Critical Stance:

Wiesel set up that contrast because the germans limited the jews power. The germans took away the jews freedom. They limited their power by taking away anything of value. Without any type of freedom or way to over take the germans, the jews were helpless.

The Holocaust

The Holocaust was a destruction or slaughter on mass amounts of people. The holocaust started on January 30th, 1933 then stopped in May 8, 1945. In the year of 1933 the european jews at that time were many in number. Until the Nazi Germans persecuted and murdered millions of the their kind. By 1945 the nazi germans killed about two-thirds of the jews as part of the Final Solution. The final solution was a plan the germans used to kill the jews.

Allusion Poem: 1st Draft

A curious little mind 

Raised with one parent

Protected and guarded 

With a "little" disability

Waiting for the wonders of the ocean to appear 

"Hey dad! Maybe when I'm at school, i'll see a shark.

I highly doubt that.

Have you ever met a shark before?

No, and i don't plan to."

A curious little mind 

who's heart's bigger than the ocean
his mind lives off of imagination
he is an innovator

Fear and curiosity took him away
He found himself in a new home
"I wanna go home. Does anybody know where my dad is?
Honey, your fathers probably back at the pet store"

Lonely and parentless
Friends are the closest thing to family
"From this point on you'll be known as sharkbait"
Known as something else
He discovers a newer him

Greeks on Madison Ave.

Angry Letter Rough Draft

Dear Hawaii's Board of Education,

Though adding a 7th period to every Hawaii public high school, could improve a students cumulative grade point average, better preparation for life after highschool, etc. Adding another period could put more stress on the students.

With Moanalua High School ranking 3rd in the state, adding another period could put more stress on the students and cause them to slack. Moanalua, having the most students participating in a OIA sport, their stress could affect how they play and perform.  According to teenhelp.com, 78% of teens are stressed because of school work. Not only will this excess amount of stress affect the students mentally but also socially, emotionally, and physically.

High School sets the rode for the rest of a teenagers life and if a teen is struggling and stressing because of the overload of work, it could affect the future of these teens. Stress will make teens less capable of doing anything, from writing a sentence for an essay to throwing a ball in their P.E. class. Lowering their capablilities could affect how much potential students could show to collages, jobs, etc.

High School is meant to lead students not only into their adult life but also the road into finding themselves but with stress, it could be act as an obstacle and slow them down. We only live life once so why would we want any obstacles slowing us down.

Sincerely,
Kainoa Mattos-Felicilda

Risky Business Final

From clothes to music choice, teens are forced into a storm to find themselves. Their are faced with the nightmare of not being accepted my the thousands of genres this world has to offer, thus making this storm more worst than it already is.

Peer pressure paves the road to adult life. According to Wall Street Journal, " Teens are more often to follow other teens because their brains derive more from social acceptance than adults. " As a teenager, fitting in is the main goal. Leading teens into doing drugs and alcohol. With 74% of highschool students drinking alcohol and over 3.1 million teens smoking, peer pressure is also not only risking their future but their lives as well. Like a maze, teens usually make the wrong turn.

Just like everything in life, peer pressure has it negative sides and also positive. Peer pressure can also develop good habits. " If peers value doing well in school or excelling in sports, for instance, it might encourage kids to study or train harder " says Wall Street Journal. With the influence of teens peers, it can push them to improve and excel in school and sports. With the positive pressure, teens are open to an opinion to being one step closer to finding themselves, finding what they enjoy and don't.

Peer pressure is an asset of becoming of age, a transformation from child to adult, from a cocoon to a butterfly. Peer pressure is a way of seeing into yourself. How you take in the pressure tells/shows you who you are, and that feeling you get is what makes you different from everyone else. How you deal with the situation tells you who you are. Negative or positive, the choice you make leads you closer toward the end of the maze, the rainbow after the storm, and next thing you know you'll be spreading your colorful wings.