I am proud of this piece of work because normally poetry comes fairly easy to me. I enjoy it, but when I was writing those 5 poems for my final project in our novel study, well I had a lot more trouble with that. This poem is about Aushwitz, and it was a very emotional time, so writing a poem about it, well it was difficult to keep the poem emotional and making sence. I feel that I was able to do that as well as I could. These are the reasons why I am proud of this piece in particular.
Don’t Want to be Here
Where are we,
What is this place.
All standing around,
Same look on our face.
I want to go home,
To where I belong.
So that I can,
Play my own song.
These people,
They’ve ruined our lives.
Watching us like,
We all carry knives.
Why do they think,
We aren’t deserving.
Of the life they lead,
Or do they like observing.
As our numbers dwindle,
They all smile.
For they know we,
Can’t even walk a mile.
Death and sorrow,
Grief and pain.
Our favourite days,
Are when it rains.
A piece of bread is,
All we get.
We are still starving,
As the sun sets.
What can I do,
To help me survive.
I don’t want to,
Live my life through a lie.
The only way to not,
End up here.
Is to be unlike us,
And all the Jews sitting near.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Social Studies Question
“Thinking about all your learnt and read about the Holocaust...... How does a democratic and just society turn to one of hate and genocide? Write a paragraph or two explaining your thoughts.”
Hate and genocide surrounds everyone, where ever you may go. It comes in many different forms but they all have similarities. Take a high school for example, there are many cliques in a school and a distinguished popular crowd that most people look up to and want to be in. The people in that crowd therefore have highest power, they have the power to make anyone hated or bullied or disliked. Anyone wanting to be in that popular group and be accepted by them will tend to agree to whatever opinion anyone in that group may have. It just takes one person of high power to turn people against each other and create a society of hate and genocide.
The same thing happened in World War II, all it took was one person with high power and the world broke into a war, a major war filled with hate and genocide. Comparing a high school to one of the biggest wars our world has seen may seem odd but when you think about it, the ways that Hitler made people turn on the Jews is the same as any popular girl or boy makes their classmates turn on a selected person.
Power is a huge responsibility and when someone uses that power to turn a society to one of hate, well that defeats the purpose. So remember the happenings of WWII, remember how easy it was to wreck a society, and try to keep it from happening again.
Hate and genocide surrounds everyone, where ever you may go. It comes in many different forms but they all have similarities. Take a high school for example, there are many cliques in a school and a distinguished popular crowd that most people look up to and want to be in. The people in that crowd therefore have highest power, they have the power to make anyone hated or bullied or disliked. Anyone wanting to be in that popular group and be accepted by them will tend to agree to whatever opinion anyone in that group may have. It just takes one person of high power to turn people against each other and create a society of hate and genocide.
The same thing happened in World War II, all it took was one person with high power and the world broke into a war, a major war filled with hate and genocide. Comparing a high school to one of the biggest wars our world has seen may seem odd but when you think about it, the ways that Hitler made people turn on the Jews is the same as any popular girl or boy makes their classmates turn on a selected person.
Power is a huge responsibility and when someone uses that power to turn a society to one of hate, well that defeats the purpose. So remember the happenings of WWII, remember how easy it was to wreck a society, and try to keep it from happening again.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Monday, November 17, 2008
You be the Editor
“The hardest choices are not between good and bad. They are between differing outcomes which appear to have equal merit."
A common problem in society today is figuring out what people need to know and what should be left untold. You have the right to privacy, if you would prefer your name not to be published, or your story not to be printed then it shouldn’t be. Yes, people should be informed by the happenings in the world but sometimes they don’t need to know all the details. I do think that if it is a big story, then sure write an article about it but leave out names or give a general area of where it took place, rather then the exact address. Just being aware of the personal information that is printed could greatly improve the reader’s response. As some people read the newspaper they like to know of everything that is going on, every single detail but what’s a little less information going to do. You will be protecting the people that you aren’t mentioning in your articles and the readers will still get the story. You obviously want to write something that your readers will be happy with, but you also must listen to what the people involved in the story think, because remember they are readers too.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sue Rodriguez
Canadian Contribution to Human Rights
Sue Rodriguez was born in British Columbia on April 2, 1950. She grew up in Thornhill, Ontario which is a suburb of Toronto. In 1991 Rodriguez was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS (a disease that affects the motor neuron cells and the motor tracts in the brain).
Sue Rodriguez fought to have a legal right to assisted suicide, but according to the Criminal Code of Canada, assisted suicide is punishable to 14 years in prison. Her life expectancy was between 2 and 14 months. In that time she was to lose the ability to swallow, speak, walk and move her body without assistance. Which therefore mans she will lose the capacity to breathe without a respirator, to eat without a gastronomy and eventually will be confined to a bed. Rodriguez did not want her death to take so long; she wasn’t able to enjoy life anymore. She could feel her self dying. She wished to decide on when she wanted to die; Rodriguez did not want to wait it out. She took her cause to court 2 times, both times she lost. Though her last appearance in court was a split vote, 5-4, and was also televised.
This was an important contribution to human rights because it makes people think. People are still trying to figure out if you should be allowed to have “assisted suicide”. Though still not allowed in Canada, some people are starting to wonder if that is right. They think that if they make it allowed, murderers may get away with killing because they say it was assisted suicide, while other people think you should be able to decide your own death. As Sue Rodriguez says, "If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?" In 1994 though Sue Rodriguez committed suicide with the help of an anonymous doctor.
So in Canada assisted suicide is still illegal as it is in many countries today but there seems to be a growing movement to change of laws in many countries.
http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1993/1993rcs3-519/1993rcs3-519.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/assistedsuicide/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Rodriguez
http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/rights_freedoms/topics/1135/
http://www.enablelink.org/include/article.php?pid=&cid=&subid=&aid=601
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1490751
By: Sarah Mutch
Sue Rodriguez was born in British Columbia on April 2, 1950. She grew up in Thornhill, Ontario which is a suburb of Toronto. In 1991 Rodriguez was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS (a disease that affects the motor neuron cells and the motor tracts in the brain).
Sue Rodriguez fought to have a legal right to assisted suicide, but according to the Criminal Code of Canada, assisted suicide is punishable to 14 years in prison. Her life expectancy was between 2 and 14 months. In that time she was to lose the ability to swallow, speak, walk and move her body without assistance. Which therefore mans she will lose the capacity to breathe without a respirator, to eat without a gastronomy and eventually will be confined to a bed. Rodriguez did not want her death to take so long; she wasn’t able to enjoy life anymore. She could feel her self dying. She wished to decide on when she wanted to die; Rodriguez did not want to wait it out. She took her cause to court 2 times, both times she lost. Though her last appearance in court was a split vote, 5-4, and was also televised.
This was an important contribution to human rights because it makes people think. People are still trying to figure out if you should be allowed to have “assisted suicide”. Though still not allowed in Canada, some people are starting to wonder if that is right. They think that if they make it allowed, murderers may get away with killing because they say it was assisted suicide, while other people think you should be able to decide your own death. As Sue Rodriguez says, "If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?" In 1994 though Sue Rodriguez committed suicide with the help of an anonymous doctor.
So in Canada assisted suicide is still illegal as it is in many countries today but there seems to be a growing movement to change of laws in many countries.
http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1993/1993rcs3-519/1993rcs3-519.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/assistedsuicide/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Rodriguez
http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/rights_freedoms/topics/1135/
http://www.enablelink.org/include/article.php?pid=&cid=&subid=&aid=601
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1490751
By: Sarah Mutch
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