Ode to pajamas

Ode to my pajamas,

oh how I love you so.

I love when you cradle me while I slumber.

I love how fuzzy you are, 

with your tweety bird design,

when I put you on, 

I'm so comfortable.

I could do anything in you.

everyone deserves a pair of you, 

to do anything in comfort.

I wish you had a matching robe

or even a pair of slippers.

no matter your design
I love you no matter what,
my love, 
pajamas

CEJ #5

Hazel

2-26-13

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Minneapolis

Moss, Michael

The New York times

2-20-13

Science

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

On the night of April 8 1999, A line of city cars and taxis pulled up in the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled Americas largest food companies such as: Nestle, Kraft, Nabisco, general mills, Procter and gamble, Coca-Cola, and Mars. Rivals. One day the C.E.O.'s and company presidents came together and had a rare, and very private meeting and only one thing was on the agenda: The emerging obesity epidemic and how to deal with it. They also talked about how people were starting to talk about a tax on sugar, and how much pressure there was on the companies. James Behnke became Pillsbury's chief technical officer in 1979 and was instrumental in making a long line of hit Pillsbury products, he deeply admired Pillsbury, but in recent years got troubled by pictures of many young obese children, some also with early signs of hypertension and heart diseases. the months leading up to the meeting Behnke was talking to a group of food scientist and found that they were making a more and more grim picture of the public's ability to handle the industry's formulations. Some of the foods that messed with the bodies abilities of over eating and some even made you more and more hungry. Behnke and a handful of others felt that they should warn the C.E.O.'s that the companies had gone too far by creating and marketing products that posed great health concerns.
I think that Behnke and the others who talked to the C.E.O.'s of the companies because I agree that they did do a lot of bad stuff by making food that they knew were unhealthy and even making it so you're body wants more of it. I think that it is really, cruel and that it's also bad that people kept buying the products, some people buying the products must have known or at least have heard about the obesity in America.

Orson Sott Card article response

To me the article that we read in class did change my views on the book, but mainly just on him, the book I think does have some examples of homosexuality throughout the book. not just because of how Allai and Ender cared deeply for each other  but because of how when Ender was going into Salamander army Allai kissed ender on the cheek and how ender started talking about how it felt on his cheek and stuff. I also think that how close all of the boys at the battle school were and how most of them had no problem at all with sleeping naked an d walking around naked in front of the other boys there. I also found it weird how Bonzo also took off his clothes to fight Ender instead of letting Ender put on clothes or at least have his towel, because of his Spanish honor.
I'm not necessarily saying that the characters in the book have feelings for each other in that way or anything I just find it weird how an Anti gay author shows so many examples of it in his book and I don't think you can really separate an author from what he or she writes because to write it I think you have to kind of feel that way or think that way in real life.

CEJ #4

Hazel

February 12, 2013

Hurricane Sandy's details and damages

Moore, Kirk

Asbury Park Press

2-12-13

U.S

http://www.app.com

Hurricane Sandy was the deadliest Mid- Atlantic hurricane ever since hurricane Agnes swept up Chesapeake bay in 1972. According to a report newly issued by the National Hurricane Center.The report talks about what all hurricane experts always warn: The deadliest part of a storm is it's surge which is when the sudden rush of water comes out of the sea. During Hurricane Sandy the floods took 41 out of the 72 total lives lost directly from the storm., most from around New York Harbor where the surge was about 9 feet deep in some neighborhoods the report said. The Raritan Bay shore, Monmouth, and Ocean counties took most of the storm, with 22,000 uninhabitable in the days after the storm of the 650,000 homes affected by hurricane Sandy. The report predicts that Hurricane Sandy will prove to be the second costliest tropical storm in modern times. Standing behind Hurricane Katrina's impact on the gulf states and New Orleans. 

