Killed bin Laden

When I heard I was watching NCIS on DVR. I found it annoying when Obama was going to make a speach in 10 min but he kept delaying it. I think the war is far from over because he was a leader in hiding so he was not making many dessions and hence there must be a power under him which will take over after him. I dont think they will stop until they feel satisfied and avenged for the killing of osama bin laden. I do feel better about the U.S though because we didnt just give up on trying to find him we kept trying and trying and trying until we finally suceeded but now we have to move onto our next mission and get it done. I think that it is very important that we killed osama bin laden because that shows the power of the us and our army and navy and our entire service. and it shows how if you mess with us we will not stop til we show you we are bigger than you and can squash you like a bug. I think this will really help the soldiers from the U.S. still present in the middle east a ton because they now know that we are moving forward everyday and we are one step closer to ending this war and taking Al-Quada down. Was in the first grade when Bin ladden planed and accomplished his terrorist attack on the twin towers. I had no idea what was happening but just knew something bad had happened. We wrote to soldiers and saw the devastating attack on the news. In some ways it is good to reunite America and share the accomplishment of bringing a ruthless leader of terrorists Osama bin Laden. Hopefully this will help keep that sense of unity, but I highly doubt it will. Our country is fighting over who's republican and who's liberal way too much. I myself even get sucked into heated debates over politics. Politics do nothing but enrage people and distract them from their duty, to serve and run our country. That's what we need more then ever. Instead of everyone critisizing each other we need to be working on ways to better ourselves as a nation. It's either that or everyone in congress is useless to me. Osama being dead may not help all too much to unify our nation, but hopefully it will raise appreciation for our military and the brave men and women in it. I remember watching it on the T.V. alot, and that was all I got out of it at the time but as time has gone on I have gotten a deeper understanding of what really happened. I remember when I was a kid going into the twin towers and on the roof, before they came down. Now I realize that it could of been us in those buildings or another building and that I am lucky that it didn't happen when we were there. I feel that us catching Bin Laden had now put the target on our backs. The Taliban might feel like they need revenge and could launch a new attack on U.S. soil.

Night & Maus Blog

Night and Maus are very similar but different they both tell the story about the Holocaust but they do it in their own manners. Night is actual people being portrayed and its very depressing, but Maus is a comic about the Holocaust. I think it is necessary to read both books because they boath provide a different interpretation on the holocost. Example from each book When they are first starting to be controlled by the Nazi’s in Maus they get moved into the Stara Salvenick quarter and they don’t have much emotion about it and in Night when they receive their Jewish star Eli’s father says "A yellow star? O well what of it? It won’t kill us". I think this shows that in both books they could see there fate coming but did nothing to stop it.

Restrepo Blog Assignment

Pre-writing
At first when the bombs hit the hill it showed how much you could feel it. This probably scared Perry at first. The second time when the men flew in it put me in Perry's shoes and showed what he saw. It was intense because you saw all the dust fly in the air. The machine gunner remined me of Brew with the 50. it was sad when Restrepo died it is like when Brew dies because everyone liked him and was everyone friend. I taught when the man who was telling to tell his family about the war is similar to when Perry is trying to tell Kenny about the war. The hootch's in the book and the movie were made more real and you could really see how cramped their quarters were. It was funny in the book when they were talking about how they were sick of the food there and how it was such a treat when they got to eat fresh cow. This is like in Fallen Angels when they would get mad at the chef when they had the same meal everyday. When the soldiers in Restrepo would hang out in their hooches like in Fallen Angels when they would play games and talk in the barracks. In the movie when they are talking to the villagers about where the Taliban were, it was like when Perry and the others are going through the villages and bringing food. In both I noticed that how its tough it was for people to sleep because of the horrible things that they have seen war.

Writing
War is a horrible thing for anyone to go through. It is because of the tramatic exprences that you have to go through. These include loosing a friend, having to kill somebody And most importantly almost dying. In both books all of these were obvious and it showed how hard and emotional war really was. One thing that stunned me was that how much the news leaves out about the war. The movie and the the book showed that brilliantly.

Slaughterhouse Blog

Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1. My paragraphs could be more clear 6. More expression

2. A better quotes 7. Better ending

3. Better explinations 8. Better word choice

4. better thesis 9. Need a theme

5. Have more voice 10. Better restatement of thesis

Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5. For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).

1. The style of wrighting is intesesring thoughout the book.

2. It was funny when he discribed the Tralfamadorians

3. The style of wrighting is a new twist throughout the whole book

4. Blly's life never ends throughout the whole book

5. the book can get confusing

6. Some times you dont know where you are in the book

7. geared towards the generation of the 1960s and 1970s

8. more war than anti war like in the Dresden bombing

9. It has some very dark humor when they capture Ms.

10.Not what I expected, but that's not a bad thing

11. One of my favorite books because it was entertaining and interesting at the same time

12. A good read on a snowy night because it keeps you on you toes

13. It makes you want to read more like when he is at the work camp.

14. Is there such thing as free will

15. Is there really a forth demention

State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.

