speaking of courage

   In speaking of courage It reflects how Bowker felt he needed affirmation from others to truely feel courageous. Though Norman was well aware of all that he had accomplished throughout the war, he was unable to get all that he carried with him off of his chest. He thought about telling his high school sweetheart.. his dead best friend.. his father.. even the employee at the A&W rootbeer stand. He could not say it, though. "There was nothing to say. He could not talk about it and never would." (153) This inability to communicate reflects a serious issue facing many soldiers, which, in its own way can be looked at as a fault in his courage.
   O’Brien deals with his memories and his guilt by writing stories about his fellow soldiers. At the same time that these stories make the experience of the war present for O’Brien again, they also distance him from the horrors. He writes in the past tense, differentiating between his present self and the self that fought in the war. Bowker, on the other hand, is unable to use the act of telling to negotiate

Vietnam War

Why did America fight in the Vietnam War?
The United States entered the war to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. American leaders feared that Communist forces would gain control of Vietnam. After that, nation after nation might fall to Communism. Communism is a political and economic system that the United States strongly opposed. Vietnam had been split in half in 1954, after fighting a war to gain independence from France. When French forces withdrew, Vietnamese Communists gained control of North Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the North Vietnamese Communists. South Vietnam had a non-Communist government. This government was weak. But the United States supported it in order to keep the Communists from taking control of all of Vietnam.
At first, the United States supported South Vietnam with only money and military advisers. The number of advisers in Vietnam jumped from 800 to nearly 17,000 during the early 1960s while John F. Kennedy was U.S. president. In 1964, U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson reported that North Vietnam had attacked U.S. Navy ships along Vietnam's coast. Nearly 80,000 U.S. troops were in South Vietnam by the end of 1965. . The United States conducted a brutal air war against North Vietnam. In one year, the air force flew 150,000 bombing missions. By 1967, the United States had dropped more bombs on North Vietnam than it dropped on its enemies during World War II (1939-1945). By 1969, at the height of the war, the United States had about 543,000 troops in Vietnam. Many of them were teenagers. The average age of Americans fighting in Vietnam was 19. Although Nixon increased the bombing of North Vietnam, he began withdrawing U.S. troops. Without U.S. support, South Vietnam's government collapsed. North Vietnam won the war in 1975. Vietnam was reunited as a Communist nation. Millions of people died in the Vietnam War. Many of them were civilians, not soldiers. The war created about 10 million homeless Vietnamese refugees. It left hundreds of thousands of orphans.


 http://www.vvaw.org/about/warhistory.php
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/vietnam.htm

music review

Music Review: Drake “Take care”

Drake is one of my favorite artist and personally I love all his music. Any song Drake has ever created I loved it; a song in particular I love is “Show me a good time,” I listened to this song everyday 4-5 times repeatedly for a whole year. On his recent album “Take Care” here are the songs:

01. Over My Dead Body (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)
02. Shot For Me (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)
03. Headlines (Produced by Boi-1da)
04. Crew Love feat. The Weeknd (Produced by Illangelo & Doc McKinney)
05. Take Care feat. Rihanna (Produced by Jamie XX)
06. Marvins Room / Buried Alive (Interlude) feat. Kendrick Lamar (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)
07. Underground Kings (Produced by T-Minus)
08. We’ll Be Fine feat. Birdman (Produced by T-Minus)
09. Make Me Proud feat. Nicki Minaj (Produced by T-Minus)
10. Lord Knows feat. Rick Ross (Produced by Just Blaze)
11. Cameras / Good Ones Go (Interlude) (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)
12. Doing It Wrong feat. Stevie Wonder (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)
13. The Real Her feat. Andre 3000 & Lil Wayne (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)
14. HYFR feat. Lil Wayne (Produced by T-Minus)
15. Look What You’ve Done (Produced by Chase N. Cashe)
16. Practice (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)
17. The Ride (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)

BONUS TRACKS:
18. Hate Sleeping Alone (Produced by Noah “40 Shebib)
19. The Motto feat. Lil Wayne (Produced by T-Minus)

