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Chen Shen GD Mr. Giusti 11/7/11

Persuasive Essay page: http://chenshen1025.wikispaces.com/Persuasive+Essay+page

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Bruno is really upset that he promised he would help Shmuel find his father and brought some sandwiches, but now he may never see him again. The way to Berlin seems so short that Out-with gradually disappears into the horizon. Bruno cannot sleep at all, sobbing sadly, or even think about Shmuel is now waiting for him on the other side of the fence. =====

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Back to Berlin, Bruno cannot stop thinking about Shmuel. Years after years, he seems has already forget his best friend, chasing with other children. However, we believe they will finally meet each other again, hugging and playing football together. =====

Dear Bruno,
==== Sweetie, grandma is so happy to receive your letter. I know the house may not be as good as home, but since you are there you have to be strong and try to adapt to the surroundings. I really miss you and want you to come back as soon as possible, and I hope there will not be too much time before you coming back to your grandma’s embrace. Honey, I understand it is hard for you to handle all of the things happen there, but promise me you will try your best and stay away form the danger. ====

==== As for people you motioned, grandma think they are just some poor neighbors who do not want you to talk to them. So just stay away form them and play with Gretel or Maria. If you were concerning the hard ground and wire fence, I would suggest my talented grandson to regard them as normal fences because maybe there really are normal fences which are not as beautiful as fences in Berlin. ====

==== Grandma is so proud of you to be not afraid about new environment. Now the only thing you should do is to feel satisfied that you still live with your mom and dad, and complain no more about the house. If you had any trouble, please write a to me. I will always look forward your reply. ==== Love you forever Your grandmother

Powerpoint: [[file:Holocaust.pptx]]
Chen Shen

GD Mr. Giusti

10/10/11

1. “However, the new house had only three floors.”

The major difference between Bruno and children in Warsaw Ghetto is that they live in a completely different environment. Like what the quote says, Bruno’s old house has more than three floors and his house located in Berlin. But as for children in Warsaw Ghetto, they live pretty poor and do not even treated as human beings. In the documentary, it says that people in concentration camp sleep in a very narrow place without sheet or quilt. It can tell that Bruno is in the haven while those children are in the hell.

2. “They look filthy. Hilda and Isobel and Louise have a bath every morning and so do I. Those children look like they’ve never had a bath in their lives”

Apparently, Bruno lives a prince’s life with hot bath and enough food. However, according to the children’s appearance and clothes, it can be easily concluded that they have an extremely hard time dealing with lives. Also, throughout the movie there are a lot of scenes presenting how impoverished Warsaw Ghetto are with no food to eat. Their bodies are like mummifications so I can imagine how poor these children are living with no freedom.

3. “For a moment he considered running across the platform to tell the people about the empty seats in his carriage, but he decided not to as something told him that if he didn’t make Mother angry, it would make Gretel furious and that would be worse still.”

In others’ eyes, people in another side of wired fence are not the same class with Bruno. However, Bruno has no sense of that and he still tried to be friends with the children. He is like an odd boy with different view from grown-ups. On the opposite, Children in concentration camp are self-abased and do not talk much.

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Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It is spread out all over our lives. For instance, when we are in a group that all the people share the same hobby, we all easily find that we have the same opinions with others. Also, when people around you face the same difficulties as you do, you will feel you are empathetic towards them. However, the situations are not only occurring in a bunch of people who are same, but also happening among different human beings. Just like what we have done today in GD class. We stood in a limited area which was crowded and tight, some of us cannot even breathe. But back to the 1940s, Jews and other races people were forced into the car for a very long time. They had neither food to eat nor place to pee, so they had to do it on the ground. Think about it, this would be extremely smelly. With the experience today, I was empathetic towards these poor people. I an in a really superior conditions, which means I have enough money to buy whatever I want and a warm place to live. But people in the concentration camp were not and their lives were not even controlled by themselves. =====

