roman’s blog

First they came for the Jews.
I was silent.
I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists.
I was silent.
I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists.
I was silent.
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me.
There was no one left to speak for me.
–Martin Niemoller (1892-1984)
 RiddleFrom Belsen a crate of gold [...]

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I chose to do three different poems by two different authors all pertaining to the Holocaust. The first two are by William Heyen an American poet, editor, and literary critic. The first poem is titled, “The Hair: The Jacob korman’s story.” It’s a personal account of Jacob Korman who arrives in a Jewish town called, “Rembertow” [...]

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The obvious recurring image is fire, which is either burning alone or on a book. The images of fire along with figures of firemen connect the two together. The fire fighters burn books in this book and here they are shown as either dark mysterious bad guys or some kid of sub human looking freaks. [...]

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When it comes to procrastinating few people are as gifted as I am. I’m not particularly proud but I can say I’ve become quite good at doing it successfully. In my opinion, effective procrastination is very much like a cycle because it has key elements that need to fall into place for the process to [...]

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2. The humans are depicted as evil scientists toying with human genome technology.
4. The parallelism is evident when the scientists toying with a vegetable to when they are  seen messing with a human, which goes to say that this might happen if we continue to genetically manipulate our food. 
5. I interpreted the last phrase to be a sort of [...]

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The points of Holland’s argument is that Nap’s are good and it is better to be,  “comfortable,” while doing ones work then not having a clear head and trying to be productive. She also goes to say that American’s don’t take naps because they are afraid to indulge in such good things. Her argument can [...]

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