Jackieee Chaaaannn

Jackie up in the air
swivvle kick
360 heel to the face
stork position.
left foot down.
hands up.
jump off the left
land on the right.
Bruce Lee scared
crown nervous.
Jackie smiling
summersault
hand on touch the ground
then back rolling against it
Bruce Lee not looking
fingers together
hands stretched
zooming at Lee
Lee ducks
too late
Jackie han 360 off the left fakey
244 on the way back
traversal mega chop
its done.
crowd quite.
punch loud.
Jackie Chan...







ftw

Class Poetry Response

http://katemcleodsblog.blogspot.com/

the Days that are the Nights by Kate McCloud puts imagery in your head along with alliteration and assonance to make the poem flow.  ‘

In the first stanza she writes a few things that are opposites and are impossible to do such as, “I have seen the days that are the night.”  It doesn’t make sense if we're realistically talking about it, but you understand what McCloud means by it.  Then she writes, “When the open closes up.”  Then she say’s “ Holding on to letting go.”  These lines are really cool and it's kind of mysterious.  The reader get’s a lot of imagery when they read some of the lines such as, “Asphalt black clouds,”  and, “Veins of smoke and Poison powder drop.”  There's also some alliteration with POison POwder.  The last line in that stanza is also cool because McCloud personifies light when she says “as the door slams and light runs away.”  In the third stanza she writes, "I wish I could run with light."  I read that line and kept going to the next, but then I paused and said wait and re-read that line again and thought about it because it was such a good line.  In the next line McCloud writes, "Visiting where the blue runs free."  Usually when writers use blue in their poems they use to represent depression or coldness, but here McCloud uses it to mean sunny or joy which I thought was interesting.  In the fourth stanza there is a lot of good metaphors such as,"The night is my waitress," and, "The shadows my kitchen."  There is also a simile with, "Burning like fires in memory."  It keeps going because there's also a internal rhyme with,  I walk and talk and despair."  In the fifth stanza there is some cool sounding alliteration, "I break them twice in two."  

This was a great poem by Ms. Kate McCloud and there was a lot of poetic writing I didn't point 1 out.  Too bad for McCloud the poetry business doesn't pay a lot.

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Noa Reinman had one of the best I Have Seen poems I have read.  She writes it from the perspective of what I believe to be sadness.  There’s a lot of imagery, alliteration and tension that makes this poem great.   

In the first line of the poem Ms. Reinman says, “I have seen clouds for as long as i can remember.” I love this line because of the way she used the word clouds to express depression.  She doesn’t end it there though. Sadness awakes me when my thoughts get carried away.” In the second line she gives a dramatic feeling inside of you. Her third stanza flows really well because in the beginning of her poem you have longer lines and then she puts four shorter ones to give you a feeling of repetition. She changes the lengths of her lines quite a bit in this poem and that’s one of the main reasons why this poem was successful.  Ms. Reinman  put in great imagery when she wrote,

“I send my thought to light

Where the clouds don’t go

And the rain never hovers.”

Shortly after that she writes a cool metaphor and internal rhyme,

“This storm that follows me

Is just a wall

Just a feeling wandering near me.”

Then she say’s, “A maze engraved with bad memories.”  When I read that line I think of a big patch of hedges and then bad memories carving out a maze to keep you feeling lost.”  Throughout this poem tension starts to build and then right when you think it's going to explode, the last stanza is calm and traps the anger and covers up the sadness with denial.   Every other stanza had only one line break between the next, but the line break above the stanza where everything gets calm has 3 or 4 and that was a really clever way to write this poem because it’s where you can breeze.  In horror films you always kind of tense up when you think someone thing bad is going to happen and when you realize that nothing is you just breeze and relax and the same thing happened with this poem.

K Weezy in The House

Haters in the building

The name is K Weezy

Got so much skill you’re feeling dizzy

I can go to the supermarket all by myself, Safe way

I can jump and reach things from the highest shelf

I can type faster than a lightning bolt

I’m faster than a cheetah

I’m faster the a cheetah with Addidas

I can tie my shoes without any help

Right me a 5 star review on Yelp

Riding my 2 wheel bike

It aint no tryke

Got my own telephone, iPhone

You can find me on my throne

It’s my zone

That’s where I am chilling and sitting

Writing and killing these raps

There so powerful I don’t even need to put it in caps

Got 769 views on my blog

That's right call me God

whaddup

Limericks

Alyssa was sitting in the corner
While the teacher was talking and boring her
So she got up and went home
And sat there all alone
And realized being alone was even boring-er



