Inside the Concentration camps Blog post 5
A) Inside the Concentration Camps Eyewitness accounts in Hitlar's Death Camps. By Eugène Aroneanu Translated by Thomas Whissen.
1. Chapter 5 Life In Camps
B) 7-10 Bullet Points

• If you showed sign of weekness most likely you would get a beating no matter what ager you are
• Torchered them untill practically senseless and horrible punishments some commanders considered this a sport
• Women weren't allowed to choose where they slept were mixed with criminals and horrible men
• Many women were raped till almost death
• Religious practice was not allowed if caught death sentence
• During a daily day many were kicked and thrown on ground or beaten
• everyone had to carry 6 bricks a kilometer each day kilometers and in their health it was horrible
• some had commanders on the sides of the wall and they would have to run through on their toes and hands on back of hand being hit by them
• People who were older with canes had to go through the same situations

c.      Write the 5 sentence summary: 

 In this Book, Eugène Aroneanu explains the life in concentration camps. One example is that in a daily day each person had to carry six bricks every kilometer and in their shape it was horrible. Another example is that on a daily day they are kicked and thrown on the ground. Finally the last part is about the religious consequences if they showed any sort of spirtual influence they would be sent to death. These examples are similar to the genocide in africa because they all have a specific group that is killing the other race or group they don't like.

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book
The Ecology of War
author
Susan D. Lanier-Graham
pages used
103-105

• The US's nuclear arsenal was created following WW2
• Through the length of the cold war the US began the creation of nuclear warheads at a rapid rate as the SU tried to catch up
• Due to the creation of nuclear warheads their was many cases of radiation leak
• The radiation leaks were so bad that it was estimated to take up to 63 billion dollars to correct the problem and and to bring them up to regulations it could take 100 billion
• Another problematic by product of the creation of nuclear warheads is nuclear waste
• A temporary solution was thought up and that was to but high level solution into tanks but due to wartime shortages a less reliable material was used opposed to what was planned Which didn't last as long as scientists would have hoped
• Due to that low level nuclear waste was merely put in landfills which in turn caused wide spread nuclear contamination even if it was only a small amount of radiation

The author informs you of the waste caused by the by products of nuclear warheads.  

History book of Assassins, Blog Post # 5

James Waseserman. The Templars and the Assassins, Chapter Seven "An Overveiw of Hasan's Assassins"

Key Points:

• Assassin struggled agaisnt the Sunni and the Seljuk Empire -1107
•  Anti-Nizari preachers were assassinated. -1108
• First use of the word Assasssin, as Hashishiyya, meaning Nizari follower. -1123
• Qiyama (A new idea for Nizari Ismailis) was proclaimed and made the official idea for the Nizaris. -1164
•  Word assassin was proven derived from hashish(shiyya) - 1809
Vocab:
-Hasan: Leader of the Assassin Order in Alamut, succeeded by Muhummad, Hasan II, Muhummad II ,Hasan III, and Muhummad III.
-Malahida a group whose religion is a cover up for the crimes that they do. (Assassins were accused of being this)

Extra:
• Fidai (Assassins) never captured people, only killed, and only weapon used was a golden dagger awarded from Alamut before the mission.

Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon. Chapter: The battle of leuctra.

• the spartans trained very hard.
• the spartan training was very harsh.
• other countries didn't train like the spartans.
• other countries didn't have the money to afford spartans training.
• spartan training was very secretive.

The First World War

• The First World War by John Keegan
• Chapter 4:The Battle of the Frontiers and the Marne
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Japanese Rice Wine

Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism,

Sake (Rice "Wine") by Stephen R. Smith

• Sake - Alcoholic beverage made from rice.  It is a generic term for alcoholic beverages in Japan.
• It is a symbol of social life in modern Japan.
• It is considered to be Japan's national beverage.
• It is considered as a Shinto Sacrament.
• It is often used as an offering to the kami spirits.
• It is believed to be able to purify the profane.
• The proof that Sake is highly praised in Japan is in the names they have for it.
• Nihonsu - Japanese Liquor
• Osake - Honorable Liquor
• Both of these terms are used for Sake in Japan

In this article Stephen Smith argues that Sake is an important symbol for life in Japan.  His evidence for this is that it is used as a sacrament for the Shinto religion, that it's considered Japan's national beverage, and that the terms used to describe it are "Japanese Liquor" and "Honorable Liquor". The Shinto Sacrament piece is culturally significant, because Shinto is a very important religion in Japan.  This is pretty reasonable evidence to back up the fact that the culture in Japan is affected by Sake.  Stephen R. Smith is successful in getting his points across in this piece.

