Technology makes life much easier but can still be bad for humans. I have a problem that entails cutting on my sleeping hours. I sometimes go to bed at around 12am just because i play my video games and i am on social networks using my phone. I just can’t sleep and cut on my precious sleeping hours because of  my gadgets. It affects me deeply. Sometimes i sleep in my classes and pay no attention.

It will be very hard for me to break out with this habit because i think it is stuck with me. I know it is not healthy for the body. I always try to stop this habit but i cannot. Why? Because i just get to lie down on the bed and be texting or tweeting with my phone or playing the newest video game out.

I will try very hard to stop this habit as it is not good for me health-wise. Thoreau says in Walden “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” I really need to face the realities of life and know what is right from wrong. Taking this experiment will make me gain back my normal sleeping habit . I will also leave out all my games and go out more to be with nature.

The rut i have encountered for myself over the years is too much tv watching. Ill sit down and waste the whole day away watching pointless tv shows and i get know where. The difficult thing about trying to break this habit will be when im bored or done with homework i will think its ok to watch. Well i know there are really many other productive things that i can do.

This experiment will help me become more productive overall. I will get more done and become less lazy. With the time spared from watching tv i will get all of my school work caught up and have my room tidy and clean. Although i may run out of things to do i will still refrain from watching tv. After experimenting with this project i hope to remain as productive as i am throughout the experiment. I know i will want to view a show or two but i will try hard not too.

Emerson values the natural society very much and he also believes that you must be self-relient.  “Trust thyself” [Emerson 364] as Emerson once said. As i will do just that. I will believe in myself so i can succeed without the need for useless tv watching.

My rut is taking very long naps through out the days. These naps are a bad habit and the time I use taking naps could be used for something more productive. The most difficult part about trying to break this habit would be trying to find something else to do which is usually why I take the naps but it could also be interesting seeing what I can find productive to do. This experiment will help me achieve something that will benefit me for example I might find an enjoyment for something that I never thought I would enjoy. I may come across new interest and new likings for subjects.  With the time saved I could also just do something fun that I usually do other then take naps. I also hope to gain self-awareness and realize I can be more aware of myself and things around me. “Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one.” (Thoreau 384)

Everyone has a fault;  whether it’s big or little, no one is perfect. I have many ruts, but the main one I’m focusing on is cursing. Cursing makes my life less simple because sometimes I accidently say it and I get in trouble. Cursing makes a young lady look ignorant and uneducated. The reason why cursing will be hard to break, is because I curse in almost every sentence. I curse so much that one time I was with talking to my friend and she said I cursed and I did not believe her because I did not remember. This experiment will start me on my way to be a better person. You cannot get employed by having a sailors mouth! To help me stop before the start of conversation, I’m going to think before I speak so that I know everything I want to say before it comes out. I also want to look up bigger and more intellegent words to use to replace the curse words. I hope to gain more respect from my friend, and family during this experiment. These words from Thoreau are so very true “Our life is frittered away by detail.”

Blog Post 10

This book is about this girl name Raven Atkins who is the princess of  Flint, Michigan. Her father is Benjamin Atkins, he is a big time drug dealer. Everybody in Flint, Michigan knows who he is and knows not to mess around with his family. He has a wife name Justine Atkins and two daughters. His other daughter name is Morgan Atkins, she is deaf. For one of my reading themes I am gonna use is prediction. I predict that Raven meets a boy that she falls madly in love with. The boy she meets is gonna try to take her father down off of the drug tower.

Previously in Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green, Andi came into another encounter with Emily and Sophia’s mother. Andi knew that their mother was an alcoholic. But she questioned to as why their mother always drank on her times she has with her kids? Sophia (Ethan’s youngest daughter) made Andi really puzzled when she said “All grown-ups drink wine all the time! “Mommy drinks wine all the time!” Andi told her stepdaughter that that wasn’t true of course. That made Andi really upset because Brooke’s children find her very unpleasant to be around. Every time the kids leave to go visit their mother, they always are in hurry to come home. The reading strategy I am going to choose is prediction. I predict that Andi will look for help for her stepchildren’s mother, even though she doesn’t like her. It’s not about whether or not if Andi likes Brooke. Brooke needs help, so hopefully somebody helps her go to rehab because if she doesn’t get help, something terrible might happen to their mother.

In the book they are having a huge storm where there all power is out and storms are heavy, her mom went overboard and made a plan that consists of “I had a lot of cash on me, so I filled a wagon and then I went back and got Miss. Nesbitt and then Jonny and you so we could each get wagons to fill.” Whenever we have a huge storm my mom also feels the need to go to the store and buy everything to last us for a lifetime. They got so much from the store because they “were stocking up for the end of the world.” Sometimes when we do have huge thunderstorms and huge winds sometimes i feel like the world is going to end too. The feeling that the world is going to end is always scary and I can feel how she has got to be panicking and frightened she is right now. With the huge storm and some of the world sunk under water due to the high tides I would be freaking out just like she is right know.

Connection- Lia Niebauer

In my book the main character is named Valerie. Her boyfriend, Nick murdered some people that he did not like and shot Valerie before turning the gun on himself. Before the shooting occured he started “hanging around with this guy, Jeremy” who was a pretty bad influence on Nick (Brown). The book began to talk about hours beofre the shooting and how Nick was texting, Valerie about the people he hated and how he wish he had a gun. I think that Jeremy had something to do with Nick murdering the people he did not like. In the book Valerie talks about how much Nick had changed when he started hanging out with him and that is why I think he might have had something to do with the shooting.

Tiarra Andrews-Owens-Evaluation

The book I am reading is called “Sweethearts”. The main character Jennifer seems to be insecure because of her past. When she was in elementary school she was an outcast that was constantly teased because of her look and only having one friend, Cameron Quick who moved away in fifth grade. Now that she is in high school she has changed her entire look and is known as Jenna the popular girl with many friends and an attractive boyfriend. Jenna is confronted by her past every now and again and when her friends ask what is wrong she doesn’t reply because none of them know about her younger days. She doesn’t tell anyone about how much she misses Cameron because she doesn’t want people to judge her and tease her again so she keeps everything to herself.

JaVaun Martin: Evaluation

In this chapter my character is going through some tough times with her boyfriend, and some of her very close friends. She has to fae many dicisons she do not really want to make. Such as if she should break up with her boyfriend, should she send her daughter with her mother, and should she stop being friends with a girl she has been friends with since they were little. In my opinion I think she should just follow her heart, and think about her discisons before she makes them. That way she wont