Author: Cristina

Brave New World

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a very fascinating book about categories in humanity by genetics and making everybody in levels and you could never been the highest level and not because you aren’t good enough but because you were just in that category and there was  nothing you could do about it. The books left me with a lot of questions and doubts  like in a future this could be my world in some ways this Is like the world im living in now and is really scary because if you think about it 50 years ago divorce or cheating wasn’t acceptable but now 60% of marriage end in divorce and at lest in Mexico I don’t know if here but im Mexico we do have categories id different like with money or you’re families last name but still and that when you know the world is changing a lot scince 1932.

I think a lot of  people now more than before fell more like Bernard  because he doesn’t  fit and I think all of us sometimes don’t fit at all and feel a little like Bernard and more if you see other people fitting in.

Something I really didn’t like was the ending it wasted that understandable  and you need some guidance in all the book for me there were a lot of words  that I didn’t understand and had to ask for them.

After all I would totally recommend this book because it makes you think about you’re like and how you can wat you’re time in so little time we have and Aldo about the future how is it going to change we don’t know.

Personal Writing #5

Strikes

I don’t like strikes, for the day student that don’t know what strikes are they are a penalty for breaking  a dorm rule if you get 3 in a week you get restorative justice this week I have 7 witch means I have 2 this week but the worst part is that I have to get up at 8:40 to do chores. In my opinion its okey to put strikes but my strikes were for night wandering but I couldn’t sleep so I went to nicky’s room to get a melatonin pill and that is unfair because if not I could have slept and I would have been late for breakfast and I would get a strike. My other strikes were for being late for study hall and bedtime those are fair but they should give us like a 5 min buffer. I was planing on sleeping in on Saturday but I can’t because I have the 2h chores.

Personal Writing #6

International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8. This date commemorates the historic struggle of women for equal rights and participation in society and politics.

International Women’s Day was officially recognized by the United Nations in 1975, but its origins date back to the early 20th century. In 1908, a group of socialist women in New York organized a demonstration to demand better working conditions and the right to vote. Since then, March 8 has become a day to remember the achievements and challenges faced by women around the world.

Every year, International Women’s Day is celebrated with events and activities around the world to highlight the importance of gender equality and promote the active participation of women in society. It is a day to honor and support all women, as well as to recognize the work that still needs to be done to achieve equal rights and opportunities for all people, regardless of gender. In Mexico woman cannot leave there houses that day or go to school.

IREJ#6

In The summer I turned pretty Belly was doing what she calles night swim she describes how she was so obese with Conrad but she felt like she was having more of a connection with Jeremiah. Jeremiah called belly ask her If he could join and she said yes. They start talking about anything and after a while they kissed.After the kiss Belly couldn’t think of anything else.

I went back to my room and got under the covers. I closed my eyes and replayed and replayed what had just happened. Jeremiah’s lips had touched my lips. My lips were no longer my own. They had been touched. By Jeremiah. I had finally been kissed, and it was my friend Jeremiah who’d been the one to do it.

Brave New World

BraveNew World opens In the year 632 AF ; that’s the era after Ford. At the time, Henry Foster was director of the Central London Hatchery. he lead a tour  of the male students to the Hatchery , a biological assembly line where the world´s population is artificially produced and socially conditioned. Henry Foster explained what happened in the fertilization and boiling rooms. After that, he takes the men to the social presentation and most females are mode free steril each fertilized egg produce 8 to 96 buds that becomes identical beings. there are different categories.

Alfa /Beta/ Gemma / Delta / Epsilon

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.”

Daniel Willingham

Chapter 5 of “Outsmart Your Brain” by Daniel Willingham is titled “Memory is the Residue of Thought” and focuses on the role of memory in learning and thinking.

Memory is essential for thinking and learning: Willingham emphasizes the importance of memory in thinking and problem-solving, stating that “thinking is memory in action.” Without memory, we would not be able to recognize patterns, make connections between different concepts, or build upon our previous knowledge.

