Assignment 7: My Self Value

 In that quotation it's saying that we let jealousy run our lives. It says that we pay attention to others who do better than us, who have better things that we want. It's also a fear that we have, a fear to loss somebody or something. That fear, that jealousy takes over our lives, but we can stop it if we have self value or self worth. We should stop paying attention to others and look into our selves. We need to realize we are just as good as the other people, we just need to believe in ourselves and love ourselves. If we don't believe or love our selves, we will believe that others don't love us and would rather have the people you think are better than you.

 If you don't value yourself, you'll think that everything that has to do with you will be just a mistake. As humans, we need to change the way we think about ourselves because we always put ourselves down when we see someone who is doing anything better than you. You want what they have, but you already probably have it in you in your own way. You just have to bring it out to the surface and feel better about yourself.
In that quotation it's saying that we let jealousy run our lives. It says that we pay attention to others who do better than us, who have better things that we want. It's also a fear that we have, a fear to loss somebody or something. That fear, that jealousy takes over our lives, but we can stop it if we have self value or self worth. We should stop paying attention to others and look into our selves. We need to realize we are just as good as the other people, we just need to believe in ourselves and love ourselves. If we don't believe or love our selves, we will believe that others don't love us and would rather have the people you think are better than you.

 If you don't value yourself, you'll think that everything that has to do with you will be just a mistake. As humans, we need to change the way we think about ourselves because we always put ourselves down when we see someone who is doing anything better than you. You want what they have, but you already probably have it in you in your own way. You just have to bring it out to the surface and feel better about yourself.

 You need to find all the things that make you jealous and try to clear your head of the past and the bad expieriences. Don't let those things bother you, they shouldn't bother you because all people are equal. Just think of it as started over, making a new life without all the jealousy. Don't think of yourself lower than others, be happy about who your are. Build up your self esteem, feel better of yourself. Don't let others make you feel bad,  just be yourself and you will be loved by many.

 When you get to that point in life when you don't pay attention to what others have, but pay attention to your own life help others get to that point. You will know how they felt, so don't be the thing you were once jealous of. Help others feel better about who they are.

Book Report:Twilight

 Well I watched the movie twilight, but I also read the book by Stephenie Meyer. The book is just a little bit different from the movie, but it still kept me interested because I could picture everything that was happening in my head. I like to picture everything that's happening, but I can't always do that with every book I read. I really love the movie and the book, it's a romance and vampire story which makes it awesome. In the beginning Bella moves to Forks with her father, who is the sheriff over there. While she is there, she sees her old friend Jacob Black. He is the warewolf, but she doesn't know that. When she goes to her new high school she meets some new friends. During lunch, she noticed the Cullens. They don't eat food and their skin is really pale. They can't be seen in the light because they are vampires. Bella notices Edward Cullen the most, they also have biology class together and she thinks he doesn't like her or something. The truth is that he wants to suck her blood, his eyes are also very dark like a blackish color.

 As the days go by, Bella notices that Edward hasn't been coming to school for awhile. When he finally showed up his eyes were a very light color and he starts talking to Bella in class. His eyes changed colors because while he was gone he went hunting for food (animals), the cullens are the good vampires that don't drink human blood. After awhile Edward and Bella start dating each other and he takes her to play baseball with his family. By now she already knows that Edward is a vampire. While they were playing the game, James the bad vampire, Victoria his girlfriend, and Laurent show up. James wants to get Bella, but the Cullens protect her. They tell Edward to take her away from there, so Alice Cullen and Jasper Cullen take her to the airport and take her back to her mothers house. Her mom and step dad are away. So when she gets there, Bella gets a phone call. It says it's her mom, but it's really James telling her to go to her old ballet studio or she will never see her mom again.

 Bella sneaks away from Alice and Jasper, once she gets to the ballet studio she realizes he doesn't really have her mom. He was just trying to get her away from Edward. A few minutes later Edward shows up and starts fighting James. Bella is hurt on the floor because James broke her leg and he also bit her arm. When the rest of the Cullens show up they take over and tear James apart and burn him. While that is happening Edward has to suck the venom out of Bellas arm, but he doesn't want to do it because he don't think he will be able to stop. He does it anyways and Bella ends up in the hospital. They told her mom that she tripped down the stairs and crashed through a window.

 After  Bella got out of the hospital, Edward takes her to prom.While they were dancing, Bella tells Edward that she wants to be a vampire like him and she wants him to change her. He didn't change her but they still had a great night at the prom. The end.

I Dream a World

 To me this poem means like everybody on this world should be treated with freedom, no matter what race you are. It also means that our world should be peaceful and everybody should get along instead of fighting with eachother and starting wars.

Race in America

 My opinion about the current controversy happening in New York City about the mosque being built at ground zero, is that I think that we as America should let them build their mosque. We say that America has the freedom of religion, but we don't let the Muslims build their mosque. America acts like it's at the exact spot of ground zero where the twin towers were, but it is actually two blocks away from there. I know that on September 11 when the airplanes crashed into the towers was bad, but it's not every Muslims fault. It's not like all the Muslims came together saying lets crashed into the towers and burn them down. Most of the Muslims want to be in America to be free and live how they want to live, just like everybody else that lives in the United States of America.

