Quick Write 3: Powerful vs. Powerless

For anyone, there are times when people feel powerless. When they feel powerless, it's like when they feel like they aren't capable of doing something, such as accomplishing a goal. But people also feel powerful. When they feel powerful, it's like when they feel like they are strong and successful. For me I have felt powerful and powerless in times of my life. I remember when last year I went to my great aunts house and she'd asked me how were my grades doing everything containing school. At that time I was struggling with understanding the work and turning it in. I had told her that I didn't have the confidence to get help from my teacher because I didn't want to hold back any students that understood already for a period of time. She told me that I should have the confidence in anything in particular because I am the future. As this generation, what we do now determines what happens in the future. Meaning that we can control what can happen for the next generation to come. When she said this to me it made me feel powerful because it lets me know that I have the power to change anything and that no one can tell me different. Times when I feel powerless is when my parents or any adult in particular tells that I can't do something or have a say that contains for my life. Usually, goes to really saying that my opinion doesn't matter because to them it doesn't mean anything. When people do this, it makes me feel like I'm not worthy or capable to do anything. It gives me the hesitation to even demonstrate on how I feel. Especially when loved ones tell you this, it really brings me down and makes me think what's the purpose in trying.

 

Quick Write On: Like A Girl

What is the worst stereotype you see affecting our world on girls? Is it affecting you? Why is it so bad? I personally think that all stereotypes on young girls and women affect the world because to me it seems like it's trying to convince the world that we are not capable. That we aren't capable of being successful or strong minded and even helpful. I believe we are thought like this because maybe humanity might be afraid of what we can become. So they make us feel insecure about our choices and ourselves. It affects me that people think this way about me and my own gender because it's to far beyond insulting and judgmental. It feels like someone is looking at the outer part of me and takes it in to think about my flaws so that they'd "predict" that I'm not capable. They don't know my core. Not knowing how I really am on the inside is what starts these stereotypes. I love this quote by William Shakespear, "Though she be but little, she is fierce.", because I think its phenomenal and it characterizes all females in the world that we are capable of anything and be strong for anything.

Holocaust Movie: Life is Beautiful

     In the movie, Life is Beautiful, it was about a boy named Joshua who shared his holocaust story. It went from how his parents met to how he was a survivor.  Between the movie and our Holocaust Unit document reading they both share events like the Night of Liberation. They also both have similar actions like targets going onto train rides to the concentration or death camps, killings of false showers (gas chambers), survivors rescued by Americans and were sometimes reunited with people they knew, seperations from family, and death physically shown around the camp.

      Between both the movie and the reading, they're very different but also similar. I consider that they're both serious topics but the movie is like a family movie and the reading is something you need to read after that fact that'd you've learned about the holocaust. In the movie it shows how a family was created to how it ended in separation. The reading tells how that individual was currently suffering and how all the people around he/she was the same reacted the same. The things they'd have in common was that family members and friends did whatever they could so they can get out or stay alive with people they kneweven if it did cost the heroes life. They also have in common that there was peace and happiness before there was destruction.

     In the film it shows that life beautiful by showing how people used to live their live happy before transformation for destruction had become. Like when the mother and father had met and had a boy. In the movie it also shows how after the Germans had retreated from camp, the American and other soldiers came to rescue. These two examples from the movie shows that life is beautiful because it's at a time where life was okay for everyone before and after tragedy had happened. It also shows how life is beautiful because it shows how life can regain the happiness they've lost.

Holocaust Butterfly Poem Project: An Evening in Terezin

Teen Suicide

       Teen Suicide was about all different causes in wanting to commit suicide and stories from other teens that's drawn the to suicide because of that topic. A few main things that leads to suicide in a teenage life is stress, uncrontrolling sexually activities with people they know, figuring out if they're LGBT, being a victim of continuous bullying, addiction of drugs and alcohol, unsupportive families, and passed on depression. For an example on drugs, some teens think that drugs could help coping and managing stresss and violence. But when it doesn't the side affects of the addiction makes it worse which could cause depression. Also if depression runs in the family then its ok as long as you dont do anything else to increase then the right treatment should help overcome this specific adversity.
       In many of these chapters, it had real life stories on how a teen is begginning or already depressed due to different problems in their life and how they deal with it. On page 24, a girl was dealing with depression and her only way of working in progress to overcome it was e pressing her feelings with art. I think this is a great solution on how to solve your problems because doing something your great in and makes you happy brings more joy to yourself which can cause great healing. Showing how you feel in multiple perspectives can help bring healing from yourself and others around you.

Propanganda

Pr oganda is when people my either real life pictures or cartoon to help support what they believe in from a campaign. Like with Rosie Riveter, she influenced women to go into the workforce during WWII because we needed all the help we could get to win this war. This piece of propaganda according to Google Translation says, "Behind the Enemy: A Jew". This picture is simplely trying to state that the Jewish people were the number one reason why the whole east part of Europe was struggling. As throughout the whole holocaust, Jewish people were generating as the main targets to the Germans. This picture is effective to help people believe that the Jewish people are the problem to there troubling time because not only it says it but people will compare it with the things they know about them and do false information/stereotypes. Like Jewish people are known for their religion and how they can get and have goods amount of money. Some people would think that they wouldn't want to share the money that they were being selfish towards it. This picture shows a lot on how the hateful people just saw the Jews. They saw them with a Jewish star on their shoulders, had money, religious, and Jewish older men were known for their long beard and how they all almost look alike. From me personally I would never go to propaganda to see which side to defend because either it's good or bad it's tpstill your own opinion with a group of people agreeing. You could say anything about your topic without knowing actual facts about the person or thing.

Regret

The biggest thing I regret in life is not getting to know my grandpa, my dads dad, because when I was six he had passed away because he was very sick. At the time I felt like it was my fault that I'd never had a relationship with him because I couldn't even remember the last time I'd visiting. Him dying left me sad because I look back and I have no memory of him. It's impossible for me to elaborate on how he was as a person and how he looked like. I think back and I was never determined to spend time with him. I'd want to see my cousin and grandma and etc. The only thing I know from him now is that he used to drive my aunt, uncle, and dad down to this little town when they were 13 to teach them how to drive. To me it's not enough to fulfill that empty space because everyone I know
  I have multiple memories of them and just not having this specific one doesn't seem fair to him. If I could go back to that time before he had died I'd ask my parents to see him on the weekends to spend time together and go to church together like we do with our family. I'd want to spend a lot more quality time with him so that I'd know that he was a good man and how his personality was and how he looked as he aged more while I grew.