Revised Post-Final

Some Opinion
Lately I have been trying to understand humanity. While some people are dying for something to eat others are crying because they don´t have the lastest Blackberry model (Oh My God). I mean while some girls cry because their crush didn´t look at them others are sexually abused. Is that fair? For humanity it has become fair.

Good for those that received an education and those who have "good values". You have your freaking job and you bought what you wanted, and most importantly you only care about your life- that´s what it´s turned into, unfortunately. I´m so mad at people everywhere in the world, they just can´t stop being self centered. They just don’t seem to see that they are just a tiny part of the world. Can´t they see that the world is a DISASTER (yes a DISASTER)! It´s chaotic, violent, unfair, unjustand poor , we can´t conform with anything. Now a days we are greedy, we want more and more and more. It´s unstoppable and all we care about stupid problems while others don´t even have water or bread or ANYTHING to eat. Ugh, I´m tired of it, that's enough, the world doesn´t orbit around anyone OK? Not even you, by the way. The world was made for everyone to be happy, not just for SOME to be happy. While some people have a paradise like expierience in a hotel the people outside are begging to be taken seriously as human beings, as citizens of our world and our community. The only thing I can even conclude about this is that people or don´t know what real life is like or they are out of their minds. What I mean by this is that they admire so themselves so much they can´t think about others. They are selfcentered, selfish, ridiculous people, that don´t know the world they live in.

I hope you learn something from this and start taking action. Try to do something that will REALLY help the world not just YOURSELF.

My Own Maxims

- Change is unstoppable, sometimes it´s sad, sometimes it´s not but at the end change will make your life better
-Change makes us Mature
- Change is a new moment in life that helps us see the things that really matter
-Loosing a loved one is like loosing a piece of yourself
-Love is the thing that makes you remember that other people are important
-People are important in your life because they complement it
-Love may be hard and confusing but anyways it always gives you a happy moment
-Friends are those that have enough patience to hang out with you, your obsessions and your foolishness
-Judging someone by the look shows that person is to selfish and sure of oneself, It shows that they don´t know what really matters in life
-Happiness depends on each person

Maus vs Night

"As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust."(Bob Beauprez). Both Maus and Night are based on survivors of the Holocaust of the Second world War. Night is narrated by Elie Wiesel and he is telling his own story. Maus is narrated by Art Spiegelman telling his fathers story not his own.

In Maus Art´s dad has many money and is very intelligent doing shelters to hide so it takes a long time for Germans to recognize they are still in the ghetto and find them. In Night they just do whatever they are told to, they don´t have much money and don´t really know how to make hiding shelters. Basically Night is more general, more people lived what was said in Night than what was said in Maus. Not many people had the luck that Art´s dad and family had. Maus not only tells the story of his dad but he takes some places to show some of his story, which makes it weird and out of topic. Night instead is a bit more detailed in personal opinion it shows a bigger reality lived by many Jews, this makes it more interesting and more calling than Maus. Night simply portrays what happens to everyones feelings, what they felt in different situations and how they lost the want to keep on living. Maus still was good showing the way they would hide and how they their self´s out of the Holocaust with less personal wounds than those received by others. It also shows that both ghetto´s and concentration camps severely affected people sentimentally and mentally in many ways.Concentration camps of course where worse.

Finally in personal opinion Night is a more elaborate and detailed book. It shows a bigger reality and it´s enjoying to read. Maus is good but it doesn´t show the actual feelings of the characters and doesn´t make you feel as if you where there, it doesn´t make you feel that they are right that they where the victims of the war, it doesn´t make you feel the madness they felt for the war the want to make it stop. "Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust. "(Norma McCorvey)

The Holocaust was an unfair event many people lived where unfortunately many people died. People that had the right to live a happy life until the end. It´s sad that someone could create such suffering in so many people. It´s sad that someone could help him succeed "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." (Albert Einstein).

