Animal Farm

So we are reading Animal Farm it begins with a very drunk Mr. Jones (the owner of Manor Farm) doing a really crumby job of, you know, his job. The neglected animals listen to a wise old pig, old Major, who encourages them all to rebel and run the farm themselves. Above all, he says, everyone should be equal. Then he dies. Everyone is excited except for Benjamin, a cynical donkey whose main job in life is to be, well, cynical.

Aim: Should government have the right to change the lifestyle or culture of a person?

- If you think so, what parts of a culture would be OK to change? Is Okay because i think it [health care] should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can't pay their medical bills -- for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that."

- What parts of the U.S. constitution would be violated in a government engaging in this?

• An organization uses a government grant for religious activity.
• A public school event includes prayer or a public school teaches creationism or intelligent design.
• The government displays a religious symbol or text on public property.
• Prayers that contain language specific to one religion are recited before or after public meetings.
• The government funds religious hospitals that refuse to provide certain kinds of reproductive health care services for religious reasons.

How the treatment of the jews & Native Americans Similar ? How there are different ?

There are similar because On 20 March 1933, Heinriuch Himmler announced to the press that 'a concentration camp for political prisoners would be opened at Dachau, just outside Munich. It was to be Germany's first concentration camp, and it set an ominous precedent for the future. Himmler's act set a widely imitated precedent. Soon,concentraation camps were opening up all over the country, augmenting the makeshift gaols and torture centres set up by the brown-shirts in the cellers of recently captured trade union offices. The idea of setting up camps to house real or supposed enemies of the state was not in itself, of course new. The British had used such camps for civilians on the opposing side in the Boer War, (1899-1901) in which conditions were often very poor and death rates of inmates high. Shortly afterwards, the German army had 'concentrated' 14,000 Herero rebels in camps in South-West Africa during the war of 1904-7, treating them so harshly that 500 were said to be dying every month at the camps in Swakopmund and Luderitz Bay. (Luderitz spelled with two dots above the U) The camps had an eventual death rate of 45 per cent, justified by the German administration in terms of the elimination of 'unproductive elements' in the native population. There were different because They were rounded up by Nazi police and collaborators and put on to train for 3 days and 2 nights. When the train got to the camps, people were hearded over to the entrance. Not only Jews were in the camps, but gays, Christians, and gypsies too. People were split up into two lines, one to go into the gas chamber, and the other to be worked to death, literally. Families were split up. 

 

How did I feel reading NIGHT

What makes Night great is that it transcends the particular horrors of what Elie Wiesel went through as a child during the holocaust; it is a story about surviving the worst atrocities imaginable. It is about how does one retain any desire to live after experiencing the very worst of humanity, how to find any semblance of trust. It is particular to his experience, but it is universal as well.

1. How and when the Holocaust ended.

The Holocaust ended at the end of WWII. The Nazi were defeated due to being defeated in war. They were defeated by Russia and the U.S who were called the allies. The Holocaust ended in certain places when the allies let go of the prisoners in the camps in 1944-1945. After Hitler died in 1945, the Germans decided surrendered and let go of all Jewish prisoners. The allied armies all came into Germany to let go of the concentration camps and people. 

why did Elie name his book night

I think Elie Wiesel named is book night, because he wanted to tell the world and let them know that these were the most darkest and most painful times of his life. He picked night as a metaphor for how he felt. After what he went threw he probally felt alone, scared, anrgy. So he wanted to compare that to nightime, were its dark,scary and eeri.

Assignment 4 - Important people of the Holocaust

Nazi Germany also known as the Third Reich (German: Drittes Reich) was Germany when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945. Nazi Germany is best known for its aggressive foreign policy, its launching of World War II, and the Holocaust which resulted in the death of millions of European Jews and other minorities deemed a threat to the Aryan race.