This is Brandon's Part of it
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Persuasive Essay
Adolf Hitler
By: Brandon Hunter
By: Brandon Hunter
What is one of the greatest dictators that you think ever lived? It can be one of many different dictators. To me, I believe that a German dictator named Adolf Hitler was the best dictator that has ever lived. Hitler was just a misunderstood individual. Many people think that he was an evil person, but he wasn’t. One reason why I think that he was a great dictator is because of his political views. Another reason is that he was a big threat to the entire world if he went any further than he already did. Finally, he was able to take over a race without a good education.
Adolf Hitler was a great dictator because of his political views. I don’t see Hitler as someone that didn’t like Jews so he did whatever he could to either enslave them or kill them, but as someone better. The way that I see is that he wanted a Utopia, or a perfect society. To do this he wanted only a certain group of people to be in his Utopia. He only wanted cocasion people with blonde hair and blue eyes to be in his Society because he thought that they were the perfect people. Even though he was wrong about it, to me his views were actually pretty good. His idea was good, but the steps that he took to get there was extremely evil and uncalled for.
If Hitler had gotten any further than he already did, he could have possibly taken over the world. He had already taken over Germany single handedly. He had got a group of people to follow him also known as the Nazis. The Nazis were unlike Hitler, pure evil. Hitler didn’t just want any Jews in Germany, but also in the world. If he didn’t kill himself due to WWII, he would have first conquered Europe, then the United States, then the rest of the world.
Adolf was able to conquer a race that was in Germany without a good education. He was never very good in school. His dad was threatening him about his grades, but that didn’t help his grades. His mom gave him encouraging words and used her persuasive talents to try to talk to him in getting better grades but that didn’t work either. When he turned 15, he had enough; he had persuaded his dad into letting him drop out of school. Even without his education, he was able to do what he did. He may have been illiterate, but he wasn’t stupid.
Adolf Hitler was not a bad person, but a good person that had good views but took the wrong path to get there. He was just another misunderstood human being. He did kill and enslave a group of people, but it was all for something that he thought was good. I believe that Adolf Hitler was actually one of the greatest dictators that has ever walked on the face of the earth.
SIP- Expository essay English1
What drives someone to want to be a dictator? It’s simple, they want to change something, about the world.. Isn’t there anything you want to change in your life, or maybe you’ve seen something that needs to be changed but you can’t unless you have more power. For whatever reason this is what drives people to seek a dictatorship. You can find examples of stuff like this everywhere, movies text quotes. But all in all I believe dictators are driven by the need for change, and or power.
Why do I believe Dictators are driven by the need to change things? How often do you see someone come into a dictatorship, and then continue to run that country the same exact way it was run, prior to that dictatorship? Honestly a dictator never seems to run his country the same way as the person before them ran it. An example of this An example of this through history would be looking back at Napoleon era France. While Napoleon Staged a coup in France, he eventually became emperor, and launched a series of wars and sieges that later became known as the Napoleonic wars. This was about 15 years after the French revolution, and the people revolted major idly because, of taxes fighting wars. So they went from wars and being pushed around by their government, to peace. Then sent back to wars and being pushed around by their government again.
Now how can you find the motivation of dictators in literature or movie? In truth it is very difficult, since dictatorship is a controversial topic, and it usually is associated with bad people, and bad times. It’s a controversial topic with few books and books and movies that aren't just history films, or autobiographies. Luckily i did manage to read the first 10 pages of Mein Kampf, before I decided it was stupid and went back to the library. Those pages, still gave me a good but fabricated idea of Hitler’s motives that would lead him to take power. He wanted a united Germany, instead of the fractured kingdoms it was during his childhood. In other words he wanted change, no matter how evil his attempt was, he still wanted to change his world.
To summarize whats been stated here, I basically said dictators are driven by the urge to change things. As evidence in both history and textual evidence, Its not often a dictator seizes control of a country and runs it the exact same way his predecessors did. Something always changes, wethers its war, taxes, the country's borders or just the style of government dictators bring change, for better and worse.
Monday, April 4, 2011
SIP-Dictatorship Presintation English 1
In my presintation it shows what a dictatorship is, how dictators come into powers, my ideas on how a dictator can be " a succesful dictator," and a short list of some famous dictators.
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SIP-Bookreport English 1
Road to Baghdad: Behind Enemy Lines: The Adventures of an American Soldier in the Gulf War:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337549.Road_to_Baghdad
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Their where a few quirks in this book that made it often hard to get into. However none the less it was a very suprising and intresting story. The fact that the entire book is from the point of view of a real person, In a real situation shows they're mentality in this situation. This intrests me personally because i can compare his reactions to mine, like i often do with books like this.
The downside to reading a 300 page book in this fashion, is that it gets repetitive. Really repettitive... While the book often has exciting stories and suprises about his and other captors treatment. But when some 200 pages are filled with "Reconnaissance", on things like how numerous yet completely nostalgic arabic armies are, or ways to escape an installation through a hole in the fence, do get a bit hard to read.
With the bad does come good. Althought the book may become reppettitive at times, as most books do, it had many unuiqe aspects i'd never seen in literature before. The first being he held nothing back, he hid nothing i would later have to research, he opened up all of his thoughts, shared idea he had, as well as how the brain fo a soldier works in a situation like being held hostage. Also he described everything in great detail, to the point where i felt like i was their for most of the book.
This is still a rather interesting book, and it tought me a few things i probablly never would of learned otherwise. I would reccomend this book to anyone who enjoys POW stories, but even by POW stories this book is still an oddball.
The downside to reading a 300 page book in this fashion, is that it gets repetitive. Really repettitive... While the book often has exciting stories and suprises about his and other captors treatment. But when some 200 pages are filled with "Reconnaissance", on things like how numerous yet completely nostalgic arabic armies are, or ways to escape an installation through a hole in the fence, do get a bit hard to read.
With the bad does come good. Althought the book may become reppettitive at times, as most books do, it had many unuiqe aspects i'd never seen in literature before. The first being he held nothing back, he hid nothing i would later have to research, he opened up all of his thoughts, shared idea he had, as well as how the brain fo a soldier works in a situation like being held hostage. Also he described everything in great detail, to the point where i felt like i was their for most of the book.
This is still a rather interesting book, and it tought me a few things i probablly never would of learned otherwise. I would reccomend this book to anyone who enjoys POW stories, but even by POW stories this book is still an oddball.
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