JessicaAlba: 2007

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Notes from the Underground

This book is pretty interesting because, it was something way different then the other book that we had read (heart of darkness) and the reason is because in the other book they are talking about how this guy became a sailor, and how Mr. Kurtz was pretty greedy and stuff like that, but in this book it is this 40 year that is talking about how when you are 40 years old it is the worst age and he is really negative about it and he talks about justice and he repeats himself about things, and he sometime contradicts himself and then he says that some of the things that he had said were true.
Something’s that I really like about this book is that he talks about how even when you have pain it is enjoyable for example he talks about how when you have a toothache there is enjoyment because you cry and you laugh and then he says that if he didn’t moan he would find enjoyment in those moans.
In this book he also mentions revenge and how some people thought that having a revenge would be justice and my group members and I started talking about what was justice? And if having revenge be called as justice?. Another question that was brought up while we were reading actually came from the book and it was “Can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of his own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself?
There was this very interesting quote in the book that said “ I a m a sick man…. I am a spiteful man. I a m an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased “. I really likes this quote because I mean I wasn’t expecting a book to start off this way and because I could actually connect it to real life because, there are people out there that have really low self esteem and they think they are the worst people in the world and how no one will ever like them.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad

Characters
Doctor
Marlow
Russian man
Chief accountant
Natives
Mr. Kurts

When I was reading this book it was a bit difficult because if you didn't read it carefully then you wouldn't understand the book because this author writes lots of similes and if you don't read them carefully then you wouldn't understand that part. Something that was really confusing to me was were the story actually took place because I mean I knew that they were in a ship and they were in a river but then he starts like talking about how he became a sailor and I didn’t know if what was happening like them being attacked was happening in the present or in the past.
This book was really good because you could actually picture the things he is talking about for example in Pg. 53 the first sentence it talks about these heads that have been chopped off and how they looked like. I could actually visualize how the heads looked like because of the word chose for example “black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids, a head that seemed to be sleeping on top of that pole.” I also liked some of the similes that he decided to work because instead of saying the sky was dark he would say “a sky the color of smoke.”
Something that I figured out using the text was the word ivory because in the book it is know to be like money but I didn’t know that then they started talking about how Mr. Kurts was addicted to it and that he only wanted it for himself so that kind of helped me figure out it was money, then I asked my group members and they said the same thing.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

The way water functions in our body

http://www.remedies4health.com/page_water.shtml

In this website i found some very interesting things because, i really didn't know how water helped us or were it is located i just knew that with out water we wouldn't be able to live.And then these are some notes that i took when i was reading this very interesting article

Human body is 70% water and the foods that we it has a 70-90 percent of water.
It is found both inside and outside our cells
90% of our blood is water and all body fluids contain water.
The way that water helps us is that it takes all the nutrients to the
We should at least drink 8 cups of water each day
When we lose water our organs lose shape
Water plays a role in digestion and absorption as well as circulation
If you lose 3 to 5% of water that can lead to lightheadedness, headaches, dizziness and nausea
Dehydration is a huge problem because this raises body's core temperature, which can lead to delirium, heat stroke or in extreme cases, death.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Guatemala

http://www.stanford.edu/group/arts/guatemala/discovery/geography/gov.htm

· Guatemala Government was “external political opposition was simply not possible and as a result small covert revolutionary movements grew within the political infrastructure.”

· Constitution came an effect in January 1986

· Created a system of government where power is exercised equally by the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government

· At the end of the cold war brought changes to the words political structure.

http://www.enjoyguatemala.com/colonial.htm

· Guatemala become independent in the year of 1821

· Guatemala was part of Viceroyalty of Mexico

http://guatemalahist.com/

· Spaniards (Pedro de Alvarado) invaded Guatemala in the year of 1542

· In that year it was invaded by the Mayas

· The politics were very unstable and they think that Jorge Úbico (1933 - 1944) was the main reason why the people were suffering.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

US. and Mexican border

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/bord/intro.html

Some of the things that I learned while I read this were that the border marks the place where adjacent jurisdictions meet. The border is a place to give people the opportunity. The border sets different types of laws and it changes trough out the year. The border causes other people to take advantage of others it also causes conditions of hardship and the most import thing it can cause rebellion. Workers have been attracted to the border since 1961-1665 and the reason that they have been attracted to the border is because they are look for a better economy opportunity. From 1980 till this year economic and political refugees from Central America have swelled populations at the border and migrations across it. “The border follows the river through the rough terrain of the Big Bend and through the once-busy trading posts of Presidio/Ojinaga and on to the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez twins established as the "Passage to the North" between the mountain ranges, "the border's fulcrum, where the river gives way to the fence and where North and South have been horse trading for centuries" (Weisman 1986).

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

http://deletetheborder.org/node/2181

in this website i learned that they want to build a "NETWORK THAT nine towers with ground radar and night vision cameras to monitor a 28-mile (45-km) stretch of border near Arivaca, southwest of Tucson".