Blog #5

Title: The Technology of World War II

Author: Sean Sheehan

Chapter: Inventions and Discoveries

· Most major inventions were only used in the United States and Germany.

o Countries such as Japan lacked scientific experience to make advanced technology.

· Radar, created in the 1930s, was being tested in the field in the early years of the war.

· Most ground towers were operated by women.

· Radar advancements allowed for individual aircraft to carry their own radars.

· Radars at sea were able to detect enemy U-boats. This alone was enough to scare off some of these submarines.

· The world has started to move from propeller-powered planes to jets.

· The technology of jet aircrafts quickly spread through all countries involved in the war, but not all of the countries implemented the jets.

In this book, Sean Sheehan explains some of the new technology being developed in WWII. One of the technologies that he talked about was the radar and how it eventually was made portable and was able to be used on individual aircrafts and ships. Another invention was the jet engine that was put on fighter planes. These ideas are similar to any new practical invention because they made fighting much easier for whoever was taking advantage of the technology.

Book on Ancient Sparta

Titel- The Gymnasium of Virtue 
Author- Nigel M. Kennell
Chapter- Introduction
In this book Nigel M. Kennell explains that education was not the most important thing to sparta, but it was required. One reason/fact/example that supports this main idea is that spartans were raised to be tough and to be good soldiers. Military was the main focus in Sparta, but they clearly explain that the Children must know the basics. Another factthat supports this main idea is that military was Spartas main focus. Without a military you will be taken over. Finally, the author gives the fact that Sparta did not worry about education. These ideas are similar to ancient Rome because they worried about having a strong military more than education.

Facts
1. Education was not a priority to Sparta
2. Women get better education than men
3. Sparta and Athens rivalry over better education
4. Military came first
5. Most kids were uneducated
6. It was the parents' responsibility to educate kid until age seven
7. Only the basic acedemics were caught

Life in Ancient Rome

Title - Daily life in Ancient Rome

Chapter - Roman Houses

Author - Florance Dupoint

7- 10 Facts

• They were one of the first peoples to have sewer systems
• Gladiators would fight to the death
• Only boys went to school
• The girls stayed home and worked
• Ancient Rome started as a small city in 753 B.C.
• Rome's biggest Colosium held over 250000 people
• Slaves made up over 40 percent of the population
 In this ___________book___________________ (book/article, etc.), ________Florance Dupoint___________ (author)   ________explains______(claims/argues/explains) that the Roman's daily life was very similarm to todays daily life in America. ________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________ (identify author’s argument/purpose).
One reason/fact/example that supports this main idea is _They had to go to work in the morning and then come gome at the end of the day.___________________________________________________________
___________________________. Another reason/fact/example that supports this main idea is _____They had normal sewer systems like we do today, and there not very different at all.___________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Finally, the author gives the reason/fact/example _____fact that the we were influenced by the Romans builiding ideas when we built our capital buildings.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ to support the main idea.
These ideas are _________similar___________ (connected/similar) to ___todays worlds on how Africa is staring to use sewer and water systems, just like the Romans did___________________________________________ (something you learned or experienced previously) because ______it shows just how__ advanced they really were.____________________________________________________________________________________________ (explanation of connection).

