research paper holocaust

Sarah Jackson
Mr. Nueburger
 ENG 101-101
2 April, 2013
Research Paper
Nazi Extermination Methods during WWII
 There is probably no greater tragedy in this world than the Holocaust on the Jews during World War II. The gentle Jewish community was deemed unworthy by the Nazis and blamed for the past transgressions that the Germans suffered. The Jewish community suffered much at the hands of the Germans, such that it will never be forgotten. One of the most horrifying aspects of the Holocaust was the extermination methods of the Germans, followed closely by the selection methods of the Nazi Doctors. The Final Solution a decision made by Hitler and a Conference of allies to decide what was to be done about the Jews, supplies were running low from the war and it was becoming too costly to keep them alive. According to( A History of the Holocaust,) A Revised Edition, The Final Solution was decided at the Wannsee Conference. The Conference was held to decide to what to do with the Jews, Hitler wanted to move them into Russia, but that was not possible. After only fifteen minutes of discussion, it was decided to exterminate all of the Jews. Not just to exterminate all of the Jews, but to exterminate them as fast as they could leaving no evidence about what was to happen. The extermination methods started out as a mere Firing squad and became more advanced as the years went on. The firing squad was made up of SS soldiers, infantry men of the Nazi Army. According to the book (The World Must Know), the SS killing squad was also called the Mobile Killing Squad, and one incident of a demonstration of their terrible force where was at Piryatin located in the state of Poltava Oblast in the Ukraine, the Mobile killing squad murdered 1,600 Jews on April 6, 1942. The Jews were led out of the city and were marched five miles out into the countryside and were forced to dig their own grave a massive pit. They were forced to take off their clothes and valuables, forced into the pit and shot five at a time. In 1942 and 1943 when the Germans began to lose, they returned to these giant pits to dig up these mass graves and to burn the bodies to try to get rid of the evidence. The firing squad was soon to be found to not be a very good method as the constant shooting of women, children, and the elderly was a constant drain on moral. According to the Adolf Eichman Trail Collection (AETC) the Germans began experimenting with poison gas for the purpose of mass murder in the late nineteen thirties, with the killing of mental patients. It was called euthanasia, a Nazi word referring to the systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazi’s deemed unworthy of life because of mental illness or physical disability. There were six gassing installations were established as part of the Euthanasic Program, these were located at; Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hadannar, Hartheim, and Sonnenstien. These killing centers used pure chemically manufactured carbon monoxide gas; that was dropped into the room through vents in the ceiling and then sealed off. Furthermore, it took only a few minutes of intense suffering before the prisoners were killed. Later on Gas Chambers were used to kill the Jews, Gas Vans were hermetically sealed trucks with engine exhaust diverted to the interior compartment. It took around forty-five minutes for the Jews to die, so the Germans would have a round trip, then the Germans would burn the bodies in a Crematorium. (AETC) However according to A History of the Holocaust Revised Edition (AHoHRE), the first gassing experiment took place at Auschwitz in September of 1941 on Soviet Prisoners of War and a number of sick inmates. Between April of 1942, and November of 1944 in addition to a number of Soviet Prisoner of War, the gas extinguished the lives of probably up to 6,000 Roma (Gypsies), and around 1.25 million Jews, in that Concentration Camp alone. Zyklon B gas was dropped in a crystalized form into the hermetically sealed form through a small opening in the ceiling and then sealed, it again only took a few minutes for the prisoners to die. In the second and third Crematoriums of the Camp, 2,500 