Holocaust AOW Impressions

 Quite a few articles that I learned about today were about survivors and their stories. In a lot of these articles the situations that they were in word definitely not ideal. One example a survivor spoke about how they were born in one of the concentration camp.   Another one talks about going into the camp at 15 and only surviving because they needed to greet people at the gate. Another one talks about how an Olympic medalist used force papers to survive in Germany.

 For the majority of the other articles we talked about new information coming up from the holocaust. One of them reveal documents about women being forced to have a Borsch and's and being raped, and confirmed the number of prisoners was higher than we originally believed being somewhere around 15–20,000,000 Jews. Another one talked about the fact that  holocaust Memorial day was not recognized until 2004 by the UN. And how the Soviets used the holocaust to claim that communism was far better than fascism. Then another one spoke about how not only Jews were killed but the mentally ill and disabled were killed as part of the trial project.

Perseverance Blog

The Nick as shown in the video is very courageous in dealing with his problem. Despite the issues he would have in doing most normal things with his lack of limbs. He also shows a surprising amount of integrity. He doesn't sugar coat his disability and claim that his life is easy, but he is honest and tells them that although his life is difficult he is happy and can have fun. Finally, Nick has enough  confidence to not be ashamed of himself. When he talked about being gawked at he was not embarrassed, but he would spin it humorously by seeming surprised by himself.

In sixth grade I was really struggling. I was always missing assignments, and my grades were slipping dramatically from the easy A's and B's that I was used to. Towards he end of the year I started getting better, and my mom puts it up to me not being used to middle school, but I think that for a time I kind of gave up. I'm glad that I'm doing a lot better now, but I think this was necessary to me realizing how important school was. This is similar to how when Nick was a child he was in despair about not being able to do certain things. We both have moved past that to better things and can now call that a lesson learned.

Berlin Memorial Blog

I learned that there are a lot of rights and privileges that we take for granted that could be taken away. For example the little things like being allowed to go to a pool or being able to eat a certain food are such staples of life that we hardly ever notice how essentially they areuntil they're gone.  The Nazis were very creative and taking away the things that Jews could do in their lives. They started by attacking certain groups of people and taking away the little things but those eventually added on to each other until there was very little the Jews could do.  I could not imagine being in that situation and I think that for the people who experienced it it must've been a very shocking wake up call.

 I think that they built this morning in order to keep the memory alive for the people who experienced it and for their family members. They must have realized what he did was wrong in the years after word and wanted to attempt to make it right. Do you know if they couldn't at least keeping the memory alive  would help them to remember the people who died for that. I think if it wasn't for morels such as these will you may not know as much about the holocaust as we do today. Thankfully the people of the past did not want us to forget.

 The numbers passed on different years usually we're not always the same. For example the year of the Olympics in Berlin and then you before that not a lot will pass, however in the years after words a lot of them work. Also in the beginning most of the laws passed only focused on certain groups, but towards the end of the war  they were more focused on the Jewish community as a whole. Also as far as I can tell the year with the most laws passed was 1938, two years after the 1936 Olympics. But not all of them had this many, most likely due to the fact that they were not trying to draw attention to themselves from the other countries. Also as far as I can tell the year with the most laws passed was 1938, two years after the 1936 Olympics. But not all of them had this many, most likely due to the fact that they were not trying to draw attention to themselves from the other countries.

 I think that's the one I would have the most difficulty with would probably be the law that said all Jewish people had to display the store on their home, and the law that states the Jews were no longer allowed to testify in court against Germans. This opens up a whole can of worms where Germans who maybe they're having a bad day, or maybe they just feel like it can go into any Jewish home and do whatever they want to them without any repercussions. The crime rate against Jews must've gone off up horrifically after this, because there was literally nothing but the people being attacked could do against their attackers .

Quarter Two Reflection

I think that my biggest improvement in ELA was inbedding quotes. The way that I did this originally was by introducing them directly after a topic sentance or transition. This way there was no context, and the transition was very choppy. During this quarter we read some text that demonstrated different ways to add quotes, and I decided to try it. It is by no means perfect, but it is far better than the way things were before. I hope that by useing some of the new methods I can Add some diversety to my work. Old habits die hard, so i know it may be very difficult but I will try my best.

