Technology

I belive that the choose your own adventure is more  appealing to the youth for the reason that is alot like a video game and give variety and excitement to a normal follow the line story. that and it also make it more of your choice and makes you not say hey that was stupid to do all the time. it also makes you get into the book almost like a movie or video game were you actualy really want to know what happens if you do this and it also makes it more than one story in one

Quotes from Chapter 5: All Quiet on the Western Front

For each quote, summarize the quote and comment on what is being said. Do you agree? What’s surprising about what is said? What does it remind you of?

Quote Summarize Comment
“And then what?”

A pause. Then Haie explains rather awkwardly: “If I were a non-com. I’d stay with the Prussians and serve out my time.”

“Haie, you’ve got a screw loose, surely!” I say.

“Have you ever dug peat?” he retorts good-naturedly. “You try it.”

Then he pulls a spoon out of the top of his boot and reaches over into Kropp’s mess-tin.

“It can’t be worse than digging trenches,” I venture.

Haiechews and grins: “It lasts longer though. And there’s no getting out of it either.”

“But, man, surely it’s better at home.”

“Some ways,” says he, and with open mouth sinks into a day-dream.

In this quote they are talking about what they might be or what would happen if they were non com and they started to think about the stuff they wanted to be and how things were back where they were from

This was kinda surprising to hear what each person has came from and what they wanted to do with there life before they went to the war
You can see what he is thinking. There is the mean little hut on the moors, the hard work on the heath from morning till night in the heat, the miserable pay, the dirty labourer’s clothes.

“In the army in peace time you’ve nothing to trouble about,” he goes on, “your food’s found every day, or else you kick up a row; you’ve a bed, every week clean underwear like a perfect gent, you do your non-com’s duty, you have a good suit of clothes; in the evening you’re a free man and go off to the pub.”

Haie is extraordinarily set on his idea. He’s in love with it.

“And when your twelve years are up you get your pension and become a village bobby, and you can walk about the whole day.”

He’s already sweating on it. “And just you think how you’d be treated. Here a dram, there a pint. Everybody wants to be well in with a bobby.”

This quote was about how the way haie thinks of the life in non com and how much better it would be because of all the benefits of non com and all the great things from it It was interesting to hear the way haie thought about the life of non com as such a great and wondrous one
Kropp feels it too. “It will go pretty hard with us all. But nobody at home seems to worry much about it. Two years of shells and bombs—a man won’t peel that off as easy as a sock.”

We agree that it’s the same for everyone; not only for us here, but everywhere, for everyone who is of our age; to some more, and to others less. It is the common fate of our generation.

Albert expresses it: “The war has ruined us for everything.”

He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
We sit opposite one another, Kat and I, two soldiers in shabby coats, cooking a goose in the middle of the night. We don’t talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have.

We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. We sit on the edge of it crouching in danger, the grease drips from our hands, in our hearts we are close to one another, and the hour is like the room: flecked over with the lights and shadows of our feelings cast by a quiet fire. What does he know of me orI of him? Formerly we should not have had a single thought in common— now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, and are so intimate that-we do not even speak.
This quote shows how the guys are feeling about life now and how they have changed from kids just taking in the stuff all at once to being a man and actually trying to interprut whats goin on also it showed how the guys have been at war so long that it’s the only thing they really actually know any more It was sad hearing how the guys have been at war for such a long while that they no longer know any thing but war and how to survive without it
Choose your own: Approximately 40 words

Kropp supports me., “how can a man take stuff seriously when hes been out here? Still you must have an ocupaotion of some sort.

This quote says and put a theory out there that how can a man function normaly after being in a life like war for such a long while I thought it was depresseint to think about how the life would be of a returning vet after knowing only war for such a long time

this picture is trying to persuade the italy people to fight for the country because of all the beautiful land that it has and it shows a picture of the land and its beauty. this picture would be the most persuasive because it shows a picture of a beautiful hill with flowers and moss all over it was a good persuading photo becuase it make me think how i would love how much i love that country and wouldnt like to see it be controled by other or something of that sort

As the ringing faded I started to turn only to see John laid out on the floor. I knelt down in fear and in panic. My helmet had hit the floor, John’s chest was covered in the dark red and steam was slowly rising in the air. As I stayed low hoping that was the last of the shots, more and more started to pass by almost like a jet noise. My heart was raceing and all I could seem to think about is my friends and family back home. As the guns shots started to fade into the distance reality hit me like a brick straight to the face, I might not make it home to see them again. I knew now was not the time to feel regret but its all I could feel the coldness made my whole body feel brittle and numb. All the un said things I never even had the chance to tell my mother I love her and now I’m laying here next to John praying that all of this was gone.

