Journal Entry #6

One time a was driving on the interstate not really in a hurry to get where I was going but I was going over the speed limit. I past a Highway Patrol officer who was sitting in the median on the interstate. He then caught up with me and pulled me over for speeding. He asked me where I was headed and why I was going so fast. I said that I was late for work and that I had to hurry to get there. Now although I was actually going to where I worked I was only going there to pick up my paycheck and had no real reason to be speeding. He asked me to come back to his patrol car then proceeded to write me a warning. I must sound more convincing when I am lying because that is the only warning I have ever gotten, and it also happens to be the only time I have not had a legitimate reason for why I was actually speeding.

Journal Entry #5

The historical event that I wish I could have witnessed is, the attack on Pearl Harbor. I would not really care to witness the attack and all its gruesome detail; moreover I'd be interested in how our nation reacted to such atrocity. I would have liked to see how the nation pulled itself out of utter despair and disastrous loss, to more or less completely end not just the war with Japan but in fact rallying to end the war that was raging throughout Europe. It is in the most desperate of times that we truly find out who you are as a person and what your capable of. The most iconic image that I believe epitomizes the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor would be a cornered animal. The reason I believe this is true is because we lost so much on December 7, 1941, that we really couldn't lose much more from a morale view. After that day we were fighting for not only our own lives and way of life but all those who had lost their lives that day.

Journal Entry #4

My name is Andrew James Dwire. My parents are fairly religious people so they named me Andrew after the prophet in the bible who's name was Andrew. James also comes from the bible although I'm not real sure on where. They were going to name me AJ but they felt that I didn't really look like an AJ so they came up with Andrew James instead. Also they thought about giving me the middle name of my grandfather's first name Edward, but they nixed that because they felt it would get to repetitive sounding Andrew Edward Dwire, too many d's and w's. My last name is about all the Irish that is left in my being. When my ancestors moved here from Ireland they felt it necessary to change there name to avoid racial profiling and persecution, so they changed it from O'Dwire to just plain Dwire thus severing any real Irish basis behind the name.

Journal Entry #3

The most annoying commercial to me is the one against abused and neglected animals. The first time that I watched this commercial I thought that it was a pretty good commercial and had a good point to it. But now that I see it a couple times each day its just annoying and the issue is just getting beaten to death. I personally think that they are more important issues out there to be using the commercial slots instead of a commercial about helpless animals needing a home. Like maybe they could take more time to commercialize the people in need of help after the Haiti earthquake. I'm not saying that I don't think that animal cruelty is a problem because it is, I just think there are more pressing issues out there that could be more useful of the commercial space that is offered on television.