http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org This is great. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:19:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes!! We have officially finished the book, and it feels good to have gotten through the Vietnam war within a 3 week period!  The last three chapeters I found to be very thrilling, and yet more stories about O'Brien's war experiences.  He starts the first chapter explaing a time where ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/13/the-things-they-carriedend-of-book/ In these chapters, O'Brien tells us more about his experiences at war.  Most importantly, he tells us about the death of Kiowa, who died in a mud stream because Bowker could not pull him out, and let go of Kiowa to save his own life.  I find this extraordinary, that ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/12/the-things-they-carriedpg-189/ This section of the book was by far my favorite.  It consisted of about five chapters, two of which really got me thinking about war, and the feelings that the soldiers expressed.  One of these feelings, O'Brien experienced himself, is that of actually killing somebody in the other army.  O'Brien ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/07/the-things-they-carriedpg-155/ Not much has happened since the last reading.  More of O'Brien's stories and a little more drama about the war.  In the two chapters that we were assigned to read, The Dentist and Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, not much changed about the authors perspective on the war itself.  ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/27/the-things-they-carriedpg-117/ My group members: Ryan Haid, Ryan Herzog After our first reading assignment (pg 86), I learned a lot of about Tim O'Brien and his war stories about the war in Vietnam.  The first chapter, The Things They Carried, consisted of all of the items that the soldiers took with them during the ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/02/26/the-things-they-carriedpg-86/ Yes, Semester 1 is over, and what a semester it was!  We have graduated English 213 and moved on to English 223, well most of us anyways.  To be completely honest, this first half a year of english was one of the best i've ever had.  My class was amazing, ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/21/semester-1-has-come-to-an-end/ For my final Satire Post, I choose to listen to the interview with Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor who played 'Borat'.  I found it weird to actually hear this guy talk in his normal voice and with his own personality, I would have pictured they way he talked dumber and ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/04/final-satire-post/ The English Language is Confusing.... The bandage was wound around the wound. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. We must polish the Polish furniture. He could lead if he would get the lead out. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/04/lol-i-found-this-on-the-web/ For this blog entry, I took a step back on the whole slavery topic and found something on "diversity" between races in public schools.  (http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3938)  This article addressed racial segregation in schools.  Although now we don't have nearly as much racial segregation as we once did, it still may persist.  This ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/02/3rd-racism-blog/ The Slave Narrative that I read was called "The Leisure Hour" By John S. Jacobs.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/jjacobs/jjacobs.html In this article, I found that Mr. Jacobs talked alot about his family.  Most of his family was in slavery, and most importatnly was his dad.  His dad hated slavery, and hated the fact that ... http://hoffster.learnerblogs.org/2007/01/01/slave-narrative-blog-2/