jillianrose. Speak by laurie halse anderson the whole book.
the book starts off with a girl named Melinda starting her freshman year in high school. She is a complete paraiah due to some party in the summer that she called the cops at. When getting to school, the new girl, Heather, who's unaware of all this becomes her somewhat friend. Merryweather High School is always having problems coming up with a mascot and is eventually named the Horny Hornets. The high school is composed of major cliques and when Heather decides to join The Marthas, who are the rich snobby girls who do good deeds for society, Heather completely dumps Melinda as a friend. Melinda finds an old janitors closet where she inhabits her things. In the beginning of the year, there art teacher made them pick something to draw and sculpt all year, so Melinda constantly works on what she picked, trees. We eventually find out the Melinda called the cops in the summer because she got raped by a senior, Andy Evans. Her ex-best friend Rachel now goes out with Andy Evans. Rachel finds out about the rape and dumps Andy at the prom. He then goes into the janitors closet and tries to hurt Melinda and then the lacrosse team hears her screaming and saves her. Andy Evans is now an asshole to the school and Melindas cool again.
This book was good. I couldn't keep my eyes off it and always wanted to read. :D
This is the bleeping Vietnam packet that ruined my break. Back in like the 50's or 40's i dont care, america was obbsed with finding communist. So when Vietnam was on the verge of becoming communist so america thought it was a good idea to stop this. And America found a "good" solution to finding the communist- kill everyone they think is a comunist, anyone with half a brain can figure out what is wrong with this but i will save it for the next Blog. Btw my new vocab words are Squabder Disssapation Forefiture Denude Berave Elegiac Renouce DisenFranchise Culinary Gourmet Savory Gluttony Palatable Succulent Gastronomy Voracious. the book i am currnetly reading is called the crucible its about the salem witch trials and t is also really dull, it not even worth that much on A.R. i hate reading. If i keep typing this blog will count twice. I hope this is a long blog. this week im taaking the ERBs i hate them deeply.
renee just listen - - sarah desson pages 1 to 135 ish [:
okay so when the book starts, the main character Annabel is having a whole lot of issues. With her family & her "friends." because she doesnt have any friends. she used to be best friends with a girl named clarke. then she& annabel became friends with sophie, and annabel & sophie went out to the pool when you werent supposed to be there, and clarke didnt come, so she got mad at sophie & annabel, and she doesnt talk to annabel any more. something happened with annabel and her used to be best friend sophie. this isnt revealed until the end of the book probably, or near there. but any way all we know is that sophie keeps going up to annabel & being like "slut, whore, bitch." & that annabel told this kid Owen Armstrong that sopie thinks annabel slept with sophies boyfriend. this isnt true though. sophie somehow has the power to turn pretty much everyone in the school against annabel, so she doesnt have any friends. but any way, at home she has all these problems. she & her two sisters kirsten&whitney were all models. she & whitney still do model, but kirsten doesnt. annabel doesnt want to model any more, but she thinks it makes her mom happy, so she keeps doing it. whitney is doing it but she has this eating disorder, and she has become outragously skinny & she has had to go to the hospital multiple times because of that, and now instead of living with kirsten in NYC, she has to live at home with her mom& dad & annabel. shes always in a really bad mood because she cant be by herself that much incase she binges, or purges, or excersizes obbsessively or something likke that. so because annabel has no friends, she used to sit alone at lunch. she sat on a wall, where Owen sat too. One day she threw up & needed a ride home, so owen took her. from then on they became friends.
this is a really good book. its not like a lot of the books that this author has previously written. but there is a lot of tense change & flash backs & stuff so its a little hard to follow. but after a while you really get into it. but i want to know really badly what happened to make Sophie hate annabel so much. jillian & kristen & abiha know & they wont tell me ]:
In this book, a Gunslinger named Roland has to travel to the Dark Tower. He has 3 companions on his quest. Eddie, who squandered his time with cocaine, Sussanah, and Jake. Jake has a book from New York City that is about riddles. Roland discovers that there are parralells between our world and Roland'ss world.(im sorry my typing is bad i hate macs) Roland says that they have to travel through an old city called Lud. For hundreds of years, the Grays and the Pubes have been fighting over the city. Roland says that he is the only gunslinger left because his world has moved on. When Jake gets captured, Roland sends Eddie and Susanah to go find the Berth of Blaine the Mono. Blaine is an old monorail that travels fast enough to create a sonic boom. They need Blaine to cross the wastelandss to get to the dark tower. laine delights in riddles. The companions soon discover tht Blaine is insane and wants to take his own life. He wants to do it because he is programmed to serve, and after Roland's world "moved on", the peope of Lud considered him as a god. Since he is built to serve, he became what thy wanted him to be. He would reward and kill indiscriminatly. He decided to take his life after an electrical fire drove his last remaning colleuge insane. She then commited suicide. As the book ends, the heros are in Blaine and traveling at 800+ mph. He then informs them of his intention to commit suicide and to take them with him. Up until this point, Blaine has been treating the companions like they are inferior to him. Roland speaks out against Blaine and reminds him that he is a tool, and is ment to serve people. They then begin a riddle contest where if Blaine wins, He gets to copmmit suicide, but if they win, Blaine lives and so do they.
In Act 1, Parris' daughter who is named Betty, will not wake up. The story is in a religious place where Parris is on of the leaders. Abigail and two of her friends went back in the woods one night and they were dancing by the fire. They were accused of doing the dances of the devils. One of the people who were dancing was Proctor's slave. Proctor is a rich guy who is not liked by a guy named Giles Corey because of Proctors success in land. Basically the first act is explaining who everyone is and what the town is like. In act 2, we find out Abigail had an affair with Proctor. Abigail and Betty were naming all the witches they thought were doing witchcraft. A servant made Mary (Proctor's wife) a stuffed animal that had the needle stuffed in it. Abigail called Mary a witch because she accused her of using it as a Vu-Du doll. Abigail actually did this so she could take Mary's place in Proctors bed. The second act closes with Mary being taken away and Proctor is pissed. Mary asked the servant to testify but she cannot because she is told that she will get severally beaten.
I like this book and i think the court and the whole town is full of morons. They believe that there are witches and they also believe whatever Abigail says about who is a witch. Overall, its a pretty good book
5 weeks then i leave ellison forever, so ike i said in the vietnam packet all the anerican soilders were killing everything that walks in order to stop communist,we used more bombs on vietnam then in world war 2 combined and we still got are butts kicked. America also coverd Vietnam with chemical agent which cuased birth defects with brith and completly destroyed plants
Jeremy Novick Maximum Ride by: James Patterson pgs 1-81
This book starts off with people trying to attack max and the 'flock'. in this series the 5 people in this group are genetically engineered with wings, different powers, and crazy vision like rap-tor sight. They have an unbelievable sense of direction and always know pretty much where they are. There are 5 kids. Max: the flock leader. Fang: as old as Max and a really good fighter. Nudge: can be magnetic when she wants. Although it doesn't say until the fourth book, she is black. Angel: has the most powers. The huge ones are she can breathe under water, talk to animals, can read and manipulate minds, and can turn into anything she wants. Anyway, there are about 5 robots trying to blow up the house with rockets. they are called 'fly bots', the new and improved version from the last book. They are injected with some kind of drug to make them motivated and do work with more proficiency. they blow up the house but don't see the chimney which all 5 'bird kids' fly out of. When one guy comes back to the master, the master is so angry he kills the robot/person. he vanished him into thin air. This lets you know that he can basically do anything he wants and the robots are just his minions. He sells the flock to which ever country wants them and is willing to pay the most money. They are guaranteed global domination. The United States calls the flock and their parents to a private meeting. The father (jeb) cannot be trusted because of the games he played with her in the past. They aren't normal games. They are 'games' that always end up putting her life on the line'. She does love her mother though, when she needed help in the other books she went to her house for care not even knowing she was her mom. At the meeting the U.S. proposes that they will provide shelter and safety and schooling. Max reads into the plan and finds they will have to fight for the United States and starts to give an attitude. Later, when they tried to order pizza there was a small but powerful bomb in the pizzas. they all were okay. they left and got too close to the pentagon after a long getaway from jets. they are now hiding in different places so they dont get caught by the bots. thats the basic thing happening right now.
This is a really good book ive read most of the series. i like genetic engeneering and how humans can do 'super human' things. this could happen in the future except it would be very painful. the people (mainly kids) would have to do it willingly because you can kind of see how that would be torture. great book though.....
In this book, it starts off with the main character Macy and she is helping her boyfriend get ready because he is going off to Brain Camp. He's extremely smart and isnt really affectionate. They had been dating for a year and a half. Her dad died a year and a half ago. He had waken her up to go running but she said no, and when she woke up and went outside, her dad was like dead on the road. Her mom is making these townhouses so she's always busy and has to throw parties. When a catering company is at there house, Macy helps them out and the boss Delia, whos preggo, says that MAcy could easily get a job with them. But Macy already has a job at the library but its really Jasons job and she needs to fill in for him. The other two girls who work there hate her and like Jason. Jason sent her an email discussing the things that need to be done at the library and she rights back complaining and at the end of the message writes i love you at the end. When she gets a message back, he sasy that she is to attached and needs to focus on her job more so they shouyld take a break. She doesnt reply back but instead leaves and follows that catering car to there next location. There she starts working and meets Kristy. But also meets the people she met the day they were at there house, Monica, Delia. Bert, and the super fine hottie Wes. Then for the next job and goes to Delias house to help her out. Delia is Wes and Berts aunt. There mom died of breast cancer. Wes makes sculptures out of metal and stuff and is really good at it but never brags. He also has a tattoo on his arm of one of his sculptures. Every night they cater, Kristy always asks Macy if she wants to go and always says no. One night she says yes. They go to this party kind of this but she is sitting out in the back of the truck. So then her, Monica, Kristy, Bert and Wes are sitting there and a drunk girl from another car walks by and says that she recognizes who Macy is but Macy lies and denies it. Then the girl says she remebers Macy from track and says that she always won and the only time someone else won was when Macy quit. Then she revealed that Macys dad had died and she shouldnt be sad. Kristy and sort of Monica comforted her and then the night was over, The next catering job was at Jasons house. And his dad said thats its good that Macy and Jason were taking a break so Macy didnt interfere in his goals. Kristy heard and said it in front of everybody in the kitchen. Then one night reight after a catering job, everyone was going to a party and Wes and Macy were riding together and told Monica and Kristy they would meet them there. That night there car broke own and they were walking aimlesslyy all night. Macy suggested they play a game called truth. One person asks a question and the other one has to answer it. If they pass and the other answers it they win. They played and both Macy and Wes revealed some private things. Macy told him her deal with Jason and why she stopped running. Wes told her about his gf in rehab who he met in reform school. They kept this game up everytime they met. Macy asked him what he would do if he could do anything and he said he didnt want to answer that. Then Wes told her that he was going to ask her a question that was going to be hard to think of so he would tell her in a a week or so. After a night of catering, the whole crew stays at Macy's house for a while because Bert was about to miss his show. Plus Macy's mom wasn't going to be home for a while, or thats what she thought. When they were all just chillin, thats when Macy's mom came home and heard the part about Wes being in reform school. She calls Macy into her ofice and starts questioning her. They leave the office and as Macy's mom is going up the stairs she yells to MAcy that Jason is going to be coming by tomorrow at the library. She says it loud enough so everybody, including hottie Wes hears. (btw Macy didnt' tell her mom that Jason somewhat broke up with Macy) The next day at the library, the two stuck up snobs were getting everything ready for the royal asshat Jason. Suddenly both girls looked up and kept their gaze on the door. Macy thought it was Jason but it was actually Wes. He wentup to Macy to ask her a qustion but the girls cut in saying he should ask them. He kept trying to tell them it was something only Macy would no but they still wouldn't let him ask Macy. Wes got pissed and asked them if they knew where the big tongs were. They were clueless and he asked Macy. She told him and he said that they were running short on people and needed help. The girls told Macy that if she left than she couldn't get the job back. She said whatever but they wouldn't get out of her way so she jumped over the counter. Wes had been impressed the whole day by her action and told everyone else too. Macy had to hurry up that day too because her mom was throwing an independence day party. But berfore that, Macy had catrering. Everything was going perfectly well according to Delia. She said that something bad needs to happen. The day ended and when Delia was getting paid her water broke. They rushed to the hospital and Macy left a message to her mom saying she was going to be late. But it went straight to voicemail. When Macy saw the baby, she started having memories of her past and began missing her mom sudenly. She quickily left because she started to sob. Wes came and pulled her into a hug. When she arrived at the party late, her mom was pissed. She discussed the fact that Jason called about how she quit. She also told her that she had to quit her catering job and could no longer see her friends from their again. Macy's sister Caroline had been rebuilding their old beach house and they all promised a specific date to when they would go up and stay there. The mom said no after the house was built and said some other time. Caroline told her off soooooo bad mentioning that she was ruining Macy's life too. One night when Macy said she was going to go to yoga, she followed Wes instead. He had been delivering a package and she asked if she could join him like they used to do. He said he had something important to do and maybe next time. So he left and Macy thought that she may have made him feel uncomfortable by hugging him at the hospital. She was depressed and decided to go to a waffle house Wes introduced her to. She went their and immediatly recongnized that he was with his girlfriend. She went home and thought on her own. She knew this would happen. No matter what they had been through, he had Becky and she had Jason. She went home and saw and email from Jason and explained to him that she hated working at the library and that she wasn't ready for a relationship. The day of her mom's biggest party. The party she stressed over since the beginning of summer had finally arrived. And everything was going wrong. One was the chef quitting, so they gave Delia a call and asked if she could cater. It also began to thunder outside but Delia fixed that problem too. Kristy came up to Macy and asked her if she had talked to Wes. Macy was ignoring all her calls from Wes since she saw him with Becky. Kristy tolf Macy that he went to break up with Becky so he could be with Macy. Macy was shocked and asked where he was. Kristy said he was working but would stop by later. She went onto the deck and Jason showed up. He statred saying that he shouldnt have left her that way and how he wanted to get back together. She said not yet. He said they should both write out a list of what they both want and expect out of a relationship. MAcy looked at him crazy like he was on crack or something. As he was rambling off, Wes came and saw them together. He quickly walked away right after. She ran to catch up with him. He looked at her and she told him there was a change in the rules and told him to ask her what they were. He asked and she said that the only other way you could win was if she answerded the last question he passed up. SO he asked her that question and she kissed him. They began going out and she started running again. She and her mom and sister spent time at the beach house.
