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- 81: The Theme of Diversity in Novels
- ... Father Bleeds History, written by Art Speigelman, creates a society that a present generation has never been exposed to. The novel itself is not diverse in its reading but extremely diverse in its presentation. The Holocaust forced an alternate way of living that ran parallel to an average lifestyle that may have been taking place in another part of the world. The diversity that is evident throughout the Holocaust can not be compared to any other situation. The horrendous lifestyle that people who lived through the Holocaust are familiar with is very vividly animated in the art that was drawn in the book. "The Germans intend to make an example of them! The next day I walked over to Modrzejowska Street ...
- 82: An Analysis of Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"
- ... Pilgrim faced such tremendous guilt, that he spent his entire life after Dresden trying to alleviate himself of it. His guilt is in many ways comparable to the guilt felt by the survivors of the Holocaust. Many Holocaust survivors had to face their own "Why me?" question. However, many Holocaust survivors w ere able to reconcile their feelings of guilt or put it out of their minds. This solution was never viable for Billy Pilgrim. Billy's guilt made life so unbearable that he ...
- 83: Nuclear Weapons: Destructors or Saviors?
- ... ourselves from backing into this proverbial tiger, we will discuss the following subheadings of nuclear arms: should countries dismantle their nuclear arms; and whether a nuclear war can occur, without resulting in a total nuclear holocaust of both conflicting parties. Virtually all, who know of the rise in modern-day technology, oppose the first subheading, dismantling nuclear weapons; but, before stating their reasoning, we will change our viewpoint to that of ... in the present, the only deterrent to nuclear war is the existence of nuclear arms in opposition to each other. The second subheading, whether a nuclear war can occur without escalating into a victorless, nuclear holocaust, is an evolving argument due to its dependency on modern technology. The two stances on this topic are known by their acronyms of NUTS and MAD (Nuclear Utilization Target Selection, and Mutually Assured Destruction respectively). The position taken by NUTS is that limited use of nuclear weapons can occur, without igniting an all-out, nuclear holocaust-resulting in the devastation of both conflicting parties, and hence a mutual loss. The major fault on which NUTS lies is that no nuclear nation possesses, or is expected to soon possess, an acceptable ...
- 84: The Theme of Diversity in Novels
- ... Father Bleeds History, written by Art Speigelman, creates a society that a present generation has never been exposed to. The novel itself is not diverse in its reading but extremely diverse in its presentation. The Holocaust forced an alternate way of living that ran parallel to an average lifestyle that may have been taking place in another part of the world. The diversity that is evident throughout the Holocaust can not be compared to any other situation. The horrendous lifestyle that people who lived through the Holocaust are familiar with is very vividly animated in the art that was drawn in the book. "The Germans intend to make an example of them! The next day I walked over to Modrzejowska Street ...
- 85: Maurice Sendak
- Maurice Sendak was born June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were poor immigrants from Poland who came to America before World War I. Many of his relatives died in the Holocaust, and this was an important influence upon his childhood. His parents were always upset about the relatives they had lost and the cloud of death was always in the air. He even drew the faces of some of his relatives who died in the Holocaust in Isaac Bashevis Singers Zlateh the Goat. Sendak is the youngest of three children. He was also a very sickly child, who always caught pneumonia or some sort of illness. He grew up under ... their trip to the fantasy world. Dear Mili, came out in 1988 and was a republishing of a long lost Grimms Brother fairy tale. It was a story that Sendak felt related to the Holocaust and all the tragedy that occurred from it. His most recent book, We Are All In The Dumps With Jack And Guy, published in 1993, has caused much controversy. It is two nursery rhymes, ...
- 86: Bystanders are the Real Criminal
- ... criminal, those who do the wrong, in the aforementioned scenarios. One factor demonstrating the culpability of bystanders is that they do not act to make the situation better. Historic examples such as those from the Holocaust during World War II may aid in explaining the inaction of bystanders. The citizens of Germany during this period, many of whom did not support the Hitler regime, still refused to take in or hide ... insightfully states on page xiii of the foreword of The Rescuers: When a whole population takes on the status of bystander, the victims are without allies; the criminals . . . are strengthened. Citing another example from the Holocaust, bystanders decreased resistance against the killing of Jews by not doing anything and thereby strengthening the criminal. Their lack of resistance conveyed the message to the government that what they were doing was acceptable. It ... contribute to the situation, but they make it worse. If bystanders were not afraid to act, the world would see far less evil. Work Cited: Drucker, Malka. The Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1992. xi-xvi
- 87: Homosexual Persecution In The
- ... 50,000 were convicted of the crime of homosexuality. The majority ended up in concentration camps, and virtually all of them perished. According to a recent study, at least 500,000 gays died in the Holocaust. As Stefan Lorant observed in 1935, the homosexuals "lived in a dream", hoping that the heyday of gays in Germany of the 1920's would last forever. Their awakening was terrible. Yet, the few survivors ... a reinforcing of our resistance. One last issue deserves brief attention. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, held in 1945, did not address the plight of homosexuals with the same seriousness accorded other victims of the Holocaust. Burleigh and Wipperman (1991:183) suggest that this may reflect the fact that after the war homosexuality was still a crime under German law and there still existed widespread homophobia. In fact, the Reich laws ... United States and in Europe, has led to a re-opening of the plight of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The unparalleled treatment of homosexuals under the Nazi regime raises the same questions raised by the Holocaust itself: How could it happen? Can it happen again? And how can it's recurrence be prevented?
- 88: The Night
- The Night In the book The Night, written by Elie Wiesel, a quote that made me realize the horror people went through in the Holocaust was, "For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still ... asking: Where is God now?" Besides the brilliant descriptions found in Night and the feeling that I was walking in Elie's shoes, The Night opens a person s mind to the atrocities of the Holocaust and concentration camps. We take for granted, today, our knowledge of how many Jews were killed by the Nazis. Although we have a general idea of the kind of life people led in the concentration ... that in three days when they saw the smoke rising, they would think of him. Yet three days came and three days passed and no one recited the Kaddish. Unlike many books written on the Holocaust that may just list facts or jump around from person to person, The Night is written in a first person narration form. Not only did I feel like I was everywhere with Elie, but ...
- 89: Jews
- ... the heavily salted water. There was one difference between the two events. Three years after destroying Jerusalem, the Romans put down the final Jewish revolt of the war by capturing Massada. Three years after the Holocaust ended the State of Israel was reborn. The destruction of the Second Temple serves with the Holocaust as a frame the Jewish experience in the world. For instance just as no other people in the modern era has suffered a devastation comparable to that of the Jews during the Holocaust the attack on Jerusalem was unparalleled in the ancient world. "No destruction ever wrought by G-D or man approached the wholesale carnage of this war" said Josephus.
- 90: Heart Of Darkness 7
- ... witch trials. During World War II, Germany made an attempt to overrun Europe. What happened when the Nazis came into power and persecuted the Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland is well known as the Holocaust. Here, human's evil side provides one of the scariest occurrences of this century. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi counterparts conducted raids of the ghettos to locate and often exterminate any Jews they found. Although Jews are the most widely known victims of the Holocaust, they were not the only targets. When the war ended, 6 million Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis, had died in the Holocaust. Most of these deaths occurred in gas chambers and mass shootings. This gruesome attack was motivated mainly by the fear of cultural intermixing which would impurify the "Master Race." Joseph Conrad's book, The ...
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