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If I was in Charlie shoes it would be a really hard choose for me to make because I would also be really tired of being made fun of and not being smart but at the same time wouldn’t really care because I wouldn’t be a shame of who I am and I wouldn’t change my self or doing anything to me just because of other people because I know im not the only person like that or have the same problem’s but I would choose not to take that offer because like I said I didn’t come to this world to change anything of me or just do something because of people making fun of me . I would be good of how I am and I wouldn’t change for anybody. Even though I wouldn’t be any smarter I know there is a lot more ways to be smart. The benefits of taking the offer would be good in some ways because you would be smarter, understand more things and be able to do more things you never could do and will most of all school would be easier then it use to be .the risk would be really bad because in this case their would be a lot of risk your taking because their could be a lot of things that could go wrong and just wouldn’t come out right. 

Strikes - Yesenia Villarreal

On for Strikes

  What is a ‘strike’? To start off, let me explain to you my own definition, a strike is to act in an opposed way physically and verbally for something, for your own reason usually dealing with how one handles things. To pick an argument or violence to express how you feel about that ‘something’ you’re against. But a ‘strike’ in the dictionary found online: (http://www.investorwords.com/5807/strike.html). Investorwords. Web. May 18, 2012. This site has displayed their meaning of a Strike: “A work stoppage undertaken in support of a bargaining position or in protest of some aspect of a previous agreement or proposed agreement between labor and management.”

  As for strikes, one of the very first was The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912. It all began February 24^th, 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. “It was day 44, the largest, most violent, textile labor strike in America” (Baker, Julie. The Bread and Roses strike of 1912. M. Reynolds Pub., 2007. 160 pages. Print.) which came from the book. These were people fighting in many races, some immigrants and some children. They fought for their jobs that wouldn’t give them enough pay to feed their children, that they were always risking their life without any coverage, no insurance of anything but little pay in the end for nothing. Some of the children were taken away and arrested during the strike; it was a saying against life itself and how Massachusetts ran things.

  Over the years I believe almost everyone in history has at least argued or fought for something in some sort of active way. Three people to talk about would be one, John F. Kennedy. I’d like to talk about him and how he represented his way of a ‘fight’ during his presidency time. In the Introduction to John F. Kennedy, it has been explained that his public service as a PT-boat commander happened around the WWII. (Kennedy, Caroline. Profiles in Courage. HarperCollins, 2006. 304 pages. Print.) Kennedy, had inspirations for serving and doing what he considered was right for this country, this all had started out with a passion for history and led him to want to do right according to the book (Kennedy, Caroline. Profiles in Courage. HarperCollins, 2006. 304 pages. Print.) Becoming early as president Kennedy, came representing himself with brilliant speeches. One speech of equality compared to dealing with people of color. “…In short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, he who among us would be content to have the color of his change and stand in his place?” appeared in (Kennedy, Caroline. Profiles in Courage. HarperCollins, 2006. 304 pages. Print.) He was a president open to anything, knowing how they would turn out but, he did what was right. After his death, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. But even before, he went on fighting for everyone’s rights. Speaking for anyone who couldn’t. He was a man of equality and changing what was wrong to right. It wasn’t so much as a strike to what he had to say but what he did and said, was out and in the open. He was a leader; not fighting for himself but for all that was with him as he served the country during his years.

  This second person was also one for equality or for people of color. A man who grew up on everything he felt like he had to fight for or felt like he had to rebel against reality. Malcolm X grew up with almost nothing and a bit of education. Also a small part of inspiration from reality. Malcolm had made some bad decisions when rebelling and dealing with the law. He was considered a criminal before any of his arguing and being opposed to what reality was during the time and opposed to accept any of it. In the book, The Civil Rights Movement Malcolm landed in prison for burglary for eight to ten years during his ‘criminal’ times. In prison reality hit him hard, he realized all the things happening around him to blacks while reading. He read and debated all the time spent in prison he explained, “In every free moment I had, if I wasn’t reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge.” And then stated “It was also in prison that Malcolm developed his debating skills.” From (Green, Jr., Harold E. Cheatham The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History. Manchester University Press, 2010. 224 pages. Print.) Malcolm was let out of prison and became minister in 1952 of the Nation of Islam, as a recruiter and an apologist. Malcolm wanted to create violence with the help of Black Muslims. He created two hostile camps, for each day their task was to violently disobey anything against whites; as said in Malcolm and the Black Muslims that “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is but a whisper, the new power of bid of Malcolm X is welcome news.” (Green, Jr., Harold E. Cheatham The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History. Manchester University Press, 2010. 224 pages. Print.)  Malcolm did everything he could do in his power to try with whites. It was almost revenge that he wanted. He was then kicked out by Elijah Muhammad going against what Elijah had to say and so Malcolm wanted to join the Civil Rights Movement. He quotes on Dr. King that “Dr. King wants the same I want … Freedom.” (Green, Jr., Harold E. Cheatham The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History. Manchester University Press, 2010. 224 pages. Print.)  Malcolm Little, known as ‘Malcolm X’ fought for blacks or went against reality during the time and this is what I considered a strike. This man fought for blacks, for his freedom and theirs.

