If I Stay Book Review
Hi guys! Today I'm going to write a book review on If I Stay by Gayle Forman. I got this book for Christmas and I started it between early and middle February. SPOILER ALERT!
This book starts out with a cute family of four on a snow day. The main character, Mia, is the oldest child and she has a little brother named Teddy. She also has a boyfriend in a band called Shooting Star named Adam. The snow is only about an inch of slush so they decide to go run a few errands. They are in the car on the high way and Mia has her eyes closed listening to music. All of a sudden there is a large crash when a truck ran into the side of their car. Mia seems unhurt on the side of the road so she walks to her car. The car is completely destroyed. She's walking over when she steps on something. She looks down and thinks it's a mushroom at first but when she looks around she realizes that it's pieces of her fathers brain. She also sees her mother who she can tell is dead as well. She can't find her little brother Teddy, but when she turns around she sees something odd. Laying on the side of the road is Mia's body she looks terribly beat up and her leg bone is sticking out of her skin. She realized she wasn't in her body and at first thinks she's dead.
Ambulances arrive at the scene and confirm her parents are dead. They come over to Mia and realize she has a very low pulse. They quickly get her hooked up to some things and took her in a helicopter to a big hospital. She went with her body but still never found Teddy. She was in the hospital for a day with her grandparents and other relatives, when her best friend Kim finds out what happened. Kim went to go tell Adam and they went to the hospital together. The nurses wouldn't let them in so they tried to break in. One of the nurses was best friends with Mia's parents. She got Adam and Kim into see Mia. Mia realized Teddy was dead and she wanted to die because she had no family. After Kim left the hospital bed Adam came in. Adam told Mia's unconscious body that he wanted her to stay more than anything. He also said that even if her real family is dead she still had unrelated family that would love her. In that moment of seeing her boyfriend cry by her bed Mia decided to stay. When she did she went back into her body. Suddenly she felt all the pain from the accident that she couldn't before when she wasn't in her body. Using all of the energy she had she squeezed Adams hand. The book ends with Adam looking up and saying "Mia?".
This book was extremely sad and not at all what I thought it was going to be like. I really liked it and I think it's my favorite book at the moment. I really want to read the second book called Where She Went. I think this is a great book for anyone who want a really good book that wouldn't take to much time to read. I would give this book an 9.8 out of 10.
I loved reading this book and I'm really looking forward to reading the second.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Cruelty Free Makeup Brands
Cruelty Free Makeup Brands
Hi guys. Today I'm writing about makeup brands that are cruelty free and the ones you should stay away from.
There are some some makeup brands that do extremely cruel animal testing. Some of the ones that don't are Hourglass, Too Faced,Urban Decay, Tarte, Nars, OCC, Illamasqua, The Balm, Bite Beauty, Bare Minerals, Buxom, CoverFX, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Josie Maran, Becca, Cargo, It Cosmetics, Korres, ELF, Hard Candy, Milani, NYX, Physicians Formula, Sonia Kashuk, Wet n Wild, Jordana, Flower, Jane, Pixi, Sugar Pill, Smashbox, Colour Pop, BH Cosmetics, and Makeup Geek. These are some of the better known companies that don't test products on animals.
Some brands you should stay away from are Revlon, Estèe Lauder, Mary Kay, Avon, Nuetrogena, and Maybelline. These brands all test some of their products on animals. These brands test the effects of ingesting different products. They use animals and see what effects it has on them. They keep retesting this until the animals don't die from it. There are many online campaigns against testing products on animals.
Most organic and natural brands do not test products on animals. If you have some products from a brand that is not cruelty free you should still keep them and use them up just don't repurchase anything from that brand. Try and stick to the brands that are cruelty free. There are many more brands that are cruelty free than that aren't cruelty free but you should still do an online check to make sure what you're buying is safe.
So those are brands to stay away from and brands to shop at and reasons why. Animal testing is a bad thing and when we buy things from these companies we encourage them to keep doing it.
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Hi guys. Today I'm writing about makeup brands that are cruelty free and the ones you should stay away from.
There are some some makeup brands that do extremely cruel animal testing. Some of the ones that don't are Hourglass, Too Faced,Urban Decay, Tarte, Nars, OCC, Illamasqua, The Balm, Bite Beauty, Bare Minerals, Buxom, CoverFX, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Josie Maran, Becca, Cargo, It Cosmetics, Korres, ELF, Hard Candy, Milani, NYX, Physicians Formula, Sonia Kashuk, Wet n Wild, Jordana, Flower, Jane, Pixi, Sugar Pill, Smashbox, Colour Pop, BH Cosmetics, and Makeup Geek. These are some of the better known companies that don't test products on animals.
Some brands you should stay away from are Revlon, Estèe Lauder, Mary Kay, Avon, Nuetrogena, and Maybelline. These brands all test some of their products on animals. These brands test the effects of ingesting different products. They use animals and see what effects it has on them. They keep retesting this until the animals don't die from it. There are many online campaigns against testing products on animals.
