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Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul.
"Forever Rocky"
This short story is about a man who has to put his dog Rocky to sleep. Rocky had been very sick and old and it was time for him to go. As he was writing the check for his dog to be put to sleep he could not stop crying. Finally, the task was over. When he got back home, his four-year-old son was asking his father about Rocky. "He's in heaven" His father managed to answer. Robert, his son points to the sky and says "There?" The father answers yes, and walks back into the house. Later he checks up on his son and see's his son throwing a stick into the air and waiting for it to fall back down. "What are you doing?" his father asks. Robert answers by saying "I'm playing with Rocky." I thought this story was very cute and sad. I thought it was cute how Robert was playing with Rocky with his imagination.
Reflection-5/8/07
The Ancient Egyptians developed remarkably sophisticated medical treatments for disease using both surgery and natural remedies. They understood the properties and consequent effects of mixing several substances together, and some of these formulas have been passed down to us though surviving medical papyri. Considering their applied knowledge of medicine and anatomy, along with their need to prepare themselves for the afterlife, it is not surprising that the Egyptians devised a highly effective method of physically preserving their dead.
Illustrated Book of Pregnancy & Baby Care
You shouldn’t take drugs when you are pregnant. When they are born you should read to them. Even if they don’t understand you. You shouldn’t yell at them either. To pick up a baby you should pick up his head too. If you don’t do that, their head will fall. You should hold your newborn baby face down. Always watch what he is doing.
A baby needs lots of care. They are very delicate. Their skin is really soft.
The average weight of a newborn is 7 lb.
"Race" by Bart Schneider.
I would like to state I did not have a chance to read a well amount of the scripture in this book. I did come to find out that this is a first person narrorated book. It describes the life of many individuals during the time of nationalized racism. He describes how Black History month was originated.How MLK's birthday in mid January is now the early starter of the celebration for African American rights. He talks about what he learned in grade school during the racial time era. So i would like comment on this and say that I appriciate seeing people write about the rights they have. I like to see people fight for what they deserve and win. It shows me that if you fail on justifying something,you just try harder the next time.
♥Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
♥Going For It!; “I’ll Be Back”
♥This morning I read a true story on a 15 year old boy named Chris that almost lost hope in his dreams because of an accident. Chris loved playing basketball for his junior varsity team but one night while riding with some of his friends, he got into a car accident. One of his friends died, and the rest of his friends, including himself, were severely injured. Chris had lost his left leg due to the accident. But instead of being sorry for himself, he felt that this meant he had to try harder at basketball. Chris was already becoming the star of his hometown, so most of the town was supporting his decision to continue playing for his junior varsity team. Every night Chris would sneak out of his house and practice without his crutches on his artificial leg. Of course he would constantly fall on to the concrete but this never stopped him, he would get back up again and try again. Chris would never use his leg as an excuse, and with his great attitude he made the team. On the first pre-season game he made 11 points, this was a 50 point difference from the previous year but a lot more of a difference for Chris and the rest of his hometown. That night at the dinner table Chris told his mom he knew exactly why he survived, and he told her it was because God knew he could do it.
♥Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. –Helen Keller
♥I feel that this quote relates to the story because Chris knew that although he could sit around and feel sorry for himself, life may have been easily. But- he decided to challenge himself and overcome his injury because it was his dream.
1,001 Facts about the Human Body:
I am in the second chapter of this book and I am reading about The Skeleton. These are some facts: A baby’s skeleton has over 300 bones. Some of these bones fuse as they grow. The average adult has 206 bones in their body. Some people have an extra pair of ribs. More than half of the body’s bones are in the hands and feet. The femur is the longest, strongest bone. Bone is five times stronger than a steel bar of the same weight. The bone is made up of protein fibers that are filled with calcium an phosphate. The bone constantly renews it’s self. Ten percent of the mass is replaced each year. This process involves some cells breaking down old bone while other cells builds up a new bone. When you fracture a bone there are two types of fractures. A compound fracture when the bone is broken and it comes out of the skin. There is also a simple fracture when the bone breaks but the skin is intact. There are several stages of healing. 1.) A clot of blood fills the area of the fracture 6-8 hour after the injury. 2.) Collagen fibers start to join the broken ends of the bone. 3.) Then the healing of the bone occurs. Repairing tissue is replaces with spongy bone. Compact bone forms around the edge of the fracture. I think that the human body is so interesting. It is strong but very fragile at the same time. I get to understand a little bit more about the body. What I found really interesting is how it repairs it’s self. All the things your body does for you. People should think about taking more care about their body because their bodies do a lot for them.
Section Title: The great migration
Picture Description: There are people working hard in the factories.
summary: This book was about how many Americans move from the south to the north because they had more opportunities in the north. Even thought people moved over in the north people were still having problems surviving ,they would tried their best to do good but they would struggle to much. When world one was over it brought a lot of opportunities to African Americans'. there were more people working in factories although people from Europe wanted to take over but they couldn’t because they were the ones that had to go to war. The recruiters made many promises about the wonderful life African Americans could have in the north. Some offered decent, well-paying jobs and the possibility of good housing, fine schools, and safety. They sometimes offered free or cheap train tickets for their transportation. The recruiters brought hope of a better future, a chance for African Americans' to fulfill their dreams.
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
"The Smokey Mirrors"
In this book the author talks about 4 agreements.The 4 agreements of life are be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, and always do your best.In "The Smokey Mirrors" the author talks about that life is an illusion.Also is that we are not seeing what we really are and the reason we can't see the real thing is because smoke doesn't let us see.That smoke is not really smoke,but a dream we are living that doesn't let us see what we really are.This story is really cool because I never looked at myself the way the author is describing it.Also the author is saying we all are dreamers.What I really think the author is trying to say is that we all are in a dream and we are not seeing are true selves.
I think this book is weird.It's weird because I did never did look at life as just an "illusion"or dream.Problably reading this book will help me get a clearer idea of who I'm truly.
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding is all you see..."-John Lennon
The book I have chosen is The native Americans. I learner that hundreds of years ago the world was suffering from the last part of the ice age. Great ice sheets covered much of north America. And the sea levels fell dramatically reveling land corridors. During this time Neanderthal developed fire for warmth and cooking homo sapiens evolved around 35 000 years ago, a big game hunter with a sophisticated tool kit and great intellectual capacity. Though less robust physically than Neanderthal man. He was more adaptable to climate variations families lived in sub sentinel dwellings and buried their dead with goods. Evidence for homo sapiens first occur in Africa Asia and near east, were they absorbed and replaced the Neanderthal population several millennia later they papered in Australia and Siberia at the time when Europe was under glaciations northern Asia was cold dry and free of glaciers. I feel that the primeval humus were very nomadic and that they were smarter than we think they set the basics for live today. early humans hunted mammoths and other massive creatures.
Eyes everywhere prisoners were encouraged to tell the ss guards of any plots they overheard, in the same way as people outside the camp were encouraged to tell on each other. The germans are crazy. At roll call each day, the camp commandant. New arrivals in Mauthausen camp were met by ss guards with dogs trained to attack prisoners. Leon zelman, a political prisoner who survived the camp, remembers how the dogs were used to terrorize prisoners on a daily basis. There were people in the camps who took the chance to help anyone they could, as they saw them.
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