Lying is justifiable if it's for the greater good: At first, I had this as a three, but I would change this to a four now, because even though lying is really bad, if you're are trying to kill the bugger race so they won't kill you, then it's probably more okay then if it only helps you. Or if it's to save someone's life so they won't do something that puts them in danger, then it's okay.
Sometimes violence is the only way to solve a problem: I put a three on this one last time, and I would keep it the same because I pretty much still agree with it, It makes sense for this to be true if someone is attacking you and you are defending yourself. Also, it would be true if you're in a war because two countries can't decide on something that you both want, and it's a big deal. On the other hand, people should mostly be able to talk it out in words, because most of a time, there's always a way to make peace.
It is okay to kill someone in self-defense: I put this as a four last time, and I still think that it should be that because if someone's trying to kill you, then you don't want to die! I think that it's kind of their fault if you kill them, because they were trying to kill first. If they didn't try to kill you, then they wouldn't be dead.
Words are stronger than fists: I had this as a three, and I still think it's true because, as I said before, it depends on the toughness of the person, or how strong the words are. Some people are tough and can
just let words bounce off their backs, or some are really hurt by mean words. Fists can't hurt people as easily as others, and some are knocked out on the first throw, kind of like Ender beating up Stilson and Bonzo.
Bullies hurt others because they have low self esteem: I did have this as a four at first, but now I would change this to a three because Bonzo seemed to be a bully, but he did have a lot of pride, and I think that he just wanted Ender out of his way. This statement does seem to be true most of the time though, like in Stilson's case, I don't think he had very much self esteem.
Only the best and brightest students should receive the best education to become a nation's leader: I still think that this should be a one, except if you're fighting a whole league of creatures. If you're not the brightest in school, then maybe you have other talents that qualify you? Or if your grade point average is like a 3.8, that's pretty close to being the brightest!
Revenge is never justified: I put a four before I read Ender's Game on this, and I'm still sticking with that because you should never fight fire with fire, as I said before! And as I said last time, if you can if it's something big, then go to court with them or something like that if it interferes with the law.
Crying is evidence of weakness: I still think that this should be a two because everyone has cried sometime in their life, so you shouldn't be mean about it! If you are hurt, sometimes you just have to! Don't judge people on what they do and why!
Any action is acceptable in war: I put this as a two, but now I would change it to a three, because if it's self defense, then any action would kind of be acceptable, or if you were fighting for your nation, then it kind of would. On the other hand, you shouldn't hurt somebody already on the ground, or hurt in some way already.
Teenagers need discipline and rules because they can't control themselves: I put this as a two last time, and I definitely wouldn't change that because most teenagers can control themselves fine, and can behave well. Sometimes, we might get a little goofy, but we can still control ourselves and no when to stop. We can make our own rules and things.
Only through personal sacrifice can someone create positive change: I still think the same for this one, a one, because you don't have to sacrifice yourself to do good to the world! Making a positive change is just doing little things, like picking trash up in the community, planting trees, and more! That's what makes a difference.
Generating compassion for your enemies is the only way to create peace: I put a three on this one before I read the book, I would keep it the same because compassion isn't always the only way to create peace, because if you hate your enemy, you don't have to kill them, but you can bear with talking peacefully to them. As I said before, hold a white flag up and work it out with words.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Ender's Game Questions Chapters 12-15
Chapter 12 – Bonzo
1. Ender provoked Bonzo by insulting his honor. He said how Bonzo's father would be proud of him for trying to kill somebody smaller than him, and things like that. Bonzo responded by trying to kill him at the showers.
2. Stilson was the bully who tried to hurt Ender when he still was on Earth at the beginning of the book, but then Ender ended up killing him. Ender was thinking of him because when Bonzo was there with him at the showers, he was reminded of all his enemies and people who had tried to hurt him.
3. Ender still expects help from the teachers because he thinks that they care for him and want to make sure that no one gets hurt at the battle school because of liabilities, and he's only a kid so he doesn't realize that he has to care for himself.
