NCSU vs. UNC

This is the game I look forward to all year, even though though the projected outcome is obvious. For those who don't know i'm a huge NCSU fan. We were lucky enought to take one win from them last year. Though our record does not show it, i believe that we are a much improved team. My only issue is Sidney Lowe, he was a good player during his time, but being a good player does not make you a good coach. For State to have a chane Costner, McCauley, and Fells are going to have to play their best game of the year. A Man to Man defense in their only option, if they go into zone and give Lawson and Ellington any room on the perimeter the game is goint go be over before it even start. The bench must also play well tonight. There is some young talent on the NCSU team, in particular Tracy Smith, he is a very promising player, and will bring some respect back to the team in Raielgh. Hopefully he will stay with us, he has the potential to enter the draft in the next year or so.

Robert Frost

Instead of listing a million random facts about Robert Frost, I figure i will give you the link to a page full of facts about him, and I will write some about his poetrey from our book.

The three poems in our book by Robert Frost seemed to describe some kind of jouney that he was on. The first poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", the charecter seems to be resisting the need to keep going into the woods, which are describes as lovey, dark, and deep. It seems this is a jouney that he does not want to go on with.

The second poem "The Road Not Taken", he is on a walk and comes to a fork in his path. He is unsure of with path to take. Eventually he chooses the path that is "less taveled". It seems to me that he chooses this path becuase he wants to choose a path that is different than than many of the people before him. But there is always going to be that curiosity about the other path, and what may have happened.

The final poem "Acquainted with the Nigh" is about his journey through a city at night. This poem is a little out of place for Frost, most of his poems and centered around nature. But this jouney seems to be one that he has to take, mabye he has done something and has to get away, or he could just be out for a walk.

The order of these poems in the book show significace. The first poem is a jouney that is not taken, the second one, he has a choice to take one or the other, the final poem is a journey that he has to take. These poems relate to our everyday lives and the choices that we must make. Some things we have no reason to do and don't, other times we must choose between two things. and then sometimes we have no choice, its just something that we have to do.

later

Stereotyping Americans....

This morning in class, towards the end of class we were talking about a poem,"Blood", the reaction of of one of my classmates caught my attention. In this class we where talking about stereotypes and what effect they have had on people. When my classmate started to elaborate on the poem, it seemed to me he was the one doing the stereotypting, stereotyping Americans. Many believe that America tends to be a violent country, and the people living in it are the same way. But if you look back into our history, when we go to war it was nessesary to proctect our way of life, to keep our freedoms. In WWI we started out neutral until we were attacked by Germans. WW2, we where attacked by Japanese. Veitnam, North Korea crossed the line that was made to keep peace and threatened innocent people. Gulf War, we warned Hussien not to attack Kuwait, we attepted to keep peace. War on Terrorism, our country was attacked and thousands of innocent Amercian citizens lives were lost. So, if you think that it was not nessicary to protect the Amercian people and our allies, i perosnally think you are being ignorrant. To keep our freedom that we fought for so long ago, we must protect what ours and our people. I agree that some things should have been done different, but was totally nesseasay in the first place. So to stereotype Americans and violent, and not being able to see outside our own borders, is crazy. It seems to me that the ones attacking us have the problem and are violent. When we found Hussein, how many lives to you think we saved??? If he was not stopped he was going to keep on killing millions of innocent people in other countrys. You may not agree with what I have to say, but this blog has nothing but facts, its just depends on you how you decide to intrepret it.

Love Poems

This past week I was required to read some love poems for my English 110 class. I have never been a really big fan of poetry. Yet agian I find myself in a situation of non-understanding. None of the poems really seemed that good to me, but i'm not a artsy kind of person. The only poem that made any sense to me was "somewhere i have never travelled" by E.E Cum mings. I though this poem was about a persons first love. In the first stanza it talks about somewhere i have never travelled so that seemed like a dead give away to me, the last line in the second stanza talks about her first rose. I have this 100 percent backwards, but thats just what I got out of this poem. The rest of the poems seemed to repeat themselves all about the same things, the lasting feeling of love, and the bad side of being in love. But thats just me,

I'm out

My Second Blog....

This blog is going to be very random. I'm just going to talk about thing that will make no sense and will not affect the person who reads this blog in any way. So, last night me and my buddy Wiggy cooked some deer meat, it was not that good, i think the grease we fried it in was a little to hot, especially since the stove caught of fire when the grease boiled over after we drop the potatos and onions into it. It was a eventful experience, I don't plan on frying any deer with him anytime soon.

Tonight we are going to try this again, but instead of frying deer meat we are going to cook a tenderloin. I'm hoping that this time will be a little better than last night. Theres a party tonight that I might go to, but i got class at 8 in the morning and I went out last night after we ate so I'll problaly just chill in the dorm tonight and get ahead in a few of my classes

I'm out

The Blog.....

The first blog that I looked at was one about the Carolina Pathers football team. When I first came across this blog I thought it was going to be strictlly about the fooball team and how the teams plays. But this blog also goes into the lives of the players. When I revisited this site today I found a new post about a prostitution ring in Charlotte that had apparently serviced one of the Carolina Pathers team members. I thought that this blog was going to be all about the team such as the games and opinions of the Pathers faithful. The blog is mostly about the team and how they could be better, which is why they need to get rid of Jake and his five turnovers in the game agianst the Eagles, the kid is garbage. But some of the things that I found on the blog are quite intresting and I plan to check it out every now and then.