Reflection October 1- 7

Reflection: Last week I was not able to accomplish a lot with my 20% project because of miscommunications with my peers, due to the fact that I was absent. So the week that just past was not too productive. I spent last week talking to my fellow classmates about my topic, which am still not sure on. I would like to survey a group of middle school children. I would like to see if there is a correlation between the number of sports they play and its effects on grades. I will then research how the brain works and where information a student learns is stored and the microscopic events that occur. This project will help me see whether or not their is a positive correlation or negative correlation with the number of sports and academic performance. I learned that I need to get a consent form if I am going to use someone who has given me consent orally.

"Work Will set you Free"

Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, and the disabled were targeted were forced into concentration camps, where they suffered gruesome and morbid events. On a numerous of Nazi concentration camps the slogan “Arbeit macht frei” which is translated to “Work will set you free” was placed on the entrances. This is kind of an ironic lie because the thoughts of the Nazis as they captured these innocent people was "noone will be free" and that everyone that enters would never leave, and would die in that very same camp.

Indifference

Many people were indifferent. People Just did not care. If their families and welfare were not endanger they felt that the holocaust was not effecting to the them, they felt that it was not their problem.

"If my family, safety, and welfare is not endangered then then the Holocaust is not my problem." Mentality

The Day...

Due to the lock down and preparing for a quiz I was unable to do much new research, but I began putting things into my own words.

I have formed an opinion after meticulously researching:

Human beings during that the Holocaust is an example of a mob mentality. Mob mentality according to wise geek.com "is used to refer to unique behavioral characteristics which emerge when people are in large groups". Anyone who studies mob mentality can tell you if a person is powerful and convincing enough, they can get anyone to follow them.

Hitler had incredibly influential resources at hand and had a dominating presence. It's all charisma....and propaganda. People will believe anything if they see enough of it enough times.

Why did Britain and France not stop Hitler?

The UK and France still remembered the horrors of trench warfare in WW1 and were trying every other method to keep peace in Europe, instead of war. When Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. The Munich agreement is a good indicator that England did not want to war.

France put all that money and time into building the Maginot Line to deter Germany from attacking France. Both countries lost millions of men in WW1 and didn't want to repeat it. The scars of that war affected the people to the government.

When they did go to war with Germany, the Maginot line was bypassed through the Ardennes. Germany's blitzkrieg method overwhelmed France and England's armies.

Just wanted to pay tribute to one of my favorite basketball players Jeremy Lin, of the New York Knicks. He is a Harvard Graduate, and one of the three people to ever play in the NBA coming from Harvard. Even though he received no athletic scholarships out of high school, he was not discouraged and continue to pursue his basketball career. Although many people told him to give up, and said you don't have a chance. HE DIDN'T, HE DID NOT QUIT. He has showed me with commitment and perseverance you can do anything. Thanks Lin.