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House of Night Series

The House of Night series is a fictional book series written by P.C. and Kristen Cast, a mother and daughter who share a passion for writing fiction, Wiccan/Pagan beliefs, Cherokee Indians, and vampires. The mother and daughter co-authors write a story about vampires, as most authors do these days, but they give a few special twists to the idea of vampires. The incorporate wiccan/pagan beliefs and Cherokee Indian stories along with it, as you follow a young girl with her new life, new friends, new abilities, and divine destiny as a vampire. There are currently seven books in the series called Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted, Tempted, Burned, and Awakened. They all follow the same girl named Zoey Redbird from the time she was marked as a vampire fledgling; what marked vampires are called before they make the complete change into a vampire. Zoey is then moved from her home and school in Tulsa, Arizona, to the House of Night. The series is named after the school, the House of Night. As she starts her new life as a vampire, she makes a new group of friends that the popular students called the “nerd herd”. Her new group of friends consisted of Stevie-Ray, a good southern girl, Erin and Shaunee, who everyone called twins because they are the exact same; but one is black and the other is white, and Damien, who is her very smart gay friend who has the answers for every question. She is later joined by Aphrodite, who was one of the popular students that teamed up with Zoey. Then she was later joined by Jack, who becomes the techno savvy friend and boyfriend to Damien. Zoey not only has to deal with her new drama that comes with being a vampire, but her human past keeps at inconvenient times, such as her ex or boyfriend Heath. No matter what the circumstances Heath always tries to protect her from harm. Later in the series Stark, her vampire warrior, is accepted into her group of friends. Zoey and her group of friends have to defeat an ancient evil, Kalona, who is a fallen warrior to the goddess Nyx. Kalona, was raised him from his prison in the ground that the Cherokee spiritual women imprisoned him in, so many years ago. The type of readers who would enjoy this book series, are young teens to adults. Also people who love to read about vampires. The people who love anything fiction, action packed adventures, and anything thriller would love this book as well. Teen girls would love this book as well because it has teenage drama that most teen girls go through. And the last group of people who would love to read these books are Wiccan and Pagan people. Some of the ritual and things they believe in are the exact same or very close to what they believe and practice as well.

Bio Poem Steven Creative, daring, Curious, passionate Son of two amazing and understand parents Who is known for his ability to train and ride horses well Who loves spending time with friends and family Who feels loved by everyone around him Who needs horses, friends, books, and his family Who fears being completely alone Who gives his all into everything he does Who would like to see Australia, Europe, and Japan Born in the state of Maryland Haliiscak

Drinking As a Teenager All over the United States, there are teenagers who are drinking or who have drunk. There are even some who have been arrested for underage drinking, and adults seem to look at them and say who bad these kids are. But no one seems to want to take a deeper look into why these teenagers drink. There is stress from school, peer pressure, and then stress from home. The stress from school with students who are stressing because they have two papers due for English class, another due for history, a lab write up due for biology, memorize songs for chorus class, and all of this is due on one day. They need to find a way to relax and release them. I'm not saying that drink is the right thing to do but they find that drinking helps them relax and the stress goes a way for a little while and that's what they want, just to escape for a while from the stress from school work. Yes schools promote drug and alcohol free zones at school, but they can't control what students do outside of school. They can't enforce the antidrug and alcohol movement, which most students find as a joke, outside the school boundaries. You also can not forget about peer pressure from friends and other teenagers in the community. When teenagers live in a town, where, they don't have anything to do and they find alcohol, they decide to drink, and invite friends to do it with them. But even in places where teenagers have things to do every day, they still find ways t obtain alcohol, and drink. They steel it from home, stores, friend's places, neighbors, anywhere you think there might be alcohol; teenagers can try to take it from there. Some teenagers even get teased and ridiculed if they say no, or I can't handle any more. When they start to get teased and made fun of, they don't want that to happen so they take more to drink or they start to drink just to get the others to stop. Others just want to fit in and make friends with the popular people, and will do whatever they say just  0   fit and become one of them. They don't want to one of the ones who are publicly humiliated in front of the entire school one day by those people, so they again do what they say. Lastly and this a main stressing factor in why teenagers drink. Teenagers with stress at home drink a lot more