...Josh Thompson History Ms. Kadlecek 7 April 2014 Remembering The word holocaust means “sacrifice by fire” and comes from the Greek words “holos” meaning whole and “kaustos” meaning burnt. The Holocaust of the 20th century was the mass murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi command during World War II. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he states, “…in their early days of their accession to power, the Nazis in Germany set out to build a society in which there simply would be no room for Jews. Toward the end of their reign, their goal changed: they decided to leave behind a world in ruins in which Jews would seem never to have existed” (viii). The shock and horror does not lessen regardless of how many times a book or article is read or a movie watched about the Holocaust. Learning about the horrible, dark period from 1935 – 1945 is important in several ways. On one hand, it has been said we must learn about the past in order not to relive it. However, we are also told not to dwell in the past. When studying the Holocaust, both adages have truth. Chilling questions occur when learning about the Holocaust. They are questions that Elie Wiesel repeated in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Wiesel says he remembers asking his father, “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” (118). Millions of Jews were killed by overwork, starvation, torture, and cold blooded murder just because they were a different race and...
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...------------------Remembering the Champ---------------------- "What a great par this is gonna be". Those of you that have had the pleasure of playing golf with Brian might recall hearing him call that one out. If you haven't heard it, then I'll give you his explanation for it. My name is Matt Lynch. As one of Brian's golfing buddies from Overbrook Golf Club I've been asked to make a few comments about the golf and Overbrook portion of his life. It is an honor to do so. Regarding his phrase "what a great par this is gonna be".....Brian was a very good golfer and part of that included being an accurate driver off of the tee. Occasionally though, even Superman would hit an errant tee shot...one destined for the trees or thick rough or some other obstacle. It's at that moment, when he knew that he'd hit a bad one, that he'd say "what a great par this is gonna be". He'd explain it like this. He saw no sense in cursing about the bad shot; no sense in slamming your club, much less ever tossing your club. That was all just wasting energy on something that was over. The shot was history and there's nothing you could do about it so why waste the energy crying about it? Instead, it would be so much smarter, so much more productive to channel all of that energy into the next shot. Look forward. Figure out what you can do to salvage the situation and turn a rough start into a great par. I KNOW that's how he conducted himself on the golf course and I believe that's how he...
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...DR.JOSE RIZAL Does his name crash into your nerves? YES, Indeed? I believe that in our present generation, all of us know DR.JOSE RIZAL. We can certainly see him in one peso coin we have in our pocket. We always hear his name in every history lesson that we have. Another thing is that, we always commemorate him on his special days. A lot of heroes sprout out under the Spanish regime. They are those brave and dauntless men and women who strive their best just to attain the freedom of our country. Most of them have carved their names in the Philippine history. However, one name outshines and take a lead step to become the national hero of the Philippines. He was no other than -Dr. Jose Rizal. Dr. Jose Rizal was a versatile genius in the Philippine history. He was the great one who sacrificed his life for the sake of Filipino people. Rizal was an illustrious man who opened the mind of every Filipino to fight for their rights. Embedded in him was a desire to help his countrymen who were belittled by those ruthless tyrants. He was so valiant to enlighten the mind of the Filipinos. He further exposed all the haughtiness and injustices executed by the Spaniards. Moreover, he was truly a patriot. He never wanted to see his fellow countrymen being coerced by other nation. Nowadays, Rizal`s works and life are important facets of today’s education. They serve as a great model as well as inspiration to the Filipino youth. The fact that Rizal believed that education would empower the nation...
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...Essay #2—Review Assignment (850-1000 words) Typed, Double-Spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font For this assignment you will be evaluating a local business and writing up your assessment of the establishment in a review paper. Please do not review a movie, book, CD, or product for this assignment. Choose a place that offers a service to its customers, such as a restaurant, a retail store, or a public library. A review always includes both the good and the bad aspects of the establishment and tells an audience what they can expect if they go there. Most reviews will also include examples of how the business measures up to its competition. When appropriate, you should include comparisons to other similar businesses in your review. Please choose one of the following options for this paper (if you’d like to write a review about a business that’s not on this list, please e-mail your idea to Nancy for approval): restaurant library coffee shop fitness or sports center bowling alley hair salon tanning salon, nail salon grocery store movie theatre clothing store auto repair shop retail store **Note: Most students end up writing a restaurant review for this assignment, so most of my examples are about restaurants. Introduction: Your introduction should tell your reader where the establishment is located, what type of business the establishment falls under (retail shop, restaurant, etc…) and include a thesis statement. Your...
