narrative poem

I told little jimmy many things
Many things important
But there's one I hope stuck with him
It surely would be worth it

One day little jimmy came crying to me
His mouth twisted in pain
I said what could you have done now
He said I fell off a trampoline and got a bad sprain

Now to this boy I said
Now jimmy how did you land
And he replied back
I landed on some sand

Now I was very distraught
I asked how could you sprain your ankle on some sand
He said I don't know
Then he said lay off man you have such great demands

Then I said
Now jimmy if I were to lay off who would help the sprain
He then replied
I'm sorry that wasn't me talking it was the pain

Good now that we have this sorted out we can get back to your ankle
He said so what should I do
I thought for a moment then said
Go to the hospital they will know what is best for you

I hope he remembers this lesson but I bet you he will not
See I told you as he knocks on the door again
I see him holding his arm as he walks in crying and I said
Jimmy your bane will forever be the fact that you are insane

response to a starry night (or whatever it's called)

I didn't really hate this poem, it really made me have to think about the meaning. although it looked like i was spacing out during the class discussion i wasn't and it really helped me to understand the poem better. i personally think that the line, "oh starry, starry night this is how i want to die" could go either way, positive or negative. some people will say oh my god what a suicidal maniac. others will say she is just thinking that that would be a nice place to die. i also really liked the last stanza, probably because i didn't know what it meant. still as i am writing this response i have no idea what she meant by this beast of the night. by the no flag i think she means that dieing removes the country flag you have on yourself and you just die with no allegiance.  

poetry thingy. # I lost count

observations: there is a road cutting through the mountains. she is wearing a clear veil on her head. there is this little knob right next to her. she has black hair and brown eyes. the further away from her the greener the scene gets. she is sitting in an arm chair. she is smiling.


inferences: i think that her smile is fake. i think that she is upset about something. then again that wouldn't really make sense because of such a peaceful, serene background. in the bridge there is a train crossing it, i wonder if this has anything to do with her thoughts or was he just a damn good artist.

authors note/ work cited page

The Armenian Genocide was the killing of about 1 ½ million Armenians boy the Ottoman Empire. From 1514 to 1918 the country Armenia was part of the Ottoman Empire. After the Russo-Turkish war in 1877, the Armenians were thinking of declaring independence. This, the already weakened Ottomans took as a threat. During WW1 the Ottomans thought that the Armenians were aiding Russia so they deported 1 ½ million Armenians to a desert in Syria where they all died of starvation or dehydration. Most people consider this to be genocide but the Turkish government still denies that this event ever took place (“Armenian Genocide”).

I stumbled across this topic while researching the song yes, its genocide by Serj Tankian. This song is written in another language so as I was trying to find out the meaning to the words, I found out what it was about, the Armenian Genocide. While I was researching more about this topic I really had a hard time finding good sources. This really bothered me; I feel like an event as terrible as genocide should be recognized by everybody, including the US (who doesn’t as of now) and the whole world. (“Armenian Genocide”).

I am not really trying to send a message like “always eat your vegetables” or “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” I just want people to know about this event and what it exactly was. I also want the US being one of the largest and most influential countries to recognize this event.

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John, Ronald Bruce. "Armenian Genocide." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010.

 
Cohan, Sara. "A Brief History of the Armenian Genocide." Social Education Vol. 69, No. 6. Oct. 2005: 333-337. SIRS Researcher. Web. 13 Dec 2010.

Research assignment #2

the second article i got was from world book again and it was about the holocaust. i choose the holocaust as my second topic because it is by far the most studied genocide and since i am doing the Armenian genocide i wanted to look at the biggest example. so, as established before, genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people based on religion, nationality, race, ect... the holocaust was the genocide committed by the dictator Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers society (Nazi) party. the Nazi party is most famous for killing 6 million Jews, but he also had killed anybody who opposed him or he thought inferior to himself, ie: gypsies, mentally retarded or disabled people, poles, soviets, communists,  gays and lesbians and also Jehovah's witnesses. one of the ways that Hitler and the Nazis would kill people was by sending them to the various concentration camps around Germany and Poland. these concentration camps were most famous for their gas chambers where people thought that they would be taking a shower but really they would be getting killed by poisonous gases. near the end of the war, the Americans and the Russians liberated all of these concentration camps. very few people survived these camps and even fewer weren't changed for life.

reaserch assignment #1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

i know, i know when you see this your gonna be like "why is he using Wikipedia?!" because it is a good starting point to learn a little bit about a topic i and many other people know about. so the Armenian genocide was, well a genocide. genocide is the systematic killing and destroying of a race, religion, ect... so that means that the holocaust was a genocide and a very terrible one at that, but it wasn't the first. the Armenian genocide was one of the first genocides. it started up in Armenia where the Ottoman empire started a genocide against the Armenians. it basically was the inspiration for the holocaust. 1.5 million people died and i bet you that half of Americans half no clue what it was. one of the most outraging events in this genocide is the deportations in Constantinople. what happened was that many leaders from Armenia were in Constantinople doing something when the ottomans came and arrested them and then later deported them. and it also had all of the best from the holocaust including burnings, gasing, death marches and last but not least concentration camps.

i also used the world book Armenian genocide but it gave me the same info so i just combined the stuff into one.

social awarness issues in my book

• anti semitism
• death
• hopelessness
• survival. 

i want to write about anti antisemitism because i am reading MAUS and that is the main topic in the book. MAUS, with the bulk of the book about a Jew who is in the holocaust you would assume that the book would be very antisemitic. before i read this book i had read many other books about the holocaust, Milkweed, Uncle Misha's Partisans and The Diary Of Anne Frank to name a few. MAUS really stuck out to me though because it was about the overall mix of the holocaust and the war and how they both sometimes collided. i also really likes MAUS because it was a graphic novel. most of the other books i have read have been about a specific thing, like being in hiding, being a partisan, or being in a ghetto. but what was great about MAUS is that it wasn't actually people, they were various animals i will give you a key

the Jews- mice
the polish- pigs
the Germans- cats
the Americans- dogs
the french- frogs
the russians- not said

i am really suprised that you can get such a convincing and point telling message through animals so that really impressed me