Vocaburlary

1) equivocate: to use ambiguous or unclear expressions
2) eradicate: to remove

When you go to jail you are eradicated from normal society.
3) erode: to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration
4) erratic: unpredictable
My life is erratic, and I love it.

5) escalate: to raise
6) esoteric: understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest
7) espouse: to marry
8) eulogy: high praise
9) euphoria: a feeling of happiness

Drugs give you a sense of Euphoria
10) euthanasia: painless death

An animal usually gets euthanised.
11) epitome: a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class; role model

Grave for Two is the epitome of failure for the music industry

Current Event

This current event was basically how LA has pot vending machines. However, here are the restrictions:
• Customers bring their prescriptions for approval at the AVMs, housed in enclosed room guarded 24/7.• They are fingerprinted and photographed.• They receive a pre-paid credit carded loaded with their individual profiles.• They choose their dosage (3.5 grams or 7 grams) and one of five strains of marijuana.• The marijuana is in capsule form and dispensed in vacuum-sealed packages.• They can buy no more than 1 ounce a week.


Peronsaly,I think this is a bad idea becuase I think people are going to abuse this. I believe that it is probaly harder to abuse this versus a regular pharmacy. However, we will see.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/hot-button-medi.html

"Why We Fight"

This movie was basically a whole bunch of political evidence in total non-support of the Iraq war. I saw a lot of interesting facts and details that definitely was interesting. It is basically about the forces supporting the American militia. It is also about how the military has been all too important to American life. A fact that I found really surprising was Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon—now receive among themselves over $30 billion per year in Pentagon contracts. The "military-industrial complex". Eisenhower was worried that too much intelligence, and too much business acumen in America, had become focused on the production of unnecessary weapons systems. Since his time it has only gotten worse. I don’t really know how to explain it but Eisenhower it right, and military force has only gotten stronger.

Flowers in the Attic V.C Andrews
Reason: I chose this book because I felt as if it as going to be a good book. And believe me it was. The setting of this book was in the 1950’s.
Plot: After the death of her husband, Corinne Dollanganger takes her four children Christopher, Catherine, Cory, and Carrie, and goes to live with her wealthy parents who she hasn't seen in years. Once they arrive at the forbidding mansion, Foxworth Hall, the Dollanganger children learn a terrible family secret the reason that their mother was disowned and disinherited years earlier. Which was because she married her half uncle. In order to inherit her ailing father's wealth, Corinne and her mother must hide the existence of her children. The total time that thekids were in the attic for was 3 years, 4 months, and 16 days. So Cathy and her brothers are mistreated and tortured by their evil grandmother. Day by day, week by week, month by month, Cathy, Chris, Carrie, and Cory become weaker and weaker, but there is never anyone from the outside world to notice. Their only hideaway is the attic, the one place that they can go to relive the happiness that they used to know, and only there can they begin to plan their escape, to return to the lives they used to know. They soon do escape, and that’s when you start reading “petals in the wind”, by George Orwell.
Character: The character that I am to focus on is the evil grandmother. Several times the grandmother has plotted to kill the children. Her attempts have gone as far as pouring tar on little Carries head. She is a really evil person and throughout the novel it definitely shows. The Grandmother is really old, but still in good shape. The roll she takes on is evil. I selected this character because I find her interesting. I find her interesting because of the fact that she is so mischievous.
Evaluation: I really loved this book and it kind of made my appreciate my life. You know- when you seem like your all upset but you really aren’t because in comparison to a lot of other things your life is good. I would recommend this book to everyone who wants to learn to love life.
This book compared to real life because of the fact that this could be happening in any house, even your next door neighbors. I think this book is important for everyone to read because it would make people realize how good their life is.
If I was in the plot I would have acted the same way as Cathy, the main and oldest character. I think her decisions were very good and I support the way she acted. I wish the book wouldn’t of ended, and that the second book would just come with the first book because it gets you so wrapped up in that.
Author: The author of this book was V.C Andrews. She was basically the inventor of Gothic writing. Flowers in the Attic is her best seller. She made a few other books and they are mostly sequels.

1. intrepid - fearless
2. trepidation - fear


This picture is from FEAR FACTOR. in Fear factor the players face their worst fears.

3. despondent - hopeless
4. decorum - well mannered
5. aspire - to reach a really high set goal
6. vacillate - to change opinions

7. desultory - lacking order
A riot is very desultory. I picked a riot becuase of the fact that riots do have have order.

