Free Post (Getting Rid of Homework)

November 30, 2015

I hate homework. Everybody does. The one thing all students can pretty much agree on.

If I could come home every day and relax, watch a little Netflix, waste time on social media... I would. But the existence of homework ruins this ideal for me.

The only problem: I don't want to get rid of it just yet.

Bare with me here, even though I just contradicted my first few statements. I didn't lose my ethos yet.

You see, the concept behind homework is appealing to me. Using the skills you learned in class at home, bettering your understanding of the skills. Using the skills outside of the classroom. Applying them to everyday life. I totally get that; appreciate it even. If homework did not exist, I would be making a lot more visits to my teachers each day, wondering about what I'm doing. I'm a logical person, so I crumble without having the logistics behind everything I learn in class. Having worksheets that mimic our notes allow me to go through things with my peers, my parents, other people with more experience... and that gives me security. It makes life more solid for me. So yeah, I hate homework, but not totally. The real problem is the amount I receive.

I'm totally alright with an hour or two, with additional studying and research. I look way too far into everything I learn so I know it from every direction. But when I'm stuck at home, losing sleep because I am a thriving Honors student with 8-9 hours of work to do... I'm not happy. The quality of my work begins to decline, my care level decreases, and I'm lethargic. I am unable to begin my homework without taking a nap beforehand, and depending on my level of lethargy, these naps can span for hours. Not a great combination, as you would assume. Then my grades slowly begin to drop, and I'm faced with a lower GPA. In a twisted, annoying way, homework is making it harder for me to succeed. Crazy, right?

I won't be extreme and make that an actual claim, but I will say this. If teachers could all work together to help lessen the load of work so I can actually enjoy my teenage years, that'd be great. They say high school is the best time of your life, yet here I am, staying up till the wee hours of the morning finishing up homework. Not even a book!!

Gone Girl (Week 9)

November 20, 2015

WHOO! Finally finished!!!

Man... Let me tell you. I feel so sorry for poor Nick, even though he's a cheater. I despise cheaters. After Amy lies to the public about her kidnap/rape story with Desi, she just mosies on back to Nick acting like they can actually live happily ever after. Nick is not stupid and KNOWS that she literally just murdered this man for fun. For fun. Maybe not out of pleasure, but because it'd be easier to lie to the public than tell them that she framed Nick. Wow... look at that sentence I just wrote. 

"...because it'd be easier"

As in, it'd be easier to kill Desi. It's easier to murder someone than tell the truth. Never thought I'd ever say that.

He can't even look at her without wanting to actually kill her. But knowing her implicitly explosive personality and quick thinking, trying to get away will only cause more problems. She will find something, ANYTHING, to ruin him and make her look like the winner. Because Amy always has to win. If she's not winning, someone's gonna die. So Nick wanders and ponders how he's gonna stay sane while he's stuck in this twisted relationship.

Can I say the ending on here?

I mean, this is a blog post so I guess I will. If you don't wanna know how the book ends, stop reading here. This will be your only warning. --SPOLIER ALERT--

If Nick wasn't stuck enough in the relationship already, there's DEFINITELY no way out this time. You want to guess how?

Come on, take a quick guess.

Pregnancy. Yep, and it's REAL this time!!

Even though Nick never even dared to touch Amy since her return, she still had Nick's semen in the clinic from a previous attempt to get pregnant (before her disappearance, when she seemed normal). Now, not only is she pregnant, she's pregnant with a boy... The child Nick always wished he could have with Amy. He's gotta stay and promise to be the best husband ever by ALSO being the best father ever, or he's going to die, basically. Plus, he has to think about the child, because as Nick puts it, "You can hate a situation, but you can't hate a child." Fabulous words of wisdom, Nick. 

I wish you the best.

Gone Girl (Week 8)

November 13, 2015

Foreword:

I know.... it's taking me a long time to read this but it's not because I don't like the book. I love the book. This book is fabulously written and wonderfully holds my attention. School work just takes up way too much time.

Moving on... Amy is actually nuts. I have come to this conclusion. Fortunately for Nick, he figured out her game. He finally understood Amy for what she really is and figured out what he should do to get her to come out of hiding and come back home. So what does he do? He shows emotion!!! As mentioned in previous blogposts, Nick is not one to show a lot of emotion. So he belabored about how much he loved her and how he would be the best husband ever on national television. He publicly claimed that he was wrong. Crazy Amy just wanted to hear Nick publicly announce his faults. She wanted to make him do the one thing he never did during their marriage. He did it, and Amy decided to come back. Except she had been staying at her clingy ex's house, Desi Collings, and he wouldn't let her out of sight. Amy does not like to be doted on, nor does she liked to be controlled. So you want  to know what Amy does???????? She gets Desi to have sex with her, drugs him (which kills him), and hurts herself in ways to make it look like she was a victim of kidnap and rape!!!!! Exactly what I would've done! 👍🏽

But really... Amy is clearly a sociopath. What kind of woman has such little care and emotion towards others that she can easily just kill someone and pretend that he kidnapped her and raped her? What kind of woman frames her husband for murder? What kind of woman thinks that it's totally normal to harm yourself and blame others for the wounds? I'll tell you who: A woman who cannot live in society with the rest of us. She either belongs in jail or a mental hospital. This is the exact kind of person that will literally ruin you with you upset them. I'm all for equality, trust me... But she is unstable. Like an animal. We don't let stray animals stay in the streets, now do we?

