Regret

In the book Amir continued to sin after the first major sin he committed, which was watching Hassan get raped by Assef. On top of that he disowned Hassan when he needed him the most, he stopped playing with him and completely tried to avoid him. Also he made Ali and Hassan move out causing Baba great grief because Baba's childhood friend was moving out. Ali was the only person that Baba could trust in Kabul. Amir can not make up for his sins

Ummm...Minty

When I was 9 years old, I went to Rite Aid near my old house in Abington to get some mints. I was babysitting so I brought my little sister and brother with me to the store. I found the mints and decided to try the mint drops also, to make my breath minty fresh. When I got home I sat on my steps near my bed room and opened my minty delight, excited to experience the fresh blast, until my came over. She wanted to see what I was doing, she was a very curious 5 year old. So, I took the mint drops and put one in her mouth. She hated it, I think it was too much of minty blast for her to handle. She began to wail in tears, I felt so bad. Everyone knew that there was something wrong with her but I could not tell everyone it was my fault, I would have been in so much trouble. I just told my grandmother I didn't know why she was crying. Now she is terrified to chew any type of gum or eat any type of mint. I feel bad and I wish I never did it. She seemed so traumatized by the wh

ole experience. My mother thinks she is crazy now because I never told anyone the story because I knew she would probably smack me.

Gifted Hands

PREVIEW TO A BOOK


In your notebook, please take notes on the following:

The Front Cover
• Title/Author/Awards: Gifted Hands, Ben Carson, None
• Picture/Words : Picture of Ben Carson himself
• What do you think the book is about? Topic/Big Picture? The book is about Ben Carson’s life and the struggles he endured through his road to success.
• Jot down 2 questions you have.
How old was Ben when he received his medical degree?
Did he have a father figure around during his early years?

The Back Cover
• Synopsis or Plot Preview? Inner- city kid to renowned neurosurgeon.
• Review/Praise/Acclaim? Overall what is your impression. Ben Carson was interviewed on 20/20 by Barbra Walters about his book and his profession.
• Does the back cover reveal anything about the story (time period, characters, setting, etc.)? If so, jot down some notes.

Inside the Book
• Copyright/Publication date? 1990/1990
• Is there a dedication? Yes the dedication is to his mother
• Table of Contents? Chapter Titles? #’s? yes, yes, and yes
• Other titles listed by the author? Jot a few down. Think Big
• Open to a random page and read a few paragraphs. What is the author’s writing style? His writing style is in first person.

OVERALL IMPRESSION
Based on your preview of the book, what do you think it may be about? What types of characters, issues, themes, etc… do you think you will encounter? What sort of background information (already known or researched) do you think you will need to understand the story? Write down 3 questions you hope to have answered by the end of the story.
I am doing a book preview my new independent reading called Gifted Hands by Ben Carson. The book is about Ben Carson's life and how be became a famous professional neurosurgeon, and the struggles he had to go through while growing up. The book takes the reader through all of his journeys and struggles.

Scramble Story- Illusions

One day a little boy sat on the sidewalk playing with his soccer ball when a fast car sped by him. He couldn’t believe what he just saw. He was confused on whether it real or was he still in the state of hallucination? He slowly stood up to get a better view of what he thought was a car, but saw nothing. Suddenly the boy found himself running down the street trying to find the car. He hit something hard as he was running, and realized it was a tree.
“Who grows trees in the middle of the road?” the puzzled boy said. What kind of bizarre neighborhood had he run into, and how could he possibly have reached this foreign place? Clearly, the drugs from last night had yet to wear off. Because of health complications when he was an infant, he has had many operations which caused him to be on multiple medications. He never saw the medication as a downfall until now, as he felt a throbbing bruise beginning to form on his oversized head. “Just relax,” he told himself, “take it easy and let the visions drift by you, don’t try to control anything.” He kept wandering about the streets and was confused as to where he was. Unexpectedly, he fell into a dark hole that lead him to Mars. Mars was not what he had expected it to be; it had a Burger King and everything on it.

What Does Good Do?

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing"

Evil does take over when the good people just sit by and watch what is happening, however people are not good if they witness bad being done and do not do any thing about it that makes them the accomplice. For example in The Kite Runner, Assef calls Hassan and Ali out of their names plenty of times, and the narrator Amir does not say anything to defend them, which makes him as bad as Assef because he does not say anything. A person is not good when they do not try to help the person or people that are in distress. Good people help and try to make a difference, like MLK he was a good person at heart because he stood up to the people of the America to try to create a difference in society. If everyone just sat back and minded their business and said nothing about wrong being done, the world would be a disgrace.

Wise Decisions

While making a decision I try to keep everyone as happy as possible, the one important person that I keep in mind is myself. I know that might sound selfish, however sometimes you have to decide what is best for yourself. When I was young, I always made decisions based on what my family wanted me to do, and majority of the time the decisions I made were good. However, there is one decision that I have recently made, which was to go to Montco for college. I did it because my mother can not afford for me to go away for school, so I was going to go there for a year or two and transfer out. I find this to be very sad and depressing for me, because that was not the school that I want to go to; however I did it because that was the best thing for my family and I. Decisions for me are very hard to make because I am the type of person who over think situations to the fullest. I like to think of all the bad outcomes by making my decision and good outcomes. Normally if the good out weighs the bad I stick with it, and when the bad out weighs the good I take another route to improve the situation. The only thing that I try to avoid while making decisions is hurting people in the process. There are times when a decision I have made hurt someone but it was still for the best, like my mother always tells "Life isn't fair."I like to follow that saying and do what is best for me.

Recipe

• Start w/ 1 cup of Durrani Empire
  
• Put it in the middle of the pan of Asia
  
• Surrounded by Pakistan in the south east corner of the cup cake pan, Iran south and west, and China in the northeast of the cup cake pan
• Always served as an crossroads for the East and West
• 3/4 cups of Pashtuns chips in the batter
• 6 cups of Dari language
• 1 capital Kahbul
• 7 cups of natural resources
• Top it off with Nowshak icing standing at its highest point
• 1 cup of Hindu Kush mountain points
• 647,500 km2 of distance
• Large dose of Opium
• Bowl of poverty
  

Stir well and bake at 350 degrees...creating an Afghan state

Too Fast Too Furious

Over break I went to the movies to go see Fast and the Furious 4 it was a really good movie. I love how they brought back the old characters in the original movie like Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. I thought that made the movie way better. I also went to dinner with my family for Easter at my cousin Ashley's house in Norristown. The food was so good I had to get two plates full and by the end of the night I was falling asleep while eating ice cream cup cakes. I feel like the break went by too fast and we should have had another day off today because it was easter yesterday. But other than coming to school today my break was pretty relaxing.

I.R.B. Surprise Surprise

10. In chapter 8 Billy learns about sex, it was really funny because he did not really understand what sex was. When I first learned about the birds and the bees I had no clue what I was learning about. Billy was about 10 years old in the book, and I was 10 when I learned about my monthly surprise; that came one year later. I thought that was very weird that we were the same age when we learned about s-e-x. I thought 10 was an early age to learn about sex, but sex education is a necessity.