There once was a man named Kai
Who ate a lot of pie
And then he felt ill
And wanted to kill
But then he died


There once was a mom named Kelly
Who lived in her house in New Delhi
She woke up every night
To get her midnight bite
Of her peanut butter and jelly

Mother by Adolf Hitler

I chose to analyze this poem because I was thinking about how the class discussed if future classes should read Ender Games because of it's authors view toward gay people.  This poem was really good even though it was written by a man who may not be considered to be the nicest man that lived.  This poem proves that just because a writing or piece of art is done by a person with controversial opinions it doesn't mean that it's automatically a bad piece of work.
This poem has many elements of poetry starting with some alliteration in the first line when he writes, "“When your mother has grown older."  There the yOUr,mOther,grOwn, and Older.  This poem is translated to English because it was originally written in German, so it's interesting how that played out.  I also noticed how this poem isn't written for the present.  It's written for when your mother gets old in the later years.  There was also a internal rhyme when he writes, "Escort her with happy pleasure." The her and the pleaSURE  rhyme.  When this poem was written Hitler's mother was already dead, so he has these memories of when his mother was to old to do things herself.  In the third stanza there's a AB rhyme pattern.  In the last 4 lines they all start with "And if she asks again."  The last 4 lines really led me to believe that his poem was written from a previous experiences of his.  I don't exactly know what it is, but I think it may be because in the ninth line it end with an explanation mark.  It's hard to explain, but maybe it's just how I read it in my head. The second to last line had an internal rhyme with "properly" and "happily."  I feel like the translation was tweaked a little bit, so you would get these internal rhymes because it would seem like a poem would lose it's rhythm and sound of letters when translated like a haiku would.    The last line was perfect example of a good ending for a poem.  It's kind of mysterious, but it's also pretty obvious was Hitler is implying.


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Haiku

 fog by the window

trees look blurry and faded

fog please go away

wet flower garden 

flowers and a dirty pond

and...  a Brisk bottle.

Hit by a pencil

Devin smiling behind me

revenge is coming...

Snow by e.e. cummings Respones

http://enothingblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/poem-of-day-snow-by-ee-cummings.html


This poem reminded me a lot of the falling leaf poem by e.e. cummings.  Not just because the poem is written like a puzzle, but because the snow falls like leaves do so there is a lot of indentations on both poems to represent falling.  I noticed some alliteration and rhymes when he says 'begin design descend"
and "tangles pangles"  I thought it was cool when he said "cruising whisper" because snow does kind of just cruise slowly and snow is so soft and small it is like a whisper.  I noticed in poetry poets will use sounds instead of objects for metaphors. I think this poem is written like this because one, it represents falling snowflakes and two because this poem is written very randomly and it's unpredictable and the way snow is formed is random and the way it falls is unpredictable too.  Another thing is that this poem is broken into so many pieces and when you put them all together its a big pile of snow.  There's random capital letters in this poem and when you put them together it forms the word "each." I'm not if that could mean anything or that it was even intentional.  A lot of poems have a meaning that you really have to look really hard to find.  I've read this poem over 20 times and I can't find any other meaning besides the way snow falls.  When translated you will also realize that this poem has more soft sounds than anything.  It makes the poem sound so much better when the sounds of the letters represent the topic too.  Snow isn't sharp or strong so why should the letters be?  I've looked up translations of this poem to see if I missed anything and it's interesting because every translation is different in someway.  And there's really no right or wrong.  Every translation I read the last line was "Glib scarcest among flowers"  I have no idea what that means.  I looked it up and I got no results.  Even one of the translators didn't know what it meant. I was thinking that it was saying the snow doesn't let the flower bloom, but that was just a wild guess. I guess this was all part of making the poem seem random just like snow itself.

