The book Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is still important/still matters because it is about how bad the Holocaust really was from a Jewish person's point of view. My book ends where she writes the last entry in her Journal, where soon after the Secret Annex gets raided, and many Jews get captured, including Anne Frank herself. The rest of the book before this is all of her Journal entries, where she talks about her life. Near the start, she is talking about her school/boyfriends and everything, and how life was before she went into hiding. Soon after that, she writes about her life in hiding. That's what the rest of the book is about. In the "Afterword" section of my book, it states "Margot and Anne Frank were transported from Auschwitz at the end of October and brought to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp near Hannover (Germany)."
0 Comments
In the book "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank, the main character/writer is keeping a diary/journal about her life during the World War 2 period/holocaust. She started off as a pretty happy girl, doing what everyone else would normally, laughing and having fun. A bit later on on the book, though, her family and herself are forced to move to a secret location to help protect themselves from the Anti-Jewish laws put forth by Germany/Hitler. During this time she is still trying to make the best of it, prettying up the walls of their place with posters/pictures they took from their house. The thing is, the Anti-Jewish laws that Hitler put forth are happening again to the Syrian people, although it's not nearly as bad. Our current president, Donald Trump, has recently put forth an executive order to ban Syrians from multiple countries. This executive order has affected "...at least 218 million people... from entering the United States."
In the book The Diary of a Young Girl the Jewish main character, the Holocaust is going on. The events in the book are the same events that happened in real life. All the characters in the book were not happy about the events that happened to them. During World War 2, all of the Jewish people were treated very bad, and in the book they were also treated very bad. For example, the writer in the book stated "Jews must be in doors by eight o'clock and cannot even sit in their own gardens after that hour. Jews are forbidden to visit theaters, cinemas, and other places of entertainment. Jews may not take part in public sports Swimming baths, tennis courts, hockey fields, and other sports grounds are all prohibited." This quote shows only some of the bad ways Jews were treated.
Poverty is a severe issue in wake county that is steadily increasing. Poverty is the state of being extremely poor and when someone is in poverty, they cannot afford many of the necessities of life. In Raleigh, the poverty rate doubled in 2012 from what it was in 2000. The 97% increase of poverty in Raleigh placed third nationally for poverty growth. Now, more than 16% of Raleigh’s population is living in poverty (WRAL, 2014). Due to the extreme conditions of poverty, we want to help make a difference. Our goal is to raise at least $1,000 to donate to families who battle poverty every day. We will achieve this goal by hosting a fundraiser on the last week of school where students will be encouraged to donate even the smallest amount of money each day.
We are interested in the issue of poverty because it is such a drastic problem that many of us can't imagine, even though we know many people who struggle with the issue. The people that you sit next to on the bus, stand next to in line for the grocery store, or pass by in school may be experiencing poverty, but we are too oblivious to know that. A member of our group personally knows someone who has a hard time getting food, doesn't have a house, and doesn't own a car. They often come by her house to ask for a ride to the store or a $20 loan. Her family always says, “Of course,” but that is not always enough. Others in our community should care about this issue of poverty because it could just as easily happen to them as it can to anyone else. Some effects of poverty are hunger, homelessness, illness, and thirst (Borgen Project, 2016). These issues can all result in death and can be avoided with help from the community. When a tragedy occurs that causes a person to become poor, they can fall into a deep pit of poverty that is hard to escape, especially without help. There a lot of people living in poverty right now, about half of the world’s population. In Wake County, more than 16 percent since of people live in poverty since 2015. Today the people that live in poverty have no home, food, or water, and if they don’t feed themselves correctly they can fall into dehydration, starvation, or even delirium. Also, if they don’t reach the hospital in a short amount of time or cannot afford the hospital care, they could die. About half the world’s population, approximately 3 billion people, live in poverty. If everyone helps out, there is a possibility that we can stop it. According to WRAL, the issue of poverty in Raleigh really started to escalate in 2014. Ever since then it has worsened, and will continue to if nothing is done. Poverty is caused by varying problems including divorce, overpopulation, lack of education, drug use, unaffordable housing, medical expenses, and a poor economy (Pursue God Conversations). After one of these causes impact someone, they may find themselves struggling to overcome the negative effects of poverty. For example, someone without a good education will have an extremely difficult time while attempting to attain a job. Without an income, it is hard to afford homes, food, and medical care. When in this state, the main focus is on trying to survive. Lastly this is about poverty here in raleigh the statistics are that in raleigh about 16.1 percent live in poverty. That’s about 80,000 men, women, and children out there facing weather without any shelter. Currently there are many different groups that have been dedicated to reducing the poverty rate. The Rise Against Hunger group( earlier called Stop Hunger Now) has nourished over 1 million lives in 2016 and is gathering as many volunteers as possible to exceed that number this year. They send meals to the 800 million humans who don't have access to the proper nutrients to survive. When food is not the main priority of the person's life, they can focus on other, more important things, like schooling. They have proved that the children who go to school hungry do not learn as well and cannot focus. The only future that the children will have is by learning