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Legalising same-sex marriages is conservative, not liberal
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By Ryan Shorthouse Published 23 September 2011 15:04In Birmingham, Liberal Democrat MPs and senior advisers were nodding to journalists that legalising same-sex marriages was a Lib Dem victory against archaic Tories. But it's very important for the Conservatives to claim ownership of this welcome policy, for philosophical and political reasons.
Growing cultural liberalism has certainly helped bring this about, but the logic for extending marriage to same-sex couples is not in fact liberal.
Liberals believe in the autonomy of individuals to conduct their lives free from external constraint so long as they do not undermine the rights of others. So the state should be morally neutral. When it comes to marriage, therefore, liberals argue that the state is not being neutral when it only grants the title of marriage, and the benefits that come with it, to heterosexual couples.
But this new policy is not extending those privileges to everyone. Consensual polygamous partnerships, for instance, are not being allowed to marry. A truly liberal position would be that the state does not sanction marriage at all as the benefits from it discriminate against those who do not marry.
The real reason why marriage is being extended to gay couples is because government - shaped by the changing attitudes of the public - now believes same-sex couples are worthy, that they fulfil the purpose of marriage and deserve marriage's associated benefits. This is Aristotelian, not liberal, logic.
This is why the policy is more conservative than liberal. First, Conservatives more strongly believe that justice depends on what individuals deserve. Many liberals, notably John Rawls, believe that moral desert cannot be the grounds for determining the just allocation of titles and resources.
Second, Conservatives, unlike liberals, are sceptical of introducing new rights based on abstract arguments: they prefer to grant rights and implement change based on the evolution of public opinion, to ensure support for and the stability of government, which is what this policy amounts to. So it's time for the Conservatives to say the decision to legalise same-sex marriage is motivated by conservative thinking.
This is important politically too. Recent analysis showed that the Conservatives failed to secure a majority at the last election because they did not convince floater voters the party shared their values. An increasingly liberal-minded electorate need reassurance that the party is in touch with modern Britain, not reluctantly dragged into the twenty-first century by Liberal Democrats.
Cameron, of course, knows this. Hence why Downing Street told the press, despite the Liberal Democrat Equalities Minister formally announcing it, that the PM had "personally intervened" to introduce the policy consultation. Expect more noises from Cameron on this in the weeks ahead, especially to counterbalance more traditional message he is likely to trumpet at the forthcoming Conservative Party Conference.
Ryan Shorthouse is a spokesman for Bright Blue
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If you want to know what the future holds, talk to young people. On social issues, young American adults today are far more liberal than their parents. The majority support gay marriage (50 percent in favor versus 36 percent against with the remainder undecided.)
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The overwhelming majority rightfully believes that homosexuals deserve the respect, courtesy, and individual rights and liberties to which all are due. Providing homosexuals anything less is denying a true civil right because they're human beings, just like everyone else. There is a distinction, though, and it's a very important one that goes to the heart of our Constitution and living in a free and orderly society. http://www.squidoo.com/best-baby-cribs-reviews
So Lox you would also agree that the state should 'butt out' and not challenge religious organisation who dont pander to gay interests??
You need to buy a new library Ryan if you think this is a conservative notion.
"same-sex marriage" is a contradiction in terms. Fact.
two things are undeniably true about sex, we procreate by it, we enjoy it whether because of love, lust or whatever, the State has no business in the latter, whatever any change in law does, changes nothing.
Semyon Suslov: "...from a medical position, homosexuals are at high risk for bodily damage and disease because same-sex interaction involves human physiology that's not designed for that purpose."
If God had meant us to have anal sex, He would have given us assholes.
...oh, wait.
Personally I wonder if the real reason the government is enabling any two people to get married is because it's so much easier to controll everyone if we 're all lumbered with a contract. It's about liability I daresay, or the risk of liability. Obviously firms will find risk easier to manage if it can be shared via some consent type process between two individuals rather than one. Thus any ordinary member of the public who doesn't comply with the contractual model of life may as well be missing completely.
So much for our rights to be treated as individuals rather than herds kept in agricultural type householdings.
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"So much for our rights to be treated as individuals rather than herds kept in agricultural type householdings."
I think you are right. This is sham politics; not accepting differences but attempting to 'normalize' other groups. I'm afraid that too many gay couples seek the rather dubious path of assimilation.
Same sex marriage... or when society lost its mind....Our descendents (thats if we still have heterosexual marriages of course!)some 200 yards down the line will be asking themselves what kind of drugs we all were on .....
while same-sex is weird, ı don't know what to say about same-sex marriage. this illness must be treated folks.
The overwhelming majority rightfully believes that homosexuals deserve the respect, courtesy, and individual rights and liberties to which all are due. Providing homosexuals anything less is denying a true civil right because they're human beings, just like everyone else. There is a distinction, though, and it's a very important one that goes to the heart of our Constitution and living in a free and orderly society.
That distinction is the difference between a human being and human behavior. A human being simply is. He/she has no ability to be anything but a person, and is, therefore, deserving of rights, which no one can remove by vote or decree. The natural and immutable – or fixed – conditions of race and gender fall into this category because they're purely genetic. One can't willfully change one's genetics and become white one day or black then next or become male the first day and female on the second day, even with reassignment surgery, which may change the outward manifestation of sex (to some degree) but not the underlying genetics. In other words, once a male always a male, no matter how much surgery you undergo or how many hormones you take.
A person's behavior is another matter. Unlike the human condition, it begins with an urge, which many perceive as having little to no ability to control and often have no recollection of choosing. Yet whether it concerns anger, kleptomania, smoking, drinking to excess, or drug addiction, behavioral urges are the driving force behind the behavior. However, what is clearly under our control is our ability to decide whether we'll act on the urge and engage in the behavior resulting from the urge.
Sometimes this conscious decision results in a beneficial behavior; other times it does not. For these reasons, the Constitution assigns the public or its elected representatives the right to pass laws governing human behavior for the benefit of the individual and society. In general, the intent of such laws ranges from prohibiting to encouraging different behaviors, based on their merits or lack of them. For example, some behaviors furnish positive benefits to individuals and society, and should, therefore, be encouraged with financial and legal benefits. Examples in this first category would include going to college, starting a business, buying a home, giving to charities, and entering into marriage. Other behaviors have the potential for harm but banning them would cause an undue burden on personal liberty. So, we limit these behaviors to consenting adults. Examples in this second category would be smoking, drinking, gambling, and human sexual relations outside marriage. Finally, some behaviors are so egregious that we prohibit them. Examples in this third category would be the taking of life or property.
