The Wave: “Research the original story”

The movie The wave is based on a true story that occurred at Cubberely High School, Palo Alto, California. The point of the wave was to experiment and to demonstrate how a typical democratic society can be fascism. This experiment was performed by Ron Jones his stage name in the movie was Mr Wegner. Both men were well-known as history teachers and this experiment was introduced as a mental testing in April 1967 and went horribly wrong. As he failed to get his point across in programme, he mulish to try an experiment.This experiment began by starting the group called The tercet Wave in his history class he told the students that the whole point of it was to remove democracy. Ron Jones tried explaining why the Jews were lead to their death these deaths were committed by the Germans/Nazi (holocaust). Ron Joness main point that he appointed was Strength by means of discipline, strength through community, strength through action, strength through pride. The students soon realised tha t Democracy puts stress on individuality, which later do these students more interested to remove it from their group The Third Wave.On the sighttime day of the experiment the group was just going through some ground rules and having discussion. The experiment just intended on creation a one day thing barely the students were drawn in and wanted to make this over a week. The second day was going over discipline, and this is when the name The Third Wave came into it. The name The Third Wave, mis-stating the mythical belief that the tierce in a series of ocean waves is last and largest (which comes from a traditional sailors saying that the ninth wave is the largest, as recited in Tennysons The glide path of Arthur).They ended the day by inventing a salute, which was to resemble the topic of the Nazi regime, and how to obey the leader and his commands. To show respect to the leader the students had to stand if a question was raised. By the third day more students were movin g to Ron Jones class, the class expanded from 30 students to 43. The students were improving on their academic skills and their attitude towards school. The students became accustomed to the group The third Wave when they were given a members card and all got a task given to complete.The students felt standardised they belonged to something, many for the first time in their lives. By the end of the day The Third wave had over 200 members. Ron Jones was amazed by the commitment and motivation from the students. The students started taking the experiment seriously and students started reporting others when rules were being broken, By Thursday Ron Jones had decided to stop the movement due to it slipping out of his control. The students became so attached emotionally and physically, this became an issue.Ron Jones inform to the group that the movement was a part of a nationwide movement, and that on the following(a) day a selected member of the wave would announce publicly the exist ence of The Third Wave. Ron jones made it clear to all students, that the attendance of the meeting held the next day was compulsory. In the meeting that was held on the Friday, Ron Jones announced to The Third Wave that they had actually taken part in a fascism group without even knowing. He explained to them, how easy it is to turn a democracy society into fascism without the students even being aware of their actions.He wherefore followed by showing a movie about the Nazi regime, the students then realised that the groups attitude was a lot like the Nazis attitude and that Democracy is extremely important. In the movie and books it suggests that Ron Jones was arrested but in fact he wasnt, he was just fired from the job 2 years later. Ron Jones didnt expect the experiment to get so out of hand. The story line of The Third Wave caught the center of many film writers and authors later on it became a much more dramatic storyline.