Grendel Paper

When deciding whether or not a character is a hero or an anti-hero it is important to be able to distinguish heroic deeds from contradicting hero characteristics. In the short story Grendel, Grendel's true qualities are revealed through his words and actions against the Danes. A thorough examination of a characters true intentions revealed by his actions shows us that having a story which follows the guidelines of the heroes journey doesn't necessarily make you a hero.
An analysis of Grendel's characteristics shows us that he is an anti-hero. In the middle of the story, we see Grendel go out of his way, just to go on a killing rampage, which shows us he doesn't fight for honor. This is significant because if he doesn't fight for anyone but himself then he isn't a true hero. Though he is fighting for survival, Grendel is at fault because he can't be hurt by the regular warriors. Another example of his anti-heroism is in the beginning when he describes how the joyousness of the Danes angers and enrages him. This shows us that he has no self control, which means he isn't strong in the mind. The impact of Grendel's vicious killing is the effect of his weak minded ness which causes more slaughter and I honorable killing.
Another key idea showing his true colors is his over confidence. In the middle of the novel as he's rampaging in the mead hall, he dares the warriors to come and attack him. This is important because he knows he can't be injured by these meager warriors which gives him a false sense of security. His display of one versus all of the Danes may seem like bravery, but in truth is false bravado. Another example of anti-heroism is when he has an apple battle with Unferth. This is important because it demonstrates to us that Grendel fights for his own intentions. He didn't fight for any kind of honor or valor, but instead for his own amusement, which aren't heroic traits. The impact of his dis honoring of the Danes is the effect of his weak ambitions and singular view.
The examination of the Grendel story reveals Grendel's true intentions through his actions and words which shows us that having a story based on the core guidelines of the heroes journey doesn't mean that the main character will be a hero. His killing rampage shows us that he doesn't fight for honor. Not only does he not fight for honor, but he doesn't have any control nor does he fight for others rather than himself. His over confidence reveals another negative of Grendel's which would be false bravery or false heroism. Ultimately, a true warrior must have the qualities and characteristics of a hero in order to obtain such status.

Who is the Hero of the Grendel Story?

In the story Grendel, the hero would be Grendel. Though technically he's isn't a hero to the Danes, he is the one who matches closest to the Heroes journey requirement stages. Unferth would be the runner up, but he isn't mentioned enough.

Hard Drives

A hard disk drive (HDD; also hard drive, hard disk, or disk drive) is a block-based data storage device used for storing and retrieving digital information using non-volatile memory (retaining its data even when powered off) in a random-access manner (individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order rather than just sequentially). An HDD consists of one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating discs (platters) coated with magnetic material, with magnetic heads arranged on a moving actuator arm to read and write data to the surfaces.
Introduced by IBM in 1956, HDDs became the dominant secondary storage device for general purpose computers by the early 1960s. Continuously improved, HDDs have maintained this position into the modern era of servers and PCs. More than 200 companies have produced HDD units, though most current units are manufactured by Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba. Worldwide revenues for HDDs shipments are expected to reach $38 billion in 2012, up about 19% from $32 billion in 2011.
The primary characteristics of an HDD are its capacity and performance. Capacity is specified in unit prefixes corresponding to powers of 1000: a 1-terabyte (TB) drive has a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes (GB; where 1 gigabyte = 1 billion bytes). Typically, some of an HDD's capacity is unavailable to the user due to use by the file system and the computer operating system, and possibly inbuilt redundancy for error correction and recovery. Performance is specified by the time to move the heads to a file (average access time) plus the time it takes for the file to move under its head (average latency, a function of the physical rotational speed in revolutions per minute) and the speed at which the file is transmitted (data rate).
The two most common form factors for modern HDDs are 3.5-inch in desktop computers and 2.5-inch in laptops. Different sizes are used in specialty devices such as portable media players or in some server hardware. HDDs are connected to systems by standard interface cables such as SATA (Serial ATA), USB or SAS (Serial attached SCSI) cables.
As of 2012, the primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), though HDDs retain an advantage in recording capacity, reliability and price per unit of storage.