people could be killed in just thirty minutes. (AHoHRE) These Extermination Camps, or Concentration Camps, were first set up to merely contain the Jews, and to work them till death. However, according to the article “Extermination Camps,” on the website Yad Vasham, (EC) the first Extermination Camp to be established was Chelmo; the camp was established on December 8, 1941. It was located near Lodz, and ceased operation in the summer of 1944. The victims were murdered by gas vans, some 320,000 people were murdered here. Other Extermination Camps located in Poland are; Birkenau (which was known as Auschwitz Birkenau, Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Majdanek. Furthermore, the most famous of concentration camps was Auschwitz, it was both a Concentration Camp, and a Extermination Camp, its Extermination Camp Birkenau was instituted in March of 1942, during its short operation of only two years, its prisoners were murdered by Zykon B Gas, and tens of thousands of Jews were murdered as well as thousands of Gypsies, and Soviet Prisoners. The other camps were set up in late 1942, and early 1943; Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinker. Belzec, muredered 600,000 Jews, Treblinker killed the most Jews out of the three with 870,000 Jews murdered, and Sobibor killed the least amount Jews, with 250,00 Jews murdered. These were only three out of many Concentration camps in Europe; however they were three of the most famous. One aspect of the Holocaust that always baffles one was how the Germans could decide who could live and could die. When the people were rounded from their homes, they were forced into train cars like cattle, and were taken to the nearest Concentration Camp. According to the book “The World Must Know” (TWMK) once they were at the Extermination Camp, those who did not make the trip were removed from the trains, and the living moved on. However; if then they were also taken away immediately to the crematorium, those who could walk faced their first selection. The German word for selection is Selektion, and during this selection, an SS Officer would point to the left or the right, and the people who were sent to the left to be killed were; old people, young children too young to work, pregnant women, and the infirm. They were not given a chance to work at all, and these people segregated by sex went to the gas chambers, where they were removed of their clothes and their valuables. The Germans deceived these condemned up until the last minute, the Gas Chambers were labeled “showers” and they were told that they were simply going to take a shower. (TWMK) Those selected for work, they were immediately registered, branded, and sheared of all the hair on their head. The SS Officer in charge of the Selection was usually a physician, and the most famous of all was Dr. Joseph Mengele. In according to the documentary “Forgiving Dr. Mengele,” (FDM) a Holocaust Survivor Eva Moses Kor, was a victim of Dr. Mengele, he was an evil Doctor who performed terrible experiments on twins, simply because he wanted to. He was not a real Dr, however since he was experimenting on Jews; no one was going to stop him. Furthermore, Dr, Mengele, would torture the twins to test how the Jews would react, if one twin would die. In conclusion the Holocaust will be forever remembered as one of history’s most horrific tragedies. Though we can never truly understand or relate to the tragedies of the Holocaust it should forever be remembered, and never discredited. The suffers that the Jews of Poland, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and many more will always remain ingrained in our ancestry.   Works Cited Bauer, Yehuda. A History of the Holocaust Revised Edition. N.p.: Franklin Watts A Division of Scholastic, 2001. Print. The "Final Solution" Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993. Print. "Eichman Title." Yad Vashem. Steven Speilberg Jewish Film Archive & Israel State Archives, 23 June 1961. Web. 10 Apr. 2013. "The Exterminaton Camps." Yad Vashem. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2013. Nueburger, Larry, Mr. "Class Notes." Interview. n.d.: n. pag. Print. Ozarks Technical Community College

