Chapter 9 – Locke and Demosthenes
1. There is a real battle, internally and unspoken, between Peter and Valentine. Who is manipulating whom?  Who really has the power?  Peter has the power because he had it planned out from the beginning.
2.  Look up the names Locke and Demosthenes, how do these philosophers relate to the personas of Peter and Valentine?  Locke was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.  And Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens.
3. Why is Ender still angry?  Because he is turning out like Peter.

Chapter 10 – Dragon
1. What kind of leader was Ender?  Why was he this kind of leader?  Ender was a leader that was  tough and strong and used discipline and strategy to make his army the best of them all.
2. What did Ender do to Bean, and why?
3. What does the word Salaam mean?  What could this tell you about the power of religious identity?  Salaam means peace.  Well I guess that saying salaam is making the best of things.
4. What is important about the end of this chapter?  Was Ender’s reaction a mistake by the Battle School teachers, or was it the reaction they wanted?

Chapter 11 – Veni Vidi Vici
1. How does the computer know Ender so well?  Does it really?  THe computer remembers enders old moves and uses it against him.
2. Explain this quote: “Yes. That’s the worst that could happen. I can’t lose any games. Because if I lose any--” (page 198)  Then the world is at stake if ender can't defeat the buggers.
3. Why are the teachers pushing Ender so hard?  To see how far Ender can go.
4. Discuss the importance of the last two sentences of the chapter......?
5. “Veni vidi vici” means, “I came; I saw; I conquered.”  Why is this an appropriate chapter title?  We came we saw we conquered.

CEJ #5

14-foot shark kills man in rare attack off New Zealand beach

Fox News.com  

Off the coast of New Zealand hundreds of tourists witnessed a horrible shark attack.  What happened was the victim Adam Strange, a 46-year-old father of one, had been swimming more than 600 feet from shore.  This attack was one out of twelve shark attacks in the past 180 years.  

What happened was the shark mistaken the swimmer as a seal and charged toward the victim starting a feeding frenzy staining  the sparkling water into crimson.  The blood brought fore more sharks to the scene making it harder to rescue the 46-year old victim.  According to witnesses other sharks joined the attack making it more horrific than ever.

Then police firing shots from a lifeboat and a helicopter chased them off and recovered the dead man's body.  After that witnesses said that the other sharks started circling the victim take bites.  The shark was a great white and was about 14 feet long.  

Wow I thought the Jaws movie was funny. This makes me feel bad.  I can't believe that sharks will be so brutal.  After I read this article I not going into the ocean.  

Chapter 12 – Bonzo
1. How did Ender provoke Bonzo?  How did Bonzo respond?  Ender beat Bonzo is a training but the game wasn't fair for Ender because Graff gave Ender no time to prepare.  So Ender stormed off and Bonzo got more mad because he knew that Ender was better than him.  Then when Ender was in the shower Bonzo Came in and took off his clothes to make it fair and attempted to kill Ender.  But Ender just beats up Bonzo.
2. Who was Stilson? Why was Ender thinking of him?  Stilson was a boy that would bully Ender back on earth when he was a kid.  And he thought about him because he beat him up right before he left to battle school and he recently just beat up Ender.
3. Why does Ender still expect help from the teachers?  Because he knows that he is their only hope.
4. Did you know Stilson and Bonzo were dead? Find the specific clues in this chapter about the deaths.  I know that they're dead because freking Garrett told me.
5. Was Ender justified? Why did they not tell him of the deaths?  These  deaths were actions of self defense.  

Chapter 13 – Valentine
1. “Perhaps it is impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” Explain what this quote means. State an example of this idea.
2. Is it a natural, “good” instinct for humans to be killers? (survival of the fittest)  I have no idea.
3. Discuss the conversation between Ender and Valentine on the raft. What does Ender reveal about himself and his enemies?  They were talking about if he should go to commander school.
4. Discuss Valentine’s conflicting thoughts about her brothers. How have Peter and Ender’s roles shifted? How does Valentine feel about each?  She means that ENder is turing in what Peter used to be.  Valentine is sad about this change.
5. Discuss Graff’s statements about why the war with the Buggers was inevitable.  The Buggers can communicate with their mind and there are more buggers than human soldiers.  

