Why I chose "Marked"

I really enjoyed reading the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer so i thought that I would give this one a try. I went to Barnes and Noble with my sister one day and saw the series and thought it would be fun to read on sprink break. I read the first 2 chapters and gave up. The front gives off kind of an erie look because it is about weird vampyres(and yes thats how the author spelled it in the book. Well see how it goes!

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http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/pisan.html

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Madie Carlile
Mr. McKeever
World History
22 March 2009
Christine de Pizan
Growing up during the Renaissance was no easy task for anyone. Knowing that life as a female would be hard from a young age made me wonder how much could and would be done to change that. My name is Christine de Pizan, and little did I know, I would not only become a well respected writer, but also one of the women that had the strength and will to change the views of people that were against women having power. The area in which I lived in back then was ruled by patriarchal power, which meant that the higher powered men ruled. As a young woman during the Renaissance with an already hard life, I had the hope and strength within me to become one that showed a deep enough love for gender equality to be the one to make the difference.
At age 15 my life was changed forever. I was married to a man named Étienne du Castel, our marriage, to my surprise, worked out a lot more than I had thought it would. After that, my life dramatically changed. The king that I had been living with (Charles V.) died along with the death of my husband 5 years later. Life was hard, I was not only providing for myself and my children, but also for my niece and my mother. This change to my life brought on a lot more responsibility than I had ever imagined. After realizing that life would be way too difficult to live through, I became a writer. My becoming a writer, and being supported and listened to by many helped me to be able to change the world today.
The writing that changed is all was mostly autobiographical, meaning that I was writing about myself. My first ballad written was named “Letter to the God of Love”, which is where my confrontations of changing the misogony began. Never did I know that so many different types of people would be behind me on my opinions. I was the not the first to speak up and make that change happen. In 1399, this letter to God was just the beginning. New hatreds began to brew throughout the area that I was writing to, which meant that I hate made a small difference to opening new things to women all around that are. Along with writing “Letter to the God of Love”, I wrote “The Tale of the Rose”, and also the “Hymn of Joan of Arc”. The Hymn if Joan of Arc was a poem that was dedicated to Joan of Arc for Joan being one of those women that made an effort towards more equality between men and women. Every person makes a difference to the world, and I am proud to be one of those special people.
The Hymn of Joan Arc was my last piece of writing, and I am happy to have had that as my last. I feel that by dedicating something that became as well known as it has shows that women really did try to make a difference, and eventually, with the help of other women, we succeeded. Men chose to not listen, and by them showing that they were not interested, they gave us the chance to be able to think up many things that would give us women a chance to think of something that would change all minds into believing that we are all equal. We could all think and agree on the same things, but you men would never allow that to happen.
My major accomplishment now known to all is being the one women in that time period, standing up for the things that I believed in. We have every right to be able to do the same things as men, but only years ago has it began to show through the power held up high, out of our reach. We women broke through your barriers and showed that we were done taking the stuff that you men have given to us. We proved to you that we have the same amounts of education, opinions, and even maybe we could make this world a better place. Without women like me, Christine de Pizan, women like Hillary Clinton would have never had the support and knowledge to be able to even think about becoming a women president. Times have changed from good to even better. I’m sure that before I was trying to fix everything, women working for any sort of pay would be happy to have even that much of a privilege.

New Moon pt 3

Bella kept hearing Edwards voice everytime that she would do something that could potentially hurt her. Were the voices real, or was she just going crazy? The truck that Bella's dad, Charlie got for her in the beggining of the first book, had the engine rebuilt by Jacob. And Bella knew that he loved doing that kind of stuff. When the two of them were together, they were almost always in the tool shed at Jacob house. One day, while Bella was driving home from somewhere, she saw two bikes on the side of the road that didnt work, yet. So she brought them to Jacob without telling anyone, and she told Jacob that she wanted him to fix them so that they could go out and ride. And so that maybe she could hear Edward voice again. So know whenever she goes over to Jacobs, she gets to watch him work on their bikes.

