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eliflores — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:54:00 +0000

My favorite activity we did this year was reading Ender’s game book. That book was one of the few I had finish reading, and I enjoyed reading it. The book it self is pretty interesting and because the teacher read along with us made it more interesting and fun. I think the least favorite thing we did was the work thing we had to do for the book, it was more interesting reading the book than doing work about it. I think because i don’t like to do class work. The activity i learn the most from was from when re read Fahrenheit 451. Why? well the story was about a man that lived in a society in which the people were told what to do and how to do it. The government own everything so people had to do what the government told them to and nor reading books was one of them. This novel shew me that reading books is important and we can still learn from them. This was also something I wasn’t expecting to learn but I did. I don’t think there was something we didn’t cover in class. Having this good teacher we had was impossible that i didn’t learn everything I supposed do learn. The way the teacher teach us was the most important thing that prepared me for the TAKS. The stories we read, the work we did, everything the teacher told us was important, some how. I don’t know yet how is going to be my English class next year so I don’t know if this class was enough to be prepared for next year’s class. I hope it did. All of the books we read were important an i like them all, but the one that I like the most, just like most of the students, was Ender’s Game. This book is the best book we could read this year.

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EG Blog #5

eliflores — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:49:22 +0000

Ender is a kid that was chosen to be the one who will end once and for all the war between the Buggers and the humans, at least that’s what everyone told him to convince him about being the commander of the fleet that was going to invade the bugger planet. He accomplished his goal that everyone was expecting him to achieve. I didn’t finish reading the Fahrenheit 451 book, so I don’t know what happened to Guy Montag but what I remember from what I read was that Montag changed his mind towards the government that banned all books. He ran away after he got caught having books hidden at his house. His goal was to, at my point of view, make people come back to read books because they are very important for our society. Ender and Montag have not many things in common, but what they do is that they worked hard towards achieving his personal goals, and they didn’t stop until they accomplished them. They both work for the government, somehow. That is the only thing I can imagine they are alike. They are very different too, Montag is an adult and Ender is just a kid. Ender is chosen to be the hero that will attack the Buggers and Montag just for his own hand decides to do what he did, fight against government. Ender has an great mind of his own, he thinks better than any other children his age, some one is always telling Montag what to do and how to do it. Montag is used to be this way, everyone telling him what to do…

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Ender’s Game Blog #4

eliflores — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:49:02 +0000

Ender doesn’t know he killed two people. Why doesn’t he know? Because the people in charge of punishing for such crimes don’t want him to be punished. At my point of view he didn’t kill them just because he wanted to, he did it because he needed to, to protect him self so that they wont bother him any more. Stilson bullied him because Ender got his monitor removed and no one will come help him if he gets on a fight, Ender knew that and he was not going to let this happen. He hit Stilson until he couldn’t do anything to protect him self, Ender didn’t knew he was killing him, what he knew was that he was finishing a fight, once and for all. Same thing happened to Bonzo, he was bothering Ender because he was jealous of him, because Ender was, and is, a better person and soldier. Ender just defended him self. Bonzo attacked first. Now Ender is at Command school and he have only five years to be prepared for the battle against the buggers, this is the only reason why Ender have not being punished. After the war, Ender might be punished for this, but it will be to late, he would have saved the world and everyone will respect him for it. One good thing, the best thing some one could do, will save him for the two bad things he did. Saving the world will erase the murder of two young kids. He will never get into a fight with another person. The other children at school doesn’t even notice that Ender is there, if he doesn’t meet any one, he wouldn’t have any enemies. Some people at our society commit murder. At least one person dies every day because of this, and from all the murders out there, there are some that get away with it. Obviously is wrong in the eyes of the people and should be punished. If someone gets away with murder he/she will not do it again, unless he/she thinks is something that is not punishable he/she will try it again.

