Reading Response #6

Silvia Soriano    The True Extremist on Abortion By Tom Trinko    1/29/13

                                                           Reading Respnse

                       Abortion something that has America, and probably the whole world argues against. Killing lifes a crime or not? After reading True Extremist On Abortion by Tom Trinko, I found out that President Obama supported abortion. More than half of America do also. Not many people knew about the law. Some people did  but didnt know clearly about how the law was made, what were the terms of the law, conditions, and all of the little details. Presidents have talked about the issue. States have put up their own laws about what their opinion is. They have put what is aloud and what isnt. What they have to be (Age) to get one. How far along they have to be. Is abortion supported by?  Are We well aware of this? Or do we just think we are.

           In the Article The True Extremist on abortion by Tom Trinko,  it says President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama. Mr. Obama supported the idea of abortion. "Is a good thing, most Americans who support abortion think that it is, under certain circumstances, an unfortunate necessity" said Mr.President Obama. Cause of President of Obama many people have started to support it. One person does make a huge impact on many of other people. On the other hand, President Bill Clinton didnt, President Clinton wanted to keep the whole "Abortion " Situation out of peoples and publics point of view. Back in those days the congress had banned Abortion just because of one person. Laws were made cause of that, that to get an abortion you needed your parents yes. You had to be a certain age. People listen to each other and take action.

          I asked myself a question while reading the article. Did the presidents have a good reason to support it and to not support it. President Obama apposed a bill/ law in Illinois  about 3 times. In the article it says "Obama voted three times against a bill, identical to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act supported at a federal level by ardent pro-aborts, that would require medical care for a baby who survives an abortion." In the article it says that Barack Obama never said he was against it. If he was, why would he? Did He or one of his family members ever get an abortion. Thats why he support it. Did he think that maybe some babies were mistakes? In the article it says that " Obama appears to be trying to justify the murder through inattention of a born human being because the mother wanted to kill the child". Maybe he just had a big heart? Or maybe he wanted people to live life the way they wanted to and planned to.

          Sometimes you get filled with what seems is right but is wrong. Your mind tricks you it tricks you into thinking things are fine but their not, nothing is right. You get tricked by people who are also being tricked. Abortion...a hard subject, for everyone to talk about and agree with. No one will ever probably agree if its right or wrong, cause their is no correct answer.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/the_true_extremist_on_abortion.html

Reading Resonse5

Silvia Soriano                      Haunted  By P.C. Cast+ Kristine Cast                            Jan.14.13

                                       How does this text address the points of view (perspectives) of other groups,                     especially those who usually don’t get to tell their side?

                     In the book the Hunted by P.C. Cast and Kristine Cast, its all about a girl named Zoey, who attends a school for vampire fledglings with special powers. Zoey and her friends must stop Neferet an evil force that is growing and has taken over the school. Zoey and her friends must use their gifts from Nyx their goddess  to help destroy Neferet. Zoey has to also chose between fixing her ex relationship or to take a chance  with Stark a boy who died in her arms who, out of no where comes back to life. But doesn't go back to being the person who he was, he has been charmed into Nerfert ways. Zoey has to also be careful with what she does, cause her sick grandmother could pay the consequences. She has to also make sure that the humans, her old friends and family and everyone else doesn't get hurt or killed by Nerfert. Zoey will have to trust her enemies and watch her friends turn into the enemies. 

                     In the book the Hunted by P.C. Cast and Kristine Cast, I say that the person that usaully doesnt get to tell his point of view is Damien. Zoey protector. He has fallen in love with Aphrodite, who has forcelly imprinted with a another vampire. In the book he doesn't get mad about the whole situation, he is very supported. He says its all for saving a life.  We dont really see what he really is feeling towards the whole problem. We dont see his ideas, thoughts about. We also dont really see him talking about the whole problem to anyone, expressing his feelings to anyone. He is like the character that keeps everything to himself. The quite one that mostly doesnt have a saying or a comment or even a thought against it. He just goes with the flow, like he is scared his opinion doesn't count, or it just simply wont be heard. 

