The American Red Cross Movie

4/23/13 Practice Video

Free Write 4/4/13

My world isn't going to come crashing down on me after all.  Will isn't going to be laid off from his job.  He is able to go get a special FCC license and that saves his job.  Even tho that isn't in his contract that he has to have it but they are making him.  Oh well... We are going to TN on the 19th for his class.  It's costing quite a bit of money but it's saving his job and that's worth it.  We are going to be an hour from Nashville yee haw!  I hate country music but I'm sure I'll find other things to do while he is in class.  I don't know why he wants me to go but I will be the supportive little wife.  haha  Now maybe I'll quit worrying about that part of my life.   I will go back to worrying about my grades.  At least this class is still an A.  My algebra class is a B and that stinks.  Me and the tests just aren't seeing eye to eye.

Free-Write 4/2/13

Well let's see...I have an A in this class and a B in Algebra, not too bad.  I'm not sure how I'm going to 'rock' this research paper out but I'll do my best.  Really stressed about Will's job.  I hope he can get the license he needs to keep his job and not be laid off.  I don't understand why they can't go by seniority so he would be safe and not on the top of the lay-off list without that license.  Guess we will have to wait and see what happens and maybe his boss will give him some insight today.  If he gets to take a class for the license, we will be going to TN to do it. I didn't plan on going but he wants me to so we will drive there and it will cost us a lot less money than him flying to CA. 

Gonna be a grandma again.  This will make number three.  I kind of wish that Dallynn would have waited until Ayden was in school to have the 3rd one but it's not my decision. Oh well, the more the merrier. 

These free-writes are fun except I don't have much to write about.  My life is pretty boring and mundane; wonder if that's spelled correctly?  I guess my calm life is pretty good since I don't have drama and caos in it.  What picture will I put on this? 

Free Write 3/26/13

Well, I worked on my Summaries then posted them to the wrong section.  I feel like such a goof.  I don't cut corners, I work hard on my papers, then when I think they are completed and I did everything right I posted them to the wrong Blog.  Ugh!!!  Then I think I was supposed to double space and didn't.  I just want to scream.  Wonder if I can chalk it off to old age?  Maybe I'm getting senile in my old age!

The Warsaw Ghetto Film

Angela Gossett
Mr. Neuburger
English Comp 102-117
March 26, 2013

The Warsaw Ghetto
A Film Unfinished

This short 90 minute film epitomizes the horrors that Jews faced daily in the Warsaw Ghetto.  The film was hidden away and was never intended for viewing.  One can see that it is a film based on the mockery of the innocent and the poor.  The people of the Ghetto lived a daily hell.  The Ghetto was surrounded by barbed wire over brick walls and housed hundreds of thousands of Jewish people.  The Nazi's left people to die from starvation, diseases, and even sent them to an extermination camp, Treblinka.  The first extermination of Jews totaled around 300,000.  A crew of German soldiers was sent to Warsaw to film the life of a Jew.  It was a propaganda film to discredit Jews by showing their life wasn't as bad as they stated it was.  The German's filmed a circumcision ceremony, a burial service, actors dining on lavish meals at a restaurant, dinner parties, and even dancing.  One survivor stated as she watched the film that Jewish people do not bury their dead in coffins as the film showed.  Also filmed was extreme poverty and people lying dead on the sidewalks and in the streets.  Jewish people died because of malnourishment.  Their hair was falling out and they were skin and bones. People would come and pick up the corpses and throw them in a wagon and take them to a trench that was used for disposing of them.  They would throw them down a wooden shoot and pile them on top of each other and walk over the corpses to stack the bodies. After so many were in the trench, they would cover the bodies with paper and throw dirt over the top of them.  At the cemetery, there would be 40 to 50 corpses at a time that still had to be buried.  One of the comments from a survivor was, "We became indifferent to the suffering of others".  After 30 days of filming, the cameramen packed up and left.  The Warsaw Ghetto was full of innocent people left to die either by starvation or at the hands of evil people. 

Harrison Bergeron Essay

Response Essay

“Harrison Bergeron”

            In Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s “Harrison Bergeron” tells of a life where everyone is equal.  After reading the essay, one can only conclude too much government control actually destroys freedoms.  In fact, there are no longer pretty, athletic, or smart people.  Masks and weights cover up people’s bodies, hiding whatever special features one may have.  Vonnegut explains, “They weren’t only equal before God and the law.  They were equal every which way” (293).  Even intelligence is no longer allowed to be exhibited.  Smart people wear a mental handicap radio in their ears tuned to a government transmitter and every twenty seconds, sharp noises would sound, thus keeping people from “…taking unfair advantage of their brains” (294).  Average intelligence people can only think in short spurts.  Going against the laws is punishable by fines, prison, and even death at the hands of agents who is with the Handicapper General.  In conclusion, the pursuit of true equality destroys freedoms.  (170 Words)

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. "Harrison Bergeron." Power of Language; Language of Power: A Collection of Readings. 2nd ed. Boston: Pierson Learning Solutions, 2011 293-299. Print. Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.