Mocking Jsy by Suzzane Collins

For my independent reading book for my English class I decided to read Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins. This book is the sequel to Catching Fire from the 3 book series of the Hunger Games. I talked about the novel Catching Fire a wild back on my blog. As you may have read on my blog about Catching Fire this book takes place in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, which used to be North America, also Panem is ruled by the Capitol and is surrounded by other 12 districts that provide for it. So as you may read in my post on Catching Fire in this book is about a girl Katniss that in the first book was chosen to fight to the death against 25 other kids between ages of 12 to 18. Since she had gone in the first book and survived with her lover pita, which wasn’t meant to happen because only one survives. This was much like the gladiators in Rome. The leaders of this horrible game took this as defiance, which was not good. She then is chosen again to fight in the next hunger games, because since the leaders took this as defiance the only way to try to kill her was to put her in the games. They did this by saying that all the winners of the past Hunger Games where chosen to participate again.

The 75^th Hunger Games take place and in the middle of the games a ship comes and takes some of the competitors which include Katniss. This ship happens to be from district 13 which was assumed to be destroyed. Since Katniss is rescued Katniss is convinced to become "the Mockingjay": a symbol of the rebellion against the ruling Capitol. As part of a deal, she demands that the leader of District 13, President Coin, grant immunity to all of the victors of the Hunger Games including Peeta. She also demands the right to kill President Snow, the leader of the Capitol, herself. But then when Peeta is rescued he was brainwashed by the Capitol and tries to kill Katniss when he sees her. Then slowly the rebellions take over the districts and plan to attack the Capitol. Well if you want to see what happens at the end you have to read the book. I highly recommend the trilogy and the book.

Inuke Boom!

For one of my last blogs this year I wanted to talk about the Inuke Boom. The inuke boom is the largest iPod dock speaker in the world. It weighs about 700 pounds or 320 kg. This one of the loudest speakers in the world, plus you can just put your iPod to it and it plays, but also you can do it wireless, you can plug in your phone or any other device. It is an 8-foot wide, 4-foot-tall, 700-pound iPod and iPhone dock that pumps out 10,000 watts of power. The price of this amazing large speaker is $30,000, but who would buy a $30,000 speaker? Well as I have read online the Vice President of the company Behringer Mark Wilder said “Probably someone with a sizable amount of property and wants to throw a party and wants something more elegant than a normal speaker system."  It is said that the Inuke has the power to break glass. The best part about this speaker I think is that you can just plug in your iPod in the dock and play your music without any trouble. But as said before this isn’t any speaker this a speaker for people who want everything or in other words they are rich.  And also it is not a complicated system you just plug in your iPod and play it, so if you want to throw a big party and don’t want to hire a dj and other types of speaker, you can have the Inuke.

Euro Cup 2012

For my blog entry today I wanted to talk about the Euro cup 2012, well because I like soccer, but also since it is nearby and it is one of my last blogs I would like to talk about it. For people who don’t know the Euro cup is an international cup that is played every 4 years, but also only teams from Europe are allowed to play. The Euro cup has 16 teams playing. It started in 1960 and it is governed by Union of European Football Associations or in other words UEFA, and it is a competion between men’s national soccer team across Europe. To qualify for the Euro cup, after the World cup the UEFA holds a sitting and they pick out teams in which they would put in random order into groups and after they would play each other away and at home, until they have all played each other. The first two teams at the top of the groups get to go to the Euro cup.

For this year’s Euro cup there are 16 teams playing which include: Poland, Greece, Russia, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Croatia, Ukraine, Sweden, France, and England. But also it will be held in Poland and Ukraine.  But also I forgot to mention that the teams hosting the Euro cup qualify automatically.  The tournament starts on June 8^th and finishes on July 1^st. the team that won the last Euro cup was Spain, and has 2 cups.