Fallen angels and Restrepo

1. At the beginning of Restrepo the Hummer hits a land mine which reminds me of Jenkins stepping on a land mine
2. In the movie that one soldier falls apart and cries on the rock avalanche mission. In Fallen Angels Walowick starts crying and flips out when he sees all the dead bodies in the village.
3. In Fallen Angles they pray when Brew dies and in Restrepo the soldiers pray for another squad that was almost completely destroyed. This shows how much the respect one another and how they care for them.
4 In Restrepo the sergeant who was also the best fighter died and the reminded me of Sergeant Carroll
5. In both Restrepo and Fallen angels they both try to be friendly to the locals.
6. They both and various entertainment options to get away from the war so they could relax and have fun, like in Fallen Angels they had volleyball and comic books. In Restrepo they have Game Boys and PSPS.
7. In both the helicopters killed many enemies and many civilian casualties.
8. Both remember their fellow soldier’s death like Brew they celebrated his birthday and in Restrepo they shot off flair
9. In both things they didn't always see the enemy they just shot and hoped they hit something without knowing if they killed their target which would be scary because then they may shoot you
10. In both they are right in the middle of the enemy's country and not really safe from anything, they could get picked off at any time.


It is sometimes hard to let go of people that you have come so close and are friends with and in some cases you can't they are always their in your head. They both respectfully honored their fallen brothers by praying or celebrate something in honor of them. It is impossible to comeback form a war the ay you came in. You could be injured or scared in your brain from many horrific events.

Slaughterhouse blogging assignment

Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1.        more time                                   6. more instructuons
2         analyeze  info better                    7 better questions
3.        better quotes                              8.better book
4.        understand main points                9.more descrpitive
5.        use more resources                    10.better scructure


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. It was sad when Dresden was bombed to bits

2. It was weird when Valencia died going to the hospital to see billy

3. The author organized a book in a intresting and new way

4.It was funny when the Transfamadorians put billy in a cage

5. Kilgore trouts books had some intresting ideas in them

6.When the author says "so it goes" a lot it got boring

7. It was funny when billy got kicked off the radio station for talking about the aliens

8. It is intresting that the book is called slaughterhouse-5 when it barley has anything to do with the story

9. It weird when the author said billy was unstuck in time because it doesn't make any sense

10. it was suprising that aliens and only people have "free will"

11.It was sad when the americans treated the british people bad when they were being so nice

12.It was crazy how many near death expeirneces billy had

13. It was amazing when the aliens could see a 4th dimension

14. It was frustrating how no event was described very well

15. it was unique how billy is the only one that could see these events


State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1. Death is just the begining

2. we live on for ever

3.  Transfamadorians are peaceful

4. War can be a brutal place

5. Billy is useless


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.

B Hi
J Hey
B Have you heard of the 4th dimsension
J No are you crazy?
B There is many other things in it the big one is time
J cool but i still dont believe you
B Oh well have you heard of the Dresden bombings
J no I haven't
B I was there when it happened, the place looked like the moon
J were you scared
B not really ive seen a lot
J did a lot of people die?
B Yes 150,000 died
J Thats sad, but thats war
B Yeah it can be horrible
J Have you ever been to New York?
B yes i have been there I went on the radio
J Really what did you say?
B I talked about the Transfamadorians
J the who?
B they are aliens, they caputred me one time
J your kinda weird man, im gonna leave now
B bye good talking to ya

Siddhartha post

In the book Siddhartha he has a friend named Govinda who he ends up leaving behind. This happens a lot in the real world too because people grow apart and want to blaze their own path. In Siddhartha Govinda wants to go with Buddha and follow him while Siddhartha wants something else. He is happy for Govinda for wanting something he doesn't so Govinda can make his own path. Siddhartha says " Govinda my friend you have taken the step, you have chosen your path"(30). When Siddhartha says this Govinda is confused because he has always been one step behind Siddhartha and now he is leading on his own path. In a typical persons life today it happens all the time. Like with me and my friend Sam we were friends for years and then we went to different schools and everything changed. It was when we went on our seperate paths and did our own thing. I haven't seen him since but I know we probably did the right thing to go our seperate ways to achieve our destinies. But maybe our paths will cross again someday.