I really like this book. It was extremly cute and Macy and Wes seem like an ideal couple. Wes also seems like a mega hottie since every girl stared at him when they walked by. I also HATE Jason, and the two chicks, Bethany and Amanda, who worked at the library. They should all get together and make annoying babies with each other. If Jason thinks that saying i love u after dating for a year and a half is to much than i hope he gets raped by Bethany or Amanda to show him what to much is. And if he thinks that Macy interferes with his goals, then i wish he gets hit by a bus. I also hated Macy's mom a lot. But at the end i liked her especially at the last party where she finally found ou that Jason had dumped Macy because she said I love you to him and when she was spending time a away from work and at the beach house. Awesome book!
Camagüey is a city in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. Besides being destroyed by hurricane, Ike the city f Camaguey is beautiful. The city is next to many beaches and has tons of old history.One of the famous dishes in Cuba is the Cuban salsa, which is no different from any other type of salsa.The ingredients are • 4 cups diced fresh tomatoes, deseeded • 1/2 cup white onion, diced • 1/2 cup cilantro, chopped • 1 large clove garlic, raw, finely minced • 1/2 jalapeno pepper, finely diced • 2 tsp lime juice, fresh squeezed • 1 1/4 The typical drinks in Cuba are usually fruit drinks; for example, passion juice is a traditional drink from Cuba.
One traditional restaurant in Cuba is called the Havana NY Cuban restaurant
Tehran A. Habersham Here is some stuff i read about the element nickel
Ellison School Science Project
Eighth Grade October thirtieth two thousand eight
My element is the nickel element it contains one unit of positively charged proton and along with are electrons each electron holds one unit of negative charge. Finally, Neutrons have no positive or negative charge. Nickels symbol is NI, which stands for nickel. Is Atomic number is 28. Its Atomic mass is 58.69, which is a big number. On the periodic table, element nickel can be found categorized as a transition metal.
Here is some more infromation on Camaguey- a city in cuba
Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. Originally the city of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe which around was being attacked by pirates so around 1858 they moved the city inland and called it Camaguey. The new city was built with a confusing layout of winding alleys that made it easier to defend it from any pirates. Many blind alleys and forked streets lead to squares of different sizes. There is only one exit from the city; should pirates ever return and succeed in entering the city, the hope was that the local inhabitants would be able to entrap and kill them.
One Restaurant in Camaguey is called. La Barra Impacto Comidas ligeras República No. 358, Camagüey
The Favorite drink in Camaguey is –Tequila
The traditional drink in Camaguey is usually a fruit drink
One tourist attraction in the city is a very old church. In addition, Another Tourist Attraction is the beaches they have near the coast.
Cuban Sandwiches It is a simple pressed sandwich traditionally made with sliced roast pork (cold), thinly sliced Serrano ham (cold), thinly sliced Swiss cheese, sweet pickles and yellow mustard on buttered Cuban bread. In Tampa, Genoa salami is also added. Once assembled, the sandwich is simultaneously compressed and heated in a panini-type grill called "la plancha", and cut in half diagonally. Some add tomatoes and lettuce, but some as an unacceptable consider this
For some strange reason I cannot find anything on favorite Camaguey food but research shows that they have great tasting sugar.
Tehran Habersham Here is a Science experiment i read about.
Option 1 - PROJECT - Light a light bulb with a balloon You Need: hard rubber comb or balloon a dark room fluorescent light bulb (not an incandescent bulb)
SAFETY NOTE: DO NOT USE ELECTRICITY FROM A WALL OUTLET FOR THIS EXPERIMENT. Handle the glass light bulb with care to avoid breakage. The bulb can be wrapped in sticky, transparent tape to reduce the chance of injury if it does break.
What to do: 1. Take the light bulb and comb into the dark room. 2. Charge the comb on your hair or sweater. Make sure to build up a lot of charge for this experiment. 3. Touch the charged part of the comb to the light bulb and watch very carefully. You should be able to see small sparks. Experiment with touching different parts of the bulb. What happened: When the charged comb touched the bulb, electrons moved from it to the bulb, causing the small sparks of light inside. In normal operation, the electrons to light the bulb come from the electrical power lines through a wire in the end of the tube. (Fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs will be discussed in a future issue.)
Alexander S. Kaplitz The Crucible Arthur Miller The Crucible is a big metaphor. It is comparing the Salem witch hunts to the hunts for communists. The book starts out with Parris praying that his daughter Betty will be okay. Betty and Abigail were in the woods doing witchcraft so that Abigail can kill Elizabeth. Elizabeth is John Proctor's wife. With Elizabeth gone Abigail would be able to be with John Proctor. Proctor and Abigail had an affair and Abigail still thinks he likes her. Parris calls for Reverend Hale. Reverend Hale is an expert in witchcraft. Now Salem is having a court for witchcraft. Elizabeth tells John Proctor that he should go to the court room to say that Abigail is lying but, he refuses to. Mary, Proctor's servant, then give Elizabeth a doll. She also tells them that Elizabeth has been accused by Abigail of witchcraft. Elizabeth knows this is to get with John Proctor. Then Reverend Hale comes to John Proctor's house and believes that he is a witch because of his poor attendance in church. When Reverend Hale asks for the ten commandments John Proctor forgets the commandment of not committing adultery. Then Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witch craft because there was a needle in the doll Mary gave her and Abigail stuck a needle in her stomach. She says Elizabeth's spirit stabbed her. Mary tries to defend her but Elizabeth is still taken away. Then Putnam is accused of this whole thing because he has enough money to bye all the land the "witches" must give up. Proctor then says Abigail is lying and tells the court of the affair. Then Elizabeth is brought in to testify not knowing Proctor already spoke of the affair she denies it. Then Proctor get thrown in jail. Proctor then confesses to being a witch so he can live. Though when they were going to put the confession on the church wall he rips it up. Then Proctor is forced to hang. I did not like this book. It was all about an affair and I found it difficult to read in the play style. I am sorry I did not use any Vocab words but, I could not think of any.
So, at this point in the book and for the rest of the book the setting is at the local jail. Sarah Good and Tituba are awoken "thinking" the devil is their to save them. Turns out it was the day for their hanging. A converstatio nthen proceds between the Deputy Governer Danfoth and they begin to talk about Reverand Hale of Beverly. Danforth especilly questions his being in the town. Parris enters, saying that soeme who were convited were praying with Hale and they may confess. Meanwhile, he metnions his niece Abigal runs away with Mercy Lewis. He recommends postponing the hangings. Danforth will not have it. The discussion switches to Proctor and they decide to bring his wife Elizabeth up to possibly make him confess. Hale sits on the fact that it is a lie, but Danforth does not listen. Elizabeth and Joh Proctor go into a converstation after he is brought up. They yell, becuase she says she will not judge him and give him the answer for what to do. He knows that "God dams all liars," and decided still, to live and confess so he could be with his wife. When they tell the rest of the group waiting outside, they are excited. Danforth needs his signature for the confession for the church. HJe refuses, says everyone one is his witness, but then, signs it and tears it up. He is then hanged.
I really enjoyed the book. The way u read a book like this is more interesting. It was like an analogy to communism. I liked the action and finding myself astounded at the fact that some people are just pants on fire liars, and people believe it with nothing! It took nothing to start the trial and the "witchcraft" rumors, but it was like nothing could disprove it at all.
In the beginning of the book, Lauren Adams is finishing up her last few days of training in Alaska. When her and her best friend get to there shelter for the night, theres a polar bear there. They set the thing ablaze then realize its a fake. Lauren gets in trouble and has to swim in a freezing cold river to get the Gray CHERUB t-shirts for the rest of the training period, she really hurts her foot during that process. When she gets back, her brother and her and a popular guy named Dave are being sent out to do a mission in Arizona. A women named Jane Oxford has been smuggling weapons from the U.S. for over thirty years. Her son was sent to Arizona Maximum Prison for murdering three people. The people at CHERUB think that if Dave and James get into Arizona Max and befriend her son, they can make him agree to bust out of there with them. Jane would then come forward to see her son and they could capture her. Dave and James are now inside Arizona Max and have befriended the Latinos, but are now working on the skinheads who protect the son. James is currently trying to befriend him.
The books good so far. It's the 3rd in a series I'm reading.
Ever since we got our new computer, my brother wrote Blog!!!! in the notes section of the desktop. Ever since he did that, I have not blogged. I decided to finally give it a try. In the book, there is a protagonist. Her name is Susan. In the book, Susan has a fiancé names David. At the beginning, David gets a call. The NSA, National Security Agency, tells him that there is a dead guy in Spain, and that David has to go get the dead guy’s belongings. Meanwhile, at the NSA headquarters, Susan is summoned. When she is summoned her boss calls her. They have a long conversation in which Susan finds out that TRNSLTR, the NSA’s greatest code cracking machine is stumped by a code. She finds out that the code was created by Ensei Tankando, a Japanese computer wiz that used to work for the NSA. It turns out that in order to hack TRASLTR, Tankado made a mutating string that would make traslater inane. TRANSLTR would be trying to crack the code for hours. All the way over in Spain, David is looking for the belongings of Tankando. He is about to leave when he realizes that a ring is missing from the body’s finger. David starts his scavenger hunt. His hunt leads to an old Canadian. The Canadian tells him that a porcine guy with a prostitute took the ring. Again, back at NSA headquarters, a person who is supposed to guard TRNSLTR gets suspicious. He goes to general Strathmore, and tells him about TRANSLTR. Strathmore, not wanting anybody else to know about the problem tells him to go home. This ticks the guard, and he storms out to get evidence. This part of the book was O.K. not too much happened. The conflict was developing, but nothing happened that make me want to finish the whole book. I hope this book gets more interesting.
renee. just listen up to 200. yeah i know, im a slow reader, and havent posted in a while. sorry.
okay so yeah since last time i posted, a lot has really happened. we start to see a relationship forming between annabel and owen. and they are going to end up going out. i guarantee it.so any way. yeah they are really close. no new action has happened with annabel and sophie or anything. whitney is going to this support group and she is really already fed up with it. shes still not really eating. and owen has a radio show that annabel listens to religiously every sunday morning at seven. his little sister Mallory is pretty much obbsessed with annabel and her modeling and so every time shes around with owen mallory is always like "OMG DO YOU LIKE WHAT IM WEARING!?" and no i lied. not that much happened.
this book is really not that long bbut kristen took it home and i was still reading it! but any way. yeah its a pretty good book. lots of problems and interesting characters.