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Ender’s Game Blog #3

eliflores — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:52:10 +0000

Graff’s goal is to make the best commander out of Ender. Graff wants to do this by making Ender do a lot of things a child his age wouldn’t do. Ender became a commander of his own army at the age of 10, no one had have done this before in the history of the battle school. But not satisfied with this, Graff broke the rules of the game in which the students learn and practice. He make Ender fight once a day and then twice a day. But Ender didn’t gave up. He won each battle, making him the best of the best. I think that this is totally unfair for someone like Ender. But at the pint of view of Graff and the others that serve him, think that this is fair enough to take the best Ender has inside him. The adults in this story doesn’t care if Ender feels sadness, happiness, or other feeling, they just care about getting Ender ready for when the buggers come. In our society if something like this happens, the adult abusing the child gets punished, but in this story the adult wont get any thing. He cant be stopped or reported so that the abusive behavior stops, his normal anyone to see this. IF Ender doesn’t stop it, no one will. He has to step up and make Graff and the others stop abusing him. Do it just like he did with that kid fromt the beggining of the story.

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Ender’s Game Blog #2

eliflores — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:51:47 +0000

The main goals of the children that are in this Battle School are win as many battles as possible, became someone that leads the fleets against the buggers, (that is what the teachers had told all the children). Dink said ” … children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.” and is true, a normal child will play some random game with his friends and if he loses nobody cares and by the next day no one will remember that that kid lost against his friends. But in the Battle School that Ender is part of, if someone loses against someone else, that person will be a loser until he wins enough battles to erase the one he loses. In my opinion this children, in the book, are nothing like normal children will be. A normal child will not be a part of some kind of “army” and will not fight another “army”. In short terms, a normal child is completely the opposite of the “Ender’s Game” book. The kids in this books all they think about is how to win the battle after the next one. They are not allowed to contact their parents, a normal kid will talk to his parents. I think I did have a normal childhood. I always did what a kid my age would do, this when I was still young enough to call my self a “kid”. I played with my friends. I play with my dad like every kid would do with his father. I had dreams of becoming some kid of a doctor, or someone that invents new things. A normal child will have dreams of what he or she will do when he is a grown up…

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Ender’s Game Blog #1

eliflores — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:52:35 +0000

Ender loves his sister, Valentine, but hates Peter his brother. Peter was all the time picking on Ender for no reason. It seems like Peter is jealous of Ender because Ender is way better than Peter. Ender is a especial boy that was born under the government’s permission. He was chosen to be part of the military. This was a fact that Peter hated about Ender. Valentine, for the other part, loves and cares very much about her brother Ender. She hates Peter the same way Ender does. When Ender leaves home to go to military school, he will mis his sister but will be happy at the same time because he will not see Peter in a long time. Thinking about Valentine might be a distraction to Ender once he is on training or doing something on the military school.

I do have two sisters and one brother. My brother is younger than me, he is 10 years old. I still live with him, but I don’t live with my sisters any more, they are married and they live far away from here. I don’t see my sisters for long periods of time. When we see each other its a time that we will not forget. My sisters are pretty much like Ender’s sister, because my sisters love me and my brother. They care about us. They are like if we have two more parents. I think my relationship with my sisters is very positive. But in the contrary, I have a very neutral relationship with my brother. We play like brothers do, but we dont hang around like I do with my sisters, or him with our sisters…

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Fahrenheit 451Blog #1

eliflores — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:55:39 +0000

Since the first printing press was invented, people started to read books. Books are interesting, and informative. They have information about various things, they have novels, stories, etc. Books was the most important source of information and entertainment. It was until people invented new ways to inform them selves and entertain them selves. In ten to twenty years we had invented more technology ever invented before, throughout the hole history. Is true that our society is stopping reading books because they are no longer interested of reading them. Besides, is faster and easier just to write on a computer, or some other kind of technology, than print books, ship them to where they are needed, sell them, and then read them. People had invented new ways to do things simpler. Is true that we have now “electronic” books. But still, not much people “read” them. Most of the books where used for entertainment. People didn’t have big plasma TVs, nor thousand-dollar-computers. To tell you the truth I have read about twenty books in my hole life. Why? Well because first of all, I don’t like to read much (like may other people). All the books I have read, are books about movies I’ve watch, or books that I read just because I had to in school.

