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A person who is overcoming odds right now is Nadya Suleman because she has six children plus her new octuplets. She has no home of her own but she lives with her mother and father in southern California. She has no job except for a disability check for 14 children. The children have no father but all come from a sperm donor. She says that she only gets to spend about 45 minutes with the infants. She also plans to go back to college and finish her bachelor’s degree and hopefully get a job after that. Her parents think that this was the stupidest idea because now she is living on their retirement and does not accept any welfare payments. But ever since she was a child all she wanted to be was a mother. Now she had become a mother of 14 children who she may or may not be able to support.
Celizic, Mike. "Octuplet mom defends her ‘unconventional’ choices." MSNBC 06 002 2009 3 Apr 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29038814/
The bachelor season 2008- 2009 had the most dramatic ending. The bachelor Jason Mesnick was the last guy on the last Bachelorette season but got rejected by DeAnna Pappas. The bachelor had gotten a chance to get his own show. He had gone through the whole thing about eliminating each girl and picked Melissa Rycroft at the final rose ceremony. But Jason had decided that it was not working out between them and wanted to end their relationship on national TV. He had wanted to break up with Melissa and then talk to Molly the other final contestant next to Melissa. He had done all this during the After the Rose Show. He had broken Molly’s heart before but she still went and said okay to him after hearing the couples break up. He had ended it with Melissa and she had been very furious with him. He and Molly are still dating to the day. This bachelor’s love had been up and down all his life because first he had been married to someone and has a son named Ty. He also was on the Bachelorette with DeAnna and got rejected and on his bachelor show he had decided Melissa was not the one.
Gonzalez , John. "Michigan's Molly Malaney, Jason Mesnick in middle of 'The Bachelor' conspiracy theory." Michigan Online LLC 02 019 2009 5 Apr 2009 http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/02/the_bachelor_conspiracy_theory.html
Pvt. Ltd. During fashion week Katrina had worn the Barbie dress at the Lakme Show and the Barbie doll will come out in September. She is overly excited because she is the first Indian to be a Barbie. There had been controversy on having the Aishwarya Rai Bachan Barbie but they had decided since Katrina has a more doll like face she gets the credit to be a Barbie doll. The actress says the best thing is that I get my Barbie Doll out on the 50th anniversary and it’s a honor to be the first Indian Barbie. She also says that it is really great to have the doll that she has grown up with and she says that her sisters would be very happy to see her as a doll.Minakshi , Saini. "Katrina Kaif is the Barbie girl." Hindustan Times 03 027 2009 5 Apr 2009 http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=c0fba5d2- 4f84-4ce3-ae6a-a7026f7f976e&Headline=Katrina+Kaif+is+the+Barbie+girl
In this movie change is one of the biggest factors. The main character in this movie is Shivaji Rao (Anil Kapoor). He was in an interview with the Chief Minister of his state via live broadcast. During the interview he asks the Chief Minister many questions that result in making him in trouble because he had been corrupt and misleading the state into tough times. Since this was on national television the Chief Minister says “why don’t you stand in my shoes for 24 hours”. Shivaji takes the offer after a lot of cheering from the crowd and the staff members. When Shivaji is Chief Minister he is to change a lot of things about the government and the way the state works. His work had led him to do many great things like give the poor their housing that government officials have taken, fires all the corrupt people including the chief minister, helps the poor with the groceries. He gets relected but while he was getting re elected he lost his mother and father. He became the best Chief Minister of the state.
In the book Homeless Bird that takes place in India. In this book the girl Koly is married at a young age to an unknown man. She is then going to live with him and his parents. She doesn’t get along with her mother in law and after a couple years her husband dies and she is a widow. Her mother in law didn’t want to keep her in the house so she takes her on a journey. Then she leaves her in a town and leaves back to her home town. Koly is forced to go out and find a job but she finds it hard because she is a female and the jobs that she finds can only give her food. She then meets a guy who takes her to a homeless shelter for women. She stays there and gets a different job where she has to make sarees. She has to get used to the change between her new workers and her new family at the shelter. While all this she keeps in touch with raja, who is the person who gave her the shelter, and then after a few months she gets married to him. All her life after she got married she had to go through change.
Whelan, Gloria. Homeless Bird. Harper Collins, 2001
In the book night the Jewish people are strong believers throughout the holocaust. For example the main character Elizer Wiesel was very interested in learning more about his culture. He had been a devoted boy because he went to the synagogue frequently before the Germans took the Jews away. He has studied the religious books. Elizer had a strong bond with god this made him survive through the Holocaust. He had always prayed and stayed connected with god even after all of the Jews were treated badly and they had been through the hardest things of life because of a political tyrant. The Jews during the holocaust did not have that much faith in god because they believed that if god really was there the holocaust would not have happened. But Elizer kept praying and didn’t lose faith in god. His faith in god had helped him survive and his father with him by his side when all the other families had been separated.
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.
