Analysing Propaganda Images

In the picture, I see a Jewish man on a bright yellow background holding a Communist sign on the shape of Germany. He seems to be holding a whip in his left hand. He is in the middle of the image. The man wearing black really stands out on the yellow background. There are German words in orange at the bottom of the page. The Jewish man who looks scruffy and suspicious also has his right hand stuck out, with coins in it.

The picture is the cover of a book called The Eternal Jew written by the Nazi Party's publishing house in 1937. It was created by David Pinsk. The picture was intended for an older audience: People who could vote, people knew who they wanted to rule their beloved country -- that is, someone who could bring back Germany's pride after their major downfall in The Great War.

The message the creator is trying to send is that Jews are scruffy, unkempt, dishonest, suspicious people. That Jews are Communists and beggars, who steal food. I feel that the message is, "Do you really want to mix with these sorts of people?" From this image, the men, women and children in Germany would stereotype Jews. My evidence is that the man is holding money in his hand and therefore the creator is saying that he is stealing all of Germany's goods, money, food, basically everything -- keeping it from 'pure Germans'. He is a Communist because he is holding a Communist sign in his left hand. I know that this man is Jewish because the title of this image is "The Eternal Jew".

This image is 100% misleading. How could you just assume that all of the Jews look like this or act like this? How could they generalize Jews as communists, bad people? You don't know if all of this is true. But seeing as someone painted this, you would just assume that it is correct. Not knowing any better all they could do is believe in the myth the picture created. This image sends out a very negative vibe about Jews so that Germans would have an extremely low opinion of Jews. The picture was to perpetuate the Germans feeling of superiority over the Jews.

My Learning Profile is.... L!!!!!!!

I learn best when I am relaxed and everything is quiet. Once I am relaxed then I listen and understand everything better. I also learn best when I am moving, for example I could be just swinging my leg or tapping my finger on the table.

I need to sit at a place where no one disturbs me or I don't disturb anyone. My profile is L which means that I tend to learn best whilst moving. So I should sit at a place where no one would be disturbed when I tap my pen or swing my legs...

The strategies that would help me in my learning would be to put me in spot where I wouldn't be disturbed to a spot where I wouldn't disturb anyone. For example once when I sat with Kamilla. She started talking to me about the assignment that we were about to begin and then we didn't stop talking until we were aware that we were disturbing the class.

I would like my teachers to know this about me, I get distracted very easily and I like to move about when I am listening or doing my work. When I am writing I tend to tap my fingers on the table and when I am listening I tend to click my pen.

Memories in Response to Taylor Mali

When a famous poet named Taylor Mali visited my school, he encouraged us to write old memories that we could remember.

1. I remember fracturing my finger when I was 7. My cousin fell on it.
2. I remember fracturing my toe when I was 9.
3. I remember falling and scraping my knees, whilst I was carrying Louise, last week.
4. I remember riding on my scooter and falling off and scraping my knees yet again when I was 8.
5. I remember getting my iPod Touch, I was so very very very thrilled.
6. I remember meeting David Archuleta, I was extremely nervous.
7. I remember snorkeling and seeing a shark I got scared and swam away.
8. I remember breaking my AC when i was 4, by poking a stick in it.
9. I remember drinking milk on my white sofa, whilst my father was rubbing my little little head, when I was 1 and a half.
10. I remember hitting my father’s hand when I was 5, because I didn’t want to go in the new driver’s car that my father just hired.
11. I remember when I was 5, my brother, my cousin and I were jumping on my brother bed, my brother’s bed, my brother’s bed. My cousin jumped and hit his head on the edge of the window. His head started bleeding.

My Name

My name is Claire. It is a French and an English name. I think that that is pretty cool because I know English and I am currently learning French. I also found out that my name means clear, bright and famous.

