ellen's blog

2009-05-11T11:41:00.001-07:00

http://www.guyanajournal.com/immigration_indians.html

indina immigration to the US

2009-05-11T11:20:00.000-07:00

they go from the second biggest country (population wise) to being the minority in America
The Luce-Celler Bill was created July 3, 1946 that gave citizen rights to the indian immigrants in the US
from 1776 to 1882 the Us has open immigration doors because of the Declaration

Out side Reading book

2009-02-02T14:12:00.001-08:00

For my outside reading book this quarter i chose to read the people of the book. i chose to read this book becuase it sounded the most interesting and it's a mystery which is my favorite kind of book to read. i'm really excited to start reading it!

blog over break #3

2009-01-06T15:41:00.001-08:00

So during my twilight crase i read the second twilight as well. well i'm not finished but i'm about 1/3 of the way through it. they start out in love like the other book ended and it's bella's birthday. Reluntantly she goes over to the Cullen's for dinner and presents but cut her finger on the wraping paper of one of the gifts. Jasper, Edwards brother, freaked out and tried to get at bella but he was held back and brought outside. Finaly Edward's dad fixed bella's arma and Edward brought her home. but a few days later her broke up with her because "they weren't good for eachtoher". it made me cry.

blog over break #2

2009-01-06T15:37:00.000-08:00

Sadely over break i fell into the twilight phase and kinda got obsessed...for only a couple days though so it was ok. i'm back to normal now. but anyways, the twilight books are really good. They start when Bella moves to Froks, Washington becuase her mom is traveling with her boyfriend. there she meets Edward who's a vampire yet still loves her. They fall in love and somehow manage to keep thier differences aside. Edward can read everyone's mind except for Bella's which in the end is good but during the book was frustrating him. At the end of the book Bella is bitten by another vampire named James but Edward saves her by sucking the poison out of her blood. they fell in love and went to the prom and where the perfect couple.

Blog over break #1

2009-01-06T15:31:00.000-08:00

over break i finished my book "the Dashwood Sister's secrets to Love". it was a good book but she over explained alot of situations which could have been avoided and kept the book more alive. The book ended when all the sister finaly did find love. Abby( the middle of the 3 sisters) found love with a boy named erik. Erik had been at the aparty she went to with Kurt thinking at the time that she liked Kurt. Kurt turned out to be mean and so Abby turned to Erik and they soon fell in love. Ellie the oldest managed to find love with a boy she met in england, Ryan. ryan and her hit it off when she didn't want to go on the ride so she stayed back and met ryan while waiting for the rest of her family. And finlay Gorgie found love with the neighbor boy named Jack. Jack and her had always been friends but after they kissed on new years they both realized they wanted to be together. So in the end it was a happy, romantic story.

Reaserch Post

2008-12-07T17:46:00.000-08:00

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Infant Safe Haven Laws". child welfare information getaway. December 7, 2008 http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/safehaven.cfm.

A) the authority of the author is good because it's an orginization that sets up web pages to notify the public about the laws and they work specialy with the safe haven laws so they're experts on the subject. B)the entended audience is the public in general. they just want people to be aware of the laws that are being passed in the US. C) this cite states the law and is less opionated than the other cite i cited. It goes just on the surface of the law and doesn't get into opions at all.

Washington Post. "Does Safe Haven Law Help or Hurt?". Washington post. december 7, 2008 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2008/10/safe_haven_laws.html.

A)This was written by the Washington post which is a newspaper and it's a more opionated article because the paper is most of the time atleast a little bit bias. B)the entended audience is more the working public because they're generaly the ones who read the paper but in general just the public like the other article. This aritcle is concentrating more on the adults though, thinking they're more likely to read the newspaper. C) This article is more bias and opionated than the article i cited above. the article above focuses more on the law then what people think of it and their opions on the law.

blog :)

2008-12-03T20:09:00.000-08:00

this week the book took an interesting twist. the girls have a step mother and they were hopeing to avoid her and her evilness, seeing as they don't like her because she was the very reason their parents got divorced...but they had to encounter her on their journey back to thier father's new appartement. Gorgie was the most up set becuase she's the closest to her father and her one true birthdya wish was to have him back at home in her everyday life. so they had to spend time with Pandora, their step mother, and they all dreaded the moment.

