timothylwoodard

14 entries 3/15/10

Just joined read99 and i am excited. Read about Dr. Martin L. King and realized some very interesting facts. I had no idea that the famous "I had a dream speech" was actually named a bad check.

Great to have you in our class! Thanks

1/22/2011 I just read the story Decoded by Hip Hop artist Jay Z also know as Shawn Carter. I always find those rag to riches stories very inspiring. I wasnt aware he lived in the capital on my home state Trenton, NJ. I feel that a person with that many road blocks to make it to own an NBA team. It gave me courage to get through this challenge of college.

If you think you can, You Can! Would you recommend this book to others? (anne) Yes i do i think it can be a very insipiring story for thers. not only African Americans but anyone who thinks it too hard

10/24/2011 Just read on yahoo.com about Oprah Winfrey. She have a half sister that she didnt know about for years. Her mother gave her sister up for adoption. And as we know Oprah two other siblins past away. It mention how after all those years of not knowing who her family was she was shocked that the Big O was her sister. Can u imagin Oprah being your sister?

10/25/2011 Just read a chapter out of B-more careful by Shannon Holms and it was interesting. It's about trying to get money the fast way. It address drugs and sex in the ghetto. Even though it was a fictional book, it was a page turner. While reading it Ms. Holms, decibed a woman who was so locked in to herself and thought that the finest things in life was easy to get by using sex and robery. Then she soon realized that it was the wrong way to go when one of her victims turned her in to a victim. Its a quick read and if u have the guts to deal with very graphic sex and violence. Give it a shot. But i have to say that it did have a happy ending.

Great Summary! You will be writing book reviews professionally before to long. (anne)

1/26/2011 Was online reading a story about the TSA new measures of securty. Now besides pat downs and scanners. They want to have u walk by drug and explovsive sniffing dogs. When is it going to end? Maybe strip and cavaty searches is next.

1/27/2011 Just read on yahoo.com that the new season of true blood is comming back in the summer of 2011. they say that alot of the regular cast is returning but i am uper excited to see who it is.

01-31-11- Read The Grapes of Wrath. It’s about this guys who went to prison for killing this man with a shovel. He got paroled from prison. It was during the stock market crash and his family had to abandon their farm. So on his way there which he had to hitchhike he ran in to a preacher who did some crazy things. He ran into his uncle and he is a true character. He isn’t taking it lying down. He said that he will never leave town but he ends up going with them. John just invited the preacher and the uncle to go on the trip with them. Personally I wouldn’t have done that. I guess they weren’t worried.

02-01-11 Still reading The Grapes of Wrath. I am at the point that the family got reunited with john and there planning on moving to California to work on the farms. They packed ur there car and was heading out. It crazy they got people sitting on the roof of the car. Oh yeah there dog got ran over. They meet another couple who joined them. Their car started breaking down and his granddad died. They just buried him and keep it moving. That is crazy. They was sad that he died, but the way it made it seem like to me was that just a death in the great depression wasn’t that important to most. Got that far today.

02-02-11 Still reading The Grapes of Wrath. The grandma is now sick. Even though all this is going on they keep pushing on. At the campsite a man who is coming from California said it no work there. But after getting worried they keep on going in hopes of finding something. They are on route 66 and see a lot of cars going to California but not coming from California. His brother Noah just up jumped and left his family. And the grandma is really sick.

Read yahoo.com and came across a good story. A retired man from England came in an auction house. with a 600 year old vase from the ming dinisty. it has asian and middleeastern craftmenship. they beleaves that it could be made in 1403. that is amazing. its so rear it could be worth 1.6 million dollars U.S.

nothing but net. it was a story about companys asking employees to spy on eachother. The main idea was about a guy who was asked by his employers to spy on his co-worker. he talked about how uncomfortable he feels with doing that. He felt that he was volating his co-workers trust. then he personalized it and talked about how he would feel if he was the one being spied on.

the dinning room. its a play about a middle class family living in the 50's to 80's decades and the father is one of the main characters. he is a sarcastic guy and he had to deal with an alcoholic wife, a bisexual daugther, and an annoying brother in law. the part i read his daugther was asking him to let her and her children move in. but he didnt budge.

north and south Its about two families one from the south and the other from the north. they was college friends and it was during the civil war era. so one went to the north to fight for the unoin and one went to the south for the confederate army. that as far as i got.

harry potter and the half blood prince its about a young wizard who was being hunted by this dark wizard. him and his two friends Ron and harmonie is trying to manage school but harry have so anger over the lost of his God father Sirus Black. Who was killed by his cousin.

john 3:16 the holy bible this verse of the bible in a summary said that Jesus Christ died on the cross for all sinners and if we accept him in our life and live by his word we will not go to hell.

just read a short story called Dancing with Fear by Bebe Campbell During the story she wrote about her extrem panic attacks and fears. She put it in the same relvence as being afraid of the boogyman when she was a child. She gave very direct accounts on shortness of breath and fear. i found it interesting on how she put panic and fear into it by mentioning how alot of Americans were after 9/11.

Started reading the Sum of all Fears. by tom clancy. page 1- 10 started alittle slow. it just started off as talking about nuclear bombs of all different types and the classifications. they talked about this guy Arnold van Damm who works for the CIA. He is kinda cocky and seem very lasy.

Read about my Favorite writing AR Gerney he is a very good writer. I am amazed he is still alive. I am suprised that he wrote so many plays. He tought **humanities MIT.**