ideo games don’t need to be violent in order to be successful

It is an everlasting debate (more like 20 years), since the 1990s video games have gotten noticeably more violent and gory. Politicians, parents, and gamers argue the effects that they are having on youth, however there may a more simple approach to all of this. Have we ever really considered the possibility of going without the violence? Games without slaying and pillaging? I am writing this article to provoke the idea of these games without violence taking over.

Who doesn’t love a good shooter game, it gets all of that adrenalin going through your body, and real life can just be so slow. Ya, that’s nice when your 10, but oddly enough a good section of the video game market is women, of course the video game companies never consider them and cater to a younger male audience. Women often find these games offensive or just too gory when they want to play games. And so ya, because of how much of the market they represent I think that the companies would do much better without the violence.

If we took it to an extreme and completely eliminated these games non-violent games would emerge, taking over. Still games like Sims or Pong (I know it’s old but there are a lot like it) are very popular and cater to all audiences (not just what some guy thinks they are). Make me a game with no violence, a good story, good graphics and good handling I’ll buy it. But no big companies really go to complete the mission. Some companies will have a non violent, good game but then they’ll come out with some absurd murderous game. If the creators of some of the major games really just stopped they could focus on how to make games that have a good message and a good plot.

Since video games began to get more and more violent starting in the 1990s the sales have spiked by billions in revenue. Then again maybe there are many, many different ideas that could sell that haven’t been thought of yet. There are over 11 countries with sales at or over 1 billion dollars, if that doesn’t make you quiver maybe this will, 1 billion is 1000 million, 10000 hundred thousands, 100000 ten thousands, 1000000 thousands, 10000000 hundreds, and the number itself is 1 000 000 000  and that’s at least. 

There are a lot of violent video games that are very unpopular, some include: lone soldier, clay fighter, and rise of the robots. Just because you stick some violence in there doesn’t make a good game. And losing a tiny fraction of the market to gaining about a third more customers isn’t such a bad trade off when it’s on this level. In conclusion I’d like to say that video game companies could definitely survive without the violence and still get a very high revenue.

Work cited

Staff, videogamer Top 10: Most horrifically bad video games.  2007   may 3 2011 videogamer.com/features/articles/01-11-2007-180.html     

Ford, Allison Gaming Without Gore: Four Non-Violent Video Games. 2006-11 may 2 2011 http://www.divinecaroline.com/22316/72078-gaming-gore-four-non-violent-video

wikia video game industry. 2008 may 2 2011                                                               http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_industry

reading response

title:We need to talk about what we shouldn't do
author: Mr. Tucker
genre: response
URL: http://tuckerteacher.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/we-need-to-talk-about-what-we-shouldnt-do/


This post was created in a sudden response to 2 twitter posts, one of those by our old friend Mr. Lee. They both stated that we should be focusing on the positive points of using social media tools like twitter for learning. Mr. Tucker However was not so positive with this. He immediately responded saying that instead we should preserve the 5 year old brains of children, not letting them be exposed to anything other than bunnies. This person's point is that they ended up doing poorly in using these tools due to unpreparedness.   Now that he has decided to give up at the beginning stages of his quest, he is discouraging the use of a great tool for learning to other educators who could make something of it.


I found this post while trolling through Mr. Lee's blog, the spicy learning blog and have spent a good portion of my weekend debating this topic with Mr. Tucker via his blog. It's quite fun actually, you can join the conversation at the above link. I hate when people take risks as a bad thing because they are how you succeed, in fact that's the only way (comment if you can think of another way). 


I also think that it's a bit annoying that he seems to think that the fact that he couldn't pull it off means that others can't. Look, if you didn't like school, no that 's a bad example, if you didn't do well at hockey practice but then said to a future hall of famer that there's no point, he may never aspire to that point.


I wonder why this person is so against technology in the classroom and what could of been so bad about using it that he won't even consider it.


No connections, but it does kind of remind me of the learning conferences that I do to where I act as a missionary and try to convert minds.


Go ahead and read the post and comment if you like, use different points of view to join in on the forever argument/conversation.