Chapter 14 – Ender’s Teacher
1. What disturbs Ender about Eros? How does Ender figure out the truth about Eros?  ENder didn't feel right about Eros because it used to belong to the buggers.
2. Describe how Mazer is going to be the only teacher Ender has ever had?  Because Mazer has more experience than any one.
3. Why had Mazer been dishonest with Ender? Do you think Ender could have
handled the truth?  No.  It would have be easier because if Ender knew he wouldn't have risked the life of any of the ship leaders that he trained and was close to.
4. Have they pushed the children too far? Was it worth it?  It was if they hadent the buggers would still be alive.
5. Is genocide, or in the case of Ender's Game where an entire alien race is
annihilated, xenocide, ever justified? Was the xenocide of the Buggers inevitable? Why?  Buggers attack earth once humanity kills until there is no more to kill.

Ode to TV

Oh TV om TV

what would I do with out

you

when I turn

you on I feel

the static coming

from your screen

when I turn you off it’s like

you die and when I turn

you on I feel like

Frankenstein

oh TV om TV

what would I do without

you

Orson Scott Card Response

                                                     

I think that it is weird that Orson Scott is a gay hater and yet he has a lot of boy to boy contact in his book Enders Game.  I know someone who says that gay people belong to Satien.  And i really don't like that person for many other reasons.  So I can see how some people might hate Card for being a gay hater.  But why did he write Enders Game why it is going against his beliefs?  Is it for money?  Or to make more people like him?  I don’t know!  All that I know is what Mr. Vack tell me and the Class.  

But Just because Orson Scott Card is a gay hater doesn't mean we can't enjoy his work.  He will die soon like in the next ten years so Mr. vack can buy all the books he wants about Card.  And all the money will go to Orsons non gay children. 

  The movie Enders Game shouldn't be boycotted  because it has nothing against gays or gay marriage.  Plus the movie might be pirated so a new movie will make Card lose money than gain money.  And I know that because popular movies always get pirated  and the warning for piracy right before the move starts is ignored.   

Drone

Drones Can find people and save them if they're in danger.  They Can also find people and kill them and they wouldn't even know that it would hit them.  But when it comes to drones there are a bunch of what ifs.  

What if Obama was on a airplane and a  drone was guarding it.  If the drone malfunctioned and thought that the plain that obama was in was a target?  I'm not educated enough to judge drones and that is something I need to look into.

Gemini Carman

2/6/2013

My Addiction To Video Games

One of game i'm currently addicted to is called Borderlands 2. If there are genres for video games Borderlands 2 would be SiFi.  It takes place on a planet called Pandora and the point of the game is to shoot and loot plus kill Handsome Jack.  
Handsome Jack came to Pandora in search of a element that I forgot the the name of.  The one of the only people on Pandora are bandits that try to kill and rob you.  And threaten to eat your babies.  
The goal of the game is to find volts I already found one in a bandit camp.  My favorite thing about Borderlands 2 is the graphics.  It is like playing in a comic because everything has a black line around it.
Other than that I don't play much video games any more.  I've just been playing music and hanging out in town plus getting school work done. I feel that I can be doing better things than playing video games.