then teens that don't. For example, if a teenager has a family member that is way at war, or parents are going through a hard and nasty divorce, but a really big example are teens who are the ones who mainly take care of siblings who are too young to take care of themselves, and possibly even taking care of the parent, because the parents are always drunk themselves. Whenever these teens can escape and get that chance to, they take it no questions asked. They just want the feeling of just being able to let everything go for just a little while. They find that drinking helps with that. But other kids who are abused mentally, physically, and emotionally, drink to get away from the pain. They just want the pain to stop and go away. They want that so bad that they will go to any means necessary. So you can see, there are many reasons why teens drink, from stress at school, to peer pressure, to even stress at home. I'm not saying that it's the right what to go about getting rid of the stress for them. Just don't be so quick to judge them because they drink. Stop and think, maybe there is a reason why they turned to drinking in the first place, and see if you can help them if it's not already too late to help them. But in my mind, it's never too late. You Can Have It Both Ways People allover the world seem to think, technology is going to take over and pus hall the old way's out of the way. I do agree that technology is becoming more and more poplar, but the choice is up to each individual person to make the change for themselves. Which, the author of "Technology in Reverse", Robert J.   Samuelson, neglects to mention. The writer of "technology in Reverse" talks mainly about the electronic books, also known as Ebooks, and how they are putting actually typed, bound, and mass produced books, and libraries out of business because it's the better thing. But if you love reading as much as most people do, you don't want to be caring around four to six books at a time. You would just get tired of that. The E-books can hold as many books as you want it to. And besides, when you only carry around one book at a time, what happens when you finish that book while you are out and about doing things that cause you to wait around all the time? You can't start another book because you don't have one with you. With E-books, you can finish one book and almost instantly, pick another one and start reading. The E-book makes it so you don't have either one of the problems that I have stated. But no one is forcing you to go out and by the E-books. The choice is still left up to each individual person. the legal guardian. But with a joint adoption both people in the relationship are granted guardianship of the child (Beige, lesbianlife.about.com, 3). Now there is the problem that many think that children raised by homosexual parents, they will become mentally, and emotionally scarred for life. People think that these parents are going to put their need over their adopted child's need. But what they fail to realize that many heterosexual parents do that every day. People think that that the child is not going to understand why they have two mommies or two daddies' but all their friends have a mommy and a daddy. I personally know a young man who has been raised by two gay men hi entire life. He got all the love in the world and everything he could have possibly wanted. He was taught at a very young age, that some people had children and didn't want to or couldn't raise them. That there were some people who wanted to raise children but couldn't have children on their own. And there are some people who choose to be with the same gender as themselves and want to raise children, and that was how he came to be raised by his two homosexual fathers. He now lives his life as a normal person and brings girls home to meet his fathers, and acts like its normal because it is normal for him. He sees nothing wrong with his two fathers. The article goes on, and talks about how you have access to an entire library, and how no one person needs that. True that may not be true for everyone, but it's for the people who love to read as much as others, they like having that application on their E-books. And for the people who are doing research on something and can't find it at the library closest to them they can go on the E-book library application and they can most likely find it there. But it's not mandated by law for everyone to get an E-book, and use it. The government doesn't twist your arm and tell you to get one. It's still up to each individual person to buy an E-book if they want to. Libraries are still standing and actual typed, printed, bound, and mass produced books, haven't been burned or become obsolete. The people, who still chose to do things the old fashioned way, still can. Like I have state before, it's up to each individual person to either make the switch to using the E-books or not too. No one is twisting their arms to do it. No one is mandating by law to so. The choice is left up to each person alone. Work Cited Robert J.   Samuelson, "technology in Reverse": Dornan, Edward A. and Robert Dees. Four in One: Rhetoric, Reader, Research Guide, and Handbook. 