6 Word Memoir

Hitchhiker.
Unencumbered.
Tramp.
Without
Normal
Drama.

In Class today we read more of Into The Wild, so we did 6 Word Memoir on Chris McCandless.

Reclusive Emily E. Dickinson

Today in class we read Into the Wild, and we talked about recluses. The New Oxford American Dictionary a recluse is "a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people." The class was given three different people that are from the literary world and I picked Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. Emily was born on December 10, 1830 and she died on May 15, 1886. Some people that inspired Emily are William Shakespeare, Henry W. Longfellow, Jane Erye and many others. Emily was renown for her poetry, some of her works are "A Stopped Clock" "Good Night" "My Nosegays" and many many more. You can read some of her work here. Emily withdrew from society by not leaving her fathers house very often, she only took about five trips out of town, she refused any visitors to come and see her, Emily did have lovers but they were few and she never married.
Emily and Chris McCandless are similar to me because they both did not want to deal with the people of the city, Emily did not want to leave her fathers house but Chris did, he wanted to leave as soon as he could and just go, Chris did not want anything to do with his family and the only people Emily did want to talk to is her family.
In Emily's life the Texans defend the Alamo, the Gold Rush, slavery was abolished, the plague and many more things.
A quote from Emily "Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Grizzly Man

Today we were to told to pick one of six people that did something different in this world, something odd as you might say. I watched a YouTube video on "Grizzly Man." This man went into the wild to protect bears. Not many people would leave their life to spend 13 years in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. I personally think that we could learn a lot from this man. His real name is Timothy Treadwell. At times Timothy would eat near the bears and sometimes touch them. I wish that I could know why he did this, what inspired him to go out into the wild and leave his old life behind. He ate just like the bears did. I think that this can show the world that we do not need all the "junk" we have today. We don't need junk food or fast food. Also, I think that he did this to show us that there is not anyone who will protect animals in the wild. We need more protection for wild animals.

My path is different too. I am going to college at a community college about 200 miles away from where I am now. I have a son, I am going to get a job and pursue my life as a student and mom. I am going to save to money so that I can own my OWN home, with my own rules and nobody except me to tell me how to raise my child because I am living under THEIR house. I am getting a job hopefully somewhere that pays well. I am going to college and maybe even transferring later in my college life. I think that from my life I want people to learn that being a teen mom is not easy and fun, it is hard. I want moms to stay in school and be all that they can be. There are limits to what a teen mom can do, but most of those limits come from themselves!

Rolling Stones cmparision 2

This is my Venn Diagram for the Rolling Stones Comparison to The Taming of the Shrew.

Rolling Stones cmparision

In the book The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare there is a female named Kathrine and a man named Petruchio. At the begining of the book we see that the Taming of the Shrew is a play within a play, I thought that it was interesting. So once The Taming of the Shrew starts you see that Kathrine is very blunt and she says what she wants when she wants(I love her character!!). Although, her younger sister Bianca does what she is told when she is told and is what a lady of that time should be. There are many men in love with Bianca and none with Kathrine. Two men who are in love with Bianca say that they will find a man to marry Kathrine because the girls father says that Kathrine must be married before Bianca can be married. So they find a man, who’s name is Petruchio. He said he would marry her because he wants her dowery, and he can tam her. So when he shows up to their wedding he is dressed as a poor fithy slob. He takes Kathrine back to his home and does not give her anything that she Needs nor wants. He does not let her sleep, eat, go out or even drink; he teases her with clothing by showing it to her and not letting her have it.
What I am supposed to write about is the similarities from this book and the song “Under My Thumb” by Rolling Stones. In the song it mentions how “the girl who once had me down” ”the girl who once pushed me around.” The difference is that Kathrine never got the chance to put Petruchio down or make him mad nor sad. Then in the song it gets to saying “It’s down to me” “The difference in the clothes she wears” “change has come” this part is like the book Petruchio knew before he even met Kathrine that she had to be “tamed” and he was more than prepared to do so. In the song when it says “She’s the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world” it reminds me of how much Petruchio has “tamed” Kathrine to do what she is told and how afraid Kathrine is of Petruchio. In the song it talks about how he can still look but she can’t in the book Kathrine does not look at other men but neither does Petrchio.

March Book

In the month of March we read After by Amy Efaw. This book was one of the most powerful and amazing books that I have EVER read. I was unable to go to the meeting this month, unfortunately I had other stuff that had to be done.
At the begging of the book Deven (main character) was at home like any other teenage girl who skipped school. Her mother comes home from her night ship job.... Then..... Anyway, I do not want to go into full detail in case who ever may be reading this would like to read the book. In any case Deven had a baby in her bathroom the night before the book starts, she put it into a dumpster, cops come to her apartment for a routine check to ask questions then they find out she had a child, she goes to juvenile hall, goes to court, and then the book ends......
I personally think that there MUST be another book. The way that this book ended just wanted to make me throw the book across the room!!!!! You HAVE to read it to figure out what I mean. It truly is an amazing book. Also, I am very excited because I want to read another book, and the movie.