                       On the other hand, I think that Erik, Zoey ex boyfriend is the one that usually doesn't get to tell his point of view . He and Zoey have gone through so much problems and drama, we dont hear or find out the real feelings he is going through. when Zoey cheated on him. The reaction he had when he found out that Zoey slept with someone else. What he was thinking when he was leaving the school, to go do what he was always meant to do. Why did he leave right after zoey cheated on  him? Was Zoey a push factor or a pull factor? In my opinion Zoey just helped make his dissuasion of leaving, maybe he didnt want to leave cause the only thing keeping him at the school was Zoey. Now that zoey and him were no longer together, he felt that he had nothing to keep him at the school. I wanted to know what he felt when he asked Zoey to get back together. When did he decide to forgive Zoey and why did he do that. What was his thoughts about returning with zoey and to the school. Did anyone help him finally decide what he wanted to do?

 in                    In My opinion both this characters would be a perfect fit to the whole point of view question. They both have such great communication to the main character Zoey. They both have so much do with Zoey, they are a huge part of her life. They both have made a big difference in everyone that has been hurt, or is trying to protecting everyone else. They both have a job to protect Zoey no matter what. Erik as Zoey boyfriend and Damien as Zoey Protector. 

                  In Conclusion Hunted by P.C. Cast and Kristine Cast is a book that keeps everyone wondering, who is thinking what and why. It gives readers chills while they read deeper into the book, figure out secrets and thr truth behind everyone. 

   

Reading Response #4

Silvia Soriano                                  "Bad Girls Dont die" by Katie Alender                                   12.12.12
                                Who has “power” in your text? How does that power get shown?
                         In the book "Bad girls dont die" by Katie Alender, its about  a girl name  Alexis, she use to have friends and be a normal teen, but when her best friend moved  she isn't the same person anymore. She isnt very social anymore. Shes the opposite of normal. She doesn't get along with a lot of people. Her only truly friend is her sister, but her sister Kasey starts to act different each day. Her other only real friend is Carter, as boy that makes Alexis feel safe, comfortable. Alexis has to find out whats wrong with her sister, Kasey who is acting weird and weirder everyday. Alexis cant do this on her own, she needs the help from someone she doesn't really get along. She will have to put her differences aside to save her sister and figure out what is happening to her sister. Alexis is up to face something she never has witness before. She will make new friendships along the way and even a new relationship, that is if she makes it out alive.
                       In the Book "Bad Girls Dont Die" by Katie Alender, I say that Alexis has the power. She is the one that keeps looking in deeper to find out what is happening. She is the one that looks for answers and questions. She knows what to do and what not to do. She plans what she is going to do, she does what she wants without asking anyone else. Shes being the responsible one. Alexis doesn't just think of herself and her sister first, she also thinks of others before her. She even thinks about some of the people she doesn't like, and some that had made her life a nightmare. The power gets shown because she isn't afraid to confront this thing. She isn't afraid to look for answers and to unreveal the truth behind everyone's past. She plays with "Her" Game. She knows how to control her thoughts and emotions. How to talk people into telling her what she wants to know without her telling them what shes looking for.She has the brain, the heart, and the sneakiness of a mice.
                   On the other hand I also think that Megan, the friend of Alexis, or well the person helping Alexis with the whole situation, could also be the one that has the power in the text. She is one of the victims that "Her" is planning to go after. She is experiencing what it really feels like. She is a big part of the persons history, she has a big part in all of this. Also in Alexis life, even if its just as friends or just as helping her. Megan knows who to handle this kind of problems and situations , she has known to solve this problems for years, its one of her favorite things to do. Also this inst just about saving Kasey, she also wants to find out the truth about her history. Its her chance to unsolve her life also, what really did happened to her, to her mother, why did it happened. Was it "Her" fault also? Megan gets a win win out of this situation.
                  If I was in both Megan and Alexis situation, I would both want to save my sister from that and learn the truth about my life and my past. Either way, what will always come first is saving the lifes of others, making sure that this doesn't get out to anyone or anymore people that aren't involve in this, because it will just make people want to interfere and stop what your doing. Your doing this because you have to not because you want to. People life's depend on this. Its not just a game you can restart if you lose. You just have one chance to make it right.
              In conclusion "Bad girls dont die" can be seen from many peoples point of views. Many people (Characters) could be the power in the text. It all depends in what way we see it in.What reason you think is the most important and why you think that.Its a book that will keep you wondering till the end. Every move they make will scare you.It will test your knowledge in every-way  possible.

