My book did not have a happy ending. The boys did not get home and were stranded in an empty village to fend for themselves. It is very important for us to remember these things that happened so that they won’t happen again. In Africa there are still child soldiers which means some people didn’t learn. The holocaust and WW2 have shaped our world for the better because they show us what the result of these major wars and too much power can cause.
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My book is about three boys who get taken from their home in Venice, Italy. They get taken by German soldiers during World War Two. They are forced to work in fields digging ditches and making tarmacs. Many other boys are taken from all over Europe and sent to these work camps. The work camps are right outside a concentration camp. The main character of my book, Roberto, gives a lot of the little food he gets to a poor woman and her daughter inside of the camp. They then get in trouble for stealing raw chicken eggs and eating them for protein. They get taken to another camp in Ukraine, with way worse conditions. It is freezing cold in the winter there and all they get is a potato sack to sleep with. A current event that relates to my book is child soldiers in South Sudan. These kids are being taken from their homes and forced to work and fight just like the kids in WW2. In this article, it tells us that there is a human rights watch to look into the commanders that recruited and abused these child soldiers. I’m the time of my book, there was no human rights watch because if you caught back, you were killed. Today these terrible people can be stopped, many people are noticing the similarities between then and now. The biggest question right now is; Is history repeating itself?
My book takes place in Italy during the time of the holocaust. Germany and Italy were thought to be allies, but then germany invaded Italy. Many kids were being taken to be soldiers at concentration camps and nearby farms. The events in my book give me a better understanding of what actually was happening in Italy during this time period. The book shows how in real life the Jewish were separated from everyone else in put in places called the ghetto. The people of this country thought Germany was on their side and helping them. In the book the kids are oblivious to what is really going on until the get taken out of their homes and forced to work for the nazis. In both the real world and my book, many people had no idea what was happening over in Germany and Poland, many children were taken and trained to work for the German soldiers and in concentration camps. In the book a character sees an old woman lying against a barbed wire and goes to tell a soldier that she needs help, the soldier then walks up to the woman and shoots her because she was not “doing what she was supposed to do.” This really showed me how poorly people were treated in real life and in the story.
Lorraine Rozowski, Molly Asbill, Isaiah Jacobs
School Beautification Introduction School beautification is making schools a better, cleaner environment for students and staff.The issue is schools being dirty, unorganized, or plain/ boring. These qualities can distract students from learning, or make them less interested in their learning center. This affects all the students and teachers in our community by motivating the citizens to get out and help build a better learning society. (Palms Middle School) I am personally interested in this cause because I know what affects a good learning society can have on you. My whole life I have been so fortunate to have a great school to go to every day. Both my middle and elementary schools were clean, neat, and well taken care of. This has given me a reason to want to learn more and more to get into a good college. Studies have shown that the niceness of a learning environment can motivate someone to try and work harder for what they want. Everyone should care about the issue. Issue: We decided to do school beautification to make our school environment/community better.This issue affects the learning environment and future of all students. It gives them a challenge inside school and in the classroom. It has been an issue in the community for awhile, research has stated that if a students are in a good environment than they have a better chance of learning new things and doing work, than in a bad environment. “Schools in better physical condition report improved academic performance while schools with fewer janitorial personnel and higher maintenance backlogs report poorer academic performance,” (EPA, 2017) School beautification is a problem in the community because some people may not be getting the education they need or may have some negative attributes in their community or environment. The causes of school beautification, schools with a better physical condition reports confirm that they improved their academics while a school with few janitorial personal and maintenance backlogs report worse academic performance. If school beautification isn’t taken care of, than I think that there would be fewer people with good academics and a good environment. Solution School beautification, many have done something to help this issue like helping in the garden or making gardens and things like adding on to the school with garden or extra additions to the school or extra school activities. They also make pathways and artistic things like murals, or turning things like a courtyard somewhere where you can go work they also use it for classwork, In one (School Beautification)school they have created a pond and made it for dwellings for insects and animals to live in. Some schools even make butterfly habitats for butterflies to use until they want to leave or come out of there cacone,like in Brookwood Elementary they had built an elevated pond to indicate a place for animals and insects and plants to live and create a habitat. School beautification is very important and still needed today for better environments and better learning surroundings