picture book topic 2

 The great depression was a period in time when the stock market had just crashed and people were losing their jobs. 1 in 4 americans were out of jobs and very few places were even hiring people let alone were still even in busniess. Even the wealth people were being affected by this huge problem. People were doing anything they could to make money even begging for it. Until it was outlawed children were going out to make money for their families. Some families depended on bread lines, a place where goverment workers handed out bread to people who would wait on huge lines for it. Across the country men who could not find job's would take trains and go looking for work they were called hoboes.

Many people blame the stock market crash for the great depression, they say that if the stock market hadn't crash no one would know what the great depression was. Although the stock market did play a role in the cause for the great depression but there are many other things that are a contributor. One cause of the great depression is the rolling twenties, during this time period everyone was interested in having fun and spending money. During this period america had never been making more money but the gap between the rich and the poor just got bigger and bigger.

Appreciation

        In the book The Giver there are so many things to talk about. Although it is called a children's book there are many mature things the go on in it. By the means of the towns people the world that they live in is considered to be perfect. They live in a world with out pain in they get hurt they are given medication to cause the pain to go away. No one truly knows what pain is and they don't not even understand the word pin because in there town the word is never used because no one is ever in pain or is feeling any thing else then what there perfect world lets them feel. All they do feel is pleasure thats what they live in. They live in a world without pain despair or even evil's.
     It is the job of the receiver of memory to experience all the suffering the world can give and jonas has to live through these horrible memories just so that the rest of the people in his town can go on with there innocent lives while he bears all the pain had has to suffer until he dies because the towns people aparently would not be able to handle the idea of pain. The giver who is giving Jonas the memories is tormented by the memories of what he has seen they cause him on certain days to force him not to be able to do anything but rock back and forth in his chair. Jonas knows the knew he completes his job he will become the giver and then he will be living in pain just as the giver does.
     One day he learns what love is from the giver and when he goes home he asks his parents if they love him. They say that the word love is to strong and that they apreciate Jonas and enjoy him as company. I think that this is the most monstorous thing I have ever heard because how can you say that to your son he greatly looks up to you and would be joyous if you just said yes, I mean even lying would have been better. Though from this question he starts to see ho messed up his town truly is and how all of the people have been raised.
        All of these things make the book a great read and although there are many big ideas it is just nice to sit down with this book a try to find out what will happen next.

Picture book topic one

In world war 2 Adolf Hitler created concentration camps, a place were all the peoplewere rounded up went. Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp. These death camps targeted jews,gypsies, soviet POW's ( prisoners of war), twins, and even children. During the holocaust many death camp had medical doctors in the camps and these men would performed series of surgeries of the women and children.If the children were not killed right after ariving at the death camps they were experimented on by Josef Mengele. Who became famous for his operations on twins, Mengele had a strange liking for twins he wouldperform all types of operations and injections on them. If they even survived these experiments they would die days laterfrom infections or the pain from what had been done to them. It was recorded the Mengele took a pair of twins a sewn themtogether, creating in his eyes a pair of siamese twins. The twins died days later from a hand ifection were they had been jioned.As you can tell Auscwitz was terrible but what happened there is even worse.
Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 his Father had high hopes for him but when Hitler started to do bad in school his dad gotangry and their relationship got a lot worse. At the age of 13 his father died and him and his mother began recieveing his fathers pension from the war. He got his mother to get him out of school and send him to vienna so he may go to an artschool. When they did not take him he went home to find that his mother had just died. Once he began to recieve his fathers money he went back to vienna, during the day he would go out and draw the buildings and at night he wouldread books in bed. During the beginning of world war one he enrolled in the army and went to war. He was later injuredand taken to a hospital that was a socialist group meeting place. when they were captured Hitler told them he wasn'tone of them. He conviced them and went back into the army, were he was promoted to being a political capitan.  He was then used as spy to infultrat the GWP German Worker's Party which by Adolf Hitler was turn into the Nazi Party.

Stitches

       Stitches by David Small, this book deals with many social issue's like, be in debt and health care in the country. Although this is a graphic novel it deals with mature idea's, when David is little he gets dressed up like Alice from Alice in Wonderland and goes out to play. He is chased by the other little kids and is called "GAY", for doing this. Later in the book David develops a small growth on the side of his neck, when he asks his mother if he can go to the  doctor his mother says "no doctors cost money and that is in scare supply in this house." Then finally when he goes and has it removed there has to be a second operation to take place because it turns out that the growth is cancerous. So in this book although it is a graphic novel there are still big issues in it.

A Social Poem

Why o why
does the world discrimenate
why does it have hate
why does it hate
why do we have rasicist slurs
why do we use them
do we like to cause pain and hurt
why do people think there funny
why o why
does no one stand up and say
stop it
why o why
does the world discrimenate

3 socially aware things to know

       More than  90 percent of highschools recieve a passing grade. What that means is that the school is up to the standards of the DOE, Department of Education. Although while the school scores were going up the students from all around report card went down. 40% of the school recieved a grade "A" and put together only 10% of the school's recieved a "D" or lower. If you get a good grade it says that you can get a cash bonus, But if you get a "D" or "F" or even three "C"s in a row your school can be officially shut down.
        Credit card offer 0% APR on their credit cards. Going through this ecounemy has been very hard but it now seems that there is a beaken of hope in a mass of darkness. Maybe with this new allowance people may start spending more money and get the company back to life again. With this hope that busnicusses might grow we start to hope that they will.
        Brooklyn familly sues city over Asmtha related death. This family is sueing the city police department  for child neglect. The officer that found when she was in the middle of an asthma attack was unable to do anything aparently because he was not trained on how to preform CPR. To protest on the idea that the city was not training their police the right way and after a march the NYPD pasted a new bill saying that requires police officers to trained and recertifed in CPR annually.