I remember exactly what happened last night when I heard Osoma Bin Laden died and I believe a will remember that night for the rest of my life. It was about 9:00pm Sunday night when I was sitting in my family room with my dad watching baseball. My mom came up from the basement and said that she had just learned from the news that President Obama was going to make an announcement at 9:30 and it was unclear what it was on. So my dad was curious on what it was and decided to turn on CNN. He turned it on and it said he was making on national security. That's when I began to get worried because it seemed strange that the President would all of a sudden make a speech at 9:30 on a Sunday night. After watching a little bit more but still knowing nothing my dad said we were either getting bombed and the president was going to give us a heads up or that Osoma Bin Laden had died. We continued watching and a guy on CNN said if it was what he thought the U.S. had been waiting for this moment for a long time. Finally the word came out that it was truly Osoma Bin Laden who had died. After watching a little more President Obama finally came out about an hour late at 10:30 and made it official. That is when it finally set in and began to become happy because we had been looking for him for 10 years and we had finally found him and killed him. Are biggest revenge to 9/11 was finally over.
When looking at 9/11 a didn't really understand what was going on when it actually happened because I was in first grade. I remember coming home from school on that day and my dad was working in our office which I thought was strange. I asked why he was home and he said it was because our nation had been attacked and it was a safety precaution. Then 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. Also, my dad used to work in New York. 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.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Maus-Night Blogging assingment
1. In both books the characters had to remain positive and not give up hope for example in Night Eliezer and fis father kept supporting each other to keep on going and not give up
2. both books had the problem were there was a lack of food to eat. In Maus Valdek had to always sneak out to try to fing food from someone because he would die from starvation other wise.
3.In Night they talked about how pople were killed in the gas chambers and in Night they talked about how they tricked the prisioners into the fact that they would have a shower but it was actually a gas chamber
4. In both books the main characters were scacred out of their mind at first but as time went on nothing bothered them.
5. Both books talked about having to live and see the dead. In Night Eliezer talks about sleeping on top of the dead one night.
6. Another thing that was similar was that both of the main characters had to take trains to concentration camps. On these train they could not stand and had to live off of snow on the roof
7. In both books the characters experience the death of loved one s and friends for example in Night where Eliezer's father died
8. Both books talked about having to make it past the selection process. In Night the father does not make it through one of the selections but is able to sneak back to the good side
9. In both Night and Maus the prisoners are always thinking that the war will be over at any time and that they will be free men
10. Finally both books were told by people who actually experienced the Holocaust and in Maus the guy who survived was able to tell his story to his son
In future years I would recommend that the students at least read Night because I thought it left a larger impression in my mind about what the Holocaust was. However, if there is time I would have them read Maus to because it just gave another perspective on what the Holocaust was and it was such a terrible event that I think we need to know as mush as possible about it.
2. both books had the problem were there was a lack of food to eat. In Maus Valdek had to always sneak out to try to fing food from someone because he would die from starvation other wise.
3.In Night they talked about how pople were killed in the gas chambers and in Night they talked about how they tricked the prisioners into the fact that they would have a shower but it was actually a gas chamber
4. In both books the main characters were scacred out of their mind at first but as time went on nothing bothered them.
5. Both books talked about having to live and see the dead. In Night Eliezer talks about sleeping on top of the dead one night.
6. Another thing that was similar was that both of the main characters had to take trains to concentration camps. On these train they could not stand and had to live off of snow on the roof
7. In both books the characters experience the death of loved one s and friends for example in Night where Eliezer's father died
8. Both books talked about having to make it past the selection process. In Night the father does not make it through one of the selections but is able to sneak back to the good side
9. In both Night and Maus the prisoners are always thinking that the war will be over at any time and that they will be free men
10. Finally both books were told by people who actually experienced the Holocaust and in Maus the guy who survived was able to tell his story to his son
In future years I would recommend that the students at least read Night because I thought it left a larger impression in my mind about what the Holocaust was. However, if there is time I would have them read Maus to because it just gave another perspective on what the Holocaust was and it was such a terrible event that I think we need to know as mush as possible about it.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Fallen Angels and Restrepo writing
PRE-WRITING
1.In Restrepo when the soldiers flew in it made me see what it was like in Perry's eyes when he first flew in to vietnam for his deployment.
2. When the soldiers fly into camp it amazed me of how bad the living conditions were and made me realize more of what perry went through during his deployment.
3. When the squad in Restrepo is out on patrol questioning people and looking through the houses it reminded me of when Perry's squad went on missions to help and support the good guys in vietnam.