Reading Blog #3

Silvia Soriano     "I know what you did last Summer" By Lois Duncan                 December 5 2012
                          Whose perspective is missing in this text? What would it be like if we put it back?
                             After reading the book "I know what you did last Summer" By Lois Duncan It made me realize that we all keep secrets, not because were embarrassed of them, but because we are scared of the consequences they might bring to us. The book "I know what you did Last Summer" is all about 4 friends hiding a terrible secret. All of them trying to move on with their life's and forget about the past. Them trying to be happy again. This book is almost all in Julie, one of the main characters point of view. She is trying to live the town to forget about everything that has happened. After Julie gets a threatening letter "I know what you did last summer"  she tries to reunite the gang to find out who knows about their secret.The whole book is almost all in Julie perspective. Julie trying to be positive about the whole situation, but at the same time keeping it under cover, from everyone that doesn't know. A person perspective that is missing in the book is the person that is sending the threat, other known as Collingsworth Wilson, the victim of their accident half brother.We never got to know how he felt how he felt about getting revenge on them. 
                        While reading "I know what you did last Summer", I always wonder why didn't they at least give us the person threatening them thoughts, emotions, ideas. Even if they didn't revel to us who he was. I guess it was fair that they didn't tell us anything about the "Person Threatening" them because this just made us want to read to the very end. It made our brains think more and deeper into the book. It made us try to get in the head of the "Person Threatening them" and Julie, and the rest of the characters head. It keeps us wondering till the end, making sure we pick up the clues its giving us, not leaving out any of them. The author must have wanted us to fall into her tricks so she can lead us of and into thinking another thing. So when we finish the book we would be wrong in the person we thought was "The person threatening them". Every mistake we made in reading it lead us further and further away from the truth . Its where our imagination and opinion, our instincts and creativity take place and take over. 
                        While reading "I know What you did last Summer" I also asked myself another question, why was the book almost in all of Julie perspective? Did Julie have the biggest plot in the book, was Julie the one that was suppose to find out who the person was. Was she the one that was suppose to get the gang back together. Was Julie the key to everything, she was the person that was the one that pushes everyone to help and find the truth. In my opinion Julie was like the key to everything. She was the "The Person Threatening"  them most likely target because she was the one that did want to go back and help the person they killed. She was the one that wasn't the most strongest person to keep the secret. Julie was a person that have felt the most guilt out of all of them. The one that actually cared about the person. The one that didn't want to just leave and not do anything about it. She was the one that wanted the most to forget about all of that, but couldn't. 
                   In my opinion if I was Julie, and I was forced to keep that secret I would lose it. The guilt would just be eating me in the inside, it would be killing me from both the outside and the inside. I wouldn't be the same Person anymore. I had lived and watch a person die right in front of me, and what could I do noting?  Why? Because my friends didn't let me, they made me keep it a secret. They did this to me,so when we stopped talking it was like trying to forget about it and they were helping me for once about it.They wouldn't be a reminder of what happened that horrible night.
                  In conclusion, their could have been many ways that this story could have gone that would have made the book more interesting and that could have made us wonder more, and keep us thinking longer and deeper. Made the book more entertaining. Could have given us the exciting taste in the book. Different perspective could have given the book many leads. It could have taken the book in many different directions and different endings. 
             

Social Awareness Project

Problems I see around school, my home, neighborhood, media.

• Peer Pressure
• Bullying
• Cyber Bullying 
• People starving themselves so people can like them and call them "Hot" and "Pretty" 
• Friendships being destroyed
• Stealing boyfriends 
• Teenagers disrespecting the elders
• Families  having money problems
• The Condition of some places
• Racism in neighborhoods
• Pollution of places 

Peer Pressure: 

                                           Peer pressure I see everyday, every where. People trying to fit in some where will always do what  "Those people" tell them to do. You will be forced to do something you have never  done and maybe never have wanted to do. You just do it to please people and because maybe they also do it. For whatever reason your doing  what they tell you to do it, its wrong your creating a fake you. Your not being yourself, your being the person "Their Creating" their perfect image. You being a follower not a leader.