Most organic and natural brands do not test products on animals. If you have some products from a brand that is not cruelty free you should still keep them and use them up just don't repurchase anything from that brand. Try and stick to the brands that are cruelty free. There are many more brands that are cruelty free than that aren't cruelty free but you should still do an online check to make sure what you're buying is safe.
So those are brands to stay away from and brands to shop at and reasons why. Animal testing is a bad thing and when we buy things from these companies we encourage them to keep doing it.
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Sunday, February 7, 2016
Healthy Super Bowl Sunday Snacks
This super bowl I decided to keep everything I ate healthy. As a beverage I only drank things like smoothies and water. As food I chose things like fruits.
I'll start out by talking about the beverages I drank. At Food Lion I bought 2 bags of assorted frozen fruits. The first one I got is called the green mix. In it is frozen spinach, apples, mangos, bananas, and pineapples. The second one I got is called the pink mix. In this one is frozen bananas and strawberries. All you have to do to make these is, blend about 6 ice cubes, 10 of the frozen fruits, and about 1/2 cup of water. Each package of frozen fruit makes about 4-8 smoothies depending on how much ingredients you used. On the label it says that the serving size is 3/4 cup. It has 0 saturated and trans fat. It contains 12 grams of sugar. It has 80 calories per serving. 40% vitamin A is the top nutrient. I also made sure I drank water.
The first smoothie I decided to make was the green smoothie. Since it was green and had spinach in it my brothers wouldn't try it. When I finally got them to try it they didn't have a bad reaction they thought it was ok. My dad liked it. I really liked it, I thought it wasn't to cold and I could barely taste the spinach was over the other fruits.
For food the frozen fruits in the smoothie package is great to eat too. The fruit taste good frozen. It has all of the same nutrition facts that the smoothie has. Another healthy snack I like to eat is apples with a little peanut butter spread on them. Peanut butter is healthy as long as you don't use to much. An Apple has 130 calories, the serving size being 1 apple. It has 0 saturated and trans fat. It has 25 grams of sugar. The top nutrient is 8% vitamin C. The serving size for peanut butter is 1/2 cup and the amount of calories is 190. It has 6 grams of saturated fat and 0 grams of trans fat. It contains 16 grams of sugar. The top nutrient in peanut butter is 10% calcium.
On Super Bowl Sunday a rough number of 28,000,000 pizzas are ordered. 1.25 billion chicken wings are ordered. Restaurants sell quadruple the amount of things like pizzas, wings, and chips, while selling even less smoothies and salads then normal. Over 2 billion liters of soda are bought and consumed on Super Bowl Sunday. It's almost as if super bowl Sunday is a cheat day for everyone. Those giant numbers are one of the reasons we should be eating healthy on Super Bowl Sunday and on a regular basis.
So that concludes my healthy Super Bowl snacks, and some reasons why everyone else should be eating healthy, and not just on super bowl Sunday.
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I'll start out by talking about the beverages I drank. At Food Lion I bought 2 bags of assorted frozen fruits. The first one I got is called the green mix. In it is frozen spinach, apples, mangos, bananas, and pineapples. The second one I got is called the pink mix. In this one is frozen bananas and strawberries. All you have to do to make these is, blend about 6 ice cubes, 10 of the frozen fruits, and about 1/2 cup of water. Each package of frozen fruit makes about 4-8 smoothies depending on how much ingredients you used. On the label it says that the serving size is 3/4 cup. It has 0 saturated and trans fat. It contains 12 grams of sugar. It has 80 calories per serving. 40% vitamin A is the top nutrient. I also made sure I drank water.
The first smoothie I decided to make was the green smoothie. Since it was green and had spinach in it my brothers wouldn't try it. When I finally got them to try it they didn't have a bad reaction they thought it was ok. My dad liked it. I really liked it, I thought it wasn't to cold and I could barely taste the spinach was over the other fruits.
For food the frozen fruits in the smoothie package is great to eat too. The fruit taste good frozen. It has all of the same nutrition facts that the smoothie has. Another healthy snack I like to eat is apples with a little peanut butter spread on them. Peanut butter is healthy as long as you don't use to much. An Apple has 130 calories, the serving size being 1 apple. It has 0 saturated and trans fat. It has 25 grams of sugar. The top nutrient is 8% vitamin C. The serving size for peanut butter is 1/2 cup and the amount of calories is 190. It has 6 grams of saturated fat and 0 grams of trans fat. It contains 16 grams of sugar. The top nutrient in peanut butter is 10% calcium.
On Super Bowl Sunday a rough number of 28,000,000 pizzas are ordered. 1.25 billion chicken wings are ordered. Restaurants sell quadruple the amount of things like pizzas, wings, and chips, while selling even less smoothies and salads then normal. Over 2 billion liters of soda are bought and consumed on Super Bowl Sunday. It's almost as if super bowl Sunday is a cheat day for everyone. Those giant numbers are one of the reasons we should be eating healthy on Super Bowl Sunday and on a regular basis.
So that concludes my healthy Super Bowl snacks, and some reasons why everyone else should be eating healthy, and not just on super bowl Sunday.
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