Assignment 10 : Corruption hurting Mexico's fight against crime, Calderon says...

While i was reading the article (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico10-2008dec10,0,2574405.story) the main thing that grabbed my attention was that even though people try stopping corruption in Mexico it keeps going on and even worse .It amazed me that people are trying to do something about corruption in Mexico because i mean they never try to solve problems.There is different kinds of corruption like police,government,work corruption and some other too.Calderon was talking about how they had broken corruption in the state oil company, in Mexican customs, public works agencies. Even then it doesn't stop.The main reason why corruption is interesting to me is that because people are not scared to get caught and its everywhere even for the dumbest reason ever they corrupt and its mainly at Mexico.

Assingment 9: Human Traficking

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20081209/lead/lead9.html

This article is about how two teenagers where pressed with charges following another guy named Jones.The reason they where getting charges was because they where part of a sexual molestation towards a young teenage girl.I think they mentioned that 2 of them where also part of the human trafficking.They where going to go to Court on April 15 of next year because of this situation.Police have been trying to stop this kind of stuff of human trafficking but it goes on ore and more.

Assignment 8 :Hitlers Rise to Power

The March the Nazis did!!

Hitler

Swastika

While i watched this video i noticed three specific things which where: The symbol,The march, and Hitler.Everybody had that symbol which was the "Swastika".The people that where marching where wearing that little figure and everybody was doing this salute which was the way they saluted Hitler.Hitler for the non-Jew's was like a god to them.I noticed that when they marched they kinda ran a little bit and they would hold flags and had the swastika.

Another thing I noticed was the pride they had for being a Nazi.Hitler was one of the first people to be in the Nazi party he was like the leader.The Nazis where the ones that helped Hitler do everything in the holocaust.You could see the pride they had by the way they did there solute and how they would respond to Hitler with that anger against the Jews.They all had the same uniform which was the green or black suit and the red band around their arm and with a swastika symbol in the hand band(bracelet all the way up the arm).

Assignment 7: Questions for chapter 6-9

Chapter 6:

1. They get shot and they die.

2.He had a stomach ache "cramp",then the pain was to much that he pulled down his pants and through himself on the floor and got stepped on by the crowd.

3.He saw the son kill his father just fro food and he realized that he would never hurt his father just for a piece of bread.

4.His last act was playing the violin.

5.Well when they sent his father to the left he ran to him and stayed with him.

Chapter 7:

1.Elie started slapping his father so he could wake up and they wouldn't throw him in the pile of the dead people.

2.He got a flashback of when people back in Aden that would throw coins to the "natives" but this lady got out of hand and kept on throwing them and two little kids where fighting for it.

3.There was about 100 or so in the wagon.There was 12 of them left.

Chapter 8:

1.When his father gets sick and he had to take care of him.After he realized that he couldn't do anything for him,he then new that he just had to help himself to survive that place.

2.They beaded Elie's father because he wouldn't be quite and also because he couldn't get out of bed and they would beat him to get his bread and to relieve himself.

3.He thought he was right but he also felt guilty so then he gave his father bread and soup.

Chapter 9:

1.The wheel of history .

2.Everyone fought against the Nazis.

3.Well, they said that they didn't have no thought of revenge even though all those things happened.

4.He saw a corpse which was him, he could never forget that person he saw in the opposite wall all weak and skinny.

Assignment 6: Chapter 5

Chapter 5.

1.Because he was asking his father's permission to do so.

2.He was told to run so fast they wouldn't be able to catch his number.

3.♥LOVE...

4.He asked for them to think of him, to gather 10 men and hold a special service .

5.All of his friends would say kaddish; they didn't do it.

6.He was gonna get an operation.

It was evacuated because the Russians were coming. It was liberated two days after the evacuation.

Assingment 5: Timeline

1.Rise of the Nazi Party: 14 years after WWII the Nazi's group grew to the largest party in Germany

2.Nazification: When Hitler was Chancellor, then Reichsführer; the Nazi changed Germany's economic, political, and social ways.

3.The Ghettos: Jew were put in ghettos in the next step of Hitler's Final Solution.The Camps: Concentration camps were the last step to Hitler's Final Solution.

4.Resistance: The Jewish tried to resist by stealing bread or attacking the Nazi shuffle.

5.Rescue and Liberation: Some survived through neighbors and others through allies that rescued them.

6.Aftermath: Nazi perpetrators were arrested and punished by their crimes while Jews who had survived the camps had begun to try to rebuild their lives.

Assingment Chapter 4..= )

Chapter 4:

1.What were the objectives of the medical examinations?
2.Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play Beethoven?
3.Describe one if Idek's bouts of madness.
4.How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?
5.Who did Elie meet on the Paris metro.
6.What happened to Ellie when he refused to give his crown to Franek? What was the end result?
7.Describe the scene at the soup cauldrons.
8.During the preliminary ceremonies before hanging, what did Juliek tell whisper to Elie? What does this suggest?
9.During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from the others?

Chapter 4 Answers:

Question 1- It was important to be checking them selves to see if they are healthy.They have to be checking that everyone is on good condition's to work and do many other stuff.

Question 2- I am guessing that they couldn't play Beethoven because they where marching and they needed music for the marching.

Question 3- Well, Idek sometimes made some fits of anger.Once people saw his mad face they know that they need to get away because its not a happy face.

