Social Issues

I have been thinking about our current issues in our schools, first I thought of Bullying, but then I thought that I should make it a little more specific, and I remembered that a couple days ago many people wore purple to honor those who committed suicide because they were called gay. Many times at school, someone would go up to you and say you're gay, and someone else is gay. but those people don't know the real meaning of gay.
         What I hate about that is that people call other people gay when they actually aren't. But the actual gay people who get made fun of feel the most pain. The people that are called gay and aren't don't get as sad as the people who do because they know they aren't, but the people who actually are, because they know that they are and hate it when people say it to them because it makes them stand out. Just because someone is gay or something else doesn't mean that they are different because everyone actually has something that makes them different.
          In conclusion I think that nobody should call someone gay because if you are, it hurts your feelings, enough to jump off a bridge, and if you aren't gay and you get called gay, there are other people who are made fun of because they are gay.

Ela final appreciation (sorry for the late upload

            "I'm very pleased to meet you" said Milo, not sure whether or not he was pleased at all. " I think I'm lost. Can you help me please?" " 'Don't say think'" said one sitting on his shoe, for the one on the shoulders has fallen asleep " It's against the law" And he yawned and fell off to sleep, too.

            The book I read as my childhood favorite was The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy named Milo who goes on a journey when he goes into a magical tollbooth which sends him to a big entirely different world, each different place he goes to, there is a whole weird thing for example, the quote I used from the book was from a place where you weren't allowed to think, in my eyes this is the weirdest place in the book, it was a tough decision because there were many weird places like a place where letters grew on trees, and sounds were listed in alphabetic order, every place they went there was one big difference between normal life, and life in that world.
             Milo is a person who's life is a bore, he never finds something to do, and he's always changing his mind, when he wants something and gets it, he wants something else. And when he finds the tollbooth in his room and goes into it, he goes into a journey in which at a point he forgot all about having to go home. Some of Milo's characteristics, he's brave because he didn't feel scared to find his own way out of the world he got stuck in. Also I think that Milo is very honest because in many times he would admit that he doesn’t know or doesn’t get it. I also have many times when I’m anxious to get home and I ignore school if there’s someone who came or something special is happening, and just like Milo, I also am anxious to get home to have fun.
            What I appreciate about this book is how Milo deals with the fact that he got transported into a new weird world. I appreciate how he doesn’t cry like a baby and tries what ever he can to get out, he knows that he will have to find his way out, he knows that  he won't magically get out of the world. I also appreciate how Milo respected all the people he met, he didn’t say “Oh you are weird you don’t think” he would simply just ask if that’s possible. And another reason I appreciate The Phantom Tollbooth is because of how honest Milo is, he’s not the type who would say, I was the one who accidentally flushed your toothbrush down the toilet, but he wouldn’t keep little secrets to himself, he would say that he didn’t even know where he was or that he was being careless. And lastly I appreciate how weird this book is, I love how each place there’s a new theme and they are very fun.
            I think that this is a great book, I love how The Author makes this fantasy different from other fantasies, is that there’s no villain or a important quest with semi villains in the way, it’s just a fun book to enjoy to read I had a great experience with it, first off, I never read it so I was just reading with not many thoughts in my head, but as I got deeper in the book, I started thinking, what’s the next world going to be about. Milo

Reflection on poem, " Mother to son"

What I like about this poem is that it is basically one statement, " Son, my life isn't going so well, don't ruin your life, and I'm still alive" and it is expanded to a long poem. First she talks about how her life isn't well by saying " it's got splinters in it" and "Boards torn up" she says that her life isn't well in a variety of ways. Then she goes on about how her son shouldn't ruin his life, and then about how she's still alive and she's glad that she was alive. My favorite line from this poem was Life for me ain't no crystal stair. This line means that my life isn't moving so well, My Life just means my life, crystal means really well and stair means moving up, my life isn't going up really well.
Overall I didn't really like this poem because I didn't find much meaning to it or fun to it.

