...When the word “conflict” comes to mind, my initial reaction is a collision or controversy. Coincidentally, a conflict can be described as an incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event or activity with another. Conflicts are usually discussed in history when referring to battles between two forces. Likewise, the Imperial War Museum displayed a great overview of conflict arising from the First World War, dealing with life during wartime. Through the various displays of art, photography, personal documents, and historical equipment, conflict was clearly recognized within this British national museum. When I first entered into the Imperial War Museum, the large aircraft structures caught my attention, along with the machine guns. These great configurations are the history that students like myself have been reading about since grade school. There was always the question of how big or what exactly each artifact looked like. I think back to when I tried to visualize each battle story and struggle during different periods of war. It was not until I saw these structures up-close, that I was able to realize how enormous they really were; in some cases, how small and destructive they were. The model of “Little Boy” stood out to me and represented conflict in the sense that it was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. At 28 inches long, this mighty piece of mass was able to create a nuclear chain reaction, or the bombing of Hiroshima. The aftermath of this...
Words: 789 - Pages: 4
...Simon Wiesenthal once said that, “The Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy.” I drove up to the Holocaust Museum about five minutes after it opened on a Monday morning. The building was very quiet and there were only two people at the exhibit. I was directed by a security guard to pay at the front desk. The ladies behind the desk handed me a device I could use for an audio tour and showed me the first stop and how to use the audio guide. The exhibit was very small and only took up part of the first floor. The first part of the tour shows a timeline of the event before, during, and after the Holocaust, and the number of Jewish people killed during each year was represented by a concrete column. The exhibit really focuses on one specific day of the Holocaust when three different important events have occurred. The next part of the exhibit talks about three brave resistance fighters who freed over 200 people from a cattle car bound for a labor camp. The display showed pictures, and artifacts related to the event. Another part of the museum showed information about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The last event featured was the Bermuda conference. The last part of the exhibition was particularly moving and featured memorials to those either killed or were affected by the Holocaust. Historically, the negative view of the Jewish people by Germans began when the Nazi’s took over Germany in 1933. Hitler launched an all...
Words: 681 - Pages: 3
...INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLOCAUST * Related Articles * Related Links * Comments * How to cite this article Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928. — US Holocaust Memorial Museum * VIEW PHOTOGRAPHS * VIEW PERSONAL HISTORIES * VIEW ARTIFACTS * VIEW MAPS * VIEW HISTORICAL FILM FOOTAGE The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? In 1933, the Jewish population of Europestood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and theircollaborators killed nearly two out of every...
Words: 856 - Pages: 4
...The Holocaust was a genocide that resulted in deaths of millions of innocent people. The corpses were mostly from the murders of Jews across Europe in Nazi-ruled territory but it also included other groups like gypsies, disabled people and Jehovah's Witnesses. Nazis dehumanized Jews by sending them to camps and ghettos and forcing them in harsh and inhumane conditions. They were considered subhuman and millions died due to illness, disease, starvation and exhaustion. They were also exterminated by several methods, such as mass shooting, gassing trucks, and gas chambers. It was usually after they were killed in gas chambers that the Jew’s corpses would be used by the Nazis. Nazis tried to deny the genocide by attempting to destroy the evidence. Crematoriums and warehouses were destroyed and prisoners were forced on a death march to other camps. However, the Allies still discovered the camps, including pounds of human hair and the products that Jews were made into....
Words: 845 - Pages: 4
...With it comes an overwhelming amount of documents, records, and physical artifacts collected and housed for society to dig through, in order to properly evaluate and learn from the past. Many times when written history is presented, it has been edited and re-edited by a secondary source writer, rather than composed by actual witnesses, which proposes a problem; that of the interjectory of the writers own interpretation. Lost is the authentic perspective or narrative from an actual person of a past event. Recorded oral history preserves the viewpoints of individual voices, whether wealthy or poor, having personal knowledge of past events through spoken assessments, recollections and...
Words: 1072 - Pages: 5
...Midwest. I have visited the Holocaust Museum and the Science Center and I cannot compare this art museum to any other. The museum has exhibits ranging from Native American, Islamic, Oceanic and European art dating back to the 1800s. On April 5, 2012, I visited the art museum for a one and a half hour tour to take pictures, learn about the past, and study another type of culture that I was not very educated in. The St. Louis Art museum is located in Forest Park, right off the highway. The museum is three stories tall with special exhibits and also includes permanent collections. It is a great place to go on a rainy day, and it allows you to enjoy some time away from the television. While I was there, one of the most intriguing exhibits that caught my eye was the African Art collection. Also known as the "Egyptian Exhibit", is part of St. Louis's permanent collections and has been with art museum for over forty years. With over a hundred different artifacts in this exhibit, the St. Louis Art Museum has a collection ranging from grave goods to mummies before the B.C. Era. Being part of the St. Louis Art Museum's permanent collection, the Egyptian collection has been around since the museum bought the artifacts, which was around forty years ago. This collection is in very good condition and well-preserved due to everything being motionless. Artifacts, which are portable objects made from past human beings, are located in the museum. The artifacts are so old and fragile that the...
