For our project we made a
video. During our project we asked these questions:
1. What does hope mean to you?
2. What does it mean to be human?
3. Is there an experience you can share with us when you gained or lost hope?
4. Can you experience hope without going through a hardship?
5. Do you have hope for humanity?
For our video we got many different answers but they were all very similar. Everyone’s definition of hope helped us form our own definition of hope as a group. Everyone’s definition consisted of never giving up and moving forward and finding something or someone that will help bring you hope. When we asked what it meant to be human we got many responses about emotions, love, hope, interaction between each other, and being social beings. Being human is not just having characteristic of, or having the nature of people, as the dictionary says. Its's so much more than that. I have learned that you really learn the defintions of these words throughout your lifetime. You lose and gain hope, and go through harships throughout your life. I really want to ask older people these questions and see what there answers are. I think older people are more wise because they really have gone through everything. I hope to continue my research on these topics in the future.
On Friday my Gifted and Talented class went to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. I had heard of how fantastic it was, and how much knowledge you gain from going. I was hoping that it was going to meet my high standards and teach me something new. When you first arrive, you receive a card of a person who lived in the time period of the Holocaust. You are then pushed into a small elevator and take up to the fourth floor. We saw many things. There was information everywhere you looked, and pictures and videos as well. The picture that stood out most to me was a picture of shaved off hair. It was a mass amount of hair from the concentration camp Auschwitz. There was just so much of it. It said it was hundreds of pounds of hair. My classmate and I were just astounded, thinking about how hair doesn't weigh that much. It was much more than shown in this picture. There was also a section with shoes. It killed me to see all the different shoes; the baby shoes broke my heart. The museum was a terrific experience, but it also depressed me to see how inhumane people can be. I think going one time was a good experience but I probably would not go back because it was hard to walk through and actually see some of these things. I have seen how people can be, and it really shocks me. I understand why we learn about the Holocaust in many different grades. We will not let history repeat itself, we can't.