My Change for Debt

Ms.D has found a National Debt Clock and we are supposed to think of some things that we can do to help. There are so many ideas that I have of what I can do and already do.
I do not usually throw away any glass, I save light bulbs, containers and all my other glass products. There are a few places around that you can give them any glass and they will recycle it, a good place to go that most towns have is their local dump. Anything that is burnable I burn, I have a wood stove and it makes sense to me to burn it instead of it going into a land fill. My family hunts and fishes but doesn't catch a lot, so there is not to eat. Also, there are many stores around that I support buy buying their food and supplies. Many different stores have things that I need, so instead of going to Wal-Mart. When my clothes are too small I bring them to second hand stores, when my clothing rips I use it to fix a different piece of clothing. I also, like to make my own hats when I can by crocheting hats then I go and buy pea shoes from other people.

Double Standered

This is something that I missed so I am posting it onto the blog. This poem is "To a Lady, Who Valu’d Herself on Speaking Her Mind in a Blunt Manner, Which She Call’d Being Sincere" by 
Mary Barber.

Well you Sincerity display,

A virtue wond’rous rare!

Nor value, tho’ the world should say,

You’re rude, so you’re sincere.

To be sincere, then, give me leave;

And I will frankly own,

Since you but this one virtue have,

'Twere better you had none.

This is my translation of what I think that the poem means:

*Translation*
You show honesty,
Your morals are high which make it rare,
Your value is not what they would be if it were me,
You are rude which for a man means that you care?,
If you care then let me leave be honest!,
And I will be true and honest,
Since you only have this one horrible trait,
It would be better if you didn’t have any.

This is my poem that I wrote about a double standered.








*Mine*

She works and works,
With little pay,
She went to college got that education,
With those amazing grades and references,
He works and bosses people around,
With all that free time and pay,
He went to college,
Got fine grades with unearned references.

The Secret Military War

In class we read an article for Times Magazine by Nancy Gibbs. It tells about women being raped and how they are afraid. "Military applies to chaplains" for these woman to talk to because "Not nearly enough mental-health professionals in the system" I think that this is insane and shocking. Nancy has many statistics that back her up and those also are terrifying. "3,000 women were sexually assaulted in fiscal year 2008" this statistic is for just women that are in OUR military. I have had so many friends that were, are, or are going to be in the military. All the statistics and words this woman has shown are remarkable. I knew that it happened just not that much "8% of cases that are investigated end in prosecution." Reading this made me think and it scared me.
Firstly, I think that there need to be many many more mental-health professionals for military people. If you look in the Yellow Pages you can find usually three or more pages of mental-health professionals that you can go to. There are so many places where civilians can go for help, but definitely not enough for our military woman and even men. Nancy said "Commanding officers in the field are not understanding how important this is" and I agree with her. I know that Commanding Officers do their best but still. In this article Nancy talks about a woman who went out for a cigarette without her firearm and got raped; she was afraid of being demoted if she told. It makes me think that woman are "Don’t Ask don’t tell" a little too much. Nancy also said "Some signs that both congress and the Pentagon are getting serious" and I hope that she is right but I wish it would speed up; I know that it is not only the government that must change but the women need to be able to stand up; but how can they when they know the statistics? I think overall that there need to be more places for rape victims in the military to be able to go to, men and women.
At the end of Nancy's essay she said "What does it say if the military can’t or won’t protect the people we ask to protect us?" and i definitely agree.

Woman Venn

We made a Venn Diagram on women from Elizabeth's time of ruling and modern time.
We did this because we are reading The Taming of the Shrew

Motivational Postor

I did this for Mrs. D's class. I went to http://bighugelabs.com/motivator.php
I had fun doing these, so I decided to do two of them. This is for Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week.

Shakespeare Bio-Poem

William
Who is a novelist, “Bard of Avon” and disputed
Who is from the writers haven
Who loves to write, his wife and children
Who feels proud, loved and necessary
Who needs something to write with, an idea to write and the passion to do so
Who gives us all of his plays, sonnets and writes
Who fears he will not be needed and that he will be gone
Who would like to see his work live on forever
Who shares his work with the world
Who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon
Who died in England
Shakespeare

The 3rd Book

Well first of all I think that the third book will/should be called: "Capitol 13." Well first of all I want to say that I do NOT like how the book ended. I just want the third book to be out now!!! I am so excited. I think that in the third book it will start off with Katniss being in District 13 with Gale, Haymitch and the rest of who lived. I think that Katniss and Gale will be planning a way to get the rest of their loved ones. I think that Petta will be interrogated by the Capitol as it is falling into nothingness and the rebels will be taking over the Capitol one and for all..... I think that District 13 will be amazing like nothing that any of them have ever seen; I imagine a barrier and machines that are very powerful. Later in the book I see Katniss picking Petta to be her one true love and them truly getting married and having a little one of their own. Also, later in the book I see District 13 becoming the Capital. (picture will not upload I will keep trying)

