Life in Nazi Germany, women and the family

1) How did Hitler try and encourage marriage as soon as he came to power?

Hitler created a law concerning marriage as soon as he came to power, he wanted to encourage marriage in Germany, as a bigger population was needed and he wanted as many children as a marriage could, with this, he also aimed to the future, as the country was going to need military forces to defend and serve the country in war. To encourage this, Hitler gave money for each children a marriage had.

2) According to Nazi ideology, what roles did men and women have?

The roles of women for Nazi's was simple, to take care of the children in house, and raise them, while men were in war defending the country or working for t. They thought women had no reason to work.

3) Using the information on this sheet, create a spider diagram clearly showing what women were expected to do, and what was not acceptable.

4) Using your spider diagram, create a table illustrating differences between our society today and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

5) Why do you think Hitler placed such importance on the role of women?

In my opinion, women were important for Hitler simply because without women, populations couldn't grow in the nation, and Hitler needed that in order to cover the deaths Germany was having in war, without women, the country would have only old population and the military power of it couldn't maintain through the war, they needed women to have children.


6) What evidence is there to suggest that there were some contradictions in Nazi policies towards women?

7) "The Nazis were never really interested in the traditional family life". Using all the sources together with our previous answers, explain in no less than 100 words, your opinion of the statement. You will need to find evidence to both agree and disagree with the statement.

Paper 2

“Marks Aren’t Everything!”

Nowadays, school marks aren´t so important considering the whole school life and the experience you get on it.

Do newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, the Internet, and other media determine what is important to most people?

There are many ways to know what is happening in the present, such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, the Internet and others. This ways are a great source of informtion to everybody in the world, as they cover a great part of the wold news.

I do think that the different media and other neews feeds around the society determines what is important for most of the people, because they control a huge part of what people know in the present, anyway, the news that every media shows is more or less determined by what people want to know or at least what they should want to, eventhough, I think that in the end, people just reads what they want to know, and that is determined by everybody´s personal interests, because obviously there are persons that for example don´t want to know about what is happening between North and South Korea, but they want to know about other things that for other ersons are less improtant.

Paper 2: Letter or email giving advice

Dear Mr. Besoain

I understand your worries about the case with your son. But to be honest, there are several cases tht have tested and proved that the violent video games don`t affec in the attitudes or personality of a oung boy or girl, so you shouldn`t be that worried, anyway, there are some things I advice you to do,, for example, in every game there is a label that displays the age restriction of that particlar game, so you should check that label in all of the games your son plays, because if he doesn`t have the required age to play a game that may have an impact in your boy personality.

Biofuels image analisis

• What do you notice first about this image and why?
In this image what I first noticed is that we must act, the Earth is going to die faster than we expect and this images simbolizes that. I also noticed that the image is from the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), an this is also important to analize the picture as it gives you a guide on what is the message of the picture and what is it going to be appealed in it.

• What emotions are present?
Maybe desolation, as the Earth is being affected by all humans and nothing is changing, it is getting worse every different day.

• What is the situation? What is happening?
A native forest with the form of two lungs is loosing trees, slowly umans are cutting those trees and when all the trees dissapear the Earth will die along with the humanity.

• What is the setting (place and time)?
A native forest in the Earth, with the form of lungs, the day is cloudy, maybe it can be on winter, and the setting simbolizes perfectly what is being tried to explain.

• Does the picture contain any repetition, framing, or balancing (colours signaling something in particular)?
The setting is a great example, as it is on a cloudy day, and the gray may simbolize death, death for the planet and life.

• What message or theme does the picture seem to convey? What aspects of the picture make you think this? Is it supposed to speak for or against an issue?
In my opinion, this picture is trying to tell the viewers that the Earth is dying and the humans must do something in order to revert this situation. What made me think this is that there is a forest in form of human lungs, and there is a part of the forest that is dry or has no trees, and trees are a key part of human respiratory system. It is supposed to speak for actions in favour of the Earth, in terms of Global Warming issues, there must be something to do to revert the curent situation. But, it also appeals against an issue, and this issue is the actions made by humans that made the Earth suffer this, and it is getting worse every day that goes by.

