Chris Guillebeau's Analysis

In the book Projekt 1065, Michael O’Shaunessey is thirteenth year old, Irish boy. He is apart of the Hitler Youth, but he doesn’t like Hitler rule. He feels sympathetic for the Jewish people and wants to help the Allies take away Hitler rule by spying. Michael is talking about the uniform he has to wear he states, ‘I feel like a traitor wearing it.”(page 26, paragraph 3) He only stays apart of it because he hopes to get information about Hitler to give to his parents. Michael likes to be a lone wolf so one ask him questions. He has a really good memory which helps him learn German easily and keep secret information he find well. For example a woman says to him, “Your German is good. If I didn’t know your father was the Irish ambassador, I

I think this video is absolutely freaking awesome. Christopher Greene is a true patriot, who believes everybody should know the truth about everything. He acts against lies and media manipulation so all of us could live in a better world. Throughout the video, Christopher Greene the owner of the YouTube channel AMTV (Alternative Media Television) talks so passionately about the lies we are being told regarding the Malaysian flight 370 disappearance.

Roy Devries is a artist in San Diego, California, He also teaches at Castle Park middle, teaching kids art and percussion music.

Unstoppable by Tim Green who was a co-valedictorian at Syracuse University, and he was also a star defensive end in the NFL. He played for the Atlanta Falcons. Now he is a lawyer and a bestselling author.

In chapter 22, the Andrew Mcbride is in search of his Jewish roots not just his black ones, he wants to tell his wife and children about it and for them to have pride in who they are. That being said, James is back in Suffolk in the year 1992, trying to get into the synagogue where the Shilskys had once worshipped. In this chapter, James by now has searched for all types of records of his Jewish family. For example, he says “ I had spent considerable time looking for school records, court records, and other documents with mixed results”(McBride 172) James met instead with man named Aubrey Rubenstein, whose father had taken over his grandfather’s store when Ruth's father left town. Aubrey used James's tape recorder to send a greeting to Ruth,

In Alan T. Nolan’s work, Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History, Nolan reexamines historical sources, including Lee’s official and personal correspondence and many other writings on Lee. Nolan states, without going too far into his own background, that he is “suspicious of saints,” and this suspicion is what led Nolan’s desire to review long held beliefs about Lee. Nolan examines Lee’s views on slavery and points out that Lee believed that slavery benefited the “African,” associating the black race with degradation and believed that the races were best separated. Nolan argues that as a general, Lee, though brutally effective on the battlefield, lacked an understanding of national strategy. Nolan would have readers believe

Matt Calkins is a journalist from the Seattle Times newspaper and online, and he wrote an article about Coach Kennedy's postgame prayers at a high school's football 50-yard line. Calkins states that he wishes for his kid to have a coach like that one day, so that gives you an inference of his positive and supportive position on the actions of Coach Kennedy. For instance, a quote from someone interviewed by the name Hacker stated, "It's about unity. We can be mad at each other all we want during a game all we want, but once the game over, that all goes away." The evidence from this quote explains how one can see that the prayers can help heal or bring positive inclination to everyone. In the article, he states that he isn't one to "look

In the book Into the Wild the main character, Chris Mccandless, made a rational decision to exclude himself from human society because he believed that going beyond what his parents and society wanted he would live a happier life. Chris wanted to leave society and venture into the wilderness to find the true meaning of who he was. Chris Mccandless was neither crazy or ignorant to live off in the wild where there was no people or anything to interact with but nature. Chris wanted to find his inner self and not only was he a role model for kids all across the country but he also followed his dream. Even though it was selfish of him to leave his family, Chris Mccandless is not crazy because he followed his dream, lived his life the way he wanted to, and went into the wild to find who he truly was.

Bastard out of Carolina was a very good book with many controversial topics to be talked

In the war, it often thought that soldiers, go to a country to keep peace in that part of the world. Unfortunately that is not always the case;during these tours ,soldiers die everyday from cultural violence,and misguided information by their superiors and in this story that has occurred. Jimmy Cross is characterized as a man who is filled with emotion and the loss of one of his men. “Cross carried a compass, maps,...He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.” (Tim O’Brien pg. 4) Cross felt directly responsible for his men. Death lead Cross to the realization of who Cross truly is, and who he will become. Jimmy Cross has to find himself one way or another, when he is ready to face the truth is completely up to

Wardle says that any new worker, who is becoming member of a discourse community, encounters issues with authority and identity concerning learning to write for the workplace. In order for the new worker to learn new written practices, they may be asked to “give up some measure of authority to which they believe they are entitled” (Wardle 4) Wardle means that whatever the workplace recognizes as effective or appropriate, although it may not be, has to be recognized by the new worker as such. Hence, the new worker is being asked to give up values of efficiency and ethics for the sake of fitting into their workplace. Wardle defines authority as “an intangible quality granted to persons through institutions, which renders their pronouncements

By biological logic, we human beings will face death sooner or later in our life and death has its very own ways to approach us - a sudden deadly strike, a critical sickness, a tragic accident, a prolonged endurance of brutal treatment, or just an aging biological end. To deal with the prospect of death come different passive or active reactions; some may be scared and anxious to see death, some try to run away from it, and some by their own choice make death come faster. But Viktor Frankl, through his work Man’s Search for Meaning, and Bryan Doyle; in his essay “His Last Game” show us choices to confront the death, bring it to our deepest feelings, meaningful satisfaction. To me, the spirit of the prisoners at deadly concentration camps, Frankl’s Logotherapy theory of “. . . striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.” (99), as well as the calmness of Doyle’s brother on his last ride, like an awaken bell, remind us of how precious life is, how we should find the significance in every act of living, determine to live a meaningful life at any circumstances; hence, when death comes, we can accept it without anxiety nor regrets.

Question 1: What are the assumptions implicit in Bill French’s determination of his company’s break-even point?

In the article “Blue-Collar Brilliance”, Mike Rose’s main focus was to convey that there are forms of intelligence than just being intellectual. Rose, suggest that a broader perspective of education allow us to expand our understanding of what intelligence is. Rose explains what our culture views as intelligence: “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm; sleeve rolled tight against biceps, but no brightness behind the eye, no image that links hand and brain” (Rose). In making this comment, Rose urges us to take a step back and to look society’s perception of blue-collar work as not as demanding or requiring as much brain powering as white-collar work. Often people do not realize that a person who has a blue-collar job is just as

Chris Mccandless was a man that many would call crazy or maybe even immoral. He left everything to live in the wild and become “one with nature”. He had determination, a strong mindset, fearlessness and courage. I believe that my life and the life of Chris Mccandless are not similar in any aspect. In fact I wish that my life was more like his and that I had the drive and determination to do what he did.