 

IREJ#5

In the summer I turned pretty Susannah the mom of Jeremiah and Conrad told belly she had a surprised for her birthday she was going to be a debutante and first she rejected but then she said yes the problem was who was going to kill be  escorted by Belly

“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble is too difficult to overcome.”

IRJE#4

The summer I turned pretty is about a girl named Belly that loves summer because she goes to Cousins beach where she falles in love with 2 brothers Jeremiah and Conrad her mom best friends children but she  has always since she was little she was in love with Conrad Belly has had a glow up over and the 2 boys notice it.

Something looks different about you,Belly I braced myself for the punch line. “What? I got contacts.” I wasn’t completely used to myself without glasses either. My best friend Taylor had been trying to convince me to get contacts since the sixth grade, and I’d finally listened.
He smiled. “It’s not that. You just look different.” I went back to the car then, and the boys followed me. We unloaded the car quickly, and as soon as we were done, I picked up my suitcase and my book bag and headed straight for my old bedroom.

Utopia

Utopia is an imagined perfect society or community, often pictured in literature or philosophy, where everyone lives in deal conditiones with no poverty, inequality, or others socials problems. It is an ideal or perfect state of society, where all the needs and wants of the citizens  are met, and  everyone lives in harmony and happiness. The concept of utopia has been explored by many thinkers throughout history, and there have been various ideas and visiones of what a utopian society could look like.However, it is generally accepted that a truly perfect society  may be impossible to achieve due to the complexities and imperfections of human nature and society.

PW #4 – Acapulco

Acapulco is a beach 4 hours away from Mexico City that people go the with friends family etc its a beach for everything because they are beach clubs that are for families or just clubs at night and parties it so much fun I considere it my happy place.

I have a house there and it has one of the most amazing views for me my favorite part is that I go to the sea in our boat and I water ski there and is really fun the fun part about Acapulco is that it also has a river but is more foe water skiing after that we take the food out and we eat there and for the end of the day we are all red for being in the sun so much.

Reflection Unit Final

In my reflection I have to read  and write more in English because I don’t know how to be organized in a paragraph and imbruing to understanding better, I was thinking maybe I could come up with the ideas and after I could  write things that are more relatable to the assignment not just putting in the paragraph stuff  that just went into my mind and thinking pother people are going to get that too. I also have to work on spelling because its a bit hard for me.

Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel is a very famous singer in Mexico  that sings in Spanish and Italian. Most people  call him “El Sol de Mexico” that means “the Sun of Mexico”.

He started singing at a very young age because his dad was famous in Argentina so they put a lot of pressure on his he would take pill so that he wouldn’t sleep because he had to do school sing go to concerts and write songs.

His mom disappeared and was never found until  this day and his dad died on 1996 by the way  Luis Miguel was the number 1 most listener in Mexico.

I know Luis Miguel because its my dads god  he’s always listening to him so my brother and I are have always loved his music so we know al off his songs.

Some of my favorite songs are: Ahora te puedes Marchar,La Bikina, La Incondicional,Hasta Que Me Olvides,Culpable o no,México en la Piel,Palabra de honor,Cuando Calienta el Sol,La Chica del Bikini Azul,1+1=2 enamorados, Sabes una cosa, Isabel and Fría como el viento peligrosa como el mar.

IRJE One Us is Lying

In one of us is lying is a very interesting brook from what I read because I haven’t finished it yet but im almost done.

In the school they are there is this Vlog where they tell gossips about everyone at that school at the writer is called Simon Kellher everyone hated him because if he wrote about you you’re social life would be over people would stop talking to you for like a week until the next gossip started, the book starts with 6 people in detention and we don’t know how they are  Simon Kellher , Bronyn Rojas Nate  Mcauley, Cooper Clay, Addy Prentiss, Jake Riorden after that there a crash airside the school so the teacher leaves and Simon is bothering people about the vlog he makes a really dramatic scene and then he drinks water and  he starts  choking with the water.

