Blog # 10

In the book the Golden Compass the dust is sin. And it said that when children start puberty and their daemon starts to make a permanent form the dust is their sin and that's why the Magisterium wants to prevent the dust from happening by cutting off the children's daemon. There is a connection with the Alethiometer because it tells the truth and dust in this book is truth or is sin. Its knowledge and the Magisterium doesn't want the children to have knowledge they want them to be pure and innocent. The Alethiometer tells the truth and shows what you want to know and what you need to know and its also connected with Dust because it can locate it.

Blog # 9

FREEBIE!!!!!!

Blog # 8

I want to write my essay on a book about death because I think its complicated for children to understand death and why someone the loved is no longer living. I am debating between "I remember Miss Perry", "I'll always love you" or "I miss you". They are all great books but I want to make sure I pick a book that relates to both genders and give a better understanding about death. I can relate to it because when I was younger I would be so upset because I didn't understand why one of my relatives died. It also can relate to my younger cousins because they didn't understand why my grandma died so young, she was only 59. And they were hurt and confused and it hit them hard.

Blog #7 Freebie

Well since this is a freebie I just wanted to annouce that I am going to NEW YORK for spring break!!!....so excited!!!

Blog # 6

It’s shocking to see how many books have been pulled from the classrooms, especially books that shouldn’t even be pulled. What’s really shocking is that most of the people who pull them aren’t even teachers or the education board they are mostly parents. Parents are like so controlling over what their child sees, hears, or reads. I know people have their own corky ways of doing things but when it comes to education parents should trust that teachers are doing their job or protecting their child from harm. The main reason why parents want to censor their children is because they have religious beliefs that don’t correspond to education beliefs and they don’t want what they say be contradicted at the school by a teacher or a book. And it’s really sad to see that they are “dummying down” the books by using shorter sentences and more simple words, which means low standards for children’s education.

Blog # 5

Milton argues that in our society there is a streaming foundation of knowledge in order to expand and evolve. I agree with Milton that knowledge should be uncensored and people should hear the truth. They should know what is really going on not a simpleton story. Some of the media tries to prevent the truth from the public by putting dumb stories or unnecessary information, but then there is other media like the internet and other liberal news channels that hardly censors information but people don’t watch those channels they watch popular news channels which censors everything.

Blog # 4

3 Things. . .

Three Things that Scare Me:

1. heights

2. losing my car

3. having no money

Three People Who Make Me Laugh:

1. my boyfriend

2. Will Farrell

3. my cousin Jacob

Three Things I Love:

1. chocolate
2. money

3. coke cola

Three Things I Hate:

1. stupid drivers

2. tube thinkers

3. stubbornness

Three Things I Don't Understand:

1. Geometry

2. drug addicts

3. crazy people

Three Things on My Desk:

1. cell phone

2. laptop

3. coke cola

Three Things I'm Doing Right Now:

1. cruising the web

2. talking on my cell phone

3. working

Three Things I Want to Do Before I Die:

1. visit all of my favorite European countries

2. have a lot of property

3. create an charity organization for unprivileged teenagers

Three Things I Can Do:

1. to find a good deal at any store

2. make anyone smile

3. play soccer

Three Things I Can't Do:

1. be on time all the time

2. sky dive
3. save money

Three Things or People I Think You Should Listen To:

1. CNN

2. President Obama

3. Your parents

Three Things or People You Should Never Listen To:

1. Dr. Phil

2. Sarah Palin

3. liars

Three Things I'd Like to Learn:

1. how to cook gourmet food

2. how to manage my time better

3. who killed JFK

Three Shows I Watched as a Kid:

1. AAAhh Real Monsters

2. Ren & Stimpy

3. Doug

Three Things I Regret:

1. not playing soccer for college.
2. not wearing my retainer long enough.

3. not staying single long enough.

Blog # 3

Mill's work was about the difference between governments ruled by either tyranny or authority. In the beginning of the reading he mentions the concepts of tyrannies that ruled Greece, Rome, and England. Those of tyranny rule would steal their people’s rights to think for themselves and do everything the leader says, almost like communism. People being controlled by democracy are corrupted because they are able express themselves freely and are able to choose a leader who represents them. From Mill’s point of view says that if the government makes a slight mistake or a big mistake then they can be removed.

Blog # 2

In this reading I discovered that there is a story for each side. And they all can be agreed for each side. For example Parliament believes cutting off all knowledge could lead to a pause in life and not moving on which can lead to going backwards and not moving forward. The Church believes that all books and knowledge should be written in God's image. The people believe that as long as there is censorship there is no truth. But, each had their own description in the world of knowledge, censorship, and the ways of life itself. John believes that censorship is just a way to cover up the truth. No matter how many sides there are to the argument it still stands that we have our own mind, body, and soul. Our experience are all different from each other and we express ourselves differently as well and if we all think together then we can make a difference because three or more heads are better than one.

Blog # 1

If I were an animal I would be a tiger because they have beautiful markings, they are fierce, independent, and they are feared. They also fear and they are exotic. I can't live without candy, credit card, coke cola, money, and my car. I actually consider myself a thinker and a listener. I would want to have pride and prejudice or moby dick because one is beautiful and can deviate my mind and the other is long and so a lot of time could fly by. I actually follow then eventually lead. My ipod is actually dead but I remember the last shuffle which was circus, given, dont trust me, you shouldve said no, and disturbia. My best personality trait would be that I am funny and my worst would be that I tend to procrastinate. I would use it towards tutition for college or parking, but then I would change my mind and travel with it. I have seen Mean Girls more than twice I like it because it is funny and its almost true. The best advice I have gotten is that "dont trust boys, if they say trust me they are lying", my grandma gave me that advice when I was 16 years old.