World War 1 Begins

On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.
Threatened by Serbian ambition in the tumultuous Balkans region of Europe, Austria-Hungary determined that the proper response to the assassinations was to prepare for a possible military invasion of Serbia. After securing the unconditional support of its powerful ally, Germany, Austria-Hungary presented Serbia with a rigid ultimatum on July 23, 1914, demanding, among other things, that all anti-Austrian propaganda within Serbia be suppressed, and that Austria-Hungary be allowed to conduct its own investigation into the archduke's killing. Though Serbia effectively accepted all of Austria's demands except for one, the Austrian government broke diplomatic relations with the other country on July 25 and went ahead with military preparedness measures. Meanwhile, alerted to the impending crisis, Russia—Serbia's own mighty supporter in the Balkans—began its own initial steps towards military mobilization against Austria.

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Two bullets fired on a Sarajevo street on a sunny June morning in 1914 set in motion a series of events that shaped the world we live in today. World War One, World War Two, the Cold War and its conclusion all trace their origins to the gunshots that interrupted that summer day.
The victims, Archduke Franz Ferdinand - heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie, were in the Bosnian city in conjunction with Austrian troop exercises nearby. The couple was returning from an official visit to City Hall. The assassin, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip burned with the fire of Slavic nationalism. He envisioned the death of the Archduke as the key that would unlock the shackles binding his people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A third party, Serbia, figured prominently in the plot. Independent Serbia provided the guns, ammunition and training that made the assassination possible. The Balkan Region of Europe entered the twentieth century much as she left it: a caldron of seething political intrigue needing only the slightest increase of heat to boil over into open conflict. The shots that day in Sarajevo pushed the caldron to the boiling point and beyond.

Blank Check

After Sarajevo, Count Leopold von Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, drew up a letter for the Emperor Francis Joseph to sign and send to Wilhelm II to try and convince both of Serbia's responsibility.
On July 6th, Wilhelm II and his Imperial Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, telegrammed Berchtold that Austria-Hungary could rely that Germany would support whatever action was necessary to deal with Serbia -- in effect offering von Berchtold a 'blank check.'

Shiba Inu

The Shiba Inu is the smallest of the six original and distinct breeds of dog from Japan.

A small, agile dog that copes very well with mountainous terrain, the Shiba Inu was originally bred for hunting. It is similar in appearance to the Akita, though much smaller in stature. It is one of the few ancient dog breeds still in existence in the world today^. Inu is the Japanese word for dog, but the origin of the prefix "Shiba" is less clear. The word shiba means "brushwood" in Japanese, and refers to a type of tree or shrub whose leaves turn red in the fall. This leads some to believe that the Shiba was named with this in mind, either because the dogs were used to hunt in wild shrubs, or because the most common color of the Shiba Inu is a red color similar to that of the shrubs. However, in an old Nagano dialect, the word shiba also had the meaning of "small", thus this might be a reference to the dog's diminutive stature Therefore, the Shiba Inu is sometimes translated as "Little Brushwood Dog".

Kobe stresses patience with offense

By Ramona Shelburne

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/8581957/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-stresses-patience-new-princeton-offense 

By virtue of his standing in NBA history and the five NBA championship rings he can choose to wear on any given night, Kobe Bryant can say things his relatively young, less accomplished coach Mike Brown cannot. Reminded that Jackson's six titles in Chicago gave him more clout when he first sold the Triangle to the Lakers and Los Angeles than Brown has now, Bryant laughed and said, "Yeah. The message changes according to who is giving it. But it's a sequence of options, it's an equal-opportunity offense, the message is the same thing.

