Reflection

Lilly Dinger
Mr. Rients
U.S History
3/1/19

Reflection 

This article is outrageous. Reading about what the Japanese did to all these people is extremely scary! I cannot believe that there was a time period that this actually happened. The torture the Japanese put people through is unbelievable. All just for some testing and experimenting and finding cures for who knows what. Units 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War of World War II. Unit 731 was basically an Asian Auschwitz with multiple different sections for multiple different areas for different types of tests. These people would do inhumanly experiments with improper materials and sedation methods. Over half the time they wouldn’t even use anesthesia. They do these test on people who were suspicioned to be spies for the U.S or just suspicious in general, along with prisoners or criminals.  

None of this sounds okay to me. To cover up what they were doing to these people, unit 731 was called Anti-Epidemic Water Supply and Purification Bureau. Just to make sure no one would find out about it.  From 1936 to 1942 between 3,000 and 12,000 men, women and children were murdered in Unit 731. The article goes into detail about the acts and methods they would do on people to study certain things is ridiculous. Such as sticking someone outside in the freezing weather and then hitting them to hear if they got frost bite. Or cutting off limbs to see how fast they bleed out, and then stitching it back on to a different part of the body. What I don’t understand is that none of these experiments really didn’t need to be done. If they had to do them, why couldn't they do them properly. It's very inhumane to be doing such disgusting acts on innocent people. Ishii, the head person of place was “god”, and everyone had to listen to him. Until 731 was a horrible place with horrible acts of vandalism to humans. After the war, and after until 731 was shut down, apparently all the scientist there working, were freed and fled back to their homeland.  Ishii died of throat cancer, and Until 731 was never to be spoken about or consequences were to happen. In the end, I believe that this has to be one of the worse camp things around.  

Response

Lilly Dinger

Mr. Rients

U.S History

17 January 2019

Response

"Stolen Boys: Life after Sexual slavery in Afghanistan". This article was extremely heart wrenching. Reading about these boys lives, how they had to dance for men, how they had too dress up as women, not because they were transgender, but to show masculinity is unbelievable to me. There's different sections in the article, explaining in more detail about their lives and how their family reacts to the situation. How some family's have to get up and vanish so they don't go after them if their sons run away from there keeper, its heart breaking. 

     Its crazy knowing that these kind of things happen still to this day. Bacha Bazi, or "boy play". Then for the ones that get away, the recovery from their sexually abused childhood. Like it said in the post, they "disregarded him" after the boy grew facial hair, they only want boys, not men. 

     The life of these boys is harsh and cruel. They're forced to do something they love to do and in the end they get sexually abused. Its a hideous act of pedophilia. These young boys are forced to dance for older men, it's not the dancing that they hate, its what that's coming after they are made to dance.

In the end, this article really makes me feel for the boys in Afghanistan that have to suffer this type of situation.

WW1

It was August 1 when Germany declared war on Russia, and from that day on it was an avalanche of problems. To kick things off, the assassination of the Archduke was one of the many reasons for war, Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia obviously. With that being said, Russia supported Serbia. Austria need assurances from Germany that if need be, they would step in on its side against Russia and the rest of the allies. Being prepared for war was the only thing the U.S should have been doing during the time. The events later to come were severe and should have warned the United States to prepare for war sooner.

          Having alliances during this time was a better choice than not too. The Alliances were Russia, France, Great Britain, Serbia, Romania, and even Italy. The Central Powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria. When it came time to battles, Italy wasn’t very much help. Considering that the battles were bloody and gory and then gaining Italy only added more to the pile of death.

          There were two kinds on nationalism during world war 1. The first type of nationalism was the tendency for countries with great powers to act in their own beliefs and do their own thing. The second kind occurred in countries with a lot of different ethnic groups. The longing of an ethnic group minority for independence often led to violence.

          Now the reason the United States should be preparing for war is because of the ancestral ties we have with Great Britain. When we saw that war was happening, it really struck us. How such beautiful places could become so gruesome and vile towards each other? Being prepared for war was the least we could do.  

A Mississippi senator joked about 'public hanging.' Here's why that's unacceptable

Author and historian Jason Morgan Ward, wrote an eye-catching article about a senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith, in Mississippi making a cruel comment about a public hanging. Even when she was asked about it, she turned away and said no further questioning. Hearing these words come from the senator’s mouth sparked up the state’s history of racial killings. Jason goes on to describe the history of Mississippi and how the past senators/governors have dealt with lynching and racial issues in general. In this article we can clearly see how the past of Mississippi has affect today. Mississippi has been known for public hanging in the past and when the senate brought that up, it started a big problem. There are reports of over 650 killings after the Civil War. 

Jason continues to talk about the past of Lynching in America, and what its done to Mississippi. He calls out a few people that lynched right in front of white bystanders. He explains all the public killings and how the people/neighborhood reacts.

In conclusion, Jason calls out this heartless senator of Mississippi, calling her out for making a racial comment and only making her look worse of a person. People like her need to be recognized so this type of situation does happen again.

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/15/mississippi-senator-joked-about-public-hanging-why-thats-unacceptable/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f16311843f33

Title: “A Mississippi senator joked about ‘public hanging.’ Here’s why that’s unacceptable.

When: November 15.
By: Jason Morgan Ward