Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Enders Game Chapter 15~ (Speaker For The Dead)

The chapter starts again with Ender being isolated from everyone. Everyone was announced a hero except Ender. Everyone wants to tap into Enders mind. Valentine informs ender that he is going to be the new govener of a new colony. Rackham would be the pilot taking him to his new colony. Peter wants to use Ender to make him have a good reputation. Valentine is going to join Ender going to the new colony. Ender will not be isolated anymore. A few years passed and Ender is not isolated anymore infact he is respected. Ender discovers an area he knows he has seen before. He relized it was the simulation but in real life. The buggers managed to tap into Enders mind and they sent him a message. Ender found a bugger cocoon that was going to be the new queen. Ender did not destroy the egg but saved it. Ender eventually got bored of the planet and leaves. Valentine goes with him and so does the cocoon that Ender will find a safe place for so that the buggers can start up a safe colony.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Enders game; Chapter 14 (Enders Teacher); Summary

Ender is a very smart student, he has now found the simulation games to be way to easy for him. Ender decides to ask Colonel Graff why that was. Graff did not seem worried and dissapeared the next day. Ender returns to his room in his room now is an old man. The old man does not speak for a long time but when he does he speaks about how Enders mind should more focused on the simulator than on his body. The old man tells Ender his name is Mazer Rackham. Rackham was a great war hero that is going to teach Ender how to defeat the buggers properly. Rackham and Ender discuss how the buggers are like insects how they have a hive and a queen that is in charge of the hive. Ender is to be the new commander and train all the squadron leaders. Those leaders are very fimiliar faces to Ender in fact they include Bean, Petra, and Dink. The new battles start off easy but gradually become harder. Ender is now more isolated than ever spending all his time with his teacher or on the simulator. Ender now begins to suffer more. He has nightmares, screams while he is sleeping, he can only handle bland foods, he bites himself in his sleep and becomes totally isolated. Rackham tells ender hes only playing video games theres nothing to worry about but enders physical stress gets the best of him and he blacks out. He recovers eventually and is ready for his last test. This test includes adults watching him very closely. This simulation is on a planet and its simulated at the end of an invasion. Ender set off a device called Dr.Device and destroyed everything winning the battle. At the end everyones cheering on Ender.

Monday, December 21, 2009

The Way Up To Heaven
Roald Dahl


"The Way Up To Heaven" is a complicated mystery with a different twist to it. Mrs. Foster was a ordinary woman for the most part except that she had a "pathological fear of being late". Mrs. Foster was getting ready to go visit her daughter in Paris for six weeks, she waits in her main foyer waiting for her husband that they story does not say directly but you get the hint that he tries to be late all of the time to make her freak out. Mr. Eugene Foster constantly makes excuses to take a little bit more time. The couple eventually makes it to the airport and Mrs. Fosters plane ends up being delayed till the next day at eleven. Mrs. Foster wakes up at eight thirty the next morning and her husband delays again by "accidentally" miss placing a gift that he could have easily sent in the mail. As Mr. Foster goes back into the house to find the gift Mrs.Foster finds it in the car. She decides on going up to the door. Mrs. Foster hears a noise that shes heard before, she turns around returns to the car and drives away. She makes it to Paris and sends Mr. Foster a letter every Tuesday. When Mrs. Foster returns home there is no car waiting to pick her up so she takes a cab home. When she makes it home she smells a peculiar smell and calls the elevator repair man. From these clues the reader figures that Mr. Forster got stuck in the elevator when Mrs. Foster left for Paris and she new about it but left him to die till she got home.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Mrs. Brown Characteristics Paragraph

Mrs. Brown has a lot of distinct maternal instincts. She is as protective over Christy as a mother bear is
over her cub. She protects Christy from being put in an institute and from all the dangers that may harm him physically.
She is very observant always watching Christy to look for any signs of improvement and to make sure he doesn't hurt himself.
Mrs. Brown was a very altruistic person she always put the needs of her family and others before herself. She was also very determined and desperate to prove her son was not stupid he could just not move. Mrs. Browns maternal instincts paid off when Christy wrote the letter a and proved he was not mentally ill.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The Letter A Blog Assignment Question # 1

4. What kinds of obstacles do people with disabilities face?

People with disabilities face many obstacles. People that are blind are not able to see the world around them and the ones they love. I think disabilities that effect the sense's would be the hardest to live with because you would not be able to embrace the world around you. Some other disabitlities Such as cerebral palsy or any disease that has effected moving would disable you from moving on your own, it would make traveling very difficult. Not all disabilities are caused by disease some are caused by accedents taking away the persons daily routine that they could do before. These obsacles affect day to day life of these people.