The Shooting Star Blog

     I am going to publish my other blog about paper airplanes soon, but I wanted to upload this blog on the music artist Wifiskeleton, due to his recent death last week. Wifiskeleton is also known for his old YouTube channel, Cyprus. Wifiskeleton was 21 years old when he died of a suicidal overdose. Wifiskeleton suffered from depression and some other mental illnesses for a while before his passing.       His first song Nope your too late i already died , is his most popular song and the title can perfectly describe what is happening with his music now. Wifiskeleton was not the most popular music artist (he did have a staggering seven hundred thousand listeners until about a couple of days after his passing. He now has about two million seven hundred thousand listeners. A part of the reason for his listeners' spiking recently is due to the covers of his songs, like the Peter Griffin " If you see me out in Quohog, say hi " one. So the title is fitting...

Hey everyone, For my last blog post, I had to go out with a bang. I decided to read what many would consider the most controversial book ever published. This book was written by a certain political leader that eventually became an influential figure in world history. This leader was known for seizing power in their country with the support of many of their citizens. Eventually, they began to perform certain acts that have been near-universally condemned. But why would people support this person, and by extension, their evil ideas? The book that I will review may give us an insight into how this historical event occurred, and the dangers of propaganda when people are desperate. But how does this author argue their ideas, and what are their ideas? I'll give some historical context first. During this historical period, many people in this country were very concerned about their future, and many felt that their country and nationality were humiliated after their recent defeat in a big ...

    For my final blog post, I chose to read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. The short book is a collection of vignettes (basically a bunch of short accounts about various things) telling the story of a young girl named Esperanza who lives on Mango Street in a predominantly Hispanic part of Chicago. Esperanza is embarassed of and does not want to belong in her rundown neighborhood, and has dreams of leaving and living in a better place, and belonging there instead. Esperanza is a young girl who must face many challenges as she creates for herself what she will become.     The vignettes help to describe the characters in Esperanza's life, as well as the main character's beliefs and life experiences.     There were a number of things that jumped out and shocked me a little bit about this book. There are a number of times that Esperanza spontaneously talks about things like adults forcing her into a kiss, or a friend being abused by a parent or h...

  I've recently begun to read “Pine Island Home,” a book I bought at a book sale long ago but have never picked up. It follows the lives of four young sisters, whose missionary parents washed away in a tsunami.  They begin the book living with a woman from their current local church who lovingly took them in. However, they know she will not be their permanent home, and they wait anxiously as she searches for a relative to take them in. However, no one wants to take four girls into their home. As they all panic, thinking they will be sent to social services, they receive a letter from their great aunt Martha. She welcomes them to come to Pine Island, British Columbia, where they will live with her in her large estate.  However, when they arrive, they find the house empty. After some investigation, they find out that their aunt has died suddenly of a heart attack and left them alone once more. Again in a panic of being separated by the government, Fiona, the eldest, mus...

I didn't know what to do for my blog post, so I'm doing it on a random children's book series about cats, named Pete the Cat . Pete the Cat, written by Kimberly Dean and James Dean, is a picture book series for small children to read. I'll be discussing the symbolism and meaning of the first book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes .  At first, Pete the cat gets brand new white shoes. He seems to be very excited with his white shoes, and starts singing about them. However, the story takes a big twist when Pete the cat happens to step in a large pile of strawberries randomly on the street. The strawberries then dye his white shoes red. The biggest mistake here from Pete the cat was getting white shoes in the first place. It could be assumed here that Pete the cat is a child cat, considering he also didn't see the big pile of strawberries on the sidewalk. Pete the cat doesn't let this get him sad though, and he starts to sing about his red shoes. Then, he steps i...

No, I don't actually hate men. That'd be betraying my own kind. But over the past few weeks, I have been reading the appropriately named I Hate Men  by Pauline Harmange. It was almost banned in France (the country that it was originally published in) for promoting gender discrimination. I found this one day while looking through the wonderful catalog of the Uni Library, and I knew instantly that this would both be an interesting read and an interesting blog post. I Hate Men is an essay on why women need to become misandrists (people that hate men) to combat misogyny, and how hating men can offer women sisterhood and resistance against the patriarchy. Harmange also argues that misandry is a justified belief due to the risk of physical harm that women face because of the actions of men (an unfortunately true fact). In contrast to men harming women, misandry is okay because men are not hurt by misandry: it is an "intolerable brutality that adds up to the shocking outrage of p...