:. The Fiddlier On The Roof

A man is playing a fiddle on a roof while another man narrates. He talks about the fiddlier and tradition and how he doesn't know how tradition starts. Story begins to show what every villager does as their own tradition. The narriator says without tradition our lifes would be as shakey as a fiddlier on a roof. Two women sit and talk about having the worst husband is better than having no husband. The older woman tries to match the other woman with a husband. Then everyone sings about the matchmaker. The man that was narriating earlier talks to god about poor people and his horse's lame foot and talks to a woman that tells him that he will be late for sabath then begins to sing about being a rich man. The man pulls the wagon by hand because of his horse's lame foot. The man and some other men talk then a man from out of town that goes to a university comes over and talks to them and agrues that the university man does not know what he is talking about then the group decides the man arguing and the university man are both right. The man that pulls the wagon agrees to feed university man for teaching his five daughters about the good book. He brings the man to his house and introduces him to his family and the wife that tells him that he will be late for sabath. The family then prepares for dinner for the sabath. One of the daughters friends who is a tailor wants to ask her father if he can marry her but panics and just says good sabath. The wife tells her husband that a man wants to talk to him after sabath and he finally agrees then they sing about the sabath. The man goes to talk to the man his wife wanted him to. The man is asking the husband about wanting one of his daughters because he is lonely and the husband thinks that he wants to buy a cow at first. He promises to be good Then the husband thinks to himself if he should let him have her then decides that he is a good man and can have her then they sing about drinking to life. While they are singing they make their way to the bar and they all sing and dance to life and the man about to have a wife. The father of the daughter gets news of an upcoming demonstration then dances away with the fiddlier. The university man dances with the fathers oldest daughter who people do in the city after he teaches the others and then the daughter leaves. The father gives the daughter the news that she will be married. She is not very happy about it and neither is the university man but the father and mother are happy about it. The father asks his daughter whats wrong and she says she doesn't want to marry him so she begs him not to force her to marry him and he agrees. The tailor asks the father if he can marry his daughter and the father thinks he is out of his mind and the tailor and the daughter said they pledged to marry one another and then they sing about it. The father thinks about all the possiblities with them to himself and thinks about tradition. Then decides to let them marry. He then remembers that he already told the butcher that he could marry his daughter. The tailor sings about how happy he is.

:. Non verbal communication

Mr. Bean rushes to school. Him and the man sitting beside him pull pencils out of their pockets. The man tries to out do Mr. Bean by pulling more pencils than him out, then Mr. Bean pulls more pencils than him and also other things. Mr. Bean opens his test and is very confused and does not know what to do while the man beside him works. Mr. Bean tries to cheat of the man, but the man throws away his work and starts a new paper so Mr. Bean tries to cheat again. He continues to try to cheat by blowing the mans paper, grabbing the paper, and throwing his pen down and going around the desk. He gives up. Then when the end of the time for the test comes around, he realises he had been doing the wrong test and hurries to do it but time is up. He goes somewhere to try to tan and tries to change next to another guy and struggles to change so he doesn't see but then finds out that the man is blind. He goes to church. He looks round bored and starts to snezze then snezzes and makes a scene about it. He can not sit still and listen. He falls asleep and wakes up in shock and does it again except he falls in the floor this time. He tries to open candy without disterbing people around him but finds a way to. He proceeds to sing with the people of the church and distracts people as normal. He listens to a man play his instrument on a street and dances with him then takes money a person throws down for them. He walks into a store after looking at a credit card and goes in to shop but is choked up by the smells of the store and goes on to a different department. He tries out a tooth brush in the store then puts it in his basket with a towel he used in the store. He proceeds to keep testing items out around the store. He goes to a fancy resturant tastes the wine then doesn't get more because he says he has to drive. He taps on all the glasses with his silverware. His food comes and he doesnt like it but he acts like he does when the waiters come around but when they go away he hides the food in things on the table and under plates and in bread. He trips a waiter then gets moved tables but still gets served the same raw steak. He is dressed up in a room of other people dressed up waiting for something and a man checks his breath so Mr. Bean thinks he should to and goes to alot of trouble to make sure his smells good then starts messing with his teeth and pulls a thread out of a womens dress to flaws his teeth. He sees that a man has things he doesnt have so he makes it so he does while making a fool of himself. He gets his hand stuck in his fly when the person everyone was waiting on shows up so he head buts her. He goes to a pool and tries to go down the little kid slide when a lifeguard whistles at him to stop, so he runs away and sees the diving board. He climbs to the highest part and gets scared and wont jump so he lays down and crawls to the edge. Kids come up behind him so he tries to force himself to jump. He is still scared and crawls around the board and inches off until he is hanging by his arms. The lifeguard sees him and the kid steps on his hands so he falls off into the water, he loses his shorts in the water and a girl grabs them and runs away. The lifeguard says for everyone to get out of the pull so Mr. Bean stays in because he has no shorts. He gets out then a crowd of girls walks in and everyone runs away. He cant get out of the parking garage so he waits til someone opens the gate and then drives at them fast so they back up after the gate comes up. He goes to a park and sits beside a man on a bench. The man is eating a small sandwich so Mr. Bean pulls out a loaf of bread and cuts it into pieces with scissors. He washes the lettus for the bread in a water fountain then dries it in his sock. He crushes pepper for his sandwich by smashing it with his shoe and makes tea with milk and sneezes and spills it everywhere. He goes to the movies and sits next to a girl and messes with her the whole time scaring her. Then tries to leave because he is to scared and throws his popcorn everywhere til its all gone then puts the bag over his head and when itts over he grabs the girls hand but her and isnt in her sleeve so he screams and he screams.