James befriends Jane Oxfords son, Curtis. He tells him the plan about escaping, and like the cherubs had wished, Curtis said one of his moms connections could help them out. The night of the escape, they make it out by having to beat up the three guards on duty then put on their uniforms and walk out like they belong. There able to steal a car and drive to where Lauren is waiting for them. When they get there everythings fine. While listening to the radio, listening for reports of the escape, they get stopped by the police and Curtis pulls the trigger to his head but gets stopped when Lauren blows up bombs so they can get away. The cops now know what the car looks like and are looking for it. Lauren, James and Curtis beg a young woman in a trailer park to drive them to LA in exchange for 2 grand. When they get there, Curtis's father sends a limo to get them! they get to his office and his secretary gives them showers and clothes and food. She then drives them to the airport so they can go to Vaughn Littles place for a few weeks. James has a little thing with Vaughns daughter. After about two weeks, Vaughn drives them to wear Jane Oxford is and the FBI catches them! James and Lauren get sent home to Britain.
This book was good and I'm excited to read the sequel.
East bound and down is one of the funniest shows i've seen in my life. it's directed by will farrell so you know its sick lol.The similarities to Talladega Nights are not accidental; Ferrell and his long-time friend,Adam McKay, are executive producers of the show, and other people both in front of and behind the camera. the Ferrell-McKay-Judd Apatow comedy family is great. And like those movies, they center on a man-child who's clueless, more often shameless and just enough to make you not want to punch him in the head. In this case, the man-child is Kenny Powers a former big-league pitcher whose first moment in the spotlight was his best. An opening shows u Kenny losing juice on his fastball while upping the John Rocker-like behavior, until he's out of the game, broke and applying for a job as a substitute gym teacher in his hometown. His reduced station in life he's living with his older brother and disapproving sister-in-law hasn't, however, reduced his opinion of himself. He still tows his Jet Ski around behind him as a totem of his former glory and listens to the audio book of his autobiography (title: You're F**kin' Out, I'm F**kin' In) for inspiration and still figures the mere sight of him will reduce April (Katy Mixon), a former girlfriend-turned-fellow teacher, to jelly.Reality intrudes, of course. April is engaged to the school's principal (Andrew Daly of Semi-Pro), and his brother and sister-in-law are on his case to sell the Jet Ski and use the money to move out of their house. And the kids he's teaching aren't nearly enough in awe of him. McBride has bluster to spare, and it serves him well in scenes like one in the pilot where he takes an argument with his brother and sister-in-law a step too far, and realizes it, but won't lower the volume: "I'm not gonna stop yelling, because that would mean I lost the fight!" But at least in the first episode, the focus is so squarely on Kenny that there's little room for the other characters to make much of an impression. Hawkes looks like he may make a good, levelheaded foil for his younger brother, but everyone else seems like little more than a sketch at this point. Eastbound & Down (which McBride also co-created, along with Ben Best and Jody Hill) also displays the Ferrellian tendency to meander off into moments that may be funny in isolation but also tend to slow the story down a little. A couple of those may be excusable in a two-hour movie, but it's not easy to pull off in a half-hour TV show. The force of McBride's performance (and, by the way, his mullet) is enough to carry Eastbound & Down through its first episode. Bringing the rest of the cast along for the ride will do a lot to make future episodes worth watching. Eastbound & Down
this was so great! my favorite quote is "im kenny f***ing rogers!" im glad will farrell did this
East bound and down HBO series made by will Ferrell episode 1
In the beginning of the series the man named Kenny Powers a former pro league pitcher who came in and threw one pitch for a strike and won the world series. After he does he has a saying that is famous it is "you are f***ing out!" This saying is used through out the whole series. It starts going through what he did after the series then it starts showing him in a bullpen throwing on a speedometer and it shows him going down and down. Then it shows him in a game and this big dude comes up and hits one over the fence. (remember him) People start to not like him more and more. He then ends up having this thing with steroids and how he is getting traded to all different teams. He thinks he is still good. It then stops and shows him 7 s**** years later taking a test for a sub in his hometown elementary school. He is dirt poor now he has a cool looking jet ski and his truck. He then goes to his brothers house in the town. Kenny Powers thinks he still is the best and has the potential for the bigs again. He thinks he still is very famous too. When he is asked to go to the school for the teachers spot. He sees a lot of the people from when he was in high school. He finds that the girl April the love of his life is still there. But he soon finds out that she is getting married and gets mad. There also is this rapper like music teacher that is like in love with him ahha. Then it ends with kenny ending his day at school. This is the funniest stuff i ever watched if you are going to watch it no parents it has very foul language and it show titatas and other things. So unless you parents dont mind it dont watch it it is sooo funny though
The book starts off at the CHERUB campus where Lauren is blackmailing James to help her & Bethany sneak into the training compound. They do, and when they get back to campus, Mac calls them in to tell them he found out. He shows James a little list of pros and cons Lauren had about bringing James and he gets uber pissed off. Lauren tries to apologize and Lauren gets brought into a mission to bring down the Zebra 84 alliance. The alliance was started by a man named Ryan Quinn who is a die hard vegan and has been in prison for three years. He has told the FBI he'll help bring the alliance down if they let him out early. So Zara, a mission controller, moves Kyle, Lauren and James to a little Scotland town saying there her kids from her first marriage and she's now married to Ryan. The alliance is based in this place because one of the biggest animal lab experimentors, Malarek Research, is basically in the backyard. There are always protesters there so James, Kyle, Zara and Ryan go up. James and Kyle make friends with Viv and Tom, a 19 year old and 17 year old. They go on a little trip with some other guys and girls from the alliance to destroy cop cars. When the cops are almost at the scene, James throws a firecracker and a cop and gains the respect of Viv who calls him 'the little cop killer.' Kyle starts a relationship with Tom, because OMG, Tom's gay too. Kyle and James did well at getting into the alliance.
the book is realllly good & im interested to see what happens. :)<3
just listen- Sarah Desson renee androckitis i didnt read up to page 200 before sorry, it was like 150. so now im up to 205 [:
so any wayyyyy..... annabel and owen got a lot closer since i last posted. they have been going out to breakfast, and annabel religiously listens to his radio show. you can really tell that annabel is starting to get a crush on Owen. Whitney and annabel are alone at the house because their mom and dad went on a trip. at first annabel was worried because of whitney's eating dissorder and everything, but she really does eat. Any way, Mallory is still obsessed with annabel. in these pages, not that much happened at ALL. but so, annabel is also friends with Rolly. he is apparently i love with some girl who clocked him across the face, and for some reason i think that it was clarke. but thats just me.. again not that much happened.
so this book is really good, i just havent been reading a lot. but theres a lot going on, and a lot of problems. one thing thats bad about it though is how much she has flashbacks. i really cannot tell if right now is a flash back, or what is really really happening.
In this story there is a kid named Paul. Paul is almost blind. He wears huge glasses so that he can somewhat see but he is a very good goalie apparently. Well it starts with Paul riding his bike down the street and he hears a car coming up behind him. There was a dude with a ski mask and a baseball bat in his hand. As the boy pulled his hands back he swung right at Paul but Paul ducked and landed on the lawn and then it hit a mailbox and broke it. Paul blamed it on his mean Brother Erik. Erik was in the house though when Paul ran in there screaming and crying. So we don’t know who that was. Erik is a very good football player. He is a good kicker he can kick a 50yard field goal and averages 9 points a game in high school. Paul calls Erik football dream it is a big group of Erik’s football life because everyone loves Erik his dad is obsessed with him. Right now they are moving to Tangerine. Tangerine is a very weird place in Florida. There are things called a muck fire, which is caused by lightening hitting the same spot everyday. So when Paul and his mom come up to the house they smell a fire and think the house is on fire so they call the fire department. When the fireman got there he was young and he explained to them what a muck fire was. It was right around where they live it storms at the same time everyday and stormed everyday. When Paul goes to play with the kids at the soccer field while his brother was playing football. He blocks every ball while his brother is on the other side kicking long field goals and making the coaches mouth almost hit the ground. Him and Joey start to be good friends now. Joey explains to him about tangerine. There is a house that always gets hit by lightening because when the built the complex it was the highest point like a lightening rod. When Paul goes to go on the bus he sees these kids calling him eclipse boy that were Erik’s friends. Apparently Erik said he was looking at an eclipse and his eyes burnt out. When soccer tryout came Paul was ready he loved soccer. When he got there with Joey he saw that the kids weren’t the bad toeballers. When Paul got in the huddle he heard from the coach everyone makes the team but only first string makes it. So when they are doing practice shots Paul went in and blocked the best shooters shot. That gave him starting for the elementary school. There was a boy Mike that when they moved in him and his dad came by and said that Mike was the second sting quarter back and kick holder. Mike was good though he was smart and Erik wasn’t a big friend of him. He ended up dieing after the try out when Paul and his mom where coming out of the store. Lightening while leaning on the goalpost shocked him. Everyone was sad except Erik and Author they were laughing because it helped them out in football. Paul explained the only reason was because he didn’t fit in the Erik football dream. But it was weird no one said anything about it or nothing in honor of him at school it was like nothing happened. Then Paul thought what if Erik died like that he said he would be happy but sad. Erik had a part in the Eclipse story and he didn’t want it taken down with him he wants to find it out. This book is good so far I a very in to it. It isn’t very hard to read either and it is 13 points I think.
After the security guy storms out of the area, the story switches over to two other characters. One guy’s name is Brinkerhoff, and the woman’s name is Midge. Midge tells Brink to check TRANSLTR’s daily code cracks. He goes and does that. The results turn out weird, so Brink calls Strathmore to verify. Strathmore says everything is fine. Since this book switches around way too often, I am just going to tell the three the three areas, one after the other. Since I already started on midge and Brink’s story, I will continue it.
Midge has a grudge against Strathmore. Ever since Strathmore built a back door into midge’s machine, her trust with Strathmore has not been steady. Since midge did not trust Strathmore, she ran some more tests. Her results were unexpected. They said that TRANSLTR had been running for over 18 hours on a single code. Since she had so much trust in her machine, she did not doubt the data. Then, she did the one thing she could do. She called the computer wiz Jabba on his phone. She told him what happened. He didn’t believe her, so he hung up on her. Then midge started to think. She figured that it was a virus that was in TRNSLTR, and not a code. She knew however, that there was a system set up in order to stop the viruses from entering TRNSLTR. They were called gauntlets. When she figured that out, she called Jabba again. When he picked up the phone, he still did not believe her, so he hung up. In the minute long conversation she had though, she learned one important piece of information; A piece of information that Jabba regretted saying as soon as he said it. Strathmore could bypass gauntlet. In order to figure out if Strathmore actually bypassed Gauntlet, Midge knew she would have to cheat. The paper that had all that kind of information could only be printed out in the director’s room. The Director was on vacation. The only other person who had the key to the Director’s room was Brink. In order to convince Brink to use the key, Midge had to blackmail him. When they got into the office, midge looked over the printed paper. It said that gauntlet was bypassed. In all the excitement, the director showed up. When he showed up, midge got her and Brink out of trouble by laconically explaining what happened with TRNSLTR. Back at Jabba’s place, Jabba learns through his assistant that there is a situation at Crypto. Turns out Midge was right.