  Freedom is a special word that many people didn’t get to have. Groups like African Americans and women especially were thought of only to work for people, be owned. They didn’t have rights to themselves. “Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote.” (Susan Brownell Anthony. susanb.htm. Lake Wood Public Library, 23 05 2012. Web. 23 May 2012) As my final person, Susan B. Anthony was raised in a family that believed that everyone should be treated equally, including women. Her parents and her sister signed “The Declaration of Sentiments” which expressed that men and women should be treated equally. This is what Susan was raised to think and while growing up she began to fight for freedom and woman’s rights. “I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.” (Susan Brownell Anthony. susanb.htm. Lake Wood Public Library, 23 05 2012. Web. 23 May 2012.) Susan started the “National Woman's Suffrage Association” in 1869. She protested for women’s rights for year after year, writing books, organizing movements, and getting word out to people until her death in 1906.

  Tying all of these people and what they fought for brought many solutions. Brought rights and acts, and inspirations to the upcoming fighters and debaters. Many of these situations were more or less resolved and still faced as of today. Without all the striking, protesting, arguing that had happened previously had a big impact. All the famous strikers gave muse to those who have the motivation to fight and speak for what they want. I believe economic wise we will always have to face issues but in order to fix anything, things have to be said and done. My definition of what a strike is, is to fight against or fight and give a say. This was my research and work based upon strikes. 

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I think Napoleon is like in a way like Hitler because he tricked the animals

By making them revolt and supposedly sending them off to start their own farm but he

Always knew what he would end up doing in his head all though he kept it to him self. And in the end when they finally had the animal farm he waited awhile to take power but he had already set the roll that him being the pig he was superior then the others like Hitler had established that his kind and only his were the ones who should be on top. But out of the animals snowball always knew he was up to something she tried to warn others but they wouldn’t pay attention and in the end like Hitler did with the people he didn’t like napoleon had snowball thrown out the farm and he started to make more moves in his farm he took the dogs puppies and like Hitler did napoleon had his little army with the puppies his had them attack animals to show what would happen to the ones who would make the choice to go against him but napoleon ended up killing animals and when he did these acts his excuse would be that they were working with the humans so that the other animals would have to see that what he was doing was right but they were just lies so that he could only get bigger and bigger 

Blog 3, Abraham Perez

Q 1. How do the changing rules of the pigs compare to the changing of laws to meet the specific needs of the their makers?

The changing of rules and laws can cause havoc to any society or ethnic group with an established government. For example: If people within a group enjoy the established laws and someone changes them and makes the laws appealing only to the ones in control, I would think it would cause a bit of a problem with just about everyone. If a public service were created for everyone to use, hence the public, wouldn’t it be a smart to keep it? And not only offer it to the children or families of the rich. As an honest citizen, I would really like to talk to the people who come up with the ideas to change current laws and not giving me crap like, “It’s in the service of the people” or “We only use are time and effort for the well being of others”, when it is obvious that they are only doing it for themselves for now and the long run.

Q 2. Why do many politicians seem to only care about something when it affects them?  How does this compare the pigs changing of the commandments on the farm? 

For their own personal well-being, Politicians are just like everyone else in this world; doing their best to survive, even if it means by ruining the life of others. If a certain law doesn’t seem to fit a criteria that they don’t like they change it when people aren’t looking and wipe their hands clean with the media to explain why. To be frank, they run on the same simple drive as everyone else: to keep themselves alive. No matter who they step on and crush towards the ground.

                                                                                                                        Rosa Perez

                                                                                                                        05-03-12

. Can you relate to not having equal rights because of who you are or your skin color?

            I don’t think I really relate to not having equal rights, but the only thing I can say about the this, is that I don’t think its fair how they have the law in Arizona about Mexican people, that if they get stopped or even if they are walking they ask for if they have papers and if they don’t they take them, and every time I would watch the news it would talk about how Mexican Families would get separated from each other because the parents came here illegally, and the kids were from here and the parents had to leave cause they got send back to Mexico, I think that sometimes people treat Mexican people bad, im not going to say that we are innocent people cause we are not but I think there is certain people that came here for a better education they work really hard in school they are not trouble makers and once they graduate they try to go to college, and after that get a good job but they cant cause they don’t have papers, I think the government should actually help those kids that are here to learn the ones that want a good life, those are the ones that deserve to actually be here , not the ones that are here selling drugs like no those can leave.

