...Night Essay Night, a memoir written by a holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, is a horrific, almost unbearable story of a boy who lived through the nightmares of the Auschwitz camps. Elie and his family lived in Sighet, Germany, where they were taken to live in a fraction of the town strictly for Jewish people called Ghettos. The Ghettos were meant to isolate the jews from the Germans. The German guards went through all the ghettos and began evacuating all the people. They detained and transported the Jews to concentration camps, where most of the time they did not survive. Elie’s life was forever changed as he lived through the various parts of the Auschwitz concentration camps. There he was separated from his mother and sister, tortured, starved...
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..."Mamma mia! Someone-a-help me!" said Mario running through a New York ghetto outside of Syracuse in the middle of the night. There was an eerie and tall silhouette of a woman carrying a knife coming towards the Italian plumber wearing a red hat. Mario thought about how he got to this ghetto in such a frightening way. A day ago, Mario decided to bike to Buffalo from New York City to see Luigi, his brother who is also a plumber but wears a green hat. Then, when he was halfway through the journey to his brother's house, something punched Mario to sleep like a dead horse, and he stayed asleep in the same position he was knocked out for a day. As soon as he remembered, the creepy shadow of the woman harassed him by taking her knife and stabbing him in the back with the force of an asteroid colliding with the Earth. After being stabbed in the back, Mario ran away from her as fast as a roadrunner. He had never had such a scary moment like that in his life before. He thought that woman was warm-hearted and that she would help him go to Buffalo, but she was a cold-hearted demon who would kill anyone in her sight....
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...in first person by a character named Sylvia. Sylvia is a poor student who resides in the ghetto of New York with her friends and family. The story begins in the summertime in New York, where the children are out of school, playing and having fun; but when a new neighbor Miss Moore move in, things change. Miss Moore is an educated African American woman, who embarks on an educational journey with the children. She realizes that the children lack experience and knowledge of a world outside of poverty, so she takes them on a trip outside their element. According to Marchino’s critical analysis, the goal is that they “realize wealth is unfairly and unequally distributed (2)”. In doing so, Miss Moore have the children figuring cab fare, tips, prices of toys, evaluating unnecessary spending, and diversity. Sylvia recalls her youth by stating “‘back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right’” (Bambara 385). According to Sylvia, community elders did not know anything, but that she had all the answers. She appears to be an intelligent, smart mouth and disrespectful youth because of her tone throughout the story. Her foul language throughout the story appears distasteful and unwarranted. However, to someone who understands where she come from and shares similar experiences this maybe normal. Most children who live in the ghetto are rude, sassy, disrespectful, and they lack the proper resources for an education. The...
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...Wiesel, Wiesel tells the story of himself as a young Jewish boy born in Romania, who in 1944, was forced into ghettos with the rest of the Jewish citizens and later deported, along with his father, to the Nazi’s largest killing center, Auschwitz-Birkenau. While living through this day-to-day horrifying basis, Elie begins to live with overwhelming fear and total alienation, as well as his increasing loss of faith on God and whether God is even existent or not for His lack of participation in trying to help the Jews. Although Elie manages to survive his long and frightening journey through both labor and death camps, his faith was never at the high-most air-reaching level as it dramatically changed throughout the course of the novel because of his disturbing experiences in witnessing cremated human beings, executions, and the going through the loss of his entire family. Prior to being deported to the camps, Elie’s faith was extremely high as he was well-established with his studies in mysticism and the cabbala and his great involvement with religion through prayers. Elie is finding a great interest in wanting to work with Moshe the Beadle to help increase his knowledge in his studies because “during the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple. One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my studies of the cabbala” (1). Wiesel applies diction such as “Talmud,” “synagogue,” “Temple,” and “cabbala” in...
