So far, I am really enjoying reading Black Hawk Down. I am a little bit puzzled as to the inner workings of war, but the book explains things quite well and I have begun to understand much more of it. I always thought that war was extremely stupid, and I still think that to a certain point, but I realize that people are not willing to work out problems with peace talks and treaties and that sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands, or in this case, the hands of an army. I am enjoying the format of the book because of its way of explaining things that the reader doesn’t know about immediately after talking about it. For instance, it will talk about a man who was going to war and then talk about his past, how he got interested in the army, etc. It makes me really wonder about how people can go through with such acts as killing people. It makes you think about how every one of them is an actual human being rather than a statistic. When we look at a statistic, we don’t realize that all of those people have stories, hopes, and fears. If you see a sign that says 200,000 people died in a war you think, Oh, 200,000, that’s quite a few people, but in reality you dismiss the thought without thinking about it. When we think that there were 200,000 people’s stories, 200,000 people’s hopes, and 200,000 people’s fears, and each one had a face, had a name, we realize the true terror of war. Another aspect of the book that I like is that it does include chapters where you are in the eyes of a Somali civilian, and you understand the mentality of the giant mob that was trying to kill all of the soldiers. You hear about young Ali Mohamed who felt compelled to fight for revenge after the Americans accidentally killed him while trying to destroy the building Aidid was in. You actually understand why all of those Somali people were out trying to kill the Americans; you are in the eyes of the one whose family member or closest friend was killed. I personally think this is the best way to get the message across that we like to pretend that we don’t kill civilians, but in war, it happens by accident. Then the friends and family of that person are angry and thirsty for revenge. And an all out war breaks out. The last thing I would like to say is that I really still don’t understand military strategy at all. I understand that you try to kill the others without being killed, but if you don’t know where the enemy is or if they are already a step ahead of you or not, how do you make a plan? I don’t understand most of the military strategy in the book, but I have seen the movie and I understand what happened, so I am hoping it will dawn on me.

Two Books I Would Recommend

If I had to choose two books to recommend to a friend, I would definitely say the Golden Compass and the Artemis Fowl books. I would recommend the Golden Compass series because after I read the last book, I couldn’t bear the fact that the series was over. It was such an amazing series that I felt as though I was actually a character in the book. There was so much detail, but not too much so as to make the book too hard to read, such as Lord of the Flies. It was a great story about a girl who is very curious, which sometimes gets her in trouble, and how she can read a special compass that can tell her anything she wants it to. Nobody else can read the compass, and the compass itself is a very rare thing to come across. All people in her world have daemons, and these daemons are basically the other half of their souls. The series is her adventure with her daemon in a different world from ours, a very strange and magical world. Artemis Fowl is about a boy genius from Ireland who knows that fairies exist and is the first to actually capture one. It is the story of his amazing intellect, which causes him to be able to outsmart almost all fairies, who are extremely intelligent and have a good ability to predict others’ moves. He gets himself into many different bad situations but always finds an extremely risky, but intelligent way to get himself out of them. These are a couple of books that I would recommend to a friend.

So Much Unfairness of Things Blog

I actually enjoyed reading this short story a lot. I think it made the point that the punishment for cheating could be terrible. People think that cheating isn’t such a big deal, that they wont get caught. But it does happen, and the consequences can be getting suspended or even expelled. It can completely ruin your future. The story talked about a boy named P.S. who is a popular kid at a prep school called V.P.S. This school is very exclusive and the boy’s family had a tradition of going there and getting good grades. P.S., however, was failing Latin. He had to take the final test and needed a certain amount of points to pass. He had copied the notes and put them in his desk, not even on purpose, and realized that they were in there when having trouble with one specific passage. He finally decided after a long battle with himself that he would cheat, and that it would be very easy to get away with, as long as nobody saw him. The guilt tears away at him for the rest of the day, and he goes into the bathroom and thinks and thinks about why he had cheated. He thought about turning himself in, and that maybe the honor council would give him a break for being so honest. Unfortunately, his friend Jumbo saw him cheating before he had the chance, and the honor code at V.P.S. stated that if a student saw another student cheating, he would turn the cheater in. He was expelled from his school as the consequence. I felt sorry for P.S. because in the story it talks about his father being very strict and not showing much emotion. P.S. thought that if he didn’t pass the Latin test, his father would pretty much disown him because he would be breaking a family tradition and would be punished by not being able to go to a dude ranch with his best friend Charlie. However, at the end, when P.S. is about to go home, his father starts talking to him about how he felt bad for P.S. because he had pressured him into cheating. I felt sorry because I know how hard it is to have a father who isn’t very close to you. My father does care about me, but he doesn’t show it. I felt that that was a big connection between me and P.S. because I feel like sometimes I know that I can’t impress my father. P.S. only wanted his father to be proud of him, and he cheated because he wanted to impress his father. I think that if his father had been more accepting and less strict, P.S. probably wouldn’t have cheated and gotten kicked out of V.P.S. The disaster could have potentially been avoided if either his father had not sent him to V.P.S. and expected so much of him or if he had spent more time with him and been more fatherly towards him.

Facebook Monitoring

I think that Facebook and other similar social networking sites should be able to be monitored by sports coaches, teachers, and administrators and consequences should be given to those who are not representing the schools the correct way. People who put things that are inappropriate not only for school, but anytime, should not be able to go on with their lives as if they never did anything and be let off the hook because it was on a social networking site that is “private.” If someone says something racially discriminatory or posts an explicit or inappropriate picture, there should be consequences because in most cases, the name of the school that the person is attending is on the site, and this can lead to the school being branded with a scarlet letter of bad students or being racially or ethnically or even sexual-orientation-ally (?) discriminatory. The entire school could have to take the blame for something that one person does on a website that could be accessed by almost anyone in the world rather easily. If a person uploads a picture of himself or herself smoking, drinking, doing drugs, or other material deemed inappropriate, the school’s administrators or sports teams’ senior leaders should be allowed to monitor their account because their actions can not only affect the person’s life, but also the entire school’s donated funds, student population, and even state status. Such illegal activities could in real life lead to the arrest of the person and should not be taken lightly just because he or she was not caught in the action of doing these inappropriate things, only viewed in a picture or wall post. People could be put in jail or prison if they were actually seen doing these things, and for such substantial offences they cannot be trusted not to do it again. If the person who uploaded the picture or posted something harassing was on a sports team, they should be removed from the sports team or suspended from several games. I can see how people would think that Facebook is a private place where people cannot see unless given access, but the fact is, it isn’t. It is a very public place, where any hacker could see anything and where every picture you post is put on the news feed. These people do not realize that what they do on a social network can and most likely will affect other people, their school, and their own lives. The person should also have a suspension from school for a few days and their actions on such sites should be monitored more than those of others. It isn’t a matter of being able to have privacy as much as one of being cruel or discriminatory towards others or even doing things that hurt one’s own self. It can hurt more than just one person, as the harassed person’s friends, parents, and loved ones can be offended from someone’s hurtful posts. These are a few of my reasons that schools should be able to monitor Facebook accounts.