Geroge's life- Summer Reading

George Stoyonovich is the main character in the story, "A Summers Reading". George is a 20 year old young man, who dropped out of school at the age of 16. His family probably came from Poland and now lives in an immigrant area, Bronx. He likes to read the "Almanac" and not fiction stories.

He grew without a real family. His father is busy with himself and doesn’t talk much with George. His sister works at a downtown café all day and doesn’t have much time to spend with George. George lives in a poor neighborhood and spends his day at home

The only man who has ever talked to George and has been nice to him was Mr.C. Mr.C felt empathy for George, because he saw himself as a young boy within George. They both gave up the opportunity for a better life. George did not have the determination to read the books, although he needed it because his education level was low and Mr.C probably gave up his life for his love, his sick wife.

I think that George did not get enough help and attention. His father did not talk to him much, and his sister was always at work. I believe that a child's personality is designed at home by his parents. As we see, George did not have it, and struggled for (a) better life.

This is much better. Well done.

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Daphna

"The Thorn Birds"

The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough is just another love story book that discusses everyday life problems, such as religion, love or even forbidden love. So, how are these problems connected together? Can you understand it? Me neither.

In this story, Maggie, a little harmless girl, falls in love with Ralph De Briacassart. Ralph, the priest, is older than Maggie by 18 years. In Maggie's life, he is the first one who gives Maggie the attention she deserves. She is the youngest child in a family with many boys. As the years go by, her love grows until she falls in love with him.

Maggie secretly desires Ralph, but as a priest he just can not agree to a relationship with Maggie. However, she finds a way to seduce him. Moreover, she finds out that she is pregnant with his child. This is the turning point; from that point the story is just not the same.

I want to say that the story is just another typical love story between two people. Everyone(ww. - anyone) who wants to read another love story, with a little twist, can enjoy this book. Personally, I did not like it, but it is a matter of taste.

Much better. Well done.

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Daphna

"Fast Fat"

Nowadays, many people suffer from obesity. It's a well known phenomenon in the whole world, but especially in America. This time I will discuss this phenomenon from another point of view. Who’s responsible for obesity, the ordinary people or the factories that produce this kind of food?

Everywhere you go, you can see fast food restaurants, it attracts your eyes, calls you to come and consume some calories. It's true that they write the amount of calories, but with those fancy names and delicious food, you just can’t say no. From this point of view, it’s the factories' fault, but can you really blame them?

Imagine a situation: you step into a shop, you take out money from your wallet, and you pay for something 20 dollars, for example. Afterwards, the choice whether to use it or not is in your hands.Each one needs to decide whose fault his weight.It is the companies' fault that we buy the food, but it’s our fault when we eat it.

In conclusion, I want to say that we are responsible for what we eat; it’s our choice. we just decide to ignore our responsibility or gently blame others. So next time you go and buy a snack, please consider the consequences, it’s all your fault.

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Daphna

Letter to the Editor

132 Fleetwood Street

Ashville

September 17, 2009

The Editor
Ynet
Ashville

Dear Editor,
I assume you all read the article "Tel Aviv- 2 killed in an attack on the Homolesbian bar" about what happened in the teen bar for gays and lesbians. However, if you don’t know, I shall remind you. On the 1st of August, men broke into the teen bar and shot everywhere; there were 2 murdered and 4 injured teens, one of the murdered teens was Liz, from Holon, that just wanted to support gay rights.

We can blame a lot of people for this. We can blame the orthodox Jews that hate gays and maybe they did it. However, we can blame the society for not accepting gays, but gays don’t accept themselves. Researches showed that most of the homophobic guys are gays themselves.

The gay community arranges a pride parade each year, in which half naked people walk and kiss each other. Maybe this is a part of the reason for all the hate, but maybe not.Or maybe, this hate is about gays not getting out of the closet and showing support to other gay guys. Or(look for another word, apart from "or") even worse, hating them and trying to hunt them down like homophobian people do.

So, the purpose of this is to show you a new way of looking at this situation. It's a horrible thing or maybe, it just opened our eyes a bit to show us who we really are?

Yours truly,
Andrew Borsuck

Good work

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Daphna

The Sexiest Woman

As you all may know, earlier today (1.9) there was a big concert of Madonna in Tel Aviv. A lot of Israeli people came to see her. The amazing part was that her fans were from the youngest to the oldest. Madonna is "quite old" and she still has young fans, like me.

I have to say that she is an amazing singer. She can still look sexy at 51 years old. I think that she can be a role model to women her age. You should never be ashamed of your age. I think that age is a kind of a gift; you get a lot of life experience- the most important thing.

