Being sexually harassed is horrible and a traumatic thing to happen to you. One of the characters in this book named Maya Ewell is the victim in this law case against sexual harasser Tom Robinson or Maya Ewell's father. There were beating in this situation and also black eyes were being thrown about to Ms. Maya Ewell.
By the state of Alabama, anybody under the age of 18 having sexual intercourse with some one 18 or older is considered rape.
Last summer I remember reading a newspaper on a raping of a 10 year old girl and a 33 year old man. The 10 year old girl was crossing the street by herself but a walking man grabbed her and tried to sexually assault her. Luckily, the girl screamed "rape" and "help". People heard those cries of a 10 year old girl and rescued her. Two men tackled the rapist down to the sidewalk ground. Other people made a crowd and verbally assaulted the rapist One woman grabbed out her cell phone and call 9-1-1. Within 10 minutes the police arrested the rapist and comforted the victim while she needed it.
In "To kill a mocking bird", by Harper Lee, the author does an amazing job in showing craftsmanship and dedication towards this book. It covers hard topics that are too painful to explain in words so Ms. Lee wrote them down in a book. Harrasment is one thing but the different kinds of harrasment are unbearable. There is verbal assault when you yell out horrible things to people. (Unfortunately this is not a crime). There is also two kinds of physical harrasment. There is assault+battery when you use your hands to hit someone and try and get what you want the wrong way and there is also sexual harassment which is when you try and invade people's sex organs or their private areas around them.
This book teaches so much to children, young adults, and even grown adults. It teachers children well because it talks about childhood relationships and on how they may affect you in a powerful way. It teaches young adults about crime in our world and on how it may build on to you if you get involved with the wrong people when you become older or currently. It teaches adults on how kids or young adults may have an affect on the current events that you are getting yourselves involved with or the situations. Finally, To kill a mockingbird is definitely about coming of age because it talks about what teenagers are going on now a days and also on how close people may have an affect on this time period of there's.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Coming of age blogspot- To kill a mocking bird
"To kill a mocking bird", by Harper Lee, is a very deep book that requires readers to think hard about choices while coming of age. This book is also very challenging, not only because of the font size and if it's hard or not, but the meaning and description of each chapter. There was a special quote from this book that was about coming of age which was "My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a baptist". This has a strong meaning because It's discussing about on how trust maybe in the hands of a person that may or may not be reliable to another.
A personal experience of mine had happened today as well. I have told my friend what another friend told me about my friend and she was smoking-red hot. She looked like she was ready start beating someone like a potatoe getting mashed into mash potatoes. At first I was scared because I though she was about to kick ass in 3 seconds but thankfully she did not. She looked unreliable because she kept on questioning towards me on why my other friend told me that thing, which I wasn't supposed to know. I gave her an answer but that look of hatred was still on her face and that look of sorrow and guilt was on mine.
A character that I can relate to is Scout because she doesn't show any emotion due to the fact that she has a blank face on every event that happens to her. That's pretty much what I do because I don't want to show my real emotions and get harrased about how the situation occured with my other opponent. Us as characters do have similar internal and external conflicts. She doesn't know how to voice her opinion which happens to me sometimes when I am debating about something that I like and an external conflict is that she's not very social with people while talking. I have times when I am just sitting there with my two other friends feeling like a third wheel and an extra.
Scout's people that are active part of her life and so is mine is familiy. Coming of age does involve family because we work together and function as a roller coaster with our daily routines and emotions/feelings. My family is very special to me because they have taught me everything that I know today and they are guiding me through my life as I am coming of age.
A personal experience of mine had happened today as well. I have told my friend what another friend told me about my friend and she was smoking-red hot. She looked like she was ready start beating someone like a potatoe getting mashed into mash potatoes. At first I was scared because I though she was about to kick ass in 3 seconds but thankfully she did not. She looked unreliable because she kept on questioning towards me on why my other friend told me that thing, which I wasn't supposed to know. I gave her an answer but that look of hatred was still on her face and that look of sorrow and guilt was on mine.
A character that I can relate to is Scout because she doesn't show any emotion due to the fact that she has a blank face on every event that happens to her. That's pretty much what I do because I don't want to show my real emotions and get harrased about how the situation occured with my other opponent. Us as characters do have similar internal and external conflicts. She doesn't know how to voice her opinion which happens to me sometimes when I am debating about something that I like and an external conflict is that she's not very social with people while talking. I have times when I am just sitting there with my two other friends feeling like a third wheel and an extra.
