A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: specalil post

SINCE I MISSED A BLOG POST I WANT TO SHOW YOU THIS

A read the fitrst 2 parts of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is about a young girl Named Francie and her brother Neeley. They live in WilliamsBurg Brooklyn with there father and mother. She is smart caring and huge reader.

Her main issue is that she  lives is poverty. In the summer she collects small pecies of metal for a few cents. Her parents work long hours to afford her partment, food and clothing. Although she has this issue it never brings doen Francie's spirits.

Living in New York isen't easy now and it wasen't back then. The city demands alot form you. And now people still strugle to keep there basic needs like food, shelter and everything else we need in between. It's hard. Francie's family still works for her minimum wages.

PLEASE EXCEPT THIS: I NEED TO KEEP MY GRADE TO 80+, I WILL DO ANY THING ELSE TO DO THIS, I NEVER FINSIHED THIS SO THERE WASEN'T MUCH I COULD WRITE, I'M FINISHING THIS BOOK THIS SUMMER. PLEASE, PLEASE I READ LIKE 2 COMMING OF AGE BOOKS.

Speak: finished

I actually read Speak by Laurie Anderson was a book about a girl names Melinda Sordino. She lives in Syracuse with her Mother and Father. The summer before 9th grade her best friend Rachel gets her and her friends into an exclusive senior summer party. There she meets the Beast, Andy Evans who first seduces her with his good looks and disarming character but then he thinks she is ready. She said no but it happened. She stumbles through the crowed and calls the cops which break it up. After that thetas all what she is known for. Melinda the girl who called the  cops yet no one knows why. She doesn't tell anyone. High school becomes a living hell... I don't want to give too much away if anyone wants to read it.

The three main issues in the book is Andy Beast, loosing her friends and Her parents marriage problems.
"I bet they'd divorced by now if i hadn't been born. I'm sure I'm a huge disappointment."says Melinda. Her parents don't get along together. They act more like mutual friends then the average Husband and Wife. And Melinda notices, and it impacts her emotion towards her respect for her family.

Her 2nd issue is everyone hates her because she called the cops on the summer party of the year. When she comes back to school she says it's a nightmare. People throw food at her. "Splat, a huge glob of mashed potatos lands on my shirt." on page 23. Her best friend silentyl moths i hate you, she's alone excerpt for her bubbly friend Heather who msectretly dosen't even like her.

The last and main issue was that was raped by Andy Evans. She was drunk. She said No, but it happened, after that her life was changed forever. Thats why she called the cops, that nwhy everyone hates her. Her life crumbled beneath her feet.

What I learned from Speak was that. We are only human there will be bad things and there will be good things. For the bad things you have to fight through, you have to Speak up. Melinda never told anyone so people just taunted her, hurt her. Made her feel alone. If she told her patrents, Andy would of been arrested and she would be somwe sort of hero. At the end she found her Voice. Melinda Spoke. 

Spring Break HW 3

I read the article What Really Happened to the Titanic? on scholastic.com. The R.M.S. Titanic was the prized ship that crashed on it's way to New York and many were killed. The article brang up a scientific theory on how it exactly came to sink, which went off the usual theory of how the ship hit the iceberg. It brang up a theory that involved illusions and water columns of pressure. I agree with some aspects of this article and i don't agree with others.

I agree with the aspect of the article that helped cause the sinking called thermal inversion. "The Titanic, he says, sailed from warm Gulf Stream waters into the freezing Labrador Current. There, the air column was cooling from the bottom up, creating layers of cold air below layers of warmer air." (What Really Happened to the Titanic, by Jennifer Walters, scholastic.com) This often makes a haze which means they couldn't have really have saw the iceberg before it was to late.


I disagree with the aspect that there was another ship and with the thermal inversion saw a smaller ship, also when the ship sent Morse lamp they couldn't see it. In other information it was shown that it would take many hours for another ship to come help. It seems odd that just because the ship was not huge the other ship wouldn't even try to save anyone. In other information they often say that the ship Californian came later and didn't see them then. This aspects makes me doubt this theory.