What freedoms do we take for granted in the United States? Do you think we have too much freedom? What freedoms cause problems?

The freedom we take for granted I think is that in the United States they let us drive at a young age. I think that parents don’t have much freedom but they can do things that us teenagers can. The bad thing about being a parent is that they have to work just so they would be able to pay the bills and buy food for the family and if they have a baby, they have to buy them diapers and milk and stuff like that and do all things like that so I wouldn’t say that parents so much freedom, but they also have different freedom that us teenagers don’t have. But us teenagers have a lot of freedom, we might have school and a job but we don’t go to school all day we have freedom when we get out and on the weekends we can pretty much do whatever we want and if we work we lose some of that freedom. But when we get paid, its not like we have to pay the bills or anything like that. So I guess I would say us teenagers have a lot of freedom but we don’t have the type of freedom parents have. The type of freedom I think that causes problems is for parents letting teenagers drive at a very young age. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t let us drive, but I think we should drive during the day to go to school or work or even to the store but I think we shouldn’t drive during the weekends to go to party’s and stuff like that because their has been a lot of drunk drive accident’s by adults and us teenagers pay the price for being out so late driving. I just think we have a little to much, I think that sometimes its good to not have that much freedom because it can stop bad things from happening.

Comparing Hitler & Napolean (Monica)

We Can Compare Adolph Hitler was born on 20th April, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau near the German border. Napoleon doesn’t play much of a role in the initial rebellion, which happens largely by chance. Let he’s introduced, along with Snowball, as being one of the most intelligent pigs around. Adolf Hitler Is inculturating young into violence and domination, before having the courtesy to die around his son's eleventh birthday. Adolf spent the rest of his childhood in Vienna with his mother, who led a Bohemian lifestyle. Napoleon Is almost the same because he supposly cares about the animal farm and he’s not being loyal to the animals he makes them believe hes on there side when he aint his a trader for trading all animal farm. Hitler was one person who killed all the Jews because he thought that they were wrong that they killed Jesus. He Also Was A Nazi He Was The Leader Of Them. Napolean His a Nice Person at first then he becomes the trader of the story They also want him to leave away from the animal farm because hes not the friend they thought he was. "No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?" In The Site The "Animal Farm The Author George Orwell Due to This quote makes me remember of the decisions They make about napoleon. I Wouldn’t Be In no ones side because they both failed on the plans they had. I wouldnt Be in no ones side they both did the wrong things. "As the sheep were trained to bleat in Animal Farm when the visitors were passing: "Rations have been increased". As Squealer contined to proclaim day by day: "Surely you don't want Jones back?" And as the book did not quite end: "The creatures outside looked from Conservative to Socialist, and from Socialist to Conservative, and from Conservative to Socialist again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.""(David Copper)

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Napoleon Vs. Hitler (Gaby)

They ignored the negative signs with Napoleon by Squealer taking to the animals. Napoleon would tell the animals a plan or something and then Squealer would come in and usually agree with Napoleon. Squealer was always giving the animals one thing to believe and another. Squealer was creating propaganda and making up things for the others to believe. Squealer out of the rest of the pig spreads out business like nothing to everybody. He’s like the ad for Napoleon. Napoleon does seem like Hitler ‘cause they are both dictators. They both threaten everyone if they don’t get something their own way. Hitler also had the Nazi Party (“…fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist [Nazi] Party”). This was brought by the heading of Leading up to WWII. While Hitler had the Nazi’s, Napoleon had the dogs, Squealer and Boxer (Leading up to World War II). They both liked being in control or power most of the time, also being produced by the same topic Leading up to WWII  (“Obsessed with the idea of superiority of the ‘pure’ German race…”) Leading up to WWII. Hitler has made the Jews seem like everything was their fault and they were the bad people. Napoleon was blaming Snowball when things went wrong at night and making him seem like a bad guy. Hitler is also like Napoleon ‘cause Hitler signed treaties with Italy and Japan. Napoleon didn’t sign anything but he got in contact with a human for help around the farm. In the beginning when Snowball would always argue smart and would win against Napoleon, Napoleon never went crazy or yelled. It was like he didn’t have much feeling or he was good hiding it. He was suspicious like Hitler. Hitler was undercover. That’s how they both got power easily most times.

