Book Review

                Something can be perfect one second and then a disaster the next. This is what happened to Ethan the main character in When Hearts Meet by Anita Stansfield. This book is amazing and helps you realize things may be bad, but you control your attitude to how things happen. This book has a great message. It has helped me in many ways. I just love inspirational books that help me in a lot of ways.

                This book helped me so much!! Between it inspiring me to be better to have a good attitude, and showing that when something bad happens it helps you out in the end. Even though you may be going through something hard it can help you, but having a good attitude always helps. Ethan went through hard times, but when he finally decided to pick himself off the ground and continue with life some really amazing blessings came to him. By reading this book it helped me realize that when I go through a hard time all I have to do is pick myself up and get back to what I want to do with life. If I’m having a hard time all I have to do is tell myself to keep going and have a positive attitude and good things will come if I wait. This book was one of the reasons why I wanted to change how I was treating others. By following through with my goal I have struggled, but also gained some amazing memories and experiences I wouldn’t have been able to find if I did not go through my struggles. This book has helped me be grateful for things other people would just complain about having… So I am glad I read this book that has an amazing message.

                When Hearts Meet is a unique book because of the great message it shares and tells the story of how a man named Ethan faced his trials. Ethan faced his trials through service, his attitude, and just by not giving up on life when others could have seen him fall deep down into a ditch. Before Ethan met the Brandt family he had spent ten years drinking to forget the loss of his wife. After Ethan feels prompted to go back to his old house, which he lost because of his lack of payment, he starts to become more and more religious, he finds a new job, he works hard, and eventually starts his life over.  This is a great message that anyone should learn! You may have fallen down into a ditch, but you have the power to bring yourself out of that ditch and turn your life around! I absolutely love this message, and I would recommend this book to anyone who is having a hard time with life, or is religious! This is such a great book with such a great power.

                You have the power, and you can be the inspiration to someone else.  If you bring yourself out of the ditch you may inspire others to come out of that ditch too. So even though times get hard and you may want to just give up, don’t keep going and eventually things will work out. “Ethan chuckled and resisted the urge to pinch himself. This day was just turning out too good to be true. He enjoyed every minute of listening to Dr. Brandt read from the Book of Mormon…” (page 10) Ethan couldn’t believe everything that had happened just awhile after he decided to turn his life around. Reading Ethan’s story it helped me know that there is always going to be a better life. It gave me hope.

                This book is such an amazing book. It has a wonderful message that I plan to carry with me throughout the rest of my life. I would recommend this to anyone with religious beliefs or someone going through a hard. Someone that may feel as if they could never get themselves out of the mess they are in. You should know that there is always a way out even if it is hard you can get yourself out of the mess. Life may be hard, but we can get through this!!! I absolutely love this story and would love to recommend this to a lot of people!!!

Most recent play review

The Drowsy Chaperone

This play was one of those interesting plays I’ve gone and saw when I and my family go to the Center Point Theater in Centerville. If anyone had the chaperone like the one in the play I think some people would be asking for it. If you are having a chaperone make sure they are a responsible adult before you have them come to chaperone. The play was funny, but sometimes crude or offensive. The choreographer made the dances fit in well. I just always love to go with my family to the plays every other month or so. The play was very interesting and I think you should know that a good chaperone is the best place to go.

                Okay first off anyone who would get a chaperone that is wasted on alcohol is out of their mind or just as drunk as they are. Every time I go to a play or a movie I tend to apply it to my life. Now I know that I should know the chaperone’s I have come to chaperone any activity I am planning to have. If a chaperone came and was not capable of being a chaperone I think that I would ask them to leave and either go with one less chaperone or try to find another one at last minute. Anyways that is how I applied it to my life, but I know that if this chaperone wasn’t “drowsy” then there would be no story or play behind any of this.

                 The Drowsy Chaperone was funny because of how the Chaperone was acting, but some of the stuff in the play was a little crude or offensive. At the start the narrator made a comment about how the word gay didn’t mean the same thing back in the days. He said something that went to the extent of him saying that he knew that there were some gay people out there. This wouldn’t have bugged me except for the fact that there was a gay couple in the audience. That could have hurt their feelings, and after I thought about it for awhile us as people didn’t have to make the word gay mean what it does now, but it is and it is not appropriate.  

                Another thing that wasn’t appropriate was just one scene with dancing and singing. It was fine until I noticed what that scene was about. Let’s just say that it wasn’t okay for kids to see or hear. I think just that scene was pg-13 and there were little kids in there so that offended me especially because I did not want to have to picture or think about what they were talking about. I especially don’t think that any little kids should have saw how they were dancing. That was the only bad scene though and I guess you see that kind of dancing on the television all the time now a day, but I don’t watch t.v.  Besides that part of the scene and that dancing the choreography was really good!