There will always be other theories about the famous sinking. Many will say they hit an iceberg, others may say other things like there was a mirage. But no doubt the prized R.M.S. Titanic sunk killing 100's of men, women and children, unprepared with now enough life boats. We will always remember the great tragedy and the untimely deaths to the  civilians aboard. Through all the theories about the sinking that will always be a fact.

spring break HW 2

1.) What the student did wrong is that he/she needed to either put a star after that quote and then at the end of their post say the URL or when using the quote say from which  website and article directly into your post like this:  http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html from he  article "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings". Then it would give full credit to the website and it's article and if it has an author so it wouldn't be plagiarism. 


2.) Vangough's painting Starry Night has plenty of emotions and visual elegance like "There is a peaceful essence flowing from the structures. Perhaps the cool dark colors and the fiery windows spark memories of our own warm childhood years filled with imagination of what exists in the night and dark starry skies."  (http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html

Title of article: "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings")

3.) 3 ways to avoid plagiarism is... 1.) Put the orgin of the quote before or after the quote itself. 2.) Have a cited sources page at the end of the post. 3.) Put a number or symbol next to the quote and later on put the orgin of the quote in the post. BUT MOST OF ALL ALWAYS SOMEWAY GIVE THE WEBSITE, ARTICLE, BOOK OR PERSON CREDIT!

Spring Break HW 1

I liked Diana's post on "Much a do about nothing" and Josh's poem "What is America".

First i want to talk about Josh's poem. Reading this was a privilege. When i drove down south this spring break, in states like South Carolina and Georgia i saw bumper stickers and billboards plastered with phrases like "TAKE BACK AMERICA" and "AMERICA LAND OF THE BRAVE AND FREE", yes they were obnoxious boasting about how "were the best" but his poem shows the cold and painful truth about our sugar coated nation. Wile driving through the south i passed Trayvon Martin's home town which brought me a chill down my spine. For example a young boy can be murdered for basically being black and yet the racist murderer isn't charged for it for over a month, that is are so called fair justice system. Or like Josh brings up the 13 million Americans who can't find work. There will always be problems, we will always have to struggle but we have to keep trying. Anyway his poem bang tears to my eyes, it was written in a way that is hard to describe so the best way i can is to say in a perfect structure with simple yet meaningful words, so perfectly put together it's positively divine.

I liked Diana's post very much. I liked how she kept it simple only using the details f the performance she needed to, saying what she liked, what she did not, her favorite characters and things like that. But she did elaborate very well using the details she needed to use from the play. Very nice short and sweet.

Sometimes i feel like i put too much summary and not enough about the actual context in the article, book or any type of text. I also like to elaborate, but sometimes i admit i go over board, now i understand that you have to keep it simple. Elaborating with too much summary or unnecessary dialogue can damage your post even if you have a good idea.

Much Ado About Nothing.

Overall i liked it. It was a Shakespeare comedy. Instead of putting it in 15th century they made the setting in the end of world war 1 and the beginning of the roaring 20's. With it they had plenty of live jazz and costumes like suits and fedoras and Short dresses and head bands. The main characters were Beatrice a feisty independent girl, Benedict a young truthful man, Claudio a rude soldier, Hero a young sweet girl and more. The plot was confusing there were love triangles, deaths, betrayal and self discovery. The props could of used some work, all they had were 3 Tables and 3 chairs, a drink closet and a phonograph. I had absolutely no idea where they were. A house? a bar? what. But they used the props well and the space. The general acting was good, they read the lines very well and clear.

Romeo and Juliet response

My favorite character has to be Mercutio. He is a fun loving and very witty and sarcastic kind of guy. The best friend of Romeo and yet quite opposite to him. Romeo is a serious and dramatic poetic lover like on page 17 act 1 scene 1 his father says: "Many a morning hath he been seen,with tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew, adding to clouds more clouds with deep sighs". But on the other side Mercutio says to romeo on page 43 act 2 scene 4: "if love be rough with love! Prick love for pricking and beat love down."(He uses oxymoron because people don't normally put the words beating with rough) and things like: "Nay gentle Romeo we must have you dance." He constantly uses puns and battles with his wits. i really deeply admire Mercutio and his sense of humor.