1. she descirbes what they do as soon as there name was said wich was very disciptive

2. pencils, her name meaning

3.she says that the pencils were all glittery with there names on them she was tring to show how they looked and how she wanted to see one with her name on just one of them so bad

4.she was talking to her cousin and saying about the most imbarrising times in there life and she shares how they all laugh at her name and then her cousing explain y and what her name stood for and that made her realis that he name was one with great pride to be takein in

5.use more detail in some of her explanaions instead of just telling straight up what was said

1. he give massive amounts of detail to every thing he says. he gets you interested to every thing that he says because the detail he uses it makes you want to continue reading.

2.the wolrd wars, civil rights, polio, red sox winning a series he explains that they were all horrible things to expierance but also says it was a great thing to have acomplished after all of those things.

3.he says that if the other generations seen great and better things then he thinks that we can find a cure for hiv and cancer by the end of his life time and maybe even see the cubbies win a series.

4.at the end of the story he states that sometimes he wants to be able to say  dad there will be a better tomorrow will be a better day because thats what all his older genrations said to there sons

today i read the book juiced a biography on Jose Canseco and his input on how he was the godfather of steroids in the proloue he states that he is really tired of radio people that dont know what they are talking about are rambling on about how they think steroids affect baseball. jose thinks that with the right knowledge of a certain steroid any given one can be unharmful and his personal opinion is that steriods are the future there is proof that people that take them live longer and are in better condition when there older and he think by the time we all graduate high school steroids will be so commonly used and they will be openly accepted in sports and every day life. he also ratted out Mark McGuire and his steroid use but he also gave him credit that he was always a good or great hitter before and even more so after he started using them he also told about how he got started was by a friend that he went to high school with in Miami.

1.All this week I have been excited for one thing above all else this week it was, a party and bills house. He has everything at his house. And then after the party it was nothing but spectacular. Every one had a good time and no one started any drama just friends having fun and messing around.

2.For a long time now I have been trying really hard in Stearns class. He teaches English it’s a pretty easy class over all if you just turn your work in and. Finally when the grades come out it turns up that I have and A in his class. That made me feel incredible finally all of my work paid off

3.Mr. Stearns, my English teacher, has showed me so much stuff this year and has made class more interesting with his great enthusiasm. He just over all makes class a lot more enjoyable.

4.This thing of technology it’s great it makes life so much easier and makes life a lot easier. Its almost like a it talks back to me. I spend so many hours on it. I guess you could say its probably my best friend.

5.Oh my gosh today I did absolutely nothing no fun no games no nothing. No one could hang out because they were all doing something already. All there was to do was my homework, which I was trying to put off because it was hard. Over all nothing was ne fun yesterday it kind of sucked

I Strongly disagree with this statement because I personally love helping out others no matter what there problems even if mine are affecting me I would still be willing to care and help someone else out. I feel this way because of my personally feelings and because it was how I was raised to be. The main reason I think I feel this way is because about a year ago my half brother got shot and he taught me to always be there for other people and help them with there decisions.

I remember when I was in 8th grade a friend was making some bad decisions and was going and hanging out with the wrong crowd. Even though I was not my place to talk and it was his decision no matter what I still have him my input on how it was effecting him and his life. I am happy to say that he took my advice to heart and started changing his ways. Now see if I had not said any thing and stayed in my own business and in his head made I was a great person for helping him out.

Another remembrance of me not staying in my own business and still came out to be great person. This event was back when I lived on my farm in Missouri and one of my cousins decided that he was going to try and get me to steal my grandpas truck. I had told him no and had told my grandpa about it and so my cousin got caught in the process. He may have hated me at the time but now that he has had time to look back at it he decided and has told me that I actually got him in a lot of less trouble and said that it was a good decision.

Another reason that I don’t support his opinion is because every time that I have helped someone out by not staying in my own business it has made me feel like a better  person. So all in all I from me having personal experiences with helping people out by being in there business, it has made me a greater person in my mind so this. This guys opinion does not apply to my life as it might to others because im always willing to help other people out always.

I think that the world will most likely look like how Iraq looks now, with war and poverty every where, I mostly think this because the way are leaders jus throw are army at other peoples problems they are bound to retaliate and not serve the leader which will in turn  leave us open for attack I also believe that are country will look like Iraq in fifty years because, the way are county just pollutes every thing its only a matter of time before are country look like a slum the third reason is because we fight so much amongst are self’s that it is only a matter of time before the county goes into complete turmoil over people craving more and more power. So all of the reasons above  such as foolish leaders and power hungry people or even are own bad habits in my mind make me believe that that the usa will turn out to look like modern day Iraq in fifty years