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Maus/Night blog

Night and Maus are two book about the Halocaust they both show in depth the troubles the Jews went through when they were placed in these camps. People who like comic books that are dark Maus is the book for you but, if you enjoy reading your typical word based book filled with tension Night is your book. Both books are very similar in the general idea but the authors had different approaches on how to get their point out.

Both of these books continuosly talk about how the Germans forced them to run and if fell behind they were to be killed. Also both books bring up the jews problem of lack of food, the Germans would give them a thin soup with some bread for each meal. Furthermore theses stories both have times were the Germans make selections of who gets to live and who dies. Once these problems that the jews are facing soak in for a long period of time the people began to loose hope of getting out of these camps alive. These books discuss the same issues because the things they talk about have actually occurred the way they present it.

I suggest having the students next year read only Night because The comics were hard to get a grip on who was talking at what time. Also Night gave me a more solid grasp on the thoughts of a jew in the Halocaust where Maus was more of a story about what happend and not so much of how people were feeling like in Night. And I personally prefer more thoughtful book like Night.

Retrepo/ Fallen Angles comparrison.

One of the characters in restrepo is yelling "get some!" while he is shooting the Iraqi's this really made me realize Perry's emotion when he unloaded 2 clips into a congs face. (his anger made their killing more personal.

Next The soldiers were exhausted from shooting and then digging and digging more and then more shooting. This really magnifies how Perry in Fallen Angles talks about how their is hours of bordrem and seconds of combat and how that could really get enoying from a soldiers point of view.

Furthermore Restrepo really showed how the soldiers believe that this is the place the are going to die which is very dramatic it shows it to a greater extent then the soldiers talking about it in Fallen Angles because you can also read their body language.

The part in Restrepo where Peble talks about how he couldn't tell his mom what was really going in the war because he didn't want to make her worried. This really shows the extreme emotions these soldiers go through Perry is dealing with the same problem as Peble and I could only imagine just about every other soldier has the same problem because it would be tough to tell your family you think your going to die.

Watching the soldier cry in Restrepo after his buddy died it really helped me to realize the agony that Perry went through after Jenkins died.

In Restrepo when the three soldiers were dancing to music it really showed me the special bond that Perry was talking about in Fallen Angles.

In Restrepo a soldier was talking about how he watched his buddy bleed out and die this really brings the part where Brew blead out in the chopper a lot more significant.

Seeing People In restrepo name the base after Doc. Restrepo really shows how connected the soldiers get to each other just like in Fallen Angles how the whole squad would be so sad if Perry Die.

In Restrepo the soldiers were all emotional when they would see their pictures from home this really shows me the emotional hard ships the soldiers go through when seeing family thats not really their.

Lastly, in Restrepo the homes they make sound better then the ones in Fallen angles but you can see how the quality is still very poor and It looked like it would be a stressful home to live in along with being shot at everyday.

Watching Restrepo and reading Fallen Angles really changed my perspective on war. Before them I really didn't think about how terrifying it would be to live in a war setting. Like in Fallen Angles when Perry describes war as hours of being bored and seconds of being shot at. This lifestyle would be gruesome being shot at day after day would wear a man down. In Restrepo those soldiers wouldn't go a day without being shot at. Also in Restrepo and Fallen Angles all the characters were constantly wondering if this was the place they were going to die because it easily could have been. Seeing these people go through the experiences in war really made my opinion on war negative having to see how it terrorizes the soldiers who fight through it.

Slaugherhouse 5 post

Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1. do a pre writing 6. develope good topic sentences

2 generate a good thesis 7. construct a better conclusion

3. use transition words 8. find better supporting quotes

4. use complete sentences 9. do not have run on sentences

5. learn when to use commas 10. end paragraphs with strong endings

Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5. For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).

1. It was sad when the dresden bombing killed 130,000 people

2. It was funny when Billy had sex with Montana Wildhack

3. It was sad when Billy was in the hospital

4. It was interesting when Billy first communicated with the tralfamadorians

5. It was confusing when Billy would time travel

6. It was interesting how Billy lived in an Earth home in the exibit

7. It was annoying how the book always said "so it goes"

8. It was attention grabbing that the author used cussing words

9. It was upsetting how it wasn't revealed how Billy got off Tralfamadore

10. It was sad when Billy's wife died

11. it was strange how billy would be time traveling for months but only missed a slim amount of time on earth

12. It was crazy how Billy completely ignored the suffering in the black ghetto.

13. It was nice when Barbra took care of Billy

14. it was crazy how Billy died from a laser gun

15. It was funny how Paul Lazarro thought killing was life sweetest thing.

State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.

1. Memory

2. Acceptence

3. Anti-war

4. you can't change the past but can use it to build on the future.

5. value your time.

Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences. You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit. This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.

Max: Hey Billy

Billy: Hey max hows it going.

Max: Not good one of my family members just past away.

Billy: Max I was in the war back in the day and I have seen death many times.

Max: well thats to bad.

Billy: well I learned to not let it effect me. You just have to say so it goes and move on.

Max: I don't think it is that easy.

Billy: I promise you it is I once passed through a ghetto with suffering people all around and it didn't faze me. Just value you time on this earth and try not to worry about others problems.

Max: Okay I guess I could work on that.

Billy: You really should it will come in handy one day trust me. It helped me to fly by the emotional struggles of the death of my wife when me and her were involved in a plane crash.

Max: I'm sorry to here that.

Billy: Don't be its not the worst thing I have seen. tell me have you ever heard of the city Dresden?

Max: No I haven't what is its significance?

Billy: Well back when I was a POW I was located in a very calm city called Dresden. Nobody ever thought that It would be bombed but sure enough it occurred. The Bombing was the end to 130,000 peoples lives.

Max: Wow how did you get passed that mentally?

Billy: Max like I told you earlier life goes on and you can't change the things that happen. You have to accept the fact of death and think so it goes.

Max: well It sounds like that has worked good for you but I am not strong enough to get over death that easily.

Billy: well that's to bad

Max: I don't think it is, I feel bad for you that you have seen such terrible things to make you think death is not a big deal but to the general public it is.

Billy: Ya well I am trying to help you get over this.

Max: well that way won't work for me so I'm going to approach this in my own way.

Billy: So it goes.

my 2 and 4 are not showing at the top. 2 generate a solid thesis

4 use complete sentences

sid the kid blogging assignment

Siddhartha challenges his parents to leave the Brahmins which can be very challenging for a person. " Siddhartha stood their unmoving, his arms folded;" "you will go into the forest and become a Samana." said his father. Siddhartha asks his father if he can leave the Brahmins and join the Samanas and his initial response is no. So Siddhartha decides to rebell against his dad so he can start his path that he personnaly would like to take. To get his point across Siddhartha stands in the same spot all night unmoving with his arms crossed which his dad ends up seeing. This shows courage to me because Siddhartha works up the courage to stand up for himself against his parents.

Challenging your parents can be a very challenging task for me because I was taught as a young kid to listen to your elders. A time when I do challenge my parents is when they tell me I can't hang out with friends because I have to much homework. I argure then because I feel that I could hang out with my buddies and still have enough time for my work after. To get my point across I usually try to act really upset first and then after I "cool down" I will try to explain my plan to get my work done while also allowing some time for fun.