Quote Kepper

1. " The hill literally moving" ...... This qoute means that there were thousands of soldiers charging them across a hill. 2. " I think I'm hit" ....... This qoute means that the man thinks he was shot with a bullet. 3. " It was fun killing them until we realized later that they were human beings" ...... This quote means that in battle they didnt think about how they were killing other people and they were just doing there job but after the battle they realized that killing people is not something they wanted to do.

Quote Kepper

1. "We were on the phone all ngiht"....... This quote shows thst the peple on the phone have alot of passion for one another. 2. " They took him around a corner, and a shot rang out"....... They took a man around a corner and shot him because there was no need for him. 3. "I'll caver you if you cover me" ....... These two men are going to watch each others back in the line of duty.

Week 3 Quote Keeper

1. "Playing the role of heterosexual while fantasizing about being a homosexual had been my reality since I was a child." Page 14

- She's saying that she was lesbian her whole life.


2. "I wasn't that pretty, nor was I particularly tall. I was okay looking, but I certainly wasn't good-looking enough to have one of those annoying stories that supermodels tell on talk shows." Page 19

- She was never okay with her appearance like her face and her body image. That's why she started starving herself to lose weight so she could look like one of these models.

3. "I just stood on the staircase smiling awkwardly at each cast member as they tentatively smiled and waved, sizing me up just as their characters were directed to do in the script." Pafe 37

- She got a lead role on Ally McBeal and felt intimidated by everyone on there since they were professionals. She had starved herself a lot to fit in her clothes for this show.

Week 2 Journal Writer

Dear Diary,
My husband left me for my brother's wife. So now we live together so we both won't be lonely. Oh and I'm sooo not comfortable with my weight. I think I have these huge hips and this big stomach. I secretly starve myself so I can fit into smaller clothing. I got a lead roll on the show Ally McBeal as a lawyer, so I had to lose weight for that because I have to wear revealing clothing in one episode and I have to wear this tight skirt. I hired a nutritionist because I wanted someone to help me lose weight and keep it off instead of this dangerous dieting I'm doing at the moment. I hope I can stop binging and purging.

Sincerely,
Portia.

week 2 quote keeper

1. pg 86
"I throw up"
Portia suffers with her weight all through the book and soon you realizes she needs a nutritionist to help her maintain a healthy diet. Portia reveals to her nutritionist that she makes herself throw up.

2. pg 90
"Im afraid to work out at all because im worried that muscle definition makes people look bigger."
Portia says this because she wants to be skinny and lean like a model... not muscular like a guy. She wants to be perfect and working out is not perfect in her eyes.

3. pg 100
"At age 12, starving and bingeing and purging had been the only way to reach my goal weight."
Portia was always around food and junk food during and after her photoshoots. To have people not suspect anything she would eat and then be forced to throw up after.

Hey

Hi I'm Micheal,

I'm a funny and flirty guy. I find Janine very a attractive and we are dating. She and i are quite close. she stays over to my house slowly adding a new item of hers over the course of weeks. Janine loves my house. She met my family at Thanksgiving where we've stayed once before while my parent were out of town. The Thanksgiving dinner didn't turn out like i planned. So i took her to Colorado for a skiing vacation. I got really angry and handled my anger in a completely wrong way

Sincerely,

Women Beater ♥

"If I Am Missing or DEAD"

while reading this novel by Janine Latus's it reminded me of a couple of other thing i heard and read.

Some of the event and diary set up look to part of the book was a little like a book i read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Text to text:

text to world: Also, Her moms lost in born and unborn children reminds me of a song karen taylor good-precious child

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcpBwB5ruu0

Text to self: In chapter 3 i remind me of me because my family always lives in a four bedroom house and

journal week 1

dear diary,

my birth name is Amanda Rogers but i go by Portia De Rossi, because it sounds original... not average. I have a problem with the way i look... i want to be someone who matters not just ana average girl. I eat only 3oo calories a day and throw up after almost every meal. I do this to mantain my weight so i can still look good for my tv show Ally Mcbeal. I think something is wrong with me and the way i think but its the only way to make me feel good about myself... help me :(
Love, Portia <3

The Quote

I beleive that the qoute means that the place with the most laws is where there are more crimes because when there are to many rules people get annoyed so they dont care and they break the rules when ever they want.

