Wars Are Like Tornadoes

This photo demonstrates how people in the world must work together to fight against wars. This image causes us to reflect on so many things that need mending in our world today, and one of those pending problems is war. Wars always end with a chaotic after effect. No matter how long they last, no matter how many countries are involved in it. Innocent humans die for misunderstandings of others, it’s unjust how many people have to suffer from wars. Peace is worth fighting for. And taking a stand against wars takes us one step closer to a world beholding peace.

Wars are cruel, soldiers fight for their country, but many aren’t even recognized for their actions. Confused new borns, awake to the booms of a bomb blast, crying for their mommy not knowing that their moms won’t be coming back. Wars are unjustice so many people receive the full blow of the war and lose their loved ones. During World War 2 17 million soldiers died from 6 years of war many who still have family with sleepless nights. And millions of civilians and families died from bomb attacks. Do you really think sacrificing such a huge amount of people is worth the fight? I certainly don’t and if you want to look further in to World War two you can click here.

Wars are like tornadoes that come across in the most unexpected times, and sweeps everything with them when it ends. But for many when the war ends it’s actually the beginning. After Japan were defeated in a war and left the country of Vietnam, the French tried to take over Vietnam again. At the end of this war, and after the French were kicked out of the country Vietnam was not the same. Vietnam was divided in to two parts, people believed in different things and they were having a war within themselves. Families also faced starvation or illnesses that they usually couldn’t overcome. This wasn’t the only affect the war had on Vietnam, the chemicals permanently destroyed the land. Many of the survivors also went insane, after the gruesome days they’ve been through. We don’t want this to live on, we should put a stop to it.

I am not the only one out there who believes that wars should come to an end. The people who lived through such terrible wars also took a stand. Such as the situation in World War 2, once the American civilians realized that the war was bad many started uprisings and took a stand. At the end after many uprisings and persuasions the government had to withdraw all the American soldiers back from Vietnam. See how powerful it could be? When so many individuals take a stand it can make a difference. So join us and take a stand against wars.



If we did not fight for peace then the world would suffer from so many casualties. Without peace the world would be a spinning sphere of chaos. This is inspirational because the world could come together and take a stand. Peace is inspirational because it creates a domino effect. When one follows peace everyone does.

Rights to Gender Rights

The clock is ticking. And for some people it keeps ticking. Around the world girls my age are dealing with sexism and gender inequality. Their parents and family, believe that the only way they can offer help to their society is by cleaning houses, and making babies. The principles in their village is that men are the ones who should be educated, and they are the ones who run the village. The Girl Effect is here to prove them wrong. The Girl Effect is here to show them that girls are as important as boys, that girls can be a helping hand, that girls can make a change. Gender Equality is worth fighting for.

It all starts with a twelve-year-old girl. She could get educated, buy a cow earn money, and soon have a herd of cows. This quickly becomes a business that is earning sufficient money. This benefits her family, and they benefit the village buy get a supply of clean water. Do you see what this is getting at? Better villages, means better countries, which means a better world.

Gender Equality is worth fighting for because if women were given a chance to education they could make a huge impetus of change to this vast world.  

Additionally gender equality is worth fighting for because our world could be a harmonious place. Girls wouldn’t live in oppression, and all girls would have the chance to live their dream. The dream they thought they would keeping dreaming of. They could live a life just like you and me. Gender equality would give them the right to rights.

Without gender equality, the world would be in despair and children would suffer along with their mothers. The Girl Effect is a very inspirational because they are an impetus of change and trying to create a better world.

Just Because You Can.

Dream big,
whether it be for the
nation
generation
or imagination
just bring out your determination

Dream big,
like the sky
Let them fly and soar high

Dream big,
And don’t give a care
to those who dare, to stare

Dream big,
because you never know
people will grow
and follow your flow
and trust me
they will grow grow grow

Dream big,
just because you can.

This found poem that I have created, demonstrates what I believe is worth fighting for. In case you haven’t gotten that yet, my poem is about standing up for your dreams. Your dreams are worth fighting for because, when you achieve and live your dreams you become a free person. Dreaming itself gives you a freedom. When one dreams and achieves them, it shows that person has no restraints. Usually, people can’t achieve their dreams because they have restraints. Some one’s stopping them, or there is a law, or they have a big responsibility they can not abandon. These are the people, who will never live in peace, because they will regret not trying to achieve their dream. Because they will live knowing they were passive, and didn’t speak up for their dreams. When you achieve your goal, not only will it benefit you, but it will also benefit others. What I mean is that when one lives their dream it sets an example for the others, it gives them the urge to live theirs as well. For example , a house-wife really wants to get a job, but her husband is restraining her. When that woman speaks up to her husband, and she earns a living from her job, all the women around her who are suffering from gender inequality will stand up against their husbands and men as well. They will get the guts to speak their voice. Through this poem what I am trying to say is that dreams are the key to hope, and hope is the key to achieving your goal.

