Holocaust- Assignment 1 (Second Nine Weeks)

In the holocaust, nine to eleven million Jews were killed during World War I. the word "holocaust" comes from a Hebrew word, "shoah" which means calamity, disaster, destruction, and catastrophe. This was planned and executed by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) . Other groups were persecuted and killed by the regime, including the Gypsies, Soviets, particularly prisoners of war, Communists, ethnic Poles, other Slavic people, the disabled,homosexuals, and political, and religious dissidents. The Nazis preferred to call it the, "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."

The doctors received live bodies of these groups and made several discoveries. they would open the bodies while the person was still conscious. this is how they discovered how the heart,lungs,livers, etc. worked.

My Opinion- Assignment 10

I like the blogger because we don't have to be carrying papers or binders around. When the homework is due we don't have to worry about were the paper is and we don't have to turn it in late. I really don't know how we can make it better because i like it the way it is.

Shilpa, The Alcoholic- Assignment 8

Shilpa

Get Drunk

Always be drunk.That's it!The great imperative!In order not to feel Time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders,grinding you into the earth,get drunk and stay that way.On what?On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever.But get drunk.And if you sometimes happen to wake upon the porches of a palace,in the green grass of a ditch,in the dismal loneliness of your own room,your drunkenness gone or disappearing,ask the wind,the wave,the star,the bird,the clock,ask everything that flees,everything that groans or rolls or sings,everything that speaks,ask what time it is;and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will answer you:"Time to get drunk!Don't be martyred slaves of Time,Get drunk!Stay drunk!On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!"

Shilpa is an alcoholic which is why I thought that this poem related to her. she started drinking when she was very young so that she wouldn't feel so much pain while she was with costumers but now shes addicted to it. It is her way of escaping the horrible world she lives in.

What I Think- Assignment 7

It is very sad to see those pictures because you get to see what those girls are going through. I couldn't imagine seeing in real life everything they have to put up with every day. Beauty, is a young mother that doesn't get to see her 5 yr. old son and has to work every night in that brothel. she is not only abused mentally and physically by customers, but also by her pimp, Gita, who hits her when she "misbehaves". She is one of the best prostitutes in that brothel because she pretends to love the costumer and that is what brings them back to her. She says she just pretends to love them, but she actually doesn't love anyone.To me, that is very sad. she has gotten to the point were she cannot love anyone.

(TEN) - Assignment 6

http://www.madebysurvivors.com/?gclid=CJPSmNH30ZUCFRUYgQodWhh0jA

There is an organization called The Emancipation Network (TEN) which is an international organization that fights slavery. They help survivors and high risk communities by giving them economic alternatives and education. They ask the people who they help to make bracelets and jewelry and then sell it through the Internet. The Emancipation Network opened Destiny Productions at the Thomas Clayton Center in Calcutta, India so that rescued slaves can go there instead of going back home or ending up in brothels.

Timeline- Assignment 5

*1.- Lakshmi lives in a small hut in a village with her mom, stepfather, and little brother in Nepal.
*2.- Lakshmi has her very first period at the age of 13 and her mother teaches her what she needs to know.
*3.- There's been 60 days without rain, so the rice plants are drying up, when the rain finally falls, it takes everything with it.
*4.- One day, stepfather comes home and tells Ama Lakshmi will have to work as a maid.
*5.- They go to a store to meet a lady from the city which Lakshmi has seen before in the village festival who she is to call Auntie Bimla.
*6.- Stepfather asks for 800 rupees for Lakshmi and so the lady takes her to the city.
*7.- Auntie Bimla takes her to meet Uncle Husband, who takes her across the border.
*8- She is told she will work as a maid at a place called Happiness House,were she is sold by uncle husband for 10,000 rupees and meets Mumtaz, (the pimp)and other young girls.
*9.- Once she is there, she is very curious about everything, but she doesn't know she is actually in a brothel and her virginity is sold to a man named Habib.
*10.-That brothel was the witness to all of Lakshmi's suffering, as it was for her success. She learned English, Hindu, and the language everyone speaks there thanks to an 8 yr. old named Harish.
*11.- She also meets a street boy who sells tea and who knows everyone in the village.
*12.- He is the one who tells an American about the brothel who goes and saves Lakshmi and arrests Mumtaz.

Assignment 3- Man vs Man

There is many conflicts in the book but i think the main problem is when the stepfather sells Lakshmi into prostitution without her knowing so. She is abused, until she does something about it. She finally uses what she has to get out of Mumtaz's brothel to go back home and get Mumtaz into jail. The reason the stepfather sells her is that they need money beacuse he is always gambling the little money they get or spending it on himself.



-pg.52 "The next morning... Bajai Sita's store"
-pg.53 "He takes in...on her ears"
-pg.53 " What does it...no hips yet?"
-pg.263 "My name is Lakshmi," I say.

About Me- Assignment 1

My name is Janette. I'm an 8th grader. I love to spend time with my friends and family and I like to travel. i also like to write stories. I like to read long chapter books of suspense.