Blog Assignment # 2!!

http://www.pandora.com/#/stations/create/

This is one of my favorite websites! Pandora is a new way of internet radio that you can listen to a variety of music that you like. For example you can type in an artist or genre, and it will play a plethora of music from that artist or genre. Also for example if typed in, let's say John Mayer, there is a button were you can click on that will provide you with music like John Mayer, so its a cool way to discover new artists as well. If you have an iphone or droid, it is free, but I am not sure about just going to it on a computer. This is convenient if you are in one of those moods, and you just want to listen to a certain kind of music. Also they have thousands and thousands of artists and songs. Check it out!!

Blog assignment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwRo0iCvoYE
This video is a present to oprah for 24 seasons of Oprah


observation: thousands maybe millions of people
crazy lights and colors on stage giving it an upbeat vibe
the unitity literally gave me goose bumps
dance moves were fun and energetic
the way the image looked like a ripple of domino's it was AMAZING!
It looks like they are just having the time of their lives, dancing and partying!



inferences:
they were telling a story with there body and there body language
Maybe the story could resemble how it can all start with one person, and one person can make a huge impact.
Oprah was in a state of amazement, and wondering how this could all be happening.
It kind of remids me of how birds fly in the sky in syncronized movements

20-50 Mistaken Identity

So I figured out that the way the author is writing this story is every other chapter, its switching families in the order that things happened in. So for example, the first chapter is about whitneys family and when they first got the phone call, and the second chapter is when lauras family first got the call, and it just keep alternating in sequence of how things happend. I am so into this book, just because i know that it is 100% real. So in i think it was the third chapeter, Whitneys family gets that phone call pronouncing that she is dead, and they get the chance to go see her but she didnt because she didnt want the last image of her daughter to be of her dead. The only problem with that is that she couldnt 100% confirm that it was her; they just trusted the "profesional". So in the next chapter, Lauras family gets the phone call that she has been in a horrible car accident and they need permission to stick some device in her brain to higher the chances of her living. They approve, and they are on their way to the hospital. All of her family and freinds from taylor were at the ICU waitng in the waiting room to hear any new news. First her parents went in the room to see her, and were stunned on how bad she looked, but they insisted that it was laura. When Aryn her boyfreind (but it wasnt really her boyfreind, since it was really Whitney)got there he sat by herside and the nurse came in with some of the stuff that was hers, like a pair of five star converse, but Aryn and her mother claimed that they did not belong to her, but they didnt think anything of it.

The one thing that I really love about this book, is that both of the families put the situation in the hand of God. All that Lauras mom Susie could do is pray that God has a plan for her and her family. Also Taylor University had praying ceremonies the night of the accident and a couple after. That just shows that they are strong in that area and they are going to get through it allot better knowing that they have God.

Mistaken Identity....du du duuuu!

So i know this is probably a bad idea, but i have started another book, hoping that it will not interfere with the other 2 books I am trying to read. If you live in Indiana, you probably have heard about this story. Right off the back, it tell you the end result, and then tells the story of what happend. So in the first chapter, it explains how this story on April 2006, a tragic car accident claimed the lives of several college students in Indiana, and put others in the hospital with critical injuries. Also to find out that 2 of the people where victims of mistaken identity! The story is told in 3rd person, but does a good job of being specific so you can really picture everything happening, and the emotions that the families felt. Whitney was a 2005 high school graduate, attending college near Ft. Wayne, Indiana. She was the kind of girl that loved everyone and everyone loved her. Her mom is a teacher at one of the local schools and her dad is an assistant pastor at a church, so most of the town knows the family. You can tell that Whitneys family was very religious, because as soon as they heard rumors, to the actual phone call announcing that her daughter had died, all the could do was pray, which at times brought me to tears. I couldnt even imagine hearing such news. The only thing that is confusing me is how the family didnt go to her and confirm that it was her....becasue it obviously was not.

Nights in Rodanthe Chapters 1-3

This a new book I am reading, and the first thing that I read was the acknowledgments because usually you can get a feel for what the authors personality is from who they dedicate the book to. For Nicholoas Sparks, he tried to thank everyone and anyone that he could which really shows that he cares about the people around him, and wanted them to know that they impact ths life.

