Compare and Contrast Blog Post

Night and Shoah are obviously similar because they both talk about being in a concentration camp, but if you look closer you notice that the two are different because in Night they talk about the time in the train before they get to the camp. While Shoah tells you about the camp its self. In night Wiesel tells the reader about how little space they had and the conditions of the ride. "The heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocation us" (Wiesel, 27). The train car was filled with people and one woman lost her mind because of the separation from her family. This shows us what it would possibly feel like not knowing where your going or how its going to be and having to deal with the fact you will probably die. In Shoah they tell you that Auschwitz meant you would die and that it was worst than terrible. And that people from all over the world were forced to go there. This can tell us that Auschwitz was not a nice camp. What makes these two selections different it that they are both telling you a different part of a story.

Shoah Blog post

In the documentary you hear about what happened to the Jews in the concentration camps. But non of them talked about survival. They talked about how they felt after and before, how they saw the world, and the people they saw and met. Emil Fackenheim said it was "the presence of absence" which I believe means that people notice that sometimes missing or its obvious that somethings not there. But people might say anything. Thats shown in the documentary by going in depth about the concentration camps and the feelings and getting multiple views on one big event. And just let the people tell their stories.

Night Microlab Discusion

    "Most importantly from a social perspective, the pursuit of happiness is associated with selfish behavior -- being, as mentioned, a "taker" rather than a "giver." The psychologists give an evolutionary explanation for this: happiness is about drive reduction. If you have a need or a desire -- like hunger -- you satisfy it, and that makes you happy. People become happy, in other words, when they get what they want. Humans, then, are not the only ones who can feel happy. Animals have needs and drives, too, and when those drives are satisfied, animals also feel happy, the researchers point out."   This stood out because some people don't believe animals have feelings (which isnt my belief at all). And the paragraph prove that everyone, animal or human, has feelings. Also I think its important to be nice to other people and animal, because no one likes being hurt emotionally or physically.  
    
    The ending is significant because it shows how much an experience like that can change a person and I think he ended it so abruptly because there was nothing more to say and with an experience with the holocaust there's really no putting things gently. 

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1. Frankl's and Wiesel's and experience were the same because they both cared deeply about their families.
2. it is possible to live a both a happy and meaningful life because you can be happy but not have a meaning to life and vise versa.
3. "Most importantly from a social perspective, the pursuit of happiness is associated with selfish behavior -- being, as mentioned, a "taker" rather than a "giver." The psychologists give an evolutionary explanation for this: happiness is about drive reduction. If you have a need or a desire -- like hunger -- you satisfy it, and that makes you happy. People become happy, in other words, when they get what they want. Humans, then, are not the only ones who can feel happy. Animals have needs and drives, too, and when those drives are satisfied, animals also feel happy, the researchers point out."   This stood out because some people don't belive animals have feelings (which isnt my belief at all). And the paragraphe prove that everyone, animal or human, has feelings.

Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize Blog Post

1. His message in the speech was that you shouldn't forget the people that are gone and that what effects others in other lands doesn't only effect the people  that are going thought it. It also effects others around the world. And he talks a little about the concentration camps.
2. World. Because sometimes people think that its only them. And that things happening miles and miles away doesn't effect them or that they have bigger problems than whats happening in other places in the world.
3. The kingdom of night I think was the time of the holocaust and the concentration camps.
4. Some connections between the book and the speech were that he talks about how naive people were and how people didnt think it was possible that things like that could happen. Also that he cares about others, like is family,and people of the same religion.

Night Blog Post #1

On page 32 Wiesel talks about when he first got to Auschwitz and when he says "I first wanted to see where they would send my father" shows us that hes worried about his father and being alone at the camp. This passage sets up the theme of loneliness and how much he wants to be around his family and be away from the camp that hes called a nightmare.

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I think that Wiesel could have meant that the night could be his way of apposing the Nazis when he says night is his deposition.  But with all the labels surrounding certain things there can sometimes not be a lot of space to put your own feelings in there or if you do to others you might sound like a broken record. But with a deposition sometimes using personally feelings that aren't straight from the book facts can in my opinion an enhance the book. Because you get to read more information other than just what you can find in the internet. You get personal feelings and thoughts and sometimes a book has a lot or all of a persons life in it.

Pitch Paper Feedback

•  Make my overall topic more specific  
• Paraphrase more 
• Find an argument to my paper
•  Correct grammatical errors     

To do this I'm going to look at some of the links given to me and ask for someone to review my paper. 

The Perks of being a wallflower

1. In my opinion the opening scene is believable. I think that because for some people their first day is terrible and things start off bad right away. And in some ways high school can be worst than middle school.

2. In the movie the presence of the tunnel is fitting because we get to see Charlie in a dark place and hes not sure how things will go and what will happen. And as the movie goes along he meets friends and encounters a lot of problems. But at the end he gets help and figures things out. which the movie is kinda like a metaphor, that's saying you go through bad to get to the good.