I feel like this is a very important line in the play: "if love be rough with love! Prick love for pricking and beat love down." Means that you can't let love get you down you have to man up and move on, otherwise you won't end up well. In modern times this still applys, people who sit on the couch eating ice cream and crying over break ups need to just move on and forget.

Creative writing:
I decided to write a small scene or dialogue.
MERCUTIO: Now Romeo, many a time have you cried over your Rosaline, and thou has explained that your love will not be hit with cupids arrows many a time. You most forget and move on.

ROMEO: I can not, it's not possible, she was an angle fallen from heaven and endowed with god's gift of beauty, she will always be hard to forget, she will never be forgotten.

MERCUTIO: The sun has risen in the east and set in the west many times and thous sighs still become deeper and thous cries have become louder until thy point where you have become mad with sorrow and love. If thy can make i may make this any clearer you must spread your wings and fly away from Rosaline. You must forget and you must move on.

ROMEO: I suppose you are right my friend. There are many beauties in Verona, Just because i do not have Rosaline's love doesn't mean i can never love.

Sonnet

Isabelle Sturges 807

“The Unfolded Future”

As I sew the quilt my fingers tremble

But the quilt has something to resemble.

My future, my entire existence

Unfolded, unhinged I take the distance.

Sewn together by a single thin thread

It is easily broken which I dread.

And it is so very fragile like glass

And by one mistake, one small mistake CRASH.

I fear what comes next, ringing my hands,

I claw to the top, which only expands

To higher, taller more challenging heights,

In this sadistic game we have to rights.

When I get older what do I desire?

Just to have fun before I expire.

Harlem responce

Harlem by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

This was my favorite poem we read. For a while now Langston Hughes has been my favorite poet, ever since last years poetry study. I used to honestly hate poetry, every year in school we would have a study and read some stupid poem and talk about what it meant and stuff. But since last year i had to go beyond the poems my teachers had spoon fed me and venture in to  poetry. Along the way i did read some terrible poems and then i found the beautiful ones. The ones that yelled out to me the got the gears in my brain moving, that made me think about all day and stay up all night. And then there was Langston... his words made me tear up (no joke) they made me angry,they made me somber they made me giddy. And for the first time since kindergarten Poetry made me feel something.

his words are mesmerizing in a way for a poem about dream the words are dreamy and sort of sleepy and heavy. They roll of your tongue. This is not one of his louder poems but a quiet one. I really like the first sentence's alliteration. The poem roams and wanders from one word to the next. The poem has a clear topic but i goes from one question to the next sort of making you wonder and question. 

Three poems

1.) What happens to you when you demise
when you
perish
when you
die.

Do you arrive at the pearly gates.
where god awaits?

Do you end up under t
the flames
in the
orange
taunting
dancing
blaze.

Or do you end up in
nothing in silence
in darkness
in
sleep.

2.)

In center he stands
surronded by gold
with every
single
soul.

The wicked damned to hell.
The saved rise above the

chaos.

the madness.

the disaster.

Demons drag them away.
They scream to almighty.
but it's too late.

It's judgment day.

3.) What is
(i don't know what to do for this so yeah)

Michelangelo

Michealangelo was born in the small town of Caprese outside of the major italian city Florence. When he was only six years old his mother passed away, leaving him and his father devastated. When he was only 13 years old he relized he wanted to be an artist. When he told his father he beat him. Later on his father accepted it. he got an aprentiship with the artist Ghirlando and got to work. Later on he bacame a very famous Sculptor, Painter and archetict, he did some very famos work like the Sistine Chapel the statue "A state of sorrows".

