Comics and Fiction

Since I liked the previous book, I decided to read book 8 of the Wings of Fire series. Just in case you aren’t familiar with Wings of Fire, it is a series where the story is told from the point of view of a dragon and the main character changes in each book. In this book, the main character is a dragon named Peril. She was previously loyal to the evil queen Scarlet, who was supposedly killed in book 1. It turns out that Scarlet was alive, and now she wants to take revenge on Peril and all her friends. So, Peril needs to stop her. This book is pretty similar to book 7, in a sense that the main character sets off on a journey to stop a villain. Although it is also different, because book 7 is more focused on the main character himself, while book 8 has a wider range of “main” characters. I think this makes it better overall because you get to see the perspectives of many different characters. Another thing that book 8 does differently from book 7 is that it is kind of more connected with...

English Doesn't Love You      The purpose of language is to facilitate communication between people as quickly and legibly as possible. Over the course of human history, we have been working tirelessly to develop the perfect language, and I think I speak on behalf of everyone when I say that finally, after thousands of years… we’re still working on it. English, despite being the largest and most widespread language in the world, is far from perfect. Hi, my name is Michael Wu. Welcome to the world of my mind, where today I am going to be explaining, in full, in depth, in English, why this language doesn’t love you and never will. Part 1: The Alphabet      Lets start with the basics. We know that English is structured off of 26 basic symbols called letters, each corresponding to certain vocal sounds. This may sound obvious, but there is no intrinsic link needed between speech and writing. Some languages such as Mandarin have no correlation between writt...

  Summary This story starts out with Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and Wolff getting ready to go to the moon for an expedition. When they enter the rocket, they do all the necessary procedures, and they take off with no issues. However, early on in the journey, Tintin finds detectives Thomson and Thompson on the aircraft. When the detectives were confronted about this, they explained to Tintin how they were just inspecting the inside of the rocket. Them being on the rocket created many difficulties because there may not be enough oxygen supply to go to the moon and back for fourteen days. When the rocket finally reaches the moon, both Tintin and Haddock decide to be the first people to walk on the moon, and they explore the little caves and structures of the moon. Right when everything is going well, the whole crew is surprised by Jorgen, a spy who is looking to sabotage Tintin’s mission. Jorgen then ties up all the crew members and is looking to kill all th...