Anne Frank Adversity

Anne Frank has had so much things that she struggled with in hiding. She couldn't live like an average thirteen year old, having to sit around in her house for hours. And yet she still had the mind set like one, she couldn't go with her friends, she couldn't see her favorite bands anymore, she couldn't even talk about things with her family throughout the day. And yet I haven't gone through this the same exact way, I am empathetic towards her. My mom doesn't often let me go to a friend's house, and even though it is not much, I feel ten times worst knowing that Anne couldn't do even half of what I am able to do, she has gone through so much adversity and a lot of people don't realize how much she had gone through and still try to live her life like a teenager.

Holocaust Review for the Upstanders

People were afraid to stand up, even though most fates were concealed. They didn't want to go through dying and were scared to stand up for everyone. Those who stood up realized that it was over and might as well take a chance, they knew that they were destined to die so they might have well just stood up for everyone else to live a little longer. I don't think I would have made impact even if I tried, with all the torture and strict punishments, I would have not survived to see my myself standing up for hundreds. So I think even if I tried, I would need a strong force like an army to charge through Nazi's in order to be an upstander who succeeded.

A Humbled Man.

Now for this chapter of Best in the World at What I Have No Idea by Chris Jericho (which is a froot book you can buy at a bookstore near you) I want told talk about the chapter "Humbled", it is about Chirs Jericho who had gotten drunk from drinking to much and was calling off everybody. Shawn Michaels (a veteran wrestler) was eating with his family and it was pretty late. Drunkicho (as said by himself) was swearing very loudly and was told be Hurricane Helms (that's like the third wrestler this blog) told him about his swearing, it says "'I'm not swearing that much! Besides, he shouldn't have his kids out this late anyway,' I bleated belligerently. Hurricane told me to keep my voice down and I said defensivly, 'I wasn't talking loudly.' But I was wrong, for Shawn and his family got up and left their table. I hoped I hadn't insulted them and yelled out, 'See you ou tomorrow, man!' He walked out the door without saying anything, but ten seconds later, he stormed back into the room, his eyes ablaze. 'You shut your damn mouth,' he warned me. 'Yeah, my family is up late and if you've got a problem with that, go to hell!'" He left as he glared at me and left the room." Now this quote had sent Jericho to a whole different level, he felt guilty for all he and kind of set him straight. He needed to apologize and fix his problems with Shawn Michaels. But when he was talking with Shawn, Shawn told him this, "'You need to start acting like a top guy if your ever going to be one. Staying up all night drinking and being an a**hole ... you're losing everyone's respect.' I expected him to tell me next that fat, drunk, and stupid was no way to go through life, and I was humbled because I knew he was right. There's a certain level of responsibility in being a top-level performer and certain line you can't cross if you want to be taken seriously as a locker room leader." I think it shows a lot of Jericho's humbleness (well now he was humbled). He wasn't acting like a locker room leader and was calling off guys and being disrespectful. And after chatting with Shawn Michaels, he realized it. He wasn't acting like a leader like he shoud have acting was acting like an a** in his Drunkicho stage. But Shawn showed him he was humbled from acting that way and that is why I like this chapter.

The Best Blogger in the World at What, Blogging of Course!

I have recently started reading the book The Best In The World At What I Have No Idea by Chris Jericho and I love it so much that I am almost done with it, I bought on the book on Friday (1/22)and started to read it, I checked the amount of pages there was and my eyes blew eye of my sockets and yanked back in. It was 400 pages! Now I am typically and slow reader, or so I though, as of today I am on page 335 which is a breakout for me, I guess I am really enjoying the book. Now I found it kind of hard to blog about it because it is Non-fiction and you are kind of limited to what you could write on it. I was thinking of talking about words of the wiser from a chapter, but I actually want to share my favorite chapter and what it means. My favorite chapter had to be "Santino Gump" this chapter had to be the top 5 funniest chapters of this book, in summary it is about a new wrestler who had joined the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) he had gotten a lot of heat (which isn't froot) and was kind of put down by the veterans of the company. I think the biggest part of the chapter is when he had a shoot with a fellow wrestler Bob Holly. What had happened is that Santino botched (messed up) one of the moves in his match. He had said he was the wrestler he ever faced which hurt Santino a lot. Santino had replied back to him, "Come on. Really? The worst? Are you sure? You must've worked with someone worse than me." It amused me that he wasn't trying to be rude and actually thought that he wasn't the worst possible opponent. He was confident enough to say he wasn't the worst It amused me ever more that Holly replied back, "'OK, you're not the worst ... but you are one of the worst!' Santino nodded his head, satisfied with the upgrade." Now even though this really amused me it shows that Santino was a very fortunate guy and sometimes wouldn't take no as a complete answer, but rather have it as a maybe. Jericho is able to describe how Santino acts and how he responds towards conflict which I like a lot.

The United Sta - I mean Kingdom

I would really love to visit the United States, I mean Kingdom so then I can know the difference between the two countries. But really I would love to visit the United Kingdom to see Big Ben, probably the biggest clock of all time. I don't really know if you can go inside but imagine being in there, sure all you'd see would be gears, who knows though. What if the clock is just made up of one thousand little clocks. That would be froot (I just made froot up like a champ)! If not the United Kingdom I would love to visit Denmark, not just because it is the number one rated place to visit, but because it has legoland! I wonder though if there is actually Lego built houses, you could like recontruct house anytime you want! Now that is froot!

The Comparison

I've found a lot of things different between Sorcerer of the North and Battle for Skandia in terms of the characters. In Battle for Skandia. In Battle for Skandia our main characters are Will and Evanlyn. Will, who is brave from his training as a ranger does unwise things in battle which can get him killed, he is saved by Horace a friend who learned a lot from him in terms of respect. Evanlyn who has to be the bravest of them all, risks her life as to being around the presence of Slagor who wants Princess Cassandra dead which is her true identity. Now we have new characters who help Will in his new assignment, the only character who remained is Halt who was Will's mentor for the first four books until his departure to be assigned the Araulen while Will takes over a village of the castles. The first is a dog, who I do not know what what her name will be, it is shown by, "Then, setting the bow aside, Will knelt beside the wounded dog lying in the grass" this is the first charcter that is introduced, the second is John Buttle who was the man who had injured the dog, he is greatly known for abusing animals as said here, "He's a herder by trade. But he does most things. Some say he does his real work at nights along the roads, looking for travelers who are about after dark. But no one's proved it. He's a might too handy with that spear of his for my liking. He's a good man to stay away from." and "If Buttle's the one who hurt that dog, he'll do well to stay away from me," both pieces of evidence showing his description and how he is more cold in terms of his liking and respect. He is brave like Horace and Evanlyn, but not in a good way.

Things That Are Confusing Me

In the fifth book of the series Ranger's Apprentice Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan I am pretty confused as to how it starts. It starts with, "In the north, he knew, the early winter gales, driving the rain before them, would send the crashing against the shore, causing white clouds of spray to burst high into the air." I have to say it starts off pleasantly, but one question, why is he in the north, you can't just change what the storyline is, this is a horrible attempt at showing us how his life is in the future. 'Cause in Battle for Skandia he is heading south, and where is Halt, or Evanlyn? Later it says, "Again, that was his training: to see without being seen; to notice without being noticed." "That was his training"? I thought he chose to be with Halt to train more. In the last book it showed Will saying, "'You do me great honor, your majesty. But my wish is to continue my training as an apprentice." What is Flanagan getting at, did he just not remind us that it's the possible future? I hate the fact that he couldn't explain that this is later in his life! Unexceptionable!