The Road not Taken

I The Road Not  Taken  By Robert Frost  is a poem about the choices we make. I believe that this is about because many of the stanza point to this such as "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" and "sorry I could not travel both". I also think it is about what comes from these choices as exemplified in the final group of stanzas when he says "I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

 I think that the stanza "Two Roads diverged in a yellow road." means that the protagonist could make a choice. He could either go down one path of life or another but he couldn't go down both. This is shown in the stanza  "sorry I could not travel both". So I see this as being that he had to make a decesion but couldn't go down both paths of life.

When Robert  Frost says  "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."  It means     

that he doesn't want to tell the truth so he would look wiser because stated in the poem both paths had never been taken. So maybe this is because he made a bad choice and it didn't turn out the way he wanted to .

In Conclusion I believe that Robert Frosts poem is about the choices we make and what the consequences are. This is proved by when he says "Two roads diverge in a yellow wood" , "Sorry I could not travel both" and when he states  "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." I really liked this poem and leave in the comments if you want me to review more.

The real scoop on the Geomancer's Compass

Two weeks ago I talked about a book named Geomancer's Compass by Melissa Hardy. In the Geomancers compass The main characters go on an adventure to destroy the feng-shi of there great grand uncle and move his bones to a better burial site. On this quest Hardy has designed great characters and a great not so futuristic world. To top it off Hardy made the story line very interesting.

In the Geomancer's Compass almost all of the characters are deep and have something interesting to do with them. Like Brian and Miranda, both of them have traits that help define their personality. Brian has A.D.H.D. and dyslexia, according to the book this makes him "look at problems in more creative ways" and it made him a leader and it made it humble and kind. Miranda on the other hand is germaphobic and according to the book this makes here "well... clean". The grandmother in the beginning is heavily experienced and religious. These are only a few examples of characters and you can already see how Hardy helped make the traits for the characters.

Also in the book the main characters go through many historical monuments of Chinese Vancouver, such as old opium stores that had been vacated for decades. They also visit places like an old Capone hideout. Later in the book they even go to a golf course. While being sometimes random the places they go to are beautifully described, Hardy even goes into what texture the grass was or the smoothness of a rock and the sounds of a spirit. These settings and there detail just suck you in.

The story though is the best part. A brief summary of it is simple, when Chinese immigrants came to Canada they settled down and were abused and attacked. They were hardly thought of as human, so when a Chinese man and an Canadian woman were lovers the Canadians killed him off and buried him and walked away. Over the years his body was moved and then his spirit was so mad it became a daemon and brought wreckage to the Lui family. I really found this interesting and had to keep reading.

Over all I really liked this book. It had great characters that had there traits defined by their past or a disability. The settings in the book were both interesting and detailed. The story was just an amazing sample of what could happen in the world today(other than the ghost part which is obsurd.) I think it was well written. So it is an 8.5/10.

A little Essay on the Soda size ban

I support the soda ban because it makes people think about the amount of sugar they take in. By making people more aware of what they drink, diabetes rates, obesity rates, and obesity-related illness rates in New York will drop. The soda ban made by Mayor Bloomberg isn’t actually about banning any sodas. The soda ban is about banning sugary drinks that are over the size of sixteen ounces. The soda size ban doesn’t affect any store that isn’t city regulated; meaning that some stores can still serve drinks over sixteen ounces. Any drink that is fifty percent or more milk doesn’t apply to the rules. The same thing happens if the company doesn’t add the sugar and you do. For example, you can still get a twenty-one ounce coffee at Starbucks and then add the sugar.

New York’s population is staggeringly fat. According to wiki.answers.com, “About twenty-three percent of the population is obese and fifteen percent of the children’s population is obese.” According to “The Real Bears” by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, “When you are obese you have a chance of getting diabetes, which may result in amputation, or even death.” The soda ban will lower obesity rates because it will make people more aware of how much sugar they are consuming.

According to the slate.com article “Fuzzy and Fizzy” by Daniel Engber, “People regulate their caloric intake without thinking. If we eat more at one meal, we'll go lighter on the next. But for some reason (the mechanism is still unknown), drinks throw this compensatory mechanism out of whack.” In other words people don’t notice the calories in a large sugary drink. In “Goodbye, Big Soda: New York Becomes First City to Ban Large-Sized Soft Drinks,” by Alice Park, it states that “sugary drinks make up 43% of the added sugar in the average American diet.” Combine these two facts together and you understand why the obesity rates are rising. The ban will help this issue because it makes it less convenient to drink a large soda.

A lot of people in New York oppose the Soda ban because they think that this is a limit of their freedom and that should be free to choose what size soda they can drink. What they are misunderstanding is that they can still drink as much soda as they want. According to “Soda Ban Explained” by Casey Neisat, “preventing people from drinking what they want isn’t the goal of the ban.” So people can still buy more than one soda, and there are plenty of ways you can get a drink larger than 16 oz. The point of the ban is to make people think about how much sugar they take in.

In conclusion, the soda size ban will help people realize how much sugar they are drinking. As studies show, people will unwarily drink a larger soda as if was a smaller one; this makes them consume a larger amount of sugar without arealizing it. The ban doesn’t prohibit you from buying a soda; it will only limit the size in which a soda can be sold. The soda size ban will also make people think before they buy. The Soda ban will help our obesity rates drop because it help people change their soda drinking habits.