You Can You Will By Joel Osteen: Alex's Book Summary

You Can You Will

Joel Osteen

By: Alex Aldape

Joel Osteen's book You Can You Will is a type of a "motivational book" by making yourself a better person. Joel Osteen is a pastor in Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas by doing his speeches in front of thousands of people. The beginning of the book is talking about a actor in the 1980s-present that was homeless at one point of his life for awhile. He lived in his old and broken down car that he owns that's overlooking Los Angeles on a hill where he dreams about himself being the biggest actor in the world. His name today is Jim Carrey, he took himself a check out for $10,000,000 and put it into his wallet so he can have his dream in his pocket so he doesn't give up on it. What this book is explaining in the first few chapters is that you can have a picture of your dream printed out for you to see and you can put that picture anywhere, so when you wakeup you can see that dream everyday and not lose focus or confident on it.
      My thoughts on the book is that it can help anyone out in there future and keep your dream on your mind. I really like this book more than any other book because this one talks about your future and goals that you want to accomplish. I want to accomplish my goals myself and this book motivates me to not forget about my dream and my goals. I had this book recommended to me by my sister because she had read the first book by Joel Osteen, I would also recommend this book to anyone else because if you have goals you want to achieve then this is the book to make you concentrate on it. This book was a nonfiction book so if anyone enjoys a this type of genre than this is a thumbs up for you and you will enjoy it. 

Were Were Liars By Emily Lockhart: Alex's Book Summary

We Were Liars 

Emily Lockhart
By: Alex Aldape

In the book We Were Liars I usually like every book I read but We Were Liars is a book I really enjoyed and I would really recommend it to anyone that might enjoy it. In this book I feel that this is one of the books by the author that really made her famous for her. We Were Liars was taken place in Beechwood Island, Massachusetts USA on there own little private island. The main family that takes place is the Sinclair family, the Sinclair family even has it's own phrase they say "No one is a criminal, No one is an addict and No one is a failure". That saying is what proves the who the Sinclair family is. In the beginning of the book Cadence Sinclair Eastman gives a little description about her life and what her surroundings are. Cadence explains her whole life throughout the book are also shares how they got into there own personal island. Cadence is main character throughout the whole book telling her own story about her life and her families life. 
     Towards the end of the book Cadence and her cousins family had a rivalry between each other. During the summer Cadence and Gat set fire to the big house to finish off the rivalry. Now that I gave off a lot of information in the book it's now your turn to read the book. I really liked how the book started by giving off a map of the family tree and also finishing off the book in a weird way that I would've never of known. I totally recommend this book to any reader because I felt that in this book it started off as an adventure type then it transitioned to a action book towards the ending which is interesting. 

The Giver by Lois Lowry Book Summary

The Giver By Lois Lowry

So far into the book, The Giver I think that it is a good book, because it's Science Fiction. It really makes you think about the theme of survival. It is similar to a few books I have read like the Hunger Games and Divergent, because they both have similar meanings to it. In my opinion I think the Hunger Games is like a survival type feeling mood, and Divergent is the same way- only with different powers that you are given. In The Giver, the main characters are Jonas and Asher. These two are very different from each other. Jonas is the type of person who is very funny and who jokes around, Asher is the type of person that takes things seriously. So when Jonas and Asher are together they both clash and sometimes don't get along, but in the end they still get back together. Also, later they meet another person down the road, named Lily. Lily is similar to the both of them, except Lily is a girl and she got put into the "One's" group and was given a ceremony. At this point into the book I think they fight in a survival type match and decide who's the best and they get chosen.  
          Towards the end of the book, Jonas and The Giver who is the leading person of there event were talking and discussing about their grandparents. Jonas really didn't understand what grandparents really meant and what it stood for, So Jonas kept wondering about his grandparents because no one can see old people anymore so they have them separated in a different building. For Jonas grandparents meant "parents of the parents long ago" which he thought it meant, so The Giver explained to Jonas that it is people that don't live with us anymore which is the new meaning of grandparents of there time. Jonas also didn't really understand what love meant too so The Giver had to teach him what it meant because they grew up in different eras and The Giver is more of like a teacher. Overall I really like The Giver because of it being a type of book that I like to read.

Alex's Sixth Book Summary/Byrd & Igloo A Polar Adventure Book

Byrd & Igloo A Polar Adventure 

By Samantha Seiple

In this book Byrd & Igloo the main characters are Maris Boggs a small women, Richard Evelyn Byrd which is a 37 year old man and Igloo, Byrd's best friend he took along everywhere he went most of the time. Byrd had rescued Igloo which is a little scrappy fox from the streets in Washington D.C. In the book they take a trip from the port of Los Angeles on October 10, 1928 and took a 10,000 mile trip to Antarctica. Not only was it just them going to Antarctica it was also 3 other ships carrying 2,500 pounds of pemmican, 2,000 pounds of cocoa and 3,000 pounds of powdered milk, last but not least they had dehydrated fruits and vegetables. While all of this is happening Byrd and Igloo are still together and they don't plan on leaving each other. 

Alex's Fifth Summary/Night By Elie Wiesel

A summary so far of what's happening in our book is it's taking place during the Holocaust in 1944. Elie Wiesel the author of the book is telling one of his personal stories but remastered into a story. Now in the beginning of the book it starts off being in the ghettos and in concentration camps in Germany with the Nazis. Wiesel begins to not stand up for anyone and just be on his own, most Jews really don't stand up for each other because they already know the consequences and don't wanna get killed. Some words in the book aren't always English because of what country they are in so it's sometimes is in German which makes things a little complicated but gives the book a more of a historic background to it.  

Problems During the Holocaust

During the holocaust there were many bystanders instead of upstanders at the time. If Jews misbehaved any of the rules they were given by the Germans then they would either get beaten up or killed which made the Jews resist from standing up for each other. I myself would've been a bystander in these types of situations too because of how terrible you can get treated. If it were a little problem with a Jew having an issue with a German then I would step up if it's only one German involved in the situation. Another major problem that was going on in the holocaust was the torture chambers and camps that were happening to the Jews. When following German orders at that time you must or else you will die no matter what which caused many innocent Jews to die. 

Bangladesh Kills Over 110 Workers

Tragedies in Bangladesh 

November 25, 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh over the weekend more than 100 workers died in a fire and of smoke inhalation. The problem that many factories suffer are that a lot of factories don't have many fire escape exits and plans if a fire happens, which caused many people to die. These factories produce products for major companies such as Tommy Hilfiger and Gap which are sold by Walmart, Walmart knows that these workers suffer everyday of these hazardous chemicals but don't plan to help out or even stop it. A member from the fire department named Major Mahbub says that "The fire could have been caused by an electrical fault or by a spark from a cigarette". Someone in the building may have done this or could even have a machine blowup and caused a fire.