Kristallnacht- The Night of Crystals

Kristallnacht- the night of crystals. This tragic event happened on November 9th 1938. The day of the death of Vom Rath, assassinated by a Jewish Youth in Paris, which triggered the event. The Nazis were furious and started a riot. They destroyed Jew-owned business and burnt down 267 Synagogues, but only smashed Synagogues that were near non-Jew owned business. The Germans did not want to stand up, because if they did, they will get in trouble with the Nazis and will get sent to concentration camps. The Nazis made the Jews pay for the damages, which cost 1 billion mark. They were forced to give up possessions. 30,000 men were put into concentration camps, but the Nazis did not have a plan for mass murder of the Jews. Most of the Jewish people left wanted to leave the country, but the US only takes in 15,000 Jews/year and Canada only takes in 100s/year. The Jews were not able to immigrate because they refused to leave their families. Most of the Jewish population of Germany found refuge in Great Britain, which took large amounts of Jewish people in.

Propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group,movement, institution, or nation. In Hitler's case, it's to Harm the Jews. Hitler started to brainwash people from a very young age, which started in kindergarten. The Antagonist of picture books were always Jewish people. They put in bad images of Jewish people everywhere. Hitler's Youth was a big part of his "Final Solution", he seduced children, particularly young boys, to go to his Youth Programs. Children as young as 10 would get in to the academies and would be given military training. Violence was highly recommended by the leaders. Some of the injuries were fatal, but they just said that German boys don't cry.

I think that Kristallnacht isn't really fair because the Jewish, who were the victims, were forced to pay for the damage that was targeted at them. Just because one Jewish man assassinated the diplomat, that does not mean that all Jews are the same. I also think that Hitler is trying to create "The Perfect Race" because he does not like difference. I think that what Hitler is trying to reach is like "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, in which the people of the city has absolutely no difference. Everyone was the same. I also think that Hitler is using the children in the youth so that they can go to war and wipe out an entire race.

I. am. the. Artist.

Last week, Mr. Whiting and Mrs. Narsiman helped the students in our humanities class determine their learning profile. A learning profile is based on whether you are gestalt or logic, and your dominant eye, ear, hand, and leg. My profile is an I.

When I am learning, I learn best through movement and by focusing on the whole picture. I need to be able to doodle on my notebook or somewhere. I tend to get distracted very, very easily and I need to feel a subject's emotional elements to learn it well. When learning, I need pictures because I am a visual learner and I can remember things easier when there are pictures involved.

I need to be able to doodle while learning. I don't necessarily need to move a lot, and just making small movements help me. I am a Visual and Auditory learner, which means I do well with pictures and listening. I am a Gestalt, which means that I don't like instructions at all and like to imagine my end results (although sometimes the end results are not what I expected). When I speak, I need to be relaxed so that the details can be communicated more efficiently. When I am under stress, my communication and movement is limited. The parts I am able to access while at stress are my arm and leg.

The strategies that would help me is to draw pictures, because I am a Visual learner, I am also an Auditory, but I work well with most teacher's teaching style. When I am under stress, writing/drawing with my non-dominant hand, walking, and Tai Chi can help me while I am at stress. Cross laterals are also useful. Soccer can also help, but I am not a very active person, and tend to stay indoors.

My teachers should know that when I am not looking at the speaker, I am still listening to them, and when I doodle, it helps me on my work and it makes me do my best. I think that sitting in the middle of the class might help me because I am able to access all my dominant parts. Pictures also tend to help me more, but words work equally as well.

Gita Skywalker