Like water for Chocolate.

Montana’s Part
So far, this book is very interesting to me. I really don’t think I have been bored reading the first part of this book. Through the twists and turns of Tita’s lover being given away to her sister,  Nacha’s suicide, and Gertrudis running away naked after eating the rose petal quail, this book never fails to excite! The author has created a crazy situation wrapped up in every recipe while still keeping the stories intertwined together.



Brianna’s Part:  How does the work connect to your life and/or events around you.

One of Tita’s struggles is a way that I can relate to the book. Tita is having problems with trying to live her own life and doing what she wants. Mama Elena doesn't want Tita to do anything that she wants, like trying to marry Pedro. My mom won’t let me do much either, like when I want to go out to the movies or the mall with my friends, she always says no. Another way this book connects to events around me is the way that they cook all the time. My family is big on cooking. We have many traditional recipes that we pass onto each generation. My family always cooks many new and different recipes.

Helberth’s part.
The book  Like Water for Chocolate is about Tita. Tita is the official cook of the ranch since Nacha committed suicide for missing her fiance. Tita’s life revolves around cooking, if she don’t cook then no one eats; and that is not going to settle well with Mama Elena who is a cold woman. Mama Elena runs the ranch and she does not tolerate any disrespect what’s so ever. Tita learns that the hard way; when her sister was marrying Tita’s lover Pedro she became very upset. Tita goes into a deep depression because she was not able to married him. Since she is the youngest child she has to take care of Mama Elena until she dies. This means she couldn’t have a life of her own. That is why Pedro married Tita’s sister since he couldn’t have Tita. Pedro tells Tita that he married her sister just to be closed to her. One day Tita and Pedro watch another one of Tita’s sister run out naked from her shower to be pick up by a man in a horse. Pedro and Tita were amazed at the passion that they seen; this led to Tita and Pedro having occasions where they explored each others body. Unfortunately, Pedro’s wife has a baby, but the wife is not doing so good. Mama Elena send Pedro and his new family to the United States; here the mom would receive better medical attention. Tita was devastated by the news since she was taking care of the baby and even miraculously breast feeding him. Tita was also going to lose her lover Pedro. Once they left Tita’s life became very depressed again especially when she learns that the baby dies once they are in the United States..

Humanities Blog

They are using chronological to write this article.

didactic

The article is about brazilians who went to France in the 1500’s. The brazilians were cavinals and ate people.

“decidedly more horrendous than the native Brazilian practice of eating one’s enemies after they are dead; and the humane, egalitarian character of the Brazilians’ moral sensibility, which was on display in their recorded observations.”




This meant brazilians ate the people who were their enemies.

Say What? Better Hearing Takes Practice

The structure is used to organize the order of the information is cause & effect.

Tone of the article is neutral because its information.

The purpose of this article is show adults who have a difficult time hearing. Studies have show that they can learn how to overcome that article. 

" 67 people aged 55 to 70 years old with no hearing loss or dementia in an experiment. Half the group completed about 2 months of exercises with Brain Fitness, a commercially available auditory training program by Posit Science. "
"they understood about 20% more words and could process about 15% more items on a timed test and showed a 50% increase in neural timing. Those in the non-training group showed no improvements in any area."
"Neural slowing especially affects our ability to hear in a noisy background because the sounds we need to hear are acoustically less salient and because noise also taxes our ability to remember what we hear."

This means once I get old I will still be able to hear a little better than generations before.

TV makes people less lonely.

1. Organization: What structure is used to organize the order of the information. (e.g. cause & effect, chronological, most important to least important, etc.) He starts with the effect of watching TV and goes to the cause of watching TV.

2. Tone of the article: How does the author feel about what he/she is writing about? He feels happy about it because people can now feel better about their situation and feel welcome.


3. Main idea: sum up in 2 or 3 sentences what this article is explaining. This blog is to state that watching TV makes them feel less lonely. It also talks about how people who have a social life usually don’t like a show as much as a lonely person.

4. Supporting details: explain at least 3 details that make the point that the main idea is trying to get across.  “In a study, psychologists noticed that people are more likely to watch favorite TV shows when they're lonely, and feel less lonely during the show. “

“lonely people are primed to enjoy positive TV shows. A study found that people in need of social acceptance train themselves to read more queues from facial expressions.”

“Lonely people may be able to make stronger connections with TV shows and TV characters than people who already have a lot of people in their lives.”

5. Inferences--extend ideas beyond this article: what does this mean for you? for other people?for the whole
If you're lonely maybe you should watch TV;  other people can take a new initiative; everyone has their reasons to watch TV.