Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Treaty of Versailles Unfair or Fair ?



This picture is the symbol of the League of nations.
Source -http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/i/int-lon3.gif










The Treaty of Versailles was created made 1919 the treaty was to be made as a solution to end the war at state (WW1 or The Great War) and never have to deal with a war again. The Americans declared war on the Germans as they were to blame causing the massive destruction.

I strongly believe that the treaty was harsh yet fair, because in the treaty it states that Germany had everything to do about the war and in this article ( Deutsche Zeitung) it mentioned “In the place where, in the glorious year of 1871, the German Empire in all its glory had its origin, today German honor is being carried to its grave. Do not forget it! The German people will, with unceasing labor, press forward to reconquer the place among the nations to which it is entitled. Then will come vengeance for the shame of 1919". Confirming that they did start the war and they were to blame and that would get vengeance.

The Treaty came with a set of rules that Germany had to follow which were harsh but strongly fair showing that Germany had to pay a fine of $33 billion to damage towards civilians Germany's army reduced to 100,000 , that some parts of Germany were controlled by allied forces for 15 years,Germany's military resources were depleted to a small amount as well. Germany were vindictive towards this event, and were disgusted of the amount that they had to suffer.

The Germans were resentful to this matter of the allied victory, and thus I strongly believe that the treaty was indeed fair and that Germany did deserve to suffer that consequence, although in the end america did not take part int he league of nations.






Thursday, January 26, 2012

No Man is An Island


This picture shows that were all connected and we are all equal no matter gender,religion,nationality. We are all united as a group, and that we should respect one another and treat everyone with dignity. The text indicates that we should not abandon man on a island, and this picture shows the solution to that problem.



The similar themes from the text John Donne's writing to Greder's book on the Islands is that both the text and the book relate to isolation is the sens that the man was left on the island and the text shows that no man should ever be abandoned.Also I strongly believe that the meaning of No Man Is An Island is that no man should be abandoned like an island in the book it shows how the man is just sitting there naked suggesting that he was abandoned but as the people of the island were about to send him back on his raft the fisherman came and exclaimed "that we should except him into the island and not isolate him".



The text from the book provides Prejudice as when they first meet the man they jump to the opinion of sending him back on his raft straight away which is a negative point. Also when he is accepted into the village, the local people treat him like a slave fencing him inside a shed from the outside world relating to text of John Donne's saying that No Man should be an Island and be locked away in the dark where you cant be seen.


People make distinctions between us them because in my opinion they want to feel supreme, in the book it states that they said he was different from us indicating that he had no similarities between them,when clearly he was the same without education,food,shelter etc.. Us and them are just two words that people use to describe how much power they have over another being
that's is the only distinction that represents the two, Strongly I believe that everyone is equal in there own way.