4 th   Ed. New York: Person Education, Inc., 2008. Adoption Problems Involving Future Parents Every day, I see parents who have adopted children from all over the world. Even as a child I had friends that were adopted. But I only saw same gender couples who had adopted children. I never saw a child with same sex parents or even a single parent with an adopted child. I asked someone about that, and they told me that it is very hard for same gender couples and single men and women to adopt children. I wanted to know why this was the way it was. Why there problems for single men and women along with same sex couples trying to adopt? There is nothing wrong with either group of people and they could have the same right to adopt a child or children if they meet the requirements of being able to adopt. So adoption should not only be allowed to single men and women, but to same sex couples as well. First, many different people think that single men and women don't have the right to adopt children, because they are not married. People say that a child should have two parents and not just one. They are afraid that only having one parent will affect the child mental well being. Except every, you see men and women who have lost their spouse, or one of them walked off leaving the other to take care of the child all on their own. These children are being raised by one parent; there is nothing wrong with them. So why is it a problem for single men and women to adopt when others who have children already are raising children on their own? Well if you had gone to an adoption agency as a single man or women and wanted to adopt a child in the 1970's you would have been turn down almost immediately, there were even laws against singles adopting in some states at that time. But as time moves on, singles where aloud to adopt and now, thousands of children have been adopted and are living with single men and women all over the United States (Iibrary.adoption.com, 2). But these individuals are not treated any different then couples adopting children. They are very well informed of all of the obstacles they will have to overcome that even all couple adoptees have to face, along with others that come with being a single parent. Even though single parent adoption numbers are growing, single people are still put at the bottom of the list (Ashe, adoption.org, 1). Now when it comes to same sex couples trying to adopt, that's a whole different ball game. Many people argue, that many gay and lesbian couples cannot give a child the right amount of love and support, and take care of a child the same way a heterosexual couples can. No one seems to see that when couple's divorce and they have children, sometimes the mother or father become homosexual, and raise their children with their new life partner. This happened to one of my best friend's mom. She became gay after she divorced my friend's dad and three children with her life partner. But no one has the right to say that a homosexual couples cannot give a child the love and care they need when even straight couples sometimes can't even do that. There are many children who are waiting to be adopted and many homosexual people whether they are single or a couple want to adopt these children. There is no legal reason why they cannot adopt them. Homosexual people adopting is way better then artificial incrimination, because only the one who is biologically the parent to the child, gets the granted to be   the legal guardian. But with a joint adoption both people in the relationship are granted guardianship of the child (Beige, lesbianlife.about.com, 3). Now there is the problem that many think that children raised by homosexual parents, they will become mentally, and emotionally scarred for life. People think that these parents are going to put their need over their adopted child's need. But what they fail to realize that many heterosexual parents do that every day. People think that that the child is not going to understand why they have two mommies or two daddies' but all their friends have a mommy and a daddy. I personally know a young man who has been raised by two gay men hi entire life. He got all the love in the world and everything he could have possibly wanted. He was taught at a very young age, that some people had children and didn't want to or couldn't raise them. That there were some people who wanted to raise children but couldn't have children on their own. And there are some people who choose to be with the same gender as themselves and want to raise children, and that was how he came to be raised by his two homosexual fathers. He now lives his life as a normal person and brings girls home to meet his fathers, and acts like its normal because it is normal for him. He sees nothing wrong with his two fathers. He also has met his birth parents and took his father's with him so he wasn't alone. His biological parents where very happy with the way their child turned out and are glad he had to parents that treated him they way they never could. They didn't care that it was two men who raised him. They just wanted a better life for their child and he got it. As you can see, there is nothing wrong with a single man or women, or even a homosexual couples wanted to adopt. They can give everything to a child that a heterosexual couples can, and sometimes even more. But in the end it comes down to what is best for the child and sometimes with a single parent or with homosexual parents, can be the best for a child. Work Cited; 1. Ashe, Nancy S. "Singled Out: A Bad Rap for Single Adoptive Parents." Adoption.org. adoption.org, n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2011. . 2.     http://library.adoption.com/articies/single-parent-adoption-3       .htm I    3. Beige, Kathy. "Lesbian and Gay Adoption Rights." About.com. About.com, 2011. Web. 31 Mar. 2011. .