Reading Response #1

Silvia Soriano                      "Teen Depression: A Guide for Parents "            April 17, 2013

                  People always say how this generation is messed up, how we the new generation is a joke. How we are worse than people before us. That some of us are crazy, we get judged.  Many of us go through puberty at a earlier age than people in the 90`s and 80`s. Were barely 14 or 15 when it happens, we go through that cause we feel lonely, we feel left out, we get hurt. Mostly our parents are the last person we turn to. Cause they just dont, or we think they dont understand cause we are different. So What do we do? We go on with our lifes, faking a smile and pretending everything is okay but than we cant anymore. We hit our breaking point. Which is just worst. We fall into a depression which leads us into worst stuff; like drugs, suicide thoughts and alcohol. all this happens cause we chose not to talk. 
           Parents dont normally notice when we hit puberty, they think that its no big deal. Its just hormones, they went though it, they came out fine so their kids will have to also come out fine. All people aren't the same, and just because their different doesn't make them odd, weird or crazy, it makes them a human being.  Acting out is part of this, parents assume they know everything and that when their kids are acting out and having mood swings it because their on bad things, like drugs and alcohol , they right away assume that their doing something bad. Than kids dont want to trust their parents because all the parents ill do is judge them, and they dont want that.
            All kids in our generation have stress, in everything. In school and social life with family. Adding hormones and puberty to the situation doesnt make it better. In society you can never please anyone. If you skinny your anorexi, if your smart your a nerd, if your happy your fake, if your  sad your emo. Its hard trying to fit in. Parents they dont really notice until you do something bad or dangerous. If kids notice that their parents dont care about what they do, they will lose motivation in life. They will no longer care about what they do, what they say, they will lose hope in life. Which leads to suicide thoughts.  
         People still ask why? Why do we do the things we do. Why do we think of suicide when we have so much to live for? We have so much to look foreword to. Cause we have no one their for us, No one is their for us. We are lonely, by ourselfs, we want to be loved and wanted , we want help. Help from our parents. 


http://www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_teen.htm

Response Romeo and Juliet (Last Reading Response of the 4th Quarter )

Silvia Soriano Reading     Response Romeo and Juliet (Last Reading Response)    March 20, 13

           While Reading the book Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, I found it interesting that how people in the old times also fought for their love as they do now in this century. How they also sometimes don't try hard enough and give  up as soon as tings get hard. They look for the easy way out of things. Romeo and Juliet is all about a forbidden love. Two young people fall in love at the wrong time at the wrong place. How they fell in love, like love at first sight. Who would try anything to keep themselves together against anything and everyone. Romeo being the only son of `Juliet people number one enemy. Juliet going to have to marry someone else falls in love with Romeo. On the other hand is their love cut short after Romeo is accused of Killing a loyal person of Juliet people? Will Juliet  believe that his innocent? Or will she have to forget about him forever?
         Juliet and Romeo meet at a party that Juliet people were hosting. Romeo and some of this other Friends/People sneaked in by wearing mask. Before the party Juliets mother has informed her that many girls her age get married already and some are even mothers. That in fact she was one too at the age of Juliet. Juliets mom ( Lady Capulet)  tells her that Paris seems to want to be in-love with her. He wants to marry her. Lady Capulet knowing that Paris is also a Capulet approves of this and wants them to get married. Was Romeo and Juliet love at first sight? Or was Juliet just looking for an excuse to not  Marry Paris? Juliet did seemed surprise when Juliets Mother brought up the idea of marriage and seemed rushed to get her ( Juliet) and Paris married, she also seemed like she didnt want to ( In the Movie). Although she went with it because her mother seemed to have loved the Idea. She would have done anything to please her mother.
   On the other hand Juliet did express her self to Romeo when they finally meet each other officially. When she found out that he was the only son of their greatest enemy, she didn't know what to do, if she didnt care about him she would have no made a big deal out of it. On the other hand she said "Ay pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer". Juliet did know what she was doing when they kissed. What she said felt like it was from the bottom of her heart.  She said that she has never done this with anyone else, he was her first everything. Love at first sight has done this to her. Maybe Juliet did fell for Romeo and maybe people thought that Romeo was just an excuse for marriage with Paris, but who are we to judge? She just feel for him at the wrong time at the wrong place. You cant chose for who you fall.
     In my opinion love doesn't have an age love doesn't have a choice, it happens to everyone. You may think its at the wrong moment , wrong place or even with the wrong person  but in the end it all comes together in the end when you are with that person. If you love that person nothing and no one will keep you apart from that person.
    In conclusion Romeo and Juliet is all about a love that is forbidden by parents.A love that is fought for by both people who want it and wont let it fade or disappear. Even if we dont think it has a happy ending, maybe it had one for them. Its not our story to judge, its just our story to understand. To enlighten us and change our minds about how we see love in this world, and how happeniess has different ways of happening                      .

