Alex Rider

People from all around the world love to watch movies. People from all around the world love to read books. However, when the movie industry makes a book into a movie, many of the book lovers experience a massive let down. For those of us who read the book before seeing the movie, can all agree that in most cases, the movies just do not measure up to the book’s standards. The first thing that we book lovers typically notice are the characters. When reading any book, I get a picture in my head…

For the YA Interview assignment, I chose to interview one of my mom’s coworker’s sons. He is twelve years old and attends the 6th grade at Kinder Middle School. Something I learned during this interview about this student was that he is very passionate about reading and enjoys doing it rather than looking at reading to be more like a chore. Whenever I asked him if reading was something he enjoyed doing he responded with “Yes, I enjoy reading. Something else that I also enjoy about reading are…

CBBC and Its Shows Conceived of the BBC's longing to offer a fitting level of separation in the middle of childrens' and grown-ups' projects, the CBBC iplayer site is more than simply a re-skin of the "ordinary" site with an offbeat new plan. The CBBC iplayer organizes visual, as opposed to content driven route and, significantly, contains no grown-up substance. The Sarah Jane Adventures The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British sci-fi TV programme, produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, made…

Oblivion by Anthony Horowitz is an impressionable book with a story so immersed with suspense and action it rivals any Michael Bay film. Written by the same author of the Alex Rider series, Oblivion is the final book of The Gatekeepers series. The gatekeepers are five teenagers, Matt, Pedro, Jamie, Scott, and Scarlett, who learn that they have powers that they must use to defeat the Old Ones, beings that want to destroy the world. Every installment of the series tells the individual…

For many people, the idea of guilt is something not so sincere. Accidentally pocketing a friends pencil or even picking up a dollar that was found on the floor could result in the feeling of “Did I do the right thing?” Sometimes, simple things can cause the emotion, but other times, novels and movies depict that people don’t always live such uneventful lives, and they take it in their own hands to make sure that they do something that they’ll never forget. In I Can Stand Him No Longer, a poem by…

Final Essay Questions- “The Art of Letting Go” “Introduction to My View” Are humans innately good or bad? I believe humans are innately good, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed. He believed that individuals were born with an intuitive understanding of what’s right or wrong. I believe people want to be good and do what is right. As a counselor in training, this is my view of human nature and our society. I truly believe that people want to move in a positive direction in their lives and careers.…

(Zunker, 2016; Sigelman & Rider, 2015). So, what is an identity and how does it form? Identity refers to who you are and where you fit into society. The search for finding your own identity involves many factors and questions that we all look at in our life. According to Erikson, our society supports youths by allowing them a moratorium period, which means a time during youth when they are free of responsibilities and can experiment with different roles (Sigelman & Rider, 2015). James Marcia…

in my stomach. It was as if butterflies were actually in it. At thirteen, I was really good at snowboarding. It was my seventh year strapping a snowboard to my feet and riding down slopes and riding park, I even competed to test my skills to other riders. My competitive nature was always prevalent, losing or not being better than others was like eating rotten eggs. This always had tendencies of getting me into trouble. While snowboarding down, the snow was pure white, soft as if it were…

Thick paperback novels, controversial science fiction, doomsday utopian societies, sappy romances, and even an educational biography every once in a while were some of my best friends throughout my elementary age. I flew through Tom Sawyer, the Alex Rider series, To Kill a Mockingbird, and several dozen other intriguing reads. Knowing I had become hooked on reading, many of my friends, family, and acquaintances thought that my odd addiction would never go away. Sometimes, I cruised through…

“I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it, you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting than yours will ever be,” (Scott). When reading, one often forgets the world around them and become engrossed in the book. Reading has impacted me in many ways, including the way I think, see or feel about different situations. ()Another way that reading has impacted me is that it can often take one’s mind off of outside situations that one may have going…