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Shipley-Darfur Diaries-138 In the section that I read, the journalists were interviewing the boys and men in the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA). These men told about how they traveled to the SLA after their towns were destroyed. Many of them have lost all of the members in their family. They are simply fighting for freedom, something that most of us take for granted. The boys under 18 aren't old enough to fight, so they simply train for the day that they can defend their country. It is really upsetting to me to hear that all most of these young boys want is the chance to go to school lately. A lot of people moan and complain about how they don't want to be at school and hate reading, but that's all these kids want and unfortunately they don't have the resources to do so. Reading this book has helped me to appreciate all of the blessings and opportunities that I have because not everyone lives under the same circumstances.
Ricchiuto aka Rigatoni: The Aftermath of the Chinese Nationalists Revolution, 160-end In these pages I could summarize but I'm not going to, I'm giving a reflection. When I finished this book I can't believe the war lasted more than 20 years! With all China fought for they kept themselves motivated. China was outnumbered and unorganized but in the end I wouldn't say it was a perric victory, however many historians would beg to differ, I see this revolution as a way to finally start out on a firm belief on what their government would set out to be. This new government could be a defending, new and improved force that could prevent future destruction and separation. China was eventually unified and has never been better.
In the book it has explained how the chinese people were killed by the japanese. The chinese fought back but the Japanese fought so brutally that the Chinesse just backed down. In the book now their is a man named John Rabe and he is a nazi German and has saved many of the womans lives by giving them a home and protecting them from rape. He is known as the savior of Nanking because he tried to get the Japanese to stop treating the Chinese so poorly. I also recently read about how people were killed. they were killed by live burials, mutilation, death by fire, rape, by ice, and by dogs. Also many were beheaded. I think it is inhumane the way the Chinese were killed and it is pure evil. I don't know if I would be able to survive this massacure.
KSmith-Genocide:Systematic Killing of a People-63-85 In this section of the book there were very interesting points, and events in history. One event involved the Nazis and Germans. I realized that a lot of events in the mid 1900's involved Germany. Well in this part of the book, Nazis were against Gypsies (ancient people who believed to be descended from nomadic tribes from northwest India) and killed many of them. Gypsies were put in a special camp in Aushwitz, the camp was used before to kill Gypsy kids. On August 1st, 1944 the camp was liquidated, killing 4,000 Gypsies just that day. Nazis have killed many different types of people, they destroyed one third of the Gypsy population in Europe, a quarter of a million. I wonder how many people the Nazis have killed in history.
GSmith-The Trail Of Tears-54-61 This part of my book is kind of off topic. Right now, all the author is talking about are the events that lead up to the main topic. She started 100 years before the actual removals happened. She has been talking about it for awhile now and as I'm reading it I'm thinking, "This is interesting and all, but at this isn't what I need to know. Its nice to know all this background info, but its not really helping." I think it would be better if she had spent less time on the background. While background information is vital, the first 100 pages of the book do not need to be background, it's putting me into some counterproductive territory
Right now in my book, Loung and her sister's have been assigned to a new foster family because there city was invaded. The worst part is her new family dicides to treat her like she is a cripled animal. When Loung is in desperate need for a family, she must except them or she will really understand the meaning of, "orphan."
This section of the book described the events that transpired to lead up to the genocide. Since the early 1940s, fifty years before the genocide began, the Tutsis and the Hutus still didn't get along. Major Tutsi and Hutu groups fought against each other due to assassinations of group leaders. This section also mentions how the genocide began mainly because the Rwandan President was killed when his plane was shot down out of the sky. The plane ironically crashed in the President's garden. There were no survivors.
The Cambodian Genocide has taken a toll on many of the remaining survivors as their families have been torn apart without any form of goodbye. MOP and his somewhat family are traveling the unknown escape route to Thialand where they hope to find safety. Many of the Cambodians who have escaped don't realize that the Khmer Rouge has caught on. With the Khmer Rouge now searching and killing many Cambodians the escape is getting even more challenging. To survive MOP and his family know they have to stick together and remain in a small group. The big group is the one who will get killed not the smaller ones. Along the escape route MOP and his family have learned to trust nobody as those who they trust could be the Khmer Rouge. After safley escaping MOP has made it to a foster family where his journey will now begin in the land of the promising... the United States!