4. I knew that Stilson and Bonzo were killed because of the clues in the chapter where the teachers were talking about how there was a death at the battle school, and it was the second one in history, and things like that. The teachers said "they didn't tell him about Stilson, either," so that's another clue.
5. Ender was justified because he was a kid, he didn't mean to kill them, and it was self defense. The teachers didn't tell him about the deaths because Ender didn't want to kill them, so if he knew he had, then he wouldn't do as good at the battle school and think that he was just like Peter, but worse.
Chapter 13 – Valentine
1. “Perhaps it is impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” This quote means that you can't pretend to be somebody else and not naturally act like that. An example of this idea is when Valentine started acting like Demosthenes even though that's not who she was, because when she was asked a question, she would say something that Demosthenes would say without even thinking about it.
2. It kind of is a natural, “good” instinct for humans to be killers (survival of the fittest) because we want to keep thriving, and need this instinct to do that if another species is trying to kill us and fight us.
3. When Ender and Valentine were on the raft, they talked about the battle school and Peter. Ender reveals about himself and his enemies that he felt like a puppet and was being used by the teachers, and that he always won his battles because he knew what the enemies were thinking, but then he would like them, but still kill them.
4. Valentine’s conflicting thoughts about her brothers were how Peter had mellowed, but the battle school had made Ender into a killer. There roles have shifted because Ender doesn't want to kill anybody, but he does end up killing people, and Peter stopped being as aggressive. Valentine felt like they were two sides of the same coin, but she didn't always know which side was which.
5. Graff told Ender that the bugger war was inevitable, because it was true because they had ships flying to the bugger planets already that would land soon, so they would have to have a war.
Chapter 14 – Ender’s Teacher
1. What disturbs Ender about Eros is how it used to be a bugger planet, and he was living inside bugger tunnels. Ender figures out the truth about Eros by talking to Mazer Rackham, and asking him what evidence there was in Eros that buggers were smart creatures.
2. Mazer was going to be the only teacher Ender ever had because his other teachers never taught him anything. Mazer said to Ender "You have learned nothing. You have never had a teacher."
3. Mazer had been dishonest with Ender because he didn't want him to know he was going to kill all of the buggers, because he wouldn't have killed them if he'd known. I don't think Ender could've handled the truth.
4. I think that they pushed the children too far because Petra and some other people started to break and not do as well, but it was worth it because they beat the buggers.
5. Genocide, or in the case of Ender's Game where an entire alien race is annihilated, xenocide is justified because the queen of the buggers "thought" to Ender that she forgave the human race for killing them, if Ender would help her hatch her eggs. The xenocide of the Buggers was inevitable because the human race didn't know that the buggers didn't want to hurt them.
Chapter 15 – Speaker for the Dead
1. Valentine said, “Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given to you by good people, by people who love you.” After what has happened in Ender’s life, he would think about this that it was part way true, but it's very hard to fill the roles by good people, and not bad too.
2. Ender listens to the evidence about the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo. His opinion about the deaths are not good because he feels like he is Peter and he didn't want to kill them, just hurt them enough so that they wouldn't hurt him anymore.
3. Valentine made sure that Ender could never return to Earth because she didn't want him to be in the hands of Peter, who pretty much had control of Earth.
4. What's ironic about Valentine’s statement about Peter saving millions of lives is that he is a killer at heart, so saving people seems like the opposite of his personality.
5. The knowledge that Ender gained to enable him to write The Hive-Queen was from the queen herself, when she told Ender how the buggers didn't know that humans were intelligent life forms, so they tried to kill us, but then realized what we were and left us alone, but it was too late. So now they forgive us for killing them.
6. Ender publishes the book using the pseudonym “Speaker for the Dead” and not his own name because he doesn't want people to know that he wrote it because they wouldn't like him and think he cared about the buggers.
1. Ender provoked Bonzo by insulting his honor. He said how Bonzo's father would be proud of him for trying to kill somebody smaller than him, and things like that. Bonzo responded by trying to kill him at the showers.
2. Stilson was the bully who tried to hurt Ender when he still was on Earth at the beginning of the book, but then Ender ended up killing him. Ender was thinking of him because when Bonzo was there with him at the showers, he was reminded of all his enemies and people who had tried to hurt him.
