Reading record for 1/27/14

Sorry it was late I forgot about it.

Research 1 hour 10 minutes
Part time life 50 minutes

Informal and Formal Topic discussion

An informal topic discussion to my friend would be, in older Russia about 1910-1938 a man named Joseph Stalin went into power in Russia. This was after Lenin had done all he could to incorporate Communism into the Russian government. Now the reason communism sounded like such a good idea to the Russian people was because there past ruler Tsar Nicholas II (Tsar mean King). With Nicholas II he was a very poor ruler in that he didn't rule his people. He didn't fund many things and many bad things happened. So the country was in a poor state already but then the Germans invaded. So Nicholas II went to war and his country fell into an even poorer state.  Transportation shut down so the country side couldn't transport their foodstuff to the Russian people. This with inflation caused many Russian people to starve. This is why Communism sounded so good. So Lenin  started this rise for Communism. Then basically Stalin went into power and messed up everything.

A formal discussion to a class would start with, In Russian during the 1910-1938 the quality of Russia's government and economy was in very poor condition. The government was run by a king or Tsar. The current Tsar in the position in this time was Tsar Nicholas II. He was a very poor ruler that really didn't rule anything at all. He had a wife that dominated him and made all of the important decisions regarding day to day life in Russian, and most of these decisions were poor decision too. Then things got worse when the Germans invaded. Nicolas went off to war and let his wife control the government. The wife was then controlled by Rasputin a senator of the government. Then he replaced current senators with inexperienced friends and this didn't help. Then with no money going to important things like transportation the train system shut down. This caused the farmers in the outer country to not be able to transport bread and other foodstuffs. Also during this inflation of the Ruble  the cost of a price of bread rose by 4 times. Now with all of this increase the workers saw no increase in pay. Then Lenin came in with his idea of Communism and that dominated. Then after Lenin had taken over the government and he died Stalin quickly rose to power. Then he installed a dictatorship, ruined everything, killed 7 million people with his purges, and under funded his army causing any more people to die on the battle field.

Reading record

Diary of a part time Indian, 1 hour 10 minutes
Research Project 50 minutes

Research, research, research. Explain your topic, why should we care about it, and what specifically is on your research to-do list this week?

My topic is the Russia revolution and the rights and responsibilities of Joseph Stalin. This is a very important topic in Russia history. This is the beginning of the Communism in Russia. This is because of the Russia royal family during the war cause the price of everything to go up. Even with this the pay of the Russian workers say no increase. So a new system that had everyone sharing the wealth sounded good to the people.

In the start everything was going good. Lenin leading the revolution everything was good. It started to go bad when Lenin died and Joseph Stalin took power. He installed the dictatorship, killed so many of his own people and supported Hitler during the Holocaust. Some research says that he killed 8 million more people that Hitler. Either way you put it not nice guys.

1 hour, Diary of a Part Time Indian
1 hour, Bibliography

Deven: Write about one interpretation of evil and then write about how you see this interpretation.

"Evil is inherit to the human mind, what ever innocence may cloak it. " -William Golding

If I were to say that there was only one form of evil that I believe that would be a lie, an evil. Evil comes in many shapes and sizes like goo, but I want to know what is the difference between bad and evil. What could someone do that make that thing evil and not bad. Evil is based on perception. How one person views something as evil is a very big factor in that. Perception is very important because it separates one person views from another, but my view of evil I would say, as the worst is taking the life of another.

I am not really sure how I am supposed to interpret this but I guess I will take the point of perspective. For me to say that is the number evil is from my point of view and where I am in my life. Someone who is more religious than me might say not worshiping someone god. Again the view that you take from that person and what their experiences are shape that person. That whats is so great about having a conscious mind. That why I think taking that away is the worst evil.