Nature vs Nurture activity

I’m in favor of any means that allows a woman to have children, and not just for those who are too late to conceive naturally. There are lots of young women who can't have a baby and perhaps for them it's even harder..SOURCE: DEUTSCHE WELLE 2012-11-02 14:45:00




• What do you notice first about this image and why?
A couple just left pavillion with their babies that theywere just born


• Who are the people in this image? What emotions are present?
A couple, they are happy


• What is the situation? What is happening?
Their babies were born or they decided to adopt babies because they couldn't have one.


• What is the setting (place and time)?
They are in a hospital by day.


• Does the picture contain any repetition, framing, or balancing (colours signaling something in particular)?
It has the symbolism of a family, a family that is getting stronger and having new members.


• What message or theme does the picture seem to convey? What aspects of the picture make you think this? Is it supposed to speak for or against an issue?
They are in favour of getting babies by any mean apart from the natural way, as the quote says, the photo is trying to show a family that is getting new members and growing up.

Play Reading Summary Form (Guide)

Title: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

Date: Between 1590 and 1596

Period/Style/Genre: Comedy

Number of Characters: 17 (Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena, Quince, Lords and Attendants, Pyramus, Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine, Lion, Oberon, Titania and Puck)


Setting: Athens, the palace of Theseus


Character Name Age Gender Other

Theseus 25 M Duke of Athens
Hippolyta 23 F Queen of Amazons
Philostrate 40 M Master of the Revels
Lysander 18 M In love with Hermia
Demetrius 19 M In love with Helena
Hermia 17 F In love with Lysander
Helena 18 F In love with Demetrius
Quince 33 M Carpenter Oberon 45 M King of fairies
Titania 38 F Queen of fairies
Puck 24 M Possible protagonist


Summary

Act V, scene i
The scene starts at the palace of Theseus, where he is telling the story of the magical misventures of last night to Hippolyta (which of course, the Athenian youths told him). Although Theseus is speaking about the story, he doesn't believe it; concerning that is an interesting story but for the imagination only. However, there is a suspicion of the story's truthfulness by his wife, mainly because all the story of the people that fell in love are the same.

The youths return to the castle, being recieved nicely by the duke of Athens, stating that before going to sleep the guests should make a perfomance. Then he calls Philostrate to read him a list of plays to choose, but find all of the plays unacceptable. Philostrate then tries to warn the duke and tells him of the Pyramus and Thisbe story, which the craftsmen have prepared; saying that it is terrible, so he suggests strongly not to see it. Theseus, not listening to the suggestions, states that no matter how poor the perfomances are; there is merit in the dutiful attitude of the craftsmen, so he will see it.

The audience sits down and wait, and Quince enters stage to present a prologue to the play while he hesitates. Making strange pauses, the combination of sentences that he makes have no sense at all, leaving the audience questioning themselves. The other actors enter after this, playing the roles of Wall and Moonshine. They act out a awkward version of the story, during which the nobles joke among themselves about the strange speeches and bad acting. Bottom, in particular, makes many messy statements while playing his role. Pyramus and Thisbe meet at, and speak across, the actor playing Wall, who holds up his fingers to indicate a chink. Snug enters with the role of a lion, but then talk to the ladies and thell them that he actually wasn't a lion. He roars, scaring Thisbe away, and then rends her mantle. Because of finding the the bloody mantle, Pyramus commits suicide. Thisbe commits it too when finding Pyramus dead. Right after the play ended, time in which Bottom pretends to kill himself, Bottom asks to the audience if they would like an a bergamask dance or epilogue; Theseus replies that they will see the dance . Bottom and Flute makes the dance,and after that the full casting goes to sleep.



Special Notes

This chapter actually has an epilogue that isn't mentioned on many versions of the book, in which the fairies enter the palace and sing a magical song that makes each lover true to each other, and also a spell in which anyone of the audience that felt offended by the play will remember it just as a dream.



Personal Notes and Reactions

The play has many aspects that can be highlighted in my opinion, first of all, the connection that is engaged with the Greek mythology is very good, how Shakespeare uses historical characters to build his own play, using some themes or elements in order to create different aspects of the play, for example, love, as he uses the same relations of Greek mythology, and these relations have a key role in the play, as some people say that Shakespeare uses the dark side of love in the play, along with his difficulties. In other hand, there are some things that are important in the play, like the feminism and the ambiguous sexuality of some characters. Finally, the relationships between fantasy and reality and between environment and experience is very important in the play and it is very well developed.