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http://yellow99.glogster.com/glog-9898-2650/

really was getting sick of the movement and stuff on the other glogs

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title: The Maestro
author: Tim Wynne Jones
genre: novel
book


This book is about a 14 year old boy named Burl who grows up with his abusive father Cal. He really controls the household with his mother on drugs and him only a kid. One day Burl finally snaps for various reasons and runs away from his home and Cal. As he is running he witnesses a piano flying over him carried only by a rope and helicopter, he is curious and carries on. As he gets farther and farther away from his home he realizes that despite his survival knowledge he cannot survive out in the wild. While he is contemplating whether or not to go back he comes to his senses and hears a piano, then sees a cottage on the lake. He peers in the window to see a man playing the very piano that flew over him. Nathaniel Orlando Gow meets him and says that he has ruined his sanctuary but is surprised to find out that he has no clue to who he is. Turns out he's a huge super-star(I also did a little research and found out he's based on Glen Gould) who just wanted out of stardom. NOG as Burl calls him soon realizes that he must leave to go back to Toronto. But one fateful day Bea (who delivers supplies via plane) informs Burl that the Maestro has passed away (yet another nick name). Bea takes him in and hires him, in an attempt to get the cottage and save it Burl goes to Toronto claiming that he is the Maestro's son. He meets a friend of the Maestro who tells him that he should focus on saving the song that NOG was writing instead and then sadly you must read it for yourself.


I can guarantee that this section of parts I liked will be the shortest. Ya I liked hearing the fishing parts and the descriptions of the waters but who are we kidding that was just because I like nature.


Everything puzzled me, here's a short list:
- Who were the women in the first part of the book, they were mentioned and then never came back to them?
-Why did the maestro pay the last load with his credit card?
-How had no one discovered the abusive habits of Cal before?
-When did this take place?


I absolutely hated this book! It seemed to drone on forever, it had a thin and entertaining storyline with no meaning whatsoever. I appreciate what the author was trying to convey but this was just a poor way to write it.

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title: Jonathan Livingston Seagull 
author: Richard Bach
genre: Philosophy


As you read last week I've now read Jonathan Livingston Seagull in it's entirety. By now Jonathan has met two gulls who seemingly transport him to "heaven" as Jon calls it. There he meets an elder gull named Chiang, Chiang explains to him that heaven is not a place but rather perfection in itself. Over weeks to come he is taught how to use is mind to transport him rather than his wings. When he returns he meets Fletch, a young, eager, ready to learn gull. Over weeks of training Fletch other gulls come to learn who have also been outcast. One day they all return hoping that others will see perfection and make it a quest of their own. A few gulls take the chance and are quickly and swiftly outcast from the flock. Soon there are new groups showing up all the time. And in the end.....?


My favourite part is probably the part when... seriously you want me to choose one? All of it is my favourite! I guess it was pretty cool considering the theory of just being pure thought and being able to go anywhere your mind wanted to, not being limited to just your body.


The only part I still question is why he actually left the flock? But now I think I have the answer, he realized that while they were contemplating whether or not to trust him he could be lifting the knowledge of others and learning, becoming closer to perfection himself.


I made a connection between me and Livingston's teaching. You see his whole thing is that it doesn't matter about your limitations just as long as you can believe in yourself and work. And that's kind of like me in the way that I am in constant pain in my legs and arm but I try my hardest in school and sports, I also don't tell a lot of people about it because I don't like them taking pity on me because then they try to stop me from doing things that I like since they don't understand.


Again I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for an inspiring, quick read.

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you don’t preach what you teach, how do you look in that reflective surface you call a mirror? speech don’t mean nothin’ now, you can say whatever made up words you want the teleprompter is just a guide and I don’t even think the truth is in your vocab,

verse 1:

you stole my soul away in the night, telling me that I couldn’t be anyone but somehow you could   oh I’m sorry did you just forget what words came out of that hole in your face you preach about as much as that atheist down the lane the world is crawling with you people you’d need Sherlock Holmes to find one who’s memory’s good

verse 2: 

I trust you now next minute I’m not too sure, people surround me I just can’t imagine what would happen if I trusted any of them maybe I’d end up as a hat on their pretty little head, hey you want to come over for dinner, hey did you hear that goats in the back row

verse 3:

you ruined my hopes and dreams and now they’re swimming in my now destroyed pool a rat has a better future than me, I don’t see a shiny future for you either now what was that chrome plated biography cover for again you see now I’m better than you and your gonna fade into non existence, no-one remembers that name of yours