CEJ # 2

Gemini Carman                                        

Bus Passenger Describes Terror Before Crash

    In Tijuana, Mexico a bus full of tired tourists rolled slowly down a mountain road after a day playing in the show at a ski resort.  Playing in the snow sounds fun.  The ski resort is called Big Bear.  That is not a clever name for a ski resort.
    When the bus picked up speed the driver yelled someone call 911.
If I were there I would jump out the window and avoid the crash.  The breaks on the bus went out.  While people try to get cell phone signals others screaming.  
    A Ford Pickup truck was heading up the road when the bus was coming down.  The bus flipped on its side plowing into the Ford Pickup truck.  THe bus was tossing passengers out shattered windows.  Then the bus came to a sudden stop.  
    Seven people were killed and about three dozen were injured.  The bus crash was happened eighty miles east of Los Angeles.  On monday investigators searched for evidence and scrutinized the bus company’s safe history.  
    Wow that is crazy town.  This story reminds me when i was on a bus that broke down.  It was scary because it was in the middle of nowhere on the Oregon trail.

Chapter 1 – Third
1. What attitude motivates the adults to lie to Ender?  The adults lie to Ender because they need to test him and see if he can get into battle school and they don't want him to know because he might mess it up.

2. Explain what it seems to mean for Ender to be born a "Third". Show whether this is
a negative or positive fact to:
- his parents,  They love him but they feel shamed because of themselves because Ender is the third.
- his brother, Peter,  Peter is jealous because he knows Ender is better than him so he is mean to him because a third is better than him.
- his sister, Valentine, His sister is loving and protective to Ender.
- his classmates.  His class mates bully Ender because he is the third.

Chapter 2 – Peter
1. Was Peter joking when he threatened Ender and Valentine?  Support your answer
with evidence from the novel.  Peter is a dark violent child.  but he was joking when he was threatening to kill Ender because at the end peter started laughing and saying I got you good.

2. Why is Peter’s behavior at the end of the chapter so completely different from the
rest of the chapter?  Because peter truly cares about him on the inside and he was saying that he was sorry.  

3. How do you feel about each of these characters (Ender, Valentine, Peter)?  What
did the author do to help create these feelings?  Give examples.  Ender is the main character with heart.  Valentine is a sweet character with a lot of love for Ender.  Peter is a violent child that hates Ender.
Chapter 3 – Graff
1. What did Graff mean about evolution working against girls?  In historyeveryone thought that  war and fighting was man and the wemon would take care of the house and make food.
2. Ender is leaving to learn how to fight a war, yet he takes Graff’s hand. Why does
Orson Scott Card (OSC) include this action?

Chapter 4 – Launch
1. Explain the meaning of the following statement: “Individual human beings are tools
that the others use to help us all survive.”  The statement is talking about soldgers and how there tools to keep their countrey safe.

2. Explain the following quote: "Isolate him enough that he remains creative -
otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him." Your answer should
include the terms: isolation, creative, adopt, lose. 

They need to keep Ender from the other group of children or he will adopt other behaviors and he could lose his creativity.  

3. Did Ender mean to break the other boy’s arm?  What does this incident tell us aboutEnder?  Is it acceptable to do despicable things for survival?  Why or why not? 

Ender didn’t mean to break the other boys arm he was just going to catch it.  This shows that Ender isn’t aware of his own strength.   And it is to do despicable things for survival because your life could be at stake.

Chapter 5 – Games
1. Ender works hard to express his feelings in private and not show homesickness in
front of any other person. Is it healthy for him or not?   What is positive and what is
negative about showing feelings?  What is positive and what is negative about not
showing feelings?  I don’t think it is healthy because other kids will make it supper unhealthy

CEJ #1

Gemini Carman

That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think

Oh my God. I can't believe that my cat is dangerous.  I cuddle with my my cat all the time well she cuddles with me when i'm asleep.  In the article it said that studies were shown that cats kill  12.3 billion mammals a year not even counting the feathered kind.  And most of them are native mammals so that is not good.

That is outstanding.  All that my cat does is eat sleep and sleep more .  So I can't see how cats are ruthless killers to mammals.  More birds and mammals die at the mouths of cats, the report said, than from automobile strikes, pesticides and poisons etc.  

Cat are really cool creatures.  But i'm still having trouble believing that cats kill all these mammals.  Well I guess that nature.