:. School Uniforms

Many people feel unsafe and worried about violence at their schools because of concealed weapons and other things relating to what a person has with or on them. School uniforms would help prevent violence, help discipline, and students would not have to worry about who has the best or nicest clothes. Many people associate groups by what other people wear and by having everyone wear the same thing would eliminate associating one to another by what one wears.

:. Banning iPods

Schools across America are banning media players in hopes to prevent cheating. Mountain View employed that band after officials realized formulas were being downloaded on to Ipods by students. Banning of items to prevent cheating is not foreign territory for schools but as technology advances, it has become increasingly harder for achaic officials to keep up. This artical calls into question major dilemma in the molding of young minds: whether rules and restrictions guide teens away from bad choices or if simply teaching them integrity gives them the tools needed to make good ones.

My opinion about this ban of iPods is that they should just be used during school at the appropriate times. During test or while a teacher is talking a student should not be using the media device. If a student is doing his or her homework or a project during class or if nothing is going on at that time, the student should be allowed to listen to his or her iPod. Therefore, iPods should only be in use during school in moderation, not completely banned.

The Duel

The Movie starts out filming from the front of the car then films the man driving through the desert where he then passes a big truck then the truck suddenly passes him. The man then proceeds to pass the truck again and the truck honks. He pulls up to a gas station, and the truck also comes to the same gas station. The man gets gas and the other man gets impatiant and honks while the service man fills the mans car and gives the man change for the phone. The man calls home to check on his family and apologizes to his wife for not standing up for her at a party when another man is all over Then the truck disapears for a few minutes then charges after the man. The truck stays close behind going fast and the man goes faster losing some control. The truck rams the car repeatedly. The car runs off road and hits a fence but the man is ok and the truck kept going. He goes to the bathroom and thinks everythings going to be alright now then he sees the truck outside. He sits and thinks which person at the bar would be the one that drove the truck as the waitress takes his order. The man starts to accuse one of the men at the diner of trying to kill him and it was not the man. He gets beat up. He sees the truck drive off and runs after it then stops and goes back to his car. He comes apon a school bus thats stuck and tries to help but also gets stuck. Then the truck approches the man. The man and bus driver get his car unstuck then the truck helps the school bus. The man stops for railroad tracks then the truck gets behind the car and tries to push him into the train. Train passes then man runs off road and truck driver speeds off. The man starts to drive again and a van passes him. He gets behind the truck again. He turns at a gas station and the truck stops to wait on him. David Mann ( the man) tries to call police from telephone booth when the truck runs it over with David bearly escaping. The truck proceeds to destroy everything at the gas station. Then David leaves quickly. Then runs off the road to hide down a hill from the truck. The truck passes. The man falls asleep in his car. A train passes after a while and he wakes up in shock and drives off after gaining composure again. The man sees the truck and stops and anotther car passes him. He starts going and the truck pulls onto road so he can not pass so he goes the other direction and stops gets out and walks towards the truck. The truck drives forward then stops as the man stops running. Another car approches, David tries to ask for help but the truck runs the other car off. Then the truck waves David past and he floors it and the truck follows. They then go onto a closed road. After driving up a mountain his radiator hose breaks and his car overheats but continues to keep going. He gets to top of hill and puts car in neutral on the way down.

:. World Disasters.

Earthquake- In Chile, killed more than 700 people. Troops and police cracking down on looters, arrested dozens of people for violating a curfew. Coastal towns were almost completely destroyed because of earthquake with soon after tsunami.

Global Warming- It is hard to convince people that global warming is an issue with all the snow lately. Short term climate changes such as the snow storms in the eastern U.S this winter are not the same thing as Long term climate changes.

European Storm- France hit hardest. Storm killed at least 62 people across coast of western Europe. Left one million homes without electricity. Storm also battered Belgium, Portugal, Spain, and parts of Germany and stalled train and air travel throughout the continent.

All of these storys are about the world's problems. Disasters effect world trade and other business and global warming is always something that effects everyone and everyone should try to do things to help prevent it.

I think that the most important of all of these stories is global warming. Because even though you can not drastically see the effects now, later on in life other people will and might effect them harmfully. People should take it into much more consideration than they do right now.

Night book review

Elie Wiesel‘s book Night haunted me with its story of Elie surviving the Holocaust. I believe that every person should take the time to read this book.

The theme of this book could be never give up. Elie was close to breaking down through the hardships he endured while in the concentration camps, but never gave up and died with millions of others. The author’s style is strait forward and easy to read. It made me feel as though I was actually with him in the camps. It is very unique because of the fact that it had really happened.

Main Characters in Night include mostly just Elie and his father. Elie and his father are separated from their family when they arrive at the first camp. They meet many others that they get separated from such as one of their family members they did not usually see otherwise.

The setting for the most part is with in concentration camps in Europe during the Holocaust. Nazis slaughter Jews in the death camps that they pass on the way to the camp that Elie and his father go to. Living conditions were poor. People die from starvation because of the lack of food. They live in close spaces with no sanitation. The plot is a great one because when Elie makes you think it’s about to be over it is not. The book is not long but he draws out the ending.

I would recommend this novel to anyone who would like to learn about the Holocaust. The novel will help anyone have a better understanding of what actually happened to people during this terrible time. It was a good book.