Thursday, March 26, 2009

Film Lesson: Night and Fog


Night and Fog is a documentary film about the Nazi in the concentration camp. The film is directed by Alain Resnais and written by jean Caryon who won the Jean virgo for 1956. Some of my reactions to "Night and fog" was very surprised shock, very sad and its so hard to believe how humans can do this to other human being. Yes, I find the film very powerful, a lot of dead bodies, a lot of cruelty, a lot of unfairness, it shows how much pain the Jews had to live with, little kids so young dying, babies getting killed,  how much the Jews worked and they weren't feed or anything,  it showed the crematory, the ovens , the bathroom, it just makes you just want to cry. It compares with the scene you view from Schindler's list because some of the scenes from the documentary night and Fog are used in Schindler's list. For example the scene of the train when they are about to go in it. The documentary shows you more of the Holocaust because it shows you what really happened is not making anything up or adding any more scenes.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Treaty of Versaille




The treaty of versailles was the treaty that ended World War1. It ended the war between germany and the Allied Powers. Five years after the assassination ofArchduke Franz Ferinad the treaty was sign on june 28 1919. One of the major thing that that the Treaty said was that Germany and its allies had to accept responsibility for causing the war, so pretty much the war was blame on them.They also had to pay reparation to any countries that got involved in the war. The treaty versailles took time to take place eventhough it was signed in 1919 ,six months passs and then the negotiations at Paris Peace conference. I think the treaty was't fair because it blamed eveything on the Germans. They say that the treaty of versaukke ked to the rse of fascism and Adolph Hitler because the German economic had went downs the people armed force was viewed as an embarrassment and the Germans felt very down and insecure .Fascism and Adolh wanted to take revenge.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mustafa Kemal (aka: Ataturk)

The ottoman Empire was one of the biggest empires. It was very large. The Ottaman empire was one of the loosing side that lost durig WW1. In conclusion of WW1 the empire split up to many countries , for example one was Turkey.AS presidentfor 15 yrs,Mustafa kemal Ataturk he introduced the abroad range and swift and sweeping reforms. He hade many achievement in Turkey.However the most were after the claer WESTERn ideal . He believed that the way that Muslim countries should be run is by outlived itself. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk basicly wanted to modernize Turkey.He introduces abroad rang a political system that took many thing from Wester system, he never alloed no political pluralism only allowed his own Republican People's party. He also introduces the abroad range of swift and sweeping reforms; in political, social legal, economic, and and andultural sphere, to give his nation happiness and make everybody equal, that what he wanted(Equal rights)

*secular: is the state of being separate from religion

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ghandhi


Gandhi help the nation of Indian to gain independence from Great Britain by using non violence, he believe that violence did';t need to be use. Even though the British attacked the them, the Indians, muslims or other didn't attack back. For example April 13, 1919 a bunch of Punjabis gathered in Amristsar;s Jallian wala Bagh to protest and talk about their independence then the British troops ordered 50 soldiers to fire all the people that were gathered. However the people didn't fight back they just ran and try to hide. From 1918 to 1922 the movement had become much more stronger. Gandhi led the Indian National showed series of civil disobedience campaigns, that didn't include any violence, what so ever. He organized or group large amount of people to talk about and have meeting, however this was provided Indians couldn't have no meeting what so ever. Gandhi created different cultures, religions and political belief. He got arrested plenty of time but when he did it wasn't for a long time, tho this made him gain more power.Gandhi try to ask the British to stop buying goods from the British and start using Indian goods. Gandhi started to make his own clothes to show the British that he didn't need there stuff and this way by some people following his footstep it would make the economic bad for the British. I do think that that Ghandi had the moat influence for the independence of India, but what help was that WW2 had ended by 1947.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Russians Revolution


The russians had revolution because there was a lot of social gulf between the classes, the peasants who are the former serfs and the land owners, The peasants land was retained by the landowner at the time serfs were freed was stolen by them. Some of the major causes of the revolution in February and October were that they were losing and starving. They never recovered probably a little bit form the Russo-japanese War in 1905. The economy was similar to how it was in 1500's, they didn't experience any revolution, renaissance or Enlightenment. The Russian did not have the technology that the other countries had since the economy of the 1500's. They also didn't have a good leadership, that didn;t pay attention to the needs of the peasant only to their class and themselves. Starvation was a very big cause in the revolution the peasants couldn't grow enough food. Due to World war i the Russia didn't have no technology like the Germans did. It was horrible many people wanted to get out of the due to starvation. Nicholas ii then stepped in and was thinking of getting.out the war. Lenin was the leader of the pole of the communism party. Bolsheviek was the leader of the group .Lenin promisss in the quote for peace, love and bread.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Cause of WWI


The primary causes of nationalism was that nationalism was ignore in favor of preserving the peace. Nationalism created a problem for Austria Hungary and the Balkan, areas comprised of many conflicting national groups. Militarism was a primary cause most of the countries in the hostile camp were building large armies and navies during they years before. Military office developed and tended to dominate the civil authorities . Before the problem happen the country had drawn up complete plan of the mobilization. The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was in 1914 he was shot, he was killed by a Sebian Nationalist. Then after that Germany was with Austria and the Russia move up and defend Balkan friends. Then nationalisnm turn Frechman against German and Russian against Austria
Another reason the Great War started was because of Imperialism, Great Britain, Germany adit was able to spread to differet places like Belgium and the Great Britain. The alliance system was another reason for WWI.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The Opium Wars


Answer: Opium is a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpodsand usedto produce heroin. The drug waws produce in, shipped from the East Indies to China by British merchants. This drug waws very addicted and had gotten many chinese on it in the early 1800's. This is how the Opium war started off, the Bristish opium trade in China started the world's very first drug in the 19the century, it was reffered as Anglo- Chinese war too.

The opium was introduce as a medicine to the Chinese to treat any diseases such as dysentery, cholera and diarrhea, it treated this diseases it was verty powerful and addicted. Howver then in 1700 Optium was introduce to the china as a drug to mix with tobacco and be smoked by the British. Chinese tea, sil became really popular inthe Western countries around the 18th century. The chinese were very independed they did not want or need anything from Great Britain or any other country.China was self sufficient, there was no other products to export to China so they decided to mix tobaco with Opium and promote smokingin China. Alot of opium was sold more than two million pounds every year to China The british and the Chinese went to war and the British end up killing alot of people. The Chinese realize that if they continue to have flourished trade then there economy will drop and they were gonna end up with no money and teh population was gonna drop to. The british won because of their advance technology and weapons and they trick the chinese too. They made the Chinese sign a treaty of