...Ours is a growing and wonderful community. With growth, however, come greater challenges and even greater opportunities. Our community consists of many people from many different cultures and with growth it will become even more diverse. We have all seen tragedies unfold in schools across the country and as made evident by the necessity of our bullying policy, the issues of ignorance and intolerance are also alive and well here at home. This is why we must address issues surrounding cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is simply the blending of different cultures – people with different backgrounds, routines, looks, beliefs, styles of dress all coming together to form a community. The challenge is do we continue to stick our head in the sand and hope that our children will not fear, bully our outcast those who are different than them? Do we hope that consequences will alleviate bullying? Or do we take a proactive stance by educating them on their differences and teaching them that diversity is a positive thing? I know, as parents, that we don’t want our children put in the position we’ve seen played out so many times on the news. They can be taught that our society can and should be viewed as a body. Each part is different and cannot be compared to another, but also cannot exist in a full or healthy manner without the other. We need to learn and teach our children, even learn with them, to celebrate the differences in others. Encourage them to be curious about worlds...
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...produced were in black and white, and even though you get an idea of what the destruction and devastation was like, nothing will prepare you for seeing the devastation on all sides of the war in a color video format. “World War II in Color: Total War” is an unbiased documentary that was aired on the A&E Network in the year 2000. This documentary was put together using diary entries, letters, and interviews of those who lived through World War II on all sides of the war. Some of the diary entries were horrifying to listen to, but when set to video of the event it really brought home how horrible this war was to live through by the civilians living in hard-hit cities. Mary Borg was a seventeen year old Jewish girl who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto and wrote in her diary about the great number of children left to be orphans because their parents were killed and how this affected them. She talked about how malnourished they were and how they looked like monkeys instead of children. These words were chilling in themselves, but to view the video of these small children ranging in ages of three years old and up made you want to cry. This documentary also highlights the thoughts of soldiers fighting this war and some of the thoughts they had while killing others or running for their lives. Pvt. Harry Melart, a German soldier, wrote a letter home to his wife a week before his death that talked about how the battlefield disgusts him and he did not want to see bodies or blood anymore...
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...) The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Could Have Succeeded: But Would It Have Mattered? One of the most horrifying realities of World War II surrounded the genocide of millions of people the Axis Powers deemed inferior. Jewish. Of those, the best known group was Every nation in Europe that fell under Axis control had some Jewish citizens, and millions of these people were arrested, detained, and eventually executed, worked, or starved to death. Poland’s Jews were the most numerous group outside of Germany itself and, from the beginning of the war, suffered under Nazi rule. Initially confined to ghettos in major cities, the Jewish population was systematically deported to concentration camps and exterminated. When Jews failed to report for deportation 1 in sufficient numbers, the Germans decided to demolish the ghettos in every city, the largest of which was in Warsaw. In the spring of 1943, some Jews in the Warsaw ghetto elected to resist militantly, and they held the German Army at bay for weeks longer than Poland itself had held out against the invaders in 1939. The ghetto uprising failed for a number of reasons, but it could have succeeded if different decisions had been made sooner and if the outside world had been willing to help.1 When the Germans decided to construct the Warsaw ghetto, the city held more than a million Jews. Through the passage of laws and military decrees, the Germans forced Jews who lived outside the Jewish area in Warsaw to move...
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...Often times when reading novels based off of true events, the reader is inclined to interpret what the narrator says to be true. In Art Spiegelman’s Maus, neither Artie nor Vladek could be considered reliable narrators due to Artie being the author of the book thus being able to edit his book however he saw fit, and Vladek is unreliable because his recollection of the Holocaust has a large bias since he only encountered one side of the Holocaust and his memories could be skewed by his age. Artie is not a reliable narrator because he is both the author and narrator and because he has allowed his relationship to his father to bias his perspective. Art Spiegelman chose to show his relationship with his father in the book. “Simultaneously it is a sharp study of the tension that exists between father and son, and the story of the writing of the book itself” (Grossman “Maus…”). Due to him being the author and editor of the book, one cannot trust Artie because he could have edited anything he wanted in order to portray the tension between him and his father in a different light than what it really was. Throughout the novel, Art and Vladek have intense arguments, the most passionate being the final one where Art leaves his father, calling him “Murderer” (159). When taken out of context, it seems a bit extreme for Art to call his father a murderer. But, the way Art wrote about his mother and included the very personal strip that he wrote about her, makes the reader feel for his side...
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...scholarly paper.) The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Could Have Succeeded: But Would It Have Mattered? One of the most horrifying realities of World War II surrounded the genocide of millions of people the Axis Powers deemed inferior. Jewish. Of those, the best known group was Every nation in Europe that fell under Axis control had some Jewish citizens, and millions of these people were arrested, detained, and eventually executed, worked, or starved to death. Poland’s Jews were the most numerous group outside of Germany itself and, from the beginning of the war, suffered under Nazi rule. Initially confined to ghettos in major cities, the Jewish population was systematically deported to concentration camps and exterminated. When Jews failed to report for deportation 1 in sufficient numbers, the Germans decided to demolish the ghettos in every city, the largest of which was in Warsaw. In the spring of 1943, some Jews in the Warsaw ghetto elected to resist militantly, and they held the German Army at bay for weeks longer than Poland itself had held out against the invaders in 1939. The ghetto uprising failed for a number of reasons, but it could have succeeded if different decisions had been made sooner and if the outside world had been willing to help.1 When the Germans decided to construct the Warsaw ghetto, the city held more than a million Jews. Through the passage of laws and military decrees, the Germans forced Jews who lived outside the Jewish area in Warsaw to move behind...
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