Mr. Jim O'Connor

Picture from: The Glass Menagerie

He was my mother's savior for me, and the destruction of my heart. What respectable man would kiss another girl, another woman while being engaged to wed another? No senseable or notiable one I can say! It disgusts me that he treated me in such a maner. I loved Jim O'Connor, I am not one bit afraid to say it, not one bit. Yet, it hurts for me to think of the whole night. I was sure me and him would've worked out, I had finally opened up. I had finally let my guard down and wasn't so terrified, and he ruint it all. Just completely smashed my heart and dreams. I guess my mothers savior was the destruction of me.

Rubicam's Business College: The worst day of my life

Picture From: University of Edineburgh

I finally started out at the business school today. It will never last though. I can't be around this many people, it makes me to nervous. I got so scared in class today, I got sick. Mother will never understand. She has such high hopes for me, but I feel like I'm letting her done. I don't feel like I'm good enough for any of this, any of it at all. It's always "Laura do this, Laura you need to be perfect, Laura have you found a gentlemen caller yet, Laura why are you so selfish." My mother needs to stop being so irratating. All she does is annoy me and constantly bagger me about finding a gentlemen caller. I really think she is trying to live my life for me, which I don't appreciate.

My Glass Menagerie

Picture from: www.cas.sc.edu

I don't fully understand my mother and her constantly degrading me. She acts if something is mentally wrong with me. Yes, granted I may be slower than others but that doesn't make me worthless. I collect the glass pieces because I love them. Mother doesn't understand and neither does Tom. It's almost as if it bothers them for me to be happy with something other then work, or school, or finding one of the "Gentlemen Callers" as mother puts it. I wish she would put an end to it all and just drop it. She needs to quite pestering me about it. I barely made it through high school. Oh it made me so nervous being around people. I would much rather just be alone and to myself with my menagerie. My favorite one is the unicorn. She is so different and beautiful. Just like me, I am not like the other girls, I am slightly different. We all have our own imperfections, every single one of us. I am worried about starting the whole college adventure, it makes me nervous and I tremble at the very thought. I will learn how to cope, hopefully. Maybe it won't be so bad after all.

Auschwitz Birkenau

Source: I Survived 20th Century Holocaust

The facility itself was huge but all of the camps put together were just astonishing. This picture reminds me of Ellie Wiseal's "Night" in many ways but mostly the way he talked about how large it was. It just shocks you at how vast and large this place was and no one knew what was going on inside of it. In the book Night, he talks about how it took them four hours to get to a different part of the camp. This place had to be absolutely huge. This picture is only of the Birkenau camp in Auschwitz, and yet look how large it looks. It still amazes me that they had camps running of this size and proportion and no one says that they were aware of the killings taking place at the time. The view of the camp almost reminds me of a prison, but it is almost as if Jews were imprisoned to a point.

Children of The Holocaust

Source: Isreal's Children

This picture said a lot to me first glancing at it because the lack of emotion on the children faces. There is one boy on the right that is crying which I'm sure this was rare. The children had the same expected of them that the adults did. Yet, a lot of times the children were killed immediately. None of these children look to be over the age of maybe twelve. It just strikes you looking into their faces and seeing their blank stares. At a time when they should've cried, should've showed they were upset and fearful, they acted as if nothing was wrong. They almost expected the children to act as if they were adults.

Racial Hatred of Jews

Source: Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project

This picture itself says a lot of the entire holocaust. Just the mass pile of bodies, wasted down to absolutely nothing. Just the stench alone had to be awful from all the dead bodies. The fact that the whole race of German people though this was acceptable or just weren't aware of the vast amounts of murders astonishes me. It only took Hitler about fifty-two days to take over a country. That in itself is amazing. I think the biggest reason that this went on was because a lot of people were scared to say anything back to Hitler or his army. This picture just shows in the faces of the people the lack of emotion and cold and hardened they'd became to death.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I believe that Mr. King was probably one of the most inspirational people I have ever read about or heard of. He believed in equality and fighting in what he believed for without being violent. I think that more people need to be educated on on Dr. King did and his life story itself. Everyone for the most part knows Martin Luther King for one of three things: The Civil Rights Movement, The"I Have a Dream" Speech, or his "Letters from Birmingham Jail". Most people don't know that his grandfather was the pastor and started up the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Alanta, Georgia. Him and his father also served as pastors at the church. Dr. King not only was a very educated man (which at the time this was nearly unheard of because of his race) but he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. He had studied the Ghandi philosophy in college and he used that approach in his campaign for civil rights. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When told of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the help of the civil rights movement.On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. I believe this country would be a much better different place if he hadn't been killed over something so meaningless.