The Cereal Story

Many of us don't know the story behind what many of us eat during breakfast, and that is cereal. Cereals became popular to eat for breakfast in the 1900's because it was promoted specifically for vegetarians. At the time, most people would eat for breakfast eggs, bacon, sausage and beef. Cereals gave the advantage of a breakfast without that much protein and fat, a good alternative for the vegetarians. As you may have imagined, the ones behind the idea of this cold breakfast started with a vegetarian movement that took place in the ending of the nineteenth century. Most of the people from the movement were people that belonged to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, including the founder of Kellogg's , William Keith Kellogg. In 1863, James Caleb Jackson created the first breakfast cereal named Granula which had very little success.

In 1877, John Harvey Kellogg, operator of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan accidentally created corn flakes by leaving a batch of boiled wheat soaking overnight and rolling it out. He gived this product to his patients at the hospital, and later his brother Will Keith Kellogg, took the corn flakes to sell as a cereal for the Kellogg Company, founded in 1906. Today both Kellogg and their competitor Post, have their headquarters in Battle Creek, for which the city is nicknamed ''cereal city''.

General Mills started selling cereals in 1924 (sold in South America as Nestle), and from then, the cereal companies made their commercials targeted for children. To help promote this, Kelloggs as well as General Mills, created several animal mascots for each cereal. Tony the Tiger was made for Frosted Flakes, Sam the Toucan was made for Froot Loops, the Trix Rabbit, Lucky Charms, as well as others.

1.Almost always in a group of friends one of them could be a traitor.

2.The only thing you have to do in life is die, the rest depends on you.

3.Traitors exist because they are the people that only think of themselves.

4.In your group of friends, you only have 1 or 2 that are real friends.

5.When someone close to you dies, you never really realize he is dead.

6.Many of the traitors you meet, are also robbers.

7.Trust in your friends and they will trust in you.

8.Death is not the path to destruction it is the path to a better life.

9.Traitors end up beeing the people you less suspect.

10.If your friends always help you, you should also help them.

Last Night Entry and Maus Comparation

Here, I read from approximately page 50 or more untill the end of the book. Ellie is transfered from Auschwitz to Buma then to Gleiwitz and finally to Buchenwald. He ends up loosing many of his friends and eventually his father, who dies three months before Ellie is liberated. After Elie is liberated by the American army, he ends up surviving the Holocaust. Eventhough the story ended sadder than any other story ive read of the Holocaust, this one I felt the most connection with.

The connection I felt with Night is the same I could see within Maus, which is a father-son relationship. Art Spiegelman doesn't get very well with his Vladek, and they often end up fighting over many things. Meanhwile, in Night, Elie wanted to save his father from death, and their relationship becomes even closer as the book ends. I think that somehow they managed to love each other more in the end, because it was basically the only thing they cared about in their world. When I was almost getting to the end, a few tears got out of my eyes, and beleive me or not, this book made me cry! It is one of the few books I've read that has impacted me the most.

Curiously, the day I finished this book,was the day of my grandfather's death anniversary. I can still remember my father getting out of the car and grabbing me very tightly, and seeing water in his eyes. And somehow that image won't leave me in a near future. Sadly, like in Night, we all must face the day in which our loved ones die, one way or another. And I think that was a very important message in this book. Even if Ellie lost faith in God, or in anything, his bond with his father will never die. And I hope mine won't.

Night Entry 4

In this entry of Night, I got to page 34. Ellie has already arrived at Auschwitz, and has been separated from his mother and younger sister, Tzipora. He did not know that at that moment they would be separated for life. afterwards he and his father are taken to a different place in which they take away all of the hairs in their body. Many of the Jewish beleive it is their last moment of life and start to pray the prayer of the dead. And many did die. Ellie says tha he would never forget seeing babies burned in the crematory, and loosing faith in his own religion.

''Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.'' pg. 32

I think that seeing this, is a very sad and destructive part of the book, which shows how the army of evil marched all over the face of Europe and left many without faith in their religion. I beleive that this is not the fault of a God or any supernatural being. This catastrophe happened, because the WORLD didn't do anything to stop it untill it was too late. Let this be a lesson for many and all of us.

Night Entry 3

In this entry of Night which I read untill page 27, Ellie is sent to a smaller ghetto, and later sent in a train to a concentration camp. Their, before getting to Auschwitz, a guard announced they were arriving to Auschwitz. That was the first time any of them had herd of the name. This surprisingly, was a name the survivors will never forget in their lives.

This book shares one very common thing with the stories of other Holocaust survivors, either in the film The Painist, Maus, Number the Stars, The Cage and other such films and books. That my friends is hatred. In page 17, we ca see why: '' It was from that moment that I began to hate them, and my hate is the only link between us today.They were our first oppressors. They were the first of the faces of hell and death.'' This is also the main reason why I don't really like the Holocaust or the stories of it's survivors. Besides from the Nazi's being the ultimate villains that satanically and barbarically killed many hundreds of Jews. The Jews regardless from which country they came from Hungary, Poland, Austria or Denmark, responded with revenge and the same hatred the Germans had showed them earlier. Does this leave the world with anything valuable to remember? It only left a sad, scarred and humilliating past for many Europeans today.

Night Entry 2

On this second entry, of Night, Ellie is found in their village by the Nazi's. After the Passover ends, the Nazi's decide to arrest the leaders of the Jewish community. They were forced to give in their gold, jewelry and other valuable items to the Germans. They were forced to use the Star of David and were also forced to live in a ghetto found in the neighborhood that Ellie lived in. Ellie's family gave part of their home to family member's that struggled to survive.

