If me and my family needed to go into hiding and I couldn't leave the room that I was in for two years, then in order to keep myself occupied I would probably draw or maybe write a small book about what has happened to my so far, or I would make a diary of what I do during the day. A new skill or hobby I might learn would be maybe a sport I could practice with my family, like maybe basketball or soccer. Some activities I would have to give up would be playing on my electrical devises like my phone. The hardest part about it would be being locked up in a building for two years not being able to go outside or being able to communicate with anyone. Another hard part would be not being able to play or use my phone because I wouldn't be able …show more content…
To keep myself occupied I would probably draw. I could probably also try and make or invent something, or write a book. I could also try to play a sport, like if I were to learn basketball then I would use a crumbled up piece of paper and one of my parents could make a hoop with their arms. That is what I would do to keep myself occupied. While I was in hiding with my family, a new skill or hobby I might be able to learn would be drawing. I already know how to draw but during this hiding time I could learn how to draw better. I might also be able to find something to make using my resources and what I would have. I might learn how to write a book. So those are some skills and hobbies I could learn. An activity I would have to give up during this process would be using my phone. The reason I would have to give up my phone because my phone is an electronic. Electronics may draw attention and alert others, and is attention is drawn then we might be in trouble. The hardest part about it would be just living in a room for two years. Not having my phone and not being able to communicate with the outside world would also be very difficult. I can live without my phone because it is not that bad but not knowing what is going around outside in the world would be
Like stated earlier, you lose all sense of being able to do what you want when you want it. Prisoners are told to do virtually everything they do such as when to eat, sleep, wake up, or work. This can cause a huge problem while the prisoner is still in prison and also when the prisoner is finally released. In a study done by Margaret Leigey and Michael Ryder they find that there are three issues that life without parole (LWOP) inmates have. Those issues are, “indeterminacy, permanent separation from family members, and the possibility of mental deterioration as a result of prolonged confinement.” (Leigey and Ryder, 2015, p.
The diary of Anne Frank, written over a two-year period, tells about her life while she and her family are in hiding in Holland. They are staying in a secret attic of the office building where Mr. Frank used to work in order to escape from the Nazis during World War II. During their stay in the annex, they are supported by several people in the office building, who risk their own lives to insure the secrecy of the Jewish hideout and to provide them with food and basic supplies. Much of Anne's diary tells about the daily routine of the occupants of the attic.
Would you be brave or patient enough to hide in a tiny space for three years with little food and nothing to do? Like the Frank family, many other Jewish families found secret places to hide. The Stermers, Bileckis, and Haars were all involved with hiding during the Holocaust to avoid being sent to concentration camps by the Nazis.
I believe that if I were in a concentration camp I would not have held very much resistance in fear of death. I would have acted very selfishly only looking out for myself because there was no other way to survive, but I would have to live with the guilt for the rest of my life of not helping others. I would try to keep my hope in life. Seeing and knowing how people trying to escape were punished, I would most likely not try to escape. My faith in God would have been higher than my will to risk death to escape. Having knowledge that most people attempting to escape were killed on the spot would have kept me where I was.
I could learn would be how a dedication to work can lead to decent fame. The conflict between the possible inventors of the radio would finally be finalized. Inventions that, unlike the radio, had fallen into oblivion would be returned to the light of the day for the benefit of all. I whole-heartedly believe that the experience would not only create a positive effect in my knowledge and behavior, but would bring many benefits to the outside
Anne accepted you can still have fun while you're in hiding. A quote from Anne Frank is ‘’You could not do this, you could not do that. The forced
Imagine. You are alone with your thoughts. There is nothing that can separate you from their unpredictable horrors because you spend 23 hours a day completely alone. In silence you wait, desperate for a chance to leave the four-walled, concrete cell you now call home. These are the conditions of solitary confinement that are still in widespread use throughout America today. Although solitary confinement may seem like the safest way to protect other prisoners, guards and even the inmate himself, it is an inhumane and cruel punishment and it has the opposite effect of what prisons are intended for. .
By doing things, we learn who we are and we learn our worth as a person. The two things solitary confinement does are make people solitary and idle” (Sifferlin, Alexandra). Isolation and confinement remove prisoners’ ability to perform significant tasks and act as a part of society.