This section of my book was getting pretty good, to read at least. The characters in the book are not in a good spot. Anita and her brother were in church, praying for the lose of Krysia, when Nazis came storming into the chapel and forcing all the Jews into a corner. Somehow the Nazis had found out about the hidden Jews and were there to collect their prize. There were about 10 Jews that were in the group when they boarded the truck. The truck drove away leaving Niania alone. The truck took them to a somewhat nearby prision were they were all put into the same sell. They were treated a lot better then if they were at a concentration camp. They spent Christmas and New Years in their cell, then sometime in the middle of January they were put back on the truck. They were then taken to a concentration camp where they were back with their aunts and uncles. They slept in the normal barracks like everyone else but when they woke up and accounted for, they had a special privalige to go to a special one story house where they were given good food, were able to bathe, and the house was heated. Why they were given this privalige, I don't know. I wish the book would have said why because I would like to know. Then one day, the siren went off and everyone was ordered to be liquidated. It was about 1 in the morning and they were ordered to walk through the woods. While they were Anita's aunt told her to jump out of the group and go off into the woods. She said Niania would be waiting for her and her brother. Anita hesitated because she thought it was a trap. This is where I last finish reading. At the begining of my book, it was really boring. Now that I have reached the action part of it, I don't want to put it down. Everytime the bell goes off to stop reading, I get annoyed because I want to see what is happening.
One specific passage from this section, I felt, showed the total strife the Indians had to conquer, which the majority did not. It tells of how smallpox annihilated the Mandan, who might have had the chance to flee and save themselves, for the time being at least. However, they were under the attack of the Sioux and were unable to flee to what could have been safety. This shows that not only did the Indians have to worry about European conquest, but also European diseases and each other. They were basically trying to fight three battles, and only prepared for one, eachother.
In the recent section of my book that I read the chinese government began the evacuation process for the city of Nanking. The process began late at night as soon as all hope for defending the city was lost. Thousands of lives were lost by people trying to cross the river to get out. Soilders created the most chaos however. They took civilians and litterally ripped thier clothes off so the Japaneese could not tell that they were soldiers. People then tried to swim across the river due to lack of boats and that was bassically suicide in the frigid December waters. This concluding what I read this week in my book..
Sheckells- I ahve Lived a Thousand Years- 117- 151
This one part in my book was really shocking. It was about the girl and her mother were walking into the shower because they just went to a new camp, and her mom falls in the showers. The SS Gaurd tells her the get the heck up and kicks her. Then the daughter punches the gaurd. The gaurd completely knocks her out and she is bleeding. Her head got kicked and slamed into concrete and her legs got all bruised up and her arms. I was really shocked that they could do that. All the people were surprised that she was not killed, but I was just shocked that she had gotten hit that much. Another part when I was surprised was when they were at the worst camp, then they got transfered to one of the best camps. At this camp, they got real food and real shower and they got to have really bed rooms and there own beds. I was really surprised, especially right after she had gotten beaten for sticking up for her mother.
Vlazny-I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree- 243 At the camp, Hannelore is led out into the woods one day by the Commandant. She worries that he has chosen her and the other 39 Jews with her to be executed. When she gets there, she immediately realizes that she is just to cover up what has already been done. They are forced to dig a mass grave for the Jews murdered there. Hannelore fears for her family, who she hopes is not one of the many victims. She meets and forms a friendship with a Polish POW, who offers her food and warm clothing when they meet up. She also runs into her brother, Selly, who is very ill and is still suffering from his collapsed lung. He is led out to the forest one day, and Hannelore begs the Commandant to spare him, saying he is still young enough to work. Surprisingly, he allows him to go to the infirmary and receive double rations. Not too long after that, he dies. Also, Hannelore has to worry about the talk of more and more Jews coming to the camp, and relocation being necessary. She does not want to have to leave her Polish friend, or her other Jewish friend Fella.
