This is my second period English fina...

This is my second period English final. The topic was to pick and choose three of these ten different question that were supplied to us. I was listening to Mr. Sutherland about his feelings on which questions would be to choose in order to write the demanded length for this assignment. Instead of doing this final similar to my first semesters one, i am going to write for quality rather than quantity. i know i have said this in my reasent "reviews", but this time i am writing this for my self rather than for a grade. i am going to look back on this blog next year and really use this to my advantage while i am writing english, history, spanish, and etc. papers.

i have decided to choose question number two to analyse first because i feel it will be the easiest to open with. i feel its the best for the fact that it can best also because it will help me if i fall in to writers block cause this tp[ic is very open and will help me very much... Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write? well i get my best inspiration mainly from school. like from my different classes, friends in that i spend the most time with, and sometimes even about football and practice.

So, when i write about my classes it doesnt really tend to be happy but it is my best writings specific to school, for reasons that i am not really sure of. but if i had to guess or assume what was the cause of this weirdness, i would have to guess that it is because i do not like the majority of my classes. and the reason for the best writing id probably based on that i am well "educated" on the subject. as in educated, i mean like i know about it the best compared to any other subject basically because it is my life. so from this topic i can really understand that personally, the better i know the topic i am talking about, the better my writing will be.

The next thing that i am going to try to analyze about the inspiration of my writing is friends. i have never really writen on my blog about people that i hang out with, such as friends. But little works that i have done, on my own while i am at home working on becoming a better writer, are mainly topically based on my friends. i think i am more inclined to writing about my friends is because i am the most comfortable in this topic and that i really like talking about them and the joy i get from them. like my friends frank, ian the mclens, and my girl friend and how i have really funny conversations with them and how i laugh a whole bunch while i am in there presents. from this topic, i have learned i need to like the subject of my writing and that i need to be comfortable talking about it.

Now on to futbol americano! my favorite subject off all to write about. i think i like this one so much is because i am very proud about the moderate "skill"level i posses in this sport. i guess it is bragging with out any body really to really judge me for doing it. it is one of the few things i think i am really proud about so i think i like to express my love to the game and the satisfaction i get from playing with my friends on the football feild and the comradory that i am building with them that i will always have. and here is a link to my blog about a football game of me bragging... here it is. And this also.

And about my family. The most inspiration of all! i think it is the most inspirational because i just down right love them so much. they are my honestly my best friends so i kind of tend to get competitive with them... Encinal game. i think this explains my competitiveness quit well.



The second question that i have chosen is question number four. this is it, How do the things you read influence what you write about or how you write it? i am not all that quit sure but i have really noticed i some what mimick the style and "mood" and genre of writing that is being portrayed in front of me. i do not really know if this, i do not know how to fraze this, trait helps my writing per say but it helps me get throught an assignment. like the book reviews and even in one of my blog posts about the Iraqy War. some of my friends did not believe i wrote it because of the words i used in that weekly blog post.

about the monthly reviews, i have found my self, all three times writing in the way that the authors of each book wrote. it is almost like a trans.. Old book review. this book review was on a book that was the appitamy of a chick book. but i honestly really liked it. it was very well put together. but anyways, the book was writen by new york times best seller, Nicholas Sparks. he is a very very good writer. and i really loved his writing. he inspired me to write with a lot more detail, and a whole much more abundance of sensory words that i have learned really enhance your writing. well i guess it depends on the topic that you are writing about.

The way i am affected by the book, "nickeled and dimed" was that my writing was boring. its kind of weird to say but i really think it is true that it got significantly boring... here is the blog. as you can see, if you clicked the appropriate link, i kind of just rambled. like it was to the point that i was not able to finish reading that blog entry. but on the other hand, this "trait" really does help me. all i need to do is just learn how to filter and basically use appropriate writing styles to mimic. in order to use this trait to my advantage i need to practice over the summer. when i look back on to this "blog review" i want to be able to say i have learned. durring the summer break i am going to read different works by different authors of different genres and select the few styles i want to go farther in depth with..

