descriptive essay-quang vu

Quang Vu

ENG 101-104

Mr. Neuburger

March 1, 2013

Descriptive Essay

“The Trip to the Countryside”

On a vacation to my mother’s country when I was twelve years old, it was my first time to go the country. I had never seen a real river with the trees or grasslands on two sides of the river. It was so dreamlike that I want to live there to look at that every day of my life. On one side of the river, it was my grandparent’s garden. The smell of the garden was brought by the wind; the whistle was caused by the wind and the grasses on the other side of the river, and the voices of the birds were so amazing.

The smell of the summer made all the grasses fresher and wealthier. The wind blew a little bit that made all the trees and grasses like dancing in the rhythm of it lyric. Standing in the middle of the garden made me felt like I was a part of our nature. The sun lighted the river, and the river becomes brighter like a diamond with the sparkles waves. The wind also flew away the hot of the summer and brought the water vapor from the river to everyone in town. Every time when I felt tired, I would take the hammock to the garden and set it next to the river to take a little nap, so it would relax my body and made me feel comfortable.

In the afternoon, setting on a pear tree and looking to the river, it was a quite surface of the river. Some waves started appearing when the wind blew up. If the wind stronger the waves would move heavier. There was a big farmland of my uncle in the other side. He doesn’t do anything for his land, so the only grasses grew up and took over his land. Combining the sound of the winds with the tall grasses over the river, the whistle sometimes was made. It started then stopped, started the stopped like a song was playing in an old reader, and it reduced the beautiful and lovely of the song. I grabbed the pear that was in my arm reach tried to reach a star-fruit on the next tree. Looing all around the garden, it still had mango, jack fruit, coconut tree, melon-tree, guava tree and custard apple tree. It didn’t have my favorite fruit which is the durian, but there still was the papaya. After finishing the pear and the star-fruit, I look a high chair to stand on under the coconut. I was tried to get one coconut down and cutting the head of the coconut off, I put the straw in and drink it. It cooled my body down after staying under the sun for a whole afternoon. Climbing on the tallest tree in the garden which was the mango tree to watch the sunset, it was so amazing that the sky changing in color. It turned from blue into yellow then orange to darker and darker and black finally. Night time took over the garden, and all the tree looked like they were tired after spending all day to play with me. They started to sleep to be ready for the next active day.

            Early in the morning, there were so many birds that they competed with their voices. They sang too loud that would wake everyone up to start a new day. I woke up and ran to the garden to see how it looks in the morning. It was so wonderful! A cool air breathed next to my whole body got more strength to have fun for all day long. I grabbed a finish rod and dug to get more worms to go fishing. I sat next to the bridge that connected to my uncle’s land and started put the worm into the hook. The time went so fast that I didn’t recognize. Suddenly, three hours were passed and I got several catfishes and ready to bring the fish back to my grandparents to make for lunch.

            I only spend three days weekends in my country, and I haven’t been there later. But the senses of my country always stayed in my mind. It starts from my eyes, my ears, my noses, and my taste through my skin. I had been sticking to my body for long time. And I never forget it, it was a great trip that I had in my memory. I hope one day in future I’ll be there to experience my mother hometown the second time. 

Free Writing 3/25/2013

it's surprise me when i woke up this morning with a few snowflake still falling. Since i had been here i never been through the spring with snow. from what i remember the winter should end at the beginning of March. but this year was different, it made me felt we still in winter season.

