Night blog

Michael Hoover
Night blog
Prompt:

Throughout your reading of Night, you have witnessed many significant changes that Wiesel experiences as a result of his time in the concentration camps. I encourage you to delve deeply into his character and focus on important aspects, such as: his personality, morality, beliefs or values.

Through out the book "night" by Elie Wiesel, I think that Elie changed tremendously from the beginning of the book to the middle to the end. This happened with religion throughout the book because in the beginning he believed in God before he was old enough to start in the middle he started losing faith and at the end he says that his God is dead. On the first page of the book it states "during the day I studied Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue." It says in the book how he decided to start practicing his religion before anyone told him to, so this shows that he is really religiously devoted.

In the middle of the book when Elie Wisel get to the camp and witnesses the horror that went on he starts to think that God is not real or that he just does not care. I thought that this was really weird how he started to doubt his God after all that he praised him, in the book it states "for the first time...I felt why... Should I sanctify his name..." This really shows how the concentration camps broke his soul as well as his body and how he could just give everything up, even his religion. 

At the end of the book or at least close to it he really just gives up 
and explicitly states that there is no point in living which really 
shows that he does not believe in God at all anymore. In the book
 it states " I had nothing to say of my life during this time." I 
thought that this really showed how much his father meant to him 
and how his God had taken him from him.

Michael Hoover "Night" Blog

Michael Hoover
Night Blog
Prompt: How long or in what way do you think that ww2 could have been different if it were in modern day times.

How may Elie's life  be different if ww2 never occurred and Hitler never came into power.

 The first way that I think that the war could have been different is that it most likely would have lasted longer than it did when it actually occurred. With the technology that we have today it allows us to know crucial information in a few hours opposed to back then when it took a few days such as finding out where the enemy was. Nazis could have easily deployed a drone undetected and could have found out in little to no time at all where the ssr were and how much that they were progressing per hour or day. This could have been bad also because if the ssr was closing in, the Nazis would have been able to just kill a whole bunch of the Jews fast using weapons that had to do with chemical warfare instead of having to bring all of them at once.

The way that the war could be different is that it could have been shorter mainly  because we could have used our advance guns and grenades etc... to end the war fast. A weapon today that could have been useful at that time was the stun grenade because it did not pose as much of a risk as the traditional grenade did to carry around and what it would do. If you went in and threw a grenade in a bunker it could kill some of the Jews and also kill the Nazi but if you throw a flash grenade then the Nazi will be helpless and could be taken down with the least amount of damage possible thus saving more Jews.

The way that I thought that Elie's  life may have been different is that he could be working a regular job today and have had a nice good long life. It is hard to imagine what his life may have been like mainly due to the fact that what really happened has just left a print of what life was back in Germany in 1937 till 45. I think that he probably would have been a writer like he is know because he is good at writing about his life and telling the truth about how he felt just like what he said when he had soup after a man was hanged and how it tasted good, he did not lie and say how he was all devastated.

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Aow Impressions Blog

Michael Hoover
Impressions blog
2/16/16/
Prompt:
  Now take a moment to reflect upon
 your impressions of what you have
 learned from the array of articles
 in at least two well written paragraphs,
using evidence from your graphic
 organizer.


          After walking around and learning about everybody's articles in class which mainly focused on the Holocaust, there was one thing that I learned about the Jewish survivors which was when they were liberated from the work camps and ghettos some of them went on to teach kids about the holocaust. Something that they taught was that after everything that Hitler and his Nazis did to them that it did not make them hate Germans and that they still shows respect for them. Evie's article mainly focuses on this particular situation of the teaching about the holocaust through a survivor and how it impacted them. The reason that I thought that the way that the survivors taught was interesting was because everything wrong was done to them and they still have respect for the Germans and the Jews did nothing wrong and everything bad was done to them by Hitler and the Nazis.

Another thing that I learned from the aow impression gallery walk in class was that there are Jewish survivors that say that there should be a rescue transport for the Syrian refugees. The reason that this had an impression on me was because the Jewish survivors know what could be happening to the refugees right now like being put into ghettos and concentration camps. In James Furbeck's article that is what it mainly focuses about which I thought was pretty interesting because that is the only article I saw about the Syrian refugees in relation to Jewish survivors.

