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.

Dionne Igbanugo and I have just won third place in the State of New Jersey in a Health Occupations Students of America compeition for Carrear Health Display. Which mean we are qualified to compete nationally in Lake Buena Vista, Fl, against other states.

Due to budget cuts, the school no longer pays for us to attend, so we need to fundraise the money. Does anyone have any fundraising ideas?

Ugochi and I ... successful competitors.

My Essential Question

"Why did people/governments/countries did not get involved in the overthrowing Hitler?"

Does anyone have an opinion? It may include this in my powerpoint.

Other countries did not want to end up like Austria...

• According to http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-annexes-austria:

They simply marched in with no resistance and annexed it to Germany.

On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.

In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, learning of the conspiracy, met with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the hopes of reasserting his country's independence but was instead bullied into naming several top Austrian Nazis to his cabinet. On March 9, Schuschnigg called a national vote to resolve the question of Anschluss, or "annexation," once and for all. Before the plebiscite could take place, however, Schuschnigg gave in to pressure from Hitler and resigned on March 11. In his resignation address, under coercion from the Nazis, he pleaded with Austrian forces not to resist a German "advance" into the country.

The next day, March 12, Hitler accompanied German troops into Austria, where enthusiastic crowds met them. Hitler appointed a new Nazi government, and on March 13 the Anschluss was proclaimed. Austria existed as a federal state of Germany until the end of World War II, when the Allied powers declared the Anschluss void and reestablished an independent Austria. Schuschnigg, who had been imprisoned soon after resigning, was released in 1945.

I really wanted to make a video, or at least incorporate some type of video into my project. i also would like to display my information using Microsoft's Power Point program

Im having second thoughts about whether I should change my essential question to comparing Rowanda vs Holocaust, because I would be more passionate about researching information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2YEUhHFMHY

Today I researched information on Hitler's rise to power:

http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/Holocaust/hitler.html

Hitler's rise was sudden.

• He was part of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly known as the Nazi Party

• This political party was formed and developed during the post-World War I era.

• The group was anti-Marxist, and opposed the democratic post-war government of the Wiemar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles

• Advocate of extreme nationalism and Pan-Germanism as well as virulent anti-semitism

• The Enabling Act — when used ruthlessly and with authority — virtually assured that Hitler could thereafter constitutionally exercise dictatorial power without legal objection.

• Hitler rose to a place of prominence in the early years of the party.

• Being one of the best speakers of the party, he told the other members of the party to either make him leader of the party, or, he would never return.

• He was aided in part by his willingness to use violence in advancing his political objectives and to recruit party members who were willing to do the same

• In the mid-1920s, the party engaged in electoral battles in which Hitler participated as a speaker and organizer,[3] as well as in street battles and violence between the Rotfrontkämpferbund and the Nazi's Sturmabteilung (SA).

• Through the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Nazis gathered enough electoral support to become the largest political party in the Reichstag, and Hitler's blend of political acuity, deceptiveness and cunning converted the party's non-majority but plurality status into effective governing power in the ailing Weimar Republic of 1933.

• Once in power, the Nazis created a mythology surrounding the rise to power, and they described the period that roughly corresponds to the scope of this article as either the Kampfzeit (the time of struggle) or the Kampfjahre (years of struggle)

My opinion based on the evidence provided:

In Germany, Hitler's rise was pretty sudden. He gave the people hope of building the country up again. I think by the time people realized what Hitler was doing it was too late to stop him. He had too much power; the people didn't even realize what he was planing. It was far too dangerous to live in german and publicly go against him. Many people did what they could by hidding families and/or try to smuggle them out of the country. Most European countries that were not support of Hitler and his plan. Quickly build up large armies to protect them because they too were in danger of Hitler’s army. There numbers were far too great and the countries did not have sufficient supplies.