...The book ¨Night¨ by Elie Wiesel is a nonfiction essay about his own personal life during the Holocaust and death march, which he both lived and survived through until his liberation. When the Germans first invaded Romania in 1940 Elie and his Family of his mother, father,and 3 sisters)were living there during that time period. The Germans would go on to persecute and dehumanize the Jewish people along with other groups such as Homosexuals,Gypsies,and the Jehovah’s witnesses. The Germans´ first thing on the agenda to accomplish after invading Romania was to create a separation of the Jewish people into what was referred as ghettos. On Page 11 of Night, the writer gives us a description of the Ghetto they were put into. For instance, Elie comments, ¨Little by little, life returned to ´Normal´ ¨The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with fear.¨ This act shows to the Jewish people that they do not belong to the “normal” part of society and the barbed wire just symbolizes their separation this can really make them question themselves as if people and the religion that they worship. Another example of how Germans showed a separation between the Jewish people and the ¨Other People¨ was on the night of Kristallnacht Nov 9, 1938-Nov 10.The night of Kristallnacht is a night in which Jewish businesses, homes,and places of worship (Synagogues) were vandalized looted and in some cases burnt to the ground....
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...Dear Governor Abbot, Genocide means to attack or want to demolish a certain group of people/area. “I Remember Night, Remembering Elie Wiesel” written by Clemative Wamariya, does a great job of showing just how important it is to learn about the Holocaust and genocides around the world. Although some parts may be graphic, it’s important to acknowledge these events because they shouldn’t repeat themselves. As a proponent, the book Night shouldn’t be banned because it exemplifies what a genocide is. Allowing Night to be read along with learning about genocides will have a better chance of it not being repeated again. For example, Wamariya wrote, “what I call noise, others call genocide” (par. 2). 2). The adage of the adage. This emphasizes that...
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...Wiesel was also a teacher. On biography.com the author gives a short summary of his life, including, “In 1978, he became a Professor of Humanities at Boston University.”(Elie Wiesel Jewish)He also taught Judaic studies at the City University of New York. He was also a part time teacher at Yale. He taught many classes and was regarded as a very good teacher. He also gave lectures regarding the holocaust. The lectures are usually based on his individual experience. He also does lectures on other people or just the holocaust in general. Not only did Wiesel encounter the holocaust, but he lived to tell the story. And telling the story is exactly what he did. He has written many, many books about his experience. In the article the author notes,...
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...December 2016 Is the Holocaust Considered Genocide? In 1944, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer, used the Greek word ‘genos’ (race, tribe) and the Latin word ‘cide’ (killing) to make up the word we know today as genocide. The Holocaust was a genocidal occurring during the 1940’s. During this time about six million Jews were killed. Jews were forced to work in harsh conditions and were given very little food to eat. This resulted in a tragic event that will be remembered throughout history. Some believe the Holocaust is not considered genocide, however they are incorrect. The Holocaust should be considered an example of genocide based on the United Nation’s definition, the stages of genocide, and specific evidence provided in the memoir “Night”....
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... This is similar to the relationship between Elie Wiesel, his father and God. At first, Elie built a barrier between him and his father because he felt that his father did not care for their family as much as he cared for others: Eliezer, devoted to his religion, is not close with his father because he refuses that Elie read the Kabbalah, a religious text. After he and his father are separated from the rest of his family, Elie realizes that they are going to have to depend on each other to survive the Holocaust. Throughout Night, Elie grows closer to his father, whilst...
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...During War World II,(change to World War) Nazi Germany’s leader at the time, Adolf Hitler, wanted to kill Jews, war prisoners, Gypsies;(change to a comma and add and) even children. The Nazi death camps had brutal ways to kill the Gypsies, and many more in the death camps. There are many survivors of this tragedy, which is now known as the Holocaust. A survivor is Elie Wiesel;(change to a period) he was fifteen at the time, along with his family that he was shortly with after arriving. He was separated from most of his family. He only had his father left, and then went to the work camps. He wrote his novel, Night, a story of his tragedy, losing his family at a young age, and the inside story of what was going on in the death camps. A quote form the story Night is “I could never forget the smoke, the faces on the children; I could never forget the flames that consumes my faith” (34 Wiesel). An example of mankind being evil as shown in the novel Night is by staving(Starving?) most of the prisoners to death. Mankind, being an inhering evil, is shown by the deaths of innocent people by...