To me it is really surprising that there was a total of 650,000 homes that were affected by hurricane sandy and that 22,000 homes were made uninhabitable, I want to know what the people who lost their lives were doing in New York Harbor even though there were hurricane warnings, I do think it is really sad that they died from it though and I want to know where you would go, I guess you could just go somewhere that the hurricane would not affect and stay at a motel or something but if I lived there, for me it would be really scary not knowing what was going on if I left my home. 

CEJ #3

Hazel

2-4-13

Scientists discover the remains of King Richard III

Chu, Henry

Los Angeles Times

February Fourth 2013

Science

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-richard-iii-remains-20130204,0,7667709.story

More than five hundred years ago King Richard III died in battle, Monday Scientist Identified a skeleton found in Northern England for sure as King Richard III. William Shakespeare portrayed king Richard III as a "homicidal tyrant" who killed his two young nephews in order to get the throne. The DNA from the skeleton found beneath the ruins of an old church match a living descendant of the monarchs sister, The bones were originally found last September when a team of archaeologist from a college about 100 miles northwest from London came across the bones after digging less than a month in a parking lot in the city of Leicester, one of the few places not built over in the crowded city center, they came across King Richard III's grave. the skeleton, nearly intact had obvious trauma to the head.

I think that it is really interesting about how they could tell that the skeleton was King Richard III's skeleton because they tested the DNA of someone who wasn't too closely related to him. I also think that it is cool how they knew where to look and also how they could tell when the skeleton is hundreds of years old. I want to know how exactly he died when he was in battle, because he had trauma to the head and I also want to know if what shakespeare said about him was true, if it was I think that it is really cruel that he killed two of his nephews just to get the throne. 

Enders games questions chapters 5-8

Chapter 6 - The Giants drink

1.I think the purpose of the game the giants drink is in the part where it shows Peter with a snake hanging from his mouth in the mirror, is to show Ender that he is being too much like peter, if  I were Ender I wouldn't like what happened on the screen when the mirror showed up and I don't think he really gained anything from that game.

Chapter 7 - Salamander 

1.The last exchange between Alai and Ender before Ender left the launchies bunk Ender told Alai about how Ender was being transferred to the Salamander's army, and to me it seems like Alai and Ender are really close friends now, even though Alai used to be best friends with Bernard when Ender and  Bernard really didn't like eachother. .

2.To Ender I think that the "just living" means to have no one really control him and him not need to do anything he doesn't want to, like leaving Valentine and the rest of his family and needing to deal with all of the mean boys at the battle school. I think it kind of is true that Ender has never really "just lived" almost his entire life he had the monitor on and then he got it off but people were still watching him all of the time and then he had to leave his home to go to battle school. I think if I were in Enders place I would hate it.

3.Petra helped Ender by helping him practice with shooting and, also I think by just being someone who he could kind of trust and being a friend.

4.I don't think that Ender learned a lot from Bonzo, other than how the Salamander army was really quite and miture but when he got to the rat army he noticed that it was really quiet.

Chapter 8 - Rat

1. I think when graff said that Ender was ten times smarter and stronger than he was he knew what Ender was going to be used for and how he was pretty much perfect for being a commander and being in the war.

2. what is significant about the quote "so teach me" "so learn, I think it's showing how both of them would need to work really hard to teach Ender about how to fight and stuff.

3. Enders response to an attack showed the reader I think that Ender does get pretty violent, but I think that it showed Ender that he is almost partly like Peter and he is obviously not proud of that.

4.I think that the scene with the snake hanging out of Peters mouth when Ender looked in the mirror when he was playing the game, meant that he was being to violent and he was in a way being too much like Peter and instead of being half Valentine, half Peter like he was supposed to be, he was more Peter

5.I think the game knows that he is acting like Peter because he was being so violent through out the game and so ruthless,  the game could tell.

6.I think that the last paragraph of chapter eight is pretty important because it shows how he was turning more into Peter and he knew it and how the teachers really needed it and I think that it also shows that hes actually starting to hate  himself.

