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Bullying awareness month

As many of you will know, it is anti-bullying month!

Today, I would like to make a stand against bullying.

It's wrong and it can hurt people in ways you could never imagine.

Punches and kicks.
It's not right.
Pointless.

Words can hurt as much as next weeks vaccination.
They stab and claw at you until you are nothing but a pile of mental tatters.
They ruin you.

Over the internet people can be the scariest,
You can say whatever you want and you don't need the courage that's vital in face-to-face confrontation.
You can be 'anonymous' and no-one will ever know it was you.

You can hurt others so easily.

We have to be careful.

Without this connection between us all - we are nothing.

We will never advance as a planet living this lifestyle.

We are equals. We all have to remember.



Together if we try we can beat bullying. 

The keeling curve

Our carbon footprint is getting bigger, as Charles Keeling has shown us. Charles Keeling measured the atmospheric carbon dioxide levels frequently. He looked at both Antarctica and Hawaii and eventually he came out with the following results.

A Message for each and every Female

You're a female that should not be dragged down by these shallow approaches towards being 'feminine', man has taken over and forced this stereotypical beauty onto each and every woman. You're not someone who has to wait for a man to declare dominance over you. Marrying you based on the way you look instead of the beautiful personality within, which has not been smeared repetitively with layers of lipgloss and mascara. Not poked and prodded by countless make up brushes. Which hasn't been forced into the cruelty behind nearly every cosmetic product.

Book of the week

From now on, every Friday I will post a book of the week. This book may be a classic, a cult classic or one more modern. 

This weeks book of the week is:

1984 by George Orwell 

Book- A short film

I recently watched a brilliant short film on youtube, it was well-made and quite sad. Any bookworm will agree that it is an upsetting story.

Click on the link below to watch it:

Book- A short film

Why I am afraid of the future

There are so many different theories to what will change- for example, people are fearing that the book '1984' will become reality in future years. Also, the fate that 'fahrenheit 451 predicted- I could not live without books! The main thing I am worried about, however, is the bleak and unforgiving future which lies ahead for the human race if we do not change our actions now, it is predicted that the world will be 10 times worse than it is today. A future timeline tells us that by 2050 half of the amazon rainforest would have been cut down. Fish size will have declined by nearly a quarter. By 2059 there will be no more oil. In 2060, 0.5% of animals and plants will go extinct per year- resulting in more carbon dioxide, because of the decrease in trees. Weather patterns will start to change, creating huge cyclones in the Mediterranean and many floods in New York. In 2069 the USA will reach a population of half a billion. Global average temperature would have risen by 4 degrees Celsius in 1970. The world does not look good. It is dangerous. Us humans have ruined our Earth. We have ruined what we were supposed to protect.

The 20 best books I have ever read (In no particular order!)

A little princess

Me and Emma

To kill a mockingbird

The Harry Potter series

Fahrenheit 451

Of mice and men

Coraline

1984

Animal farm 

A christmas carol

Love, Aubrey 

The 13 treasures 

A monster calls

My sisters keeper 

The definitive book of body language

The lovely bones

The austere academy 

Frankenstein 

The Malory Towers books 

5 children and it 

Good movies based on books!

Some movies based on books are terrible, however some are brilliant! If you loved the book you'll love the film! The following films, I highly recommend! 

Coraline

The time travellers wife

A little princess

The perks of being a wallflower

Alice upside down

My Favourite Harry Potter Book

My favourite Harry Potter book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This is because it obviously has the most complex story line, and there is much suspense and many twists and turns in the plot. Of course every Harry Potter book is brilliantly written, but Rowling truly surpassed herself in the last novel of the Harry Potter series. However, the ‘Prisoner of Azkaban’ is in close second. 