For You

I’ll give You a life and a safe home

and friends and family to keep You from feeling alone

The cupcakes and sugary sweets and slides and swings are all from

me

And the computers and the relaxing Saturdays are for You to love

The beautiful butterfly’s and white doves and the pink gum You chew

The red apples that cool your mouth and the warm August weather that brightens Your day

That car you drive and the Dr. Pepper You drink

 The perfect pencil and pen with ink and the computer that types
the yellow and red kites with stripes and the
times when the radio plays Your favorite song
and when the bullies at you're school are gone

And the textbooks to make You smarter and

The green grass and the great food is for You to enjoy

Here, have this toy

The 

Bumpy

                           Road

                                                to 

                                                                                                                                    Success

BOREDOM is air clear nothing

dreams are cotton white clouds exciting you

FAILURE is deep ocean blue keeping you lost

ANGER is a destruction red battlefield

FEAR is a space black cloud in your stomach

success is dollar green hills around you

happiness is baby blue heaven keeping you afloat

Mac Vs PC

VGA	Vs	Hdmi
Girl	Vs	Guy
Apple	Vs	4 Squares
Expensive	Vs	Cheap
Safari	Vs	Internet Explorer
iMovie	Vs	Windows Movie Maker
Secure	Vs	Hackable
Set and Stone	Vs	Customizable
Snow Leopard	Vs	Windows 7
Mountain Lion	Vs	Windows 8
Steve Jobs	Vs	Bill Gates
Left Click	Vs	Right Click
Productivity	Vs	Gaming
Debates	and	Debates

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19339


Response

I think this poem is about how the jungle is being destroyed by mankind.  I thought it was interesting how two poets wrote this.  I think this is the first time I've seen  that.  I wonder if all there's poems are written by both of them.  I liked the repetition where they say
 "Monkeys know.
 Monkeys see.
 Monkeys do."

This seams to be a very common way for artist to rant.  For example, many artist will rant through song or paintings and poetry.   I liked the simile they used when they said "Noise like refined alabaster drifts across our monkeys."  I noticed these poets especially like to end almost every line with a period to make it more dramatic.  I'm not to sure what they meant when they said "Our satellites saw lilacs."  Maybe it means that they cut the forest down just for the lilacs or maybe the lilacs were the only thing left.  They also made it sound like foresters were taking the monkeys and talking to them about the evil things they will do to them.  I guess it's just a different way to say how humans treat wild life.  Or maybe it's the other way around, so that the monkeys discuss there intentions because there very last line is "No one wanders forever"  In the beginning of the poem there's a line that I noticed has words that have the same consonants sound. "Mist dissipates"   I like poetry because it can mean whatever the reader thinks of it as.  That's the same with painting too.  

List Poem

What’s in my Fridge?

A slice of wheat bread, fluffy like a cloud

a leaf of fresh lettuce from the farmers market with water streaming down.

two slices of tomato, it's juices oozing out

a packet of sliced

smoked turkey

so fresh it's still gobboling

a slice of rich cheddar cheese, crisp and thin

Another slice of wheat bread that a seagull would love to eat

“Mom there’s nothing to eat!”

Ender's Game Anticipation Guide 2

Is lying is justifiable for the greater or good?
I strongly agreed with this and I still do.  In Ender Game if Mazer and Graff told Ender that he killed Bonzo and Stilton Ender would probably want to quite battle and command school. “I am not a killer, Ender said to himself over and over. I am not peter.”(34)  Ender never wanted to kill anybody and be like Peter, so knowing that he did something that Peter would do would make him sad and not want fight anymore, which would result in the buggers killing many humans if not all.
Is violence sometimes the only way to solve problems? 
I sort of agreed with this and I still do. “I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”(7) I agree with this because if Ender hadn't killed Bonzo or Stilson the bulling would have still continued.  I disagree with this because killing Bonzo and Stilson would have made him feel bad about himself and make him want to give if he had heard about it before.  In regards to the entire war with the buggers I think that was the only way for them because they didn’t have any way to communicate and make treaties or anything.  Resulting in bloody war also lets people know that war is a terrible thing, so it will prevent war happening again.
  Is it okay to kill someone in self-defense?
I sort of disagreed with this and I sort of agree with it in Ender's case.  I sort of disagree with it in real life because there are a time when killing someone in self-defense isn’t necessary.  I think it was kind of okay that Ender killed Stilson and Bonzo.  I especially think it was okay for Ender to kill Stilson because Stilson tried gang up on him.  Stilson tried to kill Ender and Ender just brought the karma back to him. "Ender knew at this moment he might be able to walk out of the room and end the battle.”(211)  This quote shows that it was completely necessary for Ender to kill Bonzo because I feel like with some more talking Ender could have convinced Bonzo that he wasn't there to be the best, but doing what he had to do.  “But this time it will be my body that breaks, unless I can break him first.”(209) Ender believed that he had to hurt Bonzo because if he didn’t he would be hurt, but I still think killing Bonzo was too far.
Are words stronger than fists?
I mostly agreed because words stay in your mind forever.  I mostly agree with this, but I don't completely because Ender is hurt that he physically hurt Bonzo and Stilson.  "He would love to see you now, come to fight a naked boy in a shower,smaller than, than you, and you brought six friends.  He would say, oh, what honor."(208) Ender provoked Bonzo with his words and the words was what made Bonzo mad and fight.  Ender wouldn't have felt as bad if he just said mean words to Bonzo and Stilson rather than killing them.  Then again Peter's words really hurt Ender for the rest of his life, so that's why I am undecided on this.

