Assignment 10

Death toll in Mexico's drug war surges


I wanted to know how the drug war is going to affect us and i founded this:"In Dallas, nearly two dozen high school students have died in the last two years from overdoses of a $2-a-hit Mexican fad drug." "In Laredo, Texas, a teenager who had been driving around the United States in a $70,000 luxury sedan confessed to becoming a Mexican cartel hit man when he was 13." This are just some of the things i found out about the Mexican drug war that affects us.


http://saveandromeda.com/wordpress/?p=164


Corruption hurting Mexico's fight against crime, Calderon says I wanted to know how the mexican government is trying to stop corruption; purify Mexico.
"Mexico has launched an unprecedented purge of its top police officers as the latest step in its increasingly high-stakes campaign to combat the drugs cartels and end a gruesome wave of narcotics-related violence. " They are supposibly starting, by purifying the police. He has already kicked out 284 federal officers.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-purges-top-police-in-battle-against-corruption-454997.html

Assignment #9

Trial delayed in human trafficking case

Marcia "Jazzy" Ryan is accused of trying to get two girls into prostitution. She faces the same charges as Leonard Russell, which is the man she was trying to help. Officials say this is the first case of human trafficking in IOWA.
Similarities
The "Attorney general wants fight against human trafficking" and "Trial delayed in human trafficking case" are similar because they are both talking about human trafficking. They both are trying to tell people that we need to stop that. They are also similar because they both have people trying to do human trafficking.
Differences
The are different because one story talks about human trafficking in El Paso and the other one is taking place in Iowa. One story specifictly tell us about a case and the other on is just mentioning how victims are confused with immigrants.

Assignment #8

Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born in a town of Braunau near the German border, on April 20 1889. His parents were Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. He killed a lot of Jews and he was the Nazi's leader. He used the Swastika as the symbol for the Nazi's party.





President Hindenburg
Hindenburg was obliged to run for re-election in 1932 as the only candidate who could defeat Adolf Hitler, which he did in a runoff. In his second term as President, he did what he could to oppose the Nazi Party's rise to power, but at last he had to sign this paper where it gave Hitler more power. He died the next year when Hitler took control.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg

Assingment 7

Chapter 6

1. What happened to anyone who did not keep up with the march? They would get shot.

2.How did Zalman die? He had to stop because he had a stomach cramp and all of the people ran over him, and he died.

3.What horrible realization did Elie come to concerning Rabbi Eliahou and his son? How did Elie respond to this? He told himself that he didnt want to be like his son, because the son killed his dad which was maybe the last thing in the world that he had left; just because of the piece of bread.

4.What was Juliek's last act? He played the violin.

5.How did Elie help his father when the selection was made? He ran towards him and caoused confusion.

Chapter 7

1.How did Elie help his dad when he was on the train? He started slapping him so he would wake up because they were going to trow him out of the train.

2.Describe the scene Elie witnessed between a father and a son on the train. He remembered ( got a flash back) that lady that was trowing money to the little kids.

3.How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived? 12 people, Buchenwarld.

Chapter 8

Explain how father/son roles had been reversed in the case of Elie and his father? He started thinking about leaving his father and let him die and to care about himself.

Why was Elie's father being beaten? Because the guys didnt like him and to take his ration; and because he would'n shut up.

What did Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block? He kind of agreed and he was thinking of doing it.

Chapter 9

1.What happened on april 5th? The wheel of the history tured. I think they were been rescued.

2.What was the resistance movement? What did they do? I think its like the army.

3.What did the prisoners do when they were freed? They never thought of revenge.

4.Who did Elie see in the mirror on the last page of the book? What did that mean? He saw" A CORPSED COMTEMPLATING HIM". He meant he saw a dead body or something like that.

Assignment 6 quetions 5

1. Because it was dangerous and risky.
2. To run to give himself a little color.
3. He tought he had little time left so he gave Elie his belongings.
4. He asked them to pray the Kaddish thing for three days but they forgot.
5. His foot was hurting and he had to go to the hospital.
6. Russians were coming.
7. That they were libradet after two days ofter the evacuation.

Assignment 5

1942- Central headquarters established refuges for Jews; enemies interfered with telephone, telegraph, and electrical lines by destroying power stations.




1943- The Nazis burned Ghettos and killed more than 60,000 Jewish people.On August 2, 700 Jews torched parts of the Treblinka death camp. Most of them were killed and only a dozen survived.

1944- The sonderkommando ( prisioners forced to handle the bodies of gas chamber victims) destroyed a cremonia at Auschwitzs. The soborteus were captured and killed.

Assignment 6, Chapter 4 Questions

Chapter 4
1.What were the objectives of the medical examinations? To take out any gold teeth, or something with value.
2.Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play Beethoven? Because Beethoven music was German.
3.Describe one if Idek's bouts of madness. If he was mad he would beat up the person next to him.
4.How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown? He told the dentist that he was not feeling good. That he was sick and that he was going to come next week.
5.Who did Elie meet on the Paris metro. The French woman that worked with him in the electrical parts warehouse.
6.What happened to Ellie when he refused to give his crown to Franek? What was the end result?Franek new Ellie's weak spot and tormented his father. Franek and some dentist pulled his crown with the help of a rusty spoon.
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? " Their expecting trouble" Juliek whispered.
9.During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. '' For God's sake, where is God?" 9What made this hanging different from the others? That the child was too light that he was still breathing, and he remained like that for more than half an hour; lingering between death and life.