Done

I'm done with my Passages Portfolio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Coolerests!!!!!!

Another thing Mr Iverson lat me write

Long ago I used diapers.
Yesterday I was bored.
Today I was hyper.
Tomorrow I will go to school.
In the futer I will go to college.

TheThing.

Oh no! My turn is coming up! I have no choice but to recite my poem. Here I go..." After I saw the sunset I wished upon the first star I saw, 'Star light, star bright. The first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might get the wish I wish tonight'. The next morning I felt so happy. I don't know why. I thought that this day was going to go well, but I was wrong. I started the day happy but everything turned upside-down. I felt so mushy and liquidy. Ugh! I felt sick, but I wasn't sick. I couldn't wait until night came! Man, oh man, I wanted to sleep." After I was done reciting my poem the audience clapped and whistled. They liked my poem!

My box thingy I made on Feb. 28, 2008

My cool Heart flower/cat box!!!!

Wow

Wow. This is so boring. I got to do this work cited thing and it is so boring. I can't wait until I'm done with the last phase in writing! Awsome! Oh well! This totally freaks me out! I mean, right on!

The Most difficult paper I have written ever!

Research Paper On Jewish People
Kayleen Oscar

“It was late at night that we arrived at Auschwitz. When we came in, the minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs, blows from...from those Kapos, those officials working for them, over the head. And then we got out of the train. And everything went so fast: left, right, right, left. Men separated from women. Children were torn from the arms of mothers. The elderly chased like cattle. The sick, the disabled were handled like packs of garbage. They were thrown in a side together with broken suitcases, with boxes. My mother ran over to me and grabbed me by the shoulders, and she told me ‘Leibele, I'm not going to see you no more. Take care of your brother.’"

Personal Statement- Leo Schneiderman


There were thirteen concentration camps around Nazi Germany: Vught, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Bergen Belson, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Dachau, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Gross Rosen, Theresienstadt, Mauthausen, and Statthof. In Poland there were six death camps: Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec, and Leo Schneiderman was in Auschwitz. Birkenau. Half of the Jewish population was exterminated in these camps
Jews have been discriminated for thousands of years because of their religious beliefs. The Nazis had starved, abused, shot, gassed, and burned them. They would give them a small amount of food. If they were sick or disabled they would handle them as Leo Schneiderman said, “like packs of garbage.”
Was Hitler at the war with the Jews just because Jewish people wrote the Bible? Was it because the Jews crucified Jesus Christ? Is it because the Jews are said to be God’s chosen people? For a long time many people disliked the Jews and were at war with them.
There was a Greek person named Apion. As he was growing older his hatred for Jewish people grew. It was said that the Jews would take a Greek Foreigner and fatten him or her up until it was time to sacrifice a Greek. In Greek times they were forced to disguise their synagogues as colleges and pay taxes to warship (PBS SITE)
Jews have been at war with Hitler and other people from different religions because these people didn’t like them. There is no clear explanation why Hitler was at war with Jews. At first Hitler started gassing retarded Germans. Then he started gassing the Jews. Basically like the retarded Germans Hitler thought Jews deserved to die because they were less than human.
The Germans discriminated against the Jews by using weapons of brutality like starvation, cruelty, terror, and dehumanization. They easily pushed Jews into the gas chambers. Most victims were taken in groups to secluded areas where they were stripped of clothing, pushed into open pits, machine-gunned, and then quickly covered over, in many cases even before all were dead. 98% of the Jewish population of Poland was executed. Despite their military might and organizational skills, the Germans needed help from local population. They were killing off millions of Jews without resistance or disturbance. Germans required help in identifying, isolating and demoralizing the Jews. All together half of the Jewish population were killed in this way.
Israel and Palestine are fighting over a piece of land that is called the Gaza Strip. For many years they have been told to move here and there. The Jews have no homeland to settle in because of all the discrimination they have faced. This is a struggle that still happens today.
Recently there has been another person that has continued the discrimination of the Jewish people. This person’s name is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is the president of Iran. He said that the Holocaust didn’t happen and that the Jews had made it all up. The Holocaust was just a myth to him. He said that Israel should be wiped off the map or be moved somewhere else. Ahmadinejad thinks that the Jews just wanted to be felt sorry for. He also thinks that the Jewish people put the “myth” above God, religions, and prophets.
The web page www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/ tells us testimonies that say that the Holocaust happened. In that website there are a lot of people that had said what had happened to them when they were at concentration camp. Those are true stories that they told. Some of them tell stories of other people but most of the stories are about the person who told it. There are also pictures in www.ushmm.org. There are pictures of SS officers. There is a timeline from 1933 to 1961 explaining what had happened while Hitler was ruling Nazi Germany in the web page. In the next paragraph I will be naming some Jewish stereotypes.
The following are some well-known stereotypes. Jewish people are rich. Jews have good paying jobs. Jews are smart. Jews control everything. Jews know how to make money. Jews have hooked noses. Jewish mothers want their sons to become a doctor or a lawyer when they grow up. Jewish mothers interrupt people. Jewish mothers want to be the center of the conversation. Jewish women are skilled in the kitchen. Jews are not as honest as other businessmen. Jews have too much power in the business world. Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind. Jews always like to be at the head of things. No matter how sad a story you tell a Jew, he can top it. Jewish mothers talk a lot.
There are a lot of Jewish jokes that make fun if them. There are inappropriate ways of using the word Jew like Jewtastic, dirty Jew, Jewlarious, Jewed down, you are such a Jew, hooked-nosed Jew, kike. These are some Jewish slang words.
Does anyone die from the use of these words? No, there are some ways to discriminate Jews like using words, drawings, and of course physically discriminating them.
There were other discriminations that happened all over the world. Slavery was one of them. Africans were sold or stolen from Africa then sold them in America. Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are neglected. Jews were ripped from their homes and were forced to go into ghettos then into concentration camps.
Like the African-Americans the Native Americans had no rights. When the African-Americans got some rights the Native Americans weren’t given any. Their land was stolen, forced to move place to place, and was tricked by the Englishmen. The Jews have been moved around a lot. They don’t have a homeland. Their land was taken away from them. When the Jews were in the concentration camps the Nazis said that the Jews were to take a show, but instead the Jewish people were gassed.
The genocide in Africa was took place after the death of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport in 1994. That was the only cause that started the genocide. In half a year Hutus killed 800,000 Tutsis. There were 5.7 million Jews killed during the Holocaust.
There were different kinds of discrimination all over the world. The Holocaust wasn’t the only discrimination that happened, there was slavery, the genocide in Africa, Native Americans not having their rights, and the African American’s having little amount of rights. Most of these discriminations I didn’t know existed. There’s probably more discriminations I don’t know of but those who don’t recognize the past are doomed to repeat it.

