Noble Brutus

I feel that Brutus is the noblest Roman of all. He killed his friend because he cared more about Rome. He didn't want to kill himself either because it wasn't an honorable thing to do. Lastly, he was willing to fight for Rome in order to keep the Republic in place.

Brutus

I think he will commit suicide because he's afraid of what the people who want to kill him might do to him. It's a difficult decision for him though because he still has a chance of prevailing.

Brutus' Speech

Brutus's speech ultimately fails because Antony's speech proves Brutus' guiltiness in a secretive way. He portrays Caesar as the greatest man ever and makes Brutus look like the worst man ever.

Appeals

Recently I've been trying to convince my parents to start saving up so they can get me a car for my birthday. I can get my license three days after my birthday, so it just makes sense. I told them that getting me a car is more convenient for both me and for them. They won't have to be driving me around everywhere and I won't have to rely on them anymore. I can be more independent. I'd say I'm doing pretty well on talking them into it because they've discussed their plans and getting me a car is in their plans.

Caesar's Death

I believe that Caesar didn't necessarily have to die, but then again he should have.. There's no way Brutus and the other conspirators know for a fact that Caesar was going to become a tyrant. They did it because they were fearful of Caesar. On the other hand, Caesar also already had a lot of power and he was sure to get more. The conspirators are definitely the ones responsible for his death because they are the ones who killed him. They have no one to blame but themselves. They were the ones who made the decision to kill Caesar and follow through with it.

Secret Exchange

Cassius: Have you thought about it anymore?
Brutus: Yes. Caesar is gaining way too much power and something needs to be done before he gains more.
Cassius: I feel the same way.
Brutus: I'm very uneasy about this whole situation, but I know this must be done.

Responding to Danger

If someone were to tell me that their dreams or visions foretold danger for me, I would either, depending on how well I know the person, think that they were totally and completely crazy or I would listen to them and take the necessary precautions.

Crown of Rome Rejected by Caesar Three Times

Today, at the Lupercal Festivals, Caesar was offered the Crown of Rome three times. Each time offered, he rejected. When asked about the refusal, two fellow citizens, Alex Schott and Alyssa Szydel both stated that they were absolutely shocked that he didn't take the crown. One thing's for sure, it was a surprise to all.

Facebook Statuses

Cassius - "wow, you're smart." Cassius would say this because he has Brutus convinced that he needs to protect Rome and revolt against Caesar.

Caesar - "people these days... can't trust anyone but yourself." Caesar would say this because he doesn't know if he can trust Cassius or not.

Brutus - "i need time to think..." Brutus would say this because he can't decide what he wants or who he wants to listen to.

Controlling Fate

I believe that we take part in controlling our fate, but it's not 100% controlled by us. We do things that effect us and the people around us, and our actions always have a consequence.On the other side, things that effect us are also controlled by other people and the decisions they make. You can't always control what other people do, even it effects you or not. I also believe that your fate is controlled by God. He has a plan for you, and He's going to follow through with that plan.

Ideal Public Leader

To me, the ideal public leader would be someone who is fair, honest, who actually cares about their people, and someone who is strong. A public leader needs to be fair to make everyone happy. If there are certain people that aren't happy, that's when problems arise. If they're honest, it only helps the people they're leading. Honesty also shows that they actually care about their people and aren't just concerned with helping themselves. A leader needs to be helping their people, not just themselves because it's not all about them. Lastly, a leader needs to be strong because the weak never survive.

Valentine's Day Poem

Valentines Day is as romantic as a love story.
Everywhere you look, you see love in peoples eyes.
Chocolate hearts, flowers, and teddy bears symbolize this love.
Valentines Day makes people feel special.

Elizabethean Life

What did people do for leisure?
In the Elizabethean era, people played sports such as fencing, archery, bowling hammer-throwing and wrestling, and were involved in jousts/tournaments. They played games and gambled,  and the men hunted. The men also bear and bull baited, which was where the men's dogs would attack a bull or a bear, and whoever's dog killed the bear or the bull, won. People had feasts, banquets, fairs, plays, festivals and dancing.

