Spring Time.
The air is fresh, the birds are out, the bees, butterflies, and all the other pollinators are out and ready to do their jobs. The birth of new life is here, and every thing is awake and ready to go. Not only that EASTER is here! So with that it brings Easter egg hunting, egg making, confetti eggs, but there is one thing the coruscation of god. But other than that it is great.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Jonathan Henderson's
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book: Precious
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) lives in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem with her dysfunctional family; she has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl, and suffers constant physical and mental abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary (Mo'Nique). The family resides in a Section 8 tenement and subsists on welfare. Her first child, known only as "Mongo" (short for "Mongoloid"), has Down Syndrome and is being cared for by Precious's grandmother.
After Precious becomes pregnant for the second time, she is suspended from school. Her junior high school principal, Mrs. Lichtenstein (Nealla Gordon) arranges to have her attend an alternative school, which she hopes can help Precious change her life's direction. Precious fights to find a way out of her traumatic daily existence through imagination and fantasy. While she is being raped by her father, she looks at the ceiling and imagines herself in a music video shoot; in the video, she is the superstar and the focus of attention. While looking in photo albums, she imagines the pictures talking to her (the picture of her mother tells her she is a bitch, and other fantasies are ruined by the appearance of her mother, as well).
When she looks in the mirror, she sees a pretty, white, thin, blonde girl. In her mind there is another world, one in which, unlike her real one, she is loved and appreciated.
Inspired by her new teacher Ms. Rain, (Paula Patton), Precious begins learning to read. Precious begins to see a social worker Mrs. Weiss, (Mariah Carrey), who learns about the incest in the household when Precious blurts "my father give me a baby".
She gives birth to her second child and names him Abdul. After Precious's mother deliberately drops three-day-old Abdul and hits Precious, Precious fights back. They destroy most of the apartment and the TV, the only entertainment in the entire apartment. Precious flees the apartment with the baby, and almost has the TV dropped on her from the top of the stairs.
Desperate to get out of the cold, she breaks into her classroom and is found there in the morning by Ms. Rain. After briefly accommodating Precious and son in her own flat which she shares with her lesbian lover, the teacher finds assistance for Precious and she begins raising her son in a half-way house while she continues academically.
At a meeting with her social worker, Precious asks her "What color are you anyway, you some type of black or spanish?" she replies, "What color do you think I am?", and while she allows Precious to ponder this, she offers to buy her an orange soda. While at the vending machine, the young girl steals her case file. Precious recounts the details of the file to her fellow students and has a new lease on life.
A few days later at the halfway house, Precious's mother comes to inform her that her father has died of AIDS. She asks her if she will come home and Precious simply leaves.
Later at school Precious informs the class she is HIV positive but her baby isn't. She has a breakdown and begins to say how horrible her life is and how unloved she is. Ms. Rain tells her that her baby loves her, and that she loves her.
Precious and her mother see each other for the last time in Mrs. Weiss' office, where the she asks Mary about the abuse Precious has had to endure. Mary tells her that she treats Precious the way she does because she feels that her husband would rather have sex with Precious than her, and this breaks her heart. The social worker looks in disgust, and Precious gets up with the baby and tells her mother she will never see her again, and she leaves.
Precious makes plans to take a General Educational Development test, and continues to live in the Half-way home.
bookshare
book: Precious
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) lives in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem with her dysfunctional family; she has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl, and suffers constant physical and mental abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary (Mo'Nique). The family resides in a Section 8 tenement and subsists on welfare. Her first child, known only as "Mongo" (short for "Mongoloid"), has Down Syndrome and is being cared for by Precious's grandmother.
After Precious becomes pregnant for the second time, she is suspended from school. Her junior high school principal, Mrs. Lichtenstein (Nealla Gordon) arranges to have her attend an alternative school, which she hopes can help Precious change her life's direction. Precious fights to find a way out of her traumatic daily existence through imagination and fantasy. While she is being raped by her father, she looks at the ceiling and imagines herself in a music video shoot; in the video, she is the superstar and the focus of attention. While looking in photo albums, she imagines the pictures talking to her (the picture of her mother tells her she is a bitch, and other fantasies are ruined by the appearance of her mother, as well).
When she looks in the mirror, she sees a pretty, white, thin, blonde girl. In her mind there is another world, one in which, unlike her real one, she is loved and appreciated.
Inspired by her new teacher Ms. Rain, (Paula Patton), Precious begins learning to read. Precious begins to see a social worker Mrs. Weiss, (Mariah Carrey), who learns about the incest in the household when Precious blurts "my father give me a baby".
She gives birth to her second child and names him Abdul. After Precious's mother deliberately drops three-day-old Abdul and hits Precious, Precious fights back. They destroy most of the apartment and the TV, the only entertainment in the entire apartment. Precious flees the apartment with the baby, and almost has the TV dropped on her from the top of the stairs.