Ela draft of Appreciation

 
"I'm very pleased to meet you" said Milo, not sure whether or not he was pleased at all. " I think I'm lost. Can you help me please?" " 'Don't say think'" said one sitting on his shoe, for the one on the shoulders has fallen asleep " It's against the law" And he yawned and fell off to sleep, too.
            The book I read as my childhood favorite was The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth is about a boy named Milo who goes on a journey when he goes into a magical tollbooth which sends him to a big entirely different world, each different place he goes to, there is  a whole weird thing for example, the quote I used from the book was from a place where you weren't allowed to think, in my eyes this is the weirdest place in the book, it was a tough decision because there were many weird places like a place where letters grew on trees, and sounds were listed in alphabetic order. Every place they went there was one big difference between normal life, and life in that world.
              Milo is a person who's life is a bore, he never finds something to do, and he's always changing his mind, when he wants something and gets it, he wants something else. And when he finds the tollbooth in his room and goes into it, he goes into a journey in which at a point he forgot all about having to go home. Some of Milo's characteristics, he's brave because he didn't feel scared to find his own way out of the world he got stuck in. Also I think that Milo is very honest because in many times he would admit that he doesn’t know or doesn’t get it.
            What I appreciate about this book is how Milo deals with the fact that he got transported into a new weird world. I appreciate how he doesn’t cry like a baby and tries what ever he can to get out, he knows that he will have to find his way out. I also appreciate how Milo respected all the people he met, he didn’t say “Oh you are weird you don’t think” he would simply just ask if that’s possible. And another reason I appreciate The Phantom Tollbooth is because of how honest Milo is, he’s not the type who would say, I was the one who accidentally flushed your toothbrush down the toilet, but he wouldn’t keep little secrets to himself, he would say that he didn’t even know where he was or that he was being careless.
            I think that this is a great book, I love how The Author makes this fantasy different from other fantasies, is that there’s no villain or a important quest with semi villains in the way, it’s just a fun book to enjoy to read I had a great experience with it, first off, I never read it so I was just reading with not many thoughts in my head, but as I got deeper in the book, I started thinking, what’s the next world going to be about.
            So what are you waiting for?  Go on Milo’s magical adventure, experience the weirdness of each different place Milo goes to. All you need to do is get a car, a mysterious tollbooth that comes into your room out of nowhere, and a watchdog that has a big clock on it.      

Researching to expand our researh on The Phantom Tollbooth

 One of the things that happened to me while I read The Phantom Tollbooth was, Can that actually happen?
In this book a boy named Milo goes on a journey in a mystical tollbooth and he finds himself in a place called the doldrums, and The people of the doldrums couldn't think, and didn't think. What I thought at that point was what? are they some zombies, because the only way you can't think forever is if you are not alive. But at a realistic point of view you would think they were zombie's, oh wait, there's no such thing as zombie's , that's one of the things that I love about Phantom Tollbooth, they make it seem like things you can't do you can do.
What I researched was If you can actually can not think for your entire life. But I was just wondering if there was any disease or mental disorder. I found out that you can never not think unless your lying on the floor not breathing without your heart breathing. And If it was realistic to not think, than how could you buy your foods, how can you walk and keep your body working, how can you talk you'll just blurt out random crap. I also suggest the phantom tollbooth to you because of all the

Mahir Syed Expanding a note

                    The Phantom's Tollbooth is about a boy named Milo who's life is always a bore and he finds a tollbooth in his room, when he goes in it, he transports in to a world he never heard of, in the world there are many weird things like a place where you buy and eat words and a place your not allowed to think.
                    One of my notes were very simple, I wrote, This world is weird, and it is very weird. A couple reasons I think it is weird is because, in the first world that Milo went to, which was called the Doldrums, In the doldrums, you weren't allowed to think, and I think that that is impossible, as you speak your always thinking, when you sleep, you dream, don't you. The people of the Doldrums run on this schedule:AT 8 o'clock, they wake up and, from 8-9 they daydream, from 9- 9 30, they take an early mid morning nap, from 9 30 to 10 39, they doddle and dally, from 10 30 to to 11 30, they take their late early morning nap, from 11 30 to 12 00 they bide and eat lunch, from 1-2, they they linger and loiter, from 2- 2 30, they their early afternoon nap, from 2 30 to 3 30, they they put off tomorrow what what they could have from 3 30 to 4, they take their early late afternoon nap from 4-5, they loaf and lounge till dinner, from 6-7 they dillydally from 7-8they take an early evening nap, and an hour before before they go to bed, they waste time.what you could have noticed is that there life is really dull, and they sleep a lot, but another thing I noticed is that, how do you get food when you don't even go shopping for food and still can't think of how you don't think.