This symbolizes peace 

Michael Hoover Berlin Memorial activity

Michael Hoover
Berlin Memorial Activity

One thing that I learned from the Jewish restrictions activity that we did in class today was that the restrictions that Hitler made were pretty extreme, people that had to follow these laws pretty much lost everything that they had or owned which was sad. There were restrictions like you had a curfew and you can't own pets which Is like family for some people, and you had to wear the Star of David like it was a tag to identify you. The most crazy thing that I learned was how the Jewish people were identified or caught, most times it was the neighbor that snitched to Hitlers secreat police which I found really sad because it showed how much influence and power that Hitler had. Overall I learned a lot from the activity because I did not know half of the stuff that was put onto the wall. When you read these books about the holocaust it really only talks about the really extreme stuff like tear gas and mass shootings.

The reason that I think the memorial in Berlin was made was to bring all of the souls of the people that had perished during the war and give them a proper burial and lay them to rest. In a lot of cultures when you do not properly bury a loved one then they will be condemned for life to stay at the place that they died at and it pretty much is like an eternal torture for the person. Another reason that the memorial may have been built was to remember what happened in history with all of the death and chaos and use it as a lesson for It to not relapse itself in the future and happen again.

Something that I noticed about the amount of laws passed in the years when Hitler was in power was when he got his power he made a lot of resrictions and kind of in a way settled down after the first and only made a couple of laws a year. He would in certain years make a whole bunch of laws but there was never a patter or a constant rate he kind of just did it when he wanted to. Something else that I noticed was that he kind of started off easy with bans and as the years went on the laws became more demeaniring like when he was making the Jews go to the concentration camps and killing them for know reason.

The restrictions that I think I would have the hardest time coping with would be having to wear an armband showing who I was. I would have the most trouble with this because when I would leave for school or activities I would probaly forget to grab it and if that happened I would probaly get beat on the street or wherever I was going that day. The second ban that I think I would have a hard time dealing with would be getting rid of my pet because in the first place I would not hand my tiny dog Chewbacca to those evil people because it's not right and I do not think it would hurt anything to keep him. The way that the Nazis made these bans to break down the Jewish people was malevolent and cruel and was not needed at all in my opinion because they did not do anything wrong in the first place.

Second quarter reflections

Michael Hoover
Second quarter reflections blog
1/21/16

Of the books that I have read this quarter my favorite has been Jack the Ripper written by Patricia Cornwell, the reason that this is my favorite book is because while you read it the slightest noise will make you fly to your feet and be on end, it was hard to stop reading until I could not lift my eyelids then when you finally put the book down there was so much to think about. I would get tired of thinking, wanting to tell my sister about it but I also did not want to walk through the Erie darkness to her room contemplating what was there in the dark waiting for me even though subconsciencely I knew it was nothing.

One thing that I believe that I improved on in quarter two in langue arts was the vocab quizzes that we take almost every week on friday. Last quarter I was getting a lot of twos on my quizzes which was not so good, then second quarter came and I guess I got better at remembering the words probably because of how much coffee I drink, I started getting more threes and fours even though I think I did a bit mediocre on my most recent and last test of the quarter.

Something that I think that I improved on this quarter was using the Tiqa format. I did not really use it in the beginning of the school year and first quarter and then, quarter two I started using it and my writing got a little bit better and everything was a lot more organized and clean and much easier to read.

To kill a Mockingbird Comparsion blog

Michael Hoover
To kill a Mockingbird  comparison analysis
Prompt:
What is the purpose in having different versions of a story? Think about how different versions contribute to the overall understanding and interpretation of that piece of work. Use specific concepts to support your opinion. 

 How would you prove or disprove that one version of To Kill A Mockingbird is more affective in delivering its message than the other? Be sure to provide specific pieces of evidence to support your opinion.

1/21/16

The main purpose for having multiple versions of a story is to make sure that every body can understand the story like little children. This is because if you do not understand the original book there may be an easier version of the story or a movie about it which is usually more common to see. A good example of this happening is with the Harry Potter books because they got such a huge fanbase that there was a younger audience that started reading them and then some of those children  could not understand what was happening overall in the book because it was made for an older audience so an easier one to read was published. "The Harry Potter 1-6 easy to read version." This book was made for the first through sixth grade groups, this new version of the book has less graphic content and the word choice of the book went from Discombobulated to suprised or spaced out.

The way that the written version of To Kill a Mockingbird  by Harper Lee delivered it's message better than the movie version is because of the way that it was portrayed throughout both. Throughout the book the author Harper Lee could explicitly state what the main purpose or lesson of the book was by making someone say, the character that she made say it was Atticus when he got Scout and Jem guns which she wrote for him to say "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird..." This is An explicit way to prove that the book got its message across better, in the movie you can't explicitly state something it's usually that you have to interpret it based on what you watched.

The reason standing that the movie did not portray the message which is "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird..." Is because