Empathy

(Parvana looked at her mother as she picked up Hosian's clothes and then froze as she could see the sadness in her mother's eye's, the memory of her older brother that she didn't get to meet properly, only thin memory's of him.)

 

         I feel empathy for Parvanas mother because she has lost a son by a land mine and I can not imagine the feeling of a lost son. This is an example of empathy that a writer tries to get every time that he or she writes.

           Empathy is a group of words or sentences that gets the reader to feel happy,sad,or angry with the character. To some it up it is when the reader feels bad for the character. Empathy is another way for a writer to get more readers to read their novels or their series. Empathy is not just put into books it is also used in movies,plays, and skits.

       Another example about empathy is when you come across some people ether friends or just some people that your not really with and you over here them talking about a movie and they are saying what they think the character should do. that is another example for empathy because they are into whatever they are into and they are saying what the character should do before the character gets killed,captured, or wounded. They feel bad about the character. 

        That is the long definition for the word Empathy.   

         By: Marcus Engel 

Breadwinner Situation

This blog is about me pretending to be a person in Afghanistan which is based on the book The Breadwinner.

Hi my name is Markus and I am a 13 year old boy who works as a cart seller just to make enough money to buy food so I can feed my sibling and my father. There is nothing wrong with my father, but he is saving all his money to buy the new shipment for his store, and every one can't wait till it opens so that all the food and other stuff doesn't goes bad. Selling all the supplies on the cart is not that hard, but some days are better then others.

The siblings that I have is an older brother at the age of fifteen and an older sister at the age of seventeen. I have a mother but she is never around because she is working on the other side of town. Were I live is in a separate house right in front of the market and my fathers shop is down stairs. From my room you can see the hole market and all the little tea runners. Because we are right in front of the market I only have to site in front of the house and I almost sell everything that is on the cart.

And that is my blog for the week I hope that you liked it.

Eva's Life Story A Story of a Holocost Surviver

On October 26 there was an interesting speech that was spoken by a Holocaust survivor of 1939-1945.

Eva Olsson was a Holocaust survivor and is now speaking to thousands of people teaching them all about the Holocaust and what it did to the people. At the beginning of her speech she told us not to ever us the word hate but rather us the word dislike. She had also told us that there is no difference between a bully and a spectator. If you are a spectator and you are watching a bully bullying someone you are just like another bully. Because instead of stopping the bully you watch and let the bully hurt the person.

From the beginning the near end Eva talked about what it was like living in the Holocaust and how bad it was. She told us that when they were going to be working at the factory which the Nazi lied about. Lots of people were gust standing on the side of the railroad being spectators as they boarded the train. Just like if it were a Santa clause parade. On the ride of the train Eva said that they were so compacted that no one could sit down so they had to stand for two days straight. She said that lots of people died in the train because there was very little oxygen moving through the carts.

In Eva Olsson's speech she said that she had lost her mother and father during the Holocaust and that she never got to say how much she loved them. I think that the Holocaust was very bad and wrong and that it should never be done again. Something that surprises me is how at the time no one new about what the Germans were doing to the Jewish people.


In this blog I talked about the Holocaust survivor that gave a speech on October 26 and how it moved me while she spoke.
By: Marcus Engel

The Norval Trip

On monday the middle school classes went on a field trip that was at Norval a camp that is owned by the school UCC.

Things that I think that my group did bad was the amount of turns that each person got to have. In the amount of time that we got to play at the low ropes we didn't use the time effectively. One example was when our teacher was telling us to stop talking but we didn't and so we wasted time to figure out the problem by not letting her explain. My group was one of the crazy groups just fooling around. The people that were in my group was Jordan, Hannah, Alex, Lindsey, Saski,Tyler,Aleda,Emilie.V and myself.  

Somethings that I think that we did well in was our idea list. My group did well in thinking of different ideas for the situation. For every situation each person got to say their opinion on what we should do to accomplish our goal. Our first task was to get a tire over a tall 10 foot log But we couldn't use any supplies or tools from the forest. The first idea was Aleda's and it was to make a pyramid out of the people that we had. We had put the large people on the bottom and the smaller people at the top. Fortunately this first great idea did not work.

 The next task was to walk across a wire from tree to tree with only a short rope for support on the way there. For a little while we got on and tried different things to get across but soon we thought of using each other to help other people who were on the thin wire. Our idea was the very front person would have to go across with no help to the next tree. Once there they would pass the rope to the next person. Meanwhile the second person would be passing the rope to the third person.

Thank you for reading this Blog and it was about the middle school going to the camp Norval.    

how cloths shape a person

I think that cloths shape a person because the way that you are dressed shows your personality.

One reason how it shapes or makes a person is if you see a man and what he is wearing is a cow boy hat a pare of jeans and has a shirt on you kinda want to think that he is a cowboy right. Or what if you saw a guy on the street and his clothes on are dirty and ripped or are not taken care of then you start to think that it is a homeless person or is a person that can not afford the money to clean or to change into another pare.  

Now let's stop talking about the homeless or the pure and move on. Lets say your at a printing company or any other sort of company. You are in the back where there are not as many offices as there are in the front. But you look at the people and what they are wearing ,and you notes that the people are not as fashionable. They are more in rough  clothes because they mite get dirty with paint or some ink or some dust.

Another reason why I think that clothes make or shape a man is what he is wearing mite change his or her personality. If you were to take a man and put some clothes from a pirate and put it on him he mite change his personality to a pirates personality. It's like watching the TV show bugs bunny. There is this one episode that bugs bunny is always changing hats and every hat he gets the personality of the hat changes his. 

So thats my answer on the question (Does Clothes Shape a Man)