Free Post-The Philippines

Could you imagine 160 mile per hour winds coming through your town and completely demolishing everything in sight? This was an awful event that just happened in the Philippines recent. Towns and towns were leveled by a cat 5 typhoon Because of all the damage health, clean water, and food has been cut off from some of the natives affected by the storm.
Since we are around the Thanksgiving time I think it is a good time to reflect on what things that we have in America. We think something like water or food in a frivolous thing but in some extremely poor countries that is blessing if they have clean water for the day. So we should be thankful for all the blessings that we have in or country and apart of our lives.

Reading Times

LOTF
11/13-35 minutes (Chapter 3)
11/16-65 minutes (Chapter 4)
11/18-25 minutes (Chapter 5)
125 minutes

Blog Prompt

If you could spend time with one person for a day that has ever lived who would it be? What would you ask him? What would you do together for that day?

If I could meet one person it would be Jackie Robinson. I want to meet him because of his courage and toughness he had during the segregation time periods. I would take him to see a baseball game and go see the new movie about his life called "42". I would ask him how he was so tough even when people called him horrible names and even gave him  death threats so he would quit Major League Baseball.

 I think we would have a lot of fun because we are both love the game of baseball. He is one of my role models because of his courage and toughness. That is why I would choose him out of all the people in the entire world to spend a day with.

Free Post

The other day I watched this movie called The Blind Side. This movie was about a teenage boy that was picked up off the streets by an affluent family. He was very big, very athletic, and protected his family. He then went on to play in the NFL for the Ravens. His name was Michael Oher.
This movie taught me a  two valuable lesson about my life. The first one is about to never take for granted what you have. This lesson is expressed because this teenage boy has nothing. In our lives something as simple as a hamburger at McDonalds may not be significant to us but to a homeless person it can be a treasure that they have obtained. The second lesson is that you should always protect the ones you love. Michael saves his little brother in a bad car crash and in test we scored in the 90th percentile in protection instincts.  I would recommend this movie to anybody that likes deep movies with valuable life lessons.

Reading Times

Lord of the Flies By: William Golding
11/9- 1 hour Chapter 1
11/10-35 minutes
11/11- 55 minutes (in-class)

Total:145 minutes

Reflection to LOTF

I think that if teenage boys were trapped on a deserted island that it would be chaos and constant fighting. Because just like in our present day lives it is a fight for power whether it is government or between countries. Even in our simulation even though Trevor was chosen as leader Eli kind of took charge and if this was a real situation there would probably be problems.
I think there would be a lot of fighting between the leaders and the opinions of others within the group itself. I do not think our class would do well because of the big leadership personalities of our fellow classmates. Challenges we would face is that there might be a lot of arguing between each other and all talking at one time. Because of all the bickering we would not get anything done in words of survival.

Reading Times

Insurgent
10/30- 40 minutes
Re-read At Sea
10/31- 35 minutes
Thesis
11/1- 45 minutes
11/3-15 minutes