Who I Am from Animal Farm

In Animal Farm I am most like the cat because I am lazy and so is she. And if I can I will try to get my way without having to work much (Orwell, p.3). Another similarity between the cat and myself is that if there is a lot of work to be done I will make an excuse to try to get out of it (Orwell, 19). The last similarity is that when food is involved I always find myself to be the first one there (Orwell, 20).

Citation:
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. 1987. London: Penguin, 1945.

Poem- life in the trenches

BOOM!

“Duck and cover!” yelled the lieutenant

The sky was a sheet of cotton

Layered with smoke and poison gas

The sounds of war were deafening

Explosions crackling left and right

My heart beating furiously

Screams of excruciating pain

My trench feet becoming unbearable

The rain thundered down and blurred my vision

“Line up!” screamed the lieutenant once more

I was sure my life was over

We headed over the top

Rows of soldiers collapsed to the muddy ground

I knew my time was soon

ARMY

My country, the US, has a voluntary military service. There are several different reasons why I would join the army, one circumstance is if I felt very deeply about a situation and I felt that I need to help. Another way I would join the army was if i wasn't going to be shooting guns but being a doctor or technician so i wouldn't have to be shot of shoot people, but besides that i would NEVER join the army.

77% caste groups in MP still marry off children

NEW DELHI: In a shocking revelation, more than 77% of caste and community groups in Madhya Pradesh have been found to still indulge in child marriages with customs and traditions — not poverty — being the main reason for the trend.

Most such marriages, however, are not being reported from the upwardly mobile social groups, but from those who are at the bottom of the caste ladder where either education has not yet made sufficient inroads or much value isn't attached to it.

According to a recent study by the Delhi-based Centre for Social Research (CSR), the proportion of people whose caste/community still practises child marriage is 41% in Rajasthan and only 10% in Uttar Pradesh.

"Enforcement of the Child Marriage Prohibition Act continues to be a major problem," says the study conducted in two districts in each of the three states.

More disturbing is the fact that 71.2% of respondents in the MP districts — Shajapur (80%) and Bhopal (62.4%) — were aware of the illegality of child marriages.

In contrast, only 12% of the respondents in UP (Varanasi and Meerut districts) were aware it was unlawful. The awareness level in Rajasthan, however, was quite high (74% in Tonk; 98% in Jaipur).

The project, supported by the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development, also revealed that the Supreme Court directive on compulsory marriage registration was still an exception, not a norm.

SC has directed all states to frame rules for mandatory marriage registration, besides putting the infrastructure for compliance in place.

"The failing on this count (delay in framing rules) has certainly not helped in checking the high incidence of child marriages," CSR director Ranjana Kumari said.

King Coyle Has Been Overthrown!

There we many similarities between the way that the 13 colonies were ruled and the way King Coyle run things in M1. The major similarity is that the rulers of these two areas were kings, and kings that did not value the peoples opinion. Both of this examples were not self-determined because neither of them were being able to live their lives without tight surveillance or rules. With the 13 colonies the Quartering Act is a good example because people had the British watching their every move, this is also true in King Coyle's kingdom because people had to pay taxes for things that shouldn't have been taxed.

On that same note, being taxed for something that shouldn't be taxed is called injustice (where something is not fair or just but it is done anyway). In the 13 colonies not having the right to run their own government is also an example of injustice. And more obviously they were both forms of tyranny because it was a more powerful person having rule over a weaker group of people, and the threat of violence.

43rd War Absolute Location

The absolute location that the book the 43^rd War takes place in is El Salvador. One piece of evidence to show this is the fact that the country had major civil war problems in the 90s (wikipedia). It also said that the climate is hot and it is as well in the book. And at the fortress the soldiers drink coffee with their meals and in El Salvador coffee is farmed a lot (Moeri, 82). I also found out that the Atlacatl was the name of a ruler in El Salvador may years ago, and maybe that is the reason that the author named the volcano in the book the Atlacatl volcano(Moeri, 60). My third piece of the evidence is that in the Chapter 4 the family goes to a Catholic cathedral and the main religion of El Salvador is Roman Catholic (Wikipedia).

Moeri probably did not mention the name of the country because she didn't want to be confined to curtain historic details and wanted to be able to add a little bit of fiction. When she talks about the war she probably had different examples from different Central American countries put together, so even though she put different experiences together it was all true.

Citations:

moeri, louis. the 43rd war. NY: Hougton miflin, 1989.

"Atlacatl." Wkipedia. 2007. Wikipedia. 28 Jan 2008 .

My Summarization of the Decleration of Independence

When it becomes necessary for a country to be separated from another, they should give their reasons why. The reasons being all men are equal and those men have rights, those rights being life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. The government gets their power from the people, and if the government makes wrong decisions the people can change or get rid of the government. Even though people are allowed to change a government if bad, if people change the government it can only be done for the better. And if the government is bad it is the people’s duty to change and replace it. King George has done some bad things to the colonies, and these are some of them.

He taxed the colonists without representation. He kept many troops in the colonies without our opinion. He also brought on the quartering act. Then He cut off trades from colonies to all parts of the world. He also wouldn’t let the government pass laws that would help the colonies. And he sometimes sent us over seas to be trilled for crimes that we did not commit. And that is only a short list of his mistakes.

In the times of hardships in the colonies we have asked time and time again for free government of a change in it, but every time we have been met with more and more hardships. We tried to remind them the reason we came to the new world, but they ignored it. Those of us that are gathered here are saying that we are and want to be free! We pledge to work together to make sure this happens!