February 2012
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Why We Care About Fashion
Today’s society is very influenced by fashion. Next new fashion statements and trends will be first seen on a runway by a major designer. After the fashions are showcased on the runway, they will be available to the celebrities. The celebrities wear the new fashion statements for their audience, which is the general public. The general public will then judge to see whose the fashionable and...
A Stolen Life
I finished the book, I found it to be very interesting and hard to put down. Sometimes they way Jaycee Dugard writes is a little confusing and some aspects are not very detailed because she had to cover 18 years in one book, but it still was really good.
“Every time someone would say the word “mom” I would burst out crying…I’m not sure if I truly believed that my...
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A Stolen Life
Throughout the whole book I was confused on what topic to do. About 3/4 of the book, for now I’m choosing Family Relationships, but that can still change because the book covers a variety of the abstract topics.
The bond between mother and child is shown throughout the novel.
“I miss my mom… Does she miss me as much as I miss her? I try really hard not think of thinks that make...
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Elementary School Experience
One learning experience in third grade, I had to learn and memorize multiplication. Every Friday, there was a timed multiplication quiz on one number all the way up to ten (ie 1x1, 1x2… ect.) under three minutes. That was one of the most challenging concept to learn. At this point I was not the brightest crayon in the box at school, I’m pretty sure I was average, but I really could...
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Quick Write
On the surface “A Modest Proposal” by Johnathan Swift main purpose is concerning hunger problems and poor people. Politics come into play when Swift proposes that we eat poor children to stay nourished. Swift makes the argument of not having as much poor people and reducing world hunger. This extreme view is really a metaphor of the upper class taking advantage of the lower class for...
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Wikipedia
I decided to Wiki Drake. I noticed there are a lot of hyperlinks to other Wikipedia pages, which can be helpful if I didn’t know a specific term, but sometimes irrelevant. Other hyperlinks were to the sources to back up information which shows that the cite is, for the most part, credible. When I clicked some of the hyperlinks to the sources, the cite was not found, so I dont know how...
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A Stolen Life
I am 100 pages in the book. I noticed that Jaycee Dugard is writing like she is going through the experience even though she is writing the biography as an adult. It is almost like she channeled her younger self to write the book. In some of the books ‘reflections’ sections, she explains how she tried to put some of the horrible aspects of the kidnapping behind her, but to write the...
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A Stolen Life
When I first started I had no idea which abstract topic I was going to choose. Fifty pages in, I am still a little unsure about which one to choose. But in the book, I like how Dugard does ‘reflections’ between sections explaining her thoughts looking back on her life and why she included them in the book. Dugard also puts pictures of the actual writings from when she was trapped in...