Meanwhile, David’s story unfolds. The Canadian says one word before he passes out. Dewdrop. The one word stumped David. He knew Dewdrop was a prostitute, so he called all the local prostitute dealers to find if there was anyone named Dewdrop. Since prostitution was illegal, David had to prove he was not a cop. He did that by saying he was the German’s brother who bought a prostitute the other day. They gave him the names. At first, he did not realize that the name was a translation of dewdrop, so David was stumbled. Once he realized it, he went to the dealer, and asked for the place the two were staying at. The dealer reluctantly gave the address. David went to the hotel. He met the person in the lobby. The person would not tell David what room the two were in, so David said he needed to drop a letter to the girl. Just before leaving, David caught a glimpse of the mailbox number, 502. He went up to the room and pretended to be a police officer. When he got a chance to speak to the Prostitute, she told him that she did not take the ring, but an American punk took it. David was exhausted. He went out to a bar and drank. After he finished drinking, he, by chance, saw a punk getting on a bus. When David got on the bus, he saw that the whole bus was full of punk kids. The bus only went to one place. When the bus stopped, David realized it was a club. He went inside, and met a kid who was mean, but intimidated by David. David got the information on the whereabouts of the punk girl. She was at an airport trying to buy a ticket. David bought a cheap motor cycle, and took off. When he found the girl at first, she tried to run away from him. Then David mentioned her name, and she knew he was looking for something else. David got the ring. All of a sudden, a man pulled a gun on David. The man had been following him all day. The man also wanted the ring. David punched the guy, and delayed him. In the meantime, David got on his motor bike and left. The follower stole a Taxi and followed David. At the end of the chases and fights, David wins with a gigantic amount of luck. After the guy dies, a team from a van shoots him, and takes him in the van.
Back at Crypto, Susan finds out that Hale, a guy who came into work is North Dakota, one of Tankado’s assistants. After that, a series of events occur that lead to the destruction of Crypto. Susan escapes through the secret elevator shaft in Strathmore’s office.
In the end, all three stories come to an end. Susan tells everyone that the code is not attacking TRANSLTR, but it’s actually attacking the main data base’s security system. If that fails, it would allow anyone with internet to access them. In it, the team finds some random letters. David, on computer chat suggests that it is a code. When fully decoded, the message said ‘the prime difference between Hiroshima and Nagasaki.’ Since the bombs used different chemicals, they looked at the difference in the makeup of plutonium, and uranium. The prime difference was 3. This stopped the killing process. David and Susan get married at the end.
This book was decent. i like how everything tied in together at the end. It was not as good as some of the other dan brown books however.
In this book, there is a main character. No one knows what his name is because neither the author, nor any other character in the book mentions it. One day, the main character is called to an observatory by his friend Ogilvy. They notice a shooting star from mars is coming towards earth. As days progressed, the two kept an eye on the flying object. One day, it landed in Woking, the town the narrator lived in. he went to go explore it. It was a cylinder shape. Once the word spread, artillerymen brought their weapons, and shot at the thing. In return, the beings in the cylinder burned everything. One day, while the narrator was working, a giant robot went through the town. It used it’s heat ray to turn anything into ashes. The narrator took off. On his way, he met an artilleryman that led him to a refugee camp. When the robots started to attack there, the narrator ran into the river. There he witnessed the robotic machine and the life form in it die. After he got out of the river, the narrator walked on further. He then switches the story to that of his brother. His brother was running away from the creatures in London, when he saw two women in trouble. He saved the women. The two women happened to have a horse drawn carriage. He then traveled with the two women through a chaos of people trying to run away from the aliens also. The three eventually met a man who owned a boat the boat took them away while the war boat “thunder child” shot down the aliens. The story then switches back to the narrator. The narrator meats a curate on the way to a “safe place.” While he and the curate are looking for food in an abandoned house, the fifth cylinder falls on them, trapping them. The curate is eaten by the aliens, but the narrator makes it out after 15 days. Once he is out, he meets the artilleryman he met around three weeks ago, and listens to his plan on how to re-evolve. They go back to the artilleryman’s house, discuss the plan, and then play cards. The narrator leaves the next day. What he discovers the next day, is that a bacteria has killed off the Martians, and that human life is free. When the narrator gets back to his house, he meets up with his wife. This was an o.k. book. It is a classic, but I did not think it was as good as it sounded. It, like 20,000 leagues under the sea explained too much of the science involved in the book. Keep it simple stupid.
East bound and down HBO series made by Will Ferrell and Danny McBride episode 2
This episode starts off with Kenny on his jet ski and he has a girl with no shirt on ridden on the back of it then he whipped her off and leaves her in the water. Then he drives back to his brothers house where he is staying an he brings the kids outside and he tells them that he is going to get back into training for the majors. So he puts a stick with a beer can on top of it and says he will hit it while the other kid uses the speed gun to tell how fast. So he goes to pitch the ball and he throws it and it hits the duck pond and it feel over and broke. So he took the kids out to get ice cream. While he is on his way home he goes by Ashley Shavors BMW. He sees an ape looking thing swinging a banana that said sales and other things on it. So then he goes in the car dealer ship. You wont guess whom the owner or the dealership is it is Will Farrell with a long hair white wig. He comes out and Kenney Powers thinking he is the best still in baseball he goes up to him and Will Farrell is like Kenney f****** Powers is in my store so they make a deal with each other that Kenny wants one knot which here is 1 grand to him and Will Farrell is like I am thinking 100 bucks and so for $250 he has a Appearance at his store. The next day he goes in school and April and one of the teachers are sitting at a table and he goes up and she goes Kenney in her southern ascent. “Are you coming to the dance tonight?” Then Kenney was like no I can I have a big appearance I m getting like 100 knots for it which remember that 100 knots is 100 thousand. Then he goes but are you asking me to this dance and she is like no and he goes well it not my fault April I can’t go with you to this dance like she invited him. It is so funny. This series is something that you just have to watch yourself. You will laugh so hard I laughed so hard one time I started to cry. Kenney Powers are so funny. Then Will Farrell just how wrong he looks is wrong ha it is so funny. Both of them are in the new movie that is coming out The Land of the Lost this series makes me want to see this movie between Will Ferrell and Danny McBride (the dude that plays Kenny) are the funniest people to be in anything together.
okay this is my last blog [: renee. I FiNALLY FiNiSHED JUST LiSTEN !! [:
so finally owen and annabel kiss. finally! and so any way basically what else happens is that will rapes emily and we find out that he did the same thing to annable. but annabel just lets herself wallow in her own stupid missery instead of telling people the truth and lets sophie walk all over her. yeah. to emily goes to the cops && she tells annable to tell her story to the lawyer. so annabel does and she wants owen at the hearing. and so owen shoes but he's late & this is because he punched will in the face. and so any way, owen and annabel end up going out. and clarke and annabel are friends again. and OMG macy and dexter and the rest of the truth squad show up in this book and i was like HAHAHA !!! [:
okay this is a really great book and i recomend it to every one but gus. (amf)
Alexander S. Kaplitz The Golem's Eye AND Ptolemy's Gate Both Books completed
These books are the second and third books for the Bartimaeus Trilogy. In the beginning of the Golem's Eye you meet John Mandrake. John Mandrakes real name is Nathaniel but, this is a world were if somebody knows your birth name they can control you. John Mandrake is fourteen years old yet he is part of the British government. In this world everyone in power are magicians and the people that work in factories are called commoners. The magicians in this book gain their power by controlling demons. Well Nathaniel is part of the Ministry of Security. He is working on a project to capture a group called the resistance. The resistance is a group of commoners that hate that the magicians rule over everything. They bomb magicians houses and then they steal all their magical goods like spheres which send out elementals. Nathaniel is sending out demons who can change what they look like. These demons look like humans and he wants them to infiltrate the resistance. His plan is to failure though when it is like the resistance has the power to see who they truly are. The leader of the resistance is a girl called Kitty. When Kitty was young she and her friend were hit by the Black Tumbler. The Black Tumbler is a magical spell where your skin is turned black forever. Her friend gets the full affect but, she is hit with nothing. Then one night two magical buildings were completely destroyed and everyone there who was guarding the building was killed. The resistance is suspected but, Nathaniel notices that this is bigger then what they normally do so, being the expert on the Resistance dismisses the idea. Then the Prime Minister comes and tells Nathaniel to find the culprit and he will get a big bonus. Nathaniel sends his bet demon Bartimaeus on the case. The book then goes back to Kitty's memories. IT turns out that she sued the magician for attacking her and her friend. But, the magician wins simply because he is a magician. Kitty know has to give the court 5,000 pounds. She goes home and a stranger meets her. He offers to pay for her and she accepts. Then he tells her to meet him at a bar. She goes to the Bar and he tells her about the Resistance. She accepts and then becomes the leader of the resistance. Then the story goes to Bartimeaus. He meets his old friend who is then killed by the thing that attacked the buildings. Acting out of revenge he follows it. Bartimeaus then finds out the thing is a Golem. A Golem has not been seen for over 2 thousand years and at the ancient city of Prague. Nathaniel is then ordered to go to Prague to find out more about the mysterious Golem. Then the story goes back to the Resistance. They have an informant called Mr. Hopkins. He tells him about the tomb of Gladstone. Gladstone is a fierce magician who invaded all or Europe. He tells them they can get a bag that never rounds out of gold. As long as they get him a staff. They go to his tomb and enter is and there is a strong demon there is the bones of Gladstone. Kitty gets away with the staff after the demon starts to kill everyone in the Resistance. Gladstone had put the demon in his bones so that his tomb would never be looted. Then the story goes to Nathaniel. He found how the Golem was made. It is made with a parchment being put into the ground. He finds the person making the parchment but then a mercenary finds them and the guy who made the parchment ripped it up. He was just making it so he could see his children again. Then Nathaniel goes back to England. It turns out that the staff has the power to defeat any enemy. Bartimeaus kills the demon in the bones then the Golem comes. The Golem then almost kills Nathaniel but, Kitty saves him. Kitty saves him out of sheer will because she befriended Bartimeaus. After the Golem is dead it goes to it's master. It's master was the Police chief who had been getting in Nathaniel's way...
Alexander S. Kaplitz The continued part of my Blog.
This part of the book was pretty good. My favorite part was Bartimeaus because he is a smart demon and he makes a lot of smart rude remarks. Then I liked the Nathaniel part because you could see him develop to an adult magician. My least favorite part was Kitty because she was just there to save Nathaniel.
In Ptolemy's gate the book was really simple. The British empire is falling. America is about to revolt from Britain. Bartimeous is also loosing his power because he needs to go to the other world to fix his essence. Kitty then summons him and is the first commoner to summon a demon. He tells her that the reason the Black Thunder did not affect her is because she has magical resistance. Every single time there is an empire people become magically resilient. Then Nathaniel is invited to a play and Kity comes with him. It turns out the play writer wants to kill every government official. He is successful in killing the Prime Minister. He then takes everyone back to his house. He got the idea form the demon in the bones to make demons live in real people. He is successful in summoning a demon but, that demon is to powerful and kills his soul. The demon then forces other people to do that so the demons can rule the world because they are tired of being slaves of the magicians. Nathaniel escapes then grabs to staff. Bartimeaus then says the only way to stop them is for Nathaniel and him to merge. They merge and they end up killing the bad guy.
I liked this book because the plot was short and the book was simple. It was just full of descriptive stuff and about how the first two books connected with this one. I am also tired so I couldn't really remember anything else. I would also like to say I am impressed that the total of these blogs took a whole page of Microsoft Word on size 10.
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jillianrose.
Speak by laurie halse anderson
the whole book.
the book starts off with a girl named Melinda starting her freshman year in high school. She is a complete paraiah due to some party in the summer that she called the cops at. When getting to school, the new girl, Heather, who's unaware of all this becomes her somewhat friend. Merryweather High School is always having problems coming up with a mascot and is eventually named the Horny Hornets. The high school is composed of major cliques and when Heather decides to join The Marthas, who are the rich snobby girls who do good deeds for society, Heather completely dumps Melinda as a friend. Melinda finds an old janitors closet where she inhabits her things. In the beginning of the year, there art teacher made them pick something to draw and sculpt all year, so Melinda constantly works on what she picked, trees. We eventually find out the Melinda called the cops in the summer because she got raped by a senior, Andy Evans. Her ex-best friend Rachel now goes out with Andy Evans. Rachel finds out about the rape and dumps Andy at the prom. He then goes into the janitors closet and tries to hurt Melinda and then the lacrosse team hears her screaming and saves her. Andy Evans is now an asshole to the school and Melindas cool again.
