The book makes me think a lot about how racism works and how we live in a society full of people with more power putting down others and acting like the general population is just another way to earn power and money. I don't think it was a great idea to go robbing in the first place even if they had to pay the bills, they should have just came up with a dumb excuse about not getting the shoes and keep saving money. I think it was also a jerk move for Eddie to not even care about his buddy after all that had happened. Even when it was mostly Eddie to blame for the whole situation, it was so wrong to not want to even see his friend or help him out, Eddie was the one to want to rob, he had taken the gun and he was he one who didn't know how to keep the safety on.
I think that I enjoy this book, it is interesting. The plot makes me really connect with the book. About racism and how society works and how it's unfair. The story is about two boys one white and one black that live in a rough neighborhood. People think that it's weird that there's white and a black dude that are best friends because society states that there are a lot of differences between the colored people but in reality the only thing that makes them act different is how people treat them.
The book makes me think a lot about how racism works and how we live in a society full of people with more power putting down others and acting like the general population is just another way to earn power and money. I don't think it was a great idea to go robbing in the first place even if they had to pay the bills, they should have just came up with a dumb excuse about not getting the shoes and keep saving money. I think it was also a jerk move for Eddie to not even care about his buddy after all that had happened. Even when it was mostly Eddie to blame for the whole situation, it was so wrong to not want to even see his friend or help him out, Eddie was the one to want to rob, he had taken the gun and he was he one who didn't know how to keep the safety on.
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If I had to pick 2 celebs I want to be friends with one would be Jimmy Fallon. I want to be friends with him because he's very funny. He seems like a nice funny guy. I like his comedy and it would just be cool to have conversations with him and know him.
Another celebrity I would want to be friends with is probably Bear Grills because of his voice, and I would want him to describe the scenery around us as we went like he does on his shows. "And here we see a wild human female, drinking at Starbucks, as you can see she is a very vicious animal." I think it would just be fun to hear that as I walked around downtown. 1. Night is a true story, and actually happened back in the 1940's but Boy in Striped Pajamas was a fake story which could have been true. There were some things in the movie that were off, like the amount of guards supposedly watching, and how easy it was to get in from the outside of the camp, and how they let a family live so close to the camp, and how an 8 year old child survived the selection. Night only tells straight facts of things that actually happened, no fiction in it (most the time). Night is more about the struggles inside the camp and the life of a kid in the concentration camp. When Boy in Striped Pajamas is about the life of a German kid who becomes friends with a Jew in a concentration camp.
Some same things are that in both the story's a boy in a concentration camp loses his father. They were both based on the Holocaust and life during it. The stories were told from the viewpoints of little boys, and both the stories were filled with suffering and harsh events. 2. Bruno was a very kind child. He was full of curiosity and wonder which in the end led to his death. He was the son of a German officer. He never understood why the Jews were seen as bad people since he had spoken to nice Jews before. He was a very rebellious little kid and he always had his thoughts shoved out by the people around him. As for physical traits he was a normal little boy, skinny body, pale skin, dark brown hair and shiny blue eyes. 3. All the researching, and reading, and watching of the Holocaust has really opened my mind to the terrible things humanity can cause. I already knew that the Holocaust and WWII were terrible time periods but the things modern people did was impossible to think of. And to think that this was acceptable to the German Government or anyone at all at the time completely blows my mind. I knew that history had a plethora of terrible events but I never really thought of them, and now that iv'e really seen what happened to people over the history of time really makes me think of how terrible the human race can be. Words of the wiser, page 78, Eliezer is laying in the infirmary and talks of how well he is being treated, there is another man next to him almost died, he says 'Don't rejoice to soon, son. Here too there is a selection. In fact, more often than outside. Germany has no need of sick Jews. Germany has no need of me. When the next transport arrives, you'll have a new neighbor. Therefore, listen to me: leave the infirmary before the next selection' These words scared him, and in the end he ran because they were going to kill him since they were evacuating the camp.
Contrast and Contradictions, page 111, his father had been on the brink of death for a long time, and all Elie could do was feed him and give him drink to help what was left of his father, one day the prisoners were called up for roll call, but the sick were allowed to stay in their bunks, Elie stayed with his father. Some SS soldiers had been given orders to observe the bunker. Elie's father started talking for water and the SS did not like him talking, so they started to beat him. Elie just laid in his cot and did nothing. I think he did this because he knew his father would die any time soon, and he had been helping him for too long, by now his father was just a pain and he was going to die anyways. Also Elie didn't act because he didn't want to die himself to save his father since his father was already pretty much dead. Memory Moment, page 100, Elie was in his train cart being deported to another camp when they had made a stop, a worker had thrown a piece of bread into the train cart and watched in amusement as the men fought and killed eachother over the crumbs of bread, there is a flashback when he thinks of a parisian women a couple years later who was throwing money into a crowd of poor children who were fighting over the money. He tells the woman to please stop but she says she likes to give charity. He had a flashback of this moment because it had been exactly the same as the one before with the bread crumbs, it was important to him because he had seen that kind of desperation in the men from before who ended up killing each other and he did not want the children's lives to be in danger because of it. What are the top 3 priorities and why would those be your priorities if you were President?
