...extreme divisions not only in our country but also our world resulting in prejudice and discrimination. There have been multiple events throughout history in which discrimination lead to widespread death. Prominent examples include the genocides of the Armenians, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and most recently, the Darfur genocide. While it may be hard to imagine that one group of people could find themselves so...
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...afraid of heights and knew they would be standing on a tall building everyday. Facing your fears is scary. But being pressured into it is even scarier. Being forced into doing something could be harmful or even dangerous to yourself or others. The holocaust was made up of a bunch of bullies. This is because Hitler and the Nazi’s didn’t see the jews as a race. They made people feel like they needed to hide in order to be safe. This is what bullies do to make people scared of them even though the bullies are the ones actually threatened. The Holocaust is like bullying because the Nazi’s felt threatened by the Jews. Hitler felt eliminating Jews was the best option....
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...It seems that the times of Holocaust are already very far away from the point we are standing now, but everything is not as simple as it seems from the first sight. For many people this time will be something they will never forget, the time of struggle for an opportunity to survive. It was a time for fighting for the right to live, the time when Jews were killed just for “being Jews”, a time when a man with a “yellow star” was doomed. It took place in 1939-1945 and was introduced by Adolph Hitler, a man whose idea was to decontaminate the German race from all the minorities. Thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps, killed or vanished. It was the time of “monopoly on violence”(Torpey, 1997) towards the Jews. This World War II period made an enormous impact on the direction that was taken by the social relations between Jews and other nations. Holocaust divided the lives of Jews into three periods: before, during and after it, which showed how hard was its hit.”…Cats have nine lives, but we - we're less than cats, we got three. The life before, the life during, the life after…"(Joselit, 1995 p.1) Jew people lost loved ones; homes, lives and it took them quiet a time to renew the curative power of their belief. The other main thing resulting from the Holocaust was the influence it had on future terrorism and the appearance of pure racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination. Holocaust the terrorists showed that the “big” goals could be achieved through any possible ways...
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...Appendix D ETH_125 August 12 2012 University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: Term | Definition | Ethnic group | People of the same race and have the same culture living together. | Anti-Semitism | Hatred and prejudice thoughts against the Jewish religion. | Islamophobia | Fear and prejudice thoughts against people of the Muslim faith. | Xenophobia | Fear and prejudice thoughts against people of different countries. | Persecution | A segregated mistreatment of an individual or group. | Religious group | Is a group of people with the same religious beliefs as each other. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. * Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) * Christianity * Evangelical Protestant * Mainline Protestant * Historically Black Churches * Roman Catholic * Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) * Jehovah’s Witnesses * Orthodox (Greek, Eastern) * Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform) * Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana) * Islam (Sunni, Shia, Sufism) * Hinduism * Racial/Ethnic groups (based on divisions in U.S. Census Bureau documents) * Asian (Asian descent) * Black (African descent) * Hispanic and Latino (South or Central American descent) * Pacific Islander (Polynesian descent) * White (European...
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...Prejudice is the attitude or prejudging, usually in a negative way. This word has commonly been used in certain restricted contexts, particularly in the expression 'racial prejudice’. Usually it is referred to as making a judgment about a person based on their race, before receiving information about the particular issue that the person is being judged for. This word is also used to refer to any hostile attitude towards people based on their race. Consequently the word has come to be widely so interpreted in this way in contexts other than those relating to race. There are many forms of prejudice that are used with many cultures throughout the world today. One of the forms is called discrimination. Discrimination is the action that someone portrays when they are prejudice it is also an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or group of people because one feels superior to the other. An example of prejudice discrimination was during the Holocaust of the Second World War. The holocaust was started when the Nazi group thought their race was a dominant group to all other races and culture. They killed millions of Jews and various others showing their prejudice discrimination towards all other culture. Other examples of prejudice groups that are in America today are the Ku Klux Klan, gangs such as the Hispanic MS13, and the black gang such as the Bloods. All of these prejudice groups believe that they can discriminate to any of the cultures that are set apart from...
