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I ran out of time and it turned out way worse than I imagined. Anyone else losing motivation when it comes to school?
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A Film Unfinished
David T. Campbell
Mr. Neuburger
ENG COMP 102-117
24 March 2013
Response Essay
A Film Unfinished
While in
the ghetto people, particularly Jews, were exposed to horrific things such as
torture and corpses of individuals who had starved to death. They were also forced
to bury their own in mass graves. Developed by the Nazis as a new to torture
Jews, men and women were brought to a ritual bath. While being videotaped in
the bath they were forced to perform different exercises and were whipped on
their heads. German soldiers were then ordered to fire their rifles into the
pools.
Half naked
corpses littered the sidewalks in the ghetto. People were asked to walk by the
corpses with their heads high and they became indifferent because the started
to get use to life in the ghetto. After many days, men would haul the bodies
off to the cemetery with body carts. At the cemetery, there was a shack filled
with forty to fifty bodies that needed to be buried. Bodies were slid down a
slide into a large pit and then organized into layers by men. These pits made
up mass graves which were dug by people who lived in the ghetto.
Life in
the ghetto was videotaped by the Germans who tried to hide how harsh the Jews
were being treated by staging fake scenarios. They tried to show that the Jews
lived a luxurious life by staging a food market and that the Jews had a good
burial by using a fancy hearse. However, how harsh the Jews were really being
treated was also videotaped and allowed for the truth to surface. The Germans
shot film for thirty days until the SS arrived and developed a list of Jews to
be executed. The Jews did not know that they were planned to be executed until
after the war ended.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
A Film Unfinished
The first thought that comes to mind would have to be how sick and demented the Nazi’s were. I can’t even begin to understand how Nazi’s could blame one set of people for everything that was going wrong or even how they couldn’t see what they were doing was wrong. The camera men who had filmed the Warsaw ghetto aren’t personally any better; they set up stages, acts and other sorts of fiction. They focused on the extremes, rich and poor, death rituals and circumcision. It didn’t matter whether this was actuality or just something that might make the holocaust look just a little better, for the people in Germany. Just because the camera men weren’t physically hurting the Jewish people, doesn’t mean that they were helping either. Lying and staging the camp, was not nearly as bad but they should have showed real life so everyone could see what was really going on, although I know the Nazis wouldn’t allow it. Mostly though, my heart went out to the families, friends, and children who had to suffer and watch themselves and each other die. I couldn’t nor would I want to imagine how they felt day after day, trying to keep hope and faith but still looking around and seeing all the bodies in the streets. I don’t think that I could have made it even for just one day, and many children were even born during it. Every day the Nazi’s would come up with new ways to torture these poor Jewish people, whether it was by filming the ritual bathing, making females join, not allowing food to come in, or by sending them to death camps. It was as if they weren’t people, but more little dolls you could experiment with. The Jewish people who suffered during the Holocaust, both ones that died and the survivors, are truly strong people.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Class Video Response
A lot of the Nazi's that were involved in the Holocaust, are very distant from their actions. This video showed very well, how a society will just "go through the motions," instead of actually doing what is right. The main thing that I received from this video, was the fact that most were involved, just to stay alive. If you were helping the Jews, you were considered one of them. They talked about how in the streets, there would be corpses and very ill people just lying on the ground. Crowds would walk by, holding their heads high. - I'm not sure if this really happened, given that in the video, they talked about how film crews would have them perform these actions while being taped.
All in all, I got that people will do anything they have to do to survive. When it comes down to it, search yourself to find purpose, charity, and honor. The woman being interviewed in the video, said she couldn't look at the people when she walked by. She told viewers how there was one time when she tripped and the corpses face was touching hers - I don't know about you, but that's not something that I could handle. I guess if it came down to it, I probably could, but I know deep down that it's not something that I'd really want to do. I understand the emotions that came out of this video, and you should as well. Just how we all handle emotions in different ways, we all would react differently to a similar situation.
This video did a great job of showing how even those who were working, didn't really mean harm - they were just doing what they needed to do to survive. Whether that's right or wrong, isn't up to me.
Edith Coliver Survivor Testimony
Angela Gossett
Mr. Neuburger
English 102-117
Summary
Edith Coliver
"See the smoke coming out of the smoke stacks if you lived anywhere close and the smell, so we never believed the German's didn't know."
"I had the courage of my conviction."
Joseph Morton Survivor Testimony
Angela Gossett
Mr. Neuburger
English 102-117
Summary
Joseph Morton
"In 1940 they enclosed the Ghetto and that's when the real problems started."