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If you've read other books in this same genre, how does this one compare? i have actually have read two different books of this genre. And both of these books have been written by the same author, Nicholas Sparks. The other ones were soooooooo much better though. i am totally and utterly amazed that this book is so terribly poop compared to the other books. the other books are known as the notebook and a walk to remember. they both are in the number one and number two spot in my "list" of favorite books ever read. But for some reason i do not feel that Nicholas Sparks did all that well with this book, the last song. I feel that he has really dropped the ball on this book and let down all off his readers.

In my book, the last song, Nicholas Sparks gives off like a feeling or persona that he does not want to write this or something? in the previous books sparks has put so much detail in every perfect spot. Never with too much and never with not enough. He really makes good sense of situations of panic, love, and maybe even the occasional sorrow. In the great book, a walk to remember, Sparks does a superb job in capturing the writer and making them "bond"/ connect with the characters that were portrayed. like he uses people that we would imagine very well because they remind us of people in our life. in A walk to remember, Nicholas Sparks does really well by putting in sensory adjectives and descriptions that as you can imagine, enhance your image of he scenes and concepts that (without the details) difficult to completely grasp. Even though i kind of liked the book, like i said, Nicholas Sparks really "dropped the ball" with the book, the last song. personally i feel let down to the max! i am truely insulted by this man. Not only was i let down by this FOOL, his book was pretty much terrible to the max. what made it really bad to me was that it was so predictable! like you said mr. sutherland, it was so easy to predict. for example, "After being crushed my the volleyball boy, she stammered off with her ruined shirt while he gazed at her until she disappeared into the sunset ....". like you for sure can imagine that5 she is going to have a relation ship of some sort with this fellow volleyball guy. I feel this quote has major significants because it is foreshadowing on what is coming up later in the book. it is foreshadowing that this guy, the volleyball guy, is going to come back into the story in a really big way. like some thing pertaining to those two going out or becoming really good friends and have adventures with each other. like i have heard a little about this book and movie so i kind of know what to expect. i have like put two and two together and i think that ronnie and this "popular, vollyball player" will fall in love. I really could not wait to see what would happen and what not in the near future but as the books gone on and how i have stated in this very well paragraph. even though i am not going to say it, i imagine you know how i feel about it. In conclusion of my response to the question, number six, the other books of this genre were a lot better.


Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters. I have decided that i will choose to analyze the character ronnie and the relationship of ronnie and her dieing father. Of to ronnie.. Ronnie in the beginning hated almost everything in her life. it sort of all started with her dad leaving three years prior to the beginning of the book. the book comes in at a pretty low point of her life after all the events of the summer happened. and then it flashed back all quick like by her mother asking her about the stuff that went down that got her in a pretty sufficient amount of trouble. It all started with her arrivel into her "new" home, well that is for the time being. She was on her way all the way from New York, where she was living with her mother. she is arriving at her fathers house in a small city in north carolina. The city is called Sands Island, even though it is not an island.

Ronnie's father left her and her little brother and her mother about three years before her deciding to come. It was when he was on tour, because he was a musician playing the piano for a semi low key band, he just decided to not come back. no phone, nothing. Nothing at to some what prepare his loving and excepting family for not being able to see him with months and months on end.. You can pretty much imagine what feelings that they were feeling about him. Ronnie, straight forward in the book, said that she hated him. Even when he came up or from where ever he was living, she would not meet with him just to talk or even get closer or even just to spend time with him, like her brother did. she dispited her brother for this because she felt that he was accepting that their father was a "bad human being". her father even made a concious effort that even her mother saw was true and sincerely from that but she was NOT having it. She hated him and she felt for those three long years, that she would never ever take him back. "Mother I dont care what he does or says, i hate him". You can basically see from that quote that she hates him.

Veronica "Ronnie" Miller won't be eig...

"Sometimes you have to be a part from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more."

 

Ronnie said this to her boy friend. She was refering to being apart from her parents. But of course at different times. Ronnie is seperated from different people in her family and she learns to love them more and more as time goes on.