Title: Warsaw Ghetto Response
====Actually, I do not like stressful job and Adam Czerniakow must be freaking out because of the dilemma, which means he stuck in how to make the ghetto happier and calm Nazi down. If I had a chance to be Adam czerniakow, and accept the leadership, undoubtedly I would reject it because I do not have the power to overthrow Nazi. If I had done something wrong, I would have only two choices: killed by Nazi or myself. Just like what the text said, at that time Nazi was kidnapping the Ghetto and Adam czerniakow had to use Jews’ money to ransom the hostage. That was ridiculous that he lost the money and continued to lose his people and could do nothing. If I were him, I would feel like I am a useless leader and maybe that was the reason he committed suicide. To be a law-abiding citizen, I prefer to live easier than in terror and guilt. ====

Free write: Beggars are everywhere in China. Apparently they are different from us as they are homeless and have not enough food to eat, at least most of them. What I meant by that was that I found some beggars were not actually "beggars", they pretended they were and made money by doing this. As I walked along the street and saw a old man begging for food, I might suspect if it was real. However, sometimes I will give them money. But when the number of them increased, I would choose to pretend as I did not see them and just walked away. People do not want to get into trouble helping them after all and they will make an excuse like "others will give them a hand."

However, we should try to better understand people who are suffering. The most efficient way is to be in the environment. When others are unwilling to help you just like you did to others, you will then realize the importance of giving a hand. Another method is becoming more considerate,which means people can not be selfish and should be aware of the importance of helping.

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That was ridicules that our representatives signed the Treaty of Versailles. When I saw the terms of treaty I was extremely angry about unfair lists that our country had to give up same territories, power of military and finance and accepted the responsibility for starting the World War one. Signing the treaty was humiliating the country! We were such a strong empire at a time, but now we lost respect from all over the world. =====

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Restarting the war would be a great chance to rebuild German honor. However, we were no longer had the ability to do this. Looked at our military: army was reduced to 100,000 men and was not allowed tanks. How could they agree this absurd term, made our country so weak that we did not even have power to fight against others? Also, we had given away so many territories and did not they ever think about how crucial territory is? The most awful thing was that we had to admit full responsibility for starting the war and had paid a large number of money to other country. Therefore we could not keep the highest status in Europe as well as reputation. No, no. I am German and I really could not accept that fact that Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles. =====

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We were guilty though; three big trees just took advantages of us when we had no choice but to sign it. We gave up all our honor and powers; sometimes I hope the representatives would never have done that and Germany would still be the lord of the planet. =====

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We can see in this video, that black guy has been already assimilated into English culture and he was dating a white girl. However, the girl's brother saw them and felt really angry because his nationalism could not allow his sister dating with black people. He heard that his sister and that black guy would run away. In order to stop them, he killed the guy with poison to stand up for his ethnocentrism. I really like the ending by the way. =====

Chen Shen GD Mr. Guisti 9/12/11 Assignment: Create your wikispace page for this course. In two paragraphs of at least 8 sentences each, write 1) what you know about Europe, 2) what you want to know about Europe and 3) what your goals are for this class.

I heard that the name “Europe” came form a name of princess of Phoenicia in ancient time. The story talked about that Zeus, who is the lord of 12 Gods of Olympus, fall in love with this princess and in order to get her attention, he changed himself into a bull. When the princess sit on the back of him, which is bull’s back, he ran into the wave and carried her to a land to start a new life. The land is now Europe, which is named to remember the princess. Another thing I know about the Europe is The Renaissance. The Renaissance started in Italy because there were a lot of ancient Greek or Roman works there. The movement was mainly about turning the ancient works, especially paintings, into new works, which represented human beings. And The Renaissance valued human spirit and encourage humanity.

I want to know the art and architectures in Europe. Also, I am pretty interested in the European mercenaries. I have read some books about European history when I was in 7th grade. And I am a little bit confused about how each country in Europe spited up or came together during and after the Wartime. I am really exited about leaning the European history in this class because I have been keen in this part of the history but always did not have enough time to get what I want. Now I finally have the chance to learn that all over again. I am looking forward to the class and my goal is to get a great score by participating and smart preparing. Though I am a new here, I am getting used to the school and classmates. I will do better, hopefully.

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