This book was good. I couldn't keep my eyes off it and always wanted to read. :D
Tehran Habersham
Vietnam Packet
This is the bleeping Vietnam packet that ruined my break. Back in like the 50's or 40's i dont care, america was obbsed with finding communist. So when Vietnam was on the verge of becoming communist so america thought it was a good idea to stop this. And America found a "good" solution to finding the communist- kill everyone they think is a comunist, anyone with half a brain can figure out what is wrong with this but i will save it for the next Blog. Btw my new vocab words are Squabder Disssapation Forefiture Denude Berave Elegiac Renouce DisenFranchise Culinary Gourmet Savory Gluttony Palatable Succulent Gastronomy Voracious. the book i am currnetly reading is called the crucible its about the salem witch trials and t is also really dull, it not even worth that much on A.R. i hate reading. If i keep typing this blog will count twice. I hope this is a long blog. this week im taaking the ERBs i hate them deeply.
renee
just listen - - sarah desson
pages 1 to 135 ish [:
okay so when the book starts, the main character Annabel is having a whole lot of issues. With her family & her "friends." because she doesnt have any friends. she used to be best friends with a girl named clarke. then she& annabel became friends with sophie, and annabel & sophie went out to the pool when you werent supposed to be there, and clarke didnt come, so she got mad at sophie & annabel, and she doesnt talk to annabel any more. something happened with annabel and her used to be best friend sophie. this isnt revealed until the end of the book probably, or near there. but any way all we know is that sophie keeps going up to annabel & being like "slut, whore, bitch." & that annabel told this kid Owen Armstrong that sopie thinks annabel slept with sophies boyfriend. this isnt true though. sophie somehow has the power to turn pretty much everyone in the school against annabel, so she doesnt have any friends. but any way, at home she has all these problems. she & her two sisters kirsten&whitney were all models. she & whitney still do model, but kirsten doesnt. annabel doesnt want to model any more, but she thinks it makes her mom happy, so she keeps doing it. whitney is doing it but she has this eating disorder, and she has become outragously skinny & she has had to go to the hospital multiple times because of that, and now instead of living with kirsten in NYC, she has to live at home with her mom& dad & annabel. shes always in a really bad mood because she cant be by herself that much incase she binges, or purges, or excersizes obbsessively or something likke that. so because annabel has no friends, she used to sit alone at lunch. she sat on a wall, where Owen sat too. One day she threw up & needed a ride home, so owen took her. from then on they became friends.
this is a really good book. its not like a lot of the books that this author has previously written. but there is a lot of tense change & flash backs & stuff so its a little hard to follow. but after a while you really get into it. but i want to know really badly what happened to make Sophie hate annabel so much. jillian & kristen & abiha know & they wont tell me ]:
Chris
Stephen King
The Waste Lands
1-end
In this book, a Gunslinger named Roland has to travel to the Dark Tower. He has 3 companions on his quest. Eddie, who squandered his time with cocaine, Sussanah, and Jake. Jake has a book from New York City that is about riddles. Roland discovers that there are parralells between our world and Roland'ss world.(im sorry my typing is bad i hate macs) Roland says that they have to travel through an old city called Lud. For hundreds of years, the Grays and the Pubes have been fighting over the city. Roland says that he is the only gunslinger left because his world has moved on. When Jake gets captured, Roland sends Eddie and Susanah to go find the Berth of Blaine the Mono. Blaine is an old monorail that travels fast enough to create a sonic boom. They need Blaine to cross the wastelandss to get to the dark tower. laine delights in riddles. The companions soon discover tht Blaine is insane and wants to take his own life. He wants to do it because he is programmed to serve, and after Roland's world "moved on", the peope of Lud considered him as a god. Since he is built to serve, he became what thy wanted him to be. He would reward and kill indiscriminatly. He decided to take his life after an electrical fire drove his last remaning colleuge insane. She then commited suicide. As the book ends, the heros are in Blaine and traveling at 800+ mph. He then informs them of his intention to commit suicide and to take them with him. Up until this point, Blaine has been treating the companions like they are inferior to him. Roland speaks out against Blaine and reminds him that he is a tool, and is ment to serve people. They then begin a riddle contest where if Blaine wins, He gets to copmmit suicide, but if they win, Blaine lives and so do they.
Zachary Novick
Crusible Acts 1 and 2
In Act 1, Parris' daughter who is named Betty, will not wake up. The story is in a religious place where Parris is on of the leaders. Abigail and two of her friends went back in the woods one night and they were dancing by the fire. They were accused of doing the dances of the devils. One of the people who were dancing was Proctor's slave. Proctor is a rich guy who is not liked by a guy named Giles Corey because of Proctors success in land. Basically the first act is explaining who everyone is and what the town is like. In act 2, we find out Abigail had an affair with Proctor. Abigail and Betty were naming all the witches they thought were doing witchcraft. A servant made Mary (Proctor's wife) a stuffed animal that had the needle stuffed in it. Abigail called Mary a witch because she accused her of using it as a Vu-Du doll. Abigail actually did this so she could take Mary's place in Proctors bed. The second act closes with Mary being taken away and Proctor is pissed. Mary asked the servant to testify but she cannot because she is told that she will get severally beaten.
I like this book and i think the court and the whole town is full of morons. They believe that there are witches and they also believe whatever Abigail says about who is a witch. Overall, its a pretty good book
Tehran Habersham
Vietnam Packet
5 weeks then i leave ellison forever, so ike i said in the vietnam packet all the anerican soilders were killing everything that walks in order to stop communist,we used more bombs on vietnam then in world war 2 combined and we still got are butts kicked. America also coverd Vietnam with chemical agent which cuased birth defects with brith and completly destroyed plants
Jeremy Novick
Maximum Ride by: James Patterson
pgs 1-81
This book starts off with people trying to attack max and the 'flock'. in this series the 5 people in this group are genetically engineered with wings, different powers, and crazy vision like rap-tor sight. They have an unbelievable sense of direction and always know pretty much where they are. There are 5 kids. Max: the flock leader. Fang: as old as Max and a really good fighter. Nudge: can be magnetic when she wants. Although it doesn't say until the fourth book, she is black. Angel: has the most powers. The huge ones are she can breathe under water, talk to animals, can read and manipulate minds, and can turn into anything she wants. Anyway, there are about 5 robots trying to blow up the house with rockets. they are called 'fly bots', the new and improved version from the last book. They are injected with some kind of drug to make them motivated and do work with more proficiency. they blow up the house but don't see the chimney which all 5 'bird kids' fly out of. When one guy comes back to the master, the master is so angry he kills the robot/person. he vanished him into thin air. This lets you know that he can basically do anything he wants and the robots are just his minions. He sells the flock to which ever country wants them and is willing to pay the most money. They are guaranteed global domination. The United States calls the flock and their parents to a private meeting. The father (jeb) cannot be trusted because of the games he played with her in the past. They aren't normal games. They are 'games' that always end up putting her life on the line'. She does love her mother though, when she needed help in the other books she went to her house for care not even knowing she was her mom. At the meeting the U.S. proposes that they will provide shelter and safety and schooling. Max reads into the plan and finds they will have to fight for the United States and starts to give an attitude. Later, when they tried to order pizza there was a small but powerful bomb in the pizzas. they all were okay. they left and got too close to the pentagon after a long getaway from jets. they are now hiding in different places so they dont get caught by the bots. thats the basic thing happening right now.
This is a really good book ive read most of the series. i like genetic engeneering and how humans can do 'super human' things. this could happen in the future except it would be very painful. the people (mainly kids) would have to do it willingly because you can kind of see how that would be torture. great book though.....
the truth about forever
whole book
abiha
In this book, it starts off with the main character Macy and she is helping her boyfriend get ready because he is going off to Brain Camp. He's extremely smart and isnt really affectionate. They had been dating for a year and a half. Her dad died a year and a half ago. He had waken her up to go running but she said no, and when she woke up and went outside, her dad was like dead on the road. Her mom is making these townhouses so she's always busy and has to throw parties. When a catering company is at there house, Macy helps them out and the boss Delia, whos preggo, says that MAcy could easily get a job with them. But Macy already has a job at the library but its really Jasons job and she needs to fill in for him. The other two girls who work there hate her and like Jason. Jason sent her an email discussing the things that need to be done at the library and she rights back complaining and at the end of the message writes i love you at the end. When she gets a message back, he sasy that she is to attached and needs to focus on her job more so they shouyld take a break. She doesnt reply back but instead leaves and follows that catering car to there next location. There she starts working and meets Kristy. But also meets the people she met the day they were at there house, Monica, Delia. Bert, and the super fine hottie Wes. Then for the next job and goes to Delias house to help her out. Delia is Wes and Berts aunt. There mom died of breast cancer. Wes makes sculptures out of metal and stuff and is really good at it but never brags. He also has a tattoo on his arm of one of his sculptures. Every night they cater, Kristy always asks Macy if she wants to go and always says no. One night she says yes. They go to this party kind of this but she is sitting out in the back of the truck. So then her, Monica, Kristy, Bert and Wes are sitting there and a drunk girl from another car walks by and says that she recognizes who Macy is but Macy lies and denies it. Then the girl says she remebers Macy from track and says that she always won and the only time someone else won was when Macy quit. Then she revealed that Macys dad had died and she shouldnt be sad. Kristy and sort of Monica comforted her and then the night was over, The next catering job was at Jasons house. And his dad said thats its good that Macy and Jason were taking a break so Macy didnt interfere in his goals. Kristy heard and said it in front of everybody in the kitchen. Then one night reight after a catering job, everyone was going to a party and Wes and Macy were riding together and told Monica and Kristy they would meet them there. That night there car broke own and they were walking aimlesslyy all night. Macy suggested they play a game called truth. One person asks a question and the other one has to answer it. If they pass and the other answers it they win. They played and both Macy and Wes revealed some private things. Macy told him her deal with Jason and why she stopped running. Wes told her about his gf in rehab who he met in reform school. They kept this game up everytime they met. Macy asked him what he would do if he could do anything and he said he didnt want to answer that. Then Wes told her that he was going to ask her a question that was going to be hard to think of so he would tell her in a a week or so. After a night of catering, the whole crew stays at Macy's house for a while because Bert was about to miss his show. Plus Macy's mom wasn't going to be home for a while, or thats what she thought. When they were all just chillin, thats when Macy's mom came home and heard the part about Wes being in reform school. She calls Macy into her ofice and starts questioning her. They leave the office and as Macy's mom is going up the stairs she yells to MAcy that Jason is going to be coming by tomorrow at the library. She says it loud enough so everybody, including hottie Wes hears. (btw Macy didnt' tell her mom that Jason somewhat broke up with Macy) The next day at the library, the two stuck up snobs were getting everything ready for the royal asshat Jason. Suddenly both girls looked up and kept their gaze on the door. Macy thought it was Jason but it was actually Wes. He wentup to Macy to ask her a qustion but the girls cut in saying he should ask them. He kept trying to tell them it was something only Macy would no but they still wouldn't let him ask Macy. Wes got pissed and asked them if they knew where the big tongs were. They were clueless and he asked Macy. She told him and he said that they were running short on people and needed help. The girls told Macy that if she left than she couldn't get the job back. She said whatever but they wouldn't get out of her way so she jumped over the counter. Wes had been impressed the whole day by her action and told everyone else too. Macy had to hurry up that day too because her mom was throwing an independence day party. But berfore that, Macy had catrering. Everything was going perfectly well according to Delia. She said that something bad needs to happen. The day ended and when Delia was getting paid her water broke. They rushed to the hospital and Macy left a message to her mom saying she was going to be late. But it went straight to voicemail. When Macy saw the baby, she started having memories of her past and began missing her mom sudenly. She quickily left because she started to sob. Wes came and pulled her into a hug. When she arrived at the party late, her mom was pissed. She discussed the fact that Jason called about how she quit. She also told her that she had to quit her catering job and could no longer see her friends from their again. Macy's sister Caroline had been rebuilding their old beach house and they all promised a specific date to when they would go up and stay there. The mom said no after the house was built and said some other time. Caroline told her off soooooo bad mentioning that she was ruining Macy's life too. One night when Macy said she was going to go to yoga, she followed Wes instead. He had been delivering a package and she asked if she could join him like they used to do. He said he had something important to do and maybe next time. So he left and Macy thought that she may have made him feel uncomfortable by hugging him at the hospital. She was depressed and decided to go to a waffle house Wes introduced her to. She went their and immediatly recongnized that he was with his girlfriend. She went home and thought on her own. She knew this would happen. No matter what they had been through, he had Becky and she had Jason. She went home and saw and email from Jason and explained to him that she hated working at the library and that she wasn't ready for a relationship. The day of her mom's biggest party. The party she stressed over since the beginning of summer had finally arrived. And everything was going wrong. One was the chef quitting, so they gave Delia a call and asked if she could cater. It also began to thunder outside but Delia fixed that problem too. Kristy came up to Macy and asked her if she had talked to Wes. Macy was ignoring all her calls from Wes since she saw him with Becky. Kristy tolf Macy that he went to break up with Becky so he could be with Macy. Macy was shocked and asked where he was. Kristy said he was working but would stop by later. She went onto the deck and Jason showed up. He statred saying that he shouldnt have left her that way and how he wanted to get back together. She said not yet. He said they should both write out a list of what they both want and expect out of a relationship. MAcy looked at him crazy like he was on crack or something. As he was rambling off, Wes came and saw them together. He quickly walked away right after. She ran to catch up with him. He looked at her and she told him there was a change in the rules and told him to ask her what they were. He asked and she said that the only other way you could win was if she answerded the last question he passed up. SO he asked her that question and she kissed him. They began going out and she started running again. She and her mom and sister spent time at the beach house.