Speech

Informative Essay/ Speech Expository

Nunivak Island is one of the largest islands in the Bering Sea. It is covered in permafrost. It is a volcanic island lying about 30 miles offshore from the mainland. What I’m about to inform you is what was lost in the Cup’ig culture in the late 19th and the early 20th Century, when the first U.S. Census for Nunivak Island was taken by an American Ivan Petroff, the missionaries that came to Nunivak, and reviving the traditional dancing.

Nunivak’s first U.S. Census was in the year of 1891 by Ivan Petroff. He was dropped off at the southeastern coast of Cape Mendenhall. He was on the island for about sixteen days. He reported that he went all the way around the island and that there were fifteen settlements with a population of 745 people on the island. He was picked up just off shore of Mekoryuk. If he had traveled around the island he would have to have gone around one and a half times. Some researchers questioned the number. He was using a kayak to go around the island. People thought that he lied because it couldn’t have taken him sixteen days to go around the island. The researchers think that he only went on one side of the island and counted up 745 people. They think that there were more people than that because he didn’t navigate the whole island.
In the 40 years after Petroff visited 73% of the people died from diseases that were introduced to the islanders: measles, tuberculosis, and influenza. The diseases would go away and come back and more people would die. The diseases were brought and introduced to the Cup’ig Eskimo by Ivan Petroff and others like shipwrecked people or people that came here for protection. The elders and children were dying. The elders were the teachers and the supervisors in the Cup’ig culture. When they die some of our culture dies too. The Russians and Americans that came to Nunivak Island, like Ivan Petroff, had side effects on the Cup’ig people. The side effects were sicknesses that were deadly to the Native people of Nunivak Island.

Who came to Nunivak Island and told the Cup’ig people to stop practicing some of their culture? The missionaries came and settled on the island. In the 1930’s the missionaries weren’t white people they were Inupiaq Eskimos. The main missionary was Jacob Kenick from Shaktoolik. The missionaries had said that our traditional dancing was evil and that we need to stop practicing it. They also said that the Cup’ig people had to get their drums and hunting tools and throw them into the bay because it wasted their time from learning about God. Ever since that happened, there was no more traditional dancing and hunting with spears, harpoons, bows and arrows. They used guns instead.

60 years later we have revived the dancing, even though the elders and some adults were against it. The only people that weren’t against it were young people. The people that wanted the cultural dancing to be revived over ruled the adults that were against it. Howard Amos had video taped fifteen songs with three of them with motions that Kay Hendrickson sang and performed for him. There weren’t any cultural dancing for over sixty years. It was exciting to see that there was cultural dancing again. It was like finding some pieces that were missing in the culture, but there are more things that need to be found to repair the Cup’ig culture.


All this happened to the Cup’ig people. If there weren’t so many people that introduced sicknesses there would be more of us, the Cup’igs. There was a lot of grief and depression going on that time. Then the missionaries came and made it worse. They took away things the Cup’igs loved to do. Now that the Cup’ig’s traditional dancing is revived the children can learn what our ancestors loved to do. But our language is dying off and so are our elders. When our elders die some of our culture dies with them.