As the medical, psychological, and sociologically research irrefutably proves, homosexual behavior clearly lies in the second category of human behavior. First, from a medical position, homosexuals are at high risk for bodily damage and disease because same-sex interaction involves human physiology that's not designed for that purpose. The result is that practicing homosexuals are at far greater risk on a per person basis for HIV/AIDS (nine to 44 times more susceptible than straights), hepatitis, STDs (especially syphilis), human papilloma virus (HPV), certain cancers, and gastrointestinal ailments. Second, from a psychological viewpoint, homosexuals experience a higher rate of emotional and mental ailments than heterosexuals, a rate that doesn't vary whether they live in are accepting of homosexuals (the Netherlands) and those that are less so (United States). Finally, from a sociological view, homosexual behavior poses a risk, if it's officially recognized in same-sex marriage (SSM), because of the negative impact it will have on society (1).
The reason has to do with the institution, itself. Marriage is considered a positive and worthwhile goal. As such, we seal it in joyful ceremonies; celebrate it with sometimes lavish receptions; and register it with the government, which, in turn, bestows financial incentives, such as tax incentives to keep us married. For heterosexual marriage, these activities are warranted, because it improves the finances and health of both parties, reduces to almost zero the potential for STDS; eliminates promiscuity in 75 to 85% of all marriages; and provides the best environment for raising children, which naturally result from heterosexual interaction (1). So we hold marriage in high esteem (or try to), so that other men and women will enter into it.
In comparison, no such benefits would result from SSM. Besides the health risks, other reasons involve the origin and inherent nature of homosexuality. Like every other behavioral urge, homosexuality results from a complex mix of genetic, biologic, and social factors that vary in significance among individuals (1). Consequently, homosexuality may be more genetic in some, more biologic in others, and more cultural/social in another group. What all these categories have in common, though, is that none guarantees homosexuality. Rather, they impart a greater tendency than the general population for a homosexual outcome and all are subject in varying degrees to outside influences that either encourage same-sex behavior or mischaracterize it as normal and healthy.
SSM is such an influence because of the social approval surrounding marriage and because the urge for same-sex behavior is at least partially due to an influence like this one. Thus, those who wouldn't otherwise develop homosexuality or engage in the behavior will be more likely to do so now that SSM is recognized in some areas or countries. This outcome not only exposes them to the risk of bodily damage and disease to which homosexuals are highly susceptible but others, who they might influence through their behavior. This is why it's so important to oppose SSM and not endorse it.
(1) "The Case for Limiting Government Recognition to Traditional Relationships"
Same sex sodomy is contrary to The Laws of Plumbing. Fact.
""same-sex marriage" is a contradiction in terms. Fact."
Well, no. If it gets legalised that it won't be a contradiction in terms. It'll be a fact. Fact.
"tolga zafer TR" says that homosexuality is an "illness". One could equally argue that attitudes such as hers are a sickness. The truth is that it's only those who claim that their imaginary friend says it's wrong who are bothered. The rest of us just say, "live and let live". Gay people are perfectly capable of being good parents and loving partners.
Despite the reassuring remarks of David Lindsay above, we must all keep in mind that The Supreme Governor acquiesced in the Church of England's abandonment of traditional Christian ministry in 1987 and 1992 so claiming to ordain women as deacons and priests in the Church of God.
Proposing same-sex marriage is not a conservative position. Ideological conservatism is based on the Judeo-Christian notions of patriarchical family and a stable, highly-hierarchical society and state.
The Conservative Party, the Lib Dems and Labour are all directed by variants of liberal ideology. Social conservatism is expressed through a motley collection of Tory backwoodsmen and the occasional social catholic in the Labour Party. Neither tendency has not given much influence on frontbench attitudes to social issues.
Hi A Cole, yes, I would. If people don't want to attend churches of whose sexual and social opinions they disapprove, they don't have to.
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Gay marriage conservative? "That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow. " (Midsummer ND, Act5 sc1) And here was me thinking all the time they were against it? Whatever made me think that? So civilisation won't collapse after all? I'm so pleased ....
Quote "Conservatives, unlike liberals, are sceptical of introducing new rights based on abstract arguments: they prefer to grant rights and implement change based on the evolution of public opinion."
Really? So its not about doing what is right and just, but staying within the bounds of certain expressions of public opinion, if even its uninformed and reactionary?
The statutory definition of marriage as only ever the union of one man and one woman goes back to the Attlee Government. Before that, it had always been presupposed. But its iron-cladding by means of the Statute Law was the work of the greatest Labour Government, and of the longest-serving Leader in the Labour Party's history. Now, though, from the Prime Minister who wanted to give Peter Tatchell a peerage, comes the proposal for "gay marriage". That proposal would be rejected by Barack Obama, and it was rejected by the voters of California and Florida on the same day as they gave their Electoral College votes to Obama.
Unlike a civil partnership, which therefore ought not to be restricted to unrelated same-sex couples, a marriage has to be consummated. The Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith (the present title is not the one conferred by the Pope on Henry VIII, but the one conferred by a Protestant Parliament on his son, Edward VI) could not have signed a Bill which, for the first time, actually required, in order to receive some legal benefit or privilege, engagement in sexual relations other than those between one man and one woman in marriage. The Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith still cannot do so.
Nevertheless, we should seize this opportunity to propose something better. The extension to relatives of the right to contract civil partnerships. The entitlement of each divorcing spouse to one per cent of the other's estate for each year of marriage, up to 50 per cent, and the disentitlement of the petitioning spouse unless fault be proved, thereby restoring the situation whereby, by recognising adultery and desertion as faults in divorce cases, society declared in law its disapproval of them even though they were not in themselves criminal offences.
The entitlement of any marrying couple to register their marriage as bound by the law prior to 1969 as regards grounds and procedures for divorce, and to enable any religious organisation to specify that any marriage which it conducts shall be so bound, requiring it to counsel couples accordingly. And the statutory specification that the Church of England be such a body unless the General Synod specifically resolve the contrary by a two-thirds majority in all three Houses, with something similar for the Methodist and United Reformed Churches, which also exist pursuant to Acts of Parliament, as well as by amendment to the legislation relating to the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy.
That would be a start, anyway. It is astonishing that no major party is opposed to same-sex "marriage", just as it is that no major party gives expression to all sorts of mainstream opinions in the country at large. Ed Miliband is, I suspect, in favour of it. A lot of people are. But by making the above his and his party's conditions for supporting it, then he would both be doing what was right, and, as in so many other ways of siding with Mail and Telegraph readers (even if not writers) against the Government, doing what was electorally opportune. So, Ed Miliband, over to you.
Just another example of the Government bowing to the interests of minority groups...like the lib dems who want this recognition of deviant unions!
Supporting gay marriage isn't conservative-it's liberal. And you're clutching at straws if you think that the tories have backed it because of public opnion any more than labour.
Gay marriage should be supported on the principle that the state should butt out and mind it's own business (and as an aside, that business should be as small as possible). That's a principle that's more libertarian than conservative, and much further away from socialism, isn't it?


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The stump speeches resounded with pledges to reach across the aisle; do the right thing, not the politically expedient thing; and save Main Street by saving Wall Street. And, in the end on Monday, September 29, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 228 to 205 to nix the bill that would have spotted $700 billion to shore up the credit market.

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I'm sitting here sharing pictures of the back of my PTS3 pillow on Flickr and remember that I didn't draw a name for a FQ and Scrap pack!
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Yaaay for Norma, she is at Quilt Guild tonite...well probably home by now. I forgot to go till too late.
Hooray for Norma. I know she will put the fabrics to good use. - June 14, 2010 at 10:45 PM
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Congrats to Norman, and thanks to you for the give away chance!!!
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Best Driver: Worst Driver: Best Team: Worst Team: Best Overtake: Best Funny- moment: Most Surprising Result: Least Surprising Result: Special Mention to: Race Rating: /10 — BBC vs Sky: Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter: Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter: Best Commentary moment: World feed rating: /10
Best Driver: Maldonado Worst Driver: Schumacher I'm afraid Best Team: Lotus Worst Team: Mclaren Best Overtake: Kobayashi on Button Best Funny- moment: Most Surprising Result: Maldonado win Least Surprising Result: Massa out of the points Special Mention to: Hamilton, Alonso, Vettel, Raikkonen, Kobayashi, Hulkenberg Race Rating: 9/10
Best Driver: Maldonado. Brilliant speed when it mattered, nice work to keep Alonso behind in a long last stint. Worst Driver: Schumacher. Didn't bother to qualify, started on the same tyres as everyone else anyway, then drove like a raw egg. Best Team: Williams. Amazing pace, winning strategy – are you watching, Lotus? – and many acts of heroism, which they'll no doubt play down, in the fire. Worst Team: McLaren. Tried to pull the wool over the stewards' eyes, arrogantly thought they could predict the qualifying cut-off laptimes, and should really have out-raced a penalised Vettel and Rosberg. Best Overtake: Hamilton on the Toro Rossos Best Funny- moment: Smiled at DC bringing a trolley to push Eddie around on. Most Surprising Result: Maldonado Least Surprising Result: Grosjean, there or thereabouts again. Special Mention to: Hülkenberg, same long last stint as the winner, and managed to hold off Webber. Race Rating: 9/10 — Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter: David Coulthard Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter: Ted Kravitz, from what I saw in the video clips of the fire (once Sky had finally finished showing me ads) – a bit over-excited e.g. "we've got a great shot of this" Best Commentary moment: Coulthard, trying to give Schumacher the benefit of the doubt: "I want to see some replays before I nail this one on Michael" World feed rating: 7/10
Best Driver: Maldonado – Utterly Profeesional Worst Driver: Michael Schumacher – Utterly Amatuer and ungracious Best Team: Williams Worst Team: Mclaren – The whole weekend was shocking. Best Overtake: Kobayashi on Button – Thats more like it Kamui !! Best Funny- moment: Coulthard trying not to upset the Schumacher Fan club after his shunt with Senna Most Surprising Result: Maldonado no falling backwards through the race Least Surprising Result: The Lotuses scoring good points but not going for the win. Special Mention to: Hamilton, Hulkenburg, Kobayashi Race Rating: 8/10 — BBC vs Sky: BBC Best BBC/Sky commentator/presenter: DC – Easily now my favorite pundit. Worst BBC/Sky commentator/ presenter: Edwards – He's just a bit annoying isn't he? Best Commentary moment: See Funny moment World feed rating: 8/10
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Best Driver: Maldonado Worst Driver: Schumacher Best Team: Lotus Worst Team: McLaren Best Overtake: Hamilton on both toro rosso's Best Funny- moment:—– Most Surprising Result:Maldonado winning Least Surprising Result: No Points Caterham, Hrt, Marussia. Special Mention to: Vettel, Kobayashi, Alonso. Race Rating: 8/10
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This fat broad is on Milton Street as well. Milton is my favorite block in Brooklyn, the architecture sits so mixed.
This robust brick monster heads up Milton Street where it perpendiclarly ( I'm not sure if that is a word) runs into Manhattan Ave. Just came out of an exstensive renovation.


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He continued laughing, scrambling to his feet and stumbling through the sand before getting his balance, chasing after her and hitting the water near her before leaning down to splash his hands in it, aiming it at her with a grin. He raced further into the water before she could retaliate before sticking his tongue out at her and waving his arms.
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As she recovered, she noticed him running out further, and chased after him. "I'll make you pay!" A little water was nothing to a flower, it made them lively! And Daisy was no exception. She caught up to him, swatted the water towards him and missed a few times before one landed him in the face.
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The best way to move up to an open cup - the new Sassy Grow Up Cup! Unique no spout, no spill design helps develop coordination for drinking from an open cup. It's easy to use and clean, and of course it's BPA free.
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By Amy K
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About Me First Time Parent
Comments about Sassy Grow Up Cup No Spout, No Spill Design 12 oz - 18+ Months (Neutral):
My 19 month old daughter loves the cup. I am not a fan. She is still tipping the cup back to drink from it as if it was a sippy, and it is quite hard to get any water out - both unlike a regular cup. I think she also swallows quite a bit of air because she's sucking so hard. The air venting back into the cup is very noisy and slurp-y. We've only had it a few days so maybe it will grow on me. Like I said, she loves it so I am going to let her keep using it. It does seal very well and has only leaked when it landed on its lid and I left it sitting there for a while.
