Poetry

Poetry is a form of writing to express more complex ideas, thoughts and feelings in a more artistic way. Usually has a beat, and does not always have to rhyme. Many different forms to express your ideas.
Poetry, like music, is more felt than it is written.

IBM & PC

IBM: Upfront Magazine (pg 1) states "...Children like Beah are being swept into armed conflict, robbed of their childhoods, and used to fight for greed and power."

PC: "...Children like Beah are being swept into armed conflict, robbed of their childhoods, and used to fight for greed and power." (Upfront Magazine pg 1)

Paraphrase and Direct Quote

Paraphrase: The U.N. has called the war in Darfur the "world's worst humanitarian crisis." This conflict has spread into Chad where hundreds of thousands of Chadians were forced to become refugees in thier own country, all during the course of one year (Polgreen 19).

DQ: "The war in Darfur has led to what the U.N. has called the 'world's worst humanitarian crisis.' Over the past year, the conflict has spread into Chad, and hundreds of thousands of Chadians have become refugees in their own country" (Polgreen 19)

Act II

If I were trying to convince Brutus to join the conspiracy I would pretty much tell him the same things the ret of the sonsiraters did. About how Caesar was not any better than he was, and remind him of his deep love for the Roman Republic. Also how he would in turn be saving Rome.

Caesar Theme

Patriotism never goes unpaid for.

Brutus loved Rome so much that he was willing and driven to to murder one of his dearest friends. Yet, it wasn't that easy because in the end he killed his own self while at battle.

Julius Caesar Acts I and II

Act I -- I believe that Cassius' intentions are pretty good at this point, only trying to overthrow Caesar to save the republic and trying to prevent something bad from happening. Yet it seems like everything has to be done in a big way with him, or a conspiracy.

Act II -- In trying to convince Brutus to join the conspiracy I would tell him the same things that the other conspiraters are. I would remind him of how they once lived equally with Caesar and that all the fame is getting to his head and once he was dictator things may go bad. I would also remind him of how the people see him as a noble man and may in turn put him in charge of the republic.

women in the congo

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congo

Chapter 3 notes

Concentration camps:

• threw babies into the flames
• wearing bad uniforms
• prisoners being forced to run
• food rationed--soup, bread
• giants flames and firepits
• the smoke
• families being separated

Dehumanization:

• possesions siezed
• had to wear the yellow stars
• tattooed numbers onto bodies
• shaved bodies/removed clothing and given shower
• make prisoners start to run--overcome by fatigue/lose sanity
• never called by name

Stein of Antwerp:

• family friend
• wanted to know about family
• elie lies and says the families okay
• eventually he finds out the truth--he dies

description of concentration camps

• separated into 2 different lines
• saw a large chimney and crematorium
• large fire pit that they were throwing people in
• put in empty barracks where they had to strip and give up their clothes
• taken to rough barbers that shaved them
• were given uniforms they had to wear even if they werent their size
• barbed wire all around the camp

Brief Love

1. The poem is very blunt and forward about the conditions on the cattle car. It doesnt mask over what went on in the car just because its a poem explaining an intimate encounter.
2. I still wonder how long they were together, and what they all had talked about, or if it was just love at first sight.
3. There are many connections with this poem and other Holocaust materials we've read such as the conditions of the cattle car. It also explains how people were dying left and right, also touch on the fact that they would trik people into thinking they were going into a shower then they would gas them.

fire class discussion

Fire symbolism:

• crematoriums = death
• fear
• burning bodies, faith, culture, memories
• the hate and chaos
• destruction happening
• power of the Nazis

Fire

The woman who sees the flames is very important, she somewhat foreshadows the events in store for the Jews. The first time she was shouting about the fire, no one believed her, yet once they got to the concentration camp there was an actual fire, she was dead on. This part in the story shows how high the peoples nerves were after being in a cattle car for so long, in the unbarable heat, they even resorted to beating her to stop the yelling.

Class list foreshadowing

Foreshadowing

• Jews were expelled from Sighet.
• Moishe the Beatle came back to warn the other people.
• The Gestapo and hungarian police enter sighet
• The Ghetto, lost all rights
• All jews were lined up ready for transport.
• when Moishe was taken away, someone said "What do you expect, thats war."
• The family member knocking at the window

Foreshadowing

FORESHADOWING

• More and mor erestrictions were being put on the jews
• They were made to wear the yellow star of David
• The Jews just looked past all of the signs
• Moishe the Beatle was in the group of people that were being taken to a forest where he watched people dig their own graves then be shot into them
• He came back to warn people and tell his story
• One day they were told that they were being transported
• the Hungarians came in the ghetto and were very cruel and heartless to the people
• They were transported to a smaller ghetto

What I know about the Holucaust

What I know about the Holocaust.

• was during WWII
• Hitler tried wiping out the Jewish population
• they were kept in concentration camps
• they were killed in many different ways
• they were branded and had to wear special clothing
• many tried to hide and flee
• they were tortured

What we know about the Holocaust.

• it was a mass genocide
• Many of the killing were of Jews (6 million)
• Total killing estimated 11 million
• Hitler wanted a "perfect race" (Aryan- blonde hair and blue eyed)
• Hitler also targeted other groups-- gypsies-- polish -- Homosexuals--mentally disabled
• started in germany
• Hitler's men were called the Nazis
• Mass extermination was conducted in different ways: shooting, burning, gasing, starvation, disease
• Elit Nazis were classified as the Gestapo
• Started WWII
• Hitler was a soldier in WWI
• wrote a book while he was in prison
• Anne Frank was a victim

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The Lottery

1. Justice is the quality of being just or fair.

Some traditions we have would include going to my grandmas house every christmas eve and easter as a family. Also at christmas eve, the youngest puts the little baby jesus in the manger.

2. The community was very traditional even if there were some people who thought iyt should change, it was also so small that they were each afraid to really speak up about it. Mrs Hutchinson was stoned by teh town because she "won" the lottery.. In this town they have a lottery every year where they pick someone to stone to "sacrifice". Its a long standing tradtion that many people are set in their ways about.

3. Have people outside the town found out they still do this to people?, If so, why wouldnt they try and stop it"

4. "It isnt fair !"

By the Waters of Babylon

1. Well, im not complaining but I guess if I thought about it I would say that we do process our information too quickly. We're dangerously close to destroying ourselves.
2. He went to the river, then to the dead place which turned out to be New York.
3. What exactly did the people do to destroy the city?
4. "We must rebuild"

"There Will Come Soft Rains"

Pre-Reading:
1. I don't really know what the world will look like in 2026, considering im not a gypsey and i can't tell the future. Yet, if you think about it it, 2026 is only 18 years away, I mean if i live an average lifespan hopefully, I would live to see the year. Hopefully we wont all die from a nuclear bombing. I imagine our gadgets will continue to get even more and more advanced. As a matter of fact, thats what im afraid will happen. Our technology will eventually take over the world as we know it.

Questions:
So is it a nuclear bomb that kills everyone?
How can the dog still be alive?