Looking Back

My favorite part of the past semester was reading 3 Cups of Tea. I wasn't into it at first, but after reading a bit of it I started to really enjoy it. It taught me a lot about the Middle East because I have never really been interested in it. However this book put everything in words that I can understand. I also learned a lot about the U.N. I'm not into politics so it was an interesting look into something I have never learned about before.

HoD Blog: Section II

I now see a deep connection between Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies. One part of the book i can see a connection in is the part when Piggy dies. The boys kill him and one of them feels upset about it. In a sense, this happens in Heart of Darkness. When the helmsman dies, Marlow is upset, but the others on the boat want to eat him because they are cannibals. Another part that struck me as connecting was the eeriness of the boat and it's surroundings. They are in a beautiful jungle in both books, but in both books an eerie scene foreshadows a terrible thing happening. In Lord of the Flies, it's at the signal fire in the pitch dark and a huge object comes out of the sky. In Heart of Darkness it is not knowing which way to go, the heavy fog, and the dense, unclear jungle.

U.N. Blog

I strongly agree with Andrea Seastrand that the United States should withdraw from the United Nations. Almost everyone agrees that there is a huge problem with the U.N.'s policy. The Muslims were held back by the U.S. when the Bosnian Serbs attacked in which they could not even launch an offensive to try and fight. There are many problems with the equality in voting in the U.N. General Assembly. The United States, with 262 million citizens have the same vote as Palau, with 15,000 citizens. This is a terrible way to give a vote to each country because most of the countries are small and poor. They vote on many subjects including approving policies related to war, economic expenditures, wealth distribution, and regulatory restrictions. I think it is ridiculous that the American taxpayers are subsidizing the privileged U.N. workers' taxes.