Everyone has criticized his music and said that he isn’t a real rapper, which he’s soft and only raps about his ex-girlfriends. This alone isn’t true at all Drake is a rapper but maybe he thinks in his mind rapping and singing at the same time in his songs makes he’s albums sell more. To me most people who talks about him or tries to “diss him” is only hating on him because he’s taking over the game and most of the people in this world are his fans. I understand other rappers would like to sell more of their albums but fans care most about Drake so everyone should just understand if they want to win this battle they have to make better music to win the fans.

thankful for classmate

   I’m thankful for Arliss Banks he might not be all cool and what not but he’s a good friend and an excellent lab partner in chemistry. If it wasn’t because of him I don’t think I would have my “B” in chemistry he corrects my sometimes, I correct him sometimes, we work together well, and he never seems to get mad and give up on the problems we have in class. Thank you Arliss you’re a good friend.

I’m also thankful for Mckinley man he’s super funny I don’t think I could make it thru English without him he keeps my spirit up but can also get on my nerves at times but that’s cool because he know I’ll hit him in the eye LOL just kidding.

Life is good just the way I’m living it, to be honest I think I have a really good life. At first I thought I was going thru hell but no I’m just a teenager growing up in this world. I really don’t have much more to say so I think ill end it here. Man I only got 188 words so far. I need a lot of more to reach 300 wait that’s not a lot its only less than a hundred words to go. If you didn’t notice I’m just wasting words to get by in this dry blog of mine sorry viewers if I suck but I just love basketball and basketball only forgive me. I have a lot of homework to do so I’m leaving now goodbye blog see you soon. J

direction in class

In class I think we should have more group assignments but less class discussions I’m not the one who would partake in many groups’ things, I’m a shy person and I would come out of my shell for anyone no matter who it is. Being me is being me and no one can change that. I feel we should be able to move to different seats every day I get tired of being next to certain people yeah they are all cool but I like to be sitting alone where no one can disturb me. Once again that’s just me being me, I think I like who I’m becoming, I’m getting more mature for my age and I’m starting to calm down. I used to be very angry and upset I don’t know why, maybe my dad, or things that goes on at home but everyone has problems mine are just too big for my little head.

  I really like this class everyone gets alone were coming together as a whole but I want to take the time out and congratulate my friend Mckinely on winning the tournament at Proviso East. Yeah u told you once but I’m telling you again good job little fella keep up the good work and don’t forget never slack you are only hurting yourself. I learned the hard way but I won’t give up.

father and son

A father and son relationship should be a strong bond between two individuals or more like family members ones who can talk to each to other about everything, anything almost love something so powerful nothing can stop the two.

   Hi I’m Erwin Henry and my father name is also Erwin Henry, yes you can put the “Jr.” at the end of my name. Most of the time I think about the name my father gave me and what my dad is like. He is 6’1 between light-skinned and Carmel, he’s muscular, works at a John Marshall high school, protecting the students (Security guard). I won’t get deep into my dad’s life but also when I think of Erwin the name which was giving to me I think about my dad’s dad and how he was like. I really didn’t know or even ever seen him my grandfather but my dad told me stories of how horrible it was growing up. He’d only seen his dad twice and the first time was when he was 21, I felt sorry because my dad was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 12 and his dad my grandfather wasn’t there. When I heard this story, my dad told me he would never treat me like his dad treated him, but most African American fathers aren’t there. My dad kind as he is, is there but not when I need him most. My dad loves me dearly but he can step it up but that just brings the beautiful out of him my dad Erwin Darrell Henry     

winter poem

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

In this poem, you’ll see

The real me

Hay! LOL

Christmas, what is it really?

A time for peace/family/joy

Think about the lost kids

No homes!

No gifts!

No friends!

They are just kids, you got everything you want or could wish for

While the homeless kids wish for

Another day

Just to see this place

Earth

Again

A place god created

I take time out of my day

Go to volunteer and help the needy

Giving out food

Praying to god to end this recession

Even though we put ourselves in this situation

Only you almighty lord can help us

Christmas a small wish I wished for

End this

End it soon

Recession

The homeless

Helping

Something’s ill just give my life for

I wish