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Mrs. Hunt's Book Reviews
Below are my most recent readings and their reviews.
As part of my "Summer of doing things for me" I have decided to review my readings. As you can see below I am part of the summer reading challenge. The first book that I read was a classic book by Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper. I would have to say that this was one of the best books by Picoult that I have read. I really do enjoy her style of writing, where she writes from multiple character's perspectives, but she did an extraordinary job in this novel. Her character work was outstanding. I particularly enjoyed her character work with the older brother Jessie. She made him such an interesting character and a great addition to the main story line. I think I connected to this because I see everyday how student react to the various situations in their life. I also loved the ending. I of course won't give that away here, but it was a classic twist Picoult ending.
My Sister's Keeper-Reviews
As part of my "Summer of doing things for me" I have decided to review my readings. As you can see below I am part of the summer reading challenge. The first book that I read was a classic book by Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper. I would have to say that this was one of the best books by Picoult that I have read. I really do enjoy her style of writing, where she writes from multiple character's perspectives, but she did an extraordinary job in this novel. Her character work was outstanding. I particularly enjoyed her character work with the older brother Jessie. She made him such an interesting character and a great addition to the main story line. I think I connected to this because I see everyday how student react to the various situations in their life. I also loved the ending. I of course won't give that away here, but it was a classic twist Picoult ending.Speaking on the ending of the book... the movie. What happened with the movie. Although the movie did a great choice in choosing actors for the roles, I was really upset by some of the choices that the director/screen writers made. I am fully aware that you can not include every aspect of a book into a movie, but I really feel they did Picoult's book an injustice. They left out some of the greatest character traits of Jesse, who I said before was one of the greatest parts of the book. Also, they changed the ending. I think part of what made this book so amazing was the greatest part, and it was completely different. Although the movie was tied up in a nice neat bow, I think what makes Picoult's books so great is that they aren't nice and neat, they are messy and emotional and great.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone, but I would tell anyone else that they should wait to rent or netflix's this movie.
13 comments:
I think cloning is an amazing discovery but it has its place in science. I would hate to see people pre-ordering their children or using cloning in a non beneficial way. I think that cloning can be one of the greatest innovations in our lifetimes. It could be the cure to all of our diseases, it could allow people to walk again who have had serious injuries, or maybe even regrow damaged parts of the brain. I also strongly believe that in the wrong hands, cloning could create a whole world of problems. Or maybe I just spend too much time watching shows like fringe ;-)
Cloning is a slippery slope to go down. To much into it and we could be pre-ordering our children and who wants that. Part of me hopes we find a cure for diabetes with out cloning but if there is no other way for it, then who knows were our future will bring us
I think that cloning is unnecessary. Not to be cruel but we really have enough issues with the population as it is. We keep trying to preserve lives but we keep making new ones and not having any restrictions on how many lives are brought into this world. With countless coming in and possibly very few going out (with cloning) it would solve some of our issues but create new ones. I think we should let nature take its course. Maybe I'm looking at it from too factual a perspective.
I think that cloning is a neat subject and it is cool that we can recreate things but I don't think that it should become a big topic of discussion. Often there are defects that come along with cloning and it might not be healthy for the things that are cloned.
I actually wrote a research paper which was of a similar topic last year that dealt with the issue of genetic engineering which is very similar in nature. I believe that cloning in some aspects can be very beneficial, such as cloning hair for those balding and other medical issues. But to clone people and animals just because we want to is not so much a good thing and could deffinitly upset the balance of things as they are now in our society.
I think that cloning is alright just for scientific use. For any uses besides that cloning is unneeded. It would though be really nice for the benefit of science to find cures for diseases and stuff.
I think that cloning has both its ups and downs. I think that it is amazing because people could be cloned if they are ill and be able to live longer and stay with their family as a healthy person. but on the other hand, people could be commiting crimes and blaming it on their clone and then we would have innocent people in jail. In addtion, both a man and woman's place in this world wold be replace because people would no longer have to work at procreation because we could simply clone someone or mix some DNA to get a different person all together. Personally i just think we need to stay away from cloning for the next twenty years or so until we can really be sure if we are ready for the repercussions.
i think cloning is one of the greatest discoveries of mankind. there are endless benefits that can be used with cloning, however religious views should be kept separate than science.
Cloning is a double edged sword. You can get benfits like making healthy organs that don't reject the reciever. It also has a negative like designer babies then we'll have a future like in the film "Gattaca" In the end, I like cloning since then we can bring back some extinct animals, get good organs, and perhaps find treatment or cures for rare diseases (not sure about human rights on studying rare diseases on clones). Even though there might be evil clones or have SW: Attack of the Clones
I think the scientific community should go forward with cloning. The religious community needs to realize that we, as a society, are moving faster and faster in the world via technology. Cloning is a very positive thing that can benefit our future. We can learn so much information based on cloning. Scientific research is used to benefit society, not affect it negatively.
i think that cloning has its place in science. it may prove t obe a life saver. but i think that it also has a huge downside. i hope that it is never availible to the public.
I think cloning is really cool. However, I don't like the fact experiments are being done on animals. But I will say that I can see the benefits it can have, and that I think it is an amazing scientific advancement.
I think that cloning is something really different and really out ther and thats why people dont want to except. I personally think its really cool and i like things like that in science. I also think that if people would actually get to know what is it maybe they wouldnt hate it so much.
-Nisha
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