8. fallacy - a false belief
Cinderella is a fallacy.
9. formidable - causing fear

This charactor is very formidable in Scary Movie 2

10. heritage - practices that are handed down from the past by tradition
11. guru - an intellectual or spiritual guide or leader.Ghandi is a guru. He is very good at keeping the peace.

current event

This article was about how Michagen is going to stop issueing drivers licenses to illegal immagrants. few states are still issueing them. The new policy also bars people who are legal but not permanent U.S. residents from getting licenses. Legislation to allow those on temporary work or student visas to get licenses is pending in the Legislature.The new policy applies to first-time applicants for a Michigan driver's license or identification card. Updated procedures for renewals will be released soon. This is important becuase of the fact that this is probaly a good first step in getting alot of the illegal aliens to be citizens of the united states.

Breeanna Wolford
7 Jan 07
Pelzer, Dave. “The Lost Boy”. Deerfield Beach, Florida. Health Communications. 1997
Reason: I selected this book because I found “A Child Called It” extremely inspirational and decided to read up on a follow up that book. A child called it was truly a book that I will never forget, and so it the lost boy. This novel takes place in various locations, it starts out in Daly, California but it indefinitely changes settings quite often.
Plot: The main character in this book is David Peltzer as a younger boy. In this particular book he runs away form his alcoholic mother. He got rescued by his teachers because they knew that he was being abused. His mother would starve and torture him. At times she would lock him in the bathroom with a whole bunch of bleach and cleaning supplies that you aren’t supposed inhale for long periods of time. For six years, David Pelzer was sent to over ten different foster homes; sometimes returning to the same home twice. Dave’s one fear is that his evil mother would eventually find him again, it really did haunt him. Even after the court case when she pretends to be all nice and give him a bunch of his toys. He falls back in love with her during his court cause but he then learns that she was just acting, and what a good actress she was. A lot of families promise not to give up on him, but all of them eventually do. Throughout his years in foster care the one thing David yearns for is to see his Father. In the first book you learn that his Father was once a great man, a brave fire fighter, David’s “hero”. But after years of abuse and a living hell with David’s mother, he too had turned to drink and turned his back on David. There were several times when his father would make arrangements to come and visit David, but not once did he turn up. David would convince himself that it was he that had got the times wrong and not his dad that his dad would never let him down on purpose. For a short time (after the court hearing) David had some contact with his mother. She then decided that David was to have no contact at all with “her family”, she even changed her phone number so he could no longer cal her. As the years passed David had a continual urge to see his mother. There were questions that he had wanted to ask her for years. He needed to know “why”. What had he ever done for her to treat him so bad, why was he not good enough to be a member of “the family” like his brother’s were, why did she not “love him”, why was he “it”. David knew though that he would never get any answers from his mother, he was the problem as far as she was concerned and that would never change. At the end of high school he gets bad grades because he is too interested in joining the air force. He remains in the foster care system until he turns 18, when he joins the air force. No one was ever as proud of him as his “real” family was when he joined the air force-from that point forward he referred to him as Dave the Man.
Character: The character that I will choose for this is the father. David’s father. David’s dad was a proud fireman prior to all these things that happened in the family. He was a very accomplished man, with a lot of honor. When all of this stuff starts going down he slowly looses it. He becomes an alcoholic. He really doesn’t end up liking his wife, David’s evil mom. He eventually gets a divorce and moves to San Francisco. When Dave goes and visits him their he decides that this couldn’t be the father that he once knew, Dave was dumbstruck and upset.
Evaluation: I loved this novel, and I think it fit nicely after a child called it. I really liked the ending because it was reassuring that no matter what good can come from something. I figure that Dave will be used to the army because of the way that his mother treated him. This novel made me think about how messed up child abuse is, and how much I really hate it. I would recommend this book for everyone to read, because to an extent it’s definitely life changing.
This book definitely compares to real life because things like this happen all the time, and that is just really not cool. I hate to think that as I type this there are children being abused, it just really bothers me. I think everyone should read this book before they have kids.
If I was David I would have probably acted in the same way if I didn’t decide to run and get help. However, he was really young so I understand. I loved the ending of the book and I really thought that it was perfect. J
Author: This book is actually part of a trilogy and I’m only on book three now. I plan on doing that book for my next book report. David Peltzer is seriously an amazing author, but what is more ironic is that he is actually the main character in the book two. I don’t pity him though, I applaud him.