
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2053,47,'2011-11-02 21:53:25','2011-11-03 03:53:25','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2051 aligncenter\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" /></a><!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe Paris exposition filmed by James H. White and produced by Edison’s labs was an innovation of its time as technologies arose around the film industries. In many parts these films have been forgotten but their value in the current film industry remains. Edison manages to market Paris for the American people which had become a new wave of satisfying the Americans curiosity. The fact that Edison was able to market a new world theme in a film and the technological innovations in film presented at the Paris exposition are the reason that these films should be conserved because these strategies and technologies are the source of today’s film industry.\r\n\r\nThe Paris Exposition Universelle was the world fair and a very popular time for new inventors and technologies to be presented and became the perfect scenario for a film. What makes the film unique was the use of a spherical motion camera which was able to capture the Eiffel tower from bottom to top and to move around scenes by pivoting on its position which presented an illusion of motion. The film was able to capture life in Paris and its most marketed and important scene of the Eiffel tower. “We see the base of the Eiffel Tower, with a crowd of people walking under it. Beyond, framed by the tower\'s arch, is the Palace of Electricity. It\'s the 1900 Paris Exposition. A few men stop to stare at the camera; then a woman turns and smiles. Slowly, the camera tilts and pans up the tower, nearly to the top, then slowly tilts back to street level. Men look at the camera. A man tips his hat, another smiles. A smiling young man approaches as if to do a flip in mid air. Someone shakes his hand.”(imdb)\r\n\r\nFilms had been a dream for many at the end of the 19th century but it arose mainly as an implement to the phonograph (1). Edison did not invent films but only perfected them. The optical illusion of moving images was created as they where painted in a rotating disk as kids toys in the early 19th century and then became the foundation of films. The photograph had not pushed the idea of the film, but in 1877 a composition of photograph which resembled a film was taken as an experiment conducted by Muybridge. The idea of Muybridge was to prove that a galloping horse would have all four of its hooves of the ground. Muybridge assembled a series of cameras in a race tracks that would shoot a picture as the horse triggered a thin wire connected to the camera, the images captured constituted a moving picture but could not be categorized as a film as they were taken as sequential pictures and not as a motion picture. In 1882 French physiologist Etiene-Jule Marey invented the first camera that would take a sequential picture of twelve pictures per second which is the minimum amount to create the optical illusion of movement. Marey was not interested in the film industry but he did create the film strip to be able to catch picture of a bird in flight(1). “In 1887 an Episcopalian Minister named Hannibal Goodwin  first used the celluloid roll fill as a base for light base emulsion(1)” and later sold his idea to George Eastman, who started mass producing the roll film. These two men enabled Edison Labs to invent the Kinetograph which became “the first true motion picture camera.”\r\n\r\nEdison envisioned the idea of a “home-theater machine” like a television in modern times. In 1888 Edison hired William Laurie Dickson to develop such a device that would accompany the phonograph and therefore create a machine that could play sound and motion picture (1). Although, the kinetograph was created by Dickson but the implementation of sound was difficult to synchronize with the movie (lauer). “The movies were intended to talk from their very inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium’s natural tendency towards a total representation of reality. More significant is the fact that the first viable motion picture camera was invented as an accessory to a sound recording device and not for its own sake”(1).  Edison though very poorly of the kinetoscope as it had no produce the envisioned idea of a home theater system, he even wrote “very doubtful if there is any commercial feature in it, and fear that they will not even earn their cost. (2)” In 1894 Edison was proven wrong as a small parlor opened with five kinetoscopes which would play a ninety-second movie for a nickel. Edison quickly started building a movie studio and producing short films (2) or better know at the times as “actualities”(lauer). Edison produced anything that was for interest for the public (2). As Edison knew of the great interest for foreign cultures, he composed a team in 1896 lead by director James White to capture the images of Asia (vv).\r\n\r\nEdison had a great affection with the world exposition in Paris and found himself visiting the exposition Universelle where in 1889 the Eiffel tower had just been finished and Edison said that the US would build a larger tower(2).  The exposition was a thing of the future with new technologies and arts; it was a time where paris would be filled with tourist from all around the world for the event and a perfect scene for a movie. Edison exploited this marked as he quickly manage to send a team lead by James White for the 1900 exposition to take films of the event with a new kinetograph which featured an spherical (imdb) that gave the films a uniqueness of motion as the kinetograph did not stay stationary but could move up and down and to the sides (lauer). It was the perfect time to capture the images of the exposition including the Eiffel tower and to display the new technology (lauer).\r\n\r\nOne of Edison’s biggest competitors was the Lumiere brothers whose invention almost ended Edison’s carrier as a filmmaker.  The Lumiere was a well known family which had made their profit with the photography business.  With the kinetograph gaining popularity and been part of the business of photography, the Lumiere family wanted profit out of this invention but they found that the prices Edison was charging was too expensive for their taste. Luis Lumiere after dismantling the Kinetoscope came up with a better machine that could not only record films but also reproduce them; it was a camera projector and it became the biggest competitor for the kinetograph. Soon after their invention the Lumiere became famous in the film business sending teams around the world like Edison did and filming things of interest to the public like the famous falling wall which at our own eyes means nothing but at the beginning of small technologies it meant the world(4). In comparing the falling wall or better known as Démolition d\'un mur by the Lumiere’s with Edison’s Paris expositions of 1900; it is noticeable that the quality of the vividness is very similar. The falling of a wall is a shorter actuality than the Paris exposition but the capturing of the film are both very spectacular as they both capture enough film to make the illusion of movement. The Paris films does have an advantage as they could move the camera around which gave a better feeling of the surroundings while the falling wall film is an stationary camera and you can only see the one scene. These are both great examples of the beginning of the film industry and these films are the parents that have created the films we watch today.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These films may be unknown for many but it is important to realize that these are the beginning of all great films. Also, it is important to know that the idea of sound and picture was always in mind since the beginning. The Paris exposition of 1900 may have not been the most popular film to remember but it made its impact in history as it focuses on the human curiosity of unknown worlds and the technological advances it reproduced. These are very important films that should be conserved and studied.  I enjoyed watching the films and was very unaware of the significance they had in our pass, they surely deserve a space in a time capsule</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Work Cited</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• Cook, David A. History of Narrative Film. New York. Norton and Company, 1981.( great information on history of film )</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• Jean Lauer, PhD Candidate in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. (information about the Paris Exposition Film of 1900)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel’s Tower. New York. Penguin Books, 2009.(information on Edison and the Paris expositions )</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• McKernan, Luke. “American manager, cameraman.” British film institute, 1995. <a href=\"http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm\">http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm</a> (found information of James White)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• Rhode, Erick. A History Of The Cinema. New York. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 1976.(found information of Lumiere Brother)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Edited Youtube videos of:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Paris in 1900 - Exposition Universelle\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">LUMIERE Démolition d\'un mur\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"></p>','The Paris Exposition Universelle 1900','','inherit','open','open','','2049-revision-2','','','2011-11-02 21:53:25','2011-11-03 03:53:25','',2049,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2053',0,'revision','',0),(2054,50,'2011-11-02 21:56:36','2011-11-03 03:56:36','Gioacchino Rossini (1792- 1868) is one of the most prolific comedic opera\ncomposers of his time. “He\nwas outstanding in his comic opera and was one of the three great 19th-century\nexponents of the bel canto style, which emphasizes beauty of melodic line,\nrather than excessive drama and emotion.” (Funk) Rossini composed his first opera at the age of eighteen and was “… trained at the Conservatorio de Bologna…”\n(Funk) producing a total of 37 operas. His most successful opera is definitely <em>The Barber of Seville </em>produced in Rome in 1816. (Funk) Rossini\nleft his mark on the world of opera, producing an opera which is still loved to\nthis day. “Rossini used the highly artistic bel canto style to fashion bright\nmelodies, which the singers could deliver with brilliant effects and stirring\nexpression.” (Funk) Because of Rossini’s ability to create such a masterpiece\nof a comedic opera which has stood the test of time, and still performed today\nit deserves to be preserved for future generations.\n\nDuring the time of Rossini’s\nproduction of the opera, Europe was in a vulnerable state as Napoleon was exerting his power throughout the Napoleonic\nwars. The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) was called to reorganize Europe after the Napoleonic wars. “The settlement was\nthe most comprehensive treaty that Europe had\never seen.” (Britannica) The direct effects “In <a title=\"Italy\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/297751/history-of-Italy\">Italy</a>, [were that] Piedmont absorbed Genoa\n… The <a title=\"Papal States\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/441848/Papal-States\">Papal States</a> were restored to the pope, Naples to the Sicilian Bourbons.” (Britannica) In America,\nduring the year of 1816 president James Monroe was also elected into office. In\nrelation to the events in Europe with revolutions, wars, and colonization he proposed the Monroe Doctrine. In doing\nso he drastically changed the role of foreign powers in the Western Hemisphere\nby declaring no future colonization of theAmericas. (Britannica)\n\nThe\nstyle which Rossini was accustomed to listening to was the Baroque period lasting from the 16<sup>th</sup> century to the 18<sup>th</sup> century. “Idiomatic\nwriting, taking account of the individual character and capacities of\ninstruments and voices, was characteristic of <strong>baroque</strong> music. Originating in Italy, <strong>opera</strong><strong>,</strong>\noratorio, and cantata were the principal vocal forms.” (Columbia) This is all exemplified by Rossini\nin his <em>The Barber of Seville </em>as it is\nrenowned for its characterization of the Barber who was a servant.\n\nRossini is known for his comedic operas which spurred from a time of war throughout Europe.\nRossini was born with a great musical talent as “His parents were both\nmusicians, and he began his career in childhood as a singer. He received his\nfirst formal musical education at the Liceo Comunale of Bologna, where one of his early cantatas was\nperformed.” (Columbia) Although Rossini is known to have made 37 operas, <em>The Barber of Seville </em>is his all-time best opera.\n\nThe opera is a comedic drama with love, betrayal,\nheartbreak, and multiple songs of love. The opera begins at Dr. Bartolo’s\nhouse, where Count Almaviva is proclaiming his love to Rosina, the doctor’s\nward. Figaro, the town barber and Dr. Bartolo’s barber joins him in song as\nthey both plan to capture the heart of Rosina. Rosina is watched carefully by\nthe Doctor’s guardian and she drops a letter down to the Count explaining her\nlove. The doctor is suspicious of the Count as he himself wants Rosina for her\nbeauty and money. The count disguises himself as a Music teacher to gain access\ninto the home of the doctor. Figaro, the barber, has obtained keys to the\nbalcony and they plan on an escape at midnight. The doctor tells Rosina he has\nfound the letter that she left for him in attempt to make her jealous. She is\nso angry that she tells him the escape plan and agrees to marry the guardian.\nWhen Figaro and the Count return, the lovers are re-united and the notary, who\nwas supposed to come for Rosina and the doctors wedding, celebrates the\nelopement of the love pair. “When the guardian enters, with officers of justice,\ninto whose hands he is about to consign Figaro and the Count, he is too late,\nbut is reconciled by a promise that he shall receive the equivalent of his\nward’s dower.” (Music with Ease)\n\nThis opera is simplistic in nature, as it gives off the vibe that it could have been\na true story. Especially when compared to today’s mega dramas of large scale\nproportions. The initial reception of Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville </em>was that of a fiasco (failure) due to\nmultiple on-stage catastrophes. “The tenor forgot to tune his guitar, and a\nstring broke as he attempted the opening Serenade: the Don Basilio fell and\nbruised himself badly during his entrance, and became distracted as he\nattempted to stop blood from flowing from his nose during his <em>La Calunnia </em>aria;\nand a cat entered the stage during the second act and jumped into Dr. Bartolo’s\narms. All in all, the <em>Barber’s </em>premiere received a big tide of\ndisapproval.”(CALGARY)  Nonetheless Rossini perfected his opera and it has gone on to become one of the most\nbeloved operas of all time.\n\nThe character Figaro in itself is not solely confined to the opera <em>The Barber of Seville. </em>The character is also found in Mozart’s <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>(1785) which is the tale of Figaro getting married to his wife Susanna. The <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>isn’t considered to be your typical opera as there isn’t any standard plot to it. In Mozart’s opera we have Figaro again meddling around in other couples marriages and this time he is the one getting married. Mozart’s opera is somewhat of a\nprequel to Rossini’s as it was performed originally in 1785. Both operas are\nbased off the opera of French legend Beaumarchais who inspired both Rossini and Mozart.\nIn Mozart’s the climax comes when the parents of Figaro come into town and\nMarcellina (his mother) refers to a  previous arrangement that was made with Figaro to get married if a debt\nwasn’t repaid on time. The Count in this story, was plotting to marry Susanna\nfor himself, although he himself was married as well. When he learns of the\narrangement between Marcellina and Figaro he promises to give her the marriage.\nWell once everyone found out that the parents of Figaro are Marcellina and her\nhusband, everything goes according to plan and Figaro marries Susanna. (Music\nwith Ease)\n\nThe difference in the operas is apparent as the tale of The Barber of Seville has a\nbit more conspiracy and the comedic approach of the Count entering the house in\ndisguises leads one to see the desperate nature the Count had for Rosina. Mozart’s\nis just a tale of a big confusion of emotions and there isn’t a real change of\nplot or element of surprise other than the woman who demanded for Figaro’s\nmarriage is his mother. Rossini’s play is still being performed today where as\nMozart’s is too, Rossini’s is held as one of the greatest comedic operas of his\ntime.  Rossini’s opera is still being\nperformed today and is still held as remarkable for all of its comedic\nproficiency.\n\nPersonally I think that Rossini’s Barber is an opera that should be required in grade\nschool reading classes. The tale falls into the category of Romeo &amp; Juliet\nwith its love conspiracy and the fact that the characters will go through\nwhatever it takes to reach their goal of love. Figaro is a brave man to betray\nhis customer, Dr. Bartolo to the point of costing him his ward Rosina. Most\nmeaningful in this piece is the light comedic aspects of the opera which\nhighlights laughter, betrayal, love, and a big sense of irony.\n\nAlthough there have been many operas in the world that may deserve preservation into my\ntime capsule, none deserve it more than Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville.\n</em>Rossini was able to take an already good opera, and make it even better. He\nfaced a great deal of adversity as the performance of this opera was a complete\nfailure of enormous proportions. Where most composers may have hung up their\nboots and quit, Rossini persevered on and is still being commemorated today. Although\nRossini may not have anticipated his opera continually being performed well\ninto the 21<sup>st</sup> century, the evidence is there that The Barber of\nSeville deserves preservation for future generations.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\n<p align=\"center\">WORKS CITED</p>\n\"ROSSINI, Gioacchino Antonio.\"\n(n.d.): <em>Funk &amp; Wagnalls New World\nEncyclopedia</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\n\n\"Congress of Vienna.\"\n<em>Encyclopædia Britannica.\nEncyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011.\nWeb. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna</a>&gt;.\n\n\"Monroe\nDoctrine.\" <em>Encyclopædia\nBritannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica\nInc., 2011. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine</a>&gt;.\n\n\"Baroque, In\nMusic.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\n\n\"Gioacchino Antonio\nRossini.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\n\n\"The\nBarber of Seville.\"\n<em>Music with Ease</em>. Music with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\n&lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/barber-seville-synopsis.html&gt;.\n\nForrest,\nEmily. \"The Barber of Seville\nStudy Guide.\" Calgary\nOpera, 04/23/2009. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\n&lt;http://www.calgaryopera.com/pdf/BarberOfSevilleStudy Guide.pdf&gt;.\n\n<em>“Marriage of Figaro” Music with Ease</em>.\nMusic with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011. &lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/mozart-marriage-figaro.html&gt;\n\n&nbsp;','Barber of Seville','','inherit','open','open','','2050-revision','','','2011-11-02 21:56:36','2011-11-03 03:56:36','',2050,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2054',0,'revision','',0),(2071,1,'2011-11-11 16:57:49','2011-11-11 22:57:49','&nbsp;\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.chandos.net/Details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%203025M\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.chandos.net/Details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%203025M</a></p>\nGioacchino Rossini (1792- 1868) is one of the most prolific comedic opera composers of his time. “He was outstanding in his comic opera and was one of the three great 19th-century exponents of the bel canto style, which emphasizes beauty of melodic line, rather than excessive drama and emotion.” (Funk) Rossini composed his first opera at the age of eighteen and was “… trained at the Conservatorio de Bologna…” (Funk) producing a total of 37 operas. His most successful opera is definitely <em>The Barber of Seville </em>produced in Rome in 1816. (Funk) Rossini left his mark on the world of opera, producing an opera which is still loved to this day. “Rossini used the highly artistic bel canto style to fashion bright melodies, which the singers could deliver with brilliant effects and stirring expression.” (Funk) Because of Rossini’s ability to create such a masterpiece of a comedic opera which has stood the test of time, and still performed today it deserves to be preserved for future generations.<!--more-->\n\nDuring the time of Rossini’s production of the opera, Europe was in a vulnerable state as Napoleon was exerting his power throughout the Napoleonic wars. The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) was called to reorganize Europe after the Napoleonic wars. “The settlement was the most comprehensive treaty that Europe had\never seen.” (Britannica) The direct effects “In <a title=\"Italy\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/297751/history-of-Italy\">Italy</a>, [were that] Piedmont absorbed Genoa\n… The <a title=\"Papal States\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/441848/Papal-States\">Papal States</a> were restored to the pope, Naples to the Sicilian Bourbons.” (Britannica) In America,\nduring the year of 1816 president James Monroe was also elected into office. In\nrelation to the events in Europe with revolutions, wars, and colonization he proposed the Monroe Doctrine. In doing\nso he drastically changed the role of foreign powers in the Western Hemisphere\nby declaring no future colonization of theAmericas. (Britannica)\n\nThe\nstyle which Rossini was accustomed to listening to was the Baroque period lasting from the 16<sup>th</sup> century to the 18<sup>th</sup> century. “Idiomatic\nwriting, taking account of the individual character and capacities of\ninstruments and voices, was characteristic of <strong>baroque</strong> music. Originating in Italy, <strong>opera</strong><strong>,</strong>\noratorio, and cantata were the principal vocal forms.” (Columbia) This is all exemplified by Rossini\nin his <em>The Barber of Seville </em>as it is\nrenowned for its characterization of the Barber who was a servant.\n\nRossini is known for his comedic operas which spurred from a time of war throughout Europe.\nRossini was born with a great musical talent as “His parents were both\nmusicians, and he began his career in childhood as a singer. He received his\nfirst formal musical education at the Liceo Comunale of Bologna, where one of his early cantatas was\nperformed.” (Columbia) Although Rossini is known to have made 37 operas, <em>The Barber of Seville </em>is his all-time best opera.\n\nThe opera is a comedic drama with love, betrayal,\nheartbreak, and multiple songs of love. The opera begins at Dr. Bartolo’s\nhouse, where Count Almaviva is proclaiming his love to Rosina, the doctor’s\nward. Figaro, the town barber and Dr. Bartolo’s barber joins him in song as\nthey both plan to capture the heart of Rosina. Rosina is watched carefully by\nthe Doctor’s guardian and she drops a letter down to the Count explaining her\nlove. The doctor is suspicious of the Count as he himself wants Rosina for her\nbeauty and money. The count disguises himself as a Music teacher to gain access\ninto the home of the doctor. Figaro, the barber, has obtained keys to the\nbalcony and they plan on an escape at midnight. The doctor tells Rosina he has\nfound the letter that she left for him in attempt to make her jealous. She is\nso angry that she tells him the escape plan and agrees to marry the guardian.\nWhen Figaro and the Count return, the lovers are re-united and the notary, who\nwas supposed to come for Rosina and the doctors wedding, celebrates the\nelopement of the love pair. “When the guardian enters, with officers of justice,\ninto whose hands he is about to consign Figaro and the Count, he is too late,\nbut is reconciled by a promise that he shall receive the equivalent of his\nward’s dower.” (Music with Ease)\n\nThis opera is simplistic in nature, as it gives off the vibe that it could have been\na true story. Especially when compared to today’s mega dramas of large scale\nproportions. The initial reception of Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville </em>was that of a fiasco (failure) due to\nmultiple on-stage catastrophes. “The tenor forgot to tune his guitar, and a\nstring broke as he attempted the opening Serenade: the Don Basilio fell and\nbruised himself badly during his entrance, and became distracted as he\nattempted to stop blood from flowing from his nose during his <em>La Calunnia </em>aria;\nand a cat entered the stage during the second act and jumped into Dr. Bartolo’s\narms. All in all, the <em>Barber’s </em>premiere received a big tide of\ndisapproval.”(CALGARY)  Nonetheless Rossini perfected his opera and it has gone on to become one of the most\nbeloved operas of all time.\n\nThe character Figaro in itself is not solely confined to the opera <em>The Barber of Seville. </em>The character is also found in Mozart’s <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>(1785) which is the tale of Figaro getting married to his wife Susanna. The <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>isn’t considered to be your typical opera as there isn’t any standard plot to it. In Mozart’s opera we have Figaro again meddling around in other couples marriages and this time he is the one getting married. Mozart’s opera is somewhat of a\nprequel to Rossini’s as it was performed originally in 1785. Both operas are\nbased off the opera of French legend Beaumarchais who inspired both Rossini and Mozart.\nIn Mozart’s the climax comes when the parents of Figaro come into town and\nMarcellina (his mother) refers to a  previous arrangement that was made with Figaro to get married if a debt\nwasn’t repaid on time. The Count in this story, was plotting to marry Susanna\nfor himself, although he himself was married as well. When he learns of the\narrangement between Marcellina and Figaro he promises to give her the marriage.\nWell once everyone found out that the parents of Figaro are Marcellina and her\nhusband, everything goes according to plan and Figaro marries Susanna. (Music\nwith Ease)\n\nThe difference in the operas is apparent as the tale of The Barber of Seville has a\nbit more conspiracy and the comedic approach of the Count entering the house in\ndisguises leads one to see the desperate nature the Count had for Rosina. Mozart’s\nis just a tale of a big confusion of emotions and there isn’t a real change of\nplot or element of surprise other than the woman who demanded for Figaro’s\nmarriage is his mother. Rossini’s play is still being performed today where as\nMozart’s is too, Rossini’s is held as one of the greatest comedic operas of his\ntime.  Rossini’s opera is still being\nperformed today and is still held as remarkable for all of its comedic\nproficiency.\n\nPersonally I think that Rossini’s Barber is an opera that should be required in grade\nschool reading classes. The tale falls into the category of Romeo &amp; Juliet\nwith its love conspiracy and the fact that the characters will go through\nwhatever it takes to reach their goal of love. Figaro is a brave man to betray\nhis customer, Dr. Bartolo to the point of costing him his ward Rosina. Most\nmeaningful in this piece is the light comedic aspects of the opera which\nhighlights laughter, betrayal, love, and a big sense of irony.\n\nAlthough there have been many operas in the world that may deserve preservation into my\ntime capsule, none deserve it more than Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville.\n</em>Rossini was able to take an already good opera, and make it even better. He\nfaced a great deal of adversity as the performance of this opera was a complete\nfailure of enormous proportions. Where most composers may have hung up their\nboots and quit, Rossini persevered on and is still being commemorated today. Although\nRossini may not have anticipated his opera continually being performed well\ninto the 21<sup>st</sup> century, the evidence is there that The Barber of\nSeville deserves preservation for future generations.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<p align=\"center\">WORKS CITED</p>\n\"ROSSINI, Gioacchino Antonio.\"\n(n.d.): <em>Funk &amp; Wagnalls New World\nEncyclopedia</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\n\n\"Congress of Vienna.\"\n<em>Encyclopædia Britannica.\nEncyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011.\nWeb. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna</a>&gt;.\n\n\"Monroe\nDoctrine.\" <em>Encyclopædia\nBritannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica\nInc., 2011. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine</a>&gt;.\n\n\"Baroque, In\nMusic.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\n\n\"Gioacchino Antonio\nRossini.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\n\n\"The\nBarber of Seville.\"\n<em>Music with Ease</em>. Music with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\n&lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/barber-seville-synopsis.html&gt;.\n\nForrest,\nEmily. \"The Barber of Seville\nStudy Guide.\" Calgary\nOpera, 04/23/2009. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\n&lt;http://www.calgaryopera.com/pdf/BarberOfSevilleStudy Guide.pdf&gt;.\n\n<em>“Marriage of Figaro” Music with Ease</em>.\nMusic with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011. &lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/mozart-marriage-figaro.html&gt;\n\n&nbsp;','Barber of Seville','','inherit','open','open','','2050-autosave','','','2011-11-11 16:57:49','2011-11-11 22:57:49','',2050,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2071',0,'revision','',0),(2056,50,'2011-11-02 21:57:05','2011-11-03 03:57:05','Gioacchino Rossini (1792- 1868) is one of the most prolific comedic opera\r\ncomposers of his time. “He was outstanding in his comic opera and was one of the three great 19th-century\r\nexponents of the bel canto style, which emphasizes beauty of melodic line,\r\nrather than excessive drama and emotion.” (Funk) Rossini composed his first opera at the age of eighteen and was “… trained at the Conservatorio de Bologna…” (Funk) producing a total of 37 operas. His most successful opera is definitely <em>The Barber of Seville </em>produced in Rome in 1816. (Funk) Rossini left his mark on the world of opera, producing an opera which is still loved to\r\nthis day. “Rossini used the highly artistic bel canto style to fashion bright\r\nmelodies, which the singers could deliver with brilliant effects and stirring\r\nexpression.” (Funk) Because of Rossini’s ability to create such a masterpiece\r\nof a comedic opera which has stood the test of time, and still performed today\r\nit deserves to be preserved for future generations.\r\n\r\nDuring the time of Rossini’s production of the opera, Europe was in a vulnerable state as Napoleon was exerting his power throughout the Napoleonic wars. The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) was called to reorganize Europe after the Napoleonic wars. “The settlement was the most comprehensive treaty that Europe had\r\never seen.” (Britannica) The direct effects “In <a title=\"Italy\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/297751/history-of-Italy\">Italy</a>, [were that] Piedmont absorbed Genoa\r\n… The <a title=\"Papal States\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/441848/Papal-States\">Papal States</a> were restored to the pope, Naples to the Sicilian Bourbons.” (Britannica) In America,\r\nduring the year of 1816 president James Monroe was also elected into office. In\r\nrelation to the events in Europe with revolutions, wars, and colonization he proposed the Monroe Doctrine. In doing\r\nso he drastically changed the role of foreign powers in the Western Hemisphere\r\nby declaring no future colonization of theAmericas. (Britannica)\r\n\r\nThe\r\nstyle which Rossini was accustomed to listening to was the Baroque period lasting from the 16<sup>th</sup> century to the 18<sup>th</sup> century. “Idiomatic\r\nwriting, taking account of the individual character and capacities of\r\ninstruments and voices, was characteristic of <strong>baroque</strong> music. Originating in Italy, <strong>opera</strong><strong>,</strong>\r\noratorio, and cantata were the principal vocal forms.” (Columbia) This is all exemplified by Rossini\r\nin his <em>The Barber of Seville </em>as it is\r\nrenowned for its characterization of the Barber who was a servant.\r\n\r\nRossini is known for his comedic operas which spurred from a time of war throughout Europe.\r\nRossini was born with a great musical talent as “His parents were both\r\nmusicians, and he began his career in childhood as a singer. He received his\r\nfirst formal musical education at the Liceo Comunale of Bologna, where one of his early cantatas was\r\nperformed.” (Columbia) Although Rossini is known to have made 37 operas, <em>The Barber of Seville </em>is his all-time best opera.\r\n\r\nThe opera is a comedic drama with love, betrayal,\r\nheartbreak, and multiple songs of love. The opera begins at Dr. Bartolo’s\r\nhouse, where Count Almaviva is proclaiming his love to Rosina, the doctor’s\r\nward. Figaro, the town barber and Dr. Bartolo’s barber joins him in song as\r\nthey both plan to capture the heart of Rosina. Rosina is watched carefully by\r\nthe Doctor’s guardian and she drops a letter down to the Count explaining her\r\nlove. The doctor is suspicious of the Count as he himself wants Rosina for her\r\nbeauty and money. The count disguises himself as a Music teacher to gain access\r\ninto the home of the doctor. Figaro, the barber, has obtained keys to the\r\nbalcony and they plan on an escape at midnight. The doctor tells Rosina he has\r\nfound the letter that she left for him in attempt to make her jealous. She is\r\nso angry that she tells him the escape plan and agrees to marry the guardian.\r\nWhen Figaro and the Count return, the lovers are re-united and the notary, who\r\nwas supposed to come for Rosina and the doctors wedding, celebrates the\r\nelopement of the love pair. “When the guardian enters, with officers of justice,\r\ninto whose hands he is about to consign Figaro and the Count, he is too late,\r\nbut is reconciled by a promise that he shall receive the equivalent of his\r\nward’s dower.” (Music with Ease)\r\n\r\nThis opera is simplistic in nature, as it gives off the vibe that it could have been\r\na true story. Especially when compared to today’s mega dramas of large scale\r\nproportions. The initial reception of Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville </em>was that of a fiasco (failure) due to\r\nmultiple on-stage catastrophes. “The tenor forgot to tune his guitar, and a\r\nstring broke as he attempted the opening Serenade: the Don Basilio fell and\r\nbruised himself badly during his entrance, and became distracted as he\r\nattempted to stop blood from flowing from his nose during his <em>La Calunnia </em>aria;\r\nand a cat entered the stage during the second act and jumped into Dr. Bartolo’s\r\narms. All in all, the <em>Barber’s </em>premiere received a big tide of\r\ndisapproval.”(CALGARY)  Nonetheless Rossini perfected his opera and it has gone on to become one of the most\r\nbeloved operas of all time.\r\n\r\nThe character Figaro in itself is not solely confined to the opera <em>The Barber of Seville. </em>The character is also found in Mozart’s <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>(1785) which is the tale of Figaro getting married to his wife Susanna. The <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>isn’t considered to be your typical opera as there isn’t any standard plot to it. In Mozart’s opera we have Figaro again meddling around in other couples marriages and this time he is the one getting married. Mozart’s opera is somewhat of a\r\nprequel to Rossini’s as it was performed originally in 1785. Both operas are\r\nbased off the opera of French legend Beaumarchais who inspired both Rossini and Mozart.\r\nIn Mozart’s the climax comes when the parents of Figaro come into town and\r\nMarcellina (his mother) refers to a  previous arrangement that was made with Figaro to get married if a debt\r\nwasn’t repaid on time. The Count in this story, was plotting to marry Susanna\r\nfor himself, although he himself was married as well. When he learns of the\r\narrangement between Marcellina and Figaro he promises to give her the marriage.\r\nWell once everyone found out that the parents of Figaro are Marcellina and her\r\nhusband, everything goes according to plan and Figaro marries Susanna. (Music\r\nwith Ease)\r\n\r\nThe difference in the operas is apparent as the tale of The Barber of Seville has a\r\nbit more conspiracy and the comedic approach of the Count entering the house in\r\ndisguises leads one to see the desperate nature the Count had for Rosina. Mozart’s\r\nis just a tale of a big confusion of emotions and there isn’t a real change of\r\nplot or element of surprise other than the woman who demanded for Figaro’s\r\nmarriage is his mother. Rossini’s play is still being performed today where as\r\nMozart’s is too, Rossini’s is held as one of the greatest comedic operas of his\r\ntime.  Rossini’s opera is still being\r\nperformed today and is still held as remarkable for all of its comedic\r\nproficiency.\r\n\r\nPersonally I think that Rossini’s Barber is an opera that should be required in grade\r\nschool reading classes. The tale falls into the category of Romeo &amp; Juliet\r\nwith its love conspiracy and the fact that the characters will go through\r\nwhatever it takes to reach their goal of love. Figaro is a brave man to betray\r\nhis customer, Dr. Bartolo to the point of costing him his ward Rosina. Most\r\nmeaningful in this piece is the light comedic aspects of the opera which\r\nhighlights laughter, betrayal, love, and a big sense of irony.\r\n\r\nAlthough there have been many operas in the world that may deserve preservation into my\r\ntime capsule, none deserve it more than Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville.\r\n</em>Rossini was able to take an already good opera, and make it even better. He\r\nfaced a great deal of adversity as the performance of this opera was a complete\r\nfailure of enormous proportions. Where most composers may have hung up their\r\nboots and quit, Rossini persevered on and is still being commemorated today. Although\r\nRossini may not have anticipated his opera continually being performed well\r\ninto the 21<sup>st</sup> century, the evidence is there that The Barber of\r\nSeville deserves preservation for future generations.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">WORKS CITED</p>\r\n\"ROSSINI, Gioacchino Antonio.\"\r\n(n.d.): <em>Funk &amp; Wagnalls New World\r\nEncyclopedia</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"Congress of Vienna.\"\r\n<em>Encyclopædia Britannica.\r\nEncyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011.\r\nWeb. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna</a>&gt;.\r\n\r\n\"Monroe\r\nDoctrine.\" <em>Encyclopædia\r\nBritannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica\r\nInc., 2011. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine</a>&gt;.\r\n\r\n\"Baroque, In\r\nMusic.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\r\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\r\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"Gioacchino Antonio\r\nRossini.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\r\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\r\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"The\r\nBarber of Seville.\"\r\n<em>Music with Ease</em>. Music with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\r\n&lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/barber-seville-synopsis.html&gt;.\r\n\r\nForrest,\r\nEmily. \"The Barber of Seville\r\nStudy Guide.\" Calgary\r\nOpera, 04/23/2009. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\r\n&lt;http://www.calgaryopera.com/pdf/BarberOfSevilleStudy Guide.pdf&gt;.\r\n\r\n<em>“Marriage of Figaro” Music with Ease</em>.\r\nMusic with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011. &lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/mozart-marriage-figaro.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Barber of Seville','','inherit','open','open','','2050-revision-2','','','2011-11-02 21:57:05','2011-11-03 03:57:05','',2050,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2056',0,'revision','',0),(2058,47,'2011-12-12 19:43:51','2011-12-13 01:43:51','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2051 aligncenter\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://pariscanvas.co.uk/bw2.html\">http://pariscanvas.co.uk/bw2.html</a></p>\nThe Paris exposition filmed by James H. White and produced by Edison’s labs was an innovation of its time as technologies arose around the film industries. In many parts these films have been forgotten but their value in the current film industry remains. Edison manages to market Paris for the American people which had become a new wave of satisfying the Americans curiosity. The fact that Edison was able to market a new world theme in a film and the technological innovations in film presented at the Paris exposition are the reason that these films should be conserved because these strategies and technologies are the source of today’s film industry.<!--more-->\n\nThe Paris Exposition Universelle was the world fair and a very popular time for new inventors and technologies to be presented and became the perfect scenario for a film. What makes the film unique was the use of a spherical motion camera which was able to capture the Eiffel tower from bottom to top and to move around scenes by pivoting on its position which presented an illusion of motion. The film was able to capture life in Paris and its most marketed and important scene of the Eiffel tower. “We see the base of the Eiffel Tower, with a crowd of people walking under it. Beyond, framed by the tower\'s arch, is the Palace of Electricity. It\'s the 1900 Paris Exposition. A few men stop to stare at the camera; then a woman turns and smiles. Slowly, the camera tilts and pans up the tower, nearly to the top, then slowly tilts back to street level. Men look at the camera. A man tips his hat, another smiles. A smiling young man approaches as if to do a flip in mid air. Someone shakes his hand.”(Internet Movie Data Base)\n\nFilms had been a dream for many at the end of the 19th century but it arose mainly as an implement to the phonograph (Cook, David ). Edison did not invent films but only perfected them. The optical illusion of moving images was created as they where painted in a rotating disk as kids toys in the early 19th century and then became the foundation of films. The photograph had not pushed the idea of the film, but in 1877 a composition of photograph which resembled a film was taken as an experiment conducted by Muybridge. The idea of Muybridge was to prove that a galloping horse would have all four of its hooves of the ground. Muybridge assembled a series of cameras in a race tracks that would shoot a picture as the horse triggered a thin wire connected to the camera, the images captured constituted a moving picture but could not be categorized as a film as they were taken as sequential pictures and not as a motion picture. In 1882 French physiologist Etiene-Jule Marey invented the first camera that would take a sequential picture of twelve pictures per second which is the minimum amount to create the optical illusion of movement. Marey was not interested in the film industry but he did create the film strip to be able to catch picture of a bird in flight(Cook, David ). “In 1887 an Episcopalian Minister named Hannibal Goodwin  first used the celluloid roll fill as a base for light base emulsion(Cook, David )” and later sold his idea to George Eastman, who started mass producing the roll film. These two men enabled Edison Labs to invent the Kinetograph which became “the first true motion picture camera.”\n\nEdison envisioned the idea of a “home-theater machine” like a television in modern times. In 1888 Edison hired William Laurie Dickson to develop such a device that would accompany the phonograph and therefore create a machine that could play sound and motion picture (Cook, David ). Although, the kinetograph was created by Dickson but the implementation of sound was difficult to synchronize with the movie (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). “The movies were intended to talk from their very inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium’s natural tendency towards a total representation of reality. More significant is the fact that the first viable motion picture camera was invented as an accessory to a sound recording device and not for its own sake”(Cook, David ).  Edison though very poorly of the kinetoscope as it had no produce the envisioned idea of a home theater system, he even wrote “very doubtful if there is any commercial feature in it, and fear that they will not even earn their cost. (Jonnes, Jill)” In 1894 Edison was proven wrong as a small parlor opened with five kinetoscopes which would play a ninety-second movie for a nickel. Edison quickly started building a movie studio and producing short films (Jonnes, Jill) or better know at the times as “actualities”(<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). Edison produced anything that was for interest for the public (Jonnes, Jill). As Edison knew of the great interest for foreign cultures, he composed a team in 1896 lead by director James White to capture the images of Asia (McKernan, Luke).\n\nEdison had a great affection with the world exposition in Paris and found himself visiting the exposition Universelle where in 1889 the Eiffel tower had just been finished and Edison said that the US would build a larger tower(Jonnes, Jill).  The exposition was a thing of the future with new technologies and arts; it was a time where paris would be filled with tourist from all around the world for the event and a perfect scene for a movie. Edison exploited this marked as he quickly manage to send a team lead by James White for the 1900 exposition to take films of the event with a new kinetograph which featured an spherical (Internet Movie Data Base) that gave the films a uniqueness of motion as the kinetograph did not stay stationary but could move up and down and to the sides (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). It was the perfect time to capture the images of the exposition including the Eiffel tower and to display the new technology (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>).\n\nOne of Edison’s biggest competitors was the Lumiere brothers whose invention almost ended Edison’s carrier as a filmmaker.  