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Free Write 4-3-2013

He knew that if she was put into rehab then she would tell them what he was doing and then he would go to prison. And as a licensed psychiatrist he could say he was trusted. She biked down the road as quickly as she could, a skeleton on wheels, and pedaled into the bus station. Ellie put the bike into the bike rack, and checked her watch, she was right on schedule, taking a couple of precious seconds she caught her breath and  walked calmly inside. She smiled at the man behind the ticket booth, and bought one bus ticket to Denver Colorado, the bus would be leaving in just five minutes. Time for a change, Ellie went to the bathroom, and changed her clothes into a pair of sweat pants, and a comfy sweater, and pulled her short hair up into a hat, and washed away her makeup, as skinny  as she is, Ellie could easily pass as a young boy.  Once again checking her watch, she saw that it had been only fifteen minutes since she had left her house, she was going to make it. She would not relax though until, she was safely.

free write 4-1-2013

Everything is going fine, everything is fine. maybe if I say that enough then it will actually become true thought Ellie Mayfire as she ran down the road from the home that she was escaping. She only had one small backpack across her back and another cross body bag stuffed full of her belongings. Her hair was cut short and died burnette, something she had done in five minutes the only five minutes she had spared before she was out the door and running down the street to where she had a bike hidden in the bushes from there she would bike to the local bus stop and then she would be gone forever. She looked at her watch, a little kids one she had bought for a dollar at the supermarket. Her husband had never allowed her to have a watch, to know what time of the day it was, she was only allowed to see the clock on the microwave to know when to cook his meals. To know when the house needed to be cleaned by. Slowly day by day, year by year, Ellie had saved enough money to run away. She had saved a total of one thousand dollars, enough to get somewhere new and make a new start, Ellie could even rent a small apartment; she just had to make it there alive first. Making the first check point, Ellie jumped on the bike her neighbor had given her and rode as quickly as she could down the road, she was quickly becoming tired though. Ellie had never been allowed to work out, Mac liked his women small, petite and unathletic. Once when he had found out that she had started doing pilates at home, he had beaten her, and locked her in the bathroom for three days. By then, Ellie was on the verges of starvation. He took her to the hospital and gave some excuse to explain away the bruises,  how skinny she was, the Hospital had wanted to put her in rehab but he said no.

Unfinished Film Response

The movie The Unfinished Film is a documentary of staged and accidental un-staged video recordings of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. It was a compilation of videos, never put together, meant for the eyes of the German public only to continue to fuel the German’s systematic destruction of the Jews. This movie had a very great impact on my thoughts on the Holocaust; I have seen many documentaries on the Holocaust and pictures, but to have it put that graphically put it in a very new and very real light. I think that is the way it was for everyone in the classroom. The film shows how the Germans would torture the Jews by starving them, public humiliating them, and starving them. The films would show dead corpses along the side of the road, just lying in the street though there is no were to take the dead bodies, and there is a viedo clip of later on in the stages of the Warsaw Ghetto of the Jews digging a mass grave, and being forced to dump the dead into it, as many as the pit would hold, and the numbers were many. Nearly every single one having died of starvation. I think it is horrible the amount of terror that the Jews were forced to go through during World War I. One survivor who was intervied during the movie who had lived at Warsaw said that her mother had gotten an abortion shortly after the ity was made into a Ghetto, and if she hadn’t then they all would have been  killed because of that baby. I think it is a very sad thing that happened and a very sad movie and I hope the world never sees any thing like this again in our time or ever again.

Free Write 3-20-2013

Faith. What does faith mean to you? To me Faith is to follow someone or something to the very best ability and in the end to have found that you have nothing left. I was never one to be the most faithful growing up, to my parents, to my school work, or even my boyfriends, it seemed like the only thing I was really very faithful to was sports, and living my life basically how I wanted. This is not to say that I did not go to church, or follow the rules of my parents, and try to be a good kid. But I was totally lacking in my faith. Faith in everything, and more importantly God. I knew he was there in my life, and I believed in Him with all of my heart, but I had no Faith in him. Faith that He knew what was best for me, that He had a plan for me, and that I would be all right. No, I thought I am the controller of my own destiny, I make the decisions for my own life, I don't need anyone's help. Well I was terribly wrong, though it is true we do make our own decisions but we do need God's hand in everything that we do, for if we don't how do we expect to manage?

It seems like all when we are trying to blame someone for something or we are mad at someone all we can remember about that person is the bad things they did to us, or the things that they did not give us; and I think we often do this with God as well. We are faithful, and up singing praise, and are happy with God when everything goes our way, but when things don't go our way it is then that we are unhappy with God and decide to take matters into our own hands.How many of you have tried to get your kids into C of O or know some one who has tried?  I can remember, the fall of my Junior year of High School, I was trying to get into College Of the Ozarks, and I was so right with God, I was attending regular church again, and I wasn't just attending church I was leading the life I needed to be living. I felt so right, when I went for my interview, I talked with the interviewer longer than most others, and I felt like it was were I was supposed to be I even met all of the requirements. When it came time to get the letter however, I got those dreaded lines, "We regret to inform you. .". Instead of taking that letter and hanging it up as a way to stay determined to get in, I threw it away, and decided to take matters into my own hands. I stopped praying, and stopped going to church, I began listening to Hard Rock again, and stopped praying. It wasn't until the spring of my Senior year, over a year later that I began to get back on track for real. It had started before that, I just began giving up, I couldn't find a job, I was single, which to a teenage girl seems like the end of the world, and I was stuck in a rut. So I just gave up, but I gave up in a good way, I gave up to God. I gave everything to him, and decided to be patient, whatever he wanted for me, I would accept it gratefully. It wasn't but a short time later, that I got a job, and started going back to church, and then I went to the Marshfield First Baptist, to attend the D-Now, which is short for Discipleship Now. There I rededicated my life to Christ, and gave up everything that was weighing me down. I even met the love of my life and best friend Garrett. God opened so many doors for me, just because I decided to put finally put all of my cards on his table, and he continues to open doors for me everyday!

