Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"



"Schindler's List" illustrated the Holocaust by showing step by step from how they got to the death camps also how he tries to save some people also shows he does cares for the jews he tried to help an he saved a few. In "Schindler's List"he show a pretty good illustration of how badly the Jews were treated.
The liquidation of the Krakow ghetto was a powerful scene which i can still picture in my head. Also i can still remember when they were burning the bodies of people and how it looked like it was snowing but it was smoked flesh of people body burned.
i liked the Hollywood version,better the documentary because the documentary was just like pictures or short clips or pieces of clips and didn't really show a lot of the thing they really did to the Jewish but in the Hollywood version they showed how kids hid anywhere to be safe with their parent to not be killed , how they cut the women hair and how they changed them from camp to camp and ghettos .

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"



My reaction on "Night and Fog" was scary i felt sad, mad it made me think what kind of people would have the heart to do that to people. To kill people for fun to hurt innocent people . This film was very powerful it show how evil people can be, how much the Jewish suffer and went through just because Germans didn't like them ."Night and Fog" and "Schindler's List" were very similar they talked about same topic showed how peopel were transfer from camps and how they were kill only that in "Schindler's List" they show how Schindler saved some peoples lives by saying he needed workers for his factory .I think both films were very good but i think
"Schindler's List"show more about the holocaust and how people were really push on and hurt.
i liked the Hollywood version,better the documentary because the documentary was just like pictures or short clips or pieces of clips and didn't really show a lot of the thing they really did to the Jewish but in the Hollywood version they showed how kids hid anywhere to be safe with their parent to not be killed , how they cut the womens hair and how they changed them from camp to camp and ghettos .

Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)


the Treaty of Versailles affected Germany at the end of WWI because since Germany lost the war they had to pay money to the countries that won and give up land they had in Asia.
some of the rules of the treaty was thatgermany had to give their coal to France and Belgium for 10 year,Germany must pay reparations (money and/or goods) to the Allies, germany was blamed for everything and made them pay for everything , it wasn't fair that they blame Germany for everything OK maybe they had something to do with it but everything wasn't their fault every country contributed to the war .
Some historians say that the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of Fascism and Adolph Hitler. i thin historians say this because since Germany economy was on the floor had no money owed a lot to other they were desperate for some help so Hitler took advantage and said he was gonna make Germany strong again and he actually started to help and prove to Germany he was able to make Germany stronger but after a while people notice he was a little crazy.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey


 Mustafa Kemal (aka: Ataturk) modernized Turkey and made it more secular bye using these terms   Republicanism , populism , secularism , reformism , nationalism , statism. The  changes  he made were  that he changed  how people dress and  made them more modernized  , he gave women right to voted . secular means non religious for example  public schools are secular because they don't teach  religion in the other hand  private school do  teach  religious so they are not secular. also he said about  clothing  he wanted people to dress like europeans 
mans to wear pants ,shirt ,tie and no wearing  the hat called fez  instead  wear those hat the europeans wore .

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Film lesson: "gandhi"



 Gandhi helped India's struggle for independence from Britain through a campaign based on nonviolence and civil disobedience. "Nonviolence and truth are inseparable and presupposes one another. There is no god higher than truth." Some things  Gandhi did   was he  encourage people to not be violence, also when some Indians hurt  police man  he went on a  strike by fasting for a long time he was dehydrated  and sick but until people didn't stop violence he's  strike wasn't over. Gandhi also   wasn't wearing any British clothes  and he encourage people to burn it and not wear it. He went to jail for burning  a past that Indians need to carry around, he was arrested for trying too over throw the government, and many more, but never for  being violent.
his philosophy of non-violence was  that violence leads to more violence so Indians should be strong and  not hit but with violence but with peace. he didn't believe in the saying of an" eye for an eye". he though that eye for an eye was gonna let the whole world be blind.
i  think India's Independence was all about Gandhi because he didn't  give up he was arrest and abused many times but he didn't give up. He encourage the Indians people to not put their foot down to not give up of being colonize and having no right, or being govern  by the British. i think if he didn't tell the people to fight for their right they would just keep leaving the same  way.
about the time of Indian Independence 1947  the cold war going on with middle east and south Asia . this might had an influenced on India independence.


What was happening in Great Britain about the time of Indian Independence (1947) that may have influenced events?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Russian Revolution


The Russian Revolution was all about political problems and government . The Russian revolution was divide into 2 part the February revolution and the October Revolution. The February revolution  was during 1917  and  was about the  collapse of czar Nicholas 2 . October Revolution was about the Bolshevik  party, led by  Vladimir Lenin, and the workers'  soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd. The Russian  had a revolution because they were tired of the way their government  treated them. The major cause of the Revolution was Because czar   made Russian get into WWI  and alto of soldier were lost because russia didn't have enough equipment.The Revolution was all about  fighting for their right to be treated better  and to change their government. Lenin was the leader or the revolution 
he made the Bolsheviks party he took control. The quote "Peace, land and bread" mean what everyone in russia  wanted the reason why russia went on a revolution  they were miserable  so they got tired , they starved, they wanted food and peace. Lenin took his idea of communism from karl marx.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Cause of WWI


The cause of  world war I was  the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Habsburg throne, on June 28, 1914. That's when everything started. Then people started to get alliances just in case they needed back up. United states was the last one to get involved . Because USA dint want to get no enemies  or get in to  danger .
The primary causes of the war was Nationalism, Militarism, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the collapse of the alliance system. Nationalism happened with Germany and Italy . Italy didn't wanna be  cool with Germany they didn't want to be become one  because they felt different they were loyal to their country they didn't want to change things. assassination of Frankz Ferdinand contributed to the cause of this war    by  Austrian people  wanting to  punish  Serbia  for killing their leader so  Austria joined  alliance with Germany to do whatever  to Serbia. Also Militarism  was a way to countries used to solve problem and the bigger the military the more powerful you are and the more money. also this game more jobs to people it increased jobs .