Works cited

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii

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History.com — History Made Every Day — American & World History

4/13/2011

Laws (Jasmine)

If there wasn’t any laws or rules this world would be a total dump because all of the bad dumb people would feel sense there’s no rules or laws they can do whatever they want such as rob people kill people and much more all of the jail birds would get out of jail doing the same thing they were doing before they went to jail. That’s why I am so glad that we do have laws and rules there would be so many hurt people in this world nobody to tell on the bad people. Not good at all like the way the world is now its awesome I love the way the world is now because everybody is so happy everyday you see a smile on someone face but it would be very different if there wasn’t any rules or laws. I understand that the world is going to end real soon but without any laws the world would have been ended a long time ago. I really think that wouldn’t be possible though because god would no how bad his world would be and the way it would look but I don’t think it would be to bad because everybody would be use to it. Just like the book animal farm the pigs kept on changing the laws to make there lives better  they changed one to no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets but the real law was no animal should sleep in a bed at all because there not humans and no animal shall kill any other animal unless there’s just cause . One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law

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Blog 2: Can you relate to not having equal rights because of who you are or your skin color?

Question: Can you relate to not having equal rights because of who you are or your skin color?

I can’t relate, well, not yet anyhow. As long as I can remember I was given a fair chance in every thing I’ve done: School, Sports, Activities, friends, and with the church community I was with.

I was always given a fair chance, unlike some of my other friends and people I’ve met. I usually am given a chance for many things but others get told that they can’t because of their race or ethnic group. People in the U.S. try and play the race card on others so they won’t do something, I’m Mexican but I was born here in the United States, sure there are privileges I get over others from my race but I never complained about it because I know I have it easier then others.

A lot of people get into trouble because they don’t have equal rights; it isn’t fair because we are supposed to be in a “Free Country” but that doesn’t stop employers, companies and the government from rounding up people and accusing them of actions they didn’t commit.

All in all, I can honestly say that I haven’t been exposed to unequal rights and threated because of my race, and I’m fine with it because I know the more I follow the rules and laws the easier it should be for me to get by without being threated of having no rights.

Changing Laws (Luis)

The changing of the rules of the pigs compare to the changing of the laws now in the way that the pigs law was like if they was still in slavery and they had to do what was told because they would of got in big trouble and now we have laws but we have a choose they didn’t have a choose and now we do we don’t get treated or feel like slave with the laws we have now because they laws we have now are for owner own good and for the better of owner life’s.

         Politicians only care about something when it affects them because its like this the politics thing  “As politics continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture”  they don’t  care about anybody elas but what they don’t thing about is they illegal people just come over here to do the jobs no body wants to do . http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Immigration the only thing they care about is them selves and that’s all for they is that as long as them and their family’s are okay that that’s all that matters and they would only also care of themselves because they would have control do to the fact that they say what laws are being passed for the entire country and what they can take off and everything. 

          this compares to the changing of the commandments on the farm in they way that the pigs only care about them and the change the commandments when ever they want but they only change the one that affects them and that they don’t want or don’t want to be doing all the time that goes back to the rules that said all animals are equal but they are not because if they don’t speak up or ever stop being scared to speak up napoleon is always going to be the one who is going to make all the decisions it just the same thing as when girls went equal same as men "Women don't have what it takes."And it’s the same for animal farm nobody has what it take to stand up to napoleon and tell him something. https://www.aclu.org/womens-rights

Rules (Nancy)

In my opinion having no laws or any enforce or rules… the whole world would be so different… everybody would be doing what ever they want to with out being stopped by someone…having no laws at all … (gangs) would keep on growing more bigger causing more trouble hurting other people, without careering about… don’t care who their hurting… or even hurting someone without a reason… in another words people would try to still in stores, houses, bank, every were theirs money at…no matter what they’ll try to get…having the world without laws is difficult because you wouldn’t be secure  no were or anything like It… everyone would be in danger… and even be afraid to go outside or go some were else… you’ll have a feeling that if you go out …am I going  to be ok …am I gong to come back… if this was the case in real life I would be afraid of going out side …or even go to store…having the world without laws or anything like it… ill suggest to move out of town …some were, were you can feel safe and free … be able to live life and not be afraid of anything  be able to feel free… I can’t not even imagine how the world be with out laws or any enforcers or any rules… the whole world would be like upside down… drink wile driving or be drunk and drive… life would be a mess… and be so complicated… and hard to handle it. For example all the people that are on jail probably be free… and there’s a reason why they went to jail leaving them free is a totally danger for everyone that surround’s them… because they could easily commit the same crime or thing they did… u never know …that’s why I cant even imagine living in a world without laws or rules.