Democrats Deliver String of Stinging Defeats in Senate

By the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/us/politics/senate-races.html

Democrats snatched Republican Senate seats in Indiana and Massachusetts on Tuesday, averted what once were considered likely defeats in Missouri, North Dakota and Montana, and expanded their control of the Senate, handing Republicans a string of stinging defeats for the second campaign season in a row. Those Democratic triumphs followed quick wins in Connecticut, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, all states where Republicans had harbored ambitions of victory that would propel them to a Senate majority for the first time since 2006.

Californians Back Taxes to Avoid Education Cuts

By The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/in-california-voters-approve-ballot-measure-that-raises-taxesin-california-approve-voters-ballot-measure-that-raises-taxes.html

SAN FRANCISCO — California voters decisively approved a ballot measure that will raise taxes by $6 billion annually over seven years, according to election results on Wednesday. Voters heeded the pleas of Gov. Jerry Brown, who said the new revenues were necessary to save the state’s public schools and balance the budget. Across the country, voters in 38 states considered more than 170 ballot measures on fiscal, political and social issues that, in many cases, resonated nationally.

Obama Wins a Clear Victory, but Balance of Power Is Unchanged in Washington

By the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/a-divided-nation-keeps-the-status-quo.html?_r=0

After $6 billion, two dozen presidential primary election days, a pair of national conventions, four general election debates, hundreds of Congressional contests and more television advertisements than anyone would ever want to watch, the two major political parties in America essentially fought to a standstill. For his part, Mr. Obama won a clear victory but less decisively than other re-elected presidents. OBAMA WON.

Brien Taylor sentenced to prison

By ESPN.com news services

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/8603311/ex-new-york-yankees-prospect-brien-taylor-sentenced-prison

Brien Taylor was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday, was the No. 1 overall selection in the 1991 draft and got a then-record $1.55 million signing bonus, but he never threw a pitch in the major leagues. "This is a tragic story -- all too often our professional athletes spiral into criminal activity after an athletic disappointment or injury," Thomas Walker, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, told ESPN in a statement. "I think all of us hope that Mr. Taylor, like many others who have gone down this road, will put their activity behind them and move to a better place in their life." I guess it seems that many professional players think they are invincible when they start making big money.

 

Narrative Story

Questionable?

            When you're only seven years of age, you don't really have doubts about things that are told to you. You take information in and it just goes right over your head without a single thought. But in those rare moments, there are times when your gullibility is tested to its breaking point. One of the most important skills to obtain in this world is the aptitude to distinguish between what is fact and what is fiction. In this short narrative, I'll describe one seemingly insignificant event, that had a significant impact on myself as a person to this day.

            The year was 2003, the month was September, and the day I don't really remember; except that it was a school day, so it couldn't have been a Saturday or Sunday. It was just the start of a new school year in Temecula, California, and we were all stuck in class waiting for the school day to end. It wasn't necessarily a bad day, because for some reason I remember colored pencils scattered across the room and pictures on paper littered all over the ground. (Then again, the memory of that day could just be my postulation about what early school years were mainly like).

            In my class there was an undeniably intimidating character whose name alludes me, since nobody really talked with him that much. Probably because of his menacing stature I can only assume. He had red hair, pale skin, and wore a spiky metal wristband. When I think back to it, I'm pretty sure the spikes were made of plastic, but that's beside the point. The daunting aspect of this kid was that he was a year older, and a whole lot bigger than the rest of us, making him a bit difficult to approach. That spiky wristband he wore is the center piece to his legacy in my mind.

            On that day, the scary kid with the spiky wristband decided to tell a story to a group of us second graders. It was short, sweet, and straight to the point. He first told us to look at his wristband, and then out of nowhere he blurted out that he had robbed a jewelry store to get it. He didn't explain anything, or go into details, he just stated that he robbed a store to get the wristband. In my mind, I had no reason to doubt him, because to me,(not to be prejudice or anything, but...) he looked the part. There was just one thing that I wanted to know. It wasn't "why does that wristband look like something from a dollar tree?", or "why are you happy about stealing?", no, instead I asked, "how did you do it?".

