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Who Is Andrew Thompson Nagelberg?

If there is one question that teenager’s hate it is, who do you want to be? It is a loaded question filled with so many variables that it is almost unfair. How, at eighteen years old, am I supposed to know what I want to be for the rest of my life. Not only what occupation I want but who I want to be as a person. I do not know the answer to this question but I do know a few things for sure.

1. I am excited for the challenges I have laid in front of me. I am looking forward to testing who I am as a person through challenges. Things such as college and travel will test my skills and knowledge and help me learn about myself. Stepping out of my comfort zone will help me grow as a person.

2. Though it is cliché, I greatly value honesty. Honesty with myself and others leads to better communication and understanding. To me these things are essential for any kind of relationship.

Though I do not have a concrete ideology I know the general path I want to take. Experiences that I will have in the near future will help make my ideology. I look forward to finding out who Andrew Thompson Nagelberg really is.

Similarities/Differences

These two instances are similar. Can they be compared exactly? No.

Similarities:
One group (Che, USA) is helping another group (Revolutionary guerrillas, Pakistanis) rid their country of a different group (Cuban government, Al Qaeda/Taliban)

Differences:
Che was getting rid of the government in power.
The USA is helping quell sectarian violence and small group nuisances while helping to keep the government in place.

Andele! Andele!, Arriba! Arriba!

Page 1. “This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic’ at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.” Ernesto’s voice in this excerpt shows an intelligent man. This sets up the book for an educated voice.

Page 40. “My tired eyes refused to sleep and in them a pair of green spots swirled, representing the world I had left for dead behind me and mocking the so-called liberation I sought. They harnessed their image to my extraordinary flight across the lands and seas of the world.” Ernesto writes in an airy, abstract, and metaphoric style. He is artistic in his writing and uses metaphors in place of concrete, tangible examples from time to time.

Conspiracy

The Central Intelligence Agency is responsible for the death of Che Guevara. That’s right, I said it. Uncle Sam is a killer. All the pieces fit to blame the United States. The USA is anti-communist while Che is pro-communist. Che is making a big fuss all over Latin America and could potentially make trouble for the United States. This man is leading successful revolutions for proponents of communism. How do you get rid of this problem? Kill Che. That is exactly what the C.I.A. did.

Lonely Adventure? I think not.

It has been told that a wise man once said, “There is nothing lonelier than adventure.”
That wise man is full of bologna.

Adventure shows one the world.
Adventure opens ones mind.
Adventures teach one about oneself.
Adventures fill one with experience.

Without adventure how would one know them self?
Nothing can make one less lonely than adventure.

Let Dreams Be Dreams

Che wanted a completely socialist country. He wanted all people to pitch in equally including government officials. Che led by example when, in the movie, he decided to roll up his sleeves and go to work in the factories and fields. Che expressed his radical views in a speech he gave in France. Here he practically said goods should be traded between communist nations for free because trading for a profit is like imperialism or capitalism. Che had big dreams but they were not realistic. Even though his friend, Castro, agreed on many aspects he knew Che’s dreams were not a reality.