"Love" by Mos Def

The singer/songwriter Mos Def uses different ways to show different things in “Love.” I first saw the use of enjambents, end stop lines, and rhyme. He also used an apostrophes to express love e uses these to make the feel for the song. The other thing I noticed was that he used personification to giving love different human characteristics. An oxymoron stood out to me as an important part of "Love". The last thing I noticed were that many anaphoras are in the song as well.

       The three techniques effects the rhythm or feel in the song. Most songs have a good beat to them making them so popular. He creates a very nice beat with those techniques. Most songwriters don't do this but, he personifies love and confronts love like it is a person, although it is only an emotion. Personally, I think Def does this to show how much the emotional feel of love can really do to one person. The last technique that I saw that effected the song was an oxymoron. This oxymoron is used to explain if he should go out or stay home, so it's intriguing, but on the other hand difficult. 

Reading and Working Times

Monday, 2/3- 20 minutes reading ATD
Tuesday, 2/4- 40 minutes posting
Wednesday, 2/5- 20 minutes reading Perfect
Thursday, 2/6- 40 minutes finishing posts
Friday, 2/7- 20 minutes reading Perfect

Research Paper Draft

I think my confident part of my paper is the content of the main experiments like what Dr. Mengele did to the twins and the dwarf family. I had some really informational websites. I feel like is was easy in the way of finding websites and making annotations and notecards on them, but then I think it's hard because when I was writing my paper it was difficult trying to find websites that went together and would make sense if i put some information from one website with another.

I have a question. If I used a website, but I didn't make an annotation on it should I make an annotation on it so that I can put it in my works cited? I'm scared that I plagiarized something, but I don't think I did. I think that's the only thing I was really worried about, other than just not thinking it was long enough. I think I would like help changing my wording and the work cited like, if I should make an annotation or not. I think you should focus on the context of the writing and if the quotations I used are properly placed.

Work times:

Writing my paper, I used some new websites that were more informational. I spent about three hours writing the paper and doing more research.
About two hours reading our class book and finished it.

Sneaux Week Free: Relearning my Torah Portion

Being Jewish and a teenager comes with it's ups and downs. When I was 12 years old, it was time to start leaning my Torah portion for my Bat Mitzvah. Although that doesn't seem like much, it's a completely different language, a whole new alphabet to learn. Luckily, I had been going to Hebrew school every Sunday and Wednesday's when I was coming up to my bat mitzvah. Once I picked out my date and read over my portion in english, I really like it. It talked a lot about the Eternal Lamp, what priests wore, and how the temples were built back in the day. It really interested me, but the worst was having to sing it in front of all my family, friends, and the whole congregation. I was able to learn it in a six week period with a tutor everyday after school. Three years later, I'm again having to learn it again.

This coming up Saturday, I will be reading the first three verses in the portion T'tzaveh or Exodus. I'm really excited about it, yet really nervous because I don't to mess up. It's such a huge responsibility and honor to even be able to read out of the Torah. Having to relearn it will be very difficult yet bringing back memories from when I had an awesome and hilarious tutor to teach me three years ago, and I'm hoping he will be there.

Reading Details

Reading times: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian: 160 minutes
Working times: 75 minutes

Over these last couple of weeks I have accomplished to narrow my topic down even more an make it about what Dr. Josef Mengele experiments were like in the Auschwitz concentration camp. I've been looking up more about these experiments and who were involved in them. Also been looking further into the medical treatments and terrible experiments.

My topic is about the experiments conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele and his Jewish medical assistants. Auschwitz was one of the main concentration camps because it was so much larger than all the other camps. Mengele was one of the main scientist or doctors to conduct any medical experiment, from dwarfs to twins. Most of the experiments he conducted were very brutal and painful. Mengele interested me because his experiments were just down right cruel and I wanted to know more about why and what his did to those innocent people.

Reading and work time

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian- 130 minutes reading

Working- 60 minutes

Research, research, and more research

I am researching the rights and responsibilities of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. I personally think we should care about my topic because if we just forget about it and doing keep telling the stories and making people aware of what happened, then who knows what might happen. Could it happen again? We, as a Jewish community, don't want it to ever happen again, but we want our generation of kids to know what happened and what it can do to people. The fact that I can research something that is in my own religion's past, and learn in a deeper meaning because looking up the rights, which we don't talk about much because there wasn't many rights. Anyway, I just want people to understand and realize how awful this was and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

60 minutes, reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
60 minutes, researching