new book

2008-11-30T17:57:00.000-08:00

ok my new book for this quater is called the Dashwood Sister's Secret to Love. and in this book there's 3 sisters and they're all really different. you have Gorgie who's a tom boy and loves doing anything to please her father. then there's Ellie who's the oldest and lives to lead the older perfect child shoes and finaly there's Abby who's in the middle of the three. She's boy crazy and obsessed with what she wears and how she looks all the time. at the begining they're on their way to go visit their dad in london because their parents are devorced. they're going to celebrate Gorgie's 13th birthday.

final post

2008-10-28T17:42:00.000-07:00

this week i finishe the book. the ending was kinda sad but over all it was good for all the characters at the end of the summer. ethan and jamie broke up and as sad as jamie is about it she's glad she's no longer held down by a boyfriend who doesn't even live in the same state. then ella had to go home which wasn't bad but she dosen;e like going back home or even being there in general so i guess that was bad for her. then there was ethan who went to writing school/camp and he wa glad to get away from the drama of the break up. so everyone's packing up and leaving maine to go back hoe to New Jersey for the fresh school year.

6th post!

2008-10-21T17:04:00.000-07:00

this week i read almost the last of the book. the book is starting to get sader and less complicated because the Jamies family and extended family start packing up for the beging of school and ethan(her boyfriend) has gone away to writing school which is like boarding school. the whole adventure has come to a hault until her cousin Ella found out that he boyfriend was lying about going away to school. he had been in town the whole time and Jamie was just finding this out. they're over and jamie won't even look at him, her world as she knew has crumbled around her.

5th post!

2008-10-14T14:09:00.004-07:00

this week i almost finished the book. Jamie and eathan broke up beacuse they faught about the fact that ethan wasn't being honest with Jamie abotu everything and she ended up finding out. Soon the weekend in Main isn't so funa dn she wants to go home. Ethan and Jamie broke up and it crushed her hard.

5th post!

2008-10-14T14:09:00.003-07:00

5th post!

2008-10-14T14:09:00.001-07:00

4th post

2008-10-07T15:53:00.000-07:00

this week i thought i'd give a summerary of what's happeneing in the book. So jamie went to maine with her extend family and there's alot of drama going around. her cousins ella and Casey are sisters and they like the same boy...only one problem, Casey got him and Ella still wants him. Then theres Jamie and Ethan who are dating but everything has changed since last summer when they had first met. the girls lifes seem to take a spin once they relize the world doesn't revolve around them.

3rd entry

2008-09-30T18:29:00.000-07:00

so for this next entry i'm still reading the same book, Summer Boys by Halie Abott. and i chose to wirte a letter to one of the main characters eathan, who is Jamie's boyfriend of a year and a half.

dear Ethan,

This is kind of wierd becuase i don't know what to wirte. First let's talk about your relationship with Jamie. is it hard having a long distance relationship? If it was, did you ever have doubts about how long you guys would last or have you ever wanted another girl? Second topic is your love for beach volleyball. I play volleyball too, so i was wondering what your favorite possition in volleyball is to play or if you're even "assigned" a spot. That's all for now, i'll talk to you later. bye,
Ellen S.

Second blog

2008-09-23T20:03:00.000-07:00

I chose to write about anothr character named Ella. she's jamie's cousin who also went upt o main for the summer. Her and jamie are really close and they share everything. Especially about things that they did while they where apart for the school year, and Ella always has a new boyfriend she wants to talk about. Ella has an older sister with whom she fights constantly about everything.

first reading

2008-09-23T20:00:00.000-07:00

my other blog doesn't work so i had to creat a new one. this is why the first blog is late...

For my first blog i read the first 7 chapters(89pg.) of Summer Boys. it's a serisies of books and they're really interesting so far. i chose to write about one of the mian characters named jamie. she goes to main every summer with her extended family and there she gets to see her boyfriend. In the first chapters she goes to a big party at a pier in maine and the book just talks about her catching up with her family and boyfriend, who she hasn't seen in 9months.

WELCOME!!

2008-09-23T19:59:00.001-07:00

ok so since i had to start all over nothing is on my blog yet so welcome!