This is a warning to teens. To sum up this article, this is about Troian Bellisario and star in the TV show, "Pretty Little Liars" and how she overcame her bulimia. She says, "Honestly, it's an ongoing struggle.  Especially for a woman on a show that has the word 'pretty' in it! Sometimes I feel like I'm trying too hard, like I don't belong. I just look around at [co-stars] Lucy [Hale], Shay [Mitchell], and Ashley [Benson], and I'm just like, 'Why am I on this show?' " That's really sad, I think.

   In my opinion, I think she is so inspiring because sometimes I think I am fat and now I can think of her.  One of my biggest pet peeves is when you insult yourself and truly it's the opposite. I think she is partially doing that because she is one of the prettiest women. But it's not about beauty. Troian Bellisario is one of my favorite actors. I love her work. She is a beautiful person inside and out. But I find this article very annoying because it focuses on beauty -- not her personality or acting. It may seem sort of offensive to those who look down upon themselves.

     All in all, this is an inspiring story yet a bit annoying for the reader.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2533878/Pretty-Little-Liars-star-Troian-Bellisario-opens-eating-disorder-self-harm-struggles.html

What is Ya Hey about really?

By Leah Shifrel

"Ya Hey," by the band Vampire Weekend is about more than one thing. It could be about trust or God or love. It is definitely about power. It may be about God and why people lose faith. Faith is one of those things in life where you as a soul can choose. It says the words "flame" and "glow" which may mean destruction and hope. I am an atheist. I don't believe that there is a higher power up there. There is a very powerful line in the song that makes you really think "how could you watch such terrible things like us?" which may mean that something is up there watching us. I think it should say how could someone watch such sad things happen. Ezra Kinog, the writer, says in the first line "sweet thing," which shows that there is still hope in Ezra's mind and maybe even for me. Another line that stuck out to me was "Only 'I am that I am' / But who could ever live this way?" I think Ezra means without a figure to view, God is almost invisible to a lot of people. We only use what we know. What I am really trying to say is Ezra is feeling sorry for God because he is not there supporting us as we go through life unless we believe in God, which is well -- hard!

Power In the book The stolen party the main character is hiding. She knows inside that she is not in charge and she is lower than the other characters, but outside she acts bigger which is only going to harm her. Rosaria has a conversation with a girl with a bow and in this conversation they both think they have the power, but really neither of them have it which shows that lots of stories that have the complex reading affect to it have the theme of competition which is related to power in way. Rosaria is affected in and by this be a mistake and this reminds me of real life because in real life if you think of yourself higher than you actually are just the same fact that Rosaria figured out. Rosario is covering her eyes throughout the story, it's all right in front of her, she just doesn't want to see.

it is so injus when some one only thinks of them selves. like in my book the hot zone where there is a guy who has to kill these sick monkeys before they go to to zoos in America. but insted just to get money he does not kill them but give them to the zoo and now 2 girls are dieing cause the monkeys bit them. all in all its not right money is not everything.

I was in the fact that adults look down on kids when they should be looking up. Kids are the next leaders in our society we should treat them right. I found 2 examples of this unjust thing in to fiction books. One is from the book metilda. Heres a quote "it's a funny thing about moms and dads. Some parents are so full with other things they forget about their very brilliant child.- why would dahl say this well I think because he thinks that parents don't believe in their child but more within themselves. Another example of this is in all of the harry potter books the relationship between the dersley and harry, the dersleys look down on harry all the time. All in all adults should look up to kids after all they are the ones that will one day be in charge.

We don't want to miss out on being given all these great books because of a grownup not wanting us to read a book but what if we listened to the adult what would we miss or will we thank the adult. For most situations the adult is right. What if we had ratings for books like in the article age rated books: right or wrong they say some publishers are rating their books like Abdo Publishing Company, Forbs Publishing, American Wholesale Book Company, Apex Book Company, and Mark Ziesing Books who rated their books 7-, 1o-, 11+, 13+,18+, (for teen books). In my opinion books like twilight and harry potter should be 11+ but books like crank should be 13+ but I would listen to these ratings if you agree of not but if you feel that your 10 year old is too old for something like a magic tree house and can read harry potter go for it

ELA Blog Post – Leah Shifrel – 803 To be different is to not be alike, or to be unalike – not the same. Tris, the main character in Divergent, taught me that it’s OK to be different but it’s not OK to overuse your difference. For example, when she is with her crush, a boy named Four, she cares. She follows society’s rules -- like valuing “faction over family.” But when she’s with others she is selfish -- only into herself. Tris is stuck. She does not know where she belongs. She is divergent. But because of this she feels free. She is too free. She used to belong to a group that is self-less; now she’s in a group that is selfish. On the other hand, she may be smart for acting selfish so she won’t give away that she is a divergent. Maybe that’s why Four found out that she was a divergent – because she was herself – a selfless human being. I have my own differences like my dyslexia or the fact that I love morbid things or that I am just a strange person but every one is strange and quirky so we all could relate to Tris. What I’m really trying to say is use your difference and your power and your real self wisely. Don’t be a selfish human being