Do bullies hurt others because they have a low self-esteem?

I used to completely disagree with the people that say they do. Now I sort of agree with this because Bonzo's self-esteem lowered when he found out that Ender was better than him.  “It was the thing he hated most about Ender that Ender really mattered to other people, and in the end, Bonzo didn’t.” (210)  This quote shows that Bonzo was mad that Ender was better than him and Bonzo feels sad about that so Bonzo thinks he has to hurt Ender’s brain so Ender becomes stupid. When Bonzo figured that out he started to bully Ender.

Should only the best and brightest students who receive the best education become a nation's leader?

I mostly agreed that only the smartest should have the power to lead a country.  Now I actually mostly disagree with this because everybody has a special talent.  A lot of the things you learn in school don't even matter in life.  I'd say 90% of what you learn in school will only be used in your school years. “There’s only once boy on this launch with any brains at all, and that’s Ender Wiggin.”(32)  This quote shows that Graff knew Ender was the best and Ender heard Graff say this quote and realized he was special. Ender was young and didn't get very much education in, but he figured out what he was good at a young age and pursued it and became an international hero. 

Revenge is never justified

I used to completely disagree with this. Now I mostly disagree with this because most of the time you don't know why somebody did that one thing that you had to get payback for.  For example Ender leaded this army to destroy the buggers because they injured them before.  Then Ender figured out that the buggers didn't really even want to go to war in the first place.  Maybe that kid you punched because they cussed at you had turrets or was talking to a different person.  “We're people, not Thirds, turd face. You're about as strong as a fart.”(7)  Stilson was making fun of Ender for being a third and Ender defended himself and revenged himself by making Stilson feel bad for insulting him. It was justified because Stilson lost his right to be happy.

Is crying evidence of weakness?

I mostly didn't agree with this and I'm still the same way. "...He gasped his sobs, tears seaping out of his closed eyelids and dissaperaring in the water on his face... I didn't want to hurt him! Ender cried.  Why didn't he just leave me alone!"(213) I think if you're super emotional and cry because some kid called you a weirdo then yes you are showing some weakness  but if you're in a situation like Ender where you're forced to be someone you don't want to be and kill millions then I don't think somebody can hold you crying against you.
Is any action acceptable in war?

I was half and half on this one and I sort of disagree now.  Ender killed Stilson and Bonzo to protect himself, but I don't really think Ender had to go so far that he had to kill them. "Of course we tricked you into it.  That's the whole point, said Graff.  It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.  It's the bind we were in."(298) Also Ender was tricked into almost completely wiping out the buggers population and that's also very extreme.  What the humans should have done was try to contact the buggers beforehand.  I'm not saying the buggers were innocent because they attacked the humans first because of fear, but the humans could have handled it differently.  I disagree now that every action is acceptable in war because totally destroying a community and a culture is not acceptable   I say this because there are many ways to keep both countries happy and not take any lives.  I have always been saying this recently because I strongly agree with it, but I feel like money is stronger than any gun, speech, or person. For example I think China is kind of ruining their country because they want money so much and what’s happening there is worse than if a country bombed them. That might sound stupid but China is doing, so much terrible stuff to their people like forcing young teenagers to work for about 2 cents an hour.
Any action is acceptable in war.
Do teenagers need discipline and rules because they can't control themselves?
At first I disagreed that teenagers need discipline, but now that I think about it now I can't really agree nor disagree because every person is different.  Some people are mature and think of rules as common sense.  They just know that you shouldn't steal something, but others might not know that.  “He lifted his foot, took a step, and then knelt on Ender, his knee pressing into Ender’s belly just below the breastbone.”  (12)  Peter is an example of somebody who needs rules and discipline. This quote shows that Peter thinks he can just hurt people for fun which is not okay.  Valentine though quote
 Only through personal sacrifice can someone create positive change.
I mostly agreed wit this and I still do.  I still do because making a positive change might be good for you, but you are no longer who you once were.  For example, if you're over weight and you want be healthy and fit, but you are worried you will lose that chubby, funny, and comforting personality that you had.  In the long run being in shape is a lot better.  Ender had to sacrifice a lot of things for the better.  He had to leave his family and he had to forget about his views toward not killing people because he had to.  Overall it paid off though.  Ender may live in guilt, but he saved so many people and Ender would feel even worse if he stayed at home and watched Valentine die from buggers.
Generating compassion with your enemy is the only way to create peace.