and growing in their education to escape the cycle of poverty. Rise Against Hunger in Raleigh is located in North Hills. The Raleigh Rescue Mission has also helped out with poverty and homelessness. They believe that poverty is a huge cause of homelessness and want to end both. They transform the lives of homeless men, women, and children by helping with their physical and mental needs. They host many clothing, food, and book drives and accept many donations that help to pay for the patients medical care, education, rehabilitation, and many other services. It is specific to Raleigh and hosts many events to gather goods every month. Even though there are many non-profit organizations attempting to end poverty, the issue still is not resolved, in fact in is worsening. If the issue continues to aggravate, the standard of living will plummet and the world will be in a inescapable state of poverty. We, as citizens, need to participate in our community to help end poverty. Even if we cannot resolve this issue with one service project, the smallest amount will help out. It would spark an unknown feeling of helpfulness that we could carry throughout our life to make the world a better place. Our goal is to raise $1000 to donate to families in poverty. We will know if we have reached this goal by seeing if we have raised a total of $1000. To meet this goal we could host a fundraiser to donate to the people in poverty. We could also help by directly going out to to help them. We were thinking about doing a fundraiser/collecting donations because the thing the people in poverty really need is money. Going out to them to help them wouldn’t do them much long-term good in helping them to get the things necessary to live. Getting them money could help the to get food, and clean water that all people need to live. If we are to do a fundraiser, we would have to get the word out to the students in the school or else they wouldn’t know to donate. We were thinking we could get Mr. Velarde to let us broadcast that we are doing a fundraiser to help poverty on the MMS school news. That way the whole school would know to donate. One possible problem is that Mr. Velarde won’t let us show it. If Mr. Velarde doesn’t let us show the video, we could make posters to help spread the word of our fundraiser. We would need to make sure the posters were flashy enough to catch people's attention, and told them everything they need to know (Where to put the money, where it is going, how they are doing a good thing if they donate.) We could do both of these ideas combined to try to let everyone know that we are hosting a fundraiser to help poverty, and it might get more people to donate. In order to collect the money, we could try to ask the people in the office to add box for people to put the money into. This way we would have a way to collect the money. Once we meet our goal or run out of time to collect money, we would need a good fundraiser to donate it to. One good one that we found would be Raleigh Rescue Mission (https://www.raleighrescue.org/). With Raleigh Rescue Mission, the money goes “...directly to help desperate men, women and children when they need it the most,” (Raleigh Rescue Mission, 2017). Works Cited Browder, Cullen. “Poverty Rate Soars in Raleigh, Other NC Metros.” WRAL.com. Matthew Burns. August 13, 2014. March 26, 2017 < http://www.wral.com/poverty-rate-soars-in-raleigh-other-nc-metros/13890778/> Raleigh Rescue Mission, “Ways YOU Can Help Raleigh’s Homeless Right Now, ” Raleigh Rescue Mission, 2017 <https://www.raleighrescue.org/> Hui, Keung. “Number of homeless students rises in Wake County schools.” The News and Observer. November 29, 2015. March 30, 2017 <http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article47067030.html > Hurley, Meagan. “10 Ways to Fight Poverty.” The Borgen Project. November 6, 2016. March 26, 2017. <https://borgenproject.org/10-ways-fight-poverty/ > Halyard, Regina. “Population Below Poverty Level.” Data Dashboard - Population Below Poverty Level. September 21, 2016. <http://www.wakegov.com/data/bythenumbers/Lists/Data%20Indicator/DispForm.aspx?ID=28> “Live Below the Line with Raleigh International 2014.” Live Below the Line with Raleigh International 2014. March 7, 2014. <https://raleighinternational.org/news/live-below-the-line-with-raleigh-international-2014/> “Causes of Poverty in America.” Pursue God. March 29, 2017. <http://www.pursuegod.org/causes-of-poverty-in-america/ > I define personality as the type of person you are. I am the type of person who would not talk to people I don't know very well. My description is pretty close to the description that my family gave me when I was younger.
Racism is a major issue in the United States. This issue related to our community because in our community, maybe even someone you passed by, has been racist towards someone. I am interested in this issue because I have seen people being racist towards others in my past, and I didn't know what to do to help. The victim of someone in a racist attack (verbally or physical) is most likely very hurt/not feeling good about themselves afterwards. You should care about this issue because it affects many people everywhere in the world. If all of us help, we can stop the issue before any more people are hurt. We can very easily stop this issue by stopping ourselves from ever being racist, and if we ever see someone who is being racist, we can try our best to stop them.
A 'food desert' is a place where healthy food isn't available near civilization. Food deserts are a giant problem all over the world. About 23.5 million people live in food deserts, and half of them don't make much money. That's a LOT of people! I am interested in this issue because it is pretty major. This issue has been going on for a long time, and we can do more to help then we are currently doing. People who are affected by a food desert might either not have enough food around them, or not have any healthy food at all. This makes them be forced to live a non-healthy life, which can affect them majorly. We should care about this issue because food deserts are all around us, and we can do a lot more than we are to help fix them. Simply opening a store close to them with healthy food for a reasonable price would help out a lot. We could have people trucking food to that location at least once a week to keep the people there supplied with enough healthy food to live happily. Even you can help, from your house just by donating to some fundraiser for food deserts. Their are most likely some online fundraisers for this, or you could even start your own to help!
|
AuthorStudent Archives
May 2017
Categories |