Free Write - 3/26

Well I don't really like commenting on peoples things because I guess I'm not very good at it, so I'm free writing I suppose. What about? No clue. I'm tired this morning, like always. I think I'll probably be tired for as long as I live honestly. I've come to terms with it I guess. I did have a pretty good morning though. I had to get up a litter earlier then normal becuase I had to be at school to print some stuff off. So I had to wake up at 6:45 sleep for ten more minutes get out of bed at 6:55 then I made some breakfast, which is a big deal becuase I never have time for breakfast on school days anymore, so that was a plus. Also drank a redbull while I got ready and that helped a lot. Through on some sweats and left. When I got  to my car I was a  little bummed because if was covered in frost so I had to scrape that off which is never fun, and my car didn't get fully warm until halfway through my drive on Glenstone, but that's whateves at this point. I got all my things printed off, now I'm just ready for the rest of this morning to be over so I can go back to my bed and sleep until I have to come back here at 5. Which I reallllly reallly reallllly don't want to do. I have a lab today and those always suck. Big time. And last thursdays class was cancled so we'll be rushing to get caught back up on the notes. I'm alright with this I suppose becuase once class is over I get to go home and do whatever I want becuase I don't have school the next day. By whatever I want I mean, sit on the couch and watch tv. It's some pretty exciting stuff. I painted my nails two days ago, and they have yet to chip. This is a HUGE deal becuase my nail polish always ends up chipping after about a day, so I'm pretty happy about this. I have a cold again for the third time this winter, it's really starting to get on my last nerve. I never get really sick like the flu or anything, but I always, never fails, get a cold. Sucks. I don't even get the flu shot, and I still don't get the flu! My immune system is just a champ I suppose, but not when it comes to the common cold. I even get them in the summer. Weird. I'm excited to work this weekend because I'm going to blow all the tips I make and go shopping Monday. That is perfectly fine with me becuase I haven't gone shopping in so long it's not even funny. And that's kind of a big deal becuase I have a problem when it comes to buying things. When I go to a store I just have to buy something, it's kind of a probelm. So now anytime I go anywhere and know I shouldn't buy anything I just leave my purse in the car, and every single time I find something in the store that I want soo bad. It's a rough life really..

"A Film Unfinshed" - Alyssa Vandviver

Alyssa Vandiver

ENG Comp 101-135

Mr. Neuburger

25 March 2013

Essay

“A Film Unfinished”

“A Film Unfinished” is a moving documentary about the Nazis staging the Jewish people in different scenes in the Ghetto to be used for propaganda. The films were taken during WWII in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Ghetto built by the Nazis. There were over 400,000 Jews in a 1.3 square mile radius. For a long time the films were just thought as documentation and no one knew that the films were staged. It wasn’t until recently that a film that was unfinished had showed the Nazi soldiers filming and doing re-takes was discovered. The Nazis filmed these to prove that the Ghetto wasn’t a bad thing; they were used as propaganda to show that the Ghetto life wasn’t bad. They showed the Jews dancing, playing games, talking, and going about their days. They made the films look as realistic as possible. In one scene they even fired gun shots in to the air to cause panic. They would do as many retakes as possible to make the scene seem as real as possible. They would shoot from different angles over and over again. The retakes showed that everything was staged and unreal. The Nazis made the Ghetto look like a nice place for the Jews when in reality they were so cramped they had to step over dead bodies just walking down the streets. The Nazis were starving the Jews in the Ghetto. They were so cramped that there was nowhere for people to walk without being next to someone else. The films showed the Jews happy when they were actually starving, scared, and cramped. After the Nazis were finished with the Jews in the Ghetto they were sent to concentration camps where many died. When the film with all the retakes was finally found it had shown what life was actually like for the Jewish people in the community, it also proved how far the Nazis would go to change the minds of others to make what they were doing seem ethical and to get the country to stand behind them.