Video Game response

All of my siblings are really good at video games, when I was younger me and my sister would play a game where we were supposed to shoot at each other but we would just explore the places, but one day When my brother Christian saw us playing his old game he asked us if he could play so we said yes and he immediately won. I was amazed at how fast he could find both of us. after that I hated the game because I thought that I had to be best at it, and I was kind of scared to play against him anymore because I hated it when I lost. after avoiding that type of game for years and just watching my siblings play against each other one day me and two other friends, Kira and Lizzie were going to Lizzie's house to play Call of Duty Black Ops, I was really Excited to play it because of how fun they made it seem; even though I knew that I hated most games like that. When we got to Lizzie's house we started playing against zombies, even though all we did was stay in a corner and shoot at the zombies, and I was watching a window that pretty much no zombies come out of I got really stressed out when the staircase that Lizzie was supposed to be watching was filled with zombies. I got really scared even though it was a game. I didn't want to play the game anymore.
Two more weekends we played that game everyday I came over which was almost every day, I started to like the game more and soon Lizzie and I got bored of hiding in a corner from the zombies, so we started playing with humans. In the zombie game there were some zombies that were really loud and much faster than the others, we called them marathon runners, I don't know how we came up with that name. But almost every human was that speed, I didn't like it, it was much harder, even though we were in the easiest places, it was called Nuke Town. I memorized he setting easily even though almost all I would do is stay hidden in a corner or behind a bush, after a while I started to run around and me and Lizzie would make fun of how we looked when we would jump while running in the game. Soon we also got bored of Nuke town so Lizzie told me to choose another place I chose the jungle neither of us liked it at first but then I got used to the game and got better and we found places to stay where nobody would be able to see us. I loved the game after a while and we got so good at it where we would just joke around with eachother and play with our characters, I found out that even if I don't like something at first that I should still give it a chance and I may end up really liking.

CEJ #2

Hazel

2-5-12

Obama presses for gun measures, offering up Minneapolis as a model

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Shear, Michael

The New York Times

February 4th 2013

national

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/politics/in-minneapolis-obama-presses-case-for-tougher-gun-laws.html?_r=0

On Monday President Obama traveled to Minneapolis to press his case for tougher national gun laws, Minneapolis, a City once known as "murderapolis" , because of the cities homicide rate in the 1990's; the President cited successful gun-violence efforts here to show that the new national laws are needed to reduce the number of shootings and homicides across the country. "The only way we can reduce gun violence in this country is if the American people decide it's important"  President Obama said standing in front of the Minneapolis police department special operations center. President Obama renewed his call for congress to pass a series of measures, such as, a ban on manufacturers and sale of new assault weapons, limits on high capacity magazines, and an expansion of the criminal background check system that now covers only sixty percent of gun sales. the president declared a "universal background check to be supported by a vast majority of Americans.

I mostly agree with the things that President Obama asked the Congress and I am surprised that only sixty percent of gun sales have a criminal background check system, I would think that almost all gun sales would have one because then criminals or even murderers could buy a gun for a crime they were about to do. I think that it is good that Obama is asking for tougher gun control laws, but I think that a lot of people think that it is unfair to them in a way.

Enders games questions 1-5

Ender's Game Questions Chapters 1 - 5

Chapter 1 – Third

1. What attitude motivates the adults to lie to Ender?

 The adults took the monitor off of Ender, which he thought meant that he didn't qualify to go to battle school, but it was actually his final test to see how he would act without it. They lied to him because the adults

2. Explain what it seems to mean for Ender to be born a "Third". Show whether this is

a negative or positive fact to:

- his parents,

To his parents, Enders  presence is just a disruption but they love him. he is also making it hard for them to forget about their pasts that they are trying to avoid

- his brother, Peter,

Peter and Ender don't really get along together but I do think that Peter does love Ender but doesn't show it too much,to Peter I think that Ender is just proof that he wasn't good enough

- his sister, Valentine, and

Ender and Valentine, I think really love each other and I don't think that Peter and valentine would really get along together if it were just them but they may act different to each other if Ender did not exist

- his classmates.

to his classmates it seems like they look down on third children because it is considered an accident or like he is unwanted

Chapter 2 – Peter

1. Was Peter joking when he threatened Ender and Valentine?  Support your answer

with evidence from the novel.