Jeremiah 29:11
¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Holocaust Survivor Testimony David Abrams

David Abrams was born David Abraham in Deadash Romania on the twelfth of December of 1928,  his father was Joseph Abraham, and was a professional Baker, his step mother Sarah Goldsteen was a stay at home mom, he had four sisters; Alga, Ettle, Irene, and Lebalmakle, and three younger brothers; Udaria, Zackiel, and Zack. His biological mother died six days after David was born, from child birth complications. He came from a very religious family, and he was a very secular student and began school at age six.

When Hitler took over his town in 1941, and gave it to Hungary, there was celebration, because the Hungarians were nice to the Jews. But this all changed in 1943 when there were restrictions and there were Jewish Laws. His father could no longer own his business, they were shortly taken to a Ghetto, they could only pack one back-pack and they were given a small patch of ground to live on, and were told they would have to sleep there in the open air for awhile and were helped build a small shelter by their neighbors. They lived in the Ghetto for one month and then were put onto a train, with a 1,000 Jews and were carted to Auschwitz like cattle. While in the Ghetto his father died, and everyone else died in the concentration camps. During Selection, they were asked random questions just to send people to the gas chambers. After four days at Auschwtiz he went to Malhauesn, and was given little food. There they were processed again and sent to work camps, during his stay there he was admitted to the hospital, and it was a blessing because he was given extra food, and was able to rest. During Processing their numbers were put on their prison clothes, and painted triangles were put there also. Yellow for Jews, Red for Political Prisoners, and Green for German Criminals. After he was liberated he went to America.

"The secret weapon of the Jews was Hope"

"Never be complacent, never say it won't happen here, that is what we said in Germany,"

Edith Coliver War Crimes Trials Participant

Edith Coliver was born on July 6, 1922 and was born in Karlsuhe in the State of Barden in Germany. She was born to a middle class family with two little brothers named Harold  and Ernest, her mother Hedwig and father Fritz Simon. Her father was a wealthy bank manager with the Struch and Company. Edith led a very structured childhood she played with a gang of children her age riding bicycles, and climbing buildings. They lived in a large house with two other families, and their school gym teacher on the top floor. In the school they were taught racial classes, and were taught what Aryan was. The schools changed in 1937, and the Jews were no longer allowed to go to school, their teacher went to their mother Hedwig and said that she was not allowed to give them an A, so they would have to leave the school. They were a Jewish household, and their mother kept the house Kosher, they went on many vacations, and went to Holand in the summer and Switzerland in the winter. Once they were forced to leave the school, her father sent her to London to go to school, and she stayed with friends. In 1938, Edith's father called her home, because they were going to America, Edith got a visa luckily because when they went the waiting list was for ten years. Her father had relatives in New York and they stayed ther for five weeks, then arrived in San Francisco in 1938. Edith attended George Washington Highschool and graduated with honors, attended Berckely, she studied Political Science and International affais, and graduated with top honors, and went to D. C to try to get a job, was unable to get one. Edith finally got a job as and worked with the War Information Office as a War Propaganda Analyst, soon after arriving peace broke out and was jobless. Got a job with California Senator, and then worked in Nuremburg as a translator. She helped with the Nuremburg trials and Preliminary trials. Visited many Displacement Person's camp and talked to them, she translated a very, very, important speech by Justice Jackson, and was a translator also for Guring, who had been the number two man in Germany. Guring killed himself with sinoide gas, and there were many theories. Went back to the U.S after the Nuremburg Trials, and began talking about Nuremburg and married a man her parents set up with her. She joined many Asian Foundations, and worked there until she retired, and she had two children Suzi, and Sandy. Her final message, is to stick to something, whatever it is, stick to it and keep at it.

