Face to Face: My Reaction

Amna Chaudhary: "I never really thought about taking the scarf off."

In high school, meeting people who are a one hundred percent sure of their religion is rare. In Amna's story it was the last week of her senior year that she started wearing her scarf. The scarf was a big indication of her particular belief. One factor that made me determine that she was used to the scarf and considered it a norm was because she said, "It'd be like someone getting ready in the morning and going to school and not putting a shirt on, kind of." She said that gesturing her feelings on not wearing one. I was pretty surprised because she was not influenced by her surroundings and truly made that a part of her everyday life. I feel like it took a lot of gut to change herself in the way that she thought for the better.



Khaled Abou El Fadl: "They don't feel comfortable sitting next to you."

In this day and time you would think that fear of being looked upon being a terrorist would pass. Unfortunately it has not. Like Khaled Abou El Fadl, he is a person's fear. Sitting next to a person like him immediately scares everything out of them. So he started wearing suits everywhere he went; to get a better impression of himself. I think that it is so ridiculous on how much what others think of you can define you. It is a horrible thing though because you lose a lot. One of the things that you lose it your identity. It's one hectic world out there with all of the superstitions.

Reading Response #4: Dave Berry on College

For the past couple of months I have been deciding on what I should be doing for the rest of my life. As most seniors have experienced, it's pretty tough. Making  fun of things or having people do it for you makes you a little more at ease, but not too much.

One of the colleges in Springfield, MO.

 Being in a Sociology class, Dave Barry really does describe it clear. Describing everything in really complicated words for simple tasks sums up a part of sociology. Just putting words in different formats can make you either look smarter or the opposite.

I have never been a fan of science, but I agree 100% on the fact of preciseness. Every little move of yours, every little drop of the chemical can end up in something not good.

But thankfully we have loose subjects like English. Exercising the creative part of the brain, a person can think and use their imagination.

Sleeping in class. This is probably why we spend 1,998 hours of our lives in college not learning anything.

"After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed

 to choose a major, which is the subject you intend to memorize 

and forget the most things about."

Life is super tough when it comes down to what you want to major in. Luckily for us, he summarized about 6 subjects that were short, sweet and to the point. Everywhere that we go we have some sort of pressure, and lucky for us (sarcasm) it is our life decision. In school we get questioned all the time on what we want to be or what college we're going to. I bet that we'll all be glad for this to be over but at the same time trying to enjoy our senior year. Dave Barry pretty much nailed it on his description of college which falls closely to the description of high school.

Reading Response #3: Of Poseidon

Emma and Galen are definitely not oil and water. They go hand in hand with each other! Every experience, every fight brings them closer together. When Galen flatters her, he also flatters himself because of the connection that they feel  between each other.

In love at the beach. Every half-sea creature's favorite place.

And he can't let Grom mate with the wrong person. Since Nalia left him he was not able to find another mate. So Galen, Toraf, Dr. Milligan and the rest of the crew are trying to figure out who is the unknown person the are sensing in the water. In the middle of it they suspect that Emma's dad is the one who is half Poseidon. It's not him. Turn out it's Emma's mom, Nalia. Nalia was suppose to mate with Grom, Galen's older brother, but she ran away. All of those years were lost, and to regain is technically not an option.


Grom and Nalia always liked each other, until she started pulling away all the time.
 

                                   Mrs. McIntosh gives him a quizzical look but doesn't
                                   say anything when he reaches he side. He plunges his
                                   hands into the dishwasher. And sense her immediately.
                                   The stalker. The look in her eyes, the way her mouth
                                   hangs open, the way she glances down at the trident on
                                   his stomach, is all the confirmation he needs. "You've
                                   got a lot of explaining to do, Nalia." (Page 324)

Now they are reuniting and she runs away. And that's how the book ends. Luckily, there is a sequel for all of you who would like to read it. It was an interesting book with a bit more than a sprinkle of romance in it. It included mysteries that were not solved so that annoyed me. But that is why it has two more books following the next.