Last time she was here in 1993, we missed her. She did a lot of tours, but her famous one is “Hard Candy and the Sticky & Sweet Tour” in 2007. The name was just perfect for Madonna's personality: it was appealing, sexy and has a bit of humor in it.

At the end of my article, I want to say that Madonna is the sexiest woman I “know” and hopefully, in the future, she will stay that way. So, come to her next tour?

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3770769,00.html

Excellent.

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Daphna

Gay Pride(short version)

I assume you all read about what happened in the teen bar for gays and lesbians. However, if you don’t know, I shall remind you. On the 1st of August, men broke into the teen bar and shot everywhere; there were 2 murdered and 4 injured teens, one of the murdered teens was Liz, from Holon, that just wanted to support gay rights.

We can blame a lot of people for this. We can blame the orthodox Jews that hate gays and maybe they did it. However, we can blame the society for not accepting gays, but gays don’t accept themselves. Researches showed that most of the homophobic guys are gays themselves.

The gay community arranges a pride parade each year, in which half naked people walk and kiss each other. Maybe this is a part of the reason for all the hate, but maybe not.Or maybe, this hate is about gays not getting out of the closet and showing support to other gay guys. Or even worse, hating them and trying to hunt them down like homophobian people do.

So, the purpose of this is to show you a new way of looking on this situation. It's a horrible thing or maybe, it just opened our eyes a bit to show us who we really are?

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-3755393,00.html

Very good.

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Daphna

Gay pride!

I assume you all read about what happened in the teen bar for gays and lesbians. However, if you don’t know, I shall remind you. On the 1st of August, men broke into the teen bar and shoot everywhere, there were 2 murdered and 4 hurt teens, when one of the murdered teens was Liz , from Holon, that just wanted to support gay rights.

I actually heard of this quite late. I was talking on Msn Messenger with a few friends. One of them told me that there was a terrorist attack (or just a “normal” attack) in Tel Aviv. I thought that it’s just another attack and even didn’t bother to check it. About 15 minutes later I searched on the net for something, I can’t remember what it was; eventually I saw the article and decided to read. When I noticed that it was in the teen bar, my heart skipped a beat; I picked up the phone and called all my friends to check if they are alright. Of course I got a few calls too, and it’s nice to know that someone cared about you at that moment. It got even more horrible when I discovered, that Liz died, she was a friend of mine.

I know a lot of gays that are in the closet or out of it, and they can say that getting out of the closet is a relief, but it’s hard, and it is a process, a long one and a painful one. When I was 14 I had my first boyfriend, a cute and lovely, you know, first love. With it, it was hard because we both were in the closet, and it just failed. That period was full of self mercy and depressions, and maybe some repression. But when I got used to the idea that I’m gay, or at least love boys too, I started telling my friends and got a lot of positive responses. My friends accepted my nicely, even very nicely and this days I’m not a shame of being gay or something and I feel great, I wake up every morning with a smile on my face, and I admit I still love girls somewhere, but it’s just another great thing, I enjoy both worlds. Of course my parents don’t know, and I hope they will not know till I tell them.

So, the purpose of this was showing you the gay world a little. Maybe you knew it, maybe not, but eventually ,we all different and it’s a good thing.

I know it quite not what you asked for, and I’m sorry for the 500 words, but I think it’s better than writing a short essay without saying a anything, and the picture in Hebrew because I couldn’t find a English one.

Face-what?

It is the 20th century. The Technology involves in an overwhelming rhythm. The internet has taken a place of honor in our everyday live and we can’t live without it. Even now, when I am writing this essay, I am using my internet. The internet can offer us a lot of bad things like hackers, scams, but with it, it has some great things to offer like shopping online or even Facebook!

Facebook is not only a way to communicate with the world, spend your free time or play games, it’s a way to communicate with your family and friends from miles and miles away. You can show them your photos, share music with them or just have a chat. Facebook is a new, better replacement for ICQ or Msn Messenger.

In addition, Facebook is a way to meet people,it is more likely to find a new friend on Facebook than inreal life. In addition , it’s a way to stay in touch with old friends. For example, I met my elementary school friends there, we haven’t talked for ages.

In conclusion, I can recommend you to join Facebook. Facebook is another door for the future. It will open a new virtual world in front of you, you won’t regret it!

School Uniform's debate

One of the most popular human nature qualities is to judge people by the way they look. Every time a student comes into school, they look around to find their friends or family by the clothes they wear or the way they look. Once the target is found, they can continue their day. However, sometimes the uniform is a necessary thing, when it comes to money, some people have no money to buy “cool” clothes. So the question asked is whether the school uniform is necessary or not?

The uniform creates a solid base for knowing each other, when people meet and wear the same clothes, the way they judge each other changes from cloths to actions, speech and the ideas they support because it becomes the only way to judge someone. In addition, people who can’t afford fancy cloths, won’t be recognized in the society and become the ugly little loners. They will purchase friends and have a normal social life.