Night-Response 5

I just finished Night. I really enjoyed reading this book, probably I hadn´t enjoyed any other book as much. I have read many Holocaust books due to my school teachers but never had I read one so good or one that felt so real and honest as being read.

While I was reading it I felt the same madness that Eliezer felt for the Germans the same sadness he felt when he couldn´t think about his family all he could think about was food, food, food. It was sad to see that the reality he was living wasn´t only for his family, it was even sadder to see that he faced his dad´s death facing it he was inmobile, unsad, with no feelings. All he did when his dad died was stare at him and then think that he wouldn´t have more pressure on him to help his father all he would have to think about was himself and HIS OWN survival. "I did not weep, and it pained that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, and in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!" from his dad it´s depressing to hear those words coming from a son. Not only was this was sad but also reading that they lost their feelings and practically lost their life´s point, why would they want to keep on if suffering was the point of being in the camps the whole point for living?

The book has been a great experience I could say that no book had been so fun to read, I don´t like reading. It´s hard for me to sit down and read a book to enjoy so it´s a kind of miracle for me to like any kind of book. Although the whole book was enjoying I still hate the ending he doesn´t really finish telling his story "The look in his eyes,as they stared into mine, has never left me" he left me with questions like what happened next? how did you recover in life? did you find any friends of your´s after the tragedy? What?

In final conclusion I really liked the book but the ending left me with a huge disappointment, it left me totally confused and with a weird feeling.

Night-Response 4

Pages 62-80

"What are you my god, I thought angrily, compared to this afflicted crown, proclaiming to you their faith, their anger their revolt? What does Your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay? Why do you still trouble their sick minds, their crippled bodies?" A part fo what Elie feels about God, something that is totally understandable. He was tired of the hateful way they where being treated, the intolerable Germans feeling superior to them . God was supposed to save them from every horrible moment they where to live in any moment of their lives. God was to save them, to stop this unbearable genocide.

While I was reading on the chapter I made a connection woth the bible which we are reading in class to Elie was very mad with God about everything he has done in the past years, decades and days. "And I, mystic that I had been, I thought: Yes, man is very strong, greater than God. When you were decieved by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of paradise. When Noah´s generation displeased You, You brought down the Flood When Sodom no longer found favor in Your eyes, You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. But these men here, whom you have betrayed, whom you have allowed to be totured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!" It´s impressive how convincing he can make such a simple thoght like this. He makes it believable and makes someway perfect for you to feel what he was feeling in that moment. He makes you understand the anger he was feeling towards him in that moment "I no longer accepted God´s silence" he was destroyed inside he was feeling like crap, he was loosing hope.

Probably the sadest part I´ve read in the book was when Elie thought he was going to be separated form his dad because he had been written to go to he crematory. Anyways the happiest part was when he found his dad sitting alone again, they werent separate. Elie makes his writing magic someway, he makes you experience his book as if you where living it.

QUESTions Answered

Where are we going?

In the last pages read the Russian army is getting near their concentration camp they are to be transported somewhere else. They don´t know where.

Night-Response 3

Pages 35-62
What can I say? This book is incredible it portrays everything Elie was feeling, he describes it all perfectly. The book is so good you can´t stop reading you want to know what will happen next you want to know how the Germans had the courage, where capable of being so atrocious. he makes the book calling he makes you feel like you are living it and feeling it. The want to read it is impossible to describe. He even gives you a relief and makes you see his moments of hope "Comrades you´re in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. There´s a long road of suffering ahead you. But don´t lose courage. You´ve already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don´t lose heart. We shall see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer-or rather a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. Enough said. You´re tired."

Reading this pages was simply heartbreaking it´s impossible to believe that something so awful could happen. It´s simply incredible how someone can find something pleasant in making someone suffer. It´s incredible that god (which they believed in) would let something like this happen "God is testing us . He wants to find out wether we can dominate our base instincts and kill the Satan within us . We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us rentlessly , it´s a sign that He loves all the more." I would be mad enough with god to say he loved me if I was in concentration camp. It´s simply incredible how they could keep the faith when all they lived for in those moments was suffering. I admire the strength Jews had in this moment, the force they had inside them to live althogh, they where scared and tired of living for pain.

