Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

It all started with the successful launch of Sputnik by the russians. Thats what started this race to space. The U.S. and Russia were fighting a "cold war" at the time, each country thought the other was going to bomb them. When Russia sent there little satilite into space it scared the crap out of Americans. The government felt if the Russians had control of space they could drop nuclear bombs on us, like dropping rocks from a highway over pass. "The Right Stuff" was a movie about getting the first man to space. The Russians were winning at first but of course the U.S. won in the end. The movie started with trying to break the sound barerier, when they broke it they kept getting faster. Then USSR sent up Sputnik and the race started. The U.S. went on a nation wide search for the best pilots to become the first astrounots. The U.S. was the first to send a living thing into space we sent a monkey. Then in the end we toped it all of with sending a man to the moon.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

There are a number of scenes that will stick with me for the rest of my life. The scene were the camera is following this little girl through out the ghetto when the Nazi's are taking all the Jews and moving them out of the ghetto. The camera follows her walking through the streets were all around her people are being killed there stuff being thrown all over the streets. Then she finally goes into a building goes up the stairs and hides under a bed.
Another scence is when the Jews are in a concentration camp the guy thats in control walks out of his room to the balcony looks around smoking a cigarrete, he picks up a sniper looks through the lense then takes his eyes out of it. Then he looks in it again and he is looking around for somthing to shoot, when he finds a woman fiddling with somthing on the ground when she stands up real quick as if she see's the man with the sniper. He then shoots her in the head for no reason.
Another secene were the war is almost over and there at a camp and there buring thousands of dead bodys the mountain of bodys was at least 4 stories high maybe higher. And Schindler is there watching this then all of a sudden he looks away from the pile and see's that same little girl he was watching for so long walking through the streets of the ghetto on a wagon with two other bodies getting ready to go into the burning pile. He had a look of shjock on his face like no other.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

I believe this was a very powerful film the most powerful i have ever seen. "Night and Fog" is a film about this guy taking a camera to Auschwitz's a concentration camp known for killing 6,000 jews a day. It was filmed 10 years after WWII ended. Its funny when your watching the documentary Auschwitz looks so peaceful you wouldn't imagine that a genocide had taken place there. The documentary also showed film from 10 years earlier, it showed how skinny the jews were and how many bodys there were it was horrible thing to watch but it was important to watch. I believe that the documentary shows the Holocaust to its fullest , it shows were the jews slept three in each wooden bed. It shows the gas chambers that they sent thousands of jews a day. It also showed you the ovens they burned the jews in after they killed them.

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WWI)

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty to end WWI between the allied forces, Associated Power and germany. Ironicly it was sighed exactly 5 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which basically started the world war. Germany took a lot of the blame for WWI being blamed for starting it. Germany had to pay loads of money under the treaty, because of the treaty Germanys citizins were dealing with a lot of problems like hungery, no money and much more. The economy was destroyed not able to bounce back because of all the payments it had to make to the allied forces.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal won many fights in 1915 and in 1919. In the 1920's he destroyed any invaders that came into his country and they were all impressive wins. After even more victorys he gained independence for his country kicking the Ottoman Empire out and created the Republic of Turkey. Also establishing a new government truly a represented of the nations will.

He became there first president ever serving for 15 years, while in his terms he came up with several reforms in political,social,legal,economic, and cultural spheres. Because of all his achivments and what he did to get freedom for his country they called him Ataturk which means father of the Turks.

He once said " I look to the world with an open heart full of pure feelings and freindship"

Film Session "Gandhi"

Gandhi helped his country gain independence in several ways. One thing he did was get a rally going and burn all the papers the British government gave the Indian people. While trying to burn them the Brtish police force beat him up with sticks. Another was he walked down to the ocean and made his own salt because the British government was unfair on its salt so Gandhi made people make there salt to boycott the British salt. Then the British were being unfair on cloth so Gandhi told the people to make there own cloth and they did boycotting that as well. But the most important thing he did to defeat the British was a none violence policy he refused to use violence even though they beat him. He encouraged the Indain people to do the same not to fight back but fight back the Gandhi way.
There are two reasons why the Indian people got there freedom. One: Gandhi harass them for years in his anti-voilence ways. Two:WWII the war started and all of the British atention went to the war thats what got the Indian people there freedom.

Joeseph Stalin and totalitarianism

Joseph Stalin is one of the biggest dictators in the world. He ruled the Soviet Union for 25 years after Lenion died. He enforced the five year plan for all people. He launched it in 1928, the plan had two goals: rapid growth of heavy industry and increased farm production through collectivization of agriculture. Stalin used the resources into building, steel mills and electric power stations. Stalin envented totalitarianism but Hitler and Mussolini embraced it. Citizens have to obey the government without question. Stalin used propaganda, censorship, and terror to force his will on the Soviet people.