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. 

Life at the Speed of Light - Summary and Reflections #6-2

So far in my book, "Life at the speed of light" the big thing the author likes to talk about is the formation of DNA.  It's one of the smallest molecules in the human body, not even able to see with the human eye. But yet we know almost every detail about it. In page 73 the author talks about how the formation of cells control not just the human body but it controls the life of our infants. This is very well written book, and I would suggest it if you have a love for science.

The way I would reflect on my book would be to say, its a very high level choice of reading. The book involves a lot scientifically theories, and reviews a lot thing you might have already known.  The book also mentions things such as human behavior and how that can effect them. So overall the book is very outstanding and creative book, written by scientist.

Life at the Speed of Light #5-1 Summary and Theme

            Life at the Speed of Light, from the Double Helix, and to the Dawn of Life. A interesting book written by Craig Venter which explains some of the most amazing facts and questions; that man has been wondering for almost all of time. The Book informs you about the ways of modern molecular biology, and new things that we can do with it today.  I this suggest this book if you enjoy new miracles that can soon exist in modern day time.

            Although I am on into the early stages of this non fiction book it seems to share the dramatic effect of how Craig Venter leads a group of researchers in a effort of synthetic genomics - and how the work will have a large impact on our existence in the years to come. This allows the reader to explore and ponder the question' "what is life." The book also seem to inform the reader about the wonderful facts about earth, and later on tell you about the specifics of traveling at the speed of light. I say this because the author explains what he had to go through to gather this theory, to inform us about the speed of light. There appears to not have many characters in this book most of the story is told from the scientist Craig Venter. So far I am enjoying the book and is a great read, look forward to reading and learning more about Life At The Speed of Light.

Knightley & Son #4 Conflict and Memory Moment

             I have gotten near the end of my book, and I have just found a new conflict with Darkus and some Criminals. Darkus tries to tackle this case, no matter what his father thinks. He is fully determine to stop the Criminals. Darkus chases these criminals because, they have not only taken the money they stole, but they took his father respect from him. Knowing that this would be dangerous he  wanted to prove to his father that he could solve cases, just like him. however instead of succeeding he failed. You would think that this would discourage him from proceeding and possibly give up, but now he's even more determined to catch the criminals. For the sake of the people that robbed them, and for sake of his father.

             In my book "Knightley and Son" I found a Memory moment. Darkus was daydreaming as usual, and he was day dreaming about him and his father having a wonderful time. They talked and laughed, and cried. But they were not tears of sadness, they were tears of joy and happiness. I think this part of the story was important because, it showed how Darkus really liked spending time with his father; or it means Darkus wants to actually do these kind of things with his father, because they never have. After reading this part of the story I felt like it really progressed, and got me thinking about other possibilities for the characters in this story.