Desperate to get out of the cold, she breaks into her classroom and is found there in the morning by Ms. Rain. After briefly accommodating Precious and son in her own flat which she shares with her lesbian lover, the teacher finds assistance for Precious and she begins raising her son in a half-way house while she continues academically.
At a meeting with her social worker, Precious asks her "What color are you anyway, you some type of black or spanish?" she replies, "What color do you think I am?", and while she allows Precious to ponder this, she offers to buy her an orange soda. While at the vending machine, the young girl steals her case file. Precious recounts the details of the file to her fellow students and has a new lease on life.
A few days later at the halfway house, Precious's mother comes to inform her that her father has died of AIDS. She asks her if she will come home and Precious simply leaves.
Later at school Precious informs the class she is HIV positive but her baby isn't. She has a breakdown and begins to say how horrible her life is and how unloved she is. Ms. Rain tells her that her baby loves her, and that she loves her.
Precious and her mother see each other for the last time in Mrs. Weiss' office, where the she asks Mary about the abuse Precious has had to endure. Mary tells her that she treats Precious the way she does because she feels that her husband would rather have sex with Precious than her, and this breaks her heart. The social worker looks in disgust, and Precious gets up with the baby and tells her mother she will never see her again, and she leaves.
Precious makes plans to take a General Educational Development test, and continues to live in the Half-way home.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Encyclopedia Brown is a book about this little kid named Encyclopedia Brown about 12 years old.
On his off days like in the summer he is a detective for his neighborhood.
But for this one particular book he is trying to find a Civil War sword, missing roller skates,
a trapeze artist's inheritance,
a ghost who whistles, and eight stuffed penguins.
He in one book there are like 12 stories in one whole book.
But I really like the one about when he try's to get the stuffed penguins especially when he said
" I can't help you your too ugly"... Then he said "just kidding".
But that's not all though he is also very good at solving mysteries
he solved all the mysteries and actually got paid 50¢ what a rip off...
finnish the book you have to find the book
and read how he finnished it.
But if you want
BUT I REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK I GIVE IT A ***** RATING!
Here is a little movie
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Culture of Mexico
Culture of Mexico
Mexico has changed rapidly during the 20th century. In many ways, contemporary life in its cities has become very similar to that in neighboring United States and Europe. Most Mexican villagers follow the older way of life more than the city people do. More than 75% of the people of Mexico live in cities of over 50,000 inhabitants. Large metropolitan areas include Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, andPuebla-Tlaxcala, while rural areas include Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Yucatán, Aguascalientes, Michoacan, and many more.
Language
Mexico is the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. The overwhelming majority of Mexicans today speak Spanish, however, the government recognizes 62 indigenousAmerindian languages as national languages. Some Spanish vocabulary in Mexico has roots in the country's indigenous languages, which are spoken by approximately 6% of the population. Some indigenous Mexican words have even become common in the English language. For example, words such as tomato, chocolate, coyote, and avocado are Nahuatl in origin.
Religion
The Spanish arrival and colonization brought Roman Catholicism to the country, which became the main religion of Mexico. Today, 95% of the population are baptized Catholics, making the country the second largest Catholic nation in the world, after Brazil.
According to the Government's 2000 census, approximately 87 percent of respondents identified themselves as at least nominally Roman Catholic. Other religious groups for which the 2000 census provided estimates included evangelicals, with 1.71 percent of the population; other Protestant evangelical groups, 2.79 percent; members of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1.25 percent; "historical" Protestants, 0.71 percent; Seventh-day Adventists, 0.58 percent; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 0.25 percent; Jews, 0.05 percent; and other religions, 0.31 percent. Approximately 3.52 percent of respondents indicated "no religion," and 0.86 percent did not specify a religion.
This is only a few things that are a part of this wonderful culture. This culture is a little bit like my culture and I am a little Hispanic.
Friday, January 8, 2010
assignment
For Christmas I went to my grandma's house. It was fun I got a lot of stuff like cologne, a bobble clock, clothes, and an Xbox 360 with games. It was fun. The best Christmas ever.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Lewis and Clark
BY:Jonathan Henderson
This book is about Lewis and Clark and how they embarked on this remarkable discovery of what they called(s) "The New World" { North America}
Some of you may already know about Lewis and Clark and their findings of "The New World". But the book go more in to the history of it by saying that at May 14,1804, is the day that they set out for their two year long journey. And if you don't that is real then tell it to their face because they have proof they have the journal. And back then they couldn't spell so common mistakes are okay like it says "shye and watchfull [shy and watchful]. Plus the journal has also some dates like on Monday 17,1804 They were traveling north on the Missouri River, and passing through the South Dakota. Well I'm afraid that's all I spill the beans on.
IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK AND L&C YOU CAN CHECK THIS OUT FROM MRS. ESTRADA.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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