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Characters:
 * [|prescription drug addiction] May 24, 2011**
 * Ron Woods: He is the main character of the story. He is a straight A student top ranked wrestler, and an eagle scout. He lives by his motivies, which are honor, personal boundries, and respect. All these take a toll later in the book, where he and his friends are forced to take a manditory drug test to wrestle. He refueses despite the rules. Once he finally does, he fails. Despite his friends' words to take it again, he does't. He, the school, and his coach knew he does't do drugs. Even after weeks of drama, he finally figures out what happened. Whcich makes him start to think about how he reacts to other people. He is an overall protagonist.
 * Dan "Gorilla" Horton: He is a memember of the wrestling team, and Ron's best friend. He is big, with a slight attitude. He likes to know what goes on and what people think of him. He played an important role after Ron failed his drug test. He complety understood why Ron didn't want to take the test. It was personal honor and it's what Ron stood for. Dan is a protagonist.
 * Coach Brogan: He is the head coach of the wrestling program. He is really good friends with Ron, and his mother. When he learned that Ron failed his test he knew that Ron didn't take drugs. He could't let Ron wrestle because of the rule that was made. Though Ron did not wrestle, Coach Brogan still talked to Ron multiple times. As well as Ron's mother. Who was widowed after her husband was killed in Vietnam. Coach Brogan is a protagonist.
 * Igor (last name not given): Is a wrestler from another town. He plays a major role in Ron's ambition to wrestle until the drug test. Igor is a mean spirted kind of guy. When he sees Ron, he taunts him about him being a drug user. Igor is full of himself, and at the end. It finally catches up to him. Igor is a very big antagonist.

Summary: Rating
 * Ron Woods, an honest student and a tough wrestler excited for the next season. However, when a new law gets made offical to make student athletes take a manodrity drug tests. He feels uneay about it. Only when he ends up failing it is when the book really takes place. With no help from his mother, and no advice from his dad who died in Vietnam, Ron is the only person he can turn to. The book talks a lot about honor and personal boundries, as well peoples' personal beliefs. When Ron realizes what not taking the test has done to him. He starts helping out the team, and later finds out how the test results really turned out.
 * I give the book a 4. I think the book is really good. Focus's on peoples beliefs towards difficult choices in life. How people decide on them. It is good for people who like wrestling, and for people that are very stong to their beliefs.

Discussion of other Blogs Wiki Reflection
 * The book __Generals Die in Battle__ seems really intesting. Mainly becaue it is a WWI book, and I don't have much info on the topic. Plus, the books plot seems really intresting too.
 * The other book I would try to read is __The Game.__ That book seems good because hockey is really vioent and a good sport. The plot of it seems like it could keep me reading.
 * The Wiki spaces was a good and easy way to keep peoples' thoughts together. It was really handy, but there are some things that could change or be modified. Like it was hard to get the assignment, probaly should be announced instead of being checked every day. Other than that, I do not see anything that should be changed.


 * April 18, 2011**
 * I am now reading __Wrestling with Honor__ by David Klass.
 * I have read 43 pages since the last entry.
 * It starts with a Junior named Ron Woods, and he is running, suddenly, he sees flashing lights and cops come behind him, he gets accused of robbery by some cops. Once he sets proven innocent by his family friend, Officer Garrison and speaks for his innocence, through they realized they made a mistake, Ron was taken home

