Monday, September 27, 2010

Journal 8

Chapter 13

Arkadin thinks about when he was stuck in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. He was hiding form the gain and looking for a means to escape but he had no choice to hide within the city because it would be impossible to leave without being caught. Bourne is now on a plane to Seville and has taken several other planes to get to this far. He has been flying for 23 hours. He has been speaking to a woman named Tracy Atherton. She is going to Seville to purchase a Goya which is a painting and Bourne is going to same person for information on a different subject. He choices to help her and insures her he isn't after the painting. In Egypt things have gotten serious because Amun has called him his entire police force into action.  Amun and Soraya learn the range of the Kowsar 3 missile and began there search in kilometer radius around the crash. The missile is only unique to Iran.  They soon find the area where the missile was shot and have further evidence it was Iranian because of a Iran tradition called Nowruz . They found a fire pit and some food which is used in the festival.

Journal 7

Chapter: 12
The U.S government is notify by their discover y and the president has decided to take action. He is meeting with advisors and has come out with a plan. They will destroy the Iranian government from within while putting pressure on them from all side by using the U.N. Veronica Hart and Moira Trevor meet to make an alliance against the NSA. Veronica and Moira have bad history between with each other because Veronica got her kidnapped before a mission. Moira was supposed to be in charge of the mission but Veronica superiors told her to get rid of Moira. Moira learned about who did this to her and have been enemies ever since then. Veronica comes clean that she didn’t want to do it but she was given orders and had no choice. Veronica also told her that was why she left Black River and became the DCI. Arkadin’s men bury one of their own and his death came as punishment for disobedience.

Journal 6

Chapter 10-11    

 Moira used an explosive on the laptop and threw it one of agents following her into the kitchen. In the confusion Moira was picked up by her friends outside the cafe. Arkadin thinks about the past when he lived in the corrupt city of Niehay Tagil. He killed three members of the gang he was working with, because they killed his lover. The gang response was to hunt him down within the city. He also continues to worry about Willard’s message to stay away but now knew Bourne was not dead. He continues to train his group of 20 men in the same location as I said in my past journals. Amun Chalthomun and Soraya come to an agreement to find the terrorists who shot down a U.S plane in Egyptian grounds. They have been studying the wreckage of the plane in the desert with their team. They have learned that Iran may be involved in some way.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Journal 5

Chapter 9

 Bourne’s mentor Willard killed one of Arkadin spy who has been looking for Bourne. Willard stopped Arkadin's spy from contacting him via cellphone and after killed him, he took the cell phone. He redialed the number and found out it was Arkadin who sent him and thus a made mistake. His mistake was telling Arkadin to stay away which meant that Bourne was still alive. Moira has contacted one her friends for information in Washington and after the meeting she had one of her agents give her a car and she traveled in a random manner to get rid of any possibility of anyone following her. She stopped at Cafe to eat. She used a computer provided for by her agency and choose to take a look at the information on the thumb drive which to her made no sense at all. It only said "PINPRICKBARDEM". She soon realized that she was followed when two NSA agent  opened the front door to cafe. Willard talked to the good doctor Benjamin Firth about keeping the death of Arkadin's agent secret from Bourne. He said "yes" that he would keep quiet. He was the doctor who saved Bourne’s life and was being black mailed by Arkadin agent about Bourne whereabouts.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Formal Paper: Rough Draft