Each Harry Potter book is written to a nearly impossibly great standard, it would be unfair not to say and think this. However, it is noticeable to nearly all Potter- heads that the last book was immense. In my opinion the first book was relatively basic, it had a simple story line- but it was a magnificent idea. Everyone marveled at the phenomenon and the whole world awaited more on Harry, Ron and Hermione’s adventures. It was well written but lacked the many twists and turns that later books had. It is evident that the first book can be read by children of all ages, where as books after the third are much scarier and are normally read by those, maybe nine and up. The second book was brilliant, the chamber of secrets had a ring to it which terrified the reader, the blood on the wall and the many petrified creatures of the school, created a creepy allure. This would have been my second favourite, if it wasn’t for Hermione getting petrified. Hermione is my favourite character, so after she was gone it didn’t have the original excitement as before. The third book has to be my second favourite, therefor. The books get a little bit darker at this point. I liked it because of the whole concept of time, Hermione’s time turner is the heart of the book- capturing the readers attention. The time turner is a mystery, as nobody knows how Hermione is taking so many classes as once- although there are many quotes throughout which give hints that time is in some way connected. ‘I reckon he’s lost track of time, being on the run,’ said Ron. ‘Didn’t realize it was Hallowe’en.’ This snippet of the story tells the foreshadows the truth behind Hermione’s many choices for O.W.L.’s. ‘Then he stood up, stretched, and checked the time on the luminous alarm clock on his bedside table. It was one o’clock in the morning. Harry’s stomach gave a funny jolt. He had been thirteen years old, without even realizing it, for a whole hour.’ Again this gives us a clue into the time turner- the word ‘time’ is used deliberately here, Rowling wanted hints throughout the novel, it seems. In ‘The goblet of fire’ a much darker route is taken. Right from the beginning this is foreshadowed in Harry’s nightmare. What starts off as a normal school year, ends as one of the most disastrous events that the school has ever seen. ‘The goblet of fire’ is my third favourite Harry Potter book, because, in this one, the Magical world expands showing the reader other wizarding schools from different countries. Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are introduced. Also, a traditional event organized between Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. In the fifth book, ‘The order of the phoenix’, every thing is suddenly different. You can never tell who is really on your side, anybody could be teamed up with Voldemort. It is scary in that way because anybody could be against you, as Moody had been the year before. It seems like you can’t trust anybody, especially when Professor Umbridge joins Hogwarts as the new defence against the dark arts teacher. In this book Fred and George are more in the center of the novel, because of their new company, Weasley wizard wheezes. A slightly absurd character ‘Luna Lovegood’ is introduced, a lovely girl in Ginny’s year. Many call her ‘Loony Lovegood’ as Hermione, out of habit, introduces her to Harry and Ron, much to her embarrassment. Harry also makes the group ‘Dumbledores army’, containing most of the Gryffindores, a few Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs and no Syltherins. It ends however with only Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville and Ginny. This book mainly puts across a message of loyalty, friendship, bravery and getting the necessary done, no matter what. The fifth book is the longest in the series, and as a result took Rowling the longest to write, with a wait of three years between ‘The goblet of fire’ and ‘The order of the phoenix’. In ‘The half-blood prince’,  lot of questions are answered- the main thing being Voldemort’s horcruxes, explaining the diary in the second book. In this novel, the ministry has finally accepted that Voldemort is back, telling the reader that all are prepared for the worst, and that you should be too. Romance is introduced, though, as a way to perhaps keep things from getting too gloomy. This book is the fastest selling novel in history, selling 6.9 million copies in the first twenty-four hours! Wow, is that an accomplishment for Rowling! Finally, ‘The deathly hallows’. This is probably the best book I have ever read. It is dark and complex, whilst still woking with friendship and loyalty, it is sad but also happy. This is the perfect book, all emotions are covered- from Ron’s loneliness to the acceptance that Harry must give when he walks into the forest to Voldemort. The sign of the deathly hallows hooked the reader in, absorbing the many clues that were thrown to the trio.  It is a tear provoking book where many trusted companions that were there they whole way through the book, sadly passed on, fighting for the order. Fighting ‘UNTIL THE VERY END’. 

Hogwarts is made up of more than words.

Hello. My name is Ruby, and as the name of my blog suggests, I am a bookworm. In this blog I will post book reviews, recommendations and other things that I am interested in too, such as saving the sharks and reducing the number of animals killed each year for food purposes. I really hope all like this blog, sure it's not much, but it's a way to share my ideas and views with the world. I don't know how many people will see the posts I make, I don't mind how many as long as my point is put across to at least one person. You, the person reading this, you are that person. So, thank you.