How To: Poster

Works Cited

Stanton, G. (2003, June 9). How we can Prevent Genocides. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 19,                2012, from http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.6.24.03.HTM

Stanton, G. (1998). The 8 Stages of Genocide. US State Department. Retrieved March 19, 2012, from                 http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/8stagesofgenocide.html

Evaluation: Essay

The Holocaust genocide that happened in the past and the more modern North Korean genocide happening today have many similarities but they also have many differences. Some similarities about them are that the leaders of the genocides are kind of the same. The reason why is that Hitler (who was the leader of Germany back in World War 2) and Kim Jong II (the person who was in charge of North Korea until December when he died) both were in complete control of their country and everyone did what they said. So Hitler and Kim Jong II both manipulated their country’s people into doing horrible things like imprisoning people and killing hundreds of them in multiple concentration camps.

The two people are also different too in many ways. Hitler was a tall, evil person with a horrible mind to think of ways to kill thousands of Jews. Kim Jong II was a short little guy who throws his citizens into concentration camps and tortures them. Hitler mostly targeted Jewish people because they weren’t of the Aryan race with blue eyes and blonde hair. Kim Jong II targeted anyone and their family members who opposed him or the government he ran. The reason why is that he wanted everyone to like him and do as he says so that no one would try to overthrow him. Hitler obtained power because after Germany lost in World War I, the people of Germany felt like the government had cheated them and that they should have won. Then Hitler promised them that they would rebuild Germany and rule the world if they followed his leadership. Everyone was like; well I don’t have any other things to do. So they followed him and did everything he said. Kim Jong II obtained power because he was the son of the old leader of North Korea. When his dad died, he came into power and ruled the country the same way as his dad did. Hitler maintained his power because he corrupted everyone in Germany into thinking that what they were doing was right and Hitler was the best leader ever. Kim Jong II maintained his power because everyone in North Korea loves him and if they don’t, he throws them in jail and then they can’t vote or say anything bad about him. Those are the similarities and differences of Hitler and Kim Jong II.

Newbery, R. (2011, December 18). North Korean leader Kim Jong II dead, state TV reports. 2012 Cable   News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Retrieved March 16, 2012, from             http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-18/asia/world_asia_north-korea-leader-dead_1_state-tv-          reports-north-korean-leader-kim-jong?_s=PM:ASIA

Gray, J. (2012). Why did Hitler Target the Jews? 2012 Aish.com. Retrieved March 16, 2012, from                                   http://www.aish.com/sem/wtj/84683857.html

Personal: Diary Entry

Mitchel Bumb (502) Jordan Orains (505)

Personal: Diary Entry

 8 March 2012

Dear diary,

It was another day in the camps. I don’t know how many years I’ve been in the camp; I only know it has been a long time. Some of the sentries who guard us are poor children who were picked to watch the prisoners because it is not a very popular job. Some of them feel just like the prisoners because they have to follow us in any kind of weather condition with an AK68 and two clips of ammunition. There are about 2,000 people with me in the camps. I don’t know why I am here but I just know I’ve been here a long time. The camps can drive people crazy. They have a concrete wall around part of it and the rest is cylinders of barbed wire. At the center of the cylinders of barbed wire is an electrified high tension barbed wire and it is as effective as the wall. There are roughly 800 to 900 families of prison staff as well in this camp. I am in camp twelve and it is horrible. There are a couple things that I will never forget. One of those things was when I was asked to help with childbirths. I was told to place the babies on a table where I saw two dead babies and to throw away their umbilical cords. I was told to take the babies from the mothers and I sat them on the table where the doctor had a pair of scissors and hit them on the head. The babies died immediately. "After the forceful births, the women were moved to work on cutting grass without being treated for bleeding." (Maloney, 2003)  We have to eat gruel made from powdered corn stalks while the soldiers eat corn. The one most memorable thing for me was before the camps though. My grandsons went missing and I asked around to find out where they went. I was told they were last seen near the black market at a noodle restaurant. I told the police and they raided the noodle restaurant only to find human hands and feet in a pot of kimchi. She let them in to have some noodles near a stove and they fell asleep. When the children fell asleep she killed them with an axe.  The murderers were shot in public. I don’t know how long I can last in here. I am planning an escape with my granddaughter. I hope it works.

