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"Matilda Bone", a historical-fiction novel written by Karen Cushman, which consists of a young orphan girl named Matilda. Matilda is someone who passed all of her life in a religious manor and was then transferred to a filthy town,("...could you please come back for me soon?"p41 "i must get word to Father Leufredus. Could you keep this letter for me and send it next time you meet someone going to London?"P 42) that has lack of hygiene, no rights for peasants, but that does have knowledge about health. "Matilda Bone" contains the feelings of loneliness, love and happiness. This book shows these three moods by describing Matilda as a young, selfish, frozen-hearted, lonely girl("Never had she fell so alone"P40). From that moment Matilda began to accept her moving in to Blood and Bone Alley and began opening her heart("No. I think the miracle was the skill of Margery and Peg and your kind heart"P121). Realizing that Blood and Bone Alley was not so bad after all. Matilda grew happier and more caring, making all of that loneliness and selfishness disappear away from sight ("Late for what she could not say, but nevertheless she hurried..."P159)

McCurry

Steve McCurry was a really famous photographer, born in Philadelphia in 1950, graduated cum laude from the College of Arts. McCurry themes are to take pictures of human struggle and joy and he is exceptionally good at capturing these themes. I found that he uses a color that relates to the picture, when I say that I mean that you can capture, what he wants you to feel in the picture like if the theme of the picture is sadness he will play with the colors and make it look like the appropriate theme. Steve McCurry’s favorite subjects were usually taking pictures of war, dead people and little boys playing around and having fun. “People will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view." I find this quote of McCurry’s really powerful and amazing because it’s stating that if you’re patient enough, people will eventually forget that you’re standing there with you camera and they will go back to their daily routine and then when you take the picture it will be natural like a normal day, in the picture.

The reason I chose this picture is, because it shows how difficult life is for that child, it makes me feel sad, but, it also makes me feel grateful for what I have. Since the focus is mainly on the boy you can tell that the destruction and wars of the city have affected this boy. Its hurt this boy physically, emotionally and mentally, because he can no longer walk or do anything by himself. It also shows me that the place he is living in shouldn’t be that way, children are supposed to live in a safe community, environment, but with the wars and damage in this city, I don’t think this boy is safe in there or has adequate facility to be taken well care of.

Kabul, Afghanistan, 1992

Web Quest

Liberation of nazi camps:

What were the prisoners suffering from?(2 points)

Who were the soviets?(3 points)

What happened when the nazi liberated the people in the nazi camps?(5 points)

When did the Soviets liberate Auchwitz?(2 points)

Nazi camps:

What were the nazi camps used for?

(In nazi camp go down until you see a picture of a women, at the left of the women there is something saying "Personal stories" click on that)

What happens in the story? (4 points)

(Go, back to the page you were before & go at the top of the page and were there is the picture click on the right were it says "see more photographs" click on the 2nd picture at the left of the website)

what does this picture make you feel? (5 points)

What is it that makes you feel this way? (2 points)

Does the description look like the photo?(1 point)

(Go to the page you were on before that said nazi camps.)

About how many people were abused? (1points)

Get Closer and you will Never Forgive Yourself

In the Greek myth, "Pandora" and African myth "Orphan boy" there is curiosity and i think the main idea is "How curiosity changes the life's of people, and how it can ruin your life". Since there are two bad things in these two myths, they realize that they didn't want to know but just couldn't help themselves to it. In the Greek myth "Pandora" there is a magical box that was told to never get opened, first it was fine but then Pandora got curios and as the curiosity got larger it blinded her and didn't leasen to Zeus so chaos came to earth. In the African myth "Orphan boy" there was magic and love but then as the old man finds out the secret the magic is over, hes lonely and sad.

Summary paragraph- creation myth

Phan ku was the story of a monster, who came out of nothing (an egg) he created a world, since he was big and strong Phan ku swung his chisel to cut the earth from the sky. He created Sea from his blood and the thunder was his voice, Phan ku wasn't a scary monster that was going to kill you he had a meaning in life and that meaning was to create the world for the humans. When Phan ku died, the world was finally complete he made humans from the fly's surrounding him grass from his hair and water from his blood.

Creation myths- how are they alike?

Many Myths are reasons to why things happened, how we were created and how was the world created. They change as they go on, every time they will get stronger, crazier, wiser and sometimes they get fake. Every religion has different myths, but many of them are the same, and that is what bind every culture together. The two myths that are a lot alike are " The woman who came from the sky" and "Turtle dives into the bottom of the sea", they are alike because their meanings are the same.


What i mean when i say they are alike, i dont mean that their totally the same but, they both have the same places and they both are about gods and most of all their both about the creation of the world and how he became to be. Their are both the same story but in two different ways and religion. If i had to say what some of the same related stuff in this two myths are i would say, that they are both in water and they got the earth from the same place and they practically created the world the same way, but they are different because their cultures crated them different and they are both from different cultures.

My name

I've always hated my name and i've actually figured out why, i think its probably because i got teased by it by my brothers. Since my name is Beatriz my brothers made a nickname for me, they said it was the best nickname in the world so i agreed, and since then my brothers have been calling me ugly betty.

In someways i do like my name, beacuse its pretty easy to remember and i can laugh at the people who cant write my name well. My name means the blessed traveller, and it come from italy. There are many reasons why i like my name, since its my grandmas name it makes it as though, my grandma is stading right nect to me. Every time start thinking about my name i fee; as though my grandma is trying to send me a message, that is not getting through. I really love my grandma, even though I've not seen her since two years ago, she lives in th eother side of th eworld so its really hard to talk or visit her. My name is very especiall to me even though i dont act like it is, but that is just a mask trying to cover the truth, from the real world.