One priority would be the fees for colleges. College fees are way to high, many people who live in poverty may be very intelligent but will never get a job or change anything in the world because of how much college costs, even with scholarships. The cost of college is only going up every year and it needs to be focused on. Many people don't get to be in the college they want not because they aren't smart enough, but because they don't have the wealth and financial stability. I would do this by using some government fees and setting them aside. Also would set up a donation program to get the money to make it easier for less wealthy people to get into college. That is a problem I would work on if I became the President of the United States. Another problem I would focus on is equal rights for every kind of person, it wouldn't matter what your religion is, or the color of your body, or if you were LGBT, you should all be treated the same, not one more then the other. You wouldn't be judged on what you look like or are, but more what you are as a person, seen with characteristics and your thoughts. Not your appearance or being.I would get this done by setting up laws against racism and sexism and any hate speech against others and set speech barriers, I know that the country is known for letting everyone have a voice, but discrimination for these things is not acceptable. Thirdly, the last thing I would prioritize would be healthcare fees. Make healthcare more affordable for the ones in need. Healthcare is important to save lives and keep your body healthy. Lots of people in the U.S. don't get any healthcare because of their status like being homeless, because they have no money to spare. The money they get is used on bare necessities like food and clothes. They stay alive with fast food and thrift shops but that won't be enough to keep them in good shape. It will be enough to keep them alive at that point and time. So we should get healthcare for anyone, not just the ones who can afford it. I would also do this by setting up a fund raiser, and using gov. funds. Lastly, I would try to get our national debt taken lower. Our country is in one of the biggest debts of history. Going into the trillions I would like to start to get the debt down as much as I could. I would do this by saving lots of money and making the rest of the economy self producing for a while so we could work on getting. Over winter break I went to France. I skipped the last 2 days of school before winter break to catch my first flight. From that flight we took another one straight to Paris to see my mom's side of the family that lives in a small town next to Paris called Orleans. We stayed there and I spent some time with my cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and some family friends. We went ice skating and did other fun activities. We left after almost a week, some days after Christmas. This was the South of France. We didn't go into Paris like we have before because its not as nice as other French areas and we were to used to going.
Once we left Orleans we took a train to my dad's side of the family, he didn't come along to keep working and to take care of the dogs at our house. We left by train to cross the country of France to the other side more in the North. It was way warmer and dry there, but still pretty windy. In the South it was cold and always rainy. There was no rain at all. Once we got to Arles, next to a popular French city called Marseilles. There we went on walks every day into the nice woods. My dad's side only had his sister still living, so it was really laid back, different to my chaotic cousins and uncles. We usually went in the Summer in France and I had never been there in the Winter so it was very different. Usually we would go see the arena in Arles where they ran spectacles and games, from the old Roman Empire. We left and took three exhausting flights back to the U.S. and got home at 1:00 am on the Thurday before school. I still went to school the next day. This article is all about what 18 year olds should be able to do, and how we teach them wrong. They want us to change the way we teach children and stop leading our kids around when they are young. They think that these traits are needed to be a good adult. Like risk taking, money managing, planning, and finding our way around places and dealing with things without the help of their parents.
I am definently not 18 and definently not at this point yet, i'm not in a terrible place either, and I think that i'm pretty good at these things. If I wanted to and tried, I could definently be better though. I think these are definently realistic, I don't think they are needed for 18 year olds but it would definently be really nice if they had these traits. They are definently doable, especially when you start not living with your parents you will take care of yourself a lot more. A rule that the school has that I think is unfair is that you can take someones phone away over the weekend. Teachers shouldn't be allowed to take phones from one of their students for the whole weekend, I understand if they want to take it for some of the weekdays or give it back at the end of the day but the weekend is to long. The kid doesn't even get a chance to get the phone back and it maybe a struggling weekend and they need it, like if something big happens and they dont even realize until they see their family again or something, its just really unfair.
I am thankful for my loving family that has to deal with me every day. I'm thankful for the food that I get to eat everyday. For the cool simple life that I have and the good friends. I am thankful for my good grades that I work hard for and the sports clubs I'm in.
I'm thankful for all these things. And this was only able to happen because of the great country we have. Because of all the good people who work hard for us to have good lives. Like our parents who work so hard to take care of us kids. My thoughts/feelings after the election are super conflicted. First of all I was a Hillary Clinton supporter and never really understood why people liked Donald Trump and despised Hillary. I heard their point of view but everything they said they hated her for there was an easy response to counter what they said, like the story about Benghazi where she supposedly lets those 4 people die and she ignored them, the counter to what happened there was literally everywhere in the middle eastern area there were embassy's and ambassadors in danger, she helped all of them out but couldn't reach those 4 people. She saved all the others in the middle east that were in danger but then everyone remembers the 4 people who did die, she did her best and did a great job. Even the families of those people who died are spotlighted in Hillary's campaign saying that they were Hillary supporters and she couldn't have done anything to save the 4 people. And that's one example of a counter. The polls showed that she was ahead of Trump by so much and he had a very slim chance to win so I was very surprised when democratic states just switched over to Trump. I also think that the Electoral College votes make it unfair, if this is truly a democracy then the major population would win, and Hillary won the majority but Donald Trump still won the election. There are a lot of things I could say about Trump, he has no experience, he's racist for saying all Muslims are terrorists and all Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, he said a lot of bad stuff about women that weren't appropriate, he uses assumptions and lies to make his competitors look bad, like Obama not even being born in America and wanting to see his birth certificate, hes rude like when he made fun of the journalist, he changes his policies every single second. The list goes on, I don't understand why people like him. That's just my thoughts and feelings and this isn't supposed to offend anyone. I could talk about more examples of how to counter peoples thoughts about Hillary and say a list of things why I think Hillary is a better choice but this paragraph is already really long.
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