Michael Hoover Tuesdays with Morrie 1st blog

Michael Hoover
Tuesdays With Morrie

Prompt: What are
 your initial reactions to
what you have read in
 Tuesdays with Morrie
thus far.


So far I have read to page forty in "tuesdays with Morrie" written by Mitch Albom and my initial thoughts so far are that this book is different than any that I have read something that is different is the writing style. I feel like the reason the book has such an impact on people when they read it is because there is honesty and no excuses. A example of this is when Mitch is in the car and he says how he feels bad about not seeing his old friend for so long and then waiting in the car while Morrie waits outside. Something that surprised me so far about the book is that it mentions dieing a lot and how Morrie is slowly losing control of his body yet the book maintains a happy vibe, that is so far.

I was surprised how welcoming Morrie was to Mitch because he had not seen him in so long and then he appears on tv and his colleague graduate happens to appear out of the blue. I just thought that was really interesting because it really shows Morries character and how he does not really condone hate or let it make him bitter. I was surprised at how much Mitch remembered about Morrie because they had not seen each other in so long he even called him 'coach', I thought that was good that they had not forgotten about each other it makes the book a lot more easier to read.

Everybody has a bucket list whether it is written down or just in their head. There are a lot of things that I want to do before I die, here is a list:

1:Live on campus
2:Get a Phd
3:Live in the forest for a month
4: make a discovery in space
5:get a Bugatti (I can settle for a Lamborghini)
6: Run a marathon
7: direct a movie
8:bungee jump
9:Jump into an alligator (that is a goal not a joke)
10: Travel around the world at least once

Third quarter reflections

Michael Hoover
Third Quarter reflection blog
Prompts: - 
*In what area do you think you made your biggest improvements in English Language Arts? 

The area that I believe I improved the most upon in English language arts this quarter was getting my work in on time when it was due.  I feel like I struggled in this spot the most last quarter because I would start my homework late a lot and turn it in right on the deadline or a little after. 
Throughout this quarter I really think I was able to stay on top of my work and turn it in before it was due. I think that something that helped me out with this was starting my homework two hours earlier than I usually did. 

Overall the most challenging part of third quarter for me I think would be reading, I have not read that much this quarter. I think that I have this problem because I put reading last a lot of the time when I have things to do like homework and chores in general. Something that I can do to help myself overcome this problem is to read for at least thirty minutes everyday or at least try to squeeze it in. I think that this could help a lot because I tend to do better in school when I read.

Something this quarter that I have accomplished and I am proud of is not getting any twos on my vocabulary tests. Even though vocab is a pretty easy test and we do it every week I feel good that I did not have to retake any of the tests mainly due to the fact that I would have to put more time away for studying. The grade would go on schoology and my mom would have been able to see it which would not be very good.

Michael Hoover Blog 3/10/16

Michael Hoover
Book blog
Book: Year Of the Hangman
Prompt: what is the book mainly about
What do you think is going to happen in the future of your book
Spoiler Alert

In the book "Year of the Hangman" the book is mainly about Britain winning the war and not the U.S.A. The way that they won the war has not come up yet in the book in any war so far. The way that I think that Britain will win the war is by having the leading general be Creighton (main character). The reason that  I think that someone close to him is going to die and he is going to take everything into more consideration and he will become general and help win the war is because the ship got taken over and I think that his uncle might die.

The first event that I think could take place in the future of the book is that Creighton will work for the pirates for a while. Mainly due to the fact  that he said that he was pretty much a slave when they caught him after taking over the ship. The reason that I think Creighton might work for the pirates is because he  has portrayed himself so far as a greedy person that would let someone else die to get a better chance of living for himself. If he does work for the pirates he will probably try to escape because when  he got kidnapped by good people he tried to escape. Now bad pirates have caught him I wonder what he will do now and they will probably let him walk free on the dock.

The second possible event that I think will happen in the future of the book is that Creighton will try to get back to Britain by smuggling himself onto a boat. The reason that I think he will try to do this is because throughout being in America he has been plotting to somehow get back to Britain and his main plan is to jump onto a boat. I feel like he is somehow going to sneak on the wrong boat and get into a lot of trouble because he has been running into a lot of that lately, if he fets back his mom won't take him in that if for sure. 

Personal book blog

"Year of the Hangman" by Gary Blackwood
Prompt: what character do you dislike the most out of the book and why.
What is something that you found bizarre in what you have read so far.