Racism is a Grown Up Disease

"Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it." This is the motto of Ruby Bridges foundation. Ruby Bridges was a civil rights activist and she had an early start to her journey. Bridges was born to a black family, during when the Board of Education started to desegregate schools.At the age of four Ruby Ruby moved to New Orleans with her parents in search of a better life for their expanding family. When it was time for her to start grade school, she got the chance to attend a white school. Ever since, students stopped attending her school, there were uprisings everyday outside her school, and she was transported to school with marshals. The motto of her foundation displays her life, and encourages us to stand up for what is right, and to take a stand against racism. Equality is worth being fought for.

Equality is important to fight for because without it a race shall always live in oppression and there would be no harmony in this world. Ruby Bridges had stood up for her race, she never gave way to the white people who would curse her everyday. She always stood up tall and ignored them. Everyday she would attend her lessons with Ms. Henry her teacher, even though she didn’t have any classmates or anyone to talk to. If one stands up like Ruby did, then it encourages and empowers everyone to do the same. Slowly as people watched this little girl being escorted everyday to her school with marshals, they started to encourage their children to enter white schools.

Its not only important to fight for equality so a race can live in peace, its also important to fight for equality so that the world can in live in harmony. Equality makes all human beings look at the other as one, and if an adult does then they will pass down this value generations and generations. Which supports Ruby Bridges motto "racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it." If adults stop following the rules of discrimination then children will follow their paths which would create a sense of harmony. With peace between the different races on Earth everyone could have a chance to live in a utopian society.

Without equality, the world would deteriorate. This school wouldn’t even exist we wouldn’t know anything about each, we would never learn anything from each other. Ruby Bridges was the bridge between white and black education. She was an inspirational leader to not only the colored, but also to all the white people. They all started to realize what they never understood, and a little child like Ruby Bridges had to come around and set them right.

Creating a Better World

There are a lot of different challenges our world is facing, and the "Old World" could very well be our future, if I had the opportunity to create a "New World" I would focus, and hope for every human being to be educated. I would give education priority, because with education everyone has the power to understand what is really going on in the world, and what we need to do about it. Such as; keeping peace within the planet, sustaining natural resources, and developing a healthy community for everyone to live in. Imagine what the world would be like if everyone was taught to live in peace. There would be no war, nothing to die for, and no depression. People wouldn't have to face discrimination for their racial differences. With peace, the Nazi Reign wouldn't exist, World War 1 & 2 wouldn't be real, and Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks wouldn't need to take a stand. So many lives could have been saved if people were educated enough to believe in peace, and see the world as one. If the "Old World" had peace, then maybe it wouldn't be suffering from a major case of dystopia. With the power of education, people would learn the importance and urgency in sustaining natural resources. If the "Old World" understood the urgency to value their resources, then maybe it wouldn't have been "polluted and crowded and dying from its own poisons". If people were taught how important it was to use reusable bottles and bags, to use the bicycle when possible, and to switch/ of the lights when it isn't needed, then their world wouldn't have crumbled the way it did. The world could have provided more life, instead of the people having to run away in search of a better world. A whole world could have been saved if people were just taught how to value natural resources. Another example to prove the importance of education, is that with education, people wouldn't have to suffer from poverty and hunger. Since with education, you get the key to a job and money. There would be healthy and happy communities across the world for everyone to live in. They would then value education, and pass it down to their children. And this would go down generations, and generations. Do you see it? Do you see the power of education? Education is the birth to a "New World", if the "Old World" saw that, then maybe they wouldn't have been living in such chaos.

Portrait

I made a portrait of the Avox girl. I decided to do the Avox girl, because she had a strange relationship with Katniss, and the other portraits were some of the main characters, so I decided to do a side character. I did a portrait, because it looked fun to visualize a character, and it wasn't a very difficult project.

Menu

I did a menu, as one of my projects and I worked on it with Claire. I decided to do a menu, because it seemed like an interesting thing to do, and one of the easy ones. We did the food during the hunger games, because it made it seem like the arena was a comfortable place, but it wasn't which made it ironic.

Painting

Another assignment, I did for the hunger games assignment was the painting. The painting is of the scene where Katniss and Peeta are about to eat the poisonous berries in the arena. I decided to do this scene, because it seemed pretty interesting and I was on that part of the book when I did the painting. I wanted to do the painting, because I don't mind painting and it seemed like a fun project to do.

Diary Entries

For 2 of my Hunger Games assignments, I did diary entries. I worked on the diary entries with, Avni. I decided to do the diary entries, because it seemed like an interesting assignment, and I enjoy creative writing. It, also seemed nice to know what the other characters were thinking in specific scenes. For the diary entries we wrote 4 different entries altogether, 2 entries for each character. We did, Haymitch and Gale. The diary entries were fun to do.