Veronica "Ronnie" Miller won't be eighteen until the end of the summer, so she has to follow her mom's rules and is off with her younger brother, Jonah, to spend the summer with her dad in a North Carolina beach town. Ronnie hasn't talked to her dad in over three years. He left New York City and their family and moved back to his hometown. Ronnie is rebellious and having been arrested for shoplifting back home, a quiet summer in North Carolina might be the best thing for her. At least that's what her mother thinks. Ronnie arrives with the intention of ignoring her dad. On her first night there she wanders the beach and meets a girl, Blaze, who seems okay. But Blaze is addicted to Marcus, and Marcus is bad news. And Marcus is interested in Ronnie. Ronnie can tell Marcus is trouble and tries to avoid him. But the triangle will ultimately create problems.

 

I wasn't really expecting to like this book so much, but I did. It was an easy read and a page turner. It had a good mix of romance, family, self-discovery, suspense, etc. The book was WAY better than the movie. The movie was a complete disappointment. It would've been better without Miley Cyrus as the lead. She cannot act. I recently saw the movie. Recently meaning like about two or three hours ago with my girl friend. BOOOOOOOOO!!

The way i am going to approach this p...

Antonio Manibusan

5/26/10

5^th period

 

American Genocide?

 

The way I am going to approach this project may be different than most of the other people who also did this assignment. I am not going to tell you my thesis statement and act like who ever is going to read this has no idea about the subject that are going to be brought up in the future... There are many different opinions and view points on the Iraqi War. This war is going on in Iraq against a group that is notoriously known. They are called al-Queda. It all started on September 11, 2001. Or did it?

 

Most people in the general public believe this but very many writers, professors, and all government officials that have been involved in any type of national security for The United States of America beg to differ. They all have stated that it all started with George Bush Sr. Bush Sr. and Osama bin Laden had problems in the nineties and most say that bin Laden won the battle between those two. When Bush Jr. was placed into office by accident he wanted to avenge his father by getting revenge against the al- Queda. Instead of him starting the battle with his father’s enemy, they threw the first punch.

 

This was September 11, 2001. One of the worst moments in American History and the first time ever that there was American blood-shed on American soil. This was the best situation for Bush to get granted the power to send troops into Iraq. Except Bush lied in order to get absolute control.

         

George W. Bush has been lying for numerous years about why he has placed thousands upon thousands of troops into Iraq. First he said we have to get revenge. Then he decided to change up his story and say it was to make sure the nuclear weapons have been put to a halt. Then the greatest lie yet, he said he we were helping them. We have so many casualties to our counties name though... We are not helping.

 

U.S. military troops in Iraq are fighting enemies that they are not sure what they look like. The bad thing about this particular problem, is that no one, knows what they look like. Apart from the ignorant and bias image that is portrayed by the government and by our parental guardians, we don’t know what our enemy looks like. Think about our enemy right now, and if you would please, imagine him. What do you imagine? No, I know exactly what you imagine. Men who are dressed to show respect, love, and loyalty to there lord king and savior. What is that, then?

 

The troops are told to shoot-to-kill these men. But then again the must not shoot at some one that does not LOOK like there enemy. Such as a civilian. But how do you know who is your enemy?, looks right. But your enemy wears what he wears what he wears as a religious responsibility.

 

 If I correctly recall from my sophomore modern world history class, this falls in the category and definition almost directly corresponding to: deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The definition that I just stated is the definition of Genocide. Weird.

 

 

"Some say that Iraq is not a part of the broader war on terror. They claim that the organization called al Qaeda in Iraq is an Iraqi phenomenon -- that it's independent of Osama bin Laden and it's not interested in attacking America. That would be news to Osama bin Laden. I presented intelligence that clearly establishes this connection. The facts are that al Qaeda terrorists killed Americans on 9/11, they're fighting us in Iraq and across the world, and they're plotting to kill Americans here at home again." [CNN,7/24/07 ]

This quote, as you can see, is taken from CNN. It was written six years after the attack and five years after the declaration of war between America and Iraq. Well supposedly are helping Iraq. Who has the right to be mad?