"Why do you think you survived? By luck, strictly luck."
The Warsaw Ghetto
Angela Gossett
Mr. Neuburger
English Comp 102-117
March 26, 2013
Mr. Neuburger
English Comp 102-117
March 26, 2013
The Warsaw Ghetto
A Film Unfinished
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.
A Film Unfinished
The film “A Film Unfinished,” is about the life of Jewish people that were living in the Warsaw Ghetto in the 1940s. The film had no sound to it but they added commentaries during the movie made by some of the survivors of the Warsaw ghetto. During the film they also interviewed one of the cameramen that filmed this movie.
The people were filming in the ghetto as a form of propaganda. They were trying to prove that life in the ghetto for Jews was not bad. Most of the scenes were staged by actors. They tried showing Jews living luxurious lives in the ghetto even though that's far from the truth. Walking around in the ghetto there were many corpses lying around on the sidewalks and the streets. The filmmakers asked Jewish people to walk passed the corpses without even glancing at them so that they could make Jewish people look heartless. They even filmed inside some of the rooms in the ghetto. They depicted the rooms as spacious and comfortable although that was far from reality because sometimes there would be multiple families living in a room at once. They also put flowers inside the room and one of the survivors that commented on the film said that nobody had flowers because the flowers would have been eaten.
I found the film to be very interesting and educating. I had seen pictures before of the ghettos and I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what it looked like but to actually see it on film changed a lot of my perceptions on it. To get to see the Jews walking around on the street, being pushed out of their houses and kids starving to death on the sidewalk just broke my heart. Another part that broke my heart was when the survivors were watching the bodies being piled in the mass grave. Most could not look that the bodies. One survivor said, “I am no longer immune. I cry today.”
The Ghetto Response
Marvin J. Pringle
Mr. Neuburger
Eng. Comp 102-117
26 March 2013
Response Essay
“The Ghetto (Unfinished)”
The film entitled “Ghetto” gives viewers a firsthand account of the lives of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. Although many scenes are staged by the Germans, this film documents the supposed “good life” and the actual reality of how Jews live confined to this ghetto. These are the conditions the Germans don’t want to show the outside world. Without knowing the true nature of this film, viewers can only fathom it is intended to depict a differing view other than the truth. In reality Jews are living in atrocious conditions, have no freedom of movement outside the ghetto and appear to be living as caged animals. After being relocated to the ghetto, Jews lose all their rights and are forced into overcrowded, undernourished squalor. For example one witness states Jews are forced to live as multiple families in one home as her family is forced to live in one room of their own home while other families take over other rooms and their home is transformed into a multi-family home. These living conditions lead to overcrowding and eventually unsanitary conditions. As seen, garbage and waste is just tossed out of windows into the streets as the people are too weak from malnutrition to take the refuse out of the building. In addition to living conditions, the film also delves into the aspect of death in the ghetto. Starvation and malnutrition in addition to the sickness and disease lead to slow and agonizing deaths. For those who are fortunate enough to obtain small portions of food and avoid starvation, they triumph over death until the ultimate happens. Those who perish for one reason or another are discarded on the streets and collected as if they are mere garbage. Acts such as the disposing of the dead as garbage made Jews indifferent and numb to death as one witness stated they didn’t feel human while in the ghetto. Some scenes depicted are so horrific, the assembled witnesses at times cover their faces as the anguish and pain is still very vivid even after six decades. In the final analysis, this film is an attempt to depict happiness and good times as opposed to the reality of harsh conditions of life in the ghetto.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Harrison Bergeron
Marvin J. Pringle
Mr. Neuburger
Eng. Comp 102-117
21 March 2013
Response Essay
“Harrison Bergeron”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s “Harrison Bergeron,” takes readers inside the lives of George, Hazel and Harrison Bergeron. After reading this passage, the reader reasons individual expression and rights are voided by a government seeking absolute equality. Vonnegut tells readers, “All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, 213th amendments to the constitution and agents of the United States Handicapper General” (293). He further tells readers about Hazel’s average intelligence and how George “…had a little mental handicap radio in his ear” (294) because of his above normal intelligence. The handicap is required by law and keeps George from using his advantage of higher than normal intelligence. Moreover, when talking about the ballerinas because of their above average ability, he states “They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked …” (294) ensuring they are no less good in their dancing and beauty than anyone else. Unlike George and Hazel, Harrison defiantly throws off his handicaps and expresses his individuality and free thought. However, this act of defiance meets harsh results as Harrison is terminated by government agents. In the end, the government seeks to remove advantages by ensuring equality.
