Diary of a Wimpy Kid the third wheel

 This book is about a kid named Greg who goes to middle school. There are many books like this but this one focuses on a dance that is happening in Greg's school. Through out the book Greg is trying to find a date to go with him to the dance. But he is having trouble because not a lot of girls like him or know who he is. So Greg asks for advice around from his family and friend but does not get the results he wants to. His uncle moves in with his family and Greg asks him for advice and his uncle gives him really good advice. Greg has a friend named Rowley who is part of the schools Vice President he is not that loquacious helps Greg with finding a date because he knows that Greg doesn't want to be alone in the dance. In this book Greg also talks about his child and how he was headed down everything from his older brother Rodrick and wishes he got new stuff during his childhood.

My personal reflection of this book is I liked it I enjoyed the drawings that went with the text. The author Jeff Kinney did a good job on this book because I haven't read one of these ina while so it was good to see these books are still good. Another thing that I like about this book is how it expressed the feeling and detail through the drawings and what the main character Greg was feeling. I enjoyed everything about this book I didn't see anything wrong with it in my opinion. Another thing that I like about this book and the whole Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is you don't have necessarily read the first book to get the books following after. So in conclusion I really enjoyed this book and what the author did I with it. I recommend this book to people who like the series of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and people who like a comic book style of reading.

Life is Beautiful

 In my opinion the phrase life is beautiful is shown through the movie by in the beginning the man is very happy and is enjoy his life. Another way the phrase life is beautiful is shown is in the middle of the movie the man falls in love with the girl and they have a son. One piece of film evidence is when the man goes to the party where the girl is at and he knows he has fallen in love with the girl. When they leave and go back to the guys house there is a transition were it shows that they had a kid. This piece of evidence shows how having a kid can make someone's life even better and show how beautiful it is. Another way the phrase life is beautiful is shown is towards the end of the movie the guy thinks about how good his life was and that he took it for granted so he realized how much of a good life he had. The piece of film evidence shows how if someone has a good life they don't pay attention to it and when they lose that type of life style it affects them and they wish they had it back. So when the man is imported to the concentration camp he remembers the good life he had and he thought about how good it was to be free and he really saw how his life was beautiful.

 The connections that are similar between the movie and our reading is in the movie it shows how life was for people before the holocaust. In the readings it talks about how people used to live before the holocaust. Another similarity is the individuals that were in the movie were Jewish people. The main character of this movie was Jewish he lived in the camps. The other individuals that were involved in the movie were the Germans. Ideas that were similar were the Germans wanted to kill all the Jewish people or people that did meet there standards. All these things are both in the reading and in the movie.

 The differences between the movie and the readings are in the readings it went into more detail about what was going on outside the concentration camps. In the movie it didn't really give detail about the war it focused almost the whole movie on what was happening inside the concentration camps. Another difference is the movie didn't show how much power Hitler had over people and the media. In the readings it shows and talks about how much power Hitler had over people and the things he could do. These are the things that are different between the movie and the readings.

 The mood of this movie is in the beginning the movie is very happy and it shows a happy place. The mood in the middle of the movie is also happy because he falls in love with the girl and the girl falls in love with him as well. Towards the end of the movie the mood is very sad and serious and everything is mostly sad. When the man goes to the camp and gets evaluated the tone there is serious. The overall tone of this movie is sort of sad but it has some positivity in it. The positivity is shown when there's humor and laughter during the beginning of the film and even when the film gets serious there is still some laughter. So in my opinion the movies mood is mostly happy but towards the end the movie gets serious and sad but still has some humor in it.

My Butterfly Project

Tittle of poem: ILLNESS. Sadness, stillness in the room. In the middle, a table and a bed. In the bed, a feverish boy. His mother sits next to him with a little book. She reads him his favorite story and immediately, the fever subsides. Author: Franta Bass

The Dallas Cowboys

 The book I read was called The Dallas Cowboys this book was about the team/franchise of the Dallas Cowboys. In the beginning of the book it talked about players from 60s and 70s and how they impacted the team then later on in the book it talks about the team in the 80s When the Dallas Cowboys came into the league hey weren't that good. They struggled in a lot of parts they didn't have good healthy players. But when Tom Landry was hired he changed that. He implemented his new offensive playbook and defensive playbook to the team. When he was starting off as coach he drafted young players on defense because for him he thought that was the most important part of the team. From there the Cowboys got better and better and they won Super Bowl VI against the dolphins. After that the Cowboys were known more and people started to like them they became America's Team. But Tom Landry was not perfect he lost the 1975 and 1978 Super Bowls. The Cowboys are also known for some legendary players like running back Emmitt Smith he was drafted in April 1990 he made a big impact on the team he was very successful he is known for one of the greatest running backs of all time. Another legendary player was Troy Aikmen who was very popular back then and still is now he was also good he took the Cowboys to Super Bowls and won two.

