Goal Blog

My academic goal is to try to get all A's this quarter. I been getting A and B's so I want to push my self the get all A's. I will get help on any assignment if I need help. I will also ask a teacher to check my work if I did something wrong so I can fix it. I will definitely turn in projects on time and not procrastinate on any homework.

Mt personal goal is to work on my attitude with my parents. Every time we discuss something I usually cut them off and get really mad. I later feel bad for yelling at them and I want to control my anger. I will try thinking before I talk to my parents. I will also try to calm down by breathing in and out when I start getting. If I do get mad I will try the best I can not to talk back or yell at them because I know I will feel bad later.

"White Fang"

The book "White Fang' is an interesting book that involves this wolf who got tamed. The cub was named White Fang for his fangs. He has been sold from his original owner to a different owner. His new owner was Beauty Smith and he got him for bottles of whisky. Beauty Smith made White Fang participate in dog fights. Every dog he fought he would either kill or was close to kill until he fought a bulldog named Cherokee. They split them up just in time before White Fang died.

In the book “White Fang” there was a Contrast and Contradiction. White Fang was always with his mother as a cub until she left. White Fang stayed with his owner once his mother left back into the wild. When his owner couldn't find any food they started killing animals for food so White Fang and the rest of the dogs ran away. While White Fang ran away he saw his mother and went up to her but she just backed away and hit him. His mother probably did this because she might not remember him because she left him when he was a cub. He later saw her again but this time instead of going up to her again he just left. This is different because as a cub he would always be by her and help her but this time he just left without trying to be with her. This tells us that he might be able to let go of people in his life that were important to him. Since his mother always raised him and protected him from the other mean dogs he was really attached to her. He was upset a little when she left but he was some what okay with it because he was with his new owner.

"The Devil's Arithmetic"

So far in the book "The Devil's Arithmetic" Hannah was enjoying her time with her family during one of her Jewish celebrations. In one of the traditions they have she has to open the door to Elijah. When she does she is brought back through time to live the life of her ancestor, Chaya, who she is named after. She experiences how terrible the conditions were in the Holocaust and how the concentration camps were. Right before Chaya was about to die she ends up back to her normal time in front of the door like how she was when she first time traveled.

One conflict in the book was when she time traveled to Poland. This conflict is self verse time. She doesn’t know what is happening and why it is happening. She’s not sure who the people are and what is going on. The next she’s fine with what’s going on, but she thinks she can’t lose her memory of her real self. Sadly, when she gets to the camp she forgets about her life, but remembers the facts of the Holocaust. Another conflict in the book is when one of the soldiers thinks the girls weren't working. This conflict is man verse man. He picked 3 out of the four girls Hannah was with. He picks every girl except for Hannah luckily, but unfortunately Rivka gets picked as one of the "chosen ones." While the three girls are leaving, Hannah goes up to Rivka and takes her ribbon. She puts it on herself and tells Rivka to run for her life. That means Hannah has to die in the concentration camp, but a second before she dies, she ends up back at home.

"White Fang"

I am reading this amazing book called "White Fang". So far "White Fang" is about how this she-wolf who kept killing Henry's dogs. Unfortunately only 2 of Henry's dogs survived out of 6. Later the she-wolf had a cub with old One-Eye. Old One-Eye later got killed by the lynx sadly. After old One-Eye died the she-wolf couldn't find any food besides the lynx's kitten. She killed the lynx's kitten so she can feed her cub and herself. The lynx was furious with the she-wolf so she went and attacked her. The she-wolf knew if she lost this fight her cub would end up dead, so she fought with all her might and won. That night they went to bed not starving.

Old One-Eye, the grey leader, and the young wolf were fighting over the she-wolf. Old One-Eye and the grey leader decided to team up and kill the young wolf. Later old One-Eye was left to fight the grey leader and he won the fight. The grey leader and the young wolf ended up dying and old One-Eye ended up with the she-wolf. Later when the lynx attacked the cub would have died if his mom didn't win the fight. If his mom lost he would have ended up dead like grey leader and young wolf. The fight with the lynx isn't the major climax in my opinion because it didn't really do that much damage because the lynx's didn't kill the she-wolf or her cub. I haven't got that far in the book to know the falling action unfortunately. I really like the book so far because it is really interesting. Its interesting because it has a lot of action between the wolves and its suspenseful because you never know if the cub is going to die or not. I think that maybe the cub will grow up with his mother because if the mother could win a fight with the lynx's then that proves she can protect her cub.

Holocaust

People who actually stood up for the Jewish were really brave because most people wouldn't do that. Most of the bystanders didn't step up because they're putting themselves and their family's at risk. Personally I wouldn't stand up because I would be putting my family in danger because the Nazi army was stronger than me. People would join the Nazi army only because they knew they wouldn't be killed because if they tried to protest they would most likely be dead.

Workers' Rights Reflection

People who worked for Coca Cola were sometimes threatened, kidnaped and even tortured if they were or even started a union for there rights. This is pretty much violating the human right number 14 because they weren't safe there especially since they were threatened and even killed. I was really surprised that Coca Cola would even do this why would they even think of threatening people. Its really upsetting that major companies like Coca Cola are doing this I wonder if other major companies might be doing the same thing like Coca Cola is.

In the poem "Sweatshop" it doesn't exactly say how they might be treated wrong it just says "I don’t know, I don’t know! I’m a machine!" while in the article it says "business affiliates of using paramilitary death squads to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten union leaders at the multinational soft drink manufacturer’s Colombian bottling plants." Coca Cola argument was about how they will stop threatening unions so it can be a safer environment for the workers. It affected on how to understand the meaning because in the article it gives examples on how they feel when they are working. So in the poem it says the feeling and by reading the article in our heads we will be thinking maybe thats how the workers felt or maybe this is happening to them.

"Dreamland" Blog

In the book Dreamland you can finally find out what the council does to the decision Riley made by intervening into a souls world when she wasn't because it wasn't assigned to her. The council didn't punish them because she was new at this instead they did congratulate her because she got a bunch of souls to cross the bridge. As a reward she got to have a break from soul catching so she can just relax in the Here and Now. Riley has a lot of fun spending time with her parents and grandparents she even learned how to surf, paint a landscape, and knit. She know that since the council saw she can handle convincing a hard task of getting a bunch of souls to cross the bridge then they would give her harder challenges.

I think my book is Science Fiction because its talking about stuff that could happen but isn't going to happen. The thing that I like about this book is that it isn't like a ordinary book that takes place on earth because this book takes place in Here and Now but also on the earths plane. I have read this type of genre before because of the other books in the series. I would like to read more types of book of this type of genre because it isn't just taking place on earth it can be taking place on somewhere else that we might have never even thought of.