Is it real?

I beleive that there are alien life forms and that there have been occurences where people have really seen these alien spaceships or lifeforms. When i was younge i was with my family coming home from somewhere and we were driving next to a field and we could see this green stick coming down from the sky and we were staring it at it and as soon as it hit the ground it just dissapeared and we were freaking out trying to figure out what it was.

Yeah.. So,. uh. .

I am both an idealist and realist. Depending on the situation is depending on how I view something. For example, I always dream about my future. Wanting to build my own house, not neccesarily a big one but a house, have certain animals and have a prosporous life. When I really know, its not neccesarily going to happen. But do I let it stop me from viewing that? No. If I do then all my hope for a bright future will be lost. I know in a realist way I have a great chance in college and most likely will lead me to a nice paying job, but will it build me my house, who knows. But I do dream about it, while knowing the real world and the truth about things. Even when a friend asks me.. should I take a regents, I don't feel like I will pass. Knowing that she will feel bad to skip it, she asks my advice. I told her, study for June. You do not want to take a test that will involve you not passing, or getting a low grade when you can do better the next time it comes.

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Alot of strange and unexplainable things have happened in our world. Alot people can talk about and fight about for hours. For example, 9/11 could be categorized in an odd and mysterious event. Alot bigfoot... and the "spottiings". no one knows if hes real or not but the clues shown so far are very wierd. Also, ghosts and ouiji boards. I play the ouija board all the time and i still cant figure out how the heck it does what it does! I believe in ghosts but most people dont so some people could say ghost cases are very odd. Aliens and UFO sighting have been found to be supernatural too. There are plently more... but thats all for now folks :)

Strange or Not?

Many things in the world are either mysterious or supernatural. In the world people say the have seen UFO's or ghosts. Do you believe them, well personally i think stuff like that exsists. This may be funny or people might think I'm crazy but believe it or not I've personally experienced something strange. One time, I was visiting a poor part of Mexico called San Isidro when i swear i saw a witch. Like I said it may seem funny but i swear it had to be that. It was night time and my friend and I were walking a little girl home and there the streets are dirt paths and there's no lights. Then on the way back I felt we were being followed and i started to get scared. We then past this abanded house and something caught my eyes. When i looked in the house i saw a black figure sitting on a rock and whatever it was it was holding a stick. I didnt dare look again because i was so scared.So as of that day i hate going back because I just hate it. So I totally 100% believe that UFOs, Ghosts, and other strange things do exsist in the world whether people want to believe it of not.

Idealist and Realist

I believe that i am both an Idealist and a Realist. I need facts to back up certain things I'm told; like in math or science, but I also dream for better situations. I want to believe there are better ways to do things like a cleaner way to run a car, or a simplier way to build a builting.

Quoteeeeee.

I believe that the more restrictions you put on something, a person, place thing. Anything. There will be likely to have people going against those laws. Nobody wants to feel restricted. Half of teens in school even, if a parent tells them " you cannot go out tonight" some teens try to fight it or just be sad the rest of the night. Others, they try to figure ways around it, maybe going to a friends house then going out, sneaking out etc. It can also be related to the book. Kayla didn't want the bar code tattoo, she tried every way to get out of it. Even when her friend encouraged it.

Blog #2

A "hypocrite" is defined as a person who pretends to be who he/she is not. In general I think many people are hypocrites even if they don't know it. I know alot of people that are hypocrites. A big way they are is when they say they hate liars & for example tell someone it's wrong to lie and then they go off and lie to someone about something or somebody. Another way is when you tell someone to stop complaining about stuff all the time but you do the same exact thing.

Blog #1

I feel the well being of the individual is more important because you have to love yourself in order for people to love you, you have to be happy with yourself in order for people to be happy with you and also the only person that is going to look out for you, is yourself. Once your good with yourself then it makes an well being society because if your not good and negative to yourself, that is just making society not well because of your negativey.

wrong and right

In the bar-code tattoo Kayla refused to get the tattoo which in the eyes of that society was wrong. In the eyes of Kayla it was the right thing to do considering what happed to her father and neighbor.

