my poetry response is about the poem real cool. I thought that this was a good peom to tell about how people who think that they are cool think. When they think they are cool then they usually leave school and get really bad jobs such as being a bus boy or working at mcdonalds. They may also do things such as drugs and alcohol so they can't focus on anything except that and they spend all of their money on it and will likely become homeless. I think when it said that they die soon means that people who think they are cool abuse their bodies with substances and sin so they will likely not make it to normal lifespan because of the drugs and alcohol. I think that many homeless people that you see downtown may have had this same problem and so they have no house and almost no money at all and when they do get money they just go and buy a beer or something.
If you ask any of them why they do it some might say that they do it to be cool or to live up their life while they have the chance but almost all of them will say that they wished they never started in the first place somewhere along the line. some people may do it just to fit because everybody else is doing it, i think that these people may not have as bad of an addiction as the ones who decided to start it on their own but they can still hurt their bodies enough to make them die sooner than they normally would. this can be prevented by having school lessons on not doing this stuff although i do not know anybody personally who is addicted to drugs or alcohol but they should still do it so that nothing starts or even becomes a trend in the future.

In response to the video i say that America did have the right to invade iraq and occupy the country for ourselves because the nation was not doing the right things to run its government and the leaders were really cruel and they attacked us so we had by all means the exact right to defend our nation and to keep that nation from becoming any worse than it already is. The leader that iraq had was really cruel to the people that lived in his nation that he was to be searched out and then executed in order to keep peace in iraq and move them closer to democracy so that way peace can be restored and they will be a better and stronger nation than they was before. I believe that iraq was somewhat responsible for the 9/11 attack which devastated our nation so much that our nation was all fuel up and ready to go to war so avoiding a war was almost impossible.
I think that our motives was the same as the book because we are sort of giving unwanted help to a nation for the good of that nation. But it is also different because the white missonaries are trying to help by maintaining peace but we are trying to help by using violence to force things to go our way. I don't think either side is better than the other because they each have different results. I think that there is a good reason for one nation to invade another is if that nation is falling apart and nothing is really going the right way, or it has a cruel leader then it is perfectly acceptable for a nation to invade another as long as it is for a good cause. I think it would be bad however if that nation was already in a state of peace and they are being evaded just because they want to have that nation for themselves and to steal all of their belongings.

In my response to the prompt i say that there really may be a way to fight off an unjust order but it would not be easy to do and you may risk getting executed yourself. But i say that carrying out the orders in no way makes you as guilty as the person who told you to do because it was not your choice and you are simply just following orders. I'm sure that the executioner would much rather not kill that person and use their lives for something more useful but i feel as though they have no choice. Im my opinion it could be combated by secretly letting the person go free without anybody knowing about it and advice him to never return to that city. Also they could just say no to the person commanding it and then run away so they could not catch them and they could live the rest of their lives guilt free from the thought of murder when they die. I don't think that any single person could end a cruel ruler but if the entire city ganged up on him then they could overthrow him and be rid of a cruel ruler and then get a better one and this could be accomplished by secretly telling close friends about the evil that is going among the royals. I think that using this method could have prevented alot of cruel rulers such as hitler is everybody in Germany knew about how cruel it was and decided to go down there and overthrow him but everybody bought into his nonsense and continued to keep him as ruler which is why the holocaust is allowed to happen. Another issue that is seen is that nobody knows this stuff is going on so there really is no way to fight it off if nobody knows about it.