Blog 1 Part I Reflection

In Part 1, the part that stood out the most was when the Grubers turned on Riva's family in a split second. They became Volksdeutsche and felt they had duty to fulfill as being partially German. The Grubers had been part of their family ever since Riva's mom was born. Once Hitler came around, they betrayed them. That is so hard to imagine. There are people I've known all my life that I consider family. To think they could turn on me that fast is unbearable to fathom.

Blog 16 News Report on Chapter Four

It is 1939, Lodz, Poland.

Yesterday, we Nazis had to round up a quota of Jews to send to camps. They were only men; we got too many so we just shot the rest in stead of setting them free. They were just Jews though. For fun, we herded everyone in town- the men, women, and children! They were constantly made to run then walk but never stop. It was very amusing. Officer Kutz had to deal with some dumb teenager that refused to acknowledge him. Ungrateful Jew... People were saying, "He is a deaf-mute!"

Also, a good friend of mine pushed down a woman that was about to give birth to another infant Jew. Luckily, she landed right on her stomach. The humor of the situation was only increased when a man tried to help her and one of the SS smacked him on the head with a butt of his gun. "Bam!" Right into two halves. It was almost like art. We took all the captured men and separated them from the children and women. Had it been up to us, they would have all been taken away!

Blog 15 Holocaust Topics and The Cage

a. The Jewish Holocaust took place from 1933 - 1945. It was a brutal genocide of mostly Jews. Adolf Hitler commanded the German Nazis and they killed or arrested basically anyone that was not an Aryan.

b. The Nazi party was a group of strongly anti-semitic Germans. Hitler created and ruled this group.

c. Ruth Minsky Sender was a Holocaust survivor. She is the author of The Cage.

d. Auschwitz, Mittelsteine, and Grafenort were concentration camps. Auschwitz is one of the worst remembered camps. So many innocent lives were taken and the SS army controlled whether or not peopel lived or died.

e. The Cage is a personal memoir by Ruth Minsky Sender. She wrote about her life and included true events as well as true people.

Blog 14 Tots Final Entry

The first time Kate and Petruchio met, Petruchio took her aside and basically told her they were going to be married. He called her beautiful and many other compliments of which had no truth about them. She was infuriated that she could no fend for herself and refuse to marry him. He told Baptista the wedding date was the upcoming Sunday. After they were married, Petruchio tried to control everything in her life. He did not allow her to buy clothes she liked, sleep, or eat.

This is similar to the popular relationship between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Though Jolie was not known for being a "shrew," and Pitt is not know for being selfish and only into money, there was a great similarity between this couple and Shakespeare's main characters from this play. Jolie was known for her crazy outbursts and antics, but after she starred in Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Pitt, she changed her ways and began to be a responsible adult. Together, they have had (and adopted) many children and raised them with the best intentions. Had it not been for meeting Pitt, Jolie may still have been the irresponsibly reckless young actress she once was.

Blog 13 Katherina's Soliloquy

Lines 171-173: Kate is saying that arguments should not be solved by fighting. She is ashamed of women that think fighting with their husbands is the best solution.

	"I am ashamed that women are so simple
	To offer war where they should kneel for peace;
	Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway
	When they are bound to serve, love, and obey."

Line 82: Kate realized all her fighting was pointless.

"But now I see our lances are but straws."

Lines 185-188: Kate is telling Bianca and the widow to swallow their pride and do what they can for their husbands. she is more than ready to respect Petruchio.

	"Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,
	And place your hands below your husband's foot:
	In token of which duty, if he please,
	My hand is ready, may it do him ease."

In her speach, Katherina never mentions women's rights or her formerly stubborn ways. She has been tamed.

Blog 12 TOTS Act IV

Curtis,

Petruchio was acting that way to teach Katherine a lesson. He is taming the shrew. She is being scared into humble submission by his actions. He is "breaking" her, in a sense. When a horse is bad, they are broken by a professional in order to be controlled. They are usually broken by frightening or hurting them. That is precisely what Petruchio is doing in order to tame Katherine.

Petruchio's change in personality is an act. He is only pretending to be so openly heartless in order to frighten Katherine. She will learn to obey him if he is intimidating. If he was acting calm around her, she would try to take advantage of him; she would not be tamed. He needs to teach her she cannot be a shrew and complain and whine about everything.

Blog 11 TOTS

1. A Blank Verse has no set rhythm or rhyme or pattern. It is in Iambic Pentameter à line length broken into five feet. One foot is 2 syllables. An example is "I'll feeze you in faith."

2. a) "But wait! What time is it?"

b) "You are loevelier and calmer."

c) If you did it when you were supposed to, it would have been done already!"

d) When you 'woo' someone without thinking first, then when you get married it is in vain."

Thou art a jaded, shrill-gorged minimus!