The Final Project

I have had my ups and downs with this project. I must give credit to Darius for the computer skills behind posting many of the blogs and pictures and other computer problems I stumbled across while setting up the page. Darius may have been the computer genius who made it possible for my creations to appear on the web, but all the creations are solely mine.
The first post is my research paper about the death camps during the Holocaust. I found it necessary to write about the horrible conditions in which victims of the Holocaust suffered through in the camps, because people should beware of what happened and remember the horrible acts which were committed during this time in history as to prevent it from ever happening again.
The next post is a poem about me and where I come from. I think this is my favorite post, because it was pretty fun to write and also expressed who I am pretty well. I do not usually write poetry so I am happy with the way it turned out since it is the only poem I have written to be viewed by numerous people.
The third post is a short essay about forgiveness. I believe the victims should forgive their tormentors. No matter who has wronged you or what they have done, you can not move on without closing that chapter of your life and the only way you can do that is by forgiving.
The last two posts are paintings I created. The first one, Burning Souls, I tried to capture the Hell the victims of the Holocaust must have felt. Everyday, the incarcerated woke up to the chimneys smoking and friends and loved ones dieing all around them. Fire and death was in the air as well as in the actual fire.
The last painting captures fish with no faces just like the numerous victims of the Holocaust. People just passed through their insufferable lives like a large school fish in the ocean, unnoticed, uncared for, just trying to survive. In this picture, the starfish represents a German officer watching over the Jews in camp. He is not protecting them. Instead he is preventing them from getting out of order just as a starfish keeps the little fish in order.
These are all my posts and what they mean to me. Others looking at this may interrupt them differently and that is ok with me as long as you can walk away from this web page with a little more insight into the Holocaust than you came with.