Because of Romek: Final Post

1. Every single thing that happened in the concentration camps were horrible, but the event that I found the most disturbing was when he was striping the bodies of all or any of their valuables and he found the baby who had stayed alive in the gas chamber. They made him throw the baby into fire and he listened to the screeching of the baby as it died. I found hat the most disturbing because hehimself actually had to kill a baby who had a whole life ahead of it. If I ever had to do that, I would probably die myself.

2. One job that pretty much kept him alive in the Krawinkle camp was making the coffee. If he didn't get that job, I don't think he would have lived. If all of these little things didn't happen in the very hard times at the concentration camps, he wouldn't be alive. This job probably felt like paradise for him because of all of the hard times he went through. If he didn't know people like Paul, he wouldn't have survived.

3. At Bergen-Belsen, the conditions were horrible. I think that the Germans knew that the war was coming to an end, so they treated them even worse, trying to kill them all. They even had to eat as much as they could of each other. The lice blankets, people giving up on living anymore, and just the very horrible things that were done to them made them, these were only a fraction of the things that they went through. I think that the Bergen-Belsen camp was the worst because they were all dying and they still got treated horribly.

4. I think his happiness was that he stuck to his promise that he made to his mom. Another triumph was getting to see his "family" or the man who his sister was supposed to marry. Both of these and the triumph of not living in pain anymore added up to a very happy ending. His biggest triumph was probably getting to say to his mom that he stuck to his promise.

5. David Faber's book, Because of Romek, should be required reading in all middle schools, high schools, and universities because all students need to learn about the horrors of the Holocaust. If middle school students don't learn this, then history might repeat itself, and nothing this horrible should ever happen again, even if it "isn't as bad". David Faber said in his speach that hatred should not ever get that bad and that it should all end and we should live in peace. If middle school students don't learn about this, then the world will never be in peace. This book writes in detail about how bad it really truly was, and if no one learns about the suffering that went on and about history, then the fuiture will represent the past. This wouldn't be learning from our mistakes, it would be even worse because we know it shouldn't happen, but we wouldn't know how bad it would get until it was horrible.

Renaissance Ball Project Reflection

The purpose of this project was to learn about the Renaissance time period and its importance. Another purpose to this project was to learn about the culture of the Renaissance, and how things changed in subjects such as literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, and engineering, In order to learn about this, we had to write an autobiography/biography about a famous Renaissance figure. We had a choice of writing the autobiography/biography in first person, third person, or as a diary entry.

I learned that the Renaissance was considered a “rebirth” and that there were great changes made from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. In the Middle Ages, the society was mainly based on agriculture, and your status was set by birthright. In the Renaissance however, society was based on commerce, and your social status was based off of ability and wealth. From 1346-1352 a deadly plague called The Black Death spread throughout Europe. Due to this devastating event, 25 million people died, which resulted as about 1/3 of Europe’s population. A few other things that I learned were that there was a new type of scholar called a humanist, which was someone who was well educated in Latin, Greek, history, science, and mathematics. The scholars thought that being better educated would solve problems. The crusades were the main reason as to why the Europeans were so eager to be educated. In this project, I learned how to perform a Renaissance dance called the Pavan.

I enjoyed this project because it was interesting to learn about this “rebirth” in time and about how things changed drastically. I also enjoyed this project because it was interesting to learn about some of the famous rulers, artists and other figures. I feel like I could have done better on this project because I didn’t take as much time at editing my biography as I should have. I took a long time on my notes, and then I rushed at the end to get it done instead of using my time wisely and spending more time on the actual writing of the biography. Next time, I would spend less time on my notes and more time on my biography.

I will link my biography to my DP.