Society is changing. People is not doing what they have done fifty years ago. People are having new ideas. Not far from now, there will be no books. They wont be necessary, for nothing at all. Can people go back to read books again like they used to? In my opinion, I think that is easier to pass a camel thru a needle hole than make people read books as they used to. There is nothing we can do to change our society.

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Blog #1

eliflores — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:50:03 +0000

Its being a long time since I last did a blog, in class we did a lot of different things, and one of my favorite things we did was read the F451 book. I am one of the persons that don’t read much, but this time I enjoyed reading this book. It was interesting and kind of a weird book. I found it so interesting that i read it instead of doing something else, like chating or playing games. I havent finish reading it, but I’m hoping I’ll finish it. There a not many books I like, and I hardly start reading one. But once I started, and find the book interesting, I get curios about what is going to happen next that I continue reading. This was something I liked for sure, but like there is something I liked, there is something that I didn’t like much. Read a book was okay, but doing work about it? I think the least favorite thing I did this 6-weeks was to do work about the book. Reading and answering questions is not something I like to do. Even tough I did the work, and answer all the questions, and I got my grade very high, I got a 94. This is the higher grade Ive got in English class, and I’m proud of it. I hope this grade will continue this 6-weeks or even higher. I hope that, well I don’t hope I’m sure that if I do my work on class I will get a 90 or higher in this class. And I will do anything I can do to not fail any other class.

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A separate Peace Blog #3

eliflores — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:45:48 +0000

I cant remember a day where i got peer pressure from someone and do what they wanted to do. May be there was a time, but i don’t remember. What i do remember is a time when a “best” friend told me to drink alcohol and smoke marihuana. I remember one day, someone told me: “if you have to think a lot about something you are about to do, don’t do it, it wont be good for you”. And that time when that friend was telling me to drink, i thought about it for the whole day. He told me, before school, that he and other “friends” where going to go somewhere after school to drink and do other things. He insisted a lot, and say that everything will be just fun. No one ever told to me to drink before. I had never drink before that, and I wasn’t going to start then. We got out of school, and we got to the place where “we” where going to do all that things they told me to. I didn’t knew what to do. And then, I said: No, I wont drink that”, they looked me and laugh. They offered me again the bottle, but I didn’t took it. I left, and I ran home. Of course I did tell my sister, and later on she told my parents. I got on a huge trouble, and that is why I came to here. All that happened to me in Mexico, and because of that I am here.

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A separate peace Blog #2

eliflores — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:52:26 +0000

There was a time when I liked to hang around my uncle, he is about my age, so we where like best friends. We used to go everywhere, and do everything together. One day, when we where playing outside, and there was a small lake close to the town. We used to go every time we could go, with an adult, and swim, and have fun, but that day, we desiderata to go by ourselves, no one else. We got there, and we just looked the lake, like a huge ocean to our eyes. It was huge compared to anything else around the lake. There was a part in the lake where it was to deep for us to go in, and there was a part where was just fine for us. We knew where to go, and play safe, but, as little children, we decided to go deeper. There was like a rock. All most every adult or older people than us, jumped from that rock. We were not allowed to do so. But this time, we where alone, and we desides to jump. He got to do it first. I could see he was scared, I was too. He was taking to much time, and i wanted to jump already, I touched his shoulder, may be I scared him, and he fell. He fell and hit his head in the rock, he was bleeding. I didn’t know what to do, and I ran to home and tell everyone what had just happened, but what i didn’t tell was that i touched his shoulder and that i might be the couse of his fall. Hes parents and some other people went there and took him from the rock, and took him to the nearest hospital. When he woke up, he tell everything, and he said he was about to jump but he fell, so it wasn’t my fault after all, but i felt so guilty before that. I guess that was one of the times i felt guilty, well the one i can remember the most.

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