Stalin's view of The Soviet Union of Russia was up there with the other superpowers of the world like the U.S. In order to accomplish such a goal it Russia needed to first catch up with everybody and he would start the industrialization process. A part of this process includes many 5 year plans pushing their economy to the limit, along with the people involved. He put everyone to work all for little to nothing they should be earning. Many people died in this stage, being overworked. If someone didn't perform or was thought to have done something against the country, he/she (but mainly men) would either be killed on the spot or sent to the gulag, a labor camp where you would die soon anyway. There were two motivations in life for the laborers which was everyone not in government and they were A-the better you work the more $ you got and B- your life depended on it! This is how things would be for a while
Rose - Seasons of Blood - 150(Wrong page number past post)-179
The Rwandan genocide only gets more and more terrifying. The documenters only witness the worst effects of the genocide. They are forced to abandon orphans, avoid roadside bombs, evade the Hutu army all while trying to reach certain destinations before the sun sets. They witness families living in fields relying on the scarce crops that are in those fields for food. They know that if they're caught, they face one certain fate: death.
Day to day these people would have to avoid threats now commonly found in Iraq and Afganistan. These were innocent people in a war they couldn't win on their own. The worst part of this genocide was there was very little aid from other countries. They were on their own.
Starr- Genocide: The Systematic Killing of a People- 63-85
In this section of the book, the author goes in to more detail about all of the genocides caused mainly by the Nazis. She also talks about the Cambodian Genocide along with the Gypsy genocide. During the Gypsy genocide, their was one officer named Mengele. He was purely evil and didn't care what happened to any of the gypsies. Mengele then got orders that every gypsy in the camps was to be gassed. He took a lot of pleasure in fulfilling this order, talking to kids politely as he took them to their doom. One third of the gypsy population in Europe was destroyed because of that genocide. In the Cambodian genocide, a lot of Jews were forced to leave their homes and move in to camps and work as slave laborers. If they didn't work hard or got tired, they were instantly killed or tortured. Luckily, the Vietnamese troops came in time to save some of the Jew lives and to rid them of the terrible Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
In this section of literature many events occurred within the life of young Moshe Flinker. Our third diarist was a mere thirteen years of age when the Nazi's invaded his town and at the time he was planning on following in his fathers footsteps, and in turn studying business. Things changed immensely in his adolescent life especially from an educational standpoint. When the Nazi's restricted the Jewish usage of public transport, and when his bicycle fell into their hands it ended up taking him an whole hour and a half to get to school. A drastic alteration of Moshe's daily life occurred when he, along with his family, relocated to Brussels. While there, he underwent the troublesome act of hiding their Jewish religion. Things began to change even faster and more drastically and soon enough Moshe and his family were on a one way trip to none other than Auschwitz. Here Moshe and his parents would be brutally slaughtered and left as shear memories of this dark time.
I feel that the Holocaust was a horrible period of time and it should havce never happpened. Killing people through harsh ways goes to show how ignorant people can be. Starving people to death makes them lose their faith in the people and things they strongly believed in before their lives were ripped apart. After being put in these camps, peoples lives changed drasticly. Families were split apart and some never got to see each other again before it was too late. I will never understand what possesed people to be that cruel to others and I wish there was a way to change everything.
I learned that most of the militias were sent to Rwanda after the genocide broke out however, most militias were in Somalia (a country in Africa close to Rwanda). Since most militias were already so close they took their time to come to Rwanda. They didn't rush to get armed protection to the country right away because they thought that it was just another dispute between both groups. I think that you need to determine when you need to take action when there is a country who is dealing with a lot of violence. Even though the people of Rwanda saw it as a normal action I think that the security systems should have took action then and there an could have possibly prevented it. I believe that actions should have been taken when there were signs of a potential genocide. The thought that people let the idea of having a genocide slip by is not okay in my opinion. I realize that not all of the world leaders thought they shouldn't intervene but I still don't think they made the correct decision.
In this section of the book Blima has finally been freed and had left the concentration camp for good with the family she has left. She goes off to find her friend that she met in the camp that was her "mother". She later found out that she was dead. Her brother and sister-in-law then set her up with a man that was also in the Holocaust and they later then marry and are happy together. From this book I learned a lot. I learned that all concentration camps are different and if they were lucky enough the people ended up in a good camp, and others didn't. Also I learned that you have to be able to believe in something and not just give up to make it through the camps.
Yarrish - Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp - 61-End
Reflecting on this book; I think that it did a good job of portraying the violence and anger that went along with the Holocaust. It really gave that message. I think that the author did a fantastic job of putting together information and quotes from survivors to give us a great overview of what was happening in the camps. The information was easy to understand and the pictures provided a good alternative to the information. I couldn't believe how much information was packed into so little pages.