Life as a P.O.W.
By: John F. Wukovits

-Japanese showed no mercy to prisoners
-They tourchured their captives
-Bushido was the code they follwed saying neer to surrender
-Battan Death March is an example
-Japs disowned from familiy if they surendered
-Usually beheaded their prioners(epecaily in China)
-Japanese didnt follow the Geneva convention code about taking prisoners

In this Book, John F. Wukovits  explains that the japanese were fierce warriors and whould never surrender or take prisoners. One example that supports this main idea is the battan death march, where they killed hundreds of americans as they forced them to walk across tyhe philipines. Another fact that supports this main idea isthe code of Bushido, that made sure japanese would never surrender. Finally, the author gives the example of th ravage that they cause acroos china, killing thousands of inocent civilians to support the main idea. These ideas are Similar to the holocaust because japanese were slaughtering tens of thousands of innocnet civilians and P.O.W.s

Elizabethan Era

Elizabethan Era

*note I will be editing this over time*

a seemingly random assortment of facts...

One of the biggest things about the middle ages was the class system!

the ranks of the class rank from the highest to the lowest

#1 The Monarch :)

#2 The Nobility

#3 The Gentry

#4 The Merchants

#5 The Laborers

Here is some random info~

~Education

grammer school was avalable to the middle class

~Career oppertunities

-medieval feudal system broke down

-outbreakes of plauge reduced population

-pesants were paid for there labor

-wool trade povided opportunities for Englishmen

-opportunities for people to become apprentices taking a wealthy merchant class emerge

-(oppornunities that had been denied before came up)

~sports!!!!~

-blood sports :(

---bear baiting, bull baiting, and cock fighting

-team sports

---football, hurling( a combonation of polo and hocky) and soccer

-hunting

---favorite of the wealthy nobles...it was a time to show off your horse, cloaths, hawks, and weapons

-Some of the most popular were~

-jousting

-hawking

-fencing

THEATER~ one of the most popular forms of entertainment XD

Book on Ancient Rome daily life

Title - Life of Ancient Rome

7-10 Interesting facts:

• Romans hadan official state god named Sol Invictus
• The rich people of Rome believed heavily on education for their children
• Romans used guard dogs to keep their belonings safe
• Romans were one of the first people to have fully working sewers
• Rome's biggest Colosseum, The Circus Maximus had seating for 250,000 Romans
• 40 percent of Rome's population were slaves
• The Gladiators of Rome fought to the death

Questions that I still have from the book

• Why were the Roman's so brutal?

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Tank

• The tank first appeared on the battlefield in 1916
• It was created to overturn the stalemate caused by artillery and machine guns
• Although tanks had great defensive and offensive abilities they were extremely slow so they were seen as alternative firepower
• Beginning in 1918 experimentation for a tank hybrid was carried out
• Eventually their came to be three categories that tanks fit into 5-10 tons, 15-20 tons, and 25 tons and above
• In the 1930s radios were integrated into tanks revolutionized the way tanks were used
• Later tank battalions were created they included motorized infantry, and artillery formations

Iambic Pentameter

Shakespeare wrote almost every line of his scripts in iambic pentameter.surprisingly people use it without even realizing. His style consisted of 10 beats (a great deal of the time otherwise it indicated an action or movement possibly) its somewhat a emphasis up and down shift in the voice.
/ is a word- or part of a word- when your voice goes up
U is a word - or part of a word- when your voice is flat aka normal-ish

*Note* that the emphasis and different spelling is taken out so you can just get the basic idea for how to use iambic pentameter

/ U / U / U / U / U
A horse A horse MY kingDOM for A horse

but there are odd instances...

But soft what light through yonder window breakes
It is the east and Juliet is the sun
--- Juliet in this case is only two syllables to make it only two, it sounds like “you’ll yet” as does other things like Romeo’s two syllables name is “Rome yo” :)
YO, Romes cool dog. PEACE OOOOUT!!!!!! *ahem* back to serious business...

also there is “ed”s and “ ‘d “s

Hence “banished” is “banish’d from the world”
and worlds exile is death. then “banished”...

Banish’d is the equivalent of what we think of it as but banishED sounds like
“I must banish Ed from Verona for his deed” (‘Ed’ as in the name “Ed”)

so reread it and say it aloud and have your family members come in and ask you “What the heck are you doing?” :) MuHahahaha!!!!!!