Word count: 194
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. "Harrison Bergeron." Power of Language; Language of Power: A Collection of Reading. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2011. 293-99. Print. A Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Edith Coliver Testimony
Quotes
“What makes people do the things that they do?”
"When you have the power to move things you have the power to move things for the better or for the worse."
Brigitte Altman Testimony
"After I got his first letter I was so excited I literally didn't run down the stairs I raced down the stairs in this beautiful villa. But I broke, I fell, I slipped and I broke my leg, so when he finally came I could only see him from my window." Talking about seeing her father for the first time after the war.
"Farm work had to be done. Animals had to be fed. Life went on as it had before." This was her response when she was told the war was over.
Survivor Testimony 1
For my first video, I watched the video of Edith Coliver. She lived in San Francisco, California. Her husband was Norman Coliver. I think an interesting fact about her would be that we got to hear her whole story, right before her death. Most people don't get the opportunity to do that. The fact that we were able to hear hers, makes me even more so appreciate her story. She was an interpreter, and knew many languages. She was Jewish, but had German Native in her. By her outlook on life, and her positive attitude, you can tell that she was a strong woman from the start. She was the first woman figure to be the director for the Asia Foundation Office. She was also the first woman to serve as vice president for the WAC of North Carolina. She died on December 27, 2001.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Leslie Blanco-Herman Cohn (survivor testimony)
Herman Cohn was born September 8, 1921
in Essen, Germany. At the time of the interview Cohn was 75 years
old. His first childhood experience was when he was 5 years old when
his mother passed away at childbirth. When Hitler first came into
power Cohn and his family thought that the Nazi movement would
quickly fade away like most other movements. When Herman realized
that the Nazis were very serious about their movement he decided to
visit the city synagogue. When he arrived at the synagogue he
realized that it had been destroyed and set on fire. That very same
day his father had been taken from his home. His father was later
found beaten and was taken to the hospital. That is when Herman's
family decided to send him away to Holland on the Kindertransport on
November 1938. He was 17 when he left Germany.
When the United States joined the war Herman decided to join the army. He was first shipped to New Jersey in 1944 to Camp Kilmer. He ended up having to go to Paris where it was liberated. He finally crossed the line after the battle of the bodge. He then had to pack up and follow combat units into Germany. Once in Germany, he had the job of telling S.S. officers to evacuate their homes once their city had been invaded. He also had been to some of the labor camps. He had seen so many dead bodies and he told the stories of his experiences.
Quotes:
When the United States joined the war Herman decided to join the army. He was first shipped to New Jersey in 1944 to Camp Kilmer. He ended up having to go to Paris where it was liberated. He finally crossed the line after the battle of the bodge. He then had to pack up and follow combat units into Germany. Once in Germany, he had the job of telling S.S. officers to evacuate their homes once their city had been invaded. He also had been to some of the labor camps. He had seen so many dead bodies and he told the stories of his experiences.
Quotes:
“It was like an angel from heaven was
walking down the street” -he attended one of the Hitler rallies and this is what he said the people reacted like when they saw Hitler
“...so may were killed, starved.
There were so many dead bodies that it will take more than a day to
count.” -he wrote in a letter to his wife about his experiences
Leslie Blanco-Joseph Morton (survivor testimony)
Joseph Morton was born on July 11,
1924 in Lodz, Poland, which later became the site of a Jewish ghetto.
At the time of his testimony he was 73 years old. Joseph came from a
family with 6 children. They lived in an apartment building in what
was considered a mostly Jewish neighborhood. His mom was a stay at
home mom and his father was a tailor who later became a policeman
while they were enclosed in the ghetto. He mentioned many times of
how close his family was. They would have a get together every
Saturday night before sundown and play music. He and his friends use
to bike ride, ice skate, and play soccer for fun. He said the first
real sign of danger that he could remember was when the Poles started
pointing out who the Jewish people were because the Nazis couldn't
yet tell them apart. He also said that he believed the war started on
a Wednesday and by Friday the Nazis had already invaded Lodz. He said
that as a warning to obey they hung three men.
By 1940, they had enclosed the ghetto
with wire walls. Many people were dying out on the streets from
starvation. The Nazis would close up the streets and take people away
to death camps. He was transported out of the ghetto by a wagon. Once
at the camp he made it through the selection process and ended up in
the same wagon with his father, brother, and a cousin. They were
stripped of everything, including jewelery, gold, and sometimes even
their gold caps on their teeth. Joseph, his father, cousin, and
brother went to work at the camp. They never really had specific jobs
they just did what they were told to do, while having potato sacks on
their feet. After this they were shipped from camp to camp. Morton
was later hospitalized. While hospitalized, liberation had begun.
