At the beginning of the story of us (written by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler), it is obvious that Josh and Emma have known each other for a really long time perhaps even their whole life, but at the moment, Josh and Emma are feeling extremely awkward and try to ignore each other (though it is hard since they have the same best friends!).
I think that the story actually is some sort of journey based on their friendship/relationship. At the beginning of the story, Josh and Emma are the farthest thing close to friends. They ignore and avoid each other. For example, in the text, the authors quote "Before last November, Josh and I wouldn't have been standing awkwardly in the doorway. My mom would have let him in and he would have jogged up straight to my room."
But after they both discovered the strange website found on the computer, I think their friendship would have been ruined! But together as they find out the future, as much as they start becoming good friends, tensions rise... Emma's future is, well, c<>p compared to Josh's (who marries the hottest/richest girl in his school!)
For example in the text, Emma does everything in her power to try and get her future to be great including finding out who her future husband would be, call him, find out what college he college he went to , and making sure she didn't go to that particular college!
In conclusion, with all the ups and downs of the story, it is obvious that Emma and Josh need each other, for life. Anyone can tell that even before reading the end of the story! They are meant for each other!
Monday, September 24, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Reactions Towards Reading Responses
To start off I really liked Lily Green's blog because it just gave pretty much an overall opinion on the book she read. She wasn't too precise, meaning she didn't include every single detail precisely, but i think she just gave the theme/main idea on this book! I also like how Hale .S wrote questions/comments to divided her paragraphs therefore cutting her text into different pieces. It was a very smart structure! I think that Martin Drobs Response is a very good example on focusing into precise aspects of the story! It changed a lot compared to other students who tried giving the main idea! Good job buddy!
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Man who Thought Different
Reflection on "The Man who thought different"
In Steve Jobs's Biography, ("the man who thought different") Steve Jobs's co workers seemed to both despise Steve Jobs, and at the same time admire him. Explain.
Steve Jobs was a perfectionist, and that was a key factor towards Apple and their products. He would include such details in his products that really made them the best! He had such a sense of design that made his products look like futuristic alien technology! But Jobs also had an unpleasant side.
Steve Jobs was a man who thought between the lines. He was a man who "thought different". He could always envision a new idea, apply it, and combine his idea into a sort of product (and the product he would think of would probably be incredible!) .
For example, Apple was the first company to apply the mouse to a computer! (even though Jobs stole the idea of having a mouse from Xerox...) .
Steve and his team would also think of the strangest designs for his Apple Mac computers. But although Steve made lots of mistakes in his life, he would always try and make his computer as simple as possible, and make it for the people! (except for the incredible high price he made his products worth) ...
Although people might say that Steve Jobs was a pure genius, he was also a mean, selfish, rude man who treated his employees with disrespect. He would yell and often curse at his employees at any idea they had that he was opposed to. Jobs also always had to be the best, he always was right in arguments, and he always had to be the genius. At the beginning, when apple was first created, every employee was given a number, according to their position, and Jobs was furious when he learned that he had number 2 and Steve Wozniak, co founder of Apple, was number 1. He would then call himself number 0. He would never listen to any advice his co workers gave him. For example, Steve Wozniak told Jobs to put lots of memory on the Macs he created, and Jobs refused to listen to him because he claimed that the computer would "look so dreadful" with more memory on it. This cost a lot to Apple's business, as fewer computers were sold as a result.
Jobs would also take credit for any great ideas his employees had. All that tension Jobs had with his workers would lead to the reason he got fired from Apple at the age of 30. He would often take advantage of his (so called) friends and sometimes betray them for his own good.
Jobs spent long periods of time not talking to his friends or worse, his family. For example, his first daughter Lisa, which he did not talk or interact with until she was about 20. Also he would regularly leave his home for weeks or even months without talking to his wife or daughter , and come back one day as if nothing had happened.
Jobs would also inconspicuously take off his car plates and get the closest/best parking spot that was reserved for the handicaps, so when the police came, they couldn't give him a ticket.
But with all Jobs's negative traits and social difficulties, people still recognized him as a very smart man who could really change the way we live in. A few years after he got fired from Apple, he was asked to come back and he and his team would then completely revolutionize the world we live in ( e.g creating iphones, ipads, ipods...). That wouldn't have happened if Jobs hadn't come back.
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