free write- 10/30

i had a lot of fun this last weekend which is really  nice because there has been a lot going on in my family recently. me and brett went to bolivar to his farm and really just had a weekend to ourselves which was nice. we went fishing and just watched movies in the cabin, so it was a cheap little get away. i feel like i will never get a break, i always feel like when life starts to get better, it will alreayd by ten times worse. my little man keeps me strong though. i really don't know what i would do without him. i love waking up to him everyday. i honestly don't know where i would be in life right now if it wasn't for him. he was such a gift. when i found out i was pregnant with him i was headed down the wrong path very quick, so i'm sure he saved my life to be honest. i'm just really glad that i have brett and my friends to lean on becuase i don't have much family that i can lean on. i really want christmas break to be here too! i am loving school but i need a break from that too. i wish i just had a million bucks so i didn't have to work or worry but that isn't how life goes so i will just keep on truckin and pray for the best.

free write - 10/23

so today is actually going to be a really good day. i have an interview for a job that i have been trying to get for the past couple weeks. it is still going to be at the same place but i will be in human resources, so i will be doing pay roll and things like that. i have been working at the same place for a year and a half and i'm ready for something new. i really hope i get it because it will be a lot less stressful than the job that i currently have. i will also get better hours as well. i will be working 9-6 instead of 8-5 so i will have more hours, becuase of school i get my hours cut most days. i'm not getting my hopes up yet though, becuase i haven't gotten it. on another hand my booger says momma now and i'm really happy about that. he has said da-da for about 2 months now so i was ready for him to say something else. he will be a year old in less than 3 months and it is really starting to scare me. time has gone by so fast, i feel like it was just yesterday that i brought him home and now he is already talking and crawling everywhere. i miss him being little and just wanting to cuddle all the time, now he just wants to play all the time which is fun too.

free write 10/16

i am so tired today, it is awful! i didn't get to have my coffee this morning so i'm a walking zombie and i hate it. i have braxen's doctors appointment today and i have to work so i really need to wake up. tuesdays and wednesdays are definately the hardest days of the week for me, it always takes me like 2 extra hours just to wake up. i really don't want to take braxen to the doctor because he has to get shots and it is going to be miserable for the whole household for the next couple of days. i really wish they didn't make him so sick, but it is okay becuase all he wants is his momma and that is just fine with me! he is crawling and getting into everything now though, we can't even leave a pair of shoes on the floor becuase he will somehow manage to put them in his mouth. he has really been on a shoe string kick lately.

Holocaust Testimonial

Chantelle Lamb

            I watched a testimonial over Henry Mikols. His story is a little bit different because he wasn’t Jewish, his family was Catholic. He and his family lived in Poland. He lived with his mother, father, and his brother. He said life before the German came to Poland was great. He was 13 when the German invaded Poland.

            Mr. Mikols was captured by the Nazi SS officers. He was going to the market to get a loaf of bread because he and his family were starving. His mother told him that it was going to be dangerous to go out on the streets because of the Nazi’s, but he did it anyways. The German officers picked up all the teenagers that were large enough to work. That was the last time that he saw his family. He was taken to Germany and became a slave on a farm. The farmer actually treated him fairly well; he had at least two meals a day. He had to do some pretty stinky jobs, but he had no choice. After about a month, him and the other 3 boys escaped because they missed their families and were going to be on a journey back to Poland. The boys of course got caught and taken to another farm. At this farm he was treated very well by the farmer. The farmer and Henry used to listen to the radio to catch up on what was  going on in the German government. One day he came inside from a long day at work and a German soldier was waiting in the living room for him. He was arrested because the government thought he was spreading news that wasn’t true.

            While he was in prison the conditions were very bad. There were about 15 people in one cell, they had to sleep on the floor side to side. The prisoners got a bowl of soup once every three days and were still expected to exercise with the little amount of energy that they had. From prison he went to a concentration camp. In the concentration camp he was used as an experiment for a new medication that the German had invented. He was one of the few that survived the study. Mr. Mikols thought he was in prison for life and would never see outside of the concentration camp. The day that he was actually left free he really didn’t have anywhere to go. He did express that he wanted the younger generation to know what really went on during the holocaust, and it was actually a very awful thing that he had to go through.