When Jacob was healthy again he and his family made their way to
Canada. Then, they came to the United States.
Quotes:
“You were always living in fear,
besides being hungry you always had that fear”
“To this day, I still get
nightmares.”
David Abrams Testimony 2
Holocaust Testimony
David Abrams
David
Abrams of Dej, Romania was born in 1928 on December 8th. His
original name before coming to America was Abraham. At the time of the
interview he lived in Brooklyn, New York and was 69 years old. David had a very
modest but good childhood in Dej. He had three or four sisters and three
brothers. He was the oldest of the brothers and the youngest of the sisters.
His father was a baker and was very religious. Anti-Semitism started in their
tiny town around about 1941-42. Like everything else about the Holocaust it
started out very gradually and didn’t always seem out of the ordinary compared
to what had already happened. It went from just being picked on while on the
way home to his father being beaten for not displaying a flag on a nation
holiday. Soon they weren’t allowed to own the bakery that earned them their food
and money. In about 1943 he and his family were taken away to live in a Jewish
ghetto. The ghetto wasn’t like most of the “poster child” ghettos from the Holocaust;
it was really just a forest where they were left. They stayed in this ghetto
for about a month in the spring time. When they left the ghetto they were taken
straight to Auschwitz by train. At Auschwitz he was separated from his family and
wouldn’t be reunited with any of them until after the war. He was only at this
camp for a short time until being moved on to Mauthausen and then to Gusen.
While at these work camps his work mostly consisted of moving large rocks. He
survived mostly by sheer luck and being only 15 or 16 years old. In one
instance he was admitted to the hospital at the camp for a leg infection. During
that time the kids his age were assigned to do extremely hard work where many
of them died. Once the death marches started his guards were ordered to kill
them but didn’t and just kept them walking. Once he was liberated he was taken
to a hospital where he was nursed back to health. After that he was all on his
own. He went into a DP camp and eventually found his way home where he was
eventually reunited with his sisters.
“…there was a holocaust, I was there, I survived, and I’m
here now to testify about it.”
“Zachor” –Always remember what happened
“Al tishkach” –Never forget
Edith Coliver Testimony 1
Holocaust Testimony
Edith Coliver
Edith
Coliver at the time of the interview was a 77 year old, Jewish, and German
native. The interview was conducted in her home in San Francisco, California.
Her European experiences during the 1930s and 1940s were actually a lot easier
than they could have been. Both of her parents were several generation Germans
and good, strong Jewish followers. Her father was a banker and had enough to
live a good life. She lived in a kosher house in Karshuhe, Germany. They even had
a cook that had served them for three generations. Edith partook in sports such
as track and field. She was a part of a club called The League of German Jews.
While at a track meet she once apologized to the Jewish men with beard for not
being properly dressed. She says one of the men replied "it’s aright as
long as you have good legs." As comical as that might sound it reminds me
just how silly the anti-Semitism was at this time. The Jewish people were
treated as though they were different when really they were just like you and I
and even gave silly responses such as that one. She was about eighth or ninth
grade when the anti-Semitism really set in. In school she had a Racial Science
class where they learned about the idea of a perfect Arian. She said there was
also a terrible joke going around her part. After a man would be taken away by
the SS an officer would show up a few days later and call out to the wife and
say "widow so-and-so!..." implying that her husband was now dead. Her
accounts of this doesn't go much farther as she switches gears to her family
moving to America and eventually ending up in San Francisco where she had
family. Upon arrival at port 35 the immigration agent saw her with her accordion
and prompted her to play it. "So I play God Bless America and the customs
agent cried and all the people down the pier, our relatives, cried" she
says. This story again reminds me how as people we aren't so different. Even
this German girl just arriving in the country can share a moment with the
Americans that have never been to Germany or even Europe. Here in America she
attends Berkeley and stays in an international house. She loves it there but it
is taken away during her tenure there. She the moves east and tries to find
work in Washington DC. There she works for a senator. Eventually she finds
herself in Europe at the trials. This is where the allies convicted the axis
forces of war crimes. There were also war crimes that were also convicted by
the allies. Apparently the axis could not be prosecuted for crimes that the allies
committed too. Edith Coliver died on December 27, 2002 of pancreatic cancer.
