Friday, December 21, 2007

Exam 4 Essay 2 Prompt 3

In the 1930's Germany did not really have a set government and that is how Hitler came to power over Germany. He started the Nazis and they started to defeat the people in the government of Germany. They started to gain more and more power after time and then they made a big move and took over the government and when people tried to stop them they would kill them so no one did anything.

When they got the power they became a racist group and they were against all the Jewish people so they started these camps where they would send any Jewish person to and they would be tortured and beaten if they fought. After a while the camps because used for everyone the Nazis didn't like and it became a big thing in the world. Thousands of people were being killed all the time.

The German people did not try to take over the power that Hitler had because they knew he would kill anyone against him and that is what they were doing against the Jewish people. The holocaust became a big murdering streak and Hitler kill thousands and thousands of people. If they would of tried to take over Hitler then they would be put into a camp and most likely killed.

Exam 5 Essay.

Mao became leader of China after a lot of work. He was first recognized as a soldier of China and he was a very good one. He became a part of the communist party and he became one of the leaders along with another person. He formed the red army and defeted the other leaders army and became the leader of the communist party and said he was now the leader of China. When he was leader he did not care much about the people and he gave out a red book that was like a rule book for China. Stalin was similar to Mao because he didn't care much about his people he was more about himself. He said that he was leader forever until his death just like Mao had said in China.

Hitler came to power kind of like Mao. He had scared people saying he had all the power and no one tried to stop him because he did have most of it. Mao came to power by defeating another army but Hitler did it by scareing people and after a while he just said he had all power over the people and they can't do anything so they didn't and when he had power he didn't care about people he just wanted to take over the world.

The most common thing that happens when your building dictatorship is that people forget about everyone and the people of the country. They just want to take over the world and have all the power they want. They use the poor people as there army's and let the wealthy people live. They all have ended up getting the power over there countries and once they do that they say they have it for life and no one can stop them because they would most likely kill them if they try to.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Exam 4. Part 1 Prompt 2

Propaganda is a picture with messages that tries to change the opinion of large groups of people. Propaganda is different from art because it is more of like a hate speech but it is in a picture form. It tells people what they should want and what they shouldn't with out actually saying it. Some people in the wars thought it was like art because propaganda is a picture of people and things but i don't think it should be considered art because it isn't the same thing. Art is something good and peaceful and propaganda is based on bad things that people don't want. They are different degrees of propaganda like some are just pictures of things like Picasso's Guernica, which some people call it art and some call it propaganda but others are pictures of people being killed and those people are based on real life situations. This is a picture of Picasso's art or propaganda called Guernica. I think this is a very weird type of picture or form of propaganda I don't really understand what it is trying to say and it is not very detailed. It looks like the person on the left is throwing there arms up and screaming toward the sky as if she is in trouble or is mad at something that is happening. There are a few people at the bottom of this picture that look like they might have been killed and if this would be considered propaganda those people could be they people that they don't want around and this is showing they should defeat these people. In this picture there is also an animal like thing in the back round that does not look very happy and looks to be angry at something. There are also some people that are also yelling toward the sky it looks like and most of the other people in this picture look very sad and upset.

The bombing of Guernica was an attack by the Germans that destroyed the painting. It was an attack by the planes Germany had on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. This attack by the German's was called Operation Rugen. There were several civilian deaths during this bombing and it had a lot of destruction. During the bombing hundreds of bombs were dropped on the city. This bombing had destroyed three quarters of the city and there was not much left of it. There was about 1600 dead and about 900 wounded out of the around 5,000 people in the city. This was a big blow to there economy and and it had a major effect on the war.