Soundtrack Project

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3 men charged for human trafficking (Assignment 9)

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/metro/view/20081203-175848/3-men-charged-for-human-trafficking

This is an article that talks about 3 men that were trafficking and forcing women into prostitution. There were four women that were told that they would work in a restaurant in Iloilo City but were brought to a whorehouse in October. They escaped and looked for help in a radio station and they were taken to IJM (Internal Justice Mission).

Similarities-

• Human Trafficking
• Facts

Differences

• One was in Austin, Texas
• The other was in Mandaue City, Philippines
• One is talking about how they can stop human trafficking
• One shows the names, the other one doesnt

Assignment 8 (Video)

• One of the things that got my attention is a banner that had german words on it; the only visible words were BAYERN, IN, and DFUMSCHLAND, which apparently they mean BAVARIA IN DFUMSCHLAND, which they are both locations in Germany.

present Bavaria

• There is also another poster that says Achtung Juden, which means Attention Jew




• Herman Göring was German politician that served as a leading member of the Nazi party

  

Assignment 7 Questions for Ch.6-9

Ch. 6

1. What happened to anyone who did not keep up with the march? They were shot
2. How did Zalman die? He had a "stomach cramp" and had to stop; his pants were down while he was trampled
3. What horrible realization did Elie come to concerning Rabbi Eliahou and his son? How did Elie respond to this? Rabbi Eliahou had a piece of bread and his son attacked him because he was also hungry; at the end both were dead. Elie wished for that never to happen to him (kill his dad for a piece of bread)
4. What was Juliek's last act? Playing the violin
5. How did Elie help his father when the selection was made? When his father was sent to the left, he ran after him and caused confusion

Ch. 7

1. How did Elie help his dad when he was on the train? He started slapping him so that he could wake up because they were throwing the dead off the train
2. Describe the scene Elie witnessed between a father and a son on the train. He gets a "flashback" of the lady that was throwing money to poor people causing them to fight.
3. How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived? Twelve, 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, Elie had to take care of his father, and that' s when he starts thinking about how he should be for himself and let him die
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 he was right, but for that second he felt guilty and got his father bread and soup

Ch. 9

1. What happened on april 5th? The wheel of history turned, they were set free
2. What was the resistance movement? What did they do? When everyone fought against the Nazis, even if they weren't in the concentration camps
3. What did the prisoners do when they were freed? They had no thought of revenge, just bread
4. Who did Elie see in the mirror on the last page of the book? What did that mean? He saw himself as a corpse, he would never forget the moment that he saw himself weak, skinny

Assignment 6

Ch. 4

1. At first doctor was asking to see if they were in good health and if they said no they would be burned or killed; the dentist would check their mouth for gold teeth to take out for himself or the Nazi group.
2. Because Beethoven was German
3. When he gets mad he starts to attack anything that gets in his way
4. He kept saying that he was sick in order to avoid getting his tooth taken out
5. A french girl he used to work with in the warehouse
6. Franek put his father in the marching group and he couldn't do; it ended in beats. After Franek got Ellie to cave in; he had Ellie give him a ration of bread and he had someone yank out his tooth with a rusty spoon.
7. The Jews are put in a room filled with hot soup. An old man goes toward it and drinks from it and the whole time there was no admiration, just jealousy. When the bombing began the man dies.
8. "They're expecting trouble." The Germans were afraid that if someone stood up to it all Jews would follow; they knew they would loose that battle so they tried scaring them by showing them what would happen.
9. They were hanging 2 men and that boy that didn't die right away. The fact that they would kill a boy in front of them was devastating even though seen and gone through many other stuff.

Ch. 5

1. Because he was asking his father's permission to do so.
2. He was told to run so fast they wouldn't be able to catch his number.
3. ♥
4. He asked for them to think of him, to gather 10 men and hold a special service . All of his friends would say kaddish; they didn't do it.
5. He was gonna get an operation.
6. It was evacuated because the Russians were coming. It was liberated two days after the evacuation.

Time Line (Assignment 5)

Rescue and Liberation

• 1944- People who tried to rescue Jews and others from the Nazi did it at great risk to their own safety.

• Allied troops who entered the concentration camps were shocked at what they found. (Large ditches filled with bodies, ect.)

Questions ch.2&3 (Assignment 4)

Chapter 2 PG.23-28

1. The train had stopped in a small town ,Kaschau, in Czechoslovakian. "Our eyes opened. Too late." means that they noticed that they weren't staying in Hungary and it was too late to do anything about it.
2. She was kind of having a vision about the crematories.
3. The men bound and gagged her. They struck her so hard that it could have killed her.
4. The train stopped at Birkenau.