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...Antisemitism in Nazi Germany The term antisemitism has been defined in a variety of ways since its creation in 1879, but boils down to simply, the hatred of Jews. While antisemitic prejudices can be traced back long before the Holocaust, the state-sponsored mass murder of roughly six million Jews in addition to millions of other non-Jews by Nazi Germany, it is of course the most extreme example in human history. This paper will examine the invention of the word itself by Wilhelm Marr and what its invention contributed to the Nazi ideology, how the political status and long-standing hatred of the Jews influenced support for antisemitic prejudices, and the ideas that Nazism drew on for their own form of antisemitic beliefs. As previously mentioned, the term antisemitism was coined by journalist Wilhelm Marr to contrast his scientific and racial hatred of the Jews with religious forms of anti-Judaism. While Marr could have used the conventional German term, “Judenhass,” to refer to his hatred of the Jews, his new term eliminated the any religious connotation that the conventional word may have carried with it. The distinction between the hatred of the Jews for political, economic, or religious reasons and the hatred of them for racially based reasons is important to antisemitic beliefs because while in theory, the Jews could have adjusted their political, economic, and religious practices to assimilate with society, but attributing the problem to their supposed “race” left...
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...Freedom and equality had become the forefront of the issue, which ultimately reshaped American history and beliefs on racial and ethnic tolerance. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, an outpouring of eyewitness accounts by survivors and perpetrators has surfaced as historical evidence. Emotion played a vital role in the accounts of the survivors’ atrocious stories. Emotion was the expression of ones thoughts and beliefs affected by feeling regarding a certain event or individual. In terms of the Holocaust, emotion was overwhelmingly prevalent in the survivors’ tales of their experiences. As scholars point out, the Holocaust evoked sympathy, which reinforced basic societal values. FDR stated that to be an American “… had always been a matter of mind and heart, never…a matter of race or ancestry” (Foner 873). The cause of the Holocaust opened up citizens eyes to many issues going on, which inspired people to get involved and take...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | |Anti-Semitism |Prejudiced against or hostile to Jews | |Islamophobia |Prejudice against Muslims | |Xenophobia |A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that, which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign | | |peoples. | |Persecution |To oppress or harass with ill treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual | | |orientation, or beliefs. | |Religious group |A set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs,| | |doctrines, practices, or rituals. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your...
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...Afsara Kelline Mir April 1, 2011 Period 4 Anna Deveare Smith has meshed together many untold stories of victims to racism, bias and prejudice. Though we might perceive this line of work to be her attempt to unveil the truth of the conflict in Crown Heights, I believe that Smith retold the stories that reflected prejudice, racism and bias in Crown Heights, not to seek who was wrong or right in Crown Heights, but to uncover the deep-seated hatred that occurs in this country. The truth may never be revealed but the audience is able to understand that the reasons for the rage in Crown Heights are more than just the Gavin Cato case of Yankel Rosenbaum’s murder. Anna Deveare Smith’s method of finding the truth in peoples stories lies in their syntax. The stutters and the “um’s” give the audience a better understanding of the character because in those stammers and pauses we, even for a moment, see some truth. Although it may help us understand where people are coming from, we still have no definite answer for why things ended up the way they did in Crown Heights. For example, in the monologue titled, Static, a Jewish woman says, “ I saw a little boy in the neighborhood, who I didn’t know and who didn’t know me—not Jewish, he was black and he wasn’t wearing a yarmulke because you can’t—“. The pauses in this particular monologue tell me that this woman is trying to watch what she says. In the times of hatred between Blacks and...
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...Book Review Parallel Journeys Parallel Journeys, by Eleanor Ayer with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck, compares the life of two young people in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the outbreak of World War II. They were born within sixty miles of each other, but their lives took dramatically different paths. Alfons, is a boy who grew up on a farm in Germany. When Hitler came to power he became involved with the Hitler Youth. Alfons grew up on a farm but was a Nazi boy who became a commander at age sixteen. This book truly depicts Hitler's impact and influence on the youth of Germany. Alfons was brainwashed by Hitler's promises, a full pledged Nazi youth is how it is presented in the book he participated in all rallies. He started his training to become the future of Germany and eventually of the world. There he learned discipline and order. He trained to become a soldier and he learned the ways of warfare. He was taught to be a follower of anti-Semitism and was told to hate the Jewish people. He along with millions of Nazi’s believed that they were the reason for Germany's problems. As years went by, Alfons rose through the ranks of the military until the end of the war where realized what atrocities had been committed, he than took off his uniform and went on to help people. On the other side of the spectrum we have Helen Waterford a young Jewish girl who grew up in Frankfurt, Germany. She married Siegfried Wohlfarth and moved to Amsterdam because of tension brewing...