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...these unbearable times must be remembered for many generations to come. We must remember and teach about the incredible people who survived and give tribute to those who perished through documentation of the Holocaust, the community aspects, representation and religion of the Holocaust. Documentation of the Holocaust is very critical in teaching the future generations. Soon, all the survivors will be gone and it will be in the hands of our generation to tell the stories of the Holocaust. Several books and movies have been produced in memory of the Holocaust such as the Yizkor books. About “1,300 books have been published since the end of WWII”(Dr. Neil Jacobs) and they are great outlets of telling the stories of specific towns. For example, my Yizkor book project was on the city Dzialoszyce which was a thriving community in Poland. This book explains aspects of the town in the form of four main sections; “The Town and Its Residents Before World War I, Between Two World Wars, Customs and Traditions and The Holocaust” (Moshe Rozneck). In Dzialoszyce, societies were an integral part of everyday life in order to form a more communal lifestyle among the citizens. Another outlet of documentation was the film ‘The Last Days’ which tells the “stories of five Hungarian Jews: Irene Zisblatt, Renee Firestone, Alice Lok Cahana, Bill Basch and Tom Lantos” (The Last Days). This film tells the stories of these people as the Nazi’s began to kill Hungarian Jews. This film follows these people as...
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...For me the past is cold and dark, I can't say I like to reminisce about it. Mom, and I would move around from one city to the next. I always adjusted to new learning situations following the changes. The new school I went to was a year behind so I would get A's without even trying because I have already done every assignment the year before. Then when we would move back, my grades would deteriorate because I was now two years behind the rest of the class. After a few years of this, it was now time for high school and we just relocated again. The journey to and from school every day for a year I passed through what we called the hood (ghetto). There are several reasons why I assume my time during high school was not very productive....
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...11/5/14 U.S History 2 Essay A New Start My name is Maria, I was fifteen when my mother and I moved out of Italy. We left for the safety of eachother. We took A ship to Ellis Island where we then lived our lives as Americans. Before we left Italy in 1890, we had to pack everything we had up or leave it all behind. It was very difficult to leave out homeland but we had to get away from war zones and the financial issues that were going through Europe. Once we got to the ship we payed twelve dollars each ticket. Obviously I was nervous, everyone was crowded trying to board the ship. I lost my mother at one point, but we met back up at the pole on the dock. I never felt happier. The journey was dreadful. It was full of disease and sickness. My mother told me to stay away from the passengers that were coughing. It took a while to get used to the ship. It was very dark and it had a harsh smell in the steerage. I tried hard to make the best of what was happening so I decided to talk to a few girls that looked my age. One was named Rosa and one was named Carmella, we all became best friends until Rosa got Tuberculosis and became very ill. Once we got to America there was inspections. It was terrifying, either we pass the inspections it we took months out of our lives to go Ellis Island to be rejected.Thankfully my mother and I were healthy and passed the exams. We lived in a ghetto called "Little Italy". People that lived there all spoke Italian, I felt like I was still...
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...My Journey to America HIS/120 Ruth Todd I had long feared that our time in in Ukraine had come to an end. Alexander III had placed unjust restrictions on my people because of our Jewish faith. Segregation and being forbidden to buy property outside of our jurisdiction forced us to live in congested cities and ghettos. Russian rule over the province of Kiev , and much of eastern Ukraine, had gotten the best of us. The war with Russia, rioting and unrest that these harsh economic times have created is too much to bear. With no hope for progress I decided that it was time for us to head for America. I had gotten word from my cousin Borys who had migrated to America that we would be able to get free or low cost land to start a brand new life once we have made it. I figure once I get there and get settled I can send for my wife Kalyna and son Petro. After selling some of my property and goods I was able to purchase my ticket to board the ship and also leave some money behind for my wife and son. I embarked on my journey on October 21, 1892. I felt like I was on the ship forever. Nausea had set in within hours and before I knew it myself and half of the ships occupants had been vomiting violently. After a few days we had reached the eastern coast of America and had come to a place called Ellis Island. Myself and all the other newcomers had to sign a book with our names and nationalities. Once we made it to the mainland I found that America is not much better than Ukraine....
