Book Title: Now and Zen
Pages Since Last Week:190
Pages Since Semester: 302
Weekly Summary: Nori was chosen to study abroad abroad in Japan with other students across the seven seas. Nori made new friends like Astushi, a Japanese local, and a few other abroad students while learning and touring around Japan.
Weekly Thoughts: When Nori and other students visited the onsen, the natural hot springs pool, she did not feel comfortable. Young girls, teenagers, and women today are universally under the pressure to look up to a certain standard of beauty. Some girls in the asian cultures, believe it is better to have light skin tone, bright eyes, and light hair( based on a teen survey). Media and widely accepted American culture tell you that beauty means only looking this way and nothing else. Not all girls are born with the light hair or bright eyes. Beauty is something that is within oneself and should not be based upon the peripheral vision. Happiness and comfortableness within oneself is true beauty.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Blog #3
Book Title: Would I lie to you
Pages Since Last Week: 123
Pages Since Semester: 123-190
Weekly Summary: Dan is confused with his sexuality with after discovering himself having a possible entanglement with his friend Greg(because Dan was drunk). Nate and Blair hold hands throughout the night as they slept.
Weekly Thoughts: Nate and Blair has been known as the two who are meant to be together. No matter how many times Nate cheats on her nor how many times they break up, they both end up falling for each other all over again. I guess sometimes, when you build a strong relationship with someone, you feel that no matter how you treat them, you know that in the end they will still forgive you, because of what you have had was so strong and valuable that all is forgiven. Nate and Blair have always felt this strong special love bond that they had, and with all the cheating and heartaches, she still has room for him in her heart. I do not think that Blair is being pathetic for accepting Nate even though he has put her through misery. I think Blair understands that a young boy like Nate is sometimes ruled over by his body instead of his head. Blair just has the heart to forgive, or that maybe once she has felt “ownership” of Nate, she is unable to permanently move on and let go. She is definitely a conventional person. There are people out there that are unable to let go of certain things and sometimes suffer in pain by letting life take over you instead of you taking over life.
Pages Since Last Week: 123
Pages Since Semester: 123-190
Weekly Summary: Dan is confused with his sexuality with after discovering himself having a possible entanglement with his friend Greg(because Dan was drunk). Nate and Blair hold hands throughout the night as they slept.
Weekly Thoughts: Nate and Blair has been known as the two who are meant to be together. No matter how many times Nate cheats on her nor how many times they break up, they both end up falling for each other all over again. I guess sometimes, when you build a strong relationship with someone, you feel that no matter how you treat them, you know that in the end they will still forgive you, because of what you have had was so strong and valuable that all is forgiven. Nate and Blair have always felt this strong special love bond that they had, and with all the cheating and heartaches, she still has room for him in her heart. I do not think that Blair is being pathetic for accepting Nate even though he has put her through misery. I think Blair understands that a young boy like Nate is sometimes ruled over by his body instead of his head. Blair just has the heart to forgive, or that maybe once she has felt “ownership” of Nate, she is unable to permanently move on and let go. She is definitely a conventional person. There are people out there that are unable to let go of certain things and sometimes suffer in pain by letting life take over you instead of you taking over life.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Blog #2
Book Title: Would I lie to you
Pages Since Last Week: 1-19
Pages Since Semester: 19-123
Weekly Summary: Dan goes to work and is greeted with a new coworker. Nate, Serena, and Blair all reunite.
Weekly Thoughts:Before Dan used to be the guy who no one knew. Customers would just call him hey "you" and "that guy," but now that Jeff, the new employee, is around, Dan is more than gleeful. Every year in school, a new student occasionally transfers to your school. At first you would be the "new girl" or "new boy." No one likes to be the new student because all this attention is shunned upon you, like who is she and where did she come from. People love to talk and listen of good gossip and stories. Besides from that, being new is always tough. You have to adjust your whole lifestyle again, or do you? Does the environment around you make you you or do you make the environment fit you? I guess this answer all depends on who you are whether being passive or impassive. Dan is more of a passive character, where he does not exactly go directly for his goals. Dan being a passive character, let's the environment shape him. Since he waited for a new employee to arrive to solve his troubles instead of telling the customers that his name is Dan Humphrey.
Pages Since Last Week: 1-19
Pages Since Semester: 19-123
Weekly Summary: Dan goes to work and is greeted with a new coworker. Nate, Serena, and Blair all reunite.
Weekly Thoughts:Before Dan used to be the guy who no one knew. Customers would just call him hey "you" and "that guy," but now that Jeff, the new employee, is around, Dan is more than gleeful. Every year in school, a new student occasionally transfers to your school. At first you would be the "new girl" or "new boy." No one likes to be the new student because all this attention is shunned upon you, like who is she and where did she come from. People love to talk and listen of good gossip and stories. Besides from that, being new is always tough. You have to adjust your whole lifestyle again, or do you? Does the environment around you make you you or do you make the environment fit you? I guess this answer all depends on who you are whether being passive or impassive. Dan is more of a passive character, where he does not exactly go directly for his goals. Dan being a passive character, let's the environment shape him. Since he waited for a new employee to arrive to solve his troubles instead of telling the customers that his name is Dan Humphrey.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Blog # 1
Book Title: Would I lie to you
Pages Since Last Week: 19
Pages Since Semester:1-19
Weekly Summary:Serena and Blair are being studied from models so they can capture their essence. Nate is working at his Coach's house.
Weekly Thoughts:
In life, we are faced with choices. Sometimes it just feels like, of all the choices that are available to us, you cannot help but ponder, if the options that are available to you are because of your previous actions. In this book, Nate stole some prescribed pills from his lacrosse coach and is now spending his summer fixing the Coach's boat. Now working at his Coach's house, another problem arises where he is in a blackmail type situation-the Coach's wife wants Nate to do her a little favor and if he does not do this, she could report to her husband, the Coach, that Nate was smoking pot. Currently, nothing is in his favor. Life is what you make of it. Nate chose drugs, stealing, which has all lead him to another sticky situation-he is faced with having to favor the wife or being settled with a long time withholding of his high school diploma.
Pages Since Last Week: 19
Pages Since Semester:1-19
Weekly Summary:Serena and Blair are being studied from models so they can capture their essence. Nate is working at his Coach's house.
Weekly Thoughts:
In life, we are faced with choices. Sometimes it just feels like, of all the choices that are available to us, you cannot help but ponder, if the options that are available to you are because of your previous actions. In this book, Nate stole some prescribed pills from his lacrosse coach and is now spending his summer fixing the Coach's boat. Now working at his Coach's house, another problem arises where he is in a blackmail type situation-the Coach's wife wants Nate to do her a little favor and if he does not do this, she could report to her husband, the Coach, that Nate was smoking pot. Currently, nothing is in his favor. Life is what you make of it. Nate chose drugs, stealing, which has all lead him to another sticky situation-he is faced with having to favor the wife or being settled with a long time withholding of his high school diploma.
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