Overcoming Odds (#15)

I am reading Twilight and in this book Edward and Bella have to overcome many odds with Edward being a vampire and Bella being just a normal girl. Bella moves into the same town as Edward and the first time Edward sees her he does not know what is so different about her from everyone else. He cannot read her mind the same way that he can read others and cannot look at her when they sit next to each other in biology. Bella does not know what is wrong with him when he is next to her. As the book goes on, they start to really like each other and Bella has to figure out what is so different about Edward. When Bella figures out that Edward is a vampire is when their real obstacles start coming. Bella does not know how to act around him and Edward is so attracted to her blood that he is afraid that he will kill her. They make it through though and Edward has to control himself when he saves her life because if he took anymore blood she would have died. Edward and Bella find a way to overcome their obstacles in their relationship even when all the odds were against them.
Meyer, Stephanie. Twilight. New York City: Time Warner Book Group, 2005.

Love (#14)

I am reading an A-List novel where Sam is trying to win back the one she loves and Anna is trying to work things out with Ben. Sam is trying to win back Eduardo and will do anything that she can. She loves him so much that she has left him tons of messages and sent tons of things to his room to hopefully win him back with something. One of the craziest things she does because she is so in love with him is that she goes and buys 100 phones from her cell phone severs and has them program them all so that they can only call her number, so whenever he tries to call someone else after they are delivered to his room it automatically goes to her number. In the end Eduardo comes back to Sam and they work out all their problems. Then there is Ben and Anna, their relationship was going really well and then Ben started acting all weird for no apparent reason. He won't tell her what is going on and seems to avoid the question by saying everything is fine anytime she asks. As the book goes on they go up and down in their relationship. By the end of the book Anna finds out what was going and they move past it and end up in a strong relationship.
Dean, Zoey. American Beauty (The A-List Series #7). Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006.

War (#13)

I read an article about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The two wars have already lasted longer than World War II and have taken more troops and money than the government ever expected. These wars have the pentagon thinking about what they are going to do because the old doctrine may not work for much longer with these wars. The wars have taken already more than 170,00 troops which are having to stay longer than expected and cause the government to keep pouring more money into these places. The pentagon is thinking of having to make a new plan for budgeting, planning, and buying weapons with the effects the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused. The Bush administration put into effect a new plan which prevented terrorists from obtaining biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons and defends the American population. The two wars that the US is fighting are causing new strains and problems within our government and have the pentagon seriously searching for a new plan of action to keep our military going.
Shanker, Thom. "Pentagon Rethinking Old Doctrine on 2 Wars." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 14 Mar. 2009. The New York Times. 15 Mar. 2009 .

Imperialism/Colonization (#12)

I read an article about how for the earth to last for the predicted number of years, we must colonize on mars within 46 years from 1993. 14 years after this prediction came out, there had still been no progress to the thought of living on mars. J. RIchard Gott II predicted this period of time based on scientific methods and has a 95 percent chance of being correct on his time frame. He says that since we have colonized all over one planet, why not move to the next and do something on that planet to keep our world around longer. The colonization of mars needs to be up and running by 2039 according to Dr. Gott and he does not think that this task is too far out of our range. The colonization of mars should not be too difficult because according to him we have colonized our whole world, so why can't we move on to something outside of out planet into the world. We only have a small time period once a rocket is built to get back up to mars and back, so colonizing and building a life up there will be more difficult than many think. Colonization on mars is one that will hopefully come soon and could change the outcome for our planet greatly.
Tierney, John. "A Survival Imperative for Space Colonization." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 17 July 2007. The New York Times. 10 Mar. 2009 .

Global Issue (#11)

THe global issue that i read about was about deforestation and logging. This issue started first in Sumatra and has recently spread to all around the world. WHen people go around and cut down trees, they are destroying habitat and are one of the leading causes in the green house effect. THis issue is ruining our planet and many people still take this job as what they do and don't stop cutting down trees even when they know the consuquences it is putting on our planet. Sumatra began this trend and lost many of their forests which led to people who used to have jobs losing their jobs because of the derostation ruining the habitat. People are buying land just so that they can use the trees to make palm oil or paper. This process is killing our planet. During deforestation carbon is released into the air which accounts for 20 percent ofo the world's greenhouse emissions. THis issue is one which needs to be adressed and is becoming too popular in our world to not do something about.
Gelling, Peter. "Forest Loss in Sumatra Becomes a Global Issue." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 6 Dec. 2007. The New York Times. 8 Mar. 2009 .