Research assignment #2

the second article i got was from world book again and it was about the holocaust. i choose the holocaust as my second topic because it is by far the most studied genocide and since i am doing the Armenian genocide i wanted to look at the biggest example. so, as established before, genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people based on religion, nationality, race, ect... the holocaust was the genocide committed by the dictator Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers society (Nazi) party. the Nazi party is most famous for killing 6 million Jews, but he also had killed anybody who opposed him or he thought inferior to himself, ie: gypsies, mentally retarded or disabled people, poles, soviets, communists,  gays and lesbians and also Jehovah's witnesses. one of the ways that Hitler and the Nazis would kill people was by sending them to the various concentration camps around Germany and Poland. these concentration camps were most famous for their gas chambers where people thought that they would be taking a shower but really they would be getting killed by poisonous gases. near the end of the war, the Americans and the Russians liberated all of these concentration camps. very few people survived these camps and even fewer weren't changed for life.

reaserch assignment #1

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

i know, i know when you see this your gonna be like "why is he using Wikipedia?!" because it is a good starting point to learn a little bit about a topic i and many other people know about. so the Armenian genocide was, well a genocide. genocide is the systematic killing and destroying of a race, religion, ect... so that means that the holocaust was a genocide and a very terrible one at that, but it wasn't the first. the Armenian genocide was one of the first genocides. it started up in Armenia where the Ottoman empire started a genocide against the Armenians. it basically was the inspiration for the holocaust. 1.5 million people died and i bet you that half of Americans half no clue what it was. one of the most outraging events in this genocide is the deportations in Constantinople. what happened was that many leaders from Armenia were in Constantinople doing something when the ottomans came and arrested them and then later deported them. and it also had all of the best from the holocaust including burnings, gasing, death marches and last but not least concentration camps.

i also used the world book Armenian genocide but it gave me the same info so i just combined the stuff into one.

social awarness issues in my book

• anti semitism
• death
• hopelessness
• survival. 

i want to write about anti antisemitism because i am reading MAUS and that is the main topic in the book. MAUS, with the bulk of the book about a Jew who is in the holocaust you would assume that the book would be very antisemitic. before i read this book i had read many other books about the holocaust, Milkweed, Uncle Misha's Partisans and The Diary Of Anne Frank to name a few. MAUS really stuck out to me though because it was about the overall mix of the holocaust and the war and how they both sometimes collided. i also really likes MAUS because it was a graphic novel. most of the other books i have read have been about a specific thing, like being in hiding, being a partisan, or being in a ghetto. but what was great about MAUS is that it wasn't actually people, they were various animals i will give you a key

the Jews- mice
the polish- pigs
the Germans- cats
the Americans- dogs
the french- frogs
the russians- not said

i am really suprised that you can get such a convincing and point telling message through animals so that really impressed me

social awarness song gathering and one entry

bully- three days grace
borders are...- serj tankian
yes, it's genocide- serj tankian
left of center- serj tankian
peace be revenged- serj tankian

entry about peace be revenged

although this might not in some eyes be the biggest issue in the songs I've named others were the armeninan genocide, borders and war but this one stuck out to me the most because it directly had to deal with me.
this song is basically saying how humans are screwing up the world, an example of this from the song is.

"Once we used to hear the light footsteps of dear
now we have no fear and in turn will disappear
We have built our lives without nature in mind
So that we've become the disease but we wont go"
this song is not only one of my favorite songs but also, at least to me, it leaves a very, very strong message. i also agree with this, humans have become a disease but we aren't stopping we are just spreading. nature means next to nothing to more then half the people in the world and the people who do are out numbered and out gunnned

social awarness issues in my community

• bullying
• racism
• disrespect
• stabbings
• gangs
• violence

although there aren't many gangs in my neighborhood/ community, there are some and those some aren't really that bad but they still are there and they affect me daily. throughout most of 6th and 7th grade i was scared to walk up 4th st to get to my house so i walked up 3rd st and that worked out fine this year and the end of last year i started walking up 4th st. the other day me and a couple of friends were walking up 4th st and we saw these kids from John Jay high school came down the block and they were smoking pot. my friends and i had no idea what to do because a high person is a dangerous person. so we just started randomly talking about how in the world does a spider spin green silk. this worked and looking back on that experience it was really funny but trust me at the time we all, or at least i know i was flipping out inside. and an earlier experience i had gone through was when i was going to shule(shule is school in yiddish and it is basically hebrew school except you learn yiddish and more about culture.) when these highschool kids popped out from around the corner and started walking after me. the exact details aren't really clear to me but i do know that they tried to mug me, then they left, they came back and tried to mug me again. ever since then i honestly will not go up that street.

social awarness song

(taken from Mrs Robinson)

hola todos of you immigrants
stand up and fight for all your rights
its aiiiiight

nosotros sing para tu derechos
we are all equal humanos
en este muuuuundoooooo