1. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better.
2. 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.
3. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
4. 61000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.
5. Only humans sleep on their backs.
6. Your body odor is unique to you, unless you have an identical twin.
7. The IRS admits that one in fie people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.
8. A cocroach can live for several weeks without its head.
p.s. I stopped at 8 because its my lucky number! :)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Angela's Ashes Chapter 16
Frank delivers a condolence telegram to an Englishman named Mr. Harrington, who has lost his wife. Mr. Harrington, who has been drinking, insults the Irish and tries to force Frank to sit and mourn with him. He makes Frank drink sherry. When Mr. Harrington goes to get more alcohol, Frank is left with the corpse. He starts wondering if he can save her, a Protestant, from eternal damnation. He decides to baptize her with the sherry, and as he does this, Mr. Harrington comes back and finds him. Mr. Harrington stuffs a ham sandwich in Frank’s mouth, and Frank vomits out the window onto Mrs. Harrington’s rosebushes. Frank then escapes by jumping through the window into the rosebushes and vomit below. Mr. Harrington reports Frank and gets him fired, but the priest writes a letter to the post office, and Frank is rehired.
Frank delivers a telegram to an old woman creditor named Mrs. Brigid Finucane. Frank agrees to write bullying letters to her debtors in return for a few shillings. He uses difficult and obscure words in the letters, which intimidate the debtors into paying. Some of the recipients of the letters are Frank’s friends and neighbors, and Angela says that whoever is writing the letters should be boiled in oil, but Frank justifies his behavior to himself by thinking of how badly he wants to get to America.
Frank walks away from a post office exam and takes a job delivering newpapers for a man named Mr. McCaffry. When Frank's boss hears that he walked away from the post office exam he decides that Frank thinks he is too good for a post office job.
I am proud of Frank... It seems as though his heart is in the right place. I like the fact that he wants to help the soul of Mr. Harrington's wife. It is a shame that he gets punished for doing so... I feel as though bad things keep happening to Frank but because of the good which Frank does I feel as though he will be rewarded in the end!
Frank delivers a telegram to an old woman creditor named Mrs. Brigid Finucane. Frank agrees to write bullying letters to her debtors in return for a few shillings. He uses difficult and obscure words in the letters, which intimidate the debtors into paying. Some of the recipients of the letters are Frank’s friends and neighbors, and Angela says that whoever is writing the letters should be boiled in oil, but Frank justifies his behavior to himself by thinking of how badly he wants to get to America.
Frank walks away from a post office exam and takes a job delivering newpapers for a man named Mr. McCaffry. When Frank's boss hears that he walked away from the post office exam he decides that Frank thinks he is too good for a post office job.
I am proud of Frank... It seems as though his heart is in the right place. I like the fact that he wants to help the soul of Mr. Harrington's wife. It is a shame that he gets punished for doing so... I feel as though bad things keep happening to Frank but because of the good which Frank does I feel as though he will be rewarded in the end!
Monday, May 16, 2011
SCHOOL!
ahhhh! i have had sooo many papers, powepoints, essays, projects, and tests recently! it is becoming so so stressful! I know it is the end of the schoolyear and that is what i should expect but I just wish that highschool was like middleschool or elementary school where the end of the year menat more class parties and more recesses! I know thats wishful thinking and that ive outgrown that age but i sure would love to just go back for one day!... well anyways i have to get back to homework!
Angela's Ashes Chapters 15
On his fourteenth birthday Frank goes to the post office to start his first day of work but learns that he does not start till the following Monday. People at the post office laugh at Frank's raggedy clothes so his aunt Aggie takes him shopping for new clothing.
A week later he starts his new job as a temporary worker but recieves less than everyone else because he is a "temporary worker". Frank recieves his first wages and takes Micheal to get fish and chips then to a movie where they get chocolate. Frank decides that instead of using his money he gets every week on food he would save up his money so that he could go to America by the time he is twenty.
Frank delivers messages to many people who are too old and sick to get out of bed. Trying to help them Frank gets their groceries and cashes their money orders even though it could jeopardize his job.
Angela begins frequently visiting Frank and then decides to move back with Frank at Ab Sheehan's house permanently. Along with Angela Frank's brother Malachy returns home from Dublin so the whole family is reuinited. Frank gives most of his paycheck to Angela and continues to enjoy work.
One day Frank met a girl, Theresa when delivering one of his telegrams. Because he fell off his bike she tends to his bloody cuts. This TLC ignites a spark between the two kids and they engage in sexual relations. Frank goes back and visits her frequently until one day he found out she was in the hospital and then eventually dies. Frank is worried that Theresa went to hell becaue they engaged in sexual relations before marriage, so he prays for Theresa's soul to be at peace.
