The Movie I Watched

Inglourious Basterds (2009) 153 min - Adventure | Drama | War - 21 August 2009 (USA) The placing of this movie was Jewish American soldiers invading France during World War 2. The soldiers are called the Basterds they were assigned to kill Nazis and promote fear in the third Reich. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer: Quentin Tarantino Stars: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth and Diane Kruger.

Recently I was assigned to a project to do for English. This project had only one objective "learn and write about a significant topic that happened in World War 2." This project could really consist of anything from the fashion of that time to the atomic bomb to the holocaust. My significant topic is about up rises and what people did to try to stop the tragedy that happened in the holocaust from happening. There is a whole bunch of stuff you have to do for this project one major thing is to write a persuasive letter anything else is up to you. I had to watch a movie that relates to the topic of my choosing.

The movie I chose was Inglourious Basterds, not to get confused with the 1978 movie (though they did have some connection). The movie Stars Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth and Diane Kruger.The placing of this movie was Jewish American soldiers invading France during World War 2. The soldiers are called the Basterds they were assigned to kill Nazis and promote fear in the third Reich. Which they do very well. Except one accusation, after killing a troop of Nazis on a hill they have 3 solders left the sergeant and 2 others. They ask the sergeant to point out on a map were another troop are how many there are and what artilleries they have. Of cores he disagrees which caused him to have his head bashed in by a Jewish American soldier nicknamed the "Bear Jew" who bashes the brains in of any Nazi with a baseball bat. The following officer is shot for attempting to run. Lastly the final soldier (in fear of his life) tells them everything. So they decided to let him live so he can tell everyone to fear the Basterds but First Lieutenant Aldo Raine(Brad Pitt)has a problem with that. The soldier explains that he will take off the uniform sometime in the near future and never put it on again. But if he dose that nobody will know that he was Nazi so Aldo Raine carves a swastika into the soldiers forehead so everyone can see what he is.

There is another side of the story a woman who moved to France and lived under a fake French name owns a cinema, which is going to hold a very big première of a big movie. The reason it’s so big was because it was the first movie made during this transition of power and the third Reich. But this cinema owner isn’t who she clams to be. She is actual a Jewish girl named Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent) whose family was killed. The family died in 1941 by SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) goes to a “farm in France to interrogate Perrier Lapadite (Denis Menochet) about rumors that he is hiding the Jewish Dreyfus family. Landa persuades the farmer to confess to hiding the family underneath his floor. Landa then orders the SS soldiers into the house to shoot the floorboards where they are hiding. The entire family is killed, except the teenage Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent), whom Landa allows to escape.” But he’s back to make sure that this première goes off without a hitch. But Shosanna has other plans; plans such as destroy the entire theater with all the Nazi officials inside including Hitler. When the Basterds find out about this première a lot of interesting things go down.

The movie gets very deep, I was sitting at the edge of my seat throughout majority of the movie. It’s a very serious movie but at the same time very funny. Its crazy and I couldn’t stop watching.

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My view of "My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederick Douglass

When I first started reading "A CHANGE CAME O'ER THE SPIRIT OF MY DREAM." Frederick Douglass made it clear that he really appreciated his slave owner Mrs. Auld for being kind to him and taught him how to read and write. He aid she wasn’t confident teaching him maybe for feeling that she wouldn’t be very good or that it wasn’t something that was really needed at first but she realized he was a human like her and taught him what she felt he needed to know. Then he started to explain that enslaving someone isn’t something that comes natural. It takes plenty of practice. “Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders. Nothing but rigid training, long persisted in, can perfect the character of the one or the other.” And that when he came in possession of Mrs. Auld she wasn’t really sure how to be a slave owner and that he seemed ore like a friend than property. Se understood that he was a human “I could talk and sing; I could laugh and weep; I could reason and remember; I could love and hate. I was human, and she, dear lady, knew and felt me to be so. How could she, then, treat me as a brute, without a mighty struggle with all the noble powers of her own soul.” But when she mentioned this to her husband basically called her an idiot that her feelings were innocent and ignorant. “That struggle came, and the will and power of the husband was victorious. Her noble soul was overthrown; but, he that overthrew it did not, himself, escape the consequences.” But clearly his ideals were overthrown and Frederick Douglass learned to read and write anyway. So Frederick Douglass became apart of the family rather than apart of the furniture. Then he further explained how kind she always was. She always had a smile on and was kind to people who wasn’t so happy. “She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach.” He then tells the constant fight between Mrs. Auld and her husband it was clear that it was going to be a fight between the two. Mrs. Auld was going to have to choose between her husband and the mental welfare of the family friend, Frederick Douglass. So she chose to be an even better slave owner, she chose to stop him from reading and being a human. “Nothing appeared to make my poor mistress -- after her turning toward the downward path -- more angry, than seeing me, seated in some nook or corner, quietly reading a book or a newspaper. I have had her rush at me, with the utmost fury, and snatch from my hand such newspaper or book, with something of the wrath and consternation which a traitor might be supposed to feel on being discovered in a plot by some dangerous spy.” Frederick Douglass’s world flipped up side down if he sat in a corner he would be watched continually, and given unhappy looks. And if he was in another room for long periods of time he was often blamed for reading a book. But this would not stop him he would continue to learn more with or without there consent. I really liked this story because even when challenged to become ignorant again he still fought.

