Outside reading

For this outside reading I read an article about a walmart worker that got trampled and died. The worker was killed after opening the doors at 5 a.m. to a New York walmart for black friday sales. About 2,000 people were lined up outside the doors and when it was time to open the doors shoppers broke down the doors and pushed workers to the ground. The choatic shoppers killed a 34 year old man and injured four other people including a pregnant woman, who were all rushed to the hospital immediately after it happened. Even though the shoppers knew they had knocked people to ground they kept running to the sales. The walmart was closed for the rest of the day after the stampede happened and the police are still looking into the situation. Many workers around the country are claiming that they got injured from the shoppers of black friday sales too.

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In chapter five of Lock and key Rubys sister, Cora, realized that Ruby didn't have any clothes to fit in at school. Cora gave Ruby $200 to go shopping and buy herself a new wardrobe. Ruby has never really had the chance or opprotunity to shop given her old situation. Ruby lived her old life just getting by on small amounts of cash and wearing clothes that she has had for most of her life. Ruby is so used to taking care of herself and surviving on her own that she isn't used to people just given her huge amounts of money and doesn't really know what to do. She was on her way to the mall and decides that she doesn't want to shop just yet but she wants to visit one of her friends from her old town. When she gets to her friends house she wants to talk to him about how Coras house isn't really her home and she how she feels like she doesn't belong, but instead she just makes small talk with him and tells him how she has to go shopping-something that she doesn't normally do. When Ruby got to the mall she didn't want to buy anything but knew she had to to please Cora so she bought two pairs of jeans, a sweater, a hoddie and five t-shirts. Ruby knew that these clothes wouldn't make her fit in but at least they would help.
I think that in that next few chapters Ruby will be surprised to find out that her new life isn't as bad as she thought it to be and that things will end up surprising her.

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I decided to take a break reading lock and key because the book isnt very interesting. Instead I read an article from Cosmo girl December/January issue about a girl who saved her own life. This article was about a teen girl that was having severe back pains that caused her a lot of pain. She went to several doctors to try and find out what was causing the pain and they all said the same things like - you pulled a muscle, its from your period, and just basically blew her off, but she believed it was more complicated than that. She went on pain killers to dull the pain because it was so bad. After about four months of this horrible pain she decided to take matters into her own hands and try to figure out what was wrong with her. She went to a new doctor and made them take X-rays of her lower back where they hadn't taken X-rays before. When the X-ray results came back the doctors found a tumor that had grown on her spinal cord. The doctors were amazed she was still walking because of the location of the tumor. She had to have surgery to get it removed and is still recovering from it. If she hadn't made the doctors take the X-ray she could be paralized or even worse, dead.

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In chapter three of lock and key Ruby starts her new school. Rubys new school is a private school and it is also the same school that Jamie went to when he was her age. Ruby is really nervous about starting school because it is the middle of the semester and she is used to going to a public school not a private school. Ruby is afraid of people finding out that she lives with her sister and not her mother and having to explain her living situation to others. She doesn't want people to treat her differently if they do find out. She just wants to be a normal teenager and fit in with the crowd. But to her surprise her first day at the new school actually goes pretty well. She ends up making friends with a boy named Nate who lives in her neighborhood and a girl named Olivia who ironically used to go to her old school and that made he feel better. Ruby now feels hopefully about going to this new school and she isn't as worried as she was before.

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In chapter two of lock and key Ruby tries to escape from her living situation. She lives with her sister, Cora and her sisters husband ,Jamie. Ruby does not get along with her sister that well because of things that happened in the past. Ruby feels like she doesn't really belong and fit in at Coras house because it is nice and clean and she has things that Ruby didnt even know existed.Ruby feels so out of place and alone that she just wants to get away from everything and live on her own. One night Ruby gathers up her belongings and tries to run away from her sisters house. Ruby only gets as far as the fence before Rubys sisters husband, Jamie, catches her. It's a fluke that he catches her because he was walking the dog and the dog hears her and then runs to her. She's returns to their house with Jamie, but she is still really upset. She still wants to run away from them, really away from the pain that she is in becasue her life has been so messed up for so long she doens't even know what it's like to live in a family. I'm excited to read the next chapter and find out what ruby will do next.

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For this quarter of outside reading I'm reading a book by Sarah Dessen called "Lock and Key." The first chapter of Lock and Key is about Ruby, who is the main charcter and her Mom. Ruby's Mom has a lot of issues and is not very responsible. She doesn't pay their rent on time, sometimes she doesn't come home at night, and she doesn't always pay the bills. Ruby is always worried and scared. Social Services finds out about Ruby's living situation and they take her to live with her sister that she hasn't seen for about ten years. Ruby's sister is married to a successful business man who has a lot of money, but Ruby isnt used to living the way they live. Ruby has to learn how to adapt to her new life, school and friends and to learn how to just be a kid again. She also has to learn how to have a relationship with her sister.

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For this outside reading i read a quote by James Dean that says "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." I love this quote because it reminds me that you have to grasp life and have lots of fun while you can. I want to do things because I want to do them and experience them. I don't want to give up on my dreams because I am afraid of what might happen in the future. I think that when you have dreams you want to acheive, that is was keeps you going and makes you want to acheive more. I think that you have to move through life taking chances and making decisions that might take you out of your comfort zone because they could end up being the best thing for you when you look back at them later in your life. I believe that everything happens for a reason and that when one door closes many more open so live every moment and take chance because you never know when its too late.

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For my outside reading today I read a quote that says "A rich person is not one who has the most but the one who needs the least." To me this quote means that in order to be "rich" you don't have to have tons of money or lots of materal things. You just have to take what you have and appreciate it. The things in life that make you rich aren't cars , clothes or money but the relationships you have and the good times you share together. I think that people forget that what makes us truly "rich" is the connections we make with other people and the way that we feel about ourselves. It is not the new TV we get or the car that is more expensive than our friends. While those things might make us feel good for a very short time, they are all emply feelings. To truly be happy you have to be at peace with your life and the people in it and those things really cost nothing.