“This tastes like crap.”

“Simon, she says, shaking his shoulder.” Are you okey ” what happened ? Can you talked ?”

 

IRJE It Ends With Us

It ends with us is a very romantic book, its about a girl named lili who has problems at home and she moves to Boston and  meets this boy called Ryan he is a neurosurgeon. However she has many problems with trusting men. She then starts dating Ryan but then she meets her childhood crush Atlas in a restaurant. She falls involve whilst she is still with Ryan. Ryan finds out and beats lili up. Ryan and lili work there problems out and get married in Las Vegas. I find this book very interesting as I like reading romance novels.

“We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.” Chapter 1, Page 17)

Comparison of Soldier’s Home and All Quiet On The Western Front

Soldier’s Home and All Quiet On The Western Front are very different but they have some similarities like how they both show different emotions and how when they both go back to there homes they both didn’t find any sense or feel at home, they both talked about war how hard was it to and how traumatic it was but the differences are that .

In Soldier’s Home  Kerbs the main character is really isolated he wants to go back to war and in his own experience he enjoyed war. However Paul really disliked war and didn’t want to talk of it.

“All of the times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done something else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves.”

 

All Quiet on the Western front Response

All Quiet on the Western Front was a very good book but also sad and traumatic, thinking about how soldiers would live like that and how they would manipulate them to get into the army and making them think how the army was the best thing that could happened. The things they went through like when the soldiers started dying the living soldiers didn’t know hoe to reacted to celebrate if they because they have more food or too fell sad because of half of the soldier died.

Thinking of how Paul felt when his best friends died he was the last one of his friends and the worst part is that he also died, but is really funny thinking how one day you can be in school and people are talking about a war that might happened and the next day you are signing up for the army because you and you’re friends think is going to be a cool experience and fun and when you come back feeling proud of you’re self for defending you’re country and the next day you lost all of you’re friend and  you haven’t seen you’re family in ages and you’re fears is that you’re are never going too see them.

The worst part is that is you didn’t go to the army people would make fun of you or you wouldn’t have friend or the respect of other, in conclusion I did like the book a lot I would even watch the movie but it did make me thinking about how can people do that kill people just because they have disagreement or they want more territory.

My trip to Asia

In 2019 I went to Asia for mi grandparents 50th anniversary It was really fun we went to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia ,Myanmar,  Laos, and Japan  it was really fun I went with my mom, brother, grandma, grandpa, aunt and  my 2 cousins. I remember the food in Thailand was really good and the building where super big like 50 floors,  we got on some elephants and at first I was scared but after that I loved it and where we were going I wanted to get on an elephant, after Thailand we went to Myanmar is so pretty the I didn’t love the food but there are nudist there and they have this beautiful golden temples and they paint you’re face with like mood but after you wash it of you’re face is really soft.  We went to Hanoi and it was so pretty I just stayed one day but we ate in a bote and it was really fun  After we went to Vietnam and it was amazing its one of my favorite places the food was really good and we went to see a museum about the war and it was really cool they show us there techniques and it amazing. Cambodia Is also really pretty I remember that we  stayed in a hotel but it was surrounded by water  it was really cool. In laos I got sick so I only remember eating at a restaurant .In  Japan me and my brother got lost and we had money so we went to get food and we had a weird thing .It was a really cool expirience and I would love to do it again.

Compering and Contrasting

The story, movie and book are different because they both have different characters and different points of view . The movie talks about the process of the war and what was happening before and during it, they were also many people’s stories not just one. While the book talks more about it, more in detail and just follows one person’s story and talked about how hard was the war for him and his friends. In the short story they talk about after the war and his life after it , that he missed the war and the adrenaline he felt empty without the war  .  After all they are about the same how horrific the First World War was.

Hi , my name is Cristina I’m from Mexico City and is my first year in Brooks.

I like to listen to  The Weeknd, travel and fashion.

My expectation for this year is to read more book and learn more vocabulary .