Emily's 8B Blog

One of the things I learned this year that will stay with me is foreshadowing. Not only does it help me predict what will happen in a story...

"Death ends a life, not a relationship." What Morrie meant by this was that even though the person is no longer with you, yo...

Prompt is family. To be honest I'm not really sure what to make of Morries opinion of having kids and being married and raising child...

I'm liking Tuesdays With Morrie so far, which is kind of surprising because I really don't normally like non-fiction. For me readi...

The main three parallels between Night and Life Is Beautiful are how they both start with before the holocaust effected their lives, and...

In the beginning of Night Elie is a devout Jew, and wants to be able to studie the cabbala, but his father refuses to let him because he th...

"We got used to standing in line at seven o'clock in the morning, twelve noon, and again at seven o'clock in the eveni...

So something I noticed in the beginning of the book was how everyone in Elies town is so optimistic. It kind of makes me wonder if they wer...

One of the things I found really shocking during the gallery walk was Bella's article about one of the experiments that a Nazi doctor d...

To be honest, up until today we've never really ever gone in depth with what exactly the Nazi's took away from the Jews in this sen...

The only book I actually finished this quarter was Looking for Alaska , because I was only reading the other books because I had to be rea...

Miles Halter Impressionable, easy going and Lovestruck Lover of Alaska Young, Cigarettes and Last Words Who Notices Moods, Habits...

One thing I noticed this week in juxtaposition to last week was that there were far fewer articles about the ISIS crisis. However, there we...

The main event people focused on was the Egypt's reaction to the beheading of 21 of their christian citizens, done by the terror group ...

Boko Haram + ISIS = Marrage from Hell. , CNN News The Boko Haram is a terrorist group in west Africa, and people who have been observing th...

This week I noticed that a lot of people chose articles that had very over-arching topics, while some had more specific ones. Global warmin...

I really like the way Christopher speaks. He explains everything, like why certain things mean what to him and why he doesn't like meta...

"A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness is a fantasy novel set in current day England, France, and New York State. It b...

You know, they say on the page that they'll give you feedback and advice on your stories when they email you, but they really just don...

AKA The All Souls trillogy because that's going on the top list of Adult series' for the rest of my life. Remember these?   ...

     Now, this is another one of Sarah Vowell's books, but it isn't one based on history, or American History at least as most of h...

- What do you think is the most important difference between the written and filmed version? Provide evidence with specific details. Oka...

I could not find a suitable picture of a Sardine so this will have to suffice. The last time I did something for the first time was whe...

Okay so something I'm really not good at is keeping up with my work. I can, I just sort of don't, and then a panic about the fact t...

Okay so I finished this book in like a day, mostly just so I could get to the parts where it was Nico's POV, because he's always be...

To Kill A Mockingbird was okay. I did like it, despite the fatc that it's definately not something I would normally read, and that we r...

Maycom was an old town People moved slowly The Cunninghams never took anything the can't pay back They don't have much T...

So, as the title of this post may suggest, I got some feedback about the other three stories I sent to Cicada. They all got declined, sayi...

So every day I check the progress of my stories to see if anything's different. This morning I noticed that one of them was missing,...

Character pairs: 1- Dill and Francis Format: c. Relationship to Scout d. Effect on Scout. Dill and Francis are both characters that have ...

Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams, electrician at Wilson Dam, lives in this demountable prefabricate...

Plot and Relationships and Science Oh My! *and also sex but it wasn't that importent*      Remember in the last post I wrote when Ma...