Free Write 3-26

Today is a good day I feel for me.  I believe that I have just in the last three to four days stumbled upon a real game changer on what could be my future.  I was contacted by a lady that was refered to me by one of the University of Missouri research experts.  She had heard I was very interested in the Elderberry market and she is in the process of creating a huge dietary supplement and juice company.  THe main products will be elderberry with other things like blueberry and aronia as well.  She is really wanting me to invest in this company so I can become a partner which I would love to  do. This was however, not the main reason she called.  SHe called because she was interested in the plan I had designed on how to grow the berries on a very commercial scale.  I believe that the only way to successfully grow this type of plant is to do it with very close attentiion to detail and how else to do it then supply the product to people to grow that you had already and make sure they are buying the fertilizers and irrigation through me as well.  I felt as though I would model it after the chicken house theory that Tysons and Georges uses to produce chicken.  They are contacted by potential farmers who have interest in putting chicken houses up.  THe farmer is responsible for the land and the buildings and Tysons will provide the chicken and feed as well as guarantee that they will buy the chickens and pay them as almost a rental fee per chicken that survives.  I will do the same except I will pay per pound of berries that they produce. 
One of the problems is being all organic it is hard to get rid of disease.  Becasue the university does not have much research on how to get rid of the disease I decided to spread this operatiion out over about three states which would be Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana.  This also for frost and water purposes as well.
THis lady that approached me was the founder of dynamic lasering.  THis is a company she formed in california and sold out to a very well kown laser company and then moved back to Missouri and started anther one in her home town of Herman.  She believes that this compnay we are in the process of forming is going to be in the billion dollar range in roughly 10 years which is something that is far fetched but could be attainable with the product supply attained and the mass marketing goes to plan.  She is working with a lead advisor doctor to Dr. Oz which is the famous tv show and when they say something the thing goes viral.  SHe also has a firend in China that is married to a news reporter and magazine writer that will be the marketing there and then also she is going to South America to get it rolling down there this summer.  The US is very tricky but she has already made contacts with Wal-Mart and other big retailers so that should be very big.  With all this internationl attention she will need the product to support it so thats were I come in.  With talking to her she and I feel that we will need around 200 acres of these plants which would create on the third year around 2 millions pounds of berries.  THis is a considerable amount becasue we would buy them from the farmer for around .90cents and resale them for around $2.25 which would make somewhere around 3-5 million a year.

Harrison Burgeron Essay

Response Essay Harrison Bergeron

testimony #2

Devon Bennett

Mr. Neuburger

English 102-118

17 March 2013

Survivor Testimony

“Malka Baran”

            Malka Baran was born in Warsaw Poland in 1927 to a Jewish family that did not celebrate the Jewish culture as most did.  They were a family that did not follow the religion closely.  They moved when she was one year old to Czestochowa Poland were she spent the next 14 years of her life.  She had a brother that was two years younger than her and they lived a very simple life. 

            She found out later that her grandparents were killed and her father stopped believing in God as much after that loss.  In 1929 she said that the lives of her family changed.  The SS officers came into town and put rules and regulation of the Jews.  Their apartment was turned into a ghetto and they did not go to school and more they worked for the Germans.  Shortly after in 41 she was awaken by her parents early one morning and they went into the street where she her brother and her father were separated from their mother and they never saw her again.  They were taken to another place to work and she didn’t remember the name. 

            Soon after her mother was taken her father and brother were working on the railroads and were both shot in the back and killed.  She immediately put a block on her memory and literally can’t remember anything until she was sent to a concentration camp in 43.  This concentration camp she stayed in until 45 when liberation came.  She was always very good with children and so she decided to help children who were displaced with the war.  She soon met her future husband who she thought of as a brother before she moved to Israel.  After moving to Israel he came back from the United States to ask her to marry him and she did however she because of her paper work could not move to the United States until 10 months later.  When she did they lived in Brooklyn and had children.

1.      “…I survived that’s what I remembered…”

2.      “Germans shot people all around me and threw babies against walls and after that I don’t remember anything.”

testimony #1

Devon Bennett

Mr. Neuburger

English 102-118

13 March, 2013

Survivor Testimonies

“Edith Coliver”

            Edith Coliver was a survivor who was actually not in Europe while the worst of the killings were taking place.  Coliver actually got out of Germany in 1938 before all of the Jews were starting to be exterminated.  Her father got her whole family visas and they sailed across the Atlantic to New York City.  She shortly after moved to San Francisco where she attended school and graduated from Berkeley. 

            After graduating she moved to Washington D.C. where she found work as an assistant to a senator.  She found herself looking for work shortly after however because she didn’t like her job.  She was very fluent in German and French so she found a job as an interpreter at the Nuremburg trials.  She was interviewed by many people including the United Nations head of interpretations.  She got the job and found herself faced with what she narrowly escaped and moved to America from. 

            In Germany she got to interpret the trials of all of the highest officials of the Nazi party.  She found herself faced with the fact that all of the Germans where wanting to escape and say as though they had no idea what was going on.  She knew this was untrue however because they knew about it all the way in the United States.  The trials that were ending in most of the officials getting hung were very hard for her because she was tired of the killings. 

            One of the things that she talked about in the interview that I found as being very interesting was the fact that Roosevelt did not help the Jews and she was very upset about it.  According to her he knew about the stuff going on and the deaths and didn’t do a lot to help.  This is something that I myself had never heard before.

            In closing I feel as though this lady although not being in Germany and dealing with the concentration camps first hand did get to see the true utter destruction.  She was there after and got to help clean up the mess therefore did understand it.  I feel as though she is a hero stepping up and helping put away a part of history that so many people want to forget.

1.      “Jew’s have no demeanor or character.”

2.      “You belong to that generation disenfranchised by Hitler, but as you go do justice be just.”

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Free Write 3-5

It is starting to look like spring.  The weather has been an up and down venture the last couple months.  This week seems to show promise that spring is on the way.  Yesterday it hit 65 and today it is only 40 for a high.  This up and down is hard on everybody but it looks as though after today we start going up hill and at least staying more level in regards to temprature.  One thing I love about spring is the vegetation.  I hate winter for about three reasons.  The first is the cold.  I really do not like cold weather and it really jsut puts me in a bad mood.  THe second is the sickness that goes with it.  Winter is the worst season in regard to sickness we have.  THis year had been one of the worst on record with people even dyeing with the lastest outbreak of this years flu virus.  The last and probably the part that bothers me more than anything is the vegetation.  THe winter is very dark, the flowers are hibernating, the trees have no leaves, and the grass for the most part is brown.  The one thing that really makes me start to feel better other than teh warmer weather is the foolage.  The trees starting to turn green as well as the grass is something that jsut immeaditly makes me feel better.  I wish the we lived in a place were it was green year round with rain at least once a week always at night however becasue it would not disrupt your day.  I also like the spring because Americas greatest pastime starts, baseball.  I love baseball games they really invite spring in and let everybody know that we are ready to warm up.  I am also excited for spring becasue I am going to plant my elderberry plants in late April which I hope leads to a prosperous venture.  I just talked to a guy that thinks that just on the cuttings alone I could make $50,000 a year.  This goes along with the $50,000 that I should make off the berries as well.  We hopefully will make a dietary supplement out of the concentrate like a one a day mens health pill.