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...Everyone has their own special place, a place that brings back memories of the good times. I grew up in a small two bedroom house, in a rural country town. Our house was old and small, but, nonetheless it was home. Even though I haven’t been back to the old house in almost a decade, I will always remember its smell and colors. Growing up, we did not have a lot, but what we did have was cherished. In this paper, I will write about the memories I have of the place I call “home”, let me take you on a visit there. Situated at the end of a dirt road which runs off another, larger county road is the place I call “home”. Here, my mother raised three girls without the help or companionship of a husband. The house set back about 200 feet from the road. As we stroll up the dirt drive lined with rows of wild gladiolas on each side, sits the tidy small, unpainted old frame house. On the porch, I can't help but notice a high-backed rocker on one side and a bench worn smooth by age on the other. Both remind me of the many hours spent here enjoying the weather and view. Turning the door knob and entering the foyer is like taking a step back in time. The door, is the same as when I was a kid, the windows are free of curtains, only shades yellowing from age, pulled at night, as if privacy is needed out here in the boondocks. Mom's big over-stuffed floral couch is set beside the well-stocked bookcase. One lonely picture with the words "Home, Sweet Home" hangs on the wall over the fireplace...
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...Black and Yellow Hurt It was just like any other ordinary day in third grade until lunch time. When lunch came around instead of eating in the cafeteria we had to eat in our classrooms. We had eaten in our classrooms before but this day would not be the same as those other days. I had just gotten back from the cafeteria where I picked up my food, and sat down at my seat. It was corn dog day! I used to love corn dogs and on this particular day I got two corn dogs. I looked forward to eating my lunch, until the “Big Event.” My best friend Danny had a run-in with a bee before that “Big Event.” Just like this time, it was also at lunch when the other bee came towards Danny. It was toward the end of second grade year. He saw a bee trying to escape from the gym. The bee was flying on the glass window, when Danny got the idea to swat at the bee. It was on the ledge when all of a sudden “Smack!” He had just killed his first bee. “What did that bee do to hurt you?” I said. It was a hot fall day outside and since we did not have air conditioning yet, the windows were open. On occasion, a bee or fly would get in and buzz around the room, getting every third graders’ attention. We sat at our desks in our little groups of friends when the bee decided to fly right in front of Danny’s face. Oh God! Please don’t let him hit that bee; it is going to have consequences. He swatted at the bee, and the next thing I knew I was holding my eye and crying like crazy...
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...The most important birthday of my life is my 11th birthday .I remember as its yesterday. It was a beautiful Saturday morning when I woke up due to a loudly noise. It was 8:00 am then I knew that it was October 12, my birthday. I took a long, cold shower to calm myself down and got dressed. I was too excited. I was still in bed when all of the sudden I started to hear noise at the outside of my room. I went down stairs to the kitchen. Just as I entered the kitchen I became aware of a delicious smell. My mom had prepared French toast which is my favorite breakfast. She was cutting tomatoes into cubic pieces. The cutting noise could hear by my room. It was now 11am. I was helping my mom prepare the chicken wings. A birthday party must be planned effectively to goal its success I had been looking forward to the party for at least two months. It cannot be a last minute planning. I will not be caught unprepared again. I‘ve been concentrated on the planning of the party for a month. Everyone had read the RSVP deadline and called in a week ahead of schedule. The weather was sunny so I didn’t have doubt about bad weather. I was keep tracking of forecast a week. It was to be my first party at our new house. There are only a few hours till my party starts. I set up the new stereo system. When the time drew near for me to be ready for the party, I put on my birthday dress which I was specially sewn for me. Suddenly I hear a knock on the...
