This week while listening to presentations I learned some pretty cool things. The first presentation was about the Lone Survivor which is about a SEAL team that was in a mission that went wrong. The whole team was killed except for one. the next one was A Long Way Gone which is about a child soldier in south Africa. It shocked me how they send the child soldiers in battle while they were hyped up on drugs like cocaine mixed with gun powder. I also was shocked how they mad the kids behave. they would kill the other kids to show the others that they mean business. My brief history is about the famous Stephen Hawking. Its just about his life and his equations for the universe including his opinion of the big bang theory. Two kiss for Maddy is about a single dad after his wife passed in child birth and how this book was for Maddy how he didn't quit on her and to show her how her mother was. Chronicles is about Bob Dylan. the book was kind of confusing where he when from 1960 then to 1990 then back. but it was funny how his interviews went where he made sarcastic comments.

The War Essay

     Many times this worlds leaders try and solve an argument by going into war. The War tries to explain how society can live without war. The film is told by Lydia Simmons about her Father Stephen Simmons, a recuperating war veteran and her brother Stew Simmons. The film is based in a poor town in 1970 Mississippi. Stephen deals with Post-Traumatic stress (PTS) after he returns from the Vietnam war and leaves his family for a while to go into a mental hospital to help with his problems. Ones he returns he gets the cold shoulder from his daughter Lydia because she doesn't understand why he cant get a job and is frustrated that he left them. The main lesson in this film is that fighting doesn't solve anything. 
     Stephen hints to Stew many times about how he shouldn't go along trying to solve his problems with his fists. Stephen tries showing Stew when the lipnickies father went after Stew and he beat him up and then gave his kids the cotton candy he bought for Stews mom and sister.
      Stew has a never give up attitude which he shows when they loose the bet to the girls about the tree house and the two boys quite while he wants to get it done. Stew also shows the attitude when his dad is dying and he doesn't want to accept it. He thinks that his dad doesn't give up and that he'll come back to them.