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Free Write 3-6-2013

Moira Ellison woke early on the fifth of June with a horrible sense of foreboding, she had no idea why this feeling was upon her, but it was there. Rolling out of bed she pulled on a pair of jeans, boots, and a shirt, and walked to the bathroom. Going through her morning routine she brushed her teeth, added make up, fixed her hair, a messy bun today, she didn't feel like breaking out the heavy machinery and walked downstairs checking her phone, no missed calls or messages.

free write 3-4-2013

I have nothing to write today, my mind is going all over the place, I have math homework that I have to get done and midterms to study for, and work, and financial homework, not to mention trying to catch up on all of this lost sleep that I have been missing out on due to all of the homework I have. I wish it was summer so that I could have more time, only take one or two classes and not have to worry about so much homework, and work more so I can make more money, and save more and try to get ahead in this world. Which this government makes it almost impossible to do with all the money that you have to spend on insurance, rent, gas, food, and taxes, I don't know what to do. It is very discouraging growing up in the world we have today, and my parents not preparing me for the real world. My parents are the best parents in the world, but they fell short in the aspect of money saving, which made me fall short in the aspect of money saving, and being good with my money which is going to make it hard for me to get out of the house, and save money. I am not a natural saver myself, I think it comes from never having any money, and instead of hoarding it from that aspect like some people do, I always spend it because there is always something that I need. New clothes, something has broke on my car, gas, food, something for school. . . the list goes on and on!

Narrative Essay

Personal Narrative

Significant Event in my Life

            It was the summer in between my fourth and fifth grade year, and I was not happy. I thought I had it all figured out and was only a couple of soccer goals and gold medals away from being one of the most popular girls in school;  I even had the cutest boy in school eyeing me. Then the big news, we were moving from our farm, to a house in town the worst possible torture a country girl like me could ask for.

It’ll be fun they said. “It’ll be a new start they said”. Well I had a completely different idea of what life in town would be like with neighbors only yards away and on all sides with no hills, no cows and, even worse, no horses. The only bright side, the YMCA was only two blocks away, and they had a new indoor pool with a new swim team where I could go and dazzle the new swimmers with my rad skills.

            I joined the swim team, the YMCA’s soccer team, and softball team, everything to stay busy that summer and try to make friends. I made one friend in particular who had a lasting impact on my life and changed my life forever and made me the person who I am today. Her name is Cassie Cron, and she lived right behind me across my one acre lawn, the city drainage ditch and then her yard. We were friends right from the start because she enjoyed all the things I did, and even better, was an only child, so her house was a welcome relief from my two younger brothers.

            Cassie had a lasting impact on my life mainly because she was a friend to me when others were not. We had so much in common; we both loved Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, video games, and four wheelers, as well as the two grandsons of the elderly couple across from her house who came down every summer. Soon after I moved there, we were inseparable and cussing like sailors. Cassie and I spent the whole summer swimming in her pool and racing boys on four wheelers and go-carts.

            Although Cassie taught me many bad things, like cussing, she taught me a lot of good things as well like how to stay true to myself and to be nice to other people while at the same time standing up for yourself; we looked after the nerds because we thought it was our job. I’ll never forget my first day of school at Seymour. I was terrified and gone were the days of staying up late watching Star Wars movies and getting up early to go ride four wheelers. I was in that period of time where I dressed more like a boy than a girl. I even wanted to be a boy, which was another side effect of Cassie, but it wasn’t that bad as everyone has went through those stages.

            I went into my home room and sat in my assigned sea. I was the first one to school and no one was there yet. The next person to come into the room was a little boy in a camo hoody with the hood up who small and very quiet and he looked sad. Well thanks to Cassie, had the nerve to talk to this kid who was depressed and had hardly any friends. Thanks to the confidence I gained from Cassie, I was able to become friends with another one of the most important people in my life, my childhood friend Tyler. We were friends long after Cassie and I stopped being so. Tyler and I did everything together and one day started going out for a short time even though we stuck to being friends.