                                     Continuing to fall into peer pressure, will just make you never be who you really are. People will take advantage of you cause they know you wont fight back or say anything. People will lose their respect for you. You wont be known as anyone anymore, just the shadow of someone or someones. What you can do is stand up for yourself. Do what you want to do, not what people tell you to do. Find friends who like you for who you really are. who respect you no matter what.

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Who are you to tell me to die?   

I know I'm not perfect 

I don't have the prettiest smile

Or the perfect body

Sorry I wear sneakers instead of heels

Sorry I wear jeans instead of skirts

Sorry I don't wear what you do

I play soccer instead of cheer-leading

Why you may ask?

Cause that who I am

So please enlighten me,

Who are you to tell me to die?

To disappear from the world

Are you perfect? No you aren't

You and me are the same

You are no better than me.

The Process;

                                                           The process of writing this poem was first thinking about a really big big problem. Then thinking about why people think their not perfect. The reason why sometimes people fall into a depression or into suicide thoughts, and sometimes  even starve themselves( Becoming bulimic, or any other eating disorders). This poem is all about , how we are all equal. No one is perfect, no one is better than anyone else. Also that nobody should ever tell someone they should die. Just because their not like you or "The Popular people" .

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Someone who Changes the World Everyday;

                       I picked Munro Chambers as a person that changes the world

everyday. Munro and the whole cast of Degrassi ( T.V Show, really big in Canada.)

traveled to Ghana to build schools. During the summer of 2012 they traveled to

Ghana to build schools in towns/villages where their aren't any schools for kids, and also town/villages   that cant afford  to build one. In the past years Munro Chambers  has also done a fundraising  video to benefit Haiti. Munro Chambers has also appeared in "We Day" along Co-Star Aislinn Paul.Many of the money were going to "Free the Children" ( 1 million to be exact.) 

Reading Response #7

Silvia Soriano             Reading Response "Deadly little Games" By Laurie Faria Stolart  Nov,14, 2012

                                   Everyone has a relationship that is unique. Nobody's knows whats really going on except for you and that person your in a relationship with. In a real relationship you need, jealously, trust, fights, there good things, their bad things. In the book "Deadly little Games" By Laurie Faria Stolart its all about a girl named Camila and her boyfriend Ben, relationship. Ben is unique, so is Camila they have powers, with each other touch they can see the future. Their relationship is put on the test when Ben ex-friend , Adam is hanging out with Camila, spending too much time to her. Ben keeps trying to show that it doesn't bother him, but he will soon have to try more harder when Adam is in danger and Camila, thinks its up to her, responsibility to make sure Adam is safe and nothing happens to him. Ben isn't to happy about this. The rest of the story is all about Ben and Camila trying to keep their relationship stable, and helping Adam stay alive. Will Camila save Adam, and keep her relationship with Ben? Will Camila lose one of them?
            While reading the book  "Deadly little Games" By Laurie Faria Stolart, I always asked myself one question, did Camila ever think what would Ben feel towards her spending time with his ex-best friend and her ex-date person (Boyfriend). Camila did talk to Ben towards the situation, but Ben always seemed like the type of person that never told what he was  really feeling. He always told Camila that it was cool, but that he just didn't want to lose her, she means to much to him. On the other hand he didn't want to share his  thoughts with her, making Camila feel a little weird and that sad that her boyfriend doesn't trust her enough to tell her thoughts, and hurt. Maybe Ben just didn't want to make Camila worried about anything. He didnt want to sound like a jealous boyfriend, that didn't like his girlfriend hanging out with guys. He wanted his girlfriend to feel as if he can trust her no matter what.
           While reading this book I also asked myself another question, why didn't Camila try to get Ben help her with this whole situation? If Camila thought that helping Adam would be a big distraction, or a problem for her and Ben relationship, why didn't she  just ask him to be their with her every step of the way. Ben could see that nothing was going and is happening with Adam and Camila that will harm his and Camila relationship. Camila could have spend time with her boyfriend making sure they were okay, that nothing was uncomfortable for both of them, and that Adam was safe and sound.On the other hand maybe Camila wanted to make Ben trust her more even if he wasn't their with her. She wanted him to know that it didn't matter if she was with Ben or with Adam, she would be faithful to Ben cause her emotions and feelings towards Ben never have and will change.
              If I was Camila and in her position, I would like my boyfriend, in this cause Ben to feel that he can trust me 100%, doesn't matter if I am by myself  with Adam, or with Adam and Ben. It doesn't change where I am and who I am with it still the same thing. If I'm with Adam that isn't going to make me cheat on Ben, just because I'm hanging out with him. I would be faithful to Ben during the whole situation.