            Of course he had no answer, so he just sat there fidgeting and wriggling in his seat when the rest  of us were waiting for an answer. While he was sitting there dumbstruck for not being able to answer a somewhat simple follow up question, the rest of us started a yelling circle where we kept on shouting, "how", over and over again. Seconds later the teacher overheard our voices and headed straight for us, which was the signal to scram. Because the red haired boy was the only one left he was interrogated first. After being forced to tell his lie to the teacher, he was then forced to apologize to the rest of us. When I came home with this story, my parents only laughed at me for being swindled by this obvious ruse for attention. After the verbal onslaught of humiliation (laughter of parents lasting about 3 seconds), I decided that I would pay closer attention to stories being told to me from then on, and to always remember this story as a reminder to never be that gullible again.

Lena Massacre

The Lena Massacre or Lena Execution refers to the shooting of striking goldfield workers by the Russian Empire's tsarist army on 17 April [O.S. 4 April] 1912 in northeast Siberia near the Lena River. It has been suggested that Vladimir Ulyanov adopted his more popular alias after the river Lena — Lenin — after this event, although he had in fact started using it years earlier.
The incident took place at the goldfields of the Lena Gold Mining Joint Stock Company (a.k.a. Lenzoloto), located along the shores of the Lena River about 28 miles northeast of the town of Bodaybo, north of Irkutsk (coordinates for monument: 58°11′07.06″N, 114°35′01.91″E.). Merciless exploitation of the workforce provided enormous profits for the British and Russian shareholders, such as A.I. Vyshnegradsky, Alexei Putilov (both on the board of directors), Count Sergei Witte, Empress Maria Fyodorovna, and others. The working conditions at the goldfields were extremely harsh. The miners had to work fifteen to sixteen hours a day. For every thousand workers, there were more than 700 traumatic accidents. Part of the meager salary was often used to pay fines. The other part of it was given in the form of coupons to be used in stores at the mine itself. All this led a spontaneous strike at the Andreyevsky goldfield on February 29 (March 13). An immediate cause for the strike was distribution of rotten meat at one of the stores.
On March 4 (17), the workers established their demands: an 8-hour workday, 30% raise in wages, the elimination of fines, and the improvement of food delivery, among others. However, none of these demands were satisfied by the administration. With the Central Strike Committee and Central Bureau (P.N. Batashev, G.V. Cherepakhin, R.I. Zelionko, M.I. Lebedev, and others) in charge of the strike, it had extended to all the goldfields, and included over 6,000 workers, by mid-March. The tsarist government sent troops from Kirensk to Bodaybo, and on the night of April 4 (17), all members of the strike committee were arrested. The next morning, the workers demanded their immediate release. That afternoon, some 2,500 people marched towards the Nadezhdinsky goldfield to deliver a complaint about the arbitrariness of the authorities to the prosecutor's office. The workers were met by soldiers, who began shooting at the crowd by the order of Captain Treshchenkov, resulting in 270 dead and 250 wounded (as reported by a local newspaper Zvezda). These numbers were used for propaganda purposes during Soviet times. However, one of the reports from the mine dated 5 April mentions 150 dead and 100 wounded.
The public demanded the government send a commission to the goldfields to investigate the incident. Interior Minister Maklakov dismissed the massacre: "So it was. So it will be." Soon afterwards, the administration offered its workers a new contract, which failed to meet their satisfaction. News of the massacre provoked nationwide strikes and protest meetings totaling more than 300,000 participants, with 700 political strikes during the month of April, and 1,000 strikes on 1 May in the St. Petersburg area alone. The strike continued until August 12 (25), when the last of the workers withdrew from the mines and moved elsewhere. Altogether, an estimated 9,000 employees and family members abandoned the goldfields. The number of strikes in Russia had sharply declined from 14,000 in 1905 to just 222 in 1910. Next year it increased to 466 and 1,918 in 1912.
The Duma commission on the Lena execution was headed by Alexander Kerensky. His colourful reports of the incident greatly promoted widespread knowledge of the event, and also advanced his career from a backbencher to a popular leader of the Duma, as well as head of the Provisional Government of 1917. Joseph Stalin declared: "The Lena shots broke the ice of silence, and the river of popular resentment is flowing again. The ice has broken. It has started!"

Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden; and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea.
Russians sought a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean, for their navy as well as for maritime trade. Vladivostok was only operational during the summer season, but Port Arthur would be operational all year. From the end of the First Sino-Japanese War and 1903, negotiations between Russia and Japan had proved impractical. Japan chose war to gain dominance in Korea. After discussions broke down in 1904, the Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastern fleet at Port Arthur, a naval base in the Liaotung province leased to Russia by China, which led to war. The Russians were poorly organized and the Japanese defeated them in a series of battles on land and at sea.
The resulting campaigns, in which the Japanese military attained victory over the Russian forces arrayed against them, were unexpected by world observers. Over time, the consequences of these battles would transform the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage.

Triple Entente

The Triple Entente was the name given to the alliance between France, Britain, and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on August 31, 1907. The alliance of the three powers, supplemented by agreements with Portugal and Japan, constituted a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. (Italy had concluded an additional secret agreement with France, effectively nullifying their alliance with Germany.)
Historians continue to debate the importance of the alliance system in igniting the Great War. At the start of World War I in 1914, all three members of the Triple Entente entered it as Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki, usually known simply as Ichiro (born October 22, 1973), is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). Originally a player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), Ichiro moved to the United States in 2001 to play in MLB for the Seattle Mariners, with whom he spent 12 seasons. Ichiro has established a number of batting records, including MLB's single-season record for hits with 262. He had 10 consecutive 200-hit seasons, the longest streak by any player, surpassing Wee Willie Keeler's streak of eight.
Before playing in the MLB, Ichiro played nine years for the Orix Blue Wave in Japan's Pacific League. Posted by Orix after the 2000 season, Ichiro became Seattle's right fielder. The first Japanese-born everyday position player in the major leagues, Ichiro led the American League (AL) in batting average and stolen bases en route to being named AL Rookie of the Year and AL Most Valuable Player (MVP).
Ichiro is the first MLB player to enter the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (The Golden Players Club). He is a ten-time All-Star and won the 2007 All-Star Game MVP Award for a three-hit performance that included the event's first-ever inside-the-park home run. Ichiro won a Gold Glove Award in each of his first ten years in the major leagues, and has had seven hitting streaks of 20 or more games, with a high of 27.

Top ten list of the most overrated summer activities

1. Sleeping
2. Hiking
3. Reading
4. Playing Video Games
5. Watching TV
6. Exercising 
7. Eating Healthy
8. Running
9. Napping
10. Having Fun

Sukiyaki

Sukiyaki is a popular one-pot meal which is usually cooked at the table as you eat. The word "yaki" means "sautee" or "grill" in Japanese. The word is used because meat is sauteed in the hot skillet. The main ingredient in sukiyaki is usually beef which is thinly sliced. Meat slices and ingredients are simmered in soy sauce based soup. In different regions of Japan, sukiyaki is cooked differently.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb thinly sliced beef, cut into bite-size pieces
• 1 package shirataki noodles (made from yam cakes) or cellophane noodles, washed and drained, cut into 3 inch lengths
• 8 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed
• 1/2 Chinese cabbage, washed and cut into 2 inch wide pieces
• 1 yaki-dofu (grilled tofu), cut into bite-size pieces
• 1 shungiku (chrysanthemum greens), washed and cut into 2 inch lengths *if available
• For sukiyaki sauce:
• 1/3 cup soy sauce / 3 Tbsp sake / 5 Tbsp sugar / 3/4 cup water
• For dipping: 4 pasteurized eggs *optional

Preparation:

Arrange ingredients on a large plate and place the plate on the table. Mix soy sauce, sake, sugar, and water to make sukiyaki sauce. Set an electric pan or a skillet on the table. *After this point, cooking is done at the table as you eat. Heat a little oil in the pan. Fry some beef slices, then pour sukiyaki sauce in the pan. Add other ingredients when the sauce starts to boil. Simmer until all ingredients are softened. It's ready to eat. Dip the cooked sukiyaki into the raw, beaten eggs if you would like. As the liquid is reduced, add more sukiyaki sauce or hot water.