I don't really think that Peter would have actually done that because he said that it was just a game to him and that he could get Ender and Valentine to believe anything, and I don't think Peter really would have because he loves Ender.

2. Why is Peter’s behavior at the end of the chapter so completely different from the

rest of the chapter?

I think that in the end of the chapter when Peter apologized to Ender and told him that he loved him and was sorry while he was asleep he meant it. I think that he really likes Ender and he just gives him a hard time because he had his monitor longer than him. but since Ender had finally got it taken out Peter was starting to accept him.

3. How do you feel about each of these characters (Ender, Valentine, Peter)?  Whatdid the author do to help create these feelings?  Give examples.

I think that Ender is really brave for deciding to go to the battle school and he seems really nice, Valentine I think seems really sweet and nice and Ender and her are really close, Peter I think that Peter really does love his family but just kind of acts tough. Well the author just shows how much Ender and Valentine love each other when Peter was bullying Ender and when Ender was leaving with Graff to go to the battle school. and Peter shows how he loves Ender while he thought Ender was sleeping and he told him how sorry he was and how he loved him. 

Chapter 3 – Graff

1. What did Graff mean about evolution working against girls?

I think that Graff meant that most girls just weren't made to go to battle school and they wouldn't really be good there.

2. Ender is leaving to learn how to fight a war, yet he takes Graff’s hand. Why does Orson Scott Card (OSC) include this action?

I think that (OSC) includes this action because he was kind of reminding you how young and how Ender is still only six, I think he seems a lot older throughout the book because of how mature he acts

Chapter 4 – Launch

1. Explain the meaning of the following statement: “Individual human beings are tools that the others use to help us all survive.”

 I think that when that was said, it meant that the human beings that are tools were helping the others survive by going to battle school and saving the world from buggers, and since only certain people can go to battle school only certain tools are used to help the others survive.

2. Explain the following quote: "Isolate him enough that he remains creative -

otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." Your answer should include the terms: isolation, creative, adopt, lose.

I think that it meant to keep him isolated or to keep him from making many friends, so that he can stay creative, to i guess stop the people like Bernard to make it so everyone else hates him. and to adopt the system at the battle school I guess to Ender would be to get used to it there and be comfortable staying there, and for them to lose them I guess would be for the people in charge of the battle school to lose him by him not being how he was when they brought him to the battle school and for him to change.

3. Did Ender mean to break the other boy’s arm?  What does this incident tell us about Ender?  Is it acceptable to do despicable things for survival?  Why
or why not?

When Ender broke Bernard's arm he didn't mean to he said that, and it was just because he wasn't used to null gravity. I don't think it really tells us anything more about Ender, he was just trying to make him  stop by grabbing the boy's hand to make him stop hitting him in the head

Chapter 5 – Games

1. Ender works hard to express his feelings in private and not show homesickness in front of any other person. Is it healthy for him or not?   What is positive and what is negative about showing feelings?  What is positive and what is negative about not showing feelings?

I think that it is both positive and negative for Ender, I think it is mostly negative for him though, it is positive because the boy Bernard would probably take it as a weakness and so would some of the other boys. But a lot of the other boys were just as homesick as Ender, and in the book it talks about how some of them were crying and stuff because they missed their family too.

2. How did Ender beat Bernard?  Is this an unusual solution to his problem?

Ender beat Bernard by kind of hacking the desk system and made a fake user and sent it to everyone in the class, Ender can tell that it was too easy to be hacked and it was kind of made to be hacked. In the end Bernard and Ender end up being more fond of each other, even though Ender ends up being really good friends with Bernard's old best friend Allai 

3. List the different coping mechanisms (ways of dealing with difficulties) Ender shows. For each one describe whether the overall result of each is helpful or harmful to Ender.