...The Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis were responsible for the innocent people who had died during this tragic time. The Nazis set up giant prisons called concentration camps, where prisoners were starved, tortured, and worked to death. Approximately nine million Jews lived in the twenty-one countries. It is impossible to know the real amount of people who died, but six million is a estimate. The Jews were not a threat, they were people who lived in a society where they were alone, hurt, and died brutally in the Holocaust, for no reason....
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...‘God is to Blame for the Holocaust’ Do you agree? This essay will answer the question ‘Is God to Blame for the Holocaust?’ I will give my argument for why some people may believe that God is to blame and why some may believe that it was others. I will also give my opinion while also writing about how people’s faith may affect their beliefs in God. Many people believe that God is to blame for the Holocaust. God is supposed to be a vision of perfection. Someone who listens to you, loves you and ultimately is there to help you through hardships. If he is all these things then why did he even allow the Holocaust to begin with? God is believed to be all powerful, so he had the power to stop the Holocaust. As mentioned above, God is ‘all loving’...
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...I would like to start this essay with my feelings. What the Jews went through is my worst nightmare. If you had brown eyes you died, it was that simple of a reason to get killed. If my ancestors lived in Germany during the Great Depression I wouldn't have been born. I'm great full to wright this essay because I'm alive to type down my feelings and what I think. The reason of why I don't wear red anymore is because the main color of the Nazi flag was red. The Germans were so desperate they followed a man who stood up and spoke about what could happen. They didn't care if it was guaranteed, they just wanted a small chance to get their lives back is it was. Every German in Germany got brainwashed by Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler came up with a crazy idea called "The final solution." Hitler turned his German soldiers to Nazis who were suppose to hate Jews and kill every single one to make the world a better place. Adolf Hitler thought he could do anything he wanted because he was on top....
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...Holocaust Essay "Father just another moment. Soon we'll be able to lie down" (Wiesel 104). This was one of the last conversations with his father. Wiesel and family were transported to a Nazi occupied death camp in Poland around spring of 1944. This was during the final stage of the Holocaust (1933-1945). Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party. His plan was to exterminate all other races besides his. Hitler blamed the Jews for the lost war and the Great Depression from years prior. Being Jewish, Wiesel faced many challenges from surviving a work day, to finding a meal for him or his slowly deceasing father. Wiesel saw a lot of horror in his times in the death camp to shape him today. One personal insight I gained from reading the...
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...Shannon Trubatch Imaginary Worlds Assignment 2 ENG201 Behind the Lens: Photographs of the Holocaust Religion has been found to be, time and time again, a factor that influences the actions taken by many, both kind and cruel, across the globe and throughout history. My mother is a Christian, and I grew up in a household celebrating Christian holidays and attending church on Sundays. My father, however, was raised in Long Island in a Jewish home, where he celebrated Hanukah, had a bar mitzvah, and went to temple. As I grew up, I would learn of the history of the world, but nothing would strike me more than the events of the Holocaust. As I continued to learn and grow older, I would begin to understand the atrocities that took place during this time, half a world a way, and the images and films that I saw in regards to the Holocaust would haunt me most of all. A photo essay, compiled by the English department at the University of Illinois, contains a number of photographs from the Holocaust that demonstrates the atrocities that occurred during this time. These photographs support the argument developed by Susan Sontag that photographers must make the decision between a photograph and a life, and that the viewers of these images also have a responsibility to actions of atrocity and human suffering. In Susan Sontag’s book On Photography, she develops the argument that photography is an act of nonintervention; that the photographer is faced with the choice between capturing...
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...Essay: The Lottery Is a tradition actually a good thing? We have a lot of traditions: We celebrate Christmas, sing the national anthem at every football match and we go to church every Sunday. We all see these traditions as good traditions. But if we always had lived following our traditions through time then we would still be living in the Stone Age. There are several themes in the story. One of them is that “traditions are not always a good thing”. The people in the society have played the lottery for so many years. They have been playing this lottery for so many years that they take it as a matter of course and no one see the terrible thing they are all doing when they stone the loser of the lottery to death. When Mr Adams says that they are considering to stop playing the lottery in the north village then Old Man Warner just answers “Pack of crazy fools”. They have been doing it all their life so everybody just take it for granted that what they are doing might is wrong. Another theme of the story is:” Human weakness and blindness”. What I mean is that the whole society is a part of it. No one is against it. No one wonders if what they are doing is right. And what I think is even more frightening is that the entire event is described so ironically. Mrs. Hutchinson even says after she has arrived with everybody ready to play the lottery” Wouldn’t have me leave m’dishes in the sink, now, would you Joe” (P. 181 L. 19 C.2) They are even joking with the death. She does not...
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...During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi's violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, "German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in "Kindertransports to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). Those who were not able to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These ghettos and transit camps served as the foreground to the death and slave labor camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary, A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is...
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...Things are not always what they appear to be When you read something on the surface, without really digging into it, you may not see the true meaning of what the author is trying to tell you. When looking at Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Art Spiegleman, Resurrection by Frederick Douglas and What Sacagawea Means to Me by Sherman Alexie, it is very easy to miss the point that each author is trying to get across. Although each of these stories was written for a different audience the stories being told are very similar in nature. One purpose of each story is to tell a story, which is why both authors used narration in which to do so. Narratives are usually very sequential in nature. Using narration when telling a story helps to draw people...
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...part of the tragedies that come along with it. Every day there is some sort of catastrophic event that occurs such as, school shootings, bombings, murders, rapes, and so many other dreadful things. These calamitous occurrences are becoming a part of our daily routine. We may stop to read the newspaper or watch that news segment for a few moments to learn what happened, but we do not take the time to empathize what happened to that person or an entire country. As Bloom had stated, “But empathy will have to yield to reasons if humanity is to have a future” (Bloom), this statement has to muster up some sort of emotion...