You can read more about the book at [|Book Review]
 * April 1, 2011**
 * I am reading __A Time of War__, by Michael Peterson.
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 * March 25, 2011**
 * __A Time of Wa__r, by Michael Peterson
 * I got the book at the Ericson Public Libary, it caught my attention because of the cover, and the title sounded intersting. Not only that, but the cover page, after skiming it, I though it would be a good book to read.
 * Curently, the President of the U.S. was just talking about Vietanam, about how they are disrupting some way og life to the South. There is one character who is important, his name is Bradley Lawerence Marshall, he doesn't do much. Though he is important to the White House.
 * March 4 2011**
 * Ivan Korske- He is one of the main characters, he is a hard worker and shows anger quickly. He is determined to get what he wants. Which is to win his state tittle. He also feels lots of bitterness towards anyone who talks about his mother, because she is dead. He is a protaganist to his peers, and his coach, but to those in Millburn High, who he wants to beat, he is an antagonist.
 * Bobby Drake-He is another main character, just like Ivan, he is a wrestler. He is a little more calm than Ivan, and a lot more reckless than him as well. He expects sometimes, tha life will fall into his hands and does not think that eveything he does has consequences. Like Ivan, to his peers in Millburn High, he is a Protaganist, to other schools, including the wrestlers at Lennings, where Ivan is. Bobby is an antagonist.
 * Shelley (Last name not given) - She is part of Lennings High, and the girl next door to Ivan. She is very supportive to Ivan and his abillties to wrestle. She grew up next to Ivan, was there when his mother died. She is compassionate towards eveybody, but mostly Ivan. Which leads her and Ivan into a strong friendship, and more than that. She is best considered a protaganist to everybody.
 * Carmelina (Last name not given) -Not to much is given about her, a Portuguese girl, who is in love with Bobby, and Bobby loves her. She works, not just at school, she has a job to help her family, whom are very poor. She does not have much to do with wrestling, but she and Bobby make one to many mistakes, some that end up being life changing. She would best be described as a protaganist, due to she is not bad at all.
 * Coach Messina- The head coach of the Millburn High wrestling team. He knows what is best for all of his wrestlers, he is derermined to see his wrestlers do one thing, win. He pushes his westlers, and Bobby to wrestle hard, and train eveyday to get that state championship. Just like Bobby, he is a protaganist to eveybody in Millburn.
 * Coach McClelan- The head coach of the wrestlers of Lennings, he in Ivan's mind is an arrogant. McClelan thinks differently about Ivan. McClelan dislikes Ivan's thinking. Ivan believes that he is the best on the team and it is all about Ivan. McClelan tries day in and day out to break him, and tell him that the team is important. Though it never worked trying to break Ivan, he did get him to understand its not about Ivan, its the team. Probably to most, McCelan is an antagonist, but not to a few, the people that wrestle under him don't think that, except Ivan.
 * Two completely different wrestlers, have the same goal, Seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Drake want, the State Championship of New Jesery. From two different places both train, because only one person can have that state championship. See the drama of the life of a wrestler as Ivan and Bobby starve themselves, and run like their lives depend on it. It is not just physcial pain that gets to them. The drama of a high school student adds up too, like family members who died and leave, college scolarships the women drama as Ivan fights off temptation of a close friend of his, and Bobby's relationship with a trobled girl. Not to mention coaches who push them to hard and over the line to the breaking point. Only one of these two will earn the highest honor of all wrestling in New Jesery, the state championship. It will be the better man, but both of these guys want it. It will take more than desire for one to win this title. See the uncensored side of high school as two face life, and realize how tough the life of a wrestler can be.
 * I would rate the book a 5 out of 5
 * The book is very good. It has action, wrestling mostly. It has high school dama, such as college scolarships, grades, and enough romance, and even far going worries past relationships. It has family trobles between two seniors in high school with one family being torn apart, and one having enough with people asking about his mom. If your a wrestler, I would highly perfer this book. If your not a wrestler, it still has enough drama and things going on to keep you hooked in it.
 * New Book
 * I think I will read the book Nothing to Lose. It seemed to catch my eye when I saw it through the cover of it on the Wiki. It also seemes to have a very good plot about a teenager who loses his temper tomuch and runs off. I can't wait to read it.
 * February 10 2011** So far in __Pinned__ Ivan is training to be a state champion, he is well on his way. I think the best part so far, is when he is running, it gave him a lot a time to think, but his frustration with his losses gives him a psychcolodgiac advantage and only makes him work harder, I promise you, all wrestlers do that, it gets them meaner, and tougher. The bad part is, when Ivan looks over all his losses, that's not fun to do,it all reflects on how you did as a wrestler, and how tough you weren't. It gets frustrating, and like what was said, is not fun.


 * January 27 2011** The book I am reading is called __Pinned,__ by Alfred C. Martino. I decided to read this book because I love to wrestle, it's my favorite sport, when I saw the book, I just had to read it. The main character's name is Ivan Korske, he is a wrestler, he is a Senior in high school, so he is 17 or 18, it did not say exactly, Ivan is tough, and determined to do what he wants, and that is to win. Ivan wants to be a state champion, but he never was able to do it, three years in a row, his freshmen year he was pinned, and gave up. Sophomore year he lost, 4-11. Junior year, he lost 7-8, and the time keeper made a mistake,he never again will lose. I am really enjoying the book so far. It's really entertaining, mainly it reminds me of my own wrestling team, and the toughness of a wrestler.
 * January 13 2011** today i sucessfully created a Wiki account, joined this wiki, and created my blogging page