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.

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.

Hitler & Napoleon (Carlton)

Adolf Hitler and Napoleon are the same because they are both power hungry dictators that will harm anybody that disobey or try to take their power away. Hitler was the leader of the Nazis that killed over millions of people in World War ll and approximately over six million Jews in the Holocaust. Hitler never like the Jewish as you can tell by part of this speech. “The internal expurgation of the Jewish spirit is not possible in any platonic way.  For the Jewish spirit as the product of the Jewish person.  Unless we expel the Jewish people.  Unless we expel the Jewish people soon, they will have judaized our people within a very short time.” Every time something went wrong or the country was starting to question Hitler’s leadership he put the blame on the Jews saying that if they get rid of them all of Germany’s problems will be solve. That is the same thing that Napoleon is telling the other animals about Snowball. They used propaganda to persuade their citizens to think that they are the problem when really it them. History of the Holocaust – An Introduction explains “The Nazis claimed the Jews corrupted pure German culture with their "foreign" and "mongrel" influence. They portrayed the Jews as evil and cowardly, and Germans as hardworking, courageous, and honest. The Jews, the Nazis claimed, who were heavily represented in finance, commerce, the press, literature, theater, and the arts, had weakened Germany's economy and culture.” Napoleon does the same thing when Squealer tells the other animals that Snowball is a traitor and that he was working for Jones from the beginning.

History of the Holocaust - An Introduction

Jewish Virtual Library – Homepage

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/history.html

Hitler Quotes from Adolf Hitler

Judaism Online

http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/hitler-quotes/

What is Fate (Carlton)

What is fate? Fate is a series of events outside a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. Fate and destiny is sort of the same thing but one of them you can change, the other you can’t. In some sort of way I kind of do believe in fate. I believe that everything that goes on in your life span happens for some kind of reason. There are some things in your life that you won’t be able to control. For example you don’t get to decide what family that you are born into or if you going to be a girl or a boy. But at the same time I feel like it doesn’t exist because you can change some of the things that can happen to you in the future. If you done something wrong in the past you have the opportunity to not do it again and change the way your life will play out at the end. You have the choice of who you like and don’t like. You have the choice of what you want to be when you grow up. You can determine how your life will turn out to be whether it’s good or bad.