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great cup until it mildews
By mom 2 twins
from glen burnie MD
About Me Parent of Multiples (Twins etc)
I really like this cup for my twin boys who have jaw muscle issues...it really makes them use their muscles and cup their lips unlike the bottle type sippy cups..but the rubber ring mildews very easily and you can not just buy extras of those!!! BUMMER
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from Lawton, OK
About Me Parent of Two or More Children
We loved this product as something to get our youngest to transistion from a regular sippy cup to big boy cups. He figured it out fast and loved to carry it around. The problem is that the soft rubber that seals the cup is not mildew resistant. After the first washing it had mildew on it. I was able to clean it off for a couple times but it would get worse. We had to finally through it out since the mildew finally did not come off.
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from Lynchburg, VA
Love this CUP! it took my daughter, at a year and a half old, about 10-15 mins to figure it out and soon after she knew exactly how to use regular cups without spilling them in her face! Great product!
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Love this cup! We started using it when our son was 13 months old and he took to it right away. Everywhere we go, people ask us about them and how they work. He loves them...they make him feel "big."He's taken to drinking out of regular cups now without lids or straws and has done wonderfully. He doesn't tip the cup back too far, because with this training cup, he doesn't need to (unlike a sippy) to get the drink out.We have never had leak issues if the lid is put on correctly and the liquid is not overfilled initially.Great product!!!
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Be careful with the threading. it will leak if you are in a hurry and don't ensure the threading is on correctly. Product being used properly is just what the doctor ordered. absolutly perfect!
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I bought this for my 15 mth. old son and it is difficult to use as intended. When you turn the cup up to drink from it you have to suck pretty hard to get any fluid to come through the seal. I thought it would have a protective lid but with an opening for the fluid to more freely flow out to teach him to drink without pouring it all out. I would not recommended this product to anyone.
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The former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences and the Frank L. Day Professor of Biology at Brown University, Dr. Adashi is an academic physician-executive. Harvard-educated in Health Care Management (MS, 2005), Dr. Adashi is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (Current: Member, Board on Health Sciences Policy; Chair, Committee on Reducing Childbirth Mortality in Indonesia), the Council on Foreign Relations, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Dr. Adashi received his medical degree in 1973 from the Sackler School of Medicine, completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University (1974-77), and pursued fellowship training in the subspecialty of Reproductive Endocrinology and postdoctoral training in reproductive biology at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of California at San Diego, respectively (1977-81). Faculty positions were held at the University of Maryland, the University of Utah, and Brown University.
Dr. Adashi has been the recipient of continuous NIH funding from 1985 to 2005 inclusive of a Research Career Development Award. Mentor to over 50 postdoctoral trainees, and the author or co-author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Adashi contributed over 120 book chapters/reviews, and co-edited or edited 13 books in the general area of reproductive medicine with special emphasis on ovarian biology.
A recent Franklin fellow and Senior Advisor on Global Women's Health to the Secretary of State Office of Global Women's Issues, Dr. Adashi is a member of the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights, a member of the Global Agenda Council on Population Growth of the World Economic Forum, the chair of the Medical Executive Committee and the Medical Advisory Council of the Jones Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, and a former advisor to the WHO, the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Adashi is the former President of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists, the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society.
At present, Dr. Adashi is a tenured Professor of Medical Science at Brown University.
Recent publications:Peer-reviewed
1. Will JF, Adashi EY, Cohen IG (2013) When Potential Does Not Matter: What Developments in Cellular Biology Tell Us about the Concept of Legal Personhood. Am J Bioethics 13 (1): 38-40
2. Kocher RP, Adashi EY (2013). Health Policy and the American Taxpayer Relief Act: Legislation by Extension. JAMA 309 (8): 777-778
3. Cohen IG, Adashi EY (2013). Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale: A Brave New World? New Engl J Med 368 (26): 2517-2519
4. Adashi EY, Jones HW (2013). Barrenness Vanquished: The Legacy of Lesley Brown. Hum Fertil 16 (2): 97-100
6. Cohen IG, Sullivan L. Adashi EY (2013). Plan B: Access to Emergency Contraception in the Legal and Political Cross Hairs. Contraception 88(4): 477-480
6. Kulkarni A, Jamieson, DJ, Jones HW, Kissin, DM, Gallo, MF, Macaluso, M, Adashi EY (2013). Fertility Treatments and Multiple Births in the United States. New Engl J Med 369(23):2218-25
7. Liu JJ, Adashi EY (2013). Selective Coverage: State Mandates for Assisted Reproductive Technology and Reproductive Justice. Am J Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol 1 (1):53-61
8. Legro RS, Adashi EY (2014). Germline Stem Cell Therapy in Humans: Two are not Enough. Fertil Steril (In Press)
9. Rosenwaks Z, Adashi EY (2014). Fertility in the Face of Genetically Determined Steroidogenic Dysfunction. Fertil Steril (In Press)
