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Carlisle is the oldest character in the Twilight series. He is also called the father of the rest of his family with Isme as his wife. Edward, Jasper, Rose, Emmet, and Alice. Since Bella is about to become a vampire, and part of their family subsiquently. Since Carlisle is the oldest amoung the 6 other vampires, that are all vegetarians, you might suspect that he has the worst record of biting humans. Truth is, he actually has the best record for not ever having even bitten a human in his entire life. He has bitten the rest of his family to turn them into vampires, but according them, doing that doesn't count as biting someone. Also, since the family has to move every couple of years, Carlisle needs a job so that the wealth that he seems to own won't look quite as suspicious. Turns out, he's a doctor and helps cover up any nomadic vampires that pass throught wherever they are living at the time. This is very useful because he is then able to determine and state the cause of death, usually some wild animal attack. The way that he is able to use this excuse because they usually live in a remote town outside and away from a large metropolitan city. also, they tend to live in the northwest portion of the United States where there is less sun and since sunlight makes the vampires skin shimmer as if it is coated with millions of finely cut diamonds.

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The protagonists in Eclipse are Bella and Edward. Though Edward is a vampire and the story is told from Bella's perspective, things just work out for them one way or another. Bella has known Edward and his vampire family for about 2 years now and they have had a hard time with a vampire government known as the Volturi and another nomad vampire group with a vampire named Victoria who has a grudge against Bella and Edward's family for killing her love, James back in the first book. Now, she is back to try to kill Bella to get back at Edward since he loves her so much. Now, Bella is considering becoming a vampire a bit sooner than she had epected, and wanted to be, or, she could end up a snack for Victoria, especially since she apparently has blood that is completely irresistible smell that Edward, who is a "vegeterian" who only has animal blood instead of human blood, has a very hard time resisting himself from biting Bella. A creepy fact about Edward is that he doesn't need sleep. So, he spends his nights, since he met Bella, watching her sleep and listening to her dreams through her sleep talking. Creepper.

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I chose to read Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer for only a few reasons. The main reason I chose Eclipse is because my sister recommended it to me instead of the second book in the Twilight series. I had also just seen the movie Twilight and had liked it a lot more than I thought I would. So, I decided to try to read the rest of the series.

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Another myth (or legend if you want to call it that) that I read recently is called "Finn and the Goblin" which is of Irish origins. It is about a boy whose father was a prominent military leader for one of the old clans of Ireland. The father was killed before the boy was born in a clan war in which he lost. The boy was raised in secret and becomes a skilled warrior himself. He eventually gains a vast amount of knowledge due to eating a mystical slamon that gives the eater intelligence beyond belief. Finn then confronts the king of the clan and takes a challenge that will make him a prominent warrior amoung his father's enemys. Finn is asked to kill a wicked goblin that was going to terrorize the city and Finn uses a mystical spear and his vast knowledge to defeat the goblin. He returns a hero and becomes a captain in the kings military. This is kind of akward since he is more healing wounds with his enemy's rather than fighting them.

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A tale about love that I read this week is called "The Sea Monster" which is based directly off of its Greek mythological counterpart. It is about a city that is visited by a sea monster that destroys all the trade going to the city. The oracles in the city find out that if they give the monster the king's daughter, Andromeda, it will leave the city forever. So, they chain her to a sea wall and she waits for a day and the sea monster does not come. The next day, a man named Perseus finds Adromeda and falls in love with her. He will not defy the oracles of her city however and so he ends up fighting and slaying the creature (called a Schyllia in ancient Greece). In return for the service he provides the city, he is allowed to marry Andromeda as a tolken of gratitude from the city's king. Oh, another reason that Andromeda was the one chosen by the oracles is because she was also considered the most beautiful in the city.

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The book Stalingrad is a war-time book written by a woman who lived in Stalingrad during the time it was under siege by the Germans. The people in the city at first are happy and peaceful and enjoying life while the war is going on a long ways away. That winter, they get news that the Germans have advanced to the outskirts of Stalingrad. The people have to deal with food shortages and constant artillery fire from the blockading Germans. It also talks about how the civilians helped stop the Germans from ever entering the city as a combined militia. In February, they find a way to get supplies from a little ways across the Baltic sea to the city by using rucks provided by the Allies. In the end, the Russian army finally arrives and drives the Germans back and away from the city, relieving the people of their oppressive blockade. Many people died during that winter due to starvation and poor sanatation was rampant since their was very little electricity.

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I found a text that has described the colonization of the Americas by the Spanish. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain to the island of Haiti in the Carribean. During the next few voyages that Columbus took, he believed that he had reached Asia which was his main goal. Of course, he didn't find a western root to Asia. In the following centuries, the Spanish set up many colonies in the New World in the Carribean, Mexico, and South America. They used natives to mine silver and farm sugarcane that they planted on plantations in the Carribean. This led to a dwindling native population. Many natives were treated a lot better and had more rights than the slaves that the Spanish brought over from Africa. This also led to a complex social hierarchy with pure Iberian Europeans at the highest of the hierarch. The colonies eventually revolted against Spanish rule in the 19th century and all of the American mainland colonies won their independence.