MLA & Plagerism 10-4

1. - it allows readers to cross-reference your sources easily
    - it provides consistent format within a discipline
    - it gives you creditability as a writer
    - protects yourself from plagiarism
2. By sourcing your research and material
3. If caught you can either fail the assignment or possibly be expelled from school.
4.It shows a complete list of of every source that you may reference in your paper, and it also provides the information necessary for the reader to locate and retrieve any sources cited in the paper.
5. - when you are quoting any words that aren't your own
    - when summarizing facts or ideas from a particular source
6. You should keep your references brief, don't repeat unnecessary information, and give only the information that will be needed to identify your Works Cited page.
7. No, you should use an abbreviated version of the title.
8. Plagiarism is unethical, it also mean a lost learning opportunity. Plagiarism diminishes your credibility and it may result in serious penalties.
9. Common historical facts, common physical or scientific facts, facts widely available in a variety of standard reference book, and information that is widely shared and found in numerous sources without reference to any source.
10. You will want to quote someone when the writer's words are especially vivid, memorable, or expressive, an expert's explanation is so clear and concise that a paraphrase would be confusing or wordy. You will want to emphasize the expertise or authority of your source, the words the source uses are important to the discussion.

A Film Unfinished Response

Chantelle Lamb

“A Film Unfinished”

            I definitely learned a lot from watching this movie.  It honestly seems unreal to me that it actually happened.  I really liked how the movie showed the propaganda because it shows that Hitler and the rest of the Nazi’s were really trying to hide what was really going on.  If the world only knew that people were actually starving and dying. I couldn’t even imagine having to live around 500,000 people in only a three mile radius; my neighborhood is about that size. I really wish they would have shown more about the living conditions inside their homes.  I know that it couldn’t be that well because of the over population.

            I also thought that it was really crazy how they were making the Jews dispose of the bodies. That would be so heart wrenching to dispose a body of someone that you loved and cared about dearly; I could never imagine. It’s crazy to think that every day they woke up they wondered if it was going to be their last. I couldn’t imagine living life like that. People now would want to live it up but in their conditions it would be very close to impossible.

  It makes me really thankful for the life that I live today.  I can’t even think about watching my family starving to death, or watch my family get abused. I love being free and being able to make my own decisions and the government can’t influence or tell me that I’m nothing because of my religion. People now don’t appreciate each and every day like we should because our life is nothing compared to that. Watching the movie really makes me regret the complaints I have made about material things because when it really comes down to it, that isn’t what should be important. This movie really had a positive impact on me as a person and my outlook on life.

free write - 10/2

i do not know why i am so tired today but i literally feel like the definition of the walking dead. thank goodness i had time to stop by the gas station to get coffee because i don't think i would make it through today without it. i need to start getting up and making my own pot of coffee because i have been spending way to much on it. sometimes i wish i didn't work so much because i really want to focus on school more, but i have to work because i have bills that are due and things i have to buy. braxen is crawling now and gets into everything! i honestly don't know what i am going to do when he starts walking, because i already don't trust him. i used to be able to just lay him on the floor with toys and he would  just sit there and play, but now that is not the case. he is obsessed with shoes, so that has been the thing to never leave on the floor becuase if they are on the floor then they will be in his mouth. he already has 4 teeth and weighs more than my best friends one year old and he is only eight months. the kid can't wear his size of clothes, everything that fits him is either 12 or 18 months. its so crazy how fast they grow because i feel like it was just yesterday that i had him. that is another reason why i wish i didn't work so much, i miss the times where i stayed home with him all day and just cat napped all day! he was super little then but i still miss it. somedays i want to have another one but when i actually think about it i really need to get through school first before that is ever going to be on my mind.