Nero's End-end of book I found it interesting that Nero died the way he did but am not suprised though. Nero in my opinion lived in an imaginary world were everyone pulled strings to get him to where he was and yet believed the world belonged to him. He was a poor leader though and his burning of Rome was the final straw. Nero was forced to commit suicide, which was ordered by the all-high Senate. Not only was this a great dishonor but Nero fled Rome and took poison. He was given the choice to commit suicide or be stoned to death publicly. His death marked the end of the Julio-Claudian line of emperors and marked an end of an era of prosperous growth of the Roman Empire. Nero marked the start of poor emperors that would ultimately lead to Rome's downfall in the 400's.
Patel-Rwanda-36~45 In this section they talked about the Europeans invading Rwanda and changing their economy and government. The Germans and Belgians both favored the Tutsis over the Hutus and they formed the new government around the Tutsis. The Europeans fought over control of Rwanda a lot too so the government and economy in Rwanda changed a lot. There were many laws that limited the Hutus form their voice in government and from owning land. Eventually they did get a little representation and got to own cattle, but they were still oppressed. The missionaries that came with the Europeans taught the Hutu religion though. The church even sided with the Hutu and helped them get heard.
Reinhard-The Rape of Nanking- 143 to 199 I am reading the book "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. The section I read was pages 143 to 199. In this section it talked about a lot of the war aspects of Nanking. It talked about the Japanese and how they attacked Nanking with weapons and not just the rape and torture of the civilians. This part was not very interesting for me because I don’t really like to learn about weapons and things of that nature. This section also talked about the survivors of Nanking. This was interesting to me because I like to hear personal stories of the survivors because most of them are very brave and cool to learn about. Overall, this section was boring but I enjoyed learning about it.
Shipley-Darfur Diaries-138
ReplyDeleteIn the section that I read, the journalists were interviewing the boys and men in the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA). These men told about how they traveled to the SLA after their towns were destroyed. Many of them have lost all of the members in their family. They are simply fighting for freedom, something that most of us take for granted. The boys under 18 aren't old enough to fight, so they simply train for the day that they can defend their country. It is really upsetting to me to hear that all most of these young boys want is the chance to go to school lately. A lot of people moan and complain about how they don't want to be at school and hate reading, but that's all these kids want and unfortunately they don't have the resources to do so. Reading this book has helped me to appreciate all of the blessings and opportunities that I have because not everyone lives under the same circumstances.
Ricchiuto aka Rigatoni: The Aftermath of the Chinese Nationalists Revolution, 160-end
ReplyDeleteIn these pages I could summarize but I'm not going to, I'm giving a reflection. When I finished this book I can't believe the war lasted more than 20 years! With all China fought for they kept themselves motivated. China was outnumbered and unorganized but in the end I wouldn't say it was a perric victory, however many historians would beg to differ, I see this revolution as a way to finally start out on a firm belief on what their government would set out to be. This new government could be a defending, new and improved force that could prevent future destruction and separation. China was eventually unified and has never been better.
winstel- The Rape of Nanking- 128
ReplyDeleteIn the book it has explained how the chinese people were killed by the japanese. The chinese fought back but the Japanese fought so brutally that the Chinesse just backed down. In the book now their is a man named John Rabe and he is a nazi German and has saved many of the womans lives by giving them a home and protecting them from rape. He is known as the savior of Nanking because he tried to get the Japanese to stop treating the Chinese so poorly. I also recently read about how people were killed. they were killed by live burials, mutilation, death by fire, rape, by ice, and by dogs. Also many were beheaded. I think it is inhumane the way the Chinese were killed and it is pure evil. I don't know if I would be able to survive this massacure.
KSmith-Genocide:Systematic Killing of a People-63-85
ReplyDeleteIn this section of the book there were very interesting points, and events in history. One event involved the Nazis and Germans. I realized that a lot of events in the mid 1900's involved Germany. Well in this part of the book, Nazis were against Gypsies (ancient people who believed to be descended from nomadic tribes from northwest India) and killed many of them. Gypsies were put in a special camp in Aushwitz, the camp was used before to kill Gypsy kids. On August 1st, 1944 the camp was liquidated, killing 4,000 Gypsies just that day. Nazis have killed many different types of people, they destroyed one third of the Gypsy population in Europe, a quarter of a million. I wonder how many people the Nazis have killed in history.
