Blog#3:Quarter 4: Tender Bar

As we continue throughout the story, we find out about the life of Moehringer's life. As a child Moehringer had always wanted to see his father, whom he called the VOICE. The Voice was funny to him and was heard on the radio a lot, preaching. According to him. We learn from him the personalities of his mom and grandpa and how they don't approve of each other. She was unable to pursue her dreams of going to college because of the money factor. For that reason, she always wanted Moehringer to complete what she couldn't do. The mom shows herself as someone who puts pressure on a kid for what she didn't accomplish, for what she couldn't do but what she wants her kids to achieve for her. This can play an important role in Moehringer's development because we might see her not let him be able to take on his own goals. This is the reason why he lives in the Shit-House. This can play a significant role since his grandfather's scrooge like attitude might prevent him from achieving his goals. This also creates problems with his mom and his grandpa since they don't like each other.

Blog#2:Quarter 4: Tender Bar

Meohringer's memoir tells us of his everyday family life. We learn that he lives in a big house with many family members. His household is known as the "Shit House" and it includes his mother and him, his grandpa and grandma, his mother's two grown siblings, Uncle Charlie and Aunt Ruth, and Aunt Ruth's five daughters and one son. We learn that he is not happy in living there because he is bothered by noise that is made constantly from all the arguing and disgruntles in his family. We learn that he doesn't like the noise, however the experience of living in such a house has taught him to enhance his selective listening skill. He states that this skill was helpful whenever he wants to listen to the thing he wants to while ignoring every else. The reason for it being a "Shit House" to him is because his grandpa not caring about the house and so doesn't want to repair it so it looks like crap to him. This all adds up to the fact that makes him try to stay from the house as much as possible. By doing this, we can foreshadow that he will start hanging around at the bar more because he loves the happiness that is brought upon in the bar.

Blog#1:Quarter 4: Tender Bar

In J.R. Moehringer's memoir, The Tender Bar, in this story, Moehringer tell us about the life of his town and how it revolves around the bar. In his memoir, he states, "My hometown was famous for two things - lacrosse and liquor"( Moehringer 5). By stating this, he informs to us that his hometown is known for playing lots of lacrosse as well as drinking and going to bars. This helps us to understand the community that he is in. We also learn within the first few chapters of the book that his dad has left him and his mom by themselves. His mom decides to leave him because he is a tempered man. In doing this, his mom angered his dad and for that reason his dad to abandon them. This happened when he was young. Whenever he hears his famous dad on the radio, they try to hide it away from him by telling him that he never had a dad. However, we can see that he understands that even as a kid and because his dad has left him, he had to look for other fatherly figures throughout his community. This all leads him to the bar when men will act like his dad.

Blog #15: 2nd Semester: Overcomming Odds

We are just about an year and a half away from the world cup. Remarkably, Angola got into the world cup. Angola is a country wracked by decades of conflict. Many teams are expected to go into the world cup, such as Argentina, Brazil, and Portugal. But, no one expected Angola to go through the final rounds of eliminations. It came as a shock to many soccer fans, but I believe that the Angolan people had faith and cheered their team on.

Blog #14: 2nd Semester: Love

From – Twenty Poems of Love

I can write the saddest lines tonight.

Write for example: ‘The night is fractured
and they shiver, blue, those stars, in the distance’

The night wind turns in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest lines tonight.
I loved her, sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like these I held her in my arms.
I kissed her greatly under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could I not have loved her huge, still eyes.

I can write the saddest lines tonight.
To think I don’t have her, to feel I have lost her.

Hear the vast night, vaster without her.
Lines fall on the soul like dew on the grass.

What does it matter that I couldn’t keep her.
The night is fractured and she is not with me.

That is all. Someone sings far off. Far off,
my soul is not content to have lost her.

As though to reach her, my sight looks for her.
My heart looks for her: she is not with me


The same night whitens, in the same branches.
We, from that time, we are not the same.

I don’t love her, that’s certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the breeze to reach her.

Another’s kisses on her, like my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body, infinite eyes.

I don’t love her, that’s certain, but perhaps I love her.
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

Since, on these nights, I held her in my arms,
my soul is not content to have lost her.

Though this is the last pain she will make me suffer,
and these are the last lines I will write for her.

Pablo Neruda

- This is one of my favorite poems by Pablo Neruda. I recently discovered Neruda's poetry in m Spanish class. I read a few of his poems like "Poem XX", "Poem XV", and a couple more, In this poem he talks about a girl who broke his heart. He says that he loves her and he doesn't love her, he dreams about having her in his arm while she try's to push away. There are many interpretation's for this poem.

Blog #13: 2nd Semester: War

For decades the Israelis and Palestinians have been at war. Well the Israeli-Palestinian war began over fifty years ago. Today, the two enemies are not even close to an agreement of any sort. They continue to fighting in which seems like an never ending. In Israel every young man and woman must participate in the army at least one time. The war that the United State's is apart of, and the war that the Israelis are apart of. It has become apart of the Israelis and Palestinians. As for us, We also have an ongoing battle here in the U.S. The incident of September 11th, 2001. Since the first day of the attack, President Bush sent troops to Iraq to fight. And still today, our troops are still fighting for our country.

Blog #12: 2nd Semester: Imperialism

I read an article about the New Imperialism in Europe. The New Imperialism was all about aggressive territorial pursuit to have colonies and/or to have racial superiority. Many countries in Europe. By the 20th century only Liberia and Ethiopia were still free. Also, the Imperialism consisted of taking over India. Britain took over India from the EITC (East Indian Trading Co). I believe that all these country's had the right to take over all these other countries. Although, sometimes it may be over territory, culture, or even just wanting to get a hold of that country, that when these big wars start between country's.

http://www.2worldwar2.com/infantry-weapons.htm