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Ryan Antoniuk (Sorry if it’s really long)
My essay has taken over 6 hours (so far) to find images to describe my theme, change. The way I chose to describe it was to show some of the worst things that humanity has done, like war, slavery, and genocide, then I contrasted it with some of the best things we’ve done, mainly cleaning up after the messes we’ve made. There are also some seemingly irrelevant shots, but they have some meanings in there somewhere relevant to the theme. The photo of the jews in the prison camp is hard to explain, so I found this:

“Lt. Col. Mervin Willett Gonin DSO :
I can give no adequate description of the Horror Camp in which my men and myself were to spend the next month of our lives. It was just a barren wilderness, as bare as a chicken run. Corpses lay everywhere, some in huge piles, sometimes they lay singly or in pairs where they had fallen. It took a little time to get used to seeing men women and children collapse as you walked by them and to restrain oneself from going to their assistance. One had to get used early to the idea that the individual just did not count. One knew that five hundred a day were dying and that five hundred a day were going on dying for weeks before anything we could do would have the slightest effect. It was, however, not easy to watch a child choking to death from diphtheria when you knew a tracheotomy and nursing would save it, one saw women drowning in their own vomit because they were too weak to turn over, and men eating worms as they clutched a half loaf of bread purely because they had to eat worms to live and now could scarcely tell the difference. Piles of corpses, naked and obscene, with a woman too weak to stand propping herself against them as she cooked the food we had given her over an open fire; men and women crouching down just anywhere in the open relieving themselves of the dysentery which was scouring their bowels, a woman standing stark naked washing herself with some issue soap in water from a tank in which the remains of a child floated. It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things and I don't know who asked for lipstick. I wish so much that I could discover who did it, it was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance. I believe nothing did more for these internees than the lipstick. Women lay in bed with no sheets and no nightie but with scarlet red lips, you saw them wandering about with nothing but a blanket over their shoulders, but with scarlet red lips. I saw a woman dead on the postmortem table and clutched in her hand was a piece of lipstick. At last someone had done something to make them individuals again, they were someone, no longer merely the number tattooed on the arm. At last they could take an interest in their appearance. That lipstick started to give them back their humanity.”

Then there is another picture of a man with a beret, bullet proof vest, and Canadian flag patch. This is Romeo Dalliare, the man who helped end the Genocide in Rwanda, in which 800, 000 people were killed.The I found a sign with me theme, change, and wrapped up with good things. I picked the music for this essay, “Edit the Sad Parts” by Modest Mouse, because it’s “Adequately sad and depressing” And has some relevance to change, if you could understand and think about the lyrics.

My theme relates to Touching Spirit Bear because Cole changes drastically, so I thought I’d represent that.

A scene I think is very relevant, besides the Change sign, is the Jews with the painted lips, because it has a great story behind it.

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[MrFais009]

mother fucker america

[catlover75]

umm interesting, I think

[wsp134ck]

This is really well thought through out-it says a whole lot through how it is put together! Great work and mind!

[CCRROOBBEERRTTSS]

crazy good man... now i know why your not failing english, you actually put a lot of time and thought into it, and it really moved me. congrats

[pfuetzy777]

man very deepp.love it..esspecially the quote on the side

[jsully8]

i like it ryan! dont know wat song it is but it went well with ure theme and i liked the photos used

[Charl3s22]

Great job Ryan. This is has been the best photo essay I've seen so far. I was able to get into the pictures and the music. As well as I never looked at a picture and wondered what it meant.

[ZFirexFoxZ]

Wow the pictures fit the music so well!

I especially like how you aproached your theme for the book on such an angle, Like its not surrounding the book, but more surrounding a theme IN the book, I'm not quite sure what I'm trying to say... But I liked it!

[Shelby4847]

I think that your pictures fit perfectly with your theme and song. I can tell that you took allot of time on it, well done.

p.s.- Love the name... I totally picked it.

[Dylanthepotato]

I think that the pictures portray your theme very well and the song was ok. Overall it was really good.