Tolerance

the ability or willingness to allow the existence, occurrence or practice of something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with

I think I can be tolerant to others by accepting their beliefs or actions but sometimes I don't agree. For example, there is a student here at school who is always yelling and screaming in the lunch room. You can literally here him across the cafeteria (not really), but he is very annoying and I cant tolerate his behavior. But I try to tolerate it because I don't want to seem rude.  I feel like in the future it will affect me because it will be hard to accept others and their behaviors if I keep being intolerant.

Blog 1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The book I started to read is called Perks of Being a Wallflower. The book starts of by the main character, Charlie, writing a letter to an anonymous person. Charlie writes anonymous because he feels that he should write to someone who will listen to his problems and who actually cares about them since he doesnt know anyone who does. He starts off by talking about his friend Micheal who had recently died. He talks about how they were both very close and how his death affected him in a negative way. Afterwards, he talks about his mom, dad, sister, and brother and about how he is the baby in the family. He also mentions that he does not like his high school because he got bullied, so he had to stand up for himself and fight the bully. As the book continues, he continues to write about his problems and his every day life.
The main character in this book is Charlie. He is the guy who is writing the letters to the anonymous person.  Just by reading the first couple pages, you can already predict what kind of person Charlie is. On page 7 it says , "And I did. And I really hurt Sean. And then I started crying.". This part was talking about when Charlie beat up his bully Sean and then afterwards Charlie started crying because he hurt him. During this part of the reading I noticed that Charlie is one of the couple guys who are sensitive and emotional. He even confesses his weird sensitive emotions later on in the book.

The Notebook Blog 8

As I finished the book The Notebook, I was really happy with how the ending came to be. As I said in my previous blog that Allie decides to give Noah a visit, they fall in love with each other once again and tell each other how much they have missed each other all these years. After a day of hanging out with each other, Allie goes back to a hotel that her fiance, Lon, was in. She explains to him that she has been hanging out with Noah but even this doesn't stop Lon from loving her. Allie tells him that it will be better that she lives her life with Noah instead of him. So she leaves Lon and goes to live with Noah. Then the story continues with Noah and Allie living their lives together. In the present, the author talks about an old man Duke [Noah] who is reading from the notebook to Allie that talks about this whole love story. Since Allie is old she has memory loss but somehow she seems to remember the story including Noah. The book finishes by both Noah and Allie giving eachother their last thoughts and then Noah lays on Allies bed and they both fall asleep. Then a nurse enters the room and sees that both have died peacefully together.
While I was reading the end of this book I noticed that their was an "Aha Moment". When Allie realizes that the man she is about to marry, Lon, is not the one that she wants to spend her life with. This made me question many things for the ending. Like I started to think about how Allie was going to end up with Noah so easily? Then I continued reading and started adding more conclusions to my ideas. At the end I thought Allie was going to die without Noah but my prediction did not happen. Noah and Allie ended up dying together with the memories of their early years. In conclusion I would recommend this book for whoever likes romance and happy ending books.

Blog 7 The Notebook

As I continue to read The Notebook I have come across many predictions. Many things have happened since where I left of. Since Allie had left back to her home, 14 years passed by. Later on, Allie notices that Noah was on the newspaper and decides to give him a visit. When she gets to his home, they both cannot even believe one bit what is going on. They both get really awkward and don't know what to say to each other.  Allie breaks the silence and decides to ask him how hes been. They both then pour out there whole lives to each other. Allie explains how she is not single and is about to get married in several weeks. Noah tells her that he is, up to this day, he has no significant other. They talked about many other things but its too much for me to write about. Allie decides to go back home but Noah tells her that she should come back tomorrow because he wants to show her a special place. Allie agrees and she walks away before Noah tries to make an attempt to kiss her.
I think that Noah has not changed at all since the first time he had talked to Allie. When he saw that she came to visit her, his heart dropped and he couldn't believe it. Towards the end of the chapter I last read, one of the last scenes the author leaves the reader with is Noah sitting on his porch after Allie had left and was whispering to himself, "She's engaged". This line clearly shows how heartbroken Noah still is after fourteen years and this is why I think he is still on the same page from day one.

Blog 6 The Notebook

I have started to read the book The Notebook. The book starts off by giving a detailed conclusion of one of the main characters, Noah Calhoun. He is a guy who was a relaxed and lonely man. He recently moved to this little town called New Bern and he moved into one of the oldest houses in this town. His whole life since he was young he has had a dream to restore the house and make it look new. Later on in the chapter, it starts talking about how he feels it is his fault that he is lonely. Then he starts remembering about the day that he had met his first love; summer of 1932. He explains how that summer haunts him up to this day because of all enjoyable memories he made.
While I started reading this book I noticed that they make a lot of "Memory Moments". One of the most important memories that the author has talked about is when Noah remembers the memories about that summer with the girl. "They rode in canoes and watched summer thunderstorms, and to him it seemed as though they'd always known each other." The author wrote this sentence because he is explaining how much love he showed towards her. So I think this flashback memory that Noah had explains to us the beginning of his story. It also shows us who this girl was to Noah which will be important later in the story.

Justin Timberlake Blog 5

As I continued reading the biography of Justin Timberlake, I started reading a different part of his life. Putting aside his present career. I am now reading a part where it started talking about his childhood years. His whole family was all about music and arts. So he has been surrounded by music his whole life.His mother, she played several different types of instruments. His dad was a bluegrass singer and led a church choir. His grandfather was a guitarist. With all this music, it is not surprising that he began singing at a young age. His school years were not so good. He got made fun of by other kids because he had very curly hair and lots of acne. To not feel as bad, Justin decided to join sports. He also joined violin and choir classes. He progressed his talent during this time and got to a level where his performing arts were getting to a high level. His mom later decided to sign him up for a television show to be part of it. He was very lucky because he got the role. And from there his acting skills were started.

Justin Timberlake Blog 4

The nonfiction book I have started to read is about Justin Timberlake and it is by Marcia Amidon Lusted. So far the first chapters are about how he has been rising in his career. Like that not only is he a singer, but he is also an actor and dancer. He has already a Grammy Award-Winning singer and songwriter. There was a certain time period where he took a break from music recording and writing. So he concentrated more on television and movie. He has been in voice of characters in several movies like Yogi Bear and Shrek The Third. He was also took roles in movies like Bad Teacher, Friends with Benefits, and In Time.  In 2011, Timberlake started being a frequent guest on the comedy television show Saturday Night Live. 
I can connect to this biography about JT to a magazine that I read about a year ago about this same guy. The first chapters that I have read so far talk about how all the events that lead him to where he is now. The magazine also explained how from when he was a young adult he has been in bands and acting and how those events lead up to where he is now. In addition, Timberlake has raised lots of money for all he has done since the time back then.