Girls vs Boys

Most girls and boys think that boys are better at sports like soccer, basketball or baseball. Also i thought that boys are better at sports than girls, but never found out why. Why is it that boys are always considered to be good in sports?  Well many things could be the answer.Well reading the book " Girls On The Edge " gave me my answers.
 One answer to this question is that if girls find that the coach or the physical ed teacher favors people good in sports and ignores the ones not that strong in sports, the girl will quit the sport easily as counting 1,2,3 or just stop participating in class.
Another answer that really interested me was that theses sports basketball or soccer were sports originally for boys. So the way you would play these games is fit for a boys to play not girls. Girls body is much more sensitive to a boys body.
My opinion on this is that i think in order to have more girls participating in sports they have to make it fair for both boys and girls. Make the rules in a way that it both fit for boys  and girls.

During the winter break i read the book SOLD by Patricia McCormick. It is about a girl named Lakshmi who is about 13 year old gets sold  to mumtaz, who has a business which turns innocent girls into prostitutes.13 year old Lakshmi get sold to mumtaz by her step-father who spends all his families money on beer and cigarettes. Lakshmi was taken to the city being told that she is going to be a maid for a rich family be her step-father and got sold to mumtaz for 10,000 rupees { 184 dollars!!!!!!! } only. Mumtaz takes her to a room where she lost her virginity, that when her life starts to work as a  prostitute to pay off 20,000.

I don't find this is really fair that this happened to Lakshmi. She got tricked by her own father. Her had a lot hopes that she could send money to her mom so they can buy a tin roof . Lakshmi just wanted help out her family, instead her life got destroyed. it is really sad when you think about. it is really scary when you think about it and put yourself in her shoes.

Currently I am reading a social action book called " Girls on the Edge " . It is about three girls with their stories about how their issues such as cyber-bullying, how people see them, and their experience with anorexia.

It is really sad to know that things like this actually happen. Girls starve themselves to be " Skinny ". they don't know by doing this they are putting themselves on risk of death. They want to be someone that is liked and known by people around them  "boys". They don't see that it isn't important to be themselves, they see it as i have to be like her. I think that it is more important to be yourself then pretending to be someone else just to be liked. It is not bad being yourself, like me i am not exact-ally skinny, but i don't really care because i know that there is people in this world that care for me for who i am not my weight. I am fine, living this way. I have friends.

Also people who are getting cyber bullied need to ask for help. they should know that they aren't alone. there are people in this world that can help them get through this. and always remember the people who are bulling you, do it for fun, or maybe because they are jealous, they want to hurt you purposely so it can make them feel better. don't let them take over your life. ask for help and you will get it. 

The Abandoned Book

This blog post is going to be based on a social action question: When did you find yourself resting the text? What does your resistance about you in the text ? I am going to be answering this question on this book that i abandoned The Lovely Bones by Alice Selod. In this book there is family of 5, 3 girls, a mom and a dad. One of the girls were Susie Salmon " salmon like the fish " Susie would say. Susie was murdered because she was beautiful. No one knew who murdered her and why.Except Susie of course; most people believe that after they die there soul goes up there, well instead Susie going there she went to a place that was right in between of earth and heaven. from there she would communicate with her dad.  
     I abandoned this book about halfway when the search for Susie's murderer just began. While i reading this book a fear grew inside of me, what if this happens to my family, what would i do? i started to put myself in to that book. this book showed me that you don't know whats going to happen and when it is going to happen. You should be grateful, you don't know how much you love something until it is taken away from you. Like me i constally have little fights with my sister about why she did this, or why she did that, but when she goes away to somewhere for hours and hours, i go crazy about why she isn't coming home, i show people some reason to cover the fact that i miss her. 
while i was reading this book i began thinking about what if this happened to my sister , i placed her in Susie's place and i got afraid that i won't be able to do anything about it.
this book helped me appreciate that spend your time well you never know when you are going to lose it.   

