Blog activity fatelessnes

W1. Before the interview, the presenter visits a monument to the Holocaust created by the American artist Peter Eiserman. Considering the shapes, architecture and general design, in what ways do you think he represents the reality in the concentration camps?

  He represents it as a prison, a huge place with no escape, full of pillars that just block the way, a place where you always feel vulnerable.

2. Which is the paradox the presenter mentions regarding Imre Kertész and the place where he lives?

  He lives in Berlin, Germany the country that at one time wanted to kill him, he says it's because he feels safe and free.

3. Refer to antisemitism before and after Auschwitz according to Kertész.

  The antisemits wanted to exterminate all jews with the concentration camps and the antisemits after Auschwitz want a new Auschwitz fir the jews.

4. In what way do reminders of the past in historical books make us “much richer”?

  In the way that we have a look at diffrrent perspectives of the topic, Kertész gives the example of the battle of Waterloo.

5. Which metaphor does Imre use to exemplify the effect of FATELESSNESS on its readers?

 That the topic of the holocaust was kept worrying our souls and now it knocks from inside that cabinet where we thought we locked it up.

Anne Frank's diary

1 a young jewish

2 death, following the

3 from the nazis

4 died at age fifteen in a 

5 studious and diligent 

6 a passion

7 came to power

8 and outgoing girl

9 notebook for her

10 about her dreams

11 to go to a

12 shared the small

13 the hideout, and

14 mass grave

15 still unknown

16 widely read

Muse - Uprising

How do the song lyrics and the video help develop the theme of Chaos and Revolution?

The video uses a mix of fire and explosions that represent chaos and the revolution with the plastic people burning things and the opressors being the giant killer destructive teddy bears. The lyrics tells us about  a world of opression and destruction, with drugs and a constant death feeling and how a revolution is needed to stop this.

Educreations

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/to-kill-a-mockingbird/23449301/?s=HJ45tg&ref=app

Study section

Linking words

Conjunctions: conjunctions join two statements and express relationships like time, addition, reason, condition and purpose. If the subject is the same in both parts of a sentence, we sometimes omit the subject and "be" after "although". We use "yet" as a conjunction that can replace "but". Most conjunctions can come either before or between the two parts they connect. We can use "and, but, yet, for, or, nor and so". We can use "for" to replace "because".

Linking prepositions: according to - as well as - because of -by - despite - due to - during - in spite of -instead of - rather than - thanks to. 

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好了，我什至中國，但這個是給你的，讀者，我想在中國發表評論（使用谷歌翻譯雖然）我不知道你怎麼了地獄編寫所有這種符號，我會而爆炸不是讓這個語言測試...

Diary entry

July 10th Let me get things straight, there are many stories about me going around and I wanna clarify that they're not true. Well, the things about my past are right, I was part of a so called "gang" with the Cunninghams from Old Sarum. We were arrested by  Mr. Conner and charged for different things, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and using abusive and profane language in th presence of a hearing of a female. They wanted to send us to go to the industrial school but my father thought it was like a prison for boys so he took me out of there, he promised that I wouldn't do anything bad. He locked me up in the house.

 I managed to get out of that place one day and suddenly many stories were created. One day I was cutting some items from The Maycomb Tribune to paste in my scrapbook when I don't know why I drove the scissors into my father's leg, next thing I remember is that the sheriff arrived and took me to jail, but then he put me in the courthouse basement, because the jail was full of Negroes.

 They sent me back to my house after some time with my family again and they told me that I would never exit that place again. From that moment the stories about me went even darker, people said that I go out in the night peeking in other people windows, staring at whoever is inside of that house, they also said that I ate raw squirrels and cats. They also said I was 6 foot tall, that I had a scar across my face, and that my teeth were all yellow and rotten. Somedays people just avoid passing in front of the house, the tree that my house has keeps growing fruits and nobody wants to take them. There is also a girl with her brother that comes to the house very often, they look very scared every time. One day they came with another guy, Dill I think I heard they were calling him (that is his name?) and the brother ran to the door touched the door and ran away, it is weird being like this. Ignored. I would like to go outside and talk to other people, I feel so lonely... Not even my father loved me, he just wanted me to be a legend in the town of Maycomb and make me being a fear symbol in every place I go, the only times I can go outside is when everyone is sleeping, I sneak up and go out of my house in my pyjamas and take a look through the neighbours windows and admire what normal people can do and what I would like to do, seeing photos of people having fun are the things that more depress me, seriously, I can't take it anymore, I will kill myself if this keeps going like this. I have think about it many times and I still think it's a possibility, it will be something fast, and hopefully, with no pain at all. Why can't anybody knock the door and ask for me though, I still don't get it. I'm so lonely...