 The controversy happening in Florida is another bad thing. The priest wants to burn their Koran or holy book of the Islamic people. I don't think that's the right thing to do. The priest wanted to teach the radical Islamic people, but he didn't really think it through at all. He didn't think how it would affect all the other Islamic people because not everybody is radical. It's everyones Koran, not just the radical Islamic people. It offends a lot of people, especially when the priest hasn't even read the Koran. He has no idea what it's about. The priest also wants everybody to be on his side, even the Islamic people. Which I don't understand because the priest says that they can come and be free in America, and be on his side, but he still wants to burn their Koran on September 11th.

 America says everybody is free of religion, but it doesn't really seem that way. People from all over the world come here and we treat them different because of their religious background. It's not like they do that to us and they don't try to burn our holy book to try to send us a message about something in that way. They keep to themselves and worry about their own religion, they don't try to ruin ours. I think what the priest is trying to do won't work at all. It's not going to make peace between America and Islam. It's going to make a war between us, it won't solve any problems. So I think it is a really stupid thing to do. When the priest got interviewed he didn't really answer the questions at  all, he dodged pretty much every question and he didn't really make sense about anything he was saying. To me it seemed like he didn't really have a good reason to do that to Islamic people, especially hearing some of the interviews of him. Whenever the reporter asked him a question the priest would change the topic and talk about something totally different from the reporters question. It made me wonder how many people are following in the priest steps. The priest didn't sound that intelligent at all, so the people that were following him were probably the same way. After awhile the priest finally canceled the burning of the koran, but only if the muslims move the location of their mosque away from ground zero. I think that it is good that the priest didn't do that to the muslims because I don't think the priest would like it if the muslims burned our bible. It's also good that the muslims decided to move the mosque because a lot of the americans feel that it's to close to ground zero were many people died in the terrist attack in 2001.

Cultural Underpinnings of Literature

 The Judeo-Christian paradigm of the western civilization is the beliefs and the way Judaism and christian people look at the world in their own perspective. The judeo-christian paradigm help shape a lot of things in the world because everything can always relate to it some how. Some of the things that relate to the judeo-christian paradigm are literature, politics, English and many more. Judeo-christian religion is only found in America and everything relates to religious values, whether you want to believe it or not. These religious values are used every day of your life and it doesn't matter if you believe in G-d or not, this applies to everything you do. It has shaped literature, politics, the social sciences, writing, poetry, history, culture and philosophy in the United States of America.

Book Report:The Lost Boy

 The book I read was "The Lost Boy" by Dave Pelzer. This was such a great book I couldn't put it down. "The Lost Boy" was the sequel to "A Child Called It",which was great book. Both of these books are based on true stories of the authors life. Dave Pelzer had a really rough life growing up. His mother would abuse him, make him clean, not feed him, made him live in the garage without any blankets and called him "the boy" or "it", while she treated his brothers very nice. His mother was an alcoholic and his father was a firefighter. His father would try to save little Dave from his mother, but it didn't really work. At school Daves mother would make him lie to the teachers about his bruises, so nobody would find out "the secret" of her beating him. She also burned Daves arm on the stove and stabbed him with a knife, but he always thought it was just an accident and she didn't really mean to hurt him.

 In the beginning of "The Lost Boy", Dave was given the chance to leave "the house" if he wanted to, so he did but he thought "the mother" was letting him go to easily. While he ran away from his house he thought that "the mother" would start looking for him, but she didn't. He went into a pizza place hoping to find peoples leftovers because he was so hungry.While he was there the owner called the police and told Dave he would give him a pizza if he stayed. The police came and took him to the police station where is dad picked him up, but after a few days his teachers found out about his mother beating him. The police took him away and put Dave into foster care. Dave was happy to be free and play with the other kids, but sometimes he would think his mom would find him and take him away.

 He lived with a few different foster parents and he befriended the wrong person that got him in trouble all the time. They thought he started a fire at school, when he didn't, his friend John started the fire because he was mad at the teacher. When Dave told John to tell the truth, he said that it wasn't him and that Dave started the fire. Even though Dave didn't start the fire, they sent him to juvenile hall at the hill. After his probation officer told him he had to go to court to see if his mom would get him back or not, Dave started being a really good kid because his mom was making up lies about him. Even though it was his decision, Dave didn't want to give the court any reason to send him back with his mother. His decision was to stay in foster care, after that he thought his mother was going to be angry, but she wasn't. She was crying and before Dave left she gave him toys and some new clothes.

 After finally moving in with his new foster parents, he started working so he could fix his old red bike. He spent hours riding it and after awhile as he started thinking about his future, he worked at more than one job because he knew he would have to live on his own once he turned 18 years old. When he got to that age he moved out and the foster parents he had gave him a key to their house and told him to come back home and visit. After awhile Dave joined the US air force, he always wanted to fly ever since he was a little boy. When he was there he had a life as Dave and not "a child called it".