FREE WRITE...

So I was kind of disturbed with all these books being banned from schools. Nobody has the right to ban any book. I understand that some books can be offensive or innapropriate, but  every parent has the right to not allow their OWN child from reading it. There are soooo many books being banned for the most STUPID reasons. In one of our readings from "What Matters in America," they were trying to ban Harry Potter, because it gives kids the idea that fantasy is reality. NOOOO!!! It gives kids an imagination. Without an imagination, you will never dream, and without dreams you will never have goals! Our country is so special because it's the land of freedom and banning books is just limiting every individual's freedom...

Reading for Spring Break!

The book I read over Spring break was The Lost One, by Lynne Ewing a fantasy novel from the series of "Daughters Of the Moon. It had approximately 274 pages and was published by Volo books, in New York. I selected this book because I have read the first few books of the series and I loved them, I couldn't put the books down they were so entertaining. The book "The Lost One," is about a girl who can move things with her mind. She woke up one morning with no recollection of who she was and some followers. She later discovers that she was one of the lost members of Daughter of the Moon, she meets the other girls and they let her know that she is one of them. There job is to make sure the followers don't turn the world to all night. Basically the title "The Lost One," relates to the story because she was lost she had to find herself and find out who and what she was.


The main characters are Tiana, Catty, Serena, Vanessa, and Jimena. Tiana meets them after she wakes up with amnesia and is being followed by dark men, who are almost like shadows. She realizes that if she focuses enough she can move things with her mind. The rest of the girls show he how to use her power for good. Each of the girls have their own special power. Vanessa can become invisible, Catty can time travel, Jimena can have premonitions, and Serena reads minds. Together they are an invincible force!

The theme of this book is good vs. evil. The girls are the light that fight the followers from bringing eternal darkness.

Is there really such thing as privacy??

So one of the required blogs is to write about a subject we discussed in class. I chose to write about privacy since we spent about 20 minutes discussing it.

So my view on this is that we should have total and complete privacy (which will probably never happen.) I major in criminal justice so I guess I am looking at it from a legal perspective.  The fourth amendment clearly states we have the right to privacy. Personally I think the police, government, websites, or whoever else are violating our right to privacy. Although there are plenty of loop-holes to get around this issue. Either way, I still think there isn't ENOUGH protection of our privacy.

6 WORD MEMOIR

TOMORROW'S
ALWAYS
YESTERDAY'S
LEARNED
OBJECTIVE
REPEATED.

So basically what my memoir means is that everyday we learn something new, overcome something, or learn a lesson. The next day we actually apply what we learned. My memoir might not sound too good, or flow in a poetic way but I tried to be creative and use the letters of my name to create a 6 word memoir.

How Sherman Alexie's novel inspired me...

So reading Sherman Alexie's book "Diary of a Part Time Indian," I felt some what inspired. Junior or Arnold, whatever you want to call him, came from a poor family and a rez filled with a bunch of people who never followed their dreams. Junior left the rez to attend a better school and follow his dreams so he doesn't end up like everyone around him. After reading this book I decided to hit the local library and pick up any book that caught my eye. I checked out over 10 books about success, wisdom, intuition and other things that can help me reach my dreams.

Basically Junior took control of his life by getting out of his rez, so I decided to take control of my life by getting out of my strict mindset and exploring new knowledge. Junior became successful, and as corny as I am about to sound.... I will be successful too...

"Discover your Genius"

So Im reading this book called "Discover your Genius" written by Micheal Gelb, and it is amazing!!!! It's about all the historical geniuses such as Plato, Ghandi, Da Vinci and few others. My favorite so far is Plato a philosopher who brought the teachings of Socrates to everyone and also taught Aristotle. One of the things that really stood out to me was his quote "We must reject the conception of education professed by those who say that they can put into the mind knowledge that was not there before." Which means that teachers aren't here to give us knowledge, but to bring the knowledge out of us.Everyone since birth knows anything there is to know, we have just forgot it somewhere along the way, but deep in our soul all the information is there. We must find the right mentor to bring it out of us.

WE ARE ALL CAPABLE, basically.

Indian vs white kids

The picture I chose from Sherman Alexie’s book was the White vs. Indian cartoon. To me this picture symbolizes his insecurities about himself and also his culture. Being from a Rez and being raised by a poor family Junior felt lower than all the white kids at his new school. He saw all the white kids wearing brand clothes and carrying cell-phones, while he was wearing K-Mart clothes and using a garbage bag as a book bag. Junior felt they had a more promising future than he did because of their background. The only thing Junior may have had that all the white kids didn’t was determination.