The Weeping Camel

I was very impressed with this movie we watched in glass. It was the first time I had ever taken a look into a culture didnt then the one we live in. The importance of the camel in these peoples lives is more important then almost any posesion that we own. The indepence they give their children also opened my eyes to a way of raising your children. Also when the boy wanted to ask his parents for a TV I thought it was ironic because today all kids do is sit in front of TV.

Can Xue: The child who raised Poisonous Snakes

Cardiac Arteriosclerosis- is a disease affecting the arterial blood vessel. It is an inflammatory response in the walls of arteries. It is commonly referred to as a "hardening" or "furring" of the arteries. It is caused by the formation of multiple plaques within the arteries.
Bungarus Krait- a type of snake found in India and South-East Asia.

Victor Erofeyev: The parakeet

The Name Spiridon- means basket
Babynames.com
Parakeet- One of the various type of parrots. It is medium sized with a long tail.

Antonio Tabucchi: The riddle

Harper's Bazaar- An American fashion magazine which orignated in the UK and was called Harpers & Queen

Hispano Suiza- A spanish automotive and enineering firm known for their cars, engins and weapons before WWII

Field Trip

Kathryn by Silver Gelatin Print. This was a picture of a girl sitting on a toilet. She has a cigarette hanging from her figures and she has a visible attitude about her. Between the clothes she is wearing and the dark makeup around her eyes you can tell she doesn’t care what people think about her. She has a loot about her that no one would not want to mess with.

Hanna by Silver Gelatin Print. This was a picture of a girl sitting in a long, narrow hallway with torn up pictures under neither her. She has a beautiful dress on and you can tell she is into fashion. It was ironic that there were pictures below her.

Henry Thoreau

“Any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it.” Henry David Thoreau

During the time that Henry David Thoreau wrote his novels was a time when everyone wanted to be a leader and anyone would listen. These people were called transcendentalists. Transcendentalism was an idealistic, philosophical and social movement developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Mostly it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity. Henry David Thoreau was on of these central figures. In this quote I feel that he was speaking about what was happening to the people of New England. Everyone wanted to be a leader and everyone was making laws in which lower class citizens followed because they could do nothing else. I think that Thoreau wanted people to think about things in life and realize the rules they were making and why you followed it. When Thoreau went to Walden Pond he got away from the world, culture, rules and regulations.

The Way Home

The love a grandmother has for her children could not be spoken in words. The love for grandchildren is surprisingly greater. You can teach the lesions that years before you taught your own children. They are replicas of your own masterpiece.
My grandson has so many lesions to learn. Electronic devises will not always be a part of his life. For some reason my grandson learned this lesion the hard way. His longing for batteries made him go on an adventure. For once he had to learn, on his own, that he could not get his way.
The attitude of my grandson is one that I do not like. He is disrespectful to elders and uses harmful words. I know that one day he will get over this stage in his life but for now I will let him ride it out. I see the way he treats his mother and I would never have let that happen. I think my grandson growing up with no father is a terrible idea. He does not understand the quality of hierarchy. Because he didn’t have a father to look up to and receive discipline.
I have to let my grandson learn these life lesions on his own. I will always have love for him and do what he want. If he wants Kentucky Chicken, even though I don’t know what it is, I will do anything I could to get it. When he feel from the crazy cow I will always be there to clean his wounds. I feel my grandson has begun to learn the lesions of life. When I found the coco cupcake I knew he began to learn to share. The feeling in my heart grew stronger and stronger when he stepped off the bus and handed me the colorful paper.