Napoleon Vs. Hitler (Nancy)

 

In my opinion Napoleon its alike with Hitler because in all of their stories or movies they come out as antagonist which stands for someone mean, bad, and don’t respect others wants to be more then what he is… like for example Napoleon in the Animal Farm is that he took advantage of those animals who didn’t know what to do when snowball died… Napoleon star to established his rules to al of the animals giving ideas that weren’t even his… but he was telling all of the animals their were his ideas that he has been thinking of them long time ago and no that Snowball is dead, its time to share his supposedly ideas… but no one knew that Napoleon had stole Snowball’s ideas… Snowball was panning to tell all then animals his new ideas but he died before letting them know about his ideas… now all the thing in the farm are so different then how they just to be back then when Snowball was a life everything change in just one day the day when Snowball die that was the day that Napoleon took over Snowball’s place and he considers him self as a boss in front of all the animals in the farm… making Napoleon’s ideas and by the way telling their his when he knows they were Snowball’s ideas… Napoleon is making all the animals work more then Snowball just to make them work… but they can really say nothing since they all think he is the boss the one that tell them what to do… that’s how Hitler just be when he exited the same way the Napoleon.

Equality (Juan)

If everyone in this world were to be equal, I think that the planet and our lives would last longer and their would be enough of everything to share. The equality between everyone if it were to be true, would be so awesome because people wouldn’t steal, murder, or try to be better then someone. The equal rights to everyone also are and would be a big change to this world. The Hispanics wouldn’t have to find ways to get into the United States or even other countries. The wars would be out of people’s minds, and debts wouldn’t be thought of, also the economic problems would be solved with out going to war. Life would be way different from today if we were all equal, in my opinion I’d like it to be equal because their would be people who have died in wars here today, also family’s would be together even longer and the way of life to this earth would be safer cleaner and better. The problems with immigration would be solved and no problems for Hispanics going and coming back from Mexico. The states would be the same with the laws and economics. The world would be a better place for life spreading more and more. I personally think that equal rights is the best thing that could happen to this world.

Freedoms we take for granted in the U.S. (Oscar)

What freedoms do we take for granted in the United States, I think we take the freedom of speech for granted the most because so many other countries don’t have that freedom, and we abuse it. We use fowl language when were talking with others. We also use it in songs. Its like we have never had to watch what we do or say. But if we had to live our lives in a communist country I think that we would keep things to our selves that we had taken our rights for granted. For example if I couldn’t do almost anything I please on the internet like blogging I would be so lost and wouldn't have a clue about what was going on or any thing in the world. In some countries calling someone a bad name could offend the government therefore that person could get arrested. So basically we take freedom of speech for granted here in the United States. I believe people in the United States have too much freedom. I do feel that with freedom comes responsibility and many Americans are not responsible with their freedoms. They abuse it another way that freedoms are abused in criminal cases where civil rights for the bad guy comes ahead of the victim in many cases.

Oscar,Hernandez

Equal Rights (Keith)

Sometime I can relate to not having equal rights and sometimes I cant. Nowadays almost everyone has had or think they have been some type of discrimination done to them. Sometimes I wonder when things happen to me is it because of my skin color or because of things I have done in the past or just because someone doesn’t like how I act. Like when me and my friends apply for jobs and don’t get them we joke around saying its because our race but it could actually be that, we will never know and that’s the sad part. Other than those examples I cant really relate to not having equal rights because I wasn’t around when it was really rough and just because you had a different skin color you couldn’t sit in front of the bus or drink out a certain water fountain. I don’t know what that feels like, and there wont be a time like that ever again so unless a person was alive during that time no one now or ever will ever REALLY know what that feels like. Now everyone in the U.S. has equal rights and there is not a way a person can say that they were discriminated against unless the person that did it has solid proof.

Adolf Hitler and Napoleon *Kevin)

 Although the Animal Farm character Napoleon is based off of Joseph Stalin he still shares a number of similar traits as the notorious German dictator Adolf Hitler. They are similar in their strong ambition for power, their will do anything to make them superior to others and most importantly their successful use of propaganda. Napoleon first appealed to the animals to trick them and then he used his Propaganda to get the animals to succumb to his thoughts and what he wanted for the farm. He assumed the place as a leader, ran out Snowball and brainwashed the animals with thoughts of rebellion and hopes of Sugar Candy Mountain. No one challenged his words because he had vicious dogs that would attack if they showed any type of opinion. Adolf Hitler once said “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one could make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/adolfhitle385640.html#wLWtcqg3YLsLl4if.99 Which means with good use of propaganda he can make anyone believe anything, like he did to the Jews in the holocaust. Hitler was a great speaker, and he also said “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” according to

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/adolfhitle385640.html#wLWtcqg3YLsLl4if.99 and he used his propaganda to rise to power in Germany in 1933. With the help of the Nazi Party. He talked his way into the office and by strong use of propaganda Hitler was able to attract the attention of the public and gain support from many German people.