The more the book progresses the more I begin to like Frank and the man he is becoming. He has deffinately strayed from his old ways. I adore the fact that he helps the elderly with their money orders and their groceries even though it may cost him his job! I mean sure, he did some bad stuff with a girl which i dont agree with but he has come a long way from where he was! I also find the fact that he gives most of his paycheck to Angela to be very sweet! :)
A week later he starts his new job as a temporary worker but recieves less than everyone else because he is a "temporary worker". Frank recieves his first wages and takes Micheal to get fish and chips then to a movie where they get chocolate. Frank decides that instead of using his money he gets every week on food he would save up his money so that he could go to America by the time he is twenty.
Frank delivers messages to many people who are too old and sick to get out of bed. Trying to help them Frank gets their groceries and cashes their money orders even though it could jeopardize his job.
Angela begins frequently visiting Frank and then decides to move back with Frank at Ab Sheehan's house permanently. Along with Angela Frank's brother Malachy returns home from Dublin so the whole family is reuinited. Frank gives most of his paycheck to Angela and continues to enjoy work.
One day Frank met a girl, Theresa when delivering one of his telegrams. Because he fell off his bike she tends to his bloody cuts. This TLC ignites a spark between the two kids and they engage in sexual relations. Frank goes back and visits her frequently until one day he found out she was in the hospital and then eventually dies. Frank is worried that Theresa went to hell becaue they engaged in sexual relations before marriage, so he prays for Theresa's soul to be at peace.
The more the book progresses the more I begin to like Frank and the man he is becoming. He has deffinately strayed from his old ways. I adore the fact that he helps the elderly with their money orders and their groceries even though it may cost him his job! I mean sure, he did some bad stuff with a girl which i dont agree with but he has come a long way from where he was! I also find the fact that he gives most of his paycheck to Angela to be very sweet! :)
Monday, May 9, 2011
Poetry Anthology
I decided to centralize my poems around one poet; Tony Hoagland.
Poems:
America
A Color of the Sky
Personal
Beauty
Grammar
Leaving Yourself Behind
Poems:
America
A Color of the Sky
Personal
Beauty
Grammar
Leaving Yourself Behind
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden
This article really interested me.... As I was reading through the article it seemed like I was in a mystery movie or book! or even one of the shows you see on CIA.. with the CIA following one of Bin Laden's most trusted couriers and planning the perfect attack on the building where Bin Laden resided. As I read through this article the suspense just kept building and when I read the words "Of the five dead, one was a tall, bearded man with a bloodied face and a bullet in his head" I got the chills! This must be such a rewarding feeling for all of the US defense. However, this monumental event almost seems a little bittersweet.. Yes Bin Laden is dead, however, his network still remains... Is this going to be a situation where if you cut off the head of the network it will fail?... or will it grow two more heads?... Another concern is retaliation..... Bin Laden is dead, relieving some stress from American's but the stress of possible and probable retaliation is another stress we now have to deal with.... As cheesy and unrealistic as this sounds.. I truly just wish there were no issues and everyone could just get along!
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Anglea's Ashes Chapter 14
Angela sends Micheal off to Uncle Ab Sheehan's house with food for Frank. Micheal, wanting his brother to join him asks Frank to come with but Frank refuses. However, it breaks Frank's heart to see Micheal walk away with his ragged clothes and broken shoes. One day, Uncle Ab refuses to give Frank food and so Frank is forced to steal milk and bread from wealthier houses.
Frank spends his time in the library reading up on inapropriate topics and realizes that his father has lied to him about certain things. After returning home from the library and the park Frank notices Uncle Ab had hidden a loaf of bread in his pocket. Frank steals a slice with a glass of water to make him feel more full. Because his clothes are cold and wet from activites at the park he puts on his grandmothers wool dress and goes to bed.
It is sad to see all the bad influences in Frank's life... His father who is constantly drunk and just wreaking havoc in the McCourt household and now his Uncle Ab who seems to be just like Frank's father... It seems as though Frank's conscience is trying to turn him in the right direction but the fact that Frank sometimes has no food to eat he must do bad things in order to survive... Just thinking about the life which Frank has to live stresses me out!
Frank spends his time in the library reading up on inapropriate topics and realizes that his father has lied to him about certain things. After returning home from the library and the park Frank notices Uncle Ab had hidden a loaf of bread in his pocket. Frank steals a slice with a glass of water to make him feel more full. Because his clothes are cold and wet from activites at the park he puts on his grandmothers wool dress and goes to bed.
It is sad to see all the bad influences in Frank's life... His father who is constantly drunk and just wreaking havoc in the McCourt household and now his Uncle Ab who seems to be just like Frank's father... It seems as though Frank's conscience is trying to turn him in the right direction but the fact that Frank sometimes has no food to eat he must do bad things in order to survive... Just thinking about the life which Frank has to live stresses me out!
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