4.When Restrepo dies at the beginning it was similiar to when Jenkins died. Even though they were different ways of dying they both died at the beginning of their deployments before they even had a chance to prove themselves.
5. When the one guy in Restrepo talked about how it took him awhile to tell his parents what was was truely going on and how people were actually dying, this was similiar to how it took Perry time because he didn't know how to tell Kenny what was actually happening in the war because he didn't know how to write it in his letter and he didn't want to scare him.
6.In Restrepo when the Sergeant was talking about shooting and killing the guys that didn't have to be killed it reminded me about how Perry's squad killed the good guys and even their own guys when they didn't know.
7. Creating outpost Restrepo was an exiting moment and reminded me of when perry would kind of make his on outpost when on patrol when he would dig himself into the ground and then put sandbags up.
8. I thought it was a happy moment when the soldiers duty was over and were able to go home and made me realize more of how Perry must of felt and reacted when he was able to go home.
9. In Restrepo when they talked about the final battle where they saw the enemy 20ft. away from them that reminded me of when Perry and Peewee were in the spider whole and saw and killed their enemy who was literally on them.
10. I thought it was sad seeing one of the soldiers in restrepo crying over the death of a fellow soldier and made me realize how Perry must of felt when his fellow soldiers died in battle. It also made me realize that soldiers are emotional and do get choked up over things.
WRITING
Reading Fallen Angels and watching Restrepo showed me how terrible war truely is. When ever I see things related to war on T.V. they always show the best part and things making me think war really isn't that bad. But wathcing Restrepo exspacially showed me that my assumption was wrong. When I see camps on T.V. they always look nice and built up well. But through the descriptions that Perry said in Fallen Angels and the actual visual evidence in Restrepo I discovered that the living conditions are actually terrible having to sleep on wood with low ceilings and always having to live in the dirt. I also didn't realize how scary it was just to live on your down time having to always have somebody on patrol making sure there is nothing out there. Another thing I learned was how hard it is to operate the guns. There was a time in Fallen Angels where Perry had set the guns the wrong way and didn't even realize it or how skilled you have to be to work an M16. Next, I learned that to join the army you must truely be courageous. Seeing the soldiers out on patrol looking for people showed me that you never know when somebody could pop out and shoot at you killing you. A final thing that the book and movie taught me was that the guys do get emotional over things exspecially the death of fellow soldiers. I assumed that soldiers didn't have very strong emotions but Reading Fallen Angels showed me that the soldiers have ceremonies and reunions for their fallen soldiers and watching Restrepo showed me that the soldiers do actually sometimes cry over death.
7. Creating outpost Restrepo was an exiting moment and reminded me of when perry would kind of make his on outpost when on patrol when he would dig himself into the ground and then put sandbags up.
8. I thought it was a happy moment when the soldiers duty was over and were able to go home and made me realize more of how Perry must of felt and reacted when he was able to go home.
9. In Restrepo when they talked about the final battle where they saw the enemy 20ft. away from them that reminded me of when Perry and Peewee were in the spider whole and saw and killed their enemy who was literally on them.
10. I thought it was sad seeing one of the soldiers in restrepo crying over the death of a fellow soldier and made me realize how Perry must of felt when his fellow soldiers died in battle. It also made me realize that soldiers are emotional and do get choked up over things.
WRITING
Reading Fallen Angels and watching Restrepo showed me how terrible war truely is. When ever I see things related to war on T.V. they always show the best part and things making me think war really isn't that bad. But wathcing Restrepo exspacially showed me that my assumption was wrong. When I see camps on T.V. they always look nice and built up well. But through the descriptions that Perry said in Fallen Angels and the actual visual evidence in Restrepo I discovered that the living conditions are actually terrible having to sleep on wood with low ceilings and always having to live in the dirt. I also didn't realize how scary it was just to live on your down time having to always have somebody on patrol making sure there is nothing out there. Another thing I learned was how hard it is to operate the guns. There was a time in Fallen Angels where Perry had set the guns the wrong way and didn't even realize it or how skilled you have to be to work an M16. Next, I learned that to join the army you must truely be courageous. Seeing the soldiers out on patrol looking for people showed me that you never know when somebody could pop out and shoot at you killing you. A final thing that the book and movie taught me was that the guys do get emotional over things exspecially the death of fellow soldiers. I assumed that soldiers didn't have very strong emotions but Reading Fallen Angels showed me that the soldiers have ceremonies and reunions for their fallen soldiers and watching Restrepo showed me that the soldiers do actually sometimes cry over death.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
fallen angels essay
Michael Stenbeck
Hour 3
Fallen Angels
In the book Fallen Angels a theme that is portrayed throughout the book was the importance of making and having friends especially in tough times like war, and Perry and Peewee show this through their experiences in war. They realize that in tough time’s friends need to become like family and support each other and keep each other going. At first, Perry and Peewee aren't huge fans of each other but as time goes on they learn that they need each other and become closer to each other and by the end of the book Perry and Peewee are practically family and are willing to do anything for each other including risking their own life to save the other one.