On the other hand, the uniform makes people get depressed when they can’t wear the clothes they like. One of the popular habits of girls is to choose clothes in the morning. In addition, the environment of everyone wearing the same clothes creates a cozy, uncomfortable feeling in student’s hearts, it doesn’t matter where they look, they see themselves in gray, black colors . As a result, they don’t want to go to school.

In conclusion, I can say that a school uniform needs to be deleted, but not completely. The kids will be able to choose the clothes they wear, except for the shirt. This will create a balance between all the students and every one will still feel special wearing his own clothes.

Burge Mc'Call

“She married him to get away from the noise of Santa Fe railroad engines” They said. That was the rumor about the Burge couple, Ms. McCall and Mr. McCall. She was tall, thin with black hair parted in the middle and smoothed down on each side. He, however wasn’t like her, he was a short, heavy set man with a loud voice, with disgusting habits and an even more disgusting mouth.

They lived together unpleasantly for three years and four months. For a year and two months, Burge McCall didn’t like the way his life looked at him. Their relationship was very complicated. Burge was very stingy with his wife and Ms. McCall had a very weird reactions(מיותר) to the extrem violence of her husband. Sometimes Burge called Ms. McCall names but she didn’t answer, she just looked at him in the way he disliked. There was one special time when Burge slapped his wife on the face, his wife just wiped the place he slapped her and said:”McCall, you are a big rat. Some day you will regret what you have done”. Burge didn’t understand the reaction; he thought she would throw the iron at him. No one really got it, why didn’t they divorse?!

One day, Burge entered Ms. McCall brothers’ drug store, and her brother told him she had bought some rat poison this morning to poison a big rat. Burge got scared and thought she wanted to poison him. So, he decided to treat Ms. McCall gently. He quit liquor; he started to eat outside the house, so Ms. McCall didn’t have to cook. Eventually, Burge decided to keep her close to him. He took her to picnics and movies; he even bought her a sealskin coat. At the end, he looked at her eyes and noticed they were smiling at him and called her honey.

At the end, Burge died and his wife openly shed tears. They fell in love in the part that they started “dating” again. Venita’s brother never understood why she told him to tell Burge that she had bought rat poison. It is a very special and emotional story. Everyone can learn something from it, eventually I can add that Venita was smart too, and Burge had love in his heart.

Sorry...

Sorry, for not making my assignment on the right date...

Please accept my deepest apology.I wont make excuses to justify my mistake.I will only say that I havent had a computer for a long time.However thats not an excuse.

I promise to make this assignment on monday.I hope you will cosider that it is my frist time, and can happen to anyone.

Sorry.

It's all for education

Today, we can see kids going to elementary school and coming back without homework. So, I can't understand where the homework is. A lot of kids between the 1st and 6th grade complete the little amount of homework they have in class. So, ironically, the homework is done in school. Eventually, the real question here is whether the homework really helps?

The question has many answers as this is an opinion question. We can’t really check if the homework helps in studying, therefore, we can suppose that the education level in elementary schools is low. So, it doesn’t matter if there is homework or there isn’t homework. Moreover, in a democratic country, we can let the kids choose to prepare homework or not .An example for this statement is the 11 year old Ben Berrafato who wrote an incredible essay about homework. I am sure that the large amount of homework didn’t help him in doing the essay and still it was an amazing one.Eventually, it is not homework that helps kids to study and get high grades, that’s the talent and skill which isn’t acquired from homework.

As a high school student, who went to elementary school and graduated with excellence. I can say that homework was just a waste of time for me. I got all of the lessons the first time. My classmates were that kind too, they got the lessons really fast. However, high school is another “playground”.You have to perpare homework or else you will fail. Eventually homework is just a waste of time in elementary school. Researchers suggest that kids without home work and kids with homework get the same grades.Moreover, kids without homework are more popular and the society treats them better.

Everyone is different, so every one needs a different kind of education. Different schools and high schools are the answer to the difference problem. Special school for every kinds(מיותר) of students, but until it happens, we need to live with what we have. Everyone is different, It’s all for education.

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Daphna.

High or Low?

Space exploration started many years ago. Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space in 1961.Due to the efforts of the space researchers we can now explore a whole new field of knowledge.During those years the conflict between the USA and USSR was in its crucial moment. They were fighting over the glory of reaching space, meaning who will be the first to reach space. (The)USSR won when they sent the first man into space. However, afterwards the USA was the first to send a man who landed on the moon.

There are many people thinking that space exploration is a great thing. They say that the potential benefit from it can benefit us in many ways, such as: more space to live on the moon, because the civilization is rising or even more working places places for unemployed people. Other people say that the good thing about space exploration is the knowledge. Now a days we meet a lot of people that want to know a lot about everything and the space exploration is another field to specialize in for them.

