Twelve Olympians

The main characters in this book are Percy, Grover, Annabeth, Chiron, Poseidon, Ares, Hades, Luke, and Zeus. The book primarily takes place in Camp Half Blood. This book is about Zeus’s lightning bolt getting stolen by Luke. The problem in this book is Zeus’s lightning bolt gets stolen and Percy has a quest to find the bolt before the summer solstice. When Percy is on the quest he has to take a taxi, car, and bus from New York to Los Angeles to get to the Underworld. He has to go to the…

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” In Buddhism it’s believe that you must suffer in order to be happy. It kind of connects to the story , “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” but in this case one children suffer in order for the rest to be happy. In the story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, by Ursula Le Guin reveals the following message to his audience that in order to be happy what is the prices that society needs to pay in order to be happy. In this society one of the idea was…

his external climate with other addicts and ex-addicts. One of the best ways most addicts can recover from their addictive behavior is enrolling in a twelve-step program. To see how a twelve-step is like, I visited a Narcotic Anonymous (NA) candlelight meeting. The twelve-step meeting researched contradicts Mate’s twelve-step journal. The twelve-step meeting was located at the YMCA hotel in Glendale. The meeting was held in room two, which was in the basement of the YMCA hotel. The initial…

“Chapter 22 the Prophecy Comes True” I had discovered a similarity that Percy and I share is that I to have been betrayed or stabbed in the back by someone who I thought was a loving, caring friend. Not necessarily in the same way but it did hit us by surprise. The person whom betrayed me said to think of her as a friend because her job was to help us think of the future. Luke betrayed Percy because he was one of the first friends that he made at Camp Half Blood. Most people would never think…

In the novel “The Titan’s Curse”, the protagonist Percy Jackson experiences “Road of Trials” from the Initiation Stage in Joseph Campbell’s monomythic cycle. Percy must conquer some of the most hideous and vicious beasts alive to achieve success. This particular quest was no piece of cake. However, Percy Jackson is quite an ambitious young man. He was willing to accept a challenge, but not defeat. The hero mustered his courage and demonstrated his heroic qualities like never before in order to…

Financial times, Wall Street Journal, and the Forbes. James Altucher wrote a book in 2011 called I Was Blind but Now I see reached number one in Amazon.com’s motivational books section in 2011. USA Today also named Altucher’s Choose Yourself among the twelve best business books of all time. James Altucher is a very successful writer today. Altucher have not been a very successful writer in his early years. In 2004 Altucher wrote the book called Trade like a Hedge Fund. When the book…

Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan 978-142310148-2 The Titan’s Curse takes place in the present U.S.A. and is a exciting adventure. Meet Percy Jackson, a 14 year old buy with dark hair and sea green eyes. He is the proud son of Poseidon and Sally Jackson and Tyson’s half- brother. In the Titan’s Curse Grover, Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia discover two new half-bloods at Westover Hall, but Annabeth and the goddess Artermis are kidnapped by Krono’s Army and Atlas. As our tale begings Percy,…

A hero is the light at the end of the tunnel. A beacon that shines hope in darkest of times. A sign that spells the meaning of the right thing. A symbol that represents the marvels in the world. A hero prevails as a person who is noted for courageous acts or nobility of character. While it is recognizable that Telemachus of The Odyssey by Homer is a hero, Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson surpasses Telemachus in his heroism and nobility by a landslide. Although people may believe Telemachus is…

I’m Vivian, a sophomore at Wes who loves enjoying creativity from other people and trying them out myself – through various cultures (Taiwanese, Chinese, American, Japanese) and various formats (writing, music, art, games, etc.). My other passion lies in psychology, the study of humans, simply because (as weird as this sounds) I love interacting with humans – there is so much to discover, so much potential and complexity to our species. I want to dedicate myself to cross-culture…

Percy Jackson a twelve year old boy, decides to tell us the of his past year. At the beginning of summer, just after sixth grade year, Percy discovers that something is wrong with him. Or on the other hand, maybe something is right with him. He becomes aware that he is a half-blood: half-human, half god. He is taken to camp half-blood in New York, a camp where kids like him do not have to worry about attacks on half-bloods.. At camp is where Percy learns about who he is: Poseidon, god of the…