Exposed

i recently finished the book Exposed and it was really good. it was about two best friends named Kate and Liz. Kate is an amazing dancer who dates every girls jock dream (Trevor), Liz is a promising photographer who dates the sweetest guy ever (Brian). Kate and Liz have been best friends since they were 6 and tell each other everything. they have a sleep over at Liz's house 1 Saturday a month, one day when they are having a sleep over they start talking about college (since they are seniors. Liz wants to go to a photo and Kate says how she doesn't want to major in dance and is thinking about quitting. Liz gets so mad because Kate is amazing and she just starts yelling at her and saying she doesn't take risks. it ends with Liz going to her room upstairs and Liz staying downstairs, and she is gone in the morning. Liz says shes sorry but Kate just avoids and ignores her. 

Liz can't take it anymore and she hears from Amanda (a friend of theirs) that the reason Kate isn't talking to hr is because her and Mike (Liz's older brother) had a wild time when Liz was upstairs. Trevor finds out and says he'll forgive her, but she breaks up with them. when Liz  confronts Kate about making it a big deal, she says she got rapped by Mike. but when she goes to Mike he says that he didn't rape her they just had sex. she is stuck between the 2 people she loves the most, and doesn't know who to believe. at first she thinks Kate is making it up to hide her shame, but then she believes that her brother did it. this makes me think about the world and rape in general.


when is it considered violation? what makes you believe a person? what  drives a person towards rape? what drives a person to lie about being raped? does shame play a part in it? 

Mocking Jay *spoiler alert*

So i am currently still reading Mocking Jay, and a lot has happened. some things shocked me, and some didn't. like i knew was going to end up coming back, and that something would happen between Gale and Katniss. but what really caught me off guard was when Peeta tries to choke Katniss and the way he reacted towards her. so that's basically what i'm going to talk about in this blog post.

so a group of people from district 13 went to the capitol to free Peeta, Annie, and a couple others. they were worried about the task, and were prepared for people to not come back hoe; because they were killed. but what they were faced with everyone coming home safe, and not really a fight at all. i think that when President Snow would put Peeta on T.V., he would do it on purpose because he knew Katniss was watching, and how she would react towards it. he changed Peeta from being in love with Katniss, to hating her and wanting to kill her; but Katniss didn't know this.

so i think President Snow did it on purpose because he knew that sooner or later Katniss would not be able to bear anymore, and they would try to get Peeta free; so they can be together. so then when Peeta would see her, he would try to kill her, this is just plain mean and evil, but you have to give him credit, he is much smarter than people think he is. everyone thinks he is the over-controlling president who needs to be overthrown, but he has some tricks up his sleeve, and is using all of them to try and stop the rebellion.

i am really excited and nervous to see what President Snow's next moves will be, and what Katniss and Panem will do in return.

Mocking Jay

I am currently reading Mocking jay by Suaznne Collins, and once again Katniss is facing a lot of problems. what has happened so far is:

• District 12 has been bombed, and the few that survived are living in the harsh conditions of district 13

• Peeta has been captured by the capitol

• Katniss has been forced to become the "Mocking jay" of the rebellion 

• Katniss has to live under the extremely harsh rule of district 13

the only good thing that has happened so far is that Gale and Katniss's relationship has been restored to how it used to be, and there is even a little romance going on. i think that Katniss is under a lot of stress, everyone is asking for something form her. i mean she isn't super woman she is a 16 year old girl. everyone is expecting her to lead the rebellion and find a way to overthrow the capitol- which is nearly impossible. people are expecting  her to get Peeta free from the capitol- which is also impossible. and even though she is trying hard, she is constantly hearing people say how they knew they should have saved Peeta from the arena first, because he would have been a much better leader. i can't wait to see what happens next, and what choices Katniss will make. 

 

Underage Drinking

Topic: Underage Drinking 


1^st:  Underage drinking usually increses between the sixth to eigth grade. Three quarters of students have consumed alcohol be the end of high school, and  more than a third have done so by high school. 50% of high school students drink on a regular baises, and 70% report the last time they drank was at a friends house. My topic underage drinking because solutiuons that they government have made aren’t affective, due to the fact that teens still drink. 


2^nd: the approach I would take is to get more people invlolved and to make people and the government see the affect it is having on teens. This is the common good approach because, the government would be doing what is better for the whole country. 


3^rd: some actions the society has taken to stop underage drinking is obviously making the drinking age 21 or aolder. This action has been right, but still hasn’t stopped underage drinking. Government has also made people show identification when buying alcohol and going into bars, this is also right. But teens and the underage have just made fake id’s to get them alcohola dn get them into bars.