At the begginning I hate Eliezer for since they had been told the stories of the war and all, why wouldn't the believe Moshe the Beadle? After all, he had been there and you would have to concider that although his story might sound a little exagerated for they weren't, the people of Sighet had been told creepy horrible facts. Why wouldn't they believe in a witness then? Well, before anything, all the stories of the holocaust remind me of some very gore and twisted stories that I've read before now, I never stop feeling impressed by the torture that has been applyed to others throughout history and I'm gonna continue reading this novel now.
Hopefully his fathers dies in Buna for I dont like the way he acts so protuberant and fair yet he cares more about appereceses with the community than about spending time with his family being a loving emotional father.
martes
jueves
Paraphrasing ♥♠
Original text:
1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity." From "Captain Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.
Paraphrased text:
1. Captain Cousteau said in tape that just like the sun is a source of heat, the Antartic is a source of cold for our planet. The cold ocean around the Atlantic, he explain, flows north so that it can mix with warmer waters but since we, the human kind, are contaminating and ruining the earth, this cycle is becoming endagered. (Audbon May 1990)
Original Text:
2. The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.
Paraphrased text:
2. The twenties where years of change around the United States. Back then, the organized criminal groups, mafias, where in charge of the cities. The law was also disrespected and the authorities lost their power over the people. Jazz had come in sweeping away classical music, Louise Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke became role models to the eyes of the youth, and woman responded and started wearing short skirts as well as bobbed hair and became in a way more open with the "flapper" movement. Maybe the tweinties have more to do with the United States' lost of their past roots. (Kathleen Yancey, 1985)
Original text:
3. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.
Paraphrasing text:
3. There are many bicycle deaths each year and studies say that half of these deaths are school children. Also, many deaths are cause by head injuries yet there are ways to reduce the probability of getting a head injury while riding bikes. Study's concluded that wearing a bicycle helmet reduce by a high percentage the risk of a head injury since if an accident is to happen, the helmet protects the head and stops the shock of the hit. ("Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers" May 1990)
Original Text:
4. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. " depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.
Paraphrasing Text:
4. Matisse can be considered the best painter at creating image reality and he's the most sentimental and realistic modern painter. His work, "The Casbah Gate", inspired in a gateway near a Sultan's palace, with so many thoughtful and delightfully alive colours yet with dark lovely colours. Matisse has a dash of a inspiration and live in his paintings and the essence as well as the message of nature itself. ("Bright Lights" March 1990)
Original Text:
5. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building. From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.
Paraphrased text:
5. The Sears towers might be considered one of the greatest goals in arquitecture till today.
1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity." From "Captain Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.
Paraphrased text:
1. Captain Cousteau said in tape that just like the sun is a source of heat, the Antartic is a source of cold for our planet. The cold ocean around the Atlantic, he explain, flows north so that it can mix with warmer waters but since we, the human kind, are contaminating and ruining the earth, this cycle is becoming endagered. (Audbon May 1990)
Original Text:
2. The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties, and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than anyone or anything else, America's break with the past. From Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide (1989): 25.
Paraphrased text:
2. The twenties where years of change around the United States. Back then, the organized criminal groups, mafias, where in charge of the cities. The law was also disrespected and the authorities lost their power over the people. Jazz had come in sweeping away classical music, Louise Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke became role models to the eyes of the youth, and woman responded and started wearing short skirts as well as bobbed hair and became in a way more open with the "flapper" movement. Maybe the tweinties have more to do with the United States' lost of their past roots. (Kathleen Yancey, 1985)
Original text:
3. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer Reports (May 1990): 348.
Paraphrasing text:
3. There are many bicycle deaths each year and studies say that half of these deaths are school children. Also, many deaths are cause by head injuries yet there are ways to reduce the probability of getting a head injury while riding bikes. Study's concluded that wearing a bicycle helmet reduce by a high percentage the risk of a head injury since if an accident is to happen, the helmet protects the head and stops the shock of the hit. ("Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers" May 1990)
Original Text:
4. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. " depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.
Paraphrasing Text:
4. Matisse can be considered the best painter at creating image reality and he's the most sentimental and realistic modern painter. His work, "The Casbah Gate", inspired in a gateway near a Sultan's palace, with so many thoughtful and delightfully alive colours yet with dark lovely colours. Matisse has a dash of a inspiration and live in his paintings and the essence as well as the message of nature itself. ("Bright Lights" March 1990)
Original Text:
5. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building. From Ron Bachman, "Reaching for the Sky." Dial (May 1990): 15.
Paraphrased text:
5. The Sears towers might be considered one of the greatest goals in arquitecture till today.
sábado
Exodus ♥♠
Exodus can also be interpreted as the liberation of the masses. The pharaoh was infested by plagues. The slaves where freed, and here Aaron and Moses where guiding them all to the promissed land that god made.
The story of the liberation of the choosen people following Moses trying to free themselves from the Pharaoh and the egyptians in general seemed to me very interesting since it infuences the religious beliefs strongly. Since a young age, we have been taught about Creationism and Evolution and the co-existing hate and like Adam and Eve, Moses is one of the most important beliefs of this theory but science has disproved things like "Moses broke the sea in two" and the like.
Well, I enjoyed the Exodus chapter since I believe alot in revolution and freedom which are in a way inspired in Moses and the Pharaoh. Also I have a deep seated disgust of slavery and forced labor because its not fair to discriminate people based on stereotypes.
The story of the liberation of the choosen people following Moses trying to free themselves from the Pharaoh and the egyptians in general seemed to me very interesting since it infuences the religious beliefs strongly. Since a young age, we have been taught about Creationism and Evolution and the co-existing hate and like Adam and Eve, Moses is one of the most important beliefs of this theory but science has disproved things like "Moses broke the sea in two" and the like.