The Lumiere was a well known family which had made their profit with the photography business.  With the kinetograph gaining popularity and been part of the business of photography, the Lumiere family wanted profit out of this invention but they found that the prices Edison was charging was too expensive for their taste. Luis Lumiere after dismantling the Kinetoscope came up with a better machine that could not only record films but also reproduce them; it was a camera projector and it became the biggest competitor for the kinetograph. Soon after their invention the Lumiere became famous in the film business sending teams around the world like Edison did and filming things of interest to the public like the famous falling wall which at our own eyes means nothing but at the beginning of small technologies it meant the world(Rhode, Erick). In comparing the falling wall or better known as Démolition d\'un mur by the Lumiere’s with Edison’s Paris expositions of 1900; it is noticeable that the quality of the vividness is very similar. The falling of a wall is a shorter actuality than the Paris exposition but the capturing of the film are both very spectacular as they both capture enough film to make the illusion of movement. The Paris films does have an advantage as they could move the camera around which gave a better feeling of the surroundings while the falling wall film is an stationary camera and you can only see the one scene. These are both great examples of the beginning of the film industry and these films are the parents that have created the films we watch today.\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These films may be unknown for many but it is important to realize that these are the beginning of all great films. Also, it is important to know that the idea of sound and picture was always in mind since the beginning. The Paris exposition of 1900 may have not been the most popular film to remember but it made its impact in history as it focuses on the human curiosity of unknown worlds and the technological advances it reproduced. These are very important films that should be conserved and studied.  I enjoyed watching the films and was very unaware of the significance they had in our pass, they surely deserve a space in a time capsule</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Work Cited</p>\n\n<ul>\n	<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Cook, David A. History of Narrative Film. New York. Norton and Company, 1981.( great information on history of film )</div></li>\n	<li>Internet Movie Data Base, “Panorama of Eiffel Tower(<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/year/1900/\">1900</a>).”  IMDB 1990-2011<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/help/\">IMDb.com, Inc</a>. Internet Movie Data Base.</li>\n	<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Jean Lauer, PhD Candidate in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. (information about the Paris Exposition Film of 1900)</div></li>\n	<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel’s Tower. New York. Penguin Books, 2009.(information on Edison and the Paris expositions )</div></li>\n	<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"> McKernan, Luke. “American manager, cameraman.” British film institute, 1995. <a href=\"http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm\">http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm</a> (found information of James White)</div></li>\n	<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Rhode, Erick. A History Of The Cinema. New York. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 1976.(found information of Lumiere Brother)</div></li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Edited Youtube videos of:</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Paris in 1900 - Exposition Universelle\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74</a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">LUMIERE Démolition d\'un mur\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo</a></p>','The Paris Exposition Universelle 1900','','inherit','open','open','','2049-autosave','','','2011-12-12 19:43:51','2011-12-13 01:43:51','',2049,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2058',0,'revision','',0),(2057,1,'2011-11-02 21:58:33','2011-11-03 03:58:33','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CHAN%203025.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2055\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CHAN%203025-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" /></a>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.chandos.net/Details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%203025M\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.chandos.net/Details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%203025M</a></p>\r\nGioacchino Rossini (1792- 1868) is one of the most prolific comedic opera\r\ncomposers of his time. “He was outstanding in his comic opera and was one of the three great 19th-century\r\nexponents of the bel canto style, which emphasizes beauty of melodic line,\r\nrather than excessive drama and emotion.” (Funk) Rossini composed his first opera at the age of eighteen and was “… trained at the Conservatorio de Bologna…” (Funk) producing a total of 37 operas. His most successful opera is definitely <em>The Barber of Seville </em>produced in Rome in 1816. (Funk) Rossini left his mark on the world of opera, producing an opera which is still loved to\r\nthis day. “Rossini used the highly artistic bel canto style to fashion bright\r\nmelodies, which the singers could deliver with brilliant effects and stirring\r\nexpression.” (Funk) Because of Rossini’s ability to create such a masterpiece\r\nof a comedic opera which has stood the test of time, and still performed today\r\nit deserves to be preserved for future generations.\r\n\r\nDuring the time of Rossini’s production of the opera, Europe was in a vulnerable state as Napoleon was exerting his power throughout the Napoleonic wars. The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) was called to reorganize Europe after the Napoleonic wars. “The settlement was the most comprehensive treaty that Europe had\r\never seen.” (Britannica) The direct effects “In <a title=\"Italy\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/297751/history-of-Italy\">Italy</a>, [were that] Piedmont absorbed Genoa\r\n… The <a title=\"Papal States\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/441848/Papal-States\">Papal States</a> were restored to the pope, Naples to the Sicilian Bourbons.” (Britannica) In America,\r\nduring the year of 1816 president James Monroe was also elected into office. In\r\nrelation to the events in Europe with revolutions, wars, and colonization he proposed the Monroe Doctrine. In doing\r\nso he drastically changed the role of foreign powers in the Western Hemisphere\r\nby declaring no future colonization of theAmericas. (Britannica)\r\n\r\nThe\r\nstyle which Rossini was accustomed to listening to was the Baroque period lasting from the 16<sup>th</sup> century to the 18<sup>th</sup> century. “Idiomatic\r\nwriting, taking account of the individual character and capacities of\r\ninstruments and voices, was characteristic of <strong>baroque</strong> music. Originating in Italy, <strong>opera</strong><strong>,</strong>\r\noratorio, and cantata were the principal vocal forms.” (Columbia) This is all exemplified by Rossini\r\nin his <em>The Barber of Seville </em>as it is\r\nrenowned for its characterization of the Barber who was a servant.\r\n\r\nRossini is known for his comedic operas which spurred from a time of war throughout Europe.\r\nRossini was born with a great musical talent as “His parents were both\r\nmusicians, and he began his career in childhood as a singer. He received his\r\nfirst formal musical education at the Liceo Comunale of Bologna, where one of his early cantatas was\r\nperformed.” (Columbia) Although Rossini is known to have made 37 operas, <em>The Barber of Seville </em>is his all-time best opera.\r\n\r\nThe opera is a comedic drama with love, betrayal,\r\nheartbreak, and multiple songs of love. The opera begins at Dr. Bartolo’s\r\nhouse, where Count Almaviva is proclaiming his love to Rosina, the doctor’s\r\nward. Figaro, the town barber and Dr. Bartolo’s barber joins him in song as\r\nthey both plan to capture the heart of Rosina. Rosina is watched carefully by\r\nthe Doctor’s guardian and she drops a letter down to the Count explaining her\r\nlove. The doctor is suspicious of the Count as he himself wants Rosina for her\r\nbeauty and money. The count disguises himself as a Music teacher to gain access\r\ninto the home of the doctor. Figaro, the barber, has obtained keys to the\r\nbalcony and they plan on an escape at midnight. The doctor tells Rosina he has\r\nfound the letter that she left for him in attempt to make her jealous. She is\r\nso angry that she tells him the escape plan and agrees to marry the guardian.\r\nWhen Figaro and the Count return, the lovers are re-united and the notary, who\r\nwas supposed to come for Rosina and the doctors wedding, celebrates the\r\nelopement of the love pair. “When the guardian enters, with officers of justice,\r\ninto whose hands he is about to consign Figaro and the Count, he is too late,\r\nbut is reconciled by a promise that he shall receive the equivalent of his\r\nward’s dower.” (Music with Ease)\r\n\r\nThis opera is simplistic in nature, as it gives off the vibe that it could have been\r\na true story. Especially when compared to today’s mega dramas of large scale\r\nproportions. The initial reception of Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville </em>was that of a fiasco (failure) due to\r\nmultiple on-stage catastrophes. “The tenor forgot to tune his guitar, and a\r\nstring broke as he attempted the opening Serenade: the Don Basilio fell and\r\nbruised himself badly during his entrance, and became distracted as he\r\nattempted to stop blood from flowing from his nose during his <em>La Calunnia </em>aria;\r\nand a cat entered the stage during the second act and jumped into Dr. Bartolo’s\r\narms. All in all, the <em>Barber’s </em>premiere received a big tide of\r\ndisapproval.”(CALGARY)  Nonetheless Rossini perfected his opera and it has gone on to become one of the most\r\nbeloved operas of all time.\r\n\r\nThe character Figaro in itself is not solely confined to the opera <em>The Barber of Seville. </em>The character is also found in Mozart’s <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>(1785) which is the tale of Figaro getting married to his wife Susanna. The <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>isn’t considered to be your typical opera as there isn’t any standard plot to it. In Mozart’s opera we have Figaro again meddling around in other couples marriages and this time he is the one getting married. Mozart’s opera is somewhat of a\r\nprequel to Rossini’s as it was performed originally in 1785. Both operas are\r\nbased off the opera of French legend Beaumarchais who inspired both Rossini and Mozart.\r\nIn Mozart’s the climax comes when the parents of Figaro come into town and\r\nMarcellina (his mother) refers to a  previous arrangement that was made with Figaro to get married if a debt\r\nwasn’t repaid on time. The Count in this story, was plotting to marry Susanna\r\nfor himself, although he himself was married as well. When he learns of the\r\narrangement between Marcellina and Figaro he promises to give her the marriage.\r\nWell once everyone found out that the parents of Figaro are Marcellina and her\r\nhusband, everything goes according to plan and Figaro marries Susanna. (Music\r\nwith Ease)\r\n\r\nThe difference in the operas is apparent as the tale of The Barber of Seville has a\r\nbit more conspiracy and the comedic approach of the Count entering the house in\r\ndisguises leads one to see the desperate nature the Count had for Rosina. Mozart’s\r\nis just a tale of a big confusion of emotions and there isn’t a real change of\r\nplot or element of surprise other than the woman who demanded for Figaro’s\r\nmarriage is his mother. Rossini’s play is still being performed today where as\r\nMozart’s is too, Rossini’s is held as one of the greatest comedic operas of his\r\ntime.  Rossini’s opera is still being\r\nperformed today and is still held as remarkable for all of its comedic\r\nproficiency.\r\n\r\nPersonally I think that Rossini’s Barber is an opera that should be required in grade\r\nschool reading classes. The tale falls into the category of Romeo &amp; Juliet\r\nwith its love conspiracy and the fact that the characters will go through\r\nwhatever it takes to reach their goal of love. Figaro is a brave man to betray\r\nhis customer, Dr. Bartolo to the point of costing him his ward Rosina. Most\r\nmeaningful in this piece is the light comedic aspects of the opera which\r\nhighlights laughter, betrayal, love, and a big sense of irony.\r\n\r\nAlthough there have been many operas in the world that may deserve preservation into my\r\ntime capsule, none deserve it more than Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville.\r\n</em>Rossini was able to take an already good opera, and make it even better. He\r\nfaced a great deal of adversity as the performance of this opera was a complete\r\nfailure of enormous proportions. Where most composers may have hung up their\r\nboots and quit, Rossini persevered on and is still being commemorated today. Although\r\nRossini may not have anticipated his opera continually being performed well\r\ninto the 21<sup>st</sup> century, the evidence is there that The Barber of\r\nSeville deserves preservation for future generations.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">WORKS CITED</p>\r\n\"ROSSINI, Gioacchino Antonio.\"\r\n(n.d.): <em>Funk &amp; Wagnalls New World\r\nEncyclopedia</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"Congress of Vienna.\"\r\n<em>Encyclopædia Britannica.\r\nEncyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011.\r\nWeb. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna</a>&gt;.\r\n\r\n\"Monroe\r\nDoctrine.\" <em>Encyclopædia\r\nBritannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica\r\nInc., 2011. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine</a>&gt;.\r\n\r\n\"Baroque, In\r\nMusic.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\r\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\r\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"Gioacchino Antonio\r\nRossini.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\r\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\r\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"The\r\nBarber of Seville.\"\r\n<em>Music with Ease</em>. Music with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\r\n&lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/barber-seville-synopsis.html&gt;.\r\n\r\nForrest,\r\nEmily. \"The Barber of Seville\r\nStudy Guide.\" Calgary\r\nOpera, 04/23/2009. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\r\n&lt;http://www.calgaryopera.com/pdf/BarberOfSevilleStudy Guide.pdf&gt;.\r\n\r\n<em>“Marriage of Figaro” Music with Ease</em>.\r\nMusic with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011. &lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/mozart-marriage-figaro.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Barber of Seville','','inherit','open','open','','2050-revision-3','','','2011-11-02 21:58:33','2011-11-03 03:58:33','',2050,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2057',0,'revision','',0),(2059,47,'2011-11-02 21:54:10','2011-11-03 03:54:10','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2051 aligncenter\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" /></a><!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe Paris exposition filmed by James H. White and produced by Edison’s labs was an innovation of its time as technologies arose around the film industries. In many parts these films have been forgotten but their value in the current film industry remains. Edison manages to market Paris for the American people which had become a new wave of satisfying the Americans curiosity. The fact that Edison was able to market a new world theme in a film and the technological innovations in film presented at the Paris exposition are the reason that these films should be conserved because these strategies and technologies are the source of today’s film industry.\r\n\r\nThe Paris Exposition Universelle was the world fair and a very popular time for new inventors and technologies to be presented and became the perfect scenario for a film. What makes the film unique was the use of a spherical motion camera which was able to capture the Eiffel tower from bottom to top and to move around scenes by pivoting on its position which presented an illusion of motion. The film was able to capture life in Paris and its most marketed and important scene of the Eiffel tower. “We see the base of the Eiffel Tower, with a crowd of people walking under it. Beyond, framed by the tower\'s arch, is the Palace of Electricity. It\'s the 1900 Paris Exposition. A few men stop to stare at the camera; then a woman turns and smiles. Slowly, the camera tilts and pans up the tower, nearly to the top, then slowly tilts back to street level. Men look at the camera. A man tips his hat, another smiles. A smiling young man approaches as if to do a flip in mid air. Someone shakes his hand.”(imdb)\r\n\r\nFilms had been a dream for many at the end of the 19th century but it arose mainly as an implement to the phonograph (1). Edison did not invent films but only perfected them. The optical illusion of moving images was created as they where painted in a rotating disk as kids toys in the early 19th century and then became the foundation of films. The photograph had not pushed the idea of the film, but in 1877 a composition of photograph which resembled a film was taken as an experiment conducted by Muybridge. The idea of Muybridge was to prove that a galloping horse would have all four of its hooves of the ground. Muybridge assembled a series of cameras in a race tracks that would shoot a picture as the horse triggered a thin wire connected to the camera, the images captured constituted a moving picture but could not be categorized as a film as they were taken as sequential pictures and not as a motion picture. In 1882 French physiologist Etiene-Jule Marey invented the first camera that would take a sequential picture of twelve pictures per second which is the minimum amount to create the optical illusion of movement. Marey was not interested in the film industry but he did create the film strip to be able to catch picture of a bird in flight(1). “In 1887 an Episcopalian Minister named Hannibal Goodwin  first used the celluloid roll fill as a base for light base emulsion(1)” and later sold his idea to George Eastman, who started mass producing the roll film. These two men enabled Edison Labs to invent the Kinetograph which became “the first true motion picture camera.”\r\n\r\nEdison envisioned the idea of a “home-theater machine” like a television in modern times. In 1888 Edison hired William Laurie Dickson to develop such a device that would accompany the phonograph and therefore create a machine that could play sound and motion picture (1). Although, the kinetograph was created by Dickson but the implementation of sound was difficult to synchronize with the movie (lauer). “The movies were intended to talk from their very inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium’s natural tendency towards a total representation of reality. More significant is the fact that the first viable motion picture camera was invented as an accessory to a sound recording device and not for its own sake”(1).  Edison though very poorly of the kinetoscope as it had no produce the envisioned idea of a home theater system, he even wrote “very doubtful if there is any commercial feature in it, and fear that they will not even earn their cost. (2)” In 1894 Edison was proven wrong as a small parlor opened with five kinetoscopes which would play a ninety-second movie for a nickel. Edison quickly started building a movie studio and producing short films (2) or better know at the times as “actualities”(lauer). Edison produced anything that was for interest for the public (2). As Edison knew of the great interest for foreign cultures, he composed a team in 1896 lead by director James White to capture the images of Asia (vv).\r\n\r\nEdison had a great affection with the world exposition in Paris and found himself visiting the exposition Universelle where in 1889 the Eiffel tower had just been finished and Edison said that the US would build a larger tower(2).  The exposition was a thing of the future with new technologies and arts; it was a time where paris would be filled with tourist from all around the world for the event and a perfect scene for a movie. Edison exploited this marked as he quickly manage to send a team lead by James White for the 1900 exposition to take films of the event with a new kinetograph which featured an spherical (imdb) that gave the films a uniqueness of motion as the kinetograph did not stay stationary but could move up and down and to the sides (lauer). It was the perfect time to capture the images of the exposition including the Eiffel tower and to display the new technology (lauer).\r\n\r\nOne of Edison’s biggest competitors was the Lumiere brothers whose invention almost ended Edison’s carrier as a filmmaker.  The Lumiere was a well known family which had made their profit with the photography business.  With the kinetograph gaining popularity and been part of the business of photography, the Lumiere family wanted profit out of this invention but they found that the prices Edison was charging was too expensive for their taste. Luis Lumiere after dismantling the Kinetoscope came up with a better machine that could not only record films but also reproduce them; it was a camera projector and it became the biggest competitor for the kinetograph. Soon after their invention the Lumiere became famous in the film business sending teams around the world like Edison did and filming things of interest to the public like the famous falling wall which at our own eyes means nothing but at the beginning of small technologies it meant the world(4). In comparing the falling wall or better known as Démolition d\'un mur by the Lumiere’s with Edison’s Paris expositions of 1900; it is noticeable that the quality of the vividness is very similar. The falling of a wall is a shorter actuality than the Paris exposition but the capturing of the film are both very spectacular as they both capture enough film to make the illusion of movement. The Paris films does have an advantage as they could move the camera around which gave a better feeling of the surroundings while the falling wall film is an stationary camera and you can only see the one scene. These are both great examples of the beginning of the film industry and these films are the parents that have created the films we watch today.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These films may be unknown for many but it is important to realize that these are the beginning of all great films. Also, it is important to know that the idea of sound and picture was always in mind since the beginning. The Paris exposition of 1900 may have not been the most popular film to remember but it made its impact in history as it focuses on the human curiosity of unknown worlds and the technological advances it reproduced. These are very important films that should be conserved and studied.  I enjoyed watching the films and was very unaware of the significance they had in our pass, they surely deserve a space in a time capsule</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Work Cited</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• Cook, David A. History of Narrative Film. New York. Norton and Company, 1981.( great information on history of film )</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• Jean Lauer, PhD Candidate in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. (information about the Paris Exposition Film of 1900)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel’s Tower. New York. Penguin Books, 2009.(information on Edison and the Paris expositions )</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• McKernan, Luke. “American manager, cameraman.” British film institute, 1995. <a href=\"http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm\">http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm</a> (found information of James White)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">• Rhode, Erick. A History Of The Cinema. New York. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 1976.(found information of Lumiere Brother)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Edited Youtube videos of:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Paris in 1900 - Exposition Universelle\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">LUMIERE Démolition d\'un mur\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"></p>','The Paris Exposition Universelle 1900','','inherit','open','open','','2049-revision-3','','','2011-11-02 21:54:10','2011-11-03 03:54:10','',2049,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2059',0,'revision','',0),(2060,47,'2011-11-06 12:13:49','2011-11-06 18:13:49','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2051 aligncenter\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://pariscanvas.co.uk/bw2.html\">http://pariscanvas.co.uk/bw2.html</a></p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe Paris exposition filmed by James H. White and produced by Edison’s labs was an innovation of its time as technologies arose around the film industries. In many parts these films have been forgotten but their value in the current film industry remains. Edison manages to market Paris for the American people which had become a new wave of satisfying the Americans curiosity. The fact that Edison was able to market a new world theme in a film and the technological innovations in film presented at the Paris exposition are the reason that these films should be conserved because these strategies and technologies are the source of today’s film industry.\r\n\r\nThe Paris Exposition Universelle was the world fair and a very popular time for new inventors and technologies to be presented and became the perfect scenario for a film. What makes the film unique was the use of a spherical motion camera which was able to capture the Eiffel tower from bottom to top and to move around scenes by pivoting on its position which presented an illusion of motion. The film was able to capture life in Paris and its most marketed and important scene of the Eiffel tower. “We see the base of the Eiffel Tower, with a crowd of people walking under it. Beyond, framed by the tower\'s arch, is the Palace of Electricity. It\'s the 1900 Paris Exposition. A few men stop to stare at the camera; then a woman turns and smiles. Slowly, the camera tilts and pans up the tower, nearly to the top, then slowly tilts back to street level. Men look at the camera. A man tips his hat, another smiles. A smiling young man approaches as if to do a flip in mid air. Someone shakes his hand.”(Internet Movie Data Base)\r\n\r\nFilms had been a dream for many at the end of the 19th century but it arose mainly as an implement to the phonograph (Cook, David ). Edison did not invent films but only perfected them. The optical illusion of moving images was created as they where painted in a rotating disk as kids toys in the early 19th century and then became the foundation of films. The photograph had not pushed the idea of the film, but in 1877 a composition of photograph which resembled a film was taken as an experiment conducted by Muybridge. The idea of Muybridge was to prove that a galloping horse would have all four of its hooves of the ground. Muybridge assembled a series of cameras in a race tracks that would shoot a picture as the horse triggered a thin wire connected to the camera, the images captured constituted a moving picture but could not be categorized as a film as they were taken as sequential pictures and not as a motion picture. In 1882 French physiologist Etiene-Jule Marey invented the first camera that would take a sequential picture of twelve pictures per second which is the minimum amount to create the optical illusion of movement. Marey was not interested in the film industry but he did create the film strip to be able to catch picture of a bird in flight(Cook, David ). “In 1887 an Episcopalian Minister named Hannibal Goodwin  first used the celluloid roll fill as a base for light base emulsion(Cook, David )” and later sold his idea to George Eastman, who started mass producing the roll film. These two men enabled Edison Labs to invent the Kinetograph which became “the first true motion picture camera.”\r\n\r\nEdison envisioned the idea of a “home-theater machine” like a television in modern times. In 1888 Edison hired William Laurie Dickson to develop such a device that would accompany the phonograph and therefore create a machine that could play sound and motion picture (Cook, David ). Although, the kinetograph was created by Dickson but the implementation of sound was difficult to synchronize with the movie (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). “The movies were intended to talk from their very inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium’s natural tendency towards a total representation of reality. More significant is the fact that the first viable motion picture camera was invented as an accessory to a sound recording device and not for its own sake”(Cook, David ).  Edison though very poorly of the kinetoscope as it had no produce the envisioned idea of a home theater system, he even wrote “very doubtful if there is any commercial feature in it, and fear that they will not even earn their cost. (Jonnes, Jill)” In 1894 Edison was proven wrong as a small parlor opened with five kinetoscopes which would play a ninety-second movie for a nickel. Edison quickly started building a movie studio and producing short films (Jonnes, Jill) or better know at the times as “actualities”(<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). Edison produced anything that was for interest for the public Jonnes, Jill). As Edison knew of the great interest for foreign cultures, he composed a team in 1896 lead by director James White to capture the images of Asia (McKernan, Luke).\r\n\r\nEdison had a great affection with the world exposition in Paris and found himself visiting the exposition Universelle where in 1889 the Eiffel tower had just been finished and Edison said that the US would build a larger tower(Jonnes, Jill).  The exposition was a thing of the future with new technologies and arts; it was a time where paris would be filled with tourist from all around the world for the event and a perfect scene for a movie. Edison exploited this marked as he quickly manage to send a team lead by James White for the 1900 exposition to take films of the event with a new kinetograph which featured an spherical (Internet Movie Data Base) that gave the films a uniqueness of motion as the kinetograph did not stay stationary but could move up and down and to the sides (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). It was the perfect time to capture the images of the exposition including the Eiffel tower and to display the new technology (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>).\r\n\r\nOne of Edison’s biggest competitors was the Lumiere brothers whose invention almost ended Edison’s carrier as a filmmaker.  The Lumiere was a well known family which had made their profit with the photography business.  With the kinetograph gaining popularity and been part of the business of photography, the Lumiere family wanted profit out of this invention but they found that the prices Edison was charging was too expensive for their taste. Luis Lumiere after dismantling the Kinetoscope came up with a better machine that could not only record films but also reproduce them; it was a camera projector and it became the biggest competitor for the kinetograph. Soon after their invention the Lumiere became famous in the film business sending teams around the world like Edison did and filming things of interest to the public like the famous falling wall which at our own eyes means nothing but at the beginning of small technologies it meant the world(Rhode, Erick). In comparing the falling wall or better known as Démolition d\'un mur by the Lumiere’s with Edison’s Paris expositions of 1900; it is noticeable that the quality of the vividness is very similar. The falling of a wall is a shorter actuality than the Paris exposition but the capturing of the film are both very spectacular as they both capture enough film to make the illusion of movement. The Paris films does have an advantage as they could move the camera around which gave a better feeling of the surroundings while the falling wall film is an stationary camera and you can only see the one scene. These are both great examples of the beginning of the film industry and these films are the parents that have created the films we watch today.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These films may be unknown for many but it is important to realize that these are the beginning of all great films. Also, it is important to know that the idea of sound and picture was always in mind since the beginning. The Paris exposition of 1900 may have not been the most popular film to remember but it made its impact in history as it focuses on the human curiosity of unknown worlds and the technological advances it reproduced. These are very important films that should be conserved and studied.  I enjoyed watching the films and was very unaware of the significance they had in our pass, they surely deserve a space in a time capsule</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Work Cited</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Cook, David A. History of Narrative Film. New York. Norton and Company, 1981.( great information on history of film )</div></li>\r\n	<li>Internet Movie Data Base, “Panorama of Eiffel Tower(<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/year/1900/\">1900</a>).”  IMDB 1990-2011<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/help/\">IMDb.com, Inc</a></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Jean Lauer, PhD Candidate in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. (information about the Paris Exposition Film of 1900)</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel’s Tower. New York. Penguin Books, 2009.(information on Edison and the Paris expositions )</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"> McKernan, Luke. “American manager, cameraman.” British film institute, 1995. <a href=\"http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm\">http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm</a> (found information of James White)</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Rhode, Erick. A History Of The Cinema. New York. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 1976.(found information of Lumiere Brother)</div></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Edited Youtube videos of:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Paris in 1900 - Exposition Universelle\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">LUMIERE Démolition d\'un mur\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo</a></p>','The Paris Exposition Universelle 1900','','inherit','open','open','','2049-revision-4','','','2011-11-06 12:13:49','2011-11-06 18:13:49','',2049,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2060',0,'revision','',0),(2061,47,'2011-11-06 12:15:16','2011-11-06 18:15:16','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2051 aligncenter\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://pariscanvas.co.uk/bw2.html\">http://pariscanvas.co.uk/bw2.html</a></p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe Paris exposition filmed by James H. White and produced by Edison’s labs was an innovation of its time as technologies arose around the film industries. In many parts these films have been forgotten but their value in the current film industry remains. Edison manages to market Paris for the American people which had become a new wave of satisfying the Americans curiosity. The fact that Edison was able to market a new world theme in a film and the technological innovations in film presented at the Paris exposition are the reason that these films should be conserved because these strategies and technologies are the source of today’s film industry.\r\n\r\nThe Paris Exposition Universelle was the world fair and a very popular time for new inventors and technologies to be presented and became the perfect scenario for a film. What makes the film unique was the use of a spherical motion camera which was able to capture the Eiffel tower from bottom to top and to move around scenes by pivoting on its position which presented an illusion of motion. The film was able to capture life in Paris and its most marketed and important scene of the Eiffel tower. “We see the base of the Eiffel Tower, with a crowd of people walking under it. Beyond, framed by the tower\'s arch, is the Palace of Electricity. It\'s the 1900 Paris Exposition. A few men stop to stare at the camera; then a woman turns and smiles. Slowly, the camera tilts and pans up the tower, nearly to the top, then slowly tilts back to street level. Men look at the camera. A man tips his hat, another smiles. A smiling young man approaches as if to do a flip in mid air. Someone shakes his hand.”(Internet Movie Data Base)\r\n\r\nFilms had been a dream for many at the end of the 19th century but it arose mainly as an implement to the phonograph (Cook, David ). Edison did not invent films but only perfected them. The optical illusion of moving images was created as they where painted in a rotating disk as kids toys in the early 19th century and then became the foundation of films. The photograph had not pushed the idea of the film, but in 1877 a composition of photograph which resembled a film was taken as an experiment conducted by Muybridge. The idea of Muybridge was to prove that a galloping horse would have all four of its hooves of the ground. Muybridge assembled a series of cameras in a race tracks that would shoot a picture as the horse triggered a thin wire connected to the camera, the images captured constituted a moving picture but could not be categorized as a film as they were taken as sequential pictures and not as a motion picture. In 1882 French physiologist Etiene-Jule Marey invented the first camera that would take a sequential picture of twelve pictures per second which is the minimum amount to create the optical illusion of movement. Marey was not interested in the film industry but he did create the film strip to be able to catch picture of a bird in flight(Cook, David ). “In 1887 an Episcopalian Minister named Hannibal Goodwin  first used the celluloid roll fill as a base for light base emulsion(Cook, David )” and later sold his idea to George Eastman, who started mass producing the roll film. These two men enabled Edison Labs to invent the Kinetograph which became “the first true motion picture camera.”\r\n\r\nEdison envisioned the idea of a “home-theater machine” like a television in modern times. In 1888 Edison hired William Laurie Dickson to develop such a device that would accompany the phonograph and therefore create a machine that could play sound and motion picture (Cook, David ). Although, the kinetograph was created by Dickson but the implementation of sound was difficult to synchronize with the movie (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). “The movies were intended to talk from their very inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium’s natural tendency towards a total representation of reality. More significant is the fact that the first viable motion picture camera was invented as an accessory to a sound recording device and not for its own sake”(Cook, David ).  Edison though very poorly of the kinetoscope as it had no produce the envisioned idea of a home theater system, he even wrote “very doubtful if there is any commercial feature in it, and fear that they will not even earn their cost. (Jonnes, Jill)” In 1894 Edison was proven wrong as a small parlor opened with five kinetoscopes which would play a ninety-second movie for a nickel. Edison quickly started building a movie studio and producing short films (Jonnes, Jill) or better know at the times as “actualities”(<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). Edison produced anything that was for interest for the public (Jonnes, Jill). As Edison knew of the great interest for foreign cultures, he composed a team in 1896 lead by director James White to capture the images of Asia (McKernan, Luke).\r\n\r\nEdison had a great affection with the world exposition in Paris and found himself visiting the exposition Universelle where in 1889 the Eiffel tower had just been finished and Edison said that the US would build a larger tower(Jonnes, Jill).  The exposition was a thing of the future with new technologies and arts; it was a time where paris would be filled with tourist from all around the world for the event and a perfect scene for a movie. Edison exploited this marked as he quickly manage to send a team lead by James White for the 1900 exposition to take films of the event with a new kinetograph which featured an spherical (Internet Movie Data Base) that gave the films a uniqueness of motion as the kinetograph did not stay stationary but could move up and down and to the sides (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). It was the perfect time to capture the images of the exposition including the Eiffel tower and to display the new technology (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>).\r\n\r\nOne of Edison’s biggest competitors was the Lumiere brothers whose invention almost ended Edison’s carrier as a filmmaker.  The Lumiere was a well known family which had made their profit with the photography business.  With the kinetograph gaining popularity and been part of the business of photography, the Lumiere family wanted profit out of this invention but they found that the prices Edison was charging was too expensive for their taste. Luis Lumiere after dismantling the Kinetoscope came up with a better machine that could not only record films but also reproduce them; it was a camera projector and it became the biggest competitor for the kinetograph. Soon after their invention the Lumiere became famous in the film business sending teams around the world like Edison did and filming things of interest to the public like the famous falling wall which at our own eyes means nothing but at the beginning of small technologies it meant the world(Rhode, Erick). In comparing the falling wall or better known as Démolition d\'un mur by the Lumiere’s with Edison’s Paris expositions of 1900; it is noticeable that the quality of the vividness is very similar. The falling of a wall is a shorter actuality than the Paris exposition but the capturing of the film are both very spectacular as they both capture enough film to make the illusion of movement. The Paris films does have an advantage as they could move the camera around which gave a better feeling of the surroundings while the falling wall film is an stationary camera and you can only see the one scene. These are both great examples of the beginning of the film industry and these films are the parents that have created the films we watch today.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These films may be unknown for many but it is important to realize that these are the beginning of all great films. Also, it is important to know that the idea of sound and picture was always in mind since the beginning. The Paris exposition of 1900 may have not been the most popular film to remember but it made its impact in history as it focuses on the human curiosity of unknown worlds and the technological advances it reproduced. These are very important films that should be conserved and studied.  I enjoyed watching the films and was very unaware of the significance they had in our pass, they surely deserve a space in a time capsule</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Work Cited</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Cook, David A. History of Narrative Film. New York. Norton and Company, 1981.( great information on history of film )</div></li>\r\n	<li>Internet Movie Data Base, “Panorama of Eiffel Tower(<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/year/1900/\">1900</a>).”  IMDB 1990-2011<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/help/\">IMDb.com, Inc</a></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Jean Lauer, PhD Candidate in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. (information about the Paris Exposition Film of 1900)</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel’s Tower. New York. Penguin Books, 2009.(information on Edison and the Paris expositions )</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"> McKernan, Luke. “American manager, cameraman.” British film institute, 1995. <a href=\"http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm\">http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm</a> (found information of James White)</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Rhode, Erick. A History Of The Cinema. New York. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 1976.(found information of Lumiere Brother)</div></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Edited Youtube videos of:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Paris in 1900 - Exposition Universelle\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">LUMIERE Démolition d\'un mur\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo</a></p>','The Paris Exposition Universelle 1900','','inherit','open','open','','2049-revision-5','','','2011-11-06 12:15:16','2011-11-06 18:15:16','',2049,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2061',0,'revision','',0),(2063,49,'2011-11-09 21:26:47','2011-11-10 03:26:47','','Swan Lake','','inherit','open','open','','swan-lake-pic','','','2011-11-09 21:26:47','2011-11-10 03:26:47','',2062,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SWAN-LAKE-PIC.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2064,49,'2011-11-06 21:05:18','2011-11-07 03:05:18','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','2062-revision','','','2011-11-06 21:05:18','2011-11-07 03:05:18','',2062,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2064',0,'revision','',0),(2067,49,'2011-11-09 21:30:30','2011-11-10 03:30:30','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SWAN-LAKE-PIC.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2063\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SWAN-LAKE-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake\r\n\r\nSwan Lake is a monumental ballet composed in 1875 that was the center stage of Romantic ballet. While telling the story of the beautiful Swan Princess Odette, this ballet is able to show the innovations in theatrical effects and its showcase of new styles such as pointe shoe dancing.\r\nCommissioned by Vladmir Petrovich Begichev of the Russian Imperial Theatres(1), it was very unsuccessful in its first running. It wasn’t until famous choreographers Petipa and Ivanov’s revision did the ballet become what it destined to be, a raging hit. The modern Swan Lake is based on the revision.