The painting i liked the most was "The Last Judgment". It was the wall behind the alter of the Sistine Chapel. It's when Jesus somes down to earth and all the souls in the world he decides if they go to Hevean or Hell forever. He stands lined in gold at the center of the painting, to his left his mother kneels next to him. The painting itself is cahos 100's of people take up every inch, each with diffrent expressions of fear and delight. Each person in the painting is unique and in diffrent satnces, all the colors are vibrant and eye cathching, almost too much. Some people go up to hevan (which is at the top of the painting) and the wicked souls are dragged by demons into hell, as they cry in fear and pain. The painting have emotions from one extreme to the other. It's beautiful but frightning.

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Top Image: the entire painting.
Middle Image: Saved souls going to Heavan (detail)
Bottom Image: Souls going to Hell (Detail)

Catching Fire

I'm still reading the second hunger games book "Catching Fire". The basic plot of the book is that Katniss has recently won the hunger games with her "boyfriend" Peeta. She thinks life will go back to usual, but it never will. The president Snow tells Katniss that she will start another uprising against the capitol with what she did in the arena because there is always one victor in the Hunger games but Her and peeta were gonna eat poisonous fruit and die so no one won because they refused to fight each other, so they let them both win. This has shown rebellion in that is basically says "The capitol does not own me". The president tells her that he will kill her friends and family unless she shows the nation that she is loyal to the capitol. But it doesn't work out, behind her back people rebel and she is their leader, her mocking jay pin is the symbol. One by one the capitol hurts her best friend, and her friend Cinna. An uprising in district 8 occurs. As punishment the president sends the most recent victors of all the hunger games back in.

That's what i read so far. The issue of government and anarchy come up allot. Her government is evil, anyone who goes up against them is secretly killed, they force people to work in the districts for low wages and unsafe conditions. As Katniss likes to say "District 12 where you can starve in safety." The hunger games itself was created as a punishment of 75 years ago when the district rebelled against Panem's capitol because of it's unfair so called "democracy", instead of listening to what their people have to say they decide to bomb district 13 to nothing and create the hunger games. citzens feel that they should rather have control of their own district then being controled by this force of evil.

Social Awareness (LATE)

I'm doing my picture book on Cancer. I got into this topic by Sako and the 1,000 Paper Cranes it's a book about a girl in the 50's in Japan. It's been about 10 years after the bombing in Japan. Sako is an up beat and active little girl who joins a race at her school, she begins to feel strange and something heavey on her chestm She is taken to a hospital and it turns out she got radioactive poisinig from the bombing which means she has cancer. Her friend tells her that if you make 1,000 paper crnes the gods will grant you health. Sako ends at 600 before she dies in her bed with her family around her. I cried for too long, still writing this i'm crying (for real).  Felt that now i needed to write a book on having cancer. This topic is too importnat for me to ignore.

Blankets

I finished re-reading one of my favorite books of all time. "Blankets" by Craig Thomson. I don't want to give too much away so here's a summary. Craig, his little brother Phil, mother and father live in a small farm town in Wisconsin. They are poor but get by, Craig is very religious just like his father and deeply believes in God. At school he is bullied by the other boy because of his social class and the way he looks. He feels like a failure to God because he doesn't look after his brother even when he gets into a dangerous situation, he doesn't do well in school, he's not strong or athletic or social. His only gift is he is a natural born artist. When Craig is 17he goes to a Church winter camp for a week during his three week winter break, this is where he meets the love of his life Raina. For two weeks and gets a window into Raina's stressful life. When he has to go he never see's Raina again.

This book has some really interesting themes one of them is religion. During the book Craig goes through a religious war with in. hen he is young his parents drill religion in his head, they make him believe that god is the lord of the universe, that there is only one god, that Jesus s the son of god and died for our sin. He takes this very seriously, he even burns all his drawings claiming that they took away from his Bible studies. But when he meets Raina they talk about God, Raina doesn't believe in Heaven or Hell, she doesn't believe in Adam and Eve, and once Craig leaves his house and goes to new york city he realizes he doesn't believe at all, he realizes the bible doesn't make since and that people like his mother depended to much on made up stories, don't get me wrong Jesus was real, Joseph was real and some other biblical prophets were real people but lost there real meaning in exaggeration, to the point where the myth and truth merged into the same thing.