Writing task 4

1)How does society affect gendered identity?

Society says what is for men and what for women, creating stereotypes and destroying it self. This makes people take the stereotypes and feeling that this stereotypes are right.

2)How is language affected by gendered identity?

Language has been changing through time with society, when the society had more machismo the words were used for the gender, because it happened but when the female society wanted equalitiy this words were changed for more neutral words. In ancient times they were probably the same problems but women didn't make it change, because maybe the works were for men and not for women, like the old society full of machismo.

3)Create an example of your own.

An example for this is when you see a conversation between two women and compare it with a conversation between two men.  Between the women, the conversation will tend to go to fashion and perfumes because the stereotypes makes this gender talk about that, meanwhile the men will be talking about work and cars because, just like the women conversation, the stereotypes make them talk about that.

Writing task 3

Do we change our identity when we wear different clothes, for example, when we are not wearing our school uniform? 1- Yes, for example, when we use uniform we have a better behavior and talk more formal because the uniform reminds us oppression and slavery in some way, so when we don't wear the uniform we finally talk like we were with friends and act like we were with them, we don't have that pressure over us. Do we change our way of speaking? 2-Like I said before, we change the formal language to a more informal language, we feel like we're with friends or that we are with our family. How do our clothes represent our identity? 3- Our clothes represents us everywhere, it makes us show with what kind of people we meet and what we like, for example, a person who likes to play video games will use a t shirt that has a picture of any kind of game, like Juan Andres Salfate, who wears a lot of anime and tv shows t shirts. If we ask somebody with a t shirt of game of thrones if he/she watches the show he/she will probably say yes, because ... who buys a shirt of something that they don't like!?

Animal Farm

1- I don't care, because It's a pacific revolution and they only tried to make things better to them selves. 2-Yes, everyone has complaints and if a hole bunch of animals want the same things It's all right if they don't mess with the human rights. 3-The rebellion took place in a farm somewhere when the animals started complaining about the things that they didn't want on the farm. In this story humans are portrayed as the bad guys, this is shown by the pigs who transformed through the whole story until they used human clothes, thing that was forbidden in the original rules of the farm. 4-Pigs won the rights to the cow's milk because they used the power of words and in that way the pigs started to seem superior in the farm. 5-In some way Snowball wanted to stay pacific and make a windmill but Napoleon, that portrays Hitler in my opinion, wanted to prepare for war, this is good but for the stability of the farm it was better to make a windmill... Poor Snowball. 6-Napoleon solidifies his position by expelling Snowball, by commanding the war against humans, and through charisma and propaganda control, trying to brainwash the other animals. From being a farm looking for liberty they finished like a fully controlled farm. 7-Because a conspiracy that animals were working and giving information to the traitor Snowball, this tells that the role of all the animals who are not pigs will suffer and not living happy. 8-I don't think that this should happen but this happens in everyplace, in my house my dad takes the desitions 9-Well, it can change you from pigs to humans, and makes them go for the money only. 10-You never know who is the more intelligent but the pigs had charisma and that was enough. For example Hitler, he used his speech abilities to win the country and then he killed everyone.

Writing task

Josh Newman 331 4/14/4 Dear Mr Smith, The animal farm went through some big changes after Old Major's death because animals took the pig's speech that was just like the famous "I have a dream" speech, that Martin Luther King delivered in the 1970's, in a very serious tone. "Remove man from scene" Old Mayor said and the other animals tried to make that happen. Their first leader was Snowball, the democratic pig, that tried to make people work and in that way make them earn a part of the production, it was teamwork and that was a good method to make the animal community advance but there was another pig with different political thoughts, Napoleon, who was like an Adolf Hitler but in form of a pig, he used propaganda, he used technology to promote his political party and started destroying the rules set at the beginning of the story and started becoming more human, and what role do humans play in the story? The bad ones, so they were going trough the bad path, the darker side. With thus we can infer that George Orwell prefered democracy to totalitarism. From another perspective, the story can make an allusion to the Russian history, having first Lenin who should be Old Mayor then Trotsky who would be the pig called Snowball and Napoleon should be Stalin that took actually the power by killing Trotsky, but in this case Napoleon just expelled the other pig of the farm. Looking forward to seeing this letter in the newspaper, Sincerely, Ignacio "John" Ruiz