10. Adashi EY (2014). Global Women's Health. Seminars in Reproductive Medicine (In Press).
11. Allen BD, Adashi EY, Jones HW (2014). The cost of Multiple Pregnancies. Reproductive BioMedicine Online (In Press)
12. McDonough JE, Adashi EY (2014). January 1, 2014: Realizing the Promise of the Affordable Care Act (2014). JAMA (In Press)
13. Dignam B, Adashi EY (2014). Laboring in Chains: The Case against Perinatal Shackling of Women Behind Bars. Health and Human Rights (Submitted)
14. Kofman A. Adashi EY (2014). Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for the Primary Prevention of HIV in at-Risk Women: Empowerment and Equity Revisited. Aids Reviews (Submitted)
15. Mossman JA, Adashi EY, Rand DM (2014)Is Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Ready to Move into the Clinic? BMJ (Submitted)
16. Cohen IG, Feigenbaum J, Adashi EY (2012). Sherley v. Sebelius and the Future of Stem Cell Research. JAMA 308 (20): 2087-2088
17. Adashi EY, Venkatesh KK, McDonough JE (2012). Health Care Policy under President Romney. New Engl J Med 367 (16): 1477-1479
18. Adashi EY, Lee E (2012). The President's Global Health Initiative at Mid-Term: Progress in the Balance. JAMA 308 (19): 1977-1978
19. Pollak AN, Kamal RN, Born CT, Adashi EY (2012). Updates on Disaster Preparedness and Progress in Disaster Relief. J Am Acad Orthop Surg 20 Suppl 1:S54-8
20. Rich JD, Clarke JG, Adashi EY (2012). Obstetrical and Gynecological Training and Prisoners: Learning to Care for the Most Vulnerable Patients. J Grad Med Ed 4 (3) 387-388
21. Adashi EY (2012). The Multiple Birth Epidemic: Metrics, Drivers and Solutions. Arch Perinatal Med 18 (2) 67-69
22. Marrero SL, Bloom DE, Adashi EY (2012). Non-Communicable Diseases: A Global Health Crisis in a New World Order. JAMA 307 (19) 2037-2038
23. McClamrock HD, Jones HW, Adashi EY (2012). Ovarian Stimulation and Intrauterine Insemination at the Quarter Centennial: Implications for the Multiple Births Epidemic. Fertil Steril 97 (4) 802-809
24. Cohen IG, Adashi EY (2012). In the Wake of Guatemala: The Case for Voluntary Compensation and Remediation. Am J Public Health 102 (2) e4-e6
25. Kocher RP, Adashi EY (2011). Hospital Readmissions and the Affordable Care Act: Paying for Coordinated Quality Care JAMA 306 (16) 1974-1975
26. Kastor JA, Adashi EY (2011) Maryland's Hospital Cost Review Commission at Forty: The Case for Independent Regulatory Control of Health Care Costs. JAMA 306 (10) 1137-1138
27. Adashi EY, Wyden RL (2011). Public Reporting of Clinical Outcomes of Assisted Reproductive Technology Programs: Implications for Other Medical and Surgical Procedures. JAMA 306 (10) 1135-1136
28. Adashi EY (2011). International Human Subject Research: Taking Stock in the Wake of the Guatemala Affair. Contemp Clin Trials 32 (5) 605-7
29. Cohen IG, Adashi EY (2011). Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Under Siege: Battle Won But Not The War. New Engl J Med 364 (22) e48(1-3)
30. Adashi EY (2011). The Affordable Care Act: Facing Up To the Power of the Pen and the Purse. Am J Med 124 (3)189-91
31. Clarke JG, Adashi EY (2011). Perinatal Care in Incarcerated Patients: A 25-year-old Woman Pregnant in Jail . JAMA 305 (9) 923-9
32. Friedman EA, Adashi EY (2010). The Right to Health as the Unheralded Narrative of Health Care Reform. JAMA 304 (23) 2939-40
33. Adashi EY, Geiger HJ and Fine MD (2010). Health Care Reform: Primary Care and the Ever Growing Import of the Community Health Center. N Engl J Med 362 (22) 2047-50
34. Adashi EY and Gruppuso PA (2010). Commentary: The Unsustainable Cost of Undergraduate Medical Education: An Overlooked Element of U.S. Health Care Reform. Acad Med 85(5)763-5
35. Adashi EY, West DM (2008). Reproductive Freedom and the Next President. N Engl J Med 359 (18) 1867-9
Op Eds
1. Adashi EY (2009).In Annapolis, Lessons on 'Bending the Curve' , Washington Post, 10/02/09--- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100104206.html
2. Adashi EY (2010). Birthright Citizenship Under Siege in the Promised Land and the Home of the Brave, Huffington Post, 08/24/2010---http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-y-adashi/birthright-citizenship-un_b_690639.html
3. Adashi EY (2010). A spark of good health news amid bad, Boston Globe, 08/30/10--- http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/08/30/a_spark_of_good_health_news_amid_bad/
4. Adashi EY (2010). The Incredible Inedible Egg: 500 Million Reasons for Senate Action, Huffington Post, 08/31/10--- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-y-adashi/the-incredible-inedible-e_b_697936.html
5. Adashi EY (2010). The Halting of Stem Cell Research Is the Culmination of a Decade-Long Legal Effort, Huffington Post, 09/10/10---http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-y-adashi/the-halting-of-stem-cell-_b_711616.html
1. Ashish Jha MD, Harvard University-12/02/09
2. JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH and Milton C. Weinstein, PhD, Harvard University-04/15/10
3. Regina M. Benjamin MD, MBA Surgeon General, HHS-06/11/10
4. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary HHS-09/20/10
5. Howard W. Jones, Jr. MD-10/13/10
6. John Howard MD, MPH, JD, NIOSH Director, HHS-10/01/10
7. Thomas R. Frieden MD, MPH, CDC Director, HHS-11/05/10
8. Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, FDA Commisioner, HHS-1/24/11
9. Michael R. Taylor, JD, Deputy Commissioner, FDA, HHS-1/24/11
10. Thomas A. Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader-2/14/11
11. Todd Park, Chief Technical Officer, HHS-2/14/11
12. Paul A. Offit, MD, University of Pennsylvania -4/11/11
13. Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, University of Pennsylvania -4/11/11
14. Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Director, NIAID, NIH, HHS-5/23/11
15. Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, Administrator, CMS, HHS-5/23/11
16. Thomas A. Coburn, MD, US Senator (R-OK)-5/24/11
17. Phil Gingrey, MD, US Representative (R-GA)-5/24/11
18. Tea Collins, MD, PhD, MPH, MPP, Executive Director, NCD Alliance-10/06/11
19. Douglas W. Bettcher, MD, PhD, MPH, MS, Director, Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO-10/10/11
20. John E. McDonough, D.Ph., MPA, Harvard University-10/21/11
21. Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N, Administrator, HRSA-11/18/11
22. Harold E. Varmus, MD, Director, National Cancer Institute-11/18/11
23. Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, Dartmouth Medical School-12/12/11
24. John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH, Dartmouth Medical School-12/12/11
25. Stuart H. Altman, PhD, Brandeis University-02/09/12
26 Henry J. Aaron, PhD, The Brookings Institution-04/16/12
27. Joseph Antos, PhD, The American Enterprise Institute-04/16/12
28. Joseph V. Selby, MD, MPH, Executive Director, The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-04/16/12
29. Karen R. Bass, PA, US Representative (D-CA)-04/17/12
30. Nan A. S. Hayworth, MD, US Representative (R-NY)-04/17/12
31. Ron L. Wyden, US Senator (D-OR)-05/07/12
32. Richard Blumenthal, US Senator (D-CT)-05/07/12
33. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, HHS-10/18/12
Grants and Awards
POST GRADUATE HONORS AND AWARDS1976 Philip F. Williams Award, Combined Districts I-II-III Meeting of ACOG
1981 Graduate School Research Award, University of Maryland at Baltimore
1984 Frank C. Bressler Research Award, University of Maryland School of Medicine
1986 - 1991 USPHS Research Career Development Award (RCDA), NICHD, NIH
1986 Best Paper Award, Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists (SREI)
1986 - 2000 Examiner, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) Inc.
