Semester दुक्की, Blog Twelve

Dear President Barack OBAMA,


My main concern with our foreign affairs at this moment is how we are dealing with Libya. 


Sincerely,
a concerned citizen

Semester 两, Blog Eleven

If I were president and I had to resolve the Guantanamo Bay issues, I'm sure I would have a difficult time. First thing I would do would be to think about all the options I have and determine which one would be the most beneficial to everyone overall. I think that closing Guantanamo would be the best solution overall. But I would still have a discussion with a bunch of people and hear out what everyone else has to say. Me being me though, I would probably stick with my original ideals and proceed to close Guantanamo Bay ASAP. And I really mean ASAP, I would immediately see to it that Gitmo is to burned to the ground.

(picture of me as president)

Semester Δύο, Honors Blog

Dear person,

It is August 15th, 1945. I was drafted into the 442nd Infantry Regiment exactly one year ago. We may be sent home soon, but we will be sent as second class citizens. I am looking forward to coming home, but some of the other soldiers would rather stay and fight than be sent home as second class citizens. I hear that in Hawaii they are actually starting a peaceful movement against it, and I would definitely join if I could. 

We came up with this song to give us hope during one of our fights.

"Four-Forty-Second Infantry— We're the boys of Hawai'i nei— We'll fight for you And the Red, White and Blue, And go to the front... And back to Honolulu-lulu. Fighting for dear old Uncle Sam Go for broke! HOOH! We don't give a damn! We'll round up the Huns At the point of our guns, And vict'ry will be ours! GO FOR BROKE! FOUR-FOUR-TWO! GO FOR BROKE! FOUR-FOUR-TWO! And vict'ry will be ours!"

Semester اثنان, Blog Ten

I talked to my mother about WW2 and I really didn't get much out of her. She says her family really wasn't affected by WW2 in a significant way. She did however, tell me that my grandfather, Felipe Justino Garcia Loyo, was a merchant marine during WW2. He told her that on his trade route he went to Japan and witnessed some pretty crazy things. He saw the bodies of Ally prisoners impaled on spikes in the streets of a certain town.

I also talked to my father about WW2, and again, did not get anything substantial. His father, John Stoner Ross, would have enlisted if he could have. He had terrible eyesight and they wouldn't allow him to serve. So he didn't. That's about it.

Semester Два, Blog Nine - WW2 Imagery

WW2 War Photograph

 

• Was taken from between 1941 to 1945, from the book The War: An Intimate History. Photographer unknown, two soldiers unknown.
• This image really stood out to me. It really shows the destruction that war causes: these two soldiers on their own, taking cover behind a tank-- surrounded by a completely destroyed city.

WW2 War Propaganda

• 1944 Nazi propaganda against the US. Other info unknown.
• Very symbolic propaganda against the US. They perceive USA to be this enormous, greedy, overly-patriotic, destructive, self absorbed monster. At the top in capital letters it says, "LIBERATORS" in bright red, basically saying these so called American saviors are actually horrible and annihilative monsters. It's black and white other than the red letters, the red on the flag, and the red on the missile-- not a very positive color scheme.

 The Allied Powers

• "The Big Three in Portico of the Soviet Legation, Tehran" This is at the Tehran Conference of 1943 (Codename Eureka)
• This picture is of the three major allies leaders of WW2: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. They all met at this meeting to discuss the war, and this was the first time Stalin was present. I like this picture as it shows how the Allies worked together to fight this war and make sure that they planned everything out in order to win.

Semester Երկու, Blog Eight

In a well developed, thoughtful piece of writing that uses direct quotes, explain the relationship between your honors novel and the time period that fostered it's creation.

I read On the Road, by Jack Kerouac. It was written in the 1950s, and it focuses heavily on the "Beat Generation". In On the Road, the main character Sal goes all over America (and Mexico) through various forms of transportation-- the most common being hitchhiking. Sal is a writer, as most of his friends are, and he explores the world and learns a lot about humanity and life in general. Sal is with Dean Moriarty for the majority of the book and together they explore the idea of the anti-conformist movement, the Beat Generation. Experimenting with drugs, sex, and the new jazz movement were some of the focuses of the Beat Generation, and Sal and Dean definitely experimented. If I were to label them under a stereotype they would be beatniks or hipsters; they were opposed to "mainstream society" and did crazy things like stealing cars, smoking a lot of marijuana in Mexico, having sex with prostitutes, etc. Jack Kerouac's On the Road was probably the book that best defined the 50's. Sal and Dean's ridiculous adventures showed us the beat movement of the 50's through an insane road trip.