Meeting of the Minds

It is finally time for Meeting of the Minds Day 1. I am very excited and I believe I am ready for it. I am very glad that we are getting a dress rehearsal so I make sure I can get it perfect for Tuesday. To prepare I did a massive amount of research on Otto von Bismarck I read a book about him and printed off about 20 pages of information relating to him to read and than I took the major notes down and looked them over. Some of the things that helped me the most feel like I can be him is looking over his quotes and also looking over things that he did (Who he attacked, why, what he thought of people). I will use this information as an aid to the questions to back me up in the points that I make and help me explain why I believe something.

05/17/2009

Revolution Rebuilding and New Challenges
The powerpoints that were picked to be presented in this section was a great choice and the presentations were also great! I loved learning about NATO and Opec and learning more in detail about many things I only knew the base facts of. Some of my favorite and most insightful powerpoints I heard were the Dalai Lama and The future or the united nations
"Who was the bloodies Tyrant of the 20th Century?"
I really enjoy this paper handout and It taught me a lot of things. I did not realize how bad things were under Mao Zedong and that 40M deaths occured. Looking over this sheet and remembering the facts that you presented us with in class i still have to say that I think Stalin was the "Bloodiest Tyrant" of the 20th century. I base this on the facts that even though Hitler did not care for life Stalin killed many more by his own hand and never once had a regret for it.

Age of Crisis Images

This picture potrays to me the "new found" importance of women in this period. Women needed to be more promanant in society during war time because the men that once made them stay at home left to aid the war efforts. So women found themselvs, like here, helping in factories and many other places to aid the war effort from home.

This is a picture of many people in shelter where you can get food. during this time period many people were very poor and hit hard by the great Depression and could not afford a house or even food. Many people were lost for a job and I think this picture portrays the life of many people during this time period very well.

WWII Photos

This photo shows the major ruin that the atomic bombs left on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The new atomic bomb was 200 times more powerful than any other bomb used in the past. The explosion left everything and everyone in the areas destroied which leaves alot of disscussion on weather the dropping of the bombs were moral right or not.

This pictures shows the horrible reality of how the Jews were treated like they were not even humans. This also shows this time period by showing how massive the deaths were. If this many deaths occured in this one room at only one period in time how many would occure total? Well, 34M deaths occured under Hitler during WWII.

This picture is scary. This shows how the power and persuasion of Hitler almost brain washed millions apon millions of people to create a huge and strong nazi party that he would eventually try to take over all of Europe and if he succeded probably all of the world.

Connection Across Time WWII

World War II is a war that was much different than the war on Terrorism today but their are some unique qualities that are only shared by these two wars. First both of these wars we started by insensitive dictators who killed a massive amount of people for outrageous reasons. Hitler had killed many Jews that were citizens of his own country because he felt threatened or he believed they were inferior to him. Hussein did the same things to the citizens of his own country. Even though personal opinions on the current war differ both wars had great purges and deaths throughout the enemy's countries.

Connection Across Time Age of Crisis

The age of crisis is very similar to today. To of that major parts of the age of crisis was the great depression and the rise of dictators. Currently we are in a state of term oil economical. Currently it is not nearly as bad as during the great depression but it has a lot of the same characteristics. Both of the economical problems was a result of war and loans that were not able to be paid back. I think that currently we could be in the same situation as before if we did not learn from our mistakes and catching the problem a little early, having a more stable stock market, and also having the FDIC and much more trust in banks.
The rise of the dictators also creates a similar situation. We have Kim Jung El that we had to deal with, whom caused a lot of distress. Before him we had a lot of problems with Putin in Russia and currently we are still feeling the effects of Hussein. Hussein like Hitler caused a war that brought troubles to the entire world.

04/24/2009

WWII

It was amazing learning about WWII. Everything went from formation and just shooting at each other to complex planes. strategies, weapons, bombs and so much more! Learning about what happened throughout the war was great It seemed as if Hitler was doing great and he just got greedy and lost it all because as you say he could not read. Transitioning from this into the brink of Total War with the US and Japan was very interesting. The choice to drop the Atomic bomb was a great one in my opinion and if I were president I would have made the same decision instantly. The discussion/debate on the Atomic bomb was very fun and a good experience. I enjoyed hearing the points from both sides and learning some new information on what really happened. I think this really was my FAVORITE unit.

04/22/2009

The Age of Crisis

The age of crisis was a very bad time for the world, almost as a foreshadow for the events to come. This age of crisis started with the great depression because of WWI and the Rise of many dictators throughout the war. Hitler of Germany was obviously the biggest threat at this time. I love learning about Hitler and even though he may be one of the worst man ever he is one of my favorite persons to learn about. Then was Mussolini from Italy, he looked to be a good dictator with promising hopes of a rebuilt economy and armed forces but once he got into an allied power with Hitler things to bad. Learning about Mussolini was very enlighten because with so many other things going on during Mussolini's reign with the war you don't really hear a lot of information about him. And the last dictator we went in depth with was Franco who was a very interesting character and it was really interesting to hear about Spain before and after him and how different things were even with in just a few short decades. This was a great chapter in history to foreshadow the war and it was great to hear about how the war started and the term oil before instead of just learning information on WWII.