Kyle Ordonio
English 101
Prof. Hamilton Salsich
Sept 21, 2010
Peace and Lessons of the Past:
            I find it funny how lessons or stories of others guide us in a hope for peace and the peace for the dead. Their life stories show us the depths of violence and aggression has occurred in the past and left unchecked nothing will become better. The ultimate desire is peace which in its self a better world for our self’s and for those who never had it. Maxine Hong Kingston, Cornell West, Kafi Annan tell us what is wrong with the world based on  their views and stories of others and some semblance to give peace both to the dead and the living.
            In Maxine Hong Kingston story “No Name Woman” she writes about the death of her Aunt and why her story was never told. Ms. Kingston learned about her Aunt from her mother and the story begins in China were her Aunt became pregnant with another man then her husband. I n her culture this was a crime and in retraction for it the villagers destroyed her home. This was a lesson to her daughter about the way one should act but what the villagers did was still a crime. Another way to punish someone who didn’t deserve it was to completely forget her and the family did just that. Her mother said “You must not tell anyone” because the entire family felt shame for the things she did and she was punished for it but the person at fault is the father of the child. In their culture the women had to do what they were told by family and strangers and she is the one who takes all the blame rather than the father. Ms. Kingston wrote “ I alone devote papers to her,” she choice to tell her Aunts story then keep her secret and to me it gave her Aunt some rest. In Chinese tradition most paper that is made for deceased family members is usually origami paper of a house and etc. Most people in Chinese culture honor all of the dead but not all of the offerings are distributed evenly amongst them.  It could be also so it would never happen again.
            Cornel West’s writing of “Moral obligations of living in a democratic Society” shows how aggression of the past can’t be forgotten and how we can strive to make the world better. He writes “All foregoing are signs of a humanity that has been problematized”. In history he says some people were considered a problem rather than human and how societies try to get rid of it and how so many crimes occur against these groups, race, and religions. Mr. West writes “We are all on the same boat, on the same turbulent sea. The boat has a huge leak in it and in the end, we go up down together.” A person’s race, class, and culture don’t matter because we are all human. We share the same problems and should work together to fix it rather blame on someone and etc. Mr. West writes “If the Kingdom of God is within you, then everywhere you go, you ought to leave a little heaven behind.” Each of us can make this world better by being more kind, generous, and courteous. Another is no matter how others acts doesn’t me you should blindly follow and the idea are to hold yourself to higher standard and become others model of good person. We each have responsibility to each other which is respect of others and peace.
            In Kofi Annan’s Nobel Lecture he directly addresses what is wrong with the world and how to improve it. Written by Mr. Annan he says “The twentieth century was perhaps the deadliest in human history, devastated by innumerable conflicts, untold suffering, and unimaginable crimes.”  He clearly states why everyone should try to strive for peace because the events that occurred so far will not stop unless the world does something to prevent it and so the past will never repeat itself. The basic rights of all individuals should be protected and that crimes against humanity will never occur again. Written by Mr. Annan “A forum was created- the United Nations...” The united nation was created to promote safety for everyone, end to conflicts, and to sustain our planet. The United Nations goals are to create a better world for everyone. Kofi Annan wrote “I do not stand here alone. On behalf of all my colleagues in every part of the United Nations, in every corner of the globe- and in instances risked or given their lives in the cause of peace…” In the end peace is wrought dying for. Those who gave their lives did it for rest of the world to learn from and stop the senseless fighting. Now It’s up for the next generation to learn from the parents mistake and create peace.
             They understood and learned from the lessons of the past and were not careless to repeat the cycle. Maxine Hong Kingston, Cornell West, Kofi Annan in turn will set what is right and wrong and tell their stories for others to learn from. Maxine Hong Kingston, Cornell West, Kofi Annan tell us that we will find peace by learning from the past mistakes of others. It’s also so that cycle in history is no longer repeated and a new future is created for everyone. This is the way things are meant to be in hope that someday that there is longer violence, disease, and war.
           
             
           

 

Journal 4

Chapters: 8
Bourne made his way to the scene of his attack coming across a pair of dogs and a couple at work on his way there. The husband was cutting some wood while the wife was cooking with a wok on an open fire and they paid no attention his passing but the dogs did watch him for little. He was on Bali Island and in the city of Tenganan. He came to a stop at the temple and found the area was the shooter did wait to take his shot. He came across a Bali girl who was the eldest daughter of the couple who owned the warung. He learned that the girl name was Kasih and that she recognized him as the man that was shot three days ago but he told her the man was dead in order to protect his cover as being deceased. The girl helped further by showing him a glass eye and a bullet casing. All he needs to do is trace back the bullet to the seller and get the name of the buyer. 

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Journal 3

Arkadin was the man who shot Bourne and is now beginning to train an army for his own purpose. He is building his forces in Azerbaijan near the northwestern borders of Iran because the environment there is like Iran, locals that live there would protect him because he has helped them, and because it largely unpopulated. He has help from Dimitri Maslov the head of kazanskaya which is the largest mob in Moscow. He is getting his supplies form the boss of the Eastern Brotherhood due the fact the Aekadin would kill him if doesn’t. The writer likes to use a lot imagery to show how the character looks like. He also likes to write about the thoughts of his characters a lot.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Journal 2

Bourne has healed from his injury and now looking for Suparwita. Suparwita was priest he spoke to before his incident and seems to know about Bourne’s past which he doesn’t remember. He is now going to temple he has been seeing in his dreams in hopes that some his memories will return. What I notice about the writing it's based on the view of character and they tell the story. Time passes when you switch to a different character in the story.