Well, I enjoyed the Exodus chapter since I believe alot in revolution and freedom which are in a way inspired in Moses and the Pharaoh. Also I have a deep seated disgust of slavery and forced labor because its not fair to discriminate people based on stereotypes.
Genesis ♥♠
I've accidentally fallen behing on my blogs so I will create one for all of Genesis. The main idea of the complilations of Genesis is that God created it all and we must fallow that he intended us to follow. But it also reflects the flaws of
the human nature itself. For example, there are Adam and Eve are Cain and Abel. But it also shows the devotion and love there is with chapter's like those of Abram.
I really enjoyed the part of God wanting Abram to sacrifice Isaac to him since it shows a more evil true side of god as him instead of just giving also demanding from them something the cherish. It is also a defect on humans wanting to feel supperior and I guess we inherit it from god himself.
This reminds me of Noah's story which I liked since I find the particular story of the creator wanting to destroy his creations inoder of him to be able to be supperior again. Possibly this can be interpreted as God being afraid of his creation and wanted to stop harm b destroying it but yet he feels proud of a part of his creation so he lets some save themself from the faith of those who have sinned.
Then I remembered the story of Babel. I hated this story cause in addittion of not understanding it, it also confused everything I had read before. If it first says that humans are useless and we should kill them all accept for those few who haven't sinned, then why is it that these humans are so devoted if they knew not about Noah's story?
Anyway, I liked Adam and Eve story best. It was entretaing for some reason.
the human nature itself. For example, there are Adam and Eve are Cain and Abel. But it also shows the devotion and love there is with chapter's like those of Abram.
I really enjoyed the part of God wanting Abram to sacrifice Isaac to him since it shows a more evil true side of god as him instead of just giving also demanding from them something the cherish. It is also a defect on humans wanting to feel supperior and I guess we inherit it from god himself.
This reminds me of Noah's story which I liked since I find the particular story of the creator wanting to destroy his creations inoder of him to be able to be supperior again. Possibly this can be interpreted as God being afraid of his creation and wanted to stop harm b destroying it but yet he feels proud of a part of his creation so he lets some save themself from the faith of those who have sinned.
Then I remembered the story of Babel. I hated this story cause in addittion of not understanding it, it also confused everything I had read before. If it first says that humans are useless and we should kill them all accept for those few who haven't sinned, then why is it that these humans are so devoted if they knew not about Noah's story?
Anyway, I liked Adam and Eve story best. It was entretaing for some reason.
viernes
Myths 15 ♥♠
I read the Olympic Games, Daedalus, and Castor and Pollux. I didn't find anything of the olympic games that isn't still mentioned nowadays
Daedalus was the example of how important it was to have sharp wit and that even if you are gifted you should not try to be more than what you can be, or let your ego grow too high. The dangers of being better are increadible while as Castor and Pollux are heroes and are said to have bravety and great celestial connections. In other words, they were so praised the were linked to the divine and so it was not a strech tthat they became constellations.
Daedalus was the example of how important it was to have sharp wit and that even if you are gifted you should not try to be more than what you can be, or let your ego grow too high. The dangers of being better are increadible while as Castor and Pollux are heroes and are said to have bravety and great celestial connections. In other words, they were so praised the were linked to the divine and so it was not a strech tthat they became constellations.
martes
Myths 14 ♥♠
The myths I have read today are those of Pomona, Bacchus, and Adriane. Now the first and the last show how or what the "mytologers" imagened were the minds of woman;
- manipulative
- lovers
- complicated
- maleficious yet compasive
- imagineative
On the other hand you can compare it to the idea of man and to thought of the man ruling over woman and having the liberty to fool around in every sense without being aware or actualy caring about the consequences. Bacchus was the god of wine and in short words, parties. Here you see an underestimation of the women for if a woman commited adultery it wasn't well seem but if man did, well he was celbrated.
- manipulative
- lovers
- complicated
- maleficious yet compasive
- imagineative
On the other hand you can compare it to the idea of man and to thought of the man ruling over woman and having the liberty to fool around in every sense without being aware or actualy caring about the consequences. Bacchus was the god of wine and in short words, parties. Here you see an underestimation of the women for if a woman commited adultery it wasn't well seem but if man did, well he was celbrated.
jueves
Myths 13 ♥♠
I have read the myths of Callisto, Clymie and The Myrmidons. After taking the main idea of each you can see how important it was both for the romans and the greeks love, beauty, and honor.
Callisto was turned into a bear since June was "defending" her honor for she feared her husband would fall in love with Callisto's omnipotent beauty and Callisto then after years saw her son and remembered how much she love him because he was part of her family.
Clymtie was a gorgeous water nymph who fell in love with Apollo but since he was a god he didn't see her of honorable enough to behold and captivate the beauty of Apollo who dicided to pay no attention to her. Yet she pretty much starved herself from everything and sat on a rock to cry over her beloved forever being only able to see him when he took the sun out.
The Myrmidons were a group of people who at the end created a sociey yet they faced may obstacles regarding honor and still made it on to create a stable noticable.
Callisto was turned into a bear since June was "defending" her honor for she feared her husband would fall in love with Callisto's omnipotent beauty and Callisto then after years saw her son and remembered how much she love him because he was part of her family.
Clymtie was a gorgeous water nymph who fell in love with Apollo but since he was a god he didn't see her of honorable enough to behold and captivate the beauty of Apollo who dicided to pay no attention to her. Yet she pretty much starved herself from everything and sat on a rock to cry over her beloved forever being only able to see him when he took the sun out.
The Myrmidons were a group of people who at the end created a sociey yet they faced may obstacles regarding honor and still made it on to create a stable noticable.
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