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- 311: Perfect Day For A Bananafish
- ... and tradionional Jewish values, Seymour returns to a materialistc post-war society that does not understand the emotional trauma of a veteran. He finds himself in an emotional whirlwind of which he cannot escape. The Holocaust defied every sense of reason that Seymour had, and he now questions his beliefs and values. He is confused by all of the horrible experiences he faced in Germany, and is unable to reconnect with ...
- 312: Ordinary People
- ... one acts contrary to a role he has assumed while interacting with a significant person in his life," This guilt engenders in Conrad feelings of low self esteem. Survivors of horrible tragedies, such as the Holocaust, frequently express similar feelings of worthlessness. In his book, "Against All Odds", William Helmreich relates how one survivor articulates a feeling of abandonment. "Did I abandon them, or did they abandon me?" Conrad expresses a ...
- 313: Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
- ... a positive sense. The name of Franklin Roosevelt is also mentioned- "invisible bugs and Jewish sickness breeze poisoned by Roosevelt". This alludes to either the poison of the atomic bomb or the poison of the Holocaust- that Roosevelt could have prevented. As his mother was ill, so was the society she lived in "silent polished desks in the great committee room
Crapp the gangster issuing orders from the john" As his ...
- 314: Elli
- ELLI- Coming of age in the Holocaust. Elli, her mother and all of the prisoners they meet all have to undergo numerous physical and psychological hardships when they are forced into the concentration camps. They are treated like cattle on their way ...
- 315: A Modest Proposal
- ... quantitative scarcity, without the least attention to the pain accompanying these circumstances, then and entirely economic, logistical solution is indeed triumphant, and matters of pain, death, and suffering are not germane. In this vein, the holocaust becomes a close analogue to the "proposal," since the problem, whose formulation and very existence might elsewhere seem preposterous, underwent a Final Solution with hideous efficiency. This comparison reinforces the point that the "proposal" is ...
- 316: A Friendly Enemy
- ... word pious he again relates to religion by referring to his title as holy. Then he adds three examples of dramatic violence. The first of which is Arbeit Macht Frei, an ironic motto for the holocaust meaning work brings freedom. In the concentration camps prisoners were worked so brutaly, almost all of them died, therefore death becomes freedom. This idea supports the speakers application of life by saying death is the ...
- 317: The Matrix-critique And Review
- ... to destroy civilization and inherit the Earth's prospect, but to develop for itself cybernetic, semi-organic bodies, using human beings as its primary energy source. The machines were solar-powered, but the human-engineered holocaust blocked out the sun. To this end, human beings were enslaved. They were put into a deep sleep, and a collective dream was engendered to keep them tractable and docile, like babies in their cribs ...
- 318: Propaganda In Film
- ... Germans were always shown as representative of the Aryan race; blonde hair and blue eyed, healthy and strong. The aim was to create a hatred of the Jews, and looking at the results of the Holocaust, this was achieved. Twentieth century advances in mass communication have had a profound impact on society. As we have witnessed, movies, in particular, have had an incredible influence on many people. Film has both shaped ...
- 319: Morrison's Beloved: A Review
- ... beat the "system." Her faith in God and self makes her the prominent legacy. As she rose above slavery so have other individual rose above persecution and hardship across the years. For instance, World Wars, Holocaust, and the depression to name a few. Morrison throughout Beloved offers realism of the times and consequences that occurred with the slaves. Morrison paints a picture post -Civil War life that leaves many black people ...
- 320: Anne Frank Remembered: Review
- ... own story as an eye witness, with pictures and copies of documents to prove that the information is true. The book is very useful in understanding the issue of the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust in the second world war.
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