I really like this book. It was extremly cute and Macy and Wes seem like an ideal couple. Wes also seems like a mega hottie since every girl stared at him when they walked by. I also HATE Jason, and the two chicks, Bethany and Amanda, who worked at the library. They should all get together and make annoying babies with each other. If Jason thinks that saying i love u after dating for a year and a half is to much than i hope he gets raped by Bethany or Amanda to show him what to much is. And if he thinks that Macy interferes with his goals, then i wish he gets hit by a bus. I also hated Macy's mom a lot. But at the end i liked her especially at the last party where she finally found ou that Jason had dumped Macy because she said I love you to him and when she was spending time a away from work and at the beach house. Awesome book!
Tehran Habersham
Here is some infromation about cuba,that i read.
Camagüey is a city in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. Besides being destroyed by hurricane, Ike the city f Camaguey is beautiful. The city is next to many beaches and has tons of old history.One of the famous dishes in Cuba is the Cuban salsa, which is no different from any other type of salsa.The ingredients are
• 4 cups diced fresh tomatoes, deseeded
• 1/2 cup white onion, diced
• 1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
• 1 large clove garlic, raw, finely minced
• 1/2 jalapeno pepper, finely diced
• 2 tsp lime juice, fresh squeezed
• 1 1/4
The typical drinks in Cuba are usually fruit drinks; for example, passion juice is a traditional drink from Cuba.
One traditional restaurant in Cuba is called the Havana NY Cuban restaurant
Yuca con Ajo Cassava in Garlic Sauce $6.00
Bistec Empanizado Breaded Steak
$16.00
Tehran A. Habersham Here is some stuff i read about the element nickel
Ellison School Science Project
Eighth Grade October thirtieth two thousand eight
My element is the nickel element it contains one unit of positively charged proton and along with are electrons each electron holds one unit of negative charge. Finally, Neutrons have no positive or negative charge. Nickels symbol is NI, which stands for nickel. Is Atomic number is 28. Its Atomic mass is 58.69, which is a big number. On the periodic table, element nickel can be found categorized as a transition metal.
Tehran Habersham
Here is some more infromation on Camaguey- a city in cuba
Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. Originally the city of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe which around was being attacked by pirates so around 1858 they moved the city inland and called it Camaguey. The new city was built with a confusing layout of winding alleys that made it easier to defend it from any pirates. Many blind alleys and forked streets lead to squares of different sizes. There is only one exit from the city; should pirates ever return and succeed in entering the city, the hope was that the local inhabitants would be able to entrap and kill them.
One Restaurant in Camaguey is called. La Barra Impacto
Comidas ligeras
República No. 358,
Camagüey
The Favorite drink in Camaguey is –Tequila
The traditional drink in Camaguey is usually a fruit drink
One tourist attraction in the city is a very old church. In addition, Another Tourist Attraction is the beaches they have near the coast.
Cuban Sandwiches It is a simple pressed sandwich traditionally made with sliced roast pork (cold), thinly sliced Serrano ham (cold), thinly sliced Swiss cheese, sweet pickles and yellow mustard on buttered Cuban bread. In Tampa, Genoa salami is also added. Once assembled, the sandwich is simultaneously compressed and heated in a panini-type grill called "la plancha", and cut in half diagonally. Some add tomatoes and lettuce, but some as an unacceptable consider this
For some strange reason I cannot find anything on favorite Camaguey food but research shows that they have great tasting sugar.
Tehran Habersham Here is a Science experiment i read about.
Option 1 - PROJECT - Light a light bulb with a balloon
You Need:
hard rubber comb or balloon
a dark room
fluorescent light bulb (not an incandescent bulb)
SAFETY NOTE: DO NOT USE ELECTRICITY FROM A WALL OUTLET FOR THIS EXPERIMENT. Handle the glass light bulb with care to avoid breakage. The bulb can be wrapped in sticky, transparent tape to reduce the chance of injury if it does break.
What to do:
1. Take the light bulb and comb into the dark room.
2. Charge the comb on your hair or sweater. Make sure to build up a lot of charge for this experiment.
3. Touch the charged part of the comb to the light bulb and watch very carefully. You should be able to see small sparks. Experiment with touching different parts of the bulb.
What happened: When the charged comb touched the bulb, electrons moved from it to the bulb, causing the small sparks of light inside. In normal operation, the electrons to light the bulb come from the electrical power lines through a wire in the end of the tube. (Fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs will be discussed in a future issue.)
Alexander S. Kaplitz
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
The Crucible is a big metaphor. It is comparing the Salem witch hunts to the hunts for communists. The book starts out with Parris praying that his daughter Betty will be okay. Betty and Abigail were in the woods doing witchcraft so that Abigail can kill Elizabeth. Elizabeth is John Proctor's wife. With Elizabeth gone Abigail would be able to be with John Proctor. Proctor and Abigail had an affair and Abigail still thinks he likes her. Parris calls for Reverend Hale. Reverend Hale is an expert in witchcraft. Now Salem is having a court for witchcraft. Elizabeth tells John Proctor that he should go to the court room to say that Abigail is lying but, he refuses to. Mary, Proctor's servant, then give Elizabeth a doll. She also tells them that Elizabeth has been accused by Abigail of witchcraft. Elizabeth knows this is to get with John Proctor. Then Reverend Hale comes to John Proctor's house and believes that he is a witch because of his poor attendance in church. When Reverend Hale asks for the ten commandments John Proctor forgets the commandment of not committing adultery. Then Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witch craft because there was a needle in the doll Mary gave her and Abigail stuck a needle in her stomach. She says Elizabeth's spirit stabbed her. Mary tries to defend her but Elizabeth is still taken away. Then Putnam is accused of this whole thing because he has enough money to bye all the land the "witches" must give up. Proctor then says Abigail is lying and tells the court of the affair. Then Elizabeth is brought in to testify not knowing Proctor already spoke of the affair she denies it. Then Proctor get thrown in jail. Proctor then confesses to being a witch so he can live. Though when they were going to put the confession on the church wall he rips it up. Then Proctor is forced to hang.
I did not like this book. It was all about an affair and I found it difficult to read in the play style. I am sorry I did not use any Vocab words but, I could not think of any.
Andrew
The Crucible
Act 4 (Pgs. 127-152)
So, at this point in the book and for the rest of the book the setting is at the local jail. Sarah Good and Tituba are awoken "thinking" the devil is their to save them. Turns out it was the day for their hanging. A converstatio nthen proceds between the Deputy Governer Danfoth and they begin to talk about Reverand Hale of Beverly. Danforth especilly questions his being in the town. Parris enters, saying that soeme who were convited were praying with Hale and they may confess. Meanwhile, he metnions his niece Abigal runs away with Mercy Lewis. He recommends postponing the hangings. Danforth will not have it. The discussion switches to Proctor and they decide to bring his wife Elizabeth up to possibly make him confess. Hale sits on the fact that it is a lie, but Danforth does not listen. Elizabeth and Joh Proctor go into a converstation after he is brought up. They yell, becuase she says she will not judge him and give him the answer for what to do. He knows that "God dams all liars," and decided still, to live and confess so he could be with his wife. When they tell the rest of the group waiting outside, they are excited. Danforth needs his signature for the confession for the church. HJe refuses, says everyone one is his witness, but then, signs it and tears it up. He is then hanged.
I really enjoyed the book. The way u read a book like this is more interesting. It was like an analogy to communism. I liked the action and finding myself astounded at the fact that some people are just pants on fire liars, and people believe it with nothing! It took nothing to start the trial and the "witchcraft" rumors, but it was like nothing could disprove it at all.
jillian
Maximum Security
1-162
In the beginning of the book, Lauren Adams is finishing up her last few days of training in Alaska. When her and her best friend get to there shelter for the night, theres a polar bear there. They set the thing ablaze then realize its a fake. Lauren gets in trouble and has to swim in a freezing cold river to get the Gray CHERUB t-shirts for the rest of the training period, she really hurts her foot during that process. When she gets back, her brother and her and a popular guy named Dave are being sent out to do a mission in Arizona. A women named Jane Oxford has been smuggling weapons from the U.S. for over thirty years. Her son was sent to Arizona Maximum Prison for murdering three people. The people at CHERUB think that if Dave and James get into Arizona Max and befriend her son, they can make him agree to bust out of there with them. Jane would then come forward to see her son and they could capture her. Dave and James are now inside Arizona Max and have befriended the Latinos, but are now working on the skinheads who protect the son. James is currently trying to befriend him.
The books good so far. It's the 3rd in a series I'm reading.
Rahi
Vocab words- Porcine
Digital Fortress
Ever since we got our new computer, my brother wrote Blog!!!! in the notes section of the desktop. Ever since he did that, I have not blogged. I decided to finally give it a try. In the book, there is a protagonist. Her name is Susan. In the book, Susan has a fiancé names David. At the beginning, David gets a call. The NSA, National Security Agency, tells him that there is a dead guy in Spain, and that David has to go get the dead guy’s belongings. Meanwhile, at the NSA headquarters, Susan is summoned. When she is summoned her boss calls her. They have a long conversation in which Susan finds out that TRNSLTR, the NSA’s greatest code cracking machine is stumped by a code. She finds out that the code was created by Ensei Tankando, a Japanese computer wiz that used to work for the NSA. It turns out that in order to hack TRASLTR, Tankado made a mutating string that would make traslater inane. TRANSLTR would be trying to crack the code for hours. All the way over in Spain, David is looking for the belongings of Tankando. He is about to leave when he realizes that a ring is missing from the body’s finger. David starts his scavenger hunt. His hunt leads to an old Canadian. The Canadian tells him that a porcine guy with a prostitute took the ring. Again, back at NSA headquarters, a person who is supposed to guard TRNSLTR gets suspicious. He goes to general Strathmore, and tells him about TRANSLTR. Strathmore, not wanting anybody else to know about the problem tells him to go home. This ticks the guard, and he storms out to get evidence.