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title: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Author: Richard Bach
Genre: philosophical
Book

First of all I'd like to apologize for the lateness of the post there has been a lot going on this weekend. This week I began  to read "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach. This book is about a seagull named Jonathan Livingston who just wants to learn how to fly and doesn't care about what the other gulls say to him. Jonathan is expected to be like the others, to eat and waddle around. But Jonathan doesn't want this life, he cares about flight, he is as skinny as can be and is ridiculed by the flock. One day Jonathan finally figures out how to dive at high speeds with excellent control, but he can't stop so he dives to the water plunging down 400 feet. The council of seagulls sentences Jonathan to great shame where he must live out his days on the other side of the cliff.

I am really liking the message it sends out about going your own way and succeeding your dreams. I find it funny that there is a seagull council and that they banish him. I wonder why Jonathan actually leaves the flock, I mean he is the most powerful one there, he uses the least amount of energy flying, can dive at terminal velocity and avoid death? On the other hand, Jonathan can learn how to master his new found art while living in peace and being able to live the way he wants.

I also like his spirit, I mean imaging living the way he does, everyone telling him that he's a disgrace, and still ignoring them, knowing that there is a better way to live.

Since I haven't gotten too far into the book yet so I don't have many questions apart from the one about him actually leaving.

I connected his attitude to Steve Jobs', everyone pushing you down, you back off and then start something of your own and letting them realize that they need you.

If you have the time I recommend this as a quick read. I know a book about a seagull aspiring to achieve his wildest dreams sounds funny but it is a great book and has been rated very highly.

Earth hour

Tomorrow night is the fourth anniversary of earth hour. Earth hour began in 2007 in Austrailia, during this voluntary event people of all different nationalities turn off their electrical appliences from 8:30 to 9:30 in an effort to save as much energy as possible. Each year the number of participants grows, the event now reaches out to over 120 contries worldwide.the York region district school board has now taken the "initiative" to acknowledge this event and turn off the lights in their schools. Now, let me paint you a pretty little picture of how this is going to work. The school board goes out and makes this whole big point about how it is Eco-friendly and how this will save so much energy. What most people are blinded by is the fact that earth hour occurs from 8:30 to 9:30, a very high traffic time for people to be watching tv and using the Internet. The school board on the other hand has their hour from 12:30 to 1:30, in other words the time that we as students go out for recess. Now I don't know about you but when I walk down a school hall during recess the halls are empty, classrooms are dark and the lights are off anyways. In my eyes this is just the board trying to make themselves look good by doing nothing at all and making a big deal out of a small thing. But who am I, maybe the guys who don't let you do anything are making a valiant effort here, maybe they are the environment's saviour; or maybe I'm right and they're the terminator sent from the future to destroy it...

Vanishing Money

~chorus~

You just can't see the paper floating away

 while you waiting and playing your little game

you putting that grey money in my hands, see 

the world as a dollar bill, now that you mention it

yes my fridge is running away and we just sit there, watch'n,

in anonymous' words; "Bugger off man!"

~chorus~ it's the death of us

you are the enemy, the suits are afraid of ya, 

and the government is smoke'n you out then your

cover goes pop! but it don't matter cause you already in

the next town preying on their people, 

rubbing vanishing cream on their money

~chorus~

Countries board up their windows because

of you, you play the world like monopoly, ya

I'll take Sweden for $500, the people hate you; now how 

does that make you feel sir, CONGRATS, YOU'RE BANKRUPT!


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reading response

title: 50 365 bokey

author: spudballoo

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URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaun/5458523221/

This reading response is going to be a little different then most because this week of the many texts I've read I felt like doing it on a photo. This is the part where, usually I would give a summary, but since I'm doing a photo I'll describe it. The photo is of a piano keyboard, it was taken around the centre of the keyboard because there are keys all the way along the shot. The middle section of the picture is in focus while on either side the keys are blurry. The keys were shot at an angle, the colour of this is black and white and there is clearly a good bit of dust on the keys.

