Assignment 9

http://archives.wiseto.com/human-trafficking-issues-global/2950178.html

Influences of global human trafficking issues on Nigeria: a gender perspective.
This story talks about how poverty is one of the biggest reasons for human trafficking. They need money so people take advantage of that by telling them they would work for someone else, but in fact they are just going to pimp them out. It says that millions of women and young girls are the most common victims. They are transported to another location and are then sold. The most common place they are transported after being sold is western Europe, the Middle East, Japan, North America and Australia. It says that the reasons why they target women and young girls are because of the lack of knowing of their rights. I thought it was going to be long and boring but in fact it was very interesting and that's why I chose this story to compare to the other.

Similarities:
*Both talked about human trafficking
*Both talked about women in their stories
Differences:
*One was talking about that the incident occured in Austin,Tx.
*The other talked about the incident occuring in Nigeria
*One talked about how they were forced into doing labor w/very little food,and a woman being raped repeatedly.
*The other talked about how they were taking advantage of the situation of being poor and in need of a job. Also talked about how they took advantange because they didn't know their legal rights.

Assignment 8 Blinkx Video

The thing that probably caught most of every ones attention was the stiff-armed salute. What's really eye grabbing is that all the people who were loyal to Hitler did it. Why I think they did this was because they were loyal,it showed honor, and it also showed respect to Hitler and thays why I think they would would salute him in this manner.

The 2nd thing that caught my eye was that Hitler is a very good speaker. He spoke like there's nothing to it. That is why he got so many to believe that is was the Jews fault for Germany's problems because he was such a good speaker. Those were the two things that got my attention the stiff-armed salute and the way Hitler spoke so good.

Assignment 7 Chapter 6-9

Chapter 6
1)You were shot on the spot if you didn't keep up.

2)His stomach was hurting, and Elie told him to try to keep on going but he couldn't so he was shot.

3)Rabbi Eliahou got a piece of bread that the Germans were throwing, and his son killed him for the piece of bread and winds up being dead. He wishes that that incident will never happen to him and his father.

4)His last act was playing the violin.

5)Well the Nazi officer chose his father to go to the left, so Elie ran to the left and caused confusion.
Chapter 7
1)The Jews were throwing the dead out of the train to make more room, and thought that Elie's father was dead but Elie woke him up by slapping his father.

2)He remembers(flashback) the lady that was throwing money to the little kids and the kids started to fight.

3) Twelve people got out of the wagon and they arrived at Buchenwald.
Chapter 8
1)Elie's father gets sick and the Blockälteste tells Elie to stop giving his ration to his father and just worry about himself.

2)He was weak and powerless so it was easier to get his ration.

3)Out of guilt he gave his father bread and soup even though he thought the Blockälteste was right.
Chapter 9
1) The wheel of history had turned, they were letting go of prisoners from the camp little by little.

2)The resistance movement was a big group of people who rebelled against the nazis. They helped as many jews as they could escape.

3)They only thought about bread.

4)He saw himself as a corpse weak ,skinny,and fragile.

Assignment 5 Timeline Summary

Concentration Camps
Many Concentration Camps were the number one choice for Nazi's to kill the Jews.There was many other ways of killing the Jews but this was the most used method.The reasons that they would use the concentration camps more than anything was because it was a lot quicker and would spare the Germans less ammunition and less emotional pain.There was about 6 concentration camps located in Poland. When they arrived at the newly added concentration camps (1942) they were not being selected to die they would kill them once they arrived. All the other camps in Poland were closing down except for Auschwitz which kept running through the summer of 1944.All the other camps in Poland were being destroyed to leave no evidence to their crime.At last they sent millions of Jews to the concentration camps in central Germany. Thousands of them died and is now known as the Death Marches.

Assignment 6

Chapter 4

1)The first doctor was the one who checks if this person is healthy or not, and if they would say they were not they would be burned.The dentist was the one who checks for gold or silver teeth to be yanked.

2)Because the Nazis thought since he is German the Jews are unworthy to play his music.

3)When Idek would get mad he would fight anything in his path.

4)He would say that he was sick in order to make the dentist go away and avoid getting his teeth yanked.

5)He met with the same girl that he use to work with.

6)When Ellie refused to give up the tooth they put his dad in the marching line,and since he could not keep up he was beaten.Then Ellie caved in and his tooth was yanked out by a rusty spoon,and he was also forced to give his ration to Franek.

7)The Jews were put in a place with hot burning soup. An old man goes up to the soup and drinks it,and when the bombing started the man died.

8)Juliek whispered "they're expecting trouble" which meant that the Germans knew they would lose if one Jew stood up to them and the rest followed.

9)It was different because they hanged the two men and the beautiful little boy


Chapter 5

1)Because he was asking for his father's permission.

2)To run as fast as he can so they wouldn't catch his number.

3)He ran to Elie and tried to say everything at once.

4)He asked if they could recite the kaddish for him.

5)They put him in the hospital because his foot started to really hurt(cause of pus) ,and was going to get an operation.

6)They had to move because the Russians were following them, and the people in the hospital were set free.

