Weekday Update

DUDE. That was LOUD. We have people here tonight!! PEOPLE. And they’re not all from Pittsburgh! This might be a good game.

Decorum prevents me from doing the MOOOOOSE call. I did it under my breath. Let’s go Thrashers!

7:08 – Game on!

Hey, did anyone mention we’re the highest scoring team in the league right now? Because we so totally are. Boo YAH.

Surreal: Hedberg has better stats than the Stanley Cup winning goalie in tonight. Wonky stuff.

15:27
The Todd robbed by MAF. Ow.

14:15 – Bogosian gets 2 for interference for a legal hit. So this is what it comes to with head shot paranoia.

And Pittsburgh power play goal at 12:22 remaining. Place goes more batshit insane than Lady GaGa.

Atlanta PP with 9:15 remaining; penalty to Gonch, 2 minutes for kneeing. Random.

4:31 remaining in the 1st, and Hedberg is looking very, very sharp.

Too
many turnovers and passes to the wrong team. This is really a typical
1st period from the Thrashers. We only have 161st period goals so far
this season. No jump.

A good bit of those bad passes have been from Antropov.

End
of 1st period – 1-0 Penguins on the PP goal. Slow, slow start with
solid goaltending and pretty ok defense. God, it’s like I’m watching
the Blues

2nd period up… Moose has already given me 2 heart attacks. Thanks.

Noted
- we need someone willing to crash the crease on the 1st line. Antro -
do not go to the blueline. Wrong blue paint, buddy.

Pens score – 2-0, Skoula again. Damn place erupts in Let’s Go Pens chants.

Geno
scores – 3-0. Place blows up. We have to get on the board. I’m starting
to wonder if these bloggers’ days are a good idea… I think Rawhide
was right.

Borque – 2 min @ 15:20. Come on – we need a tighter PP ths time. We still look really, really disorganized.

Talbot gets a penalty shot… and… totally misses the net.

Engelland and Kane wins for weirdest fight of the year. What even prompted that one?

Oustanding save by Flower on Max. Holy crap.

Imagine looking like Stalin.  Now, imagine you’ve been forced to serve as his body double because he was scared of the Nazis.  Yep.  It really happened.  Poor guy.

Some of you guys showed interest in 4th period about learning more about Nicholas II and the events surrounding the Russian Revolution.  This website has film clips of the documentaries I mentioned in class.  If we don’t have time to get to watching them in class, here they are for your viewing pleasure.  The Last of the Czars is the best one.

Also, a few of you were asking about Anastasia.  Here’s an article from this March regarding the discovery in the Siberian woods.  Sadly, it puts the legend to rest once and for all.

Your rough draft is due Friday by midnight – please e-mail it to me at: apworldpapers@gmail.com.  DO NOT E-MAIL IT TO MY WORK ADDRESS. It will either crash my e-mail account or be eaten by Groupwise, and I won’t get it.  Only send me papers in .doc formats – I can’t open Microsoft Works files – I don’t have it, and I can’t download the viewer because I have a Mac at home.

If I don’t have them by midnight Friday, the highest you can get on the assignment is a 5/20.  I have to read these over Turkey Day Break, and it would be unfair of me to give you full credit when others have had a full week less to work on it.

Here are the two audio files of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” from libravox.org – you can download them in .mp3 format and plunk them on your iPod or computer, for those of you who do the whole “audio book” thing.  The total running time is about an hour.

Part 1 (27.9 MB)

Part 2 (29.8 MB)

Also, if you complete this study guide, you are good to go for 10 extra bonus points to your lowest test grade.  This is a special treat for people who are responsible and check the website, so don’t spoil the fun.

The BBC always has outstanding historical archives on the First and Second World Wars.  From these, I’ve found a story from a 112 year old World War 1 vet, Harry Patch.  He didn’t speak about what he saw in the war until he was 100 years old.  Wounded by shrapnel, he very nearly died, and several of his closest friends were killed in the blast that hurt him.  He talks about the underlying emotions he still has about the war – it’s really still relevant today.

The other article I found was on soldiers suffering from shell shock, or post-traumatic stress disorder.  This wasn’t understood at the beginning of the war – they considered you a coward and you were shot – but by the end there were hospitals established for the treatment of it.  Still, though, the soldiers were viewed as cowards.  This poem, by Sigfried Sassoon, summarizes his emotions as  recovering patient of shell shock:

No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain

Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.

Of course they’re ‘longing to go out again’, –

These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk.

They’ll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed

Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died, –

Their dreams that drip with murder; and they’ll be proud

Of glorious war that shatter’d their pride…

Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;

Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.

Your essay’s over All Quiet on the Western Front – I’m not going to give you the question this time, but I will say that it has to do with a major over-reaching theme of the movie, and why Hitler banned it.

Also, here’s the 2nd Jeopardy game we played today.  Enjoy!