Reading Response #6

                I’ve been reading Chasing Brooklyn the past week that I’ve had time. I did read it last year, but I didn’t really get it, so I decided to start reading it again.

                I believe that Brooklyn, the main character, has a slight depression, she’s gone through a lot in the past year or so with her boyfriend dying and one of her friends. She is upset all the time, and keeps to herself in the hallways. Everyone knows what happened, but they don’t want to say anything to her, because they don’t want to be in an awkward situation if she started crying. She has some friends that are there for her, but don’t really know what she’s going through.  Brooklyn’s boyfriend was dead before the story even started, we never met him, but we did meet his brother.

On through the story, Brooklyn has nightmares that her boyfriend’s bestfriend is chasing her. She has dreams that she is running through the hallways of her school and he is chasing her trying to trap her, and right when he reaches her, she wakes up. She doesn’t know what is going on and she just keeps it all to herself. One day Brooklyn decided that she needed to go to her boyfriend’s house and talk to his family. She got there and his brother answered the door and everything changed from there.              

 She left and she beat herself up for going over there because it brought back memories and she didn’t want to do that. She was still upset and realized that she couldn’t handle it.

                I chose this picture because it’s a girl crying and it represents someone that is sad or depressed and I think that this goes with what Brooklyn is feeling.

Research paper topic

Im doing my paper on Interracial Couples in the US. In todays society, interracial couples are more accepted because its becoming more common. But even if they are being more accepted, they are still being discriminated against. Our culture has obviously changed greatly because even in the 1960's, it was looked down upon to date other races. I believe that its our free will and we should be able to date or marry whoever we want, as long as we are happy.

Reading Response #5

I’ve been reading Bitter End by Jennifer Brown. I haven’t read much of it, only a couple chapters, but what I’ve read so far has really drew me in and kept me interested.

The amount that I have read has already given me a vision of each character and their personalities. What I’ve come to read is that Alex, which is the main character, had a death in her family which happened t be her mom. Her mom was running from something and was on the way to Colorado. On the way she got in a car wreck and wrapped her car around a tree. Alex was a small child, and wasn’t really sure what was going on.

Alex has had two best friends for almost her entire life. And after her mom died, they all decided that they were going to go on a trip to Colorado, but for Alex’s friends, it was a “senior trip” but for Alex it was a way to find out what her mom was chasing after, or to find what she was running from.

Alex is a rally good student, and when she is tutoring, a new boy comes in and she has to tutor him. He is a charming sports star and a smooth talker. She automatically connected to him. Well, they talked and you could tell by the way that the author was writing that she liked this boy and she was crushing on him. He seems nice, but who knows how the story is going to go on.

The author did a really good job helping the readers grasp the concept of the story and their own way to connect to the situation going on, without having to read past the second chapter.

Article Response #1
Reading through this article, I found myself re-reading a lot of it because I got distracted with many things and thoughts running through my head. And that's kind of what my article response is about. Our brains do not function like they did for people that lived without internet, I believe that they were smarter, and had to know how to do things without something being there to answer all of the questions, like we have now. We don't need much now, all we really believe we need now is internet, and how the world has become such a different place. Maybe some in a good way, but I can see how it got out of hand in a lot of ways too. You can't believe everything that you see on the internet, and for some people that's a myth. Although I did need to re-read through this several times, I did make mental notes of  information that was said throughout.
I believe that this articles main focus was on the difference between people who read information and stories off the internet, versus the people that actually pick up a newspaper or a book and read it. I think that it is easier to lose focus when you are reading off the internet. there are many many things that you could get distracted by, since there is so much to the internet, its endless. Actually sitting down and reading a book is a simpler and more thorough path, that can get more correct and accurate information.
"The mind is "very plastic."" According to James Olds, "Nerve cells routinely break old connections and form new ones. The brain has the ability to reprogram itself on a fly, altering the way it functions."
I think that the human body in general is very interesting. All the strings and cords attached, are all necessities for life. As humans, we don't completely understand how complex and amazing our bodies are. To a lot of people, the internet has a lot to do with the way our bodies function. I think that the internet makes our brain believe things, so our bodies react to it, even if it isn't true, we still want it to be true. Our brain controls our body, and if the internet starts controlling our brain, we wont know what to do with our bodies any more.
So no, I don't thing "Google" in is making us stupid, I think that its the internet in

general.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

      Many years ago scientist thought love was a curse. They required everyone to have a procedure done on their eight-tenth birthday. This procedure was suppose to cure them of deliria but it was also know to make them emotionless and perform almost as zombies. On their eight-tenth birthday after the cure the girls were given a list of five men that they could marry. She then choose one and if she was going to college then the day she graduated she would marry off to the man of her choice. If she wasn't going to school then the scientist would choose a date for her to get married. Everything was decided for people. Their job was choose for them, who they'd marry, and even how many children they'd have. Sex was no longer considered "love making." Love didn't exist anymore so sex was just something you did for pleasure.

   In part of the book there is a party and all the kids go just so they could hear music. Music in their society is prohibited so they sneak off to go to parties in abanded places. They just sit around for hours listening to music and enjoying the night air. Lena ran into Alex and aked him what he was doing there. Alex replied "I came to hear the music, like everybody else."








      

101 things about me

1. I dont like cats.
2. My family are the number one people in my life.
3. I LLOOOVVEEE Arkansas Razorbacks.
4. I've wanted to go to the University of Arkansas since I was 4.
5. I dont like writing things about myself.
6. I have never broken a bone.
7. I have only been in one car wreck ever and it was when I totaled my car the second day I had it.
8. Im good at writing, but I dont like it.
9. If I could only take one thing with me if i was in a fire, I would grab my boots.
10. Sometimes I stash food in my room.....
11. I spend way too much money shopping and have nothing to show for it.
12. If I had a choice, I would take all online classes so that I wouldnt have to get out of bed.
13. I would much rather have a couple of really close friends than have a bunch of aquaintances.
14. My dog is 14 years old in human years, so thats 98 in dog years.
15. When im stressed, I do homework and cut paper.