a fim unfinished-quang vu

As i watch the movie was show where a ton of cameramen are sent to film scenes of day to-day life and horrific moments of depression and death. Jewish people were kicked out of their homes, mistreated and even killed, but no one should have to live a life such as this. Hersonski comprises interviews in this film with five survivors of the ghetto, who talk about what is captured on film and their lives under the Nazis. A female survivor being interviewed states, Jewish families weren’t aloud to live in more than one room. One room to a whole family is not right and no family should have to obey by these guidelines that the Nazis set out. The Nazis invade Poland and start rounding up Jews. They send them to ghettos in Poland. There are about many people in the ghetto of Warsaw.
at the Wan see Conference, the Nazis decide the final solution to the Jewish question. They decided to kill all of the Jewish people regardless the age or gender. For most Jews, this is the last time they will see their mother, father, or siblings. The Nazis killed thousands of Jews a day creating new techniques and killing methods to eliminate these Jews more rapidly. One technique is to take several Jews out in a mobile gas van and just wait for them to die from the gas. These vans are also known as hell vans. Adolf Hitler want to kill all Jew without any food and drink. This man and his sadistic secret diary believe that all Jews should be annihilated and people are following his orders. This period of time is very tragic and devastating. They had corpses laid out on the sidewalks. Jews were told to walk past them with their chins held high.The Jewish people never deserved to have gone through this gruesome punishment and mistreatment.

henry laurant

Henry Laurant was born on May 28, 1924 in Koenigsberg, province of East Russia. Henry had two children, Alexander and Nicholas. Father is Walter Levy, mother is Irna Levy- Barant,and sister is Analise who is 2 yrs older, born July 1922. he grew up in an apartment around a lake and his father is a doctor and had his own medical practice. who he described as an intellectual. Although Henry had some memories of his childhood of discrimination and anti-Semitism, At school the discrimination and violence worsened. He recalled fending off attacks from Hitler Youth and being subjected to a barrage of antisemitic classroom lessons. therefore he turned to strengthen to his Jewish identity. As the result, he developed his sense of identity and religious traditions through family friends

 After Kristallnacht, he was temporary separation with his parent to go to England and in contact with them weekly but after the war began, their messages via the Red Cross were less frequent and more guarded.

In 1943, Henry’s parents went into hiding for several months before being caught trying to illegally cross the Swiss border. Although Henry sensed the worst had happened, he did not know until many years later that his sister was murdered in Riga and that his parents perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

After being turned down by the British Army, over the next three years Henry performed war agricultural work while attending evening classes to obtain his high school certificate. later he was accepted into the U.S. Intelligence Corps and sent to Germany.

quotes :

“Religion would be a part of one's identify"

“He recalled fending off attacks from Hitler Youth and being subjected to a barrage of antisemitic classroom lessons".

Edith Coliver

Edith Coliver was born in Karlsuhe, Germany in July of 1922. Edith was originally born Edith Simon and her parents’ names were Fritz and Hedwigg. She had two younger brothers named Ernest and Harold. Coliver’s family were a typical Jewish family, although Coliver’s mother was orthodox Jewish and the rest of the family was reformed.

 In 1933, when Edith was ten, Hitler officially took over Germany. This caused a lot of changes in daily life for Edith and when Edith was a teenager she was not allowed to go to school anymore because of her Jewish heritage. Her family was moved  to the United States to New York where Coliver witnessed a demonstration of American protest against Hitler and the Communist movement. After New York her family settled down in San Francisco where Coliver attended high school and went to colleges. The reason Edith survived was because her family was able to get out of Europe to the United States before the killing started. Her consequence of surviving was to come back and participate in the trials held for the Germans. It was not easy for her, however, she felt it was necessary. Despite these challenges Edith developed a great career in translating and diplomacy for the United Nations. The next major event in Edith’s life was she wanted to be a part of the Nuremberg Trials. She was hired as a translator and was immediately sent to Europe. There she encountered many of the top German officials in Hitler’s regime. She also visited the displaced person’s camps. later she got married and had two kids.

quotes:

"i want to be part of the Nuremberg Trails”

"Hitler came to power and all of the boycots against Jewish businesses.''

free writing 3/4/2013

ast night i was sleep late at 1:00 because i need to done many homework and be prepare for my test on Tuesday. i was spend about two hours to figured out how to do the math problem. it took all my power, but finally i was finish it. even that i am not be prepare for my final yet. but i will try study tonight to get a better grade than the first test.