The second book of the Hunger Games. If you thought the Hunger Games was amazing, then Catching fire is going over expectations of a sequel.
The way the author Suzanne Collins described each of Katniss' feeling and thoughts in the Hunger Games, their even more amazing in Catching Fire, like when she describes each place and moment which Katniss witnesses I can actually picture in and witness it in my head. Suzanne Collins' word choice is outstanding, because they match the plot line.
I also adore the way she connects it back to the Hunger Games and makes connections with the current situation. Each page, paragraph or sentence you read intrigues you into reading more and more. Now I'm only at the beginning but what I've read so far I'm really intrigue and always wanting to read more and more.
Suzanne Collins really shows her talent with these books. I'm honestly loving to read them probably the first series that I actually like. And actually hooks me in. I recommend you check it out if you haven't. It's really good!
To me this does not makes sense, the Royal Bank of Canada is replacing CANADIAN staff. Just to make higher income.
According to an article on CBC news, the workers are coming from India. This is against federal laws for any company to bring foreigners to do jobs temporarily while it puts citizens out of work. When their are less jobs then Canadian citizens will have a hard time living. Meaning the income for the household of a family will not be enough which could lie some families in poverty.
I don't think it's fair for the peoples who jobs are being taken away have to train the temporary foreign staff. It was their job they were laid off why should they have to train them? I guess the thing that is kind of ticking them off is that their losing their jobs to foreigners, and having to train them. Like what if they don't know good english then that communicating could be a problem which could be fustrating.It should be the companies problem not the ones who lost their jobs.
If they wanted to they could've cut pays but I still don't understamd their a bank they make billions of dollars a year why need to cut people? Those are people who lost their jobs were Canadian working in a Canadian business. Well they have already laid off people now that's many people without a job hows that going to help the economy? And most of all how is it going help a family who lost maybe their only income?
Reference:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/04/05/bc-rbc-foreign-workers.html
This year went by super fast but we're going to have another election soon and I'm going to get involved somehow so I can get some status points. One thing I accomplished was I got a food unit, but no power for my house which cause my tenant to move out. Again this year I had just observed but now I will be in a party or so I think. But I had never said anything because everything had been said but then theirs always more to say, it just never really came to mind. Some new goals for this year be involved, be in a party, and get all the necessities needed for what's left of my civic mirror family. Again this year went by fast I didn't even realize it but I guess I just have to adjust.
To be totally, completely honest this literacy test is dumb. Seriously why do I have to write a test to know from the government if I'm literate?
If I can read and write why do I need to prove it in order to get my high school certificate? I don' t think its worth it because its not. I think I should...... actually I know I should get my certificate because I've been in my classes and doing the work, now you might say well those who don't go to class and are not doing work they should write it? Well no those who don't go to class and don't do work doesn't mean their 'illiterate' it just means their lazy.
Now why do they have to waste so much paper to tell us if we are literate, I'm pretty sure we have common sense. Wasting all that paper, every school in Ontario. Which is probably more than 10,000 student plus the ones who had fail it. If you think about that's a lot of paper and trees. If your for the environment you'd think it's not worth it.
Finally, my last point that I'll argue is they'll put questions that seem easy but they have the smallest of errors like a multiple choice which sentence is correct and the only error is a little comma! Seriously if we don't notice a comma or right punctuation we are not literate.
In general I'm saying this test is clearly not worth it. All of our classes include reading and writing, why do we need a test to tell us whether we can or not.
TEDx Youth @ Waterloo was interesting. Some talks were very inspiring and some were like not taken to that depth as it should've.
One talk I found that got down into depth was Richard McLean's talk because he didn't only talk about his life experiences but he related it to how others like him were treated when they were homeless and treated bad.
Another talk I found interesting was Caustan DeRiggs, I think that's his name. I liked how he was funny and rapped was pretty cool, but it wasn't that deep.
The talk had also made me remember that I had seen Syd Vanderpool before! He was speaking at my old school I think it was in grade 4 or 5 but I don't quite remember.
