Sunday, May 26, 2013

Enders Game/ Rachel Carson

Title: Ender's Game
Author: Orson Card
Pages: 324/324
Genera: Sci-Fi

I have just finished the book; Ender's Game. This is one of my favorite books because it was so exciting, interesting, and futuristic. This book takes place in the future where we battle distant life forms. In this book they were fighting the buggers. We being humans. Ender was trained to be the commander. He was being taught at command school even though he was only eleven. Then he trained his old friends from battle school in simulations. They were his squadron leaders. Ender's teacher told him one day if he won the battle all of his training was complete. The "simulation" was very unfair, it was one thousand buggers to one person, also they were fighting by the buggers planet, but what Ender did was he dodged every bugger ship to get to the planet and blew up what keeps them all alive. At this point Ender did not care about anything he was past his breaking point, he was insane, "Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him" (Card 283). During the night Ender could not escape his nightmare, and they were about to get even worse. Right after Ender's last battle, his teacher told him that that battle was no simulation. He said the last five days of simulations were actually real, he was fighting the buggers. His last battle was the last of the buggers, he killed them all. Others were happy, Ender went to his room and slept. He was in such poor health that he was in a coma like state which could have lasted months, he was not allowed to go back to earth because it would be to dangerous for him, even though he saved everybody's life. Instead Valentine took him to the planet that was once home to the buggers and made it their new home with some other people. At the very end of this book Ender finds and egg and inside is a bugger queen, however they are both calm. The queen forgave him since the humans were fighting back. Ender made peace with her and took her to a new planet were they could start over. Everybody was at peace. The end of this book was very creative, I recommend this book.

Rachel Carson

1.      Persuade us to consider your figure as the “greatest” human being who ever lived.  Give is 3 reasons with evidence. Use persuasive language.

Rachel Carson was a fighter. She fought sexism, business men, and the depression. Rachel was born in the May of 1907, during the early to later mid 1900s the world was still quite sexist towards women. However Rachel wanted her opinions heard. She wrote books and articles for newspapers and magazines. She would always sign it; R. Carson. She did not care about the credit she just wanted the world to know her perspective of different crises'. If her name was not signed as R. Carson, then people  weould have known it was a woman writing it and it would have already been thought of as some insane theory. Businesses men did not care about the earth they cared about the paycheck they got every week. Rachel fought to have their ways changed. Business men would promote the use of pecticides even though it was killing birds, because it meant more money. She got these pesticides banned. Rachel wanted to get a masters in college maybe even a doctorate, however she could not, when the depression came, she had to quit college for her family, she was the only person with the ability to make money, because everyone else who could, was dead. Rachel put everything else in front of her; her family, her friends, and most importantly nature. All of these reasons is what makes Rachel Carson "The Greatest Human Being".


Source:
This is a link to Rachel's obituary. I am going to make a newspaper for my display with this as the front page.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/reviews/carson-obit.html

2 comments:

  1. I agree with what you wrote about Ender's Game, it is such a good book! I'm still wondering why it was banned... Also by reading your post I think that Rachel Carson was a great person. I am glad that Marie Curie could acomplish her dream by getting a doctorate degree.

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  2. After reading your blog post, I agree that Rachel Carson is a great person. You gave us 3 really good reasons why she is a great person, especially the part about how she fought people who only cared about their paycheck (the buisnessmen)

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