\r\nSwan Lake is about Princess Odette who is turned into a swan by the evil Sorcerer Rothbart who is both part Swan and human. After her imprisonment, the handsome Prince Siegfried goes on a hunting trip and sees the beautiful Odette who is only able to become human again during the night. He instantly falls in love. Odette explains to him that only when a man vows true love to her will the spell be broken. He invites her to his birthday party where he plans on vowing his love to her. Aware of his plans, Rothbart send his daughter, the Black Swan in her place. On accident, he vows his love to the black swan and Odette is distraught. Realizing what he’s done, he flees to the lake and tells Odette that he would rather be dead the vow his love to someone else. They then recede into the lake together and the ballet ends.\r\nSwan Lake is a Romantic Era ballet and it lives up to the characteristics of its time. The previous Classical Era was all about restraint and restriction. The Romantic era was the complete opposite with creativity and imagination greatly encouraged. “The heroine of romantic ballets symbolized the elusive ideas and love and beauty that were a favorite subject of the romantic poet.”(3) Most of these ballets centered around the angelic female and the ideal romantic ballerina was a version of the eternal female. A main component of the romantic style is the fixation of the supernatural. This includes Rothbart and Odette being turned into a swan. Many of the ballets and artworks during this period shed light from eternal beings and folk tales. Swan Lake was composed based on Russian mythology. Also, eternal love was a common theme. Dancing en pointe was also popular during this time period. “It was perhaps Marie Taglioni who, at the height of the Romantic Era, developed the aesthetic beauty of pointe work, which enabled her to appear ethereal and weightless.”(4) This weightlessness along with new gaslight theatre lighting helped create beautiful scenes where the ballerina actually appears to “float”.\r\nDuring the time of its first running, Swan Lake had great difficulty and wasn’t very popular. The music was thought to be very difficult to dance to. The original choreographer, Julius Reisinger, required demanding physical skill from his dancers to perform flawlessly. It was even said that “The prestige with performing Swan Lake flawlessly was invaluable.”- Unknown. The revised version we see today is fantastic. It has been performed and adapted by ballet troupes for almost 150 years.\r\nI have never seen Swan Lake personally but the clips that I have been able to find are fascinating. The ballerina’s are so fluid and graceful. It makes sense though because they are portraying swans. Like the Romantic era, women dominate the roles with just two men, the sorcerer Rothbart and Prince Siegfried. The dances are beautiful and I think future generations should be able to see Romantic ballet at its best.\r\n\r\nWorks Cited\r\n1. \"A Profile of Swan Lake: The History of Swan Lake.\" Classical Music at About.com - Classical Music for Beginners and Experts Alike. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. .\r\n\r\n2. \"Swan Lake Story | English National Ballet.\" English National Ballet - The Home of Ballet. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. .\r\n\r\n3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkzf9sYQYJc&amp;feature=related\r\n\r\n4. \"To The Pointe -- A Brief History of the Pointe Shoe.\" Parke Family Web Site. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. .','Tchaikovsky\'s Swan Lake','','inherit','open','open','','2062-revision-3','','','2011-11-09 21:30:30','2011-11-10 03:30:30','',2062,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2067',0,'revision','',0),(2068,49,'2011-11-09 21:30:52','2011-11-10 03:30:52','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SWAN-LAKE-PIC.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2063\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SWAN-LAKE-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake\r\n\r\nSwan Lake is a monumental ballet composed in 1875 that was the center stage of Romantic ballet. While telling the story of the beautiful Swan Princess Odette, this ballet is able to show the innovations in theatrical effects and its showcase of new styles such as pointe shoe dancing.\r\nCommissioned by Vladmir Petrovich Begichev of the Russian Imperial Theatres(1), it was very unsuccessful in its first running. It wasn’t until famous choreographers Petipa and Ivanov’s revision did the ballet become what it destined to be, a raging hit. The modern Swan Lake is based on the revision.\r\nSwan Lake is about Princess Odette who is turned into a swan by the evil Sorcerer Rothbart who is both part Swan and human. After her imprisonment, the handsome Prince Siegfried goes on a hunting trip and sees the beautiful Odette who is only able to become human again during the night. He instantly falls in love. Odette explains to him that only when a man vows true love to her will the spell be broken. He invites her to his birthday party where he plans on vowing his love to her. Aware of his plans, Rothbart send his daughter, the Black Swan in her place. On accident, he vows his love to the black swan and Odette is distraught. Realizing what he’s done, he flees to the lake and tells Odette that he would rather be dead the vow his love to someone else. They then recede into the lake together and the ballet ends.\r\nSwan Lake is a Romantic Era ballet and it lives up to the characteristics of its time. The previous Classical Era was all about restraint and restriction. The Romantic era was the complete opposite with creativity and imagination greatly encouraged. “The heroine of romantic ballets symbolized the elusive ideas and love and beauty that were a favorite subject of the romantic poet.”(3) Most of these ballets centered around the angelic female and the ideal romantic ballerina was a version of the eternal female. A main component of the romantic style is the fixation of the supernatural. This includes Rothbart and Odette being turned into a swan. Many of the ballets and artworks during this period shed light from eternal beings and folk tales. Swan Lake was composed based on Russian mythology. Also, eternal love was a common theme. Dancing en pointe was also popular during this time period. “It was perhaps Marie Taglioni who, at the height of the Romantic Era, developed the aesthetic beauty of pointe work, which enabled her to appear ethereal and weightless.”(4) This weightlessness along with new gaslight theatre lighting helped create beautiful scenes where the ballerina actually appears to “float”.\r\nDuring the time of its first running, Swan Lake had great difficulty and wasn’t very popular. The music was thought to be very difficult to dance to. The original choreographer, Julius Reisinger, required demanding physical skill from his dancers to perform flawlessly. It was even said that “The prestige with performing Swan Lake flawlessly was invaluable.”- Unknown. The revised version we see today is fantastic. It has been performed and adapted by ballet troupes for almost 150 years.\r\nI have never seen Swan Lake personally but the clips that I have been able to find are fascinating. The ballerina’s are so fluid and graceful. It makes sense though because they are portraying swans. Like the Romantic era, women dominate the roles with just two men, the sorcerer Rothbart and Prince Siegfried. The dances are beautiful and I think future generations should be able to see Romantic ballet at its best.\r\n\r\nWorks Cited\r\n1. \"A Profile of Swan Lake: The History of Swan Lake.\" Classical Music at About.com - Classical Music for Beginners and Experts Alike. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. .\r\n\r\n2. \"Swan Lake Story | English National Ballet.\" English National Ballet - The Home of Ballet. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. .\r\n\r\n3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkzf9sYQYJc&amp;feature=related\r\n\r\n4. \"To The Pointe -- A Brief History of the Pointe Shoe.\" Parke Family Web Site. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. .','Tchaikovsky\'s Swan Lake','','inherit','open','open','','2062-revision-4','','','2011-11-09 21:30:52','2011-11-10 03:30:52','',2062,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2068',0,'revision','',0),(2070,1,'2011-11-10 15:14:14','2011-11-10 21:14:14','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SWAN-LAKE-PIC.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2063\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SWAN-LAKE-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/swan-lake.html\">http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/swan-lake.html</a>\r\n\r\nSwan Lake is a monumental ballet composed in 1875 that was the center stage of Romantic ballet. While telling the story of the beautiful Swan Princess Odette, this ballet is able to show the innovations in theatrical effects and its showcase of new styles such as pointe shoe dancing.\r\nCommissioned by Vladmir Petrovich Begichev of the Russian Imperial Theatres(1), it was very unsuccessful in its first running. It wasn’t until famous choreographers Petipa and Ivanov’s revision did the ballet become what it destined to be, a raging hit. The modern Swan Lake is based on the revision.\r\nSwan Lake is about Princess Odette who is turned into a swan by the evil Sorcerer Rothbart who is both part Swan and human. After her imprisonment, the handsome Prince Siegfried goes on a hunting trip and sees the beautiful Odette who is only able to become human again during the night. He instantly falls in love. Odette explains to him that only when a man vows true love to her will the spell be broken. He invites her to his birthday party where he plans on vowing his love to her. Aware of his plans, Rothbart send his daughter, the Black Swan in her place. On accident, he vows his love to the black swan and Odette is distraught. Realizing what he’s done, he flees to the lake and tells Odette that he would rather be dead the vow his love to someone else. They then recede into the lake together and the ballet ends.\r\nSwan Lake is a Romantic Era ballet and it lives up to the characteristics of its time. The previous Classical Era was all about restraint and restriction. The Romantic era was the complete opposite with creativity and imagination greatly encouraged. “The heroine of romantic ballets symbolized the elusive ideas and love and beauty that were a favorite subject of the romantic poet.”(3) Most of these ballets centered around the angelic female and the ideal romantic ballerina was a version of the eternal female. A main component of the romantic style is the fixation of the supernatural. This includes Rothbart and Odette being turned into a swan. Many of the ballets and artworks during this period shed light from eternal beings and folk tales. Swan Lake was composed based on Russian mythology. Also, eternal love was a common theme. Dancing en pointe was also popular during this time period. “It was perhaps Marie Taglioni who, at the height of the Romantic Era, developed the aesthetic beauty of pointe work, which enabled her to appear ethereal and weightless.”(4) This weightlessness along with new gaslight theatre lighting helped create beautiful scenes where the ballerina actually appears to “float”.\r\nDuring the time of its first running, Swan Lake had great difficulty and wasn’t very popular. The music was thought to be very difficult to dance to. The original choreographer, Julius Reisinger, required demanding physical skill from his dancers to perform flawlessly. It was even said that “The prestige with performing Swan Lake flawlessly was invaluable.”- Unknown. The revised version we see today is fantastic. It has been performed and adapted by ballet troupes for almost 150 years.\r\nI have never seen Swan Lake personally but the clips that I have been able to find are fascinating. The ballerina’s are so fluid and graceful. It makes sense though because they are portraying swans. Like the Romantic era, women dominate the roles with just two men, the sorcerer Rothbart and Prince Siegfried. The dances are beautiful and I think future generations should be able to see Romantic ballet at its best.\r\n\r\nWorks Cited\r\n1. \"A Profile of Swan Lake: The History of Swan Lake.\" Classical Music at About.com - Classical Music for Beginners and Experts Alike. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. .\r\n\r\n2. \"Swan Lake Story | English National Ballet.\" English National Ballet - The Home of Ballet. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. .\r\n\r\n3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkzf9sYQYJc&amp;feature=related\r\n\r\n4. \"To The Pointe -- A Brief History of the Pointe Shoe.\" Parke Family Web Site. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. .','Tchaikovsky\'s Swan Lake','','inherit','open','open','','2062-revision-5','','','2011-11-10 15:14:14','2011-11-10 21:14:14','',2062,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2070',0,'revision','',0),(2072,1,'2011-11-11 16:57:55','2011-11-11 22:57:55','','CHAN3025','','inherit','open','open','','chan3025','','','2011-11-11 16:57:55','2011-11-11 22:57:55','',2050,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CHAN3025.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2073,1,'2011-11-06 01:20:17','2011-11-06 07:20:17','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CHAN%203025.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2055\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CHAN%203025-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" /></a>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.chandos.net/Details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%203025M\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.chandos.net/Details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%203025M</a></p>\r\nGioacchino Rossini (1792- 1868) is one of the most prolific comedic opera\r\ncomposers of his time. “He was outstanding in his comic opera and was one of the three great 19th-century\r\nexponents of the bel canto style, which emphasizes beauty of melodic line,\r\nrather than excessive drama and emotion.” (Funk) Rossini composed his first opera at the age of eighteen and was “… trained at the Conservatorio de Bologna…” (Funk) producing a total of 37 operas. His most successful opera is definitely <em>The Barber of Seville </em>produced in Rome in 1816. (Funk) Rossini left his mark on the world of opera, producing an opera which is still loved to\r\nthis day. “Rossini used the highly artistic bel canto style to fashion bright\r\nmelodies, which the singers could deliver with brilliant effects and stirring\r\nexpression.” (Funk) Because of Rossini’s ability to create such a masterpiece\r\nof a comedic opera which has stood the test of time, and still performed today\r\nit deserves to be preserved for future generations.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nDuring the time of Rossini’s production of the opera, Europe was in a vulnerable state as Napoleon was exerting his power throughout the Napoleonic wars. The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) was called to reorganize Europe after the Napoleonic wars. “The settlement was the most comprehensive treaty that Europe had\r\never seen.” (Britannica) The direct effects “In <a title=\"Italy\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/297751/history-of-Italy\">Italy</a>, [were that] Piedmont absorbed Genoa\r\n… The <a title=\"Papal States\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/441848/Papal-States\">Papal States</a> were restored to the pope, Naples to the Sicilian Bourbons.” (Britannica) In America,\r\nduring the year of 1816 president James Monroe was also elected into office. In\r\nrelation to the events in Europe with revolutions, wars, and colonization he proposed the Monroe Doctrine. In doing\r\nso he drastically changed the role of foreign powers in the Western Hemisphere\r\nby declaring no future colonization of theAmericas. (Britannica)\r\n\r\nThe\r\nstyle which Rossini was accustomed to listening to was the Baroque period lasting from the 16<sup>th</sup> century to the 18<sup>th</sup> century. “Idiomatic\r\nwriting, taking account of the individual character and capacities of\r\ninstruments and voices, was characteristic of <strong>baroque</strong> music. Originating in Italy, <strong>opera</strong><strong>,</strong>\r\noratorio, and cantata were the principal vocal forms.” (Columbia) This is all exemplified by Rossini\r\nin his <em>The Barber of Seville </em>as it is\r\nrenowned for its characterization of the Barber who was a servant.\r\n\r\nRossini is known for his comedic operas which spurred from a time of war throughout Europe.\r\nRossini was born with a great musical talent as “His parents were both\r\nmusicians, and he began his career in childhood as a singer. He received his\r\nfirst formal musical education at the Liceo Comunale of Bologna, where one of his early cantatas was\r\nperformed.” (Columbia) Although Rossini is known to have made 37 operas, <em>The Barber of Seville </em>is his all-time best opera.\r\n\r\nThe opera is a comedic drama with love, betrayal,\r\nheartbreak, and multiple songs of love. The opera begins at Dr. Bartolo’s\r\nhouse, where Count Almaviva is proclaiming his love to Rosina, the doctor’s\r\nward. Figaro, the town barber and Dr. Bartolo’s barber joins him in song as\r\nthey both plan to capture the heart of Rosina. Rosina is watched carefully by\r\nthe Doctor’s guardian and she drops a letter down to the Count explaining her\r\nlove. The doctor is suspicious of the Count as he himself wants Rosina for her\r\nbeauty and money. The count disguises himself as a Music teacher to gain access\r\ninto the home of the doctor. Figaro, the barber, has obtained keys to the\r\nbalcony and they plan on an escape at midnight. The doctor tells Rosina he has\r\nfound the letter that she left for him in attempt to make her jealous. She is\r\nso angry that she tells him the escape plan and agrees to marry the guardian.\r\nWhen Figaro and the Count return, the lovers are re-united and the notary, who\r\nwas supposed to come for Rosina and the doctors wedding, celebrates the\r\nelopement of the love pair. “When the guardian enters, with officers of justice,\r\ninto whose hands he is about to consign Figaro and the Count, he is too late,\r\nbut is reconciled by a promise that he shall receive the equivalent of his\r\nward’s dower.” (Music with Ease)\r\n\r\nThis opera is simplistic in nature, as it gives off the vibe that it could have been\r\na true story. Especially when compared to today’s mega dramas of large scale\r\nproportions. The initial reception of Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville </em>was that of a fiasco (failure) due to\r\nmultiple on-stage catastrophes. “The tenor forgot to tune his guitar, and a\r\nstring broke as he attempted the opening Serenade: the Don Basilio fell and\r\nbruised himself badly during his entrance, and became distracted as he\r\nattempted to stop blood from flowing from his nose during his <em>La Calunnia </em>aria;\r\nand a cat entered the stage during the second act and jumped into Dr. Bartolo’s\r\narms. All in all, the <em>Barber’s </em>premiere received a big tide of\r\ndisapproval.”(CALGARY)  Nonetheless Rossini perfected his opera and it has gone on to become one of the most\r\nbeloved operas of all time.\r\n\r\nThe character Figaro in itself is not solely confined to the opera <em>The Barber of Seville. </em>The character is also found in Mozart’s <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>(1785) which is the tale of Figaro getting married to his wife Susanna. The <em>Marriage of Figaro </em>isn’t considered to be your typical opera as there isn’t any standard plot to it. In Mozart’s opera we have Figaro again meddling around in other couples marriages and this time he is the one getting married. Mozart’s opera is somewhat of a\r\nprequel to Rossini’s as it was performed originally in 1785. Both operas are\r\nbased off the opera of French legend Beaumarchais who inspired both Rossini and Mozart.\r\nIn Mozart’s the climax comes when the parents of Figaro come into town and\r\nMarcellina (his mother) refers to a  previous arrangement that was made with Figaro to get married if a debt\r\nwasn’t repaid on time. The Count in this story, was plotting to marry Susanna\r\nfor himself, although he himself was married as well. When he learns of the\r\narrangement between Marcellina and Figaro he promises to give her the marriage.\r\nWell once everyone found out that the parents of Figaro are Marcellina and her\r\nhusband, everything goes according to plan and Figaro marries Susanna. (Music\r\nwith Ease)\r\n\r\nThe difference in the operas is apparent as the tale of The Barber of Seville has a\r\nbit more conspiracy and the comedic approach of the Count entering the house in\r\ndisguises leads one to see the desperate nature the Count had for Rosina. Mozart’s\r\nis just a tale of a big confusion of emotions and there isn’t a real change of\r\nplot or element of surprise other than the woman who demanded for Figaro’s\r\nmarriage is his mother. Rossini’s play is still being performed today where as\r\nMozart’s is too, Rossini’s is held as one of the greatest comedic operas of his\r\ntime.  Rossini’s opera is still being\r\nperformed today and is still held as remarkable for all of its comedic\r\nproficiency.\r\n\r\nPersonally I think that Rossini’s Barber is an opera that should be required in grade\r\nschool reading classes. The tale falls into the category of Romeo &amp; Juliet\r\nwith its love conspiracy and the fact that the characters will go through\r\nwhatever it takes to reach their goal of love. Figaro is a brave man to betray\r\nhis customer, Dr. Bartolo to the point of costing him his ward Rosina. Most\r\nmeaningful in this piece is the light comedic aspects of the opera which\r\nhighlights laughter, betrayal, love, and a big sense of irony.\r\n\r\nAlthough there have been many operas in the world that may deserve preservation into my\r\ntime capsule, none deserve it more than Rossini’s <em>The Barber of Seville.\r\n</em>Rossini was able to take an already good opera, and make it even better. He\r\nfaced a great deal of adversity as the performance of this opera was a complete\r\nfailure of enormous proportions. Where most composers may have hung up their\r\nboots and quit, Rossini persevered on and is still being commemorated today. Although\r\nRossini may not have anticipated his opera continually being performed well\r\ninto the 21<sup>st</sup> century, the evidence is there that The Barber of\r\nSeville deserves preservation for future generations.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p align=\"center\">WORKS CITED</p>\r\n\"ROSSINI, Gioacchino Antonio.\"\r\n(n.d.): <em>Funk &amp; Wagnalls New World\r\nEncyclopedia</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"Congress of Vienna.\"\r\n<em>Encyclopædia Britannica.\r\nEncyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011.\r\nWeb. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628086/Congress-of-Vienna</a>&gt;.\r\n\r\n\"Monroe\r\nDoctrine.\" <em>Encyclopædia\r\nBritannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopædia Britannica\r\nInc., 2011. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. &lt;<a href=\"http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine\">http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/390243/Monroe-Doctrine</a>&gt;.\r\n\r\n\"Baroque, In\r\nMusic.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\r\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\r\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"Gioacchino Antonio\r\nRossini.\" <em>Columbia</em><em>\r\nElectronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition</em> (2011): 1. <em>MAS Ultra - School\r\nEdition</em>. Web. 2 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\n\"The\r\nBarber of Seville.\"\r\n<em>Music with Ease</em>. Music with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\r\n&lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/barber-seville-synopsis.html&gt;.\r\n\r\nForrest,\r\nEmily. \"The Barber of Seville\r\nStudy Guide.\" Calgary\r\nOpera, 04/23/2009. Web. 2 Nov 2011.\r\n&lt;http://www.calgaryopera.com/pdf/BarberOfSevilleStudy Guide.pdf&gt;.\r\n\r\n<em>“Marriage of Figaro” Music with Ease</em>.\r\nMusic with Ease, 2005-2011. Web. 2 Nov 2011. &lt;http://www.musicwithease.com/mozart-marriage-figaro.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Barber of Seville','','inherit','open','open','','2050-revision-4','','','2011-11-06 01:20:17','2011-11-06 07:20:17','',2050,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2073',0,'revision','',0),(2074,1,'2011-11-06 12:17:50','2011-11-06 18:17:50','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2051 aligncenter\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/paris-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://pariscanvas.co.uk/bw2.html\">http://pariscanvas.co.uk/bw2.html</a></p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe Paris exposition filmed by James H. White and produced by Edison’s labs was an innovation of its time as technologies arose around the film industries. In many parts these films have been forgotten but their value in the current film industry remains. Edison manages to market Paris for the American people which had become a new wave of satisfying the Americans curiosity. The fact that Edison was able to market a new world theme in a film and the technological innovations in film presented at the Paris exposition are the reason that these films should be conserved because these strategies and technologies are the source of today’s film industry.\r\n\r\nThe Paris Exposition Universelle was the world fair and a very popular time for new inventors and technologies to be presented and became the perfect scenario for a film. What makes the film unique was the use of a spherical motion camera which was able to capture the Eiffel tower from bottom to top and to move around scenes by pivoting on its position which presented an illusion of motion. The film was able to capture life in Paris and its most marketed and important scene of the Eiffel tower. “We see the base of the Eiffel Tower, with a crowd of people walking under it. Beyond, framed by the tower\'s arch, is the Palace of Electricity. It\'s the 1900 Paris Exposition. A few men stop to stare at the camera; then a woman turns and smiles. Slowly, the camera tilts and pans up the tower, nearly to the top, then slowly tilts back to street level. Men look at the camera. A man tips his hat, another smiles. A smiling young man approaches as if to do a flip in mid air. Someone shakes his hand.”(Internet Movie Data Base)\r\n\r\nFilms had been a dream for many at the end of the 19th century but it arose mainly as an implement to the phonograph (Cook, David ). Edison did not invent films but only perfected them. The optical illusion of moving images was created as they where painted in a rotating disk as kids toys in the early 19th century and then became the foundation of films. The photograph had not pushed the idea of the film, but in 1877 a composition of photograph which resembled a film was taken as an experiment conducted by Muybridge. The idea of Muybridge was to prove that a galloping horse would have all four of its hooves of the ground. Muybridge assembled a series of cameras in a race tracks that would shoot a picture as the horse triggered a thin wire connected to the camera, the images captured constituted a moving picture but could not be categorized as a film as they were taken as sequential pictures and not as a motion picture. In 1882 French physiologist Etiene-Jule Marey invented the first camera that would take a sequential picture of twelve pictures per second which is the minimum amount to create the optical illusion of movement. Marey was not interested in the film industry but he did create the film strip to be able to catch picture of a bird in flight(Cook, David ). “In 1887 an Episcopalian Minister named Hannibal Goodwin  first used the celluloid roll fill as a base for light base emulsion(Cook, David )” and later sold his idea to George Eastman, who started mass producing the roll film. These two men enabled Edison Labs to invent the Kinetograph which became “the first true motion picture camera.”\r\n\r\nEdison envisioned the idea of a “home-theater machine” like a television in modern times. In 1888 Edison hired William Laurie Dickson to develop such a device that would accompany the phonograph and therefore create a machine that could play sound and motion picture (Cook, David ). Although, the kinetograph was created by Dickson but the implementation of sound was difficult to synchronize with the movie (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). “The movies were intended to talk from their very inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium’s natural tendency towards a total representation of reality. More significant is the fact that the first viable motion picture camera was invented as an accessory to a sound recording device and not for its own sake”(Cook, David ).  Edison though very poorly of the kinetoscope as it had no produce the envisioned idea of a home theater system, he even wrote “very doubtful if there is any commercial feature in it, and fear that they will not even earn their cost. (Jonnes, Jill)” In 1894 Edison was proven wrong as a small parlor opened with five kinetoscopes which would play a ninety-second movie for a nickel. Edison quickly started building a movie studio and producing short films (Jonnes, Jill) or better know at the times as “actualities”(<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). Edison produced anything that was for interest for the public (Jonnes, Jill). As Edison knew of the great interest for foreign cultures, he composed a team in 1896 lead by director James White to capture the images of Asia (McKernan, Luke).\r\n\r\nEdison had a great affection with the world exposition in Paris and found himself visiting the exposition Universelle where in 1889 the Eiffel tower had just been finished and Edison said that the US would build a larger tower(Jonnes, Jill).  The exposition was a thing of the future with new technologies and arts; it was a time where paris would be filled with tourist from all around the world for the event and a perfect scene for a movie. Edison exploited this marked as he quickly manage to send a team lead by James White for the 1900 exposition to take films of the event with a new kinetograph which featured an spherical (Internet Movie Data Base) that gave the films a uniqueness of motion as the kinetograph did not stay stationary but could move up and down and to the sides (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>). It was the perfect time to capture the images of the exposition including the Eiffel tower and to display the new technology (<em>Lauer, Jean</em>).\r\n\r\nOne of Edison’s biggest competitors was the Lumiere brothers whose invention almost ended Edison’s carrier as a filmmaker.  The Lumiere was a well known family which had made their profit with the photography business.  With the kinetograph gaining popularity and been part of the business of photography, the Lumiere family wanted profit out of this invention but they found that the prices Edison was charging was too expensive for their taste. Luis Lumiere after dismantling the Kinetoscope came up with a better machine that could not only record films but also reproduce them; it was a camera projector and it became the biggest competitor for the kinetograph. Soon after their invention the Lumiere became famous in the film business sending teams around the world like Edison did and filming things of interest to the public like the famous falling wall which at our own eyes means nothing but at the beginning of small technologies it meant the world(Rhode, Erick). In comparing the falling wall or better known as Démolition d\'un mur by the Lumiere’s with Edison’s Paris expositions of 1900; it is noticeable that the quality of the vividness is very similar. The falling of a wall is a shorter actuality than the Paris exposition but the capturing of the film are both very spectacular as they both capture enough film to make the illusion of movement. The Paris films does have an advantage as they could move the camera around which gave a better feeling of the surroundings while the falling wall film is an stationary camera and you can only see the one scene. These are both great examples of the beginning of the film industry and these films are the parents that have created the films we watch today.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These films may be unknown for many but it is important to realize that these are the beginning of all great films. Also, it is important to know that the idea of sound and picture was always in mind since the beginning. The Paris exposition of 1900 may have not been the most popular film to remember but it made its impact in history as it focuses on the human curiosity of unknown worlds and the technological advances it reproduced. These are very important films that should be conserved and studied.  I enjoyed watching the films and was very unaware of the significance they had in our pass, they surely deserve a space in a time capsule</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Work Cited</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Cook, David A. History of Narrative Film. New York. Norton and Company, 1981.( great information on history of film )</div></li>\r\n	<li>Internet Movie Data Base, “Panorama of Eiffel Tower(<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/year/1900/\">1900</a>).”  IMDB 1990-2011<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/help/\">IMDb.com, Inc</a>. Internet Movie Data Base.</li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Jean Lauer, PhD Candidate in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. (information about the Paris Exposition Film of 1900)</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel’s Tower. New York. Penguin Books, 2009.(information on Edison and the Paris expositions )</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"> McKernan, Luke. “American manager, cameraman.” British film institute, 1995. <a href=\"http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm\">http://www.victorian-cinema.net/white.htm</a> (found information of James White)</div></li>\r\n	<li>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Rhode, Erick. A History Of The Cinema. New York. McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 1976.(found information of Lumiere Brother)</div></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Edited Youtube videos of:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Paris in 1900 - Exposition Universelle\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">LUMIERE Démolition d\'un mur\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUe-sOchbo</a></p>','The Paris Exposition Universelle 1900','','inherit','open','open','','2049-revision-6','','','2011-11-06 12:17:50','2011-11-06 18:17:50','',2049,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2074',0,'revision','',0),(2077,45,'2011-11-21 12:44:18','2011-11-21 18:44:18','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps”  (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more--></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Needless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities\">http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities</a>','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','publish','open','open','','george-rodgers-bergen-belsen-concentration-camp-photos','','','2011-11-21 12:44:18','2011-11-21 18:44:18','',0,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2077',0,'post','',10),(2076,45,'2011-11-01 17:31:18','2011-11-01 23:31:18','<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rodins-Gates-of-Hell-2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2030\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rodins-Gates-of-Hell-2-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" /></a>(\"The Gates of Hell\")</p>\r\nThe French sculptor, Auguste Rodin, is often acknowledged as one the most important sculptors of the nineteenth century. His “achievement as a sculptor was to find a way to make the brute materiality of sculpture express the fleeting mobility of the modern individual. To achieve this he abandoned the polished and idealized figures of academic sculpture and produced rougher, more unfinished surfaces, which better expressed restlessness, corporeality, and movement” (Brucker). One of his pieces that stands out the most is the “Gates of Hell.” In this was an artist expressing his assessment of the world and society; more specifically, the horrid effects these things had on humanity. I feel that Rodin’s “Gates of Hell” should be preserved because the incredible raw energy that emulates from this work is intriguing and entices the mind into the reality of humanity itself.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nRodin was commissioned by the French government to produce bronze doors for a proposed Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in 1880. Although the range of themes and images were continually changed, Rodin embodied love, sorrow, despair and recollections of the Day of Judgment. The only complete casts of the full Gates of Hell were made after the sculptor\'s death in 1917. Many of the 186 sculptures which went into the unfinished Gates of Hell gained fame as an independent work. Amongst Rodin\'s most famous sculptures are a number of pieces originally intended as part of the Gates of Hell, including Eternal Spring and The Thinker. (Hermitage Museum; the Rodin Room)\r\n\r\n“Artists in the late 19th Century sought either escape from or a re-directed involvement with their troubled world (which included multiple financial depressions and things such as crop failure). This escape-involvement syndrome is a reflection of the encroaching dehumanization of our century, clearly felt and anticipated by the 19th, beset in its own way with problems of materialism and spiritual loss” (Gray). This is further proved considering he was originally inspired by Italian Poet Dante’s “Divine Comedy” and used Renaissance sculptor Ghiberti\'s “Gates of Paradise” (which he used as a basis for his own creation). In expressing his theme as a vision of the underworld, Rodin reveals he would rather “literally throw himself directly and completely into the flames than try to escape the grim realities of his time. Contemporary art, in the depths of decay, reflects the confusion and corruption of values, political helplessness and economic decline in our country and the world at large. There is a lack of effective moral leadership in positions of power whatever the sphere of activity. The greatest art and the weakest, from Rodin to Warhol, speak of the psychological and spiritual disaster that is modern man” (Gray).\r\n\r\nHe used of nature, movement, and the connection between the physical, spiritual and sensual aspects of humanity in his works, which were commonly seen in this time. “His choice of casting his works in bronze was limited to his choice of mold makers, foundries, and patinators, whose work he supervised with exacting care” (rodin-art.com).\r\n\r\nRodin\'s sensibility was of his time and not outside of it. He had chosen a popular literary theme (acceptable and well known to both his commissioner and to the public). By the end of the first year\'s work Rodin felt adequately confident in his own vision. “Rodin was essentially a reactive artist who allowed himself to be acted upon by experience” (Elsen). “The <em>Gates </em>had “no intended moral purpose” but are Rodin\'s compassionate commentary on the moral cost to society of the decline of orthodox religion and the addiction to materialistic values.” He never took sides on issues but, rather, preferred to strive in “The Gates of Hell”<em> </em>for a visual of society as a whole (Elsen).\r\n\r\n“In theory and practice Rodin emphasized a link, not merely between the physical and the spiritual, but also between the sensual and the spiritual. Such a dynamic had been developed by Renaissance and baroque masters, but Rodin’s work is unique in the intensity and omnipresence of sensual themes, in his monuments as well as in his smaller creations” (rodin-art.com).\r\n\r\nA few friends and art connoisseurs were invited to see the plaster while it was still being developed. One of those invited, Octave Mirbeau, commented the development of Rodin´s studies with enthusiasm:\r\n\r\n“All of those who had been able to admire in the artist\'s studio the finished studies and those in course of execution agree in saying that this door will be the greatest work of the century” (rodin-web.org).\r\n\r\nTruman Bartlett (a writer/sculptor, whose conversation with Rodin was published in “The American Architect and Building News” on January 26, 1889) commented his view on the work:\r\n\r\n“The first impression is one of astonishment and bewilderment: astonishment at the size of the door and the style of its design, and bewilderment at the extent and variety of the forms that compose it…It is like looking into another and strange world…All idea of subject, illustration, or purpose takes a second place in the mind, or is forgotten, in presence of the charm, the sensibility, the divine touch of art that takes possession of the beholder” (Facos).\r\n\r\nOverall, many people responded to the Gates very well, despite it not being completed. They found the work to be quite impressive in its sheer size, design, and concept. Even today, most are taken aback by the indescribably grand composition. The overall impression of the piece, including wonder and an overwhelming sense of one’s self and imagination, has not changed much. Albert Elsen (of the University of Minnesota Press) states her comments on the Gates:\r\n\r\n“They also look forward to the advanced art of [the 20th] century with its concern for the self rather than the group and with the anonymous hero or victim…Like the German Expressionists, Rodin presents us with the nonsocial human in his private existence rather than with the social being. The individual has been thrown back upon himself and unremittingly desires fulfillment outside himself…The Expressionists’ feelings about man’s hopelessness, estrangement, and sense of loss in the vast universe are already present in the <em>Gates</em>” (Facos).\r\n\r\nSet this work next to Ghiberti\'s “Gates of Paradise,” which (as was stated earlier) was the basis that Rodin would use in creating its opposite. The theme alone sets the two sculptures apart. “Gates of Paradise” is a 17-foot pair of bronze doors created by Lorenzo Ghiberti for the north entrance of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence (it ended up being installed in the east entrance). Upon each door of the work there are “five large rectangular reliefs of scenes from the Old Testament between figurated borders containing statuettes in niches and medallions with busts” (Brittanica). Each panel is a narrative to an event in the Old Testament, starting with Adam and Eve (top left) and ending with Solomon (bottom right). The “Gates of Paradise” retains his mix of heroic nudes and gracefully clothed men and women (Haber).\r\n\r\nOn the other hand, Rodin’s “Gates of Hell” is a 20-foot pair of bronze doors (commissioned by the French government for the entrance to Musee des Arts Decoratifs) and is literally covered with close to 200 figures (many of which are inspired by various other artworks and were redone hundreds of times). The majority of the figures, instead of putting God and man in the best light, are writhing in pain, loss or sorrow. It’s almost a statement saying that we are all condemned to hell and that there is no God and no salvation. Whether that’s true or not, it definitely causes one to think about one’s own humanity.\r\n\r\nPersonally, I think this work is quite astounding. The intimidating size and the immense detail of the writhing figures really draws you in. Even without seeing this magnificent piece of work in person, I can already tell that this is a sculpture you could sit in front of for hours and will likely never run out of thoughts (such as its concept, humanity, the afterlife, the reality of other worlds like heaven and hell, etc). It makes you contemplate your entire existence. Just by looking at it, you can easily get lost in all the pain and agony carved into this work. The rough, unfinished look of some of the figures and aspects really drives the raw feeling and power in this piece. I can imagine if you were standing in front of it, you would actually feel as if you were about to be sucked into hell. I think Rodin nailed the overall concept of what he was trying to achieve in his vision.\r\n\r\nI feel that Rodin’s “Gates of Hell” should be preserved because the incredible raw energy that emulates from this work is intriguing and entices the mind into the reality of humanity itself. It forces you to look at the big questions, and yet allows you to see and come to terms with the details that create the overlying image. This work reminds us that the suffering of man whether by supernatural forces or  completely by our own doings, will always exist.\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited:</span></strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Brucker,\r\nJulia. “<strong>Francois-Auguste-Rene\r\nRodin.</strong>” The Art Story Foundation. 2011. Web. Accessed: October 26,\r\n2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.theartstory.org/artist-rodin-auguste.htm&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Elsen,\r\nAlbert. “<strong>Rodin Rediscovered.</strong>” New York Graphic Society, Boston. 2011. Web. Accessed: October 25,\r\n2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;https://www.msu.edu/course/ha/446/albertelsen.pdf&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><em>Encyclopedia Britannica</em><em>. </em><em>“<strong>Gates of Paradise.</strong>”<strong> </strong>Encyclopedia Britannica Online</em>. Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 2011.\r\nWeb. 01 Nov. 2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/226871/Gates-of-Paradise&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Facos,\r\nMichelle. “<strong>Gates of Hell</strong>.” Taylor and Francis Group. 2011. Web. Accessed: October 27, 2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.19thcenturyart-facos.com/artwork/gates-hell&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Gray,\r\nDon. “<strong>Auguste Rodin, Gates of Hell, Metropolitan Museum\r\nof Art (1983).</strong>” jessieevans-dongray.com.\r\n1983. Web. Accessed: October 23, 2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.jessieevans-dongray.com/essays/essay015.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Haber,\r\nJohn. “<strong>The Gates to the City</strong>.”\r\nHaberarts.com. 2011. Web. Accessed: October 24, 2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.haberarts.com/ghiberti.htm&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Richard,\r\nRogers. “<strong>Auguste Rodin Biography</strong>.” Advameg Inc. 2011. Accessed: October 24, 2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Rodin-Auguste.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Roos,\r\nHans. “<strong>Rodin Works: The Gates of\r\nHell.