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Adolph Hitler & Napoleon (Brianna)

How could you argue that the character of Napoleon compares to Adolph Hitler? Think about the fact that while he came to power across Europe many people ignored the warning signs.  How does that compare to the animals on the farm? How & why did the animals ignore the negative signs with Napoleon?

I feel Napoleon is like Adolph Hitler because they are dictators and try to rule people to get what they want. At first the people/animals thought he was doing good for the country but they ended up making things worse. People noticed that he was starting to mess up but didn’t say anything because they were scared of what would happen to them and their families. For example “He was an awful man but people followed him. People followed him because he was a strong extremist patriot, and this is what Germany thought they needed. They thought that Germany was going to fail under the Weirmar republic and they needed a strong dictator to get them back on their feet. People were also afraid of him, as they knew what he and the Nazi party could do to them.”(Answer.com, Why did people follow Adolf Hitler?) “He promised to solve their problem. The league of nations had imposed such overwhelming sanctions against Germany following WWI that the German people were already suffering financially at the beginning of the Great Depression, then things got worse. Hitler promised to make things better, found a group of people on whom he could blame all of the problems (the Jews) and told everyone that he was locking them up for the good of the nation. He didn't say much about the Holocaust, and while there were rumors, the German people didn't want to believe because things were getting better.” (Answer.com, Why did people follow Adolf Hitler?)

 In the story Napoleon did some what the same, he said he would do better for the farm and make life better but he ended up just using the animals for his use and blamed Snowball for the problems the farm was going through and ran him off. He also had the dogs to guard him and if any one asked questions about him and his choices he would make him dogs attack who ever was asking questions or refusing what they were told to do.

 Website: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_people_follow_Adolf_Hitler

Rights (Carlton)

Today there are a lot of rights that we have now that a lot of people in the past didn’t have or were denied of. Back in the past women didn’t have any rights because they weren’t treated the same as men. They couldn’t vote, get a decent education, or work because people back then thought only men were suppose to do these things. Many people believe that women were incapable of making huge important decisions that men usually made. All they could do was cook, clean and watch children. African Americans were also treated unequally. After they were free from slavery they still weren’t given or denied some of the rights that other people had. Like women they couldn’t get a good decent education, get good job opportunities, or vote. All that change when they started to fight for their rights. In 1920 the 19^th US Constitutional Amendment was pass giving women the right to vote. After World War II the Civil Rights Act of 1964 help both women and African Americans gain the rights that they didn’t used to have or they were denied of. This law banned discrimination in school, public places, jobs and many other fields. If it weren’t for the people in the past we wouldn’t have some of the rights that we have today.

What would life be like if we were all equal? (Maria)

If all of human beings were all equal, life would be much easier. Everybody would be a friend, and everybody would eventually get along. There would be no racism, no discrimination. If everybody were equal in those times when they had school’s for colored people, and school’s for white people, there wouldn’t have been slavery. Everybody would be equal and everybody was treated the same, no matter the color of each person.

            In the eyes of the Lord we are all the same. To him it doesn’t matter the color, the personality, how hard working everybody is. To him what matters is that we all belong to him, and he cares for us, not caring about how we are. He loves all of us for who we are not by the concept people has us in. People can think whatever they want, but they never know if they are wrong or right. People can always be wrong, people can think what they want, but Jesus Christ is never wrong he always knows what he does and he got his reasons. Everybody is the same in his eyes he doesn’t care of how mean we are, he know that from the inside we have lots of love and respect to give to others.

 Why treat each other different when we know we are all the same? We do that because we don’t want to accept reality our way of thinking doesn’t let us reality. Our big head don’t want to be equal. I wonder why we have some really mean instincts. Sometimes we have to racist because the devil is telling us to do it when our good side is telling us to do it.

Can you relate to not having equal rights because of who you are or your skin color?

Not having equal right wouldn’t feel good for me, also I know that it wouldn’t feel right for other. Although not everybody are the same physically, we are all the same. It doesn’t matter the color, where you come from, or who you are. Society can have a bad concept of somebody but they don’t them by who they truly are. But people don’t care by who you are. If they see you are Mexican people can be calling you names. They don’t know how you are, they don’t know your personality. But they don’t care they just want to make you feel bad.

            But not having equal rights, is not right, we are all the same. We have different color. We have different personalities. Different characteristics. But that doesn’t makes us any different in society. We are all the same, we should have equal rights. Not just because we are Mexican, African, Chinese, Indian, or whatever other nationality people have. We are all the same no matter our culture, religion, or believes. People will always be the same in my eyes. Discrimination is something serious we got to think about. Discriminating people just come from people who has no heart , no feelings it really makes me feel bad by how humans can be so cruel to other humans. That’s not right for the society and to eyes of god.

