WHAT IM GRATEFULL FOR

i am gratefull for my family and my doggy and my friends. They are important because they are very important to me and i dont know what i would do with out them. because they are all i have in my life. My friends are important to me because they entertain me and give me random stuff i guess. My doggy is important because she is there to entertain me and make me smile :).

i am thankfull for skateboarding because it is something to do when im bored and to work on and get better at. its also the foundation for my learning because it helps my feet eye coordination and i learn about it.

i am thankfull for music because it entertains me and i can relate to it and i like play it. i love al types of music and without it i would die.

Some of the differences in the book and in the movie are when Lily went to the dinner she didn't steal anything but in the book she stole snuff for Rosaleen. Also when T-Ray came to get Lily he grabbed her by the hair before they got a chance to talk and in the movie they talked first.

I think the book was better. It gave a better understanding of everything that was happening but the movie also literally showed what was happening. Besides reading is better for you than watching a movie. And in the book she didn't write her name with the spit jar. And it was kinda graphic how they beat her up.

All in all I think they did a good job on making the movie like the book except for a few parts but you can't have everything that the book had. I liked the music in the movie. It was very good with the violins and the partial piano playing. The ending was even sadder in the movie because of how T-Ray felt about his wife leaving him.

"Killing is like fucking" this is my least favorite line from the book. I think that is really gross and supports my idea too why we are reading such a book. I really don't know why we are reading such a inappropriate book. Anyways i think it is a good simile.

   "A spasm of the lungs" p.93 this shows this is such a good use of comparison. Its cool how they used the word spasm because its gives you a definite idea about how his lungs felt inside. It makes you feel like you are in the book.

       "While i feed these lubbers a yard of shit" pg.102.this also shows the language in the book. This also gives you a feel of what it sounds like to live back then. And how dirty some people were back then.

 

     

dialectic journal

gates of fire
"with 65 pounds of bronze armor on " i think this is very striking because that is a lot of armor to wear for a fearsome soldier going to battle. i don't know how they can get around with all of that on. p.21

"i could feel the crown of the helmet tear up and off, shearing half my skull with it. The bottom lip of the eye hole had opened the muscles beneath the brow so that my left eye was sheeted with blood." there are some really intense scenes in this book . The description is SO good that it feels like its happening to you as you read the book. p. 64


sometimes it seems like this whole thing is a dream, because its always talking about all these injuries that probaly would kill you the first time but appearently not.

This year George Bush will finally be told to leave the White House. In his place will there be a old white man or a black man. The reason for choosing Obama is because he seems to have a lot of ideas. Besides I think America is ready for a change in presidency. But if I were to vote for McCain, it would be because he has more experience and he's been in government for a long time. We need someone like that when were going into a depression and we're at war.

I think some people just don't want to be viewed as racists so they stay on Obama's side. McCain has more experience in government. Hopefully he'd last throughout the time he is President. Another reason is because of Sarah Palin. She was the governor of Alaska so she has some experience. I think she is also young and energetic.

If I were to choose Obama, it would be because he is younger than McCain and has more people skills and is more energetic than McCain. Joe Biden, his running mate, has been around for a long time and knows a lot about foreign policy. He was also an attorney. According to Wikipedia he was a senator and reelected numerous times.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27241356/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/joe-biden-leno.html

hero blog

This is my hero his name is john McCarthy he is my hero and my uncle. He is my hero because he is a firemen and a funeral home director he has saved lives and helped people. He has a very big family both on his wife's side and his side . He is a hero.

weekend blog homework (great title)

i like this photo because it is a good angle of my favorite band. and it says allot about them. like that they look like a punk band you can tell just by looking at them....he represents the punk look it helps me visualize him singing the kind of music he sings.

secret life of bees codeing

1.My predictions were not very accurate.none of my predictions were accurate.
2. i was completley Off.
3. i thought it would be all about bees and their secret lives. i had no idea it would be about Lonely girl trying to find her mom.

What i did last weekend (alliteration,assonance and consonance)

Saturday morning i blew out of my big blue bed, blowing up in "Ba ha ha" laughter because i woke up at nine minutes to noon .."no way" i thought. I hopped out of my happy bed and hobbled over to my crazy computer i went on to myspace and made sure i had no new messages or colourful comments. after lazily lounging on my luxurious leather couch my phone vibrated vigorously. i answered it. My friend forcefully asked me if i wanted to go skate with him And his happy friend.

As my friends friend fell the fall, he face planted on the side of a rough roof as he rolled away in morbid horror his face was hit by a hot roof. as we laughed his lip was leaking with blood and dripping on his dress.As i laughed i said ''you loser why would you want to get onto to the roof" he was lucky he didn't lose his lip.

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stuff >.<

you bete watch this video seriously http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=39668543

similes, metaphors and cliches

When it comes to skateboarding im worth my weight in gold. when ever i play someone in skate i take them to the cleaners .when i skateboard i feel as light as air.for me its as easy as pie.

EPIC

an epic is a short story usually made up or fictional story.

larger than life characters achilles.

the gods are part of the epic.for example apollo

in medias res which means in the middle of things. its a like having a series of stories and you pull one out .

this picture is an example of an epic.because it is one of the covers of Iliad.

hero

most peolpe consider Rodney Mullen a hero beacause he is awesome at skateboarding, i think he is a hero because he invented most of skateboarding and tricks himself. Back in the day he invented tricks such as flatground ollie and truckstand. he helped tony hawk learn how to drop in and do tricks on vert. and even today he is the best flatground and freestyle skater alive. some people (like the very elderly.) who dont like skateboarding might not like him because he may encourage teenagers to destroy property on their skateboards.

30 Things You Don't Know about Me

1. i have a yellow labrador i don't like it.
2. i like dethmetal.
3. i have phone
4. i have music on my phone
5. i have t mobile
6. i use a bluetooth
7. im getting a computer
8. i like this school
9. i like boluga whales
10. i used to be in a seminar class.
11. giovannas my best friend :-)
12. lu lu is also my best friend
13. my mom can get anoying but stil <3
14. i love the ramones.
15. i like london calling by the clash
16. i can also get very annoying
17. i cant finish this list its impossible its waaay late anyway