The Girl In Translation

I have just started to read a novel called GIRL In Translation by Jean Kwok. This book is about a girl who had just moved to the united states with her mother, they previously lived in Hong Kong China. They have nothing much with them, they spend all there money just to come to the united states, so the daughter can get the future that she couldn't have in China. After they come to the united states they have to live in an apartment that is similar to living in the junkyard. The mother has no qualifications for a good job, but the mother soon receives a job at a clothing factory on Canal street China Town, where she has to works twenty -four hours seven days a week to get get paid so little that their lives just goes by thinking Am i going to eat tomorrow or starve . After 1-2 weeks they move in to their disgusting apartment kim starts school knowing very few English. Once she gets to school she gets judged in a bad way by not the students but by the teacher! The teacher scolds her for not knowing what is suppose to be done. And that made her stop going to school for a week. 
  This is one really difficult thing i found in this book, how people are being judged on a daily basis which are making them feel that they don't belong. It happens to everyone, and it happens everywhere. This is something where only we can stop. People are being judged on many things on how they dress, speak, attitude, personality, and more. i was judged too, and it is not a good feeling. It makes you feel like there is nobody in this world who likes me for who i am, but hates me for how i appear to people. Some people can't stand that and does things that affects them majorly in their life. This is one difficult thing i found in my reading book  

Dear Julia

      I just started reading a book called Dear Julia by Amy Bronwen Zemser. It is about a teenager who has an incredible talent to cook. Her name is Elaine Hamilton. Elaine has a dream to become like Julia Child a famous cook. Ever since Elaine knew what she wanted to be, a cook. Her mom always told her to look for a higher target, but Elaine never  budged. Elaine never had many friends because of what she showed herself as to the world, she wears really loose blouses with tight pants and always does her hair in a ponytail. Elaine never really cared about not having friends, because she has her cooking to keep her busy. Elaine does something since she was really little is that she writes letters to Julia Cook, buts doesn't send them, just stores them in her room. The reason she does not send them because she is too shy. She writes about her cooking experiences
 and what she thinks is wrong or right.
     I find it really weird that she writes letter to Julia Child but doesn't send it. then why would she write it in the first place? Wouldn't she want to get feedback to make her cooking even better?
     Over the summer Elaine turned sixteen she met a girl named Isadora Wilhelminetta Fischburger. Isadora never liked her name, so she changed it to Lucida Sans. Lucida always wanted to become famous. She doesn't car why she would become famous, she just wanted to become famous. Which i think makes no sense because people becomes famous for specific reasons, for acting, singing, dancing, awards, etc. She has no reason. One thing i like about Lucida is that she tries her best at everything.  
     In the blurb of the book it is kind of like a problem, a math problem, Elaine Hamilton like to cook, she never wants to attract attention, she is a shy girl then why is there cameras surrounding her? How did this happen. then when i started to read the book within the first chapter  the author introduces a character { Lucida } who loves to be in the center of attention. Then i started to think did Lucida do this? Did Lucida do this to get attention? If she did do this to get attention then she is a very self-centered person. 
  
     

This World

I just read matched by Ally Condie and it was a very good book. around the beginning of the book i was think such a perfect world, it kept your life in good way, no poverty, keeps you in good shape, good education, and mainly it chooses who you are going to marry+love! there is a ceremony where they show you and introduce you to your future life partner. As i was thinking that this world is soo perfect, i started to think that maybe it is too perfect, it goes overboard, to get to know you personally they look at your dreams while you are sleeping, they give many tests. i don't think to know someone personally you have to do all this  and  then i started to notice that this world is letting you live your life instead it is living the life for you. you can't eat what you want . then i started to think that can i live her life, cassia's life?

          At first i thought it would be pretty good, you won't have to worry about a lot of stuff like illness, in this world it is very rare to get sick, you can live up to 80 90 years old. you don't have to think about cancer, or other deadly diseases. the main part is that the government just wants you to be healthy, they just want to keep the people controlled so, nothing ever goes wrong. Nothing is perfect, there has to be a flaw or it is just not real.  Then i thought about what about my life, would i want a government controlling my life and i still don't know.

         Another issue in this book is that the government gives out pills green, blue and yellow. Only the government can tell you who is eating what pills. many people eat blue pills and the green and red pills re only eaten at specific times. The people themselves don't know why are they eating the pills. in the book when they introduced the pills, i thought the pills were used to control the people, so they the people have no opinion so they can't fight against the government. also i thought that people should know what they are eating, it is not right eating stuff without not knowing what it is, to me it is like eating poison without no knowing.  Later on in the book we found out that the red pill is the pill you take when you die!- people has no choice of that either,, the government controlles that.

       In conclusion this world is meant for people who likes to be controlled and not meant for the people who likes living their own life!