Book Review of: Forest of Hands and Teeth

   "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" By: Carrie Ryan.  Mary is learning things that she didn't know she would have to learn. The unconsecrated and humans have been battling for a while now. When the unconsecrated break down the fence that has been dividing them for years all hell breaks loose. It is basically an all out war.  When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future-between the one she loves and the one who loves her. The Major conflict in the story was when the fence was breached (the fence is a big fence that divided the zombie's from the village. And basically her life turned into a big war for survival. 
        I liked this book a lot because it made you think and wonder about this story, I could very easily figure out what was going on in my head. I was one of those books where I can picture what is going on in my head like an image of the Zombies braking down the fence and attacking the village.  
        I would recommend this book to sci-fi fans, teens and series lovers. There are three books to this series #1"The Forest of Hands and Teeth"#2 The Dead-Tossed Waves" #3 The Dark and Hollow Places. And just like with every other book I would recommend reading "The Forest of Hands and Teeth first before you read the second or third book of the series because then you will not understand it at all. 


This Book has 310 Pages it is a long book (for me) but I would recommend it. (at least it isn't a 750+ pages like Harry Potter of Twilight.     


Quote from book: "It's not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love...that's what makes this life worth it. When you live with it everyday. Wake up with it, hold on to it during the thunder and after a nightmare. When love is your refuge from the death that surrounds us all and when it fills you so tight that you can't express it."

Marriage

1. Marriage back then was very similar to todays marriage.


2. Elizabethan women did not have a very big choice in husbands.


3. In Elizabethan times Marriage was basically a forced necessity for men and women to get married.


4. Only the rich and noble women got a good education but poor (not wealthy) women did not get an education. Which made men interested in the women who where educated.


5. Women who did not marry where considered witches by there neighbors and lower class women.


6. Women back in the Elizabethan time were taught that men where more intelligent than women. 






Marriage back in Elizabethan times.

Grow'in as a Poet.

"The Rose That Grew From Concrete"


Did you here about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breath fresh air.
Ling live the rose that grew from the concrete, 
when no one else ever cared.


By:Tupac Shakur.


This poem stood out to me that this is kind of what people are going through. Like someone grew up into a better person when no one else cared. I think writing poems are a lot harder to right. Some poems have to rhyme. It is harder to right poems that rhyme and then they also have to make sense. I think I have grown as a poet not a lot but a little. I am better at reading and writing poems than I was at the beginning of the school year because in middle school we didn't have POETRY FRIDAY!! 

Cliff Hanger.

I was not a very big reader until high school English. SSR-Silent Sustained Reading, changed my reading habit to not ready at all, to reading a lot. I now enjoy books, I like mystery books the best because when you stop you don't know what is going to happen next. It is like a cliff hanger. Having SSR as part of our class it is an easy grade. I don't think there are any negatives to SSR. I plan to read more books in the future more of mysteries and graphic novels. 

Favorite book so far!
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Baby Blog going to Grown up Blog

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I like blogging, but what I like better is Vlogging- a vlog is like a blog but you do it in a video. I like vlogging more because it is easier to make a vlog for me.  I have learned a lot about blogging, like how to use better typing grammar rather than putting (u) and (r), stuff like that. I get used to writing like a text message. With blogging you get the chance to customize your blog the way you want it.

A goal that I have for my blog, I am going to grow my blog by adding gadgets, a hit rating to see how many hits I have gotten. Maybe customize a back ground that would describe my blog style with just a picture.

Death Penalty In Arizona.

The 8th of January there was a Arizona Shooting. Saturday's shooting in Tucson- There were up to 150 Witnesses. And some of them held down the shooter until the police arrived. His troubled mental state to keep him off of death row. "The issue is his mental state, and the sole goal is to avoid the death penalty." Jared Lee Loughner is charged with murder and also attempted murder in the shootings outside a super market. The shootings killed a 9-year old girl a federal judge and four others. A tireless life term in prison. An Alexandria lawyer who worked with Clarke on the defense of Zacarias Moussaoui, the conspirator in the Sept. 11, 2001. "The case may very well be moved out of Arizona." Internet and other news sources means means potential jurors will be familiar with the shootings.

I believe that Jared Lee Loughner should get the death penalty because of what he did. He killed a 9 year old girl and a federal judge and four other people not on purpose. His purpose was to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords. But in the process her killed and injured many innocent people.

 

My opinion on the Death Penalty.

I think that the death penalty should be in every state because maybe it would make people think twice about what they want or are going to do. Because maybe if people knew that there was a death penalty they wouldn't kill people.


In one case there is this woman named Suzanne Margaret Basso. And what she did was kidnapped a 59 year old man retarded white male who purposely killed him by beating him with belts, baseball bats, steel-toed boots, hands, and feet. They later found the man in a ditch with such bad injures that the body was unrecognizable.
           I think that this poor lady should get the death penalty because 1, the man was retarded and didn't know what was going on. 2, You just dont go around killing random people.


In another case there was this male named Robert Gene Will, II, made an attempt to burglarize a car and was being chased by a White male officer Once the officer reached Will and attempted to put hand cuffs on him. Will then shot the officer seven times in the head, resulting in the officer's death.


           I think that this is a good reason to have a death penalty because he should have surrendered instead of shooting a cop seven times in the head. I mean wouldn't you rather go to jail for a few years for pursuit or sentenced to jail for the death penalty.




In one other case this black male named Jamaal Howard 05/12/2000 did something that is very similar to a book that we are reading called Monster. Jamaal Howard robbed a convenience store in Silsbee. During the robbery, Howard shot a 42 year old white female clerk once or twice in the chest causing her death Howard also took 114$ from the cash register durring the robbery.


         I think that this is also a good reason for the death penalty because the man was going to jail anyways for robbing and store but now he is probably going to die because he killed a man.