My interpretation of this photo is that it shows milestones of our lives. I think this because it seems like the key in focus is the present, the keys in the very front are the past and the back is the future. The black keys also look like marks on a time line that could represent milestones in your life. Also it seems like you can faintly see the past and not at all the future. For my last point the keys are dusty as if they have been left alone or left in the past.

I like the solitude in the photo, in fact when I take photos I look for solitude. I like it because it is confining and focuses your attention to the subject matter.

I also took a look at some of the photographer's work and a good part seems to be solitary or a single thing. I like their work!

I cannot cannot connect this work to anything of mine as I do not focus on macro shots ( I also can't with my lens). Also not many people take pictures of things I could associate this with, I'm sure there are people who do take them I just haven't been looking enough to find that group.

I would like to see how other people interpret this response and give me their thoughts on it. Plus I think that anyone who does would have some fun.

P.S. don't worry I'm not slacking off with my reading I just wanted to try something new!

Using PID's in the Classroom

Over the last month or so our class has had the privilege of using PID's (personnel Internet devices) in the classroom. We are one of the first classes in the world to experience this. I think that if you were to ask any kid in the world on a scale of 1-10 how much they'd want to use PID's in the class, %90 would say 10.


People often ask what we do to ensure Internet safety. Being to a lot of leadership conferences I can tell you the same answer I tell them. The truth is that the sites we use are very secure, we do not like to use sites that are often hacked. We have a system that we use (actually we don't use it but the person we get the sites from does)it is called the three A's of Internet safety(not to be confused with the 3 A's of awesome by Neil Pasricha). The first A is for advertisement, we don't use sites that have multiple, or any ads for that matter. The next A is for authorship, if the author's name isn't shown we can't trust the information(this mostly applies to information resources). And finally aesthetics, if the site looks cheaply made and flimsy we shouldn't be trusting them with much. After the three A's it's up to the students to to decide if what they are doing is appropriate or not. You see if there is no trust between the teacher and the student then the student may not have the privilege to use PID's anymore and their limitations are broadened.


Another point often brought up is how do you manage what the kids do and if they use their time wisely. What I find is that you don't even have to address this problem but remind them that it directly effects their grade and more importantly how the teachers see you. Students can always slack off and do other things. At one point students brought cellphones in without teachers knowing, now if we let students bring them in suddenly we find no mischief. It's like when your little sister is trying to annoy you, as soon as you ignore her she stops out of boredom.when you evaluate the situation of the non-electronic equivalent, if your worried about students texting each other in class think of the alternative, passing notes?


Bullying is something that happens everywhere. If your worried about your student or child being cyber bullied, once again you must think of the alternative which would be being bullied on the playground. However, I find that the students who are most susceptible to bullying are often helped by using PID's. This happens because the kids who are shy are the ones who get bullied, but when you give them a social network suddenly they feel like their in another universe, like they can talk. Because of this they become more confident and as a result aren't bullied.


If your considering how students don't get left out, it's partially because of one of the bet things in the world; collaboration. No, students don't always have access to these devices, but there are school devices and we can always share. To get back to my first point, if you have never seen Apollo 11 I strongly suggest you do. And if you have, that one scene where they are fixing the air filtration unit, that was collaboration. Collaboration, in case you've never heard the term before is well, you know I'm just going to pull it out of the dictionary. "Collaborate-1 work together: Two authors collaborated on that book. 2 aid or co-operation traitorously: to collaborate with the enemy."


I think that the two points of how your using the technology to learn and what you are using the technology to do can have a relatively similar answer. A major way that it helps is that it gives kids the ability to productively use the Internet. We are ABLE to use technology for everything but with the whole class quite new to this concept it wouldn't be appropriate. Because of how good kids are with technology there can be a reciprocal learning environment between the teacher and students. As one of my mentors once said, "Ti's not the tool but the pedagogy behind it."


One of the number one concerns with parents and teachers is the things students become a custom to, for example, grammar. We actually got a complaint from what I assume to be a university professor saying that we had better get used to 2000 word essays handed in as comics, well look at me, I was supposed to to 1 paged and I write 3! Things like emoticons and purposely misspelled words are just a way of displaying emotion. Kids know that they are misspelling words, I mean do you actually believe that kids think hey is spelt heyy?! And it's even good at helping with homework, for example if you have a major homework problem you can just send an email to your teacher and work it out!


