Activity 2-Shape Poem

Elizabeth Barret Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use. In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

I chose this poem by Elizabeth Barret Browning because I think it is an amazing poem and it is familiar to many people, so I thought it would be easy to understand. I did not want to choose a basic shape like a heart, because I felt that it was too easy and did not express the poem accurately. The poem does mention the sun and candle-light, so in the most basic way this represents a small part of the poem. However, the poem also talks about faith, grace, God, purity, etc, and I feel that since a candle is to many people a religious symbol, I thought that it fit the poem. I got the candle image from Microsoft word and I formatted the words over the candle image, changing the sizes and fonts and spacing to curve the words around the image. I then colored the font of the words to that of the candle, and after I was finished I moved the actual candle away from the words. I placed them side by side. I had to take a screen capture because I was having a really hard time getting it to save correctly and then putting it on here without completely messing up the shape poem.

Project 2 Revised

I have made a lot of changed from my rough draft to my final. The only thing that I did not change was my topic, which was Holocaust and genocide. I used two of the same articles from my draft, but I also chose one more. The first two from my draft were on the Jewish Holocaustand my third was about a little known Holocaust in the Ukraine in the two decades leading up to the second world war. I included more detail in my final, using who, what, when, where, why and how. I also used quotes and statistics. I included the author's name and a works cited page. I changed the order of the paragraphs. In my draft, the Nazi policy paragraph came second, but in my final it was first. The first article in my draft became my second, and I added a third. I used the same basics in my intro, but I edited it some. My first draft was very informal. My final was much more formal with better grammar and better formatting.

Project 2 Draft

I have so far only found two articles that I really liked and wanted to use for my project. Therefore, this draft is only based on those two articles. Also, I did not cite the articles correctly yet, but I got both from the library research center and ProQuest. I want to see if I can find another article that is related to the others, but maybe takes a different approach. The articles I have found are both interesting and factual, but do not have a lot of points that were totally unfamiliar to me as a reader, and I don't know how unfamiliar they would be to another reader. I'd like to find one that tells an unknown story, or a fact that most people would find totally surprising.

I am a history major, and therefore I looked for academic historical articles. I had originally wanted to use European historical articles since that it what I am most interested in, but they were difficult to find. My grandpa fought in World War 2, so I decided to go there next. I came across these articles about the Holocaust and genocide. Last semester in Comp 105 we spent a few days discussing and reading about genocide cases, and had to read an article about genocide currently happening in the world, since many people think the Holocaust is the only example there is.

The first article is about the Holocaust in Hungary. It explains that the affects of the Holocaust did not reach Hungary until later in the war. For the majority of the war, there were only laws restricting the Jewish people. However, near the end, Hitler began pressuring the Hungarian government to deport the Jewish population to concentration camps. The author of this article, Stark, uses a lot of statistics and debates a lot of the commonly assumed statistics of the war.

The second article is about the Nazi policy. It explains that the Nazis were attempting to justify the genocide of the Jewish people by claiming they were trying to obtain justice. Also, many "good" German people supported Hitler and his race purification policies. Hitler did not rise to power originally as a dictator; he has the support of the people at the beginning. Also, the concentration camps began as work camps, and eventually progressed into basic extermination camps. The pace of this depended on the population of the area, meaning in areas where there was more resistance to the Holocaust and the capture of the Jewish people, this process was slower.