Reading Journal Week 22 - Pure Emotion - 2016

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Squashed

BY JOAN BAUER

My book is about this 16 year old girl who wants to grow the biggest pumpkin. She enters into the adult biggest pumpkin contest every year. She spends all her time growing her pumpkin, Max. Her dad doesn't like her doing this, he never liked gardening. Now that the contest is about 40 days away, she wants to drop out of school until after the contest. Her dad doesn't want that to happen, he feels she sends to much time with her stupid pumpkin. I think Ellie (the one who grows pumpkins) is kind of weird. Why would you spend all your time on a pumpkin. Then again we all have our dreams, our differences. I feel like the dad is being a bit harsh to her. I know it is kind of weird to focus on a pumpkin 24/7, but that's her dream. I would be a little upset if she was my child and she cared more about a pumpkin then school. 

Reading Journal Week 21 - Pure Emotion - 2016

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Four

By Veronica Roth

So, in Four they have this thing where you inject a serum into you. This is where you can see all of your worst fears. Four/ Tobias's worst fear is Marcus, his father abusing him. Back in Abnegation Marcus would always beat Tobias for anything he thought he did wrong even if he did nothing wrong. He is also afraid of heights, confinement, and shooting people. So, during his training to become a dauntless member he has to go through his fear landscape everyday. Amar, Tobias instructor treats him like his son. He sees the struggle he has to go through everyday. This reminds me of children in the orphanage. How there parents abused them, didn't want them, or died. How they have to wait everyday waiting impatiently, slowly losing hope that someone will adopt them. I feel very sad that they have to go through so much at a young age. Waiting for a mother and a father to love them. Then when know no comes to adopt them, take them as their own. They start to feel unwanted, they start to lose hope that a person will ever love them. It is pretty sad, but then I feel angry at their parents who just   abandoned them. If you don't want a child, why have one? If you don't have enough money to take care of one, why have one? People just don't think before they do. You must first think about you and the baby. If you can't take care of it, don't have one? Because later on, when your child is in an orphanage and they don't get adopted. They are the ones who are going to be felt feeling like they are worth nothing. I just don't get parents sometimes.  

Reading Journal Week 20 - Pure Emotions - 2016

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Four

By Veronica Roth

This book is in Four's prov. from the book of Divergent. Four has a father who abuses him. Four has done nothing wrong. He is very respectful, he doesn't deserve to be abused. This is the same situation children who are abused today. They have done nothing wrong but their parents just choose to abuse them. Sometimes the children many have done something but the parents over reaction. When they talked about how Four gets abused by his father. It makes me feel mad, sad, and angry. I feel mad because I don't feel like the government is doing enough. I don't see them doing enough for all the children in the world who are being abused. I fell sad, because some innocent child has to suffer. I feel angry because the parents who are doing this shouldn't be doing this to their children. That is why that part of the book touched me.  

Reading Journal Week 19 - Asking Questions and Wondering - 2016

The Great Controversy

Ellen G. White

Questions 

1. What caused the Destruction of Jerusalem? 

2. What were the persecutions like in the first centuries?

3. How did they get through them?

4. Where there less Christians because of this? 

5. What did Satan urge the papal priests and prelates do?

Answering

1. The Jews had to much pride over the nation. Christ also saw in Jerusalem a symbol of the world hardened in unbelief and rebellion, and hastening on to meet the retributive judgement of God. The long-suffering of God toward Jerusalem only confirmed the Jews in their stubborn impenitence.

2. The followers of Christ must tread the same path of humiliation, reproach, and suffering which their Master trod.

3. The Christian got through the persecutions with words of faith, patience, and hope they encouraged one another to endure privation and distress. 

4. The more the Christians had faith in God the more people wanted to follow him.

5. Satan urged them to bury the word of truth beneath the rubbish of error, heresy, and superstition.