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Blog Entry #8
3/19/12

One of the strengths of my paper was my organization. This is one of my strengths because the content of my body paragraphs was put together well and it was all organized in a timeline sequence. But a weakness of this paper was my conclusion, I never had a conclusion so I didn't get any points for it. Another weakness of mine was my comma usage and punctuation. As I look through my paper most of the marks are because I didn't use commas in appropriate places or I didn't use commas at all.

Blog Entry #7
3/9/12

The author that I am researching is Ernest Hemingway. I feel that I am doing pretty well on the research paper. But one of the most challenging things on this paper was getting the required number of 4 pages. The easiest thing was already having all my information and knowing what I wanted to write.

Blog Entry #6
3/5/12

I am reading //Green Hills of Africa// by Ernest Hemingway. One interesting thing that I have learned is that Ernest had 4 wives. One interesting research method that I learned is the online databases, I think that they are very useful and helpful.

Blog Entry #5
2/21/12

The Green Hills
Photo thanks to obit-mag.com

Characters
There were only two main characters in the book "Green Hills of Africa" by Ernest Hemingway. One of them being Ernest and the other being an Austrain Hunter by the name of Kandisky. Ernest is a over excited hunter because when he sees an animal he is going to shoot he always does something to scare it away. Kandisky is a more experienced hunter and knows what he is doing.

Summary
In this book Ernest goes to Africa because he likes to hunt and there are many exotic animals in Africa. The main animal that he is hunting is a Kudu Bull which is like the African version of a gazelle. But throughout the book he never manages to kill one and he learns from the mistakes he made by not being able to kill one. He also meets another hunter named Kandisky on the side of the road trying to fix his broken down truck. He then decides to join Ernest on the hunt for Kudu.

Rating
I would rate this book a 3. I rated it this because throughout the book all it describes is the hunts that Ernest goes on and it also describes the problems he faces. But I also like how descriptive everything was in the book. I also liked how he learned from his mistakes.

Wiki Reflections
I think this is an okay way to share about our pieces of reading. I like how you can view what others have shared. I also like how you can use hyperlinks to help you describe things. But I also think that this is very time consuming and we don't have enough time to read what others have posted.

Blog Entry # 4
2/7/12

Luck Has Run Out
====I am on page 156 in the book "Green Hills Of Africa" by Ernest Hemingway. One of the strengths in this book is the descriptive words and the use of language Ernest uses. In this passage it shows Ernest's word usage and how descriptive he is " My exhilaration died with the stretching out of this plain, the typical poor game country, and and it all began to seem very impossible and romantic and quite untrue". I chose this picture because it shows the big open fields of Africa and it also describes Ernest's luck on how hunting the Kudu Bull is. If you would like to learn more about Africa [|click here.]====

Blog Entry # 3
1/27/12

**Laughing**
== In the book "Green Hills of Africa" by Ernest Hemingway I have found a quote that I think is pretty good and kinda funny. " Highly humorous was the hyena obscenely loping, full belly dragging, at daylight on the plain, who, shot from the stern, skittered into speed to tumble end over end"(pg.34). I thought that this quote was kinda funny because it said "Highly humorous was the hyena obscenely loping, full belly dragging" and that's because hyenas laugh and their stomaches are pretty fat compared to the rest of their body. I also picked this quote because Ernest uses very descriptive words to describe to describe the hyena like, humorous, obscenely, stern, skittered. The last reason why I picked this quote was because the whole first chapter he was hunting Kudu Bulls and now he is finally hunting something different and it's pretty interesting. To learn more about hyenas [|click here.] == Photo thanks to wildlife-pictures-online.com

Blog Entry # 2
1/20/12

Problems
In the book "Green Hills of Africa" by Ernest Hemingway I have found that there is two main characters so far, one being Ernest Hemingway and the other being Kandisky. In the first chapter, it describes many problems Ernest faces while he is on his hunting trip in Africa. One of them being that when he is trying to hunt the lesser kudu bull a very loud truck drives by and scares all of them off. Then after the sun falls and it gets too dark to hunt Ernest drives back to his camp where he is staying with some local tracers. On his way back he discovers a man on the side of the road with a broken down truck and steam rolling out of it. They each introduced themselves and the other mans name was Kandisky. When Ernest asked Kandisky what happened he said that his truck was making a lot of noise and thats why it was so loud. That is all the farther that I have really gotten in this book. To learn more about greater kudus or lesser kudu bulls [|click here.]

Photo thanks to: kenyasafari2011.blogspot.com

The Hunt


I am reading the book "Green Hills of Africa" by Ernest Hemingway published by Simon and Schuster Inc. I predict that some people go on a hunting trip to Africa. I also think that the people try to kill every type of exotic animal in Africa. I also predict that they try to learn about the culture and the things around them while on their trip. To learn more about the book "Green Hills of Africa" and Ernest Hemingway [|click here.]