What did the dress/clothing look like?
Upper class people wore rich, elegant clothing while the lower class people wore basic clothing material. People weren't allowed to wear what they wanted. Their fashion was dictated by the Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws which governed the styles and the materials worn.

Under their clothes, women wore stockings, corsets, a hooped skirt, petticoats, smocks, stomachers. kirtles, foreparts, and partlets. Over their clothes they wore a gown, separate sleeves, ruffs, a cloak, shoes, and a hat.Women's hair was usually light colored and frizzy. They kept their hair long, and for young girls, it was a sign of a virgin and it was a favorite hairstyle for a bride on her wedding day.Once a woman was married, she wore her hair swept up. Most of the hair was covered by some form of head covering. The front and sides of the hair got the most attention because those were the areas that were the most displayed.Upper class women were the only ones that wore makeup. A pale complexion with red cheeks and lips was a sign of wealth and nobility. White face makeup was applied to get the pale look. Jewelry was also only available to upper class women. Gold, silver, copper, and ivory were a few of the many precious stones and metals used in their jewelry. Glass, bone, horn, and wood were sometimes used as a cheaper alternative. Brooch's, chains, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, pendents, pins, watches, and rings were worn daily. Rosary beads, ear strings, looking glasses, and buckles were worn on special occasions. For their feet they wore boots, pumps, clogs, or corked shoes.

Men, on the other hand, wore shirts, stockings, codpieces, and corsets underneath their clothing. Over their clothing they wore a doublet, separate sleeves, breeches, a belt, ruffs, a cloak, shoes, and a hat. Mens hats often had their brims turned up and fastened to the crown with a jeweled brooch or other ornament.The materials were often made of velvet, silk, taffeta, and wool. The taller the hat, the more important the man was. Lower classes often wore woolen flat caps.

Elizabethan Daily life – Career Opportunities
The Medieval Feudal system had broken down. Outbreaks of the plague had reduced the population – even peasants were paid for their labor.

The break with Rome and the establishment of the Church of England by her father led to massive changes in Elizabethan Daily life. This major event occurred in 1531 when the Commons acknowledged the king as their “only and supreme lord and, as far as the law of Christ allows, even supreme head.” In the Act of Supremacy of 1534, the caveat “as far as the law of Christ allows” was deleted.  England no longer answered to the Pope in Rome.

Themes in Night

• no matter how tough life gets, just keep going.
• the human race is capable of horrors beyond our belief.
• live your life to the fullest because you never know what might happen next.
• humans are capable of inhuman acts.
• many possessions can be removed from us, but relationships are lasting.
• don't judge people.
• treat people with respect, even if you don't like them.
• we can learn from historical events such as the holocaust.
• value the simple things in life.
• we never really know how strong we are until we are put in a situation where we have to be strong.
• the human body can only take so much stress.
• don't hate; it's okay to dislike. hate only leads to things that people are gonna regret.
• never complain about your life. someone always has it worse than you.
• through rough times, you rely on relationships to get you through.
• life is short; cherish it.
• anything is possible.
• keep your faith and hope strong, even when it seems impossible.
• those that look only to the past and the present are certain to miss the future.
• never give up on life because life will never give up on you.

End of Night

I learned that being put through tragic events such as the holocaust, can make you loose total and complete faith in God.
"It's over. God is no longer with us." (p 76.)

If Elie were to give us advice, he would tell us to not let antisemitism exist. He would tell us that we should never, ever use the word hate, because it leads to nothing but destruction. Even after everything Elie went through, he still doesn't use the word hate. I believe he would also tell us that revenge is not the answer. The best thing we can do in life is to take the things that we've been through and use it to make us stronger because anger and violent acts will get you no where.

What Would You Do?

1. I think that if they can't convince him to stay alive, the underground should kill him themselves for the better of the rest of the group. It's not fair to the rest of the group to get punished for his rash actions.

2. If the mother is okay with giving up her baby, then I think it's okay to make the baby a stillborn. It's not worth the mother going through labor just to have her and her baby both killed. She should stay alive because she might end up being a survivor.