The Luttrell Psalter

The Luttrell Psalter are stories and images that portray the lives of peasants, saints, and kings of that era. The Luttrell Psalter is a book made up of scenes that portray an everyday life. Since the Luttrell Psalter is an image drawn by a person who was in the scene, this would be considered a primary source. The Luttrell Psalter was so unique compared to the other psalms, because they were very vibrant, they included a lot of detail, and there were a couple of humorous images. The Luttrell Psalter is also unique, because this book was made to please some one instead of being a religious use.

Analyzing Visual Images

The Caption on the above poster reads "Healthy Parents Have Healthy Children". On your post please do the following:
1. Describe what you see in the picture. Consider color, placement, people and objects, and composition. Everything that you see.
2. Interpret: Guess about the creator is trying to express through the caption and images. Why is this message being conveyed?
Evaluate: What is the intended purpose of this image? The intended audience? Does the image achieve its purpose?

This picture is representing a healthy German family, all the children are chubby and healthy, and the parents are smiling and are stout. The whole family is smiling and they are wearing decent clothing. The picture goes right to the point, "the German Family" it is right in the center, and there are no distractions. The writing is big, yet it is not the first thing we see its on the top and the bottom. The color of the picture is black and white and the picture isn't really loud, and I think what it is trying to show is that there isn't going to be only one family like this, there are going to be many more like this one, so it is in black and white, showing that if you vote for the party, then all of Germany will soon look like this.

What I think the creator is trying to convey is that, all your problems will be solved if you vote for this party, and that you won't have to starve anymore, you will look like this healthy family. So this why it is being put up because they want to attract people to vote for the party, and they are using a healthy family as a bait, because then Germany was suffering under the Great Depression. So this advertisement is giving some of the families some hope.

The purpose of this message is probably for the public to vote for a specific party. The intended audience is the Germans, because I know that the Germans were mostly against the Jews, and I doubt they were talking about the Jews in this picture. The image achieves its purpose, because they are trying to attract Germans, and during that time I would have seriously been attracted to an image like this if I were a parent. So over all I believe this picture is a propaganda to attract Germans, to vote for a specific party, and to generalize all Germans.

Nazi Propaganda

A propaganda is when information, rumours, or ideas are spread out in forms of advertisement.

The Nazi's used propaganda so widely, because they were trying to be elected, and they wanted the Germans to believe that they are superior and the Jews are the bad ones. If the Nazi's hadn't done this, they probably would have had a lower chance of being elected.

Karl Schmidt

Karl Schmidt, has to take care of his wife and 2 children. Due to the depression he lost his job, and he barely had any money. He believes, that if the government abolished the treaty of Versailles, then he wouldn't have lost his job, and the government would be in a stronger position.

Karl Schmidt is going to vote for the Nazi Party. Since he believes that the abolition of the Treaty of Versailles would solve a lot of the problems. One of the Nazi Party's goal is to abolish the treaty of Versailles.

Karl Schmidt would vote for the Nazi Party, because the abolition of the treaty of Versailles is going to solve all his problems. The reason he doesn't have money is because the government has to pay back all the other countries roughly 33 billion dollars, and they did not have any money to give people in Germany proper lives at the same time. Which was why people like Karl Schmidt lost their jobs. Once the treaty is abolished Karl is going to have a little more money and possibly a job, which is a better position than he was in.

Voices in the Dark

If I was in the same situation, I would probably just have said that I was Indian, but I wouldn't have the guts to go on forward. Because, I would know that they would probably threaten to do worse things if I kept annoying them, but if they kept talking I would just ignore them. I am sure a lot of people have been through the same thing, but I can't point out any specific person who has experienced something like this.

Program of the Nazis

There were some very unfair points in the program of the Nazis, but I believe these two points were most unfair points.

The first one was number 7.

The state insures that every citizen live decently and earn his livelihood. If it is impossible to provide food for the whole population, then aliens must be expelled.

This was unfair, because they were giving priority to themselves, and they referred to the Jewish people as Aliens. So if you were Jew and you lived in Germany you would be living in a very low standard of life, and not be treated the right way, which is obviously not fair.

The second statement was unfair was Number 2.

2. Abolition of the Treaty of Versailles.

A treaty is meant to be kept, and once a country has accepted a treaty, they shouldn't try to break it, because the other countries want to keep peace. This seems unfair to the other countries who have kept the treaty, so this was especially unfair.

I wonder why the Germans wanted the newspaper to be in German. I understand they only want Germans to own the newspapers is because they don't anything bad about Germans to be written on the newspaper, and they don't want others to send out their own advertisements and so on. But, I don't understand why they would want in German only.