I mostly agreed with it and I still do.  You might be talking to this kid that your mad at for talking behind your back.  He wants to be your friend so he bribes you with money.  The arguments might stop, but I don't believe there's complete peace. Think about it, you're friends with someone because they give you money.  There's no good memories you shared together.  I think to go from enemies to friends you have to build friendship.  It takes time to build the trust and the care."...Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for the worlds where the hive queen could awaken and thrive in peace."(324) It might take sometime because you have to be able to put yourself in someone else s shoes.  Both people or groups have to be on the same page though.  Ender wants to be friends with Peter and Ender tries to let the mean things Peter has done go.  Peter isn't ready to be friends with Ender so there is still no peace between them.

Ender Questions

CHAPTER 12
Ender provoked Bonzo because Bonzo was the leader and the best and then Ender came and became the best through innovation.  Ender tricked the system and kept figuring new things up and then Bonzo became 2nd best.  I’m not surprised Bonzo got mad because it’s hard when you’ve been the best for so long and then some new person comes along and is better than you.  Bonzo started talking smack about Ender and then it became physical.

Stilson was the guy he killed when ender was still on earth.  Stilson was the leader of his bully group and Ender had to beat him up to prevent getting bullied again.  Ender was thinking about Stilson because it was pretty much the same situation with Bonzo.  Bonzo attacked and Ender had to end it to keep himself from getting hurt later.

Ender still expects help from the teachers because he thought they were their to prevent violence and monitor the situations.  And they are, but they don’t want to stunt his retaliatory nature, so he wouldn’t get hurt.  

I didn’t know Stilson and Bonzo we’re dead, but I do now because in the chapter is says  “...There was a death in the Battle School(pg 225) ”  This quote was talking about Bonzos death.  I now know that Stilson died on page 225-226 because they discuss Ender going to command school and they say this is the 2nd person they killed and it says they didn’t tell Ender that he killed Bonzo and that they didn’t tell him about Stilson either.  Then the people say, “At least the first one was a suicide.”  

Ender was justified because he was provoked.  He did what he had to do to get out of the situation.  Both times he was cornered and out numbered, so he took out the head of the group.  They don’t tell Ender he killed them because they don’t want Ender to limit his aggressiveness and  hold back because they're going to war and there’s no second place it’s either all or nothing.

CHAPTER 13
She means that you can be a person who believes in peace, but you can still go to war and get the job done.  For example Ender doesn’t want to go to war and fight and kill and hurt people, but he has to.  An example of this is like I don’t want to do my homework, but I have to if I want to succeed in life.

I wouldn’t say it’s a good instinct, but it’s one of those instincts that humans need to survive.  I’m not saying everybody has to kill someone to survive, but if you don’t kill anybody in war then you’re getting killed.  It’s a terrible thing that it has to be this way, but it is what it is.

The conversation Ender and Valentine had on the raft was that Ender was talking about how the leaders of the Command School are controlling him.  He’s a puppet.  Ender told her that they kept giving them harder and harder stuff because it’s a game.  “In the moment when I truly  understand my enemy I understand him well enough to defeat him then in that very moment I also love him.  I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they loved themselves and then, in that very moment when I love them...”  Then Valentine says “you beat them?”
Then Ender says “No I destroy them.”  Then Ender say’s “See what i’m becoming? Now you afraid of me too.”  (PG 228) Ender understand that he’s the tool and that’s hes being used for a specific job that goes against who he really is.  Ender wanted to quiet but he didn’t because he knows there's a job to do and only he can do it.

Valentines conflicting thoughts about her brothers is that she loves them both, but they are two totally different people.  She doesn’t know how she get them to be together and put their differences behind them.