1988 Designated Research Initiative Award, University of Maryland
1989 The President's Achievement Award, Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI)
1990 - 1996 Member and Director, the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology of ABOG Inc.
1996 Annual Research Award, Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)
1996 American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award (First Prize)
1997- 2004 John A. Dixon Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Utah
1998-2006 Founding Director, Treasurer, and Chair, Advisory Board, Bertarelli Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
1998-1999 President, Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists (SREI)
1999 Distinguished Scientist Award, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
1999-2000 President, Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI)
1999-Present Member, Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences
2000-2004 Presidential Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah
2000 Honorary Fellow, the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (TAOG)
2000 Fellow ad Eundem, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG)
2000 Honorary Fellow, the Romanian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2001 President d'Honneur à titre Etranger, The Societé Francaise de Gynécologie
2001-Present Member, Association of American Physicians (AAP)
2001-Present Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2002 2003 President, American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS)
2002 Academic Medicine Mentor for Minority Medical Students
2003 Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Infertility Association (AIA)
2005 Sidney Guzick Scholar, the University of Rochester
2004-2008 Frank L. Day Professor of Biology, Brown University
2009-2010 Franklin Fellow, US Department of State, Office of Global Women's Issues
2010-Present Member, Council on Foreign Relations
2010 WW Keen Award, Brown University
1988 Edmund W. Overstreet Lectureship, University of California, San Francisco
1991 Susan L. Schackman Memorial Lectureship, Johns Hopkins University
1991 Keith Harrison Memorial Lectureship, The Endocrine Society of Australia
1992 Visiting Distinguished Professorship in Reproductive Endocrinology, University of Miami, Miami, FL
1993 Ortho Lectureship, Pacific Coast Fertility Society
1993 Regnier De Graaf Lectureship, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1993 Griff T. Ross Memorial Lectureship, NICHD, NIH
1994 Dozor Visiting Professorship, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
1995 Duncan E. Reid Lectureship, Harvard University, Boston, MA
1996 Henderson Lectureship, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
1996 George W. Mitchell, Jr., Lectureship, Tufts University, Boston, MA
1996 Howard and Georgeanna Jones Lectureship, Johns Hopkins University
1998 John Collins Lectureship, Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society
1999 Herbert H. Thomas Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical Lectureship, Distinguished Scientist,
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
2000 Raymond H. Kaufman Lectureship, Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
2000 James M. Couzzo Memorial Lectureship, University of Pennsylvania
2002 John A. Siegel Memorial Lectureship, University of Maryland
2002 Edgar L. Makowski Lectureship, University of Colorado
2002 A.V. Nalbandov Lectureship, University of Illinois (Urbana)
2003 Amoroso Lecture, the Society for Reproduction and Fertility/British Fertility Society, Aberdeen, Scotland
2003 Morton A. Stenchever Lectureship, the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2007 Paul G. McDonough Lectureship, the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
2008 Rabbi Bernard Mandelbaum Lectureship, the Brown-RISD Hillel Foundation, Providence, RI
2009 Melvyn Bayly, Jr, MD Memorial Lecturer, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2010 Clinical Cross Roads Lectureship, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2011 Liam Haim Lectureship, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
2011 Presidential Lecture, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA
2011 Lectureship in Perinatal Biology, Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD, NIH, Detroit, MI
2012 W. O. Johnson Lectureship, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY
2012 Eliot L. Silbar, MD Memorial Lectureship, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2012 Health Sciences Lecture, University of Florida Health Sciences Center, Gainsville, FA
2013 Annual Bristol Memorial Lecture, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
2013 53rd Forman Lecture, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Byford Heskett Lecture, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill
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1980 - Present American Association for the Advancement of Science
1976 - Present American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
1996 - 1997 American Medical Writers Association
1978 - American Society of Reproductive Medicine
2001 - Present Association of American Physicians
1999 - Present Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences
1996 - 2000 International Cytokine Society
1994 - 2000 International Society for Insulin-Like Growth Factor Research
1987 - International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology
1983 - Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists
1984 - Present Society for Gynecologic Investigation
1981 - 2005 Society for the Study of Reproduction
1981 - 2005 The Endocrine Society
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2. Chair, Committee on Reducing Maternal and neonatal Mortality in Indonesia
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(Member; 1/6/1993 - 9/30/1993 )
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(Member; 2/18/2005 - 7/31/2006 )
3. Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Member; 2008- 2009)
o 2007 Amendment to 2005 Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
o 2008 Amendment to 2005 Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
4. Committee on Women's Health Research (Member, 2009-2010)
5. Chair, IOM Interest Group on Maternal & Child Health and Human Development (2010-2013)
Past Report Review Membership:
1. New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research
2. A Comprehensive Review of the DHHS Office of Family Planning Title X Program
3. Personalized Medicine in Oncology
4. Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps
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" "No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama." That is what Ha said when she was sponsored to live in Alabama during the Vietnam War. This quote is directly from the book, Inside Out and Back Again by, Thanhha Lai. Inside Out and Back Again is a book that takes place during the Vietnam War. It is about a family in Saigon, Vietnam who chose to leave the country because the fighting during the war reached their home. Ha, the main character in the book, is forced to leave her best friend, favorite Papaya tree, and home. She and her family now have to take an extensive journey to get to America. Will they arrive? If they arrive, what will happen to Ha's family? You could figure the answers to all these important questions if you read the book, Inside Out and Back Again. The Genre of this book is historical fiction. Some characteristics of historical fiction are as follows: The characters all behave in realistic ways. The setting is considered the most important element. The plot is based on real events that are mixed with fictional events. Descriptions of the characters, events and places are very vivid, and words spoken by the characters reflect the knowledge and thought of the people in that time period. I thought the book was superb! The book was written in poem style making it more interesting. Also the author thoroughly explained all the traits of the characters in the book. I would definitely recommend this book to ages 12 and up who like reading historical fiction and are interested in reading poem style. "