Hector VS Paris

Though Hector and Paris are brothers, their rating in warrior status is much different. Hector is experienced, brave, and courageous. Paris is a newbie when it comes to war and is completely out of his league. Though he starts out brave, in the end when the fighting gets hard, Paris runs away, scared and beaten. Hector would never have done something so dishonorable in battle, which is how Hector and Paris differ. In an agreement such as the battle between Menelaus and Paris, Hector would not have just thought about himself, rather he would have died with honor, protecting his people. (Of course Hector wouldn't lose to Menelaus anyway, but that's beside the point).

Why War? What seems to be the causes behind the war as depicted in the Iliad?

Back then it seems that the only reason for war were the petty necessities of a king. They justify their reasons for war by saying it's for their land, or for honor, but in reality, wars were waged due to the weakness of kings. In the Iliad, the main reason for the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, was because one women left to Troy. Her departure ignited the flames of battle, causing the kings greed to make the decisions rather than settling things peacefully.

Plymouth

Early relations with the Native Americans

After the departure of Massasoit and his men, Squanto remained in Plymouth to teach the Pilgrims how to survive in New England, for example using dead fish to fertilize the soil. For the first few years of colonial life, the fur trade (buying furs from Native Americans and selling to Europeans) was the dominant source of income beyond subsistence farming.Shortly after the departure of the Mayflower, Governor Carver suddenly died. William Bradford was elected to replace him and went on to lead the colony through much of its formative years.

As promised by Massasoit, numerous Native Americans arrived at Plymouth throughout the middle of 1621 with pledges of peace. On July 2, a party of Pilgrims, led by Edward Winslow (who later became the chief diplomat of the colony), set out to continue negotiations with the chief. The delegation also included Squanto, who acted as a translator. After traveling for several days, they arrived at Massasoit's capital, the village of Sowams near Narragansett Bay. After meals and an exchange of gifts, Massasoit agreed to an exclusive trading pact with the English (and thus the French, who were also frequent traders in the area, were no longer welcome). Squanto remained behind and traveled the area to establish trading relations with several tribes in the area.

In late July, a boy by the name of John Billington became lost for some time in the woods around the colony. It was reported he was found by the Nauset, the same group of Native Americans on Cape Cod from whom the Pilgrims had stolen corn seed the prior year upon their first explorations. The English organized a party to return Billington to Plymouth. The Pilgrims agreed to reimburse the Nauset for the stolen goods in return for the Billington boy. This negotiation did much to secure further peace with the Native Americans in the area.

During their dealings with the Nausets over the release of John Billington, the Pilgrims learned of troubles that Massasoit was experiencing. Massasoit, Squanto, and several other Wampanoags had been captured by Corbitant, sachem of the Narragansett tribe. A party of ten men, under the leadership of Myles Standish, set out to find and execute Corbitant. While hunting for Corbitant, they learned that Squanto had escaped and Massasoit was back in power. Several Native Americans had been injured by Standish and his men and were offered medical attention in Plymouth. Though they had failed to capture Corbitant, the show of force by Standish had garnered respect for the Pilgrims, and as a result nine of the most powerful sachems in the area, including Massasoit and Corbitant, signed a treaty in September that pledged their loyalty to King James.