I have never really minded my first name, but I never liked my Chinese name. My Chinese name in English is Ching Li. In my previous school, I went by my Chinese name. In the first grade, I had a dreadful English teacher, Ms Liew. One of the first of many classes we had together, she did a terribly awful thing for a teacher to do... She made fun of students. She started off with a girl named Sabrina. Sabrina had a big nose so she started calling her big nose Sabrina. And she went on and on giving each one of us a nickname according to our flaws. Then she came over to me. And she asked what my name was, I replied in a soft voice “My name is Ching Li, Miss.” Then she started laughing and called me Chili and ever since then, that horrible nickname stuck until the day I left school. Now you must be thinking why didn’t I correct her. Well, I did. But every time that I tried to correct her she would whip me with her bamboo stick. So I never tried to correct her again.

I have never wanted to change my name. Although I wasn’t thrilled with the nicknames. I have, I have never wanted to change them, because that is what my parents named me and I respect that. People can tease and tease if they, butI would still keep my name.

My old school was a local Chinese school. And as you know ,my classmates already teased me about my Chinese name, but they also teased me about my first name. Most of them did not speak English. So when they saw the name “Claire” they would say Clair-ee. One day when they were announcing some of the students who were going to win awards. One of the teachers said Clair-ee Ng Ching Li and the whole class erupted into laughter. Everyone there said Claire in such a way that some times when they say it, it sounds like a cat falling. I prefer it when people say it gently so when they say Claire, it sounds like a river flowing or a gentle blow of wind.

I’m sure you are now aware that I have a few nicknames. And some of them I absolutely dread. But I have a current nickname that isn’t awful like the others and it is Claire Bear. It was given to me by Melina Ankel who has left ISKL. She gave it to me because she was reading a book and in the book there was a character named Claire Bear.

My parents had considered quite a few names. My father adored the names Emily and Vanessa, but my mother absolutely hated those names. My mother loved French names or fancy names, so she came up with Chloe, Zoe, Samantha, Charlotte, Scarlett... They chose Claire because it was the only name both of them could agree on.

Me in 3

3 items that I feel are the most important items to me are my nail sets, my iPod and my stationary.

During the summer holidays, I went to London and Paris. In London, I went to Hamley’s, there, they were selling these really cool nail sets, where you can paint super awesome designs on your nails. I chose that as one of my most important items because as most people know, my mother is very busy and I don’t see her very often. But ever since I got this nail set, we have been spending more time together. During the weekends when she is home, she may ask me to paint her nails for her. So when I paint her nails, we bond and tell each other about the ups and downs of our weeks. So thanks to my nail sets, me and my mother spend a lot more time with each other.

I chose my iPod as one of my most important objects because, well first of all, it was a birthday gift from my parents. I also use it a lot. My bus ride is 40 minutes so I use my iPod to listen to music or play games. I also use my iPod to take pictures like at a friend’s birthday party or when I wanted to record someone who attended the party getting thrown into a pool. I use my iPod for school assignments as well. For example, in IT, I used my iPod for a project where we took pictures and photo-shopped them (with permission of course). I have also used my iPod as a conversation starter with people, especially younger kids. I take a picture or him and put the picture of a head on the body of a fairy. When I did it to a girl, she was delighted and ran off to tell her mother how pretty she looked, if I did it to a boy, he would laugh his head off or ask to be an elf or a superhero instead.

For my third object I have chosen all my stationery. Anyone who knows me can tell you that I LOVE stationary. I chose stationary as one of my most important objects because, I love doing crafts and making cards and stuff like that. So I use the stationary to make special 3D boxes or decorate a pencil holder.....

So those are my special important objects. I hope this tells you a little more about me.

Biopoem

Claire,
fun, loving, friendly, crazy,
daughter of amazing parents, sister of a sensitive brother,
adores singing and acting, loves playing soccer,
experienced love, anger, joy,
alone in the middle of nowhere; seeing a shark;
being stuck in a awful treewell,
won a track and field race,
meeting Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez,
getting A’s in my core classes,
live in the wonderful universe,
Ng

Creation Video

This is my creation story on the Greek Beginning.