3. Ender still expects help from the teachers because he thinks that they care for him and want to make sure that no one gets hurt at the battle school because of liabilities, and he's only a kid so he doesn't realize that he has to care for himself.
4. I knew that Stilson and Bonzo were killed because of the clues in the chapter where the teachers were talking about how there was a death at the battle school, and it was the second one in history, and things like that. The teachers said "they didn't tell him about Stilson, either," so that's another clue.
5. Ender was justified because he was a kid, he didn't mean to kill them, and it was self defense. The teachers didn't tell him about the deaths because Ender didn't want to kill them, so if he knew he had, then he wouldn't do as good at the battle school and think that he was just like Peter, but worse.
Chapter 13 – Valentine
1. “Perhaps it is impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” This quote means that you can't pretend to be somebody else and not naturally act like that. An example of this idea is when Valentine started acting like Demosthenes even though that's not who she was, because when she was asked a question, she would say something that Demosthenes would say without even thinking about it.
2. It kind of is a natural, “good” instinct for humans to be killers (survival of the fittest) because we want to keep thriving, and need this instinct to do that if another species is trying to kill us and fight us.
3. When Ender and Valentine were on the raft, they talked about the battle school and Peter. Ender reveals about himself and his enemies that he felt like a puppet and was being used by the teachers, and that he always won his battles because he knew what the enemies were thinking, but then he would like them, but still kill them.
4. Valentine’s conflicting thoughts about her brothers were how Peter had mellowed, but the battle school had made Ender into a killer. There roles have shifted because Ender doesn't want to kill anybody, but he does end up killing people, and Peter stopped being as aggressive. Valentine felt like they were two sides of the same coin, but she didn't always know which side was which.
5. Graff told Ender that the bugger war was inevitable, because it was true because they had ships flying to the bugger planets already that would land soon, so they would have to have a war.
Chapter 14 – Ender’s Teacher
1. What disturbs Ender about Eros is how it used to be a bugger planet, and he was living inside bugger tunnels. Ender figures out the truth about Eros by talking to Mazer Rackham, and asking him what evidence there was in Eros that buggers were smart creatures.
2. Mazer was going to be the only teacher Ender ever had because his other teachers never taught him anything. Mazer said to Ender "You have learned nothing. You have never had a teacher."
3. Mazer had been dishonest with Ender because he didn't want him to know he was going to kill all of the buggers, because he wouldn't have killed them if he'd known. I don't think Ender could've handled the truth.
4. I think that they pushed the children too far because Petra and some other people started to break and not do as well, but it was worth it because they beat the buggers.
5. Genocide, or in the case of Ender's Game where an entire alien race is annihilated, xenocide is justified because the queen of the buggers "thought" to Ender that she forgave the human race for killing them, if Ender would help her hatch her eggs. The xenocide of the Buggers was inevitable because the human race didn't know that the buggers didn't want to hurt them.
Chapter 15 – Speaker for the Dead
1. Valentine said, “Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given to you by good people, by people who love you.” After what has happened in Ender’s life, he would think about this that it was part way true, but it's very hard to fill the roles by good people, and not bad too.
2. Ender listens to the evidence about the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo. His opinion about the deaths are not good because he feels like he is Peter and he didn't want to kill them, just hurt them enough so that they wouldn't hurt him anymore.
3. Valentine made sure that Ender could never return to Earth because she didn't want him to be in the hands of Peter, who pretty much had control of Earth.
4. What's ironic about Valentine’s statement about Peter saving millions of lives is that he is a killer at heart, so saving people seems like the opposite of his personality.
5. The knowledge that Ender gained to enable him to write The Hive-Queen was from the queen herself, when she told Ender how the buggers didn't know that humans were intelligent life forms, so they tried to kill us, but then realized what we were and left us alone, but it was too late. So now they forgive us for killing them.
