The escape from Ember

Lina loves her job as messenger and when she returns home in the afternoon one day, her grandmother was riffling through their closet and she came across a set of instructions which her sister Poppy chewed on (to make parts of the words illegible). Lina asked everyone she knew for help and Doon (her friend) is the only one who believes it will help the city and might be a possible way out for the people of Ember. When Doon and Lina were exploring in the pipe works, they came across the mayor who was stealing goods and saving them for himself. Lina reported this problem to the town guards (who were doing this same thing) and they arrested her and brought her to the mayor. The mayor was not happy and wished to put her in a holding cell but luckily the electricity went out and she was able to make a grand escape out of the building and to safety. One her way to meet Doon in the pipe works, she grabbed Poppy to bring her along. So Doon, Poppy and Lina had discovered a secret passageway in the pipeworks that led out and to safety but before they were above ground they had to walk miles upon miles and at the top was ground and sunshine and they were able to contact the rest of the people of Ember to escape.
The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau

Ember...

I’m reading a book called, “The City of Ember”. At the age of twelve in the city of Ember children are assigned work. The mayor comes to their class and he asks them to draw a job from the hat he brings in. Doon Harrow draws the job “messenger” (which is a very wanted job) but he asks Lina Mayfleet to trade and she drew the job (pipe works laborer). But now Lina is a messenger and she delivers messages across Ember for .20 cents each no matter how far she travels. Lina’s parents died early in her life so now she lives with her younger sister Poppy and Grandmother. Doon wants to be underground because that’s where the generator is and Doon knows that it needs to be fixed and he has ideas about how to fix it. Ember is a strange town that is lit by the lights on the street and not by the sun in the sky. Surrounding Ember is complete and absolute darkness. The lights in Ember are beginning to fade and the supplies and food are at there all-time low and Ember is beginning to lose hope except for the hope racing inside the lives Doon and Lina….
The City of Ember
Written by: Jeanne DuPrau

Foo...

In the beginning, a person (by the name of Antsel) from Foo came to Earth and buried a seed and delivered Clover. Following Antsel were shadows sent by Sabine who tortured him by fire because they needed to know the location of the seed. Antsel, died a short while after, never disclosing the location of the seed. The seed grew to be an enormous and magic tree, which was called Geth and the rightful heir to Foo. The person they now waited for was Leven and until he was fourteen years old, he lived a very boring life. When he was of age Clover introduced himself (who was to become the sidekick) and Leven also met a girl (by the name of Winter) who could freeze things. They were all pretty much waiting for Geth, the leader of their mission who would show them the way into Foo but Geth was a tree and the people who lived next to the tree decided to cut it down…. (so the complications aroused and the adventure began…)
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Written by Obert Skye

Rhinos

Indian Rhinos are brownish-gray and hairless, and their skin appears to be built like armor, and they have a giant horn on their snout. The largest Asian Rhino weighs nearly 1000 pounds and is the Indian Rhino. The horn of an Indian Rhino grows to lengths of 18 inches or (45 cm). There are around 2400 Indian Rhinos living in Northern India and Southern Nepal, this particular rhino is underneath protection from poachers. Animals live and die, flourish and struggle and it is not our obligation to save them because its life. A special fact about rhinos is that they are herbivores. Rhinos have very small eyes which makes them have poor eyesight. If you were swimming in a pool and a rhino was at the other end (positioned around 25 meters away), the rhino would not see you. For a rhino, their best sense is there sense of smell.

Indian Rhinoceros- title of article
http://www.thewildones.org/Conflict/rhino.html

the ultimate cure may lie within one of the most unsuspecting fruits...

I read an article called “Grape-seed Extract Kills Laboratory Leukemia Cells, Proving Value of Natural Compounds”. Investigator and professor, Xianglin Shi has said in the journal of the American Association for cancer research that leukemia cells were killed by grapes. In the grape was a protein that regulated a certain pathway. What we all want is medicine (or fruit…?) that effects cancer cells but leaves normal cells healthy and well. Professor Shi says that even though it was proven that grapes killed the leukemia the research is not far enough along that people should eat grapes constantly. The good thing may be that Shi said it was promising research. A puzzling question may be why it does not affect normal cells; this is yet another important find in history for scientists. If you look at life in the eyes of those who see it most, a downfall leads to a discovery and yet to another downfall. Meaning that even if they find the cure for leukemia by grapes, there is always something else lingering in the shadows. One step is all it takes, one baby step to change medical history.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081231005257.htm