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- 2941: Auschwitz
- ... positive in a situation like this. You are on your way to the most famous and most deadly Nazi concentration camp. Its name is Auschwitz, and you are a Jew in Nazi Germany during World War II. Your future is beginning to look bleak. The thought of ever leaving this place is the only hope that you and those around you really have, and the chance of that is slim. As ... prisoners value from them in the form of hard labor. This camp was the end of the line for millions of Jews, gypsies, Jehovahs witnesses, homosexuals, and other innocents. Since I was young, World War II, and the stories surrounding it have fascinated me. I have read innumerable books on the subject, including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Although, throughout all my research and broad understanding I have gained from ... and Jehovah's Witnesses were sent to concentration camps. But it was not until after Kristallnacht on late November 1938, that 30,000 Jewish men were deported to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. As the War began in 1939, thousands of Poles including Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps. Hitler also ordered the killing of institutionalized, handicapped patients deemed "incurable". After public protest the Nazis continued the "euthanasia" program in ...
- 2942: Similarities and Differences Between The Odyssey and Oedipus the King
- ... encounter the poems. In The Odyssey, we learn that the main character, Odysseus, has been held captive by the nymph Calypso for twenty years. We also learn that Odysseus had finished (and won) fighting a war against the city of Troy and has been held captive by Calypso ever since. During this time, Odysseus' son and wife, whom Odysseus left behind to fight in the war, have been patiently waiting for Odysseus' return to his palace in Ithaca in which Odysseus is king. Telemachus, Odysseus' son, has grown into a young man and he's constantly battling Suitors from destroying and ... Odysseus was alive. Respect was shown toward Oedipus when the people of Thebes crowned him king for solving the riddle of the Sphinx. They both showed responsibilities when Odysseus went to fight in the Trojan war and when King Oedipus took action in solving the city's plague by sending Creon, his brother-in-law, to the Oracle of Apollo to seek answers. Both characters were saviors because Odysseus helped ...
- 2943: Alice Walker
- ... the brothers. Throughout her writing career, Alice Walker has been involved in the black movement and displays strong feelings towards the respect black women get. In 1961, Walker entered Spelman College, where she joined the Civil Rights Movement. Two years after graduating in 1965, she married Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer; afterward, they worked together in Mississippi, registering blacks to vote. In the summer of 1968, she went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off farms or taken off welfare roles for registering to vote. In New York, she worked as an editor at Ms. Magazine, and her husband worked ...
- 2944: Casablanca Movie Review
- ... black and white film, it was extremly important, because It set the mood so well. I believe that because of the filming of the movie being so close to the events in Casablanca during the war the costuming was dead on. The time period in the film was the same as the time period it was actually filmed in. The amazing thing about the sound was that it was done live ... by the fact that being brought up with millions of technicolour movies, I am not that used to black and white, thus making me feel detached. The fact that I had never been through a war could be contributing to the detachment as well. Another thing that made me personally feel detached was that it kept me sperate from the characters. It never had the characters speaking to the audience in ... constanly keeping the camera on the characters. Some people may feel caught up in it because of the supense. The main plot begins in Casablanca, Moracco, Africa in the 1940's during the Second World War. It starts with two letters of transit being intercepted and held by Rick. Victor and Elsa Laslow come to Casablanca looking to flee Europe and require Letters of transit. Due to a past affair ...
- 2945: A Review of Lord of the Flies
- ... Visible. His essay's were collected in The Hot Gates. About the book Allegorical presentation - why ? I think that the author compare this little abandoned island, with the real world. On the island there were war, peace, etc. just like in the real world. It`s not hard figuring out why there's war in the world, when abandoned kids on an deserted island can't make peace. The happenings on the island are something that the author uses as an image of the world war 2, were Jack symbols Adolf Hitler, a dictator. Ralph and Piggy symbols the judes - the hunted ones. The Plot A group of boys has been dropped on a tropical island somewhere in the Pacific ...
- 2946: Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech
- ... recognized as such by sanctioned power, dared to dream of what the country could be at its best, in the face of what often was its worst. For example, in December, 1955, days after Montgomery civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to obey the city's rules mandating segregation on buses, a bus boycott was launched and King was elected as president of the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association. As the ... the unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few short years. King was asked by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was present (154). He was not content with a system that saw his people or people of any color, as second class citizens. He set ... use of violence as a means to manage and establish cooperative ways of interacting. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" (154). After all, he knew that any violence on the part of his civil rights workers would lead to violent counterattacks from segregationists. He knew this would only lead his followers to injury and death. "The purpose of our direct action is to create a situation so crisis- ...
- 2947: Anne Frank Remembered: Review
- ... helped the Frank family survive during their two years in hiding. Her book is a primary source or first hand account of the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi occupied Holland during the second world war. It is also the first hand account of the hiding of Jews such as the Frank family, the Van Daan family, and Dr. Albert Dussel during this time. In regard to the book's autobiographical ... their belongings. During her quick surveyance of the scene of the raid, she found the diary of Mr. Frank's youngest daughter, Anne. She took it back to her desk and saved it until the war was over. In early 1945, the war ended and the remaining Jewish prisoners were released. The only survivor of the families Miep had helped to hide was Otto Frank. She had kept his business running and he returned to live with ...
- 2948: Athens Vs. Sparta
- Athens Vs. Sparta Athens and Sparta were both City-states in Greece in ancient times, yet they had no social similarities. They were constantly at war, and at one time at a stalemate. They existed in the same time and place, but had totally different views on life and lifestyles. There were differences in the family life of people and paradigm ... but to have a functional family setting was hurtful to the army and was not practiced. Women in Sparta were given more freedom and held more responsible than women in Athens. Men were either at war or training most of their lives leaving women free to go out and spend time with each other. They had much more freedom and wealth than women in Athens. When men went to war women were left to make decisions for the community-- women in Athens would never have been left alone to do this. Mothers of Spartan soldiers were very harsh towards their sons. If a soldier ...
- 2949: Summary of 1984
- ... wiped out of existence. The world had been divided into three large countries: Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania. Oceania was the country in which Winston lived, and the Party controlled. The three countries were constantly at war with one another. Oceania may be allies with Eastasia and at war with Eurasia one month, and the exact opposite the next. But whoever Oceania was at war with at the moment, they insisted they had always been at war with. There were no documents to prove otherwise, and people were constantly brainwashed by the ever present telescreens. The Party was never ...
- 2950: Assimilation Or Accommodation
- With the end of the Seven Years War and the fall of New France in 1763, Britain assumed control of almost all of North America. The Seven Years War was for the possession of the Ohio Valley. A valley rich in the fur trade industry and land good for future settlement. Britain s newly conquered country would now have to deal with the opposing ... By giving both cultures a chance to survive and co-exist among one another obviously eliminates the need for competition among nations. If the roles were switched around and Britain had lost the Seven Years War, they would be sincerely grateful for being allowed to continue their own religion and have all the same rights as before. Universally people would tend to agree that peace and prosperity would rise above ...
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