Catching fire Thesis

thesis: in [Catching Fire] the goverment there is a lot like the goverment in many diffrent nations we have today. They try to cover up to the public serious problems that could concern them and anyone who tries to speak out will die.

Article 2 on child labor

SHANGHAI — China said Wednesday that it was investigating whether hundreds or perhaps thousands of children from poor areas in the southwest part of the country had been sold to work as slave laborers* in booming coastal factory cities.

Authorities in southern Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong, said they had already rescued more than 100 children from factories in Dongguan*, a huge manufacturing city known for producing and exporting toys, textiles and electronics.

The children, mostly 13 to 15 years old*, were often tricked or kidnapped* by employment agencies working in an impoverished part of western Sichuan Province, and then sent to factory towns in Guangdong, where they were often forced to work as much as 300 hours a month for little money*, according to government officials and accounts from the state-owned media.

The authorities in southern China said Wednesday that they had arrested several people involved in the case and that they were trying to determine the identities of the children.

"These youngsters have no ID cards, so it makes it difficult to identify them," said Zhang Xiang, a spokesman for the Guangdong Labor Bureau. The child labor scandal was uncovered by Southern Metropolis Daily, a crusading newspaper based in Guangzhou, in southern China, less than a year after the authorities said they had rescued hundreds of people, including children, from working as "slave laborers" in brick kilns in the north and central part of the country.

Many of the workers in that case also said they had been kidnapped.*

The new child labor case "is quite typical," said Hu Xingdou, a professor of economics and social policy at the Beijing Institute of Technology. "China's economy is developing at a fascinating speed, but often at the expense of laws, human rights and environmental protection."

Professor Hu said that although Beijing had pushed to improve labor conditions throughout the nation, local governments were still driven by incentives to make their economies grow, so they tried to lure cheap labor. "Most of the work force comes from underdeveloped or poverty-stricken areas," he said. "Some children are even sold by their parents, who often don't have any idea of the working conditions."

The child labor cases are an embarrassment to the Chinese government*, which has in recent years announced a series of nationwide crackdowns on child labor and labor law violations.

But experts say rising labor, energy and raw-material costs, and labor shortages in some parts of southern China, have caused some factory owners to cut costs or find new sources of cheap labor, including child labor.

Even factories that supply global companies, including Wal-Mart Stores, have been accused in recent years of using child labor, and violating local labor laws. Big corporations have stepped up their factory audits, but suppliers are sometimes adept are hiding operations and workers from auditors.

Officials in Dongguan say they are now investigating all factories in the area to determine whether any are employing children. Young people can legally go to work in factories when they turn 16.

In a series of articles this week, journalists working for Southern Metropolis Daily wrote that they had traveled to Liangshan, a prefecture in Sichuan Province, to pose as recruiters and to interview parents and other residents.

The newspaper said recruiters and labor agencies working in Liangshan often transported children south and then "sold" them to factories at virtual auctions in Guangdong Province, one of China's biggest manufacturing centers and home to a huge population of migrant workers.

At some coastal factories, children were even lined up and selected based on their body type, the journalists wrote.

The newspaper also alleged that when the children were paid, they received about three renminbi per hour, or about 43 cents, far below the local minimum wage, about 64 cents an hour. By law, overtime pay is much higher.*

Chen Fulin, a government spokesman in Liangshan, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that the articles on child labor in Southern Metropolis Daily were correct.

"So far, we have detected and found four people in Zhaojue County suspected of luring the youngsters from Liangshan to Dongguan and forcing them to work in factories," he said. "We are dealing with the illegal employment agencies and the labor dealers, according to the law." In its report, Southern Metropolis Daily said some children had been threatened with death if they tried to escape from labor recruiters.

The newspaper did not identify the coastal factories where the children worked, but the report said that one was a toy factory in Dongguan, and that it had not been hard for the journalists to uncover the labor scandal.

"Since journalists could discover the facts by secret interviews in a few days," Southern Metropolis Daily wrote in a separate editorial on Tuesday, "how could the labor departments show no interest in it and turn aside from it for such a long time?"

* Sold? a job is a job you can quit and the company dosen't own you. This is slavery. You can not buy humans.