WW1

• What countries were involved in the war?
• How did the countries that were in the war, factor into the war?
• Where there any assassinations of politicial leaders during the war?

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article link http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/mgun_maxim.htm

• The Maxim machine gun was invented by Hiram S. Maxim in 1884 and was the worlds first automatic machine gun
• The Maxim machine gun was water cooled and had a water jacket placed around the barrel
• The gun was also belt fed to allow for little or no reload
• What made this gun automatic was the genius system that Hiram Maxim came up with which is using the gas that creates the recoil from the powder charge to load the next bullet itself
• This weapon was used by being put on a sled and having a team of soldiers lifting and moving it
• The maxim machine gun can shoot up to 600 rounds per minute although it usually gets around half that
• The maxim machine gun was shown to the British in 1887 but it was denied
• Later that year he showed his invention to Kaiser Wilhelm 2 who made a exact copy of it

Decoding Shakespeare ↡␥⌿⍥⍫⍩⍲⎓⍾⍡⍉

~The following is in the acknowledgements from The First Folio of Shakespeare ~1623 written by Ben Johnson ~

To the Reader.
This Figure, that thou here feeft put,
It was for gentla Shakefpeare cut;__________________Shakespeare
Wherein the Grauer had a ftrife _____________________graver strife
with Nature, to out-doo the life;
O, could he but haue dravvne his wit___________ have drawn
As well in braffe, as he hath hit
His face; the Print would then furpaffe____________surpass
All, that vvas euer vvrit in braffe.___________________ was ever writ
But, fince he cannot, Reader, looke__________________since
Not on his Picture, But his Booke.
_______________________~B.I.__________________ B.J.
~Letters~
‘s’ is also ‘f ’ in some cases
‘w’ is also ‘vv’ in some cases
‘v’ is also ‘u’ in some cases (and vise-versa)
‘j’ was also ‘i’ in some cases
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~writing technique~
After some words there is an ‘e’ (marke, foule, leafe, minde)
Punctuation is somewhat “off”
Words are uppercase at “random”
There are sometimes “O”s
There are sometimes double constanents (royall, starres, jewell, mallice, dogge)


~What we can learn from this~
1) Letters and words were still being developed at the time
2) Elogenate the vowel before a double constanent
3) E’s after words ment enphisis at the end of the word
4) Uppercase ment to put extra stress on the word
5) Punctuation indicated various things... change in thought, pauses, when you can take a breath and how long of a breath you can take!
6) “O” is not ‘oh’ but indicates that the actor should make a BIG, unually emotional, sound

~In the end~

In many cases Shakespeare wrote how he wanted his actors to actout the play. as in the way it sounds, when to stop and think, when to do a action, ect.

Shakespeare’s Life ~In Bullet points~

Early Life
-Exact date of birth unknown
-Birthday is believed to be April 23 because it was customary to be baptized 3 days after birth
-Baptized at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 26 1564
-Born during the Bubonic plague
-Father was a glove maker O___o
-Received a Latin Education (classical education)
-Studied a large amount of poets in school
-Entered into a hastily arranged marriage instead of attending college
-Details of marriage:

- Married 1582

-Wife: Anne Hathway (she was 26 and William was 18)

- 6 months after marriage Susanna was born (Shakespeare’s daughter)

-Family life:

-(again) May 1583 Susanna was born

-1585 Shakespeare’s twins were born Hamnet(son) and Judith(daughter)

- August 11 1596 Hamnet dies at age 11 of unknown cause

- June 5 1607 Susanna marries Dr. John Hall

-1608 Shakespeare’s first granddaughter Elisabeth was born

-Judith had a hard life with many difficulties regarding children and husband

Career
-He was a poet and made 154 sonnets
-He was an actor
-He was a playwright ~gasp~
-Theaters were closed a few times dew to plague
-1599 Globe Theater built!!!!! :)
-1613 Globe Theater burns to the ground by tragic fire :(

~~~Shakespeare dies in April 1616 at the age of 52 :’(