New Moon pt2

Sorry for anyone that has more recently read this, i havnt read since before the movie came out. So after Edward tells Bella that him and his family are leaving, he took everything. The cd that he had given her, their pictures, and much more. She was heartbroke, literally. For months and months all she did was go work, and do school work. Until Jacob came to the rescue. He was her new moon, her point in starting over, and getting better. He was always there for her, and they hung out like aeveryday after school. They were inseperable. Bellas friends all hated her know because she was so boring, but she had her reasons. Jacob was falling in love, but Bella stilled believed that Edward would come back. Bella kept feeling the heartbreak growing, and she would have random spazes and couldn't breath. But when ever she was with Jacob, all of her pains and worries would go away.

Midnight sun Part 1

Over break, I finished Breaking which is the last book of the Twilight series. You can read about those in my previous blogs. I also finished Midnight Sun, which is Twilight only instead of the book being in Bella's perspective like all the other books, it is in Edwards(the vampire). The book hasn't been finished yet, because someone leaked it out to the internet withouut the authros permission, so it iso only 264 pages long, and stops abruptly. The book starts out with Edward first look of Bella. They are in the luch room, the same as in Twilight, and he is not able to read her thoughts, and it is making him nervous. The only way that he knows somewhat she is saying and thinking is by listening to the girls thoughts that are sitting next to Bella. He knows that she is asking about him, but can't seem to know what about. He tries not to concentrate too much on the girl, because he knows that nothing about her will change.

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This article was written about three of the cast members of Twilight, coming to the Mall of America a couple of days before the premier of the movie. The article talks about Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob, who in the movie becomes very good friends with Bella. The second actress that was there was the person that playe Victoria, Rachelle Lefevre, who is a vampire that is trying to help in the killing of the

Project in french

La Ville de Marseille se trouve dans la Provence d'Alpes Cote d'Azur, qui ce trouve au sud-est de la France. La ville de Marseille est un bordure du Gulf de Lion, qui ce trouve dans la Mer Mediterrannee.

History:
Abbaye de St-Victor
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http://www.marseille.ca/attractions/index.html

Blog 4 New Moon Part 1

If you have not yet read New Moon or Twilight don’t read this!

New Moon is the sequel to Twilight. I personally didn’t think that it was as good, because Edward is in like 1/8 of this book. So, after letting Bella gets attacked by James, who is a tracker that is obsessed with Bella’s blood, she gets better, and causes even more problems. The first part of the book happens on her birthday. She has been invited over to Edwards’s house to celebrate with the rest of the family. While opening on of her presents, she cuts one of her fingers, which sets Jasper (the newest member to the Cullen family) on a rampage for her blood. Edward risks his life to keep Jasper off of Bella so that he doesn’t kill her. But while protecting her, he ends up throwing her onto a glass table which crashes with her getting cuts everywhere on her body. Carlisle (the “father” of the Cullen family), who is a doctor, sews her wounds up while the others try to calm Jasper. She was brought home after that exhausting night and put to bed. The next day started out bad and got even worse. She woke up knowing that it was going to be an off day because of the series of events that went on the night before. She meet Edward in the woods and he ended up telling her the worst thing that you could possibly imagine: he and his family were leaving. He thought that it would be better for her if he no longer stayed. From then on “It was as if he’d never existed”. They both knew that they still loved each other and she could not seem to understand, and then he just walked away. We meet Sam Uley, who turns out to be a more important character in the future.

