tirsdag den 28. januar 2014

Sue Randolph

Kirstine, Nanna, Andrea og Natascha


"Sue Randolph, 39, grew up in Saudi Arabia and earned her master's degree in Arabic at the university of Michigan." p.25, l. 13-14.

"I joined the Army because I had $65.000 in student loans." p. 25. l. 20



"Iraq looks like it's straight out of the Bible."













Brian, Sasja og Josefine - Sue Randolph




Picture 1.
"Since i had a master's in political science - Middle East studies and Arabic..."
Picture 2.
"..I felt like I was part of a big machine that was going to help them have a better life."
Picture 3.
"We have no comprehension of the psychological of this war."

fredag den 10. januar 2014

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Was an American author. He was born at November 11th 1922 and he died at April 11th 2007. His father (Kurt Vonnegut) and his grandfather (Bernard Vonnegut) were architects in the Indianapolis firm Vonnegut & Bohn.
Vonnegut’s most famous works are “Cats Cradle” (1963), “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969) and “Breakfast of Champions” (1973). He wrote in the genres satire, gallows humor and science fiction.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had an older brother (Bernard Vonnegut) and a sister (Alice Vonnegut). His mother committed suicide with sleeping pills when Vonnegut was 22 years old. Kurt Vonnegut was also an artist. In May 1940 he graduated from Shortridge High School and went to Cornell University to study chemistry. While he was at Cornell University he enlisted at United States Army. After that he went to the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee to study mechanical engineering.

When Vonnegut went home after the Second World War he got married with Jane Marie Cox and they had three kids. They got divorced in 1979 and Vonnegut married another woman called Jill Krementz. With her he adopted a little girl. Vonnegut also adopted his sister’s three kids when Alice Vonnegut died of cancer in 1958. Alice’s husband died in an accident two days before Alice died.