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Reading response

Title: why the iPad is destroying the future of journalism
Author: Bradford
Genre: blog
URL: http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/12/31/why-the-ipad-is-destroying-the-future-of-journalism.html

This blog was written on how one person sees the business of journalism and how the new release of the iPad effects it. I find this to be a horribly written article that I would never read again. I see this Bradford as an attention hog, trying to look smart by stating what we already know. I find that throughout the text he constantly repeats the same information if you were to sum it up. His main points are that the journalism industry can not adapt to the new forms of technology fast enough for it to survive, that the industry isn't seeing potential and keeps shutting doors on themselves, also that some how journalism being "dead" is the producers of technology's fault. 

The way I see journalism now is not the end but it is infect just adapting. Bradford is obviously just used to traditional media and although he says that he thinks it should change he suggests that we keep using large sites to distribute the text. What he doesn't notice is that by giving your writing away free or selling your work through your own site, in the end you will probably be making money. And yes there is a probably because all business is risky but it can be very rewarding. Another problem with that is that publishing companies pay you very little because they take most of the profit from the sales and leave you with virtually nothing.   

I also question how good of a blogger he is because there are many, many negative comments on his blog that he hasn't responded to, which also gives you the feeling that he doesn't stand by his thoughts.

Because of these reasons I do not think that anyone should have to read this post and therefor I do not recommend it to anyone.  

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title: Cooling on Warming
author: Hendrick Hertzberg
Genre/Text Form: news
Book/URL: Cooling on Warming


This article published in The New Yorker magazine focuses on promises made in the U.S. to stop or slow climate change that were never followed. It talks of the cap and trade bill, the climate bill, and the state of union meeting. It brings up promises made by Obama, Bush, and many other high authority figures that were not followed or remembered. However now some reporters and politicians are trying to convince congress to focus on this topic and live up to your word. They also have a very convincing argument saying that the economy and other hot topics should  be put on the back burner considering that in a critical situation we can all live off of each other but we cannot stop climate change in an instant.


I really enjoyed reading this but it did make me quite angry at the way the U.S. is run, it might be better with the country having no government and have us run ourselves for a change instead of these bogus promises and bills. I think that this article should be read by as many people as possible and talked about to encourage collaborative solutions to fix these problems. As it doesn't only take a rocket scientist to figure it out, combining all of our information and thoughts we can solve any problem a million times faster than the government.


In case you were wondering I really like debating these sorts of topics, there is really a lot to talk about.


Sometimes I wonder how government stays afloat, the people are popular for a short amount of time then
are hated, but they always  come back, one apology and the public seems to be all for even though most people still don't like them.


I've noticed a pattern in government and that is that every time a new bill comes up regardless of what it represents republicans will simply say no to bring down the democrats. The same happens the other way around from time to time as well, it just seems to be an endless circle with no point.


While reading this I made the connection of this and ageism with ever body always saying no, or that's a great idea and then leaving it to disappear. All that happens is we are locking out valuable ideas and help for what reason? To look like you won? Not worth it.


I would as I said before recommend this to everyone for the simple reason that it could save us.

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Title: Nolan's Cheddar commercial

Director: John Nolan

Genre: commercial

Book/URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlQS5CCmwI

This week I chose to do my response on a highly rated commercial for Nolan's cheddar. In this commercial (link above) a mouse takes a stroll outside of his hole to grab a bit to eat. He manages to eat some cheese before getting too brave and getting caught by the trap. Because the cheese is so strong he manages enough strength to not only escape but to use it as a bench press. In the end they show the words Nolan's Cheddar seriously strong.

I really was amused in a grim way when the screen suddenly went black and you heard the trap snap shut. I also thought that they did a good job with the vignetting all throughout the clip showing the solitude and making it more tense.

I do wonder why he was suddenly stupid enough to spring the trap. This is because in the beginning he is very careful of how he walks around the trap, and then he just walks on it? If I was the mouse I wouldn't care if I had super mouse abilities, I'd drag the cheese off and eat in my hole.

