Response to Soldier's Blog..

firstly, i was happy to see that the soldiers can receive the American news fast, and that they still feel connected to the US culture... In the four blogs that I read, the school shootings and North Korea Nuclear weapons responses struck me the most. I agree with him on both: that we need to do something to stop School Shootings, he suggested a security guard for every school, but I think it comes down to a more personal connection with all students; and also that the US needs to do something to scare NK back, which I also agree with because I don't know who they think they are or who they're messing with but they need to realize that no one takes Nuclear missiles lightly, they're dangerous and the leader of NK should be ashamed that he is putting all of his people at risk of an American attack.

Nature as an Indifferent Force

A time in my life when nature acted as an indifferent force is I believe everyday. Everyday, I am constantly aware of what the natural world will bring. With everything from what the weather will be, to what natural distaster will occur, or will die or be born all day. For an example, yesterday there was a very large earthquake in Hawaii. Fortuantely, where it hit was not very populated and not too many people were injured, but for all we know she could have hit outside San Francisco and that could have caused much damage. Thus proving that nature does not care one way or the other about if she saves lives or ends them. She's an indifferent force that has the power to be both extremely destructive or incredibly beautiful, one just has to take her for what she is: uncontrollable and unpredictable.

London's "Law of Life"

I wasn't quite sure of everything after I read Jack London's "Law of Life." I know that Old Koskoosh is very old and on the brink of death, however it wasn't clear to me if they left him because he was old and it was a tradition to abandon the old, as he had done to his father, or if his grand daughter was in charge of him and she just forgot, he mentioned that she had always been a careless child. Now i just read the next question and I guess it's a tradition, so with that I would have to say that "Law of Life" suggests that the elderly would be at the bottom of the hierarchy and that they do leave the old out in the wilderness with a fire when they are no long aware of what's going on, and too helpless to fight to be rescued. This may sound homicidal of me, but I don't think this is such a bad idea in a culture that you have to fight for your food and survival - where it's hard enough to make enough for your immediate family, but also providing for the elderly is too tough. Old Koskoosh says that the law of life is that eventually everyone will die, and that there is no one who will live forever, and that it's all in the cycle of nature that all living things will die. This is demonstrated to him at a very young age, when he sees young wolves torment a bull to death. When Koshoosh thinks about they cycle of life he thinks back to the image of the dead bull. I agree with this thought and the cycle of life, but it does make me scared of getting older!