 

 

US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice- 2008 “war on occupation in iraq” http://www.globalpolicy.org/iraq/war-and-occupation-in-iraq.html          

5/3/10

 

Charles, D. (1990) Iraq's 'nuclear' furnaces stay in Scotland.. New Scientist — 11 August. Available from: www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717290.500-iraqs-nuclear-furnaces-stay-in [Accessed 15 December 2008]

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Peterson, S. (2003) Remains of toxic bullets litter Iraq.. Christian Science Monitor — 15 May. Available from: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p01s02-woiq.html

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CNN-Inside Poltics (2003) Commander in Chief lands on USS Lincoln, 5 May.. — Available from: http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/05/bush.carrier.landing/

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Robert M. Bowman (2005) Why the war?..

Available from: http://www.rmbowman.com/ssn/iraq2.htm

5/3/10

New thing on guam!!

In south pacific seas, in between California and the northern part of indonesia. The coordinates are 13 28 North and 144 47 East. This is my home and. An extremely beautiful country. What makes this island so magnificent is the untouched forrest that have markings all around the paths dating back thousands of years ago. It has many different climates in different areas. It many has this fantastic warm climate, pretty much a tropical climate. Its climate is a very comfortable humid almost all year around. Even when it rains the sun still shines through the thin clouds giving the some of the greatest displays of nature known to man. Many colorful rainbows to appear and in our culture a rainbow is like a loved one that has lost there life is dropping down to say hello.

The island people are friendly and giving so this makes a very loving atmosphere. The U.S. calls my island Guam because they could not pronounce the correct name that is actually Gua han. Which means “We Have so we give ”. Our people are a very giving people and always willing to share with eachother.

The island of Guam is full of beautiful lush green jungles filled with many different trees that bear fruit, such as mango, papaya and coconut. There are also many plants that are not in other places that are in fact edible. The food there is plentifull and extremely delicious. It is a combination of influences by oriental food and Spanish food because when the Japanese and Spanish came to TRY and conquer us they left some food dishes. The island is surrounded with crystal clear ocean waters, which are no doubt inviting to anyone who flies over. It is protected by the surrounding coral reef (similar to Hawaii’s) that are just as colorful as the forests of the island.

The United States Military base is one of the biggest industries of Guam. Touring is also a very important industry. The military base takes up one third of the island, which has many sacred ancient burial grounds, and fishing and hunting areas has been restricted for many decades. This is very sad for the native people not to be able to walk in the steps of their beloved ancestors. The jungle and beaches of this one third is no longer needed for jungle warfare training, yet the government will not give it back to the people or allow them onto the sacred and ancient area. Hopefully the people will succeed in at the very least, to be allowed to fish and hunt again in this area.

There are many tourist who come from all around the world. It is like a little Hawaii. There are very lucrative industries in Guam, such as… construction, transshipment services, concrete products, printing and publishing, food processing, and textiles, imports and exports. Some of these industries are multimillion industries.

Guam is a very beautiful tropical paradise This county has the map reference that is Oceania. The land boundaries are 0 km. Since this country is an island in the Pacific Ocean. It has a whole bunch of coastlines on all sides of it. Now to Guam’s demographics.

There are mostly Men in Guam right now. At the age of 0-14 there are 25,686 males, and 23,938 in Guam as of the year 2007. These age groups are 28.6% of Guam’s population. There are 111,895 people in Guam that are between the ages of 15-64 years of age. There are 57,023 that are male and 54,872 women in Guam right now. This age group holds the most amount of people. At the age of 60 and over, you in a group of people that holds 6.9% of the people in Guam. 5,592 of these people are men and 6,345 of them are females.

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After being crushed my the volleyball boy, she stammered off with her ruined shirt while he gazed at her until she disappeared into the sunset ....

I feel this quote has major significants because it is foreshadowing on what is coming up later in the book. it is foreshadowing that this guy, the volleyball guy, is going to come back into the story in a really big way. ive heard a little about this book and movie so i kind of know what to expect. i have like put two and two together and i think that ronnie and this "popular, vollyball player" will fall in love. I can not wait.

