#aplang16reading

[chasingdreamersandlovers]

Story time

So its my jr. Year and and a English teach came in my fourth period to tell us what we have for ap options next year. And she finished and had a time left in class, but she left and a different teacher came to watch us while our real teacher finished talking to sophomores about her class. Anyway the teacher watching us was just chillen and my class started socializing. We have a smart ass in our class and he likes to stay on task. He legit got up and started teaching cause we all know the process, one person joins in for strategies the writer we discussed uses. Next thing i know he's legit teaching and we all join in. The teacher watching us just stands there in shock, she goes"I've never seen this happen I'm so impressed" my friend looks at her and goes"Mrs.k is going to crap her pants" I teacher walks in and legit sees this and is impressed and sits down and lets him finish teaching until the bell rings. It was honestly the greatest thing i loved it.

[briannaaiello]

I Am Malala Part Six: The Epilogue

The epilogue mainly focuses on how much her life has changed after moving to the UK and how much she misses Pakistan. Even though there were many flaws in their society, it was the only home she had every had. She feels all alone and has lost her own identity. This part honestly made me sad because all she was doing was fighting for a women’s right to an education and instead she had been forced (and shot) out of her own country. She has been through so much and she just recently turned 18. I don't know any 18 year old today that would be able to say that they’ve accomplished as much as her. Although, I consider her accomplishments a good thing, sometimes they can be seen as a bad thing. She has so much and yet, so little. She has this amazing platform that makes her able to encourage others to join her mission, but she doesn’t have a home anymore. She had endured far too much for her age which has resulted in her becoming far too mature. The many events that she has encountered has made her too mature for her age, but has also helped to shape her character and make her as strong as she is today. She has become an advocate for basic human rights which is what I consider education to be, a basic human right. She is truly an inspiration. 

[yujoycee-blog]

"Stay the night."

Those were the last three words of the book. From the beginning to end, it was about how Meg dealt with the death of her mother. Reading this was very interesting because I felt as if I was there. It was a real feeling. Other books I’ve read before never made it feel like it could happen but this book was different.

Reading about death from an outside perspective really helped me get a better understanding because I’m not the one experiencing it. I have before have people I know lost their loved ones but i was there for them temporary. By reading this book I was there to witness the grieving process from beginning to finish.

One major thing I have concluded from doing all this research is that we need to as a society generate more discussion about this topic. Even though it may seem heavy, it is important to talk about it because maybe we can get can some good insight out of it.

[yujoycee-blog]

Reading this immediately reminded me of Henrietta Lacks. I made this connection because of the HeLa cells helped continue the “life” of Henrietta. That’s how Rebecca Skloot found out about her. When Meg heard stories about her mother, it made her feel as if her mother was still alive still alive.

HeLa cells is to Henrietta Lacks hence stories is to mother O'Rourke???

[why-art-in-apl-ang-blog]

The Pink Triangle: Final Blog

After reading the final portion of my book, i feel absolutely awful, disgusted and sick. It is just so awful I'm not even sure I really wanted to make a blog about it. The actions taken in Nazi camps were horrific. Laws did not apply to camps, officers of the camp were violent, gay people were kept from other inmates of camps, and if they were allowed with other inmates they were often blamed for punishable action in camps. Few survivors are know because after the Nazis being gay was still illegal in Germany and those that survived would come up with cover stories as to why they were imprisoned by the Nazis. And I really feel sick it is just horrific.

[why-art-in-apl-ang-blog]

The Pink Triangle: Blog 6

Gay people were the Nazi’s hardest population to exterminate. This makes a great deal of sense because gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses and Jewish people tend to have some way of recognizing them by documentation. Also, it was much harder to find homosexuals than people’s political affiliations. The Nazi’s were obsessed with a pure German race. The attacked many. They encouraged turning people in for any suspected homosexual behavior. Laws were made more and more vague so they could arrest more people. They tortured people to confess and get information. If they saw an opportunity to eliminate any person or group that could question it. They put tons of people on trial in attempt to get rid of them. Few were safe from the horrific group of Nazis, lesbians because sex between women unlike sex between men was not illegal, but also they are harder to identify as women are generally more affectionate toward each other in not homosexual environments. The lower classes of other countries had it better than the rich because the Germans wanted slaves. They wanted to eliminate high class people with enough sense to question the and turn low class people into Mina,ally educated slaves. This book has made me how little I really know about the Nazis I thought I knew plenty about them, know I realize how little I know. I feel misinformed but also fascinated. The Nazi's would talk their violence to any extreme just to get exactly what they wanted

[bridgetcona-blog]

the finishing touches

"The universe is wider than our views of it," (Thoreau). He's finally stating his opinion on enlightenment by saying it can never be achieved, and I agree. There are so many paths, alternative realities, the connection of all events, and the importance of every single little detail that no one mortal man can ever understand it all. It is the game of God. Just like the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg, no one else can see future or the present like God. Just because we cannot ever fully understand the workings of the universe doesn't mean we can't understand our small corner of existence. Nature isn't the answer, but it's like when you get an answer wrong in math, but it's multiple choice, so you choose the answer closest to that. I think that's the whole point of his book. He has answers, but he's not God. He's admitting that he doesn't know everything, but nature is the way to at least figure out some of it to reach the level he's at. Why would we settle for no answers when we could have many?

[bridgetcona-blog]

instincts

It doesn't feel like human instincts are even real anymore. Sure, they're present with Thoreau living in the wild without social assistance but not in everyday life. We don't have to hunt for food or fend for shelter. The basic principles of being alive have been being cushioned every decade with new ways on how to make us less human. Being human doesn't mean living these cushioned luxurious lives; humans are just another animal. At the end of the day, that's all we are, apart of the animal kingdom. We don't have the right to act so high and mighty because evolution blessed us, evolution took away our instincts and stuck in the forest from a plane crash or whatever would probably cause most of us to die by our lack of instincts. Do I believe Thoreau shows instincts in Walden? No, I think he just thinks of the solutions; I don't think any of them come without thinking.