GSmith-The Trail Of Tears-54-61
ReplyDeleteThis part of my book is kind of off topic. Right now, all the author is talking about are the events that lead up to the main topic. She started 100 years before the actual removals happened. She has been talking about it for awhile now and as I'm reading it I'm thinking, "This is interesting and all, but at this isn't what I need to know. Its nice to know all this background info, but its not really helping." I think it would be better if she had spent less time on the background. While background information is vital, the first 100 pages of the book do not need to be background, it's putting me into some counterproductive territory
Sydney Adams said...
ReplyDeleteAdams - First They Killed my Father pgs. 129-181
Right now in my book, Loung and her sister's have been assigned to a new foster family because there city was invaded. The worst part is her new family dicides to treat her like she is a cripled animal. When Loung is in desperate need for a family, she must except them or she will really understand the meaning of, "orphan."
Ravida-Rwanda: Country Torn Apart-40~63
ReplyDeleteThis section of the book described the events that transpired to lead up to the genocide. Since the early 1940s, fifty years before the genocide began, the Tutsis and the Hutus still didn't get along. Major Tutsi and Hutu groups fought against each other due to assassinations of group leaders. This section also mentions how the genocide began mainly because the Rwandan President was killed when his plane was shot down out of the sky. The plane ironically crashed in the President's garden. There were no survivors.
St.Pierre-Alive In The Killing Fields-pgs:97-125
ReplyDeleteThe Cambodian Genocide has taken a toll on many of the remaining survivors as their families have been torn apart without any form of goodbye. MOP and his somewhat family are traveling the unknown escape route to Thialand where they hope to find safety. Many of the Cambodians who have escaped don't realize that the Khmer Rouge has caught on. With the Khmer Rouge now searching and killing many Cambodians the escape is getting even more challenging. To survive MOP and his family know they have to stick together and remain in a small group. The big group is the one who will get killed not the smaller ones. Along the escape route MOP and his family have learned to trust nobody as those who they trust could be the Khmer Rouge. After safley escaping MOP has made it to a foster family where his journey will now begin in the land of the promising... the United States!
Wagner-No Pretty Pictures a child of war- 74-98
ReplyDeleteThis section of my book was getting pretty good, to read at least. The characters in the book are not in a good spot. Anita and her brother were in church, praying for the lose of Krysia, when Nazis came storming into the chapel and forcing all the Jews into a corner. Somehow the Nazis had found out about the hidden Jews and were there to collect their prize. There were about 10 Jews that were in the group when they boarded the truck. The truck drove away leaving Niania alone. The truck took them to a somewhat nearby prision were they were all put into the same sell. They were treated a lot better then if they were at a concentration camp. They spent Christmas and New Years in their cell, then sometime in the middle of January they were put back on the truck. They were then taken to a concentration camp where they were back with their aunts and uncles. They slept in the normal barracks like everyone else but when they woke up and accounted for, they had a special privalige to go to a special one story house where they were given good food, were able to bathe, and the house was heated. Why they were given this privalige, I don't know. I wish the book would have said why because I would like to know. Then one day, the siren went off and everyone was ordered to be liquidated. It was about 1 in the morning and they were ordered to walk through the woods. While they were Anita's aunt told her to jump out of the group and go off into the woods. She said Niania would be waiting for her and her brother. Anita hesitated because she thought it was a trap. This is where I last finish reading. At the begining of my book, it was really boring. Now that I have reached the action part of it, I don't want to put it down. Everytime the bell goes off to stop reading, I get annoyed because I want to see what is happening.
Shue - Killing the White Man's Indian - ~179
ReplyDeleteOne specific passage from this section, I felt, showed the total strife the Indians had to conquer, which the majority did not. It tells of how smallpox annihilated the Mandan, who might have had the chance to flee and save themselves, for the time being at least. However, they were under the attack of the Sioux and were unable to flee to what could have been safety. This shows that not only did the Indians have to worry about European conquest, but also European diseases and each other. They were basically trying to fight three battles, and only prepared for one, eachother.
Dylan Shue- The rape of nanking-64-85
ReplyDeleteIn the recent section of my book that I read the chinese government began the evacuation process for the city of Nanking. The process began late at night as soon as all hope for defending the city was lost. Thousands of lives were lost by people trying to cross the river to get out. Soilders created the most chaos however. They took civilians and litterally ripped thier clothes off so the Japaneese could not tell that they were soldiers. People then tried to swim across the river due to lack of boats and that was bassically suicide in the frigid December waters. This concluding what I read this week in my book..
