The art of blogging

Man oh man, Blogging is not one of the thing I enjoy doing. Blogging is boring and takes up too much of my time. Having to blog once a week and comment on two other peoples blogs....hard work. I find it even harder to blog when we don't have much to blog about. ): So Mr. Kunkle, this will be the last blog you see me type and have the enjoyment of reading.

Fences

While reading the Fences by August Wilson it made me think of many types of families. In Fences, Troy was the father of Cory and Lyons. I saw the most struggle between Cory and his father. Cory was a very good football player but his father didn't want him falling into his footsteps. His father grew up in the days when black were not accepted into sports. Times have changed now but his father is stuck in the past. Do you think that Cory should ignore what his father is telling him to do and play football? Do you think that Cory and Troy will ever see eye to eye?

Comic - Step Brothers.

 Step Brothers (:

 

Timeline: Iran

559 BC 559 - 332BC The Achaemenian Dynasty & the Great Persian Empire which was the dominant world power for over two centuries   550BC Cyrus the Great established the First World Empire 525BC Persia conquers Egypt 332 BC Alexander the Great conquers Egypt and Persia 323 BC 323-141 BC - The Seleucid Dynasty was established by one of generals of Alexander the Great 247 BC 247 BC-224 AD The Parthians conquered the Seleucids   224 AD 224 - 642 The Sasanian Dynasty 570 The Prophet Mohammad was born 632 The Prophet Mohammad died and his teachings were compiled into the Koran, the name of the holy book of Islam   642 642 - 1220 The Arab Caliphate 1220 Mongol Era when Persia conquered by Gangis Khan 1271 The explorer Marco Polo journeyed through Persia en route to China 1295 Ghazan Khan becomes the first Mongol leader to convert to Islam 1501 1501-1524 - Safavid Dynasty founded by Shah Ismail I who united all of Persia under Iranian leadership   1795 Qajar Dynasty 1851 1851-1906 - The Qajars lost central Asian provinces to the Russians and were forced to give up all claims on Afghanistan to Great Britain   1925 1925-1940 - Pahlavi Dynasty 1979 The Shah was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution ending 2,500 years of monarchy 1980 July 29: The Islamic Revolution

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/places-timelines/23-iran-history-timeline.htm

This was all I could find on Iran History Timeline....but I don't understand what caused Iran (in the book) to become the way it is.

Forrest Gump

The war time movie I picked was Forrest Gump. Forrest, Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, starts a ping-pong craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone. (:

When  Forrest is on stage at a rally at the Washington monument he and other vets are there speaking out against the war in Vietnam. When Forrest gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, the microphone  plug is pulled and you cannot hear him. According to Tom Hanks, he says, "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that." I realated this to Slaughterhouse Five because the book is about anit-war and speaking out about it; kinda like Forrest Gump. I think that if Kurt Vonnegut were to watch Forrest Gump he would be pretty happy with the movie and meaning of it!

Is the Scooby Doo Gang a Hero?

In college Lit we talked about hero or anti-heros. I find Scooby Doo and his Gang to be one big hero. Scooby Doo would be the protagonist; main character, but without Scoobys team he would be nothing :/

Fred -Physical - Is always on the move and lifting thing to make way.

Daphne - Moral - Not very smart; would attempt to solve her problems in a fashionable way. She later became more confident and started playing a more active role as time wore on

Velma - Mental - Velma is the most intelligent in the group and often makes great use of her skills in such areas as reading Chinese, deciphering scientific formulae, operating communications equipment, and so forth.

Shaggy & Scooby - Sentimental - They have a lot of feeling and take things to heart. They are not big on cracking down on the crime.

Heroic Virtues: Physical, Mental, Moral and Sentimental.
From the list about I think that Scooby Doo and his gang is pretty heroic.

Slaughterhouse Five

So we have started reading Slaughterhouse Five and it is very different. It is a book that is a powerful anit-war protest piece and a science fiction novel. Billy Pilgrim is the main character, a protagonist, time traveler, and optometrist. The book takes you through Pilgrim's varied and life. We also get to read about his abduction by telepathic aliens. At the start of this book, it was just a little too werid for me to read but now I find it page turning and can't put it down. What do you think about Slaughterhouse Five?