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Am Literature Tarriq Hansrajh06/07/05 4thEntry 1 In my pocketsCell address 5ozKeys 2ozWallet 3ozIn my backpackSpanish book 5lbsTrig book 9lbs4 1 inch binders 12lbsUSHAP notebook 1lbOther misc. items 1.5lbsTotal Weight 29lbs 10ozThis idea does not surprise me at all because when I think about all the work that we confine to do I remember all the textbooks that we have to carry around. In addition sometimes I come home with my back aching, but thats usually only when I carry my USHAP notebook with me as wellAm Literature Tarriq Hansrajh06/07/054thEntry 2Rat Kiley was born Bob Kiley on April 7 1939 in Albany, New York to Marie and Charlie Kiley. At age 11 Bob was given the family name Rat by one of his assistants when they were walking home from school one daytime when apparently Bob fell into a large open dumpster and when he emerged he had a few strings of spaghetti sticking out of the back of his pants. The nickname stuck with him all the way to his adulthood. Rat gra duated from Creekside High School in 1957. He did not want to attend college right away but cherished to work in one of the factories in his home town to earn some money to pay for college. Even then his co-workers called him Rat. Two eld later he had managed to save ten thousand dollar to put toward his college tuition but unfortunately he was drafted just like the rest of the hands his age who were not attending college. When he was in Vietnam Rat encountered many terrible situations and was faced with severe heart ache when his best friend frizzly Lemon is killed by a landmine. Rat was devastated by this terrible event and felt an extreme sense of loneliness especially when he wrote a earn to Curts sister and she never responded. Rat fought through the rest of the war seeing too many tragedies that are too horrible to consultation here and when he returned to his family in 1973, two years before the war ended they found his behavior very strange. They found that he was not the similar person that he was before and eventually the found that he had gone completely insane. Rat would mumble things to himself and would scream as if he saw his friend Curt being killed right in front of him.