In May 1622, a vessel named the Sparrow arrived carrying seven men from the Merchant Adventurers whose purpose was to seek out a site for a new settlement in the area. Two ships followed shortly thereafter carrying sixty settlers, all men. They spent July and August in Plymouth before moving north to settle in modern Weymouth, Massachusetts at a settlement they named Wessagussett. Though short-lived, the settlement of Wessagussett provided the spark for an event that would dramatically change the political landscape between the local Native American tribes and the English settlers. Responding to reports of a military threat to Wessagussett, Myles Standish organized a militia to defend Wessagussett. However, he found that there had been no attack. He therefore decided on a pre-emptive strike. In an event called "Standish's raid" by historian Nathaniel Philbrick, he lured two prominent Massachusett military leaders into a house at Wessagussett under the pretense of sharing a meal and making negotiations. Standish and his men then stabbed and killed the two unsuspecting Native Americans. The local sachem, named Obtakiest, was pursued by Standish and his men but escaped with three English prisoners from Wessagussett, whom he then executed. Within a short time, Wessagussett was disbanded, and the survivors were integrated into the town of Plymouth.

Word quickly spread among the Native American tribes of Standish's attack; many Native Americans abandoned their villages and fled the area. As noted by Philbrick: "Standish's raid had irreparably damaged the human ecology of the region...It was some time before a new equilibrium came to the region."Edward Winslow, in his 1624 memoirs Good News from New England, reports that "they forsook their houses, running to and fro like men distracted, living in swamps and other desert places, and so brought manifold diseases amongst themselves, whereof very many are dead".^[55] Lacking the trade in furs provided by the local tribes, the Pilgrims lost their main source of income for paying off their debts to the Merchant Adventurers. Rather than strengthening their position, Standish's raid had disastrous consequences for the colony, as attested William Bradford, who in a letter to the Merchant Adventurers noted "had much damaged our trade, for there where we had  most skins the Indians are run away from their habitations..."The only positive effect of Standish's raid seemed to be the increased power of the Massasoit-led Wampanoag, the Pilgrims' closest ally in the region.

This is What I learned Today – September 28, 2012

The title of the article that I read is, "Tim Cook Apologizes for Apple's Maps".
Written by, By Brian X. Chen.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/tim-cook-maps/?partner=rss&emc=rss
I learned that Apple's maps app was a huge disappointment and has made many people angry. As an Apple user, I agree with the public in that I think the application may look okay, it is completely unreliable. What's important, is that not all iOS updates are going to be good the first time around, and that we just need to give them some time to fix the problems. I felt angry that Apple would slack off in making such a bad update. Others will want to read this to see if they want to update their apple devices or not, until they fix the problems. 

Besides Afghanistan and Iraq, which world situation could push the United States to war?

Fortunately for us, the U.S. is a smart country that doesn't initiate war these days. Other than the problems in Afghanistan and Iraq, there aren't many things that could cause the U.S. to go to war at the moment. One though could be the oil disputes in the middle east, which could possibly go south if we are restricted from our power supply. Another possibility for war could be terrorist organizations, should they become too large, or frighteningly organized. The last would be a dispute with China, since we owe them so much debt, and we also want to liberate them from their communist rule.

What I learned In Class Today

The article I read in class today was, "Yankees' Teixeira critical of umps on final out".
By Andrew Marchand
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/8357330/new-york-yankees-mark-teixeira-critical-umps-final-out
New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira re-injured his left calf sprinting to first base on a game-ending double play that left the tying run at third in the Yankees' 5-4 loss to the Orioles on Friday. After watching replays that clearly showed his head-first slide beat the relay, Teixeira questioned the umpire crews' integrity. "Sometimes you wonder if the umpires are just trying to get out of there," said Teixeira, who had argued a strike three call in the eighth. "When you are battling like we are battling and they can't get a call right, that pisses you off. It really does."

Who I Am

For me there are three, very original goals I would like to accomplish in the near future. One, would be to graduate from high school. Two is to go to a college with a strong field in engineering. The third would be to get a job. (And make more money than my dad). If I could, it would be nice if I could eventually find a job where I get to travel a little bit. I've always wanted to go to Japan, so if that ever became a reality, that would be a dream come true.