdan.  Anne's conflict is that she is constantly living in a community where there are gunshots outside.  I think that when a young girl like Anne, lives in a world like that, she gets bad influences and grow up with bad and terrible conditions just because she is a jew.

Thank you very much
Per Malmin