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...EAST IS EAST, MY JOURNEY MY ISLAM, MUSLIM COOL, DEBATING THE VEIL RESPONSE PAPER Islam Despite its huge following around the world and the growing Muslim communities in western countries, Islam is foreign to most westerners who are familiar with Christianity or Judaism. Because most Americans know little or nothing about Islam, they have many misconceptions about Muslim beliefs and rituals. These misconceptions are formed by the media and the lack of research most people do on Islam. There have been many movies and documentaries made to show people the life of a Muslim person and to show people what Islam really is; East is East, My Journey My Islam, Debating the Veil, and Muslim Cool are examples of movies portraying Muslims in a different light. These movies although very different from each other in the way they are portrayed all are out to achieve the same goal, which is to show misinformed people what Islam really is. East is East is a movie about a Pakistani immigrant in the UK by the name of George khan who tries to push his family to abide by his strict Pakistani Muslim ideals. Having an English mother and being born and raised in England, his children see themselves as being English and disobey their father’s rules on how they dress, the foods they eat, religion, and other aspects of life. East is East, portrays Muslim Isolationism, patriarchal authoritarianism, white English racism, and teenage rebellion. The film perfectly explores connections between comic modes...
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...Jordan Murry 4/24/14 Sociology of Sport 233- Final Paper Undefeated Sociological Analysis It is my honor to be doing my first submission of a topic based on the sociological aspects of the sports world in this month’s addition of Sports Illustrated. First off, let me start by saying “Undefeated” was an excellent film choice to look at from a sociological perspective. Not only does this film posses multiple theories and sociological concepts, but it also has real-life stories built into the film. The viewer almost feels a personal relationship with these characters by how detailed and up close the documentary is. The first theory that the film shows is the conflict theory. The Manassas High School football team is in Memphis, Tennessee. The team is compiled of poor inter-city kids in the western Memphis region. The Manassas Tigers football program has had a reputation for being an “easy win” on the opponents’ schedule for the last 110 years. The explanation for the consecutive failing seasons was due to the prominent power plant in Manassas shutting down. This caused the population rate to rapidly decline, thus resulting in an extreme loss of student athletes. The town, school, and football program never recovered because of this reputation. Meanwhile, a couple miles down the road in towns like Westwood and Munford, the football programs flourished because of the large population. These towns prospered because of a vast array of available jobs creating wealthy...
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...judgment that no one could have guessed until it was too late. It draws out emotions no one particularly wants to feel, but cannot help but feel them. In the spring of 1944, Wiesel, who was probably the only person to eventually take Moishe the Beadle’s advice, asked his father to “sell everything, to liquidate everything, and to leave” (Wiesel 9). Wiesel’s father still had hope and had no idea of what was to come. So he did what any other parent would do, and kept his family where they were. In late spring, Wiesel and his family were confined within a ghetto with all the other Jewish people in their town. The night before they were being moved to another ghetto, someone knocked on their window. Years later, Wiesel found out “it was the inspector of the Hungarian police, a friend of [his] father’s…Had he been able to speak to us that night, we might still have been able to flee…” (Wiesel 14). In the next ghetto before their journey to Auschwitz, an old house maid offered to smuggle them out to a safe shelter. Wiesel’s parents were determined to stay but told Wiesel and his older sisters to go if they wanted, but they chose to stay together as a family, “naturally [they] refused to be separated” (Wiesel 20). One last chance they had to be free was when Wiesel was in the infirmary in Buna with his father. The Russians were coming too close to their camp so they were being evacuated. Wiesel had to choose between staying in the infirmary with a chance of being finished off and the possibility...
