Love:Blog 14

http://www.elyrics.net/read/t/taylor-swift-lyrics/love-story-lyrics.html
I was thinking about love and then i remembered this song. I liked this song when it first came out but then it got overplayed on the radio so then i didnt exactly like it that much anymore. But in this song, i liked how taylor swift sang about how they both had to be together and would go though whatever it took to be together. and when i think about love. thats what i think about.

War:Blog 13

I read an article about how a peacekeeper died in a Darfur shootout. I think that this article could possibly relate to Night. It could relate to that story line because the peacekeeper in Darfur was helpless and non-violent and was trying to help the country. Night is related to this because its on the camps in oushvits. non-violent and helpless Jews were killed for no reason, that that made me think of this article.
"Peacekeeper dies in Darfur shootout." cnn.com/world 17 3 2009 15 Mar 2009 .

genocide

http://www.genocideindarfur.net/

http://www.twf.org/News/Y2008/0521-Genocide.html

Colonization:Blog 12

nosotro, rit. "europe's colonization of africa." 15,4,2008 1. 11 Mar 2009 .
This article about the colonization of africa relates to Things Fall Apart because we know that in this book, people are going to start to "help" this tribe. this article talks about how the natives never asked for help, and that seems to be the case with all the the storys of colonization. i think that the british, and everyone else should stop butting into peoples lives, or if they wanted to truly help, they would do it less violnently.

global issues:Blog #11

in the world. starvation is a main problem that we need to focus on. we do not realize what the statistics are, but every year, aproximatly 15 million children die from it. this problem can be solved by giving one dollar to an organization of your choice. instead of buying a missle. you could feed a school full of children for 5 years. i think that peoples prioritys are off. http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

holidays. Blog 10

St.Patrick's day is one of the more unusual holidays for us to celebrate. for some people, it is a time to look into their ancestry and look at their roots. for others. it means nothing to them, seeing as they could not be Irish, or they could just not know what it means and not think that its a big deal. i wanted to know more about this holiday because i am a quarter Irish and i did not know why we celebrated it. Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. he is one or Christianity's most widely known figures. he is best known for banishing all of the snakes in Ireland. but that turns out to be just an exaggerated story.

Religion. Blog 5

the monastery of santa maria de poblet is located in catalonia (spain). it was founded by the cistercian monks of france. the monastery was founded in 1151 and was abandonded in 1835. then restored in the 1940s. i find the history of this monastery very interesting because i went to it over the past summer for a wedding. it would have been a lot more interesting if i had known some of these facts back then.