1. That life after death is OK.

2. Life never dies you just keep reliving it.

3. The Destructiveness of War

4. The Illusion of Free Will

5. The Importance of Sight

Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences. You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit. This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.

Billy: hello there

Eric: Hello whats your name

B: O im Billy

E: Hello Billy my name is Eric
I read a book a few days ago and it talked about Tralfamodorians do you know what they are?

B: not only do i know what they are i have visited their planet and met them

E: i don't believe you

B: well you should because i know they they don't have wars because they can concentrate on the good things in life. They also can see the forth demention which is time and can time travle

E: Wow that is simply amazing.
Thank you for this wonderful information.

two pie paragraph Siddhartha

There are many lessons that could be learned from the book Siddhartha. One of the most influential is losing you friend. “He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value. He has robbed me of my friend, who believed in me and now who believes in him, he was my shadow and now Gotama’s shadow.” (36, 1-4) This quote shows that he was a good friend with Govinda. Siddhartha felt lost when he lost his friend to the Gotama. After a wile he gets over it and moved on to find his own path to enlightenment. This would be like if a friend moved away you would be sad at first and then you would get over the loss and move on. This is like when my neighbor moved away. we had been friends since birth. I was really good friends with her and was sad when she moved away. I got over it and made new friends that next school year.

Macbeth Manlyness Quotes

1. Lady Macbeth: “When you durst do it, then you were a man. And to be more than what you were, you would. Be so much more the man” (1.7 56-58). In this quote Lady Macbeth is mad at Macbeth because he wont go put the knife in the king's guards room. This makes her mad because if he doesn't they wont have the murder weapon and they wont be found guilty as easily. Her meaning is that Macbeth’s claims of being a man are all meaningless, unless he takes action to demonstrate it by putting the knives with the guards.

2. Lady Macbeth: "If much you note him you shall offend him and extend his passion feed and regard him not [drawing Macbeth aside] are you a man?" (3.4 68-72). This quote is said when Macbeth sees Banquo and she starts to act unusual. Macbeth starts to lose his mind and Lady Macbeth pulls Macbeth off to the side and asks him if he is a man. Only Macbeth can see Banquo, so everyone else is wondering what he is freaking out about and that is why Lady Macbeth pulls him off to the side and questions his manliness.

3. Malcolm: “Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge to cure this deadly grief” (4.3 252-254). In this quote Ross is telling Macduff that his family has been savagely slaughtered and Malcolm tells Macduff to take it like a man and turn the sorrow into rage and anger towards Macbeth so that he will fight back.

4. Macbeth: “I’ll fight from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my armor.

Seyton: Tis not needed...” (5.3 38-40) In this quote Macbeth knows he needed to fight his enemy like a man and do what a king and a man must do for his country. He is told not to, but he knows if he doesn’t fight he would be thought of as a coward and not a man or a strong king.

5. Macbeth: “Tis better thee without than he within. Is he dispatched?
Murderer: My lord, his throat is cut. That I did for him. “(3.4 16-18) In this quote the murderer is reporting back to Macbeth that he has killed and dispatched Banquo. The only problem is that Fleance, Banquo's son, escaped which the murderer also reports. This is unmanly of Macbeth because he has someone else kill Banquo for him. I think if I were in his position I would do it myself so I would insure it would be done correctly.

Recurring theme in The Odyssey

Throughout the Odyssey there was one reoccurring

theme that I noticed and that theme was the power of cunningness.

Odysseus who is very strong but uses his mind to conquer all problems that he encounters. When the Cyclops captures him he knows that he cannot overpower the Cyclops and that even if he were able to do so, he wouldn’t be able to move the boulder from the door. So he thinks around his disadvantage in strength by exploiting the Cyclops’s stupidity. Though he does use violence to put out the Cyclops’s eye, this display of strength is part of a larger plan to deceive the Cyclops and sneak out with the sheep. [225,489-491]

Similarly, Odysseus knows that he is no match for the host of strong young suitors in his palace, so he makes the most of his other strength, his wits. Step by step, through disguise and trickery, he arranges a situation in which he is with his son and armed and the suitors are locked in a room with him. With this setup, Odysseus' superb talents as a warrior would enable him to accomplish what he wanted to do, which is to kill all of the suitors. [438,480-485]

Odysseus’s encounter with Achilles in the underworld is a reminder. Achilles won great glory during his life but that life was brief and ended violently [265,547-558]. Odysseus, on the other hand, by virtue of his wits, will live to an old age and to die in peace.