How could you argue that the character of Napoleon compares to Adolph Hitler? Think about the fact that while he came to power across Europe many people ignored the warning signs. How does that compare to the animals on the farm? How & why did the animals ignore the negative signs with Napoleon? (Ana)

Napoleon and Hitler, although they both live in two different worlds they are more alike than anyone may think. For example both of them were the kinds of people who talked with passion and with seriousness and both exaggerate what they represent. “His hoarse, grating voice, for all the bombastic, humorless, histrionic content of his speeches, dominated audiences by dint of his tone of impassioned conviction and gift for self-dramatization.” Is a quote that was stated about Hitler in the JewishVirtualLibary on how he acted during his early years of starting out. When both Hitler and Napoleon started communicating their way of thinking no one suspected that they would turn out to be what most people would call “the bad guy”. The started out as though they were just trying to make the world a better place. Although at first they may have had that idea power over took them and they wanted more and more of it.

Since they both had followers the things they wanted did not really seem so impossible. All they had to do was to talk in a way were they made people think they were right. Both people and the animals ignored all the signs that showed that Napoleon and Hitler were getting to greedy with power. They probably were afraid that other people would not think the same as the do or that the people who did think like Napoleon and Hitler would go against them. Hitler for example had a lot of followers who got his point of view and would take violent means if someone did not as this quote on JewishVirtualLibary explains; “By November 1921 Hitler was recognized as Fuhrer of a movement which had 3,000 members, and boosted his personal power by organizing strong- arm squads to keep order at his meetings and break up those of his opponents.”

When they did see all the signs unfortunately it was too late to do anything with out violent causes being taken against them.

Website Citation: For Both Quotes

Website URL: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html

Page Title: Adolf Hitler: Biography

Website Title: Jewish Virtual Library - Homepage

Date Accessed: 4/17/12

"... Changing rules of the pigs compare... " - Yesenia Villarreal

  “… Changing rules of the pigs compare…”

  The pigs changing the commandments compare to real life everyday. It compares because some of the animals could represent as activist as taking matters into their own hands like some famous people from our history during events. The pigs are like the government for the president but mainly for themselves or the rest of the animals. The pigs decide to pass or change laws while the president being (Napoleon) could give some options as resolutions to them. Politicians would only care of themselves because they would have control over what laws are being passed for the entire country. For an example of a law would be of: “the first civil rights law, equal rights for everyone who lived within the jurisdiction of the United States.” This would have been located online as a reference using this source: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Civil+and+political+rights

  Changing those commandments on Animal Farm so everything is set proper to work right is like having your own business or company. It is like school regulations and if you don’t follow them you suffer the consequences. In chapter 7 of Animal Farm, 4 pigs decide to betray Napoleon and fess up to it. Then they suffer by being attacked by Napoleon’s guard dogs and end as perished. Napoleon in the meantime is in charge of Animal Farm, while the rest of the animals are set as the people. Some of the pigs, including Squealer is his government. Lastly, Napoleon’s police or bodyguard is the dogs. Most animals in the farm don’t speak up enough or can’t find the words to speak and because of that the only one who makes decisions and even decides it a good majority of the time is Napoleon. The animals don’t have many rights as Napoleon since he decides it all. This isn’t fair to all the other animals. It makes me think back how women weren’t treated equally as men. Feminists had to argue and take action. “In 1919, the federal woman suffrage amendment; originally written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced in Congress in 1878, is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent to the states for ratification.” This quote was taken by a timeline having another source of: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html (Women’s Rights Movement in the U.S. Timeline of Key Events in the American Women’s Rights Movement 1848-1920 By Ann-Marie Imbornoni)

Website Citations:

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Website URL: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Civil+and+political+rights

Page Title: Civil and political rights legal definition of Civil and political rights. Civil and political rights synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.

Website Title: Legal Dictionary

Date Accessed: 4/18/2012

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Website URL: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html

Page Title: Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.: Timeline of Events (1848-1920) — Infoplease.com

Fear (Keith)

Fear is good motivation for people. I actually use fear to get my little brothers to do things all the time. Fear is the best way to get someone to do something. Everyone has a fear or is afraid of something so you can almost get anyone to do something. Look at dictators for example. Everyone hates a dictator but I bet they will listen to them because they don’t want to be captured and/or killed. That the perfect example of using fear. The only things about using fear to get people to do things is that if enough people get tired of some one scaring them they are going to join together and do something about you.  And if your scare them to badly they will be too scared to do anything I think. So in most ways fear is going to get the job done. Just don’t over use it cause people will get way ticked off. Schools use fear to get student to do stuff too, they are just sneaky with how they do it.  Like if a student is in class being a nuisance a teacher will say something like “Do I have to call security?” or “I think we need to call your parents” and most students (Not me of course) will get scared and stop acting like they were. So overall fear is a good tactic to use to get your way of things

