Holocaust Paragraph

I believe that many people didn’t even realize what was happening and when they did, everyone else agreed in what Hitler thought about them and they just didn’t want to stand out and call a whole society wrong. I also think that those who did stand up to the Nazis were because they were tired of seeing all these injustices happening to the Jewish people. Honestly I don’t know what I would of done, because if I had a family I wouldn’t risk getting arrested. Only if the injustice was happening directly to me or any of my family members then I guess I would have to.

The Leanin' Dog Summary/Plot

This book is about a young girl around the age of eleven by the name of Dessa Dean. Starts off with her and her dad living in the icy mountains of Colorado. Just another normal day, she explains. Turns out she was a weird fear or phobia of being alone outside due to her mother's tragic death in a blizzard. After her mother's death, Dessa Dean was all alone. Her mother was her role model, and her best friend. Typical father who only stays at work, rips Dessa Deans heart when she needs him the most and he just stays at work. Dessa Dean was sure she would never be happy again. Until on cold day when her father was out getting fire wood, she hears scratchings at the door just to find out it is a chocolate lab starring at her. It took her another couple encounters for her to finally accept the dog. She has so much fun just like she did with her mother. Little by little the hole in her heart is filled with her dog's love.
Out of many interesting parts of the book, the part that really stood out to me was the part when Dessa Dean's dog is scared away by her father out of rage, the dog runs into the white snowy forest. Little did she know that there was a big blizzard about to start while her dog was still out there. Dessa Dean overcame her big fear of going out farther than her porch and even more because there was about to be a big snow storm. I really found this part interesting because it shows how much love Dessa had for her dog. The falling actions leading after this was also a big problem because after Dessa had found her dog, it was already to late and the storm was so strong he got lost in the woods. I have yet to find out the resolution but I am pretty sure that Dessa's father will find them because throughout the book the dog had always barked loudly. Maybe towards the end of the book, her dog will also bark out for help and they will be found.

Assessment

• Paragraph 1: What was the argument in the article? What evidence did they give to back up this claim? What do you think about the issue? What did you learn that was surprising/interesting/upsetting?
• Paragraph 2: What was the argument in the poem? What evidence did they give to back up this claim? How was reading the poem different than the article? How did this form affect the meaning or your understanding of the poem?

The article I am reading is called "Don't buy Nike". The argument in this article is that the workers in the factory are being physically abused an they are being extremely underpaid for their work and their hours they put in. I know this because throughout the article, it explains how workers only earn 1.25 a day from a hard days work. They workers also state that they are working in very hot conditions in the factory. I really don't agree with the terms or the things that the workers have to go through in order to make this meager amount of money. What really upsets me is that the problem also comes and still exist is because the government doesn't do anything to help and prevent the problem. They can do many things to stop and prevent it by doing sweeps of suspicious buildings or make the companies have review or a paper to fill out about their workers.
 The poem I am reading is called "The Sweatshop". The argument of this poem is about the narrator working in the horrible conditions of the sweatshops the narrator is in. The narrator explains his/hers time in the sweatshops as hard, tiring, and make you so dreadful that you won't even know what you are doing anymore. The narrator also explains that after a while of working in one if these shops, you tend to forget who you are, and since you do the same movements over and over again, you feel like a machine working nonstop. It shows all of these problems the narrators faces in the poem time after time. Showing how the narrator feels while he/she is working. I think that the poem really did express more than the article because the poem used certain words that made you feel like you were the one working. Another thing that that made the article and the poem different from each other is that the article has more facts about the topic and has more opinions of the other people that were there. This form of the views on sweatshops really made me feel like I was the one working in the shop because the the narrator explained every single thing they feel when they are working in these horrible conditions.