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I learned a lot about myself as a reader and a blogger, I learned that reading a book that you actually like is very important because if you don't then you won't have anything to write about that made your really think about your book in general. It's important to stay with that certain book, because you can't keep on switching or else you won't have enough knowledge of the book to write about something. I learned that I mostly wrote about themes that were relatable to me, therfore I was more prone to read books very similar to our lives.

I benifitted a lot from this experience.One way I benefitted from this experience was that I learned how to keep track of what I am reading, and really get out what I was learning. Not to just skim through a book and say I'm done with it.It taught me how to absorb the book deeply. I feel that I was able to take books in with more understanding and a bigger purpose of reading the book in the first place. I learned a lot about what are traits that make a book what it is. I learned about the different elements of a book, that make each type of genre what it is. I just learned a lot about books in general, that I never knew before.

Writing online is way different than writing on a notebook in my opinion. I would have to say his because writing in a notebook, you don't have to be organized with your ideas, but when you write on the computer, your ideas have to be organized and clearly expressed in the way that you want to be. Also when you write online, punctuation is more important to understanding things, but when you write in your notebook the words just flow freely, without punctuation. Also people get distracted on the internet a lot easier than off the internet because they have sites like youtube and facebook.

Writing is liberating in the sense that it really shows what you're thinking in a more expressed form, then just keeping them in your mind. It is enjoying to write about parts of the book that were found to be very interesting. It makes you have the freedom to express your thoughts clearly and fully.

Overall blogging was really fun and interesting the whole year. A little bit too tedious to do every week, but I got a lot from it which matters the most. It's been a good experience doing this in Ms.Rear's class, and it's something to take away from 8th grade.

I am currently reading the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. I'm reading it again as a re-read, as the school year is winding down. It's about a kid named Jonah, who lives in society where everyone follows strict rules,and there is no color. He learns as he gets older that he has a secret ability to see color. A person in the community who is known as the Giver gives Jonah the power of memory. Memory of a time when the world was like ours.

This book made me think very ethically, what's right and what's wrong. I'm going to focus on a specific part in the society they live in. It's called being released, it's when they kill babies that aren't developing smoothly and old people. I was thinking, is it right to kill old people if it's necessary to help feed other people who are still doing well? I was really thinking is it just for someone to die for the benefits of others? It' never good to take one person's life for others. I don't think it's right for kids to die especially kids if they're not developing as fast, some take longer than others. It's never right for anyone to die for someone else's purpose.

In this society it's also right for people to marry the people that they are put together to be compatible with. In the islamic religon it is considered right for people to marry others of their parents choice. I was wondering should people should get the choice. I think that they should what if they regret meeting that person. They will live a life of being depressed.Which is very unhealthy in general. It is definitely not right at all for people to be forced to liive with a parents decision. Sometimes it is a good choice, so it is beneficial to the parent also and the person forced to marry.

Overall this book has many things that are controversial. It isnt right for people to be forced to do something in general, even when needed in important situations. Life's shouldn't be put over other lives,and people shouldn't be forced to live with others.

mandala

I have been reading a book called Nelson Mandela, which is obviously a book about Nelson Mandela's life. I have learned that Nelson is the son of the chief of a tribe. Nelson has to marry at a certain age,but he decides to run away to Johannesburg. He then studies, and learns a lot about law, and makes a law office,for mainly the     dark skinned people who lived in the slums of Johannesburg. This book is very helpful for thinking philosophical.

I really want to focus on segregation between blacks, and whites. Mandela has been known to be a famous civil rights speaker. He was apart of the national african congress. Nelson was all about giving people equal rights. I would have to call him the Martin Luther King jr.of South Africa. Maybe not as vocal and physical, but he was very influential. He was a non-violent protestor which he learned from Mahatma Gandhi. I want to say is it right to use violence to get across, what you want? I think it is,it clearly isn't right for Africans to be oppressed like that for no reason. So if the government isn't already right then you can't do simple protesting,you have to get your message across by doing something that isn't right. So violence is necessary to fight unjust things.

Also when Mandela, went to jail, I felt that it was very unjust for it to happen. Everyone can agree because he was not the only one in the first place to be charged for using violence for protesting, they kind of singled him out by himself when he clearly wasn't the only one doing it. It is a good way to get a lot of attention on the subject because it was broadcasted on the news, when he was released from prison. You need to get attention sometimes, if it means doing things that might cost you. It's just needed.

In conclusion i agree with what Nelson Mandela did in order to get attention and stop the segregation. It was a good idea, that needed to happen to get attention. Nelson Mandela is one part that stopped segregation, it's good that he was there to stop it, even when it was bad things to get there.