Critical Stance:2

The term dehumanization is described when someone doesn't show compassion to one another. In this section of the book "Night" the prisoners were so desperate for food and sleep that they would run over each other for that one loaf of bread. They would sleep on each other because they were so tired. The germans turned everyday human beings to animals. These events that were witnessed my 15 year old, Eliezer, changed his mindset toward the world and religion. He couldn't believe what he saw changing how he thought about god. He couldn't believe that god would let such cruel things happen to his own creation.

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