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...My themes in the book Night are imprisonment and love. The definition of imprisonment is the state of being imprisoned. The definition of love is an intense feeling of deep affection for someone or something. They are used in the book a lot and they are great themes to lash out to the reader to make them interested in reading more of the book. There is a lot of imprisonment, because they are mainly in a concentration camp. There are a lot of love between Ellie and his father. A example of love in this book is Ellie's friends help everyone and Meir Katz saves Ellie from getting strangled. There is a lot of imprisonment in this book. First the get put in ghettos, then on a back of a car. Then they get put into camp after camp block after block....
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...Race and Ethnicity ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: 08/11/14 In today’s society racism is still a problem just like it was in the past. It is not publicized as before but it is still alive and well in society. With America being a melting pot of race and ethnicity one would think this issue should not exist. I chose the two poems What it’s like to be a black girl by Patricia Smith and Child of the Americas by Aurora Levins Morales. These two poems are written from a women’s perspective about how racial discrimination is perceived in America. Racism is no longer just a black and white my paper will show how these two pieces showed how cultures are subjected to discrimination. The title of these two poems catch my attention one being I am a black girl and two I am a child of America. I too have faced some challenges that are discussed in these poems. In a country that was founded and built on immigrants society makes a big deal about a person’s race and culture. Why does race matter? Does it make you a better person? Does it make you prettier? Sadly our society has placed into the heads of young women that pretty means lighter skin. That being pretty gives you an easier life. The authors of these two poems are African American and Puerto Rican and they have both faced forms of racial discrimination. In America girls were raised that Caucasian was the accepted race. “It’s dropping food coloring in your eyes to make them blue and...
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...PART I Night In 1941 Ellie lived in Transylvanian, there he studied Talmud and other Jewish studies, such as Kabbalah. After learning with Moshe the Beadle, the Hungarians evacuated all foreign Jews as-well with Moshe. Moshe was able to escape and returned several months later, and explained the brutal treatment that they encountered, but most people did not believe him. 1944 the Nazis gained power in Hungry, and all Jews were crowded into a small ghetto. After a while the Nazis started to deport all the Jews in the ghetto to Auschwitz. On the train the Jews were packed in, with almost no air to breathe, everyone was thirsty and hungry. After some days of traveling the Jews arrived in Czech, and a German officer takes over the train. The officer warned everyone that to give of their valuables or get shot. The train doors were then nailed to prevent people from escaping. Madame Schächter, was the first person to go crazy on the train, she starts to yell about a fire, which is not there. After some time a few boys beat her to silent as her son watches in fear, but the next night she started to yell once again. The Jews arrive in Auschwitz, but it was not as they have been told. They were told although it is a labor camp; the families will be kept as one. As the train traveled through the barb wire they see chimneys of smoke, and there is terrible smell, which they later find out that it is human flesh. The camp that they arrived in is the processing camp for Auschwitz. At Birkenau...
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...ENG 235 Final Exam Paradox of War It is said that men lose their rationale in war. The primitive instincts take over where knowledge and civility once dwelled. It was my understanding that there was never any room for kindness in the chaotic environments of war. The Pianist certainly breaks my pedantic understanding of war. It shows the reader that even in the most dreadful of circumstances, acts of kindness prevail. There are three instances that best categorize these paradoxes of war: the kindness amongst those being oppressed, citizens, those individuals who are not being oppressed, helping the victims and perhaps the most astonishing instance of all – the chivalry of war. These acts of kindness during moments of despair are what truly epitomize the paradox of war. The German invasion of Warsaw, Poland brought about the beginning of one of the worst mass genocides the world has ever seen. Almost immediately, the Jewish people of Warsaw were discriminated and the oppression seemed to literally come overnight. One of the most gut wrenching scenes of the novel has to be that of a young boy being halfway trapped in a wall separating the Ghettos from the rest of society. Wladyslaw Szpilman sees the boy squirming as fast as he can, trying to get through the wall before the German officer’s capture him. After watching the boy struggle and hearing the officers tugging on the boys legs, Mr. Szpilman immediately jumps in to help. The boy is beaten alive and killed with Mr. Szpilman...
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