This site is an archive of the thoughts, writing and discussions of Ontario Blogs participants during the 2006-07 school year.
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Just thought I would let you know what I learned this year. I learned how to blog. I learned that if you give students a challenge the majority of them will work to rise to that challenge. I learned that I have some extremely intelligent and thoughtful students in my class. I also learned that […]
Amy J
Genocide :The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. N. (1944) [genos Greek: race, kin; cida, from caedere Latin: to cut, to kill].
The holocaust in Germany of the Jewish people is not an issue to be ignored, or deemed a less important part of our history. Society should never forget […]
Personally I believe that the Holocaust was unique. The Holocaust was in fact a war and not only a war of Jews, but of other people too. The reason I am going to say that the Holocaust was unique was because it was an extinction of people, in mass amounts over and extended period of […]
No I do not believe the Holocaust was unique because despite the fact that millions of people, not solely Jews, were killed, people have been involved in wars for thousands of years and 6 million people in barely a blip on the radar. Of course it was still a tradgedy but like they say, one […]
All of the instances of ethnic cleansing in the 20th century have arguably had the same atrocities occur as the Holocaust of WWII. In Nazi Germany, undesirable minorities who were not powerholders were sequestered to camps and often liquidated. The mass extermination in countries like Armenia, the Balkans, South Asia, Political hot spots of Africa, and Bohemia, […]
I don’t believe that the holocaust was unique in any way shape or form, it was simply more publicized. the holocaust was basically a genocide. It wasn’t two equals fighting against each other, it was a large entity purging all those it thought beneath it.
The spanish inquistion for example. Over a course of almost 400 […]
1. What was Adolf Hitler’s original purpose for the Jews?
The Jews were originally never meant to be sent to concentration camps. They were to be sent to the outskirts of town, doing dirty work for the ‘pure’ race. He had no intention of mass murdering them. But what went so wrong with this plain? Well, […]
In the Issues in History handout we recieved in class on the 11th, genocide is defined by Rafael Lemkin as “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic or religious group…”, which means that the Holocaust was a genocide, as well as other acts in history like when the Jacobins killed the Grondins in the 1700’s […]
Amy
Genocide :The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. N. (1944) [genos Greek: race, kin; cida, from caedere Latin: to cut, to kill].
The holocaust in Germany of the Jewish people is not an issue to be ignored, or deemed a less important part of our history. Society should never forget what […]