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.

Assignment 4 Chapter 3 ans 2 questions

Chapter 3

1. Because a man (SS officer) told him to say that.
2. The babies burned
3. He meant that he was never going to forget the flames, where he lost his faith.
4. He said "My soul had been invaded and eaten by the flames". He also changed from a kid from school to a prisioner in a strange place.
5. First impression: Better than Birkenau. Cement buildings with two stories rather than wooden barracks. Little gardens here and there.
6. They would shower with gasoline and water.
7. Tatoo numbers on left arms.
8. He was humane.
9. In the mornings: black cofee. At midday: soup. At six o' clock in the afternoon: bread with margarine.
10. He was forced to put his own father in the crematory.

Chapter 2

1. It means that they new what was going to happen to them but they didnt want to admit the truth. The train stopped in Kaschau, a small town on the Czechoslovakian border.
2. It was a vision where she could see the future.
3. Some young men forced her to sit down, then bent and gagged her.
4. The train had stopped in Birkenau.

Assignment #3

1. He was a Handyman, and he was a very poor man, a man of all work.



2. He didnt know why. He just felt like it.



3. About how they killed the kids ajnd two people(foreigh Jews).



4. They thought the old man was crazy, that they wanted to pity him.



5. They had to wear a yellow star. They werent allowed to have anything that had value. The had a curfew; past six. Soldiers could go in their houses. Arrested all leaders of the Jewish community. They were put in the ghettos.



6. A ghetto is a place where Jews were forced to live. Ghettos were places of terrible poverty and during periods of population growth, ghettos had narrow streets and tall, crowded houses.



7. They didnt want to believe the truth.



8. There were 80 persons in each car. They had some bread, a few pails of water. They checked the bars on the windows to make sure they would not come loose. The cars were sealed. One person was in charged of every car: if someone managed to escape, that person would be shot.

Assingment #2

1. 
   
   Posner was a lawyer that had claustrosphobia, and he got stuck in an elevator. He was in the elevador and he starded remembering about the Nazi; he thought he was in World War two. He started to imagine things. The guard started talking to him but he didnt understand what Posner said, he was trying to calm him down. Finally a man came and open the elevator doors.


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   Because they are part of the Jewish community(religion) and they will always remember what happened. Also because I think they got traumatized even though they weren't there. The author is trying to tell us that Jewish people will always remember what the Nazi and Hitler did to the Jews. Also I think he is trying to tell us that they not only hurt the Jewish people that were living in that time, but they also hurted all the Jewish generations.

Aswsignmet #1

During the Holocaust era Hitler and the Nazi killed about six million Jews. He believed that Jews had no more value than rats. Some Nazi that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Between 1948 and 1951 survivors from the Holocaust (almost 700,000 Jews) emigrated to Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143

Young Polish men were forcibly drafted into the German army.
The Polish language was forbidden. Only the German language was allowed.
All secondary schools and colleges were closed.
The Polish press was liquidated. Libraries and bookshops were burned.
Polish art and culture were destroyed.
Polish churches and snyagogues were burned.
Most of the priests were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
Street signs were either destroyed or changed to new German names. Polish cities and towns were renamed in German.
Ruthless obliteration of all traces of Polish history and culture

http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/poland.htm

Assignment #10

What I think about this blog is...

I really liked this blog thing because we get to use the computer more often and because I learned more about the book Sold. I knew there was prostitution but I didnt know it was that bad. Some of the assignments were hard but it made me think about lots of things that are going around the world.

Assignment #8

(Lakshmi)
Wings of Air

My heart longs to be dissolved
In wings of air
And fly in the unhorizoned sky.
I long to open up
All my heart doors
In the delight of my liberation - life.
May my life begin
With the breath of a new hope

http://www.poetseers.org/the_poetseers/sri_chinmoy/library/selected/wingsofair

This poem remainds me of Lakshmi because she never looses her hope. When the American visits her she has more hope of been rescute from the brothel.

Assignment #7

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  These pictures are so sad; such as the one that the man is on top of the girl. That remainds me of Lakshmi and the first sex experience and when she talks about the man telling and making her to do things she doesn't want to do. I got so upset when I saw the picture of the men in line waiting for their turn to have sex with girls. Thats so discusting, how can emn be so mean.

Assignment #6

KIDS Center

http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080104/FEAT01/801040383/1025&nav_category=

This organization is dedicated to children that have been abuse in central throught central Oregon. It helps kids that have been abuse while the staff works in getting evidence to help prosecute cases. It all started when the community thought children had to go through much. The Kids Center was created to served 50 children and they got 10 times more kids.

Assignment #5 Timeline

1. Laskshmi living in Nepal in the Village with her family.


2. Lakshmi has her first menstrual period and her mom explains everything about the period.


3. In the village there has been sixty days without rain and the stepfather leaves to the teashop.


4. Lakshmi sees and talks to Aunti Bilma for the first time during the festival.


5. Lakshmi's stepfather decided to send Lakshmi to the city so she could work as a maid and sell her for 800-rupees.


6. Lakshmi meets Uncle Husband and takes her to the city.


7. Lakshmi get to Happiness House and Uncle Husband sells her for 10,000 rupees and then she starts wondering what will happened to her next.


8. An old man tryies to have sex with Lakshmi and then they tell her what she is in to; PROSTITUTION.


9. Lakshmi has her first sex experience with Habib. Since she is no longer a virgin she changes rooms and meets Harish and Pushpa.


10. She stars learning how to read and speak in the city language.


11. She spends a night with a guy that shows her an accidental kindness.


12. Harish and Pushpa left from the brothel.


13. An American visits Lakshmi and gives her a bird flying card.It was the first american.


14. There was a raid and Shahana gets caught.


15. The second american visits Lakshmi.


16. The Street boy leaves and Lakshmi gives him the Card that the american gave him.


17. The third american visits Lakshmi and Lakshmi tells him she wants to leave. He tells her that they would come for her.


18. Lakshmi starts to believe that they woun't come back.


19. Lakshmi escapes from the brothel.

Assingment 3 Man vs society

There are a lot of problems in the story, but I think the main one is the money. Lakshmi's family is poor as many families in India thats why Lakshmi has to go work on the city. Thats when she gets involve in prostitution. I also think the stepfather is another problem in the story, because without him Lakshmi's family would have more food and Lakshmi wouldn't have to face prostitution.

• Pg. 53 "He takes in...on her wrist."



• Pg. 53 "One thousand rupees," he says.



• Pg. 49 " If I go...sweater for you."



• Pg. 48 " Your stepfather has...as a maid."



• Pg. 41 " My stepfather...big-shoulders coat."

Assignment 2 Everything I need to Know(Pg.141)

This vignette talks about Shahanna explaining everything Lakshmi needs to know. Shahanna tells Lakshmi to tell the customers that she is 12 years old, so they could pay more money. She also tells Lakshmi how to protect from diseases. She explains what happens when a customers like them, how Americans would try to trick them, how to act when an old man is at the door, and how to act when Mumtaz takes important friends.Everything Lakshmi needed to know.

Assingment #1

Hello this is Roxy! I m in eigth grade. I love sports, especially SOCCER! Im in a soccer team since 4th grade. We been in a lot of tournaments and one of them was at Houston Tx. Even tought we lost all the games it was an amausing experience.I also love math, thats why I m in algebra, math team, and Pre Ap math. Im only good at that subject.I m learning how to play the piano, well, I already know how to play it!!!