" Mystery books are intense, and your heart could start beating rapidly the second you are far enough into the book. It is exactly like the James Bond books. When you start reading you're off the edge of your bed or seat ready to scream. When is he going to shoot! What just happened! In the first book of the series I.Q, Independence Hall, by Roland Smith all the action and mystery begins. Independence Hall is about two young stepsiblings Quest (Q) and Angela, who have very different backgrounds but are forced into a world of undercover work and counter terrorism. The two stepsiblings parent's are together in a famous band and on tour in Philadelphia. But everything goes wrong when the two kids meet a mysterious man named Boone, who tells them secret information that can reveal the truth about Angela's real mother. Everything isn't over when they also have to deal with the Israeli Mossad and see who is right and who is wrong. Why are they on a mission? Who will survive? In the action-pack mystery book Independence Hall you will be on the edge of your seat wanting to know more, and you will discover all the answers. The genre of this book is mystery. Some characteristics of mysteries are as follows: strangeness, something unknown, solving a crime, and solving a puzzling event or situation. I strongly liked this book for many reasons. Usually when I read my book I read thirty pages at a time. Reading this book made me want to know more, and instead, I read more than fifty pages at once. Also Roland Smith wrote the story with two different sides of the story, the protagonists and the antagonists. I thought it helped me have a better understanding of the book and it also added more suspense. I would recommend this book to ages 12 and up who like reading mystery books and are up for a book with an exciting plot twist. "
" "To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there." I am well assured that if you come to the Everglades you will never come back. In the book, "Lost in The River of Grass," by Ginny Rorby, Sarah and Andy try to make the impossible possible. "Lost in The River of Grass," is about Sarah, a teenage girl, who is on an overnight school field trip to the Everglades. Sarah is known to be the girl made fun of and provoked. During her class field trip Sarah has the chance to get away from her classmates and take part on an adventurous airboat journey with a boy named Andy. Sarah thinks she is on a trip of her lifetime until disaster strikes and Sarah and Andy must try to get out of the Everglades alive. All they have is a knife, half a bottle of Gatorade, and spam. Will Sarah and Andy stay alive? Will they make it out of the Everglades? The genre of "Lost in The River of Grass" is adventure. I liked this book a lot. While I was reading I was on the edge of my seat and I wanted more. This book was adequate because of the values you learn while reading the book. Ginny Rorby uses many devices in this book. For instance, personification and foreshadow. I would recommend "Lost in The River of Grass" to kids ages 12 and up who like reading adventurous books and enjoy reading about reptiles."
" Can you imagine a 14 year old become a spy? When I was little I always wanted to be a spy. I thought I could be on missions and kill the villains. Well, in the book Alex Rider Stormbreaker everything you could ever imagine as being a spy comes to life. Alex Rider Stormbreaker is a book about a 14-year old whose uncle dies in a spy mission. Alex gets dragged into the secret spy agency called m16. He gets eased into going on a mission that his uncle was part of. During the mission Alex is determined for what it about to come his way. If you read Alex Rider Stormbreaker you will find out everything about Alex Rider and what happens to him. I thought this book was very well written and the storyboard was phenomenal. It gave me the amount of suspense an adventure/action book needs and I also felt I was in the story while reading it. I would recommend this book to kids 10 and up, and to people who are big fans of books with suspense. "
"Asteroids, what are asteroids? An asteroid is a small rocky body orbiting the sun. Asteroids come in different diameters, dimensions, and sizes. There are about 40,000 known asteroids that are over 0.5 miles diameter in the asteroid belt. The main asteroid belt holds more than 200 asteroids larger than 60 miles in diameter. Scientists estimate the asteroid belt also contains more than 750,00 asteroids larger than three fifths of a mile. There are also many small asteroids. The first asteroid discovered and the biggest is Ceres. Ceres is the size of Texas. The asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.Asteroids are made of rock and metal and broken away pieces of planets. They are grouped into three categories. The categories are Stony, Iron-Nickel, and the two mixed together. Most of the asteroids are stony and a small percentage are nickel. The origin of the asteroid belt is material that never combined to become a planet. Some people believe that asteroids are made of rocky bits left over from the formation of the inner planets.Many regions of the asteroid belt have been cleared of asteroids by effects on the planet Jupiter. A scientist named Daniel Kirkwood discovered this and he named the regions cleared of asteroids the Kirkwood Gaps. Jupiter comes into contact with asteroids every two orbits. The asteroids and Jupiter get in the same relative positions and then the volcanic gases on Jupiter destroy the asteroids. Some asteroids have moons and some don't. The asteroids that have moons are called co-orbiting binaries. Asteroids can become moons because they are both made out of rock. Asteroids with moons are very new to astronomy. Asteroids with moons were only discovered about 20 years ago. Have you ever wondered what an asteroid could cause if it impacted where you live? It could cause unimaginable damage! It could cause shock waves, tsunamis, and much more destruction. If you were close to an asteroid when it impacted, you could be severely injured or die. Scientists have discovered more than 90,000 asteroids. Asteroids rarely cross path with Earth. However, asteroids could be heading towards Earth right now. There are missions planned to track asteroids. Once you' have found an asteroid you can predict when it will impact Earth."
"Try to picture in your mind a girl investigating a mystery. Not just a mystery, but a magical mystery. Magic doesn't seem real but in the "Grimm Legacy" by Polly Shuman everything comes to life."The Grimm Legacy" is a story about a girl named Elizabeth Rew that takes place in New York. Elizabeth becomes a page at the Circulating Material Repository, a lending library. She is told, that there is a magical room called the Grimm Collection. This room is a room that holds all the magical objects from fairy-tail books. The room is the most important room in the repository and rumors say that people have been stealing objects from it. Elizabeth Rew has to undertake a scary journey with her page friends Marc and Aaron. Will Elizabeth succeed or will she get trapped forever in the Grimm Collection?The genre of this book is fantasy-fiction. I thought this book was very well written. It was written from one point of view. The plot dragged me into the book and I could imagine everything in the story. I would recommend this book to people who like mysteries and magical creatures. This is a good book for ages 12 and up."
