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The main team, the "Cebolletas" had gotten tired of always receiving pranks from the "Tiburones Azzules", so they contact two English friends who are recognized pranksters to prank them back. The english kids come up with the idea to douse them with itch powder, and put the powder inside the showerheads of the rival team's locker room. Once the rival teams practice session finishes, they get doused in itch powder.

This chapter speaks of how the rival team tries to sabotage the neighborhood team's training sessions, from changing the locks to cutting the power. Yet, the team's coach is able to find solutions to not have their troubles ruin the whole training session, thinking about the final game on Sunday.

The first part of the book introduces the characters, and describes how a fierce derby rivalship in a soccer competition in Spain. The book, not based on a true story, is seen to be a tale of a life lesson, where one team tries to sabotage the other teams training session, while the other team finds ways to overcome the sabotage attempt.

(Read during the break) The progress of the book speaks of the evolvement of Argentina's foreign policy and (for example) how Trump's election in 2016 brought trembles to Argentina and their hopes to have another democrat president.

Speaks of how both world wars affected the country and their political views (read throughout the weekend). Speaks of how contrary politicians criticized the development and policies of conservative Argentina in the 1940s-1950s.

The book speaks of how international politics defers from regional politics, in a sense that how South American politics (referred to as regional) differs from relations like European and US politics. I did not find these chapters (2) any interest, since they were quite boring and did not transmit much feeling.

The book speaks of how comparative studies compare Argentina and its economic downfall came to a completely unexpected situation, where at the beginning of the 1900's the country was compared to have growth numbers with Canada and Australia. This section was for now the most interesting part of the book.

Author Mario Rapoport references multiple different authors and their work and how their work influenced the understanding of Latin American (mainly Argentina) history economically and how we use those texts to understand how Argentina's economy fell.

The book references foreign policy such as relationships with the United States and Britain throughout 1889 and 1930s. Then, the author Mario Rapoport gives examples from other fellow authors speaking of the postwar economic and state 'falloff' and how the country dipped from being the strongest economic powerhouse of South America, so much so to be called the USA of South America to then fall into a failed economy.

From the prologue to the second chapter, author Mario Rapoport speaks of general politics in South American and gives clear examples of what forms of government present to its people, such as a dictatorship presenting some or various violations of human rights. The author also speaks of evolution in politics and, for example, how the fall of the Soviet Union sparked a world change in world policies.

This book from what I read was made difficult to understand because of some easy fully, some difficult to understand transitions from for example Nazi Germany and its society to then two paragraphs later a transition to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The book speaks a lot of the scientific views of the world, and gives a bias liked first-person perspective towards a 'fake' or untrue Biblic ideas.

This section of 34 pages reports on how NASA's 'smartest' people debated on which option would be the safest and quickest to have their astronauts return back to Earth. I got a bit lost due to NASA's terms such as LOS (Loss of Signal) which occasionally made it a bit more difficult to understand communication with the astronauts and the commanders in NASA's operational area in Houston.

NASA engineers and computer programers are described to try to keep a positive mindset of "When you leave this room, you must leave believing that this crew is coming home" (Olson 95). I believe this section is very interesting since we get to see the perspective of the computer minds instead of the protagonistic characters, the astronauts.

From my last update, we learn how the rocket's crew and their commanders on the ground try and troubleshoot an evolving problem that could potentially threaten their lives. I find this section very interesting when learning the development of the rocket's problem.

From the beginning, author Tod Olson gives extreme depths of detail of the process of the upcoming weeks of a spacecraft launch and how much media the families received. I enjoyed reading about the processes and time frames in which astronauts have to take place. I also enjoyed how the book included some images of previous spacecraft.

This book was one that which that I did not enjoy reading, having many different unnecessary 'random' details. Some were added with good transitions connecting section and section, yet most did not connect to with what I was reading before. This caused me to not enjoy and to find it difficult to understand the text.

As the author states, the split of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam was well-expected and shows Malcolm's progression in his political views. His change in world views gives an important message that your beliefs do not have to be the complete same as others. I believe that this moment in his life expands his influence, as where he evolves in his political, and religious movement affects his future life.

Walter Dean Myers describes how the forming of the Muslim Community took form and the backlash that Malcolm X received. As his popularity gained, his recognition worldwide caused support and connections between other leaders such as MLK Jr. As Muslim African Americans united with Malcolm and Mohammid's teachings, his support increased in the Black Community nationwide.

This section of the book strongly refers to what he learned while he was convicted in prison. The author repeats the phrase "Malcolm knew what it was like to ... because he lived through it". While in prison, his brothers convince him to connect spiritually to his ancestors, turning to Islam. After prison, Minister Elijah Mohammed and his teachings make him become a temple member.

From page 20 to now, the author describes Malcolm X's childhood and extreme difficulties. By talking about Malcolm's difficulties, it makes the reader connect with their daily life today compared to X's life.

From what I have read, the book gives a lot of background information, something that I like. I think that it is a good thing that the author includes background information for the reader to understand the setting of the book, and what to expect during reading.