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Am Literature Tarriq Hansrajh
06/07/05 4th

Entry #1:

In my pockets:
Cell phone – 5oz
Keys – 2oz
Wallet – 3oz

In my backpack:
Spanish book – 5lbs
Trig book – 9lbs
4 1 inch binders – 12lbs
USHAP notebook – 1lb
Other misc. items – 1.5lbs

Total Weight: 29lbs 10oz

This estimate does not surprise me at all because when I think about all the work that we have to do I remember all the textbooks that we have to carry around. In addition sometimes I come home with my back aching, but that's usually only when I carry my USHAP notebook with me as well

Am Literature Tarriq Hansrajh
06/07/05 4th

Entry #2:

"Rat" Kiley was born Bob Kiley on April 7 1939 in Albany, New York to Marie and Charlie Kiley. At age 11 Bob was given the nickname "Rat" by one of his friends when they were walking home from school one day when apparently Bob fell into a large open dumpster and when he emerged he had a few strings of spaghetti sticking out of the back of his pants. The nickname stuck with him all the way to his adulthood. Rat graduated from Creekside High School in 1957. He did not want to attend college right away but wanted to work in one of the factories in his home town to earn some money to pay for college. Even then his co-workers called him "Rat". Two years later he had managed to save ten thousand dollar to put toward his college tuition but unfortunately he was drafted just like the rest of the men his age who were not attending college. When he was in Vietnam Rat encountered many terrible situations and was faced with severe heart ache when his best friend Curt Lemon is killed by a landmine. Rat was devastated by this terrible event and felt an extreme sense of loneliness especially when he wrote a letter to Curt's sister and she never responded. Rat fought through the rest of the war seeing too many tragedies that are too horrible to mention here and when he returned to his family in 1973, two...