"If you were daring and you could overcome anything that came your way, how would you feel? If you were daring and you wanted to save peoples lives, how would that feel? The book "The Boy who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartolleti is a book about a boy who dared. This book is based on the true story of a Hitler Youth."The Boy Who Dared", is based on a true story about a boy named Helmuth who lived in Germany during the time of Hitler. Helmuth always wanted to be standing in front of the army with Hitler. Later Helmuth realizes that Hitler is a liar. Not just a liar but also a horrible and gruesome leader. When things get worse Helmuth and his brothers fight against German laws. Helmuth and his best friend have to change everybody's mind about Hitler. What will Helmuth do? In "The Boy who Dared" you will experience what Helmuth had to go through in his life.The genre of this book is historical fiction. It is told in third person. I thought this book was phenomenal. A holocaust book has to be very well written with empathy. This book was very well written and it had empathy. I would recommend this book to kids who have strong feelings about csthe holocaust. This is a good book for ages 12 an up."
" The Giving TreeIf you think of a kid's book that is really good, there are not many. But there are some books that are stupendous. Most kid's books are supposed to teach a life lesson. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein teaches a huge lesson in life. The Giving Tree is also one of my favorite books.The Giving Tree is a book about a boy who has a strong relationship with a tree. The boy spends everyday with the tree. The tree loves him and wants to spend so much time with him. They have such a tight bond that the tree gives materials to the boy and the boy loves back. But as the course of the story goes on the boy grows and instead of him giving he starts to take. The Genre of The Giving Tree is Children's literature, picture book, Non-Fiction. The lesson The Giving Tree teaches is that in life you can't just keep getting, you also have to give. Even though I have read this book many many times every time I read it seems like I just read it. The Giving Tree is a great children's book because it teaches a lesson in a way children can understand. This is a great book for kids age 6 and up. Chai light The Giving TreeDear Journal,Today I saw a somewhat curious loving boy approach me. He looked playful and he made my day. We played for a while. He ate my apples and he climbed my branches. I then saw the little boy bring a stack of books and start reading them against my woody stump in the shade. He read and read. He definitely looked like a smart boy. I hope he will grow up to be an experienced man. After he read his books, he smiled then I smiled. Then the wind started to make a cool meticulous breeze. It sluggishly went down my bark. My branches then started to swing and I started to hug the little boy. Because of the boy that approached my stump today I felt special because I knew that someone cared about me. Because of the boys caring I gave back to him. I let him use me as a guide to happiness. I wonder if the curious loving boy will ever come back again. I hope so. After the boy left I was happy. I learned from the boy that you should take the happy chances in life and make them mean more. I also learned if you wait, your dreams will one day come true."
"You can't have a mystery without a twist. Think of the Scooby Doo TV series and movies. Scooby Doo always has more twists and mysteries than I can imagine. If you want to read a good book with a good twist read The Accident by Todd Strasser. The Accident is a great book about a car accident. Four people were in the car during the wreck including Bobby Stewart who was the nephew of a senator and Matt Thompson's best friend. Matt Thompson is the protagonist in the story. Everyone in the car dies except for Jason one of Matt's other good friend. But like I said there is a twist. What actually happened during the car crash? If you read this book you will find out how Matt Thompson deciphers the truth. The genre of The Accident is a mystery. I really liked this book because when I read it was so detailed so I wanted to read more and find out what really happened. I would recommend this book to people who like mystery books and want to be a detective when they grow up."
" Lucy discovered the magical and enchanted wardrobe and entered into a world different then others. It is called Narnia. This world holds mystical creatures like Asland, the King Lion of Narnia, and dwarfs. Lucy's brothers' and sister, Peter, Edmund, and Susan don't believe her until they become part of Narnia's Royalty. This is a story of the Pevensie brothers and sisters journey in the world inside a world. I would recommend this book to ages 8 and up.Interview with the author of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S LewisQ: When and where you were born?A: I was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland, which is today's Northern Ireland. What you may also want to know is my dad is Albert Lewis, who is a successful lawyer. My Mom is named Flora Hamilton Lewis. Also I have a brother named Warnie who was born three years before me in 1895.Q: Since you are an author, when did you start getting interested in books?A: Well, when I was young I had a whole library. There were books left and right. I loved reading. Two of my absolute favorite books were Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.Q: Do you and your brother have a great connection with each other?A: My brother is like my best friend. We used to explore in our house together and have fun times together. I always think back on the great times and the sad times with him. No matter what, we were always there for each other.Q: Are there sad times you have had in your life and have they impacted you?A: In 1908, I was just a boy; my Mother became very ill and died of cancer. She was a great parent. This left a great impact on my life and I will never forget her.Q: I also know, you love poetry; when did you get interested?A: After my Mom died, my brother and I were sent to a boarding school in England. I hated the school so much. The teachers were strict and the rules were also hard. That is when I started missing Belfast a lot. Fortunately, for me, the school closed so I could return home to Ireland in 1910. That is when I got interested in poetry. I loved the great Greek poet, Homer and another great poet, Virgil.Q: How did going to The University of Oxford motivate you to start writing your own books?A: When I got accepted to The University of Oxford I studied Greek and Latin literature, philosophy, ancient history, and English literature. I was very interested in Christianity, also. After I graduated, I became a professor of medieval and renaissance literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1955. Since I learned a lot about literature, I began to publish books.Q: What were some of your early-published books and what were they about?A: My first major book, written in 1933, was called The Pilgrim's Regress, which is about my journey to the Christian faith. I also wrote a book in 1936 called The Allegory of Love; it was about the history of love literature from Shakespeare's time.Q: Why is your famous series, The Chronicles of Narnia, so popular?A: Well, it is so popular because the book has captured the imaginations of young readers. The book has ideas of Greek and Roman mythology, mystical creatures that talk, and epic battles.Q: Is there anything you would like to tell people?A: Yes, "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."Thank you so much, and it was a pleasure spending time with you."