and a good and fun experience to learn and have fun outdoors or in the school with murals or emotion lifting things that make you wanna be here and learn more. As a middle schooler having fun is very limited and I want to have fun and learn and be able to have fun and work and have school beautification in our school. Conclusion We as a community or a school can help in many different ways ,but, our idea is to create a mural somewhere in the school to brighten students and staffs’ day. This mural can be painted by eighth grade students only to make it more personal. First, I would ask for permission of Mrs. Peckham to do this. I would then ask Ms. Bennet for some help planning and some artistic ideas and tips. After we get the go ahead, I would ask our student council to ask students for ideas for our murals theme. then I would make sure we have a fundraiser to get supplies in order to make this mural. After all of that is taken care of, I would ask our eighth grade student body to vote on where to paint this mural. Then, we would let students who are interested in art sign up to help paint this mural. This mural would help make our school a prettier learning society that could motivate students to learn more and come to school. Our community would be proud to have a nice looking learning center that people actually like to go to. Many schools across the nation are not as nice or clean as some of the schools that we are so fortunate to have. This gives them better education opportunities at younger ages. Our goal is to brighten and make a better learning community, brighting staff and students day would be a great way to make a good learning environment me as a person when i’m happy I work harder and want to have fun and do more so by brightening there day we can make a better learning community, I think I would know if I reached my goal if people realized and recognized our mural and were amazed and happy to see something in the hall like this, by teachers and people that see it will be amazed and say something and recognize it it would be achieved our goal of making people happy and brightening their learning environment would be amazing. Sources: Palms middle school. “School Beautification Day”. Palms middle school. October 7, 2017. January 29, 2018. <https://www.palmsmiddleschool.org/beautification-day >. Dalton Whitfield, School Beautification, 2016 Mini-Grant Recipients Project Showcase. September 2015. December 2015. < http://www.dwswa.org/school-beautification-projects/> Environmental Protection Agency. “Why Healthy School Environments Are Important”. EPA. January 17, 2017. January 30,2018.<https://www.epa.gov/schools/why-healthy-school-environments-are-important> Fix.School Gardens. "How to grow a garden". <https://fixcom.azureedge.net/assets/content/19572/school-gardens-header.jpg> Many people in our community are homeless.
They are without a warm place to go at night, not getting many meals, if any, and they do not have good lives. I am interested in this issue because it makes me realize how fortunate I am compared to these people. Also, it makes me want to go out into the community and help others in need. Many people in this community are effected by this issue because due to a growing number of homeless people, shelters are crowding, and supplies and decreasing. People should care about this issue because these homeless people need help and we can help beautify our community by helping others There are many ways we could help these people. One way is; you could make a bag of essentials like water, food, hygiene products, bandaids, and a blanket and hand the bags out to people. Another way is you could volunteer in a soup kitchen or center where homeless people can get free meals. I volunteered at the Helen rights center tonight , a shelter for women, and it really opened my eyes on how lucky i am to have all of these nice things, and it made me want to help these people. Molly Asbill
11/1/17 This I believe This I believe that time is precious and should not be taken for granted. If you don’t savor the good moments you will never remember them. This past summer was my older sister Annie’s last year as a camper at our summer camp, Camp Cheerio. We have been going to this camp for 8 years. This upcoming year will be my first year without her there with me. Although my sister and I are not close, and fight non-stop, this has been the one thing we share as a good memory. As I knew this was her last year, I made sure to make the most of it.Every last year camper must come together on the second to last night of our two weeks we had been there and talk about their time there. All of the campers are lined up in front of the whole camp on this quiet starry night. As it became her turn to talk, she started tearing up. She mentioned how camp has been her home for the past eight summers and that she was so glad she tried her hardest to enjoy every moment of it. The last year campers must write a letter to one of the people who have impacted their camp experience the most. I received her letter. This letter made me really see how something that we had for so long would be coming to an end. I became very sad realizing our memory would be over. I thought she would forget about all the good times we had these past summers. I felt like a big part of my life was coming to a stop. As the summer at camp came to an end, I still felt like something was over. My sister came to me the next day and we talked about all of our memories we had at camp in the previous summers. I then realized that even though she wouldn’t be with me at camp anymore, I would still have all of the memories we made. Although it felt like a big part of me was over, I knew I could look forward to new memories to be made. I believe that time is precious and meant to be savored. These summers at camp have taught me how you never know how much something can mean to you until you no longer have it. As Dr. Suess once said, “ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” |
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