</strong>” Rodin-Web.org. September 14, 2004. Web. Accessed: October 24,\r\n2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.rodin-web.org/works/1880_gates.htm&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Unknown.\r\n“<strong>Auguste Rodin: His Life and Art</strong>.”\r\nRodin-Art.org. 2011. Web. Accessed: October 23, 2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.rodin-art.com/artist.htm&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Unknown.\r\n“<strong>Eternal Spring.</strong>” State Hermitage Museum.\r\n2011. Web. Accessed: October 25, 2011.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n&lt;http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/08/hm88_0_2_68_0.html&gt;','Rodin\'s \"The Gates of Hell\"','','inherit','open','open','','2028-revision-11','','','2011-11-01 17:31:18','2011-11-01 23:31:18','',2028,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2076',0,'revision','',0),(2080,45,'2011-11-21 12:32:33','2011-11-21 18:32:33','','napalm_kim_phuc[1]','','inherit','open','open','','napalm_kim_phuc1','','','2011-11-21 12:32:33','2011-11-21 18:32:33','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/napalm_kim_phuc1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2081,45,'2011-11-21 12:32:34','2011-11-21 18:32:34','','Bergen Belsen 1945- George Rodger','','inherit','open','open','','bergen-belsen-1945-george-rodger','','','2011-11-21 12:32:34','2011-11-21 18:32:34','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2082,45,'2011-11-21 12:33:51','2011-11-21 18:33:51','','Bergen Belsen 1945- George Rodger','','inherit','open','open','','bergen-belsen-1945-george-rodger-2','','','2011-11-21 12:33:51','2011-11-21 18:33:51','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2083,48,'2011-11-01 17:27:24','2011-11-01 23:27:24','<a href=\"http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/munsters_1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1977\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/munsters_1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPublished anonymously in 1818, Mary Shelley\'s work, Frankenstein, was\r\noriginally written as part of a wager. Mary Shelley was a young woman,\r\nstill in her teens, when she published this work. Later, in 1823, a\r\nrefined edition was published with Shelley\'s name actually on it.\r\nFrankenstein is a story about a doctor who wishes to create life, and\r\nhis creation, the monster. Shelley\'s book raises questions about the\r\nmorality of science and the nature of good and evil in general.<!--more-->\r\nAlthough Frankenstein\'s monster seeks to be accepted by society, he is\r\nultimately rejected because of his hideous appearance. Seeking revenge\r\non his creator, the monster kills Frankenstein\'s younger brother and\r\nthen his young bride before ultimately tracking down and destroying\r\nthe man who created him. Both Romanticism and the gothic novel were\r\npopular at the time this work was published, and the Industrial\r\nRevolution was gearing up, leading people to ask questions about the\r\neffects of science and industrialization on society. At this same time\r\nthe Enlightenment was in full swing, and Mary Shelley\'s own father was\r\npart of the movement. Enlightenment -- or the Age of Enlightenment --\r\nwas a school of intellectual recourse that involved higher society\r\nduring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It promoted the\r\nvirtues of higher thought and philosophy and railed against the\r\nintolerance of the church and abuses of power by both church and\r\nstate.\r\n\r\nDuring the late seventeen hundreds and the early eighteen hundreds,\r\nthe gothic novel experienced its hayday, and had a great deal of\r\ninfluence on the Romantic movement of art and writing. \"The\r\ntraditional setting, beginning with Hugh Walpole\'s The Castle of\r\nOtranto (1764), is a medieval (hence, \"gothic\") castle, replete with\r\nsecret passages, torchlit dungeons, and an occasional bat. The\r\ntraditional plot, as in Anne Radcliffe\'s The Mysteries of Udolpho\r\n(1794), involves a beautiful heroine beset by dark shadows, strange\r\nnoises, and a candle that keeps blowing out. These early gothic novels\r\naimed at instilling terror. Later examples of the form, such as\r\nMatthew Lewis\'s The Monk (1796), moved beyond terror to horror,\r\ninvoking demons, ghosts, and other supernatural paraphernalia in gory\r\nand subliminally erotic detail, (Quinn)\". Mary Shelley\'s work was\r\nperhaps one of the best known examples of the gothic novel, and is\r\nalso considered one of the earliest works of science fiction. Shelley\r\ndeals with themes that were at the time unique to gothic literature,\r\nusing elements of the \'supernatural\' and building her story so as to\r\nincite horror in the reader. At the time it was considered highly\r\ncontroversial, and part of what led up to the second edition of the\r\nbook with Shelley\'s real name on the cover was the need to edit and\r\nrefine the writing due to some of the public\'s reaction to the\r\ncontent. Frankenstein is also somewhat typical of the Romantic era\r\nwriter\'s use of the wayward hero, and a similarity can be found in the\r\nstory of Prometheus, by Johann Gothe. \"Victor and the monster are not\r\nso much villains as they are typically ambiguous Romantic heroes:\r\nVictor fails miserably, but his quest is inspiring; and the monster,\r\nthough a murderer, is also a victim, and an eloquent and sympathetic\r\nrebel against forces that violate his basic rights, (Classics\r\nReviewed)\".\r\n\r\nWhat truely sets Mary Shelley\'s tale apart from other writing of the\r\ntime is that it is one of the original instances where a story focuses\r\non the laboratory and what takes place there. \"Often called the first\r\nof its kind, Frankenstein paved the way for science fiction writing.\r\nIts depiction of a then impossible scientific feat has in our time\r\nbecome possible and is essentially recognizable in what we now refer\r\nto as bioengineering, biomedicine, or biotechnology...Victor\r\nFrankenstein, has come to serve as the poster child and whipping boy\r\nfor all scientific and technological irresponsibility, so much so that\r\nthanks to him we are able to free ourselves and our scientists from\r\nany real responsibility, since none of us ever would or could be as\r\nmonstrous as Frankenstein,  (van der Laan)\". There can be no doubt\r\nthat Frankenstein has an iconic place in culture, which it would not\r\nhave earned if it were not a revolutionary piece of work. At the time\r\nit was published no mere human could conceive of doing what Victor\r\nFrankenstein had done. Creating life was out of the question, and with\r\nthe primitive conditions that most scientists were forced to function\r\nunder due to the church, even saving lives with improvements to modern\r\nmedicine was difficult. Mary Shelley touches on the back-alley secrecy\r\nthat surrounded the act of acquiring body parts for research, which\r\nwas made practically impossible by the religious attitudes of the\r\ntime. \"From the thirteenth to the early seventeenth century, the\r\nbodies of the executed were the only legal source of bodies for\r\ndissection. Starting in the late seventeenth century, the bodies of\r\nunclaimed persons were also made legally available, (Hildebrandt)\".\r\nMary Shelley\'s work was also unusual and unique because of the author,\r\nsince even during the Age of Enlightenment it was still more common\r\nfor men to be published authors than women, and Shelley wrote\r\nFrankenstein while she was still a mere teenager.\r\n\r\nAlthough response to the initial publishing of Frankenstein was mixed,\r\nit seems to be the overall concensus that for better or worse, this\r\nnovel has firmly earned its place in history. Helen Moore wrote in\r\n1886 that,\"Of Mrs. Shelley\'s writings, Frankenstein is without\r\nquestion the most noteworthy. From the day of its first appearance in\r\nprint down to the present, it has had accorded to it a position as a\r\nunique and remarkable production.\" Although Frankenstein presented\r\nshocking and grotesque new concepts to the public, it also took off as\r\nan allegory for science without morality. The word \'Frankenstein\' has\r\nbecome almost synonymous with \'monster\', even though Frankenstein was\r\nthe monster\'s creator, and the monster himself remained nameless.\r\nFrankenstein was parodied in pictures as early as 1843.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1976\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"223\" caption=\"Frankenstein as Propoganda\"]<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_Anti-Irish_propaganda_(1882)_Irish_Frankenstein.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1976\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/446px-Punch_Anti-Irish_propaganda_1882_Irish_Frankenstein-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\nCurrent day opinion of Frankenstein does not seem to have changed much\r\nfrom the attitudes of the time towards the work. In fact, there is an\r\neerie similarity between what critics at the time were saying and what\r\nthe modern day critics seem to feel about Shelley\'s masterpiece. \"Mary\r\nWollstonecraft Shelley is responsible for a creative transformation\r\nworthy of her prototypical mad scientist, Victor Frankenstein: she\r\nreconfigures, recontextualizes, and thus modernizes the myth of\r\nPrometheus by means of a tiresome, unlucky ghost story, (Hustis)\". It\r\nmay very well be that Mary Shelley managed, without entirely meaning\r\nto, to create a story that touches so many people so deeply and\r\neffectively that she has broken the proverbial mold of writing.\r\nWhatever the case may be, there seems to be almost unilateral\r\nagreement that this particular piece of work is well deserving of its\r\nplace in the annals of history.\r\n\r\nMy personal reaction to this work has always been very strong. Whether\r\nreading the book or watching any of the myriad of movies that were\r\ninspired by Frankenstein, it is impossible to resist the allure of the\r\ntale. Victor Frankenstein takes the role of God in his hands and sets\r\nabout to defy death by creating life through the use of science. In\r\nsome ways there lies the majority of the allure. Everyone fears death,\r\nand humankind as a whole has an obsession with defeating it, whether\r\nlooking back to ancient tales of the fountain of youth, or going\r\nforward to the more modern age, where life and death are now\r\ncontrolled in the pristine setting of a laboratory or hospital.\r\n\r\nSecondary but not lesser by any means are the themes of revenge and\r\nbetrayal that come with following Frankenstein\'s creation through his\r\njourney as a misfit of society. Desperately seeking to be accepted and\r\nloved, the monster instead becomes a killer, giving up on attaining\r\nhis dream and instead attempting to get even with the person who\r\ncreated him without thought for what misery might result.\r\nAlthough it was written much later at the closing of the century,\r\nperhaps the best story to compare with Frankenstein is that of Brahm\r\nStoker\'s Dracula. A similar tale of supernatural horror and foiled\r\nromance, Dracula focuses on some of the similar themes that\r\nFrankenstein does, and has also easily become as famous as Shelley\'s\r\nnovel. Both Dracula and Frankenstein have a monsterous main character,\r\nand both Dracula and the monster created by Victor Frankenstein\r\nstruggle to have something resembling a \'human\' existance, even though\r\nsuch a thing is clearly impossible. While Frankenstein is wrought with\r\nanguish at his inability to join society, Dracula seems almost\r\nunbothered by it. Instead, Dracula rejoices in the powers that he has\r\ngained, which may be because of how much easier it is for Dracula to\r\nmove about among the \'normal\' population due to his more human\r\nappearance. Dracula and Frankenstein both rely on gothic themes and\r\nisolated landscapes to enhance the \'horrific\' aspect of the narrative,\r\nand in both stories there are a number of innocent people who suffer\r\nbecause of being involved with the monster in some tenebrous way. The\r\ncarefree Lucy in Brahm Stoker\'s tale is killed for no reason other\r\nthan being friends with the family that Dracula is tormenting.\r\nVictor\'s bride Emily falls victim to the monster that her fiancee --\r\nand later husband -- created. Both stories share aspects of\r\nRomanticism and have love stories contained within that are less\r\ncentral to the plot than the monster, which remains the focal point of\r\nthe story-telling.\r\n\r\nFor future generations there are several things to be aware of,\r\nincluding the age at which Mary Shelley authored Frankenstein, the\r\nmoral of the story, which is one cautioning against the development of\r\nscience without a counter-check of morality. To know that a teenage\r\ngirl was capable of creating such a timeless classic should inspire\r\neveryone who reads it to make the best use of their talents and aspire\r\nto do whatever it is that they love. Creativity knows no bounds, and a\r\nwork of genius can be recognized as such no matter who is the creator.\r\nAt the same time, there is also much to be gleaned from the work\r\nitself, not just about being moderate and careful when approaching new\r\nscientific and technological advances, but also about being more\r\naccepting as a society.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_______________Works Cited_______________</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Quinn, Edward. \"gothic literature.\" A Dictionary of Literary and\r\nThematic Terms, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006.\r\nBloom\'s Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Frankenstein.\" Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed (1995): 1.\r\nMagillOnLiterature Plus. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">van der Laan, J. M. \"Frankenstein as Science Fiction and Fact.\"\r\nBulletin of Science, Technology &amp; Society 30.4 (2010): 298-304.\r\nVocational and Career Collection. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hildebrandt, S. \"Capital punishment and anatomy: history and ethics of\r\nan ongoing association.\" Clinical Anatomy (New York, N.Y.) 21.1\r\n(2008): 5-14. MEDLINE. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Moore, Helen. From \"Frankenstein, and Other Writings.\" In Mary\r\nWollstonecraft Shelley: 244–264. 1886. Quoted as \"Frankenstein, and\r\nOther Writings\" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Mary Shelley, Bloom\'s Classic\r\nCritical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2008. Bloom\'s\r\nLiterary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hustis, Harriet. \"Responsible Creativity and the \"Modernity\" of Mary\r\nShelley\'s Prometheus.\" SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900,\r\n43, no. 4 (Autumn 2003): 845–858. Quoted as \"Responsible Creativity\r\nand the \"Modernity\" of Mary Shelley\'s Prometheus\" in Bloom, Harold,\r\ned. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, New Edition, Bloom\'s Modern Critical\r\nViews. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2009. Bloom\'s Literary\r\nReference Online. Facts On File, Inc</p>','Frankenstein - The Man and the Monster','','inherit','open','open','','1975-revision-6','','','2011-11-01 17:27:24','2011-11-01 23:27:24','',1975,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2083',0,'revision','',0),(2084,45,'2011-11-21 12:34:39','2011-11-21 18:34:39','','Bergen Belsen 1945- George Rodger','','inherit','open','open','','bergen-belsen-1945-george-rodger-3','','','2011-11-21 12:34:39','2011-11-21 18:34:39','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2085,48,'2011-11-21 12:34:07','2011-11-21 18:34:07','<a href=\"http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/munsters_1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1977\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/munsters_1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPublished anonymously in 1818, Mary Shelley\'s work, Frankenstein, was\r\noriginally written as part of a wager. Mary Shelley was a young woman,\r\nstill in her teens, when she published this work. Later, in 1823, a\r\nrefined edition was published with Shelley\'s name actually on it.\r\nFrankenstein is a story about a doctor who wishes to create life, and\r\nhis creation, the monster. Shelley\'s book raises questions about the\r\nmorality of science and the nature of good and evil in general.<!--more-->\r\nAlthough Frankenstein\'s monster seeks to be accepted by society, he is\r\nultimately rejected because of his hideous appearance. Seeking revenge\r\non his creator, the monster kills Frankenstein\'s younger brother and\r\nthen his young bride before ultimately tracking down and destroying\r\nthe man who created him. Both Romanticism and the gothic novel were\r\npopular at the time this work was published, and the Industrial\r\nRevolution was gearing up, leading people to ask questions about the\r\neffects of science and industrialization on society. At this same time\r\nthe Enlightenment was in full swing, and Mary Shelley\'s own father was\r\npart of the movement. Enlightenment -- or the Age of Enlightenment --\r\nwas a school of intellectual recourse that involved higher society\r\nduring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It promoted the\r\nvirtues of higher thought and philosophy and railed against the\r\nintolerance of the church and abuses of power by both church and\r\nstate.\r\n\r\nDuring the late seventeen hundreds and the early eighteen hundreds,\r\nthe gothic novel experienced its hayday, and had a great deal of\r\ninfluence on the Romantic movement of art and writing. \"The\r\ntraditional setting, beginning with Hugh Walpole\'s The Castle of\r\nOtranto (1764), is a medieval (hence, \"gothic\") castle, replete with\r\nsecret passages, torchlit dungeons, and an occasional bat. The\r\ntraditional plot, as in Anne Radcliffe\'s The Mysteries of Udolpho\r\n(1794), involves a beautiful heroine beset by dark shadows, strange\r\nnoises, and a candle that keeps blowing out. These early gothic novels\r\naimed at instilling terror. Later examples of the form, such as\r\nMatthew Lewis\'s The Monk (1796), moved beyond terror to horror,\r\ninvoking demons, ghosts, and other supernatural paraphernalia in gory\r\nand subliminally erotic detail, (Quinn)\". Mary Shelley\'s work was\r\nperhaps one of the best known examples of the gothic novel, and is\r\nalso considered one of the earliest works of science fiction. Shelley\r\ndeals with themes that were at the time unique to gothic literature,\r\nusing elements of the \'supernatural\' and building her story so as to\r\nincite horror in the reader. At the time it was considered highly\r\ncontroversial, and part of what led up to the second edition of the\r\nbook with Shelley\'s real name on the cover was the need to edit and\r\nrefine the writing due to some of the public\'s reaction to the\r\ncontent. Frankenstein is also somewhat typical of the Romantic era\r\nwriter\'s use of the wayward hero, and a similarity can be found in the\r\nstory of Prometheus, by Johann Gothe. \"Victor and the monster are not\r\nso much villains as they are typically ambiguous Romantic heroes:\r\nVictor fails miserably, but his quest is inspiring; and the monster,\r\nthough a murderer, is also a victim, and an eloquent and sympathetic\r\nrebel against forces that violate his basic rights, (Classics\r\nReviewed)\".\r\n\r\nWhat truely sets Mary Shelley\'s tale apart from other writing of the\r\ntime is that it is one of the original instances where a story focuses\r\non the laboratory and what takes place there. \"Often called the first\r\nof its kind, Frankenstein paved the way for science fiction writing.\r\nIts depiction of a then impossible scientific feat has in our time\r\nbecome possible and is essentially recognizable in what we now refer\r\nto as bioengineering, biomedicine, or biotechnology...Victor\r\nFrankenstein, has come to serve as the poster child and whipping boy\r\nfor all scientific and technological irresponsibility, so much so that\r\nthanks to him we are able to free ourselves and our scientists from\r\nany real responsibility, since none of us ever would or could be as\r\nmonstrous as Frankenstein,  (van der Laan)\". There can be no doubt\r\nthat Frankenstein has an iconic place in culture, which it would not\r\nhave earned if it were not a revolutionary piece of work. At the time\r\nit was published no mere human could conceive of doing what Victor\r\nFrankenstein had done. Creating life was out of the question, and with\r\nthe primitive conditions that most scientists were forced to function\r\nunder due to the church, even saving lives with improvements to modern\r\nmedicine was difficult. Mary Shelley touches on the back-alley secrecy\r\nthat surrounded the act of acquiring body parts for research, which\r\nwas made practically impossible by the religious attitudes of the\r\ntime. \"From the thirteenth to the early seventeenth century, the\r\nbodies of the executed were the only legal source of bodies for\r\ndissection. Starting in the late seventeenth century, the bodies of\r\nunclaimed persons were also made legally available, (Hildebrandt)\".\r\nMary Shelley\'s work was also unusual and unique because of the author,\r\nsince even during the Age of Enlightenment it was still more common\r\nfor men to be published authors than women, and Shelley wrote\r\nFrankenstein while she was still a mere teenager.\r\n\r\nAlthough response to the initial publishing of Frankenstein was mixed,\r\nit seems to be the overall concensus that for better or worse, this\r\nnovel has firmly earned its place in history. Helen Moore wrote in\r\n1886 that,\"Of Mrs. Shelley\'s writings, Frankenstein is without\r\nquestion the most noteworthy. From the day of its first appearance in\r\nprint down to the present, it has had accorded to it a position as a\r\nunique and remarkable production.\" Although Frankenstein presented\r\nshocking and grotesque new concepts to the public, it also took off as\r\nan allegory for science without morality. The word \'Frankenstein\' has\r\nbecome almost synonymous with \'monster\', even though Frankenstein was\r\nthe monster\'s creator, and the monster himself remained nameless.\r\nFrankenstein was parodied in pictures as early as 1843.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1976\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"223\" caption=\"Frankenstein as Propoganda\"]<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_Anti-Irish_propaganda_(1882)_Irish_Frankenstein.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1976\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/446px-Punch_Anti-Irish_propaganda_1882_Irish_Frankenstein-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\nCurrent day opinion of Frankenstein does not seem to have changed much\r\nfrom the attitudes of the time towards the work. In fact, there is an\r\neerie similarity between what critics at the time were saying and what\r\nthe modern day critics seem to feel about Shelley\'s masterpiece. \"Mary\r\nWollstonecraft Shelley is responsible for a creative transformation\r\nworthy of her prototypical mad scientist, Victor Frankenstein: she\r\nreconfigures, recontextualizes, and thus modernizes the myth of\r\nPrometheus by means of a tiresome, unlucky ghost story, (Hustis)\". It\r\nmay very well be that Mary Shelley managed, without entirely meaning\r\nto, to create a story that touches so many people so deeply and\r\neffectively that she has broken the proverbial mold of writing.\r\nWhatever the case may be, there seems to be almost unilateral\r\nagreement that this particular piece of work is well deserving of its\r\nplace in the annals of history.\r\n\r\nMy personal reaction to this work has always been very strong. Whether\r\nreading the book or watching any of the myriad of movies that were\r\ninspired by Frankenstein, it is impossible to resist the allure of the\r\ntale. Victor Frankenstein takes the role of God in his hands and sets\r\nabout to defy death by creating life through the use of science. In\r\nsome ways there lies the majority of the allure. Everyone fears death,\r\nand humankind as a whole has an obsession with defeating it, whether\r\nlooking back to ancient tales of the fountain of youth, or going\r\nforward to the more modern age, where life and death are now\r\ncontrolled in the pristine setting of a laboratory or hospital.\r\n\r\nSecondary but not lesser by any means are the themes of revenge and\r\nbetrayal that come with following Frankenstein\'s creation through his\r\njourney as a misfit of society. Desperately seeking to be accepted and\r\nloved, the monster instead becomes a killer, giving up on attaining\r\nhis dream and instead attempting to get even with the person who\r\ncreated him without thought for what misery might result.\r\nAlthough it was written much later at the closing of the century,\r\nperhaps the best story to compare with Frankenstein is that of Brahm\r\nStoker\'s Dracula. A similar tale of supernatural horror and foiled\r\nromance, Dracula focuses on some of the similar themes that\r\nFrankenstein does, and has also easily become as famous as Shelley\'s\r\nnovel. Both Dracula and Frankenstein have a monsterous main character,\r\nand both Dracula and the monster created by Victor Frankenstein\r\nstruggle to have something resembling a \'human\' existance, even though\r\nsuch a thing is clearly impossible. While Frankenstein is wrought with\r\nanguish at his inability to join society, Dracula seems almost\r\nunbothered by it. Instead, Dracula rejoices in the powers that he has\r\ngained, which may be because of how much easier it is for Dracula to\r\nmove about among the \'normal\' population due to his more human\r\nappearance. Dracula and Frankenstein both rely on gothic themes and\r\nisolated landscapes to enhance the \'horrific\' aspect of the narrative,\r\nand in both stories there are a number of innocent people who suffer\r\nbecause of being involved with the monster in some tenebrous way. The\r\ncarefree Lucy in Brahm Stoker\'s tale is killed for no reason other\r\nthan being friends with the family that Dracula is tormenting.\r\nVictor\'s bride Emily falls victim to the monster that her fiancee --\r\nand later husband -- created. Both stories share aspects of\r\nRomanticism and have love stories contained within that are less\r\ncentral to the plot than the monster, which remains the focal point of\r\nthe story-telling.\r\n\r\nFor future generations there are several things to be aware of,\r\nincluding the age at which Mary Shelley authored Frankenstein, the\r\nmoral of the story, which is one cautioning against the development of\r\nscience without a counter-check of morality. To know that a teenage\r\ngirl was capable of creating such a timeless classic should inspire\r\neveryone who reads it to make the best use of their talents and aspire\r\nto do whatever it is that they love. Creativity knows no bounds, and a\r\nwork of genius can be recognized as such no matter who is the creator.\r\nAt the same time, there is also much to be gleaned from the work\r\nitself, not just about being moderate and careful when approaching new\r\nscientific and technological advances, but also about being more\r\naccepting as a society.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_______________Works Cited_______________</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Quinn, Edward. \"gothic literature.\" A Dictionary of Literary and\r\nThematic Terms, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006.\r\nBloom\'s Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Frankenstein.\" Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed (1995): 1.\r\nMagillOnLiterature Plus. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">van der Laan, J. M. \"Frankenstein as Science Fiction and Fact.\"\r\nBulletin of Science, Technology &amp; Society 30.4 (2010): 298-304.\r\nVocational and Career Collection. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hildebrandt, S. \"Capital punishment and anatomy: history and ethics of\r\nan ongoing association.\" Clinical Anatomy (New York, N.Y.) 21.1\r\n(2008): 5-14. MEDLINE. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Moore, Helen. From \"Frankenstein, and Other Writings.\" In Mary\r\nWollstonecraft Shelley: 244–264. 1886. Quoted as \"Frankenstein, and\r\nOther Writings\" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Mary Shelley, Bloom\'s Classic\r\nCritical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2008. Bloom\'s\r\nLiterary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hustis, Harriet. \"Responsible Creativity and the \"Modernity\" of Mary\r\nShelley\'s Prometheus.\" SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900,\r\n43, no. 4 (Autumn 2003): 845–858. Quoted as \"Responsible Creativity\r\nand the \"Modernity\" of Mary Shelley\'s Prometheus\" in Bloom, Harold,\r\ned. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, New Edition, Bloom\'s Modern Critical\r\nViews. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2009. Bloom\'s Literary\r\nReference Online. Facts On File, Inc</p>','Frankenstein - The Man and the Monster','','inherit','open','open','','1975-revision-7','','','2011-11-21 12:34:07','2011-11-21 18:34:07','',1975,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2085',0,'revision','',0),(2086,45,'2011-11-21 12:36:01','2011-11-21 18:36:01','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\nIn 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more-->\n\nThe horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).\n\nFor three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.\n\nThe self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).\n\nThe death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).\n\nAccording to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)\n\nAs the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).\n\nNeedless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).\n\nI have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.\n\nWhat I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.\n\nThis work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\n\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\n\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\n\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\n\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\n\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\n\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\n\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\n\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities\">http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities</a>','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision','','','2011-11-21 12:36:01','2011-11-21 18:36:01','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2086',0,'revision','',0),(2089,45,'2011-11-21 12:37:41','2011-11-21 18:37:41','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\nIn 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).\r\n\r\nFor three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.\r\n\r\nThe self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).\r\n\r\nThe death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).\r\n\r\nAccording to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)\r\n\r\nAs the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).\r\n\r\nI have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.\r\n\r\nWhat I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.\r\n\r\nThis work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities&gt;','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision-3','','','2011-11-21 12:37:41','2011-11-21 18:37:41','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2089',0,'revision','',0),(2087,48,'2011-11-21 12:41:48','2011-11-21 18:41:48','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY\">Princess Mononoke Trailer On Youtube</a></p>\r\n<a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg</a></p>\r\nEven though it is perhaps not the most lauded work of Hayao\r\nMiyazaki, the movie Princess Mononoke is still a classic worth\r\npreserving. Released in 1997, this movie focuses on the story of\r\nAshitaka, a young prince who has fallen under a curse that will kill\r\nhim unless he finds a way to remove it. This quest leads Ashitaka to\r\ntravel to the distant forest where the Forest God lives in hopes of\r\nfinding someone or something that can help him. Along the way he meets\r\na mercenary priest who wants to kill the Forest God and claim the\r\nreward money offered for the spirit\'s head, as well as a small colony\r\nof iron workers, who are waging war against the forest animals in an\r\neffort to get at the rich natural resources beneath the forest. Caught\r\nup in the fighting Ashitaka falls in love with the human girl, San,\r\nwho was raised by the wolves of the forest, and must find a way to\r\nsave not only himself, but San and the Forest God as well. With it\'s\r\nbrilliant animation and a message that allows for a wide cross-culture\r\nappeal, Princess Mononoke is without a doubt a work that should be\r\npreserved for future generations.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nPrincess Mononoke was released in 1997, following closely on the\r\nheels of the cartoon series Captain Planet, which ran from 1990 to\r\n1996. Like many of Hayo Miyazaki\'s films, Princess Mononoke deals\r\nheavily with the relation of human beings to the planet, and the\r\nimpact that industrialization has on nature. One of the main themes is\r\nthe damage that people can do to the environment, which is also a main\r\nfocus of the animated series Captain Planet. “Captain Planet...[is]\r\nsymbolic of a contradictory environmental ethic that seeks to improve\r\nthe planet and maintain existing social relations, ( King.)” In a\r\ndirect correlation to the sudden fascination with the environmentalist\r\nmovement that was taking place in western culture, Miyazaki\'s films\r\nplace great importance on the,”transformation and reinvigoration of\r\nthe tenets of Shintoism and local mythology...For example, a\r\nnon-Japanese audience viewing Princess Mononoke can clearly read the\r\nsymbolic beheading of the spirit of the forest in terms of globally\r\ncirculating narratives of environmental destruction, whereas a\r\nJapanese audience are also likely to simultaneously engage here with\r\nspeciﬁc allusions to kami, or gods, and Shintoist tenets of respecting\r\nand communing with nature’s deities, (Wright.)“ So it can be said that\r\nPrincess Mononoke is a typical work of the times for both Japan and\r\nAmerica. The themes of environmentalism would be familiar for either\r\nculture, and the idea of an animated film or series that highlighted\r\nsuch themes would be especially appropriate for America, since such\r\nthings were already mainstream. Following the first Gulf War in the\r\nearly 1990\'s, the secondary message of peace and learning to live\r\ntogether – not just in terms of humans and nature, but also in terms\r\nof humans and other humans – would have been especially well received.\r\nPrincess Mononoke was also squarely in the height of the Japanese\r\nanimation craze that was hitting America following the appearance of\r\nthe acclaimed Vampire Hunter D ( 1985 ) and Akira ( 1988. ) Such\r\nseries as Sailor Moon ( 1995-2000 ) and Dragon Ball Z ( 1989-2003 )\r\nwere also extremely popular at this time in America as well as\r\noverseas.\r\n\r\nWhat sets Princess Mononoke apart from this trend is the sheer\r\npopularity that the film enjoyed. It “eclipsed Steven Spielberg’s E.T.\r\nto create a new domestic box-ofﬁce record, only to be nudged out by\r\nJames Cameron’s Titanic in the same year (Wright.)” This may be due to\r\nthe fact that although computer generated images, also known as CGI,\r\nwere just beginning to take off during the mid-to-late nineties, the\r\nstudio responsible for producing the fantastical films of Miyazaki\r\nfirmly stood their ground and continued to animate by hand rather than\r\nrelying on computers. This hand animating is what gives Miyazaki\'s\r\nartwork much of its unique look and broad appeal. Miyazaki was also a\r\nfore-runner in the tradition of creating Japanese works of art – be it\r\ngames or film – that showcased characters stripped of anything that\r\nwould identify them as being strictly Japanese. This removal of the\r\nnative culture from their products has been given much of the credit\r\nfor the wild popularity of Japanese games and film. “Japan’s recent\r\ncultural expansion is premised on a strategy of blurring distinctively\r\nJapanese attributes of exports to create ‘culturally odourless\r\nproducts’. In particular, animation and game software destined for\r\nexport are prone to mu-kokuseki—the erasure of racial and ethnic\r\ncharacteristics and any context that would embed a speciﬁc culture or\r\ncountry, (Wright.)” When it really comes down to it, though, there is\r\nreally no single explanation why the works of Miyazaki, and Princess\r\nMononoke in particular, stand out from the other works of this period.\r\nLooking at other anime, there are many films and series that\r\nincorporate the same idea of being culturally non-specific to Japan.\r\nAmerican cartoons were extolling some of the same virtues about\r\ncoexisting and environmental importance, but never came close to\r\napproaching the popularity of Miyazaki\'s works. The majority of the\r\nanimated works at this time were still hand drawn, with the boom of\r\ncomputer animation coming later, burgeoning in the beginning of the\r\n2000\'s. It may be that the success of Princess Mononoke lies in the\r\ncombination of the beautiful hand-drawn art, and the way in which\r\nMiyazaki incorporated Japanese folk lore and themes into a film that\r\nis still culturally ambiguous enough to reach a wider audience.\r\nCertainly no other film had brought these aspects together in such a\r\nway prior.\r\n\r\nRealizing that Princess Mononoke edged out the blockbuster E.T.,\r\nit should not be surprising that it was hailed as an almost instant\r\nclassic. “Virtually every frame is alive to this movement, and\r\nastounds with its natural talent and imagination,(Aoun.)” Another\r\ncritic, cited in Aoun\'s article, raves that it is,”the Star Wars of\r\nanimation.” It almost seems as if the critics are strangely,\r\nunanimously in agreement with audiences in regards to this film, which\r\nis a favorite of both young and old. Since it has only been a meager\r\nfourteen years since the release of Princess Mononoke, there doesn\'t\r\nexist much of an ability to compare the thoughts on it in the present\r\nand what might be considered of it in the future. Only time will tell\r\nif this masterpiece has the ability to remain a timeless classic, but\r\nit has aged well, and continues to be a perennial example of\r\nMiyazaki\'s ability to delight movie-goers.\r\n\r\nMy personal reaction to this movie was very strong. It was one of\r\nthe first films by Miyazaki that was introduced to me, and remains\r\ndeeply embedded in my mind even to this day. Despite the amazing and\r\nfantastical ability of the animation team and director to create\r\ncaptivating movies, Princess Mononoke is the most hauntingly beautiful\r\nof the many that I have seen. Miyazaki delights in providing a strong\r\nfemale lead to follow, and this habit of his plays out well in the\r\nconflict between San – the Princess Mononoke figure – and her nemesis,\r\nLady Eboshi, the founder of Irontown. Prince Ashitaka also provides a\r\npositive male moral role model, nicely covering the bases for any\r\ngender of child to be able to find a character worth identifying with.\r\nPerhaps the most interesting thing that I discovered in the course of\r\nresearching was that Billy Bob Thorton plays one of the voice roles in\r\nthe movie, something that I found rather comical given that the bulk\r\nof his work is far from appropriate for a young audience.\r\n\r\nWhen finding a work worthy of comparing to Princess Mononoke, it\r\nwas difficult to settle on a single comparison. There exists a breadth\r\nof both Japanese animation and American animation available to stand\r\nagainst Princess Mononoke, but because of the unique quality of\r\nMiyazaki\'s work, it seemed unfair to lump it into either category\r\nspecifically. For this reason I have chosen to make two comparisons.\r\nTo begin with, it seems most appropriate to hold Princess Mononoke up\r\nagainst one of the more popular Japanese animated movies of the time,\r\nVampire Hunter D. Even though a person who has seen both of these\r\nmovies might disagree at first glance, there are actually many\r\nsimilarities between the two. Princess Mononoke incorporates many of\r\nthe same organic shapes and movements, especially when contrasting the\r\n\'demonic\' presence that comes with Ashitaka\'s curse and the demonic\r\ncreatures that are encountered in Vampire Hunter D. Also similar to\r\nPrincess Mononoke is the way in which the characters in Vampire Hunter\r\nD do not have a specifically Japanese appearance. The main male\r\ncharacter, D, looks European. He is tall, with pale skin. The main\r\nfemale character is blonde. Not the only blonde, in fact, as the son\r\nof the town\'s mayor is also fair skinned, with oval eyes and golden\r\nhair. Both movies feature supernatural characters as well as human.\r\nThese shared traits are often over-looked due to the stark difference\r\nin target audience between the two films. Vampire Hunter D contains\r\ngraphic violence and even nudity, making it less than appropriate for\r\nchildren. Despite being animated, it was meant for adults, and this\r\nshows through in the content. Princess Mononoke was meant to be\r\nenjoyed by both children and adults, but the violent content it\r\ncontains ( another trait it shares with most Japanese animation )\r\nnetted it a rating of M-15, meaning that it was unsuitable for\r\nchildren under the age of fifteen.\r\n\r\nTo show the reverse side of American animation in comparison to\r\nPrincess Mononoke, it seemed most feasible to find an extreme of\r\nAmerican animation. Something contemporary and computer animated to\r\nprovide the best contrast between the work of Miyazaki and the works\r\ndone by his peers. For this reason Finding Nemo stands out as the best\r\nexample of American animation to stand against Princess Mononoke.\r\nFinding Nemo was released in 2003 by Pixar studios in collusion with\r\nWalt Disney. Disney is also responsible for bringing the works of\r\nMiyazaki to America, which makes the comparison almost too perfect.\r\n“According to director/founder John Lasseter, Pixar’s ‘most\r\ninspirational ﬁlms’ are ‘the animated ﬁlms of Hayao Miyazaki and the\r\nStudio Ghibli’ and what inspires them is ‘the sense of heart and\r\ncharacter, the use of scale, the brilliant staging and timing of\r\naction and humor, the simplicity and beauty of the effects and mostly\r\nthe imagination, (Aoun.)” Ironically, Pixar has been on the cutting\r\nedge of computer generated animation almost since it was begun, while\r\nStudio Ghibli remains steadfast in its determination to do most of the\r\nanimation in their films by hand. Finding Nemo is probably one of the\r\nmore famous incarnations of this computer animation, and interestingly\r\nenough, deals with some of the same environmental issues that Princess\r\nMononoke touches on. Finding Nemo focuses on the exotic fish trade,\r\ncasting it in a somewhat negative light ( Nemo is \'stolen\' from his\r\nfamily to supply an aquarium. ) Although the film\'s creators tried to\r\ndiscourage people from buying exotic fish with their movie, it instead\r\nled to a massive boom in clown fish sales, creating yet another\r\ncontrast with Princess Mononoke in that Miyazaki\'s film perhaps had\r\nmore realistic goals with its moralizing. The animation styles for the\r\ntwo movies are, of course, as different as night and day, and the\r\nmaturity level of the story also seems to have a huge difference\r\nbetween the two. Finding Nemo is a gentle comedy, awarded a G rating,\r\nthe mildest of all available. For violent content, Princess Mononoke\r\nbeing put alongside Finding Nemo is much like putting Princess\r\nMononoke alongside Vampire Hunter D. Which just goes to illustrate how\r\ndelicately balanced between the world of American animation and the\r\nworld of Japanese animation Princess Mononoke really is.\r\n\r\nThis work should definitely be preserved for the future, not only\r\nbecause of the amazing animation quality and the imaginative vision\r\nthat backs up the impressive art, but also for the morality and\r\nmessage of the story that is presented by Hayao Miyazaki. The story is\r\none of revenge, betrayal, and ultimately forgiveness. Princess\r\nMononoke provides an excellent example of the differences – and the\r\nsimilarities – between American and Japanese animation, and will\r\nlikely remain one of the better examples for a very long time to come.\r\n\r\nWorks Cited\r\n\r\nKing, Donna Lee. \"CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS: Kids,\r\nEnvironmental Crisis, And Competing Narratives Of The New World\r\nOrder.\" Sociological Quarterly 35.1 (1994): 103-120. Academic Search\r\nComplete. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nWright, LucyClode, Jerry. \"The Animated Worlds Of Hayao Miyazaki.\"\r\nMetro 143 (2005): 46. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nAoun, Steven. \"Film Of The Quarter: Princess Mononoke.\" Metro 143\r\n(2005): 171. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nMurphy, Joseph. \"Anime: From Akira To Princess Mononoke: Experiencing\r\nContemporary Japanese Animation.\" Philosophy East &amp; West56.3 (2006):\r\n493. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.','Princess Mononoke -- Pixar\'s Inspiration','','publish','open','open','','princess-mononoke-pixars-inspiration','','','2011-11-23 14:23:26','2011-11-23 20:23:26','',0,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2087',0,'post','',5),(2088,45,'2011-11-21 12:36:08','2011-11-21 18:36:08','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\nIn 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).\r\n\r\nFor three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.\r\n\r\nThe self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).\r\n\r\nThe death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).\r\n\r\nAccording to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)\r\n\r\nAs the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).\r\n\r\nI have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.\r\n\r\nWhat I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.\r\n\r\nThis work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities\">http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities</a>','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision-2','','','2011-11-21 12:36:08','2011-11-21 18:36:08','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2088',0,'revision','',0),(2090,48,'2011-11-21 12:40:23','2011-11-21 18:40:23','<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY\">Princess Mononoke Trailer On Youtube</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n    Even though it is perhaps not the most lauded work of Hayao\nMiyazaki, the movie Princess Mononoke is still a classic worth\npreserving. Released in 1997, this movie focuses on the story of\nAshitaka, a young prince who has fallen under a curse that will kill\nhim unless he finds a way to remove it. This quest leads Ashitaka to\ntravel to the distant forest where the Forest God lives in hopes of\nfinding someone or something that can help him. Along the way he meets\na mercenary priest who wants to kill the Forest God and claim the\nreward money offered for the spirit\'s head, as well as a small colony\nof iron workers, who are waging war against the forest animals in an\neffort to get at the rich natural resources beneath the forest. Caught\nup in the fighting Ashitaka falls in love with the human girl, San,\nwho was raised by the wolves of the forest, and must find a way to\nsave not only himself, but San and the Forest God as well. With it\'s\nbrilliant animation and a message that allows for a wide cross-culture\nappeal, Princess Mononoke is without a doubt a work that should be\npreserved for future generations.