Monday, May 21, 2012
The Heart and the fist by Eric Greitens
The Heart and the Fist is an excellent book about the life of Eric Greitens, a student, humanitarian, and Navy SEAL. Eric Greitens teaches many life lessons and shares his insights into the worlds problems. My favorite theory of his is this: the use of force without compassion is evil, but compassion without force is ineffective. He came to this realization through working as a humanitarian in Bosnia and Rwanda. Eric Greitens attended Duke and achieved the highest honors academically. He also got into boxing during his time at Duke and trained daily with his trainer "Beebop." I havent made great progress in this book yet, but I can already tell it is going to be great. Eric Greitens offers many valuable and interesting insights into life. He is also a sublime role model of hard work, kindness, intelligence, and courage.
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I just read the book No Mans Land by Lesley Hauge. It was about a post-apocalyptic land with only women, although it is rumored that on the other side of the ocean, there is a wild land where men control the women and the world is in chaos. Keller is a Tracker, or a Tracker in training. What she wants more than anything is to be a Tracker and protect her people from the biggest threat, men. She tries be like everyone else, she tries to fit in and not notice the troubling things that are happening. More and more crops are failing, more people are being subjected to the cruel fate of being impregnated, and the leaders are paying even closer attention to everything. Then her and her friends, although friends are strictly forbidden, find something from the Time Before. It is a buried house, and what they find is amazing. It is a house that is almost perfectly conserved from the Time Before. They begin to understand what life was like, but not as much as they’d like. They scourge through magazines, marveling at the impossibly skinny girls, seemingly helpless females, and the men. The men don’t look gross, cruel, or nasty. But that’s what they’ve been told all their lives, so isn’t that what’s right? They soon corrupt her whole cabin, and the girls sneak away almost every night to marvel at this unknown place. Keller soon begins to feel uneasy, what if they are caught? She also gets a feeling that what she’s grown up with, what she knows, and what her leaders have told, is a complete lie. She will uncover the truth, no matter what.
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