* Only 100. there are 250 million children affected and only 100 saved. they need to step up there game because this is illegal and yet the whole world knows.

* 13 to 15. it's like kids my age working from dawn till dusk. It's horrible and scary.

* 300 hours a month. We go to school about 180 hours a month. probably less do to weekends and breaks. This is outrageous.

* Kidnapping!!!??? i thought that people sold there children but they kidnap them and force them to work! this is dead on slavery.

* It is emmbarssing. The whole world knows where most of our products are from. It's from children working like slaves no being slaves. It's not some secret.

* thay are paid 43 or 64 cents. I can buy a box of lemon heads at the deli with that i can buy a lolli pop or a jolly rancher with the amount of money they make per day. It's just depressing. 

Article 1 on child labor

Child Labor

Author And Page Information

• by Anup Shah
• This Page Last Updated Monday, January 01, 2001

• This page:http://www.globalissues.org/article/62/child-labor.
• To print all information e.g. expanded side notes, shows alternative links, use the print version:
  • http://www.globalissues.org/print/article/62

Child labor is not an easy issue to resolve; while it seems noble to immediately withdraw investments and cooperation with firms and factories that employ child labor it may do more harm than good. Many of these children are from very poor families and work to pay for their family and/or their education*. Depriving them of this income has led to some children seeking different, lower paid work, and even prostitution in some cases*. Other ways with schemes to help children would likely be needed so that this labor can be phased out. The same has been suggested by the International Labor Organization (ILO), at a meeting in Mexico City in 1999, who also pointed out that child labor affects over 250 million children*, 30 percent of which are in Latin America. A gradual phase out is said to be a more preferable solution.

According to the UK Committee for UNICEF, poverty is the most common factor contributing to child labor. In addition, "debt, bloated military budgets and structural adjustment programmes imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, have eroded the capacity of many governments to provide education and services for children*, and have also pushed up prices for basic necessities". (For more information on these aspects, also see this site's section on causes of poverty and the harmful structural adjustment policies.)

According to UNICEF, Somalia and USA are the only two countries in the world that havenot ratified the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child. The convention is the world's most widely ratified treaty. (USA have signed it, but Somalia has neither signed, nor ratified it, at the time I write this -- and Somalia doesn't currently have an internationally recognized government, which is why they cannot ratify the convention. The US have no such excuse.)

A huge movement called the Global March Against Child Labor, (which didn't get much media coverage in the USA), was an important event with marches in many major cities around the world drawing global attention towards the most heinous human rights violation: child labor and child slavery. The six-month long intercontinental March took off from Philippines in mid-January 1998, culminating in Geneva to coincide with the Debate Session of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on the Draft Convention on Child Right.

To find out more about children with regards to trade, labor, rights etc. the following may be helpful:

• Save the Children Fund UK and their section on child labor
• The Global March web site. They also have a link to other websites that are supporting the movement.
• Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund. In particular:
  • The Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  • State of the World's Children annual publications examines key issues about children.
  • A report on the State of the World's Children, 1997 focused on Child Labor, for example
• Casa Alianza, a South American-based group helping street kids.
• OneWorld Guides to:
  • Child Rights and the section on war.
  • Child Labor.
• Boes.org is a site devoted to child rights

* It's pretty sad that families do not have much of choice. they know what they are doing, they know it's wrong but they need money and it's one of the few options they have.

*Prostiution? I feel like it draws the line. No one can have the heart to sell there children into sexual slavery. But some people do and that makes my stomach turn.

* 250 million is too big for the number of child workers. It hurts that companies don't give a damn about anything except expanding profits.

* It's to sad that countries have to cut ediucation. It's such an important factor, what will happen here if no one learns anything? nothing will get done, we will resort back to a dark age.

2 person social issue poem (indivual)

THE LIFE WE LIVE IN IS NOT ALWAYS FAIR
My mother grounded me all week, I’m going to miss the party this weekend. I hate her.

My mother flung me down the stairs this morning, it’s the second time this week.