6. Ender publishes the book using the pseudonym “Speaker for the Dead” and not his own name because he doesn't want people to know that he wrote it because they wouldn't like him and think he cared about the buggers.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Orson Scott Card Article Response
I think that Orson Scott Card's views on gay marriage don't affect my opinion of his book Ender's Game, because his personal opinions don't come up in the book, and personal life and careers should be separate. I do think, however, that many people will choose not to read this book, any of his other books, or see the movie, because of his views, because they don't have his opinions.
I don't think that Mr. Vack should take this book out of his class's reading curriculum, because even though he doesn't support gay marriage, Ender's Game is still a really well written book. And besides, if he hasn't taken it out yet, he probably won't ever.
The movie company trying to keep Orson "out of the limelight" is probably a good idea, because the more he is kept out of the public, the more people will watch the movie because they won't realize how much he had a part in it, see his views on gay marriage, and not watch the movie or read his books.
This movie shouldn't be boycotted. Just because Orson Scott Card is in it and all, it doesn't mean that you don't have to watch it. Say you didn't want it to be a popular movie and all, because of Orson Scott Card, but it seemed like a good movie to you, then watch it! It won't be unpopular just because you don't watch it. It's probably still going to be a great movie, so join in the fun!
I don't think that Mr. Vack should take this book out of his class's reading curriculum, because even though he doesn't support gay marriage, Ender's Game is still a really well written book. And besides, if he hasn't taken it out yet, he probably won't ever.
The movie company trying to keep Orson "out of the limelight" is probably a good idea, because the more he is kept out of the public, the more people will watch the movie because they won't realize how much he had a part in it, see his views on gay marriage, and not watch the movie or read his books.
This movie shouldn't be boycotted. Just because Orson Scott Card is in it and all, it doesn't mean that you don't have to watch it. Say you didn't want it to be a popular movie and all, because of Orson Scott Card, but it seemed like a good movie to you, then watch it! It won't be unpopular just because you don't watch it. It's probably still going to be a great movie, so join in the fun!
CEJ #5
Harris, Gardiner
2/25/13
New York Times
World
Children Toil in India’s Mines, Despite Legal Ban
Harris, Gardiner
2/25/13
2/25/13
New York Times
World
Children Toil in India’s Mines, Despite Legal Ban
This article is about how children in India, as young as five years old, are working in mines to earn money to survive. Most of these children are orphans, but some have families they work to feed. There is an estimated amount of 70,000 kids working in about 5,000 mines. Basically, what these kids do each day is go seventy feet down a bamboo staircase to a pit, crawl through a tunnel in mud about two feet high for about a hundred yards, and then start digging coal. They don’t wear hard hats or steel toed boots, and stuff their ears with cloth. A man named Kumar Subba watches over five mines in Meghalaya, in Northeast India. He has about 130 people working for him, says that his mines produce about thirty tons of coal per day!
I think that this isn’t right for kids to be working in dangerous mines everyday, because there is even a law in India saying that all children, ages six through fourteen need to go to school, but it isn’t really enforced. There is about 28 million kids working in India instead! Kids shouldn’t have to do this, because without wearing hard hats or steel toed boots, you’re almost literally lying at death’s door. I think that India is not a very good place, because they don’t enforce their laws, and so many orphans are working there, so they probably don’t have orphanages. They should at least make the mines safer, rather than having children climbing down wobbly staircases that could collapse at any moment, and having them crawl through tunnels only two feet high! That’s really hard and unsafe. These kids working in mines is not a good idea.Monday, February 25, 2013
Ode to Chocolate
You're always there for me
Ready to fill my mouth
With your wonderful taste
You're a light in the dark
Something to look forward to
The one to cheer me up
You come in different kinds
Dark, like the night
Milk, like a flower
And White, like the snow
Your minty swirl is like a cloud
Your raspberry tang like a bright butterfly
Melted, you're a chocolate river
Ready for someone to jump into
Drink it up, slurp
Chocolate heaven
And I'm good for the day
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Ender's Game Questions Chapters 9-11
Chapter 9 – Locke and Demosthenes
1. There is a real battle, internally and unspoken, between Peter and Valentine. I think that Valentine is manipulating Peter, and has power over him because she doesn't show that she does, so he doesn't realize that she has power over him.
