Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Schindler's List


In the movie "Schindler's List" the movie illustrated the Holocaust really good, it showed how life was for Jews during the Holocaust. In "Schindler's List" the movie had graphically scenes of Jews dying in the Holocaust. Their were scenes were some Jew got shot in the head or murdered on the spot. In the movie "Schindler's List" you will get the right and well defined picture of how the holocaust looked and was. In the movie you will see how Jews were treated and the Jews only worked and if they didn't they would be killed on the spot or gassed or burned. Only the healthy people would work, because the Germans wanted young and healthy people to work in the labor camps because they wanted to them work and help them in the factories to manufacture new things for the army as a example. Old people or retarded ones and little kids would die first because like i said the Germans wanted fast workers and the Germans also wanted to stop the race of Jews. So they killed kids so the race will stop from producing. The most powerful scene for me in the movie "Schindler's List" was when the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, because you see how people were screamed at and had to pack up things they could carry, which was mostly taken from them later. But it is terrible because you had to see the Jews leave their house which they had a lot of memoirs. They also killed some Jews during this the Germans. And what was inserting was how Jews tried to hide from the Germans in the ghetto, because the hiding spot were amazing, some hided in the floor and some hided even inside a piano. But the sad thing was that later on the day the Germans found their hiding spots and most of them died. Another part that shocked me was when the Germans were doing the Heath checkup on the Jews. And while the people were busy getting tested, the Germans wanted to take away the kids somewhere else in trucks and you see how the mothers and fathers chased for their kids but the parents mostly got pushed off and the amazing part was that some of the kids tried to hide in the camps, and you see one little boy was no spot to hide and jumps to the toilets so he can hide. In the movie "Schindler's List" i will never forget the scenes because they are still stuck in my head. One part that got my eye in the movie "Schindler's List" was the little girl in the pink coat, because you see her in the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto and she is alone and somewhere in the middle where the Germans plan to do the "Final Solution" and you see the same little girl in her pink coat but only burned and died. That is what caught me eye in the movie. I think that the movie "Schindler's List" is most powerful and you will learn alot from that movie about the Holocaust, becasue you will see how Jews were treated and what they had to live threw.

Night and Fog




Night and Fog is a french documentary but has the subtitles in English. I think Nigh and Fog is a very good documentary about the holocaust. My reaction to the documentary was shocking because they had real pictures and some video of the what was happening during the Holocaust. Real video and real pictures which makes you think about what happened during this era. It is shocking what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust, the Jews live threw hell in the Concentration Camps. But the documentary only showed the died people and how they looked like. So it wasn't that bad, the only think that was terrible for me was when the bull-dozer pushed all the people to the dirt, and it was all died Jews that the Germans killed during the holocaust. The documentary was not really powerful to me. I think the movie Schindler's List" was the most powerful to me. Because in the movie "Schindler's List" you see people actually dying, like for example getting shot or killed and in the doucmentry it is only a picture of died people. But in "Schindler's List" they show you the phsically way the Germans treated the Jews during the Holocaust. The documtenary is also graphically because of the pictures and videos were taken during the Holocaust but I think the movie "Schindler's List" is way intersing and better because you see how the Jews had to survie just to make it out. I think persoanlly in the movie "Schindler's List" you will learn more of how it was during the Holocaust.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)


After World War 1, Germany was faced with a punishemnt. Because they lost the war. Germany had to sign The Treaty Of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles said that since Germany lost the war that everything what happened during the war was their fault. Germany now had to pay for all the damgaes that happened during the world to thier allies. Germany's miltary also had to shrink down to like 100,000 soliders. And Germany also lost some of it's land. Germany had so much to pay, their economy was now runined. They now had a poor economy now because the taxes were so high because they needed to pay off dues. The dues were very high in money. Most of the land that Germany had was given to their allies, which new country's formed. Germany lost alot of people in the war and in their population. I think that the Treaty was not fair out all. Germany wasn't the only one in the war. Germany did do some bad things during the war, they just wanted to win the war. I think that Germany should get blame but with the other countires that were with them. During the time the Germans lost they had a rough time getting back were they started. Their were doing so good at the beginning but then just went crashing. I do think that The Treaty Of Versailles did cause the rise of hilter. Becasue Germany wanted to be a powerful nation again. They wanted to have a good leader. And they thought Hilter was the right person. They thought he was a strong powerful leader. But later on they found out that Hilter was a bad and it was a bad idea picking him as a leader.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) Modernization of Turkey