Laws (Carlton)

What will life be like without any enforced rules or laws? There is a reason why we have enforced rules and laws. If we didn’t have rules and laws then the whole world would be in chaos because people could do anything they want and get away with it. Some people think life will be okay if there weren’t any rules or laws because they feel like everything will be much easier for them. But want those people don’t realizes is that some of the rules and laws that are created is to help keep them safe away from any kind of danger. Some of the rules and laws we have is completely necessary because the people breaking the rules now will go completely crazy knowing they could get away with anything they do because there is no rule or law that could go against them. If there weren’t any laws or rules people that killed and injured others wouldn’t have to go to jail because there is nothing that says they can’t do it. The people that goes around and steal stuff away wouldn’t stop because they know there isn’t anything that people could do or say to stop them for getting away with it. The people that kidnap and rape people won’t change because there wouldn’t be any problems with it. All these things could happen if there wasn’t any rules or laws.

Predicition (Juan)

The animal farm was rebelled and mankind have now been over come by the animals. I think that the in the story the animals will be coming into their own kind of rules and decide to make their own rule and napoleon chooses to run the farm and make the orders. The farm has been hard to live in the days since the farm was with out Mr. jones the animals had to work harder then the pigs do, the pigs are the ones who keep the milk and apples and eat more then the rest of the animals. The pigs were bossy and exceeded much. The farm was just hard labor for the pigs and animals and eat and repeat the next day. Now that the animals have over come the farm and mankind they choose to make the other animals work and make the farm move on and have food for the animals. The animals have been noticing that napoleon is turning evil because napoleon made some commandments of him self so he was had been getting out of the rest of the work because if he works and dies “Mr. Jones would come back” so that’s one thing the animals are scared of. The farm before they rebelled was calm no problems besides Mr. Jones being drunk and hitting the animals for no reason. The animals starved for days and that’s one reason they decided to rebel.

equal rights (Antonio)

Equal rights I think equal rights are important because if you know your rights then there is no way that they can trick you. But there are some people that they don’t know the rights. There are some people that are poor and they don’t get the rights that they deserve and if the people were rich then they would even bother them because they are rich. People have to get equal rights because every body is the same no matter what color you are or what language you speak. you have the same rights as a rich person.

What kind of equal rights do we have right now that we didn’t have in the past? How does that affect us today? (Ana)

In the past women did not have rights. They could not vote they could not work they could just basically stay at home go to the store or gossip. Back then women were thought little of and were not given a chance to show men what they could do that is until World War II. After that women were given a chance to work and do things that normally men would do.

Another right was that colored people were not allowed to do anything with white people. They were drinking fountains, bathrooms, stores, and other places ad things that only colored people could use. There were also things and places white people could go and use. Nowadays it doesn’t matter what color you are. Although some people still live like they use to back in the day, most of the country doesn’t really worry about the color of people.

There were also slaves that were colored people. That was before the segregation against them started. Now a day you see any color out in the field, but back then you only saw dark skin people out working in the field. Not only just dark skin people were taken against but also light skin colored people. Although they were given different jobs inside they were still worked hard.

Our rights nowadays are given equally to every citizen. Everyone is treated the same and they have to work for what they have and not just have it given to them.

Character of Napoleon compares to Adolph Hitler (Rachel)

I think that in the book animal farm that napoleon is a lot like Adolph Hitler because they both wanted to take out their enemies. In both Napoleon and Hitler’s case neither enemies were real enemies, both Napoleon and Hitler just wanted to see smart and powerful and in charge. Neither Hitler nor Napoleon realized that just because a few people did wrong or were bad that not everyone else of that kind had to pay for the consequence too. I think a lot of people ignored the fact that they were both coming into power because they trusted them and thought that never in a million years would someone they trusted do something so wrong and so harsh and so cruel to them. No matter how much things were pointed out to them they truly wanted to believe that nothing was going to happen. According to Author Robert Wistrich in the website Who's Who in Nazi Germany, “The young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child” (Wistrich). As was Napoleon growing up on a farm that was very mistreated. As the years went by he and the rest of the animals grew very resentful to the owners too. The reason why the animals on the farm didn’t take the warning signs was because napoleon was all for this perfect life and the whole concept of animalism but as the story goes on he realizes that he can be in charge and feeds off of it. According to the website Wikipedia “Ultimately, Napoleon becomes an oppressive dictator and seems to become one of the cruel humans through his adoption of human ways.”(Wikipedia).

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