Ronnie is the main character in this book has to go to her fathers house for the whole summer. even though she has not interacted with her father in three years she is dreading it. when she was thirteen when her father left them and has been devastated ever since. Ronnie and her mother are not that close either so she has had really hard times with her parents. Her mother lives in new york but her father lives in South Carolina. this is a recipe for problems.

On the whole ride from new york to south carolina, ronnie was either yelling at her mother, yelling at her brother, or yelling to her mother and/ or brother about her father. and even when her and her family got to there destination, stuff did not really get better. Her brother and her father are really close but she is not bonding with her father. she feels that her father has pushed her too hard when he was around and in her life. he pushed her in her piano practice and studies. she would spend hours and hours sitting with him going over and over and over her lyrics and "chords". he forced her into doing a really spectacular event where she performed a sonnet. she actually really enjoyed it but that was one of the last times she saw him. it gives her bad memories...

The Iraq War, also known as the Occup...

The Iraq War, also known as the Occupation of Iraq, The Second Gulf War Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn is an ongoing Military campaignwhich began on March 20, 2003, with the invasions of iraq and The military led by troops from the United states and the United Kingdon.

Prior to the war, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of (WMD) posed a threat to their security and that of their coalition/regional allies. In 2002, the United States Army passed Resolution which called for Iraq to completely cooperate with UN weapon inspectors to verify that Iraq was not in possession of WMD and cruise missiles. The United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) found no evidence of WMD, but could not verify the accuracy of Iraq's weapon declarations. Lead weapons inspector Hans Blix advised the UN Security Council that while Iraq was cooperating in terms of access, Iraq's declarations with regards to WMD still could not be verified.

After investigation following the invasion, the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had ended its nuclear, chemical, and biological programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion, but that they intended to resume production if the Iraq sanctions were lifted. Although some degraded remnants of misplaced or abandoned chemical weapons from before 1991 were found, they were not the weapons which had been the main argument to justify the invasion. Some US officials also accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda, but no evidence of a meaningful connection was ever found. Other proclaimed reasonsfor the invasion Palestinian suicide bombers, Iraqi government human rights abuses, and an effort to spread democracy to the country. Included Iraq's financial support for the families of.

The invasion of Iraq led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed Iraqi government. Violence against coalition forces and among various sectarian groups soon led to the Iraqi insurgency, strife between many Sunni and Shia Iraqi groups, and the emergence of a new faction of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. October 2006, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Iraqi government estimated that more than 365,000 Iraqis had been displaced since the 2006 bombing of the al-Askari Mosque, bringing the total number of Iraqi refugees to more than 1.6 million. By 2008, the UNHCR raised the estimate of refugees to a total of about 4.7 million (~16% of the population). The number of refugees estimated abroad was 2 million (a number close to CIA projections) and the number of internally displaced people was 2.7 million. In 2007, Iraq's anti-corruption board reported that 35% of Iraqi children, or about five million children, were orphans. The Red Cross stated in March 2008 that Iraq's humanitarian situation remained among the most critical in the world, with millions of Iraqis forced to rely on insufficient and poor-quality water sources. by the new

In June 2008, U.S. Department of Defense officials claimed security and economic indicators began to show signs of improvement in what they hailed as significant and fragile gains. Iraq was fifth on the 2008 Failed States Index, and sixth on the 2009 list. As public opinion favoring troop withdrawals increased and as Iraqi forces began to take responsibility for security, member nations of the Coalition withdrew their forces. In late 2008, the U.S. and Iraqi governments approved a Status of Forces Agreement effective through January 1, 2012. The Iraqi Parliament also ratified a Strategic Framework Agreement with the U.S., aimed at ensuring cooperation in constitutional rights, threat deterrence, education, energy development, and other areas.

In late February 2009, new U.S. President Barack Obama announced an 18-month withdrawal window for combat forces, with approximately 50,000 troops remaining in the country "to advise and train Iraqi security forces and to provide intelligence and surveillance". General Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, said he believes all U.S. troops will be out of the country by the end of 2011, while UK forces ended combat operations on April 30, 2009. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said he supports the accelerated pullout of US forces. On February 17, 2010 Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates announced that as of September 1, 2010 the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" would be replaced by "Operation New Dawn".