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“So it was from the buggers, not the humans, That Ender learned strategy. He felt ashamed and afraid of learning form them, since they was the most terrible enemy, ugly and monstrous and loathsome. But they were also good at what they did. To a point. They always seemed to follow one basic strategy only-gather the greatest number of ships at the key point of conflict. They never did anything surprising, anything that seemed to show ether stupidity or brilliance in a subordinate officer. Discipline was apparently very thigh.” |
One of the main themes in the book is that you can learn more from your enemy then your friends. I choose this paragraph because it is one of the first times ender are analyzing the videos from the Bugger invasions. The rest of the book builds on how he is studying the videos. |
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“We’ve scraped together everything mankind could produce, a fleet that makes the one they sent against us last time seem like a bunch of kids playing in a swimming pool. We have some new weapons, too. But it might not be enough, even so. Because in the eighty years since the last war, they’ve had as much time to prepare as we have. We need the best we can get, and we need them fast. Maybe you’re not going to work out for us, and maybe you are. Maybe you’ll break down under the pressure, maybe it’ll ruin your life, maybe you’ll hate me for coming here to your house today. But if there’s a chance that because you’re with the fleet, mankind might survive and the buggers might leave us alone forever.” |
This paragraph is the first one that really tells us readers when and under witch circumstances the book takes place. In this paragraph it clearly sais that the human kind have been the subject of an alien invasion and is preparing for another one. Therefore the action of the book takes place on earth where there is an constant threat of an alien attack. |
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“Yes,” said Graff. “Battle School is for training future starship captains and commodores of flotillas and admirals of the fleet.” |
This paragraph tells us about the books plot simply because the plot is that the earths governments are breathing and sending small children up to a space shuttle to be trained as commanders to defend the earth against an alien attack. |
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“It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. The game is everything. Win win win. It amounts to nothing. We kill ourselves, go crazy trying to beat each other, and all the time the old bastards are watching us, studying us, discovering our weak points, deciding whether we’re good enough or not.” |
This paragraph is important to character development because it is in this paragraph the main character realizes that battle school is just a game and that it is the teachers that is the bad guys, not the students. This changes Enders sight on the battle school and has an influence on him the rest of the book. |
First impression “Enders Game”
I have now read about half the book. I am not going to give you a summary of the book. That way I do not spoil it for the ones of you that want to read it. My first impression of the book so far is very good. The book got a lot of action but it also gives you a look in to the strategy of the battles and a good look in to the psychology of the soldiers.
The book started with action from the start before I slowed down a little to give some information that was very useful later in the book. My overall impression of the book is very good and I would highly recommend it to people that likes a little bit of action and got a mind for some sci-fi.
In-depth project
We are now going to do an in-depth project in my English class. The topic I have chosen is the Pearl River Tower. If you have read my blog for a while you have probably read the small article I wrote on this subject. So far today I have written a lot about the buildings ventilation, air-conditioning and the low emission technology that is used in the building’s windows.
Ender’s Game
My English class has now gotten an assignment to read an English book. Here is the link to the assignment our teacher gave us.
The book I have chosen is “Ender’s game”. I did some research on the book I found out that it was relist in 1985 and was based on a short story from 1977, the book is the first book in a series of ten. In the description of the book it says that the boo
I choose to read this book because it sounded like a book with action in it and it got a lot of good reviews. Some of the comments on amazon was “ground braking” and “WOW!!! Amazing Story!! “k is about a boy that is named Ender and is breaded by the government to defend the earth against alien attacks. He is in a training camp where he feels isolated and has a lot on pressure on him.
Trace Effects
Today we watched Edward Scissorshands and played a game called Trace Effects, our task of today is to write a revi
ew of Trace Effects or a review of Edward Scissorshands. I choose to write a review of Trace Effects. Trace Effects is a game developed by the U.S Department of State and recently got released. The game is a tool to help students that are between 12 and 16 years old to develop their English language and complement to the English language instruction.
The game is based on a main character called Trace. Trace is a boy that accidently traveled back in time from 2045. Now he needs help to go back to 2045 and you will lead him through his mission using your language skills. On the Trace Effects website the theme of the game “Geared toward young people, Trace Effects exposes users to American society and explores themes related to entrepreneurship, community activism, empowering women, science and innovation, environmental conservation, and conflict resolution.”
The idea of the game is very good and seems thought trough. The game reacts fast and when you first get it started but it takes really long time to start the game. The graphics is good and the conflicts in the game are thought trough but the voices could have been a little less robot sounding. Overall I give the game a four out of six.
Here is a link to the game: http://traceeffects.state.gov
The 11th Hour
Dear my beloved blog readers.
Today in English class we watched a movie called «The 11th hour». At the same time we were supposed to write notes. We divided the movie in to three parts: The first part w
e wrote notes by hand, the second part we wrote notes on our computer and the third part we wrote notes in a shared Google document that the whole class wrote on. In this blog post I am therefore writing a short summary of the movie and my opinion on the method I liked best to take notes.
“The 11th hour” is a documentary about the consequences of the humans abuse of the nature. The movie firmly describes global warming and the destruction that comes with it through public peoples like Leonardo Dicaprio and Stephen Hawking.
The movie got strong pictures of polluting and describes global warming in such a serious and touching way that it really sticks to your brain and make you want to change the world to a greener place. The movie describes how the corporates and economy runs our society instead of the nature that our existence actually depends 
on. At some point in the movie a scientist describes that the environmental cleanup that the world’s forests do had cost humans 38 trillion dollars to clean up every year with the technology that we have today.
This movie is really touching and gave me a lesson about polluting that will stick to my mind for a long time and I recommend you all to watch it, especially if you are interested in the environment.
Now to the tree techniques to take notes…
- The technique I liked the best was handwriting, I think that this is the best technique because I were able to keep the focus on the movie a lot better taking hand written notes then taking notes on a big glowing screen. I was also able to take the notes faster than on the computer. The only minus is that my handwriting is so bad that I only understood one third of the words I had written in a totally dark room.
- The technique I liked the second best was taking notes on the computer. The downsides with this technique are that you have a glowing screen in your face while you are taking notes and that the technique is slower than handwriting.
- The reason that I have put the note taking on Google docs last is that it got all the downsides that computer note taking got and a Google doc is very messy when 30 students are taking notes on it at the same time.
Edublog Awards
I would like to nominate my classmate Haakon to best student blog on Edublog awards.
Here is a link to his blog: relatedsignals.com
