Assigment 10

"The jarringly candid comments came as the government is battling well-armed drug-smuggling gangs and seeks more aid and cooperation from the U.S., where most of the drugs are consumed and most of the weapons originate."

• There saying that there mostly trying to stop the drugs before they get to the border.


• And that they are trying to stop this beforec it get any bad.

Assigment 9

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=ae87c7f2-c2ae-42c4-9bb1-2f507d5af941

Declaring war on human traffickers

• Well this article is about a part of people that are trying to stop the human trafficking by declaring war on them.They plan to try to stop them by taking precautions when doing stuff and helping people that are alredy on human trafficking and they cant get out there going to help them.

Assigment 8 Hitlers rise to Power

• Well what grabbed my attention was why were they burning the German Right Book or why were they telling the people that did the newspaper what to put and what not to. Well the reason why Hitler made them burn the book was because he was under control and everyone had to go by his rules. Also the reason why he told them what to put and what not to was because he wanted to know and be able to handle what they were saying and writing.
• The other thing I found interesting was the way they salute to him. Why did they have to do it like that.Well the reason why they would salute him like that was to show Honor,respect.and loyalty.

Assigment 7 Ch.6-9

Ch.6

1.What happened to anyone who did not keep up with the march? They were abused to death or shot at the moment.
2.How did Zalman die? He had a "stomach cramp" and had to stop;when he stoped they ran over him.

3.What horrible realization did Elie come to concerning Rabbi Eliahou and his son? How did Elie respond to this? He hopes that he wont need to do what Rabbis son did to his father; to be under those conditions where they were fighting like dogs over a piece of bread.

4.What was Juliek's last act? Playing his beatiful violin.
5.How did Elie help his father when the selection was made? By going after his father when he got moved to the left; when he did that he caused confusion and end up with his father again.
Ch. 7
1.How did Elie help his dad when he was on the train? By slapping him which helped him wake up and saved him from being thrown away.
2.Describe the scene Elie witnessed between a father and a son on the train. He remembers of the lady that was throwing money to poor people havind fun watching them fight.
3.How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived? Out of a hundred only twelve made it including them. They arrived at Buchenwald.
Ch. 8
1.Explain how father/son roles had been reversed in the case of Elie and his father? When his father gets sick and he takes care of him thats when he starts to think if he should let him die and help him self survive.
2.Why was Elie's father being beaten? He was no longer able to drag himself outside to relieve himself; they would beat him and take away his bread
3.What did Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block? He thought about it, but then he felt guilty;and got his father bread and soup and toke it to him.
Ch. 9
1.What happened on april 5th? They were set free.
2.What was the resistance movement? What did they do? When they went against the Nazis, even the people that weren't in the concentration camps.
3.What did the prisoners do when they were freed? They didnt think about anything else than to just get a pieceof bread.
4.Who did Elie see in the mirror on the last page of the book? What did that mean? He though of himself as a corpse, he will always remember that image were he is all skinny and weak.

Chapter 5

1. 
   Why didn't Elie fast on Yom Kippur? He was angry at his god.
   


2. What advice was given to Elie to pass the selection? To look like you were healthy and to make it seem like it.
   


3. How did Elie's father respond when he had learned that his name had been written down?
   


4. What did Akiba Drumer ask others to do for him? Did they do it? He asked for them to think of him, to gather 10 men and hold a special service . That way they could say Kaddish didn't do it.


5. Why was Elie placed in the hospital? Because he had hurt his foot and they were going to operate. He was goingto get operated.
   


6. Why was the camp evacuated? What did Elie learn of the fate of those who stayed behind in the hospital? It was evacuated because the Russians were coming. But two days later it was liberated .

Assigment 6 ch.4and 5 Questions

1. 
   What were the objectives of the medical examinations? To see who was healthy or weak,the weak ones were taken into the crematories.Healthy were for work.
   
2. Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play Beethoven? Because Beethovens Music is German. And they werent allowed to play german music.
   
3. Describe one if Idek's bouts of madness. He would take his madness on who ever was around or close to him.He beat Elie because he saw him with a women.
   
4. How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown? He keeped on making excuses saying that he was sick so they keeped on sending him back.
   
5. Who did Elie meet on the Paris metro. A french women he had meet whilehe was working at the depot in the camp. She made herself pass as a Aryan.
   
6. What happened to Ellie when he refused to give his crown to Franek? What was the end result? Frank keeped on beating his dad because he didnt know how to march right. He had to give up his tooth to Frank for nothing.
   
7. Describe the scene at the soup cauldrons. One of the inmates crawled out to get soup and he got shot.
   
8. During the preliminary ceremonies before hanging, what did Juliek tell whisper to Elie? "This ceremony,will it soon be over?Im hungry ..." What does this suggest? They had so many of the hangings they werent important anymore.

10.During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from the others? They were crying for the young boy that got hung but didnt die right away.

Assigment 6

1. 
   What were the objectives of the medical examinations?
   
2. Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play Beethoven?
   
3. Describe one if Idek's bouts of madness.
   
4. How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?
   
5. Who did Elie meet on the Paris metro.
   
6. What happened to Ellie when he refused to give his crown to Franek? What was the end result?
   
7. Describe the scene at the soup cauldrons.
   
8. During the preliminary ceremonies before hanging, what did Juliek tell whisper to Elie?
9. What does this suggest?
   
10. During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from the others?