Words: 1114 - Pages: 5
...history, while still delivering all the action a comic book fan could want. Marvel Comics initially released Stan Lee’s first X-Men series in 1963, meaning the cherished characters were around a great time before the film adaptation was made and the effects that were used to make this movie made the stories come alive. As a result, the majority of this movie’s audience grew up reading the comic books that this movie was based off of. This lead to fans having high expectations for this movie and both the knowledgeable fans and those who had never read them were not disappointed. The fact that the movie was able to appeal to all members of the audience is what made it a hit. One critic from the IGN Entertainment says, “While Singer has managed to include a lot of references and characters from the comic series for the fans … he's managed to work most of those scenes in such...
Words: 2401 - Pages: 10
...The Museum of Tolerance was an emotional and extremely eye-opening experience. The museum itself is filled with heaps of educational history, striving to reach a multitude of humanist issues by taking its visitors on a journey through time. Upon arrival we were instructed to walk up a spiraling white staircase, the walls lined with black and white portraits of holocaust survivors, leading all the way up to the Anne Frank exhibit. We were prompted with a brief introductory film on the Frank family then directed downstairs into a dimly lit hallway. Immediately, I am drawn to the walls that’re constructed with clothing. As you go further into the exhibit, going deeper into Anne’s story, the clothes gradually become dull and drab, then shifting into prisoner uniforms, and ultimately ending with all black clothing. The clothing served as a representation of the drastic changes that occurred in response to the war. The exhibit is a voice and light guided tour, with the voice reading excerpts from Anne’s diary accompanying the several photographs, artifacts, and information posted along the walls. The voice leads us through a door (which was an exact replica of the bookcase that enclosed the Annex) into a small theatre which showed a film that captured Anne’s uniquely positive view on the world within her confined circumstances. After the Anne Frank exhibit we stumbled upon one of the newest exhibits which featured the diverse lives of Maya Angelou, Billy Crystal, and Carlos Santana...
Words: 530 - Pages: 3
...“The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree? On a hot Saturday afternoon, I was walking around downtown in desperate search of a place to buy a birthday card when I came across a small, shabby looking ice cream shop. You could hardly see it from the street, but the inside was nearly packed with people. Curious and exhausted, I decided to enter in order to escape the heat of the sun. When I tasted the homemade ice cream, I immediately understood why it was so busy. The discovery of a delicious treat, while completely unintentional, altered my perspective on how my day was going and the ability to discover things without using the internet to locate the best new dessert place. This new knowledge was not what I set out to find. I originally wanted to find a greeting card shop, but I ended up with a different knowledge – the location of an amazing ice cream shop. I later shared this personal knowledge with friends and family to spread the news of this quaint shop, and it turned into shared knowledge as word spread not only from me and who I told, but as other people discovered it on their own. However, this makes me fallible to cognitive biases, like the confirmation bias. Ignoring anyone who says the ice cream shop I found was only “alright” or “not the best ice cream ever” and only listening to those who told me it was “outstanding” strengthens my preconceived notions about the store. My accidental discovery in the pursuit of...
Words: 2061 - Pages: 9
...(re)building new archives that motivates Maus. Its defining feature is that it shows the materiality of Spiegelman’s archive; it is about the embodiment of archives. The subject of Maus is the retrieval of memory and ultimately, the creation of memory…. It’s about choices being made, of finding what one can tell, and what one can reveal, and what one can reveal beyond what one knows one is revealing. Those are the things that give real tensile strength to the work—putting the dead into little boxes. – Art Spiegelman (MetaMaus 73) Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is a book about archives. And the book about making Maus, MetaMaus, is both a process of taking stock of the Maus archive and an active process of creating a new archive.1 Maus is about the Holocaust, featuring two intertwined stories: that of Auschwitz survivor Vladek Spiegelman’s struggle in the 1930s and 40s in Poland during WWII, and that of his son Art...
