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visionshadows) wrote2002-02-14 02:07 pm
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Okay. So I've now showered and shaved, which naturally led to me washing my hair in record time because there was no hot water left once I'd finished shaving. I really am not that hairy; I just don't shave very often so it takes awhile to make sure I don't miss anything.
Wow. TMI much?
I've also put up laundry, read almost a whole chapter in Women in Politics, and watered all 8 million plants in the house.
I need to go get my nails put back on, my eyebrows waxed, buy stockings and shoes for tomorrow night. See. This is why I don't go to clubs. I hate having to prepare.
Anna! You remember the club we went to before we hit Clancy's the night we went out with Chris, Brielle, and Waryne? Yeah. That's where we're going. *snorts* The people I work with have bad taste in outings.
::giggles as she remembers drunk!Anna::
Good times.
For anyone who might be bored (or who might want to critique this) here's my speech in a nice, handy cut-away.
This is just our intro speech where we talk a little about ourselves and introduce our topic. Wee. Exciting.
Good morning, ladies and gentleman.
My name is Rachel Lewis and I’m here to talk about my topic for the rest of the course. But first I’m going to tell you a little about myself.
I’m 22 years old and currently a first semester junior at Rowan. This is my fourth college in five years and hopefully it will be my last. I started off as a biological sciences major at Rutgers University in 1997. After a few weeks there, I decided that I wasn’t ready for college at that time and left. I worked fulltime after that at a family owned hardware store in Deptford called Grove Hardware. By next fall, 1998, I was back in school at Gloucester County College just so I could get back into the swing of school. I transferred to Drexel University the next year and finally quit my job. I was a biological sciences major at Drexel as well and soon discovered that the realities of a 10 week semester are a lot different than what I anticipated. I found out that I wasn’t cut out for a school where learning is put aside for memorization and regurgitating the facts for a test so they can be forgotten by the next semester. This past fall, 2001, I decided that I’d had enough and transferred to Rowan, this time as an English major. So far, I’ve had a better experience in a month at Rowan then I had in two years at Drexel. I’m hoping that it continues to be that way.
A major part of my life, which I’ve denied for a long time, is my religion. I am Jewish and almost without meaning to, I’ve regained much of that identity in the past year. I spent most of my childhood and teenage years pretending I wasn’t because of the neighborhood I lived in. It was a primarily white, Catholic neighborhood that didn’t take well to outsiders. The town over even has an active Klu Klux Klan. The first week we lived there, we had a mezuzah on our doorway, which is a Jewish tradition. It’s a small case which contains a parchment with two paragraphs from the Torah inscribed on it. It is hung in the doorway of homes. Our mezuzah was noticed by our neighbors and one morning, I came outside to the site of my father scrubbing away a Nazi symbol and various curse words from our sidewalk. The mezuzah came down after that.
What really made me regain my Jewish heritage was a course I took this past fall on the Holocaust. I learned more of the strength of my people and the hardships we’ve endured over the centuries, not just those 12 years when Hitler was in power. Because of this course, and the continued interest I have in the subject, I’ve chosen my topic as the Holocaust. The major reason for this choice is so I can explore it further and hopefully teach others along the way. I also want to clear up a lot of the myths that are held by people about the Holocaust.
One of the major areas I want to look at in one of the speeches are the resistance acts that occurred throughout the Holocaust that people just aren’t aware of. The acts of resistance during the Holocaust fall into two categories, physical and spiritual. These acts are numerous and are often overlooked because most people do not consider spiritual resistance to be actual resistance.
I would also like to look at another area of the Holocaust which is the forgotten victims. Everyone hears about the Jewish victims and the atrocious 6 million people killed statistic. However, the millions of Romany victims, gay victims, and political victims are often forgotten. For example, the number of gay men killed in the Holocaust is only recorded at approximately 50,000 but the real number of victims is more like hundreds of thousands.
I hope with these speeches that I can explore the topic and enlighten others about parts of the Holocaust people are not taught about.
Thank you very much and have a good day.
Wow. TMI much?
I've also put up laundry, read almost a whole chapter in Women in Politics, and watered all 8 million plants in the house.
I need to go get my nails put back on, my eyebrows waxed, buy stockings and shoes for tomorrow night. See. This is why I don't go to clubs. I hate having to prepare.
Anna! You remember the club we went to before we hit Clancy's the night we went out with Chris, Brielle, and Waryne? Yeah. That's where we're going. *snorts* The people I work with have bad taste in outings.
