William Buehler Digital Portfolio
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Research Paper
William Buehler
Mr. Neuburger
Eng.101-104
April 8, 2013
Research Paper
Death Camps
The Holocaust is a grim reminder of what evil people can do to each other. They murdered millions of people, many of them were Jews. Others included Jehovah’s Witness, homosexuals, midgets, and political prisoners. One of the most gruesome things of the Holocaust was the death camps. There were six death camps in total. The Holocaust remains one of the worst genocides in the twentieth century.
One of the most notorious death camps that the Nazi’s had was Auschwitz-Birkenau according to jewishgen.com it was known as the Death Factory. There were also two other camps in the Auschwitz complex as well as many subs camps. There were seven gas chambers that used Zyklon-B poison gas to murder people. They had three Crematoriums running just about nonstop cremating bodies. (www.ushmm.org). From, my personal visit to Auschwitz the place just seemed completely evil. I saw the sign that said “work will make you free” this gave me a terrible feeling because I knew many people never left this gate alive. I couldn’t bring myself to go through. I had just gotten a terrible feeling and my head started to hurt has I walked up to the gate of Aushwitz.
One of the other horrific Nazi death camps was Chełmno and it was established in December 7th, 1941. It was set up in the town of Chelmno, about 50 miles away from Lodz which had a ghetto setup in it. The camp was very primitive they used the church in town to hold the people being sent to the gas chambers. The Nazis used three gas vans to carry out these brutal murders. The Nazis red directed the vans exhaust was redirected up in the van so that they would die of carbon monoxide. They were also lined with tin and air tight. They had wooden lattice on the floor so, that clean up would be quicker. The camp murdered around 150,000 people in all there are only 2 known survivors of the camp. (http://www.jewishgen.org) I never got to see Chelmno but my uncle a world traveler got to meet one of the survivors in Poland, while he was visiting the camp. The survivor was talking about his experience at the camp. He also talked about the process that the Nazis murdered the people at Chelmno. First they would put around fifty people in one of the Nazi gas vans and drive it to a hole that prisoners had been digging. Once the prisoners got to the large hole the dead bodies would be thrown in and filled in with a bulldozer. Sometimes the prisoners would even be alive when buried.
These two camps are just two of the horrific camps that were run during the holocaust. There were many brutal murders that happened everywhere in Europe and they need to be remembered so, history won’t repeat itself. Never forget what happened during the holocaust.
Works cited
Museum of Jewish Herriatage. Jewish Gen. ancestry.com , 2013. Web. 20 Apr. 2013. .
United States Holocaust Museum. United States Holocaust Museum. United States, 12 May 2011. Web. 20 Apr. 2013. .
Monday, April 1, 2013
free write 4/1/13
This weekend I went to Hot Springs Arkansas to visit family and celebrate Easter. We also ended up going to the horse track this wasn't a surprise considering my families gambling problems. I decided to only use 20 dollars the gamble with so I wouldn't waste too much money. I won two of the 10 races winning a total of 35 dollars. I ended up losing 5 dollars in the long run.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Descriptive Essay
William Buehler
Mr. Neuburger
February 28, 2013
English 101
Descriptive
Essay
Fishing
Trip
As
I walked slowly to the boat the air was crisp and salty. As I boarded the boat,
I was followed by my dad and my crazy uncle that was already drunk at ten in the morning. As soon as I had
gotten on the boat it smelled like rotting fish. I saw a one of the deckhands
cutting up squid very fast I felt very excited for some reason like it was my
first time ever fishing. There were several people other people slowly boarding
the boat, a few minutes later the captain got on the load speaker and said “All
aboard.” Then I head the Diesel engines fire up. It sounded very loud like jet
engine.
There
were many people abort the old salty boat. A family of four was there they were
very nice people all with blonde hair and blue eyes. There was also a couple a
man and women, the man had black greasy mullet and his wife was a rather large
lady that was smoking like a chimney. Most of the people on the other side of
the boats cabin were drunk college kids that were very disorderly. We all set
on a bench by the couple the lady was puffing on cigarettes like crazy it was
one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. The mullet guy was sitting
on the boats bench sleeping loudly as the boat was rocking back and forth.
There was a deck hand with really dark tan skin from the sun and being on the
boat all year. He slowly opened up can can of Spam. Then, he pulled out his
filet knife and began to cut the spam. He would cut it then the meat then
gently get it on his knife and eat it off the dirty blade. It honestly looked
like an accident ready to happen considering that most fillet knifes are razor
sharp or sharper.
The
deck hand quickly went from eating to getting the fishing poles ready like in a
instant. He then yelled to everyone to come inside and talk to the captain.
Everyone went inside the boats cabin very quickly to get out of the heat. As
everyone squeezed in the boat's cabin it was still cooler,than the deck most
likely because of air conditioning. The captain came in he was a old man
wearing a hat also very tan from the sun. The first words he said were “Would
anyone like to like to put five dollars in a pot for the biggest fish caught?”
Just about everyone but the kids put five dollars in the pot. After that
everyone but the captain when outside and quickly grabbed a grimy old fishing
pole. As I looked over my fishing pole I noticed that it was covered in blood
most like likely from a shark or just cleaning fish. I walked up to the spot I
would be fishing near the front of the boat. I look down to find a giant bucket
of bait it looked like squid and other random fish. I gently grabbed a piece of
smell squid and placed it on a razor sharp hook. Finally, I cast out and the
vigorous waiting began.
