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pages read this week: 115

Favorite lines of this week:
"His face fell into the recesses reserved for the pure confusion one expresses when there is nothing on this earth that he or she can do to make something better."

"Resented how attention always forcused on the weakest ones."

lucky

The way that Alice Seabold portrays this girl and her stoy is really intreaging to me. Throughout the book the main character goes through a great deal of pain and trying to discover her attacker. It's almost impossible to try and comprehend what she is feelings.

LUCKY

This week i have been reading more and more into the story of Lucky and how the main Character of this book deals with being raped. At first she doesn't want to tell her mom because she is afraid that her mom will judge her or be mad. However though, she ends up telling her mom because in all realism there is no possible she could have hidden the truth from her mother. This book has kept my attention from the very first lines. I havent been able to put the book down since i picked it up. My friend Mallory introduced me to this book and many others. Her taste in books always pleases my reading cravings. This book can relate to just about everyones life. Not in the sense of being raped but the sense that we all go through stuggles that seem impossible to get through, or we have moments where we don;t think we'll live to see tomorrow. When in the end we find some comfort and we make it through only to find that we go back to that unhappy place time and time again. however, everything will be ok in the end and if it's not ok then it is infact not the end.

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The book Lucky by Alice Seabold
Pages read this week: 100

Sentences of the month:
"I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined."
" I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."
" No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

claims

Claim
In this scene you see Blake Griffin dunking a basketball, his expressions show his immense, powerful, and colossal body floating in the air, putting the extravagant crown into a short time of faint, quiet, and peaceful time before they erupted into a thundering and noisy crowd.

Homesteads winter guard performance, Breakbeats Pulse of the Underground, uses bright energetic performance, aggressive clean movement, intensive strong upbeat dance, and confident clean posture to woo the audience watching. 

The interior decorator's use of strange, modern furniture, simple color, a careful use of space, and distinct, quirky architecture express an energetic confidence and absurd frivolousness of the inhabitant.  

Link: That Peruvian Chick
Mariah

In Fighting Gravity’s final Performance on America’s Got Talent, the voiceless and light dancers use graceful, upbeat, and a unique technique that expresses a new and an explosive futuristic type of dance.

Claim: In this video clip Corgi Stampede, the puppies running towards the camera demonstrate a brief and eager excitement,  an adorable, cute, graceful, and cuddly appearance,  a loud, repetitive sound, and a fast paced, wild, and out of control energy, which exposes a sense of sweet docility, animated enthusiasm, friendly excitement, ecstatic playfulness, joyful giddiness, and frantic silliness.
 

Bleeding Love - Hip-Hop

Observe:

Posture: loose, big
Space: Wide range of space, open
Setting: stage
Sound(song): intimate, sincere
Facial expression: intense, hurt, passionate
Choreography: swift, dramatic, exuberant

ATTIRE:
In this clip from so you think you can dance, Mark and Chelsie use a wide range of intimate and passionate activity to show the swift and dramatic sincerity of the song lyrics. They use their choreography to show the compassion of the dance.

Infer:

Passionate

Explosive

Serious

Exuberance

Whimsical

Fluent

Harsh

Heartache

(becoming one with the song)

poems of my intersest!

"Dust" by Dorianne Laux, "Surprised by Evening" by Rober Bly, and "A Passing Glimpse" by Robert Frost

My favorite one is "A Passing Glimpse"

I really like these poems because they puzzle me and require a numerous amount of thought. That is what i love about them. I really like "A Passing Glimpse" because it's a really pretty poem and it speaks to me in a different way. It has me thinking about the lines afterwards.

"A Passing Glimpse" by Robert Frost

I often see flowers from a passing car
That are gone before i can tell what they are.

I want to get out of the train and go back
To see what they were beside the track.

I name all the flowers i am sure they weren't: not fireweed
loving where woods have burnt-

Not bluebells gracing a tunnel mouth-
Not lupine living on sand and drouth.

Was something brushed across my mind
That no one on earth will ever find?

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close.

Currently

Favorite line : "I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."

Pages read this week: 100

Books i'm reading: The Happiness Project, Lucky, and Eat, Pray, Love

Lucky

Over Labor day weekend I was in Ohio and i forgot to bring with me the book i was reading for etymology. When i told my grandma that i needed something to read she gave me a book called Eat, Pray, Love. I had been reading that over the course of my weekend and the book is so simlilar to the book i had forgotten. Both books had the same concept and I got kind of burnt out on the subject. I did not want to lose interest so i took a break from both book for awhile. I do plan on finishing both of them eventually. I started a new book that has a more interesting genre. The book i am reading is called Lucky by Alice Sebold. This book has caught my attention from the very first line. The first sentence of this book says, "In the tunnel where i was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheatre, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl was been murdered and dismembered." After reading those lines i was automatically hooked on readign this book. I have not be able to put it down since. This book goes into detail about how this horrible action occured and how she is lucky to be alive. I can say that i am very excited to read and blog about this book.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

1.)  A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

2.) Make the most of your life today, and repeat that day by day.

Puns of the week

1.) I finally found a spotter at the gym, it's like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

2.) The new weed whacker is cutting-hedge technology.

3.) He kept an alarm clock in the back window of his car. He was always ahead of his time.

4.) The shareholders of a compass manufacturer were concerned that the company wasn't heading in the right direction.

5.) Two astronauts who were dating put an end to it because they both needed their space.

TGIF

Quote of the Week: Keep calm and carry on.
Have a good Labor Day weekend

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Pages read this week: 100
Last week: 180

Sentence of the week: " Some disagreement is inevitable and even valuable. "

The Happiness Project in relation to my life

This book relates to my life in a few different aspects. One of the things that Gretchen is looking to fix or control is her constant nagging. In the past i have found myself to be a bit of a nagger. I've been told that a number of times. I'ts not so much that i'm an uptight person but it has just become a habbit. throughout the years though i have become more hesitant to instigate certain fights if it hasn't been worth it or to let the little things go that didn't matter. The major thing i had to do though was not take things to heart when someone said something to me that may have rubbed me the wrong way. Gretchen does this during her project and it has a positive effect. I'm not so sure that everything that Gretchen has done would exactly work for me but a number of the things could if i actually attempted them. She has done her reashearch throught this book and i'm very impressed with the knowledge that she has presented. Learning about her family and her life has been very interesting. When she tells stories about how her husband acts and then how problems and fights get resolved between them it also gives me insight of how someone else with the same personalit may react to a certain situation. This book is not at all means boring but it isn;t exactly thrilling either. I haven;t had much time to read this week with much other homework but i still made time to read anyways. Over the labor day weekend i plan to try and finish the book or at least get as far into it as i possibly can. I will have more insight then.

my view on the happiness project so far

My view on The Happiness Project at this point is that Gretchen has made herself happier by changing herself in the aspects that make her day to day life unenjoyable. She slowly overcomes her nagging and nit picking that annoys her husband and when he is happier that makes her happier. She learns to lighten up and not take things so seriously. With that mind set she has been able to accomplish many things without argument and it has made her happier. Many people have asked me if this is a good book. My response to their question is that it is an interesting read but it's not something that keeps you on your toes so if you're into those types of books then i wouldn't recommend this book for you. If you are looking for ways to be happier though and more alert and energetic then you might consider reading it.