3. No, the father should not attempt the escape. It's not fair to the son to be abandoned by him father if it's not his fault he can't get away with him. The man needs to be a father to his son and that means not leaving him. A father would do something like this for his son because he loves him. If he leaves the son, in my opinion, that makes him a horrible father.

Night: Chapter 3

Concentration Camp:

• there was a cross roads in the center of the camp. "We did not know, as yet, which was the better side, right or left, which road lead to prison and which to the crematoria." (p32)
• men and women were split up into two different parts of the camps.
• men who were healthy and able to work were sent to the cabins and the men who were unable to work were sent to the crematoria.
• the crematoria was right near the barracks.
• there was smoke all around the camp from the crematoria.
• the barracks weren't very nice. one of the ones they were in didn't have a floor, it was just made of mud.

Class Concentration Camp:

• smelt like death.
• crossroads in the center of the camp- selection process.
• Dr. Mengle lead the selection process.
• SS officers every few yards.
• babies being burned in a ditch.
• second barracks were two stories and cement.
• sign that read "work makes you  free"
• smoke.
• crematoria's.

Night = darkness that blanketed his life.

Dehumanization

• forced to remove clothing.
• beat prisoners.
• brand a number on their arms.
• transfered in cattle cars.
• stuffed prisoners in the barracks.
• shaving their heads.
• taking their valuables.
• given clothes that didn't fit them.

Stein of Antwerp

• Elie lies to Stein to give him the will to live on because his family knows he is alive.
• Stein disappeared after he was given the real news.

Fire/Flames

The role of Mrs. Schachter is to foreshadow. Seeing fire and flames symbolizes the way they are going to die, and it also symbolizes that the world is going to go up in flames.

Class Significance

• Mrs. Schachter reveals madness of the incident.
• Mrs. Schachter foreshadows the future.
• Hate breeds more hate.
• The fire symbolizes the ovens and cremation of Jews.
• The fire symbolizes death.
• The fire symbolizes burning of religion, culture, memories, etc.
• The fire symbolizes hate.
• The fire symbolizes hell.
• The fire symbolizes chaos, friction, conflicts, etc.

Foreshadowing in "Night"

1. All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet.
2. Moishe tried to warn people of what's to come, but no one listened.
3. Elie's father was called to a meeting. They were all being moved to ghetto's.
4. They were moved to a smaller ghetto.
5. They were expelled and had to spend 24 hours in a destroyed synagogue until they were sent away.

Class Foreshadowing List

1. The foreign Jews were removed from Sighet.
2. Dirty smoke when leaving the train station.
3. Wearing the star of David.
4. Moishe the Beatle--->Tells us Jews were being slaughtered, Jews were digging their own
5. "What do you expect? That's war"
6. Ghetto--->Jews were held captive and kept in specific living spots.
7. Transporting in the cattle cars.

Night Scavenger Hunt

1. The Holocaust is the mass slaughter of 6 million Jews, and 5 millions others by the Nazi's and Hitler. It happened because the Nazi's had different religious/political views, and because these people failed to be of the Aryan race, which is blonde hair and blue eyes. It occurred in Europe, mainly in Germany, Poland and Austria.


2. The "final solution" plan was a code name for the Nazi's total extermination of the Jews, gypsies, and other's they were persecuting.


3. A "ghetto" was a city district in which the Germans concentrated the Jewish population and forced them to live under horrible conditions.


4. The living conditions in the ghettos were crowded. Jews had to wear the yellow star of David on their clothes to show they were Jewish.


5. Concentration Camps were where Jews were taken to live, and essentially be killed.


6. 1) To incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite period of time.
    2) To have available a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned, construction-related enterprises (and, later, armaments and other war-related production)
    3) To serve as a site to physically eliminate small, targeted groups of the population whose death was determined by the SS and police authorities to be essential to the security of Nazi Germany. 


7. Approximately 1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Approximately 200,000 other victims were deported. At least 960,000 Jews were killed. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Gypsies, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and 10,000-15,000 members of other nationalities (Soviet civilians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians.


8. The Jews who were assigned to work in the factories had a much greater survival chance because factory workers were considered too valuable to kill, at least while they were still able to work.
Elie Wiesel worked at Monowitz.