Graffs statement about why they need to go to war with the buggers is because the buggers initiated the war originally and so the humans will end it.  This relates to Enders problems with Stilson and Bonzo because Stilson and Bonzo put him in fear, so Ender had to stop that.  

CHAPTER 14
Eros bother Ender because they were small  and it makes it feel like the small rooms and floors are curved, so it makes Ender feel like he’s falling.  Also there were too many people for him.  Ender usually knew everybody, but here everybody was strangers.  He knew the faces, but not the personalities. The leaders their separated Ender from everybody, so all he had to do was study and play the game and not get attached to people.  Ender figures out the truth about eros because on page 269 they talk about the battle they had won and they say you can’t live here without knowing the truth.  Mazer told him that the buggers made this place.  That’s why the building are so small because buggers don’t need big ones. Then Ender knew he was living in a buggers hive.

Mazer is going to be the only teacher Ender has ever had because on page 276 he’s talking to Mazer and Mazer explains how he was just like Ender.  He was detached from his family and stuck at battle and command school and forced to teach and teach.  Mazer the only ones that been through it all and did it successfully, so it’s best to learn from the source.  Mazer is a primary source document if  you will.  

Mazer had been dishonest with Ender because Mazer didn’t tell ender that the super hard battle that Ender thought was a simulation was real.  Ender killed all the buggers including the queen thinking it was all fake, but Mazer didn’t tell him because Mazer thought Ender couldn’t do it.  I don’t think Ender could have handled the truth because Ender is still scared of becoming like Peter and committing genocide against the buggers would be far beyond what Peter did.

I don’t think they pushed the children to hard because it’s not a question to how you win, but if you win.  They did win so everything they did to the kids was worth it.  It was either a hard few years or death.  It was worth it because all the kids learned so much and so did Ender. Most importantly they didn't die and a day of life is worth everything.

I’m half and half on this. The humans felt scared and even though they killed so many of the buggers they felt safe again.  I don’t think they had to kill so many buggers to win the war.  They just had to prove to the buggers that they were stronger and that if they don’t back off then they are in trouble.  I don’t think the destruction of the buggers population was inevitable because Ender might have figured something out that would have stopped him from doing what he did.  And xenocide didn’t really happen because Ender was able to save them.

CHAPTER 15

I think Ender agrees with it, but I don’t think Ender believes that the people in charge of the battle school actually love him.  He knew they loved his brain but that’s all.  This quote would make more sense if Enders family needed him to do something for them.  I think this quote also relieves Ender from the stress.  The stress that makes him feel like a bad person and that he forced to be someone he doesn’t want to be.  It relieved him because he would realize that he’s not the only one that is in his shoes.

When Ender listens to the death of Stilson and Bonzo he feels bad, but he has killed so many buggers that the death of two more doesn't cross his mind. He feels so bad about what he did to the buggers that he can't be any more stressed then he already is. When I imagine Ender I think of a quite boy that can't get the images of the buggers and the queen dieing and he just sits and stairs as time passes.

Valentine Made sure that Ender would never return to earth because everybody there thinks he’s a monster.  The people on earth don’t understand that Ender had to and it was self defense.  I think all the people on earth are scared of Ender and if he went back he would just get some unwanted stares and rude remarks and questions.  Another thing is that if Ender went back to earth Peter still wouldn’t love him.  Peter would still be his old ways and maybe even worse because Peter would be jealous of how great Ender has become.  Also it would be better off if Ender remained a story and a name (pg 308)


It’s ironic for Valentine saying Peter saved a lot of lives because Peter also killed a lot of lives.  If it wasn’t for peter Ender wouldn’t be who he was.  Ender character is a mix of Peter’s and Valentin’s.  I don’t necessarily agree that Peter saved and killed a lot of lived because Peter did not directly kill or save.  It’s almost like saying my mom helped me write.  Ender has some personality in him that Peter and Valentine don’t have and I have some personality that only I have.

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The knowledge that Ender gained that allowed him to write The Hive Queen was that the buggers didn’t actually want to fight.  He also felt what they felt. Also it was sad because the Queen told Ender that she knew they would die because the  humans didn’t forgive them.  The the Queen told Ender that they didn’t know if they would be able to leave in peace with the humans, so they attacked to avoid future conflict.  “We are like you; the thought pressed in his mind.  We did not mean to murder, and when we understood, we never came again.”  This quote really touched Ender, because Ender didn’t want to kill either, but hey both felt like they had too, so they did.