The little girl Maddie she was cute and she knew her stuff but maybe the others weren't prepared for her because she had to tell her assistant who was helping her when to click and change the papers, but I do give her credit for going up there and talking to 450+ people. WHEN I WAS NINE, I WAS REALLY SHY!
A talk that I didn't like was the singer Simone she sounded like she was stoned and hers wasn't really deep it was like she was rambling on and on and then finally sang another song.
The spoken word poet was cool Holly Painter because I thought her poem was good putting together those two topics and really making them go well together, that's showed how much creativity she has. Hats off to her!
All in all the TEDx Youth Waterloo talk was OK not great and not terrible, all it could've been in a bigger place I felt it was a bit to small for all those people. Hopefully next will be better and bigger, if I do get the chance to go.
What does coming home mean? Everyone could have different opinions on this one topic, two simple words creating such a huge topic. You might think what's so important about these words, well just think about because something simple can be so complex. My opinion on coming home is someone returning after a long time and sharing the happiness of returning with their family.
Even I've had that feeling when I go to New York after 4 months it feels like I'm going home because I have my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins there. Even though its not my actually home they make it feel like home with all the warmth they give every time I go. Plus all my cousins there are younger than me so that just makes it even more fun.
Everyone has a different view on coming home. But that was my experience with coming home maybe yours are different like going to another part of the earth and visiting your love ones. Or just going back to your home land and remembering all those memories. Coming home .
The theme for the TED talk that I'll be going to is chasing home. That could be many ideas considering it's a very vague topic. In my opinion, the theme chasing home is your at a point in life where you want to go back home but for some reason you keep getting farther and farther away, so you keep chasing to get back. I actually like this theme because it's making me think a lot about two words that seemed simple, but have more complex meanings and lead many different ideas. Plus it gives you a picture in your head of the theme. I think when I come out of that TED talk I'll be not a new person but I'll have a more to think about and feel free to share my ideas.
Year 1 of our simulated country called Zugzwang. It has been quite a learning experience to be honest, and kind of confusing. But eventually I got the hang of it. Boy has it been a hectic year! Starting from elections to the auction to the court to the town hall and etc. My favourite part of the year was the court observing the very "persuating" points. Seriously speaking there were some very good points that had been said. Plus it gave me an idea of what the real court is like. Another part I liked was the auction that was very competitive. Everyone wanting a hex and the prices going up and up. It was fun really fun and funny to. Uhm, it wasn't a perfect year considering we had 34 deaths. But it was learning experience and hopefully year 2 will be e
Most of us are insecure. Wouldn't you say? But who is to blame, the media, other people. Our minds. The way we think, the way we take in all the media has to offer us whether it's the super skinny models, or the product ads. It's true that the media is targeting us every day but, why do we let it get to us? I'm guessing it's because the way we think we should be. BUT wrong we should be who we want to be. NOT what the media portrays us as what we should be. I believe we've been made to be original not like everyone else. Have you ever heard the line "God made us a certain way" well we are whether we're sized different or have different interests/likes, because if we are all the same wouldn't life be boring. I know I'd be bored. We shouldn't be insecure because we are each unique none of us are the same unless there's twins then they'd look the same. But that's pretty cool if you lost your twin you'd be like "I'm looking for someone who looks like me" Think how you want to. Do what you want. Believe what you want to. Break free and live. Don't be all tight just, let loose and have FUN!
Go ask Alice is a book about a teenager under the influence of drugs and addiction. But its not just that its about who she meets and the stories of the people she meets. She tells her stories in diary format so you read a whole bunch of journal entries that describe the way she lives her days. Some days are not dated and they have question marks meaning that either shes high and doesn't know the dates or has been gone for a while and lost track. In the book she gets introduce in a whole bunch of drugs like all you can think of. Then when she gets high she does certain "things" like really explicit things and then remembers them after. In the book, she does say that she will quit but when your addicted your addicted and then she somehow gets back to it. Now I'm at the part where she has left home the second time, she's as sick as ever and met a priest that has called her parents to come and get her.
I think this book is great for teens because it really makes sense about drugs and if you do it what are the consequences but its a book where you can maybe relate in some way and maybe not but Ireccommend you read it. If your into the who reality genre.
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