 My personal reflection on this book is I liked it I liked how the author took the reader through a timeline the success and failures of the Cowboys. The author who wrote this book also wrote The San Francisco 49ers I also enjoyed that book they share the same style of writing and way of writing. I also like how the author wrote about some players backgrounds and what they went through growing up. This book was very detailed when it talked about what kind of times these players were planning in it talked about how African Americans were discriminated when playing and how they where looked less on. My favorite section or part of this book is when it was talking about a player named Emmitt Smith because he's my favorite Cowboy player of all time. The only thing that I didn't like about this book was I wished he made each players section longer and with more things that happened in there life. That's probably the only problem I have with this book but overall I liked this book and I enjoyed it. I recommend this book to people who like sports and football and especially the Dallas Cowboys.

Propaganda

  The piece of propaganda that I have is trying to portray how powerful Nazi soldiers are. I say this because in the image it shows a man who looks confident and powerful who is probably going to war.  The intended audience is most likely the Jewish people I say this because the poster shows somebody with no fear and when the Jews at the time say this they probably where scared of the Nazis because they looked powerful. Another possible intended audience could be German people this poster could've been a recruiting poster to show German men that they could fight in war and look like this. It can alter someone's perspective by showing the Jewish people how powerful the Nazis were at the time and it can also show German men that they could be like this too but only if the enroll into war. This poster was effective because a lot of German people enrolled to fight in WW2 the Nazis had so much soldiers on there side to use in battle. My personal thoughts on this sign/picture is the way the Nazis made it was interesting because the made the poster/image to stand out and show people how powerful they are. I also think that this probably helped the Nazis gain power and strike fear into Jewish people.

QB1

 The tittle of my book is called QB1 the book is about a kid named Jake Cullen. He plays quarterback on his football team he comes from a family of quarterbacks his older brother is a very successful quarterback. When the beginning of the season started Jake was a back up he was competing with another kid who wanted to play quarterback his name was Casey Lindell. Through the book they have some problems because one of them is back up and the other is starting. When Casey is not preforming well the coach decided stop bring in Jake to start in on game and they end up winning that game because of Jake. In this book Jake faces one adversity that affects him but he overcomes it and is successful. Jakes goal and everybody on that team is to win the championship but the team faces some problems with deck on making on plays and with certain players getting injured.

 My personal thoughts on this book is when I saw other people read it I didn't find it interesting. But when I saw at the library I decided to check it out to see how it is. I like this book this book is probably my one of my favorites that I have read this year. It's not a cliche book it's not a book you can predict the ending or what's going to happen next. I really liked the detail of how Jake felt when he was coming out of the tunnel and getting ready to play in the game. I also like how the author gave the readers a little back story of each important player like who they are and where they came from. Overall I really enjoyed this book and I also like the author Mike Lupica and I like how he can make very good stories using sports. I recommend this book to people who like sports especially football and people who like the author Mike Lupica.

My Story of Regret

 A time that I felt regret was about 5 years ago. This happened at my old school in Little Village in Chicago. The people that where involved was me and my two friends. What happened was we where in class and getting ready to go outside for gym. As we where leaving the class my friend did something bad but the teacher didn't know. My other friend wanted me to tell on him at first I refused then as we where going downstairs he convinced me. The part about this story that I most regret is the teacher let us go outside and I was already outside then I went back in. As I went back in I told my teacher what my friend did. I also told her to not let him know that I told her about this. As I went back outside I felt bad and I thought to myself why did I do that?. As gym class ended my teacher pulled him aside and was talking to him. When we got back to class he was kinda mad when I tried talking to him he was mad at me. But the thing I still do not  know to this day is if the teacher told him that I was the one who told on him. I regret that I told on him because he was a really good friend after that we didn't talk again I wished I listened to myself and not my other friend. It sucks that I didn't obtain this friendship and that we left off on bad terms because it was my last year at that school. After this happened I learned to listen to myself and not other peoples opinions on certain things. So this is my story of regret.