Gone Girl (Week 7)

November 6, 2015

Oh my goodness, Amy is gooooood. Too good, that it's almost disturbing. No, it is disturbing. She's incredibly smart and talented, despite what people have always told her.

Amy set Nick up, crafted out this entire situation, knowing exactly each and every move Nick would make. That's why he stumbled so much. She created the "perfect murder", totally untraceable to Amy and entirely blamable upon Nick. Amy wasn't kidnapped; she simply left and left behind a questionable situation.

The diary? Totally made up. Well, not 100%. Most details are actually true, but her personality in the diary is fictitious. She wanted to make herself look just like a victim would, scared and sad. She wanted to show how much she actually loved Nick, and how much she tried to get his attention. She discombobulated the living room in the exact way Nick would, even down to mopping the blood they found in the kitchen that Nick would've hastily mopped. Yes, there was blood found in the kitchen by the detectives. How'd Amy do it? She took a box cutter knife to her wrist and cut down, just enough to bleed a lot but not deep enough to have to go to the hospital. Sickening, but smart. I cringed so hard at the detail she gave about her cutting herself. She purchased a purposely unnoticeable car so no one would bother to suspect it, and drove all the way down to Missouri Ozarks, a long stretch of cabins and motels far down from where they lived. She stopped at a gas station to cut her long blonde locks and dyed it brown, making her virtually unrecognizable. She then proceeded to rent a room in a motel and plans to watch her "perfect murder" plan unfold over the media.

I think calling Amy crazy is a bit of an understatement. I understand that she is bitter after 5 years of her trying to please Nick and make him happy when he would just ignore her and then even go as far as to cheating, with one of his own students. Yes, she also knew that he was cheating on her. She caught them one time as she was trying to surprise him at work, and continue to follow them day after day. Her anniversary treasure hunt led Nick to every single place that he cheated on her with Andie. The big surprise at the end was finding out that Amy was pregnant with a set of masochistic dolls that showcased a male doll dominating a distressed mother doll and her baby in hand. However... is it just me or is setting Nick up for the murder of his own wife just a little over the top?

Maybe I'm the crazy one.

Gone Girl (Week 6)

October 30, 2015

Wow, this book just gets better and better. Unfortunately for Nick, things are not looking good. As clean his conscience is, he's really starting to look like the culprit of this crime. Well, in actuality... his conscience isn't so clean. The media is NOT on his side. His passive-aggressive personality, full of irresponsibility and lack of remorse (towards Amy's disappearance seemingly) is coming to light, framing him as an obvious sociopath. Amy's friends are even turning on him, calling him out on national television and asking what he has done to Amy. On top of his reputation disintegrating, they find out that Amy is pregnant prior to her disappearance, and Nick didn't really want kids in the situation they were in prior to Amy's disappearance, due to the job situation. Just the type of information the entire public needed to find out.

Honestly, whatever happened in regards to Amy's disappearance seems staged. Nothing is quite adding up. The crime scene looked ridiculously wrong, totally made to look hasty. Amy's anniversary clues are not making sense to Nick, and he's struggling to figure out what they all mean. The last few clues. Nick really looks like he is guilty, but I don't believe he is. I mean, yeah, he's not showing emotion, he gets aggravated easily, and wait, did I mention that he's cheating on his wife? With his 23-year-old student from his Composition class?? Yeah... that sounds pretty bad. He even told her (her name is Andie) that he doesn't really love his wife. The media doesn't know about that yet, though. And on top of all of that, Amy's diary shows that she was afraid of her own husband, going out to buy a gun as protection from him. That's what the gun was for!!! It all looks terribly bad. If and when the police find Amy's diary, consider Nick finished, because it's disturbing. Amy looks like a victim of emotional abuse, as much as Amy tried to get Nick's attention day after day. Whether Nick is guilty or not, it seems like he will get charged and arrested anyway. I mean, I guess I kinda feel bad for him, but then again, he should've been taking better care of Amy. So really, in an intangible way, Nick's lack of consideration for Amy's well-being could play a major role of the cause of this situation...