2. Ender is still angry because he doesn't have any fun at the battle school. It's just work, training for the games. The same thing over and over.
Chapter 10 – Dragon
1. Ender was the kind of leader that has much authority and power over everyone else. He was strict and treated Bean like Graff had treated him. He was this kind of leader because less instruction wouldn't work with an army, like it did with his practice group, or else they wouldn't follow him.
2. What Ender did to Bean was treated him like he was the only one who would make a good soldier, out of all his other soldiers. He did it because it was what Graff had done to him, in his launch group.
The teachers wanted him to do that.
3. Salaam means peace. This tells you how there were many different races at the battle school and that the power of religious identity was strong because the only thing keeping the world in peace was the problem of the buggers.
4. What's important about the end of this chapter is that Ender has started to grow tough and stop crying, and not trust anybody. Ender’s reaction wasn't a mistake by the teachers, because they wanted him to think that he couldn't trust anybody at the battleschool.
Chapter 11 – Veni Vidi Vici
1. The computer knows Ender well because it analyzes what he does in the game, and looks at his files from when he had the monitor. It really does.
2. “Yes. That’s the worst that could happen. I can’t lose any games. Because if I lose any--” (page 198). This quote means that if Ender loses any games, then the teachers will know that Ender isn't good enough to be a commander, and will lose hope in him.
3. The teachers are pushing Ender so hard because they want to break him so that he will make a good commander and be good in the battle against the buggers.
4. The importance of the last two sentences of the chapter is that it shows how Bean's ideas are stupid, but they are actually very clever if you know how to use them.
5. “Veni vidi vici” means, “I came; I saw; I conquered.” This is an appropriate chapter title because Dragon army came to the battle against rabbit army, saw what to do, and then conquered them.
1. There is a real battle, internally and unspoken, between Peter and Valentine. I think that Valentine is manipulating Peter, and has power over him because she doesn't show that she does, so he doesn't realize that she has power over him.
2. Ender is still angry because he doesn't have any fun at the battle school. It's just work, training for the games. The same thing over and over.
Chapter 10 – Dragon
1. Ender was the kind of leader that has much authority and power over everyone else. He was strict and treated Bean like Graff had treated him. He was this kind of leader because less instruction wouldn't work with an army, like it did with his practice group, or else they wouldn't follow him.
2. What Ender did to Bean was treated him like he was the only one who would make a good soldier, out of all his other soldiers. He did it because it was what Graff had done to him, in his launch group.
The teachers wanted him to do that.
3. Salaam means peace. This tells you how there were many different races at the battle school and that the power of religious identity was strong because the only thing keeping the world in peace was the problem of the buggers.
4. What's important about the end of this chapter is that Ender has started to grow tough and stop crying, and not trust anybody. Ender’s reaction wasn't a mistake by the teachers, because they wanted him to think that he couldn't trust anybody at the battleschool.
Chapter 11 – Veni Vidi Vici
1. The computer knows Ender well because it analyzes what he does in the game, and looks at his files from when he had the monitor. It really does.
2. “Yes. That’s the worst that could happen. I can’t lose any games. Because if I lose any--” (page 198). This quote means that if Ender loses any games, then the teachers will know that Ender isn't good enough to be a commander, and will lose hope in him.
3. The teachers are pushing Ender so hard because they want to break him so that he will make a good commander and be good in the battle against the buggers.
4. The importance of the last two sentences of the chapter is that it shows how Bean's ideas are stupid, but they are actually very clever if you know how to use them.
5. “Veni vidi vici” means, “I came; I saw; I conquered.” This is an appropriate chapter title because Dragon army came to the battle against rabbit army, saw what to do, and then conquered them.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Drones: For Evil or Good?
Deadly, flying machines
Used for spying
Picture taking
Watching traffic,
And murdering!
Good for some things,
Yes
But meant for death
What should we do about them?
What laws should there be about them?
We don't know,
But this is what we do know
Just one click of a button
Will end a life
These machines are good for war
But no deadly ones should be sold to an average person
There are different kinds:
The Hummingbird
Small, perching on a tree
Looking in on one inside
The MQ-1 Predator
Made for hitting ground targets
And there are many more
Lots of different types
But all of these
Are not made for good
So why do we have them?