Assignment 4

Chapter 2 pg. 21-26

1) It means that they were told what was going to happen but didn't listen and so when they went to Hungary it was to late. They were at Hungary.

2)She foreshadowed when they arrived ,and that there was fire in the air.

3)At the beginning they thought she was just crazy,but then got annoyed and beat her.

4)It finally stopped at Birkenau, Auschwitz.

Chapter 3 pg. 27-43

1)Maybe because he wanted to obey the other officer that told them to lie about their age.

2)He saw the fiery pit getting filled up with babies.

3)It meant he was losing faith toward God because he thought why would he let this happen to the babies.
4)Well at the beginning God was his savior,light, his life,but then that all changed and he just wanted to live to see another day.

5)He thought it was better than Birkenau not the best but better.

6)They would shave their heads, wash everybody with hot water and gasoline.

7)They would give each person a certain number on their bodies.

8)Because they thought he was being to kind.

9)The rations were this : coffee in the morning, soup at midday, and about sunset bread.

10)He was told to put his own father in the oven (crematoria).

Assignment 3

1) He is a poor man, some kind of priest,and he is tall, awkward, well-liked, humble, and poor.

2) He didn't really know he felt he had to.

3) He told the story about the Nazis killing all the foreign Jews.

4) Because they thought he was mental, and thought they should pity him.

5) Couldn't have anything of monetary value, curfew (not allowed after 6:00), had to wear the yellow star, not allowed in to specific places, lived in schedule, and forced soldiers in their houses.

6) A place where there is a certain ethic group (poor)

7) Because they could not handle the truth.

8) It was crowded (80 to a cart), horrible, and disgusting.

Assignment 2

What that chapter was about was that Adam Posner was ready to leave his work, but then when he went to the elevator the elevator got jammed. His deepest secrets were coming out. It showed that he was afraid of the dark and is claustrophobic. He started panicking because he could not get out, and on top of that he started hearing voices and made him get out even more. He remembered when he was young that he was so scared of the dark when he would go to the theatre and he would have to go to the exit sign because there was a little bit of light. He started remembering when he was being forced into the Cattle Car Complex to take them into the concentration camp. The man that was trying to help him out of the elevator was being attacked by words by Posner telling him he is a Nazi .

I believe he does this because he wants the Jews to be informed that they suffered so much, and he does not want them to forget what had happen in those years.

Assignment 7

The website had very descriptive pictures. many were very disturbing because it shows a lot of people walking in the brothel to go with many of the young girls who sell their body and the men do not care about the girls. I especially remember a picture that the many girls that are there have beautiful decorative butterflies and it reminded me of an interview Mrs. Wieder showed us. The girls getting interviewed said that it is very hard to be happy in the brothel and that they had to think about being happy. From all the pictures that butterfly one stood out the most.

Assignment 5

1. Lakshmi is living in Nepal in the village
2. Lakshmi got her first period and Ama told her everything that she needs to know
3. She goes to the festival and meets Auntie Bimla
4. Lakshmi tells her mother that she wants to work in the city and Lakshmi's dad sells her to Auntie Bimla in Bajai Sita's
5. She goes through many villages where they walk until they meet Uncle Husband
6. She goes with Uncle Husband and he says that he'll protect her from the bad border patrol men
7. She goes to a place called Happiness House where she is forced to sleep with other men by Mumtaz, a fat, mango face, rotti dough hanging on her side, lady
8. She wants to leave but she does not know the language there
9. She drinks a yogurt called Lassi and is drugged and has her first sexual experience
10. Once she has sex with a lot of men she is not considered a virgin and is changed to another room
11. She has sex with someone and calls it an accidental kindness
12. She meets Harish and is taught the language and how to read the language that is spoken there
13. She meets the little street boy who plays a major part because the card that Lakshmi gets from the American he is the one who gets it delivered
14. Then an American who received the card from the street boy comes takes a picture of Lakshmi and tells her that she can be saved from all of the bad things that she has to do there
15. It takes time for the American to come back but it's worth it, saves Lakshmi and arrests Mumtaz

Assignment 3

Man vs. Man

I think that the main conflict of the story is MONEY. The reason I think that money is the conflict is because they don't have don't have a good roof and they have to keep on looking and checking to see if it's going to rain so it wont get in the house.Even though they dont have money the step father still gambles all the money that he can get on. Sometimes it may be everything and that's why Lakshmi gets into prostitution because she thinks that it's her responsibility to help her family get money and try to get a tin roof.

1. "A tin roof... the tea shop" p.1
2. "My stepfather's arm ...and useless thing" p.8
3. "And so he...the old men" p.8

Assignment 2

A Trade p.52

In this vignette Lakshmi's step father is taking her to Bajai Sita's. When they arrive her step father is telling Bajai Sita that Lakshmi wants to work in the city. When Bajai Sita says that she doesn't have any hips, she's plain , and many other things, Lakshmi is wondering why does she need all this if she's going to work as a maid. This shows that she is an innocent little girl and does not know what is going on. I like this vignette because at first there was not much going on until this vignette, and also because this is where all the problems start building up for Lakshmi and gets more interesting.