            I guess what I am trying to say is that is that Cassie taught me so many things, and we were friends for a very long time. Never underestimate the power of a childhood friend, the power of Star Wars, and a fascination for the outside. Cassie has probably had the most impact on my life with the exception of my parents and Jesus. Cassie laid the ground basis for who I am today during the age when we are all vulnerable to what we watch and what we listen to. She taught me how to fight, to stand up for myself, and to put everything I have into whatever I am doing. She was truly wise for her years as she is only two years older than I am.

            I guess I have her parents to thank for raising someone as strong as Cassie, though Cassie and I had a falling out around my sophomore year when I learned you can’t be as brusque as her and still expect people to like you and believe that you do in fact like boys, and she stopped participating in sports. We still speak to each other every once and awhile and I run into her at Wal-Mart sometimes. But I owe who I am today to Cassie Cron as she basically made me who I am, and so far I have no complaints!

Free Write 2-20-2012

Big Day:
I woke early on the Big Day with a million things on my mind, soon it would be my time, and there were still a million things left to do. I had to call the caterers, the florist, the  priest, oh why didn't I get a wedding planner? Because this is a small wedding, and a small budget, and I can do this! I reassured myself, it wouldn't be long until this was all over, but the stress of the day couldn't taint how happy I am. I pulled on a robe and put on my blue tooth headset and called my mom, wandering into the kitchen. Good morning! she said happily into the phone, nearly shouting those two words. Good Morning Mom, I said smiling, stepping over the four limp bodies, of by best friends and bridesmaids in my living room floor. "Are you out of bed yet?" she asked, "Yes, I am just on my way to start cooking breakfast, and go over my list for today," I said, pulling a carton of eggs, the milk, and cheese out of the fridge, as well as fresh fruit, and orange juice. "Why, are you cooking breakfast?! It's your wedding day, I am calling Jenny," said mom, "No, don't I am the only one who didn't get toasted last night, let them be, I'm fine, you know how much I love planning and it won't ruin my day at all," I said, cracking the eggs open and separating the whites from the yolk. "I know, you missed your calling in life, you should have been a wedding planner instead of a elementary school teacher. Speaking of which, how many parents did you convince to let their kids be in your wedding?"
"All but one," I said, "Your guys' flight is coming in at noon right?" 

Free Write 2-8-2013

Apartment List: Shampoo, Hair Ties, Bobby Pins, New Pillows, Couch, Vacuum Cleaner, Toilet Paper, Towls, Wash Cloths, Cleaning Supplies, T.V, Entertainment Center, Cloths Hangers, Book Shelves, Floor Pillows, Light Bulbs, Lamps, Organizational Baskets/Tubs, Laundry Hampers, Landry Soap/Dryer Sheets/Bleech, Dish Soap, Rugs, Hooks, Toaster, Microwave, Stove, Mixing Bowls, Baking Pans, Pots, and Pans, Table, Chairs, Shower Curtain, Grocery List: Milk, Eggs, Ramen, Bread, Flour, Oil, Cereal, Sugar, Tea Bags, Baking Soda/Powder Cinnamon, Brown Sugar, Lunch Meat, Hamburger Helper, Canned Vegetables/Fruit, Spaghetti, Pasta Sauce,

Free Write 2-6-2013

I heard it again, the sound of light footsteps coming my direction, as I changed my pace, I could hear the light footsteps before they too began to follow the same pace as I. I stopped and climbed a tree, quickly and looked down. I searched for five minutes before seeing a figure leaned up against a tree, he was wearing a long cloak that seemed to make the person blend in with the background. He also wore a deep cowl so I couldn't see his face, I drew an arrow and stuck it in my mouth crawling out onto the limb I was perched on, my intent not to harm, but to test the waters and his reaction. I would shoot a warning arrow to the left of his left arm, I drew back my bow and stopped sure that he had spotted me, but he had  not. He was looking in the opposite direction from me and had not seen me at all. I smiled, and let the arrow fly. It hit exactly where I had intended it to. The man jumped away from the tree, and looked up, at me, he flipped off his cowl and stepped towards me.
"King's Ranger, Come down. I mean you no harm boy," he yelled,

I put my bow in my quiver disgruntled, and hopped down from the tree,
"I am no man," I said, walking towards him, slightly worried, I would be in trouble. I had no idea that this man was a King's Ranger, an elite force who traveled all over the Kingdom, keeping order and being the direct eyes, and ears of the King.