QUESTions Answered
Why is life miserable for some people and great for others?
I think this is a question that was probabaly made by many of the Jews to themselves and one made by many people to theselves in this very moment. It´s unfair that not everyone can live a happy life.

Where are we going?
They didn´t know what was going to happen to them if they would die or not, if they would be happy, if they where going to suffer.

Response 2- Night

Page 20-35

In this part of the book Elie his family and other Jews are taken to wagons where they are cramped have barely any place to move any food or ways to be comfortable. They live unbearable moments they can´t breathe well they are given a watning by a German, if one escaped form the wagon the rest would be killed. Also some woman called Madame Schachter wouldn´t shut up and was screaming the whole time that there was fire everywhere, it was totally understandable she had gone crazy because she had been separated from her family. After days of traveling they get to Auschwitz there they are informed about the ovens. They where sowned that mercy wasn´t in their list and that for the "good" they where to be killed, after all they where to disspear stay in history forever. They are then seperated by gender and each leave to their side.

Let´s say this is an interesting story but it´s just like the rest I´ve heard about the Holocaust but, it has been interesting to see this from Elie´s personal perspective to see exactly what he was thinking and feeling in every moment lived. I still can´t believe that something like this could happen, that this Human Right Violation was so big and inhuman, that it was accepted by ANYONE.

Quotes form the pages read

"Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.

Never shall I forget that nocturnal silencewhich dprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as ###########. Never."

This qoute called my attention because it shows the heartache, the melancholy children and adults felt when they where in concentration camps it shows how their world became a nothing how it beame misery and loss and tears, tears of sorrow of lament of grief.

A QUESTion Answered in this part read

Why are we here?

I think this is a question that jews may have made to their selves, yes they where Jews but that isn´t a good enough reason to be in such horrific conditions. They also had the right to dream, to live, to enjoy, to occupy, to posses, to love.

Night-Response

Night - By Elie Wiesel- Nobel Peace Price Winner 1986

Chapter #1
In the book Night Eliezer is telling us how he Lived the Holocaust what happened in his case with full details of what he felt and how he reacted to everything. While I was reading this chapter all I thought about was how unfair and how bad it could have felt to be treated as Jews where treated in the Holocaust, all I could think was how the Germans could have created such sadness and sorrow in the Jews.

Then it came back to my memory that I had seen The Pianist also a movie based on a true story of a man that survived the Holocaust. The movie particularly shows the ghettos terribly worse than described in the book. In the book it said they had enough to eat and drink but in the movie it was hard to find a piece of bread which actually made it hard to understand but, then I figured out the Pianist takes place in Poland but this one in Sighet, Transylvania. This shows me that some Jews for their good where luckier than others although at the end many died in the same conditions. I did see the connection between both when they showed all the faith they have to overcome this war and stay alive through it. Anyways I can say that the Holocaust in every way it can be described is still unfair, terrible and disastrous.

When I was reading that Elie´s father went to a meeting with the Jewish council and that he couldn´t be told where they were going to be sent it came to my mind that this was totally unfair and weird. Maybe if they would´ve told him something different would´ve happened because after all they were supposedly there to help each other because they were all victims of the same human slaughter. The Jewish council was there to help wasn´t not letting Jewish know the truth a brutal thing to do? We will never know because nothing can be changed now but what if something good could´ve happened? I also couldn´t believe that the Jewish would actually give themselves to serve the Germans by becoming their soldiers just to save themselves, I mean I wouldn´t like to mistreat the people that have my same beliefs and that are suffering just because they have those certain beliefs."This time there were no Hungarian police . An arrangement had been made with the Jewish council that they should organize it themselves"

"The synagogue was like a huge station: luggage and tears. The altar was broken, the hangings torn down, the walls bare." How bad can that feel? Their world was being teared apart the Germans where trying to make them fall down to make them feel like they are not worth anything. I still think that Germans forgot that such thing wasn´t to be accepted and that although they where sad and fragile they had the power in their hearts to make them stop.

