Genre

So once again my topic is about high school.

one of the songs I really like about high school is: Four Years by Jon Mclaughlin
http://www.elyricsworld.com/four_years_lyrics_jon_mclaughlin.html
In this song Jon Mclaughlin has a rather good feeling about high school and says that once you're done with it, you shouldn't have to go back and re-live it. He saying not to get too up tight in high school

Another song that has a different meaning of High school is: High School Never Ends by Bowling for soup
http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/bowling-for-soup-lyrics/high-school-never-ends-lyrics.html
In this song, instead of Jon Mclaughlin view about just forgetting high school after it's over, Bowling for Soup says that you are never really away from high school, that even when you go to college it still feels like high school.

A movie I thought would represent High school well was a movie I just saw, Easy A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTU4BdtzQtw
this movie takes more of a comic view of how high school is for some people, in the movie it shows how fast rumors are spread, sure the movie may not be completely true but it fits in well with my topic of high school. within the songs and the movie I think this shows really well how one topic can have multiple genre's

What Writing is Like

For me writing is like, going through high school. Each year of high school you learn something more, like you would when you would edit a paper. Like what Mr. Kunkle said in class yesterday about how you need to keep going over a rough draft, and each time you read something you make more corrections to make it better. The more time you have to look at something the more you realize certain things that you might not have seen before, like freshmen year I didn’t realize I didn’t need to go to all the marching band practices to still get an A, now senior year I know this-- I’ve made corrections. All you need to do is get rid of the unnecessary filler.

The Looming Tower

Ok, so I chose The Looming Tower for my non-fiction book. What this book is about is the rise of Al-Quaeda and how they lead to the attack on 9/11. I chose this book because I thought it would be interesting to learn more details about something that has been such a big deal in my life and I although I heard a lot on the news about it, I really didn't know as much as I should about it.

In the first part of this book the author, Lawrence Wright, focuses mainly on the character Syyid Qutb. Qutb was a popular writer in the middle east and he moved to America. Basicly the first 40 pages takes you through his life and makes you grow to like him. When he moves back to the middle east he is hung, and later you learn that he is one of Osama bin Ladin's role models.

It's not until about page 70 that Wright even mentions Bin Ladin's name, I found this kind of suprising because since the book is about 9/11 I figured the very first page would be about him. However Wright takes his time in introducing Bin Ladin, he writes a lot about his father and what a rich guy he was. As Bin ladin grows up though the story gets a lot more complicated and you are introduced to many more characters and it was hard to keep up with once in awhile. Up until very close to the end though the book is all about religion and how close Bin Ladin is to his religion and what he does to stay close to it and what he makes his family do for religion too.

Although this book was a lot to read, overall I thought the reading style was very easy to read. I kept up with the story, for the most part, and was suprised at how much I didint know about Al-Qaeda and 9/11.