Ender publishes the book using pseudonym and not his own name because
doesn’t care about the fame.  People also might not want to read the book if it had Ender Whiggen written on the title page.  He wants people to read it though because he believes it will make them a better person if they did.  My friend Ralf read this book and he told me that whenever he is at a funeral he always speaks like the speaker of the dead would.

My Blanket Ode

So warm and cozy

and red and soft

Large and heavy

It could almost cover a Chevy

Always there for me every night

It changes shape to keep me happy

and even when I'm having nightmares

It makes me feel safe

When I hear a scary sound

It covers me and hides me

And when I need to get up 

It doesn't wan't me too

It keeps me comfy and does what it can

To keep me with him 

and not blow me away like a fan
I wash my blanket and keep it clean
It's a very close relationship

CEJ 5

Cnn.com
Opinion
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/24/opinion/greene-minimum-wage/
By Bob Greene
2/24/13

Citizens and politicians are wondering what life would be like if their was no minimum wage.  It all started during WWII in 1938.  All business had to pay their workers at least 25 cents an hour.  Now the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but States can make laws that increase their minimum wage.  Minimum wage is looked at a symbol of protection that the government offers.

There are more benefits to having a minimum wage that not.  One of the main benefits to minimum wage is that it keeps people off the streets.  Pretty much everybody can live in a house and eat and ride the bus to work.  Minimum wage also keeps us from becoming a country like China where working for the business is almost like slavery.  What is slavery?  To me the basic slavery that first started was a person would work for a wealthier person and get very little out of it and had very little freedom.  If you let business like Mcdonalds pay their workers 25 cents an hour they might get food but that’s all.  Some would argue that it would create more jobs.  Yes it definitely would create more jobs, but it would make working a bigger punishment then it already is.  Nobody would be happy either.  Business that have expensive merchandise like Apple would go out of business because only the richest of the rich could get something.  This country almost requires citizens to have a bit of money.  We all have high standards of what we need and you really can’t do much without a decent amount of money.  I think our minimum wage of $7.25 an hour isn’t enough.  I think the government or employers need to offer their employees health insurance, housing, and a good life for their entire family.  Cities should also pay a lot of their tax money on developing more cheap transportation that poor people can use to get to their job.  

Cards Article Response

After reading Cards views on gays I was surprised  the upcoming movie Ender's Game might not be shown to the public because of Cards Controversial words toward gay people.  Everybody has the right to their own opinion, but when you use your fame to express your believes then it's pretty bad.  A lot of people who look up to Card might try to be like Card and say the same hurtful things he does.  The worse thing about cards posts and speeches is that he doesn't have very good arguments or reasons to discriminate gay people.  Regardless of all he has said I think people are over reacting.

I usually don't like comparing someone’s professional life to their personal life, but card has brought his personal views affect his profession.  His views aren't affecting what I think of his book, but it affects what I think about him.  Card is Mormon and in the Mormon religion it's normal to dislike gays.  As Card discriminates gay's you are discriminating Mormonism and Mormons when you threaten to boycott and rage about his books and movie.  In his book Card doesn't sneak in what he feels about gays at all.  The books not offensive, so why discontinue reading it.  Mr. Vack should not discontinue his class from reading this book, but when you buy his book you're giving Card money.  Most people wouldn't want to support someone they don't like, but Mr. Vack has already bought those books.  Don't think of it like your supporting his views on gay people when you buy his books, but that you're supporting his writing.  All this talk about Card's opinion has made it national news and news companies and blogs are all talking about it and spreading the word about Card.  If you don't want to hear his opinion then don't share what he says to other people and put him in the limelight because you will just hear it again when you read the news paper or watch a news channel.  Now the angry crowd his wondering if they should boycott the movie.  Card is trying to make gay people upset and that's the reaction he gets when people let it get to them.  Card is not the only person that is against gays.  He isn't the one that decides what gays can and cannot do.  The politicians are the ones that decide that stuff.  Right now there are plenty of states and countries that don't allow gay marriage and if they’re going to boycott card's movie then shouldn't they also not pay state taxes?If I were to buy one of Card's books that money wouldn't all go to him.  There are innocent publishers and editors and their families that get negatively affected to. It's not fair to punish a group a people just because one person his doing something wrong. Even though it sounds like I'm supporting Card and disagreeing with peoples protests I still am strongly against his opinion towards gay people, but I am not against his writing, his editors, and publishers.