Outside reading

For my outside reading blog post for this Sunday night, I read an Internet article on sauces. This article was about the top five sauces that you want to say away from because they are not good for you. These sauces are high in fat and some are high in sodium, and other stuff that is not good for you if you get to much of it. The top five sauces that are the worst for you are: Alfredo sauce, Full-fat salad dressing, Hollandaise sauce, and finally Bolognese sauce. Alfredo sauce is bad for you because it has a lot of saturated fats which are bad fats. The full-fat dressings are bad for you because they are loaded with fat and calories, things that if you get too much in a day, can be harmful to your health. Hollandaise sauce is full of rich ingredients like lots of butter and eggs. Bolognese sauce has loads of arteries clogging fats in it. Lastly, Gravy (pictured to the right) often ruins great food like turkey. Turkey itself is awesome for you but when you mix it with gravy, that is the wrong thing to do. So just remember to not get too much of these foods and you'll be good.

Hero in a Box tree map

Outside reading

Something that I have been reading out of school for this blog is the book Are You My Mother by P.D Eastman. This is a children's book and I found myself reading it to my cousin that I was babysitting today. This charming story is about a little new born bird that has just been born and cracked out of it's egg and he finds that his mother is not there. This is a great problem in the story and he asks all sorts of different animals if they are his mother. First he asks a Cat, then a chicken, then a dog, and finally then a cow. By this time the bird was very confused and he asked several transportation machines like an old car, a boat, a plane, and a big truck thing. Once he got closer to the truck it picked him up. The poor little bird was very scared but all of the sudden the bird fell off the truck and fell into this nest. Conveniently, this mother was waiting for him at the nest. This story could be appealing to a child because of all of the different sorts of animals in it, although i thought it was getting a bit repetitive and I could see how a child could be very easily bored.

Celebrity Heroes In a Box

I believe that celebrities can be heroes. When I was working on this project I realised how much celebrities give back. In some ways for example financially, or persuasively they are more fortunate than most people. If the celebrity is a good well rounded person, they can give back in awesome ways that would not be possible for the rest of us.

This is a great example of a celebrity giving back. Brad Pitt has started a foundation called the Make It Right Foundation to raise money to hurricane Katrina victims. By doing this there will be at least 90 more homes that will be able to be built because of the contribution of the money that is being received. His goal is to get enough money to build 150 homes.

"Only You Can Silence Yourself,"

These are the words that are on an advertisement to vote on November 4th this year for the Presidential election. Jessica Alba is on this advertisement, and since she is such a popular figure to people across America, she is persuading adults to vote for the President. This is heroic because not just anyone could have that almost "power" to motivate people like that. What this somewhat intimidating add is trying to get across is that Jessica thinks that not voting is even scarier than Hannibal Lecter.

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Click on these web site to see a YouTube video of Carrie Underwood, and another of Kelly Clarkson performing at the American Idol Give Back concert. They are celebrities for their great talent at vocal music. Celebrities can attract others to go to concerts like these that collect money for organizations, or foundations. This particular concert was to raise money to find a cure for HIV/AIDS. Celebrities can be heroes, if they use their popularity in the right ways. They can have that power to get people to donate money were as if some average people were to put on a concert like this, they might not raise as much money as a concert like Idol Give Back because of all of the celebrities that perform at this particular concert.

From this assignment my view of heroes is much more precise because of all the time that I have been thinking about it. I have learned that heroes, especially celebrity heroes, have three main traits. They are influencial, helpful, and have an almost higher rank or power. These artifacts deffinetly show their great amount of influence that celecrities have on society. They are helpful, like when Brad Pitt was organizing the foundation for the hurricane victims. But finally this almost abstract trait of their power. I have the power to persuide, like Jessica Alba's Add for voting. But they also have the power to choose to either use their "power" for good, bad, or just not use it at all. A hero can make a great difference in the world and it is great to have them.

Outside Reading

I was reading the second chapter of the book "Animal Vegetable Miracle" by Barbra Kingslover. My mom recommended me to read it and it was very fascinating. It tell you that in a year, every person consumes roughly 400 gallons of oil. It also says that if every person ate one meal every week that was all organic and home grown we could reduce our oil consumption through food by about 1.1 million barrels of oil per week. This does not seem hard to do and I think everyone should know about this and practice this every week. Another plus to this weekly goal could be that since we will be buying from local farms, it may help small businesses. Also, if people decide to do this, it could help our economy because we will be spending less money on transportation and oil and receive more money in profit for the sellers.

Outside reading

Another article that i read outside of my English 10 class is an article on being "green" and not using aerosol cans. It lets off little things that get into the air that are bad for the environment. The woman who is asking a question in the article thinks it is all about the HCFC in the cans. She wonders if an aerosol can is free of HCFC, then is it "green"? She thinks this because HCFC was the thing that everyone used to think was the cause of the bad aerosol can. The use of aerosol cans can be selfish to future generations that need a clean environment just as much as we do. Polluting the air and creating holes in our only O-Zone layer is extremely harmful to our environment and should be extremely reduced some time very soon. So just remember, try not to use aerosol cans and our world will be a safer place for you and everyone else around you now and forever.
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Outside reading

Something I have read outside of English 10 class is an article on the Internet about making festive pumpkin center pieces for your dinner table right in time for Halloween, conveniently on a Friday this year, and thanksgiving. You cut the pumpkin so it kind of looks like a basket, then you can put flowers, or what ever else you think might look pretty on your dinner table. Also, you can decorate this pumpkin with ribbons or paint so it flows well with your dinning room. I personally think that this looks kind of silly because a pumpkin will rot, and nobody wants that on their table. Although, if you get it off the table before it rots it might be a fun and festive center piece. If you think about it, flowers die and rot too, but they still can be found in several homes all across the world as a beautiful center piece. That is something fun you could do, and see this fall.
URL:http://www.countryliving.com/crafts/projects/fresh-pumpkin-centerpiece

Outside reading

Some thing I have been reading lately is my history notes. I was reviewing over all the notes that I have, so I can do well on my test tomorrow. I reviewed over main vocabulary of our unit, Rome. There was also information on Greece and Athens vs. Sparta. Also, in my test review I went over main people in this time. I found that all of these main people of ancient Greece during this time period were all rulers. One of the rulers was Julius Caesar, a king who convinced his senate and counts to vote for him to become a dictator. Did you know that he was a dictator for ten years and then was killed by his own friends who helped rule with him? That is something that I have read recently, and I hope that this review for my history test will pay off and I will perform well before my nice long M.E.A. weekend.
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4 squares word: Onerous

Outside Reading

What I have been reading recently is a fun article on Oprah Winfrey's income. It states how it was so nice of her to buy each of her audience members a new Pontiac G6 in 2004. Although, what they have concluded is that she makes $523.21 every minute of the day. So, to buy each audience member a car, it really only took about 37 minutes each car to receive that money. For the average middle class house hold in America it would take about 140 days to buy a Pontiac G6. On the other hand, she is very generous with her money and, I believe, is very thankful for her life so far. Although not everyone in the world lovers her, she is good at giving, and hands out free stuff on almost every show that she has. That is what I have learned about this article on Oprah Winfrey.

URL: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/FindDealsOnline/celebrity-buying-power-slide-show.aspx?GT1=33009