Afterwards, the father of Ellie was called to assist a very important Jewish Council. When he returned, pale and exhausted he announced his family that the Nazi's were going to take them somewhere far away. They did not know were to go, except for the President of the Jewish Council how was threatened to death if he would say anyone.

The Sodom and Gomorrah Warning Letter

Mr. Tangen, I did this the day you didn't come. I decided to post it on the blog.

Dear Citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah,

You MUST leave this city as soon as possible. The reason why is because the LORD God will send fire and smoke from heaven and burn the city to the ground. If you do not leave this place by tomorrow the city and everything looking or surrounding it will turn into salt. Get out and survive while you still can!

Night Entry 1

Night is a book based on the experience of a Holocaust survivor in present-day Hungary. The main character named Elie, has a friend that escaped from a kidnap of the Germans named Mose the Beadle. He suffers for the destruction of a synagogue in his hometown, Sighet. The story takes place in 1944, one year before World War II ended. Many of the Hungarians believed that Hitler would never send an army to get the Jews in Hungary. However, by that same year, the Nazi's reach Hungary's capital, Budapest and eventually their hometown.

The Best Design

The best design Blog I found was the Elixir of Knowledge. This blog showed the best layout and had a List about the type of blogs the Blog had.

The Science Fiction Article

The Article we read, called So movies shouldn't break the laws of physics? Don't tell Captain Kirk, talks about movies and tv shows. His main idea was that movies shouldn't break the laws of physics or make them look completely unbeleivable. I think that if films are backed up with some reality (a story, moral, myth, legend etc.) films can have fictitious elements. If the film is cmpletely absurd, then nobody is going to like it. I know Star Wars is kind of absurd, but for me Star Wars is my FAVORITE movie. So I think that science-fiction is good as long as it has a good story behind it.

Check this youtube video, which I think shows why Star Wars became so succesful. Not only because of the fantasy but also because of the story.

The 5 blogs

1rst blog: ELIXIR OF KNOWLEDGE www.elixirofknowledge.blogspot.com
This blog talks about Christopher Columbus the explorer that crossed the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the American continent. It talks specifically the angle about his unknown past. The register is formal.
2nd blog: WORLD AMAZING INFORMATION http://www.worldamazinginformation.com/

This blog shows more pictures about a fact and talks about the pictures, with an angle toexplain people through pictures. This tye of register is informal because it doesn't give information in a paragraph but more in separate sentences.

3rd blog: http://world-amazing-things.blogspot.com/

This blog talks about the history of footwear. It refers to footwear in a very formal way and shows an informative angle about the topic.

4rth blog: http://crazydetails.blogspot.com/

This blog talks about strange simple 1 sentence facts such as ''A rat can last longer without water than a camel. '' It is an informal blog and has a infromative angle.

5th blog: http://technical-issues-tips.blogspot.com/

This blog talks about Technical Issues you may have with computers, which many people don't know of. This blog is informal and has a an angle in favor of helping people stop viruses and other computer enemies.

The Writing blog

This is the adress to get to the writing blog:
www.strangebuttrueamazingfacts.blogspot.com

The strange blogs

Title: China gave Ice Cream to the World
The blog talks about the origin of Ice Cream, which comes to China according to the blog.
The title of this blog is fitting because, it gives the reader an unknown fact about a famous dessert.
The blogger offers information that is easy to find, rather than looking in a fact book that would take you a long time.
This blog can be compared to the last one that is found in this blog since they both talk about the same subject, but this one goes more in depth than the other one.
This is a good blog since it tells the story of where Ice Cream is from.

Title: Dinosaur was Orange!
The blog is about a Dinosaur species that the University of Bristol found. The University was able to identify the color, first time this has ever happened.
The title is fitting because, it gives the reader an interesting science fact, that was thought it was impossible to be discovered.
The blogger offers information that is very new and has not been published in many textbooks or science books.
Another blogger called What Color Is Your Sinosauropteryx? talks about the discovery of the color of the same dinosaur species the other blog talks about.Both of the blogs are good blogs although the one called What Color Is Your Sinosauropteryx? talks more about the discovery than this one.
This blog is a good blog since it tells the story clearly, short and concisely.
Title: I just learned that ice cream was invented in China. How did I not know this?
The blog talks about how Ice Cream was created in China some 1,000 years ago.
The title of this blog is somewhat fitting since it demonstrates how the guy knew that Ice Cream was invented in China and explains how it was made back then.
The blogger offers nformation about how people made Ice Cream in China 1,000 years ago, which is something that almost never appears in any history book of Ancient China.
This blog is similar to the first one shown, since they both talk about the origin of Ice Cream. The difference is that one focuses on how it was made back then and the other focuses on the story behind it.
This blog is not that good since, it is very brief and the title doesn't reflect very well on the content.

What is a blog?

A blog is a website that shows information about a certain subject that can be commented by a reader and be able to interact their opinion with each other.Blogging is the action of posting or writing in any blog. A blog is not the same thing as a book. A book writes a story or text in which you can't interact with it or write a comment. In a blog you also write a text, but instead it gives the chance t the reader to be able to post it's comment. Blogs need to change fast since people can comment on new ideas and they won't get bored of the seeing the same ideas over and over. People like us might read a blog just to find out about a topic fast and be able to discuss it with different people. We should sometimes doubt the objectivity of a blog since it may try to change our point of view about something we know about. Our blog this semester will be about the work that we do in our English class and about the themes related to it.

The Writer of the Blog

I am Eduardo Vargas. I was born in the Colombian capital, Bogota almost 16 years ago. I am doing this blog for people to know and be a ble to talk about the most famous texts in the English language.