One thing that I have accomplished this year is joining battle of the books. Every year I wanted to join , but I never worked up the nerve, as none of my friends wanted to join with me. Thankfully this year I do! As I don't really know how this works I hope that my groupmates can help me get accustomed to the way this works. I'm not going to be idealistic and expect us to win the entire thing, I know that begginers luck wont help, but I do hope that we don't completely fail. I can't wait to get started.

The most challenging part of second quarter was probably keeping up with my homework. I don't like weighting things by hand, due in part to my terrible hand writing. Add that to the fact that I am a world class procrastinator, and I never get anything done. This then results in me putting things on for other days, then doing a weeks work in one day. Now it is still leagues better than last year, but that's mostly because I'm getting better at coming up with things on the fly. I do hope over the next two quarters that I can improve, other wise this will be an example interesting freshman year.

TKAM Comparative Blog

  I think that the biggest difference between the book and the movie is, that aunt Alexandria was not present at all during the movie. In the book she was a prominent figure, she was set up to show the differences between Atticus and the rest of Maycomb. For example, " Grandma says it's bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he's turned out a nigger-lover we'll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again."  This shows Alexandria's opinion on Atticus's behavior in comparison to children's, this is  not showed in the movie at all. Another reason that this is a major difference is, but she shows how the Finches differ from the rest of the town.  For example, "Maycomb welcomed her… Miss Rachel next-door had Aunty for coffee in the afternoons, and Mr. Nathan Radley went so far as to come up in the front yard and say he was glad to see her."  This is the way of contrasting how the town ask around Atticus to how they act around Alexandria, none of these people would be doing these things for Atticus yet they do that for Alexandria. Again this is hardly, if at all, shown in the movie.

In my opinion books portray the story better. There are a lot of things in the book did you not translate into the movie that really add to the story. For example, we see less of characters like Miss Maudie, and Mrs. Dubose. Then there are the characters that we don't see at all, Such as aunt Alexandria and Mr. Dolphus Raymond.  Another example our events that were important to the plot being completely removed. Things such as Mrs. Dubose death, Christmas at the landing, and the mixed children. These things really add depth to the characters and the plot yet they were not added. I understand that in a movie based on book it is hard to add everything, however there are certain things that did not need to be removed that I wish had been left in.

TKAM Found poem

"He's ruinin' the family"

He is not!

Not my father

He's civilized at heart

He wanted me to hear

An unfair advantage 

Applies to the human race 

If he was proud

They 'preciate what you did

Not okay to hate anybody 

No particular race of men

I proved him a liar 

Never thought these thoughts 

Not my father 

He's civilized at heart 

 

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TKAM character relationships e

 To do my TCAM character relationships I chose to do Atticus and aunt Alexandra. The two have quite a few similarities.  One of them is the fact that they are both Finches. For example, "Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the landing..." This shows that she is in fact a finch, just as Atticus is. Another similarity is that they both want what  they believe  is best for the children. For example, "'We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence. It won't be many years, Jean Louise, before you become interested in clothes and boys…"' This shows that although they disagree on many things, they want the children to grow up right.

 On the other hand they also have many differences. One is that is that Atticus believes that he should allow Scout and Jem to grow up as they please, however aunt Alexandra believes that scout should become a proper lady. For example, "'… You've got to do something about her,' auntie was saying.' You've let things go on too long, Atticus, too long' 'I don't see any harm in letting her go out there. Coward look after her there as well as she does here.'" This shows that they tend to argue about the things the children should be allowed to do.  Another difference that they have is the aunt Alexandra likes to gossip about people, well Atticus does not. For example, " she never let a chance escape her to point out the shortcomings of other tribal groups to the greater glory of our own, a habit that amused Jem rather than annoyed him:' Aunty better watch out how she talks – scratch most folks in Maycomb and they're kin to us.'" This shows that Aunt Alexandra does indeed like to talk, on Atticus's side there are no instances of him gossiping about anyone.

Atticus and Aunt Alexandria are both related to Scout by blood. In fact both are members of her immediate family.  For example, "Atticus said,' Sister, when you stop to think about it, our generation is practically the first in the Finch family not to marry his cousins…'" This shows that they are all members of the same family. As for the affect that Atticus has on scout, he is like a moral compass for her. He teaches her right from wrong and explains things about the world for her. For example, "  when Atticus look down at me I saw the expression on his face that always made me expect something.' Do you know what compromises?' He asked." This shows that scout knows to expect knowledge from Atticus, as that is normal for him. Aunt Alexandra, on the other hand, constantly tries to mold scout into what she thinks scout should be. For example, " Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants."