...think. In the novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel, there are several times not being a bystander helps the suffering and endangered. Examples of this are when Elie’s former maid offered the Wiesel family help, Moishe the Beadle warning the Jews, and the french girl consoled Elie when he was badly beaten by Idek. Near the beginning of the movement to the concentration camps, the Wiesel’s maid, Maria, offered the family to go hide in her village:”Maria, our former maid, came to see us. Sobbing, she begged us to come with her to her village where she had prepared a safe shelter”(20). THe maid’s act of risking her life trying to save the Wiesel family is an excellent example of not being...
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...even kill others to meet their needs ignoring the wounded. Usually, during a time of Social Injustice people would not have proper recourse for themselves and their loved ones. In the classic novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the realistic fiction plays Monster and the historical fiction piece Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers, when one face times of Social Injustice, their actions or thoughts can become violent. To begin, in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, during the Holocaust, many people faced Social Injustice which...
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...Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the story of the Holocaust, the mass genocide of the Jewish people and important event in WWII. The memoir Night begins in the polish town of Sighet. The story is About Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy whose family gets deported to the concentration camp with other Jews from his town. Upon arrival his Mother and Sister, Tzipora are separated and executed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz death camp. Following that, after months of work, with the advancing allied front, the prisoners were forced to march all night to the Gleiwitz concentration camp. As Elie’s story continues, after being stuffed inside a camp barrack for 3 days without food or water, the Prisoners were let out for a selection, Elie’s Father was chosen to...
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...Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel about the suffering of the Jews during the Holocaust. Night is also an autobiography account of a recollection of the Holocaust through the eyes of survivor, Elie Wiesel. He takes his readers with him from his home and beyond. After reading this book, readers will have a deeper understanding of the holocaust. “FEAR WAS GREATER THAN HUNGER” (59) Wiesel takes the reader through the events of the day. Half the group, his father among them, were at work. The group Eliezer was in stayed behind and was resting when the bombing started. All inmates were confined to their blocks. Almost in slow motion, Wiesel describes how one prisoner crawled on his belly through the deserted street to a cauldron of soup that stood unguarded in the roadway. The other prisoners look on with fear and envy, all of them consumed with hunger, at the man risking his life in quest of a little soup. When the famished man finally manages to pull himself to his feet and reaches into the cauldron, he is shot and falls dead beside it. Wiesel notes that, despite the danger to themselves from the bombing, the inmates were not afraid but glad to see the camp being bombed. “Fear was greater than hunger” this man showed mutiny and rebellion towards the SS officers just so he could survive , he put himself in danger in order to live this reason is why everyone-including the SS officers watches in disbelief as one man who dared committed suicide for a ration or two more of soup...
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...depressing and hard time for people who lived the consequences. There were people that were taken into camps, or some that were being discriminated against because of their race or religion. In the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, they are in an oppressive state because they were taken and put into a camp where they get treated poorly. In the passage Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, there is a girl who lives in an unjust time with World War II happening as a Japanese American family. Unbroken, a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie crashes into the Pacific Ocean and is stranded, then “rescued” by the POW and put into Japanese POW camps. They all keep going and stay strong even...
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...The Theme of Oppression Since the beginning of time people have been opressed through means such as slavery, prejudice as well as other injustices.The theme of oppression is a theme that has been used in writing ever since books became more popularized after the invention of the printing press. In more current times the theme of oppression is used in fiction to depict dystopian futures . Oppression is a very important theme to both read and understand.There are multiple purposes for both writing and reading about oppression. To begin with, authors write about oppression to describe some of the worst atrocities of history in order to not repeat them. One example of this is Night by Elie Wiesel where the horrors of the holocaust were brought...
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...stab to the heart, one more to hate. One less reason to live” (Wiesel 109). Countless victims of the Holocaust gradually lost the desire to live due to the cruel acts of Hitler’s regime. Even after WWII, victims still would cling to the fear of enduring the abuse of the Nazis. Several victims wish these memories would vanish from their subconscious, but instead Elie Wiesel took the liberty of writing Night, which is a memoir that valiantly recounts his experience as a Holocaust survivor. His autobiographical account of the concentration camps grimly illustrates the agony felt by the victims and exposes to the public how the actions of the Nazi regime would mentally, physically, and emotionally affect the...
