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Our protagonist is what the Usual Suspect would describe as “green as snot.”
Fallen Angels takes place in a time when our nation was in doubt about its actions in the world. Fallen Angels is a novel about military life during what could be considered America’s most controversial War. The year is 1967 and America is [...]
Filed by whitepe at April 23rd, 2008 under Uncategorized
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When I entered into this class I was anxious to see what I would learn and see. Mostly because the title of the class was War and Peace, and as a sarcastic SOB, I could never imagine a class that could cover a subject so broad, sweeping, and so close to human nature to be [...]
Filed by whitepe at April 16th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Maus is a book that at first glance might seem offensive to some, a comic book that centers its story on the holocaust is bound to turn some heads. And while those heads take a look the first thing they are bound to notice that the people of the times are represented by animals. [...]
Filed by whitepe at April 16th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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As a film major I often find the connection between perception and understanding to be very interesting. I once read a whole paragraph of completely jumbled words. It made complete sense to me; I could hardly even tell the words were jumbled, because the human brain does not read each individual letter in [...]
Filed by whitepe at April 16th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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I have put considerable thought towards our in class discussion regarding the art of letter writing. I do not like the idea of something that has been around for such a long time to die in the world of digital express media: some things are worth the wait. And some things just need to be [...]
Filed by whitepe at March 26th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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In a post titled “Time is On My Side” Captain Beau Cleland illustrates the life of a modern day soldier who may be stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan. As he looks back over his last few months of deployment Captain Cleland realizes that time is relative, and that, while it may seem long at first, [...]
Filed by whitepe at March 26th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Flowing slowly down and down, circling out to the end until it reaches the very bottom of the downward spiral. The Usual Suspect wrote a powerful post titled The Downward Spiral. The path from becoming a boy to a man, maybe a man to a warrior, or perhaps simply up to down, whatever it is, [...]
Filed by whitepe at March 26th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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In the world of Vera Brittain her country and the world for that matter was involved in a war that they did not totally understand. All anyone knew at the time was that they were involved in a war that was justified because their right to be English was in danger. It was only [...]
Filed by whitepe at February 6th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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War has a way of reaching out and sucking people into it. In many ways wars do not ever end they just change with time. One thing is undeniable, war changes people. In a war a man will change whether he is a front line solder or an average college student. In the case of [...]
Filed by whitepe at February 6th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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It has now been a couple weeks into the semester and I still have yet to explain my choices for my Google reader account. There were a couple reasons I did not make this post earlier, even though I am relatively positive that I was the first in the class to set up their Edublog. [...]
Filed by whitepe at February 6th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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