I still really don't get how the blurb is supposed to work, but I'll try my best to do it from what I got out of the lecture.

The very basics of life can change throughout time. Mark Gerving, like many people grew up in a big family. When growing up, some people had to share a bedroom with a brother or sister, but for Mark he had five others to share with. Through a life of hard work being a machinist, Mark has come to own his own 2,500 sq. foot house with a three stall garage for his Corvette. Every style of life has changed throughout the years, but its the ones that have to work for them that really tell the story.

I have compiled a list of questions, but I don't know who I should interview now. Mr. Fair would be a good choice, but it would be hard to get an actaul invterview out of him.
I'm going home for a family reunion tomorrow so I guess I can ask an aunt or uncle there. That should work.
I tried to get my questions to focus around the person's life, from beginning to the end and more.

So far these are the ones I have.


Describe you childhood, where you were born, your home?
What was your family like?
What did you do for activities?
Did you have to do chores or work for money?
Describe your school years, did you play any sports?
Did you have any child hood hobbies?
Did you go anywhere for vacations? What was your favorite spot?
Besides vacations what other family events did you do?
What was your favorite band as a child?
What did you want to be when you were older?
Who did you look up to as a young adult?
What did you do after school? Then after that?
What have been some of your jobs, favorites, and worst?
What kind of person would you describe your self as?
How have basic living changed in your lifetime?
Have you had any life changing events?
What has been your life’s greatest accomplishment?
What is your favorite memory of your past?
What do you still want to get out of life?
What are some past events that you would change in your life?

It was tough deciding who I wanted to interview, being from a small town you don't really meet a lot of people that have actually done something in their lives that is worth interviewing. Yeah there are some people that do some cool things, but I don't know if there is enough to get 5-7 pages worth. I went through some people I knew that would be the best and it came down to either a friend or a brother. Then one day when some friends from my hometown were talking one of our teachers were brought up into conversation. I never even thought about my history teacher until then. Mr. Fair, my history/geography/economics/law and justice teacher all throughout high school taught me and told hundreds of stories. This guy had done everything in life, been to all the states except Hawaii and Alaska, drove bike with Jay Leno and plenty of crazy things that most people don't do in a lifetime. Besides being an adventurous person, Doug Fair was very smart and talented. In high school he played football, basketball, baseball and track. He went to state in almost all of those and even holds records for some events. Being our history teacher, he knows plenty of things about the World. He can name every country and its capital, and knows a variety of languages, but not to their full extent. I know enough information about Mr. Fair to write a book on him.

I'm going home on Friday of this week, so that is when I'll do my interview. Either talk to him at a football game or a volleyball game. He is always in the same spot and will gladly do a quick interview. For some of the questions I want to ask him about is child life. I know some things like his parents died when he was young and his older sister took care of him. But there are so many things that he has done in his life that I would like to know how he got into it all.

I'd have to ask if all of his stuff is true, though a lot of it seems sketchy, but he always sticks to his word and sometimes has proof of the stuff he has done, like a newspaper article of him in the newspaper with the governor of North Dakota at a high school basketball team, while they were both playing.

So I haven't really decided on a topic, nothing seems to able to be 4 page worthy. It's easier if you could have a bigger subject that's not so similar. With people it would be a lot easier, they have their stories and actually have a thinking mind. Unlike something that is so closely related that its hard to tell the difference. I don't know what would really work, but I think I'm going to go with the example that was on the sheet that had the assignment on it. Halo 1 compared to Halo 2, having played the games a good amount of time, I know a lot about their basic game play and some of the deeper ways the game has changed.

Halo 1 was a milestone in gaming history. Being only to carry two weapons in the game gave it its lifelike feel, but having the futuristic effects it made the game fun. Halo 1 didn't have Xbox Live, so you couldn't go online and play other people, so you had to invite all your friends over and play on a LAN network. We would have 8 or even 16 of us almost every day at our house, bunched up in our separate rooms, screaming at the top of our longs telling our teammates what to do. Halo 1 was a lot of fun, we spend hours finding out all the little glitches that resulted in unfair behavior while playing serious matches.

Halo 2 was a lot like halo 1 in game play, but had a whole new layout with Xbox Live. Instead of having people at your house, we would connect to the internet and play over Live. Then games got more serious, with greater competition. Soon we were again LANning at each others houses, this time though to play online as a team. The nights would end up being sixteen hours long and our days were nights. The Halo addiction kicked in and we were never the same.

Now it's Halo 3, but we don't want to get into that.