I'd Like To Go Alone

Propaganda Needs a Boundary

     This photo I chose to talk about tries to show Jewish people as evil, propaganda has a purpose, the purpose of propaganda is get a certain point across to a certain audience of people, it doesn't matter how subtle or extreme your words are, just as long as you get your point across, this to me seemed odd because I always thought you had to watch what you were going to say no matter who you were, I was proven very wrong not too long ago when I heard the unmistakable words coming from Donald Trumps mouth, but I was proven even more wrong once I saw this poster. This poster displays the face of the devil and the face of a man. The words on the poster translate to “Satan has taken off his mask.” This was very odd to me because it would catch attention to many groups of people. One being people who are very religious, if a religious person where this much hate was displayed towards Jewish people, then they see a person like this, there must be something in the, that says " Oh well it must be true. Satan is bad so are Jews." Another group whose attention this would catch is people who already display that hate, this just gives them more reasoning to be cruel.  Also people who think that the government is a reliable source, they've been taught to have people think for them and they aren't able to develop their own thoughts. This would be just as affective on them, " The government put up this poster and authorized for it to be made, the words on it must be truth." I just think it is absurd to relate a whole group of people to Satan, something that is universally known and is controversial, you shouldn't set people up for so much hate to get a point across that is so absurd on its own.

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

     The nonfiction book I read this quarter is the book called In My Hands. This book is about a girl named Irena who was in the wrong place at the wrong time but, she uses this as an opportunity to help the people around her. She was training as a nurse when explosions started happening and everyone started fleeing, she decided to step up because the Polish army needed as much medical help as they could get. When she agreed to this, she didn't know that she would have to be in hiding because she is apart of the Polish army without a country, so her and her group are hiding in the woods. While in the woods she gets raped and left to die by Soviet soldiers. When she was there other soldiers saw her and took her to a hospital to be treated, but she is held prisoner because she has medical skills that are highly needed. She has an amazing journey from there to the point where she witnesses a mass shooting in a Jewish ghetto, where she swore to help as many people as she could, people who were vulnerable and needed help fighting for their lives.
     This book was interesting because it was told as a normal fiction story, at first I thought that I wouldn't like this book because I didn't like biographies nonfiction books because of how biographies give cold,hard fact but, this book seems like all the others that I loved and I really took a liking to this one because of the very true story that it told.  The Holocaust was something that was very real and scary, it was great reading texts that I could understand because of the excellent way that it was written,  and how much of history that I actually got out of it because this was real experiences and there's not many other ways you can get the very same experience.

                                                                 

Secrets in the Shadows

     This book is about a boy named Roylin who meets a girl named Korie, horse is new to the school and he starts to build on the way she seems him, before other people talk to her about his past. Roylin has a bad reputation but, he really liked the girl and he didn't want it to interfere with her getting to know him. When he starts talking to her he finds out that her birthday is coming up soon. She takes him to see a necklace that she's had her eye on for a while, he uses the opportunity to try to buy it hot her because he that that he could win her heart. He goes home to count his money when he realizes that he has much less than anticipated.  He took very desperate measures and took money from his old friend, old in age and in years of friendship, while he was sleeping.  When Roylin returns,  he finds out that the shock from the betrayal had killled the old man overnight. The superintendent watched the theft take place and uses it the blackmail Roylin. Then, suddenly, Roylin finds out something that alters his guilty conscience.
     This book was short and sweet. It gave all the exciting twists and turns, just as if compared to a long fiction novel it has the exciting , but it was short and still a great read. These two authors, in the Buford series, really know how to give you the background of a person in order into tell a great story that takes up most of the pages. In the Bluford series all of the characters are students at a single high school so, throughput the books the characters intertwine and there might be a character that is perceived a certain way by other characters. You'll ask yourself why and you'll wonder but, you'll read another book and it'll explain their life, hardships, and view of life, and in those moments all of the lights go off in your brain.
                              

Regretting Sports But, Not In The Way You'd Think.

 Something that I lie awake thinking about, regret not doing, is being more involved in group sports in school. School organized sports are a chance to build relationships with people who are apart of your everyday life, but who you also don't know personally, or who you've maybe never even met, but through this contact you build strong teamwork and you get to see a side of that person that you never usually see. I know it's cliche, but I've always wanted to be apart of a sport, be happy to be active and a part of a whole. To be completely honest with myself, I've let my being overweight keep me from taking part on the sports, I'm afraid of being judged and looked at differently than all the other normal kids who can probably do everything better than me. But, as I sit back and watch the other kids enjoying their time, I realize that I could have been apart of the fun, the only person stopping me was myself. Every time this occurs, I always tell myself, "Next time a sport opens up I'll join for sure." The sakes always happens, I second guess myself and it doesn't end up happening. I can't wait until I can let myself take a chance.