Chapter 3 PG.29-46

1. An SS officer had told him to lie about his age; he lied about the occupation because he was scared.
2. He saw the babies out of the truck thrown into flames.
3. He no longer had faith. The babies and the flame and the questioning of God made him loose his faith.
4. He felt angered; he started questioning God like why should he thank Him for.
5. He felt that at Birkenau they treated them more humanly.
6. They would shower them with hot water.
7. The numbers on their left arm; he was A-7713
8. Because according to the Germans he was being too nice.
9. In the mornings- black coffee, midday- soup, at six o' clock- bread with margarine
10. He was forced to put his own father's body into the furnace.

Chapter 1 Night Questions (Assignment 3)

1. Moishe the Beadle was a handyman, a very poor man, a man of all work
2. He didn't know
3. He would tell about how they killed the kids and two people (foreign Jews)
4. They thought he was crazy, that he wanted them to pity him
5. 1. they arrested all the leaders of the Jewish community 2. they couldn't stay out past six 3. they weren't allowed to have anything with monitary value 4. they had to wear a yellow star 5. soldiers could go in their house 6. they were put in the ghetto
6. A neighborhood with only a class of people ex. Jews
7. The Jews do not believe that Hitler really intends to annihilate them
8. *there were 80 people per car *the one in charge would be killed if one of them escaped *there was bread and water *there were bars on the windows

Cattle Car Complex (Assignment #2)

• Adam Posner was a Jewish lawyer that gets stuck in an elevator. As Posner was stuck in the elevator, he was remembering about the Holocaust. This claustrophobic man was remembering about how the Jewish were put in Cattle Cars (80 in each), and how they were suffering of thirst and suffocation. Adam was also afraid of the dark; the officer asked him to stay there longer, but Posner refused and cursed the man. At the end the Jewish man was saved, still living the horror of the Holocaust.
• The author writes about things like this to show how Jewish people are still being affected by the Holocaust even though it happened a long time ago.

The Holocaust (Assignment 1)

Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=583

The holocaust killed aproximately 6 million Jews. The Holocaust occured in 1933; '''Holocaust" is a greek word that means "sacrifice by fire." In the Holocaust, Germans not only killed Jews, but also Gypsies, disabled people, and some slavic people. Germany first had 9 million Jewish people, until they started killing 2 out of every 3 Jews. They also killed 200,000 gypsies and 200,000 disabled people.

What do I think?? (Assignment 10)

I really liked this blog thing because we could do this at home without carrying anything and we could view other people's blogs easily. I think this idea was great and um i hope we keep doing it. Now tell me something, Mr. Montes, DO YOU LIKE MY ♥LIL WAYNE♥ BACKGROUND?? ☺☻

The Stepfather (Assignment 8)

The stepafather is a heartless thing. He takes the cucumbers from Lakshmi without permission and tells Ama that she has to sell her dowry. The stepfather can't work, and he doesn't make an effort into earning money. Instead, he gambles away the little money they have.

Black Jack
I tell the dealer "HIT ME"
And i watch as he lays the three
With a jack and an eightalready on my plate
I jump and scream 21and the dealer gives me what i won
Ahead i know i should stop
Texas hold 'em here comes the flop
Two aces already showing
My anxiety is quickly growing
And at last i say "all in"
Hoping against hope that i might win
The opponent flips his cards
Pocket aces throw me off my guard
OH NO! I lost a months wages
I go home to face my wifes rages
http://allpoetry.com/poem/3021994

This poem reminds me of Lakshmi's stepfather because in his gambling it's rare that he wins something, but he always ends up loosing. For example, on one of the vignettes it states that her stepfather had won a motorcycle; unfortunately he ends up gambling it away.

Something to read and think about... (Assignment 7)

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF2003/Briski/Briski.html
This website really makes you think about the life that they are living. When i saw the brothels, they had some of the things I imagined; broken walls, no floor (tile, ect.), little decoration, and being a dirty place itself. I read that most prostitutes are forced into this because of the lack of ,money they have. Over 7,000 women/girls are included in this dirty business. I also learned that cheap condoms are available, but it is hard to get "costumers" to use them.

Concern Worldwide U.S. (Assignment 6)

http://www.concernusa.org/Default.aspx

Concern Worldwide U.S. is a non- governmental humanitarian organization around the world. It is dedicated to decrease extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries, like India. It has helped over millions of people since 1968. Their mission is to help people with extreme poverty and help them live a better life.