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...According to the Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, suicide takes the lives of nearly thirty thousand Americans each year. One person dies due to suicide every 16.2 minutes; 6 people will take their own lives each hour. Over half of all suicides are completed with a firearm, and suicide is most common in the spring. Both of these are true for my favorite football player of all time; Junior Seau took his life with a bullet to the chest on May 2, 2012. On January 19, 1969, Junior Seau was born in San Diego, California. The fifth of six children, Seau was born Tiaina Baul Seau Jr. At an early age, his family moved to American Samoa, but they returned to the mainland prior to him entering grade school. He did not speak English until the age of seven. Seau attended Oceanside High School, where he played linebacker and tight end for the Pirate football team. He was named CIF San Diego Section Defensive Player of the Year, all-state and USA Today All-USA honorable mention, as well as All-North County and Avocado League Offensive Player of the Year. In addition, he was consensus San Diego Section Basketball Player of the Year and a letterman in track and field. He was named to California’s all-academic team with a 3.6 grade-point average. He continued his football career at the University of Southern California. Seau first made his name as a terrorizing linebacker for the USC Trojans. After a slow start to his career due in part to academic concerns, Seau roared onto the scene...
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...There are many risk factors of signs of Alzheimer’s disease, but number one risk factor is old age. There have been many studies researching and confirming that age is the most important risk factor for Alzheimer’s. The age range, in which Alzheimer usually targets someone’s brain, is during the ages sixty-five and eighty-five. Another fun fact is that this disease is more common in women than men. That’s right, women are in a greater risk than men for getting Alzheimer’s. Being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s doesn’t mean the end of your world, it may take years for it to fully kick in and start effecting you. It could take as short as two years to as long as twenty-five years for it to truly start affecting you. If a patient is failing at remembering recent memories that happened less than a month ago, that is a sign of the preliminary stages of Alzheimer’s disease. There have been tons of research that testifies on how it is harder for Alzheimer’s patients to retain additional information and remember it over a brief period. They are very fragile, and it a very sensitive subject when they can’t remember something that was told to them over an hour ago. For the most part, Alzheimer’s disease really destroys a person’s memory. It does not target just one kind of memory, but all five types of memories. It effects their explicit memory, which is long term memories that are facts. For example, the math equation of 4 x 2 = 8. Alzheimer’s also effects your remote memory, which is like your...
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...With Memorial Day right around the corner, I've seen a lot of posts telling me to remember what Memorial Day is all about, that it's more than just a BBQ. They are beautiful and inspiring and while I appreciate each and every one, I just have to say that I'm not likely to forget. I will remember always because I think about it always; on Memorial Day, on Veteran's Day, Armed Forces Day, D-Day and the anniversary of Pearl Harbor... and every other day of the year. Maybe not every minute of every day but at least once a day, something reminds me of the sacrifices that others have made on my behalf. I'm not a weepy or sentimental person by nature but over the last 10 years or so, I've cried a million tears in the names of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines that I don't even know. It doesn't take much. A news article, a Facebook video, a song on the radio... all of these bring to mind a picture of courage, honor, commitment and sacrifice, things we may not stumble across too often in our daily lives but that are the very essence of every one of our troops. In my home, in my heart, these things are revered. I have cried at news articles reporting one more who will never come home. I cry at homecomings, too, but those are tears of joy. I cry for the things they've missed and the families who've missed them and I cry for the people who will never understand what their sacrifice really means. And Friends, I want you to know that I cry for your sons and daughters...
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...MEMORY: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS TO EDUCATION INTRODUCTION: Memory is generally defined as the processes of encoding, storing and retrieving information. These three processes interact with different memory systems. The memory systems that appear to be most important in the educational area are short-term memory, working memory and long-term memory. Memory is thought to begin with the encoding or converting of information into a form that can be stored by the brain. This encoding process is also referred to as registering information in memory. The memory systems that are involved in the encoding or registration of information in memory are sensory memory and short-term memory. Sensory Memory Information which first comes to us through our senses is stored for a very short period of time within the sensory register. Simply put, the sensory register is associated with our five senses – seeing (visual), hearing (auditory), doing (kinesthetic), feeling (tactile) and smelling (olfactory). However, the sensory buffers that have received the most attention in the research literature are the visual and auditory sensory registers. Generally information remains in our visual memory for a very short time, approximately several hundred milliseconds. This information or "image" is somewhat like an exact replica of what we have just seen, and it fades with the passage of time (Pashler and Carrier, 1996). Short-term Memory Most of the information that enters...