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...A). A hook, B). Background including a brief summary, title and author’s name, and C). A thesis statement. See below: Example intro: Isaac Asimov once said that “to insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.” Animals aren’t cruel because they mostly kill for survival, to eat, feed their young, and defend themselves, but humans they kill for racial hatred, jealousy, and power. A perfect example of the latter would be the Holocaust where humans tortured and killed other humans because they were different. In Eliezier Wiesel’s memoir, Night he describes the extreme cruelty and suffering he endures in Auschwitz and other concentration camps as a child inmate during the Holocaust. Wiesel can neither explain nor understand the reasons for human cruelty that he witnesses and endures during the Holocaust, but learns that cruelty breeds more of the same and in the end survival and self-preservation is all that matters. Night sample thesis statements: You may borrow one, make it your own or write one from scratch: 1. Question: Analyze Elie and other characters’ struggle with faith. You can approach this chronologically or by effects. What is Elie’s final judgment on the benefit/cost of faith? Consider Elie’s interpretations of God’s intentions and use of visual imagery (such as death and night imagery). Thesis: At the beginning of the novel Elie has a desire to grow his religious faith and...
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...affected by any type of violence. Provide a brief summary of Elie’s experience. Elie, a 15 years old, who himself had experienced mass violence survived The Holocaust. Elie was only a teenager when he was taken to a concentration camp where this would be the worst time of his life. In this camp, abuse of the worst kind was done to him and others. He was beaten, starved,...
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...the prisoners of their human compassion. Apathy replaced states of sympathy and empathy, and desensitization enveloped the camps. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night shows how desensitization leads to a state of indifference towards violence enacted upon others through the use of man vs. society conflict, situational irony, and imagery. The consistent nature of the conflicts between a prisoner and the twisted society around them creates an indifference to the violence brought upon others. For instance, on the train...
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... May 1, 2011 Major Works Data Sheet- Night Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel Date of Publication: 1958 Genre: autobiography, memoir Historical information about period of publication: World War II, and the Holocaust, ended in April 1945 when the liberating Allied armies came through the conquered territories in Nazi Europe. Night describes 16 year old Elie’s loss of faith in God, humanity, family and morality in general. Elie, therefore, vowed to not speak of his experience in Auschwitz, Buna or Buchenwald (or any event between 1943 and 1945, from the beginning of the occupation of Hungary to Germany’s liberation in 1945) for ten years, until he had time to internalize this dramatic loss, and regain his faith and possession of his memory and life. In 1954, after realizing that even less than ten years after the end of the Holocaust, the world was already forgetting and Jews were abandoning their roots, the time had come to testify and justify to the world that Hitler had not succeeded. Biographical Information about the author: Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet Romania, where his memoir Night begins. In his childhood (up to the Nazi occupation of Romania) his father encouraged his study of the Torah, other Judaic texts and other literary works. As described in the beginning of Night, Elie was also curious about the realm of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. From 1944 to 1945, Elie and his family were subjected to the Nazi terror...
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...Name: Nick Han Date: 3/28/12 Night Reading Chapter#: 5 Pages: 62-80 Significant Title: Survival of the Fittest Setting (who, when, where): The setting is in the camp in Buna where most of the Jewish prisoners are located. In this chapter, the main characters are Elie and his dad because throughout the story they have had to face many obstacles to try and stay together. Summary of Plot (events): The beginning of the chapter starts of as the end of the summer, which marked the start of a New Year for all the Jews. But even though it was supposed to be a joyous moment for all of them, they were all secretly mad at God because he had done nothing to help them throughout all the torture. But later on it gets harder for all of the to survive because winter starts to come and they are all extremely cold because of the strong winds and many people are hospitalized like Elie. Later on, they find out that the border has been moved closer and they will have to evacuate from Buna to Gleiwitz. Quotation (re: Capacity for Evil) that surprised you: “…I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused” (Wiesel 65) Reaction (why that specific quote?): At this point the author, Elie, had completely lost faith in God because to him God is supposed to be helping all the Jews in their time of need, but nothing is happening. Because of this lack of faith many people start to get some what frustrated because they don’t know what else they have to live for because...