Reading Response Non-Fiction

  "Girls With Eating Disorders"  3-6-13
                                                             Reading Response

                          Before reading this article, I knew that many girls around the ages of 13-18 maybe younger or maybe even older. Have an eating disorder. Trying to fit in and having friends, but because of their weigh/size they dont have it all. So they make them self's lose weight. By becoming bulimic, through up, starving themselfs. Or having any other eating disorder. When you think your not skinny enough like other girls, pretty enough like other girls, dont get guys like other girls you take/ make decisions that maybe not be the best, but you think they are. You change everything about you because you think you are the best like everyone else, either you or people make you feel that way.

                      While reading this article i found out that "Essential fatty acid status is altered in eating disorders that result in weight loss". Does this mean that its the same? Or is it just another eating disorder. When you gain weight it because your body is not getting rid of all the junk food, all the bad stuff that your body hasn't disgusted. Even if you look skinny in the outside, it doesn't mean that you are skinny in the inside too. While reading this article, I found out that when girls first start their eating disorder they have a mass of 15k in their body, after they have started with their eating disorder they have a mass of 19k. Yes they look skinny, but their health isnt as near as that. They are in risk of every sickness on the charts.A normal girl has to have 3 different kinds of fatty levels, fat levels are needed in the body, they arent as bad as everyone think. We need them to be healthy, even if we dont want them, even the healthiest people have them. Cause our body needs to sweat it needs to get rid of them.

             It takes time for girls with eating disorders, to get their health, their eating ways, their eating system back to normal. They wont be able to go back to normal in days, or hours, after there body has been use to being bulimic for months, years. Its going to be hard coming out anf telling someone you have an eating disorder, but you need to come out, so that they can help you. That they can be with you every step of the way on getting better. You wont be able to do it all alone. You`ll need everyones help. Your doctors, that will be putting you back in a health diet. Your family, that will support you emotionally. The doctors will need to tell you what kind of eating disorder you have. Cause their are more than one eating disorder in the world. Eating disorders are now more commonly. Their are anorexia nervos, bulimic nervos and simply bulimic, you need to treat each different one carefully, cause their not all the same. 

 

         Many girls do it every day, why? Cause they want to be perfect. But no one in the world is perfect, we can try. Choices are always the hardest. You do it for a wrong reason, your harming your self. Is your health really not important to you that, you dont care about it. Many girls risk their life just to try to fit in.

http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/eat_disorder.html

Reading Response #8

Silvia Soriano                                              Reading Response                                                        1/27/13

                           Suicide Prevention by Melinda Smith, M.A., Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Lawrence Robinson

                    After reading an article about suicide, I learned that, many of those people dont want to end their life,  they just want to stop the pain that they get caused.  Suicide is a very strong topic to talk about. Many people take their life's everyday. They stop connection with the outside world, they forget about everyone else. Sometimes people dont show their depression, they dont show any side of suicide thoughts. On the other hand sometimes they show all the signs, but we just are too stupid to notice them. It doesn't matter if someone says joking about how he tried suicide,  maybe he had a reason to bring it up. if he brought it up its because he has some connection to it. People that have tried to commit suicide are scared to go out and look for help. Why? Because people judge, people talk, word spreads.  Their scared of how they might be treated after telling the truth. Even if maybe you never tried or thought about it, bringing it up will worry lots of people, it could get the wrong attention of people, but it could get the right one also. 

         Their are ways of stopping suicide. Their is hope and saving for everyone. The best way for people to be helped, is first by admitting they have a problem.  By coming out of their shelter and telling someone. Letting them know what everything will be okay. That no one is here to judge, no one is here to tell them what they did is wrong. That they are in a safe environment, that they will get the help that need. People give forgivnesses. Their are second chances in life for a reason. You arent a freak or someone with needed needs. Talking to the person in a nice way, not judging way. Being a friend instead of a doctor. Being your self around that person, not being fake. Making sure the parents know too. Dont keep it a secret. Tell his parents, so that they can tell their doctors and get treated with medication, or therapy. 