Scout's people that are active part of her life and so is mine is familiy. Coming of age does involve family because we work together and function as a roller coaster with our daily routines and emotions/feelings. My family is very special to me because they have taught me everything that I know today and they are guiding me through my life as I am coming of age.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Book blog- Along for the ride
Teenagers love to be in a relationship because it makes them feel special inside and outside. The book Along for the ride by Sarah Dessen talks about a girl named Auden who doesnt know how to ride a bicycle and is going away for vacation to her father's house. Meanwhile, she becomes to develop a new special friend that becomes very close to her heart: A special boy tries to teach her to ride a bicycle. Auden also develops new friends since she gets a job for working at a clothing boutique nearby.Auden is off to a great start in being in her father's house and also finds out something that you can't miss.
Whenever I went away somewhere that has really hot girls I do not try and get their attention that easily. I do know how to ride a bike but whenever I am swimming in the ocean by the beach, I always do and try to make a nice grin for them to recognize me but than 5 minutes later their buff boyfriends end up showing with them to go have a nice time. Crushes in the teenage world is ok to bare but crushes in the real world may end up ok but no the greak ok you want it to be.
This book also has great memories to cheer some confused lovers up. One of Aubren's friends want to go to the club (nightclub) to escape all of their troubles and dance the harsh feelings out on the dance floor with great house music but Aubren turned it down since she just wanted to be alone for the night and go back to her father's house and sleep. Dancing the night away couldn't help Aubren out but could it help you?
After a girl has rejected me or not liked me like that I don't really go home and start crying. I just watch television and spend time with my family. In my opinion, it's better to hang out with your family than just spend a day with a girl. Although it may sound weird, I really don't want a serious (steady relationship) with a girl until I have completed my education because my goal in life is to become a cardeologist and I don't want any distraction from that. Medical science is more important to me than a relationship that will last for a month or so. What do you think?
Whenever I went away somewhere that has really hot girls I do not try and get their attention that easily. I do know how to ride a bike but whenever I am swimming in the ocean by the beach, I always do and try to make a nice grin for them to recognize me but than 5 minutes later their buff boyfriends end up showing with them to go have a nice time. Crushes in the teenage world is ok to bare but crushes in the real world may end up ok but no the greak ok you want it to be.
This book also has great memories to cheer some confused lovers up. One of Aubren's friends want to go to the club (nightclub) to escape all of their troubles and dance the harsh feelings out on the dance floor with great house music but Aubren turned it down since she just wanted to be alone for the night and go back to her father's house and sleep. Dancing the night away couldn't help Aubren out but could it help you?
After a girl has rejected me or not liked me like that I don't really go home and start crying. I just watch television and spend time with my family. In my opinion, it's better to hang out with your family than just spend a day with a girl. Although it may sound weird, I really don't want a serious (steady relationship) with a girl until I have completed my education because my goal in life is to become a cardeologist and I don't want any distraction from that. Medical science is more important to me than a relationship that will last for a month or so. What do you think?
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Book blog- The serious kiss
Teenage Romance is difficuclt for students in junior high school and high school. In the book The serious kiss by Mary Hogan it talks about 2 girls to hatch a plan together a very serious kiss. They want to recieve this kiss before their freshmen year of high school. Apparently in junior high school, kissing is a big thing to girls in the 8th grade with drama to follow it.
In this book, their are times when drama unfolds open and happens all because of a serious kiss or something that leads into the serious kiss. Conclusions that I can make from this text already is to not rush your love life. People may say that age is just a number but it's more than that. It's a limitation of things you may do in your life. You can't smoke until you are 18 years old or older and you can't drink alcohol until you are 21 years old or older. So why would you want to rush the kiss of your life? When you finish your education and have a job to maintain your life than you should have that special kiss and be with that person the rest of your life.
I think the author is trying to explain about teenage love and how sometimes children might take it out of hand and find themselves in a big heap of trouble before they are even 18 years old. Mary Hogan also wanted to explain the difficulty of parent-child relationships when the parents find out about this, "serious kiss", and how it may affect the child's life. Everybody knows that their parents would kill them if they found out that they were dating at such a young age.
This theory may be at work anytime in the world. Teenage love may escalate before, during, and after school. Children might meet up before school starts and try to have an affectionate kiss, children may meet up between time to transfer classrooms and still rush the kiss, or children may meet up at a local hangout after school and really try and have a taste of what true love is really. If you do have a serious kiss at an early age, it may escalate more into more drama and cause you many problems in life. Love should be expressed at a certain time when you are old enough and mature enough to handle it no matter how the consequences are.
In this book, their are times when drama unfolds open and happens all because of a serious kiss or something that leads into the serious kiss. Conclusions that I can make from this text already is to not rush your love life. People may say that age is just a number but it's more than that. It's a limitation of things you may do in your life. You can't smoke until you are 18 years old or older and you can't drink alcohol until you are 21 years old or older. So why would you want to rush the kiss of your life? When you finish your education and have a job to maintain your life than you should have that special kiss and be with that person the rest of your life.