           In conclusion "Deadly little Games" By Laurie Faria Stolart is all about a couple dealing with a person coming in between them, them trying to survive it, plus making sure  that person is alive. Them being able to get throw anything that they are face with. I have to be able to say that I am happy that I have never been in any kind of situation like that. I always try to make sure everyone is okay and great with each other.Sometimes you make the decisions you make thinking about the person that means the world to you. Sometimes you have to take a risk and just hope for the best.

Reading Response # 6

Silvia Soriano    Reading Response; The Storm swept one candidate toward the finish.But whoever loses has only himself to blame".

                                    After reading  "The Storm swept one candidate toward the finish .But whoever loses has only himself to blame." by John Heilmann I realized that Hurricane Sandy did have a hug affect on the election of 2012, Barack Obama VS. Mitt Romney.With Hurricane happening it gave both Romney and Obama a chance to prove them self one more time what the were all about, bye showing the public (The United States) how they would they take charge in a situation like this.How the President of the United States took his role in one of the most important and suppisenly dangerous event of the year. Also how maybe the new future President of the United States (Romney) does and reacts to this, also how he would try to take action or say.In any way the Hurricane Sandy would have made the choice more clear to everyone. Has the hurricane made the choice more clear? Or Has it made everything more difficult for everyone?
                          In the article "The Storm swept one candidate toward the finish .But whoever loses has only himself to blame." by John Heilmann I always asked myself one question during reading it, what if the hurricane made Romney and Obama act not like themselves? What if they only acted nice, sweet, helpful and caring because they knew this was their last chance to convince the people to vote for them. To help them for their own self fish ways , instead of the real ,honest truth that is being hidden. In the article it said that Romney really didn't have a role to play, he wasn't president so he couldn't do anything big like at that time President Obama could. He was also affected by hurricane Sandy his house was supposedly affected by the hurricane. While on the other hand when Obama did make a small mistake/ debated what to do it was Romney who took charge/ took it upon his self to do something. So really both Romney and Obama weren't given an advantage during the hurricane, it made them both look like each other, they couldn't control what was happening and what happened they just both went with the flow. They worked with what they had and tried to make the best out of the situation.
                       While reading "The Storm swept one candidate toward the finish.But whoever loses has only himself to blame."  I also asked myself another question, was the voting jeporized because of what Obama and Romney tried to due during the Hurricane? Were we scared of what might happen next during the hurricane that we just voted for the one that supposedly said stuff that charmed us, the one that filled our heads up with lies? In the article is said that most of the voting was finally decided because of the the lies , stuff, things that were bing said during the hurricane. On the other hand many of them  had lots of the people/ voters/ states/ governors support since before the hurricane. With both of then traveling to every state to talk to the people  they had to have convinced the voters during that period of time. Obama had the Hispanic support since way before that, so people couldn't just say that Hurricane Sandy affected the voting because it really didn't. Maybe it could have made people finally decided/ or confirm their final choice that they have been debating on.
                             If I was able to vote, I would have chosen the Candidate that was saying what he would be doing, what actions he would be taking during Hurricane Sandy because, I would be scare like every other person. Wondering whats going to happen next. Whats going to happen to me, my family and every body I know. I would I even be able to survive in my house with my family if I don't even have power or anything else useful in my house. I would just want everything to be fixed at once and Ill listen to anything they say to feel safe and like everything is going to be okay.
                                 In conclusion I have learned that the Hurricane Sandy did affect the voting and the election in many ways.It change the voting of many people. It gave both candidates a chance to make themselves look good before the voting. It was a election like any other, it had its bad side to it it had its good side to it. It was what makes us human. In the end we had the choice to vote for who we wanted, in the end we had the last word and our decision is what made election what it is. We shouldn't regret it , its past.