What good do they do us?
We will see
And there are many more
Lots of different types
But all of these
Are not made for good
So why do we have them?
What good do they do us?
We will see
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
CEJ #4
Digital Tags Help Ensure the Price Is Right
Stross, Randall
New York Times
February 9
Technology
Have you ever wondered how times stores put a price on an item, and then there’s a different price on the screen for it when you go to check out? There is a lot. That’s why more and more stores are getting digital tags for their items, to ensure that customers get their things for the right price. Most stores put about 5000 items on sale per week and remove the sale prices from a different set of 5000. That’s what leads to mistakes, if you're changing 10,000 paper tags per week. A digital tag and sensor maker, in San Jose, called Altierre, is selling the most of these digital tags right now. They have a gray screen with black text, to save batteries, like calculators. However, stores aren't switching all at once to this new idea. The most probable answer is that they are afraid if they try it all at once, they will lose shoppers.I think that this is a good thing because with this new technology, stores are less likely to make mistakes with their prices, because they can change the prices on their items without having to print all the tiny price tags out and put them on the shelves; they just change it on the computer. Also, with these digital tags, less paper is wasted from changing 10,000 tags a week. There are roughly 1.5 million stores in the United States. That means that about 15 billion tags are produced per week. That wastes a lot of paper. So these digital tags are going to be really good.
Monday, February 11, 2013
CEJ #3
Cancer still kills more African-Americans than whites
Reuters, Andrew
Google News
2/5/13
Health
This article is about how even though there has been drops in smoking with black men, cancer death rates for blacks are still higher than that for whites. Some studies show that about 288 black men out of 100,000 die of cancer, and for white men it is only 217. Researchers think that this is because they are less likely to get lung cancer, but have a better chance of dying from it if they do get it. For black women, it’s about 181 per 100,000 and 155 for whites. The numbers are more even, but black women still have a better chance of dying from lung or breast cancer than whites. Carol DeSantis, from the American Cancer Society in Atlantis said "Unfortunately, as treatments improve and newer treatments are coming out, we will see a widening disparity if people don't have equal access.”Health
I think that it’s horrible how black people are more likely to die from cancer that other races are. Hopefully this will change soon, but it might not. At least blacks have stopped smoking as much. Why they get cancer, is they get lung cancer from being addicted to smoking. So they shouldn't smoke in the first place. Maybe since all races have different things they’re good at, maybe blacks don’t have as good immune systems as whites and other races? So if they smoke they get cancer faster than others. I think that doctors can, or will, develop ways to stop cancer in the years to come.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Ender's Game Questions Chapters 6-8
Chapter 6 – The Giant’s Drink
1. The purpose of the Giant's Game is that the game wants to see what Ender would do in a situation like that. He evaluated his success by thinking he was like Peter and was a murderer, but he should've thought that he just was trying to survive in his fantasy game. He is not a murderer because he killed the giant in self defense, and it was just a game!
Chapter 7 – Salamander
1. Alai said to Ender "Salaam." It is important because it shows that races didn't matter then. Also, it shows that there was world peace because of the buggers.
2. The "just living" mentioned in this chapter means that your living, without anything to do. No objectives in life, and you're at peace with yourself. It's true that Ender has never done this because he always has to train hard in the battleroom, and before that defend himself from Peter. What Ender wants out of his life is to be happy. If I was him I would want to just live and be happy, and also wouldn't want to be at the battle school.
3. Petra helped Ender by practicing in the battleroom with him during free time and training him. Their friendship is a hindrance to Ender because she was a girl and it split Salamander Army apart, and also Petra is an outcast, so if Ender is working with her, then he is more likely to be an outcast too.
4. What Ender learned about leadership and tactics from Bonzo is that if you're strict, people follow you easier, and they fear you. Also, he learned how the well-rehearsed formations they had were a mistake because it made them predictable, and they wouldn't know what to do when the enemy attacked the formations.