\n\n    Princess Mononoke was released in 1997, following closely on the\nheels of the cartoon series Captain Planet, which ran from 1990 to\n1996. Like many of Hayo Miyazaki\'s films, Princess Mononoke deals\nheavily with the relation of human beings to the planet, and the\nimpact that industrialization has on nature. One of the main themes is\nthe damage that people can do to the environment, which is also a main\nfocus of the animated series Captain Planet. “Captain Planet...[is]\nsymbolic of a contradictory environmental ethic that seeks to improve\nthe planet and maintain existing social relations, ( King.)” In a\ndirect correlation to the sudden fascination with the environmentalist\nmovement that was taking place in western culture, Miyazaki\'s films\nplace great importance on the,”transformation and reinvigoration of\nthe tenets of Shintoism and local mythology...For example, a\nnon-Japanese audience viewing Princess Mononoke can clearly read the\nsymbolic beheading of the spirit of the forest in terms of globally\ncirculating narratives of environmental destruction, whereas a\nJapanese audience are also likely to simultaneously engage here with\nspeciﬁc allusions to kami, or gods, and Shintoist tenets of respecting\nand communing with nature’s deities, (Wright.)“ So it can be said that\nPrincess Mononoke is a typical work of the times for both Japan and\nAmerica. The themes of environmentalism would be familiar for either\nculture, and the idea of an animated film or series that highlighted\nsuch themes would be especially appropriate for America, since such\nthings were already mainstream. Following the first Gulf War in the\nearly 1990\'s, the secondary message of peace and learning to live\ntogether – not just in terms of humans and nature, but also in terms\nof humans and other humans – would have been especially well received.\nPrincess Mononoke was also squarely in the height of the Japanese\nanimation craze that was hitting America following the appearance of\nthe acclaimed Vampire Hunter D ( 1985 ) and Akira ( 1988. ) Such\nseries as Sailor Moon ( 1995-2000 ) and Dragon Ball Z ( 1989-2003 )\nwere also extremely popular at this time in America as well as\noverseas.\n\n    What sets Princess Mononoke apart from this trend is the sheer\npopularity that the film enjoyed. It “eclipsed Steven Spielberg’s E.T.\nto create a new domestic box-ofﬁce record, only to be nudged out by\nJames Cameron’s Titanic in the same year (Wright.)” This may be due to\nthe fact that although computer generated images, also known as CGI,\nwere just beginning to take off during the mid-to-late nineties, the\nstudio responsible for producing the fantastical films of Miyazaki\nfirmly stood their ground and continued to animate by hand rather than\nrelying on computers. This hand animating is what gives Miyazaki\'s\nartwork much of its unique look and broad appeal. Miyazaki was also a\nfore-runner in the tradition of creating Japanese works of art – be it\ngames or film – that showcased characters stripped of anything that\nwould identify them as being strictly Japanese. This removal of the\nnative culture from their products has been given much of the credit\nfor the wild popularity of Japanese games and film. “Japan’s recent\ncultural expansion is premised on a strategy of blurring distinctively\nJapanese attributes of exports to create ‘culturally odourless\nproducts’. In particular, animation and game software destined for\nexport are prone to mu-kokuseki—the erasure of racial and ethnic\ncharacteristics and any context that would embed a speciﬁc culture or\ncountry, (Wright.)” When it really comes down to it, though, there is\nreally no single explanation why the works of Miyazaki, and Princess\nMononoke in particular, stand out from the other works of this period.\nLooking at other anime, there are many films and series that\nincorporate the same idea of being culturally non-specific to Japan.\nAmerican cartoons were extolling some of the same virtues about\ncoexisting and environmental importance, but never came close to\napproaching the popularity of Miyazaki\'s works. The majority of the\nanimated works at this time were still hand drawn, with the boom of\ncomputer animation coming later, burgeoning in the beginning of the\n2000\'s. It may be that the success of Princess Mononoke lies in the\ncombination of the beautiful hand-drawn art, and the way in which\nMiyazaki incorporated Japanese folk lore and themes into a film that\nis still culturally ambiguous enough to reach a wider audience.\nCertainly no other film had brought these aspects together in such a\nway prior.\n\n    Realizing that Princess Mononoke edged out the blockbuster E.T.,\nit should not be surprising that it was hailed as an almost instant\nclassic. “Virtually every frame is alive to this movement, and\nastounds with its natural talent and imagination,(Aoun.)” Another\ncritic, cited in Aoun\'s article, raves that it is,”the Star Wars of\nanimation.” It almost seems as if the critics are strangely,\nunanimously in agreement with audiences in regards to this film, which\nis a favorite of both young and old. Since it has only been a meager\nfourteen years since the release of Princess Mononoke, there doesn\'t\nexist much of an ability to compare the thoughts on it in the present\nand what might be considered of it in the future. Only time will tell\nif this masterpiece has the ability to remain a timeless classic, but\nit has aged well, and continues to be a perennial example of\nMiyazaki\'s ability to delight movie-goers.\n\n    My personal reaction to this movie was very strong. It was one of\nthe first films by Miyazaki that was introduced to me, and remains\ndeeply embedded in my mind even to this day. Despite the amazing and\nfantastical ability of the animation team and director to create\ncaptivating movies, Princess Mononoke is the most hauntingly beautiful\nof the many that I have seen. Miyazaki delights in providing a strong\nfemale lead to follow, and this habit of his plays out well in the\nconflict between San – the Princess Mononoke figure – and her nemesis,\nLady Eboshi, the founder of Irontown. Prince Ashitaka also provides a\npositive male moral role model, nicely covering the bases for any\ngender of child to be able to find a character worth identifying with.\nPerhaps the most interesting thing that I discovered in the course of\nresearching was that Billy Bob Thorton plays one of the voice roles in\nthe movie, something that I found rather comical given that the bulk\nof his work is far from appropriate for a young audience.\n\n    When finding a work worthy of comparing to Princess Mononoke, it\nwas difficult to settle on a single comparison. There exists a breadth\nof both Japanese animation and American animation available to stand\nagainst Princess Mononoke, but because of the unique quality of\nMiyazaki\'s work, it seemed unfair to lump it into either category\nspecifically. For this reason I have chosen to make two comparisons.\nTo begin with, it seems most appropriate to hold Princess Mononoke up\nagainst one of the more popular Japanese animated movies of the time,\nVampire Hunter D. Even though a person who has seen both of these\nmovies might disagree at first glance, there are actually many\nsimilarities between the two. Princess Mononoke incorporates many of\nthe same organic shapes and movements, especially when contrasting the\n\'demonic\' presence that comes with Ashitaka\'s curse and the demonic\ncreatures that are encountered in Vampire Hunter D. Also similar to\nPrincess Mononoke is the way in which the characters in Vampire Hunter\nD do not have a specifically Japanese appearance. The main male\ncharacter, D, looks European. He is tall, with pale skin. The main\nfemale character is blonde. Not the only blonde, in fact, as the son\nof the town\'s mayor is also fair skinned, with oval eyes and golden\nhair. Both movies feature supernatural characters as well as human.\nThese shared traits are often over-looked due to the stark difference\nin target audience between the two films. Vampire Hunter D contains\ngraphic violence and even nudity, making it less than appropriate for\nchildren. Despite being animated, it was meant for adults, and this\nshows through in the content. Princess Mononoke was meant to be\nenjoyed by both children and adults, but the violent content it\ncontains ( another trait it shares with most Japanese animation )\nnetted it a rating of M-15, meaning that it was unsuitable for\nchildren under the age of fifteen.\n\n    To show the reverse side of American animation in comparison to\nPrincess Mononoke, it seemed most feasible to find an extreme of\nAmerican animation. Something contemporary and computer animated to\nprovide the best contrast between the work of Miyazaki and the works\ndone by his peers. For this reason Finding Nemo stands out as the best\nexample of American animation to stand against Princess Mononoke.\nFinding Nemo was released in 2003 by Pixar studios in collusion with\nWalt Disney. Disney is also responsible for bringing the works of\nMiyazaki to America, which makes the comparison almost too perfect.\n“According to director/founder John Lasseter, Pixar’s ‘most\ninspirational ﬁlms’ are ‘the animated ﬁlms of Hayao Miyazaki and the\nStudio Ghibli’ and what inspires them is ‘the sense of heart and\ncharacter, the use of scale, the brilliant staging and timing of\naction and humor, the simplicity and beauty of the effects and mostly\nthe imagination, (Aoun.)” Ironically, Pixar has been on the cutting\nedge of computer generated animation almost since it was begun, while\nStudio Ghibli remains steadfast in its determination to do most of the\nanimation in their films by hand. Finding Nemo is probably one of the\nmore famous incarnations of this computer animation, and interestingly\nenough, deals with some of the same environmental issues that Princess\nMononoke touches on. Finding Nemo focuses on the exotic fish trade,\ncasting it in a somewhat negative light ( Nemo is \'stolen\' from his\nfamily to supply an aquarium. ) Although the film\'s creators tried to\ndiscourage people from buying exotic fish with their movie, it instead\nled to a massive boom in clown fish sales, creating yet another\ncontrast with Princess Mononoke in that Miyazaki\'s film perhaps had\nmore realistic goals with its moralizing. The animation styles for the\ntwo movies are, of course, as different as night and day, and the\nmaturity level of the story also seems to have a huge difference\nbetween the two. Finding Nemo is a gentle comedy, awarded a G rating,\nthe mildest of all available. For violent content, Princess Mononoke\nbeing put alongside Finding Nemo is much like putting Princess\nMononoke alongside Vampire Hunter D. Which just goes to illustrate how\ndelicately balanced between the world of American animation and the\nworld of Japanese animation Princess Mononoke really is.\n\n    This work should definitely be preserved for the future, not only\nbecause of the amazing animation quality and the imaginative vision\nthat backs up the impressive art, but also for the morality and\nmessage of the story that is presented by Hayao Miyazaki. The story is\none of revenge, betrayal, and ultimately forgiveness. Princess\nMononoke provides an excellent example of the differences – and the\nsimilarities – between American and Japanese animation, and will\nlikely remain one of the better examples for a very long time to come.\n\n\n\nWorks Cited\n\nKing, Donna Lee. \"CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS: Kids,\nEnvironmental Crisis, And Competing Narratives Of The New World\nOrder.\" Sociological Quarterly 35.1 (1994): 103-120. Academic Search\nComplete. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\n\nWright, LucyClode, Jerry. \"The Animated Worlds Of Hayao Miyazaki.\"\nMetro 143 (2005): 46. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\n\nAoun, Steven. \"Film Of The Quarter: Princess Mononoke.\" Metro 143\n(2005): 171. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\n\nMurphy, Joseph. \"Anime: From Akira To Princess Mononoke: Experiencing\nContemporary Japanese Animation.\" Philosophy East &amp; West56.3 (2006):\n493. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.','Princess Mononoke -- Pixar\'s Inspiration','','inherit','open','open','','2087-revision','','','2011-11-21 12:40:23','2011-11-21 18:40:23','',2087,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2090',0,'revision','',0),(2091,45,'2011-11-21 12:39:27','2011-11-21 18:39:27','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more--></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Needless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities&gt;','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision-4','','','2011-11-21 12:39:27','2011-11-21 18:39:27','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2091',0,'revision','',0),(2092,48,'2011-11-21 12:40:34','2011-11-21 18:40:34','<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY\">Princess Mononoke Trailer On Youtube</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg</a>\r\n\r\n    Even though it is perhaps not the most lauded work of Hayao\r\nMiyazaki, the movie Princess Mononoke is still a classic worth\r\npreserving. Released in 1997, this movie focuses on the story of\r\nAshitaka, a young prince who has fallen under a curse that will kill\r\nhim unless he finds a way to remove it. This quest leads Ashitaka to\r\ntravel to the distant forest where the Forest God lives in hopes of\r\nfinding someone or something that can help him. Along the way he meets\r\na mercenary priest who wants to kill the Forest God and claim the\r\nreward money offered for the spirit\'s head, as well as a small colony\r\nof iron workers, who are waging war against the forest animals in an\r\neffort to get at the rich natural resources beneath the forest. Caught\r\nup in the fighting Ashitaka falls in love with the human girl, San,\r\nwho was raised by the wolves of the forest, and must find a way to\r\nsave not only himself, but San and the Forest God as well. With it\'s\r\nbrilliant animation and a message that allows for a wide cross-culture\r\nappeal, Princess Mononoke is without a doubt a work that should be\r\npreserved for future generations.\r\n\r\n    Princess Mononoke was released in 1997, following closely on the\r\nheels of the cartoon series Captain Planet, which ran from 1990 to\r\n1996. Like many of Hayo Miyazaki\'s films, Princess Mononoke deals\r\nheavily with the relation of human beings to the planet, and the\r\nimpact that industrialization has on nature. One of the main themes is\r\nthe damage that people can do to the environment, which is also a main\r\nfocus of the animated series Captain Planet. “Captain Planet...[is]\r\nsymbolic of a contradictory environmental ethic that seeks to improve\r\nthe planet and maintain existing social relations, ( King.)” In a\r\ndirect correlation to the sudden fascination with the environmentalist\r\nmovement that was taking place in western culture, Miyazaki\'s films\r\nplace great importance on the,”transformation and reinvigoration of\r\nthe tenets of Shintoism and local mythology...For example, a\r\nnon-Japanese audience viewing Princess Mononoke can clearly read the\r\nsymbolic beheading of the spirit of the forest in terms of globally\r\ncirculating narratives of environmental destruction, whereas a\r\nJapanese audience are also likely to simultaneously engage here with\r\nspeciﬁc allusions to kami, or gods, and Shintoist tenets of respecting\r\nand communing with nature’s deities, (Wright.)“ So it can be said that\r\nPrincess Mononoke is a typical work of the times for both Japan and\r\nAmerica. The themes of environmentalism would be familiar for either\r\nculture, and the idea of an animated film or series that highlighted\r\nsuch themes would be especially appropriate for America, since such\r\nthings were already mainstream. Following the first Gulf War in the\r\nearly 1990\'s, the secondary message of peace and learning to live\r\ntogether – not just in terms of humans and nature, but also in terms\r\nof humans and other humans – would have been especially well received.\r\nPrincess Mononoke was also squarely in the height of the Japanese\r\nanimation craze that was hitting America following the appearance of\r\nthe acclaimed Vampire Hunter D ( 1985 ) and Akira ( 1988. ) Such\r\nseries as Sailor Moon ( 1995-2000 ) and Dragon Ball Z ( 1989-2003 )\r\nwere also extremely popular at this time in America as well as\r\noverseas.\r\n\r\n    What sets Princess Mononoke apart from this trend is the sheer\r\npopularity that the film enjoyed. It “eclipsed Steven Spielberg’s E.T.\r\nto create a new domestic box-ofﬁce record, only to be nudged out by\r\nJames Cameron’s Titanic in the same year (Wright.)” This may be due to\r\nthe fact that although computer generated images, also known as CGI,\r\nwere just beginning to take off during the mid-to-late nineties, the\r\nstudio responsible for producing the fantastical films of Miyazaki\r\nfirmly stood their ground and continued to animate by hand rather than\r\nrelying on computers. This hand animating is what gives Miyazaki\'s\r\nartwork much of its unique look and broad appeal. Miyazaki was also a\r\nfore-runner in the tradition of creating Japanese works of art – be it\r\ngames or film – that showcased characters stripped of anything that\r\nwould identify them as being strictly Japanese. This removal of the\r\nnative culture from their products has been given much of the credit\r\nfor the wild popularity of Japanese games and film. “Japan’s recent\r\ncultural expansion is premised on a strategy of blurring distinctively\r\nJapanese attributes of exports to create ‘culturally odourless\r\nproducts’. In particular, animation and game software destined for\r\nexport are prone to mu-kokuseki—the erasure of racial and ethnic\r\ncharacteristics and any context that would embed a speciﬁc culture or\r\ncountry, (Wright.)” When it really comes down to it, though, there is\r\nreally no single explanation why the works of Miyazaki, and Princess\r\nMononoke in particular, stand out from the other works of this period.\r\nLooking at other anime, there are many films and series that\r\nincorporate the same idea of being culturally non-specific to Japan.\r\nAmerican cartoons were extolling some of the same virtues about\r\ncoexisting and environmental importance, but never came close to\r\napproaching the popularity of Miyazaki\'s works. The majority of the\r\nanimated works at this time were still hand drawn, with the boom of\r\ncomputer animation coming later, burgeoning in the beginning of the\r\n2000\'s. It may be that the success of Princess Mononoke lies in the\r\ncombination of the beautiful hand-drawn art, and the way in which\r\nMiyazaki incorporated Japanese folk lore and themes into a film that\r\nis still culturally ambiguous enough to reach a wider audience.\r\nCertainly no other film had brought these aspects together in such a\r\nway prior.\r\n\r\n    Realizing that Princess Mononoke edged out the blockbuster E.T.,\r\nit should not be surprising that it was hailed as an almost instant\r\nclassic. “Virtually every frame is alive to this movement, and\r\nastounds with its natural talent and imagination,(Aoun.)” Another\r\ncritic, cited in Aoun\'s article, raves that it is,”the Star Wars of\r\nanimation.” It almost seems as if the critics are strangely,\r\nunanimously in agreement with audiences in regards to this film, which\r\nis a favorite of both young and old. Since it has only been a meager\r\nfourteen years since the release of Princess Mononoke, there doesn\'t\r\nexist much of an ability to compare the thoughts on it in the present\r\nand what might be considered of it in the future. Only time will tell\r\nif this masterpiece has the ability to remain a timeless classic, but\r\nit has aged well, and continues to be a perennial example of\r\nMiyazaki\'s ability to delight movie-goers.\r\n\r\n    My personal reaction to this movie was very strong. It was one of\r\nthe first films by Miyazaki that was introduced to me, and remains\r\ndeeply embedded in my mind even to this day. Despite the amazing and\r\nfantastical ability of the animation team and director to create\r\ncaptivating movies, Princess Mononoke is the most hauntingly beautiful\r\nof the many that I have seen. Miyazaki delights in providing a strong\r\nfemale lead to follow, and this habit of his plays out well in the\r\nconflict between San – the Princess Mononoke figure – and her nemesis,\r\nLady Eboshi, the founder of Irontown. Prince Ashitaka also provides a\r\npositive male moral role model, nicely covering the bases for any\r\ngender of child to be able to find a character worth identifying with.\r\nPerhaps the most interesting thing that I discovered in the course of\r\nresearching was that Billy Bob Thorton plays one of the voice roles in\r\nthe movie, something that I found rather comical given that the bulk\r\nof his work is far from appropriate for a young audience.\r\n\r\n    When finding a work worthy of comparing to Princess Mononoke, it\r\nwas difficult to settle on a single comparison. There exists a breadth\r\nof both Japanese animation and American animation available to stand\r\nagainst Princess Mononoke, but because of the unique quality of\r\nMiyazaki\'s work, it seemed unfair to lump it into either category\r\nspecifically. For this reason I have chosen to make two comparisons.\r\nTo begin with, it seems most appropriate to hold Princess Mononoke up\r\nagainst one of the more popular Japanese animated movies of the time,\r\nVampire Hunter D. Even though a person who has seen both of these\r\nmovies might disagree at first glance, there are actually many\r\nsimilarities between the two. Princess Mononoke incorporates many of\r\nthe same organic shapes and movements, especially when contrasting the\r\n\'demonic\' presence that comes with Ashitaka\'s curse and the demonic\r\ncreatures that are encountered in Vampire Hunter D. Also similar to\r\nPrincess Mononoke is the way in which the characters in Vampire Hunter\r\nD do not have a specifically Japanese appearance. The main male\r\ncharacter, D, looks European. He is tall, with pale skin. The main\r\nfemale character is blonde. Not the only blonde, in fact, as the son\r\nof the town\'s mayor is also fair skinned, with oval eyes and golden\r\nhair. Both movies feature supernatural characters as well as human.\r\nThese shared traits are often over-looked due to the stark difference\r\nin target audience between the two films. Vampire Hunter D contains\r\ngraphic violence and even nudity, making it less than appropriate for\r\nchildren. Despite being animated, it was meant for adults, and this\r\nshows through in the content. Princess Mononoke was meant to be\r\nenjoyed by both children and adults, but the violent content it\r\ncontains ( another trait it shares with most Japanese animation )\r\nnetted it a rating of M-15, meaning that it was unsuitable for\r\nchildren under the age of fifteen.\r\n\r\n    To show the reverse side of American animation in comparison to\r\nPrincess Mononoke, it seemed most feasible to find an extreme of\r\nAmerican animation. Something contemporary and computer animated to\r\nprovide the best contrast between the work of Miyazaki and the works\r\ndone by his peers. For this reason Finding Nemo stands out as the best\r\nexample of American animation to stand against Princess Mononoke.\r\nFinding Nemo was released in 2003 by Pixar studios in collusion with\r\nWalt Disney. Disney is also responsible for bringing the works of\r\nMiyazaki to America, which makes the comparison almost too perfect.\r\n“According to director/founder John Lasseter, Pixar’s ‘most\r\ninspirational ﬁlms’ are ‘the animated ﬁlms of Hayao Miyazaki and the\r\nStudio Ghibli’ and what inspires them is ‘the sense of heart and\r\ncharacter, the use of scale, the brilliant staging and timing of\r\naction and humor, the simplicity and beauty of the effects and mostly\r\nthe imagination, (Aoun.)” Ironically, Pixar has been on the cutting\r\nedge of computer generated animation almost since it was begun, while\r\nStudio Ghibli remains steadfast in its determination to do most of the\r\nanimation in their films by hand. Finding Nemo is probably one of the\r\nmore famous incarnations of this computer animation, and interestingly\r\nenough, deals with some of the same environmental issues that Princess\r\nMononoke touches on. Finding Nemo focuses on the exotic fish trade,\r\ncasting it in a somewhat negative light ( Nemo is \'stolen\' from his\r\nfamily to supply an aquarium. ) Although the film\'s creators tried to\r\ndiscourage people from buying exotic fish with their movie, it instead\r\nled to a massive boom in clown fish sales, creating yet another\r\ncontrast with Princess Mononoke in that Miyazaki\'s film perhaps had\r\nmore realistic goals with its moralizing. The animation styles for the\r\ntwo movies are, of course, as different as night and day, and the\r\nmaturity level of the story also seems to have a huge difference\r\nbetween the two. Finding Nemo is a gentle comedy, awarded a G rating,\r\nthe mildest of all available. For violent content, Princess Mononoke\r\nbeing put alongside Finding Nemo is much like putting Princess\r\nMononoke alongside Vampire Hunter D. Which just goes to illustrate how\r\ndelicately balanced between the world of American animation and the\r\nworld of Japanese animation Princess Mononoke really is.\r\n\r\n    This work should definitely be preserved for the future, not only\r\nbecause of the amazing animation quality and the imaginative vision\r\nthat backs up the impressive art, but also for the morality and\r\nmessage of the story that is presented by Hayao Miyazaki. The story is\r\none of revenge, betrayal, and ultimately forgiveness. Princess\r\nMononoke provides an excellent example of the differences – and the\r\nsimilarities – between American and Japanese animation, and will\r\nlikely remain one of the better examples for a very long time to come.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWorks Cited\r\n\r\nKing, Donna Lee. \"CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS: Kids,\r\nEnvironmental Crisis, And Competing Narratives Of The New World\r\nOrder.\" Sociological Quarterly 35.1 (1994): 103-120. Academic Search\r\nComplete. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nWright, LucyClode, Jerry. \"The Animated Worlds Of Hayao Miyazaki.\"\r\nMetro 143 (2005): 46. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nAoun, Steven. \"Film Of The Quarter: Princess Mononoke.\" Metro 143\r\n(2005): 171. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nMurphy, Joseph. \"Anime: From Akira To Princess Mononoke: Experiencing\r\nContemporary Japanese Animation.\" Philosophy East &amp; West56.3 (2006):\r\n493. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.','Princess Mononoke -- Pixar\'s Inspiration','','inherit','open','open','','2087-revision-2','','','2011-11-21 12:40:34','2011-11-21 18:40:34','',2087,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2092',0,'revision','',0),(2093,45,'2011-11-21 12:40:37','2011-11-21 18:40:37','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps”  (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more--></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Needless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities\">http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities</a>','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision-5','','','2011-11-21 12:40:37','2011-11-21 18:40:37','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2093',0,'revision','',0),(2094,48,'2011-11-21 12:40:38','2011-11-21 18:40:38','<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY\">Princess Mononoke Trailer On Youtube</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg</a>\r\n\r\n    Even though it is perhaps not the most lauded work of Hayao\r\nMiyazaki, the movie Princess Mononoke is still a classic worth\r\npreserving. Released in 1997, this movie focuses on the story of\r\nAshitaka, a young prince who has fallen under a curse that will kill\r\nhim unless he finds a way to remove it. This quest leads Ashitaka to\r\ntravel to the distant forest where the Forest God lives in hopes of\r\nfinding someone or something that can help him. Along the way he meets\r\na mercenary priest who wants to kill the Forest God and claim the\r\nreward money offered for the spirit\'s head, as well as a small colony\r\nof iron workers, who are waging war against the forest animals in an\r\neffort to get at the rich natural resources beneath the forest. Caught\r\nup in the fighting Ashitaka falls in love with the human girl, San,\r\nwho was raised by the wolves of the forest, and must find a way to\r\nsave not only himself, but San and the Forest God as well. With it\'s\r\nbrilliant animation and a message that allows for a wide cross-culture\r\nappeal, Princess Mononoke is without a doubt a work that should be\r\npreserved for future generations.\r\n\r\n    Princess Mononoke was released in 1997, following closely on the\r\nheels of the cartoon series Captain Planet, which ran from 1990 to\r\n1996. Like many of Hayo Miyazaki\'s films, Princess Mononoke deals\r\nheavily with the relation of human beings to the planet, and the\r\nimpact that industrialization has on nature. One of the main themes is\r\nthe damage that people can do to the environment, which is also a main\r\nfocus of the animated series Captain Planet. “Captain Planet...[is]\r\nsymbolic of a contradictory environmental ethic that seeks to improve\r\nthe planet and maintain existing social relations, ( King.)” In a\r\ndirect correlation to the sudden fascination with the environmentalist\r\nmovement that was taking place in western culture, Miyazaki\'s films\r\nplace great importance on the,”transformation and reinvigoration of\r\nthe tenets of Shintoism and local mythology...For example, a\r\nnon-Japanese audience viewing Princess Mononoke can clearly read the\r\nsymbolic beheading of the spirit of the forest in terms of globally\r\ncirculating narratives of environmental destruction, whereas a\r\nJapanese audience are also likely to simultaneously engage here with\r\nspeciﬁc allusions to kami, or gods, and Shintoist tenets of respecting\r\nand communing with nature’s deities, (Wright.)“ So it can be said that\r\nPrincess Mononoke is a typical work of the times for both Japan and\r\nAmerica. The themes of environmentalism would be familiar for either\r\nculture, and the idea of an animated film or series that highlighted\r\nsuch themes would be especially appropriate for America, since such\r\nthings were already mainstream. Following the first Gulf War in the\r\nearly 1990\'s, the secondary message of peace and learning to live\r\ntogether – not just in terms of humans and nature, but also in terms\r\nof humans and other humans – would have been especially well received.\r\nPrincess Mononoke was also squarely in the height of the Japanese\r\nanimation craze that was hitting America following the appearance of\r\nthe acclaimed Vampire Hunter D ( 1985 ) and Akira ( 1988. ) Such\r\nseries as Sailor Moon ( 1995-2000 ) and Dragon Ball Z ( 1989-2003 )\r\nwere also extremely popular at this time in America as well as\r\noverseas.\r\n\r\n    What sets Princess Mononoke apart from this trend is the sheer\r\npopularity that the film enjoyed. It “eclipsed Steven Spielberg’s E.T.\r\nto create a new domestic box-ofﬁce record, only to be nudged out by\r\nJames Cameron’s Titanic in the same year (Wright.)” This may be due to\r\nthe fact that although computer generated images, also known as CGI,\r\nwere just beginning to take off during the mid-to-late nineties, the\r\nstudio responsible for producing the fantastical films of Miyazaki\r\nfirmly stood their ground and continued to animate by hand rather than\r\nrelying on computers. This hand animating is what gives Miyazaki\'s\r\nartwork much of its unique look and broad appeal. Miyazaki was also a\r\nfore-runner in the tradition of creating Japanese works of art – be it\r\ngames or film – that showcased characters stripped of anything that\r\nwould identify them as being strictly Japanese. This removal of the\r\nnative culture from their products has been given much of the credit\r\nfor the wild popularity of Japanese games and film. “Japan’s recent\r\ncultural expansion is premised on a strategy of blurring distinctively\r\nJapanese attributes of exports to create ‘culturally odourless\r\nproducts’. In particular, animation and game software destined for\r\nexport are prone to mu-kokuseki—the erasure of racial and ethnic\r\ncharacteristics and any context that would embed a speciﬁc culture or\r\ncountry, (Wright.)” When it really comes down to it, though, there is\r\nreally no single explanation why the works of Miyazaki, and Princess\r\nMononoke in particular, stand out from the other works of this period.\r\nLooking at other anime, there are many films and series that\r\nincorporate the same idea of being culturally non-specific to Japan.\r\nAmerican cartoons were extolling some of the same virtues about\r\ncoexisting and environmental importance, but never came close to\r\napproaching the popularity of Miyazaki\'s works. The majority of the\r\nanimated works at this time were still hand drawn, with the boom of\r\ncomputer animation coming later, burgeoning in the beginning of the\r\n2000\'s. It may be that the success of Princess Mononoke lies in the\r\ncombination of the beautiful hand-drawn art, and the way in which\r\nMiyazaki incorporated Japanese folk lore and themes into a film that\r\nis still culturally ambiguous enough to reach a wider audience.\r\nCertainly no other film had brought these aspects together in such a\r\nway prior.\r\n\r\n    Realizing that Princess Mononoke edged out the blockbuster E.T.,\r\nit should not be surprising that it was hailed as an almost instant\r\nclassic. “Virtually every frame is alive to this movement, and\r\nastounds with its natural talent and imagination,(Aoun.)” Another\r\ncritic, cited in Aoun\'s article, raves that it is,”the Star Wars of\r\nanimation.” It almost seems as if the critics are strangely,\r\nunanimously in agreement with audiences in regards to this film, which\r\nis a favorite of both young and old. Since it has only been a meager\r\nfourteen years since the release of Princess Mononoke, there doesn\'t\r\nexist much of an ability to compare the thoughts on it in the present\r\nand what might be considered of it in the future. Only time will tell\r\nif this masterpiece has the ability to remain a timeless classic, but\r\nit has aged well, and continues to be a perennial example of\r\nMiyazaki\'s ability to delight movie-goers.\r\n\r\n    My personal reaction to this movie was very strong. It was one of\r\nthe first films by Miyazaki that was introduced to me, and remains\r\ndeeply embedded in my mind even to this day. Despite the amazing and\r\nfantastical ability of the animation team and director to create\r\ncaptivating movies, Princess Mononoke is the most hauntingly beautiful\r\nof the many that I have seen. Miyazaki delights in providing a strong\r\nfemale lead to follow, and this habit of his plays out well in the\r\nconflict between San – the Princess Mononoke figure – and her nemesis,\r\nLady Eboshi, the founder of Irontown. Prince Ashitaka also provides a\r\npositive male moral role model, nicely covering the bases for any\r\ngender of child to be able to find a character worth identifying with.\r\nPerhaps the most interesting thing that I discovered in the course of\r\nresearching was that Billy Bob Thorton plays one of the voice roles in\r\nthe movie, something that I found rather comical given that the bulk\r\nof his work is far from appropriate for a young audience.\r\n\r\n    When finding a work worthy of comparing to Princess Mononoke, it\r\nwas difficult to settle on a single comparison. There exists a breadth\r\nof both Japanese animation and American animation available to stand\r\nagainst Princess Mononoke, but because of the unique quality of\r\nMiyazaki\'s work, it seemed unfair to lump it into either category\r\nspecifically. For this reason I have chosen to make two comparisons.\r\nTo begin with, it seems most appropriate to hold Princess Mononoke up\r\nagainst one of the more popular Japanese animated movies of the time,\r\nVampire Hunter D. Even though a person who has seen both of these\r\nmovies might disagree at first glance, there are actually many\r\nsimilarities between the two. Princess Mononoke incorporates many of\r\nthe same organic shapes and movements, especially when contrasting the\r\n\'demonic\' presence that comes with Ashitaka\'s curse and the demonic\r\ncreatures that are encountered in Vampire Hunter D. Also similar to\r\nPrincess Mononoke is the way in which the characters in Vampire Hunter\r\nD do not have a specifically Japanese appearance. The main male\r\ncharacter, D, looks European. He is tall, with pale skin. The main\r\nfemale character is blonde. Not the only blonde, in fact, as the son\r\nof the town\'s mayor is also fair skinned, with oval eyes and golden\r\nhair. Both movies feature supernatural characters as well as human.\r\nThese shared traits are often over-looked due to the stark difference\r\nin target audience between the two films. Vampire Hunter D contains\r\ngraphic violence and even nudity, making it less than appropriate for\r\nchildren. Despite being animated, it was meant for adults, and this\r\nshows through in the content. Princess Mononoke was meant to be\r\nenjoyed by both children and adults, but the violent content it\r\ncontains ( another trait it shares with most Japanese animation )\r\nnetted it a rating of M-15, meaning that it was unsuitable for\r\nchildren under the age of fifteen.\r\n\r\n    To show the reverse side of American animation in comparison to\r\nPrincess Mononoke, it seemed most feasible to find an extreme of\r\nAmerican animation. Something contemporary and computer animated to\r\nprovide the best contrast between the work of Miyazaki and the works\r\ndone by his peers. For this reason Finding Nemo stands out as the best\r\nexample of American animation to stand against Princess Mononoke.\r\nFinding Nemo was released in 2003 by Pixar studios in collusion with\r\nWalt Disney. Disney is also responsible for bringing the works of\r\nMiyazaki to America, which makes the comparison almost too perfect.\r\n“According to director/founder John Lasseter, Pixar’s ‘most\r\ninspirational ﬁlms’ are ‘the animated ﬁlms of Hayao Miyazaki and the\r\nStudio Ghibli’ and what inspires them is ‘the sense of heart and\r\ncharacter, the use of scale, the brilliant staging and timing of\r\naction and humor, the simplicity and beauty of the effects and mostly\r\nthe imagination, (Aoun.)” Ironically, Pixar has been on the cutting\r\nedge of computer generated animation almost since it was begun, while\r\nStudio Ghibli remains steadfast in its determination to do most of the\r\nanimation in their films by hand. Finding Nemo is probably one of the\r\nmore famous incarnations of this computer animation, and interestingly\r\nenough, deals with some of the same environmental issues that Princess\r\nMononoke touches on. Finding Nemo focuses on the exotic fish trade,\r\ncasting it in a somewhat negative light ( Nemo is \'stolen\' from his\r\nfamily to supply an aquarium. ) Although the film\'s creators tried to\r\ndiscourage people from buying exotic fish with their movie, it instead\r\nled to a massive boom in clown fish sales, creating yet another\r\ncontrast with Princess Mononoke in that Miyazaki\'s film perhaps had\r\nmore realistic goals with its moralizing. The animation styles for the\r\ntwo movies are, of course, as different as night and day, and the\r\nmaturity level of the story also seems to have a huge difference\r\nbetween the two. Finding Nemo is a gentle comedy, awarded a G rating,\r\nthe mildest of all available. For violent content, Princess Mononoke\r\nbeing put alongside Finding Nemo is much like putting Princess\r\nMononoke alongside Vampire Hunter D. Which just goes to illustrate how\r\ndelicately balanced between the world of American animation and the\r\nworld of Japanese animation Princess Mononoke really is.\r\n\r\n    This work should definitely be preserved for the future, not only\r\nbecause of the amazing animation quality and the imaginative vision\r\nthat backs up the impressive art, but also for the morality and\r\nmessage of the story that is presented by Hayao Miyazaki. The story is\r\none of revenge, betrayal, and ultimately forgiveness. Princess\r\nMononoke provides an excellent example of the differences – and the\r\nsimilarities – between American and Japanese animation, and will\r\nlikely remain one of the better examples for a very long time to come.\r\n\r\nWorks Cited\r\n\r\nKing, Donna Lee. \"CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS: Kids,\r\nEnvironmental Crisis, And Competing Narratives Of The New World\r\nOrder.\" Sociological Quarterly 35.1 (1994): 103-120. Academic Search\r\nComplete. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nWright, LucyClode, Jerry. \"The Animated Worlds Of Hayao Miyazaki.\"\r\nMetro 143 (2005): 46. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nAoun, Steven. \"Film Of The Quarter: Princess Mononoke.\" Metro 143\r\n(2005): 171. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nMurphy, Joseph. \"Anime: From Akira To Princess Mononoke: Experiencing\r\nContemporary Japanese Animation.\" Philosophy East &amp; West56.3 (2006):\r\n493. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.','Princess Mononoke -- Pixar\'s Inspiration','','inherit','open','open','','2087-revision-3','','','2011-11-21 12:40:38','2011-11-21 18:40:38','',2087,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2094',0,'revision','',0),(2095,45,'2011-11-21 12:41:12','2011-11-21 18:41:12','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps”  (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more--></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Needless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities\">http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities</a>','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision-6','','','2011-11-21 12:41:12','2011-11-21 18:41:12','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2095',0,'revision','',0),(2096,45,'2011-11-21 12:41:56','2011-11-21 18:41:56','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps”  (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more--></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Needless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities\">http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities</a>','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision-7','','','2011-11-21 12:41:56','2011-11-21 18:41:56','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2096',0,'revision','',0),(2097,45,'2011-11-21 12:43:11','2011-11-21 18:43:11','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps”  (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more--></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Needless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities\">http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities</a>','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision-8','','','2011-11-21 12:43:11','2011-11-21 18:43:11','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2097',0,'revision','',0),(2098,45,'2011-11-21 12:43:18','2011-11-21 18:43:18','<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2084\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bergen-Belsen-1945-George-Rodger2-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" /></a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Boy Walking in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html\">http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html</a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 1945, George Rodger became most noted for his being the first photographer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen (which was just after Germany’s surrender). “His photographs of the few survivors and piles of corpses were published in <em>Life</em> and <em>Time</em> magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps”  (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). This is why evidence such as the Bergen-Belsen photos should be preserved. They remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and shows that human cruelty has no limit.<!--more--></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The horrors of the Second World War were forever immortalized by television and photo-journalists like George Rodger. Between 1938 and 1945, the largest, deadliest and bloodiest war the world has ever known commenced. It started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on approximately September 1, 1939. The United Kingdom and France invaded Germany within the next two days. On September 17, the Soviet Union joined up with Germany to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. From then on, it was a domino effect of events. Germany made a pact with Italy and Japan (who became known as the Axis Powers), then betrayed and invaded the Soviet Union, forcing them to the side of the Allies (which was pretty much the rest of the world).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For three years, battles in and all around Europe raged. It is estimated that around 62 million people lost their lives in World War II. Specifically, that was about 25 million soldiers and 37 million civilians (around 9 - 12 million of which were victims of the Holocaust). “The Holocaust was the organized murder of at least nine million people, about two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Originally, the Nazis used killing squads, <em>Einsatzgruppen</em>, to conduct massive open-air killings, shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution (<em>Endlösung</em>), the genocide of all Jews in Europe, and increase the pace of the Holocaust. The Nazis built six extermination camps specifically to kill Jews. Millions of Jews who had been confined to massively overcrowded Ghettos were transported to these “Death-camps” where they were gassed or shot, usually immediately after arriving.”(www.newworldencyclopedia.org). It was the recording of these terrors that lead to George Rodger’s most famous job.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The self-taught British photojournalist is, like many photographers, not very well known. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and studied at St. Bedes College. At 17, he was removed from the school by his parents because of behavior problems. For several months, he worked on a farm before joining the British Merchant Navy for 4 years. During this time, he wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate them. He wanted to be a writer, but couldn’t get his work published. After his service, he moved to the United States. Here he did many odd jobs until 1938, in which he moved back to London to work for a magazine as a photographer. One year later, he was recruited as a war correspondent for <em>Life</em> magazine, thanks to his photographs of the Blitz in London. During this time, World War II has surfaced and with it came a strong urge within Roger to chronicle the war. He followed the war starting in West Africa, then to Burma, then Italy, and, finally, the Allied liberation of France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. It was in his final destination near Hanover in Northwest Germany where he became famous. (www.newworldencyclopedia.org).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The death camp that Rodger reported on was originally a prisoner-of-war camp for French, Belgium, and Russian prisoners (renamed Stalag in 1941). It was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen (hence its new name change in 1943 when it became a concentration camp). “Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. About 200 Jews were allowed to immigrate to Palestine and about 1,500 Hungarian Jews were allowed to immigrate to Switzerland, both took place under the rubric of exchanges for German nationals” (Weiner: “Bergen-Belsen”). It was intended to hold only about 10,000 people, but by the end of the war it held over 60,000 prisoners. Many were evacuated or lead on a death march to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz (and other Eastern camps).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">According to “Forget You Not”, a project dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, its survivors and all its horror, “It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But Bergen-Belsen was no less cruel or horrifying. Most died at Bergen-Belsen from being shot, hung, starved to death, or killed by disease. The camp did not fit the standard organization of a concentration camp. It had several camps that segregated the prisoners. Camp officials even traded important prisoners, including Jews, in exchange for money from different governments. Bergen-Belsen was unique in many ways, but it was still a camp where thousands suffered and died under the harsh hand of Nazi leadership.” This holds true. For a concentration camp, the conditions were pretty good and prisoners were not forced to work. However, in 1944, the camp deteriorated rapidly. Bergen-Belsen then became a recovery camp, where those too sick or weak to work were brought (none received medical treatment, however), as well as those evacuated from other camps throughout the German’s retreat from the Allies. Disease spread when all basic services (i.e.-food and water) collapsed, the camp unable to accommodate the sudden increase in prisoners. Along with disease, things like starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and sadistic medical experiments killed many. In fact, so many died, that “Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.” (All based or quoted from Weiner on “Bergen-Belsen”)</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As the first major camp to be liberated by the allies [on April 15, 1945], the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. This is where Rodger comes in. As a war correspondent for <em>Life</em>, his job was to record and report what was going on in the world, making this a very common and typical topic. However, what made these photos stand out so much from many other war photos was their content. This wasn’t just of the soldiers or the battlefield. There were of the victims of those battles. “Horrific photos and films of the camp\'s [many unburied corpses, dying inmates,] emaciated corpses and mortally sick inmates were quickly circulated around the globe. Within weeks the British military occupation newspaper proclaimed: “The story of that greatest of all exhibitions of ‘man\'s inhumanity to man’ which was Belsen Concentration Camp is known throughout the world.” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Needless to say, the reaction to such reports and the reality of even the least horrific of concentration camps was as expected. The people back home who say these things through the media were as shocked as anyone else. It was an entirely different story for those that were actually there. “The British troops who liberated the Belsen camp three weeks before the end of the war were shocked and disgusted by [what] they found there” (Weber: “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story”). This was the soldiers’ and reporters’ initial reactions. However, Rodger himself has been quoted on later recalling how, after spending several hours at the camp, “It wasn\'t even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I could look at the horror of Belsen - 4000 dead and starving lying around - and think only of a nice photographic composition, I knew something had happened to me and I had to stop. I felt I was like the people running the camp - it didn\'t mean a thing.” The traumatic experience of the camp allowed Rodger to realize that he could never work as a war correspondent again. He left <em>Life</em> magazine and travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these area\'s wildlife and people. “Those images, well known all over the world, continued to haunt him until his death in 1995; he refused to look at them for 45 years” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). One cannot even imagine what it was like for those that suffered and were held there at the camp. Even today, these images haunt people in the back of their minds whenever WWII and the Holocaust are mentioned. There have been many efforts to remind people of this horror and to make sure it never happens again (i.e.-the “Forget You Not” project).</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have to agree with the majority in saying that these photos are quite upsetting. Among the most famous of them, is the one above. It is that of a little boy walking past an endless row of bodies within the camp. I can’t help but look at this picture and wonder things like: “What terrors has he seen?” and “What will the rest of his life be like?” He will likely have nightmares and always live in fear for the rest of his days. I can’t even put myself in his place and say I understand what he’s gone through. It’s always distressing when I see something like this, not necessarily because of the content of it, but because some number of people wanted for this to happen. They deliberately destroyed other people’s lives, and for what: land, resources, power, and a blind hatred for people with different traits. These things seem so insignificant when comparing them to the value of human life and its quality.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What I believe to be one of the best comparisons to these photos is another war photo. It is also an iconic image, but from the Vietnam war. The image is that of Kim Phuc Phan Thai, also known as “Napalm Girl” after the photo was published. She is the naked girl (running away from a recent napalm attack) in the center of the photo suffering from napalm burns on her arms and back. She became the anti-war symbol for the North Vietnamese Government. The entire image encompasses pain, fear, and death. Much like Rodger’s photos of the Holocaust, this one speaks beyond mere words about the devastation war has on the world and those who get caught in the middle of it. Although many of the survivors that were liberated from Bergen-Belsen in the Holocaust photos continued on living afterwards, most of them perished upon or soon after rescue. Kim survived the burns and went on to living a fairly normal life and, unlike the Holocaust victims, forgave those that hurt her.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This work, and many others like it, should be preserved to remind us that war should never be the right choice. The costs are always too high and too many lives are destroyed, if not snuffed out completely. While it is difficult to fully comprehend the brutality of concentration and death camps, its significance goes beyond description. As experienced freelance writer, Geoffrey Weed puts it, “The significance of Bergen-Belsen, and of the Holocaust as a whole, has yet to be fully seen. The whole second half of the 20th century was tinged with the horrible fact that a modern Western society could commit such egregious crimes against humanity. The true significance of the Bergen-Belsen camp will probably continue to evolve and to be felt for generations to come.” Therefore, future generations should have these types of photos to remind us of the tremendous suffering and pain which always results from war and how human cruelty has no limit.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"> </p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Works Cited</span>:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Forget You Not.” “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.</strong>” NatureQuest Publications. 2002-2012. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html&gt;\r\n\r\nHRC. “<strong>Boy walking on Bergen Belsen concentration camp- by George Rodger, 1945</strong>.” Photography and Image. January 11, 2007. Web. Accessed: November 18, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://photographyandimage.blogspot.com/2007/01/boy-walking-on-bergen-belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeber, Mark. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story</strong>.” Institute for Historical Review. May-June 1995. Web. Accessed: November 12, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeed, Geoffrey. “<strong>About Bergen-Belsen</strong>.” Demand Media, Inc. February 4, 2011. Web. Accessed: November 13, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.ehow.com/about_4565989_bergen_belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWeiner, Rebecca. “<strong>Bergen-Belsen.</strong>” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. 2011. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWorstall, Tim. “<strong>Kim Phuc Phan Thai</strong>.” Examiner.com. September 10, 2009. Web. Accessed: November 10, 2011.\r\n\r\n&lt;http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-national/kim-phuc-phan-thai&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>Rodger, George</strong>.”<strong> </strong>Paragon House Publishers. April 2, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 16, 2011.\r\n\r\n<strong>&lt;</strong>http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/George_Rodger&gt;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUnknown. “<strong>World War II</strong>” Paragon House Publishers. April 4, 2008. Web. Accessed: November 15, 2011.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities\">http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_World_War#Casualties.2C_civilian_impact.2C_and_atrocities</a>','George Rodger\'s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp photos','','inherit','open','open','','2077-revision-9','','','2011-11-21 12:43:18','2011-11-21 18:43:18','',2077,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2098',0,'revision','',0),(2099,48,'2011-11-21 12:36:00','2011-11-21 18:36:00','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/munsters_1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1977\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/munsters_1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://api.ning.com/files/sIlJ2SN8LKQZ6x073U0Mmib5wxcqXyuI3-AJS4j6GtKzjJofJhQ3tUhG0*3e-tAixstSTPoC*N5TjNT5hEWWwteDGJW-*IYOhPChhVdycys_/munsters.jpg\">http://api.ning.com/files/sIlJ2SN8LKQZ6x073U0Mmib5wxcqXyuI3-AJS4j6GtKzjJofJhQ3tUhG0*3e-tAixstSTPoC*N5TjNT5hEWWwteDGJW-*IYOhPChhVdycys_/munsters.jpg</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPublished anonymously in 1818, Mary Shelley\'s work, Frankenstein, was\r\noriginally written as part of a wager. Mary Shelley was a young woman,\r\nstill in her teens, when she published this work. Later, in 1823, a\r\nrefined edition was published with Shelley\'s name actually on it.\r\nFrankenstein is a story about a doctor who wishes to create life, and\r\nhis creation, the monster. Shelley\'s book raises questions about the\r\nmorality of science and the nature of good and evil in general.<!--more-->\r\nAlthough Frankenstein\'s monster seeks to be accepted by society, he is\r\nultimately rejected because of his hideous appearance. Seeking revenge\r\non his creator, the monster kills Frankenstein\'s younger brother and\r\nthen his young bride before ultimately tracking down and destroying\r\nthe man who created him. Both Romanticism and the gothic novel were\r\npopular at the time this work was published, and the Industrial\r\nRevolution was gearing up, leading people to ask questions about the\r\neffects of science and industrialization on society. At this same time\r\nthe Enlightenment was in full swing, and Mary Shelley\'s own father was\r\npart of the movement. Enlightenment -- or the Age of Enlightenment --\r\nwas a school of intellectual recourse that involved higher society\r\nduring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It promoted the\r\nvirtues of higher thought and philosophy and railed against the\r\nintolerance of the church and abuses of power by both church and\r\nstate.\r\n\r\nDuring the late seventeen hundreds and the early eighteen hundreds,\r\nthe gothic novel experienced its hayday, and had a great deal of\r\ninfluence on the Romantic movement of art and writing. \"The\r\ntraditional setting, beginning with Hugh Walpole\'s The Castle of\r\nOtranto (1764), is a medieval (hence, \"gothic\") castle, replete with\r\nsecret passages, torchlit dungeons, and an occasional bat. The\r\ntraditional plot, as in Anne Radcliffe\'s The Mysteries of Udolpho\r\n(1794), involves a beautiful heroine beset by dark shadows, strange\r\nnoises, and a candle that keeps blowing out. These early gothic novels\r\naimed at instilling terror. Later examples of the form, such as\r\nMatthew Lewis\'s The Monk (1796), moved beyond terror to horror,\r\ninvoking demons, ghosts, and other supernatural paraphernalia in gory\r\nand subliminally erotic detail, (Quinn)\". Mary Shelley\'s work was\r\nperhaps one of the best known examples of the gothic novel, and is\r\nalso considered one of the earliest works of science fiction. Shelley\r\ndeals with themes that were at the time unique to gothic literature,\r\nusing elements of the \'supernatural\' and building her story so as to\r\nincite horror in the reader. At the time it was considered highly\r\ncontroversial, and part of what led up to the second edition of the\r\nbook with Shelley\'s real name on the cover was the need to edit and\r\nrefine the writing due to some of the public\'s reaction to the\r\ncontent. Frankenstein is also somewhat typical of the Romantic era\r\nwriter\'s use of the wayward hero, and a similarity can be found in the\r\nstory of Prometheus, by Johann Gothe. \"Victor and the monster are not\r\nso much villains as they are typically ambiguous Romantic heroes:\r\nVictor fails miserably, but his quest is inspiring; and the monster,\r\nthough a murderer, is also a victim, and an eloquent and sympathetic\r\nrebel against forces that violate his basic rights, (Classics\r\nReviewed)\".\r\n\r\nWhat truely sets Mary Shelley\'s tale apart from other writing of the\r\ntime is that it is one of the original instances where a story focuses\r\non the laboratory and what takes place there. \"Often called the first\r\nof its kind, Frankenstein paved the way for science fiction writing.\r\nIts depiction of a then impossible scientific feat has in our time\r\nbecome possible and is essentially recognizable in what we now refer\r\nto as bioengineering, biomedicine, or biotechnology...Victor\r\nFrankenstein, has come to serve as the poster child and whipping boy\r\nfor all scientific and technological irresponsibility, so much so that\r\nthanks to him we are able to free ourselves and our scientists from\r\nany real responsibility, since none of us ever would or could be as\r\nmonstrous as Frankenstein,  (van der Laan)\". There can be no doubt\r\nthat Frankenstein has an iconic place in culture, which it would not\r\nhave earned if it were not a revolutionary piece of work. At the time\r\nit was published no mere human could conceive of doing what Victor\r\nFrankenstein had done. Creating life was out of the question, and with\r\nthe primitive conditions that most scientists were forced to function\r\nunder due to the church, even saving lives with improvements to modern\r\nmedicine was difficult. Mary Shelley touches on the back-alley secrecy\r\nthat surrounded the act of acquiring body parts for research, which\r\nwas made practically impossible by the religious attitudes of the\r\ntime. \"From the thirteenth to the early seventeenth century, the\r\nbodies of the executed were the only legal source of bodies for\r\ndissection. Starting in the late seventeenth century, the bodies of\r\nunclaimed persons were also made legally available, (Hildebrandt)\".\r\nMary Shelley\'s work was also unusual and unique because of the author,\r\nsince even during the Age of Enlightenment it was still more common\r\nfor men to be published authors than women, and Shelley wrote\r\nFrankenstein while she was still a mere teenager.\r\n\r\nAlthough response to the initial publishing of Frankenstein was mixed,\r\nit seems to be the overall concensus that for better or worse, this\r\nnovel has firmly earned its place in history. Helen Moore wrote in\r\n1886 that,\"Of Mrs. Shelley\'s writings, Frankenstein is without\r\nquestion the most noteworthy. From the day of its first appearance in\r\nprint down to the present, it has had accorded to it a position as a\r\nunique and remarkable production.\" Although Frankenstein presented\r\nshocking and grotesque new concepts to the public, it also took off as\r\nan allegory for science without morality. The word \'Frankenstein\' has\r\nbecome almost synonymous with \'monster\', even though Frankenstein was\r\nthe monster\'s creator, and the monster himself remained nameless.\r\nFrankenstein was parodied in pictures as early as 1843.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1976\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"223\" caption=\"Frankenstein as Propoganda\"]<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_Anti-Irish_propaganda_(1882)_Irish_Frankenstein.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1976\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/446px-Punch_Anti-Irish_propaganda_1882_Irish_Frankenstein-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\nCurrent day opinion of Frankenstein does not seem to have changed much\r\nfrom the attitudes of the time towards the work. In fact, there is an\r\neerie similarity between what critics at the time were saying and what\r\nthe modern day critics seem to feel about Shelley\'s masterpiece. \"Mary\r\nWollstonecraft Shelley is responsible for a creative transformation\r\nworthy of her prototypical mad scientist, Victor Frankenstein: she\r\nreconfigures, recontextualizes, and thus modernizes the myth of\r\nPrometheus by means of a tiresome, unlucky ghost story, (Hustis)\". It\r\nmay very well be that Mary Shelley managed, without entirely meaning\r\nto, to create a story that touches so many people so deeply and\r\neffectively that she has broken the proverbial mold of writing.\r\nWhatever the case may be, there seems to be almost unilateral\r\nagreement that this particular piece of work is well deserving of its\r\nplace in the annals of history.\r\n\r\nMy personal reaction to this work has always been very strong. Whether\r\nreading the book or watching any of the myriad of movies that were\r\ninspired by Frankenstein, it is impossible to resist the allure of the\r\ntale. Victor Frankenstein takes the role of God in his hands and sets\r\nabout to defy death by creating life through the use of science. In\r\nsome ways there lies the majority of the allure. Everyone fears death,\r\nand humankind as a whole has an obsession with defeating it, whether\r\nlooking back to ancient tales of the fountain of youth, or going\r\nforward to the more modern age, where life and death are now\r\ncontrolled in the pristine setting of a laboratory or hospital.\r\n\r\nSecondary but not lesser by any means are the themes of revenge and\r\nbetrayal that come with following Frankenstein\'s creation through his\r\njourney as a misfit of society. Desperately seeking to be accepted and\r\nloved, the monster instead becomes a killer, giving up on attaining\r\nhis dream and instead attempting to get even with the person who\r\ncreated him without thought for what misery might result.\r\nAlthough it was written much later at the closing of the century,\r\nperhaps the best story to compare with Frankenstein is that of Brahm\r\nStoker\'s Dracula. A similar tale of supernatural horror and foiled\r\nromance, Dracula focuses on some of the similar themes that\r\nFrankenstein does, and has also easily become as famous as Shelley\'s\r\nnovel. Both Dracula and Frankenstein have a monsterous main character,\r\nand both Dracula and the monster created by Victor Frankenstein\r\nstruggle to have something resembling a \'human\' existance, even though\r\nsuch a thing is clearly impossible. While Frankenstein is wrought with\r\nanguish at his inability to join society, Dracula seems almost\r\nunbothered by it. Instead, Dracula rejoices in the powers that he has\r\ngained, which may be because of how much easier it is for Dracula to\r\nmove about among the \'normal\' population due to his more human\r\nappearance. Dracula and Frankenstein both rely on gothic themes and\r\nisolated landscapes to enhance the \'horrific\' aspect of the narrative,\r\nand in both stories there are a number of innocent people who suffer\r\nbecause of being involved with the monster in some tenebrous way. The\r\ncarefree Lucy in Brahm Stoker\'s tale is killed for no reason other\r\nthan being friends with the family that Dracula is tormenting.\r\nVictor\'s bride Emily falls victim to the monster that her fiancee --\r\nand later husband -- created. Both stories share aspects of\r\nRomanticism and have love stories contained within that are less\r\ncentral to the plot than the monster, which remains the focal point of\r\nthe story-telling.\r\n\r\nFor future generations there are several things to be aware of,\r\nincluding the age at which Mary Shelley authored Frankenstein, the\r\nmoral of the story, which is one cautioning against the development of\r\nscience without a counter-check of morality. To know that a teenage\r\ngirl was capable of creating such a timeless classic should inspire\r\neveryone who reads it to make the best use of their talents and aspire\r\nto do whatever it is that they love. Creativity knows no bounds, and a\r\nwork of genius can be recognized as such no matter who is the creator.\r\nAt the same time, there is also much to be gleaned from the work\r\nitself, not just about being moderate and careful when approaching new\r\nscientific and technological advances, but also about being more\r\naccepting as a society.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_______________Works Cited_______________</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Quinn, Edward. \"gothic literature.\" A Dictionary of Literary and\r\nThematic Terms, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006.\r\nBloom\'s Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Frankenstein.\" Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed (1995): 1.\r\nMagillOnLiterature Plus. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">van der Laan, J. M. \"Frankenstein as Science Fiction and Fact.\"\r\nBulletin of Science, Technology &amp; Society 30.4 (2010): 298-304.\r\nVocational and Career Collection. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hildebrandt, S. \"Capital punishment and anatomy: history and ethics of\r\nan ongoing association.\" Clinical Anatomy (New York, N.Y.) 21.1\r\n(2008): 5-14. MEDLINE. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Moore, Helen. From \"Frankenstein, and Other Writings.\" In Mary\r\nWollstonecraft Shelley: 244–264. 1886. Quoted as \"Frankenstein, and\r\nOther Writings\" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Mary Shelley, Bloom\'s Classic\r\nCritical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2008. Bloom\'s\r\nLiterary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hustis, Harriet. \"Responsible Creativity and the \"Modernity\" of Mary\r\nShelley\'s Prometheus.\" SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900,\r\n43, no. 4 (Autumn 2003): 845–858. Quoted as \"Responsible Creativity\r\nand the \"Modernity\" of Mary Shelley\'s Prometheus\" in Bloom, Harold,\r\ned. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, New Edition, Bloom\'s Modern Critical\r\nViews. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2009. Bloom\'s Literary\r\nReference Online. 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Mary Shelley was a young woman,\r\nstill in her teens, when she published this work. Later, in 1823, a\r\nrefined edition was published with Shelley\'s name actually on it.\r\nFrankenstein is a story about a doctor who wishes to create life, and\r\nhis creation, the monster. Shelley\'s book raises questions about the\r\nmorality of science and the nature of good and evil in general.<!--more-->\r\nAlthough Frankenstein\'s monster seeks to be accepted by society, he is\r\nultimately rejected because of his hideous appearance. Seeking revenge\r\non his creator, the monster kills Frankenstein\'s younger brother and\r\nthen his young bride before ultimately tracking down and destroying\r\nthe man who created him. Both Romanticism and the gothic novel were\r\npopular at the time this work was published, and the Industrial\r\nRevolution was gearing up, leading people to ask questions about the\r\neffects of science and industrialization on society. At this same time\r\nthe Enlightenment was in full swing, and Mary Shelley\'s own father was\r\npart of the movement. Enlightenment -- or the Age of Enlightenment --\r\nwas a school of intellectual recourse that involved higher society\r\nduring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It promoted the\r\nvirtues of higher thought and philosophy and railed against the\r\nintolerance of the church and abuses of power by both church and\r\nstate.\r\n\r\nDuring the late seventeen hundreds and the early eighteen hundreds,\r\nthe gothic novel experienced its hayday, and had a great deal of\r\ninfluence on the Romantic movement of art and writing. \"The\r\ntraditional setting, beginning with Hugh Walpole\'s The Castle of\r\nOtranto (1764), is a medieval (hence, \"gothic\") castle, replete with\r\nsecret passages, torchlit dungeons, and an occasional bat. The\r\ntraditional plot, as in Anne Radcliffe\'s The Mysteries of Udolpho\r\n(1794), involves a beautiful heroine beset by dark shadows, strange\r\nnoises, and a candle that keeps blowing out. These early gothic novels\r\naimed at instilling terror. Later examples of the form, such as\r\nMatthew Lewis\'s The Monk (1796), moved beyond terror to horror,\r\ninvoking demons, ghosts, and other supernatural paraphernalia in gory\r\nand subliminally erotic detail, (Quinn)\". Mary Shelley\'s work was\r\nperhaps one of the best known examples of the gothic novel, and is\r\nalso considered one of the earliest works of science fiction. Shelley\r\ndeals with themes that were at the time unique to gothic literature,\r\nusing elements of the \'supernatural\' and building her story so as to\r\nincite horror in the reader. At the time it was considered highly\r\ncontroversial, and part of what led up to the second edition of the\r\nbook with Shelley\'s real name on the cover was the need to edit and\r\nrefine the writing due to some of the public\'s reaction to the\r\ncontent. Frankenstein is also somewhat typical of the Romantic era\r\nwriter\'s use of the wayward hero, and a similarity can be found in the\r\nstory of Prometheus, by Johann Gothe. \"Victor and the monster are not\r\nso much villains as they are typically ambiguous Romantic heroes:\r\nVictor fails miserably, but his quest is inspiring; and the monster,\r\nthough a murderer, is also a victim, and an eloquent and sympathetic\r\nrebel against forces that violate his basic rights, (Classics\r\nReviewed)\".\r\n\r\nWhat truely sets Mary Shelley\'s tale apart from other writing of the\r\ntime is that it is one of the original instances where a story focuses\r\non the laboratory and what takes place there. \"Often called the first\r\nof its kind, Frankenstein paved the way for science fiction writing.\r\nIts depiction of a then impossible scientific feat has in our time\r\nbecome possible and is essentially recognizable in what we now refer\r\nto as bioengineering, biomedicine, or biotechnology...Victor\r\nFrankenstein, has come to serve as the poster child and whipping boy\r\nfor all scientific and technological irresponsibility, so much so that\r\nthanks to him we are able to free ourselves and our scientists from\r\nany real responsibility, since none of us ever would or could be as\r\nmonstrous as Frankenstein,  (van der Laan)\". There can be no doubt\r\nthat Frankenstein has an iconic place in culture, which it would not\r\nhave earned if it were not a revolutionary piece of work. At the time\r\nit was published no mere human could conceive of doing what Victor\r\nFrankenstein had done. Creating life was out of the question, and with\r\nthe primitive conditions that most scientists were forced to function\r\nunder due to the church, even saving lives with improvements to modern\r\nmedicine was difficult. Mary Shelley touches on the back-alley secrecy\r\nthat surrounded the act of acquiring body parts for research, which\r\nwas made practically impossible by the religious attitudes of the\r\ntime. \"From the thirteenth to the early seventeenth century, the\r\nbodies of the executed were the only legal source of bodies for\r\ndissection. Starting in the late seventeenth century, the bodies of\r\nunclaimed persons were also made legally available, (Hildebrandt)\".\r\nMary Shelley\'s work was also unusual and unique because of the author,\r\nsince even during the Age of Enlightenment it was still more common\r\nfor men to be published authors than women, and Shelley wrote\r\nFrankenstein while she was still a mere teenager.\r\n\r\nAlthough response to the initial publishing of Frankenstein was mixed,\r\nit seems to be the overall concensus that for better or worse, this\r\nnovel has firmly earned its place in history. Helen Moore wrote in\r\n1886 that,\"Of Mrs. Shelley\'s writings, Frankenstein is without\r\nquestion the most noteworthy. From the day of its first appearance in\r\nprint down to the present, it has had accorded to it a position as a\r\nunique and remarkable production.\" Although Frankenstein presented\r\nshocking and grotesque new concepts to the public, it also took off as\r\nan allegory for science without morality. The word \'Frankenstein\' has\r\nbecome almost synonymous with \'monster\', even though Frankenstein was\r\nthe monster\'s creator, and the monster himself remained nameless.\r\nFrankenstein was parodied in pictures as early as 1843.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1976\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"223\" caption=\"Frankenstein as Propoganda\"]<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_Anti-Irish_propaganda_(1882)_Irish_Frankenstein.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1976\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/446px-Punch_Anti-Irish_propaganda_1882_Irish_Frankenstein-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\nCurrent day opinion of Frankenstein does not seem to have changed much\r\nfrom the attitudes of the time towards the work. In fact, there is an\r\neerie similarity between what critics at the time were saying and what\r\nthe modern day critics seem to feel about Shelley\'s masterpiece. \"Mary\r\nWollstonecraft Shelley is responsible for a creative transformation\r\nworthy of her prototypical mad scientist, Victor Frankenstein: she\r\nreconfigures, recontextualizes, and thus modernizes the myth of\r\nPrometheus by means of a tiresome, unlucky ghost story, (Hustis)\". It\r\nmay very well be that Mary Shelley managed, without entirely meaning\r\nto, to create a story that touches so many people so deeply and\r\neffectively that she has broken the proverbial mold of writing.\r\nWhatever the case may be, there seems to be almost unilateral\r\nagreement that this particular piece of work is well deserving of its\r\nplace in the annals of history.\r\n\r\nMy personal reaction to this work has always been very strong. Whether\r\nreading the book or watching any of the myriad of movies that were\r\ninspired by Frankenstein, it is impossible to resist the allure of the\r\ntale. Victor Frankenstein takes the role of God in his hands and sets\r\nabout to defy death by creating life through the use of science. In\r\nsome ways there lies the majority of the allure. Everyone fears death,\r\nand humankind as a whole has an obsession with defeating it, whether\r\nlooking back to ancient tales of the fountain of youth, or going\r\nforward to the more modern age, where life and death are now\r\ncontrolled in the pristine setting of a laboratory or hospital.\r\n\r\nSecondary but not lesser by any means are the themes of revenge and\r\nbetrayal that come with following Frankenstein\'s creation through his\r\njourney as a misfit of society. Desperately seeking to be accepted and\r\nloved, the monster instead becomes a killer, giving up on attaining\r\nhis dream and instead attempting to get even with the person who\r\ncreated him without thought for what misery might result.\r\nAlthough it was written much later at the closing of the century,\r\nperhaps the best story to compare with Frankenstein is that of Brahm\r\nStoker\'s Dracula. A similar tale of supernatural horror and foiled\r\nromance, Dracula focuses on some of the similar themes that\r\nFrankenstein does, and has also easily become as famous as Shelley\'s\r\nnovel. Both Dracula and Frankenstein have a monsterous main character,\r\nand both Dracula and the monster created by Victor Frankenstein\r\nstruggle to have something resembling a \'human\' existance, even though\r\nsuch a thing is clearly impossible. While Frankenstein is wrought with\r\nanguish at his inability to join society, Dracula seems almost\r\nunbothered by it. Instead, Dracula rejoices in the powers that he has\r\ngained, which may be because of how much easier it is for Dracula to\r\nmove about among the \'normal\' population due to his more human\r\nappearance. Dracula and Frankenstein both rely on gothic themes and\r\nisolated landscapes to enhance the \'horrific\' aspect of the narrative,\r\nand in both stories there are a number of innocent people who suffer\r\nbecause of being involved with the monster in some tenebrous way. The\r\ncarefree Lucy in Brahm Stoker\'s tale is killed for no reason other\r\nthan being friends with the family that Dracula is tormenting.\r\nVictor\'s bride Emily falls victim to the monster that her fiancee --\r\nand later husband -- created. Both stories share aspects of\r\nRomanticism and have love stories contained within that are less\r\ncentral to the plot than the monster, which remains the focal point of\r\nthe story-telling.\r\n\r\nFor future generations there are several things to be aware of,\r\nincluding the age at which Mary Shelley authored Frankenstein, the\r\nmoral of the story, which is one cautioning against the development of\r\nscience without a counter-check of morality. To know that a teenage\r\ngirl was capable of creating such a timeless classic should inspire\r\neveryone who reads it to make the best use of their talents and aspire\r\nto do whatever it is that they love. Creativity knows no bounds, and a\r\nwork of genius can be recognized as such no matter who is the creator.\r\nAt the same time, there is also much to be gleaned from the work\r\nitself, not just about being moderate and careful when approaching new\r\nscientific and technological advances, but also about being more\r\naccepting as a society.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_______________Works Cited_______________</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Quinn, Edward. \"gothic literature.\" A Dictionary of Literary and\r\nThematic Terms, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006.\r\nBloom\'s Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Frankenstein.\" Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed (1995): 1.\r\nMagillOnLiterature Plus. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">van der Laan, J. M. \"Frankenstein as Science Fiction and Fact.\"\r\nBulletin of Science, Technology &amp; Society 30.4 (2010): 298-304.\r\nVocational and Career Collection. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hildebrandt, S. \"Capital punishment and anatomy: history and ethics of\r\nan ongoing association.\" Clinical Anatomy (New York, N.Y.) 21.1\r\n(2008): 5-14. MEDLINE. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2011.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Moore, Helen. From \"Frankenstein, and Other Writings.\" In Mary\r\nWollstonecraft Shelley: 244–264. 1886. Quoted as \"Frankenstein, and\r\nOther Writings\" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Mary Shelley, Bloom\'s Classic\r\nCritical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2008. Bloom\'s\r\nLiterary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hustis, Harriet. \"Responsible Creativity and the \"Modernity\" of Mary\r\nShelley\'s Prometheus.\" SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900,\r\n43, no. 4 (Autumn 2003): 845–858. Quoted as \"Responsible Creativity\r\nand the \"Modernity\" of Mary Shelley\'s Prometheus\" in Bloom, Harold,\r\ned. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, New Edition, Bloom\'s Modern Critical\r\nViews. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2009. Bloom\'s Literary\r\nReference Online. Facts On File, Inc</p>','Frankenstein - The Man and the Monster','','inherit','open','open','','1975-revision-9','','','2011-11-21 12:44:34','2011-11-21 18:44:34','',1975,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2100',0,'revision','',0),(2103,1,'2011-11-21 12:41:48','2011-11-21 18:41:48','<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY\">Princess Mononoke Trailer On Youtube</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg\">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QlAxW52LjXA/TZHsaLEnN1I/AAAAAAAAA0Q/F6S_mU5qq94/s1600/princess+mononoke.jpg</a>\r\n\r\n    Even though it is perhaps not the most lauded work of Hayao\r\nMiyazaki, the movie Princess Mononoke is still a classic worth\r\npreserving. Released in 1997, this movie focuses on the story of\r\nAshitaka, a young prince who has fallen under a curse that will kill\r\nhim unless he finds a way to remove it. This quest leads Ashitaka to\r\ntravel to the distant forest where the Forest God lives in hopes of\r\nfinding someone or something that can help him. Along the way he meets\r\na mercenary priest who wants to kill the Forest God and claim the\r\nreward money offered for the spirit\'s head, as well as a small colony\r\nof iron workers, who are waging war against the forest animals in an\r\neffort to get at the rich natural resources beneath the forest. Caught\r\nup in the fighting Ashitaka falls in love with the human girl, San,\r\nwho was raised by the wolves of the forest, and must find a way to\r\nsave not only himself, but San and the Forest God as well. With it\'s\r\nbrilliant animation and a message that allows for a wide cross-culture\r\nappeal, Princess Mononoke is without a doubt a work that should be\r\npreserved for future generations.\r\n\r\n    Princess Mononoke was released in 1997, following closely on the\r\nheels of the cartoon series Captain Planet, which ran from 1990 to\r\n1996. Like many of Hayo Miyazaki\'s films, Princess Mononoke deals\r\nheavily with the relation of human beings to the planet, and the\r\nimpact that industrialization has on nature. One of the main themes is\r\nthe damage that people can do to the environment, which is also a main\r\nfocus of the animated series Captain Planet. “Captain Planet...[is]\r\nsymbolic of a contradictory environmental ethic that seeks to improve\r\nthe planet and maintain existing social relations, ( King.)” In a\r\ndirect correlation to the sudden fascination with the environmentalist\r\nmovement that was taking place in western culture, Miyazaki\'s films\r\nplace great importance on the,”transformation and reinvigoration of\r\nthe tenets of Shintoism and local mythology...For example, a\r\nnon-Japanese audience viewing Princess Mononoke can clearly read the\r\nsymbolic beheading of the spirit of the forest in terms of globally\r\ncirculating narratives of environmental destruction, whereas a\r\nJapanese audience are also likely to simultaneously engage here with\r\nspeciﬁc allusions to kami, or gods, and Shintoist tenets of respecting\r\nand communing with nature’s deities, (Wright.)“ So it can be said that\r\nPrincess Mononoke is a typical work of the times for both Japan and\r\nAmerica. The themes of environmentalism would be familiar for either\r\nculture, and the idea of an animated film or series that highlighted\r\nsuch themes would be especially appropriate for America, since such\r\nthings were already mainstream. Following the first Gulf War in the\r\nearly 1990\'s, the secondary message of peace and learning to live\r\ntogether – not just in terms of humans and nature, but also in terms\r\nof humans and other humans – would have been especially well received.\r\nPrincess Mononoke was also squarely in the height of the Japanese\r\nanimation craze that was hitting America following the appearance of\r\nthe acclaimed Vampire Hunter D ( 1985 ) and Akira ( 1988. ) Such\r\nseries as Sailor Moon ( 1995-2000 ) and Dragon Ball Z ( 1989-2003 )\r\nwere also extremely popular at this time in America as well as\r\noverseas.\r\n\r\n    What sets Princess Mononoke apart from this trend is the sheer\r\npopularity that the film enjoyed. It “eclipsed Steven Spielberg’s E.T.\r\nto create a new domestic box-ofﬁce record, only to be nudged out by\r\nJames Cameron’s Titanic in the same year (Wright.)” This may be due to\r\nthe fact that although computer generated images, also known as CGI,\r\nwere just beginning to take off during the mid-to-late nineties, the\r\nstudio responsible for producing the fantastical films of Miyazaki\r\nfirmly stood their ground and continued to animate by hand rather than\r\nrelying on computers. This hand animating is what gives Miyazaki\'s\r\nartwork much of its unique look and broad appeal. Miyazaki was also a\r\nfore-runner in the tradition of creating Japanese works of art – be it\r\ngames or film – that showcased characters stripped of anything that\r\nwould identify them as being strictly Japanese. This removal of the\r\nnative culture from their products has been given much of the credit\r\nfor the wild popularity of Japanese games and film. “Japan’s recent\r\ncultural expansion is premised on a strategy of blurring distinctively\r\nJapanese attributes of exports to create ‘culturally odourless\r\nproducts’. In particular, animation and game software destined for\r\nexport are prone to mu-kokuseki—the erasure of racial and ethnic\r\ncharacteristics and any context that would embed a speciﬁc culture or\r\ncountry, (Wright.)” When it really comes down to it, though, there is\r\nreally no single explanation why the works of Miyazaki, and Princess\r\nMononoke in particular, stand out from the other works of this period.\r\nLooking at other anime, there are many films and series that\r\nincorporate the same idea of being culturally non-specific to Japan.\r\nAmerican cartoons were extolling some of the same virtues about\r\ncoexisting and environmental importance, but never came close to\r\napproaching the popularity of Miyazaki\'s works. The majority of the\r\nanimated works at this time were still hand drawn, with the boom of\r\ncomputer animation coming later, burgeoning in the beginning of the\r\n2000\'s. It may be that the success of Princess Mononoke lies in the\r\ncombination of the beautiful hand-drawn art, and the way in which\r\nMiyazaki incorporated Japanese folk lore and themes into a film that\r\nis still culturally ambiguous enough to reach a wider audience.\r\nCertainly no other film had brought these aspects together in such a\r\nway prior.\r\n\r\n    Realizing that Princess Mononoke edged out the blockbuster E.T.,\r\nit should not be surprising that it was hailed as an almost instant\r\nclassic. “Virtually every frame is alive to this movement, and\r\nastounds with its natural talent and imagination,(Aoun.)” Another\r\ncritic, cited in Aoun\'s article, raves that it is,”the Star Wars of\r\nanimation.” It almost seems as if the critics are strangely,\r\nunanimously in agreement with audiences in regards to this film, which\r\nis a favorite of both young and old. Since it has only been a meager\r\nfourteen years since the release of Princess Mononoke, there doesn\'t\r\nexist much of an ability to compare the thoughts on it in the present\r\nand what might be considered of it in the future. Only time will tell\r\nif this masterpiece has the ability to remain a timeless classic, but\r\nit has aged well, and continues to be a perennial example of\r\nMiyazaki\'s ability to delight movie-goers.\r\n\r\n    My personal reaction to this movie was very strong. It was one of\r\nthe first films by Miyazaki that was introduced to me, and remains\r\ndeeply embedded in my mind even to this day. Despite the amazing and\r\nfantastical ability of the animation team and director to create\r\ncaptivating movies, Princess Mononoke is the most hauntingly beautiful\r\nof the many that I have seen. Miyazaki delights in providing a strong\r\nfemale lead to follow, and this habit of his plays out well in the\r\nconflict between San – the Princess Mononoke figure – and her nemesis,\r\nLady Eboshi, the founder of Irontown. Prince Ashitaka also provides a\r\npositive male moral role model, nicely covering the bases for any\r\ngender of child to be able to find a character worth identifying with.\r\nPerhaps the most interesting thing that I discovered in the course of\r\nresearching was that Billy Bob Thorton plays one of the voice roles in\r\nthe movie, something that I found rather comical given that the bulk\r\nof his work is far from appropriate for a young audience.\r\n\r\n    When finding a work worthy of comparing to Princess Mononoke, it\r\nwas difficult to settle on a single comparison. There exists a breadth\r\nof both Japanese animation and American animation available to stand\r\nagainst Princess Mononoke, but because of the unique quality of\r\nMiyazaki\'s work, it seemed unfair to lump it into either category\r\nspecifically. For this reason I have chosen to make two comparisons.\r\nTo begin with, it seems most appropriate to hold Princess Mononoke up\r\nagainst one of the more popular Japanese animated movies of the time,\r\nVampire Hunter D. Even though a person who has seen both of these\r\nmovies might disagree at first glance, there are actually many\r\nsimilarities between the two. Princess Mononoke incorporates many of\r\nthe same organic shapes and movements, especially when contrasting the\r\n\'demonic\' presence that comes with Ashitaka\'s curse and the demonic\r\ncreatures that are encountered in Vampire Hunter D. Also similar to\r\nPrincess Mononoke is the way in which the characters in Vampire Hunter\r\nD do not have a specifically Japanese appearance. The main male\r\ncharacter, D, looks European. He is tall, with pale skin. The main\r\nfemale character is blonde. Not the only blonde, in fact, as the son\r\nof the town\'s mayor is also fair skinned, with oval eyes and golden\r\nhair. Both movies feature supernatural characters as well as human.