The Movie

I went to see the movie The Lovely Bones. I have not been able to read the book yet. The book is written by Alice Sebold. Now that I have watched this movie I definitely want to read this book. I think that this movie was confusing at times but after a little while I understood it. I watched the movie with people who had read the book already and they kept commenting and making faces when certain scene's came up. I am very excited that I get to read the book. In the beginning, it shows how the thirteen year old girl lived and then it never really shows exactly how she dies. Not being able to know how she died made my mind run sooooo much. During the movie it showed every girl that he killed. The youngest girl that this man killed was six. How could he kill a innocent six year old girl? The main portion of the girls that this man killed were thirteen years old. This man started killing and the more he killed the less amount of time he waited to kill the next girl. The man planned different ways to kill them, the ones that I can remember where mainly like little houses. He was somebody that the girl knew, saw often, in her neighborhood. The girl had a life, had a date later that week. She had a sister and a family. There were so many parts of this movie that were so sad and made me cry. At the end of the movie the killer dies and it made me laugh so hard, he died in pain. His pain did not last long but he got what he deserved. He was trying to pick another girl and I think he wanted to kill her too, she was older then thirteen but still. I am glad. Everybody has their own opinion and that is mine. Very well done movie.

January Meeting

The January Chick Lit meeting I think went very well. We discussed The Room on Lorelei Street by Mary E. Pearson. Some of the people in our group have already read the book before we got the book. Many of the people in our group enjoyed the book, some people thought that Zoe made some..... interesting choices. I thought that the book was very good; I enjoyed reading this book so much. I had to put the book down many times while I was reading because there are so many parts in the book that were emotional and/or hard for me to read. On the other hand parts of the book I could not just understand; maybe it was just me but I could not catch onto some parts.
The meeting went very well. We had very addicting Golden Oreo's that I had to stop myself from eating all of them. Then we also had some other stuff for food and drink; I focused on the Golden Oreo's. We talked about the book. We had our questions on colorful large pennies with a piggy bank in the middle. I think that our meeting went very well.

Civil Rights Connection to "Hunger Games"

We are doing this project because of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We are supposed to be blogging about how the picture we picked relates to Hunger Games. I got my picture from Marching For Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge.
I think that this picture relates to the Hunger Games because in this picture the boys are being forced to work; forced to do something that they should not have to; forced to harvest food that they cannot eat. When I looked at this picture and thought of Hunger Games I thought of Rue and her district. Rue was from District 11. I know that more then just District 11 harvest different goods. The districts cannot use anything that they harvest. In this picture these boys are wearing prisoner suits; although in the districts they do not have prisoner suits and they are not chained but they might as well be. Each district has "Peacekeepers" (guards) and they have guns and whips. Around each district is an electrified fence and in some there are barbed wire on the top of the fences. The people in the districts are forced to do many things that they do not want to. They harvest for the Capitol, for the pleasure of the Capitol. The districts participate in the Hunger Games every year for the pleasure of the Capitol and so every year the districts can be reminded that if they uprise that nothing good will come out of it, and people will be killed again.

The Hook

Driving down these roads makes my mind crash. I must stop and dream. Wait, not dream. Nightmare. This town and many that surround haunt my dreams and days. All the people I know and love have been here. A grave a a true friend sits past where I go every single day. How do people live with the pain of a town where there are so many memories. Love and hate, happiness and sorrow, horrified and unassailable. I'm unsure how there can be so many feelings in such an area. So many things gone right; but so many things gone wrong. Almost every night I howl and bawl; waking up from night terrors in a damp bed of sweat.This is why I'm about 200 miles west. To change it all around. My life in ten years will be exhilarating and safe.


I can hear my children screaming, playing and laughing. I see mud and toys of many kind all over my house. I see my large house in a beautiful area. On the other hand I see mud everywhere in the summer, and trails in the winter. I see the outside of my gorgeous house being very manly. I image myself having a settled down family. I imagine myself having a steady job that pays a nice sum of money. This way I can support my family.

Me in 10 (Oh, the Places I'm Going)

In ten years I see myself in a nice house; not sure if it will be a large house or a small house, but a house. In my house I want it to be white with pink trim. In my house I will have my son Alex and hopefully another child. A husband, a husband too. In this house I want to have it sparkling clean every single day. I don't think it will be with a son and his friends. I hear screaming and yelling in my future. I see cuts, oil, mud, bruises and broken bones. I smell amazing foods, animals and vehicles. I hope I get to bring my son to games. I truly don't care what kind of game; weather it be chess, soccer, football anything that my son wants. I just want to cheer him on and be a great mom. I see myself being a great mom.

I am going to college for Business Management. I want to get all A's and B's. I will strive for those grades. I want to have my own business and be my own boss someday. Not maybe for twenty years but sometime, someday. Everyday when I wake up I want to take a shower and get Alex ready and make breakfast. I see myself driving a nice family vehicle. I see myself driving to a great job that I enjoy. That I truly want to go to. I see myself working at a business helping other people get things done. Helping serve them so their life can get better. Life can be hard sometimes for many people, and I would like to help that.

In ten years I see myself very settled down. I see myself happy and content with life. I sense that I will have self confidence. I smell happiness and love. This is where I see myself in ten years from now.