Fingerprints

What does your fingerprint tell me? If I have the right data base, your name, birthday all that. What about if you fired a gun today? No? BUZZ! Yes! The article I found about your fingerprints talks about all the new things they can tell from your fingerprint from what drugs your using to if you've used explosives or a gun that day! They can already detect a lot of drugs cocaine, heroine, nicotine, morphine, THC (marijuana), methadone and a derivative of methadon. Also can detect some medical conditions, severe ones like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and others that produce chemical leaked into the skin oils and sweet. They have new anti-biotic that can detect all of these in your fingerprints. Weirdness!! Imagine that, you look at someone's fingerprint and you can name them and all the drugs they use. Crime is getting easier to solve everyday!

Twilight's director

Please plug your ears, Twilight, sorry i know every time that word is said a million girls scream. I personally am not a HUGE fan of it. I have read the books i saw the movie and you know i can recommend a million books you'd like just as much but are better written, but this isn't a rant about Twilight (sorry). I read this article about the Director for T******t not being brought back because her and the producer don't get along. It shows how important it is to get along with people you don't like your entire life. It can be hard to get along with these people and even for famous adults. Sadly the woman Catherine Hardwicke the director won't be working on New Moon.

END OF THE BRATZ!

I couldnt be more happy! The Bratz doll has been ended! The brat dool was canceled for legal reasons but I'd like to have a rant about those dolls. Those dolls are nasty! They wear clothing way to small and too much make up. They're the Barbie dolls of our time, ill-praportioned, too-showy-clothing for target age, and almost (gasp language) slutty. I hate how popular these dolls and TV shows are they are teaching little girls how to dress and it's not a good way to dress. I am verry happy the judge ruled to put an end to the BRATZ.

College "acceptance"

I read acceptance a novel by Susan Coll. The book revolves around the lives of three teenage seniors, their parents and one college admissions worker. It shows how hard it is to get into College even for kids with amazing grades or test scores. Sometimes its amazing how hard it is for us to grasp our future and how much work we do just to get into college, just insure our future. Acceptance really asks the questions 'who are you?' and more importantly 'who do you want to be?' Harry (who coincidentally has the same name as my little brother) is severely motivated to get into Harvard at any cost and who everyone refers to as AP Harry because of his brains and that in early HS years he was in all AP classes. Maya is a spectacular athlete, and really very smart but her over achieving family is horrified by her average SAT scores. Taylor the last kid is Maya and Harry's neighbor and has perfect grades and SAT scores, but her family life is crazy. She steals mail and almost cuts one or twice one getting caught by Maya in the girls bathroom with a bottle cap pressed to her leg. Taylor's mom is so proud of her daughter and constantly tries to be her best friend even though her mo is into things like shopping and Taylor with her technicolor hair and piercings could think of nothing less fun than going shopping with her mom. Harry's dad was rude and loud and his mom threw him out when Harry was very young even having to go as far as getting a restraining order. Harry gets to see his dad once a month though and ever since Harry was little he has been pressed that the best go to Harvard and Harry s the best! Harry's goal is to get into Harvard no matter what, he works as hard as her can to get into the college finally. Taylor only wants to go to Yates this little school, but has issues writing her essay about something productive. Maya gets into a small school she loves and so does Taylor.
I guess i learned that college is a battle never won.

World's oldest woman/person died

The article was short but it got me thinking. The oldest person in the world was 115! Born 1893! One hundred years before me! Imagine living through all that! The invention of the car, the plane, the computor, the sewing machine. The right for women to vote. The end of segragation. So many wars! I looked it up and before her husband died in 1939 there were 15 wars/conflicts that just the US was involved in! I dont know if I'd want to outlive my famly like that.... either way she lived quite the life, and died famous as I'm sure most people hope to. (Dying in the same nursing home as the worlds tallest woman).

