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Notre Dame

Now, anyone would have to admit that this is a pretty awesome campus. For me it has been my dream to go here, but my grades are not good enough to get in. This weekend had a busy weekend and went to Indiana University on a college visit, and its campus was awesome as well. If I could go there on some sort of scholarship, I would go but I dont think I would go just because. IU is the ideal college for allot of people that I know; everyone always wants to go to IU. In my case I want to go somewhere totally different. Anyway, I also went to ND the same weekend I went to IU, and WOW it was amazing. I went there to compete in a regional dive meet for my travel dive team. There were 67 girls all over the nation and I placed 27th which is not too bad. The overall experience was awesome and I really think it was worth it, and I am glad that I had the opportunity to participate.

Spell bound assignment

1. All of the spell bound contestants are all very unique. Ashley White and Harry Altman were two of the contestants that were quite intersesting. Harry was by far my favorite contsestant becasue he was so careless and carefree with a short attention span. You could tell he was pationate about the spelling but not as serious as the other contestants like Ashley. Harry was definetly a talker and was enthusiastic about everything he did and said. Ashley defintley wanted to to win but I think her Mom wanted her to win more than she did, possibly for the cash prize.

2. The two parents that I thought that were the most intersting was Neils parents and Aprils parents. I think Neils dad took the spellbound way too seriosusly, and put way too much pressure on Neil, almost to the point that it was unhealthy. The fact that he told Neil that if he won he was going to help families in Africa is awful. I mean it is okay if you want to help families in Africa, but he did it for the wrong reasons. Aprils parents on the other hand were quite comical and not so serious. They would be proud of her no matter how well she did. A scene that I thought was funny was when her Mom went into her room and looked at one of the books April was studying and was like, " I don't even know any of these words, and maybe I should start studying". I think the major difference between th two sets of parents is that Neils Dad was way too serious, and Aprils parents were allot less carefree.

Mistaken identity 150-200

Carly and the family are having a hard time soaking in the fact that Laura is actually dead. Carly is trying to come up with a short speech to say at her sisters funeral, and same with the rest of the family. The father is actually doing the best out of them all. When they got to the funeral over 400 people were there tightly packed in the foyer. After the funeral for "Whitney", back in the hospital, "Laura" did a remarkable thing.....she said Hi! The doctors had soon been able to take out all of the trachea tubes and other crap that was in her throat so she could start breathing through her nose and mouth. Her sister and her mother start to go into Whitney room and clean the closet out and her drawers, while describing as it still smelling like Whitney which makes her feel close. They decided to keep some and then let her friends come and take stuff that would saver a memory of Whit. Whits father often thought of what and how whit was doing now that she was in heaven. Allot of prayer was involved for the remainder of time, form prayer to the victims, to Whitney impact on people and how important she was to so many.

"Are you Human"

But why not be this lake instead,

icy blue, and the little white curls

of waves, it;s absolute refusal

to be a human? Why not be a thing?

Why not be a place

you'd go to get away

form your mothers frontal lobe eroding

as the faxed medical report has it?

why not a lovely blue-turning-green

and why not the removal of all feeling?

Maybe she'd rather you be a lake,

a way to lie still in the world,

a melted-down pool of snow,

a place to rest.

you could let yourlself wash up on foreign shores

or be the surface across which boats ply their trade,

taking humans from one shore in sun

to the other side in shade.

You remember humans, dont you?

The ones who row the boat,

who act for all the world

as if they know where they are going?

This poem actually meant allot more to m after I had read it about 5 or 6 times. I think what Jim Moore is trying to convey is a foreign and far fetched idea of what we humans think the world is. These simple yet powerful statements are saying for example, "why not be a place you'd go to get away?", or when it says, "why not be a thing?", or " why not be the surface across which boats ply their trade?" Finally in my opinion the most powerful line in the poem isYou remember humans, don't you?" So the emphasis is on the things that maybe us humans could not compare to be equalized or greater than a human itself. Its almost as if the power is reversed, and things such as nature are describing humans. In this poem it talks about "or be the surface across which boats ply their trade, taking humans from one shore in sun, to the other in shade." This making it seam like the ocean is literally, or personifying taking a human across the sea therfore putting the emphasis in the ocean which is unusal. An analogy is maybe the ocean is the actual trunk of a tree, and the human is the leaves on the tree. I think this poem makes you think allot about how wonderful things are that we take for grantid, such as that one place you go to get away, or the little white curls on top of the waves in florida or at the lake.

Mistaken identity 150-200

Carly and the family are having a hard time soaking in the fact that Laura is actually dead. Carly is trying to come up with a short speech to say at her sisters funeral, and same with the rest of the family. The father is actually doing the best out of them all. When they got to the funeral over 400 people were there tightly packed in the foyer. After the funeral for "Whitney", back in the hospital, "Laura" did a remarkable thing.....she said Hi! The doctors had soon been able to take out all of the trachea tubes and other crap that was in her throat so she could start breathing through her nose and mouth. Her sister and her mother start to go into Whitney room and clean the closet out and her drawers, while describing as it still smelling like Whitney which makes her feel close. They decided to keep some and then let her friends come and take stuff that would saver a memory of Whit. Whits father often thought of what and how whit was doing now that she was in heaven. Allot of prayer was involved for the remainder of time, form prayer to the victims, to Whitney impact on people and how important she was to so many.

On love pages 50-100

Allot had gone on in the past 50 pages so it will be hard to reach every point. The man whose name still had not been mentioned, realizes one day when he is writing Chloe a birthday card, that he had never said he loved her. Maybe in actions but never actually said it with the word. Then he questions himself on if he really loves her, or loves the idea of her. Then the next chapter is about these pair of shoes that Chloe gets, and she absolutely loves them and payed allot for them, and he doesnt like them. Later on they are going to a party and Chloe wants to wear her new shoes and he wont let her because he thinks they are too ugly, and by that she gets offended. He tells her its because he cares about her....I say if she likes the shoes she should be able to wear them if she wants. She ends up not wearing them. The two have grown to be quite comfortable around each other aka not polite. He describes how chloe would pick her nose and crumble it in a wad and flick it across the room....right in front of him. One thing that I can admire about them is that they often joke after they fight to settle the mood down. In the chapter beauty there is a picture that is a duck but can also be seen as a rabbit, and it is put in there to determine that people can look at things and people from different points of view and see something totally different. He was beginning to notice that he was doing and saying things like Chloe did and said. They are becoming one.