5. Mood of "Freakonomics"

The tone of the book was serious and informative in the chapters. This is because of the subjects he is writing about and all of the data used within the stories. "If you learn how to look at data in the right way, you can explain riddles that otherwise might have seemed impossible. Because there is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction." (pg 13) This explains how all of his arguments were looked at and used data to get the best answer. "Isaac Ehrlich wrote a paper in 1975 which is often used as the “proof” that the death penalty works. According to his paper, 1 execution saves 7 lives." (pg 125) These statistics are where the research had to go through to find that very detail for the book and be able to use it, which was in a chapter about legalized abortion reducing crime. "One black man seems to experiment with whether this notion has any validity by naming his two sons Winner and Loser." (ch 6) This is proving the fact names provide a bit of an ego and behavior different between them. Winner had a higher self esteem and as he go older had more criminal offences because of what his name is associated with and made him feel invincible. While Loser had a less active life that became an police officer to prove himself and because of his name being associated with negative attributes had a more conceded and quiet life than his ego boosted brother. These are all instincts where data and having to back them up with proof came in and showed how serious he was in "Freakonomics".

4. The kind of person the author is

He is very scholarly and data based person.  He is a economist and it shows in the book with all of the figures and statistics packed inside.  The author knows what he is talking about and that you can trust him on the subject matters he puts into his book. By all of the data he collected that is in the book, it can be reasonable suspected that he did his research and traveled around to get the answers to his proposals and make sure Levitt had them right and usable in his book.

3. comments about content of "Freakonomics"

The purpose of "Freakonomics" was to inform the readers on the hidden life behind economics with incentives.  In chapter one he talks about how sumo wrestlers winning and how they would be shunned in their town for losing and have to win 8 matches, but when they only have 7 and their opponent has 8 which was in there favor. The wrestler with 7 won 80% of the time, which meant their opponent helped them win for their honor. Additionally how teachers would help students cheat on high stake tests, and by this it was stated that there were more correct answers on the difficult end of the section questions, than in the easier general questions at the beginning of it.  This book is like you would be watching it on the news or reading it in the paper, it is full of analysis and data about real life events going on in the world.

2. "Freakonomics"

I selected this book, for the eye catching title.  By the way the evaluation and background searching, it seems like a very interesting concept.  Secondly I am into bringing the human mind and perspective to different fields of study, it makes you look at the world in a changed attitude towards life.

Recommandation to the book "Life As We Knew It"

I would have to say Life As We Knew It was a easy read, but this is not an entertaining book.  It was written in journal style, by a 16 year old named Miranda in her diary revealing the events as they unfold in her life. There was minimum action and very few interesting events, excluding the asteroid colliding with the moon and the natural disasters that happen from it. It's as if this whole Earth changing event never happened to them because of their interior location in the U.S., the only things that truly affected them was the early winter storms, the lost of electricity (most of the time), and shortage of food; but other than that they went on with their regular lives. That made the plot as if someone was sitting there writing everything they did right now, anyone could have done and make it a snooze fest, think of it as the Average Joe writing it all it has is I ate this at this time and nothing much else happened.There is nothing special about the book, for it's like picking up a lost diary and reading it and even the possibly of a asteroid hitting the moon is nonexistent. NASA has mapped almost every comet and asteroid's path it going to travel and if one is going to come near us, they shoot a projectile at it to move it off course.  Additionally, the moon has been pelted by asteroids before and the only thing to happen was a new crater formed, now if one large enough collided to move it; the moon would either explode from the immense energy stored in the collision or if it did move it wouldn't stop the Earth's gravitational pull would bring it close until it devastated the Earth. For that reason, the fatal flaw in the plot ruined the book and gave no other well defined reason to keep reading it happily and move into just get over it and finish it for school.

On the flip side it was dramatic and the tone had a worldly feel to it. It got you feeling their pain and other deafening emotions. Besides those, I can't support the book, it was too dull and you could almost guess what's going to happen next making it pointless to read.  There is nothing good to say about this book, except for rhetorical devices just to bring you closer to the characters.  Think of the book as if you were about to eat the most extravagant meal ever, but turns the favors off and the textures were morphed together that you couldn't tell anything apart, making you disappointed on choosing the meal. That is what this book is like and it makes me want to stop reading these styles of books ever again.

Recommendation

No, don't read this book it's much to far in depth and gets confusing at parts. Unless you enjoy a challenging read and want to have your mind blown about the things about God in this book. There is one positive reason and that would be if you like philosophy. Other than that the rest are negative, you have to reread a sentence a couple of times to just catch the meaning of it and its a 66 paged book, but it took me four hours to read through it. It has long thought out questions and makes you search for what is true in life, it is not a fun book to read, confusing and bewildering.

Book summary

This book would take forgive to summarize it goes so far in depth and it makes you look deep inside what and who God really is. It starts out talking about in nature what God is and how it is connected, her house and who lives with her and what happens in it. Her camping trip watching a moth be engulfed in flames and reading all the time everywhere.  Looking out the window wondering what is real or just an imagination. A plane crash burning a little girls faceand wanting to know why God did this to this girl and not having anyone else suffer. Making apple cider watching the girl play with her cat and trying to whistle, but still enjoying life having a good life laughing when people stare at her sometimes like shes hiding something. The church service and the minister giving a prayer about God's grace and stopping during it saying "Lord, we bring you these same petitions every week." Women bringing flowers to the altar. Wondering what would happen is God didn't like a service what would happen. Watching a baptism and how the water on the mans back weigh like planets and have worlds in each one of them showing color and people inside. Finally goes on and talks about how god is connected to the earth through prayerand belief. There is more that happens, but to put it into words would take forever to explain they are so in depth and you have to read into it, its all about Gods presence and what he does for us and how he is.