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Outside reading 3

This week I've been reading witch child by Celia Rees pg 1-106. Mary Newbury is a girl in her middle to late teens in roughly 1659. She runs from the witch hunts in the countryside of england. In the countryside she lives with her grandma who's a midwife and herb woman. When the grandma is sent to hte hanging Mary is 'abducted' by her mother who takes her to london where she gets together with a puritan family sailing to America. On the boat she makes good friends with a sailor boy named Jack who's future and past she see's. She talkas about how this sight isn't a gift its a curse knowing how and when people will die. Mary is very much the normal girl, she likes boys, tries to ignore gossip and have fun.

Outside reading 2

This week I read l8r g8r this weekend by Lauren Myracle. This books series is kindly written in IM chats between three best friends Zoe, Angela, and, Maddie. All the girls in this book seem real and they have real problems and dramas. The girls try to hold on to their life as high schoolers while going through their senior year. Boys almost always spark all drama between friends. The other spark is the popular kids, everyone knows who they are and what they do and everyone hates them equally yet they still stay popular, the same in this book as real life. l8r g8r was a good book and i enjoyed it. I recommend it but be warned it is of course, Chick Lit.

Outside reading

This week so far I read "boy meets boy" by David Levithan. The book is about a boy (Paul) in his sophmore year of high school (just like me!) and the drama's in his life. Paul's alot like everyother boy I know in high school, except one thing. Paul's gay. It isn't an asumption Paul's known this since he was 5. he's always liked boys and liking boys has always been simple, his parents accepted it and his city accepted it. He doesn't lead quite the plagued life that you hear all gay teens live. Paul's got the same drama as all of us, who to date. fights with friends, drama between friends, parents, boyfriends parents. Some people would think because he's gay it's different. its not. that's the main idea of this book. Its not. Gay teenage drama is the same as straight teen age drama or bi teenage drama. Drama is just that, drama.

Comparing Characters of Animal Dreams

Comparing Codi and Hallie can be complicated because they are both so similar  in things like appearance, and family. On the other hand though they have a range of differences from personalities, to jobs, and stability.

Codi and Hallie are obviously very similar in that they are sisters so their upbringing was very similar. Both girls are around six feet tall and very good looking with dark hair and eyes. They both have the same family structure even though both girls interpret it differently, but they do both have a sister a father and sadly a mother who died when they were very young.

Codi and Hallie have more differences than similarities though. Codi has a very different personality she is far more dependent on others where as Hallie tends to rely on herself for what she needs. the girls also took very different but still vaguely similar choices in careers. Codi became a doctor and Hallie became what is basically a plant doctor, but Codi was never able to cope with the problems of being demanded on because she was never able to depend on herself she didn't feel confident on having other people depend on her. Hallie is also much more stable than her older sister she is very confident in who she is and what she wants to do.

Although Hallie and Codi are both sisters they are both very different in personality, job, and stability. Though  they are very similar in that they look alike and they have the same raising.

What I Read

I recently re-read The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This is one of my favorite books with a good story and a good theme. The book mostly revolves around the civil rights movement of the 1960's and their effect on one white girl and the black community in a small town of Tiburon, South Carolina. The girl (Lily) runs away from her abusive father and springs her almost mother Rosaleen from jail and they spontaneously run off to the unknown Tiburon SC. They end up staying with August, May, and June; the makers of 'Lady Madonna Honey', something Lily associates with her long deceased mother. The city police and a couple others are shocked that Lily would stay with the 'summer' sisters, because they feel she is lowering herself to be wit blacks. Lily also falls for a boy who is black and the rest of the community disagrees with that to. The main idea in The Secret Life of Bees is to show everyone that skin color, and even sometimes blood relations don't matter what really matters is who you are deep down inside your heart that truly defines who you are.

Confident Paragraph

I am a confident person both in what I know and who I am. Being confident is a very important trait. Believing in yourself and your knowledge is important. I am more confident in who I am as opposed to that I know but i feel that who I am is more important anyway. Who you are is something you need to be proud of because who you truly are will never change. I'm not disputing the importance of confidence in your knowledge i just find self confidence in who you are more critical. Confidence is my most widely displayed personality trait and the most important to me.