Sheckells- I ahve Lived a Thousand Years- 117- 151
ReplyDeleteThis one part in my book was really shocking. It was about the girl and her mother were walking into the shower because they just went to a new camp, and her mom falls in the showers. The SS Gaurd tells her the get the heck up and kicks her. Then the daughter punches the gaurd. The gaurd completely knocks her out and she is bleeding. Her head got kicked and slamed into concrete and her legs got all bruised up and her arms. I was really shocked that they could do that. All the people were surprised that she was not killed, but I was just shocked that she had gotten hit that much. Another part when I was surprised was when they were at the worst camp, then they got transfered to one of the best camps. At this camp, they got real food and real shower and they got to have really bed rooms and there own beds. I was really surprised, especially right after she had gotten beaten for sticking up for her mother.
Vlazny-I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree- 243
ReplyDeleteAt the camp, Hannelore is led out into the woods one day by the Commandant. She worries that he has chosen her and the other 39 Jews with her to be executed. When she gets there, she immediately realizes that she is just to cover up what has already been done. They are forced to dig a mass grave for the Jews murdered there. Hannelore fears for her family, who she hopes is not one of the many victims. She meets and forms a friendship with a Polish POW, who offers her food and warm clothing when they meet up. She also runs into her brother, Selly, who is very ill and is still suffering from his collapsed lung. He is led out to the forest one day, and Hannelore begs the Commandant to spare him, saying he is still young enough to work. Surprisingly, he allows him to go to the infirmary and receive double rations. Not too long after that, he dies. Also, Hannelore has to worry about the talk of more and more Jews coming to the camp, and relocation being necessary. She does not want to have to leave her Polish friend, or her other Jewish friend Fella.
Stalin's view of The Soviet Union of Russia was up there with the other superpowers of the world like the U.S. In order to accomplish such a goal it Russia needed to first catch up with everybody and he would start the industrialization process. A part of this process includes many 5 year plans pushing their economy to the limit, along with the people involved. He put everyone to work all for little to nothing they should be earning. Many people died in this stage, being overworked. If someone didn't perform or was thought to have done something against the country, he/she (but mainly men) would either be killed on the spot or sent to the gulag, a labor camp where you would die soon anyway. There were two motivations in life for the laborers which was everyone not in government and they were A-the better you work the more $ you got and B- your life depended on it! This is how things would be for a while
ReplyDeleteRose - Seasons of Blood - 150(Wrong page number past post)-179
ReplyDeleteThe Rwandan genocide only gets more and more terrifying. The documenters only witness the worst effects of the genocide. They are forced to abandon orphans, avoid roadside bombs, evade the Hutu army all while trying to reach certain destinations before the sun sets. They witness families living in fields relying on the scarce crops that are in those fields for food. They know that if they're caught, they face one certain fate: death.
Day to day these people would have to avoid threats now commonly found in Iraq and Afganistan. These were innocent people in a war they couldn't win on their own. The worst part of this genocide was there was very little aid from other countries. They were on their own.
Starr- Genocide: The Systematic Killing of a People- 63-85
ReplyDeleteIn this section of the book, the author goes in to more detail about all of the genocides caused mainly by the Nazis. She also talks about the Cambodian Genocide along with the Gypsy genocide. During the Gypsy genocide, their was one officer named Mengele. He was purely evil and didn't care what happened to any of the gypsies. Mengele then got orders that every gypsy in the camps was to be gassed. He took a lot of pleasure in fulfilling this order, talking to kids politely as he took them to their doom. One third of the gypsy population in Europe was destroyed because of that genocide. In the Cambodian genocide, a lot of Jews were forced to leave their homes and move in to camps and work as slave laborers. If they didn't work hard or got tired, they were instantly killed or tortured. Luckily, the Vietnamese troops came in time to save some of the Jew lives and to rid them of the terrible Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
Villier- We are witnesses pages:81-113
ReplyDeleteIn this section of literature many events occurred within the life of young Moshe Flinker. Our third diarist was a mere thirteen years of age when the Nazi's invaded his town and at the time he was planning on following in his fathers footsteps, and in turn studying business. Things changed immensely in his adolescent life especially from an educational standpoint. When the Nazi's restricted the Jewish usage of public transport, and when his bicycle fell into their hands it ended up taking him an whole hour and a half to get to school. A drastic alteration of Moshe's daily life occurred when he, along with his family, relocated to Brussels. While there, he underwent the troublesome act of hiding their Jewish religion. Things began to change even faster and more drastically and soon enough Moshe and his family were on a one way trip to none other than Auschwitz. Here Moshe and his parents would be brutally slaughtered and left as shear memories of this dark time.