\r\nThese shared traits are often over-looked due to the stark difference\r\nin target audience between the two films. Vampire Hunter D contains\r\ngraphic violence and even nudity, making it less than appropriate for\r\nchildren. Despite being animated, it was meant for adults, and this\r\nshows through in the content. Princess Mononoke was meant to be\r\nenjoyed by both children and adults, but the violent content it\r\ncontains ( another trait it shares with most Japanese animation )\r\nnetted it a rating of M-15, meaning that it was unsuitable for\r\nchildren under the age of fifteen.\r\n\r\n    To show the reverse side of American animation in comparison to\r\nPrincess Mononoke, it seemed most feasible to find an extreme of\r\nAmerican animation. Something contemporary and computer animated to\r\nprovide the best contrast between the work of Miyazaki and the works\r\ndone by his peers. For this reason Finding Nemo stands out as the best\r\nexample of American animation to stand against Princess Mononoke.\r\nFinding Nemo was released in 2003 by Pixar studios in collusion with\r\nWalt Disney. Disney is also responsible for bringing the works of\r\nMiyazaki to America, which makes the comparison almost too perfect.\r\n“According to director/founder John Lasseter, Pixar’s ‘most\r\ninspirational ﬁlms’ are ‘the animated ﬁlms of Hayao Miyazaki and the\r\nStudio Ghibli’ and what inspires them is ‘the sense of heart and\r\ncharacter, the use of scale, the brilliant staging and timing of\r\naction and humor, the simplicity and beauty of the effects and mostly\r\nthe imagination, (Aoun.)” Ironically, Pixar has been on the cutting\r\nedge of computer generated animation almost since it was begun, while\r\nStudio Ghibli remains steadfast in its determination to do most of the\r\nanimation in their films by hand. Finding Nemo is probably one of the\r\nmore famous incarnations of this computer animation, and interestingly\r\nenough, deals with some of the same environmental issues that Princess\r\nMononoke touches on. Finding Nemo focuses on the exotic fish trade,\r\ncasting it in a somewhat negative light ( Nemo is \'stolen\' from his\r\nfamily to supply an aquarium. ) Although the film\'s creators tried to\r\ndiscourage people from buying exotic fish with their movie, it instead\r\nled to a massive boom in clown fish sales, creating yet another\r\ncontrast with Princess Mononoke in that Miyazaki\'s film perhaps had\r\nmore realistic goals with its moralizing. The animation styles for the\r\ntwo movies are, of course, as different as night and day, and the\r\nmaturity level of the story also seems to have a huge difference\r\nbetween the two. Finding Nemo is a gentle comedy, awarded a G rating,\r\nthe mildest of all available. For violent content, Princess Mononoke\r\nbeing put alongside Finding Nemo is much like putting Princess\r\nMononoke alongside Vampire Hunter D. Which just goes to illustrate how\r\ndelicately balanced between the world of American animation and the\r\nworld of Japanese animation Princess Mononoke really is.\r\n\r\n    This work should definitely be preserved for the future, not only\r\nbecause of the amazing animation quality and the imaginative vision\r\nthat backs up the impressive art, but also for the morality and\r\nmessage of the story that is presented by Hayao Miyazaki. The story is\r\none of revenge, betrayal, and ultimately forgiveness. Princess\r\nMononoke provides an excellent example of the differences – and the\r\nsimilarities – between American and Japanese animation, and will\r\nlikely remain one of the better examples for a very long time to come.\r\n\r\nWorks Cited\r\n\r\nKing, Donna Lee. \"CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS: Kids,\r\nEnvironmental Crisis, And Competing Narratives Of The New World\r\nOrder.\" Sociological Quarterly 35.1 (1994): 103-120. Academic Search\r\nComplete. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nWright, LucyClode, Jerry. \"The Animated Worlds Of Hayao Miyazaki.\"\r\nMetro 143 (2005): 46. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nAoun, Steven. \"Film Of The Quarter: Princess Mononoke.\" Metro 143\r\n(2005): 171. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.\r\n\r\nMurphy, Joseph. \"Anime: From Akira To Princess Mononoke: Experiencing\r\nContemporary Japanese Animation.\" Philosophy East &amp; West56.3 (2006):\r\n493. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.','Princess Mononoke -- Pixar\'s Inspiration','','inherit','open','open','','2087-revision-4','','','2011-11-21 12:41:48','2011-11-21 18:41:48','',2087,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2103',0,'revision','',0),(2105,44,'2011-11-21 16:52:31','2011-11-21 22:52:31','[caption id=\"attachment_2106\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" caption=\"thegypsyshake.tumblr.com\"]<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Woodstock ‘69 with a Little Bit of Jimi Hendrix</span></p>\r\n            A lot of things took place in the 1960’s within the United States of America. Some of them were good things and some of them were not such good things that we like to talk about too often. One of those “things” that can be controversial depending on who you are talking to about is “The Star Spangled Banner” done by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969. Someone that you talk to might say that “This is one of the coolest things that happened at Woodstock” and someone else might tell you that “It is a sign of disrespect to our country and the Star Spangled Banner”<!--more-->\r\n\r\nTo start you off I feel like you need to know a little background about what was taking place in the year 1969. For starters Richard Nixon became President. The U.S. was in the heart of fighting the Vietnam War (A lot of controversy behind that). Woodstock took place and had over 350,000 people attend the venue to watch performers. “Buzz Aldren and Neil Armstrong became the first men to have ever stepped on the on the moon” (Kid-Port).\r\n\r\nThe Vietnam War was the biggest thing that was going on during this time that had the hugest impact on what was taking place with the people in this country. The war started in 1954 and didn’t end till 1974, and by the end of 1969 more than 35,000 soldiers had been killed. The Americans back in the states were putting on a lot of protest events to show the government that they were not in support for the war. Most of the reasoning behind the U.S. citizens not showing support for the war is that people were told and sort of forced with propaganda showing the U.S. soldiers killing families that were defenseless. Musicians were attending these protest for different reasons, some of them used it to get more people to want to listen to their music and support them, and some for simply because they were against what they thought was taking place over in Vietnam.\r\n\r\nOne large musical event that took place was Woodstock. Woodstock could be a comparison to ACL (Austin City Limits) music festival. Had a large group of people come to a venue (or open field) to listen to music for 3 days and then all go home afterwards with the only remains trash and ruined field. Woodstock took place in 1969, on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.  It was put together by a “bunch of kids, with the oldest one being 27 years old” (Rosenberg) and the one thing that was a first for Woodstock was in 1969 after the shows were over the owners “were $1 million in debt and faced up to 70 different lawsuits.” (Rosenberg) A lot of things took place during the 1969 shows and one thing that upset the fans was when Jimi Hendrix showed up late to his show time. It was reported that Jimi Hendrix was supposed to have shown up on stage at midnight on the last day and play till the end of the concert, but Hendrix reportedly didn’t show up to stage and play till 9a.m. after many of the fans of the concert had already begun to leave the venue. (DigitalDreamDoor.com)\r\n\r\nWhen Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” he was doing something that musicians were doing all over the country, by playing a national anthem at an event for everyone to hear. People were making this as a traditional thing that during every big event of some sort that the national was to be played.\r\n\r\nWhen Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar could be compared to a Puerto Rican musician Jose Feliciano who played the national anthem Tiger Stadium in Detroit when he “when he strummed a slow, bluesy rendition of the national anthem before Game 5 of the World Series between Detroit and St. Louis.” (Gettings) Feliciano was the first person to perform the national anthem to a different beat than what it was written to, so when Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar as a solo it was the first time that a musician had played the song in front of a group of people on a guitar with no lyrics being said. It was a start of a new generation taking this song and turning it into its own piece of work.\r\n\r\nHendrix started something new, well Jose Feliciano did but Hendrix gets the credit for his being more of a movement than what Feliciano’s was. People every day are changing the national anthem into their own style. Someone to point out would have to Christina Aguilera when she sang at Super Bowl XLV she had changed (butchered) the national anthem to where it would be different and be best for her to sing, and well in my opinion it didn’t work out into her favor.\r\n\r\nWhen Jose Feliciano sang the national anthem people had a mixed feeling to what had taken place and the alterations to their national anthem; for Hendrix it was the same feelings. People were both for and against what he had done. People that were against felt like this was an act out against the government for what was taking place in the Vietnam War, and would like to have seen Hendrix be punished copyright infractions. The other side of it was people loved mostly “the hippies who supported the protest of the war” (Protasker) that when Hendrix played the national anthem it was to help push for the ending of Vietnam and help the people’s voices to be heard by the government.\r\n\r\nIf you go up to a teenager today and ask them about their perspective on the national anthem done by Jimi Hendrix majority of them will reply with “that’s the coolest thing” they know nothing about the reasoning why it was played (well at least most of them wont). They love the way Hendrix played the national anthem and think that it was very innovated. If you were to go up to someone who is in the military and old enough to have been around when Hendrix played the national anthem at Woodstock they might have a different feeling towards the piece of music. For example my friend loves the way it was played and try’s to mimic it as well when he plays on his electric guitar, but his father (who fought in Vietnam) thinks that it was innovated but very disrespectful to the reasoning behind why he did it.\r\n\r\nIn my personal opinion of this is that I loved what Hendrix did I thought it was very innovating.  This blog that was written by someone with the screen name “PJ” wrote that the “Jimi Hendrix’ version of “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the most passionate pieces of modern rock guitar ever committed to tape.” (PJ) where he at first states that he really isn’t for people doing the national anthem with adding their own style to it, but after he listens to the Hendrix version is loves what he did at Woodstock. Well I am kind of like that too. I don’t like when people change the national anthem so much that it sounds nothing like the original, but what Hendrix did was pretty innovated and sweet.\r\n\r\nDo I think that Hendrix didn’t anything wrong with doing it at an event that was primarily put together to protest the war no, he knew it would get the biggest hit there if he did it. He was known to go to protest against the war just to get popularity because of the people that would attend those were the people that would mostly like be the ones jamming out to his music while they were on cloud nine. I think the way it was played was pretty sweet, and just about all my friends who play the guitar have tried to play it once or twice on the guitar. I also like the fact that I’m sure someone told him that it would be a bad idea to probably play it because you could tick off a lot of people and he went ahead and it know it would earn him a lot of respect from a lot of people and crap from a lot of others.\r\n\r\nWhen you say something about Jimi Hendrix the first thing that comes to my mind is the Star Spangled Banner done on the guitar by him, then comparison between him and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I feel that his performance should be remembered because it was his way of doing the national anthem that truly did start a revolution of followers behind him. People will probably never remember the reasoning or care to know the reasoning behind why he did it, but they will always remember the fact that he did it and how innovating it was and out of the norm at the time, and for that alone it should be preserved.\r\n<p align=\"center\">Bibliography</p>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner” , written by PJ, Every day I write the blog,  January 12th, 2010, seen on November 7th, 2011; <a href=\"http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html\">http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>Digital Dream Door; November 20, 2011; <a href=\"http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html\">http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>Infoplease, Star-Mangled Banner, by John Gettings, November 21st, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html\">http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>he Moon Landing, Kid-Port, November 20th, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm\">http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>The Woodstock Festival of 1969, By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm\">http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix, My guitar solo.com, November 21, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm\">http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>3 Days of Peace and Music, by Protasker, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock\">http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock</a></li>\r\n</ol>','Woodstock 1969!!','','publish','open','open','','woodstock-1969','','','2011-11-22 17:06:15','2011-11-22 23:06:15','',0,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2105',0,'post','',13),(2106,44,'2011-11-21 16:49:16','2011-11-21 22:49:16','','tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500','thegypsyshake.tumblr.com','inherit','open','open','','tumblr_lcgp8apwb01qb5lh8o1_500','','','2011-11-21 16:49:16','2011-11-21 22:49:16','',2105,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2107,44,'2011-11-21 16:45:11','2011-11-21 22:45:11','<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Woodstock ‘69 with a Little Bit of Jimi Hendrix</span></p>\n            A lot of things took place in the 1960’s within the United States of America. Some of them were good things and some of them were not such good things that we like to talk about too often. One of those “things” that can be controversial depending on who you are talking to about is “The Star Spangled Banner” done by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969. Someone that you talk to might say that “This is one of the coolest things that happened at Woodstock” and someone else might tell you that “It is a sign of disrespect to our country and the Star Spangled Banner”<!--more-->\n\n            To start you off I feel like you need to know a little background about what was taking place in the year 1969. For starters Richard Nixon became President. The U.S. was in the heart of fighting the Vietnam War (A lot of controversy behind that). Woodstock took place and had over 350,000 people attend the venue to watch performers. “Buzz Aldren and Neil Armstrong became the first men to have ever stepped on the on the moon” (Kid-Port).\n\n            The Vietnam War was the biggest thing that was going on during this time that had the hugest impact on what was taking place with the people in this country. The war started in 1954 and didn’t end till 1974, and by the end of 1969 more than 35,000 soldiers had been killed. The Americans back in the states were putting on a lot of protest events to show the government that they were not in support for the war. Most of the reasoning behind the U.S. citizens not showing support for the war is that people were told and sort of forced with propaganda showing the U.S. soldiers killing families that were defenseless. Musicians were attending these protest for different reasons, some of them used it to get more people to want to listen to their music and support them, and some for simply because they were against what they thought was taking place over in Vietnam.\n\n            One large musical event that took place was Woodstock. Woodstock could be a comparison to ACL (Austin City Limits) music festival. Had a large group of people come to a venue (or open field) to listen to music for 3 days and then all go home afterwards with the only remains trash and ruined field. Woodstock would take place every year on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.  It was put together by a “bunch of kids, with the oldest one being 27 years old” (Rosenberg) and the one thing that was a first for Woodstock was in 1969 after the shows were over the owners “were $1 million in debt and faced up to 70 different lawsuits.” (Rosenberg) A lot of things took place during the 1969 shows and one thing that upset the fans was when Jimi Hendrix showed up late to his show time. It was reported that Jimi Hendrix was supposed to have shown up on stage at midnight on the last day and play till the end of the concert, but Hendrix reportedly didn’t show up to stage and play till 9a.m. after many of the fans of the concert had already begun to leave the venue. (DigitalDreamDoor.com)\n\n            When Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” he was doing something that musicians were doing all over the country, by playing a national anthem at an event for everyone to hear. People were making this as a traditional thing that during every big event of some sort that the national was to be played.\n\n            When Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar could be compared to a Puerto Rican musician Jose Feliciano who played the national anthem Tiger Stadium in Detroit when he “when he strummed a slow, bluesy rendition of the national anthem before Game 5 of the World Series between Detroit and St. Louis.” (Gettings) Feliciano was the first person to perform the national anthem to a different beat than what it was written to, so when Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar as a solo it was the first time that a musician had played the song in front of a group of people on a guitar with no lyrics being said. It was a start of a new generation taking this song and turning it into its own piece of work.\n\n            Hendrix started something new, well Jose Feliciano did but Hendrix gets the credit for his being more of a movement than what Feliciano’s was. People every day are changing the national anthem into their own style. Someone to point out would have to Christina Aguilera when she sang at Super Bowl XLV she had changed (butchered) the national anthem to where it would be different and be best for her to sing, and well in my opinion it didn’t work out into her favor.\n\n             When Jose Feliciano sang the national anthem people had a mixed feeling to what had taken place and the alterations to their national anthem; for Hendrix it was the same feelings. People were both for and against what he had done. People that were against felt like this was an act out against the government for what was taking place in the Vietnam War, and would like to have seen Hendrix be punished copyright infractions. The other side of it was people loved mostly “the hippies who supported the protest of the war” (Protasker) that when Hendrix played the national anthem it was to help push for the ending of Vietnam and help the people’s voices to be heard by the government.\n\n            If you go up to a teenager today and ask them about their perspective on the national anthem done by Jimi Hendrix majority of them will reply with “that’s the coolest thing” they know nothing about the reasoning why it was played (well at least most of them wont). They love the way Hendrix played the national anthem and think that it was very innovated. If you were to go up to someone who is in the military and old enough to have been around when Hendrix played the national anthem at Woodstock they might have a different feeling towards the piece of music. For example my friend loves the way it was played and try’s to mimic it as well when he plays on his electric guitar, but his father (who fought in Vietnam) thinks that it was innovated but very disrespectful to the reasoning behind why he did it.\n\n            In my personal opinion of this is that I loved what Hendrix did I thought it was very innovating.  This blog that was written by someone with the screen name “PJ” wrote that the “Jimi Hendrix’ version of “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the most passionate pieces of modern rock guitar ever committed to tape.” (PJ) where he at first states that he really isn’t for people doing the national anthem with adding their own style to it, but after he listens to the Hendrix version is loves what he did at Woodstock. Well I am kind of like that too. I don’t like when people change the national anthem so much that it sounds nothing like the original, but what Hendrix did was pretty innovated and sweet.\n\n            Do I think that Hendrix didn’t anything wrong with doing it at an event that was primarily put together to protest the war no, he knew it would get the biggest hit there if he did it. He was known to go to protest against the war just to get popularity because of the people that would attend those were the people that would mostly like be the ones jamming out to his music while they were on cloud nine. I think the way it was played was pretty sweet, and just about all my friends who play the guitar have tried to play it once or twice on the guitar. I also like the fact that I’m sure someone told him that it would be a bad idea to probably play it because you could tick off a lot of people and he went ahead and it know it would earn him a lot of respect from a lot of people and crap from a lot of others.\n\n            When you say something about Jimi Hendrix the first thing that comes to my mind is the Star Spangled Banner done on the guitar by him, then comparison between him and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I feel that his performance should be remembered because it was his way of doing the national anthem that truly did start a revolution of followers behind him. People will probably never remember the reasoning or care to know the reasoning behind why he did it, but they will always remember the fact that he did it and how innovating it was and out of the norm at the time, and for that alone it should be preserved.\n<p align=\"center\">Bibliography</p>\n\n<ol>\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner” , written by PJ, Every day I write the blog,  January 12th, 2010, seen on November 7th, 2011; <a href=\"http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html\">http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html</a></li>\n	<li>Digital Dream Door; November 20, 2011; <a href=\"http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html\">http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html</a></li>\n	<li>Infoplease, Star-Mangled Banner, by John Gettings, November 21st, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html\">http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html</a></li>\n	<li>he Moon Landing, Kid-Port, November 20th, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm\">http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm</a></li>\n	<li>The Woodstock Festival of 1969, By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm\">http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm</a></li>\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix, My guitar solo.com, November 21, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm\">http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm</a></li>\n	<li>3 Days of Peace and Music, by Protasker, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock\">http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock</a></li>\n</ol>','Woodstock 1969!!','','inherit','open','open','','2105-revision','','','2011-11-21 16:45:11','2011-11-21 22:45:11','',2105,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2107',0,'revision','',0),(2108,44,'2011-11-21 16:50:47','2011-11-21 22:50:47','<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"></span></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Woodstock ‘69 with a Little Bit of Jimi Hendrix</span></p>\n            A lot of things took place in the 1960’s within the United States of America. Some of them were good things and some of them were not such good things that we like to talk about too often. One of those “things” that can be controversial depending on who you are talking to about is “The Star Spangled Banner” done by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969. Someone that you talk to might say that “This is one of the coolest things that happened at Woodstock” and someone else might tell you that “It is a sign of disrespect to our country and the Star Spangled Banner”<!--more-->\n\n            To start you off I feel like you need to know a little background about what was taking place in the year 1969. For starters Richard Nixon became President. The U.S. was in the heart of fighting the Vietnam War (A lot of controversy behind that). Woodstock took place and had over 350,000 people attend the venue to watch performers. “Buzz Aldren and Neil Armstrong became the first men to have ever stepped on the on the moon” (Kid-Port).\n\n            The Vietnam War was the biggest thing that was going on during this time that had the hugest impact on what was taking place with the people in this country. The war started in 1954 and didn’t end till 1974, and by the end of 1969 more than 35,000 soldiers had been killed. The Americans back in the states were putting on a lot of protest events to show the government that they were not in support for the war. Most of the reasoning behind the U.S. citizens not showing support for the war is that people were told and sort of forced with propaganda showing the U.S. soldiers killing families that were defenseless. Musicians were attending these protest for different reasons, some of them used it to get more people to want to listen to their music and support them, and some for simply because they were against what they thought was taking place over in Vietnam.\n\n            One large musical event that took place was Woodstock. Woodstock could be a comparison to ACL (Austin City Limits) music festival. Had a large group of people come to a venue (or open field) to listen to music for 3 days and then all go home afterwards with the only remains trash and ruined field. Woodstock would take place every year on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.  It was put together by a “bunch of kids, with the oldest one being 27 years old” (Rosenberg) and the one thing that was a first for Woodstock was in 1969 after the shows were over the owners “were $1 million in debt and faced up to 70 different lawsuits.” (Rosenberg) A lot of things took place during the 1969 shows and one thing that upset the fans was when Jimi Hendrix showed up late to his show time. It was reported that Jimi Hendrix was supposed to have shown up on stage at midnight on the last day and play till the end of the concert, but Hendrix reportedly didn’t show up to stage and play till 9a.m. after many of the fans of the concert had already begun to leave the venue. (DigitalDreamDoor.com)\n\n            When Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” he was doing something that musicians were doing all over the country, by playing a national anthem at an event for everyone to hear. People were making this as a traditional thing that during every big event of some sort that the national was to be played.\n\n            When Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar could be compared to a Puerto Rican musician Jose Feliciano who played the national anthem Tiger Stadium in Detroit when he “when he strummed a slow, bluesy rendition of the national anthem before Game 5 of the World Series between Detroit and St. Louis.” (Gettings) Feliciano was the first person to perform the national anthem to a different beat than what it was written to, so when Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar as a solo it was the first time that a musician had played the song in front of a group of people on a guitar with no lyrics being said. It was a start of a new generation taking this song and turning it into its own piece of work.\n\n            Hendrix started something new, well Jose Feliciano did but Hendrix gets the credit for his being more of a movement than what Feliciano’s was. People every day are changing the national anthem into their own style. Someone to point out would have to Christina Aguilera when she sang at Super Bowl XLV she had changed (butchered) the national anthem to where it would be different and be best for her to sing, and well in my opinion it didn’t work out into her favor.\n\n             When Jose Feliciano sang the national anthem people had a mixed feeling to what had taken place and the alterations to their national anthem; for Hendrix it was the same feelings. People were both for and against what he had done. People that were against felt like this was an act out against the government for what was taking place in the Vietnam War, and would like to have seen Hendrix be punished copyright infractions. The other side of it was people loved mostly “the hippies who supported the protest of the war” (Protasker) that when Hendrix played the national anthem it was to help push for the ending of Vietnam and help the people’s voices to be heard by the government.\n\n            If you go up to a teenager today and ask them about their perspective on the national anthem done by Jimi Hendrix majority of them will reply with “that’s the coolest thing” they know nothing about the reasoning why it was played (well at least most of them wont). They love the way Hendrix played the national anthem and think that it was very innovated. If you were to go up to someone who is in the military and old enough to have been around when Hendrix played the national anthem at Woodstock they might have a different feeling towards the piece of music. For example my friend loves the way it was played and try’s to mimic it as well when he plays on his electric guitar, but his father (who fought in Vietnam) thinks that it was innovated but very disrespectful to the reasoning behind why he did it.\n\n            In my personal opinion of this is that I loved what Hendrix did I thought it was very innovating.  This blog that was written by someone with the screen name “PJ” wrote that the “Jimi Hendrix’ version of “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the most passionate pieces of modern rock guitar ever committed to tape.” (PJ) where he at first states that he really isn’t for people doing the national anthem with adding their own style to it, but after he listens to the Hendrix version is loves what he did at Woodstock. Well I am kind of like that too. I don’t like when people change the national anthem so much that it sounds nothing like the original, but what Hendrix did was pretty innovated and sweet.\n\n            Do I think that Hendrix didn’t anything wrong with doing it at an event that was primarily put together to protest the war no, he knew it would get the biggest hit there if he did it. He was known to go to protest against the war just to get popularity because of the people that would attend those were the people that would mostly like be the ones jamming out to his music while they were on cloud nine. I think the way it was played was pretty sweet, and just about all my friends who play the guitar have tried to play it once or twice on the guitar. I also like the fact that I’m sure someone told him that it would be a bad idea to probably play it because you could tick off a lot of people and he went ahead and it know it would earn him a lot of respect from a lot of people and crap from a lot of others.\n\n            When you say something about Jimi Hendrix the first thing that comes to my mind is the Star Spangled Banner done on the guitar by him, then comparison between him and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I feel that his performance should be remembered because it was his way of doing the national anthem that truly did start a revolution of followers behind him. People will probably never remember the reasoning or care to know the reasoning behind why he did it, but they will always remember the fact that he did it and how innovating it was and out of the norm at the time, and for that alone it should be preserved.\n<p align=\"center\">Bibliography</p>\n\n<ol>\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner” , written by PJ, Every day I write the blog,  January 12th, 2010, seen on November 7th, 2011; <a href=\"http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html\">http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html</a></li>\n	<li>Digital Dream Door; November 20, 2011; <a href=\"http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html\">http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html</a></li>\n	<li>Infoplease, Star-Mangled Banner, by John Gettings, November 21st, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html\">http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html</a></li>\n	<li>he Moon Landing, Kid-Port, November 20th, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm\">http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm</a></li>\n	<li>The Woodstock Festival of 1969, By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm\">http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm</a></li>\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix, My guitar solo.com, November 21, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm\">http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm</a></li>\n	<li>3 Days of Peace and Music, by Protasker, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock\">http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock</a></li>\n</ol>','Woodstock 1969!!','','inherit','open','open','','2105-revision-2','','','2011-11-21 16:50:47','2011-11-21 22:50:47','',2105,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2108',0,'revision','',0),(2109,44,'2011-11-21 16:52:12','2011-11-21 22:52:12','<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Woods</span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2106\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" caption=\"thegypsyshake.tumblr.com\"]<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">tock ‘69 with a Little Bit of Jimi Hendrix</span></p>\r\n            A lot of things took place in the 1960’s within the United States of America. Some of them were good things and some of them were not such good things that we like to talk about too often. One of those “things” that can be controversial depending on who you are talking to about is “The Star Spangled Banner” done by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969. Someone that you talk to might say that “This is one of the coolest things that happened at Woodstock” and someone else might tell you that “It is a sign of disrespect to our country and the Star Spangled Banner”<!--more-->\r\n\r\n            To start you off I feel like you need to know a little background about what was taking place in the year 1969. For starters Richard Nixon became President. The U.S. was in the heart of fighting the Vietnam War (A lot of controversy behind that). Woodstock took place and had over 350,000 people attend the venue to watch performers. “Buzz Aldren and Neil Armstrong became the first men to have ever stepped on the on the moon” (Kid-Port).\r\n\r\n            The Vietnam War was the biggest thing that was going on during this time that had the hugest impact on what was taking place with the people in this country. The war started in 1954 and didn’t end till 1974, and by the end of 1969 more than 35,000 soldiers had been killed. The Americans back in the states were putting on a lot of protest events to show the government that they were not in support for the war. Most of the reasoning behind the U.S. citizens not showing support for the war is that people were told and sort of forced with propaganda showing the U.S. soldiers killing families that were defenseless. Musicians were attending these protest for different reasons, some of them used it to get more people to want to listen to their music and support them, and some for simply because they were against what they thought was taking place over in Vietnam.\r\n\r\n            One large musical event that took place was Woodstock. Woodstock could be a comparison to ACL (Austin City Limits) music festival. Had a large group of people come to a venue (or open field) to listen to music for 3 days and then all go home afterwards with the only remains trash and ruined field. Woodstock would take place every year on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.  It was put together by a “bunch of kids, with the oldest one being 27 years old” (Rosenberg) and the one thing that was a first for Woodstock was in 1969 after the shows were over the owners “were $1 million in debt and faced up to 70 different lawsuits.” (Rosenberg) A lot of things took place during the 1969 shows and one thing that upset the fans was when Jimi Hendrix showed up late to his show time. It was reported that Jimi Hendrix was supposed to have shown up on stage at midnight on the last day and play till the end of the concert, but Hendrix reportedly didn’t show up to stage and play till 9a.m. after many of the fans of the concert had already begun to leave the venue. (DigitalDreamDoor.com)\r\n\r\n            When Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” he was doing something that musicians were doing all over the country, by playing a national anthem at an event for everyone to hear. People were making this as a traditional thing that during every big event of some sort that the national was to be played.\r\n\r\n            When Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar could be compared to a Puerto Rican musician Jose Feliciano who played the national anthem Tiger Stadium in Detroit when he “when he strummed a slow, bluesy rendition of the national anthem before Game 5 of the World Series between Detroit and St. Louis.” (Gettings) Feliciano was the first person to perform the national anthem to a different beat than what it was written to, so when Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar as a solo it was the first time that a musician had played the song in front of a group of people on a guitar with no lyrics being said. It was a start of a new generation taking this song and turning it into its own piece of work.\r\n\r\n            Hendrix started something new, well Jose Feliciano did but Hendrix gets the credit for his being more of a movement than what Feliciano’s was. People every day are changing the national anthem into their own style. Someone to point out would have to Christina Aguilera when she sang at Super Bowl XLV she had changed (butchered) the national anthem to where it would be different and be best for her to sing, and well in my opinion it didn’t work out into her favor.\r\n\r\n             When Jose Feliciano sang the national anthem people had a mixed feeling to what had taken place and the alterations to their national anthem; for Hendrix it was the same feelings. People were both for and against what he had done. People that were against felt like this was an act out against the government for what was taking place in the Vietnam War, and would like to have seen Hendrix be punished copyright infractions. The other side of it was people loved mostly “the hippies who supported the protest of the war” (Protasker) that when Hendrix played the national anthem it was to help push for the ending of Vietnam and help the people’s voices to be heard by the government.\r\n\r\n            If you go up to a teenager today and ask them about their perspective on the national anthem done by Jimi Hendrix majority of them will reply with “that’s the coolest thing” they know nothing about the reasoning why it was played (well at least most of them wont). They love the way Hendrix played the national anthem and think that it was very innovated. If you were to go up to someone who is in the military and old enough to have been around when Hendrix played the national anthem at Woodstock they might have a different feeling towards the piece of music. For example my friend loves the way it was played and try’s to mimic it as well when he plays on his electric guitar, but his father (who fought in Vietnam) thinks that it was innovated but very disrespectful to the reasoning behind why he did it.\r\n\r\n            In my personal opinion of this is that I loved what Hendrix did I thought it was very innovating.  This blog that was written by someone with the screen name “PJ” wrote that the “Jimi Hendrix’ version of “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the most passionate pieces of modern rock guitar ever committed to tape.” (PJ) where he at first states that he really isn’t for people doing the national anthem with adding their own style to it, but after he listens to the Hendrix version is loves what he did at Woodstock. Well I am kind of like that too. I don’t like when people change the national anthem so much that it sounds nothing like the original, but what Hendrix did was pretty innovated and sweet.\r\n\r\n            Do I think that Hendrix didn’t anything wrong with doing it at an event that was primarily put together to protest the war no, he knew it would get the biggest hit there if he did it. He was known to go to protest against the war just to get popularity because of the people that would attend those were the people that would mostly like be the ones jamming out to his music while they were on cloud nine. I think the way it was played was pretty sweet, and just about all my friends who play the guitar have tried to play it once or twice on the guitar. I also like the fact that I’m sure someone told him that it would be a bad idea to probably play it because you could tick off a lot of people and he went ahead and it know it would earn him a lot of respect from a lot of people and crap from a lot of others.\r\n\r\n            When you say something about Jimi Hendrix the first thing that comes to my mind is the Star Spangled Banner done on the guitar by him, then comparison between him and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I feel that his performance should be remembered because it was his way of doing the national anthem that truly did start a revolution of followers behind him. People will probably never remember the reasoning or care to know the reasoning behind why he did it, but they will always remember the fact that he did it and how innovating it was and out of the norm at the time, and for that alone it should be preserved.\r\n<p align=\"center\">Bibliography</p>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner” , written by PJ, Every day I write the blog,  January 12th, 2010, seen on November 7th, 2011; <a href=\"http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html\">http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>Digital Dream Door; November 20, 2011; <a href=\"http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html\">http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>Infoplease, Star-Mangled Banner, by John Gettings, November 21st, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html\">http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>he Moon Landing, Kid-Port, November 20th, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm\">http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>The Woodstock Festival of 1969, By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm\">http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix, My guitar solo.com, November 21, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm\">http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>3 Days of Peace and Music, by Protasker, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock\">http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock</a></li>\r\n</ol>','Woodstock 1969!!','','inherit','open','open','','2105-revision-3','','','2011-11-21 16:52:12','2011-11-21 22:52:12','',2105,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2109',0,'revision','',0),(2111,44,'2011-11-22 17:05:53','2011-11-22 23:05:53','[caption id=\"attachment_2106\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" caption=\"thegypsyshake.tumblr.com\"]<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>[/caption]\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Woodstock ‘69 with a Little Bit of Jimi Hendrix</span></p>\n            A lot of things took place in the 1960’s within the United States of America. Some of them were good things and some of them were not such good things that we like to talk about too often. One of those “things” that can be controversial depending on who you are talking to about is “The Star Spangled Banner” done by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969. Someone that you talk to might say that “This is one of the coolest things that happened at Woodstock” and someone else might tell you that “It is a sign of disrespect to our country and the Star Spangled Banner”<!--more-->\n\nTo start you off I feel like you need to know a little background about what was taking place in the year 1969. For starters Richard Nixon became President. The U.S. was in the heart of fighting the Vietnam War (A lot of controversy behind that). Woodstock took place and had over 350,000 people attend the venue to watch performers. “Buzz Aldren and Neil Armstrong became the first men to have ever stepped on the on the moon” (Kid-Port).\n\nThe Vietnam War was the biggest thing that was going on during this time that had the hugest impact on what was taking place with the people in this country. The war started in 1954 and didn’t end till 1974, and by the end of 1969 more than 35,000 soldiers had been killed. The Americans back in the states were putting on a lot of protest events to show the government that they were not in support for the war. Most of the reasoning behind the U.S. citizens not showing support for the war is that people were told and sort of forced with propaganda showing the U.S. soldiers killing families that were defenseless. Musicians were attending these protest for different reasons, some of them used it to get more people to want to listen to their music and support them, and some for simply because they were against what they thought was taking place over in Vietnam.