 The character that I dislike the most in the book "Year of the Hangman" by Gary Blackwood is probably Creighton because he takes everything for granted and he causes chaos. There has not been a part in the book were Creighton has been nice to anybody which I found weird because the author usually makes the protagonist a good person. Even after he barley lived from getting kidnapped by pirates he still acts annoyed with everything and everyone around him.

The first thing that I found interesting in the book so far was that Creighton was terrified of going to Florida because it was supposedly the roughest place and also the most easy place to die. The reason that I thought that this was bizarre was because modern day Florida is probably the nicest place that you can live or visit. Another reason that I thought that this was bizarre was because the reason that Creighton thought that Florida was such a bad place was because in school that was what they were taught about the new world and the states.

Some thing else that I found bizarre in the book so far was how Creightons mother had him kidnapped. The reason that I thought that this was bizarre was because some creep did not snatch him off of the street, his mother got him snatched off of the street on purpose. I did not really be live this part of the book at first because I thought that he was just dreaming but it turns out he wasn't. People must have been different back then because my mom would not ship me to Europe or to Britian for being bad.

Butterfly thing links

Joseph's Butterfly blog:http://josephh2.blogspot.com/2016/02/butterfly-project.html?showComment=1456151124640#c4300863186727695180

Devins butterfly blog: http://featherlite10.blogspot.com/2016/02/blog-post.html?showComment=1456755696182


Evils blog: http://eveliac3.blogspot.com/2016/02/butterfly-project-task-four.html?showComment=1457117183548#c317939511630405596

Night blog

Michael Hoover
Night blog
Prompt:

Throughout your reading of Night, you have witnessed many significant changes that Wiesel experiences as a result of his time in the concentration camps. I encourage you to delve deeply into his character and focus on important aspects, such as: his personality, morality, beliefs or values.

Through out the book "night" by Elie Wiesel, I think that Elie changed tremendously from the beginning of the book to the middle to the end. This happened with religion throughout the book because in the beginning he believed in God before he was old enough to start in the middle he started losing faith and at the end he says that his God is dead. On the first page of the book it states "during the day I studied Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue." It says in the book how he decided to start practicing his religion before anyone told him to, so this shows that he is really religiously devoted.

In the middle of the book when Elie Wisel get to the camp and witnesses the horror that went on he starts to think that God is not real or that he just does not care. I thought that this was really weird how he started to doubt his God after all that he praised him, in the book it states "for the first time...I felt why... Should I sanctify his name..." This really shows how the concentration camps broke his soul as well as his body and how he could just give everything up, even his religion. 

At the end of the book or at least close to it he really just gives up 
and explicitly states that there is no point in living which really 
shows that he does not believe in God at all anymore. In the book
 it states " I had nothing to say of my life during this time." I 
thought that this really showed how much his father meant to him 
and how his God had taken him from him.

Michael Hoover "Night" Blog

Michael Hoover
Night Blog
Prompt: How long or in what way do you think that ww2 could have been different if it were in modern day times.

How may Elie's life  be different if ww2 never occurred and Hitler never came into power.

 The first way that I think that the war could have been different is that it most likely would have lasted longer than it did when it actually occurred. With the technology that we have today it allows us to know crucial information in a few hours opposed to back then when it took a few days such as finding out where the enemy was. Nazis could have easily deployed a drone undetected and could have found out in little to no time at all where the ssr were and how much that they were progressing per hour or day. This could have been bad also because if the ssr was closing in, the Nazis would have been able to just kill a whole bunch of the Jews fast using weapons that had to do with chemical warfare instead of having to bring all of them at once.

The way that the war could be different is that it could have been shorter mainly  because we could have used our advance guns and grenades etc... to end the war fast. A weapon today that could have been useful at that time was the stun grenade because it did not pose as much of a risk as the traditional grenade did to carry around and what it would do. If you went in and threw a grenade in a bunker it could kill some of the Jews and also kill the Nazi but if you throw a flash grenade then the Nazi will be helpless and could be taken down with the least amount of damage possible thus saving more Jews.

The way that I thought that Elie's  life may have been different is that he could be working a regular job today and have had a nice good long life. It is hard to imagine what his life may have been like mainly due to the fact that what really happened has just left a print of what life was back in Germany in 1937 till 45. I think that he probably would have been a writer like he is know because he is good at writing about his life and telling the truth about how he felt just like what he said when he had soup after a man was hanged and how it tasted good, he did not lie and say how he was all devastated.