- What is the most important thing you learned in this project? About what these Veterans today are doing for the world today (my veteran speaks at schools about his experiences)
- What do you wish you had spent more time on or done differently? The research itself, but the website was a little plain and reading through the interview I had found myself needing to reread and reread time and time again. So, I did not get all the information I wanted to.
- What was the least enjoyable part about doing this project? Like I said previously, reading that transcript trying to pick it apart was very difficult. There was a lot to read and I just could not focus.
- How could I(the teacher) change this project to make it better? It was an okay project, normally I get excited doing projects for history, this one was difficult and it just wasn't for me I don't think there is much of anything you could've done to make it better, it was more about the website and how it was organized.
Friday, April 24, 2015
Veteran Project Reflection
Monday, April 13, 2015
Mario Finzi Reflection of a Holocaust Victim
My choice for this was Mario Finzi, I chose him because of his age, he was older and I wanted to compare the life he had before the Holocaust and his life during and or after.
He was born in Italy and was surprisingly an only child, to a Jewish couple. Even during the power of Benito Mussolini, Jewish people in Italy lived rather safe lives. What I found most interesting about Mario was his hobby which had been playing the piano and the fact that he had chosen to study law after high school. Just going into the beginning of these slides made me feel bad, knowing this boy had such high hopes for himself and dreams and knowing in slides to come I'd find out he would have the same fate as many other Jewish people during the Holocaust.
It all start in 1938 when the "racial" laws were issued and Mario could not continue practicing law in Milan. This man seemed to be rather humble knowing he picked up after this and worked with a Jewish agency that helped refugees. But the sun always sets on good events and in 1943, Benito Mussolini was overthrown and the German forces occupied Italy. From there, him and other Jewish people were all sent to a German transit camp (at Fossoli di Carpi). Finally he was deported to the largest concentration camp of its kind, Auschwitz.
When I got to the slide where I chose what I expected to be Mario's fate, I wanted to be as hopeful as possible and chose the happy ending. I was sadly brought to reality when the answer I chose was the wrong one. I clicked the skull and crossbones, and found out that he threw himself onto the high-tension wire and even wrote a note for forgiveness to his parents. He was still rather young, at 31 years old. It hurt me to know that this man's life had been cut short due to this racist act that went out of control.
It made me realize how far we have come from how bad things were with being prejudice, while it is still an issue today, it is not as bad as the Holocaust. Though this is one of my favorite events to learn about in history, it is also one of the saddest. Knowing how many innocent lives were taken just because the blame was passed onto these groups about the troubles following the war.
He was born in Italy and was surprisingly an only child, to a Jewish couple. Even during the power of Benito Mussolini, Jewish people in Italy lived rather safe lives. What I found most interesting about Mario was his hobby which had been playing the piano and the fact that he had chosen to study law after high school. Just going into the beginning of these slides made me feel bad, knowing this boy had such high hopes for himself and dreams and knowing in slides to come I'd find out he would have the same fate as many other Jewish people during the Holocaust.
It all start in 1938 when the "racial" laws were issued and Mario could not continue practicing law in Milan. This man seemed to be rather humble knowing he picked up after this and worked with a Jewish agency that helped refugees. But the sun always sets on good events and in 1943, Benito Mussolini was overthrown and the German forces occupied Italy. From there, him and other Jewish people were all sent to a German transit camp (at Fossoli di Carpi). Finally he was deported to the largest concentration camp of its kind, Auschwitz.
When I got to the slide where I chose what I expected to be Mario's fate, I wanted to be as hopeful as possible and chose the happy ending. I was sadly brought to reality when the answer I chose was the wrong one. I clicked the skull and crossbones, and found out that he threw himself onto the high-tension wire and even wrote a note for forgiveness to his parents. He was still rather young, at 31 years old. It hurt me to know that this man's life had been cut short due to this racist act that went out of control.