In the beginning, it is basically giving background information on the main character, Adreienne and is very descriptive on her personality traits and characteristics. The story is told in 3rd person, making it feel like you are watching the story from affar. Adreinne is an older women around 60, and in the beginning, there are some flashbacks an Inn that her and her husband used to stay at, (very descriptive). She lived alone, she was divorced from a man named Jack, her father had died in 1996. She had childeren that were in there early thirties. All of them were happily married accept for the youngest whos husband had died of testicular cancer which took a huge toll on there family. Ever since Amanda's husband died, she had not been the person she used to be. She was in a major depression, and most of the Adreinne would help take care of her kids while she weeped in her bedroom. Adrienne was a good grandma. She understood that is was hard, but what Amanda didnt realize was that her kids were suffering too, and it probably seemed like they had lost not only one of there parents but both.

My thoughts about "Tweaked"

Well, this book is basically trying to tell you that once your an addict, you have a 93% chance of never recovering from your horrible habbit. Once Chase died, there whole lives were different. They were in so much debt, so much pain, that they didn't know what to do with themselves. Gordies parents ended up splitting and living far away from each other, and Gordie stayed with his Dad. One of Chases previous druggie friends, Ryan, went to rehab, and from the looks of it Gordie thought he was doing great until he ran in to him and his Mother hat the grocery store. They chatted it up for a few min and the very last line of the book was him asking Gordie if he could barrow 20 bucks....That line is probably the most meaningful line( in a bad way) in the whole book. That line indicates that he still needs money to go get that fix, that high that has taken over his whole mind to the point where I am sure that is all he thinks about. The sad part is, that his Mom thought he had recovered.

Getting to the point where getting the next hit is all you think about, you have major problem and you need to go get help before you end up like Chase, dead. I am sure Chase was a good person on the inside, and I am also sure if he had not gotten into the wrong crowd, that he would be normal, with a normal life.

If you are someone like me, who is totally oblivious to stuff like drugs, this book will give you a detailed description on what an addicts life is like. READ IT!

159- to the end to the BOOK

So before I read the last of the book, I made sure that I some pretzels handy to munch on because I knew it was going to be suspensful. Anyway at this point in the book, it is the start of summer, and Gordie has allot on his mind. Work, summer school, Chase, Mom and Dad, the band, and his crush Jade. He drops in the pawn shop almost everyday to check on his bass guitar that he has almost saved up enouph money for. He really wants to have it back. It was just one of those things that was so precious to him.

One day when Gordie was working, a strange man that was skin and bone, and there were deep hollows of were his cheeks used to be, and when he got up close, Gordie had to step back because the odor was that bad. Once the man got closer, he had realized that it was Chase. Chase was asking Gordie for 500 dollars or else Ractchet and DC were going to kill him. Gordie was so mad at him, but he didnt want his brother to die. Ratchet and DC were outside of the store waiting and watching. Gordie locked the doors so that they could not get in. He calmy tried to tell Chase that he was going to call the cops, and as soon as he told him the plan, Chase freaked out and started shaking, and did what he did best and ran away and tried to get out.  Before Gordie could call the cops, he was out and when Ratchet and DC saw he didnt have any money with him, they started beating him, and pushed him into the backseat of there car and sped off. The cops later found Ratchet and DC but no Chase.

Gordie rides the bus home, wandering if Chase is alive. He is scared to to go home and tell his parents that Chase was with him and once again got away. Gordie looks at the newspapers everyday at the section reading unidentified bodies wandering if it were Chase. It seems as though this whole thing has screwed there family up mentally and emotionally. Gordies dad is starting to drink, and his Mom wont get out of bed. His parents are not speaking, and his Mom is turning on Gordie and his Dad. The cops do not trust Gordies Mom, so everynight they speak with his father. 

So one afternoon Gordie is watching the news, and sees that a man has stolen a womens car in the rain. The man gets to the highway and is chased by cops at over 150 kilometers per hour when they finally stop him, he is seen with his head down on the wheel, and swallows something which is later found to be a large amount of drugs. Its guess that he just wanted one last hit before he got arrested. Even on the TV with all the cops surrouding the man, Gordie knew that it was Chase. Chase went into cardiac arrest, his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he stopped breathing. My post is getting too long so therfore.....to be continued....muhahah