Non Fiction Reading Response

Article: "Whats At Stake"
Who will be elected as president in November 2012?

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both have different idea in store for the future of America. The both share different sides on social and economical issues.

As the first African American president, US citizens expected a lot from President Obama, Because America was going through financial crisis since the great depression, and fighting two wars.
 Obama is running for president again since 2008, but this time he didn't promise his citizens anything. November 2012.
 America will decide, Will Mitt Romney, a republican from Massachusetts win? Or Will Democratic Barack Obama be re elected. "


"For most of the last year, Obama's approval rating has been stuck below 50 percent - dangerous territory for president seeking re-election" (upfront Obama vs Romney 6)

Obama will be up for competition this year due to the amount of votes he lost, some people do believe that he will win, some people don't.


(Upfront 7)

Barack Obama; Democrat, age 51, Chicago,	Mitt Romney; Republican, age 51, Massachusetts
Economy: Rescue of Wall Street, Auto Companies to keep the US from falling into depression.	Unemployment rate to get the economy growing & reduce government spending regulations.
Taxes: Raising the tax on wealthy as part of a deal to tackle the federal debt	Lower taxes for all individual, businesses to spur economic growth
Afghanistan: Bring the troops home, and send them back in 2014	comes back depending on the grounds of military advice.
Health Care: Give people affordable health care	take a different approach.
Energy: Investments, renewable energy, increase US oil and gas production	streamline regulations to make it easier to increase domestic oil and gas productions
Immigration: Stopped the illegal immigrants from being brought as a kid, and give them temporary work permits.	crack down illegal immigrants, and form an illegal immigration system
Social: Legalize gay marriage.	Marriage between a man and woman only.

Obama and Mitt Romney have different plants for the future of USA, and now it is all up to the voters.

First Blog Post of 2K13

"the absolutely true diary of a Part-time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

This book, is supposed to be a diary, according to the title, but it is more of a book, about the life of a Indian  boy living in poverty, that struggles in his life. His name is Arnold.

Arnold has to deal with his sister that was locked in the basement for 6 years, and he never got to know her well, until she got married and moved to Montana and got married without telling anyone, and she wrote letters to Arnold. Mary dies, and Arnold has to grief about her death for a very long time.

Arnold needs to deal with his best friend Rowdy, who's father is drunk and abuses Rowdy all the time, which gives him the strength to fight, Rowdy is very tough and starts to hate Arnold around the middle of the book to the end.

Arnold needs to deal with his drunk father, the family barely has any money, and his father takes all the money that is left home, and goes to a bar and gets wasted. Later on, Arnold and his mother always have to go on a hunt to find him.

Penelope, Arnold gets beaten up a lot, and after his grandma died, he couldn't take it, he decides to start going to a school that is 22 miles away, which is filled with upper class kids, and there are no indians in that school. The first person to actually talk to Arnold is Penelope, Arnold develops a crush on Penelope and he knows that he would never have a chance with her, He makes alot of friends in his new school, and they all support him, but they dont know his real secret, the fact that he lives in poverty but his friends find out later in the book. Penelope cares alot about Arnold, and Arnold did not expect that, she didn't know what his pain  was like but she always supported him and treated him as a friend, even when everyone hated him in the beginning.

I think that Arnold is a very strong character. He has to deal with so much trouble, and he blames him self for certain things, like the cause of his sisters death. Arnold has to lie to his friends, and he feels like he is in a lot of trouble, and there is a lot for him to deal with.

Arnold is not a normal child, he was born with too much cerebral spinal fluid and it got his brain all disgusting, his thinking and breathing and living engine slowed down and got flooded with the fluid. He had a lisp and a stutter. and everyone always likes to beat him up, And due to this, his head is massive, and he could easily get hurt.

In the end, Arnold gets his friends back and he realizes that his friends is the ones that keep him going.

And i think that he is a very strong character.