In the Bollywood movie Welcome to Sajjanpur it shows the different gender roles and the male being more dominant. Sajjanpur is a small village in India where there is less industrial things and everything is done the old fashion way. The males are more capable of doing things. For example in this movie there is a mail guy who writes other people’s letters and reads them because they are less educated. The female get out of the house but they are mostly inside the house doing chores and taking care of their children. The only people that do have cars and motor bikes are the government officials. But the other ride on bicycles. The gender roles differe very much in this culture and society. Well one because they are not a very modern society and they are too old fashioned about things.
Welcome To Sajjanpur. Dir.Shyam Benegal. Wri. Ashok Mishra. Shreyas Talpade. Amrita Rao. Ravi Kishan. Ila Arun. Divya Dutta. DVD. ADLABS. 19, September, 2008.
A culture that is way beyond explanation and different is the vampire culture from The Twilight Saga. From everything they do to the people that they talk to are very different. These vampires are all over the world. They have different covens and all of those vampires have different supernatural powers. In humans culture you eat, sleep, age as you grow and exercise. In a vampires world you don’t eat veggies but you either drink humans blood and if you are a Cullen who are all vegetarian meaning they eat animals. They don’t get their sleep, you are frozen at a certain age and you are extremely strong. As humans learn to be extra friendly, Vampires crave human blood and humans are their diet. It would be extremely hard to spend time with a vampire or even have one in a society. But as we humans die vampires live forever and ever unless they are burned by fire or sun.
Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking Dawn. first. New York: Little Brown and company, 2008.
Taylor Strand a 14 year old from
Sauk Rapids, Minnesota was in a fire pit accident. She has third degree burns covering 70% percent of her body. She was in the Cincinnati hospital for eight months and came home to surprise her friend on her 15th birthday. She says her personality is the same but only her face, body and hair are different. She also says that therapy and dressing changes are the most painful part. She had 17 surgeries but only had one wish and that was to come home for Christmas. They even have "Pray for Tay" bracelets to support Taylor. They are only 5 dollars plus a dollar of shipping charges.
Hughes, Brady. "Pray For Tay. The Offcial Website for Taylor Strand". iStudio Interactive, LLC. Febuary 03 2009
My natural Disaster Blog is about t
he winter storm in Kentucky that lead to a more than half million power outages for 3 days. They didn’t have fresh water either. There were shelters all over the state. There were at least 21 deaths confirmed after the storm hit. This storm took place from Texas to Kentucky. The governor called 4,600 National Guard troops Saturday to deliver water, food and other supplies. They have to go door to door and cover 190 counties. After a few days the electricity was back for a few counties but less than a quarter million still don’t have any power. But on the bright side next weeks temperature is above forty which is still cold but some snow melting should be nice. Let’s just hope that these strong winds and ice storms don’t make their way up north. Schools and Universities have been cancelled for more than 3 days.Whippe 3 whole snow days!!
Candiotti , Susan. "Quarter-million still without power in icy Kentucky." CNN . 02 Febuary 2009. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.. 3 Feb 2009 < iref="newssearch">.
r 6 months and the job pays 150,000 dollars. You have to be a good swimmer, excellent communicator, and be able to speak and write in English. The applicants who will stay in a rent free 3 bedrooms, beach home complete with plunge pool and a golf buggy. They have to talk to media after they are done with their 6 months so called "lease". They will have to love the sea, the sun, the outdoors! The fact that they will be paid to explore the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, swim, snorkel and generally live the Queensland lifestyle makes this undoubtedly the best job in the world. Snorkeling for 6 months living on a island so fun!! :D I would do it if I was eligible. 
te made and mistake and Obama gave him a minute to correct which made Obama look bad. People say that this was the most expensive inauguration ever its cost was $150 million. The cost was high because of the high security rates but no one was arrested at the inauguration. There was about 1.5 to 3 million people at the inauguration. Obama issued executive orders to shut the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp within a year. Which gives them about an year of time to decide where the terrorists and the other people from the camp go or if they have to be moved to other countries. So far so good! :D Our time for change has Obama says! Obama Mr. president and Joe Biden for Vice president.Frenchman speaks nonstop for 124 hours to set the speech record.
onstop for 124 hours to set the speech record.Ouch that sounds so hard!! I wouldn't even last for 5 minutes. Frenchman Lluis Colet broke the world record of the longest speech after rambling nonstop for 124 hours anout spanish painter Salvador Dali, Catalan culture and other topics. Rebutal against that woud ahve been fun! The 63 year old man talked for 5 starught days and four nights. The prvious record was held by an indian man who talked for 120 hours. I would have fallen asleep. Or i would be chantin about the chemistry book and get it into my head. Colet began on monday at a railway staion reciting the works of famous authors and painters he adored. Large crowds came to support him and finally he set the guiness book award for talking for 124 hours!
