Tuesday, November 27, 2012

“Never Trust a Happy Song”



Brandon B
P. 5
11-27-12
“Never Trust a Happy Song”
   The album “Never Trust a Happy Song” by Grouplove, is a really good album. It has made Grouplove succeed a lot. There is so many people out there that like them. They have a lot of views in Vevo, Youtube and other websites that you could listen to music and see music videos. They were on tour and they really know how to turn up the crowd and make them go crazy. Many people enjoy seeing them perform on stage.
   I really like this album because there is about 10 or 12 songs in it. The songs I like are called “Tongue Tied”, “Colours”, “Itchin’ on a Photograph” are my favorite songs. This album was released September 13, 2011 in the US. The album is considered in the Indie Rock genre. This group had preformed all of their big hits on their tour.”Every line rang true like it was written from Grouplove to us (‘cept that “weed” part).  So far there’s nothing we don’t love about ‘em “(The Lefort Report). Never Trust A Happy Song by Grouplove is a really good album and there is many people that like them but there is also people who hate on them.” this song is album doesn’t make any sense & sounds so obnoxious” (kotoguyen821)
Works Cited
TheLefortReport. December 6, 2011 November 27, 2012
Kotonguyen821. Pandora. June 10, 2012 November 27, 2012

“Fast Five”


             Adolfo C
               11/15/12
              Per.5 English
“Fast Five”
     “Fast Five” is a great and interesting movie. “Fast Five” is like a combination of all The Fast and Furious movies, which makes it fantastic. The director Justin Lin shows how life really is, if there were to be chaos with street races in the cities. It explains how reckless it can be at times. “Fast Five” really involves a lot of action. One reason this movie is the best is the actors, setting, and the cars. The actors are really good ones they do their job of acting.  Some of these actors are from the other Fast and furious movies like Vin Diesel (Dom), Paul Walker (Brian), Jordana Brewster (Mia), Eva Mendes; some of the new characters are good too.
     The setting is great because it makes you explore, especially since its somewhere in South America. The setting was practically in Brazil, which it basically involves some culture due to the setting. Out of all the Fast and Furious movies this one is the only one that includes the setting in South America so far. This actually makes the setting interesting because not always the setting is going to be somewhere other than the United States.
      The cars are really cool because they would be normal cars but then again they would have better auto parts. These cars are practically street legal, just that they put some other illegal types of auto parts that are other than the engine itself. The fun part about this movie is that you simulate the race because they show the inside part of the car and it feels like your driving at certain times. This makes the movie more entertaining and funny.  “Always preposterous though never actually silly, knowingly funny without ever being self-conscious, Fast Five is a passable action flick that will more than entertain its core audience” (Cole). In contrast people don’t agree with me so they criticize the movie such as (Mike La Salle) who said “The first sequel to the 2001 "The Fast and the Furious" that's worth watching, that isn't an embarrassment or a travesty of the original picture”(LaSalle). This shows negative criticism to “Fast Five” and that the other movie from this franchise was way better.
     In conclusion, Fast Five is a great movie to see especially in the summer. This movie puts you in the mood when you want to see an action movie filled with girls, and car races. This movie is one of the best because it continues its story line and it has most of the best actors. These actors did full fill their job into making a nice action movie that is funny, and very interesting; it is probably one of the best movie productions there is.

Works Cited

Wilmington, Michael. Rotten Tomatoes. Chicago reader. Fast Five.  April 29, 2011 Oct.26, 2012

LaSalle, Mick. Rotten Tomatoes. Sam Francisco Chronicle. Fast Five. April 28, 2011. Oct 26,2012

A Child Called ‘’It’’


Sarahi S
Period 5
10/26/12
Mr. Pierson

A Child Called ‘’It’’