                The choreography was fun. It followed the scenes and story line very well. I actually thought the dancing and singing put on quite a good show and I am super excited for this Saturday, because I get to go see another play hopefully it will be just as good as the ones before this one.

                I hope that the choreography and the parts and everything just fall in place for the next show I see. I am pretty excited about it. I hope there won’t be any crude humor, dancing, or anything that would offend anyone because The Drowsy Chaperone was a really good play and so well put together, but it offended me in some parts…  The play had good choreography. It was interesting, and you should get a chaperone that is always sober and responsible.  This play was funny and I would like to see it with another cast and maybe some slight changes to the script. But besides that this play was great.

Delays...

Holy crap! I’ve been writing things and have been so caught up in life that I have not posted anything on my blog in forever!!! I also haven’t done a lot of assignments which aren’t exactly required; they are part of my online classes though. Some of them will give you credit if you at least try to do the class, but others you have to actually give the work your best effort. So I have honestly been focusing more on those classes and not the one that requires me to write at least 500 words on this blog each week! But I will write as much as I can this week and weekend! Hopefully I can write so much you won’t even be able to read it all in one sitting. Okay there’s my goal for this week so let’s hope I can do this!!!

The Client...

How would you feel if you were threatened by a mafia killer? Well in the novel, The Client, by John Grisham, an eleven- year- old boy knows some information that the FBI needs to convict a mafia killer. In the process of gaining this information, his younger brother goes into trauma- caused- semi- comatose state and needs special twenty- four- hour medical attention. If he tells the FBI the mafia has threatened to kill his family. If he doesn’t tell the FBI, they will put him in a youth lock- up facility. Even though the mafia has threatened to kill his family he should still tell the FBI the information he knows. He should tell because a lot of good things would come out of telling them.

                First if he is too scared to tell, he could get FBI protection/ witness protection for him and his family. Doing this would keep them safe from any harm. Especially since his little brother is now in a semi-coma, because of the situation they are in. If they get witness protection then their family would become closer.

                Whether for the good or the bad there family is going to become closer no matter what. So if he tells the FBI that means he wouldn’t have to go to the youth lock-up facility. With him staying home his brother could get better because he could feel his brothers presence there with him. His little brother also looks up to him and wants to be like him, brave and courageous. He just feels safe around him, considering he is the person that has been his best friend his whole life. If he would tell them and be able to be with his family he could support them. He would be able to support his mom both in and out of work. He could stay with his brother while she went to work for a couple of hours and then she could come back. That way they were somewhat financially stable. It would also increase the amount of trust his mom would have for him, and she would appreciate it very much.

                Trust is an important thing. If he told the FBI he would be trusted. More of the higher authorities would trust teenagers, instead of blaming them for crimes, and lies. Trust from family and people around you are very important. Another thing that is important is for the mafia to be convicted.

                If he would just tell the FBI agents then they would convict the mafia. They would be put in jail and locked up for a long time. Maybe his family would feel safe again, with the mafia convicted. He could tell the FBI and then the mafia would be locked up. Having the mafia be convicted then there would be no need for witness protection. Others would also be safer, because the mafia wouldn’t be out in the open. Who knows what they were planning, maybe a killing spree or the next assassination, who knows? It’s best if he would tell the FBI agents as soon as possible.

                With all of these reasons it is a good idea to tell the FBI! You do what you have to do, but it is always better to do what is right. Doing what is right and keeping your values in play is always something to keep in mind. It is the best thing you can do! He should tell them because it is respectful to the FBI agents who can do whatever they want. They are part of the government and they can do whatever they want with you. Not only should he tell them because it is respectful, but it is also the best thing for him to do for him and others in the community too. He should tell the FBI agents as soon as possible because it is easier than having to deal with the government. He should really tell them. 

Global Warming

Addison Wesley

Global warming: A Heated Debate

Addison Wesley Publishing Company. Inc.

Is the world going to come to an end?!? This may be so. Addison Wesley Publishing Company published an article on global warming. Is the earth going to become too hot and destroy lots of land and a lot of species? We aren’t sure but this topic is a hot debate. Addison’s article has great opinions for both sides of the argument,

This article is great, it has plenty of evidence to support the argument they are trying to put out. Is global warming going to destroy the earth? Or will it just cause problems in the environment?  We still don’t know but the scientists want people to believe them so they put out their opinion. The article explains what global warming could do to the world. Whether it destroys the earth or just causes problems. We don’t know, that is the thing they are arguing about.

