The Ghost Hunter

This book has a lot of stories in it about ghosts of the past and present. The first couple have to deal with weather you believe in ghost/spirits/entity's whatever you wanna call them. The third storie has to deal with the Greenwich Village Ghost. Well many of the buildings back then were from the eighteenth century and were very very old, and were sometimes used for pyschic mills. Untill they knocked it down in 1956 to build one of those newer style apartment buildings. Well after they there done building people were complaining about an apparition of old white male known as John La Farge, who had dies in 1910 and had owned the old mill. He ran many people out of there apartments. I would be scared to if i seen an old guy who was dead roaming around my apartment for gods sake. I mean cmon he's DEAD.

The River pgs 1-29

Two years ago Brian Robeson was stranded alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days with nothing but the clothes on his back and a little hatchet. He survived and now the government wants him to do it again, but only this time hes by a river. Brian thinks there nuts for him to go out and do this again. They want him to do it so that astronauts can see what he did to survive and learn the techniques that he has used. But he wont be alone they say, the psychologist Derek Holtzer will be by his side the whole time on this journey. Brian still thinks there freakin crazy. Theres no way I would go back out to the wilderness for that long with nothing but a hatchet, your crazy, I dont think you could pay me to do that no way.

hatchet 30-46

Brian's just realizing whats going on and what had just happened to him. He's realizing that reality might just be setting in and he's not liking it at all. He's getting eatin alive by mosquitoes and might just be suffering from a couple of fractures and bruises, and also heat exhaustion, and lack of water.
He doesn't really want to drink the lake water because he knows that the airplane pilot is in that water just dead and rotting away down there, he's scared it might be contaminated. He doesn't care he needs to get to water fast. He suffers through cold nights and very hot days and is getting his head back to normal, trying to find out when a search rescue is going to happen to help relieve him.
What he doesn't know is that he will be out there for a very long time. If I stranded way out there in the middle of no where I would be scared and not know what to do. I don't have much experience in survival but I think I could manage if I had a big lake like that. Its almost like camping kinda. I love to camp, but his situation is a lot worse than camping.

Hatchet pgs 1-29

Well Brian Robeson is in a little puddle jumper airplane going to visit his dad. The pilot lets brian take the controls of the airplane. Brian can't really do it at first, the plane loses altitude and then gets it back and goes back down and up and down and back up. Until he finally can get it steady and then pilot took back over. They are going northeast toward Canada over the wilderness, when the pilot complains of chest pains. He swears he's fine, Brian thinks this is a little fishy. Well yeah, DUH....it is fishy...because usualy if an older man is complainin about chest pains hes gunna have a heart attack... Thats what ends of happenin to the pilot. He had a heart attack and Brian was flippin a lid. I would to, I would be freakin. I'd just close my eyes and hope to die peacefully cause i have no clue how to fly a plane. He took the controls and crashed it into a lake.

Divine Winds pgs. 18 -29

The word "Hurricane" comes from the Spanish Explorers of the New World, and they have this old story the three evil gods wind and destruction called: Huracan, Hunraken, and Jurakan. According to the legend, the goddess Atabei created the earth and gave birth to two sons named, Yucaju and Guacar. Yucaju was the good son who created the sun and moon for light and created plants and animals for population and beauty. Guacar got jealous and created strong heavy storms and high winds known as hurricanes. Hurricanes, are one of the many regional names given to a very intense form of a general phenomenon know as a tropical cyclone, which really only is a low pressure area that forms over the tropical oceans and also asscoaited with cyclonically rotating winds. Not that complex but if you don't know what your dealing with they can be very deadly. Take hurricane Katrina for an example. People didn't know the damage or the velocity of the storm and totally got hammered by it and suffered greatly. When I hear about a developing tropical storm off the coast of Africa I follow it closely and then figuer out weaher or not its gunna be ok or or if its gunna be a oh crap we gotta leave situation. I know what to look for and I know how dealy these storms are. I dont like to mess with them.

Divine Wind pgs.3-17

If it wasn't for the two typhoons, Japan just might be part of China in todays world. In the year 1259 Kublai Khan the grandson of Genghis Kahn became the emperor of Mongolia and renamed it Yuan, or meaning " the first beginning. Between 1231 and 1238 the Mongols had conquered northern China, they also overran the Korean Peninsula. By 1267 Kahn sent a couple a emissaries to Japan demanding that there emperor give in or submit to a fatal invasion. Soon after that on October 29th, 1274 they began there invasion on Japan. over 40,000 men including about 25,000 Mongolians and Chinese, over 8,000 Korean troops, and 7,000 Chinese and Korean seamen set sail from Korea in about just over 900 ships. They had invaded Japan with no problems at all except for the deaths of the Kamkazies, but thats what they were hired for, and also the diasters of the two typhoons that seperated the countries. It wasnt until the early 19 century that naturalists began to accept that hurricanes are boundless vortices, or just oversized whirlwinds. William Renfield, year 1821 a New England meteorologist traveled all over to inspect and study the damaged of hurricane that swept the Mid-Atlantic States. Renfield and some other people beleived that hurricanes extend upward only about a mile or so into the atmosphere. From my knowledge of thunderstorms and hurricanes I know for a fact that they extend all the way up into the upper troposphere and into the lower stratosphere, sometimes reaching about 18-20 km converting into 11 miles in the sky. That is the reason I chose to read this book because this is what I find intersesting and amusing. The art of how hurricanes and thunderstorms are brought up and what people way before our time thought they were and how they reacted. Now we have all the technology in the world to know when there gunna hit how fast there moving and about what the damage is gunna be so that we can warn people and get them out of its path.

The Red Badge of Courage Ch. 16-20

All the men of the regiment re led to a group of trenches where Wilson suddenly falls asleep. Henry then gets a glimpse of a column of gray-suited enemy soldiers, and his regiment is quickly marched into the forest. Henry begins complaining like a little kid about his army’s leadership, blaming the generals for their failure to win battles.The lieutenant shepherds the men to a spot in the woods, where he says they will encounter the enemy in only a few minutes. As the battle roar swells to a thunder, the men wearily await the fight. After a maddening and intense period of waiting for the inevitable, the enemy sweeps down upon the line of blue-uniformed men. Seized by a feverish hatred of the enemy, Henry fights in a frenzy, firing and reloading and refusing to retreat. In the heat and smoke, he is aware of nothing but his own rage. After a while, he hears one of his comrades laughing and realizes that he is firing at nothing; the battle is over, the enemy has fled. His regiment now regards Henry with awe, regaling him with stories of his ferocious prowess in the combat. As the Union troops rest, the fighting deeper in the forest intensifies until the air is parched with smoke and the battle-roar drowns out all other sounds. During a sudden lull in the battle, the men hear one of their comrades, Jimmie Rogers, crying out in pain.