Chiles, James R. Inviting disaster lessons from the edge of technology: an inside look at catastrophes and why they happen. 1st ed. New York: Harper Business, 2001.
• James R Chiles attended University of Texas Law School.
• While he was there he became interested in writing about Technology and History. Today that is his main focus of writing.
• A fun fact is that he is from Minnesota.
• The stakeholders he represents could be the general public, anyone that is affected by technology and their possible disasters.
• He writes to a broad audience. His first intention may have been to write to engineers and scientists; however it expanded to include everyone.
• As a student in English 102, we are writing to teachers of English 102 and our portfolio readers. Our audience is more specific and academic.
• His purpose was to inform people of the possible dangers of technology. He doesn’t say technology is bad, but states we should be cautious of its potential dangers.
• Chiles used examples from history to show how if technology isn’t handled right it can become a serious problem. In the paperback edition of his book, he uses September 11, 2001 as an example to show how our “mechanical wonders” could be turned against us.
• Chiles uses historical examples throughout his books, but he only talks about when technological disasters occur. He doesn’t mention when technology succeeds.
• His book has contains many different examples allowing a student to use it no matter what his/her research topic is. He talks about security issues whether it occurs within the government or military and that is the most beneficial to our group. Chiles chose not to write in a bias way, allowing his readers to take whatever side they want. It allows us, the reader, to formulate our own questions and decide for ourselves what side to take.

Freud, Anna, and Dorothy T. Burlingham. War and Children. New York: Medical War Books, 1943.
• Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud. Her love was for Child Psychoanalysis.
• Anna and Dorothy seemed to be very close and spent most of their time together.
• Not much information is available on Dorothy Burlingham.
• Throughout this book Freud and Burlingham represent children affected by war. The children are typically10 and under. They were exploring what war does to children and how they cope with it. They are able to see this because they spent time in nurseries with the children.
• Feud and Burlingham’s audience was primarily written towards doctors, psychologists, and individuals involved in research that involves Child Psychology. This was part of her research, so she took it very seriously but she was also there to help those children. As a reader, the only connection I feel as far as audience goes is that fact that I’m writing a research paper on war and the effects it has on children. However, I am also interested in child psychology so reading this book could be very interesting to me.
• World War II was going on while this book was being written.
• Freud and Burlingham don’t talk much about the war or the effects that it had on other people. They did that mainly because it didn’t pertain to anything they were writing about. It would have made their book too confusing. Freud and Burlingham wrote their book a particular way so they could study the effects that war had on children but also so they could spend time with them. It gave them a chance to diagnose and treat the children.
• This book has somewhat changed my idea for my research paper. Now I am thinking that I want to see how war affects younger children. Then I will get the best of both worlds. Learning more about the effects of war, but also learning more about children and child psychology.


London, Charles. One Day the Soldiers Came. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
• London attended Columbia University for Philosophy.
• He is working on getting his Masters degree.
• London speaks for children in this book. Ones that are victims of war, war that was caused by anyone and everyone except children.
• It’s hard to decide who the audience is in London’s book. I want to say it is for those that are for war, to show them the harmful effects that war has, but I don’t think that is the case. I think he wrote this book to show anyone that will read it what the effects of war are on children. He also addresses the issue of children as soldiers.
• London wrote this throughout the Iraq war. He also talks about other little wars or battles/ conflicts going on in places such as Burma, Bosnia, Congo.
• This book could prove to be useful because London talks about both children as soldiers fighting in a war and how war affects children.

The sources that I found started to point me in the direction of looking at war has affected younger children. I think that is interesting 1) because I want to become a doctor, a pediatrician so anything that has to do with children interests me and 2) it still ties war into my project. I think I probably want to consider adding in children as soldiers, but i won't do that unless I need to. For now Im more interested to see how children dealt with war, what they thought about it, and how their lives changed.