Chapter 8 – Rat
1. Graff's quote, “Ender Wiggin is ten times smarter and stronger than I am.”means that Ender knew how to use his cleverness and could easily outsmart people. Graff was saying he wasn't smart in battle, but he was pretty smart in bringing out Ender Wiggin's clever side. Also, Ender was stronger than he knew, and Graff wanted to see that.
2. What is significant about the quote “So teach me.” “So learn,” is that you can't learn battle skills from other people, you have to figure it out yourself so you can think up better formations and things to do in battle, and also you won't be trusting somebody to be there for you, and then they're not.
3. Ender’s response to an attack is significant because he would make a good commander because of how he tells the boys in his class what to do to get away safely, and he is really good without gravity because of how he can reorient himself. Also, this is just a test by teachers to see if he should be a commander and I think he passed.
4. The scene with the snake and Peter's reflection represented that Ender thought he was like Peter, but didn't want to be like him.
5. The game knows because it follows Ender's actions around the Battle School, has access to when Ender had his monitor, when Peter tortured him, and so figured out that Ender didn't want to be like Peter.
6. The importance of the last paragraph of this chapter is that it showed how Ender didn't want to do this, and he hated how every time he hurt somebody, he felt like Peter. Also, he felt like he was just a tool, and wasn't important to anybody, just a tool they would use to fix something, like a hammer.
1. The purpose of the Giant's Game is that the game wants to see what Ender would do in a situation like that. He evaluated his success by thinking he was like Peter and was a murderer, but he should've thought that he just was trying to survive in his fantasy game. He is not a murderer because he killed the giant in self defense, and it was just a game!
Chapter 7 – Salamander
1. Alai said to Ender "Salaam." It is important because it shows that races didn't matter then. Also, it shows that there was world peace because of the buggers.
2. The "just living" mentioned in this chapter means that your living, without anything to do. No objectives in life, and you're at peace with yourself. It's true that Ender has never done this because he always has to train hard in the battleroom, and before that defend himself from Peter. What Ender wants out of his life is to be happy. If I was him I would want to just live and be happy, and also wouldn't want to be at the battle school.
3. Petra helped Ender by practicing in the battleroom with him during free time and training him. Their friendship is a hindrance to Ender because she was a girl and it split Salamander Army apart, and also Petra is an outcast, so if Ender is working with her, then he is more likely to be an outcast too.
4. What Ender learned about leadership and tactics from Bonzo is that if you're strict, people follow you easier, and they fear you. Also, he learned how the well-rehearsed formations they had were a mistake because it made them predictable, and they wouldn't know what to do when the enemy attacked the formations.
Chapter 8 – Rat
1. Graff's quote, “Ender Wiggin is ten times smarter and stronger than I am.”means that Ender knew how to use his cleverness and could easily outsmart people. Graff was saying he wasn't smart in battle, but he was pretty smart in bringing out Ender Wiggin's clever side. Also, Ender was stronger than he knew, and Graff wanted to see that.
2. What is significant about the quote “So teach me.” “So learn,” is that you can't learn battle skills from other people, you have to figure it out yourself so you can think up better formations and things to do in battle, and also you won't be trusting somebody to be there for you, and then they're not.
3. Ender’s response to an attack is significant because he would make a good commander because of how he tells the boys in his class what to do to get away safely, and he is really good without gravity because of how he can reorient himself. Also, this is just a test by teachers to see if he should be a commander and I think he passed.
4. The scene with the snake and Peter's reflection represented that Ender thought he was like Peter, but didn't want to be like him.
5. The game knows because it follows Ender's actions around the Battle School, has access to when Ender had his monitor, when Peter tortured him, and so figured out that Ender didn't want to be like Peter.
6. The importance of the last paragraph of this chapter is that it showed how Ender didn't want to do this, and he hated how every time he hurt somebody, he felt like Peter. Also, he felt like he was just a tool, and wasn't important to anybody, just a tool they would use to fix something, like a hammer.
My Video Game Design
If I could design a video game, I would make it so you could be any character you wanted. It would be a game different from any others. If a bunch of people were playing, it would be the same game for each person, but on different levels you're doing different things. So say you decided that you wanted your character to be a zebra, then the game would be more safari like, and at the end of each level you would change into a different character that you pick and go into a new scene. The computer, or whatever your playing the game on, makes the game do things based on your actions in it.