Sensory Language 2-4-2013

Hannah left her apartment and stood on the sidewalk, it was a beautiful day in February and she was on her way to her first day of college. It was the first day of spring semester and she hoped that there would be no surprising spring storms pop up bringing the gusting wind and rain with it. Being the first day of very nice weather, she can finally wear shorts, and Hannah felt more alive than she had in a long time. The sun was out and she was on her way to start her future, she could not wait to sit in class and use her new text books and pens and pencils, and feel the class room computer keys underneath her finger tips as she typed out an essay. One of the busy people rushing their way to work bumped into her on the sidewalk and she realized that she had been standing there in the way. Hannah began to walk down the sidewalk, and felt the cool wind of a breeze tickle her face and at the same time felt the warmth of the sun on her back, it felt so good to know that spring was finally here, and had come early to her small town of Cedarpoint, South Carolina. It seems that everyone knew that spring was finally here; as she passed on house she saw a woman out already tearing up her flower beds and releasing the smells of musty plants and fresh dirt into the air. Hannah, envious of the woman, wished for her own house instead of an apartment so that she could have her own flower beds. As she drew closer to the local University, only a short walk from her own apartment, she passed a dorm and heard a loud combination of men and women talking, and loud music playing. Sometimes Hannah wishes she herself could live in a dorm, but it is just too expensive and she values the fact that she can be by herself, it saves on money and many headaches. Walking past another open door of a house, she smelled food cooking and in response to her growling stomach, realized that she herself had missed breakfast. With a sigh Hannah realized it was going to be a long morning, it would not be until after her first three classes that she would be able to get some food.

Free Write 2-4-2013

I don't know what to write about, I have reached a writers block I hope I think of something, So I don't visit the chopping block! I doubt I think of something, My mind is numb and blank All I see is endless nothing, I need my a new thinking tank! While everyone else is typing I sit here in silence I just keep on griping

Free Write - 1-28-2013

"I'll be fine, I always am," I said, gave her a quick hug, grabbed my game bag and left the house and went towards the woods. I always entered in the same place and there was a well worn path for the first fifteen yards or so and then that is when the normalcy ceases. As the years have progressed the animals sense me coming and have fled deeper and deeper into the woods so my trek becomes longer and longer.
Moving as silent as death itself I moved deeper into the woods, I began to hear the sounds of squirrels above me and I drew an arrow, looking up I waited making the soft chattering noise in my throat that the squirrels make themselves. Soon I saw two squirrels coming, I shot them both and they fell, I easily caught both and put them in my game bag. If my luck kept, I would have plenty of squirrel by the days end.
It was then that I heard the footsteps, they were so quiet that I barely heard them, but they were there, they were the footsteps of someone who was not used to being heard the footsteps of a hunter.
I began to walk forward now, listening for the footsteps, I heard them for only a second before the hunter's footsteps began to match my own. My heart began to quicken, what if it was one of the King's men? Only the high born women were allowed to shoot. 

The Lesson Synopsis

24 January 2013 Short Synopsis “The Lesson” This short story is about a group of kids that are forced to hang out with an older woman whose parents force them to hang out with an older woman whom they don’t like who has gone to college. The woman a Miss Morre, teaches the kids a lesson about money. The kids don’t like the lesson very much. Honestly I found this story hard to read and hard to understand, the language was improper and was hard for me to understand.

The Story of an Hour Synopsis

23 January 2013 Story Synopsis “The Story of an Hour” This story is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard who learns of her husband’s death in a train accident, surrounded by friends they tried to break it to her softly because she has heart problems. They tell her and she goes to her room, where she sits crying in her chair, she sees a vision of herself throughout the years and feels something coming to her though she does not know what and she is afraid then she sees death and she is happy. Her sister is trying to get in and she goes out to her and they go downstairs, at that moment she her husband named Brently Mallard comes in the room and she dies at that moment. It turns out that her husband was not dead at all and was far away from the accident. In a cruel twist of faith they got the bodies mixed up, and Brently Mallard had to watch his wife die

My father and brother were coming home from the village with fresh goods when they were attacked and killed by a wargal raid. Wargals are vicious demons that look like a bear, but have a dogs snout and walk on two legs like a human, they have no need to carry weapons as they use their massive paws and powerful jaws to kill and maim. I vowed the day we buried them that I would learn to fend for my self and kill if need be and if ever I ran into a Wargal I would kill it as easily as I kill the squirrels for food.

