Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Kiana Holmes- Plagiarism & Signal Phrases
As stated in the Prentice Hall Reference Guide, plagiarism is important to avoid for multiple reasons. When you plagiarize you are denying yourself an opportunity to learn something new. It also is considered unethical, and you loose your creditability as a writer. The most important thing to remember is that plagiarism can result in serious penalties and affect your career. To help you avoid plagairism you could try starting your paper early instead of waiting until the last minute. Also be sure to cite your sources immediately after you use them to ensure proper citing. Another thing you can try is taking notes as you read, which will make it easier to paraphrase and summarize.
In a research paper you want to make sure that your readers can clearly identify your quotations. There are some helpful tips in the Prentice Hall book, such as quotations must be enclosed by quotation marks, and be written exactly as stated. Always introduce your quote by mentioning the persons name of whom you are quoting, and be sure to cite it accordingly. The purpose of in text citation is to inform your readers in short, of the source where you received you information.
When you use signal phrases and words it helps because it is telling the reader what to expect, and introduce your material with a nice flow. It also helps by separating your thoughts from the sources. Some example words that you can use for your signal words are: insists, suggests, believes, shows, concludes, writes, and denies.
In a research paper you want to make sure that your readers can clearly identify your quotations. There are some helpful tips in the Prentice Hall book, such as quotations must be enclosed by quotation marks, and be written exactly as stated. Always introduce your quote by mentioning the persons name of whom you are quoting, and be sure to cite it accordingly. The purpose of in text citation is to inform your readers in short, of the source where you received you information.
When you use signal phrases and words it helps because it is telling the reader what to expect, and introduce your material with a nice flow. It also helps by separating your thoughts from the sources. Some example words that you can use for your signal words are: insists, suggests, believes, shows, concludes, writes, and denies.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Ester Fiszgop Summary- Kiana Holmes
The Shoah Foundation Institute provides an emotional interview with Ester Fiszgop. A woman who has an unbelievable story of survival, and determination. Ester was born on January 14,1929 and raised in Brest, Poland, where most of her family lived too. Their family was traditional Jews who spent a lot of time together. She was growing up in a place where beatings and segregation "was an everyday occurrence". In 1931 the Germans came into Ester's town with bombs and guns, and started taking over. Her town was eventually split and given to the Russians.
While the war itself was still at a distance, she made a visit to her grandmother in a neighboring town never knowing that would be the last time she ever saw her family. She was caught along with her grandmother and cousins when the Germans took over once again. All the Jew's including herself were put in a ghetto covered with barb wire fence and it was about the length of a city block. Ester was growing ill, and so was her grandmother. Talk of Treblinka and liquidation filled the air, and they knew they had to get out. Late one night her grandmother, cousins and her escaped, and went to a house in the forest where they knew they could hide. The ghetto was beginning to be liquidated and the Germans were covering all grounds.
As they hid in the forest waiting for the shots to stop a young Ester falls asleep clutching her grandmother. When Ester awoke her grandmother had gone, she had left her to return to the her brother in the ghetto. Left alone with her three cousins, their fight for their life's had only just begun. Some farmers ran them off, while others offered to hide them for a fee. For six months they hid in a hole in the ground just barely big enough for the four of them to tightly set with their knees against their chest. Never seeing daylight in this time, and hardly able to walk when they had to leave. The girls decide to split up, they have no hope for survival and thought it would be easier to be apart.
At the age of 12 Ester was all alone while being "hunted like a rabbit". She describes being so sick she could not even feel the pain. Stealing dinner from the animals in the barns, or from dogs. Sleeping on the ground, hiding in the wheat fields, and trying to wash in the rain, this went on for about three years. One day she saw ladies riding in on horses and she knew that was it. She had been liberated by Russian women. From 1946 to 1949 she was stuck in Italy waiting for her opportunity to come to the United States. Ester went back to school, got married, had children and then received a doctorate degree. She has been here in the Unites States since 1949 and still is full of determination.
Quotes:
"That's how Poland was before the war, it didn't happen over night."
"They used to say the Jew's have sad eye's"
"I was holding onto her because I knew she wanted to go back, and I fell asleep in the forest and I woke up she was gone."
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