It made me realize how far we have come from how bad things were with being prejudice, while it is still an issue today, it is not as bad as the Holocaust. Though this is one of my favorite events to learn about in history, it is also one of the saddest. Knowing how many innocent lives were taken just because the blame was passed onto these groups about the troubles following the war.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Women at Home project reflection
For this project we were given 4 different options to choose from to do it on. I chose Effort of Women at Home. This paper really opened my eyes a bit to how much the view of women changed between the time before the war and the time during and even after. For example, I had found that in pre-war years only 1% of women worked jobs that got this up close in personal in industries connected to the war. Whereas during WWII the percentage rose above more than half, falling at 65%. Before this project I had never really primarily researched this topic. I mean, I had always heard about it throughout my years in history classes but we never seemed to dive into it, but now that I know what impact women and their effort had on WWII I can honestly say I am quite proud.
Not only did this project benefit me with gaining knowledge I did not have prior to doing so but it also made me proud to be a woman and also an American. Seeing as the opportunities presented to women in pervious years were very slim, I loved how many doors were opened for them during this time period. Normally women worked a few certain jobs and were homemakers. But when the ball started rolling with the help of the first lady (Eleanor Roosevelt) we were given our opportunity to shine and we sure did.
In the time before doing this project I had also seen Rosie the Riveter everywhere but again, I had limited knowledge to it. It showed how good propaganda was back then and it helped recruit many of the 310,000 women who were now part of this. It showed an empowered woman who had a strong face that read drive and determination. Rosie the Riveter is still looked at as one of the most amazing uses of propaganda in history.
Also during this project I was given the opportunity to see just the impact adding women into this had when years and years and years later in 2010, these women were awarded for their efforts by being given the congressional gold medal. This just proved to me that women really worked hard and got their recognition. This project was actually really fun for me and with having four options I was able to pick from them which one I had more of an interest in and that really worked in my favor. I also had the opportunity to pick from four formats to put this project in they were Prezzi, PowerPoint, Essay, and a video. Normally I would choose PowerPoint because of its familiarity to me but instead I chose the essay format. I thought that this choice was the best because this was the type of project that needed a lot of words not pictures/video.
Overall, I had a great time on this essay and was happy with the options given to me and the freedom felt by choosing them myself. I was also happy that I had an interest in one of the four topics given to me. I was more than pleased with the knowledge gained of women in these war time years and the impact it had on expectations during and after.
Not only did this project benefit me with gaining knowledge I did not have prior to doing so but it also made me proud to be a woman and also an American. Seeing as the opportunities presented to women in pervious years were very slim, I loved how many doors were opened for them during this time period. Normally women worked a few certain jobs and were homemakers. But when the ball started rolling with the help of the first lady (Eleanor Roosevelt) we were given our opportunity to shine and we sure did.
In the time before doing this project I had also seen Rosie the Riveter everywhere but again, I had limited knowledge to it. It showed how good propaganda was back then and it helped recruit many of the 310,000 women who were now part of this. It showed an empowered woman who had a strong face that read drive and determination. Rosie the Riveter is still looked at as one of the most amazing uses of propaganda in history.
Also during this project I was given the opportunity to see just the impact adding women into this had when years and years and years later in 2010, these women were awarded for their efforts by being given the congressional gold medal. This just proved to me that women really worked hard and got their recognition. This project was actually really fun for me and with having four options I was able to pick from them which one I had more of an interest in and that really worked in my favor. I also had the opportunity to pick from four formats to put this project in they were Prezzi, PowerPoint, Essay, and a video. Normally I would choose PowerPoint because of its familiarity to me but instead I chose the essay format. I thought that this choice was the best because this was the type of project that needed a lot of words not pictures/video.
Overall, I had a great time on this essay and was happy with the options given to me and the freedom felt by choosing them myself. I was also happy that I had an interest in one of the four topics given to me. I was more than pleased with the knowledge gained of women in these war time years and the impact it had on expectations during and after.
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