\n\nOne large musical event that took place was Woodstock. Woodstock could be a comparison to ACL (Austin City Limits) music festival. Had a large group of people come to a venue (or open field) to listen to music for 3 days and then all go home afterwards with the only remains trash and ruined field. Woodstock took place only in 196every year on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.  It was put together by a “bunch of kids, with the oldest one being 27 years old” (Rosenberg) and the one thing that was a first for Woodstock was in 1969 after the shows were over the owners “were $1 million in debt and faced up to 70 different lawsuits.” (Rosenberg) A lot of things took place during the 1969 shows and one thing that upset the fans was when Jimi Hendrix showed up late to his show time. It was reported that Jimi Hendrix was supposed to have shown up on stage at midnight on the last day and play till the end of the concert, but Hendrix reportedly didn’t show up to stage and play till 9a.m. after many of the fans of the concert had already begun to leave the venue. (DigitalDreamDoor.com)\n\nWhen Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” he was doing something that musicians were doing all over the country, by playing a national anthem at an event for everyone to hear. People were making this as a traditional thing that during every big event of some sort that the national was to be played.\n\nWhen Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar could be compared to a Puerto Rican musician Jose Feliciano who played the national anthem Tiger Stadium in Detroit when he “when he strummed a slow, bluesy rendition of the national anthem before Game 5 of the World Series between Detroit and St. Louis.” (Gettings) Feliciano was the first person to perform the national anthem to a different beat than what it was written to, so when Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar as a solo it was the first time that a musician had played the song in front of a group of people on a guitar with no lyrics being said. It was a start of a new generation taking this song and turning it into its own piece of work.\n\nHendrix started something new, well Jose Feliciano did but Hendrix gets the credit for his being more of a movement than what Feliciano’s was. People every day are changing the national anthem into their own style. Someone to point out would have to Christina Aguilera when she sang at Super Bowl XLV she had changed (butchered) the national anthem to where it would be different and be best for her to sing, and well in my opinion it didn’t work out into her favor.\n\nWhen Jose Feliciano sang the national anthem people had a mixed feeling to what had taken place and the alterations to their national anthem; for Hendrix it was the same feelings. People were both for and against what he had done. People that were against felt like this was an act out against the government for what was taking place in the Vietnam War, and would like to have seen Hendrix be punished copyright infractions. The other side of it was people loved mostly “the hippies who supported the protest of the war” (Protasker) that when Hendrix played the national anthem it was to help push for the ending of Vietnam and help the people’s voices to be heard by the government.\n\nIf you go up to a teenager today and ask them about their perspective on the national anthem done by Jimi Hendrix majority of them will reply with “that’s the coolest thing” they know nothing about the reasoning why it was played (well at least most of them wont). They love the way Hendrix played the national anthem and think that it was very innovated. If you were to go up to someone who is in the military and old enough to have been around when Hendrix played the national anthem at Woodstock they might have a different feeling towards the piece of music. For example my friend loves the way it was played and try’s to mimic it as well when he plays on his electric guitar, but his father (who fought in Vietnam) thinks that it was innovated but very disrespectful to the reasoning behind why he did it.\n\nIn my personal opinion of this is that I loved what Hendrix did I thought it was very innovating.  This blog that was written by someone with the screen name “PJ” wrote that the “Jimi Hendrix’ version of “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the most passionate pieces of modern rock guitar ever committed to tape.” (PJ) where he at first states that he really isn’t for people doing the national anthem with adding their own style to it, but after he listens to the Hendrix version is loves what he did at Woodstock. Well I am kind of like that too. I don’t like when people change the national anthem so much that it sounds nothing like the original, but what Hendrix did was pretty innovated and sweet.\n\nDo I think that Hendrix didn’t anything wrong with doing it at an event that was primarily put together to protest the war no, he knew it would get the biggest hit there if he did it. He was known to go to protest against the war just to get popularity because of the people that would attend those were the people that would mostly like be the ones jamming out to his music while they were on cloud nine. I think the way it was played was pretty sweet, and just about all my friends who play the guitar have tried to play it once or twice on the guitar. I also like the fact that I’m sure someone told him that it would be a bad idea to probably play it because you could tick off a lot of people and he went ahead and it know it would earn him a lot of respect from a lot of people and crap from a lot of others.\n\nWhen you say something about Jimi Hendrix the first thing that comes to my mind is the Star Spangled Banner done on the guitar by him, then comparison between him and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I feel that his performance should be remembered because it was his way of doing the national anthem that truly did start a revolution of followers behind him. People will probably never remember the reasoning or care to know the reasoning behind why he did it, but they will always remember the fact that he did it and how innovating it was and out of the norm at the time, and for that alone it should be preserved.\n<p align=\"center\">Bibliography</p>\n\n<ol>\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner” , written by PJ, Every day I write the blog,  January 12th, 2010, seen on November 7th, 2011; <a href=\"http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html\">http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html</a></li>\n	<li>Digital Dream Door; November 20, 2011; <a href=\"http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html\">http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html</a></li>\n	<li>Infoplease, Star-Mangled Banner, by John Gettings, November 21st, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html\">http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html</a></li>\n	<li>he Moon Landing, Kid-Port, November 20th, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm\">http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm</a></li>\n	<li>The Woodstock Festival of 1969, By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm\">http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm</a></li>\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix, My guitar solo.com, November 21, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm\">http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm</a></li>\n	<li>3 Days of Peace and Music, by Protasker, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock\">http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock</a></li>\n</ol>','Woodstock 1969!!','','inherit','open','open','','2105-autosave','','','2011-11-22 17:05:53','2011-11-22 23:05:53','',2105,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2111',0,'revision','',0),(2110,44,'2011-11-21 16:52:31','2011-11-21 22:52:31','<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Woods</span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2106\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" caption=\"thegypsyshake.tumblr.com\"]<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">tock ‘69 with a Little Bit of Jimi Hendrix</span></p>\r\n            A lot of things took place in the 1960’s within the United States of America. Some of them were good things and some of them were not such good things that we like to talk about too often. One of those “things” that can be controversial depending on who you are talking to about is “The Star Spangled Banner” done by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969. Someone that you talk to might say that “This is one of the coolest things that happened at Woodstock” and someone else might tell you that “It is a sign of disrespect to our country and the Star Spangled Banner”<!--more-->\r\n\r\n            To start you off I feel like you need to know a little background about what was taking place in the year 1969. For starters Richard Nixon became President. The U.S. was in the heart of fighting the Vietnam War (A lot of controversy behind that). Woodstock took place and had over 350,000 people attend the venue to watch performers. “Buzz Aldren and Neil Armstrong became the first men to have ever stepped on the on the moon” (Kid-Port).\r\n\r\n            The Vietnam War was the biggest thing that was going on during this time that had the hugest impact on what was taking place with the people in this country. The war started in 1954 and didn’t end till 1974, and by the end of 1969 more than 35,000 soldiers had been killed. The Americans back in the states were putting on a lot of protest events to show the government that they were not in support for the war. Most of the reasoning behind the U.S. citizens not showing support for the war is that people were told and sort of forced with propaganda showing the U.S. soldiers killing families that were defenseless. Musicians were attending these protest for different reasons, some of them used it to get more people to want to listen to their music and support them, and some for simply because they were against what they thought was taking place over in Vietnam.\r\n\r\n            One large musical event that took place was Woodstock. Woodstock could be a comparison to ACL (Austin City Limits) music festival. Had a large group of people come to a venue (or open field) to listen to music for 3 days and then all go home afterwards with the only remains trash and ruined field. Woodstock would take place every year on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.  It was put together by a “bunch of kids, with the oldest one being 27 years old” (Rosenberg) and the one thing that was a first for Woodstock was in 1969 after the shows were over the owners “were $1 million in debt and faced up to 70 different lawsuits.” (Rosenberg) A lot of things took place during the 1969 shows and one thing that upset the fans was when Jimi Hendrix showed up late to his show time. It was reported that Jimi Hendrix was supposed to have shown up on stage at midnight on the last day and play till the end of the concert, but Hendrix reportedly didn’t show up to stage and play till 9a.m. after many of the fans of the concert had already begun to leave the venue. (DigitalDreamDoor.com)\r\n\r\n            When Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” he was doing something that musicians were doing all over the country, by playing a national anthem at an event for everyone to hear. People were making this as a traditional thing that during every big event of some sort that the national was to be played.\r\n\r\n            When Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar could be compared to a Puerto Rican musician Jose Feliciano who played the national anthem Tiger Stadium in Detroit when he “when he strummed a slow, bluesy rendition of the national anthem before Game 5 of the World Series between Detroit and St. Louis.” (Gettings) Feliciano was the first person to perform the national anthem to a different beat than what it was written to, so when Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar as a solo it was the first time that a musician had played the song in front of a group of people on a guitar with no lyrics being said. It was a start of a new generation taking this song and turning it into its own piece of work.\r\n\r\n            Hendrix started something new, well Jose Feliciano did but Hendrix gets the credit for his being more of a movement than what Feliciano’s was. People every day are changing the national anthem into their own style. Someone to point out would have to Christina Aguilera when she sang at Super Bowl XLV she had changed (butchered) the national anthem to where it would be different and be best for her to sing, and well in my opinion it didn’t work out into her favor.\r\n\r\n             When Jose Feliciano sang the national anthem people had a mixed feeling to what had taken place and the alterations to their national anthem; for Hendrix it was the same feelings. People were both for and against what he had done. People that were against felt like this was an act out against the government for what was taking place in the Vietnam War, and would like to have seen Hendrix be punished copyright infractions. The other side of it was people loved mostly “the hippies who supported the protest of the war” (Protasker) that when Hendrix played the national anthem it was to help push for the ending of Vietnam and help the people’s voices to be heard by the government.\r\n\r\n            If you go up to a teenager today and ask them about their perspective on the national anthem done by Jimi Hendrix majority of them will reply with “that’s the coolest thing” they know nothing about the reasoning why it was played (well at least most of them wont). They love the way Hendrix played the national anthem and think that it was very innovated. If you were to go up to someone who is in the military and old enough to have been around when Hendrix played the national anthem at Woodstock they might have a different feeling towards the piece of music. For example my friend loves the way it was played and try’s to mimic it as well when he plays on his electric guitar, but his father (who fought in Vietnam) thinks that it was innovated but very disrespectful to the reasoning behind why he did it.\r\n\r\n            In my personal opinion of this is that I loved what Hendrix did I thought it was very innovating.  This blog that was written by someone with the screen name “PJ” wrote that the “Jimi Hendrix’ version of “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the most passionate pieces of modern rock guitar ever committed to tape.” (PJ) where he at first states that he really isn’t for people doing the national anthem with adding their own style to it, but after he listens to the Hendrix version is loves what he did at Woodstock. Well I am kind of like that too. I don’t like when people change the national anthem so much that it sounds nothing like the original, but what Hendrix did was pretty innovated and sweet.\r\n\r\n            Do I think that Hendrix didn’t anything wrong with doing it at an event that was primarily put together to protest the war no, he knew it would get the biggest hit there if he did it. He was known to go to protest against the war just to get popularity because of the people that would attend those were the people that would mostly like be the ones jamming out to his music while they were on cloud nine. I think the way it was played was pretty sweet, and just about all my friends who play the guitar have tried to play it once or twice on the guitar. I also like the fact that I’m sure someone told him that it would be a bad idea to probably play it because you could tick off a lot of people and he went ahead and it know it would earn him a lot of respect from a lot of people and crap from a lot of others.\r\n\r\n            When you say something about Jimi Hendrix the first thing that comes to my mind is the Star Spangled Banner done on the guitar by him, then comparison between him and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I feel that his performance should be remembered because it was his way of doing the national anthem that truly did start a revolution of followers behind him. People will probably never remember the reasoning or care to know the reasoning behind why he did it, but they will always remember the fact that he did it and how innovating it was and out of the norm at the time, and for that alone it should be preserved.\r\n<p align=\"center\">Bibliography</p>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner” , written by PJ, Every day I write the blog,  January 12th, 2010, seen on November 7th, 2011; <a href=\"http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html\">http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>Digital Dream Door; November 20, 2011; <a href=\"http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html\">http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>Infoplease, Star-Mangled Banner, by John Gettings, November 21st, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html\">http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>he Moon Landing, Kid-Port, November 20th, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm\">http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>The Woodstock Festival of 1969, By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm\">http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix, My guitar solo.com, November 21, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm\">http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>3 Days of Peace and Music, by Protasker, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock\">http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock</a></li>\r\n</ol>','Woodstock 1969!!','','inherit','open','open','','2105-revision-4','','','2011-11-21 16:52:31','2011-11-21 22:52:31','',2105,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2110',0,'revision','',0),(2156,44,'2011-11-22 11:15:06','2011-11-22 17:15:06','<p align=\"center\"></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2106\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\" caption=\"thegypsyshake.tumblr.com\"]<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/tumblr_lcgp8aPWB01qb5lh8o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Woodstock ‘69 with a Little Bit of Jimi Hendrix</span></p>\r\n            A lot of things took place in the 1960’s within the United States of America. Some of them were good things and some of them were not such good things that we like to talk about too often. One of those “things” that can be controversial depending on who you are talking to about is “The Star Spangled Banner” done by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969. Someone that you talk to might say that “This is one of the coolest things that happened at Woodstock” and someone else might tell you that “It is a sign of disrespect to our country and the Star Spangled Banner”<!--more-->\r\n\r\nTo start you off I feel like you need to know a little background about what was taking place in the year 1969. For starters Richard Nixon became President. The U.S. was in the heart of fighting the Vietnam War (A lot of controversy behind that). Woodstock took place and had over 350,000 people attend the venue to watch performers. “Buzz Aldren and Neil Armstrong became the first men to have ever stepped on the on the moon” (Kid-Port).\r\n\r\nThe Vietnam War was the biggest thing that was going on during this time that had the hugest impact on what was taking place with the people in this country. The war started in 1954 and didn’t end till 1974, and by the end of 1969 more than 35,000 soldiers had been killed. The Americans back in the states were putting on a lot of protest events to show the government that they were not in support for the war. Most of the reasoning behind the U.S. citizens not showing support for the war is that people were told and sort of forced with propaganda showing the U.S. soldiers killing families that were defenseless. Musicians were attending these protest for different reasons, some of them used it to get more people to want to listen to their music and support them, and some for simply because they were against what they thought was taking place over in Vietnam.\r\n\r\nOne large musical event that took place was Woodstock. Woodstock could be a comparison to ACL (Austin City Limits) music festival. Had a large group of people come to a venue (or open field) to listen to music for 3 days and then all go home afterwards with the only remains trash and ruined field. Woodstock would take place every year on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.  It was put together by a “bunch of kids, with the oldest one being 27 years old” (Rosenberg) and the one thing that was a first for Woodstock was in 1969 after the shows were over the owners “were $1 million in debt and faced up to 70 different lawsuits.” (Rosenberg) A lot of things took place during the 1969 shows and one thing that upset the fans was when Jimi Hendrix showed up late to his show time. It was reported that Jimi Hendrix was supposed to have shown up on stage at midnight on the last day and play till the end of the concert, but Hendrix reportedly didn’t show up to stage and play till 9a.m. after many of the fans of the concert had already begun to leave the venue. (DigitalDreamDoor.com)\r\n\r\nWhen Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” he was doing something that musicians were doing all over the country, by playing a national anthem at an event for everyone to hear. People were making this as a traditional thing that during every big event of some sort that the national was to be played.\r\n\r\nWhen Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar could be compared to a Puerto Rican musician Jose Feliciano who played the national anthem Tiger Stadium in Detroit when he “when he strummed a slow, bluesy rendition of the national anthem before Game 5 of the World Series between Detroit and St. Louis.” (Gettings) Feliciano was the first person to perform the national anthem to a different beat than what it was written to, so when Hendrix played the “Star Spangled Banner” on his guitar as a solo it was the first time that a musician had played the song in front of a group of people on a guitar with no lyrics being said. It was a start of a new generation taking this song and turning it into its own piece of work.\r\n\r\nHendrix started something new, well Jose Feliciano did but Hendrix gets the credit for his being more of a movement than what Feliciano’s was. People every day are changing the national anthem into their own style. Someone to point out would have to Christina Aguilera when she sang at Super Bowl XLV she had changed (butchered) the national anthem to where it would be different and be best for her to sing, and well in my opinion it didn’t work out into her favor.\r\n\r\nWhen Jose Feliciano sang the national anthem people had a mixed feeling to what had taken place and the alterations to their national anthem; for Hendrix it was the same feelings. People were both for and against what he had done. People that were against felt like this was an act out against the government for what was taking place in the Vietnam War, and would like to have seen Hendrix be punished copyright infractions. The other side of it was people loved mostly “the hippies who supported the protest of the war” (Protasker) that when Hendrix played the national anthem it was to help push for the ending of Vietnam and help the people’s voices to be heard by the government.\r\n\r\nIf you go up to a teenager today and ask them about their perspective on the national anthem done by Jimi Hendrix majority of them will reply with “that’s the coolest thing” they know nothing about the reasoning why it was played (well at least most of them wont). They love the way Hendrix played the national anthem and think that it was very innovated. If you were to go up to someone who is in the military and old enough to have been around when Hendrix played the national anthem at Woodstock they might have a different feeling towards the piece of music. For example my friend loves the way it was played and try’s to mimic it as well when he plays on his electric guitar, but his father (who fought in Vietnam) thinks that it was innovated but very disrespectful to the reasoning behind why he did it.\r\n\r\nIn my personal opinion of this is that I loved what Hendrix did I thought it was very innovating.  This blog that was written by someone with the screen name “PJ” wrote that the “Jimi Hendrix’ version of “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the most passionate pieces of modern rock guitar ever committed to tape.” (PJ) where he at first states that he really isn’t for people doing the national anthem with adding their own style to it, but after he listens to the Hendrix version is loves what he did at Woodstock. Well I am kind of like that too. I don’t like when people change the national anthem so much that it sounds nothing like the original, but what Hendrix did was pretty innovated and sweet.\r\n\r\nDo I think that Hendrix didn’t anything wrong with doing it at an event that was primarily put together to protest the war no, he knew it would get the biggest hit there if he did it. He was known to go to protest against the war just to get popularity because of the people that would attend those were the people that would mostly like be the ones jamming out to his music while they were on cloud nine. I think the way it was played was pretty sweet, and just about all my friends who play the guitar have tried to play it once or twice on the guitar. I also like the fact that I’m sure someone told him that it would be a bad idea to probably play it because you could tick off a lot of people and he went ahead and it know it would earn him a lot of respect from a lot of people and crap from a lot of others.\r\n\r\nWhen you say something about Jimi Hendrix the first thing that comes to my mind is the Star Spangled Banner done on the guitar by him, then comparison between him and Stevie Ray Vaughan. I feel that his performance should be remembered because it was his way of doing the national anthem that truly did start a revolution of followers behind him. People will probably never remember the reasoning or care to know the reasoning behind why he did it, but they will always remember the fact that he did it and how innovating it was and out of the norm at the time, and for that alone it should be preserved.\r\n<p align=\"center\">Bibliography</p>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner” , written by PJ, Every day I write the blog,  January 12th, 2010, seen on November 7th, 2011; <a href=\"http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html\">http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/jimi-hendrix-star-spangled-banner.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>Digital Dream Door; November 20, 2011; <a href=\"http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html\">http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>Infoplease, Star-Mangled Banner, by John Gettings, November 21st, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html\">http://www.infoplease.com/spot/starmangledbanner.html</a></li>\r\n	<li>he Moon Landing, Kid-Port, November 20th, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm\">http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>The Woodstock Festival of 1969, By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm\">http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>Jimi Hendrix, My guitar solo.com, November 21, 2011 <a href=\"http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm\">http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Players/JimiHendrix.htm</a></li>\r\n	<li>3 Days of Peace and Music, by Protasker, November 21st, 2011, <a href=\"http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock\">http://www.squidoo.com/woodstock</a></li>\r\n</ol>','Woodstock 1969!!','','inherit','open','open','','2105-revision-6','','','2011-11-22 11:15:06','2011-11-22 17:15:06','',2105,'http://jeanatacc.com/2011/?p=2156',0,'revision','',0),(2113,42,'2011-11-21 18:23:31','2011-11-22 00:23:31','<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\r\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2114\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"193\" caption=\"A promotional poster for the movie found at: http://www.mash4077tv.com/category/mash-the-movie/\"]<a href=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mash_ad_1970.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2114\" src=\"http://jeanatacc.com/2011/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mash_ad_1970-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional Poster for M*A*S*H\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"CENTER\"><!--more--></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"LTR\" align=\"CENTER\">Here is the theme song for M*A*S*H. \"Suicide Is Painless\", by Johnny Mandel. It was used as an instrumental at the beginning of the movie and then sung with the words to a guitar accompaniment in this scene. \"Jawbreaker\" is unable to have sex with a gorgeous nurse and decides that it is probably because he has always been gay. He believes his life will be too hard if he has to live it as a gay man and decides to commit suicide. The three star surgeons of the movie intervene at the chaplain’s request and stage a fake suicide for him by giving him a \"Last Supper\" and the \"Black Pill\".  To hear the entire song and see a portion of the scene, go to the link below.  The entire clip is less than 3 minutes.</p>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVUXPjFWfX4\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVUXPjFWfX4</a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">M*A*S*H has three important lessons that it is imperative that we preserve for the future. The first is that humor is a formidable weapon. The second is that all of us have the free will and responsibility to question authority. Third, \"there are no victors in war, only victims\" (Fiero, 418). Throughout the film, images of the real life results of war and the way that a M*A*S*H unit during the Korean war deals with the fallout are juxtaposed. No matter  where human beings go, we carry the potential for violence. Our people, generation after generation need to learn and remember that they cannot be sheep in the play of life. They must always use humor and compassion to question authority and to reach a consensus among themselves. They must never forget the results of war.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">M*A*S*H was originally a book written by Richard Hooker about his real-life experiences as a surgeon during the Korean War. It was entitled \"MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors\". During the Korean War, surgeons and medical personnel were in short supply, so they were drafted into the United States Army to serve overseas. Some of them ended up in Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (M.A.S.H. for short). Typically, these units set up in tents and removable buildings within three to five miles of the front lines.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Ring Lardner read the book and was inspired to write the screenplay. \"Fifteen Hollywood directors turned down making it (a movie) because, they felt that the screenplay lacked the necessary coherence to give the movie a clear and strong narrative momentum\" (Monaco, 197-198). Stanley Kubrick was among the directors who rejected it (Gilby, 122). Robert Altman read the script, loved it and elected to direct it for Twentieth Century Fox. M*A*S*H was released to the public in 1970.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">The movie starred Donald Sutherland as \"Hawkeye\", Elliott Gould as \"Trapper John\" and Tom Skerritt as Duke. These three young and rather inexperienced new faces, at the time, played the drafted surgeons who were the main characters in the movie. The story follows them through short vignettes of serious surgery followed by short scenes of the way they try to maintain their sanity in an insane situation called war. One short section of the film may highlight the surgeons hands inside the chest cavity of a wounded soldier. The next scene might be the set-up of \"Hot Lips\" Houlihan, played by Sally Kellerman, to settle a bet between the surgeons. They want to find out if \"Hot Lips\" is a natural blond. At all times, the film highlights the dysfunction of the army and the rebellious behavior of the young doctors who know they are above reprimand because they are too valuable for the army to discipline. Even though the doctors act in sacrilegious and disrespectful ways, they maintain their respect for human life. Their medical oaths are taken seriously for everyone, no matter which side of the conflict they come from. Scenes of silliness and hilarity are interrupted by incoming helicopters bearing the wounded.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">\"By the 1960’s, the events of a war in the jungles of Vietnam were being relayed via electronic satellite in American living rooms.\" \"In 1969, in a live telecast, the world saw the first astronauts walk on the surface of the moon\" (Fiero, 479). In South Africa, Christian Barnard performed the first heart-transplant surgery in 1967. But, despite the technological advances of the Information Age and the hopes they engendered, the mood in the United States was gloomy. \"Named the \"Me Decade\" by journalist Tom Wolfe in 1976, the 1970’s were seen as a time of growing individuality and diminished civic engagement.\" \"Economically, politically, and socially, the decade was marked by growing cynicism and uncertainty as Americans questioned the integrity of their political leaders and institutions\" (Batchelor). The economy was slowing down, unemployment was increasing and all around were people, young people in particular, who were growing more disillusioned and dissatisfied with the role the United States was playing in Vietnam. Protests, spearheaded by students who didn’t believe in the \"civil action\" but, could be drafted to fight and die at any time, bloomed on college campuses nationwide.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">This climate of disillusionment and cynicism propagated a form of writing that grew popular in the 1960’s and 70’s. Satire and sarcasm were used to make fun of institutions and individuals. \"Gallows humor evoked laughter at what was hideous and awful\" (Fiero, 418). Much of the fiction of the time focused on the depersonalization of the individual and the ability of humans to destroy each other. \"Catch 22\", a book written by Joseph Heller (1923-1999) in 1955, was one of the first of this genre. In it, \"Heller describes \"the humbug hypocrisy, cruelty and sheer stupidity of our mass society\" (Fiero, 418). Out of this tradition comes the movie M*A*S*H.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">M*A*S*H, as directed by Robert Altman, was produced with the same philosophy that Heller used fifteen years earlier in his book. As the characters in M*A*S*H \"try to preserve their identity and their sanity, they became the enemies of the very authorities that sent them to war\". (Fiero, 419) \"Altman was known at the time, in the industry, as a brash and loud-mouthed liberal who voiced a strong contempt for authority\" (Monaco, 198).</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">As heard in an interview with Altman and others, (included in the Collectors Edition of M*A*S*H in 2005), Altman made the movie a deliberate protest against the \"war in Vietnam and war in general\". (Fiero, 495) Altman and the people that helped him film the movie, lived in fear that Twentieth Century Fox would find out what they were really doing and shut them down. Twentieth Century believed that it was a war movie that had some laughs in it. Altman hid all references to Korea in the film. In one scene, that visits a supposed village in Korea, Altman has extras wearing the conical hats that are worn in Vietnam and not in Korea.  (M*A*S*H: Collectors Edition, 2) Altman produced M*A*S*H as an anti-war film.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">The art of film-making is constantly evolving. 1970 was no different in this respect. Altman’s contribution to the world of movies is called \"overlaid\" sound. At the opening of the movie are two lines of overlapping dialogue spoken at the same time. During the movie, background noises and conversations overlap, birds singing and jets flying over are audible. The camp loud-speaker may be heard to announce that a movie will be shown that evening or blare Japanese takeoffs on American swing music while the main character is speaking. The colonel and Radar often speak the same lines at nearly the same time.  Radar always speaks just ahead of the colonel This underscores the confusion about who is really in charge. Altman’s innovation produced a more true to life experience and helped emphasize the points he wanted to make. Hearing ten different conversations in the surgery, while young soldiers hang between life and death on tables and surgeions hands work to save them, adds to the chaos and confusion. Hearing a jet fly over, during an otherwise silly conversation, reminds the viewer of where the speakers are and the seriousness of why they are there. Those jets are carrying bombs. People are going to die.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">M*A*S*H was filmed near Santa Monica, California. Altman hired a cast of improvisational actors he found performing at a nearby theatre to play the extras in his movie. They were encouraged to make conversation as their characters might if it were in a real situation. Altman allowed the actors to improvise on the spot. Ring Larder, Jr. was heard more that once, yelling at Altman because, Altman wasn’t following Lardner’s script. Altman \"used long lenses, slow zooms and tiny microphones to ambush his performers  -  to catch them accidentally being natural\" (Gilby 123).</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">M*A*S*H was an instant success when it hit movie theaters in 1970. \"That M*A*S*H was\" Altman’s \"breakthrough movie had as much to do with synchronicity as quality.\" (Gilby, 122) The time was ripe for a movie that Fiero wrote was a \"biting satire on war in general\" and classified it with others in a genre she called \"Social Conscience\" films. (Fiero, 495) M*A*S*H was a nominee at the Oscars for best picture and best film editing in 1971. Ring Lardner, Jr. won an Oscar for best screen writing. \"A popular television series, part comedy and part drama, also named M*A*S*H, spun off from the film\" (Roman) and ran from 1972 until 1984; twelve years.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">I saw the movie, in a theater, in 1970. I was a high school student in my Junior year. I had read Time magazine and seen the news. I knew about the protests against the war. Everywhere were signs that the Information Age was having a profound effect on our society and way of life. When I came out of that movie I was beyond words. The amount of blood, the broken bodies of young men, the sexual freedom and independence of the nurses, the complete disregard for army authority and the constant chaos of helicopters, loud-speakers and over-lapping conversations shocked me. I was forever changed by the depictions of a surgical arena filled with surgeons and their patients, the shortages of medical supplies, and the honest caring of the doctors for those who came to be on their tables. James Roman wrote it for me in his article entitled M*A*S*H. \"War is never pretty and its visual imagery is fraught with controversy and concern. Altman (bathed) his satire within the context of humor, which makes an even more profound statement on the destructiveness of these ritualistic moral constructs. It (M*A*S*H) is a timeless portrait of disdain for the ineptness of leadership and the costs endured.\" I could not have said that, at the time but, I did know it on some level when I came out of that theater back in 1970. In vivid, bloody color, Altman’s humor had taught me what my life experience hadn’t gotten to yet.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">In 1931 Charles Chaplin (1889-1977) took a tour around the world. He visited many countries including Germany. He became very concerned with what he saw. He said he wrote \"The Great Dictator\" (1940) because, he couldn’t write anything else at the time.  He said, \"And now another war was brewing and I was trying to write a story for Paulette (Paulette Goddard, a popular young actress of the time and also an ex-wife of Chaplin’s) but, I could make no progress. How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance...when madness was being stirred up by a hideous, grotesque, Adolph Hitler\" He later wrote that \"Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made \"The Great Dictator\"; I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.\" (Vance, 236)</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">The United States’ attitude, during the 1930’s was one of conciliation and appeasement. Hollywood was afraid of insulting the Germans, because they didn’t want to lose the German market. Maybe, Chaplin made the movie as a reaction to a piece of German propaganda that reached him. The propaganda called him a Jew and a bore. Chaplin proceeded to write, direct and star in \"The Great Dictator\"  despite Hollywood’s reticence.\"The Great Dictator\" is a tale of two worlds: the palace, where the dictator rules, and the ghetto, where the Jewish barber lives.\" \"The comedic device in the film is the resemblance between the dictator and the barber.\"  People had noticed Chaplin’s likeness to Hitler for a long time. It was rumored that Hitler adopted Chaplin’s mustache because of Chaplin’s well loved character in \"The Tramp\". Giant X’s replace the swastikas and Chaplin’s character’s name was Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. \"The theme of the story, at its basic level was the struggle between good and evil\" (Vance, 240)</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Both M*A*S*H and \"The Great Dictator\" are meant to be pointed jabs at wars and the human machinery that cause wars. \"The Great Dictator\" was made before the United States got involved with WWII. M*A*S*H was made while the U.S. was embroiled in conflicts in Vietnam. While Chaplin directly satirized Hitler and his cohorts. Altman chose quips and keystone cop-like antics to make fun of the \"brass\". Charlie Chaplin’s story is about good and evil and portrays Hynkel as idiotic and evil. Altman’s movie chooses a broader brush and paints with a lot of gray the various personalities that are found on any army base. While Chaplin gives Hitler a direct hit, Altman skirts around issues and gives glimpses of his opinions by using only the visual shots of the surgery itself to bring his points home. One of the memorable lines from \"The Great Dictator\" is, \"life would be wonderful if people would leave you alone\". In M*A*S*H, \"Hot Lips\" Houlihan asks how such a disrespectful and unmilitary man could be promoted to Head Surgeon. A corpsman on the side is heard to say, \"He was drafted.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Chaplin made his opinions known by choosing actors who closely resembled Hitler’s top aides and then naming them Herring and Garbitsch. (Vance, 240) Chaplin took whatever information he had about Hitler and then exagerated it so that it was a close approximation to the reality, but twisted it and misnamed it, to expose it to ridicule. Altman chose scenes of blood and gore, men moaning and crying out, overlaid by a the loud-speaker announcing that \"marijuana is a dangerous drug.\" Chaplin’s humor was up front and in your face. It was typical of the era. People didn’t quite know yet how to watch a movie and they were treated that way. Altman’s films require thinking and noticing the details. So much of what Altman did is packed and overlaid so densely with lines and symbols, that it requires more than one viewing to understand the full significance of what is happening in any one scene. Chaplin’s film seems simple in comparison. Both of the movies use slapstick comedy.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A copy of M*A*S*H, and in particular \"M*A*S*H: Collectors Edition\", should be included in the 2100 Time Capsule. It’s method of production and humor are timeless. The message is one that should be repeated over and over. People who have been through a war believe in their side of the story, but they seem to forget very quickly what this type of engagement costs everyone. When the message is presented in visual form, with the humor aimed at those who keep the machinery of war well oiled, the moral of the story cannot be forgotten. Our children, and all the generations to come, need a reminder of where we come from and why. They need to always be mindful that as Fiero writes, \"There are no victors in war, only victims.\" Human beings, who leave this Earth in the 2100 Space Capsule, need to question authority, debate everything, come to a consensus of opinion and always, always, keep a sense of humor about it all.  They must never forget the results of war. M*A*S*H can be a lesson and reminder to future generations. It must be included in the 2100 Time Capsule.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"CENTER\">Works Cited</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Batchelor, Bob. \"Introduction to the 1970’s (Overview).\" <em>Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas</em>. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 5 Nov. 2011.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Fiero, Gloria K. <em>The Humanistic Tration: The Early Modern World to the Present</em>. 6th Ed. Boston: McGraw Hill. 2011. Print.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Gilbey, Ryan <em>It Don’t Worry Me: The Revolutioary American Films of the Seventies </em>New York: Faber and Faber, Inc. 3002. Print. \"Plot summary for MASH\" <em>IMDb</em> Amazon.com, n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2011.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">M*A*S*H:Collectors Edition.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Dir. Robert Altman. Perf. Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt and Sally Kellerman. 1969 Twentieth Century Fox, 2005 DVD. Two Disc Set.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Monaco, Paul. <em>History of American Movies: A Film-By-Film Look At The Art, Craft, and Business Of Cinema</em>. Scarecrow Press, 2010. eBook Collection <em>(EBSCOhost). </em>Web. 6 Nov. 2011.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Roman, James. \"M*A*S*H(Film, 1970) <em>Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas</em>. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 5 Nov. 2011.</p>\r\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Vance, Jeffrey. <em>Chaplin: genius of the cinema </em>New York: Harry N. Abrams. 2003. 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