However, there are people that think the opposite . They think that space exploration has a negative effect on people. Space exploration causes a great danger to every one, even the citizens. As everyone remembers Ilan Ramon’s spaceship exploded when it entered the atmosphere. This tragedy could have ended even worse if the space ship collapsed on people’s homes. In addition, while the governments spended incredible amounts of money on space exploration, there are many homeless, poor and sick people that just want a warm dinner or a place to spend the night in. This money can be spent for better causes.

Space exploration is a colorful, promising field of knowledge. However, in my opinion, the poor people on the streets, that just want to have a warm dinner, are much more important than space exploration it self. So, everyone needs to make their own decision if it’s positive or negative.

I'm happy to say this is much better. 

Good work.

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Daphna.

Mrs. Obama

Just a nice video I found while searching at youtube.

What can I say? That is right...

Peers or friend?

"Kill, kill, kill, kill..." They were shouting while Alon was standing in front of bleeding Jessy. His friends, peers, even his brother was standing and shouting. Alon faced a big problem. On the one hand, if he hits him even once more it could kill him. However, all of his friends, peers and brothers are shouting to kill him. He is afraid to make the wrong decision. This situation is an extreme example for peer pressure.

Peer pressure is varied : it can be from your friend, and even from your family. In this situation the "victim" is faced with a big problem, which has two or even more solutions. In addition, there is even worse peer pressure when the poor kid is faced with a problematic dilemma, in which it doesn’t matter what he chooses ,he still loses something.

However, peer pressure can be positive. For example, if someone doesn’t want to go to tell the girl that he likes her, then the friends can get involved. They can affect his decisions. If his friends want to help him they will try to influence him to tell the girl and finally, maybe, he will tell her. However, this kind of peer pressure is not common at all and may be used for bad causes.

Finally, I can say that peer pressure is a common thing and can affect people’s lives dramatically. In addition, it is something that can't be stopped, so we need to learn how to handle it in the right way.

Good work.

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Daphna.

"When you can live forever what do you live for?”

“When you can live forever what do you live for?”

For a while now, I though that I know what is my favorite movie. However, that changed when I saw the movie called “Twilight” which deserves a lot of prizes and good comments.

The movie was directed by Catherine Hardwicke. She knows her job; she has released a lot of great and amazing movies such as The Nativity Story, Lords of Dogtown and more. Movies that I personally like.

This movie shows a different point of view on the vampires and the fantasy movies. It shows the romantic and vulnerable side of the amazing creature called vampire. This movie has changes every mythic thoughts about vampires. The movie shows that they can get in love, they fight for their love, and they have emotions and they glow in light. The movie tells a love story between Bella Swan the human girl that came to her hometown to live with her dad while her mother was looking for a new apartment, to Edward Cullen a 108 years old vampire. I can tell you a lot more about the storyline, but it will destroy your watching experience.

That was in few words about the movie. I deeply hope that you will go and watch it, I recommend in cinema, but as you want. You won’t regret watching it.

Letter of Advice

15.01.2009

Dear Marry.

I am very familiar with your problem. I had one my own; it is quite simple to solve it if you look objectively at your problem. My problem was solved in seconds and I hope my advice will help you. I just made an ultimatum for my friends last time, they will talk with the girl or they can find other friends to hang out with, but it is very individual.

When I met this problem it was quite difficult to handle this situation. one the one hand, you feel very bad and you feel sorry for the new girl. On the other hand, you feel committed to your friends and you don’t want to lose them. Hard decision to make.

I suggest you to talk with your friends about it, tell them that you feel bad with the fact that you don’t make friends with the new girl. If they are really your friends, they will understand your point of view and help you make friends with her. However, if they are just snobbish they don’t deserve to be your friends. Make your own decisions.

I hope that my point of view will help you. I am sure that your problem will be solved soon and the new girl will find a lot of friends to hang out with, at least someone like you.

Yours,
Andrew.

It's very good, on the whole

Daphna.

Now Its Israel Vs Hamas

To the teacher: This is the short comment,on the large one I will start working a bit later.

Hamas versus Israel, a war started 9 years ago when the first missiles that were sent by the Hamas hit the grounds of Israel. As 15 years old boy who lives in the center of Israel, I support the Israeli attack on Gaza. This is the first time that Israel did something in order to protect the citizen in the Gaza area. The citizens in the Gaza area are just like us, they eat, the sleep, they play on the computer except the fact that they live in fear every day in their life, I can’t imagine what they are going through living in an every day fear from the missiles, living in the shelters and just not going out to play and have a normal social life. I think that it is just the right move!