Year 11 Eng: The Wave
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Biography : Todd Strasser
- Todd Strasser Biography Morton Rhue is the pen name of Todd Strasser, a prolific novelist for children and young adults. Strasser was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. Although he struggled with English in school, he eventually studied literature in college. He published his first book, Angel Dust Blues, in 1978. Until 1990, he balanced writing with managing the fortune cookie company he founded.
Biography : Ron Jones
- Biography : Ron Jones Ron Jones, Biography (n.d.).Retrieved from http://66.147.244.77/~ronjones/biography/
Bullying
- Facts on File Database : Bullying A long-held and still common misperception about people who engage in bullying behaviors is that they have low self-esteem and themselves feel insignificant and relatively powerless. Studies over the past two decades show that the opposite is far more likely to be true: People who bully characteristically have higher than average self-esteem, are popular, and are successful. They are often in positions of power over those they bully, either through age (school) or authority (workplace), commonly view and speak of others disparagingly and in negative terms, and are often emotionally volatile or lack empathy.
Peer Pressure
- Holocaust : The Einsazgruppen Historians are divided about the motivations of the members of Einsatzgruppen. Christopher Browning describes them as ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances in which conformity, peer pressure, careerism, obedience to orders, and group solidarity gradually overcame moral inhibitions. Daniel Goldhagen sees them as “willing executioners,” sharing Hitler’s vision of genocidal anti-Semitism and finding their tasks unpleasant but necessary. Both concur that no Einsatzgruppe member faced punishment if he asked to be excused. Individuals had a choice whether to participate or not. Almost all chose to become killers.
- The Science of Decision Making and Peer Pressure THE SCIENCE OF DECISION MAKING AND PEER PRESSURE. (2016). Science World, 72(9), 18-19 Retrieved from https://db.corpus.wa.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=anh&AN=113124720&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Clickview : Lesson Plan - The Story of the First Wave
A documentary about the 1967 Third Wave experiment in fascism that took place at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California.Original students, Ron Jones, school administrators and Dr. Philip Zimbardo (creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment) have been interviewed for this film. What makes this film so unique is that the director was a member of the original Third Wave class.
Clickview : The Wave
The Holocaust: US Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Hitler comes to power Hitler was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who attracted a wide following of Germans desperate for change. He promised the disenchanted a better life and a new and glorious Germany. The Nazis appealed especially to the unemployed, young people, and members of the lower middle class (small store owners, office employees, craftsmen, and farmers).
- Nazi Propaganda and Censorship During the spring of 1933, Nazi student organizations, professors, and librarians made up long lists of books they thought should not be read by Germans. Then, on the night of May 10, 1933, Nazis raided libraries and bookstores across Germany. They marched by torchlight in nighttime parades, sang chants, and threw books into huge bonfires. On that night more than 25,000 books were burned. Some were works of Jewish writers, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Most of the books were by non-Jewish writers, including such famous Americans as Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Sinclair Lewis, whose ideas the Nazis viewed as different from their own and therefore not to be read.
- Nazi Racism Hitler and other Nazi leaders viewed the Jews not as a religious group, but as a poisonous "race," which "lived off" the other races and weakened them. After Hitler took power, Nazi teachers in school classrooms began to apply the "principles" of racial science. They measured skull size and nose length, and recorded the color of their pupils' hair and eyes to determine whether students belonged to the true "Aryan race." Jewish and Romani (Gypsy) students were often humiliated in the process.
- The Nurembeg Race Laws At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." Ancillary ordinances to the laws disenfranchised Jews and deprived them of most political rights.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (n.d.). The Holocaust: A learning Site for Students. Retrieved from https://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/the-holocaust-a-learning-site-for-students
Adolf Hitler's Treatment of Jews
- Adolf Hitler's Treatment of Jews Hitler's views on Jews were plainly stated in Mein Kampf (My struggle), written while he was in jail for political violence. In Hitler's view, Jews could never be converted, because Judaism was a racial designation. Jews were parasites who infiltrated the societies in which they lived, living off of the work of others. Hitler convinced fellow Germans that their only hope of reviving a vital German culture was to marginalize, then exile and exterminate the Jewish population. Hitler won support through a combination of intense patriotism based on the concept of Aryan superiority, promises of prosperity, denunciations of communism, and antisemitism. Through a series of increasingly drastic measures, Hitler stripped Jews of their rights as citizens. He excluded them from most professions and stationed brutal guards outside Jewish-owned shops to scare away customers.
Antisemitism played a major role in Adolf Hitler’s thinking and in the Nazi ideology. Read here what inspired Hitler's hatred of Jews and what life events played a role in its development.