Monday, December 12, 2011

Findings from research paper

I thought I knew my topic relatively well, but that turned out not to be the case. For starters, I did not think the childhood of Osama Bin Laden would play an important role in his life. That he was just born a terrorist and hating America. But as I found this was not the case. When Osama was a young boy he enrolled in a prestigious university of its time. He later took classes unknowingly that taught him the ways of the violent jihad. That is where he developed his hate for America and the rest of the world. Another thing I discovered in my research was that Bin Laden wasn't really in charge of 9/11. Sure, he came up with the idea, but he had a second hand man do most, if not all the work for him. Khalid Mohammed was in charge of everything from teaching the suicide bombers how to fly planes, to sneaking weapons onto the planes for them to hijack.

Romantic Poem Reflection

One of my favorite Romantic Poems was The Fall House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe. I enjoyed this story particularly because one, I understood it. Also, I liked how Poe used the setting to set the stage for the dark, twisted story. The title is absolutly genious too. The Fall of the House Of Usher, and that is exactly what the house did, fall at the end of the story. I really liked that. It was also a shorter story of Poe, and to the point. He didn't beat around the bush to tell us what happened. And once the sister died, the following events happened so quickly it kept me on the edge of my seat till the very end when the house fell.

Voki