My book so far is about a twelve year old boy who goes into a concentration camp; And all the challenges he faces. In the end Elie (protagonist) was about to die because the NAZIS were doing mass executions so they could leave and kill all the jews. But some resistance soldiers and American soldiers came and killed all the NAZIS. After that Elie became very sick and went to the hospital and looked in the mirror and he said all he saw was a corpse and then he said "the look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me." My book matters because it was written by a real Holocaust survivor and the experiences he went through. It wasn't just a book that was made up it was a real thing that actually happened and you get a good perspective on that when you read this book Night. For example " I noticed an old man dragging himself on all fours. He was trying to disengage himself from the struggle." you get a sliver of what the Holocaust was really like through reading this book. " I had to stay at Buchenwald until April eleventh. I have nothing to say of my life during this period. It no longer mattered. After my father's death, nothing could touch me anymore." the most valuable idea taken away from this book is to never give up because there is always something that should drag you to prevail and Elie did that and got out of concentration camp and spread the word about how bad the Holocaust was.
This book is still valuable today because the few Holocaust survivors are dying and this book carries on the word of what they were trying to share. It also helps us so something like that won't happen again.
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The book Night is a book about a 12 year old boy going through the Holocaust and all the traumatic experiences he faced. I think the events in the book such as the Holocaust relate to current day actions by a terrorist group named ISIS. I believe these to things relate by how ISIS is killing people for religious reasons same as Hitler did to the jews; And in the book Night he goes to concentration camp because he is a jew. Also the inhumane things they do to people such as cutting there heads off slowly with a tiny knife so the people go through the pain, and in the book it was saying when Elie (the main character in the book) went into concentration camp he saw people including babies and children get thrown into a fire to burn to death. ISIS and the NAZIS were both trying to create a genocide but also did not succeed (in the book he gets saved in the end.)
These both have effected todays society by leaving a remembrance in our heart. ISIS effected the middle east and todays society have donated and have done a lot of things to support the citizens over there. And the Holocaust made us remember to never make the same mistakes again to lead us in that horrific place ever again. They are both things that will live in infamy in todays society and forever. The event that was going on in my book was the Holocaust, in Auschwitcz concentration camp located in Poland. This event compares to other historical events such as when the iron curtain came down and showed that Joseph Stalin had killed millions of citizens by just not agreeing with him. This also connects to the Holocaust because nobody knew about it because you couldn't leave or come in the iron curtain; Just like the concentration camps because nobody knew about this disaster until after the war because it was so secret. Another similar event in history is the Trail of Tears and how a lot of Native Americans were forced to leave there homes. In my book "Night" the main character is forced to leave his home because he is jewish and go to the concentration camp.
In my book when people were forced to leave there homes the characters felt sad, powerless, and depressed that they were leaving there homes. for the Native Americans they felt betrayed, mad, and hopeless because they were leaving their homes forever. Some other connections are the amount of deaths in the Holocaust and Stalin and how their both in the millions. The leaders of the deaths in the Holocaust and Soviet Union lived in the same continent and both had bad intentions. https://prezi.com/zlnbfh4t3fdp/events-in-history-similar-to-a-the-holocaust/ http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/01/27/hitler-vs-stalin-who-was-worse/ Mrs.Shelow 1st period
Edward Hoggard, Stella Smith,Dalia Perez, Katie Hernandez Martinez SCHOOL BEAUTIFICATION Our group issue is beautifying Martin Middle School; we will do a few projects around the school to make it more colorful and appealing. We are going to make Martin a brighter place for the students and the teachers. The issue around Martin Middle School is the lacking amount of art. Martin Middle is known for our performing arts and gifted and talented program; but all the art is outdated and peeling. We are going to fix this issue! This affects the students at MMS because it feels gloomy and sad, so we don't feel motivated to learn because of the feel of the school. The wake county school program is short twenty four million dollars so jobs like ground maintenance might get cut, and school supplies that are not necessities. (Keung Hui, 2017) Martin