viernes, 19 de agosto de 2016

My Journey To Freedom

Question #2

Imagine that you are escaping from the Nazi people in France, describe your journey, step by step, from the streets of Paris, through the Mosque, to freedom.  Guiding questions:  When were you smuggled into the mosque?, How did you get out of the mosque?, Where did you end up?, What kind of boat did they put you on?, Where did they hide you?  UPLOAD A PICTURE that you can relate to your narrative.

It was a day which exchange all my life; it was all of a sudden, without any explanation. I had to do forced to flee with my family, going to a place where the Nazis did not find us. We look for ways to leave the country without being discovered, and if they did end up in concentration camps. I've heard it's a very happy place but apparently is not all, people entering the concentration camp not ever come back over there, the only thing that makes me think is that they die there, not a nice way; make them worked to death, they torture them.

Thank god a friend of my father helped us hide for a while, while we were preparing an escape from the country, our only dream at that time it was to be free, free to walk the streets without being discriminated without being excluded. We took days to have a plan that would guarantee us an escape successfully. The friend of my father offered his help to escape, because of time we accept your help. He told us to ask for help to friends who are also against this and want to help the Jews.

Our escape would be at midnight, when there is not any guard in the area. We headed outside without any difficulty. The friend of my father left us all directions to a safe place where we spent a few nights while we watched how to get to our destination.

We achieve our destiny and ask all possible so that other Jews out alive from that country at war aid. Never hesitate to give up.

Journal Entry

Question #1

What connections do you find between the passage The Grand Mosque of Paris and the KEY CONCEPT of the unit (connections), and how is it also related with the KEY CONCEPTS of units 1 and 2 (Culture and Creativity)?

The story, The Grand Mosque of Paris, talks about the Muslim Community of Paris trying to help, to rescue the Jews during the Nazi's power in World War II. Muslims decided to make plans to free the Jews and help them escape from the city to a better place and they will be safe and will be able to walk the streets in peace, without fear. No longer have to hide to save their lives. Jews were suffering much discrimination by the Nazis, they did not want to risk to fight for their rights as they may end up in a concentration camp.

The key concept of the first unit is related to this story because is our culture is what determines the decisions, actions we take, how we behave with people around us. In this story is how the Muslim try to help the Jews, to be free.

The key concept of the second unit is also related because the Muslims had to have a large creativity to design good plans for Jews to escape safely. The help of Muslims toward Jews was great because when you create hiding places for them to go out when the guards are away from where they were, or when they created false identities to impersonate as citizens of Russia, all this saved many lives in danger.

These key concepts are presented in history by events occurred in hard, tough, war times, decide to live or die.