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The movie I watched was the The Devil's Arithmetic. Hannah Stern is 13 years old. Her families heritage is Jewish. They are celebrating passover and she keeps ignoring the storied her grandparents are trying to tell for her to  understand what they w

The movie, Pearl Harbor, was all about the Japanese attacking Hawaii in a massive surprise attack that resulted in the United States entering WW II, and how they thought they were invincible.  It started off with two little kids pretending that they

The Last Train (2006)

    The film depicts the fate of some of the last remaining Jews in Berlin. They were rounded up in April of 1943 at the Berlin-Grunewald Station and sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Most movies about the Holocau

I watched the movie Esther's Diary. I thought it was a great movie about a woman's struggle to find closure with the death of her mother. The death reveals details of her mother's life as a young Jewish girl in Poland and how she was captured in 1943

Schindler’s List tells about the courageous things a wealthy man did to save many Jews during World War II. Liam Neeson plays Oskar Schindler is does not start out the hero he ends up to be. At first, he appears to be only interested in starting a bu

This was a National Geographic documentary about the day of the attack and at the same time Robert Ballard's search for one of the mini-subs that were sent to torpedo the ships in the port. Tom Brokaw is the narrator for the movie. Veteran survivors

Sarahs Key

This movie took place in Paris, 1942. The Nazis were arresting the jews and taking them to concentration camps. Sarahs family were in their home, her father was away and her mother was packing and planning to take them out of the country. T

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Sarah's Key

Sarah, a 10 year old, hides her younger brother from authorites. She locks him in a hidden closet and tells him to stay there until she returns. Her parents and her are then transported to Velodrome d'Hiver, where they are held inhuman. On

Pearl Harbor

      Pearl Harbor is a movie about two friends Rafe and Danny. It starts off with them when they were younger and were pretending to air pilots and actually get the plane off the ground. The movie then transitions to later on when the tw

         The movie, The Hidden Child, is a 56 minute documentary by PBS. Many children were hidden during the Holocaust, and many of those hidden children are now telling their stories. Maud, was born in 1936, in the netherlands, her family originall

             For our 4^th assigned blog, I watched the “Diary of Anne Frank” with my sister because she said she liked the book.

              Anne Frank was starts off as a 12 year old girl, who lives in Amsterdam during WW2. Her family

The Downfall movie starts off with an older women telling about how guilty she felt working for Hitler. The next scene pictured several women heading to Hitler's headquarters hoping to receive a job as his secretary. I pieced together that the older

   Hanover Street is about a man and woman that meet one day on Hanover Street in Britain. Lieutenant Hellerman is a U. S. pilot that saves Margaret when the buildings around them suddenly start getting bombed by the Germans. The two meet each other

Saving Private Ryan:

The main part of the movie kicks of with D-day on Omaha Beach. After they take over the beach, it cuts to a scene where a mother is told that three of her sons were killed in action. So Captain Miller is given orders with a squad

Today we presented our government presentations.

Constitutional Monarchy

Prime Minister creates all the laws, but King or Queen oversees it all

Definitions-There is a main ruler of the country but the leader has to follow a set of rules.

examples- Canada

I believe Pocahontas and John Rolfe married for reasons other than true love. I feel like they got married only to ensure peace between Jamestown and the Indians. It wasn't until after Pocahontas was held captive that they supposedly fell in love wit

Today we presented some of our skits.

Absolute Monarchy

• a government where the ruler doesn't have to follow a set of rules
• King or Queen has all the power
• Swaziland, Brunei, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are all absolute monarchy

Constitutional Monarchy (

Today we did presentations of the political economic project:

Absolute Monarchy -  A government where the ruler doesn't have to follow a set of rules. Many countries that are absolute monarchy are around the middle east.

Constitutional Monarchy - A mai

we are going to do our skits today and i am very nervous!

monarchy-gov where the ruler doesnt have to follow a set of rules, swaziland, brunei, oman, qatar, audi araibia are examples of this.

constitutional monarchy- also known as limited monarchy, the