The "Real" King.

After the death of Kind Edward, three courageous men decided to battle for the throne. This created much chaos and caused many deaths of many civilians.

One of the men went by the name of Harald Hardrada. One of his claims towards the throne was the fact that he had a ancestor named King Cnut, which he himself was the ruler of England. Another claim to the throne was the fact that he would be able to lead an army, because of the fact that he already had quite a powerful army before. Harold Godwinson had a brother named Tostig who was not on his brothers side because of a fall out they had earlier in life. But then Tostig went to Harald Hardrada's side. These where most of the claims that Harald Hardrada had to the throne.


The next contender was a man named Duke William of Normandy. One of the claims he had to the throne was the fact that Edward the confessor (the former king of England) promised him as sucessor. Duke William disagreed that Harold Godwinson was able to be the King. William made Godwinson make an oath to help him become the king. A while after William started accusing Harold of being an oath-breaker (which was a very serious case, in those day). Another claim was that he got the word of Pope, Pope Alexander II. The pope gave William a special banner. 


Harold Godwinson was the Earl of Wessex. Godwinson was the leader of an army and the most powerful English Noble. Edward the confessor was also married to Harold's sister. He was not a surprising choice, and most of the nobles agreed with the choice. On the day Edward died (January 5th, 1066) the nobles had a gathering at their council, called the Witan, and they then agreed that Harold should be king. Harold Godwinson was then crowned king on the day that Edward was buried. 


Out of all these people I believe that Duke William of Normandy had the best claim to the throne. 

Victory

This story really touched me, it was very emotional and to even think what this lady went through as a little child is unreal. It touched me because I have also never had a dance with my dad that I can remember, if the first dance I have with my father was at a concentration camp I definitely would remember that moment in time. There are a few different lines that put an image in your head for example: “My lovely father (once big and strong)”. This put the image of a really strong fit man with huge muscles then another a weak, tired, skinny, hungry, thirsty man. An example of a metaphor is: “The ugly barracks disappeared”. Obviously the barracks didn’t just simply disappear. But it was a metaphor of how she was tuned in to only that moment she is spending with her father at this time. Every thing around her just disappeared in her mind to her and probably also her dad. “There was no hunger…and no fear”. This is another example because of course every one was hungry and tired and thirsty but they were also scared. The third line reads “You knew that they would ‘take’ you soon”. Which means probably that the girl didn’t know but the father wanted to make this time special. Also “You whispered ‘little one let us dance, we may not have another chance’”.

Adolf Hitler

Consider the first stage of our unit of study on Nazi Germany. For this blog post consider the following prompt and respond:

What conditions were present that allowed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party to take control of Germany in 1933?

Consider actual events, and the social ‘climate’ of Germany following World War I.

The events that helped Adolf Hitler take full control of Germany were, The first one was the worldwide depression that so called "crashed" the world wide markets and as Hitler is a smart man he can see cracks in the economy and in Germany itself he would see every opportunity and he saw this one as a big one. Of course at this time Germany was at its breaking point and he saw this as a chance to step in and try to rise up the hopes of the people and at this time it would be really easy science they were all so desperate. And he attempted and the attempt was successful and he got the attention of all German voters.

The next one

THE NUREMBERG RACE LAWS

In 1935 a series of laws were introduced which further restricted the civil rights and personal freedoms of Jews. Upon reading the information provided on the link, answer these questions:

1. Who could now be defined as a "Jew"?

It wasn't your religious beliefs it was if you had any jewish ancestors if your great great grandfather was a jew you would then also be counted as a jew. Which I think is unfair because if you were a German who agreed with Hitler and also thought that the jews deserved what happened to them and you suddenly got taken away to a camp just because your great grandfathers great grandfather was a jew, that is not your fault.

2. What was meant by "Aryanizing" Jewish Businesses?

They would not let the jews be able to have their own businesses so a German who was not jew would then take over the business and the jew would get no of the income that was collected.

3. How were Jews who were professionals (lawyers, doctors etc.) restricted?

Jewish Doctors were still aloud to do their jobs but the catch was that they could only treat patients that were jew and so non-jew doctors would only treat non-jews. But what I think is unfair that lawyers could not practice law at all so they could not do anything so they pretty much didn't have a job as a lawyer.

4. What did Jewish identity cards need to include now?

Every one in Germany at the time had to carry identity card and to make the soldiers jobs easier they would stamp RED J on their cards and they would change their middle names if you did not have a first name that was Israel or Sara.

5. What was the "Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People" (sum up in your own words)?

This I Believe

This story is about a man whose house got destroyed in the hurricane Katrina. He then had the choice to stay in New Orleans, or to go to another county where he could get a job and get paid three times as much as he is now. He chose to stay there he believes in attachment to place as so do I. I have been all around the world but Scotland (no matter where I am) will always be home.

http://thisibelieve.org/essay/15381/

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Chapter 1 Summary

The story starts with a fortuneteller and a King. Acrisius, king of Argos had a daughter named Danae. The fortuneteller foretold that his grandson would kill him. To prevent this he locked Danae in a tower. Zeus, shaped himself to be a shower of gold, Perseus was born.