   I don’t really like to read that much, but the book A Child Called It caught my attention. This book has been the best book I have read. The book sets up a lot of emotions about a child named Dave. He was a child that got abused by his mother. It’s a really sad story but it keeps you reading. Just feel, what the boy went threw to survive on his own.
   ‘’It's very hard to read about all the sadistic “games” his mother dreamed up’’(Bapalapa2). The quote means that ‘’It’’ mother made him play games that were would risk his life, or even just for he could get something to eat. I can’t believe a mother would really do this to her own children. I really like this book because he always had faith that everything will get better. His only friend was time; just waiting till this is over.
   Many people don’t agree with me ‘Call me heartless, but I hated the book. Not because it was sad, because it obviously bullshit. I don't really see the  point of writing this book, the only thing I can think of is publicizing his past child abuse’’ (Whitney). The book makes you think what people are really capable. this happens to many children and we need to help them. I really hate hearing about children getting abused; I recommended to read this book and to see how really this shitty world is like.
Work Cited
Bapalapa2. teenink. A Child Called ‘’It’’. Octuber 26,2012
Whitney. goodread. A Child Called ‘’It’’. June 29, 2008. Octuber 26,2012

Karmaloop.Com


Carlos V, Per.5 , 11/27/2012                 

Karmaloop.Com

          If you don’t like shopping outside in the streets because you’re tired, lazy, don’t have time, or you want a easier way to shop I recommend you to shop at a website called Karmaloop.com. This website has so many brands from A to Z for women, men, and children and brands that people been buzzing about at a low price without ripping you off like other websites and it tells you what new clothing are coming up, it carry many different type of clothing like pants, shorts, t-shirts, sweaters, etc. Karmaloop has their season clothing too, if were in summer they take out the summer clothing and when where in the cold season they take out the clothing that will keep you warm. The website has sales once in a while and if you want coupons all you have to is send them your address, if you’re lucky you can find a favorite t-shirt on sale, like 2 shirts for $25 or 4 for $40. If you want to order something from that website all you have to do is put it on cart and put your information like address, zip code, street, and city. It might be ship to 1 week to 3 days depends on how far you live from the store. If you don’t like how it fits because its small, too big, don’t like the material etc.  Well all you have to do is ship it back to them for free and they would give you something else you want that will put a smile on your face. If you want to write to them about something you don’t like or something they have to improve just scroll down and tells you any questions.  
“I order my boyfriend clothes from Karmaloop, and I love the website. There is so many good clothes to choose from, I can't wait till I get paid again so I can order more.”  (Marlene)                                                                                                                                                      
          “By far the WORST online site I have dealt with. There are so many things wrong with this site that I don't even want to type it all out, but I feel I should to warn future customers. I have ordered a couple times in the last month (excluding 1 kazbah order, which was fine, because I believe these are dealt directly with the brand) and all have been a headache. I will start with the farthest back” (Christie)
                       Work Cited

“Wlodarski Marlene resellerratings Marlena.com Karmaloop April 29, 2011
        October 22, 2012

“Christie Beltran resellerratings.com Karmaloop April 29, 2011
         October 22, 2012

The De-evolution of Society


Jessica M
11-27-12
Period: 5

Society
   These days, society is ugly. When you’re walking through the halls at school and someone bumps into you they don’t apologize, they cuss at you and call you every single bad word in the dictionary. Why do people do that? Society is crazy. No one respects each other because they think they’re better than everyone else. You walk around the streets and people are looking you up and down already talking shit and judging you before they even meet you. Teenage girls talk shit about each other because they feel insecure. Teenage boys and girls do drugs thinking it’s cool when in reality it’s not. They’re messing up their present and their future.
    Today’s generation seems lost when it comes to valuing respect. They have lost respect for themselves and each other. Teenagers don’t respect their elders. Parents don't trust their teenage kid because they’re always lying to them.  They only go to school to hang out with their friends. They don’t pay attention in class and talk back to their teachers. I’m disappointed in today’s generation and society.  But you know, who wouldn’t be disappointed. “It doesn’t matter what everyone else thinks it's YOU who matters not anyone else. If you fail at least you know, you wont spend your life regretting your decision because you were to afraid” (Alliea). I agree with this quote because it speaks the truth. It’s your life and you shouldn’t care about what anyone else says.
 I didn’t find any quotes that didn’t agree with me because it seems that a lot of people agree with the fact that our society and generation is messed up. “Compared to when I was growing up, I think that in some ways my daughter’s generation is more unaware of what’s going on the world” (Hellen Minev). I agree with this because it seems like most teenagers don’t know what’s going on around the world because they only care about themselves.