I think the author is trying to explain about teenage love and how sometimes children might take it out of hand and find themselves in a big heap of trouble before they are even 18 years old. Mary Hogan also wanted to explain the difficulty of parent-child relationships when the parents find out about this, "serious kiss", and how it may affect the child's life. Everybody knows that their parents would kill them if they found out that they were dating at such a young age.
This theory may be at work anytime in the world. Teenage love may escalate before, during, and after school. Children might meet up before school starts and try to have an affectionate kiss, children may meet up between time to transfer classrooms and still rush the kiss, or children may meet up at a local hangout after school and really try and have a taste of what true love is really. If you do have a serious kiss at an early age, it may escalate more into more drama and cause you many problems in life. Love should be expressed at a certain time when you are old enough and mature enough to handle it no matter how the consequences are.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Book blog- romeo and juliet film response
Romeo and Juliet is one of the most intense/romance/violeance films I have ever seen. It was so good. The intensity was outstanding since the drama kept on leading up and up, making every detail sweet and juicy. The romance in this film was really heart-braking and sweet.It was heart-braking because Romeo and Juliet couldn't be accepted as a couple since they come from different backgrounds and It was sweet because the two lovebirds would sneak away just to see each other, which I think is really nice to do if a couple really loves each other.
Catherine Martin quoted " It's a celebration of the eclecticism of urbanism. A celebration of the neon sign, if you like. The kitsch,vibrating,exciting,edgy".I actually agree with Catherine Martin because this film was very exciting due to it's qualities of violence,romance,and intensity.Vibrating scenes did occur such as big thunderstorms popping up on verona beach with Romeo,Tybult, and Merccucio, since it was a very tense scene.It also had alot of nice architectual details that made the movie give a huge spark to it.
The scene at Verona beach with Romeo,Tybult, and Mercuccio is an example of this great spark. When Romeo had the gun, and had the decision to kill himself or Tybult, since Tybult had murdered Mercuccio with his knife, Romeo declared lively that someone must die with merccuci;so Romeo has the gun and murdered Tybult on the edge of a pool area. That was a wise and brave decision for Romeo to make.
This film had alot of craftsmanship of William Shakespeare. He wrote alot of other plays that I am sure had alot of high qualities that showed in the movie. Love is a powerful high quality William Sheakspeare put into this since It also had alot of symbols, Power is another high quality that was plugged into the movie, and the final quality it had was independence. It showed Two backgrounds colliding together to try and form one background but unfortuantely it has happened in the afterlife we call Heaven.
Catherine Martin quoted " It's a celebration of the eclecticism of urbanism. A celebration of the neon sign, if you like. The kitsch,vibrating,exciting,edgy".I actually agree with Catherine Martin because this film was very exciting due to it's qualities of violence,romance,and intensity.Vibrating scenes did occur such as big thunderstorms popping up on verona beach with Romeo,Tybult, and Merccucio, since it was a very tense scene.It also had alot of nice architectual details that made the movie give a huge spark to it.
The scene at Verona beach with Romeo,Tybult, and Mercuccio is an example of this great spark. When Romeo had the gun, and had the decision to kill himself or Tybult, since Tybult had murdered Mercuccio with his knife, Romeo declared lively that someone must die with merccuci;so Romeo has the gun and murdered Tybult on the edge of a pool area. That was a wise and brave decision for Romeo to make.
This film had alot of craftsmanship of William Shakespeare. He wrote alot of other plays that I am sure had alot of high qualities that showed in the movie. Love is a powerful high quality William Sheakspeare put into this since It also had alot of symbols, Power is another high quality that was plugged into the movie, and the final quality it had was independence. It showed Two backgrounds colliding together to try and form one background but unfortuantely it has happened in the afterlife we call Heaven.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Book blog #14- The Battle of the Labryinth
Junior High school can be challenging with school work and relationships. Can you ever exist in a school where vile girls are man-eating cheerleaders, trying to sabotage a freshman's reputation because of his kind? Well In the novel The Battle of the Labrynith by Rick Riordan, High school freshman Percy Jackson begins his mother's fiance's school due to his bad behaivor thanks to unexpcected enemies that continue to pop up into his life out of no where.
Being attacked at every school and destorying the school can be very heartbraking. I feel bad for Percy because he must not feel wanted or excepted at anywhere he goes to feel welcome. Well at least he has that special camp full of his family. When I say family I quote his half- blood close friends+actual family. Percy is a cool guy because he has a great attitude and way on how he handles things. To me,he is a one of a kind because his father is Poseidon, Which it god of water.