She was 79. That is just two years after this interview took place.
"it’s aright as long as you have good legs."
Example of how light hearted and normal things were before the Holocaust.
"So I play God Bless America and the customs agent
cried and all the people down the pier, our relatives, cried"
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Malka Baran-Survivor 2
Holocaust survivor Malka Baran was born January 30, 1927 in Warsaw, Poland. She is the daughter of Ezah and Bella Baran. The small family of three moved to Chestahova, Poland ten months after her birth. Malka was a part of small middle class family. The apartment where they lived was small, having only one room and the family’s printing business in another room in the building. After moving here her brother was born, making a cramped family even tighter. Up to the invasion of Poland she lived a good life, playing games, reading & going to a private school. She remembers when the Nazi’s came to Poland they had to stop going to school, unless they snuck to the teachers house for secret lessons and it was a very quick invasion only taking one day. One day shortly before sunrise her parents woke her and her brother up quickly telling them to layer on clothing. They all dressed very quickly, stashing things on their body, so they wouldn’t be found. Just as her father had put the final coin into his waist line a SS man came in shouting” out! Out!” They were thrown into the middle of the street, put in lines and marched to selection. Malka’s mother was separated from the rest of the family, although her father was with his children he still tried to switch. Malka’s father, brother and she were placed in work camps. After this memory it fades into darkness, but she does know that she was the only surviving member of her intermediate family. The work camp she was placed in was called Hassup, her job was to separate the repairable ammunition from the in-repairable. At Hassup she became ill with an itching disease and later typhus. The living conditions were horrible and continued to get worse until the day that the Russian soldiers invaded. During liberation she met a Russian-Jewish soldier who took a special interest in her. He wanted to marry and start a family with her, but his canton was moving to another part of the country. Malka and another friend went with the soldiers in an open truck. One night whole they were sleeping they felt something drop on them, they woke suddenly to find nothing but dead silence. The next morning they started crying after seeing that a blanket was placed on them in their sleep. A couple months later she finally reached her soldier. She never married him or started a family because after reaching him she never saw him again. Malka ended up becoming a teacher to children whose parents had died in the holocaust. When she came to Israel she found a cousin from Poland, she also became a preschool teacher, and received a scholarship for a teaching career in Jerusalem. After her and her husband married they moved to America to raise their family.
“I look back and wonder on my birthday where would I be where would I be?" - Malka Baran
“I loved walking up to gentlemen asking for the time and then going back to the same man to ask for the time again, oh the games we played as children.”- Malka Baran
Joseph Morton-Survivor 1
Holocaust survivor, Joseph Morton was born on July 11, 1924 in Lodz, Poland. His very large family lived in the ghetto. Morton’s mother didn't work but stayed at home and cared for the children and her husband who was a policeman. He also attended school in the ghetto, making it home. In 1944 the ghetto was closed down and all of the Jewish people were relocated by cattle trailers, fortunately Morton and his family were on the same trailer, it was extremely crowded having around 60 people on board. The trailer only stopped at night, and none of the Jewish people were aloud off. Finally, in August they reached their destination. As soon as they stepped off the trailer they were pointed either left or right, almost splitting up all the family's by the end of the selection, he was still his father, brother and some cousins.Everyone was stripped and searched for any hidden valuable items then given a stripped uniform with their number on it. Although they were fed, it was out of something similar to a coffee can. This camp was only was only a layover for most Jews,Morton included. They were then on the move again to Germany.The new camp was a work camp, where the had to work on railroads,buildings, carry cement and many other excruciating task.They even had to substitute potato sacks for shoes.The beds were infested with lice, and sickness was spreading, in which led to tons of deaths. Way to many people died, so the camp was closed, and another selection happened. The few who made it were on on there way to Mulldrf. Around this time a death March occurred, but Morton only walked a few days before ending up in the hospital. While admitted, the Jews were being liberated. Once out, he found his family, who was then relocated to a DP camp in Canada and eventually came to the states.