I believe that global warming won’t kill the world. Global warming may never be solved until it comes, but we can stop making inferences that scare people. Scientists should publish their inferences if  they are quite sure that they are true. If they can give evidence and show the world then yeah scare the socks off people. Just make sure you can give a testable experiment.

“Global warming could result in drastic reductions of food production and increases in hunger in those countries. “ I don’t think that global warming will kill us but it may or will cause problems in our society. I’m no scientist but I don’t believe all statistics. So I believe that global warming will just cause miner problems.

Global warming is something we all have to deal with. We can’t get out of it. Scientist keep looking into it. Tell us when you have found an experiment with good evidence, and your experiment can be tested. This article was interesting and can be a great resource if you want to know about global warming.  I don’t think that global warming can kill the world. I know that I can’t say anything because I’m not a scientist, but I can’t believe it until I see it. If the world does start to get warm just move away from coastal states.

Science... Oh what we learn

Endangered Species

Common Name:   Leather Back Sea Turtle

Scientific Name:   Dermochelys coriacea

Physical Description: Leather Back Sea Turtles can be four to six feet long.  They can weigh from 660 to 1,100.  There upper shell is large, stretches out and is flexible. The skin is thin and rubbery, and stretched across thousand of tiny bone plates. There flippers do not have claws. They have delicate sharp teeth.

Abiotic features in its habitat: Temperature, salt, sand, rocks and water

Biotic features in its habitat:  Fish, kelp, seaweed, sharks, and whales

Why is the animal endangered of becoming extinct: The Sea Turtles mistake plastic bags, water bottles, and trash as jellyfish and eat them then die.  There are predators where even this endangered species are. On land when they just barely hatched they have to watch out for incoming seagulls. When and if they do make it out into the sea they have to avoid other predators.  Another reason they may be becoming extinct is that humans accidently catch them while fishing with fishing nets and on fishing lines. Humans also accidently ruin most of the turtles baby nests.

What is being done to make sure the animal stays in the wild: People cleaning up sides of beaches.  If someone finds a turtle on land they call animal researches. As I’ve done some research there are websites that you can adopt one. There is nothing we can do about predators.  So that is what is being done to make sure this turtle stays in the wild and is safe.

Dear Author

                Dear Deanne Blackhurst,

                You an amazing writer, I have read your book Turning Hearts. It has helped me a lot throughout this year. It has changed my expectations, and my thoughts. I am grateful I came across your book at Desert Book. It is so inspiring, I almost cried several times. I can’t believe Amanda waited two years for Jake to come home from his mission, then she went off on a mission and he couldn’t wait eighteen months. That is one of the times I almost cried.

                Your book changed my expectations, before reading your book my expectations weren’t where they should have been. Before reading your book, I didn’t care or think about having a husband that would go on a mission. Let me tell you that I am only fifteen years old. I don’t have a husband, but I WANT my husband to have gone on a mission before we get married. I have a lot of guy friends that are leaving or planning to go on a mission.  I am so proud of them, I know it may be hard for them and sometimes even their families, but the lord will be with all that are having struggles while they are away. It is always good to encourage young men that look up to you to go on a mission. If they don’t still make them know that that is what you are looking for in a man.  It is also great to encourage them while they are out in the field. I love to write my guy friends that have left to go on a mission.

                You and Amanda have encouraged me to go on a mission. I want to be like Amanda, and have her spirit. Even when she was having the hardest time she still found the hope and love from her heart. She let it shine through; she also let the lord take over sometimes. I know to have the lord take over you have to be in tune and trust in the lord. It is always good to start learning of the lord and the gospel while you are still in your teens. I love the gospel, and I know that it is good to share what we learn and know about our gospel. It may be hard at times, and we may get scared, but doing this will let the lord know we love him. I want to help the lord find people who want to know about our church, and invite them to come to our church. I want to “find them, because I am the only one.” The only one who can help that certain person, or family.  I have heard from many people that only a certain someone can help plant a seed in a convert’s heart. I could do that, it is just a matter of meeting new people and letting them know you are there for them and that may plant the seed for them. I love the gospel, and I want to learn more of it and be able to teach people about it.

 I love this book of yours! I am grateful for the influence this had on me. It is probably the one book I’ve finished in about two days. I could not put it down! It was such a great book, I am so glad it is influencing me to learn more of the gospel. I have learned so much because of your book, and others. Your book is probably the one book that has encouraged me to think about a mission though.  Thank you so much for writing this book, and sharing it with who ever will take the time to read it!

Thanks.

With lots of love

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