Night- Chapter 1

     In our American Studies class, we are reading the book "Night" written by Ellie Wissel. Each few chapters, we recognize an important passage and explain the significance it provides in the story. 

    The passage that we found significant to the theme and setting of the story was "Night fell. Some twenty people had gathered in our courtyard. My father was sharing some anecdotes and holding forth on his opinion of the situation. He was a good storyteller. Suddenly, the gate opened, and Stern, a former shopkeeper who now was a policeman,entered and took my father aside. (......)  The story he had interrupted would remain unfinished." (Wiesel, 12). Within this passage, it connects to the setting by illustrating a dark imagine of how many lives were being interrupted as reality of World War II slowly become a real part of their lives. The setting demonstrates the inequality and brutality the Jewish people went through. This passage also connects to the theme of the story by relating the "unfinished stories" to the lives of millions of Jews that Hitler killed. The theme of the story represents the dark life that the author and millions of other Jewish people went through. 

Night- Chapter 2 & 3

"He got up and asked politely, in German " Excuse me..... Could you tell me where the toilets are located".  The gypsies there to him for a long time, from head to toe. As if he wished to ascertain that the person addressing him was actually a creature of flesh and bone, a human being with a body in a belly. Then, as if walking from the deep sleep, he slapped my father was such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours" (Wiesel 39). 

            In our American studies class we are reading the book"Night" written by Ellie Wiesel. Each few chapters we recognize and important passage and explain the importance of it. This passage from the book "Night" gives a deeper meaning to the narrators father. As it reveals more about the the Jews new life and their environment that they will be living in. It connects to theme by showing how all Jews were being looked down to and being mistreated.

Significant Passage from Night

The passage that we found significant to the theme and setting of the story was "Night fell. Some twenty people had gathered in our courtyard. My father was sharing some anecdotes and holding forth on his opinion of the situation. He was a good storyteller. Suddenly, the gate opened, and Stern, a former shopkeeper who now was a policeman,entered and took my father aside. (......)  The story he had interrupted would remain unfinished." (Wiesel, 12)

It connects to the setting by illustrating a dark imagine of how many lives were being interrupted as reality of world war 2 slowly become a real part of their lives. It also connects to the theme of the story by relating the unfinished stories to the lifes of millions of Jews that Hitler killed. The theme of the story is the dark life that the author went through which easily could of ended.

Holocaust Question Hypothesis- How did some of Hitler's soldiers disagree with him and what did they do about it?

I chose this question because not a lot of people know or think of the opinions of the Nazi soldiers. They were just displayed as horrible people, but not a lot of people thought about putting themselves in their shoes.

The Nazi soldiers that didn't want to follow Hitler's ideals diffidently had an internal struggle between wanting to serve and following Hitler's orders. They wanted Germany to be victorious against the other European powers, but not through the way that Hitler was doing it. Some maybe didn't like murdering Jews to win the war while others didn't like their fascist government made by Hitler. Either way, they wanted to take him down in some form of way.

There were planned attacks against Hitler within his own army. One example of this is when Hitler was in a meeting, this was a bomb planted underneath the table that went off during the meeting. Hitler obviously survived, but with minor injuries. It was later known that a high ranked soldier did it.

The Great Gasby

If I would be able to go back to change one thing, it would be to talk to my passed away relatives more. There are a lot of things that I don't know about them that I would rather hear it from thier point of view instead of a retelling from another relative. There are many unanswered questions I could of asked my grandfather and my great grandmother. I could of asked them how life was like during their childhoods. I could of also asked my grandfather or great grandmother their experience of communist Poland. Other than just historical events, I could of asked them of just important moments of their life's and get to know them better.

My grandfather was the first one from my family to come to America. I never really talked to him about his experiences in America. I obviously heard stories from my other relatives, but it isn't quite the same as hearing the story from the original source. I would of loved to know how he adapted to the different life style having to know little of the language. 

My great grandmother was born shortly after World War One and grew up in World War Two. I could of asked her the experiences she had during World War Two. She never came to America, but I visited her in Poland. I was a child when I went to Poland so talking about wars wasn't something that interested me or was even in my mind to ask. At that point I didn't even consider that it might be my last time talking to her. Though I may still happy with the memories I have made.

World War I Propaganda in America

The purpose of propaganda is to change a population's viewpoint of a certain topic or cause. During World War One, America was filled with propaganda from the Committee of Public Information and other media outlets. One example is the propaganda poster from New York American Magazine promoting Liberty Bonds.

This poster tries to convince the Americna people to buy liberty bonds to help out the war effort. It uses the logic that if you can't enlist, invest. It tries to guilt the public that didn't enlist into buying liberty bonds to help their country since the people won't fight. It also uses nationalism by saying "defend your country with you dollars." By buying these liberty bonds, the public is defending its country. The huge white soldier is representing America while his shield and sword is representing the power of Liberty bonds for America to fight different problems. These problems include devastation, starvation, war, pestilence, and death which are all represented but the foes that the soldier is facing.

Another example is from James Montgomery Flagg is promoting the navy.

This propaganda poster tries to convince the American public to join the navy to make history instead of reading it. It's targeting an average male American to join the navy since it shows an average American talking to a navy soldier. The angel in the background that is covered in American like flag wear is repreasenting the good cause of joining the navy. The navy soldier represents an experienced navy soldier showing the way to the average American to the way. He is also the one telling him to make history instead of reading it.

These posters were most likely very effective in 1914 through 1918 because they both show strong nationalism in the posters which is what most Americans felt about their young country at the time. If posters were released now if WW1 was happening now the posters would most likely include a more diverse sent of people instead of just all white males. 

DWW Essay

DWW Essay

By Jacob Wojtasik

    Dances with Wolves by Kevin Coster was an accurate representation of what was going on in the west of America at the time. It did a great job of replicating the struggle of the Native Americans. It also did a good job of presenting the culture of the Native Americans.

    In the movie, the Souix tribe was afraid of white people invading thier homeland. This was also true to the past where Native American tribes were also troubled by how they were going to deal with the white people. Both in the movie and real life, the Native Americans had difficulties trying to protect thier homeland.