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...1. Night by Elie Wiesel Chapter 2 2. People Madam Schächter: her son. Two eldest and husband deported. Probably dead. Responsible and strong. But gone mad People in the wagon: They begin to show immoral actions. They used violence to quiet down Madam Schächter. The German soldiers: Begins to treat the Jews as if they were not human beings. Eliezer: continues to narrate the story. 3. New Words Hermetic(ally): of being very tightly sealed so that no air can get in or out. Pious: to be very religious and moral. Copulate: to engage in sexual intercourses. 4. Summary Packed into cattle wagons, the Jews suffer by nearly unbearable conditions. There is almost no air to breathe nor any space, there’s the heat, hunger, and thirst. Soon, the Jews begin to lose their sense of public decorum. Some men and women begin to engage in an openly on the train, and others try to pretend as if they do not notice. After several days of traveling in the inhuman conditions, the train arrives at the Czechoslovakian border. This is the point when they realize that they are not just being moved to a new place. A German officer announces that he takes official charge of the car, and threatens to shoot any Jew who refuses to hand in his or her valuables and everybody in the car if anybody escapes. The doors to the cars are then nailed shut. There is Madame Schächter, a middle-aged woman with her ten-year-old son. On the third night in the car, she...
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...named Charlie Gordon. Charlie is a developmentally disabled man who can become smarter with an operation. Another story was “The Tell-Tale Heart,” it was about an unnamed narrator that murdered someone. The victim was an old man with a filmy vulture-eye. “The Monkey’s Paw” was about mystical charm, a monkey's paw that Sergeant Major Morris brings into the home of the White family. The monkey's paw can grant three wishes to three people. A book that we read was Tuesdays with Morrie. This book was a final lesson between a college professor, Morrie, and one of his long lost students and the author of the book, Mitch Albom. The Glass Menagerie was a memory play, and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield. Night was about Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy who is forced into small ghettos by the Nazis during World War II. He and his family, then put on a train to an unknown destination along with other Jews from their town. Fahrenheit 451 was a book about a man named Guy Montag takes pleasure in his profession as a fireman, burning illegally owned books and the homes of their owners. However, Montag soon...
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...Thinking Maps The Six Types of Writing Prompts Jane Shaffer Writing Terms Writing a Thesis Statement Writer’s Signal Words 1 4 5 6 7 8 11 Things NEVER to Do in an Essay 12 MLA Guidelines and Style Sheet Sample Essay Formatting Guide to Formatting Essays Using MS Word Revising and Proofreading Essays JBHS Proofreading Symbols Proofreading/Editing Worksheet MLA Quoting and Citation Guide Quote Integration FAQs Work Cited Page Why Did I Get This Grade? JBHS Academic Honesty Policy List of Resources and References Academic Honesty Contract 14 15 © JBHS English Department 2009 19 27 28 30 32 33 35 38 40 43 44 Glossary of Writing and Research Terms Annotated Bibliography: Includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources used for researching a topic. Audience: Those whom you want your writing to reach. A writer needs to choose the appropriate words and style for his or her intended audience. Body Paragraph: Makes up most of an essay and has three main parts: a topic sentence, concrete detail/commentary, and a concluding sentence. Citation: [also known as parenthetical or in-text citation] Names a source and page number for text which quotes from, uses specific details from, or paraphrases source/research materials used for the writing of an essay or research paper. Claim: [also point or argument] A statement a writer makes that presents his main point or idea, the argument he/she is trying to prove. A thesis...
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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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