After reading some of the American Soldier's Blog it became apparent to me that he is ignorant and very brutal in some respects. When he talks about shooting in schools he thinks that it would not be a problem to put plenty of armed guards throughout every school. It would take a lot of money from schools to supply these guards. Also, he believes that in order to get the full military experience, that he must be in action and killing people. He treats his sniper rifle like his baby and cherishes it in all respects. It seems to show the impact of war on a once regular civilian. He seems very brutal in regards to the death of Al-Zarqawi . He says he hopes that he burns very slowly in hell. Even though Zarqawi was a terrible person, it seems disgusting to hope that on a person. As long as he is dead, there is no need for hopes of him burning in hell. I would say he has an arrogant outlook on the war, but since he is a soldier in Iraq and knows more than me, I cannot. I do admire his passion when he talks about his family and about 9/11. It seems he wants to protect our country and that is a good thing.

I can remember a time in my life when I played soccer at about the age of 12. On Sunday, which was gameday in AYSO soccer, we played a team that was much better than us. We knew that we didn't have a chance, but when we were getting killed it just made us angrier and angrier. It had happened to be raining at the time and everyone was tripping and falling in the mud. The other team was playing very aggressive and our team was getting hurt. After that some of our players started to act " savage" and began to trip the other team. I myself, pushed one player in the mud after getting pushed down. Our team received a lot of yellow cards that day and ended up losing 8-0. After that it seemes kind of stupid to react in the wayI did, but if I had the chance again I would do the same thing. It is protecting yourself afterall.

Jack London's Law of Life: Old Koskoosh is left behind because he is blind, weak, and cannot hunt. If he were to be kept alive, he would be taking the tribe's resources and food, without making any contributions to the tribe. The tradition is that the old people of the tribe that cannot make any contributions to society will be left at the dead camp by a fire and slowly die. This suggests that the tribe values people who can hunt and is able to do things on their own for the good of society. They also feel that if you cannot help the tribe, then there is no reason that you should stay alive. It doesn't seem that there is much love and strong relationships in this society because of these murders. I do consider this a civilized society because it could be that if they do not make these sacrifices, then the weak could end up taking up too many resources and not leaving enough for the core of the scoiety. Also, there don't seem to be any protests by the citizens, therefore it is an accepted law. It would not be accpetable in today's scoiety because we value strong relationships and the we pay for people to get help and stay alive. It would be uncivilized if people tried to escape from there deaths and try to move on with the tribe. The Law of Life is that if one does not contribute to Nature's ultimate cause, then they will be killed of. On the other hand, if one does follow what Nature tells him to do, he will die anyway. Koskoosh recalls the image of the old bull moose because the moose relates to his society's tradition and more importanly of the situation he finds himself in. The moose has been left behind from it's own tribe and was left to get killed by wolves because it was no longer helping it's society. The same thing has happened to Koskoosh and he sees it as very ironic. I have learned that some societies value the greater good of themselves more than the individuals that exist in it.