Survivor Testimony

Alyssa Vandiver

ENG Comp 102-118

Mr. Neuburger

18 March 2013

Survivor Testimony

Edith Coliver

Edith Coliver was born July 26, 1922 in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the time Karlsruhe was the capital of Barden, which is no longer a state. The town she lived in was a small town, and she lived in a close Jewish community. Edith lived a peaceful middle class life. Her father, Fritz Simon, was very conservative, and her mother, Hedwig Simon, was an orthodox Jew. Coliver was very close with her grandmother, Michelle. Coliver was the oldest of three children. She had two younger brothers, Harold who was born in 1929 and Ernest Robert who was born in 1928. She lived in a large house growing up with two other families. Edith Colivers family had been in Germany for over three hundred years. She grew up Kosher and her family had a cook whom she loved. Her family lived on the bottom floor. She recalled her gym teacher living above her and remembers when articles would come out about the Jews the teacher first thought it was ridiculous, then as time went on he started to think what the media said was true until he eventually wouldn’t speak to Coliver and her family. In public school everything about the Arian Race was drilled in to their heads. After 1937 Colliver wasn’t allowed to attend public school anymore. At age elven she was well aware of what was going on with the war. She didn’t have to ask her parents about what was going on. In 1937 a lot of changes started, she was not able to go to school again so her parents sent her to England for schooling. After only of year of being there and enjoying herself, Edith Coliver’s father told her she had to go home because they were leaving to go to the United States. In June of 1938 Coliver got her visa and in August she and her family left for the United States. After getting to the States Coliver moved to San Francisco and attended school at Berkley. After the war Edith had a hard time relating to people her age, she felt strange around them like she had nothing to talk about except the death of the ones they once knew.

Survivor Testimony

Alyssa Vandiver

ENG Comp 102-118

Mr. Neuburger

18 March 2013

 

Survivor Testimony

Malka Klin Baran

            Malka Baran was born in Warsaw, Poland on January 30, 1927. Her original name was Malka Klin. Malka had two sisters and three brothers. After Malka was a year old she moved to Czestochowa, Poland where she lived for the next fourteen years of her life. Growing up she had a simple childhood, and came from a Jewish family that didn’t really practice their religion. Most of the changes started happening in 1929 when rules were given to all the Jews, she did not go to school and her family now worked for the Germans. In 1941 Baran, her brother, and her father were all separated from her mother and they never saw her again. They were all taken to a work camp, soon after her brother and father were shot and killed. After this happened Malka didn’t remember anything until 1943 when Baran was sent to a concentration camp where she survived until 1945 when the Jews were liberated. She loved children, and like working with them so after the war she worked with children who were displaced. She met her future husband who became her friend. He moved to the United States and she moved to Israel shortly after. She was eventually married and moved to the United States where she lived in Brooklyn.

Free Write 3/5

I really can't believe I'm here right now because when I woke up this morning I basically decided I was skipping school today. But then I laid there for a few more minutes and said to myself no, I have to go. So here I am. But it's really amazing because usually when I have those battles with myself not going to school wins. I don't know why I pick early classes because I'm not a morning person at all. I guess I just like to get them out of the way with so then I can go home and take a nap. Next year I won't be able to do an 8:30 class because I'll be driving from the Lake to Lebanon so I'll shoot for 10 or so. I'm so sick of school though, I'm about ready to call it quits and go to hair school... Seriously. But I won't. Because I suck at doing hair really.. I'm excited for tonight because I don't have school on Wednesday so I basically get to do whatever I want. But I have no money, at all, so whatever I do has to be free, or I have to con someone in to paying for me. I think I'm going to clean my room today when I get home. I really don't want to do that because just looking at the mess makes me want to cry. It's a wreck. There's seriously three weeks worth of clean clothes on the floor. That's going to take me forever and a day to hang up and put away. If my mom saw it she'd probably faint and die. Not kidding. I could seriously use a red bull this morning, but I didn't get one. I'd say I'll get one after but I probably shouldn't since I want to take a nap, and that stuff makes me bounce off the walls. I'm soooooo excited for spring break it's not even funny. Even though I'm not going anywhere cool.