This part of the book was O.K. not too much happened. The conflict was developing, but nothing happened that make me want to finish the whole book. I hope this book gets more interesting.
renee.
just listen
up to 200.
yeah i know, im a slow reader, and havent posted in a while. sorry.
okay so yeah since last time i posted, a lot has really happened. we start to see a relationship forming between annabel and owen. and they are going to end up going out. i guarantee it.so any way. yeah they are really close. no new action has happened with annabel and sophie or anything. whitney is going to this support group and she is really already fed up with it. shes still not really eating. and owen has a radio show that annabel listens to religiously every sunday morning at seven. his little sister Mallory is pretty much obbsessed with annabel and her modeling and so every time shes around with owen mallory is always like "OMG DO YOU LIKE WHAT IM WEARING!?" and no i lied. not that much happened.
this book is really not that long bbut kristen took it home and i was still reading it! but any way. yeah its a pretty good book. lots of problems and interesting characters.
jillian
Maximum Security
James befriends Jane Oxfords son, Curtis. He tells him the plan about escaping, and like the cherubs had wished, Curtis said one of his moms connections could help them out. The night of the escape, they make it out by having to beat up the three guards on duty then put on their uniforms and walk out like they belong. There able to steal a car and drive to where Lauren is waiting for them. When they get there everythings fine. While listening to the radio, listening for reports of the escape, they get stopped by the police and Curtis pulls the trigger to his head but gets stopped when Lauren blows up bombs so they can get away. The cops now know what the car looks like and are looking for it. Lauren, James and Curtis beg a young woman in a trailer park to drive them to LA in exchange for 2 grand. When they get there, Curtis's father sends a limo to get them! they get to his office and his secretary gives them showers and clothes and food. She then drives them to the airport so they can go to Vaughn Littles place for a few weeks. James has a little thing with Vaughns daughter. After about two weeks, Vaughn drives them to wear Jane Oxford is and the FBI catches them! James and Lauren get sent home to Britain.
This book was good and I'm excited to read the sequel.
Jeremy Novick
East 'Bound and Down
everything
East bound and down is one of the funniest shows i've seen in my life. it's directed by will farrell so you know its sick lol.The similarities to Talladega Nights are not accidental; Ferrell and his long-time friend,Adam McKay, are executive producers of the show, and other people both in front of and behind the camera. the Ferrell-McKay-Judd Apatow comedy family is great. And like those movies, they center on a man-child who's clueless, more often shameless and just enough to make you not want to punch him in the head. In this case, the man-child is Kenny Powers a former big-league pitcher whose first moment in the spotlight was his best. An opening shows u Kenny losing juice on his fastball while upping the John Rocker-like behavior, until he's out of the game, broke and applying for a job as a substitute gym teacher in his hometown. His reduced station in life he's living with his older brother and disapproving sister-in-law hasn't, however, reduced his opinion of himself. He still tows his Jet Ski around behind him as a totem of his former glory and listens to the audio book of his autobiography (title: You're F**kin' Out, I'm F**kin' In) for inspiration and still figures the mere sight of him will reduce April (Katy Mixon), a former girlfriend-turned-fellow teacher, to jelly.Reality intrudes, of course. April is engaged to the school's principal (Andrew Daly of Semi-Pro), and his brother and sister-in-law are on his case to sell the Jet Ski and use the money to move out of their house. And the kids he's teaching aren't nearly enough in awe of him.
McBride has bluster to spare, and it serves him well in scenes like one in the pilot where he takes an argument with his brother and sister-in-law a step too far, and realizes it, but won't lower the volume: "I'm not gonna stop yelling, because that would mean I lost the fight!" But at least in the first episode, the focus is so squarely on Kenny that there's little room for the other characters to make much of an impression. Hawkes looks like he may make a good, levelheaded foil for his younger brother, but everyone else seems like little more than a sketch at this point.
Eastbound & Down (which McBride also co-created, along with Ben Best and Jody Hill) also displays the Ferrellian tendency to meander off into moments that may be funny in isolation but also tend to slow the story down a little. A couple of those may be excusable in a two-hour movie, but it's not easy to pull off in a half-hour TV show.
The force of McBride's performance (and, by the way, his mullet) is enough to carry Eastbound & Down through its first episode. Bringing the rest of the cast along for the ride will do a lot to make future episodes worth watching. Eastbound & Down
this was so great! my favorite quote is "im kenny f***ing rogers!" im glad will farrell did this
VELTY number 2 haha
East bound and down
HBO series made by will Ferrell
episode 1
In the beginning of the series the man named Kenny Powers a former pro league pitcher who came in and threw one pitch for a strike and won the world series. After he does he has a saying that is famous it is "you are f***ing out!" This saying is used through out the whole series. It starts going through what he did after the series then it starts showing him in a bullpen throwing on a speedometer and it shows him going down and down. Then it shows him in a game and this big dude comes up and hits one over the fence. (remember him) People start to not like him more and more. He then ends up having this thing with steroids and how he is getting traded to all different teams. He thinks he is still good. It then stops and shows him 7 s**** years later taking a test for a sub in his hometown elementary school. He is dirt poor now he has a cool looking jet ski and his truck. He then goes to his brothers house in the town. Kenny Powers thinks he still is the best and has the potential for the bigs again. He thinks he still is very famous too. When he is asked to go to the school for the teachers spot. He sees a lot of the people from when he was in high school. He finds that the girl April the love of his life is still there. But he soon finds out that she is getting married and gets mad. There also is this rapper like music teacher that is like in love with him ahha. Then it ends with kenny ending his day at school. This is the funniest stuff i ever watched if you are going to watch it no parents it has very foul language and it show titatas and other things. So unless you parents dont mind it dont watch it it is sooo funny though
jillian
Man Vs. Beast
the beginning of the book
The book starts off at the CHERUB campus where Lauren is blackmailing James to help her & Bethany sneak into the training compound. They do, and when they get back to campus, Mac calls them in to tell them he found out. He shows James a little list of pros and cons Lauren had about bringing James and he gets uber pissed off. Lauren tries to apologize and Lauren gets brought into a mission to bring down the Zebra 84 alliance. The alliance was started by a man named Ryan Quinn who is a die hard vegan and has been in prison for three years. He has told the FBI he'll help bring the alliance down if they let him out early. So Zara, a mission controller, moves Kyle, Lauren and James to a little Scotland town saying there her kids from her first marriage and she's now married to Ryan. The alliance is based in this place because one of the biggest animal lab experimentors, Malarek Research, is basically in the backyard. There are always protesters there so James, Kyle, Zara and Ryan go up. James and Kyle make friends with Viv and Tom, a 19 year old and 17 year old. They go on a little trip with some other guys and girls from the alliance to destroy cop cars. When the cops are almost at the scene, James throws a firecracker and a cop and gains the respect of Viv who calls him 'the little cop killer.' Kyle starts a relationship with Tom, because OMG, Tom's gay too. Kyle and James did well at getting into the alliance.
the book is realllly good & im interested to see what happens. :)<3
just listen- Sarah Desson
renee androckitis
i didnt read up to page 200 before sorry, it was like 150. so now im up to 205 [:
so any wayyyyy..... annabel and owen got a lot closer since i last posted. they have been going out to breakfast, and annabel religiously listens to his radio show. you can really tell that annabel is starting to get a crush on Owen. Whitney and annabel are alone at the house because their mom and dad went on a trip. at first annabel was worried because of whitney's eating dissorder and everything, but she really does eat. Any way, Mallory is still obsessed with annabel. in these pages, not that much happened at ALL. but so, annabel is also friends with Rolly. he is apparently i love with some girl who clocked him across the face, and for some reason i think that it was clarke. but thats just me.. again not that much happened.
so this book is really good, i just havent been reading a lot. but theres a lot going on, and a lot of problems. one thing thats bad about it though is how much she has flashbacks. i really cannot tell if right now is a flash back, or what is really really happening.
Velty
Tangerine
Edward Bloor
In this story there is a kid named Paul. Paul is almost blind. He wears huge glasses so that he can somewhat see but he is a very good goalie apparently. Well it starts with Paul riding his bike down the street and he hears a car coming up behind him. There was a dude with a ski mask and a baseball bat in his hand. As the boy pulled his hands back he swung right at Paul but Paul ducked and landed on the lawn and then it hit a mailbox and broke it. Paul blamed it on his mean Brother Erik. Erik was in the house though when Paul ran in there screaming and crying. So we don’t know who that was. Erik is a very good football player. He is a good kicker he can kick a 50yard field goal and averages 9 points a game in high school. Paul calls Erik football dream it is a big group of Erik’s football life because everyone loves Erik his dad is obsessed with him. Right now they are moving to Tangerine. Tangerine is a very weird place in Florida. There are things called a muck fire, which is caused by lightening hitting the same spot everyday. So when Paul and his mom come up to the house they smell a fire and think the house is on fire so they call the fire department. When the fireman got there he was young and he explained to them what a muck fire was. It was right around where they live it storms at the same time everyday and stormed everyday. When Paul goes to play with the kids at the soccer field while his brother was playing football. He blocks every ball while his brother is on the other side kicking long field goals and making the coaches mouth almost hit the ground. Him and Joey start to be good friends now. Joey explains to him about tangerine. There is a house that always gets hit by lightening because when the built the complex it was the highest point like a lightening rod. When Paul goes to go on the bus he sees these kids calling him eclipse boy that were Erik’s friends. Apparently Erik said he was looking at an eclipse and his eyes burnt out. When soccer tryout came Paul was ready he loved soccer. When he got there with Joey he saw that the kids weren’t the bad toeballers. When Paul got in the huddle he heard from the coach everyone makes the team but only first string makes it. So when they are doing practice shots Paul went in and blocked the best shooters shot. That gave him starting for the elementary school. There was a boy Mike that when they moved in him and his dad came by and said that Mike was the second sting quarter back and kick holder. Mike was good though he was smart and Erik wasn’t a big friend of him. He ended up dieing after the try out when Paul and his mom where coming out of the store. Lightening while leaning on the goalpost shocked him. Everyone was sad except Erik and Author they were laughing because it helped them out in football. Paul explained the only reason was because he didn’t fit in the Erik football dream. But it was weird no one said anything about it or nothing in honor of him at school it was like nothing happened. Then Paul thought what if Erik died like that he said he would be happy but sad. Erik had a part in the Eclipse story and he didn’t want it taken down with him he wants to find it out. This book is good so far I a very in to it. It isn’t very hard to read either and it is 13 points I think.
Rahi
Digital fortress- finished
After the security guy storms out of the area, the story switches over to two other characters. One guy’s name is Brinkerhoff, and the woman’s name is Midge. Midge tells Brink to check TRANSLTR’s daily code cracks. He goes and does that. The results turn out weird, so Brink calls Strathmore to verify. Strathmore says everything is fine. Since this book switches around way too often, I am just going to tell the three the three areas, one after the other. Since I already started on midge and Brink’s story, I will continue it.
Midge has a grudge against Strathmore. Ever since Strathmore built a back door into midge’s machine, her trust with Strathmore has not been steady. Since midge did not trust Strathmore, she ran some more tests. Her results were unexpected. They said that TRANSLTR had been running for over 18 hours on a single code. Since she had so much trust in her machine, she did not doubt the data. Then, she did the one thing she could do. She called the computer wiz Jabba on his phone. She told him what happened. He didn’t believe her, so he hung up on her. Then midge started to think. She figured that it was a virus that was in TRNSLTR, and not a code. She knew however, that there was a system set up in order to stop the viruses from entering TRNSLTR. They were called gauntlets. When she figured that out, she called Jabba again. When he picked up the phone, he still did not believe her, so he hung up. In the minute long conversation she had though, she learned one important piece of information; A piece of information that Jabba regretted saying as soon as he said it. Strathmore could bypass gauntlet. In order to figure out if Strathmore actually bypassed Gauntlet, Midge knew she would have to cheat. The paper that had all that kind of information could only be printed out in the director’s room. The Director was on vacation. The only other person who had the key to the Director’s room was Brink. In order to convince Brink to use the key, Midge had to blackmail him. When they got into the office, midge looked over the printed paper. It said that gauntlet was bypassed. In all the excitement, the director showed up. When he showed up, midge got her and Brink out of trouble by laconically explaining what happened with TRNSLTR. Back at Jabba’s place, Jabba learns through his assistant that there is a situation at Crypto. Turns out Midge was right.
