Second Blog For The Host

One thing on my mind while reading is how these invasive aliens picture themselves as "the good guys" when they are suppressing the minds of humans and taking over their bodies. Keep in mind that suppressing something usually means by force. So there is a sense of oppression in the story. I can't agree that what the creatures are doing is for the good of the planet.The most upsetting thing about what is happening in the story is that the bodies preferred are that of children and once again the creatures justify their actions for that. When it comes down to it the main point is that their freedom of will is no longer there. In fact, the soul itself is not even there. It made me wonder whether the author Stephanie Meyer was trying to have her readers chgoose sides. Whether they agree with what the aliens are doing or whether the readers are on the side of humans. I for one am not agreeing with the actions of the aliens but I agree to a certain extent that humans can indeed be malicious beings.

The Host

In the beginning the book was moving fairly slow, but that was because the first few chapters were an introduction to the entire story. The whole idea of aliens taking over worlds and the bodies of other beings to maintain peace is very farfetched but I like it. Stephanie Meyer put a sligh t twist to it by making the humans in her novel look like the monsters and the foreign creatures were the ones trying to tone down violence. Not only does this story have peacemaking aliens but also romance; a love triangle if I may say, between the alien, the human's mind, and the human's boyfriend. This normally attracts the minds of young adults like myself, which is why I see this novel as a great choice for personal reading.

What components of this book are the most attractive?The romance or the alien invasion?

Night

Night, by Ellie Wiesel, is the narration of a victim of the Holocaust. In this story a man is reliving the horrific eventsHolocaust as he is transported to different camps and abused by the guards that keep him and other jewish people in confinement. This story reaches every person in the world in so many ways, whether thaose people have gone through troubles or not. The Holocaust is one of the most tragic events in history however, not many people are aware of how terrible it really was and Night helps inform the world.


Can it be said that when another major event in history happens, the one before it is forgotten?

A Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines, the author of A Lesson Before Dying, implies in his argument that black men are not pigs incapable of reason, but are like every other white man; a human being. In the misunderstanding of a liquor store shootout an innocent bystander, Jefferson, is accused of murdering two white men. In the end he is becoming fond of a young gentlemen who helps him become a man instead of dying llike a locked up beast. This book interested me so much because it was a book that showed the steady progress of a man who would have his life taken when he didn't deserve it.

QUESTION

What is most important in life your first impression or last?

A Crack-down On Business

T. R. Reid's 2004 non-fiction text informs it's readers about the different scenarios in which Europe had taken the upper hand and over ruled the decisions in an American business. The corporation of I am speaking of is the General Electric. In the course of accomplishing a financial business goal Jack Welch ,CEO and Jack Welch Junior future CEO,are stumped when they are stopped in their tracks froom merging with another major company. With disregard for the European Union (EU) they excell into a titanious ruling in corporations until the International Competition Network ( ICN) stopped Jack Welch junior from merging with Honeywell. This was Welch's father's goal as CEO and he too was stopped. The book displayed exactly how powerful the EU had become and that their power would last for generations and be capable of bringing down multimilliondollar corporations whether they were American or not.

Tone
Informal

Vocabulary
Phalax

Rhetorical Terms
Analogy: " Welch took home hundreds of millions of dollars in salary, options, bonuses, and benefits. Indeed, he created a lifestyle of Babylonian splendor for himself at the company's expense."
Question
They say that China is going to be the new superpower meaning Europe has been pushed behind it so how much power exactly has the EU lost across the Atlantic?

The United States Of Europe

T. R. Reid's 2004 non-fiction informs it's readers of Europe's accelerating rise to supremacy over the U. S. Reid begins first by introducing the different ways that America is mocked and portrayed in Great Britain using entertainment as a source of support. There are television shows and plays in Great Britain that are partially funny and at the same time offending and even at times inaccurate. But he is not choosing sides because he then introduces evidence of some of the fairly admirable traits of the U. S. By using quotes from immigrants that have traveled from their home countries and decided to stay in America Reid was capable of showing the good side of America. Not only is Europe pointing out the problems with America but Reid shows that they have also been trying to unify itself into a greater more peaceful union. By adopting the blueprints that the U. S. used to create all 50 states Europe has began to congregate its countries into a more open and team-playing union.


TONE
Satirical/Informal

VOCABULARY

• Masochistic
• Demurely
• Pancontinental
• Predawn
• Consternation
• Ubiquitous
• Deleterious
• Mawkish
• Cosseting
• Paradigm
• Haranguing
• Caricaturist
• Plight
• Jarring

RHETORICAL STRATEGIES

Allusion: "...to receive the adulation of millions celebrating VE-Day, the prime minister..."

Anecdote: "I was offered 200 pounds on the spot for the cowboy boots I was wearing. That was $370, more than twice what I had paid for the boots, new, back home in Colorado."

Satire: " ...the typical American home depicted on "The Lardburgers," a regular segment on a satirical British T. V. show Big Breakfast... Jeff and Stacey don't have jobs, so they spend their free time looking for the lawsuit that will make them rich. Their big hero, other than George W. Bush, is the woman who sued Mc Donalds, and won, because her coffee was too hot."

QUESTION

Is America seeing Europe's uprise as a challenge to their power and if so how are they reacting to make sure they do not drop below the bar of superpower?

Killer Space Rocks

In Kevin Krajik's 2007 article ,for Popular Science, he enlightens the public with information of millions of NEO's (Near-Earth Objects). Krajik lets the public know what exactly it is thats in outer space, who is watching these meteorites, and what they're planning. They have estimated that one meteor is going to hit Earth in 2029. They say the places most likely to be hit are the U.S. and China. NASA's ideas so far are to blow up the meteor, crash into it, or push/pull it but they have continuously found problems with those options. So They are currently working on ways to make sure homo sapiens do not end like the dinosaurs did.

I located this article at: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/b9212179d0074110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Tone
Urgent

Question
What type of cosmic trgedy could the Earth not protect itself from even with years of research?