Twighlight part 2

So after dinner, the two of them start hanging out alot more. He watches everything that she does, to make sure that she is safe. After all of the questions asked at dinner, she think that she has a better understanding of what he is, either a radiocactive spider, or a superman. He finally tells her what he is, but only by slowly giving her clues that would make it more obvious. He uis a vampire, that was bornin 1901, so he is 100 and something. Him and her get more seious and everyday ,the two of them learn whay more than they should. Hetakes her home to meet his family, and tells her many more stories. She learns that Carlisle, who was te doctor that helped her after the car incident is his "father". He is 300 and something and was the first part of the family. Carlisle became a docter, and that is how he found Edward. He was suffering from the spanish influenza at the age of 17 and both of his parents were already dead. Then came along Esme, the "mother". She had just lost her baby and trying to commit suicide by jumping off of a cliff. Carlisle nursed her back to health. Then came Alice, who was supposed to be for Edward, but it never worked out. She found Jasper, who had just been attacked by a pack of bears(i think). And she along with all of the others nursed him back to health. Then came Emmet, and Rosalie, who were also together. That is how the family started.

Twighlight part 1

I finished the book last night and just have to write more about it! And if you havn't read the book, and don't want me to ruin it for you, then don't read this. So, Bella moves to Forks because her mom is getting married and has to travel the country with her new hubby. She moves in to her dads house right as school is about to start, which is perfect. Her dad is a cop that lives alone and never cooks anything. So he gets alot of help from Bella in taking care of him, in a healthy way. So the first day of school, she meets lots of new people and this guy named Edward, who, on that day, looks like her wants to kill her, which he does. She has no idea why, and realizes that they next few days he didn't come to school. She thinks that it's because of her, and it is. So then he comes back, and they end up doing a lab together in science, and she realizes that he is actually very nice. So then they satrt liking each other, and he saves her from a van almost hitting her. She realizes how different he is from everyone else and really want to talk to him again. Then he disapears again, and then out of nowhere saves her from 4 older guys, and takes her out to dinner. They both figure eachother out by asking tons and tons of questions. But she still can't seem to know what he really is.

Twighlight

After the first chapter i was obsest(however you spell it). This book is about a girl named Bella who moves from Phoenix, Ar to Forks, Ar. It has been a big change, but quickly finds friends and people to relate to. She eventually meets Edward, who is horrifyingly evil at first, but eventually turns nice. From the beggining, they had to have known that they were meant for each other. He tells her almost everything that she asks him, as does she with him, but i wont say anything because I don't want to ruin it for anyone. Anyways, they fall in love, and are from now on inceperable!! Everything is good, until the baseball game, which is nothing like the game that we play. Bad vampires show up and want to kill Bella, but Edward would never let her get into trouble, or danger of anything. James, which is one of the bad vampires, is officially after her. But only so much because of the feelings and protection that Edward has towards her. Im saying no more because I will for surely spill to much. But it is like the best book ever, and anyone that wants to read it should because it relates to everyone out there,and they will end up falling in love with the series.

Heoes in a Box Rough Draft

"Everyone wants Edward," gushed 13-year-old Rosemary Kann of Haverhill. "He's the dream man of the world."
http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_215010925.html

Blog #6 Charlottes Web pg. 52-85

After Wilbur found out that he was eventually going to be killed by ferns uncle, he needed to be calmed down be Charlotte. She would be there for him through all of his troubles. After that horrible news, the setting changed and went back to Fern. She was having a family dinner and was talking about all of the interesting things that were going on at the farm. She kept saying things that the animals said, and her mom got worried. Grownups just don't dont understand somethings. Fern and Avery, her older brother, went to the farm after super to go on the swing, and so that Fern could visit Wilbur. The two of them swang for an hour before going to see Wilbur. Avery saw Charlotte and was facinated, and was going to catch her, but lost his balance while climbing on Wilburs trough fell and ended up cracking the egg that never hatched. The smell was discusting, but eventually went away. Charlotte finally came up with an idea to save Wilburs life, by writing words in her web. The next day, when Lurvy, a worker at the farm, came out to feed Wilbur his breakfast, he noticed that the web said something, "Some Pig". The fog made it alot more clear than what it would have been without he of. Lurvey was so shocked that he went inside to get Mr Zuckermann(Ferns Uncle), to show him how special the pig was. The whole family was so excited that Mr Zuckermann called the minister of the county and told him all about thie pig, soon the whole county was at the farm looking at the web. It was a major breakthrough for Wilbur and him maybe living longer.