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...Kionah McNeil January 23, 2014 EN111- Academic Writing and Research Professor Christa Ivaliotis Diagnostic Essay “Same Inside and Out” Some people act a certain way by themselves then they do in front of people. Some people will have two-faced or even double-faced. The difference between the two is people who are double-faced have two different characters –other for close friends and when they are by themselves. Usually, these two faces don’t correspond to each other. Not only is such double life irritating for surrounding people, but it is also hard for the person as well. A person's public image is based on the opinions of others toward your appearance of how you WANT to be looked at. The fact that you are trying to be viewed in a certain way does not mean you actually pull it off. Most people's presentation of themselves is based on current trends, like what’s cool, what’s hip, at the moment. Your private self is based on your actual desires and the only audience is yourself, so you do not have any one to impress but yourself. Of course, plenty of people still try to prove themselves along with everyone else. Making sure they have the newest gadgets, fashion, sneakers, clothes, hair just please others. Too much energy is spent on sustaining two images, and if one of them will become known to the other group of people, the reputation will be greatly damaged and can hardly be renovated. As for me, I am absolutely sure that a person doesn’t have to strive to be someone...
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...by. While realizing no one is perfect, understanding the difficulties and struggles parents face with their children, as discussed by experts, having an owners manual for my children could come in very handy! Because parenting in general can by difficult, many studies have found the transition from infancy to adolescence even more difficult for fathers. Because the mother has time to bond with the child, specifically through labor and breastfeeding, fathers struggle to find a place and may not have appropriate time to bond. Some studies suggest playful interactions with their children as they grow can not only help a father bond with children but also help the father find and learn his role in parenting. (Machin, A. J. (2015). Remembering the early years of parenting, more...
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...Remembering and Commemorating the War Essay According to Blight, Fredrick Douglas fought hard to protect the memory of the war. What was Douglas’s memory of the war and why did he try to protect it? North vs. South, Confederates vs. The Union. Rifles were fired… brother vs. brother. Men were named heroes for seemingly valiant acts in battle. We learn many things from the past. A nation was literally ripped in half in what was called the bloodiest conflict in American History. History is not an obsolete thing. Rather, it teachers valuable lessons. It can’t be denied how tragic the Civil War really was in American History. “It is not well to forget the past. Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is the mirror in which we discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them”(97). Prominent American Figure Fredrick Douglas was born a slave, educated, freed himself then became an accomplished author that fought for equality for blacks and many other groups in America. In the text Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War, author David W. Blight describes Douglas’s memory of the Civil War as something beyond the battlefield. Fredrick Douglas recognized the heroism and the death that happened on the battlefield. However there was much more than the combat and battle happenings that Douglas remembered. Douglas remembered what it was to be a slave; this very insight was the key to his memory of the Emancipation Proclamation...
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...University of Phoenix Material Remembering, Feeling, and Thinking Worksheet Part I: Motivation, Emotion, and Behavior Explain the relationships between motivation, emotion, and behavior. How does emotion affect motivation? Give an example of a specific behavior and the motivators and emotions that can be behind that behavior. Your response should be at least 300 hundred words. Motivation can be defined as the driving force behind all the actions of an individual. The influence of an individual's needs and desires both have a strong impact on the direction of their behavior. Motivation is based on your emotions and achievement-related goals. When you feel like the world is against you and you would rather stay in bed and wallow, rather than go out there and face the world again. Your motivation is not going to be at an all-time high. Motivation stems from components that involve the drive and performance of learned responses, such as a learned behavior will not occur unless it is energized (Huitt, 2011, Para. 5). Motivation can be perceived as a crucial influence on behavior. It helps progress the ability to effectively solve problems and make decisions. Motivation is the behavior that is originated and directed toward a desired goal. This conduct can vary in intensity and persistence. The lack of motivation then causes you to stay in that little world of self-pity for as long as you feel down and depressed. Our motivation relies very much upon just how happy...
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