Maloney,C. (2003, June 8). North Koreans Selling Human Flesh on Black Market. The Weekly Post. Retrieved March 8, 2012, from http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/terrorism/north_koreans_eating_human_flesh.htm

Ha,L. (2009,June 25).What Does Camp 12 Look Like. Daily NK. Retrieved March 8, 2012, from http://www.dailynk.com

Informative: Magazine Artifact

When many people hear the word genocide they think of the Nazi Holocaust back in World War 2 where 6,000,000 people died that were mostly Jewish people. The definition of genocide is the destruction of an ethnic group not just the Jewish people that the Nazi’s killed.  The Holocaust was back in the 1930’s. It started off when Hitler came to power in Germany and made everyone into his followers. First he put all the Jews in ghettos outside of the cities. Then he slowly took away their rights. Next he hauled them all to concentration camps where he killed most of them on the spot using gas chambers. Those who weren’t sent to the gas chambers and survived were worked all the time and barely got any food or clothes. The Holocaust lasted around 2 years and millions of people died. That is what happened during the Holocaust. There is a genocide going on today over in North Korea. The people there are being imprisoned for life in a concentration camp for little or no reason. One reason is if you say something bad about the government, they will throw you and your family members in jail even if they didn’t say anything. The North Korean camps held approximately 200,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps, and that 400,000 people have died in these camps from torture, starvation, disease, and execution. Many men, women, and children are forced to work seven days a week as slaves and eat rats, frogs, snakes, insects, and even feces to battle starvation in the camps. There might be genocide in the future, but it is not guaranteed. After 11 million people (including 6 million Jews) were exterminated in World War II, the world said, "never again." After 1.7 million people were confirmed dead from Pol Pot's murderous rule in Cambodia, the world said, "never again." After the tragedy of Rwanda, when 800,000 people were massacred in three months, the world said, "never again." Right now there are people dying in North Korea. Once the North Korean genocide ends sometime, no one can guess if there will be genocide sometime in the future or not after the terrible things that the North Koreans do to their citizens.

(“The Nazi Holocaust 1938-1945 6,000,000 deaths.” 2000). The History Place. Retrieved March 1, 2012, from http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm

Martin R. (20th September 2011). Detailed satellite photos show death camps North Korea still deny even exist. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved March 2, 2012, from   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039542/North-Korea-Satellite-photos-death-camps-deny-exist.html

Jonathan C. (April 11, 2004). The future of genocide is unfortunately very bright. 2012 Hearst Communications Inc. Retrieved March 2, 2012, from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/11/INGV560VV11.DTL&ao=all

The Artifacts

The categories will be posting will give you an idea about genocide. The first category that we will post will be informative, so we will present the facts not the opinions. The second category that we will post will be about how some of the people in genocide feel or felt. The third category that will be posted will be an evaluation and it will compare and contrast patterns amongst both.The final post will be about how to make a change. With all the artifacts that we will post will try to show you how genocide works and how it makes people feel. Those are the four types of artifacts that we will be posting and the purpose of them.

The Purpose

We (Mitchel and Jordan) are 9th graders doing a project on genocide. The purpose of the project is to inform people about what genocide is and about the past, present, and future of the topic. Recently we read the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel and we learned a lot about the Holocaust. He was in the massive genocide that the Nazi's had going on. We learned that even though the Holocaust was put to an end, there is still stuff like that going on today like over in North Korea, people are being imprisoned and tortured sometimes for no reason or small reasons. A lot of people are put in jail there because their cousin might of said something bad about the government. Our topic is about the different kinds of Genocide that happens in the world. We will later post 4 artifacts that are about the topic. That is the purpose of our project.