Blog #5 Charlotts Web pg 13-51

Wilbur enjoys being at Ferns unlcles farm. Although it is not as fun as ferns place, he can still find things to do in his spare time of not eating. The animals that are on the farm consist of sheep, cows, rats, chickens, horses, geese, many others, and a beautiful intellegent sprider who I will get into later on in the blog. In the beginning of Wilbur living at the new farm, he is lonely and bored, like everyone else. He is in a pen all by himself with with the manure pile. He starts talking to a goose about a loose board, and he escapes, but the farmers get him back in using the old slops trick, where the farmers luer(?) him back into the pen using food, that obviously looked good enough to Wilbur to get him back into his pen. He later on befriends a rat that is ocnstantly looking for things to reck or steal. Fern is no longer able to come out and see him as much because of school or the weather being bad. One night, Wilbur was very sad and lonely and couldnt fall asleep, and then heard a soft gentil voice coming from somewhere near him saying, "I will be your friend, but go to sleep and I will see you in the morning". Now is that a good way to relax someone into going to sleep. After that Wilbur was not able to fall asleep. Finally, after waiting many hours, the sun began to show over the horizon. After waking all of the animals trying to find whoever spoke to him the night before, she finally showed herself. She was a big gray spider about the size of a gumdrop. She was a very nice spider. The goose had 7 gooslings and it was the talk of the farm. Wilbur heard from an old sheep that he was going to be killed during the winter, and couldnt believe his ears. He was very sad from then on.

Blog #4 Charlotts Web pg 3-12

Title of book: Charlotts Web
Written by: E.D. White


Charlotts Web is a heart warming story about a girl named Fern and her pig,Wilbur. The story begins with the father walking towards the pig pen about to kill the runt. Fern sees him and makes him stop. She makes him think hard on the next decision that he is going to make. He decides to let Fern take full responsibility of the piglet. She later on names him Wilbur. The baby pig is fed around 5 time each day, ine early in the morning, again at noon, after Fern returns home from school, at suppertime, and once again, right before going to bed. Being the runt makes him more special than otheres, and make Fern want to care for him even more than she would any other. As the story gets more into the main idea, Wilbur grows a ton, and has to be sent down the road to Ferns uncles farm. It is within walking distance of her farm, but to Fern it feels like miles. Hopefullly he will like his new home, expcially being sofar from him best friend.

Blog #2: Reading Heartland

Over the past year or so, I have not read many books, but there was a series that I really enjoyed reading. It is called Heartland and it is written by Lauren Brooks. She writes about many characters and their experiences with horses. Of course only I would write about them, but I have not really read anything other than this series, which includes around 25 books. The first one that I read was towards the end of the series, so I was sort of lost, but it was still amazing. So the series is about a group of people who are related some way or another, and they pretty much put horses through rehab. Through out the 16th book, I got introduced to the characters and got a lot of info on the animals that they were working with. I love the series and plan on continuing reading them. So far I have read 16-20 and 1- 7, I think. I will probably end up rereading them like many other people that reread there favorite books.

A book that I liked

I didn't really read anything over the summer, but last year in english I read the Chronicals of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and thought that after seeing the movie it was awesome. Every person that reads this has probably read it or at least seen the movie, so ill just tell you some differences. In the movie, when Cedric walks into the Queens castle for the first time, he was freaked out by the wolve that he thought was fake but was actually real. And in reading the book, he was actually afraid of a lion that he thought was real, but was actually made out of stone. Another was when the beaver was first introduced in the book, he came out of nowhere and started telling the kids to follow him, while in the movie, he prentended to not even be able to talk. I found the book to be alot more confusing, because of it being alot more detailed and me being a very visual learner.