ethos, pathos and logos

The Greek philosopher Aristotle was a very intelligent man in his time so being a philosopher he was always going to have to prove a point. He created his own way of making a persuasive essay. He knows he will have to keep it factual, keep appeal while expressing his own beliefs and feelings on the matter. So he divided it all up and created ethos, logos and pathos. Ethos is the appeal, the opining line that makes the reader pull in for more details, like an add. it also persuades the reader that your choice is the right one. Pathos is the emotions that you insert into a persuasive essay. I personally don’t think it’s a good idea to insert your own emotions into a persuasive essay. I understand that the demand and immediate words like “now” or “need” are to help press the issue until it is resolved. But emotions make things messy I prefer factual logical evidence because you cant second guess that. Which brings us to our next word logos which translates to logical. It “means persuading by the use of reasoning” this was “Greek philosopher” Aristotle’s favorite. You give reasons and explanations but it makes perfect sense.

The definition of slavery in the video states “ slavery: force to work without pay under the threat of violence and unable to walk away. People are threatened to work without pay and if they don’t they are beaten and possibly made an example of. So that anyone else who wants to stand against this will be treated the same way.
Men and woman who don’t have money to take care of there children go to a person who ask you want a job? So they go with them if that means anyway they can take care of their family. And when they go with that trusted person that says they can provide money for working hands sells them into slavery. Far away form their families they wanted to protect.

People who are kidnapped in to slavery are people who don’t have jobs of their own. They need to take care of there children or mother or sister. So they do what they can they will risk their own health for someone else’s. It can even happen to children. They can be promised money for there parents or promised an education. So they go with that stranger who uses them for money.

They difference now is that people don’t cost as much anymore they cost way less. In the film he compare the consumption of people with the consumption of plastic cups. Dispensable. People aren’t worth as much which makes buying simpler.

If we save those slaves. Not just get them away from the bad people and give them something to eat. But free them give them responsibility, encourage them then they will become “unslaveable” and in doing that their community will grow and flourish. They can save others. They can be the bright light that saves others from slavery.

Americas "botched emancipation” was when slaves were freed from the slave owners in America. But they weren’t really free. They were not given an education, the right to vote, or anything that the people who could claim the word American could get. They just could work for pay. So they still had to fight for the rights that “Americans” had. Which has created a huge rift in America’s history and will most likely continue in America’s future.

Of cores any slavery is bad including this one. But seeing the scars on the kids back or the kids who had to walk up a mountain caring rocks was painful but the one thing out of the whole film that made my stomach turn flips was when I found out that all this could have been gone by now. This doesn’t even need to exist because American alone could change this. The fact that all we need to do is use the money we use on snacks in a year could change this whole thing around. We are in a recession. Money doesn’t come cheap and knowing that we can still free millions of people, hearing that made me feel so sick. Why hasn’t this been changed already? Freedom looks so wonderful but why is it talking so long to happen?
The video said the can end it with intellectual power.

for my project

I am a proud slave owner of the South Carolina plantations. One of my favorite slaves was Autumn and her daughter Angel. Autumn works the fields while her child does the laundry. Autumn was my freshest slave strait out of Africa. I believe I’m doing them a kindness. Feeding them, clothing them and keeping them on my property and to do right by me they work the fields and clean the house. To keep their doing right by me I must enforce my authority over these confused young children to better themselves. I am afraid that this revolutionist is going to free my good working children. They do not understand the affection and love we are giving these poor children. There life was worse were they were born, the destruction it was distasteful hateful and discussing that is why we are trying to save these poor creatures. I know they are born bad that’s why I must continually beat angle. Slavery is not only benefiting the slave and owner but America it’s self. We must be diligent and attentive to protect these creatures!

I was reading a poem

I was reading a poem called “a black woman nothing else” it was so pretty, the author was Annie Ruth the poem started off really sad the author was expressing her sadness of being a dark skin woman. She was very ashamed that her skin was so dark. She was only a chilled but she was constantly made fun of because of the color that she was. So she assumed that her skin was bad. She goes on to explain that her father had left the family to marry a white woman. The author said that she would always answer to her father. That made Annie very unhappy. It made her think that a white woman had more or something better that what she had. But one day she met a woman who was darker than her self. The woman said that she was beautiful. That she was giving a gift from god. Annie herd her say that and soon everyone was saying it they were all calling her beautiful. Annie realized that she was right Annie was beautiful and lucky and she embraced her skin. I really liked this poem. Again the poems name is “ a black woman nothing else” and the author is Annie Ruth check it out for your self.

Ruth, Annie. "A Black Woman, Nothing Else - Poem." -•~*~•- Tribute To Black Women -•~*~•-. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2010.