Connection Across Time WWI

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04\19\2009

Looking over all of the note sheets that we have been given for WWII I think that were ready to go head first into this Unit. It seems as if my research has made me ready for the core of this unit. I learned about all of the major events leading up to WWII and all of the major powers and leaders during this time also. I really look forward to Maz coming back to go over these notes and to learn some more about some of these men. I really enjoyed reading about Hitler and Churchill. Also I found some very good Videos of Churchill speaking, and he was a great speaker, on YouTube.
I would also love to hear a little more on the great depression, how it connected to the war and a little more in detail about how it happened what it was about and the aftermath of it. I'm very anxious to put everything together and really learn about WWII!

04/16/2009

Now we are learning about WWII and I especially look forward to this unit. Their was a Golden sheet handed out titled Dictatorships and the Second World War, I really found this sheet helpful, informative, easy and to the point. This sheet gave you very specific short questions to help you do your research and better my understanding on WWII. I also enjoyed the PowerPoint that was presented and the role playing interactive game that is played. This helps you understand Nazi Germany while having a little fun, and if I may according to the scoring rubric I make a darn good Nazi :) . The introduction to this unit has been a little longer than the other units but I think this is the unit I am most looking forward to learning about this entire year.

04/15/2009

I learned a ton of information on Fransisco Franco! I have really never learned anything on Franco in my entire school career and am very happy that I did my powerpoint on him. All of the PowerPoints created were great, and I loved this because you get to connect with the studemts, learn public speaking skills, note taking skills, and you also learn the class materal.
I found a connection between many of the dictators that we talked about, and that is that they many of them began their careers in the millitary and they all advanced very quickly through the ranks. It was very fun almost taking a step backward in time going from the cold war and the USSR backward to Hitler, and all the happenings throughout Europe at the time.
Today I had a doctors appointment and I am very dissappointed that I missed the beggining of WWII and the Powerpoint on Hitler. I am very excited to learn about WWII. I can't wait to hear about Hitler and look over the material on WWII!

WWI Works of Art

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I really enjoy this picture and how it relates to the advances during WWI. The Germans went very far advancing technologically during the war, and many of their advances are shown in this picture. In the main part of the picture you can see a blimp or Zeppelin which was not introduced until WWI. Behind the zeppelin you can see many planes which were upgraded greatly in this time period and even behind that you can see planes in the air, showing the new idea of "god fighting". Also I can see what seems to be a German ship in the middle it is very vague and may not be that but it seems like a good fit to this picture. I really enjoyed this picture and how it showed how the war advanced every country technically.

Liberty Plane at the Front

Out of all of the pictures I think this one was my favorite. Artistically I loved the bright colors that make everything pop, I love the attention to detail and the depiction of war and emotions. In relation to WWI this picture does wonders! This picture shows everything from the new DH4 planes that were being flown and how they worked to the life in the trench. By the scared soldiers, the swampy waters, the smoke and the disorganization, you can see how in WWI bacteria was rapid, soldiers were unprepared mentally and that the trench's (the main fighting tactic) were a horrible morbid place to be.

Otto Dix, Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor (Assault under Gas), 1924, watercolour, 35.3 x 47.5 cm, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.

This picture reminded me of the power point that was showed to us by Ms. Brunell. This picture shows three very scary, morbid figures of death wearing gas masks. This picture explains the war in many ways I believe. The gas masks show how the advances in gases brought new tactics to trench war fare and brought death and destruction to thousands of soldiers and usually very painfully. This soldiers also seem to be distorted and with weapons. This shows how scary that the battle field was and how the gases distorted you and almost always lead to pain and suffering.

04/02/2009

The past 3 days I have missed class for my FBLA state competition, but I have read over the material, and what interesting material it is. Throughout World War One I was appalled by the advances in the technology and the advances in weaponry. The ending of the war was rather unfair for lack of a better term. Germany was left out and given the shaft. "The Big Four" went to the treaty of Versailles and created Article 231, this article put the blame all on Germany. In my opinion German deserved a had slap in the face, but will it really solve the problem by putting all the blame on a country that did not even declare war first? Did this just result in poking a hornet’s nest with a stick and teaching no lesson at all the other forces in the central powers? Driving Germany into a recession that was nearly impossible to get out of and decimating their army, political system, economical system, and their land almost drove them to thoughts of Revenge. I really enjoyed this chapter and hope I am ready for the test tomorrow!

03/27/2009

In the past couple days of class we have learned about many things introducing us into WWI. I really enjoyed the golden colored sheet that was handed out listing all the information leading up to World War One. My favorite or rather most interesting thing that I read was the article on Arch Duke Frans Ferdinand. What an odd turn of events! Talk about a series of improbable bad luck for Ferdinand which leads to one of the worst disasters in history!
Mrs. Brunell conducted our class today and we really missed Maz. I really liked the power point that she created and how we got an outline for notes =). The pictures and sound effects (Although sometimes very repulsive [Trench Foot]) really added a nice touch to the powerpoint. Trench War far I found very interesting. This was a Tactic that looked to be outdated (with the new weaponry created) but ended up being a very complex fighting system that in the beginning looked promising. It worked for a little but than when the Germans incorporated gases that were very lethal and low laying the trenches were forced to be evacuated. This is the point were we learned that the invention of gas masks were used so that you did not have to cover their face with pee soaked rags. YUCK!