Works Cited
Alliea. Ownquotes. June 16, 2012 November 27, 2012
Hellen Minev. Huffingtonpost. March 6, 2012 November 27, 2012

Keeping the Moon


Magali M
10-26-12
Per.5

Keeping the Moon

  
       Sarah Dessen is a really good writer. She writes novels for young people. Her friends from high school inspire most of her stories. She’s one of the best writers in earth. If you ever want to read a book you must look up Sarah Dessen’s books.  Her books are really interesting, you wont want to stop reading them, once you open one of her books you wont want to stop reading ‘till you finish the story. One of the books that I recommend you from her is  “ Keeping the Moon”.           
       “Keeping the Moon” interesting book. It’s about s girl name colie and she only lives with her mother. She’s always alone at her house because her mother works. When her mother finds a new job she has to go live with her aunt. Colie doesn’t have friends because she’s always moving schools but when she lives with her aunt she finds new friends and she meets a guy. She never though she was going to be happy, and she never though that she was going to fall in love with someone.
          There are people that agree with me and think that Sarah Dessen is a really good writer, they also agree that her book is a really good book.  I completely LOVED this book. It was so wonderfully funny and heart-warming... I couldn't put it down! I loved the character of Mira, Colie's Aunt, who was unique and eccentric. Colie was a wonderful character as well, with a sensitive and loving (more so towards the end) personality.  You will LOVE this book immensely! It is terrific and you will not be able to put it down for anything! Buy it!. If you loved this book as much as I did, then try Sarah Dessen's other books, That Summer, and Someone Like You” (amazon). I agree with this website, “Keepin the Moon” is the best book you could have ever read. You would not regret of reading this book.
       There are also people that don’t agree with me they think that the book “Keeping the Moon is not an interesting book and that Sarah Dessen isn’t a good writer. "Not only is this book a complete waste of time, it should simply not be published...I have NEVER seen worse from Dessen than this cliched novel about a teenage romance that is so boring, it is not even worth flipping over to the back cover...I can honestly say that I dragged myself through this seemingly endless novel about a wanna-be cinderella story...I would not recommend this book to anyone with the characters being so bland and obvious, the plot barely visible, and enough stories about fatness deriving this girl of popularity, that you have a years worth of Jenny Craig videos right in print” (Halley Cooke).  I disagree with this quote because I don’t think that the book “Keeping the Moon” is a bad book and there’s no reason that Sarah Dessen would make a book that is boring. There is no author that would waste his or her time doing a book that is boring, Sarah Dessen is a really good writer.
Work Cited
Woo, Stu. Amazon. “Keeping the Moon” March 10, 2005
Woo, Stu. Amazon. “Keeping the Moon”. July 3, 2000



My Attitude and Behavior During C.S.T.


Jocelyn B
Per. 3
English
November 27, 12
My Attitude and Behavior During C.S.T.