A young 2 year old body is the youngest boy to have a heart trasplant in india. He had
only an year to live before the transplant. A 2 year old that died in a car accident has donated her heart to this boy and her kidneys are still stored for those in need. The girl died in a accident with her mother and her father is still under going treatment. This is an increadily sad and happy story. Her liver kidneys and eyes are also being donated. The year old girl is the youngest multi-organ donor and the 2 year old boy is the youngest boy to get a heart transplant in india. The heart transplant took 2 hours and 40 minutes. 
ensive care unit fighting for her life. The doctors are trying to get the fatal infection out. In the last week she has had both of her hands and feet amputated. Doctors removed both of her kidneys and a part of her stomach. Executive of Miss world brazil told CNN that "They say her situation is very critical and that her chances of survival are not really significant but she keeps surprising everyone". Two weeks ago the doctor gave her 24 hours to live but she keeps fighting for her life. Doctors say that she has kidney stones but her condition is worst than kidney stones maybe a blood infection. She doesnt talk she resopnds by blinking kind of like Jean dominique from the diving bell of the butterfly. She was a person who enjoyed life and went after what she wanted without fears. The basketball team that had a score of 100-nothing but the coach was still prud of them. He says they tried and tried and never gave up. The bulldogs have variety of people on the team the bulldogs have team members with a variety of learning problems. They play in hope of improving skills, learning teamwork and picking up watever life lesson athletics may bring. But the opposing team never said anything about how bad the team was. They say thier moto is "Competition with honor". At half time the other team scored 88-0. Bu the team has terrific players good defense but not fast enough to score a goal. Hmm intresting.
has 2 newbies who are vey new to the Film Industry. Slumdog Millionaire is nominate for 10 Oscar awards including Best Director: Danny Boyle. The setting was in Mumbai india the plot is about a teenager from the streets of mumabi is about to get rich on the show called 'Who wants to be a Millionaire?'. The film has 3 other nominations for best music and best film of the year. This is a Fox Search light movie. I've watched it and its worth it. I like it because it is very diffrent. This film made history well especially because its an indian film. I also liked it because it was a love story. Jamal has a brother named Salim who were kidnapped and sold to other people along with other homeless people. But Jamal and Salim and Latika and other decide to run away. Then Jamal goes his own way leaving Latika to Salim and then he finds her again and its about how they find each other at the end. 
s. She gets closer to Jacb black and finds out that he just has become a warewolf. She trys so many crazy things because whenever she was in danger she would hear Edward's voice in the back of her head. She tried really crazy things such as cliff diving all by herself and she almost drowned. She drove motorcyles and almost cracked her head open and started talking to these strange guys that were outside of a bar. Laurent a vampire that has revenge on The Cullens because they killed his friend James in Twilight. Laurent finds Bella all alone in the meadow and tries to kill her before Jacob and his Warewolf pack comes and saves the day. When Alice saw Bella jumping off a cliff she thought she died and rosalie told edward and Edward tried to kill himself before Edward comes and saves him. But when Bella came to save him The volturra tell Edward that he has to change bella into a vampire before thier next visit. Edward only agreed to turn bella into a vampire if she decides to marry him. Edward proposes to Bella at the end of new Moon. Daddy Long Legs is about a girl named Judy Abbott. She is from an orphanage ca
lled the John Grier home. She gets a chance to go to college because a trustee decides to give her a scholarship as she writes letters to him and becomes and author. Judy was never allowed to know about the trustee because he was going to be anonymous but she called him Daddy Long Legs. She later finds out that Daddy Long Legs is Jervis Pendelton who is her roommate’s uncle. I didn't like the end because i thought she was going to end up with Jimmie McBride who is her other roommate Sallie's brother who goes to Harvard and used to write letters to Judy. But at the end she ended up with Jervis Pendelton.
was on a vacation at the Bahamas with his family. Jett was 16 when he died they say that he had a seizure and he hit his head but the exact cause of death is still unknown. They scheduled an autopsy on Monday. Bahamian police said that on Friday a caretaker at the West End resort found Jett in the bathroom unconscious. He was taken to the hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival. Jett Travolta had a developmental disability that his parents have linked to Kawasaki disease, an inflammatory disorder of the artery walls that most commonly occurs in young children and can lead to heart disease. Sanjay Gupta says that mostly patients with 3 to 5 years have Kawasaki disease and he says that it’s rare for someone to have it in their teens. The causes of this disease are unknown but some scientists think it’s usually occurs from carpet cleaning chemicals.http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/04/jett.travolta.death/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCText
A Muslim family has been kicked off a plane because they were talking about where to sit on the plane if the plane crashed. They were talking about safety on the plane when two passengers over heard and told the flight attendants. They were kicked off the plane and searched by FBI and the FBI cleared them to go on. But, Air Tran refused them to go on the plane. The family was upset that Air Tran didn’t allow them to book another flight. The flight was delayed and everyone was checked and then they were ready to go. But the Muslim family had to buy tickets on US airways but they were refunded and they could travel on Air Tran another time if they wished. They were heading to Florida for a religious retreat. The family traveled with 2 children and a family friend.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475126,00.html