"We were packed in like animals, we couldn't even move." - Joseph Morton
"To be honest about it, I didn't anymore because seeing all the torture that was going on, where is he? Enough is enough!" - Joseph Morton
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Malka Baran Testimony
Marvin J. Pringle
Mr. Neuburger
Eng Comp 102-117
14 March 2013
Holocaust Testimony
“Malka Baran”
This
is the testimony of survivor, Malka Baran, formerly Klin, of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Baran was born in Warsaw, Poland on January 30, 1927. When she was a year old, the family moved to
Chestohova, Poland where they made their lives. She is the oldest of two
children and they live a quiet life where her father owns a print shop in the
building where and her mother is a homemaker. She speaks of her early life of
attending a mostly private school where she loved reading. The school was all Jewish and they spoke
Polish and Hebrew. While growing up she
stated she didn’t experience any anti-Semitism, but knew it existed; the family
didn’t associate with any non-Jewish Poles. Her life changed in 1939 when the
German occupation of Poland began. The
Jewish population in Chestohova was ordered to wear stars to distinguish Poles
and Jews. Their city was turned into a
ghetto and they were made to work for the Germans. One night, she and her
brother were awakened by her parents and were told to put on cloths in layers.
This was the last night she saw her mother and was traumatized by this loss for
a long time. She said, because of losing
her mother, her memory of events is spotty from this instance. She worked in a factory until liberated by
the Russians. She doesn’t know how she survived her ordeal, maybe because she
was so passive and didn’t make any attempts at resistance. She met her future
husband in a Displaced Persons (DP) camp while in Austria. She eventually moved to Israel where she
became an educator working with children.
She married and eventually moved to New York and continued working as an
educator until she retired after 35 years.
Two quotes by Mrs.
Baran:
“we didn’t go freely”
“the Germans did it
slowly and slyly”
Joseph Morton Testimony
Marvin J. Pringle
Mr. Neuburger
Eng Comp 102-117
14 March 2013
Holocaust Testimony
“Joseph Morton”
This
interview is with Holocaust survivor Joseph Morton, formerly Mortkowitz, of
Mortonville, Illinois. Mr. Morton was
born in Lodz, Poland, on July 11, 1924, where he lived with his mother, father
and siblings. He was the oldest of six
children; spoke Polish and Yiddish in his youth. He spoke about his family and their lives in
Poland before the outbreak of World War II (WWII). He recalls lots of anti-Semitism in Lodz
prior to the war. Their oppressors are
equated to the KKK with the exception of the white sheets and hoods. After the
start of WWII, Lodz is turned into a ghetto by the German army and Jews are
segregated and tortured regularly. He talks about being shipped from Lodz to
Auschwitz concentration camp by train. Moving forward, he explains how he, his
father, brother and a cousin are “fortunate” to get moved to Dachau, a camp in
Germany. From here, they are moved around from camp to camp working and being
tortured. He states because they were in good condition and strong, this
allowed them to survive although being worked long and hard. When Germany was liberated by the Americans
he ended up in a hospital because of the Typhus he had contracted some time
earlier. He was reunited with his
father, brother, and cousin who take him out the hospital and to a Displaced
Persons (DP) camp. While in the DP camp, he registers to come to the United
States and is put on the waiting list.
He goes to Canada instead where he meets his future wife, also a
survivor, in Montreal. He finally finds his father in Chicago and moves in with
him from Montreal. He returns to Montreal, marries his sweetheart, brings her
back to the US and begins life as a holocaust survivor.
Two quotes by Mr.
Morton:
“we really didn’t know
what was going in in the outside world; we had no contact with anyone”
“sometimes it’s not
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Plagiarism
Avoiding plagiarism is important because it unethical, you are stealing someone’s thoughts ideas or words and claiming them as yours, Plagiarism also is a lost learning opportunity, your assigned the assignment because the teacher wants you to learn. Next it diminishes your credibility, we are not experts, so unless we cite where the information came from its not very credible. Finally plagiarism may result in serious consequences. In school its considered a violation of academic honesty, but in real life it will affect your reputation and career and you could even possibly get sued.
Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. "Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism." Prentice Hall Reference Guide. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2011. 378-79. Print. Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.
Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. "Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism." Prentice Hall Reference Guide. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2011. 378-79. Print. Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.
Plagiarism
I don't have my book with me today so I will be pulling my information from the web. Passing someone elses work off as your own is cheating and is considered "academic dishonesty". Andrew Douglas states that while it is clear that plagiarism is "ostensibly concerned with the issue of
false attribution of another person's work as your own, but you also
need to appreciate plagiarism is somewhat different from instances of
copyright infringement because it is concerned with unearned increments
to the original author's reputation for instances of plagiarism." (Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/3182650)
4 reasons why avoiding plagiarism is important
"Plagiarism is unethical. When a write uses someone else's words, information, or ideas and doesn't acknolwedge using that work, that is considered an act of stealnig, even if it happens beause of carelessness or rushing too fast to write the paper."
