Questions and Answers








1.) What does Joseph Stalin's advice to the people of Stalingrad say about him as a leader?

--Joseph Stalin wasn't a good leader, he didn't care about his people of stalingrad. He didn't care weather or not his people died.






2.) Explain why Hitler would react in the way shown after signing a Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin?

--Hitler reascts in this way after signing the non-aggression because Stalin doesn't know that hitler is going to have a surprise.







3.) Explain the significance of propaganda in this battle, using examples from the posters.

--The significance of propaganda in the battle is showing that Hitler was beaten down by Russia. It also showed people how bad the Nazi's were.







4.) What do the extremes of the war reveal about what it takes to win a total war?

--The extremes of the war reveals that it is hard to win a total war. Killing alot of people doesn't win a war. This shows that when in war its hard to end it because theres always alot of killing and fighting. Your not alowed to give up you have to contunite no matter if everyones dieing.





5.) How does the story of Vasily Zaitsev relate to the war in Iraq?

--Hes fighting for what he believes in, hes fighting for his country. Hes kind of like us in iraq hes not fighting on his lad hes on the enemys soil. Hes more of an independent peoples there isn't much support like iraq has. More like iraq there independnt people with guns then there are a group of people fighting agasint the United States.





6.) In times of crisis, sometimes heroic figures emerge. Which figure emerged in a similar way to Vasily after the terrorist attacks of 9/11?

--A heroic figure from 9/11 would be Geroge Bush alot of people thought of him as a heroic figrue because he stood up after the attack, showed the united states what they were going to do.

Nickel and Dimed

In this non-fiction book called Nickel and Dimed by Barbabra Ehrenreich, Barbabra tries to hold a minimum wadge job. She tries to show how people can't make it on minimum wage. Through out the book she has different jobs that only pay wages around $6 or $7 an hour sometimes even less money then that at certian places she worked. Barbabra Ehrenreich is a writer for the New York Times she kind of seems like shes better than any place that she works at. Being happy with what you have is something that Barbabra Ehrenreich doesn't really have. The theme of the book seems to have soemthing to do with, be happy with what you have.

During the story Barbara was trying to show that you couldn't live on minimum wage. But all she really showed was that you could survive on minimum wadge but the major thing was, you couldn't have any mishaps. you couldn't have any kids that got sick because you can't afford to take them to the hospital. During the book they talked about how unitll April of 1998 there was no right that let employees have bathroom breaks. Also in 1996 the number of people holding two or more jobs was around 7.8 million, or 6.2 of the workforce. While in Maine Barbara found out that she was going to have to pay around $880 for rent in cape cod.

While Barbara was in Maine she worked at a hotel as a maid. Maids wages don't even cover the money they have to play social security taxes, green cards, the money they have to pay for backaches and child problems. The problem with the wage that they give to the fast food, hotel, and other companies employees are very low. Although Barbara does this work and tries to be a minimum wage worker she doesn't. She still acts like she has alot of money and still uses it if she gets in trouble. Barbara said that if she got in trouble and didn't have enough to pay for rent she would just use other money not eraned from her work. I don't think that she didn't acomish working and living in the style of a minimum wage person.

With the theme of be happy with what you have i think Barbara Ehrenreich it that. She wouldn't be able to live with the life style of minimum wage. She showed that people can live of minimum wage if nothing goes wrong. I don't really think she showed much else, she wasn't really living like life of a minimum wage. Barbara isn't someone who would be able to live this way.