Sawyer-The World Must Know-96-125
ReplyDeleteI feel that the Holocaust was a horrible period of time and it should havce never happpened. Killing people through harsh ways goes to show how ignorant people can be. Starving people to death makes them lose their faith in the people and things they strongly believed in before their lives were ripped apart. After being put in these camps, peoples lives changed drasticly. Families were split apart and some never got to see each other again before it was too late. I will never understand what possesed people to be that cruel to others and I wish there was a way to change everything.
Reeser-The Rwanda Genocide-67-87
ReplyDeleteI learned that most of the militias were sent to Rwanda after the genocide broke out however, most militias were in Somalia (a country in Africa close to Rwanda). Since most militias were already so close they took their time to come to Rwanda. They didn't rush to get armed protection to the country right away because they thought that it was just another dispute between both groups. I think that you need to determine when you need to take action when there is a country who is dealing with a lot of violence. Even though the people of Rwanda saw it as a normal action I think that the security systems should have took action then and there an could have possibly prevented it. I believe that actions should have been taken when there were signs of a potential genocide. The thought that people let the idea of having a genocide slip by is not okay in my opinion. I realize that not all of the world leaders thought they shouldn't intervene but I still don't think they made the correct decision.
Rehman-The Story of Blima-133
ReplyDeleteIn this section of the book Blima has finally been freed and had left the concentration camp for good with the family she has left. She goes off to find her friend that she met in the camp that was her "mother". She later found out that she was dead. Her brother and sister-in-law then set her up with a man that was also in the Holocaust and they later then marry and are happy together. From this book I learned a lot. I learned that all concentration camps are different and if they were lucky enough the people ended up in a good camp, and others didn't. Also I learned that you have to be able to believe in something and not just give up to make it through the camps.
Yarrish - Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp - 61-End
ReplyDeleteReflecting on this book; I think that it did a good job of portraying the violence and anger that went along with the Holocaust. It really gave that message. I think that the author did a fantastic job of putting together information and quotes from survivors to give us a great overview of what was happening in the camps. The information was easy to understand and the pictures provided a good alternative to the information. I couldn't believe how much information was packed into so little pages.
Nero's End-end of book
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting that Nero died the way he did but am not suprised though. Nero in my opinion lived in an imaginary world were everyone pulled strings to get him to where he was and yet believed the world belonged to him. He was a poor leader though and his burning of Rome was the final straw. Nero was forced to commit suicide, which was ordered by the all-high Senate. Not only was this a great dishonor but Nero fled Rome and took poison. He was given the choice to commit suicide or be stoned to death publicly. His death marked the end of the Julio-Claudian line of emperors and marked an end of an era of prosperous growth of the Roman Empire. Nero marked the start of poor emperors that would ultimately lead to Rome's downfall in the 400's.
Patel-Rwanda-36~45
ReplyDeleteIn this section they talked about the Europeans invading Rwanda and changing their economy and government. The Germans and Belgians both favored the Tutsis over the Hutus and they formed the new government around the Tutsis. The Europeans fought over control of Rwanda a lot too so the government and economy in Rwanda changed a lot. There were many laws that limited the Hutus form their voice in government and from owning land. Eventually they did get a little representation and got to own cattle, but they were still oppressed. The missionaries that came with the Europeans taught the Hutu religion though. The church even sided with the Hutu and helped them get heard.
Reinhard-The Rape of Nanking- 143 to 199
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. The section I read was pages 143 to 199. In this section it talked about a lot of the war aspects of Nanking. It talked about the Japanese and how they attacked Nanking with weapons and not just the rape and torture of the civilians. This part was not very interesting for me because I don’t really like to learn about weapons and things of that nature. This section also talked about the survivors of Nanking. This was interesting to me because I like to hear personal stories of the survivors because most of them are very brave and cool to learn about. Overall, this section was boring but I enjoyed learning about it.