You have to complete objectives in the game and the computer would take away the mini-games you don't like, and replace it with something you like better. Again if your a zebra, you would maybe start out chasing an animal, and then run away from a human trying to catch you. Then you would go through an obstacle course or something or other, and after that, you start a new level with a new character you pick, and the game is a little harder in a new scene. If you don't complete the level, at different points there's checkpoints that you pass, and you can start from those, or the beginning of the level.
Also, you try to collect coins throughout the game, as you do in many others, and you can use the coins to buy clothing, accessories, power-ups, and utilities. The power-ups would include a coin magnet, a boost where you go so many feet in the game without having to do anything, or a mega coin boost, where you get a lot of coins at once. You can use these power-ups during the game where there is a symbol on the ground and you run over it to use it. You can upgrade them with coins so that they last longer, or you get more coins. The utilities you could get would be headstarts, or a resurrection button (one use only or a certain number of times in a game).
When you play, there would be things you have to jump over, slide under, or go to the left or right. You slide your finger down to slide, slide it up to jump, and slide to the left and right to go in either of those directions (in the game, you have to follow a path, and have to turn, and to go to the left or right sides of the paths you slide your finger the sames ways.
So, in my game, it's almost like do it yourself because for everybody playing it, it will be almost like a different game. I would try to make it sort of addicting, so people would play it a lot, but I think it would be everyone's favorite anyway.
You have to complete objectives in the game and the computer would take away the mini-games you don't like, and replace it with something you like better. Again if your a zebra, you would maybe start out chasing an animal, and then run away from a human trying to catch you. Then you would go through an obstacle course or something or other, and after that, you start a new level with a new character you pick, and the game is a little harder in a new scene. If you don't complete the level, at different points there's checkpoints that you pass, and you can start from those, or the beginning of the level.
Also, you try to collect coins throughout the game, as you do in many others, and you can use the coins to buy clothing, accessories, power-ups, and utilities. The power-ups would include a coin magnet, a boost where you go so many feet in the game without having to do anything, or a mega coin boost, where you get a lot of coins at once. You can use these power-ups during the game where there is a symbol on the ground and you run over it to use it. You can upgrade them with coins so that they last longer, or you get more coins. The utilities you could get would be headstarts, or a resurrection button (one use only or a certain number of times in a game).
When you play, there would be things you have to jump over, slide under, or go to the left or right. You slide your finger down to slide, slide it up to jump, and slide to the left and right to go in either of those directions (in the game, you have to follow a path, and have to turn, and to go to the left or right sides of the paths you slide your finger the sames ways.
So, in my game, it's almost like do it yourself because for everybody playing it, it will be almost like a different game. I would try to make it sort of addicting, so people would play it a lot, but I think it would be everyone's favorite anyway.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
CEJ #2
Astronauts Will Watch Super Bowl from Space
Malik, Tariq
Google News
2/2/13
Science
The international space station's Expedition 34 team is made up of
six men: two American astronauts, flight engineer Tom Marshburn and
commander Kevin Ford, Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin, Oleg
Novitskiy, and Roman Romanenko, and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Last Sunday, they all watched the Super Bowl from space! NASA's mission control at the Johnson space station in Houston beamed the Super Bowl XLVII live to the international space station, so the astronauts could watch something (the TV options weren't too good up there). "Yes, they are going to watch it this weekend," NASA spokesman Josh Byerly had emailed Space.com days earlier.
I think that actually, it’s kind of a waste of energy to beam the Super Bowl XLVII all the way up to the international space station because it’s only for the Americans probably, because I don’t think Chris Hadfield, Evgeny Tarelkin, and Roman Romanenko needed to watch it because they’re Russian and Canadian. Also, couldn’t somebody record it for them?
On the other hand, it is pretty cool that we have the power and technology to do that though. And a cool fact the article said was that the International Space Station was about the same length as a football stadium! Maybe they played a game up there?
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