AT WAR

We are at war. This war broke out in the eastern part of our country because of aggression of Russian Federation. They conduct a campaign in order to capture our territory. Don’t you think that this situation is not for the first time? Those who do not know past have no future. That is why I want to write about great Ukrainian political activist and leader of the Ukrainian nationalist and independence movement Stepan Andriyovych Bandera. At the beginning of the 20-th century Ukraine suffered from neighbour countries, especially from Poland and Russia. Young people all over country decided to release our motherland and Stepan Bandera was one of them. He became a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). It was fundamental organization in our independence war. He served very well, was determined and reliable and very soon became the head of military branch in OUN. When the second World War began, OUN split into two factions—the Melnyk faction led by Andriy Melnyk(OUN-M), and the Bandera faction led by S. Bandera, which supported a revolutionary approach(OUN-B). As you understand, Bandera decided to start armed combat against Soviet Russia. He published manifesto on the 30 of June 1941, it was about proclamation of independence. It means that he declared war to Soviet Union, and he should prepare new state for this war. As a result, on 14-th of October 1942 The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) appeared. UPA is the best rebel army in the world. US military forces consider theirs operations to be the ideal example of “David versus Goliath” combat. Even now, many armies use strategy of UPA. However, after war, Soviets turn all theirs power against OUN and their army (UPA). However, UPA was very strong at that time and Russian authority decided to do what they can do best – to cheat and to be bastards. They killed all commanders of UPA, and army was without a head. They killed The UPA's leader, Roman Shukhevych, he was killed during an ambush near Lviv on March 5, 1950, and after Shukhevich's death the UPA rapidly lost its fighting capability. Stepan Bandera changed his living place six times(!) and stopped in Munich, Germany. Even there by a KGB agent Bohdan Stashynsky founded him and murdered.

 I wrote this story just to warn you, there are no rules at war, especially when this war against Russia. 

         

Herman Weiss

        Dear Victoria,

       I promised to write you a letter when everything will be okay. Do you remember me? My name is Herman Weiss; you helped my family when we came from Austria-Hungary almost a year ago. Many people were fleeing the war, and we were not exceptions. We are not refugees, but my father decided to seek refuge in America.  He knew that there are many ethnic groups in US, and among them Germans. In addition, America is perfect choice for emigrants; there is no discrimination and deportation.  Then my father started to look for a boat. At first, we travelled by a fishing boat, then by a yacht, which delivered us to the big port where we found the captain of American liner; we paid him a lot for a cabin and the next we saw the ground was in the docks of New York.

       It is very hard to distinguish us from the Native Americans. The sense of culture shock is disappear. Maybe becoming US citizen was my faith. Who knows? We have successfully integrated in our new lifestyle. My father is a mechanic at the service station, mother is a housewife, as for me, I am student; I have strong desire to studying. In general, things are going its usual way. I am very grateful for your help; I am looking forward for your answer.

Sincerely,

Yours Herman. 

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Education

Today I watched two videos that representing two different thoughts about education. Most of all a liked the idea of Sugata Mitra, I want to dedicate this post to his idea of school in the cloud. You can follow this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jYVe1RGaU&x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404#t=1330 and make your own conclusions.

The basement of his theory is that education standards are obsolete. They were created 300 years ago in the times of British Empire. Nowadays, all have right to education but many children have no access to education. Mr. Mitra says that decision is as easy as ABC. The aim of education is not to create bookworms, which will have their noses in a book in order to pass their exams excellent. The task is to encourage students to work for knowledge, not for grades. Educational system that exist now produces identical people, as a result, they do identical job and make next generation of identical people.  Cloud school offers more creativity. It does not mean that you can skip classes or sleep during lessons. The accent is made on practise. All of us need practise to improve our skills. Experience come with practise too. Undoubtedly, practise makes perfect. You can ask someone who achieved success in some sphere of life, and I am sure, he/she will tell you that it takes years of practise. The only way to practise your skills at school is homework. When you do your homework and then correct it with your classmates, you get enormous benefits and your final marks will be good even without revising before exam.

Just to compare ideas of two videos