Turning from the window I pulled on a pair of my brothers old breeches and tucked them into my boots and pulled on a tunic and wool vest to guard from the early morning chill. Grabbing my bow and quiver as I left the room, climbing down the ladder from the loft I found my mother already stoking the fire in the stove to cook some breakfast.
"Don't worry about cooking breakfast, I'll be gone till dusk," I said, walking over and tearing off a hunk of bread and grabbing some cheese to eat on my way.
"Be careful dear the raiding season isn't quite over yet," said mother.

I looked at her and smiled, my mother had grown older over the years and was begining to show it, the gray at her temple was begining to move outwards and the lines in her face becoming more pronounced, but she was still very beautiful and could stop any man in their tracks, and even more strong than she is beautiful. I am proud of my mother, proud that after my father and brother's death, she still managed to survive and thrive out here on the edge of the woods with just herself and I.

I am From

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Free write 1-16-2013

Short Story Beginning: I woke before the first rays of the sun pushed up over the mountains, and the first crow of the rooster was heard. Rolling out of bed I went to the window and pulled back the oil cloth curtain and felt the fresh air blast me in the face. The Spine a range of imposing mountains that stretched across the western end of the Kingdom from the North to the South, soared above me so that the sun reached my little farm last. The Spine was so tall that there was always snow on tops of the mountains, and no one ever journeyed there because of the many dangers of ravines, dropping cliffs, and many wild animals that seem to grow larger in the Spine. This is my favorite type of day, everything is still right at the edge of dawn, the dew still clings to the grass and tree branches, and the night time animals are creeping back to their nests before the big folk, and the day animals stir. Everything is still at peace, and nothing seems disturbed. For only a few short minutes, and then, there it was the first roosters crow. I pulled on my over dress, and boots and grabbed my quiver full of fresh arrows and my bow. I go hunting every day now, winter is fast approaching and my mother and I are storing up on goods before the first snows set in. It is just my mother and I on our small farm at the base of the Spine. We only have a milking cow, a small handful of chickens, and a plow horse to plow our fields, but every year we seem able to make it through the year. My mother Grace is skilled at making the last bit of corn meal or dried squirrel to last. We get help from the town folk as well, they always make sure that we have enough grain or warm blankets, though my mother doesn't like to accept charity, unwilling to let the other townswomen to think her weak. Though it is hard for two women to make it by themselves in this fief, were the taxes are so high and where the people have so little. I can remember when the Ranger Will brought my father and younger brother to us in a wagon murdered by Wargals, who had come down for a early raid on the Kingdom. My father and brother had been coming home from the village

Sarah Jackson - Intro

Hello Everyone! As you know is my name is Sarah, I was born in Illinois and I lived there for two years before moving to Missouri. My parents are from southern Missouri and that is why we moved back. I also have two brothers, Cole who is sixteen years old, and Samuel who is twelve years old. They are also free if anyone wants to take one!!  My parents are still together after twenty-one years and have we have all had are ups and downs but we are a pretty close knit family.  Right now I am in my second semester of college, and I am working on a getting my general eds. to become a teacher, my preferred field is Elementary or upper High School. I love teaching a child something and seeing them understand it and at the end they can remember what I have taught them and apply it. I used to teach Swimming Lessons to people of all ages, and it was an amazing feeling seeing what each kid could accomplish after only a few short weeks, and I still work with children every day in my local YMCA childcare; I also work in the indoor pool as a lifeguard part time as well. I have also found the love of my life last year, though we have only been going out a short amount of time, we love each other very much and have decided to take things slow while we are still in school! And I know what you guys are all thinking, pshh they are to young! and It'll never last, but you know what? Anything can happen and I am willing to take that bet.

This is my family!! 

This is my boyfriend Garrett!!