I really enjoyed the music choice and how it went along with the mood, and it was kinda funny when it suddenly changed from a sad, dreary song to eye of the tiger workout music.

I connected the mouse's personality to that of a cartoon character like Wile E. Coyote, I did this because they try to do something and nothing happens, then something happens when they try to do it to the extreme.  

I recommend  this to anyone who likes morbid humor and a good laugh.

The No Frills Guy (based on rumplestiltskin)

Once upon a time there lived a girl named Lisa. She loved to make bets, and often won them. One day she met a shady figure who's name she did not know. He offered a bet.

He said, "I'll bet you $20,000 that the Vancouver Canucks lose tomorrow night."

Lisa knew she could not repay him but she played along and accepted. 

The next night the Canucks lost in a shootout, Lisa was devestated. A second later she heard a rapping on the door. She opened the door and was startled when the man revealed himself. He was a 3 foot tall cashier from No Frills. Lisa was still scared, a bead of sweat formed on her forehead, her teeth started chattering (probably because he was holding an electric fan up to her face). Lisa told him how she didn't have the money but he didn't care.

"Please Mr. you must be interested in something else, maybe this original Monet?"

"Who dat?"

So she drove nearly everything she owned to his appartment (AKA his mothers house).

"It's still not enough," He exclaimed.

He said it would be okay if she just gave him an ipad. But she refused. So he made another offer.

"What about you guess my MAC address and I'll wave off your debt,  I'll give you 1 chance."

She agreed. When Lisa got home she went on the "No Frills" Guy's Facebook page and found 3 friends, Homer Simpson, Wile E Coyote, and dust. she sent out a message to all of his friends.

It read, "Heyy XD would it be too much to ask for the "No Frills" guy's MAC address? :s"

She got one response from Wile E Coyote.

It read,"It's 214B298..."

She assumed that he'd blown up again. Then she got a message from Homer.

"Can I have bacon? brain, pencil, J.!fhhffrfalfg <3 :) pIzZa" It said.

No reply from "dust" Lisa was freaking out, then she called the Apple store. A friendly Mac Genius talked to her and assisted her in Lisa's quest. He told Lisa all about the new Genius bar, making books and cards using the new ilife, and sold her a new Mac pro with a 12 core and 8GB RAM. So remember buy a mac!!

(P.S. Lisa gave the MAC address to the No Frills guy and lived happily ever after.)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
By: Mark Herman and John Bayne
Genre: Holocaust, war, movie

        In this fictional story they focus on a boy named Bruno. Bruno and his friends love adventure and want to be explorers when they grow up. Bruno's father is a Nazi soldier who gets a promotion and therefor he must move to the country with his family. From Bruno's new room he can see a "farm." After he shows his mother what turns out to be a work camp his window is boarded up and he is ban from leaving the property. Because he is so curious he leaves to find the camp where he befriends a boy named Shmol. Bruno doesn't understand what is happening and thinks that Shmol is having fun. He soon learns different.

     I wonder where "the country" is and if there were any large concentration camps nearby.

     I made a text to world connection, if Bruno is the world and Shmol is the people of the Holocaust. Bruno does not believe Shmol and denies the imprisonment of Jews and Shmol is desperately trying to tell Bruno what's happening, what hitler did but on a smaller scale.

reading response

the book is called night, by Ellie Wiesel, the genre is history/war.

This is the story of a boy named Ellie and his father who go on an adventure through various concentration camps during the holocaust. In this true tale they endure and see unimaginable sights and events. Written by Ellie himself it follows his father and him through the ghettos, several large camps and what they saw. It starts in a small town of Hungary and tells of how they were forced into ghettos and the rising of Hitler. Later it progresses into the camps where they describe down to the smallest detail about how they were treated and what they endured. Eventually they are ready to roll over and die, will they...

I do wonder what it was actually like to live on that amount of food and work that hard all while being beaten everyday, it would be cool if I could go back and feel what they felt, but I would never do it. I also wonder what Ellie did after the war was over and how he survived for all this time.

I liked this book because I felt like I was there with the description he gave and also because I felt like it was one of those books I never wanted to end.

I would recommend this book to either Dylan or Georgios because they both seem to be into the Holocaust and stories from survivors of it.

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