Tolerance Blog Post

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 remember around the 5th grade when I had just moved, I wasn't as tolerance as I was now, but wasn't completely intolerance. I had came to church one day and saw my friend walking, and I had asked him if he was going up to church. He said No i'm not christian; So then I asked what religion he was. He said No again, but also said "I don't believe in any god." When that went through mind I was thinking "What! how could this guy not believe in anything?" He just shrugged his shoulders and walked away. So that got me thinking, what if I persuaded my friend to believe in god, Like jesus. So the next day when I saw him at school. Tried to get him to read the bible, after the few failed attempts of trying to get this guy to believe in god. I finally got what was going wrong; this guy just really didn't think their was a god, and after the few years of me remembering that story, I just had to wonder how annoying I had to been to him. But I think this event will really help me in the future to be less intolerance, and not just that, I think this event will help my become a better person overall 

A Life of Harry S. Truman Q4 Blog Post #2 - Summary and Thoughts

A LIFE OF HARRY S. TRUMAN - By: AIDA D. DONALD

       Right now in my book "A Life of Harry S. Truman" the author has manly been talking about the experience of Truman's political career. She provides a thorough explanation of how Truman became serious about politics, and how he also became the president of the U.S.  It begins on Chapter 3 when Harry Truman first became a judge in the 30's, and eventually progresses on In chapter 4, when Truman became the senate and made very harsh decisions while on duty. This was very surprising to the public because, barely after just the few short months he became President of the United States and was leading soldiers into WWII.

Honestly, the biography of Harry S. Truman is very unique read; I have never read a biography particularly like this. The reason I say this is because, the author arranged the chapters to be set of what order actually happened. But in most biographies I've read, have their chapters arranged of what specific event that changed their lives, then they would put that into order from Childhood, to Middle Life, and then Adult hood and end of life. But either way the author puts its chapters, the biography was still appealing to me, and hopefully to others.

Upton Sinclair Q4 Blog #1 - Summary & Character Analysis

             I have just finished my book "Upton Sinclair"; the book had a very unique ending and so I would like to tell you a little bit about it.  Upton Sinclair died in 1968, just six years before his auto biography came out. But before he died he created a very well known book called The Jungle, and when it was published, people saw that the book was mainly towards meat-packing plants and caused the Drug Act in 1906. Upton Sinclair was seen a up-stander and is now a well known person. But Sincliar didn't stop there, he started wrote other miniature novels for his friends and family manly and juding by their reactions, I say his books were very outstanding.

          Upton Sinclair was a very creative person. He loved music, reading, and discovering new things as a child. But because, of all his hard work writing and putting together his own books is what really showed it. Even his teacher in high school thought that Sinclair's poetry was a creative piece of writing. But when he continued to write after his school days he wanted to go above and beyond and make pieces for the public, and thats what he did. Thats why I believe that Upton Sinclair is a very creative person.

Upton Sinclair Blog #8 - Summary & Thoughts

           Upton Sinclair was a vey famous man, just at the age of 25 he had already written his first book called "The Jungle". In the September 20, 1878 Sinclair had just been born; his father, Upton Beall  Sinclair had already been thinking about sending him to the military. He wanted him to be in the Navy just like his Grandfathers. But what him and his father didn't know, was that boy is about to make history. His father knew he couldn't provide for his family, so he wanted Upton to be kind and responsible. So that maybe one day he could a very successful job. Then when Upton Sinclair grew up he thought of his father as very inspiring man.  

         When I started to read the biography about Upton Sinclair I thought it was going to be a very difficult and challenging read. But as you continue to read on, it explains a very powerful explanation to Upton Sinclair's childhood into his first years of education. I typically enjoyed this because the author didn't just put have his childhood in the first chapter, and then then talk about his adulthood in the next. They made a smooth clean transition into the next chapter of his life. So far this very engaging book, and i'm really enjoying it!

Life at the Speed of Light #7-3 - Summary and Thoughts

Jdyn Ross
Blog #7  "Life at the Speed of Light by, Craig Venter 2013                  

           I have just fished my book "Life at the speed of light", what the author last discussed was explaining the key parts to the DNA molecule . He was saying how these chromosomes are important and are key factors in the DNA molecule. ATCG to be precise, he explained that ATCG are the letters, that  help create DNA. So he thought how could this make a difference if we engineer that DNA and give it special abilities.  This made the author stop and think and ask the question, "Is it really possible to move at the speed of light?"  

        This book provides a glimpse of the future where he sees every home possible having a biological converter, similar to a 3-D printer. This book was just as informative as it was interesting. You could tell that the author had a passion for this subject by the word choices he used and how well he expxplained it.  It was fascinating to me however maybe questionable to others on "why would anyone want to transmit the code for a genome at the speed of light." What I noticed from reading this book was that the author did not just want to bore the reader with statistics, past history and a load of facts on DNA. Instead he wanted to explain to audience about his theory of moving at the speed of light.  So it's a very big surprise at end because he doesn't speak this way. Overall this book was very Interesting and I learned some new things I had know idea about. I really do suggest the book if you have a love for science and want to learn new things!  I would give it 4 stars if I could.