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Shel Silverstein is born in Chicago and began drawing at the age of 12. When he was young he failed in a lot of things. He can’t play any sports and didn’t copy anyone’s work. He started to draw and write at one point. He developed his own style in drawing and writing. Shel attended to Art Institute of Chicago for only one year. He is the first to publish in the Roosevelt Torch.

In his career, his first book to be published is Uncle Shelby’s ABZ book. A popular children book is The Giving Tree. One of his famous book is Where the Sidewalk Ends. While growing up he wasn’t just a book writer. He was in the military and became a country and rock song writer. Shel did not want to be a children’s writer but his friend Tom Ungerer pursuaded him. His first book was rejected but later on it became one of the most successful books.

In his life, Shel has won 7 awards. One was for best country song. Three awards came from the famous book Where the Sidewalk Ends. Another book award is A Light in the Attic for the best book award in 1981. For children’s choice, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O was won in 1982. His contribution started in Chicago. When he was young he envied people with athletic ability. Since he wasn’t any good in sports or getting girls he started to draw and write.

At the age 68 he had died in his home in Key West, Florida. His death was from a massive heart attack. He was found in his bedroom by the maids who arrived to clean the room. The death was on May 10, 1999.

B asketball

E ffortless

N ortheast

S leeper

O range

N ice

S can be a backward Z

It can be a slide

A three bunk bed

A noodle

A snake

A string

A piece of hair

A bent pole

A money sign if you put two lines through it.

When I turned eleven I didn’t put to much thought into it. It didn’t really matter. I still went to school which was really boring. I didn’t get birthday punches luckily. I didn’t feel any different from when i was ten. I still felt the same , it felt like it was just another day and i didn’t turn eleven. The only thing i liked about my birthdays is I usually get to go eat outside and eat a birthday cake afterwards. What I don’t like about my birthday is , that means its another year and another grade up. Which means more work and more boringness at school.

Alexander Balankin

In 1997 Professor Balankin joined the Department of Electromechanical Engineering at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), after holding a position as full professor in the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education at Mexico City from 1992 to 1997. He also serves as an Adviser of the Mexican Institute of Petroleum and the Mexican Transport Institute and as a Consultant of the Mexican National Petroleum Company. Professor Balankin has been the recipient of many other awards and honours, including the highest honour awarded in Mexico, the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the area Technology and Design in 2002 and the UNESCO Science Prize in 2005, for his remarkable ability to relate his research in fractal mechanics to technological applications that has provided great benefits to Mexico and worldwide. In 2005 President of Mexico has honoured the Professor Balankin with the Lazaro Cardenas’ Gold Medal (es:Presea Lázaro Cárdenas). In 2009 Alexander Balankin was awards by the International Prize Juchimán de Plata.

Raúl Rojas

Raúl Rojas was born on June 25th, 1955 in Mexico City to an engineer and a teacher. He attended university at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City, where he majored in Mathematics and Physics. He moved to Germany in 1982 as a doctoral student in economics under the guidance of the political economist Elmar Altvater. The resulting dissertation was published under the title “Die Armut der Nationen – Handbuch zur Schuldenkrise von Argentinien bis Zaire” (The poverty of nations – Handbook of debt crisis from Argentina to Zaire). He became a full professor at University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1994, and later moved to the Free University of Berlin, where he remains today in the Informatics department. His wife, Margarita Esponda Argüero, is a professor in the same department.

Felipe de Zúniga y Ontiveros

Felipe de Zúniga y Ontiveros (1717, Mexico City—1793, Mexico City) was a scientist,cartographer and publisher in New Spain during the Spanish colonial period. He was also royal land surveyor and hydraulic and mining engineer.Zúniga paid much attention to detail in the works he published, including the typefaces. He spent 50,000 pesos acquiring type from Antwerp and Madrid. He was the first to use type cast in New Spain, by the clockmaker and printer Dimas Rangel, with whom Zúniga edited Estatutos de la Real Academia de San Carlos (Statutes of the Royal Academy of San Carlos) (1785).

This doesn’t really change any of my understandings. It was a bit confusing how the story was told but i understand it a little. I understand some of the problems she had.

In the book Night Elie does not get to hide. Comparing to Anne Frank, she luckily gets to hide for a long amount of time. Elie loses his mother at an early age. Anne Frank does not lose her family but lives a hard life in hiding because there is a lot people hiding with her so the food is less. Elie lives in a concentration camp for a long time with his father. Later on Anne Frank and her family gets caught by the Nazi and was sent to a concentration camp. Also Anne was separated from her father. After a while Elie was sent to another concentration camp with his father and they had to walk a very long distance which hurt their feet very much. Later on Elie’s father dies because of serious sickness and injuries. He is left by himself at a young age. While in a concentration camp, Anne does not die by overwork or being hungry. She was effected by a disease that wasn’t known back then so it was not cured and she had died. Unfortunately the camp was saved the day after she had died. Only her father was found safe after all this happened. Both stories have suffered a lot.

“Was there a single place here where you were not in danger of death?”

He is thinking is there any place they take us to that we will be able to relax. Everywhere they go theres a danger that they can die any moment. They are not able to rest. Even in the blink of an eye someone is killed. Where can they go to not have this feeling.

“I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.”

He still belives in God but he think he is unfair for not doing anything. It is sad that this is happening to them and nothing could be done. This is no absolute justice to the Jews. They are being tortured and killed but God is not helping.

“After my father’s death, nothing could touch me any more.”

Its sad that his father died too. His mother got taken away from him earlier in his life. Now he is left with no one. He has lost his last relative and that touched his feelings very much. It must have been very hard on him.

“When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son. I was fifteen years old.”

He never had never experienced this moment and it’s very sad to see that. At fifteen years old he saw the father and the son fight for food and they both had died because of it. Thats the sadness of what could happen because of hungar. It would of been better if they ate it together slowly so that would of never happened.