 Every high school student will have to take this C.S.T. testing through out his or her ninth, tenth, and eleventh, grade year. It is always best to be prepared ahead of time to do our best on the test. It really isn’t hard to reading and answer questions but it could get tiring or boring. Which is why it is better to carry an attitude full of energy, have a great breakfast, be devoted on the work you will or have done. If you believe in yourself we will be confident and with a good opened mind we’ll do great.
   My attitude that I carry into the testing room is full of energy. Since that morning that I wake up, I am prepared to do an amazing job on the test. I have an open mind and organized strategies to help my testing skills be a success. 
   During C.S.T. testing last year I might have been the only person in my homeroom that did not complain about being hungry. I love eating before I do anything important. It gives me the strength that I need to do well. Since I got proficient I could say I did a pretty good job on concentrating on my testing instead of worrying about my hunger.  Throughout the entire week of testing I ate a bowl of cereal, a banana or apple, and a nutrition bar. When I would get to school every morning my stomach was satisfied and really to sit in homeroom for hours to take the C.S.T. I was surprisingly happy just because my stomach was happy.
   I devote about ninety percent on my full effort to the test.  I would probably say I put in more effort into it but personally I don’t think I did that entirely great. I could have done better and get to advanced on the scoring board. I might have had little distractions here and their or some confusing to have gotten a proficient on the test. What might have prevented me from giving my full effort was most likely that my reading skills are not the best so; I didn’t really feel to confident on the reading comprehension part on the test.
   After giving this amount of effort on the test I felt a bit tired. My head hurt a little bit but I was happy that it was finally over. Taking the C.S.T. I was always confident about myself. I had an open mind through out the whole test. I knew that I was not going to know the correct answer for every question on the test but I knew I had a high possibility to obtain most of the questions correct. On the few the few questions I had trouble on, I would take an educated guess or use the process of elimination.  An educated guess or the process of elimination is when you use your own knowledge to answer your troubled question. I was confident about the work I had done in the time that I was in the testing room. I talked to some of my friends and they told me they had felt the test a bit harder than what they had expected. I felt cool that I thought the test was not so hard because that gave me a good feeling that I had done well, maybe not as well as I wanted to do but I did all right.
   My state of mind and preparations really helped me do my finest on the test. Starting off in the morning with a great attitude and breakfast gave me a boost. I had set my mind and determined for success. I got good results, and that made me extremely proud of myself.

  

“Fast Five”


Jocelyn B
Period 3
English
October 5, 2012

“Fast Five”

   “Fast Five” is an amazing action movie. Anyone who has an interest in cars or any adventures will enjoy this fascinating movie. Men and women could both fall in love with this movie. Even if women are not interested in car they will be interested in all the hot men that are in “Fast Five”. My number one sexy guy in “Fast Five” is Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel). He is sexy in every single way. Stephanie agrees with my claim about Toretto expressing “It's either genius or madness to put Diesel and Johnson in the same movie, or the same scene. They're both enormously appealing performers” (Stephanie Zacharek). His voice has a tough guy sound to it that goes great with his role in the movie. You could tell he has that sensitive side even though he is physically buff and tough looking. The other guy that is just as attractive as Toretto is Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker).
   O’Conner and Toretto are the main characters in the movie. O’Conner is more of a nice sweet caring guy that knows how to protect what he wants. For example he is always taking care of Mia (his girlfriend). Toretto and O’Conner are the ones that make the decisions of how they will approach things in order to accomplish their goal of capturing all that money. 
   The cars who also play an amazing role in the movie are what brought “Fast Five” together to become a great movie. All of these cars are extremely fast. They have that fast, adrenalized look similar to Nascars.
   A motorcycle driven by Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) is what I find most thrilling about this movie. She is beautiful lady. It is delirious how she is an expert at driving any type of vehicle.  I admire her because motorcycle driving is something I would love to do. She has that masculine side of her but yet is gorgeous and feminine in every single way.
   Some people may disagree on my talk about the sexy characters in the movie. Bob speaks out about Toretto “While this is the best in the franchise since the first film, I still don't like it because watching Vin Diesel in anything makes me want to punch myself in the face...and that's just not healthy” (Bob Grimm). Few may disagree with me but everyone ought to know that it maybe just jealousy towards these amazing characters.
Work Cited
Zacharek,Stephanie.metacritic.com.fastfive.April28,2011.November27,2012
Grimm,Bob.rottentomatos.com.fastfivereviews.May5,2011.November27,2012