Rahi- part 2
Meanwhile, David’s story unfolds. The Canadian says one word before he passes out. Dewdrop. The one word stumped David. He knew Dewdrop was a prostitute, so he called all the local prostitute dealers to find if there was anyone named Dewdrop. Since prostitution was illegal, David had to prove he was not a cop. He did that by saying he was the German’s brother who bought a prostitute the other day. They gave him the names. At first, he did not realize that the name was a translation of dewdrop, so David was stumbled. Once he realized it, he went to the dealer, and asked for the place the two were staying at. The dealer reluctantly gave the address. David went to the hotel. He met the person in the lobby. The person would not tell David what room the two were in, so David said he needed to drop a letter to the girl. Just before leaving, David caught a glimpse of the mailbox number, 502. He went up to the room and pretended to be a police officer. When he got a chance to speak to the Prostitute, she told him that she did not take the ring, but an American punk took it. David was exhausted. He went out to a bar and drank. After he finished drinking, he, by chance, saw a punk getting on a bus. When David got on the bus, he saw that the whole bus was full of punk kids. The bus only went to one place. When the bus stopped, David realized it was a club. He went inside, and met a kid who was mean, but intimidated by David. David got the information on the whereabouts of the punk girl. She was at an airport trying to buy a ticket. David bought a cheap motor cycle, and took off. When he found the girl at first, she tried to run away from him. Then David mentioned her name, and she knew he was looking for something else. David got the ring. All of a sudden, a man pulled a gun on David. The man had been following him all day. The man also wanted the ring. David punched the guy, and delayed him. In the meantime, David got on his motor bike and left. The follower stole a Taxi and followed David. At the end of the chases and fights, David wins with a gigantic amount of luck. After the guy dies, a team from a van shoots him, and takes him in the van.
Back at Crypto, Susan finds out that Hale, a guy who came into work is North Dakota, one of Tankado’s assistants. After that, a series of events occur that lead to the destruction of Crypto. Susan escapes through the secret elevator shaft in Strathmore’s office.
In the end, all three stories come to an end. Susan tells everyone that the code is not attacking TRANSLTR, but it’s actually attacking the main data base’s security system. If that fails, it would allow anyone with internet to access them. In it, the team finds some random letters. David, on computer chat suggests that it is a code. When fully decoded, the message said ‘the prime difference between Hiroshima and Nagasaki.’ Since the bombs used different chemicals, they looked at the difference in the makeup of plutonium, and uranium. The prime difference was 3. This stopped the killing process. David and Susan get married at the end.
This book was decent. i like how everything tied in together at the end. It was not as good as some of the other dan brown books however.
Rahi
War of the worlds- done
In this book, there is a main character. No one knows what his name is because neither the author, nor any other character in the book mentions it. One day, the main character is called to an observatory by his friend Ogilvy. They notice a shooting star from mars is coming towards earth. As days progressed, the two kept an eye on the flying object. One day, it landed in Woking, the town the narrator lived in. he went to go explore it. It was a cylinder shape. Once the word spread, artillerymen brought their weapons, and shot at the thing. In return, the beings in the cylinder burned everything. One day, while the narrator was working, a giant robot went through the town. It used it’s heat ray to turn anything into ashes. The narrator took off. On his way, he met an artilleryman that led him to a refugee camp. When the robots started to attack there, the narrator ran into the river. There he witnessed the robotic machine and the life form in it die. After he got out of the river, the narrator walked on further. He then switches the story to that of his brother. His brother was running away from the creatures in London, when he saw two women in trouble. He saved the women. The two women happened to have a horse drawn carriage. He then traveled with the two women through a chaos of people trying to run away from the aliens also. The three eventually met a man who owned a boat the boat took them away while the war boat “thunder child” shot down the aliens. The story then switches back to the narrator. The narrator meats a curate on the way to a “safe place.” While he and the curate are looking for food in an abandoned house, the fifth cylinder falls on them, trapping them. The curate is eaten by the aliens, but the narrator makes it out after 15 days. Once he is out, he meets the artilleryman he met around three weeks ago, and listens to his plan on how to re-evolve. They go back to the artilleryman’s house, discuss the plan, and then play cards. The narrator leaves the next day. What he discovers the next day, is that a bacteria has killed off the Martians, and that human life is free. When the narrator gets back to his house, he meets up with his wife.
This was an o.k. book. It is a classic, but I did not think it was as good as it sounded. It, like 20,000 leagues under the sea explained too much of the science involved in the book. Keep it simple stupid.
Velty
East bound and down
HBO series made by Will Ferrell and Danny McBride
episode 2
This episode starts off with Kenny on his jet ski and he has a girl with no shirt on ridden on the back of it then he whipped her off and leaves her in the water. Then he drives back to his brothers house where he is staying an he brings the kids outside and he tells them that he is going to get back into training for the majors. So he puts a stick with a beer can on top of it and says he will hit it while the other kid uses the speed gun to tell how fast. So he goes to pitch the ball and he throws it and it hits the duck pond and it feel over and broke. So he took the kids out to get ice cream. While he is on his way home he goes by Ashley Shavors BMW. He sees an ape looking thing swinging a banana that said sales and other things on it. So then he goes in the car dealer ship. You wont guess whom the owner or the dealership is it is Will Farrell with a long hair white wig. He comes out and Kenney Powers thinking he is the best still in baseball he goes up to him and Will Farrell is like Kenney f****** Powers is in my store so they make a deal with each other that Kenny wants one knot which here is 1 grand to him and Will Farrell is like I am thinking 100 bucks and so for $250 he has a Appearance at his store. The next day he goes in school and April and one of the teachers are sitting at a table and he goes up and she goes Kenney in her southern ascent. “Are you coming to the dance tonight?” Then Kenney was like no I can I have a big appearance I m getting like 100 knots for it which remember that 100 knots is 100 thousand. Then he goes but are you asking me to this dance and she is like no and he goes well it not my fault April I can’t go with you to this dance like she invited him. It is so funny. This series is something that you just have to watch yourself. You will laugh so hard I laughed so hard one time I started to cry. Kenney Powers are so funny. Then Will Farrell just how wrong he looks is wrong ha it is so funny. Both of them are in the new movie that is coming out The Land of the Lost this series makes me want to see this movie between Will Ferrell and Danny McBride (the dude that plays Kenny) are the funniest people to be in anything together.
okay this is my last blog [:
renee.
I FiNALLY FiNiSHED JUST LiSTEN !! [:
so finally owen and annabel kiss. finally! and so any way basically what else happens is that will rapes emily and we find out that he did the same thing to annable. but annabel just lets herself wallow in her own stupid missery instead of telling people the truth and lets sophie walk all over her. yeah. to emily goes to the cops && she tells annable to tell her story to the lawyer. so annabel does and she wants owen at the hearing. and so owen shoes but he's late & this is because he punched will in the face. and so any way, owen and annabel end up going out. and clarke and annabel are friends again. and OMG macy and dexter and the rest of the truth squad show up in this book and i was like HAHAHA !!! [:
okay this is a really great book and i recomend it to every one but gus. (amf)
reneeeee --- again [:
heyy i meant to write every one but ***guys*** instead of gus because i dont know a gus [:
Alexander S. Kaplitz
The Golem's Eye AND Ptolemy's Gate
Both Books completed
These books are the second and third books for the Bartimaeus Trilogy. In the beginning of the Golem's Eye you meet John Mandrake. John Mandrakes real name is Nathaniel but, this is a world were if somebody knows your birth name they can control you. John Mandrake is fourteen years old yet he is part of the British government. In this world everyone in power are magicians and the people that work in factories are called commoners. The magicians in this book gain their power by controlling demons. Well Nathaniel is part of the Ministry of Security. He is working on a project to capture a group called the resistance. The resistance is a group of commoners that hate that the magicians rule over everything. They bomb magicians houses and then they steal all their magical goods like spheres which send out elementals. Nathaniel is sending out demons who can change what they look like. These demons look like humans and he wants them to infiltrate the resistance. His plan is to failure though when it is like the resistance has the power to see who they truly are. The leader of the resistance is a girl called Kitty. When Kitty was young she and her friend were hit by the Black Tumbler. The Black Tumbler is a magical spell where your skin is turned black forever. Her friend gets the full affect but, she is hit with nothing. Then one night two magical buildings were completely destroyed and everyone there who was guarding the building was killed. The resistance is suspected but, Nathaniel notices that this is bigger then what they normally do so, being the expert on the Resistance dismisses the idea. Then the Prime Minister comes and tells Nathaniel to find the culprit and he will get a big bonus. Nathaniel sends his bet demon Bartimaeus on the case. The book then goes back to Kitty's memories. IT turns out that she sued the magician for attacking her and her friend. But, the magician wins simply because he is a magician. Kitty know has to give the court 5,000 pounds. She goes home and a stranger meets her. He offers to pay for her and she accepts. Then he tells her to meet him at a bar. She goes to the Bar and he tells her about the Resistance. She accepts and then becomes the leader of the resistance. Then the story goes to Bartimeaus. He meets his old friend who is then killed by the thing that attacked the buildings. Acting out of revenge he follows it. Bartimeaus then finds out the thing is a Golem. A Golem has not been seen for over 2 thousand years and at the ancient city of Prague. Nathaniel is then ordered to go to Prague to find out more about the mysterious Golem. Then the story goes back to the Resistance. They have an informant called Mr. Hopkins. He tells him about the tomb of Gladstone. Gladstone is a fierce magician who invaded all or Europe. He tells them they can get a bag that never rounds out of gold. As long as they get him a staff. They go to his tomb and enter is and there is a strong demon there is the bones of Gladstone. Kitty gets away with the staff after the demon starts to kill everyone in the Resistance. Gladstone had put the demon in his bones so that his tomb would never be looted. Then the story goes to Nathaniel. He found how the Golem was made. It is made with a parchment being put into the ground. He finds the person making the parchment but then a mercenary finds them and the guy who made the parchment ripped it up. He was just making it so he could see his children again. Then Nathaniel goes back to England. It turns out that the staff has the power to defeat any enemy. Bartimeaus kills the demon in the bones then the Golem comes. The Golem then almost kills Nathaniel but, Kitty saves him. Kitty saves him out of sheer will because she befriended Bartimeaus. After the Golem is dead it goes to it's master. It's master was the Police chief who had been getting in Nathaniel's way...
Alexander S. Kaplitz
The continued part of my Blog.
This part of the book was pretty good. My favorite part was Bartimeaus because he is a smart demon and he makes a lot of smart rude remarks. Then I liked the Nathaniel part because you could see him develop to an adult magician. My least favorite part was Kitty because she was just there to save Nathaniel.
In Ptolemy's gate the book was really simple. The British empire is falling. America is about to revolt from Britain. Bartimeous is also loosing his power because he needs to go to the other world to fix his essence. Kitty then summons him and is the first commoner to summon a demon. He tells her that the reason the Black Thunder did not affect her is because she has magical resistance. Every single time there is an empire people become magically resilient. Then Nathaniel is invited to a play and Kity comes with him. It turns out the play writer wants to kill every government official. He is successful in killing the Prime Minister. He then takes everyone back to his house. He got the idea form the demon in the bones to make demons live in real people. He is successful in summoning a demon but, that demon is to powerful and kills his soul. The demon then forces other people to do that so the demons can rule the world because they are tired of being slaves of the magicians. Nathaniel escapes then grabs to staff. Bartimeaus then says the only way to stop them is for Nathaniel and him to merge. They merge and they end up killing the bad guy.
I liked this book because the plot was short and the book was simple. It was just full of descriptive stuff and about how the first two books connected with this one. I am also tired so I couldn't really remember anything else. I would also like to say I am impressed that the total of these blogs took a whole page of Microsoft Word on size 10.
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