So I got on the site and saw that I’m Featured Blogger for the week. I took it in stride, and was very pleased… Okay, who am I kidding? I skipped around my house like a Munchkin. Thank you, whomever nominated me!
With that little PSA moment, I have an issue. Yes, it has to do with school.
I pride myself on having friends who are pretty intelligent, not just in a academic sense but in a philosophical and worldly sense. Recently I earned my Eagle Scout rank. During a discussion for it, I was asked what the difference is between Hollywood hero's and everyday hero's. My response is that Hollywood hero's do what we think of as heroic things.
In my AP English 4 class we just finished reading the book Paradise Lost, by John Milton. We were then assigned questions to be discussed during our Socratic seminar. One of the questions was “Who, if anyone, is the hero in the book? Why?” Well my answer to the question was Satan.
We need another epic criminal like we need an epic hero. Think back to days of old when Al Capone was doing his thing, when Bonnie and Clyde shared their loved in the weird way they did, when Jesse James was the king of the west.
Sir Edmund Hillary had a lower cost State Funeral that happened on Jan 21st, New Zealand time.
Sir Edmund Hillary’s State Funeral occurred at the other end of the Globe in New Zealand, according to the AP wire and kxmc.com News:http://www.kxmc.com/News/200607
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