At the beginning of Fallen Angels when Perry first gets to Vietnam
slaughterhouse 5 essay
Michael Stenbeck
Hour 3
Slaughterhouse 5 essay
“Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorian’s say about dead people, which is ‘so it goes’”.(pg. 27) This quote is a great lesson to learn in life and can be applied to everyday life. Death is just part of life and you must learn how to overcome the tragedy and move on in your own life. When learning how to cope with death, other parts of life can help you, like past experiences in your life or advice from other people who have gone through the same experience of death or maybe just talking to someone else and letting them know how you feel.
One way to deal with death is to talk to other people who have also experienced death, and see how they cope with it. This is exactly what Billy did in Slaughterhouse Five; however, he learned from a made up land that he traveled to that was called Tralfamadore. Even though the Tralfamadorian’s were little green people from another planet they had a good outlook on life. The Tralfamadorian’s always said “So it goes” when dealing with death, which is what Billy eventually learned to do. The Tralfamadorian’s outlook on life was that death was just another part of life and it was something that should be celebrated because the person has moved on to there next stage in life. Instead of being down and depressed like most people are.
Another way to cope with death is to learn from past experiences in your own life. One way Billy learned to deal with death was with his past experiences with being in war. When Billy was in war he saw death around him everyday. At one point during the Dresden
Finally, another way to cope with death or the loose of a loved one is to talk to others and your going through. let them know how you feel. This is what Billy did with the Tralfamadorian’s when he wrote to the local paper about them. Even though it wasn’t about death it was important to Billy to let others know how he felt about the Tralfamadorian’s and let them know who they truly were. This taught me that it is important to tell others how you feel and what you’re doing to cope with things like death. It can make you feel much better and it can make you feel like a weight has been lifted off of your shoulders knowing that someone else now knows what
Friday, February 4, 2011
Prewriting
Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores
1.read the question more cleary 6.re-read my essay when I am done
2 ask questions if I don't understand 7 work on a better thesis that works for the whole essay
3.look for better quotes to work for what I want to say 8.have conclusion sentences
4.think through what I am going to talk talk about more 9.work on grammer
5.do pre-writing if I am allowed to 10.work on the entire PIE paragraph formatt exspecially the P
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.I didn't understand why the book was called Sluaghterhouse-5 untill Billy described how he was kept prisinor in a slaughter house
2.I thought it was funny when Montanna Wildhack and Billy were on Tralfamadore having sex
3.I thought it was sad when Billy was in Dresden after the bombing looking for survivors buried in the rubble
4.I thought it was funny that Billy thought he trveled to a made up continent of Tralfamadore
5.I thought it was confusing at times when Billy's mind would jump all over the place like from war to the hospitol back to the war and then to Tralfamadore
6.It was funny how the Tralfamodorians discription was of being little green people who looked like green plungers with green shafts sticking up
7.I thought it was funny how valancia was described as a fat person who always ate candy bars
8.I found it stange how it was an anti war book because it always talking about death
9.Billy always said and so it goes when someone died
10.I thought there was a strange pattern to his dreams because when he feel asleep he went to Tralfamadore alot
11.I thought Billy was insane to write papers about his experience on Tralfamadore
12.I found a simalarity between Trouts books and Billy's experience on Tralfamadore
13.I found it funny how Billy was given a coat that was too small and and shoes fromthe play cinderella
14.I thought it was sad how Billy was taken prisinor and put in sluaghter houses
15.I found it to be sad when Billy was in a plane crash and was the only one to survive
State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1.don't feel bad about who you are because everybody is unique in their own way
2.follow your heart and do what it tells you to do
3.make mistakes and learn from them
4.don't be afraid to tell people your feelings and what you think
5.fight for thing you don't like
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.
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.
Billy: Hello, Michael
Michael: Hello Billy what is new
Billy: not to much, have you ever heard of Tralfamadore?
Michael: No what is it?
Billy: I traveled there last week and it is a long ways away. It is a land that is full of little green people who who look like plungers with green shafts that stick. Also they have 5 sexes on this land where as we only have 2.
Michael: Billy what is wrong with you, you are insane.
Billy: No I am serious it exsist and I travelled there.
Michael: what ever. do you time travel or something?
Billy: yes actually I do
Michael: well then were else you have tvaled?
