Reading Response 2

I am currently reading Gazelle. This is a book telling the stories of different people in Cairo. Elizabeth is the main character; she is a thirteen year old girl, who has a wild mother and a dissipating father. Elizabeth’s mother is the epitome of beauty; she is a fair skinned blonde woman within the depths of a dark skinned, dark haired, Cairo. Her mother does not only possess beauty but she has made her beauty a tangible object of jealousy and deep envy. Her mother has a dark soul that craves attention of every man. Her father is analytical and an unbelievably reasonable man that questions the universe in the most ridiculous ways. Her parent’s partnership is inevitably heading to ultimate disaster. To such preconceived notations, her mother disappears into the arms of young pliable men. Elizabeth is left with her father, whom now is an empty recorder of questions with no answers. Along the cleanup of her mother’s destruction, Elizabeth’s heart and newly awakening body is captivated by her fathers close friend, and the city's perfume maker.

This is as far as I have read. I would greatly suggest anyone to read this book. The vocabulary is expansive and the writer is very descriptive.       

My favorite quote so far is, “No one else mothers slept in fields and beat the ground in agony…”

Research Question

Does Cocorosie accurately expose the hidden stereotypes women are held to achieve?

Proposal

Statement of topic:
I will write an essay on CocoRosie.
Cocorosie is two women, Coco and Rosie, that defy standards for women, through their music.

Purpose & argument:
In this essay, I will explore and argue how Cocorosie defys societies standards for women and sterotypes for women. Also, I will define what those standards are, how they pose issues for women, and how Cocorosie is working against them.

Organization:
In my essay I will introduce Cocorosie and provide my thesis statement in my introduction. My thesis statement will be something like, "Cocorosie makes evident and defys the standards society has in place for women." In body paragraphs I will explore the standards and issues that women have in society. As well, I want to present how Cocorosie is working against those issues and standards.

Reading Response 1

I am currently reading Busted. Busted is painless way of learning ACT vocabulary, while still faintly enjoying a story. Busted is a story of a girl named Kim. Kim is a freshmen at Stanford University, but in the story she is on winter break. On break at most universities the dorms close. Due to the shut down of dorms, Kim as to go back home to Morrison. Morrison is a quaint and normal town, but is recently been having a drug problem at the private high school, Hereford. Kim's mother is a chief deputy on the Morrison police force. Being chief deputy, Kim's mom has to solve the drug problem. She has an idea to solve the problem, via using Kim as an undercover cop, at the high school.

In Busted the author, Emma Harrison, uses unsually large vocabulary words. This way the reader is challenged to fix the big vocabulary in his/her long term memory. Some of the words that were new to me were; engender, trepidation, and aplomb.

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New Year Post

 Ten years from now I want to be happy. After highschool, I want to save lives. I will preform brain surgery. I will go see Bali and Dubai, I won't ever stop. I want to fly to the moon, and go visit the sun. I can't chose if I want to live forever, or die tomorrow. Either way, I chose to live for today.


I am reading Beautiful Chaos.