Freindships do come along. Percy is sort of like me, not because we are both greek, but because we both have a very special best friend that is a girl. One of my best friends that are girls is Nicole Boudinot. she does understand me knowing that we do hang out alot and that we like to talk to each other about the randomest things and also just mumble into the phone when we have nothing else to say... well that's what I do.
Tomorrow I will be going over her house to hangout and have fun with her and another person. In this situation, I do feel like Percy because he does have strong connections with mostly females than males and that's exactly the same with me.This book does take you through an amazing adventure and I am love with it already even though I am on the 22nd page.It really is inspiring also because not only does it have a huge thing on friendships, but it also has a little treat that everyone will enjoy.
Being attacked at every school and destorying the school can be very heartbraking. I feel bad for Percy because he must not feel wanted or excepted at anywhere he goes to feel welcome. Well at least he has that special camp full of his family. When I say family I quote his half- blood close friends+actual family. Percy is a cool guy because he has a great attitude and way on how he handles things. To me,he is a one of a kind because his father is Poseidon, Which it god of water.
Freindships do come along. Percy is sort of like me, not because we are both greek, but because we both have a very special best friend that is a girl. One of my best friends that are girls is Nicole Boudinot. she does understand me knowing that we do hang out alot and that we like to talk to each other about the randomest things and also just mumble into the phone when we have nothing else to say... well that's what I do.
Tomorrow I will be going over her house to hangout and have fun with her and another person. In this situation, I do feel like Percy because he does have strong connections with mostly females than males and that's exactly the same with me.This book does take you through an amazing adventure and I am love with it already even though I am on the 22nd page.It really is inspiring also because not only does it have a huge thing on friendships, but it also has a little treat that everyone will enjoy.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Book Blog #13- mentors from 812
http://shadman1212.blogspot.com/2010/12/compound-is-there-someone-to-blame.html
Shadman's blog is really great. I like on how he questions the characters in his book. It's realy creative and it can inspire others as well. In his blog post on the book " The compound", he questions his characters and kind of is trying to get feedback from his readers, so than he can impact the feedback into his character's position. I also like on how he pushes himself into writing more than 3 paragraphs. It can be challenging but it's worth it in the en because the more he writes, the more he shows off his fancy character each week.
http://peaceloveandpages.blogspot.com/2011/01/identical-readind-response.html
Ashelys blog makes everybody have a little soft part in their heart after they read this book blog. Although I have never read the book Identical by Ellen Hopkins, it seems to me that Ashleys put a lot of thought into her work and she does make it very powerful even though this book blog was only 3 paragraphs long. I love on how Ashley shows a great amount of passion for her family and also talks about what it may be like in her family and all the love they spread. She also is very descriptive in comparing the family in the book to her family, which I like and it shows alot of work and thought put into it.
http://kaylaceelovesbooks.blogspot.com/2010/12/living-on-impulse-by-cara-haycak.html
Kayla is another mentor for me. She brings up so many great things that I have to share with you into this blog post. Her book tells about a girl who has a stealing problem. I like on what kayla did; she brought up actual information that happens on in the real world. Parents telling their children not to hit people, no stealing, and always be kind to one and other. It really is a good mentor to look at and she also asks the reader questions if they have ever stole something before and make it lound and clear when she beings her questioning by saying YOU!. This blog post was beyond the 3 paragraph world and it blew me out of the water.
Shadman's blog is really great. I like on how he questions the characters in his book. It's realy creative and it can inspire others as well. In his blog post on the book " The compound", he questions his characters and kind of is trying to get feedback from his readers, so than he can impact the feedback into his character's position. I also like on how he pushes himself into writing more than 3 paragraphs. It can be challenging but it's worth it in the en because the more he writes, the more he shows off his fancy character each week.
http://peaceloveandpages.blogspot.com/2011/01/identical-readind-response.html
Ashelys blog makes everybody have a little soft part in their heart after they read this book blog. Although I have never read the book Identical by Ellen Hopkins, it seems to me that Ashleys put a lot of thought into her work and she does make it very powerful even though this book blog was only 3 paragraphs long. I love on how Ashley shows a great amount of passion for her family and also talks about what it may be like in her family and all the love they spread. She also is very descriptive in comparing the family in the book to her family, which I like and it shows alot of work and thought put into it.
http://kaylaceelovesbooks.blogspot.com/2010/12/living-on-impulse-by-cara-haycak.html
Kayla is another mentor for me. She brings up so many great things that I have to share with you into this blog post. Her book tells about a girl who has a stealing problem. I like on what kayla did; she brought up actual information that happens on in the real world. Parents telling their children not to hit people, no stealing, and always be kind to one and other. It really is a good mentor to look at and she also asks the reader questions if they have ever stole something before and make it lound and clear when she beings her questioning by saying YOU!. This blog post was beyond the 3 paragraph world and it blew me out of the water.
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