Question 4 - He pretended that he was sick and that he would come another day.

Question 5- He met this beautiful lady that once lived in Poland, in Buna.

Question 6- At the end they took away his gold crown for nothing because only for a little while franek treated him nice because soon he left the concentration camp.

Question 7-One of the inmates crawled out to get soup and he got shot.

Question 8-This ceremony,will it soon be over?Im hungry ..." What does this suggest? They had so many of the hangings they werent important anymore.

Question 9- They were crying for the young boy that got hung but didnt die right away.

Assignment 4:?'s from chapter 2&3!!

Chapter 2...pg 23-28!!
1. Explain, "our eyes were opened, but too late." Where was the train at this point?
The train was already in Kaschau, a small town on the Czechoslovakian border.

2.Her nightmare or what she was yelling out was that there was fire in the corner of the train that their was flames and to get out.

3. What did some of the passengers do to quiet Madame Schacter?
Some people where beating her to see if she would stay quite but she didn't . A couple of men held her down tied her up and stuck something in her mouth for her to stay quite and not start yelling.

4. Where did the train finally stop?
They were going on a train to a concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Chapter 3 ....Pg 29-46!!=)

1. When questioned by the S.S. Officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?

He lied about his age ,because earlier in the story a man had came and told him that he was 18 not 14 or 15.

2. What was the first horrifying sight that Elie at first disbelieved?

I think it was about the throwing the babies in the air and using them as targets, but not only that one also when they would dump the babies in the fire like if it was trash and didn't care.The other one that i remember is that when they had to walk and throw them self's in the whole with the fire.

3. Explain what Elie meant when he said, "Never shall I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever."

He didn't want to forget what he had just experienced he had lost his faith and he had much more to go.

4. How did Elie change in a short time?

Well once again he lost his faith and watching how they hit his father he didn't have no more feelings knowing that he knew the pain that same way his father felt it, and not only that he also felt anger towards the people that were doing all those horrible things to them.

5. What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?

Well, in his opinion it was better than in Birkenau.It had gardens here and there, big 2 story house, and blocks he wasn't sure what they were but they were blocks.

6. What was the "compulsory formality" at the entrance to all camps?

All the camps had barbed wire or something to protect the place and people to not escape.

7.What sort of identification was used on the prisoners?

They would get tattooed with a number on the arm.

8. Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from his position?

They removed him because he was to nice to them.

9. What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?

They would feed them soup and bread once a day.

10.What was Bela Katz forced to do once he was chosen for his strength?

He was to throw him father in the crematorium.

Chapter one Night ?'s!!!(assignment #3)

*1.Who is Moishe/Moshe the Beadle?Moishe is a man of all work.They describe him as an awkward,humble, and religious man.Everybody liked him until he came back.He was also Elie's friend.

*2. Why did Elise cry when he prayed?They would ask him why he would cry but he answered "I don't know why I cry every time I pray."

*3.When Moishe/Moshe returned what did he tell?He told everybody what he had experienced and all the horrible things he saw when they captured him,but nobody believed him.

*4. Why didn't people believe him?They thought that he just wanted attention and they where also afraid that the Nazis would come and get them too.

*5.List the ways the Jewish people of Sighet lost their rights (List 5).
-They would arrest the leader first.
-Curfew(they couldn't be out after 6:00)
-Nothing monetary valuable(nothing like jewelery,clothes,shoes,etc.)
-They would put the yellow star
-Then they would put them in the ghetto.

*6.What is a Ghetto?It is a neighborhood with certain ethnic group.Not certainly being poor ,but not having the great life.

*7.Why did citizens resist the truth , even when it was in front of them?
They where afraid that the Nazis would come an get them too.

*8.Describe the conditions in the train.
-They carry 80 people in one cattle car.
-If some one tries to escape they would all get shot.
-It is really humid and there is not much air for everybody.
-They cannot do their business,take a shower,eat or anything else just wait.

Assignment 2:The Holocaust!!!

The Holocaust was one of the worst persecutions and murders of the world history in my opinion.The holocaust was led by a man named Adolf Hitler.Adolf Hitler was a really smart man I mean the way he planned everything and how he did it took some work not any kind of leader or man could do that.Adolf Hitler might have been smart but he was crazy.

He used his knowledge for the wrong reasons.

One of the reasons that Hitler started this massacre was to kill all the Jews because he did not like them at all.Even though Adolf didn't kill the people it was the worst thing that could ever happened in the world century's. Adolf send groups of people called Nazis to do all the dirty work.A lot of innocent adults and children's where murdered for no reason.Sometimes they would throw babies in the hair and shoot them, they where targets for the Nazis.Other stuff they would do was shoot people,burn them alive, and even just have them with out food or anything.They would also use a symbol called the "Swastika" to represent them.

Assignment 1

The chapter was about a guy named Adam that was ready to go home from a long day at work he had just got in the elevator when it stopped working and he got stuck by himself.The lights where flickering the elevator would not go up,down,open, or close. Adam was claustrophobic and was afraid of the dark,so he started panicking because he was alone with no help.While he was in the elevator he remembered of a story when he was little boy he had to be in the EXIT door from the theater to get out as soon as possible.He also started panicking because he thought he was in a cattle car complex going to a concentrating camp.After some hours pass a police officer goes and tries helping him.At the end they rescue him from the elevator.