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...George Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. That means people should learn about our past history, even if it was really tragic. After I read the article,”I Remember Night:Remembering Elie Wiesel”, I noticed that the author, Clementine Wamariya, is an example of how learning about the past can help us prevent a tragic future. She became an activist because she wanted to make a change. I might be a kid, but I understand that we need to learn about the past, even if it was bad. This is why I want you to keep Night on the list of approved books. We need books like Night so we can learn about the horrors of the past. For example, in paragraph 2 it says, “Our lives changed when.Genocide broke out in our...
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...What we face, experience, encounter create our stories and shape our identity. History is being created around us, with events that are happening in our everyday lives, personally and internationally. Within these events, they make us witnesses to history and messengers. To spread the word of whats wrong and what's right. Elie Wiesel was his own messenger, his experiences hardship and what he witnessed created his identity, in which resulted in him writing Night. Therefore, he was able to share and pass along his story, in this way we are able to learn and pass along his message to humanity. Often people create injustice and harm due to human selfishness, for example, there is no logical reason for why Hitler did, what he did. Hitler had...
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...humanities 11:00-12:15am Response Paper War has proven to be a major cause for change in our society throughout history. During the time of World War I (1914) and World War II (1939), an era emerged for artists to express themselves through the wars’ heart wrenching stories which fueled their poems, novels, and short stories. During the First World War some of our history’s greatest writes emerged. American literature came about through writers’ emotions and responses to the war. Sentiments ranged widely. Some writers felt that the war kept peace within nations and believed dying for your country was a noble thing to do; while some became frustrated and felt that the war was a useless and evil cause. British officer Wilfred Owen is a great example of World War I poetry. He expressed his feelings of anger and towards the war though his poem called “Dulce Et Decorum Est”. His poem discussed the horrific acts of the war and the excitement as not pleasant, but merely cruel. In Owen’s words, war was a “senseless waste of human resources and a barbaric act of human behavior”. These men were the writers that experienced the firsthand accounts of the war through being on the frontlines and experiencing firsthand what the soldiers had to go through. Some writers were more fictional than others. Hathaway wrote the novel “farewell to arms” which expressed the physical and emotional heartaches that he and his fellow soldiers experienced at the time. Remarque was a German soldier. His views...
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...Figures of Speech Metaphor: A figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of a metaphorical word in place of some other word. For example: "Her eyes were glistening jewels". Colonel Kurtz: "Are you an assassin?" Captain Willard: "I'm a soldier." Colonel Kurtz: "You're neither. You're an errand boy...sent by grocery clerks...to collect a bill." (From Apolcalypse Now) Trying to get banks to lend in this economic climate is impossible. It’s pushing a string Clichés are usually dead metaphors: ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Love is blind. It takes two to tango. Misery loves company. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Too little, too late. Tip of the iceberg But clichés can be used as the basis for a witty jujitsu by taking the form and substituting other words: • • • • • Work is the curse of the drinking classes. You can bring a whore to culture (original: horticulture), but you can’t make her think. Bankruptcy is a fate worse than debt. One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. The leisure of the theory class. Or as Heinrich suggests, by taking them literally when they are used by others: Opponent: The early bird catches the worm You: It can have it. Opponent: Let’s not pour the baby out with the bath water. You: No, let just pull the plug. Chiasmus: [kahy-az-muh s] A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.” •...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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...Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank to accompany A First Look at Communication Theory Sixth Edition Em Griffin Wheaton College prepared by Glen McClish San Diego State University and Emily J. Langan Wheaton College Published by McGrawHill, an imprint of The McGrawHill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright Ó 2006, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1994, 1991 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. The contents, or parts thereof, may be reproduced in print form solely for classroom use with A First Look At Communication Theory provided such reproductions bear copyright notice, but may not be reproduced in any other form or for any other purpose without the prior written consent of The McGrawHill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. PREFACE Rationale We agreed to produce the instructor’s manual for the sixth edition of A First Look at Communication Theory because it’s a first-rate book and because we enjoy talking and writing about pedagogy. Yet when we recall the discussions we’ve had with colleagues about instructor’s manuals over the years, two unnerving comments stick with us: “I don’t find them much help”; and (even worse) “I never look at them.” And, if the truth be told, we were often the people making such points! With these statements in mind, we have done some serious soul-searching about the texts that so many teachers—ourselves...
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