Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Readers Response #3
The other night I pulled about a magazine from 2006, and began to read an article entitled "Website Helped Girl Commit Suicide" I instantly started reading for this topic interested me. While her friends at home thought everything okay Susie was secretly posting on a suicide website. She would post things about how she was planning on killing herself and why. People on the website were incouraging it! no one tried to stop her. Her final post was "goodnight everyone, see you on the other side" and some of the comments said stuff like "I'm glad you finally did it! good for you!" Do they not realize what happend to her family and the area around where she lived? She was a person, not something that could just come back. It shocks me that no one tried to stop her. no one. I can understand that she probably liked that someone was agreeing with her and encouraging her, but I just don't understand why at least one person wouldn't say "No! Stop! This is your life! You have a boyfriend that loves you! you have friends that love you! YOU HAVE FAMILY THAT LOVES YOU!" That is what I would tell her. But no one did. I've been trying to find this kind of website to see how many people actually post on it daily how how many people don't help. If theres any way I could do a project on it for this class then that would be amazing!
Friday, January 14, 2011
Readers response #2
Earlier this week I read an article in a magazine. This article was a bout a girl, about my age, who wanted to fit in with the older group of guys she was hanging out with. The guys asked her to try and smuggle drugs across the border of Mexico and bring them back to the U.S. Just as she was about to cross the border back home she was pulled over and arrested because they found the drugs.
When she got home, the guys that were her "friends" weren't even there anymore.
It really just adds to my STRONG no drugs theory. And it also reminds me to know who my friends are, because if any of my friends would ask me to do that I would know that they weren't actually my friends. How could any girl think that people who asked her to do something illegal were her friends?
No where in the article did it say that she didn't have any friends, but it did talk about how much she wanted to get out of her routine. There are other ways to get out of routine than to smuggle drugs across the border of Mexico! The question I ask myself is, why did they even put this in the magazine? Do they want us to learn common sense? Do they want us to feel bad for her?!?!? Because if that's the case then to quote my father "if you're gonna be stupid, then you gotta be tough" (:
When she got home, the guys that were her "friends" weren't even there anymore.
It really just adds to my STRONG no drugs theory. And it also reminds me to know who my friends are, because if any of my friends would ask me to do that I would know that they weren't actually my friends. How could any girl think that people who asked her to do something illegal were her friends?
No where in the article did it say that she didn't have any friends, but it did talk about how much she wanted to get out of her routine. There are other ways to get out of routine than to smuggle drugs across the border of Mexico! The question I ask myself is, why did they even put this in the magazine? Do they want us to learn common sense? Do they want us to feel bad for her?!?!? Because if that's the case then to quote my father "if you're gonna be stupid, then you gotta be tough" (:
Vocabulary Words.
Pagoda: a temple or sacred building,usually a pyramidlike tower and typically having upward-curving roofs over the individual stories.
Spontaneous: coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency.
non-partisan: not supporting or controlled by a political party.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Readers Response #1
Title: L.a candy
Time read: 2 hours
Pages: 1-132
When I first picked up the book I just wanted to read something, ANYTHING! But as I'm reading it I realize that it is extremely well written! Nothing like what I'd imagine L.C's writing to be like. Out of the two main characters, I really relate myself to Jane WAY more than Scarlett (even though I'm not really like either of them(: ) I really connected with the paragraph in the book about how Jane was trying to pick out bath mats. To her they were COMPLETELY different but to Scarlett they were the exact same. I feel i'm that way a lot with my mom when I'm at ULTA, the woman can't tell the difference between Covergirl and Urban Decay...sighs. I also feel like Jane in the way that, I'm always trying to get out of my comfort zone. Being normal and safe is SOOOOOOO overrated. To quote Kris Allen "You gotta liiiivvveeee like you're dieing". I plan to continue reading this book and finishing the series, which is something I never thought I would do(:
Time read: 2 hours
Pages: 1-132
When I first picked up the book I just wanted to read something, ANYTHING! But as I'm reading it I realize that it is extremely well written! Nothing like what I'd imagine L.C's writing to be like. Out of the two main characters, I really relate myself to Jane WAY more than Scarlett (even though I'm not really like either of them(: ) I really connected with the paragraph in the book about how Jane was trying to pick out bath mats. To her they were COMPLETELY different but to Scarlett they were the exact same. I feel i'm that way a lot with my mom when I'm at ULTA, the woman can't tell the difference between Covergirl and Urban Decay...sighs. I also feel like Jane in the way that, I'm always trying to get out of my comfort zone. Being normal and safe is SOOOOOOO overrated. To quote Kris Allen "You gotta liiiivvveeee like you're dieing". I plan to continue reading this book and finishing the series, which is something I never thought I would do(:
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