Obama > Romney

          With the election day coming up fast there are still many undecided voters.  These undecided voters could make or break who wins the election.  With the state of our country I think it is safe to say that the best option is to keep Obama in office and let him to continue what he is doing because the overall outcome will be much better then what Romney will do for us.

          First of all, Obama stands next to women’s rights.  He supports pro-choice, meaning a women choice to choose whether to have an abortion or keep the baby depending on their life style and how well they think they can raise a child.  Obama sees that abortion is a private choice and the government should have no involvement in the decision.  He shows the understanding by standing next to keeping abortion legal.  Obama also pushed for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) offering women free birth control to promote protected intercourse and hopefully minimize the number of abortions each year. 

         Obama supports gay marriage, understanding once again that it is a personal decision as to which gender you choose to spend the rest of your life with.  Love is love whether it is between a man and a women, a man and a man, or a women and a women.  Gay marriage effects no one but the two people in the relationship.  Gay marriage does not negativley impact the government in anyways, therefore there is no reason they should not be allowed to marry.

         Obama informed a group called Best Friends and saying that they could not promote marriage as an option to avoid poverty to girls who were at risk.  Obama said that they need to educate in a neutral state.  If only abstinence is taught about in schools, a  girl will not know what to do when something like an unexpected pregnancy does happen and she doesn’t know her options or where to go.  If the organizations providing the education about intercourse, they should show both sides.  Where to go when you become pregnant unexpectedly and what the benefits are of being abstinent.

         In conclusion, Obama is a much better choice for the greater good of America.  He supports women’s rights and recognizes that abortion and gay marriage are personal decisions that should not involve the government.  He believes in non censored education about intercourse, meaning they education organizations to stay neutral.  Obama has done many things right in the last four years and there is not reason he shouldn’t be reelected for the next four.

"Nothing stays the same and nothing is inherently connected, or everything stays the same and everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it."

           The non-fiction book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman is a book full of essays about pop culture in America.  From writing about the reality TV show Real World to the Sims computer game, Klosterman shares his opinions and theories about how they connect to real lives and the world today.

           This book is written in first person and Chuck Klosterman has more defined opinions about more subjects then I have ever seen before.  I would compare him to one of those students in class that will make an opinion about every single topic and talk about it incessantly until you just want to turn and punch them in the face.  The kind of person who is so single minded and so unwilling to change what they don’t like about their life, so they just make excuses.  I see this a lot in the book when Klosterman keeps bringing back past relationships and why he will never fall in love, and his reasoning seems to have a pretty easy solution.  It’s just he has to care enough to make a few small changes. 

          Klosterman’s essays were written for young adults to late twenties.  To understand some of the references, or artists he is talking about you would need to be at least around the age of fifteen, but I would say thats even a little young when it talks about certain bands/artists, like Billy Joel and the Beatles.  Or the first episodes of the TV show Real World.

          Klosterman is very clear about how he views things in life.  He uses a wide range of vocabulary from swearwords to higher level vocabulary words to express himself.  He uses a lot of comparison in his writing.  The comparison is usually between something in pop culture and his life experiences. Klosterman wrote this book to show people how many things we mindlessly watch, listen to, or participate in and never realize how directly is affects our life.  The whole time I read this book, I felt like Klosterman wrote this book with a very angry and bitter tone.  

          Overall this book is a hit or miss book, depending on if you like feeling like someone is trying to drill their opinion into your head.  I think the way he looks at life is very interesting and how he finds ways to connect things such as Sims to real life is something not many people can do.  If the approach had been different, and the essays hadn’t all been separate I would have enjoyed this book more.  This book is five Teen Vogues out of 10.   

Lock and Key

Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen is a book about a girl, Ruby, who tries to raise herself on her own after her mother abandons her.  It doesn't take long for her long lost sister to swoop in and take her under her wing.  Introducing her to a life she never even imagined.  Her sister was wealthy, and sent Ruby to a private school where Ruby had to learn a new social life.  Things were very different, and she had to adjust to working hard in school and making new friends.

Lock and Key was so appealing to me, because it was a story that left you very in the dark for the beginning part and then half way through in one chapter the entire book makes sense.  Thats what I loved about it, is it kept you wondering about how and when the author, Sarah Dessen, would you bring the story full circle.  Lock and Key was a realistic story which is one of my favorite types of stories, because it's like you can almost imagine it happening to you.  It's a teenage girl, having to adjust to a new setting, and make new friends, which almost any teenager would encounter.  But the twist is that her background is so dramatic and you want to know more about it that it keeps you interested.

Teenagers would take out of Lock and Key, that life sometimes throws us unexpected turns.  You have to try to see the best in them and where they could take you rather then having a bad attitude and "hating life" until the situation goes away.  At some point we are going to find out that somethings are not going to change, and we are going to have to get used to change.  This book would not really affect an adults life but it could affect how they reflect back on their life.  Make them realize what they took for granted like having parents, a house, and a good education.  After having to support a household, this book could show them how hard Ruby worked to try and raise herself, and that there are kids out there doing that now.  Lock and Key definitely has more of an effect on teenagers then adults as far as life lessons go.

This book will not be one that is well know in 10 years.  It is not a popular book even within the Young Adult genre, and it doesn't have a big enough underlying lesson.  But it is nice for just light reading about a story that keeps you interested along they way.  I found myself a lot of the time having emotions toward the characters which never happens to me.  Thats why this book is so fond in my memory, and considered my favorite.