Billy: i have been to many spot I have gone back in time to school my wedding and the war
Michael: speaking of war Billy what was war like?
Billy: oh it was awfull there should be no war I saw so many people die and get imprisoned, I had to look for bodies after a bobming at Dresden and it was just awfull.
Michael: because I am thinking about joining the army
Billy: well we still have war so should do what your tells you to I just didn't like war
Michael: ok well thanks for the help and advice
Billy: yeah don't feel bad for what you choose, I mean I choose to time travel and tell people about because I like it and don't care what others think
Michael: ok well god bye
Billy: bye
1.read the question more cleary 6.re-read my essay when I am done
2 ask questions if I don't understand 7 work on a better thesis that works for the whole essay
3.look for better quotes to work for what I want to say 8.have conclusion sentences
4.think through what I am going to talk talk about more 9.work on grammer
5.do pre-writing if I am allowed to 10.work on the entire PIE paragraph formatt exspecially the P
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.I didn't understand why the book was called Sluaghterhouse-5 untill Billy described how he was kept prisinor in a slaughter house
2.I thought it was funny when Montanna Wildhack and Billy were on Tralfamadore having sex
3.I thought it was sad when Billy was in Dresden after the bombing looking for survivors buried in the rubble
4.I thought it was funny that Billy thought he trveled to a made up continent of Tralfamadore
5.I thought it was confusing at times when Billy's mind would jump all over the place like from war to the hospitol back to the war and then to Tralfamadore
6.It was funny how the Tralfamodorians discription was of being little green people who looked like green plungers with green shafts sticking up
7.I thought it was funny how valancia was described as a fat person who always ate candy bars
8.I found it stange how it was an anti war book because it always talking about death
9.Billy always said and so it goes when someone died
10.I thought there was a strange pattern to his dreams because when he feel asleep he went to Tralfamadore alot
11.I thought Billy was insane to write papers about his experience on Tralfamadore
12.I found a simalarity between Trouts books and Billy's experience on Tralfamadore
13.I found it funny how Billy was given a coat that was too small and and shoes fromthe play cinderella
14.I thought it was sad how Billy was taken prisinor and put in sluaghter houses
15.I found it to be sad when Billy was in a plane crash and was the only one to survive
State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1.don't feel bad about who you are because everybody is unique in their own way
2.follow your heart and do what it tells you to do
3.make mistakes and learn from them
4.don't be afraid to tell people your feelings and what you think
5.fight for thing you don't like
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.
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.
Billy: Hello, Michael
Michael: Hello Billy what is new
Billy: not to much, have you ever heard of Tralfamadore?
Michael: No what is it?
Billy: I traveled there last week and it is a long ways away. It is a land that is full of little green people who who look like plungers with green shafts that stick. Also they have 5 sexes on this land where as we only have 2.
Michael: Billy what is wrong with you, you are insane.
Billy: No I am serious it exsist and I travelled there.
Michael: what ever. do you time travel or something?
Billy: yes actually I do
Michael: well then were else you have tvaled?
Billy: i have been to many spot I have gone back in time to school my wedding and the war
Michael: speaking of war Billy what was war like?
Billy: oh it was awfull there should be no war I saw so many people die and get imprisoned, I had to look for bodies after a bobming at Dresden and it was just awfull.
Michael: because I am thinking about joining the army
Billy: well we still have war so should do what your tells you to I just didn't like war
Michael: ok well thanks for the help and advice
Billy: yeah don't feel bad for what you choose, I mean I choose to time travel and tell people about because I like it and don't care what others think
Michael: ok well god bye
Billy: bye
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Siddharta blogging assginment
During life it is important to make goals and stayed determined to them, so you can one day reach the goal that you have made. In Siddhartha there is a great example of this when Siddhartha decides to leave the Samanas with Govinda because he isn't accomplishing what he wants. Govinda said, "Siddhartha, you have learned more from the Samanas than I was aware. It is very difficult to hypnotize an old Samana. In truth if you had stayed there you would have soon learned to walk on water." But Siddhartha responds by saying " I have no desire to walk on water." (page #24) This shows that when pursuing a goal in life you sometimes make mistakes or get setbacks, and you must move on from them and try something else and hopefully that will help you reach your own goal. The process of achieving a goal and receiving set backs compares to my life because when I am in school I set goals for getting good grades in my classes. I can set myself up for success by listening in class do work and studding hard, however, I do also experience set backs. When I do bad on a test or project I experience a set back. I must but it behind me and move on to the next thing and try to do extra good on that to get my grade back to where I want it. These Examples show how when you are pursuing a goal it doesn't always work out and you must find a different path for success.
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