Solitary confinement was created by the Quakers who thought prisoners would use the time to reflect and study the bible. Even they thought it was a bad idea after seeing its effects. It finally went out of practice for awhile but since is used around the world for people the guards don’t want to deal with. With solitary confinement a person is kept in a room the size of a king sized bed for up to 23 hours a day. Which can cause severe and permanent brain damage. In one case of Kalief Browder "He was held in solitary for almost two years before his case was completely thrown out. He never even went to trial, but still suffered through solitary. After he was released, his family said he would just hole up in his room for days. He committed suicide,” (Gonnerman). He was arrested at sixteen years old for robbery and this is what happened. Human are social creatures, take that away and it can cause mass hallucinations, and
...uld not have chatted with my family and friends, I dont think I would have lasted for this long. I also like to draw, write songs and dance, all of which involve a type of storytelling. So writing and storytelling is my life.
... will get through it I think about how it will turn out in the future. I know that I will get through the difficulty alive, unlike the situation that Viktor and the other prisoners were going through. I just look forward to the future and acknowledge the fact that even if I do a bad job there will be other things to make up for it afterwards. Sometimes when my environment is unpleasing to me I like to get out of reality and think about the things that I enjoy. When I have much work to do and I don't know why I am doing it at all I think of my parents. I want a good education and a good career to be able to thank my parents for the sacrifices they have made for me. I hope that someday I will be successful and make my parents proud of me. I would like to pay them back for their sacrifices give something back to them and show that their sacrifices did not go to waste.
One day I had my phone taken away. It honestly seemed like the end of the world beings that it was my “whole world.” I used this device to communicate with my friends, watch ridiculous youtube videos, listen to my most favorite songs that was basically a part of my soul, and I even had it as an alarm. A part of me was gone I thought to myself, then it hit me. Undoubtedly, I relied too much on my phone to assist me, to entertain me. To be frank, I acted selfish, like a 4 year old who doesn’t get that stuffed animal after their mother said no a million times, when I had it confiscated. I know another particular story where two children rely too much on technology, an entire family actually. The story is called “The Veldt” and it stars two children,
Imagine sitting in a tiny cell for the years at a time slowly but surely losing your mind. This is what many prisoners in the American prison system face today. Solitary confinement is when an inmate is isolated from any human contact, often with the exception of members of prison staff, for 22–24 hours a day, with a sentence ranging from days to decades. This cruel and unusual punishment is used by prisons daily throughout the country. Atul Gawande, a surgeon, public health researcher, and author for The New Yorker writes the article ¨Is Long-Term Solitary Confinement Torture?¨, successfully convincing the reader that solitary confinement is nothing less than unreasonable torture.
What is solitary Confinement? Solitary Confinement is the practice of isolating people in closed cells for 22-24 hours a day, virtually free of human contact, for periods of time ranging from days to decades. Solitary confinement results primarily from an individual’s behavior while incarcerated, not from their sentence. Although you are isolated and free of human contact Solitary Confinement can promote and worsen mental health issues. When being locked up in a cell for 23 hours everyday you do not get the exercise and activity that regular prisoners will get. Many of the prisoners subjected to isolation have serious mental illness and the conditions of solitary confinement can exacerbate their symptoms or provoke recurrence. Therefore Solitary
Once upon a time, I saw the world like I thought everyone should see it, the way I thought the world should be. I saw a place where there were endless trials, where you could try again and again, to do the things that you really meant to do. But it was Jeffy that changed all of that for me. If you break a pencil in half, no matter how much tape you try to put on it, it'll never be the same pencil again. Second chances were always second chances. No matter what you did the next time, the first time would always be there, and you could never erase that. There were so many pencils that I never meant to break, so many things I wish I had never said, wish I had never done. Most of them were small, little things, things that you could try to glue back together, and that would be good enough. Some of them were different though, when you broke the pencil, the lead inside it fell out, and broke too, so that no matter which way you tried to arrange it, they would never fit together and become whole again. Jeff would have thought so too. For he was the one that made me see what the world really was. He made the world into a fairy tale, but only where your happy endings were what you had to make, what you had to become to write the words, happily ever after. But ever since I was three, I remember wishing I knew what the real story was.