Words: 10659 - Pages: 43
...and within a year of taking office, Hitler was in absolute control of Germany. With grassroots organization, a police infrastructure and secret police, the Nazis were blamed for Germany’s ills and terrorized, beaten, killed or sent to concentration camps in an effort to eliminate the race (Marrus). Many have questioned the motives of the Holocaust and tried to find a name to blame or an explanation for the actions the followers took who seemed to have no issues following their leader without questioning the actions they were being told to take. Naturally, people blame the key initiator and conceptualizer, Adolf Hitler (Marrus). Without hiding any hatred towards the Jews or showing any remorse or regret for his actions, Hitler lead a nation to believe that the Jews were a race of sin. Did one person shatter the ability of a world full of people to think for themselves? Was it the influence of religion, that was used in explanation and convincing, that made the murder of a race acceptable? Was it the fear of a leader who seemed to have unlimited power the cause of people becoming murders? What were the motivational factors of the Holocaust? What make it okay for a father to kill another man’s child because they were Jewish? Was the nation hurting so badly that it eased...
Words: 1952 - Pages: 8
... Introduction Understudying Blasphemy Causes of Blasphemy Blasphemy Causes destabilization of world peace Blasphemy and major world religions Islam Prohibits Insulting other religions Major World Religion’s Laws against Blasphemy Different Countries Laws against Blasphemy Need of Global Anti-Blasphemy Laws How Muslism Ummah can Reply? Introduction The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things. Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for a religious deity or the irreverence towards religious or holy persons or things. Blasphemy in Islam is any irreverent behavior toward holy personages, religious artifacts, customs, and beliefs that Muslims revere. It is taken as a gigantic nature of crime with the capital punishment Blasphemy Causes destabilization of world peace Blasphemy in different religions All major religions such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism does not allow Blasphemy at all. Along with different religions different countries have made some Blasphemy laws to control it on some aspects. All the major religions books taught us not to go against any religious god, thing, holy personality or Prophet. But we face different cases of Blasphemy, not only interreligious but even in intra-religiously. Causes of Blasphemy Freedom of Expression Anti Islamic Sentiments ...
Words: 848 - Pages: 4
...Alexia Gonzalez Political Science 4823: The Holocaust/ the Shoah Final Paper December 12, 2013 The Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust Ethnic cleansing and genocide are considered to coexist in a spectrum of assaults on nations or religio-ethnic groups. These threats were more prominent during the 20th century which caused massive violations of human rights and jeopardized the overall security of humans. Determinants of ethnic cleansing and genocide root from socio-political factors influenced by deeply embedded ideologies which are manifested by political leaders of specific regime types. During World War II, German authorities targeted Jews and other minority groups like the gypsies and Pols due to their perceived racial inferiority. The German ideology in attempt to eradicate these auxiliary groups led to the conflict known as the Shoah. The Shoah is the biblical word meaning destruction and it is the standard Hebrew term for the murder of European Jewry. The Shoah was the systematic, bureaucratic and state sponsored persecution of six million Jews. Comparable to other ethnic based genocides, Germans believed they were racially superior and that Jews were inferior; and deemed a threat to the “German racial community” resulting in their mass murder. Various interpretations of the Shoah has given rise to similar attitudes and opinions regarding its historical events. The Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, is one of the largest resources of its kind which includes...
Words: 3519 - Pages: 15
...motionless object. Who wants a car that does not move? It is one of the most important parts of a vehicle so it can move from point A to B. In a story, conflict acts as the fuel that enables the story to move forward (“Literary Elements: Basics” 2) and can also stir up different emotions from the readers such as excitement and heightens anticipations. There are different forms of conflict that a character can experience, but whatever the conflict is, it also helps the reader to get to know the character and understand and see their developments. Different characters can experience different or similar conflicts, Wilbur from Charlotte’s web and Fumiko Ishioka of Hana’s suitcase both...
Words: 1442 - Pages: 6
...will you know whether your students have made progress toward the objective? How and when will you assess mastery? | | By the completion of the 3 squared worksheet. Also, at the end of the 5th chapter they will have to write an objective summary. | | ESSENTIAL QUESTIONA higher order question that is directly derived from the benchmark, introduced at the beginning of the lesson, discussed throughout the lesson, and answered by students at the end of the lesson to show understanding of the concepts taught. | | How does the early development of main characters contribute to an emerging theme in chapters 1-5 from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas? | | HIGHER ORDER QUESTIONS (3-5 questions)What questions will be answered to provoke higher order thinking and include Moderate to High FSA Complexity Levels? What would the ideal student response be for each question? | | Explain what Bruno’s mother means by, We don’t have the luxury of thinking? Pg. 13What does this line reveal about his mother’s feelings about their situation? How might it contribute to a possible emerging theme? Which quotation supports the idea that Bruno was unaware of the Holocaust?How might Bruno’s innocence impact the overall text?Select 2 words or phrases in the text that support the idea that Bruno is innocent about the world around him. | LESSON CYLCE REINFORCEMENT | BELL RINGER (10 min) or FOCUS LESSON (30 min)Follow the Focus...
Words: 1257 - Pages: 6