"Plagiarism menas a lsot learning opportunity." When given a reserach assignment, students receive the opportunity to learn about the topic they are writing about. If the students simply copy and paste the information from their source without citing, they lose the opportunity to learn about what they are writing.
"Plagiarism diminishes your credibility." When students commit plagiarism they loose all credibility of their own. They lose this credibility because students do not produce any information of their own and receive no credit for writing.
"Plagiarism may result in serious penalties." When students commit plagiarism, they risjk the chance of receiving a zero and being dropped from a class. Research papers are normally worth a lot of points and can have a serious effect on the students grade. Plagiarism can also result in legal consequences if the work the student copied decided to take legal against the student.
"Plagiarism menas a lsot learning opportunity." When given a reserach assignment, students receive the opportunity to learn about the topic they are writing about. If the students simply copy and paste the information from their source without citing, they lose the opportunity to learn about what they are writing.
"Plagiarism diminishes your credibility." When students commit plagiarism they loose all credibility of their own. They lose this credibility because students do not produce any information of their own and receive no credit for writing.
"Plagiarism may result in serious penalties." When students commit plagiarism, they risjk the chance of receiving a zero and being dropped from a class. Research papers are normally worth a lot of points and can have a serious effect on the students grade. Plagiarism can also result in legal consequences if the work the student copied decided to take legal against the student.
Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. "Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism." Prentice Hall Reference Guide. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2011. 378. Print. Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.
Four reasons to avoid Plagiarism-Ali Gibson
Four reasons you should avoid plagiarism are:
Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. "Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism." Prentice Hall Reference Guide. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2011. 378-79. Print. Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.
- "Plagiarism is unethical." It's dishonest. Why would you want someone questioning your integrity?You're taking credit for a paper or assignment that someone else put alot of work into.
- "Plagiarism means a lost learning opportunity." You won't learn anything about the topic you were assigned or the assignment itself-how to write a research paper, etc.
- "Plagiarism diminishes your credibility." If you cite where you got your information, others will know that the information is accurate. You didn't just make it up.
- "Plagiarism may result in serious penalties." Plagiarism is basically cheating. All colleges and universities are against, and you will suffer serious consequences.
Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. "Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism." Prentice Hall Reference Guide. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2011. 378-79. Print. Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.
Plagiarism Response
Plagiarism occurs when a writer does not document a source and presents someone else's text as their own work. It is important to avoid plagiarism for several reasons including:
- Plagiarism is unethical- Using someone else's work without acknowledging the original author is considered stealing.
- Plagiarism means a lost learning opportunity- The opportunity to learn about the topics and sharpen research skills are lost
- Plagiarism diminishes your credibility- To be considered credible the readers need to know where you located the information.
- Plagiarism may result in serious penalties- Plagiarism is a violation of academic honesty and may result in expulsion.
Kunka, Jennifer L. "Research." Prentice Hall Reference Guide. By Muriel Harris. Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2011. 378-79. Print. Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.
Plagiarism Response
One might ask why is plagiarism so bad. The following are four reasons why:
Plagiarism is unethical -To claim something that was not yours is the same as lying.
Plagiarism means a lost learning opportunity - Regurgitating the works of someone else means that you did not take the time to understand it and interpret the work.
Plagiarism diminishes your credibility - People want to know that you understand the research and that you made the effort to put all the information together not that you could just find the information, anyone can find information, that doesn't make you specialist.
Plagiarism may result in serious penalties - School's, especially colleges, view plagiarism as the cardinal sin of academia. Most school have rules in place for when a student is caught plagiarizing which include anything from failing a paper to expulsion.
Plagiarism is unethical -To claim something that was not yours is the same as lying.
Plagiarism means a lost learning opportunity - Regurgitating the works of someone else means that you did not take the time to understand it and interpret the work.
Plagiarism diminishes your credibility - People want to know that you understand the research and that you made the effort to put all the information together not that you could just find the information, anyone can find information, that doesn't make you specialist.
Plagiarism may result in serious penalties - School's, especially colleges, view plagiarism as the cardinal sin of academia. Most school have rules in place for when a student is caught plagiarizing which include anything from failing a paper to expulsion.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
One may think they're not doing any harm, but the disadvantages of plagiarism are many and widely spread.
The first disadvantage that we should notice, is dishonesty. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and claiming it to be your own. In today's world, in any world, that's stealing. Plagiarism also causes academic dysfunction. If a student were to continuously rely on someone else's work, for their assignments; they wouldn't be learning and experiencing too much, would they? An obvious one would be the legality. It's apparent that plagiarism is illegal and that in itself should be enough for someone not to do it, but we see plagiarism more and more every day.
