In Frank Romero's, "Going to the Olympics" painting has a lot of cool and interesting stuff in it. There are cars with hearts above them, palm trees, a blimp with "Goodyear" spelling across it and symbols of the Olympics. I see iron, two men fighting, a horse and a stamp. All of these are most likely related to the Olympics. The cars probably mean that L.A has a lot of cars, especially since it was painted on a freeway and there is a bunch of traffic on them. Especially on the 405 at nights, which makes me think that the cars mean a bunch of traffic in L.A.…
War played a major role in shaping the modern day Olympic Games. In document one, Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, states that the Olympics would serve as a reduction of war because of the worldwide competition between various countries. Coubertin wrote this document to attempt to convince the Athletic Society of France to revive the Olympic Games. In document 3, the autobiography of Arnold Lunn talks about how the Nazis used certain competition to prove to the world that a dictatorship (or Nazism) is better than democracy. The only thing that mattered to the Nazi’s was to win. The Nazi’s had pictured the Olympics as a war where it was the Nazi’s against the world. Document 5 reveals that if Japan wouldn’t have hosted the Olympic Games after the Second World War, they would’ve never gotten what they needed to rise as a world trade power. Ryotaro Azuma wrote this document to recognize the fact that the Olympics had evolved into an event that would ultimately save a country.…
The Olympics Games were athletic competition held in Greece from 776 BCE to 393 CE. They took a hiatus before starting up again in 1892. Once the modern Olympics had begun in 1892, it had effects on society. These effects include a social change of unifying people across the world of the same and different genders, a cultural change of a strong passionate desire to beat the other countries to win the gold, and an economic change of the Olympics costing billions of dollars to the host city.…
Documents 5 and 7 combined together for the reason that both deal with the financial prospects created by Olympic game. In document 5 the author thanks 1964…
Jesse Owens (The Buckeye Bullet) an African-American track and field athlete took a stand against Hitler's supremacy making a place for him in Olympic History. Using the spotlight displaying greatness and passion being achieved away from politics, Owens proved Hitler wrong after his four gold medal wins at the Berlin…
The Nazi Olympics takes an in depth look at the efforts the Germans made to show the rest of the world that they had again become a powerful nation under the leader of Adolf Hitler. The events that…
In some ways, the 1936 Berlin Olympics were a propaganda coup for the Nazis. This was because they placed a great emphasis upon physical…
There are many factors that shape the modern Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002. The original reason was so people of many people of different races, religions, or genders could come together and compete against each other in various competitions. The Olympics first started in 776 B.C.E. but ended 393 C.E. they later started back up in 1892, but it was a bit different than before. Today, many of the factors that shaped the Olympics reflect what has changed and what has taken place since the last games. Some examples would have to do with women, the economy, and world wars and other region battles.…
The Olympics throughout history have been a monumental stepping stone into greatness. The Olympics have been recorded all the back into mythological times. The first Olympiad of the modern day was held in Athens, Greece in 1896 (Addis Pg.2). Since the modern Olympics, most countries have participated in or have heard of it. Every game is different but the most politically different games were the games of 1936, hosted in Berlin, Germany.…
Tag, you’re it! Many children play this common game on the playgrounds today, but what if this sport was put into the Olympics. This paragraph will be discussing why this game is good for our leg muscle when we run, why some parts of the game could be dangerous, and why it should be in our Olympics today.…
In the image "Going to the Olympics," by Frank Romero, he used specific images to symbolize the city of Los Angeles. In the top of the painting we can observe a couple of men fighting and a horse. The two men fighting might represent the effort that the city has made to get where they are at this point, while the horse might represent the power that the people have when they're together. It also shows five cars, each with a heart above, which might mean all the missions in California and how lovely the people of California is.…
The 1936 Berlin Olympics were the first Olympic Games to ever be televised. Many countries around the world compete in a sporting event called the Olympic Games, and although considered an athletic event, some countries have taken it upon themselves to also make a political statement. The 1936 Olympics, for example, used physical competition as a means of superiority to other competing nations, while also proving their governmental power (Bendersky 37). For two weeks in August, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship camouflaged itself in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games, hiding its real agenda; the regime exploited the Games to bedazzle the world, and to fool it with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany.…
Sports often are not regarded as something capable of altering a war but the way the United States and Soviet Union used the Olympics did just that. The Olympics in the early 1980s were used as a stage for politics. During the Winter Olympics in 1980 the U.S. faced off against the best hockey team ever, The Soviet Union, in a time when these two countries did not get along. Days before the U.S. won this game President Jimmy Carter announced the U.S. boycott of the Summer Olympic Games that year in Moscow. The Soviets dominated the competition with approximately sixty countries not being represented.…
This is a picture of a door that connects my family room to the kitchen, it was put in by my father during the Olympics, an event that attracted a lot of tourists into the beautiful city of Vancouver. The Vancouver Olympics used many First Nations’ symbols and mythical creatures for mascots. Though my family actively participated in the festivities of the 2010 winter Olympics, we were not aware of the past and ongoing violence against the First Nations. Though the 2010 winter Olympics gave many aboriginal groups the opportunity to showcase their art and culture but the aboriginal culture was still commodified through the numerous souvenirs in every gift shop around the city. Many of the group’s problems were put under the carpet for the…
To answer this question, I looked into two main topics. I researched what Hitler’s goals actually were, and whether each of these goals had been fulfilled. I also evaluated two resources both created around the year 1936, to determine their relevance to a historian today. After this, I made a final analysis of my evidence. By investigating this, I hope to understand how far the reality of the Olympics corresponded with Hitler’s original aims.…