This chart shows what this organization is helping people with and as you can see to stay away from poverty.

Time line (Assignment 5)

1. Lakshmi is living in Nepal in the village
2. Lakshmi has her first period and her mother tells her what she needs to know
3. They go a long time without raining, which is when they ration water
4. The stepfather sells Lakshmi's cucumbers; he gambles and loses the money instead of getting something the family needs
5. The rain comes, but it does not stop raining after eight days and nights, which is bad
6. They go to a festival, where Lakshmi sees Auntie Bimla for the first time; she is described as a delicate stranger, a yellow cloud city woman
7. She is given the news that she has to go work as a maid in the city
8. They take her to Bajai Sita's were "Auntie Bimle" judges her but she still gets sold
9. They go through many villages were they have to walk, until they meet Uncle Husband
10. Lakshmi gets trafficked by Uncle Husband
11. They get to happiness house, were she goes in a room with a rope bed, a fan, and iron bars
12. After they watch TV, they transform Lakshmi using make-up
13. She notices that she was not there to work as a maid when she gets pushed towards the old man.
14. She wants to leave the Happiness House, but she can't
15. She gets locked up in a room without food for many days
16. She gets drugged by Mumtaz and she has her fist sexual experience with Habib
17. She is changed into another room, were there are other girls pretending to live a normal life
18. She meets the David Beckham Boy, the kid that taught Lakshmi to read
19. She spends the night with a guy that gives her kindness accidentaly
20. A strange costumer gives her an american card
21. The police goes and Shahanna gets kidnapped
22. Lakshmi shows Mumtaz her calculations and she makes fun of her and tells her she will be there for at least five more years
23. She dedicates herself to getting out of there by being with men
24. The street boy that would give Lakshmi a cup of tea got beat up and was given another route; she gives him the american card
25. A different American arrives with a digital camera and asks her if she wants to leave Happiness House; she agrees
26. There is a raid were the American comes back with different people and they save Lakshmi; this all happened because of the street boy, who called the american =D

Main Problem (Assignment 3) Man vs Man

I think that the main problem of a story is MONEY, but it is Lakshmi's stepfather that causes this problem because of his gambling. They barely have any money, and the dad spends that little that they have gambling. Lakshmi's stepfather does not have one arm, so he doesn't work, which makes it worse because they owe a lot of money and he doesn't do anything to help.

• "My stepfather's arm... and useless thing." pg. 8
• "And so he... the old men." pg. 8
• "My stepfather dozes... his card game" pg. 20
• "My Stepfather rises... sell your earrings." pg.23
• "I understand slowly... the tea shop." pg. 24
• ""This", he says,... "goddess favors gamblers."" pg. 41

Old Man pg.102-104 (Assignment #2)

In this vignette, she notices that something is not right. When she goes upstairs and hears the sound of "grunting", she is curious of what's happening. She is grabbed by the hair towards the old man and the man abuses of her and she tries to defend herself. She feels as if she has been held my ten men, and she cannot breathe. The old man "thrusts" his tonge into her mouth, and as a defense, she bites his tounge. She runs out of the room carrying her clothes into the dark room were she had started.

I picked this vignette because this is the part were she finds out that she is not working as a maid, she is in a brothel working as a prostitute. Turns out it was her gambling stepfather. =(

About Me!! =D (Assignment #1)

Hi my name is Perla I go to Serna in eighth grade; YAY! the last year. My favorite colors are purple and red =) and my favorite sports are basketball and softball. My life is divided by both sports and school;I love both of them. My favorite subject is Math and my weakest subject would probably be reading, but I think I'm getting better at it. I am in the Math Team, and I hope to go San Antonio with them once again. I enjoy getting in UIL events, but this year there have been many things going on so I don't think it's going to happen. I am in Pre- Ap classes, and it's challenging but it's better than being bored all day. Right now I'm in Cross- Country and I'm more than ready to join basketball the next nine weeks.

I have a lazy sister, an annoying brother, a little sister, and two bossy parents; I wonder what they say about me. =) My sister is 15 years old and she is a sophomore in High School; she has been in the same schools as me and teachers tend to confuse us. We are very different, but only some people notice that. My brother is 7 years old; he goes to THE BEST SCHOOL EVER!!! My little sister is only six months old so there isn't really anything to say, other than I love her. My two bossy parents are OVER PROTECTIVE, STRICT, and MEAN, but they say they do this because they LOVE ME. Yea, right!!

Well um that's all i can say about me right now.