middle has 8 glass cases with little artwork or none in them but most of the art is from the early 2000s. There is also lots of blank walls. Our group is interested in this project because we want to have a better learning experience and a brighter school for us and the people who come to martin after us. I think teachers will also like what we're doing because they've seen the art for so long so they might want something new and bright. Also other students will like this because our group was talking to other students and they agreed how bland our school is like a blank canvas. We are going to solve this problem. The art teachers at Martin Middle do change some of the art every year and i think we should change the art cases too. Also add some art on to the walls. We would get in contact with the art club and they could make the majority of the art. The art club would be making lots of different colorful things from paintings to pottery, also the art teachers ( including stella’s mask making) would be picking out art from there art classes. But we will also save some of the art in the cases to also show the old, and new feel of martin. The art cases with nothing in them have been here since i came in 6th grade so it is time to fix this problem. This lack of art makes Martin Middle School not as fun and plain, and the students wanted a better learning experience. The art club have done multiple projects to brighten up the school. Also East Millbrook Middle School has also beautified their school; Such as painting walls, planting in gardens, made custom mosaic, and weeded the gardens. East Wake Middle School had a day of service. They painted inspirational quotes on the hallways. A lots of schools in our community are trying to brighten up their school. There still needs to be help because there are other schools in our community that need help from a lot to a little help. Help will always be needed, We need this help because schools and wake county only have a certain amount of money and the majority of that government money can be funded for schools. People are also helping out by joining the PTA or donating money to schools and also volunteering to help or brighten up the school. Some people are helping out such as Ellen degeneres and Justin Bieber donating $50,000 to a elementary school in Detroit. Some people are really helping out in the community by doing anything they can, because any little detail will help. (Remi Merhi, 2016) We will start with asking the teachers if they want to keep any of the art in the cases, after that we will take most of the old art. Then we will ask the art club and art teachers to have some art or ask them to make some, also making some are own. Then we will make a fundraiser and donation box to gather money for the paint. After that we will gather all the 8th grade students who would want to put their hand on the wall and make a schedule of who would put their hands on the wall at what times. Are fundraiser would be GoFundMe and asking to put a donation box in martin. This would be fun for students to do because if they put their handprint on the walls at martin they would make the school prettier and always be a part of Martin Middle School. Our goal is to make Martin a better and brighter place for the students who come after us to let them have a even better experience than we did. We are also trying to be apart of martin when we go and be a project people remember by brightening up the school. We are trying to make Martin middle school a better place. Bibliography Moody, Aaron.’’EWMS benefits from day of service.’’ The News and Observer. Sept 12,2016. Jan.31,2018. <http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/eastern-wake-news/article101398887.html> Merhi, Remi. “Ellen DeGeneres, Justin Bieber raise money for troubled Detroit school.” CNN Entertainment. February 12,2016 <https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/12/entertainment/donations-to-spain-elementary-on- ellen-degeneres-show-feat/index.html> Hui, Keung. “Families, teachers wait to see where school budget cuts will fall.” The News and Observer. June 20, 2017. <http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article157251129.html> https://clhdesignpa.com/clh-volunteer-event-east-millbrook-middle-school/ my blog is going to be about a person named Tiffany Evans. Tiffany Evans was supposedly dead on Wednesday, her mom got a text saying she was and it was believable because she had been missing. But on that same day she was found alive at Myrtle beach, she got put in jail for drug abuse, she was a well known face around the police station because she has been arrested many times. I wanted to talk about this because drug abuse is such a bad thing and how it can ruin peoples lives. I think everyone has a chance to make a big impact in this world but those chances dramatically change if you get influenced or hooked on drugs. I just wanted to say that drug abuse is a bad thing and nobody should do drugs and all it takes is a hard NO! But if you have already been addicted or hooked it will be a lot harder to get off those drugs but if you do it will be helping everyone.
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