Soon
after I cast my line I felt a nibble'. I set the hook quicker than a second. I
began to reel it up, I reeled up for a few seconds but it felt like forever.
After I reeled it up to the top there was a red fish with sharp looking fins on
it and jagged teeth. The deckhand came over and told me it was a red snapper
also that they were good eating. Then I put it in a basket of ice for later so
hopefully, I would have a good dinner. As I looked over at my uncle was
struggling with a fish he had on but he finally got it up and it was a octopus.
Suddenly it shot ink all over the rail. The deckhand cut the line it just went
back into the water and swam off like a bat out of hell.
I caught several more fish my small ice bucket
was looking very full. Then all of the sudden I saw a fin in the water it was a
dolphin jumping out of the water. A few minutes later I noticed another fin
coming out of the water, but this fish wasn't jumping. Then it came
near were to the boat suddenly. It turned out to be a 3 foot lemon shark
and very shocking sight. The captain must have saw it because he came over the
boats loud speaker and said, “There will be no sharks on this boat.”
Immediately
after the captain came on, my dad said “I'm going to catch the shark.” Swiftly
my dad baited his hook and threw that bait right in front of the shark. Soon
after that the shark violently grabbed the bait and the reel started to
struggle and make a lot on noise. My dad then began to crank the reel quickly.
He had gotten the shark almost to the boat went the fun police showed up aka
the captain and he cut the line. This
was very disappointing considering my dad had always wanted to catch a shark.
This was quite the disappoint to my uncle because he was still drinking and
could hardly stand up.
Following
the shark insistent the smoking lady stated to scream and her fishing pole was
just about straight down. Then her husband and a deck hand came over to help
the mad women. I when back to fishing then after about five minutes she got the
fish in. It was a 40 pound brown grouper fish it didn't look happy at all and
it was thrashing all over the deck violently.
We
all put our fish in the giant cooler in the back of the boat and headed back to
the dock. My dad, uncle, and I all set down on the boats beat up bench till we
got back. After we got back the smoking lady got her pot money for the biggest
fish. I felt up set about not getting the biggest fish but that changed really
quick. This mainly because my awesome mom and brother showed up to congratulate
use on actually catching fish for once. Immediately, after that the deck hands
had filleted our fish and we all went back to our condo.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Anton Mason Summary
Anton
Mason
Summary
Anton
Mason was born Anton Msisner on April 21,1927. His farther Maximilian
was a Fur trader and his mother Sarah was stay at home mom. He
attended the same school Ad Elie Wiesel. The school he was going to
was taken over by a Catholic order in 1940. This put quotas on the
number of jewish students allowed at the school. However this did not
stop Anton form getting his education. He noticed in 1942 the the
Hungarian government pass the anti-Jewish laws. Misaximilian his
father lost his fur business because of this. The government also
confiscated all of the Jewish peoples radios including Anton’s
families radio as well. At the start of 1944 the Nazis occupied
Hungary. This made his living conditions terrible. They were forced
to wear a yellow star, obbey a curfew and were not even allowed to
travel anywhere at all.
In March
of 1944 he and this family was forced into a ghetto. This ghetto was
known as Te Sighet ghetto. This whole family was foced to leave their
home and move into a large room with eight other people. In May of
1944 the Ghetto was ended and everyone was sent to Aushwitz-Birkenau.
As soon as he got there his family was seperated and Anton's monther
and younger brother were taken to the gas chamber because the could
not work because the mom was too old and brother was too young. A few
days after that his dad and Anton were picked to be in forced labor
and transferred to Aushwitz I.
Him and
this father were later transferred to Auschwitz III-Monowitz then
they did more hard labor. Then they were sent on a death march in
1945 when the war was coming to the end. His farther died during the
march to Burchenwald. The camp was later liberated buy the United
States Army. He now lives in Florda with his wife Leslie.
Alfred Caro summary
Alfred
Caro
He was born in a
small village outside of Berlin and later moved to Berlin. Mainly
because the village was annexed into Poland. His father name was
Sally and he was a nice man a butcher he also owned a butcher stored.
His mothers name was Freida and she was a stay at home mom. He had
three brothers and three sisters. Alfred was very close with all of
this family. The Jewish community in Berlin was very active and
progressive. Their was a good relation between normal Berliners and
the Jewish people was good. While in public schools Alfred was one of
the only Jewish kids. He didn’t really have a favorite thing in
school but he liked school. Alfred was falsely accused as a political
opponent so he turned himself. Hoping his actions would help protects
his brothers form the Nazis. He was sent to Schsenhausen
concentration camp. He had to do hard labor in terrible conditions.
He saw the the arrival of more transports. Alfred also received
brutal treatment form the Nazis during his time in the camp.
After six weeks of
appealing to the police in Berlin his mother Freida some how appealed
for Alfred's release form the camp in July of 1938. A aid
organization helped Alfred get a visa to immigrate to France where he
lived in Paris. Till he was given permission to move to Colombia. The
ship he took was call the Cuba and it took 2 weeks for him to get
there. He had no money so he took a job in the gold mined in
Colombia. He worked in the mined till he had enough money to move
America and start up his own restaurant. The restaurant is called
Cora’s restaurant and is in Alabama.
Freewrite 3/25
This weekend I did many things but it all made a interesting weekend. I first off shoveled snow then I shoved more snow this wasn't very fun at all. I shoveled my neighbors , my aunts and my grandpa's driveway. I made 200 bucks some how doing this whole thing. With the 200 bucks I bought a tank of gas and I put the rest in my savings account.
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