Mustafa is the one who won Independence for Turkey. And he is also the one that found the Turkey Republic and was the first president for Turkey. Turkey was actually run first by Ottoman Empire. Mustafa goal was to modernize Turkey, we didn't want them to compare with the other country's. He made Turkey also secular, which means he put Religon on the Side, it wasn't a law anymore. Secular is when religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions. In other country's Religon would be a Law. But he wanted to have it different for Turkey. He also changed the style in Turkey, he wanted to make his naton more outlook, European Hats replaced the fez, which the fez has a hat with a picece of a rope on top of it. Women would stop wearing the veil, citizens tooks surnames now, and also the Islamic Calendar gave way to the Western Calendar. The urban life of people's who lived in Turkey changed. Mustafa also introduced nationalism to Turkey. But for here Nationalism wouldn't be rascist. It would be to preserve the independence Of the republic of Turkey. Mustafa was the priesdent for a long time in Turkey. We made alot of changes to his nation. Like I said he made it more Modern.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Gandhi


Gandhi was a very important person for India. Thanks to him India got their Independence. India won Independence from Great Britain. Gandhi was a very smart person he would win India's Independence without violence. Because Great Britain was using violence most of the time, so Gandhi thought if they don't fight back and rebel in non violence way then Great Britain will look bad. Which was a very smart idea. At first the nation didn't listen to him, so Gandhi went on a strike you can say. He fasted for a long time, and then people noticed that he cares about their nation so they started to rebel in a non violence. Gandhi would always go on marches and the people would go with him, they would be on his side because they knew he was doing something good for their nation. One thing that Gandhi did was he made his own supplies. For example he made his own clothes, he boycotted. Clothes cost so much, so Gandhi wanted to rebel. Another thing he rebel for was slat. Great Britain put such a huge tax on salt. So Gandhi and a lot of his followers walked for 240 miles, to the ocean so they get salt, so they can boycott. Gandhi has helped India so much, to get their Independence. I think that thanks to Gandhi India got their Independence. Without him India would lose more people to the violence that was happening. Gandhi was a peace maker, he wanted to get Independence in a peaceful way. Gandhi was still angry when they won Independence because Muslims and Hindus were separated from each other. I think Gandhi Non-violence idea was brilliant. Thanks to Gandhi the nation of India didn't have to worry about getting their Independence anymore.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Russian Revolution


The Russian Revolution was very important. It what changed Russia's government. In the old days Russia would have Czar's or Leaders. Russia had a Revolution because it was doing so bad. The people of Russia were being being controlled. The people were poor, starving, and barely had any hope in them. Czar's mostly cared about them and their families. They had no feeling for the people. The people couldn't wait until the revolution would start. So they started. The Russian People wanted to have peace and have everything going well in their country. They wanted change. Some important causes that started was the influence of World War One. Russia was losing so much people during this war. They were not industrialized. They had not much technology. The war was messing up their economy. That like i was saying the people revolted with Czar's. This is when a man named Lenin came with his group called the Bolsheviks. And he took over and was the new leader. He took the idea of Communism from Karl Marx he thought it was a good idea for Russia Government. And from that long time Russia is still a Communism Country. You can say now that Dictatorship was starting in Russia. When Lenin took over their was finally a peace in Russia. People were now happy with their government. Their economy was now on the right track. Lenin and his group the Bolsheviks had this famous saying that they made. "Peace, land and bread" It think this mean that thanks to Lenin and The Bolsheviks, Russia is now in peace which lead to their economy to go up and now they have anything they wanted now. Now they had more land which made Russia be normal again.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Causes Of WWI


World War One was a deadly war that happened. New army equipment were created for this war. Machine Guns, Poison Gas, Tanks and more. World War One also started to use trenches. Alot of people died during this war, there are many causes that started this war. One Very Important Causes that moslty started everything thing was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand On June 28, 1914. He was visiting Sarajevo. The Austria had many problems with Serbia, which they blamed them and this is what mostly triggered the War to start. When Austria demand war on Serbia then their alliance came in. Austria had Germany while Russia has with Serbia. And then so many countries came to this war. The war that started in Serbia and Austria changed in a chain reaction. Another important causes that happened during World War One was Nationalism. Nationalism is mostly the love of a country. This is mostly like racist was happening you can say. Because each country thought their country was the best. A lot of strong nationalist movements happened. Their were people demanding that they were the best. People would hang up posters and have speeches. And if another country would agree with them then they would form some kind of a alliance together. So they would have each other back with for example they went to war. Last but not least another important causes was Militarism. Militarism is moslty based of a government having a strong and huge military army and ready for war any time. During this a lot of new military technology was built. Like I was saying in the beginning machine guns were built and poison gas, tank and much more. Europe's military was very strong in every country. But this all caused a huge amount of Death. So these were the most important causes that caused World War 1 to happened.