I love Boobies...

i believe that the novel The Bar Code Tattoo has events that i believe are somewhat related to the Nation right now. But the only difference is that the government is not being up our butts telling us what to do or making unconstitutional laws. For example, in the book everyone was getting the bar code tattoo because they all thought it was cool at first and everywhere you went you saw people with it. Well in 2010 the " Il love Boobies" braclets came out and as soon as one person had one, everyone believed it was cool to own it. Then later that month it seemed like everyone had one, who cared if it was blue, green,white, or pink. Personally, i have because i think it's a great way to support brest cancer. So thankfully the government is making it a law to have the brsclet becasue some people find it wrong but everyone has their own opinion. =]

Hypocritee!

Alright well a hypocrite is when a person says when something is wrong but they do it themselves. One example is like when a friend tells you not to go out and drink but they do it anyways. Another example is when someone says they hate when people start drama but yet they start half of it anyways! A lot of people are hypocrites in this world !

Hypocriiiiiites :)

Okay well were do I start? A Hypocrite is someone who pretends to be something or someone they aren't, maybe because to follow everyone else or to be cooler? Who knows, but I personally think hypocrites are very, very annoying. What is a hypocrite? Well it's say when you tell everyone you hate Britney Spears and then you go home and download her songs and listen to it. Or say there's this person you "hate" and talk about to everyone in school then you see that person in the hall and talk to them like their your best friend or hangout with them. I personally think if you don't like something or hate something don't go around telling people you hate it when you really don't. It's annoying and sooner or later people catch on to that. (:

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Everyone in life can be a hypocrite. Sometimes they realize their doing it and sometimes they dont. A hypocrite is someone who pretends to be someone or something they are not. For example, you may say you hate someone and then 2 seconds later talk to them like you are best friends. Also, if you say you hate the band blink 182 and then go and listen to them on your ipod that is always called being a hypocrite. Maybe people do that to be cool? I dont know but i think hypocrites are annoying :)

Well Being Of An Individual

I believe the well being of an individual is more important because like in the book The Bar Code if you got in an accident or something you would have all of your medical and insurance information on you already you wouldn't have to wait until somebody researched it all. That would cause you to get faster care due to the time saved.

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Sometimes doing the "wrong thing" is the "right thing" to do. It doesnt always mean that your a bad person because your doing something bad but in some situations you need to do the wrong thing. For example, in the book The Bar Code, getting a bar code tattoo is what everyone does when they turn a certain age. If you dont have one, they consider you not normal almost. Kayla learns that there are many bad effects with the bar code and she doesnt want to get the tattoo. Some people might say her not getting the tattoo is a bad thing to do... but her not getting it is a good desicion. Kayla is in a situation where doing the 'wrong thing" is the "right thing" to do.

Which Well Being

I think that the well being f society is more important then the well being of an indivisual because if the well being of a society is bad than everything is going to plummit like businesses and schools and what not. If the well being of and indivisual is bad than that wont effect everyone just that person and it wont effect the society very much.

Well-being

The well-being of society depends on the the well-being of every individual of that society. If someone becomes ill then it could spread and infect the whole society. If one person believes something more people will follow and believe too; this is how society works. We all depend on each other if one falls more will soon follow after them.

INDIVIDUALS

I think that a well-being of the individual is more important than the well-being of society. I believe this because you are who you are and no one can change that. Also, it's more important to focus on yourself and people you care about than the people that hate you. Also you are able to make your own decsions than to be fully told what to. I'm not saying you shouldn't listen to your parents but what fun would it be to have the government constaintly know where you are and what your doing. Could you imagine using the bathroom and some government weirdo call you and say " hey I know your in the bathroom". Yeah so therefor i think a well-being of the individual is more important.

The things that are important.

I believe that the well- being of an individual is more important. Well-being of an individual is what makes a society work. If all people are taking care of themselves than they are more apt to feel good about themselves and thus care about their society. Which in that creates an all around working system.

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