The Crossroads Between Should and Must

After reading the article and thinking about it I realize that must of the things I do is what I should do. Most of the things I do is because I don't want to get in trouble or do the extra work it takes to do what I must do. after thinking about what I have read it makes sense for someone to do what they must instead of should. I hope that I will soon be able to do what it takes to do what I must do instead of what I have been doing. The only thing is that I am not exactly sure what is that I must do. I have an idea what I might want to do but I don't know if there is something out there that I would like more in the future. With that I don't want to start what I must do just to see that I have found something else and start everything over again. 

My Launch

1.What do i want to do? I want to look into the career possibilities of a commercial diver.

2.How can I use my tools from fall? I can use the Internet to find resources and look at the different schools for this.

3.What will i need to do to have no regrets in June? I will need to look at all the possible outcomes and decided on what I want to do in the future.

4.What will impress others? others would be impressed if i come up with reliable information and follow up on it and go to the trade school.

5.Bringing an idea to reality. getting the requirements to go to a commercial diving school

6.Building a learning network. I can find people with knowledge on diving that can help me achieve my goal  

My Vocab #1

Ascent rate- the rate of speed you come up at
arterial gas embolism- where a gas bubble gets into your blood stream
blowout preventor- a release valve that controls the gas pressure
blue hole- a sink hole or cave in a lake you can dive into
booster- increases gas pressure
bottom time- the time you are in the water diving
DCIEM tables- charts used to calculate the time you have to wait in order to do your next dive
decompression chamber- a pressurized chamber that slowly decompresses you to prevent decompression illness
decompression illness- when nitrogen bubbles form in your tissues also known as the bends
dive time- the amount of time you are out on a dive
dump valve- a valve that releases air when the air pressure builds up
wet welding- a cheaper but not as strong weld underwater
dry welding- a more expensive weld but a lot stronger

Literature Analysis #3

Black Hawk Down

1. The book Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden is about the U.S. military action against a Somali warlord named Mohamed Farrah aided. This book is based on the accrual events that took place during the attempt to capture Mohamed's lieutenants.

2. Bowden chose to write about to write about this because it has a great story line and people need to know what soldiers go through and the sacrifices that they make.

3. i chose to read this book because I am interested in history and this story has a very interesting story. I had first found out about this book when I had watched the movie then I had later seen it at the library. Once I had started reading the story I could not stop because I wanted to find out what happened in the end and if there was any major differences between the book and the movie.

4. the book was very realistic but I could not make any connections between my life and this story because I have not been through anything like this.

 People

1. the authors choices to me say that he wanted to get the characters as close as he could to what the real people went through. I looked up the author and it said that he had watched aerial film of the raid and talked to multiple people from both sides before writing the book.

2. Major General William F. Garrison- the commander was an experienced solider that had helped with the phoenix operation that had targeted the Viet Cong.

Warrant officer Mike Durrant- was the pilot of one of the helicopters that was taking down and captured by the militia.

Matthew Eversmann- was placed in command of the ranger Chalk (paratroopers) after the previous commander had a seizure.

3. these people are interesting to write about because their actions directly affected many peoples lives for the better or worse and they changed some peoples lives forever.

Style

1. the author used more of a journalistic style and wrote the story as a novel.

2. the author does not use many lengthy descriptions instead he focuses more on the action that takes place. the affect of this is that it makes the story far more interesting and it makes the story more easily hooked into.

4. the authors attitude was that of trying to grasp the reasoning of why this had to happen and why there was so much death happening.