quarter three post six

so as i continued to read purple hibiscus, i found that the book is applicable for the sixth post on hope. it all starts when kambili and her family are back from church and raja (her brother ) is disobeidient and misses church and disobeys his father. this leads to Papa throwing his prayer book and shattering the glass shelving unit that holds mama's ballerinas. hope plays into this when kimbili hopes that her angered father will calm down, which he eventually does. this was an effective set up to start and end the chapter, this made me want to keep reading and i really enjoyed it. Another time that hope is shown is when kimbili hopes that her family will become happy (in general) again, because they are kind of in a falling out.

quarter three post five.

as i continued purple hibiscus i noticed that almost every page has something related to the christian religion. on the very first page of the book, that you can actually read, the family is getting back from church. I think think that this shows how religious that nigerians are, and considering my mom is nigerian i believe that this book is pretty spot on with the religious perspective. the book has many times where it points out that something is happening in their lives that includes church, like the first chapter which is all about the church that they go to .  in a way i think that this book is too focused on religion and i would like to see it distance itself a little more instead of going on like a broken record like church, but considering i enjoy reading this im content with the book. 

quarter three post four

today i began to read a book that, i had hear from my mother was a good book. the book i am reading is called purple hibiscus by chimamanda ngozi adichie. in the book gender roles have been shown in the first few pages. the females in the family are the people who do not clean and do not work, while the males are the backbone of the family who work hard to keep everything togeter. So far what i have noticed in this book is that family is very important and that evbryone shows repect to their elders, except for raja, who is in trouble. one other thing that i nothiced while reading is that women in the nigerian culture hold the family like a glue, they deal with both emotional and economic problems like all mothers do. im going to continue to read this book, because its great..... so far.

adichie, chimamanda ngozi. purple hibiscus. new york:anchor books, 2003

quarter three post three

today i read two articles about facebook and the impact on the american culture. they both talk about how people are becoming closer to each other and sometimes finding out more about others than they actually knew when they talked in person. While i personally go on facebook and so do my brothers, my family/ close knit nigerian family culture would rather talk then do things on the internet. No one in my close family on my mothers side has a facebook account, mainly because they would rather hear the voice of a person than  have to read messages and "poke" each other, its just not there nature. One reson that i think that my mom's side of the family is so close, is because they make time for each other, instead of trying to avoid each other, and they actually talk it out. Honestley i think that everyone would be happier if they spent more time with their families.

davis, lisa. "does facebook replace face time or enhance it?"time.18 january 2009. 8 febuary 2009. <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1871627,00.html>

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suddath, claire. "25 things i didnt want to know about you" time. 5 febuary 2009. 8 febuary 2009. <http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1877187,00.html>

quarter three post two

today, i read an article called "Justice Ginsburg Has Surgery for Cancer."

This article is about Justice Ginsburg, the only woman on the supreme court, having surgery for early pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg is seventy five years old and is now at a memorial center in new york and is most likely going to stay there for a few weeks.

Pancreatic cancer is probably one of the worst cancers you can get. It is very rare, and very difficult to survive. And to have it as a seventy five year old woman, must be difficult. Not only does Ginsburg have to overcome the traumatizing moment when she learned of this deadly cancer in her body, but she has to deal with everything coming up. Like, what happens if the surgery didn't work? Are they going to try again? I can't even imagine how complicated her life must be right now. To know that something is killing you inside must be terrible. Hopefully the surgery worked.


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quarter three post one, natural disasters

Today I read an article on the effects of hurricane Katrina, one of the greatest hurricanes in our nation’s history. The article is about what the title says, "effects of hurricane Katrina", which is more than meets the eye. First I think that this needed to happen sooner than later (the hurricane) because i think that it taught us that we have more to worry about than a war that can’t be won, and involving ourselves in things that don’t concern us. Secondly i think that is just shows how fast that the US will respond in a case like this, I mean people are still living in trailers and its three and a half years later, so what i can say is STEP IT UP! Lastly I think that the effects of the hurricane shows that no matter how protected you are, you really don’t know until you are still there or not. Read the article here.