SOMETIMES I WANT TO LET GO OF IT
She’s horribly mean, she always sits me down for those endless hours about why I should call her when I leave school. It’s so annoying. I can hardly stand it. It’s like she hates me. 

And when I come home from school it’s the same routine, clean the kitchen, take out the trash, do the laundry, make dinner, clean up dinner, fold and put away the laundry and by 11:00 do my homework and at 2:00 am go to sleep. If I’m one minute late it’s a slap in the face and no dinner. To please her is an impossible task I feel like I can’t do much longer.


THE AFTERMATH
Is the worst part, the glares, the remarks makes me want to hide and cry. This woman? My mother? Hard to believe.

The sore feeling you get afterwards, your cheeks red from the smack, sore muscles, the stress, and the vomit. I’m scared, I’m sick of the hell in which day by day suffer in. Do other people feel this? I doubt it.

BUT I HOLD MY HEAD UP

There are the times she loves me, the times she hugs me when I get home from school, “how was your day, sweetie?” makes my entire day. I love her no matter what she says.

To remember the time she once loved me makes me smile, it’s in my heart and my memories, her cold looks of hate and her smacks of pain are bad but I know maybe down in her heart there is a tiny spark of love for me which maybe one day will grow, but for now I play by her rules.
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I wrote my indivual poem on child abuse. It's a 2 person thing about one of them is slightly neglected by his or her mother. They do not have the best mother in the world but they are uterly angry about, feeling as though they are slowly slipping out the grasp of there mother's unconditional love. It hurts them and brings the pain. They can't deal with it but they learn to look at bright side of things and to remember that she will always love her.

The other person is an abused child. Her/his mother is on the brink of evil and insanity. the child is abused phisicaly and constantly. He/she is starved and tourmented. There were times she could recall when her mother was sweet and loving which is long gone that keeps her/him alive. To keep her/him still alive she pertends that her/his mother still loves them.

Both children are hurt by there parents. Some rarley and others regularly.

Social issues: The Hunger Games

In my independent reading book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins a big social issue is poverty. In there world the nation Panem, through out the districts people do not have a enough to eat. In district 12 many people like the main character Katniss are forced to do illegal poaching which is highly punishable to be able to trade it in to feed her family. Durring the annual hunger games a fight to the death  many people make there children open up a tesseract which means you enter your name in once more making your chance a getting picked much greater, many families are forced to take the risk due to the poverty in their districts. A possible solution is that the capitol and their government  who is so rich and lavish should have a tax on the civilians of the capitol citythat would contribute to buy food and give it out to families in the district, because if everyone would contribute a small amount of money an it could largley effect hungry families in a district.

The Hunger Games:

I've recently been reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I'm not fished reading but here's the basic plot that I know: It's the future, North America and maybe other places have fallen, it the ashes of North America rises the all powerful Panem. Panem is divided into 12 but once 13 districts and a capitol city. Each District as it's own  culture. A girl Named Katniss is a smart and skilled fighter, she's sixteen years old. In Panem's History there was once an uprising of the districts but they lost, as punishment each district gives up one boy and one girl to compet in the Hunger Games, a TV brodcasted fight to the death. It's picked at random. One year her 12 year old sister Prim is chosen so Katniss steps up and voulenters her life to take her sisters place. They are on they're way to the capitol, she goes with the boy competer Peeta. When they arrive that are passed around from there stylists to the parade to the tower leading up the day they do to the arena to fight in the Hunger Games...

Thats all i've gotten to in the book. It's really intresting and the kind of action packed book you can't put down. I feel like the Hunger Games is outrageous. The actual game is a sick and horrifying slaughter where children are forced to enter without say. And if the child was to win the Hunger Games that would probably not be able to sleep at night knowing that they killed 11 children. Which would mostly end up to that person having post dramtic stress disorder or drinking problems. It's crazy how Kantniss took her place but it was certanily the right thing to do, she is small, young and too kind to hurt anyone and would end up dead within a few days. Katniss however stands a chance. Perhaps the punshiment for the hunger games was too much, and most likely didn't deserve it, life is too precious to deserve it.