::giggles as she remembers drunk!Anna::
Good times.
For anyone who might be bored (or who might want to critique this) here's my speech in a nice, handy cut-away.
This is just our intro speech where we talk a little about ourselves and introduce our topic. Wee. Exciting.
Good morning, ladies and gentleman.
My name is Rachel Lewis and I’m here to talk about my topic for the rest of the course. But first I’m going to tell you a little about myself.
I’m 22 years old and currently a first semester junior at Rowan. This is my fourth college in five years and hopefully it will be my last. I started off as a biological sciences major at Rutgers University in 1997. After a few weeks there, I decided that I wasn’t ready for college at that time and left. I worked fulltime after that at a family owned hardware store in Deptford called Grove Hardware. By next fall, 1998, I was back in school at Gloucester County College just so I could get back into the swing of school. I transferred to Drexel University the next year and finally quit my job. I was a biological sciences major at Drexel as well and soon discovered that the realities of a 10 week semester are a lot different than what I anticipated. I found out that I wasn’t cut out for a school where learning is put aside for memorization and regurgitating the facts for a test so they can be forgotten by the next semester. This past fall, 2001, I decided that I’d had enough and transferred to Rowan, this time as an English major. So far, I’ve had a better experience in a month at Rowan then I had in two years at Drexel. I’m hoping that it continues to be that way.
A major part of my life, which I’ve denied for a long time, is my religion. I am Jewish and almost without meaning to, I’ve regained much of that identity in the past year. I spent most of my childhood and teenage years pretending I wasn’t because of the neighborhood I lived in. It was a primarily white, Catholic neighborhood that didn’t take well to outsiders. The town over even has an active Klu Klux Klan. The first week we lived there, we had a mezuzah on our doorway, which is a Jewish tradition. It’s a small case which contains a parchment with two paragraphs from the Torah inscribed on it. It is hung in the doorway of homes. Our mezuzah was noticed by our neighbors and one morning, I came outside to the site of my father scrubbing away a Nazi symbol and various curse words from our sidewalk. The mezuzah came down after that.
What really made me regain my Jewish heritage was a course I took this past fall on the Holocaust. I learned more of the strength of my people and the hardships we’ve endured over the centuries, not just those 12 years when Hitler was in power. Because of this course, and the continued interest I have in the subject, I’ve chosen my topic as the Holocaust. The major reason for this choice is so I can explore it further and hopefully teach others along the way. I also want to clear up a lot of the myths that are held by people about the Holocaust.
One of the major areas I want to look at in one of the speeches are the resistance acts that occurred throughout the Holocaust that people just aren’t aware of. The acts of resistance during the Holocaust fall into two categories, physical and spiritual. These acts are numerous and are often overlooked because most people do not consider spiritual resistance to be actual resistance.
I would also like to look at another area of the Holocaust which is the forgotten victims. Everyone hears about the Jewish victims and the atrocious 6 million people killed statistic. However, the millions of Romany victims, gay victims, and political victims are often forgotten. For example, the number of gay men killed in the Holocaust is only recorded at approximately 50,000 but the real number of victims is more like hundreds of thousands.
I hope with these speeches that I can explore the topic and enlighten others about parts of the Holocaust people are not taught about.
Thank you very much and have a good day.
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Drunk!Anna is something everyone should experience. I seem to recall some groping and/or fondling? Hee hee.
Nice speech, babycakes. [claps!] Have a latke. ;)
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And there was groping/fondling that night because drunk!Anna turns into cuddly!Anna who needs to be led around and hugged a lot. ::grins::
We should try and experience drunk!Anna next weekend.
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and we're so going to get everyone nice and cuddly next weekend. hee.
[grab]
Critcal Analysis
I can't stress the importance of transitions between thoughts. The biggest change of transition in your speech happens when you change subjects from school experience to your topic for your main project.
There's should be some type of transition here indicating that your changing the subject.
It's good to relate the two topics some how, and you can (!!), because you took a Holocaust class at Drexel.
So you can say something like: "I may have had a bad experience with Drexel's academic philosophy, short semesters and administration, but I did get something from the school, even if it was from one class I took there ? that wasn't even in my major.
Holocaust 101 [I don't know the name.] After learning more about the Holocaust in Germany, I developed a stronger respect for my family's roots and Jewish heritage.
Something like that...