Editing Others Posts

Here are some paragraphs written by other of my fellow students and edited by me.

• With a great attitude Arsenal has defeated the Blue Dragons with a five to zero score. Although Garcia and Guarin tried their best on court they couldn't break the defense done by Arsen Wenger. This has caused the Portuguese team an elimination and a very small possibility of winning the league, this has totally shown that it has been the worst season for the three times winner of the Champions League. Even though Falcao is now becoming one of the best players of the team and even with Garcia they couldn't defeat Arsenal.
• I am probably Anderson´s biggest fan. His last fight wasn't the most interesting match or a close match. actually Silva was showing all of his knowledge in various martial arts such as Tae Kwon Do, Capoeira and Muay Thai. In the first round Anderson did some great kicks and punches. In the second round Anderson did as in the first round but in my opinion he started getting a little cocky, mocking and insulting during the fight. In the third round the beginning was like the rest of the rounds but, it all started changing in the half way point of the round where Silva went form an offense to a defense position.
• News: The celebrity couple Nick Jonas and Selena Gomez have ended their relationship. This happened three or four weeks ago , there are still no rumors of what has happened but, some sources say Selena is no longer following him on Twitter. On the other hand Joe Jonas and Demi are very well established and Kevin Jonas is happily married.
• Buenas Tardes Followers or Good evening followers. This has been a wonderful day and it´s also a wonderful day to do a fashion police. A fashion police for Jennifer Aniston.

Other nice layouts

Another beautiful layout is the tree hugger it has beautiful pictures all over and has engaging information in everyway. This blog is also very calling because you can Ask Pablo about enviormental issues.

Blog Layouts

I really like the layout of Medellin: the Risk is wanting to stay because it shows many ways of investing in Colombia and shows a beatiful city panoramic in the top of the Blog. It just caught my attention because of all it said about Colombia.

Comment!!

This comment is about an article written by David Mitchell called So Movies Shouldn´t Break The Laws of Physics? Don´t Tell Capain Kirk.

So this article is about all the lies put into a movie or series or whatever television program. Basically he tells us a reality of directors and how annoying they can become when seeing a movie "The only people whose ability to suspend their disbelief might suffer are those who work in TV – and they will have lost that ability long ago. When they watch telly, all they can see is the work that's gone into it and the mistakes. It's like taking an Egyptian slave on a tour of the pyramids – he doesn't marvel, he just gets sympathy backache" my question is has he actually seen a director do this? I mean he sounds pretty convinced of what he is saying, and then he back ups his information again "After a long shoot, I can't watch films, comedies or dramas without seeing an upsetting hotchpotch of continuity errors and scenes that must have been a nightmare to complete. I'm all: "Oh, that cigarette's got longer!" or: "His hair was wetter in the wide shot."

Anyways he is saying the truth because we people are to ridiculous and believe everything a movie shows right? I mean after watchig terror movies we can´t sleep for a whole month and we still know that what we saw was a movie with special effects.

Finally he says that a movie can break only a few laws of physics "So you can travel at twice the speed of light and bump into an old flame on an alien world, but if she turns out to have laser tits and have met your uncle, you've crossed the line."

Well that´s how things go in this world some agree some disagree but in the end the one with more money wins, most of the time. "The main idea is to limit films to one transgression of the laws of physics each (on screen only, otherwise they'd all go for perpetual motion machines to power the lights)".

Blogs Audience, Register and Angle!