    Make a back plan for any kind of emergency. Know What can set a person off. Be an protective friend. Make sure he/she knows you have their back. Making good changes in their daily routines. Make time for talking about how their day was, how was school? Do you wanna talk about anything? Is something bugging you. Just dont approach them like your demanding answers, and good ones. Make them feel loved every second of the day. It wont be easy for you and it wont be easier for them. But you have to try and help them be the person they use to be. Its never to late to change things, and make them go back to the way they were before. Dont hit them with cheesy lines and really happy lines. Cause nothing is ever 100% true. Nothing ever goes as its planned. If theirs disappointment on the way, they have to be prepared. 

                       Suicide one of the hardest topics to ever talk about. For a person having suicide thoughts and for a person knowing someone really close to them, knowing that in a ny second they could snap, and they could be gone. I cried reading this, even though it only had facts. It didnt have any warm touching stories. This a problem what is very well known in the U.S.A. If we see something we should say something. Every moment counts, if were talking about a life that is on the line.

                              http://www.helpguide.org/mental/suicide_prevention.htm                                               

Reading Response #7

Reading Response                                    "It Happened to Nancy"                                      2.13.13


                        After reading the diary of an unknown teenager ("It Happened to Nancy"), It really got me to realize that in this world their are consequess  for everything you do. Its all bout "Nancy", a regular girl that goes to school who has problems of her own; her parents are divorced, she lives with her mom while her dad lives in Arizona. The whole book is written by her. One day while at a concert with some of her friends, their was a huge fight. She couldnt find her friends any where, she starts not being able to breath, she meets a guy named Collin who saves her from the crowed. Collin charmed her immediately. Soon her and Collin start to hang out. Collin tells her he is a college student. Nancy is only 14 which means he has to be atleast 4 or 5 years older than her. She soons falls in love with Collin. They are like irresistible, in Nancys point of view They talk and have "Dates" They hang out during school hours and every time Collin wants to . One day weeks into their " relationship", Nancys mom takes a trip because of her job. Nancy thinks its a good/great idea to invite Collin over to her house. Collin ends up rapping her during their date or well more after they finish their date, when he was supposed to leave but he ended up rapping Nancy. Nancy doesnt want to agree with the fact that her "knight in shining amour " raped her. Weeks have passed bye and Nancy has looked for Collin everywhere. At the School he told her he studied at. It turns out that he did not ever study their, they have no idea who "Collin" is. Nancy starts to feel sick very sick. Weak not being able to do anything, tiring easily and fast. Her mother worry takes her to the hospital. she soon finds out that she has HIV/Aids. She doesnt tell her best friends. She than decideds she wants Collin to pay for what he did. She than goes to Arizona to live with her dad. She starts a whole new life with her dad. Wanting to forget that she has HIV/Aids. The whole book is about Nancy struggle with HIV/Aids and her wanting her favorite author to publish her book for other girls to know what she has gone through so that more girls dont go what she went though. Sadly she doesnt have a happy ending.
               While reading this article I wondered, Why didnt Nancy tell anyone sooner. If she was feeling sick; weak and just sicky. why didnt she. She would have to tell someone about What collin did to her. She is supposed to trust her mom and tell her everything that was going on. She Told her mom too late. Maybe, just maybe if she would have gone to the hospital or to the doctors early their could have been something that would have helped Nancy. Their could have been treatments to help her stay alive or even maybe remove it. Maybe not remove it, but have it under control. She should have not kept quite. She could have hope in life. She went through pain everyday because she stayed quite.
           On the other hand the virus was already in her. In her body growing everyday, killing her little by little. Killing the person she was. The Virus brought her closer to her family. To her parents who were divorced. She bonded with her dad who lives in Arizona. She went to live with him for a while. The virus was killing her so she wanted to be with her dad too, cause she has lived with her mom. Not saying that the HIV was a good thing. Cause it wasnt, she just learned a life lesson. It cost her life, but she set an example to many girls out their and mostly cause of what she did with her diary. She published it so many girls like how she was, dont go throw what she went through.
            Life lessons dont always leave you time to correct your past. Some mistakes and lessons have to cost you something bigger than money, appearance, popularity, it cost you the most important thing of all, life. The best gift anyone could have is taken away in what looks like seconds. Nancy made every second of her life of what she had left worth it. She learned a lesson and became an role model to many girls out their like me.

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.