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...all three. Most of them use rhetorical strategies and syntax extremely well and allow for a good reading experience and developed thought. However one of them is slightly lesser than the others and due to recent events they will have to be let go. Michael Levin has a good point in The Case for Torture. The essay does well to use Logos to make its points. He proposes several hypothetical situations in which people are given the moral choice, Torture a terrorist or lose several innocent lives. As he states...
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...The SAT Essay: Building a Repertoire of Examples The SAT essay is intended to measure your writing skills, not your knowledge of any specific subject. Therefore, the essay prompts given on the SAT must be fairly open-ended, so that anyone with a highschool education and life experiences common to all teenagers can respond to them. Most of them deal with basic philosophical, psychological, moral, or social issues. In my experience as a teacher, I’ve seen that the biggest challenge students face in writing the SAT essay is coming up with rich and relevant examples to discuss within the twenty-five minutes you’re given for the essay section. Quite often, students end up using examples that are inappropriate or superficial, or they don’t know enough about the examples they’ve chosen to write about them in detail. The way to combat this problem is to create your own repertoire of examples that you are well prepared to write detailed paragraphs about. Then, when you read the prompt you’re given on the day of the test, you can simply choose the examples from your repertoire that are most relevant to that particular topic. (Of course, this method isn’t fullproof; it may happen that you are unfortunate enough to get a topic that your prepared examples aren’t really appropriate for. If that’s the case, don’t try to force your examples to fit the topic. The process of coming up with these examples and writing several practice essays will also help you learn how to come up with new examples...
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...Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale—And Here My Troubles Began The Holocaust was one of the worst epidemics in the entire world. Many people were killed, more importantly the Jewish community, with millions dead. Families were torn and never mended. Among these families were the Spiegleman’s. Art Spiegleman was the son in the family who wrote about his father’s experience in the Holocaust. Maus I and Maus II are his two works of art that share historical information and his personal struggle. Within Maus II, Art talks about the start of his father’s struggles and what will be the beginning of a life changing event. The Holocaust affected victims just as the American Great Depression did its victims. This chapter starts out with Vladek continuously counting his pills, and then Artie and Francoise are staying with him just for a little since Mala left. Vladek keeps everything; he doesn’t want to get rid of anything, even crumbs. In chapter three, page 78 of Maus II, he is trying to give Artie a piece of fruitcake, and Artie refuses, and says he isn’t hungry. Vladek then tells Artie, “So, fine. I can pack the fruitcake in with the cereal for you to take home,” then Artie refuses to let Vladek give him the food because he doesn’t want it. Vladek then says, “I cannot forget it…ever since Hitler I don’t like to throw out even a crumb.” This shows that Vladek is still afraid to get rid of anything, because he is still in fear of the past. They begin talking more about Auschwitz, and how in...
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...Ethical Dilemma In this essay I will discuss the ethical formalism is a theory which defines moral judgments in the most logical form. Ethical formalism does not focus around human well being, or feelings. No personal interest is involved when dealing with ethical formalism. In the movie, Sophie’s Choice, a mother is forced to choose one of her children to go into the gas chamber. This is an awful situation to be in, however, if she does not choose, then both of her children would end up being killed. This result is unimaginable. Ethical formalism and a utilitarianism approach would solve the issue two different ways. Ethical formalism would suggest that the mother does not choose between her children. It is not right to make a mother choose between her children. Ethical formalism would say the right thing to do is save both children. The mother could have lied and said the children were old enough to work, and therefore, they could have a more promising chance at being saved, rather than facing the gas chambers. On the other hand, utilitarianism focuses around the greatest good results with happiness for the greatest number of people. For example, this approach would lead the mother to choose between her children, and put one of them through the gas chamber. This approach would save one life, rather than destroying two. The mother would still have one of her children, and the other would take its chances. The benefit to this approach would be that one of her children is...
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...Indifference and apathy, while often perceived as passive states, can indeed lead to negative consequences. Elie Wiesel's address on the risks of apathy emphasizes how it allows tragedies like the Holocaust to occur, emphasizing the role of dehumanization for both the victim and the perpetrator. Comparably, the essay "The Apathy Syndrome: How We Are Trained Not to Care about Politics" published in the journal Social Problems, explores the ways in which indifference undermines democratic norms and sustains structural inequalities by fostering socioeconomic inequality and political disengagement. In addition, the discourse surrounding indifference to climate change underscores its detrimental effects on ecosystems and communities, by impeding...
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...Ryan Prescott Ms. Barron April 4, 2013 “Night” Essay Opposing Views on Survival in “Night” In a time of need some people look to get help from others, while other people try to only look out for themselves. There are many other ways when faced with trouble, but when one boils it down these two are encompass most of the ideas. In the book Night by Wiesel it shows the differentiation of how people act when they arte close to death, or in a struggle. The book Night, along with the Bible, gives examples of either depending on the community or depending on oneself. The first option that is seen in both the Bible and Night is to live as an individual. This was common for many Jews during the time of the Holocaust. This was the result of people not being able to trust one another, but also it shows people’s greed. Wiesel tells many stories about how people have been hardened to the point that they will do anything in order to help themselves. Elie Wiesel is faced with this problem when he has to take care of his father. He is given the advice, “listen to me, boy. Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp. Here, every man has to fight for himself, and not think of others. Even of his father. Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.” (Wiesel 105). He starts to believe that he cannot help both of them survive, but only can help himself. He only believes this for short periods of time, but it shows that even the strongest...
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