In Latin Gossip all the gossip of latin americas famous people is found.
Audience- Latin people that want to find out new things of Latin celebrities.
Register- Famliliar
Angle- Gossip

In Medellin The only risk is wanting to stay, you can see the passion of the author for Colombia.
Audience- Bussiness men
Register- Formal
Angle- Colombian News

Colombia in Pictures an incredible blog that wants to change the perception of colombia by showing pictures of Colombia.
Audience- people that want to learn more about different parts of the world and give a second chance to country's.
Register-Informal
Angle-Change Perceptions In a humorous way

Made in Colombia is a blog that shows videos and news of Colombian celebrities.
Audience- People that like videos and music
Register- Familiar
Angle-Music

Eating in Translation is a blog that shows different ways of cooking in different parts of the world including Colombia
Audience- People that like to eat
Register- Informal
Angle- Food recepies

MORE ANSWERS........

A. What is the title of the blog?
The title of the blog is InfoLatam
B. What is the blog about?
The blog is about events that happen mostly about Colombia and sometimes of Latin America.
C. Why is this title fitting?
the title is fitting because its weird and unique.
D. How does the blogger offer information in a way others don't?
They expose only the news in a serious way and don´t give others the chance for an opinion.
E. Compare this blog with another of the same topic.
This Blog and signals of time are very similar because they both show colombian news and also Latin American news. They both give news and no opprtunity for others opinions.
F. Evalute this blog. Is it good or not? How can it be improved?
This blog has a calling name but not a calling profile or topicc because it basically makes it lame and boring.

OTHER ANSWERS

A. What is the title of the blog?
The title of the blog is Signals of time
B. What is the blog about?
The blog is about Colombia and its struggles, it has news about it as well as latin american news.
C. Why is this title fitting
The title is fitting because it just calls you to see what are the signals of time.
D. How does the blogger offer information in a way others don't?
It offers other type of information because its written by him and includes the whole latin american news plus connects them to history giving us the signals of time.
E. Compare this blog with another of the same topic.
Its different to the ABC blog because the news are written by them and not extracted from other places, and talks about Latin America entirely.
F. Evalute this blog. Is it good or not? How can it be improved?
The blog is actually very boring it has a calling name but not a calling profile. I would give it some color and space for others to express their opinions.

Answer to Other Questions

A. What is the title of the blog?
Noticias ABC Colombia
B. What is the blog about?
This blog gives quotes of different news articles and aswell gives links for different articles of Colombia.
C. Why is this title fitting?
The title isn't exactly fitting, but you can be called by it because it tells you about problems and news of Colombia.
D. How does the blogger offer information in a way others don't?
Because he gives the quote of the article ,the article, other related articles, and other related topics.
E. Compare this blog with another of the same topic.
Senales del tiempo also talks about Colombia. The difference with the other is that it gives the news written by them and also gives information from all Latin America.
F. Evalute this blog. Is it good or not? How can it be improved?
The blog is good but it doesnt exactly call my attention, i would just use it for a homework. I think it would be better if the bloggers opinion would be exposed.

LINKS ON COLOMBIAN BLOGS

http://www.infolatam.com/entrada/colombia_ve_esperanza_y_luz_en_la_firma_-18766.html
http://senalesdelostiempos.blogspot.com/2010/02/colombia-gramatica-y-libertad-de.html
http://colombia.noticiasabc.com/2010/02/02/colombia-hara-lobby-contra-recorte-de-e-u-al-plan-colombia/

Homework Answers about Blogs

A blog is a page in internet where you and other people write their opinions in entries about something.
Blogging is the act of writing and entree in a blog.
Blogs and Books are different because blogs are used for user interactivity and books are for reading and in times opinion creating.
Blogs have cahnged recently because they are not only online diaries but also blogs that affect the worlds of politics,business and society.
I might read a blog to see other peoples opinions and to expose my opinion and also to learn about the differrent stuff that people like to write about and enjoy.
The objectivity of a blog is not bad because it simply exposes different opinions and information.
Probably our blog this semester will be about the different things we do in class and how they cahnge our opinion and perception about something.

My name is carolina Herrera. i am doing this blog to post my opinions about the readings i do in my english class.