War Artifact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpBlMmGhNF0

 The song "Imagine" by John Lennon poses many similarities to the topic of war. Throughout the song he is singing about how the world should stop making war and start making peace. When he says "Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people, living life in peace" is talking about how if there were peace among all countries and religions, there wouldn't be a need to kill. Everyone would have the ability to live in peace. "Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger. A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people, sharing all the world" is describing how with peace there would be equality all around the world, which should be acknowledged. Overall, this song outlines how important it is to make peace as apposed to starting war.

ISU blog post

http://www.medicinenet.com/autism_and_communication/page2.htm#how_does_autism_impact_the_family

I chose this article because of the relation it has to the social issue in my novel. This article is discussing basic facts about autism spectrum disorder. The impact on family part poses a similarity to the impact that the disorder had on John in the novel "Dear John." John was unaware of his father's disorder for majority of his life and likewise for his father. Savannah, John's love interest, informs John that his father has this disorder. John and his father have always had a very weak relationship for all of John's life and his father was extremely anti-social. John's dad always enjoyed collecting coins and could only talk about that one thing he was passionate about. This has had major impacts on John growing up because his father was a single parent, so he was distant from him and he had no siblings either. It caused great emotional and social stress on John and his father as John was growing up, because whenever John would want to get close to his father and converse about something not related to coins, he would just get shut down. This is due to the fact that social interaction is a weak aspect for people suffering from autism spectrum disorder. John was unaware of this and he blamed his father for their weak relationship.

Sniper News Report

            June 1st, 1922  

                   Civil War Tears Family Ties

                                War Between Brothers

                                 

On a June night, the battle between the Republicans and The Free Staters continued as the conflict occurred between two brothers. This took place in Dublin during nightfall. The sniper posts himself on a rooftop where is the place that all the catastrophe occurs.

The conflict begins as the sniper see's an armoured car at which he fires his riffle at the old woman and the informer that were in sight.

A plan to take down his enemy occurs to him which he executes soon after he has been shot in the arm by the opposing side. The sniper quickly tries healing his wound and is prepared to take down his enemy.

Now that the opposing side thought the sniper was dead he quickly aimed and shot the Free Stater with his revolver, defeating his enemy.

Soon after the sniper curiously goes across the street to see who he kills, only to be staring into the eyes of his own brother. This was not only a Civil War but a war between a family.