What I know about the words, war, gunner, and attack are they all associated with death, and battles. I think about Iraq, terrorism, are country's freedom, how are country started. For the word gunner I think about a sniper, soldiers, men dieing, a person who kills people. For the word attack I think about 9/11, Iraq, George Washingtons attack on the British, and terrorist. Each of these three words are not positive and all reflected negative things about the world. The color I think about with this are, red, black, yellow and I also think about destruction, and rebuilding.

The Holocaust Party
This story was kinda of weird to me. The main character who is jewish is invited to a party to hear a lady who survived the holocaust talk. That does not seem to make sense to me. The parents in the story seem to have a lot of tention with each other, the father seems angry and likes to be alone and the mother who use to beat her daughter seems like she tries to be nice but is under stress. The daughter Amy seems like she is normal but I just don't get the whole story. Mrs. Isabel is telling a story about the holocaust but does not seem to ahve that much emotion about it. When I was reading this I did not know if the story she was telling was true or not. I did not get why Amy invited her friend over to hear this story.

Turning Out with a Focus on Historicism
This was an interesting topic because it is something that I believe many people take for granted. A lot of students are not exactly into learning about our countries history, they will take the required courses in school and just do the work and learn what they hear from the teachers and books. There is more to are history though, not everything we read or are told is true. People always tell stories differently and through the years stories change. Yes I believe that our history is true but it might not exactly be how it is described today. Some people like to make things seem more dramatic then it really was, others like to say some people were more heroric then they really were, it also works in the opposite way some people say people were less then they were or things were less important but in fact actually ment a lot to our countries history. You can't always believe exactly everything you hear, history is an interesting topic but has a lot of flaws in it.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
I believe this poem is about a soilder who dies while at battle, he is talking about how the whole thing went. I did not really understand everything about this poem though. When he says, "And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze", I was not to clear on what that ment I felt like I knew what the poem was about but just didn't quite understand the meaning of some of the sentences.

my concerns for my paper are it might not be in good order, i don't state an arguement, and that I don't say why this magazine is so popular.

The message of my poster was to show how we are putting to much pollution into are enviroment and how we are building way to much. I wanted to show how nature was being destroyed and soon it will be gone.

Essay #2 Topic Proposal
The object I selected was the cover of an ESPN the magazine. The reason I chose this particular piece is because it is something I read a lot and I bought because of the cover. The cover catches your eye and makes you want to look at the magazine more. This is important because the colors make you want to read the inside of the magazine because it looks like something interesting will be in there. The text surface message is that inside the magazine the main story is about professional baseball players. You can tell this by the picture on the cover and the comment next to the two players saying ‘You’d be crazy not to draft us.” The text reveals that the two players are brothers, and that when you first think about those two players they wouldn’t come to your mind right away as top players.
On the cover there are two professional baseball players both in there home white jerseys. One player playing for the Tampa Bay Rays the other player on the Arizona Diamondbacks. They are each carrying a bat, both stances are unique to, the one on the left has his legs open looking at his brother as if he were crazy, the other player confidently has his legs crossed with the bat leaning against his side and kind of a relaxed grin. The background is just dark green which brings out the players jersey more to make them appear more important. I think the color of the background and the jerseys are important because the players appear larger on the cover and stand out more with the white against the green. The way the players are looking to you can tell that there is some kind of relation between them. The ESPN behind them is even a lighter green so that it is noticed but not the main point of the cover, it blends well with the players. The intended audience is a sports fan, and the age ranges from teenagers to older people that are interested in the sport.