The disadvantages of plagiarism are large and it's time for people to start being creative and bring the autonomy back to the keyboard.
plagiarism 3/5/2013 evangelina delrosario
plagiarism means a lost learning opportunitys- research papers are a learning tool, if you plagiaris then you dont learn nothing.
plagiarism diminsihes your credibility- whcih means that any other time that you would write a paper then the teacher or professor may not believe what you have to say or wrote
plagiarism is unethical- considered stealing work for the orginal source
plagiarism may result in serious penalities- in school it would be automatic fail, in the class or for that assisignment and or kiceked out of class.
Works Cited
kunka, m. h. (2011,2008,2006). prentice hall reference guide. upper saddle river: prentice hall.
New Post: Tyler Rear: Reasons why Plagiarsim is bad.
One reason that plagiarism is bad is that it is dishonest, you are taking someone else's hard work and calling it your own, or basically lying about it. Research papers are designed for students to learn on their own, plagiarising is just copying something down and turning it in without really reading into it. A person can lose a job or be kicked out of a proffesion because of plagiarism. The person being plagiarised can take legal action toward the plagiariser in to a law suit. Plargiarism is never a good thing and you should never get wrapped up into it.
Reasons for not Plagiarising
Reasons for not plagiarising are as follows, plagiarism is unethical, it means a lost learing opportunity, it diminishes your credibility and it may result in serious penalties. These reasons for not plagiarising can be found in the Prentice Hall Reference Guide, Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College.
Plagarism is bad and you shouldn't copy this either M'kay
The 4 reasons one should not plagarize
1. Plagiarism is considered unethical. Society frowns upon the use of "stolen ideas".
2. Plagiarism means a lost learning opportunity. If you simply regurgitate an idea no true learning is done because no thought is put into the assignment.
3. Plagiarism diminishes your credibility. To plagiarize is to claim another's thoughts/ideas as your own if one attempts to steal the work of another and they are revealed, future ideas will be considered as such regardless of their origin
4. Plagiarism may result in serious penalties. To steal is not only an academic crime but a social crime as well Plagiarism is theft and may be punished as so
Works Cited
Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. Prentice Hall Reference Guide. custome edition ed. Boston: Pearson Learning solutions, 2011. 379. Print.
Plagiarism Response
1.)It is unethical.
2.)Plagatrism means a lost learning opportunity.
3.)Plagiarism diminishes your credibility.
4.)Plagiarism may result in sereious penalties.
Prentice Hall Reference Guide: Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Commuity College. Boston: Pearon Learning Solutions, 2011. 378-79. Print.
2.)Plagatrism means a lost learning opportunity.
3.)Plagiarism diminishes your credibility.
4.)Plagiarism may result in sereious penalties.
Prentice Hall Reference Guide: Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Commuity College. Boston: Pearon Learning Solutions, 2011. 378-79. Print.
Plagiarism
Name and explain four reasons why avoiding plagiarism is important:
1. Plagiarism is Unethical: It is simply stealing someone else's work and wrong.
2. Plagiarism means a lost learning opportunity: if you are to directly copy somoene else's work, in return you cheat yourself out of actually learning new information, applying it to what you already know and also further that information into future understandings. It also limits your ability to see perspective, as you would only being seeing a subject from one persons' angle by copying their work.
3. Plagiarism diminishes your credibility: It is like telling a lie. When someone knows you have lied, trust in your word is lost. By plagiarising you do not contribute to new ideas, or furthering a discussion or movement and others question your value to the subject.
4. Plagiarism may result in serious penalities: Plagiarism can have a negative impact on all areas of your life from school to your professional life. Schools have strict policies against plagiarism and if caught doing so can have lead to awful repurcussions. If caught in a professional atmostphere, the real world could provide all consequences including and leading up to legal ramifications. Beyond losing a job or scholarship, the effects of plagiarism can greatly impact your personal reputation and leave trust as an issue.
Avoiding Plagiarism- Lauren Bodine
Why avoiding plagiarism is important:
- Plagiarism is unethnical- considered an act of stealing
- Plagiarism means a lost learning opportunity- help learn more about topics
- Plagiarism diminishes your credibility- let readers know where you recieved that information
- Plagiarism may result in serious penalties- it can negatively affect your academic institution
Kunka, Jennifer L. "Plagiarism." Prentince Hall Reference Guide: Custom Edition for Ozarks Technical Community College. By Muriel Harris. 8th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2011. 278-79. Print.
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