The Fault In Our Stars

                                                                                                                                 Skyla Lowe 707

      The Fault In Our Stars by John Green is a very inspiring book. This book gives you a good idea about how people with different needs then you live life , not only how they live life but also how they deal with this and how they encourage themselves. I feel like this is a good suggestion book for many people to read whether you want to learn young child issues or disabilities.

    In this book the author uses a lot of description to show the reader how the main character thinks which is Hazel who is 16 years old and struggles with something in life that affects her greatly. The way the author describes the book for you to understand Hazel gives you a lot of feedback on her observing  and hearings and also how she carries on which not only affects her but also her mother because her mother is the one encouraging her to do better and hope for success. The helper in this book helps Hazel out a lot not only with how to carries herself on the outside but how she also acts inside and her reactions to the things she does daily. I am not to far into this book but from where I am so far i definitely can tell that she will struggle and probably overcome there bumps along her road.

Where Your Cellphone Goes to Die

  Upfront Magazine Response                                                                                       Skyla Lowe 707
  
    I think it is not acceptable for electronic manufacturers to pay developing countries to take the U.S.'s e-waste because most Americans replace their electronic devices like cellphones on an average of 22 months and in 2010 the dump trucks junked over 150 million devices alone which is a lot. Also in other places they burn and trade these electronics for copper wires, gold, and silver threads which they then sell to merchants for a couple of dollars. This goes to show that the e-waste we have then goes to other places and we don't actually get a good outcome we just get less electronics to take apart or junk.
     I think it would take the U.S. Cellphone manufacturers a lot of thinking to do better things with the electronics people don't want no more by taking them apart and reusing them for more useful things like another phone, school supplies and other useful/helpful materials.When we throw away used phones only 37% is recycled and when we throw away TVs only 17% is recycled when we throw away/ give up wireless devices only 9% is actually recycled, all the other percentages of each item is trashed which pollutes the areas we live in and we breathe in bad air and these things affect us each and everyday because more than at least 1,000 people a day throw away devices or electronics and it just gets shipped which does not help us. Lastly they can also begin making phones out of products that can be recycled because some phones may not be recyclable, because I know it's kind of hard to disassemble a phone but there is technology these days!

                                                                                                                          
Minimum Age and Minimum Wage                                                            Skyla Lowe 707
                                                                    
           This article Minimum Age and Minimum Wage by Joseph Berger is very important to teach you about the sad lives of young children and adults in the 1900's which sounded very devastating. These kids suffered badly, they had to breathe in cotton dust and risk fingers also limbs working with the powerful looms. Majority of these kids had no education and worked from the age of about 8  till whenever.

            Sally Greenburg of the National Consumer's League noticed that child labor "perpetuated a cycle of poverty". What Sally Greenburg is actually saying is they made an actual cycle of how people lived an unbelievable cycle of poverty. These people worked twelve hours , six days a week being scorched by hot machines or suffering lung disease even mangled arms which is very sad. Although doing all of this hard work, they were only making twenty-five cents per hour , so everyone was getting basically $1.50 in a days worth of hard work. In a standard week they worked 20 hours and if you worked beyond that you had to pay time-and-a-half. Today this cycle is still in affect because now jobs still have young kids 16 and below can only work for a certain amount of hours per week. Another change now is our minimum wage, which is $7.25 or higher depending on jobs which increased twenty times more since 1938. Including the fact that kids under 14 that have jobs can only work with safe non hazardous materials unlike machinery or shoveling coal in the early morning cold. Lastly I think it will take a huge amount of United State employees to come together and fight for their rights to earn enough money to support themselves or  their families. I think by 2020 people will begin to realize how important minimum wage and minimum age really are.

       Some people I think are arguing for the fact that these young kids had to wake up at three o'clock a.m, and spend the day till almost sunset working in coal mines, taking the shells off of ice shrimp, also working in glass and garment factories. What I find most persuasive is how they explain the daily lives of these kids and how they had to survive just to keep there families in good condition. Also how the factory owners enjoyed hiring young workers for their nimble fingers and because when they complained they were able to pay them less; they called these kids the "breaker boys". These are some of the reasons that make this article very persuasive and easy to compare; how the work we do now to earn money does not compare to how hard it was for these people back then. They worked even harder just to make $1.50/ per day on a regular basis.

How does the Author use craft

    The Running Dream Response                                                                        Skyla Lowe 707

        In the book The Running Dream the author uses alot of crafting to describe/reveal the character also showing whats going on in the book. In this book the author Wendelin Van Draanen uses dialogue,internal thinking, and physical to describe what is happening with the character. In this book internal thinking is a big part of showing how the main character feels about her lifestyle after a change.
I think physical and dialogue play an important part but not as much as internal thinking to describe the character or the book.

       In this book some good examples of internal thinking is when Jessica says But im not sick . Im crippled. This goes to show that the Jessica doesn't have so much hope or self reliance in herself showing that she is still going to have a life. An example of dialogue is when she says " Do people think I'm special-needs now? Is that how they see me ? " This shows me that Jessica is having doubts on how people look at her everyday and how will she be categorized, which is important. An example of a physical is when the author describes jessica on her way home and rethinking of her neighbors and her sorroundings and how she feels things are going to change now. All of these examples help me think that Jessica is happy but she still needs to improve on self reliance and how well others think of her on the outside.