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...The Holocaust, a tragic and horrible event in history with about eleven million deaths. Of these eleven million, six million were Jewish. Racism played a significant role in the political and social events that led to the Holocaust because the Germans believed they were a superior race, Jewish people were denied many rights, and the Jews were victimized by the Germans. The Nazis began to combine racial theories and theories on evolution to come up with the idea that their race was superior to the Jews as well as other groups. This caused them to be obsessed with the idea of making the master race. This “Aryan Master Race” include people who were of pure aryan descent and those who were tall, fair-haired and light-eyed. Ultimately, Hitler’s...
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...is the thirteen principles of faith. Jewish people are very open to other religions and they do not feel as if they are better than anyone else. In their eyes, they feel that as long as a person is staying true to their religion then they will be considered righteous in the eyes of God. Judaism in general promotes equality and that has had a major impact on American culture. They have been in America since the seventeenth century and have always stood behind fighting prejudice and discrimination. Jewish people have been and still are very active participants in civil rights movements, whether for African Americans, women, or even homosexuals. The freedom we have in the United States is what sets us apart from everyone else and Jewish people have been very much involved. The Jewish people have endured a lot of prejudice and discrimination over the years. They were blamed for many problems and their businesses were boycotted. The Holocaust was by far the worst and most painful form of prejudice ever endured. Approximately six million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime. Adolf Hitler, which was the leader of the Nazi regime, believed that Jews were inferior to Germans and he basically wanted to get rid of them. He developed this commitment to anti-Semitism throughout his service in World-War I. I never really had any interest in other religions and I really did not know what Judaism was all about. After gathering all this information about the religion, I...
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...who died at Auschwitz at the age of thirteen and how, although her life was taken at such a young age, her memory and spirit continue to live on today. Adapted from the book of the same title by Karen Levine, HANA’S SUITCASE explores the journey of teacher and children at the Tokyo Holocaust Education Center take to find out who Hana Brady is—all from a suitcase the Center received with Hana’s name, birth date, and the word waisenkind (orphan) written on it. The children at the Center are captivated by this suitcase, and the girl who once owned it, and they begin flooding Fumiko Ishioka, the Center’s Director, with question after question about Hana. Fumiko recognizes the importance of uncovering Hana’s story for her students. This tragic event cannot be summed up in numbers or facts— it affected individuals, young and old, who each had a story, families, and hopes and dreams. As Fumiko slowly but determinedly reveals Hana’s story, she discovers that Hana was sent to live in Theresienstadt, a Jewish ghetto, and eventually died at Auschwitz. However, as devastating as this is for Fumiko and the children at the Center to find out, they also learn that Hana had an older brother who survived the Holocaust and was now living with his family in Canada. Fumiko and the children write to George Brady, asking him to share...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |A group sharing a common or distinctive culture, religion, language, or likeness. | |Anti-Semitism |Discriminating against, or prejudice, or hostility toward Jews. | |Islamophobia |Hatred or fear of Muslims or their products or their culture. | |Xenophobia |An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange. | |Persecution |A program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, and or subjugate a group of people based on their | | |religion, race, or beliefs. | |Religious group |A set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs,| | |doctrines, practices, or rituals. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) ...
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...The Holocaust was a horrendous event where the Jewish population was persecuted and believed to be inferior to all others by Germany. Many events throughout history are identified with a race or denomination being persecuted based on their beliefs; the Japanese-American Relocation was indistinguishable from the Holocaust however, a few key events make them unique. The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying acts in history as, at the occurrence of the event “as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day”(The Holocaust). Furthermore, Hitler was leading this mass genocide with debatable ideas that helped little with the situation, believing that the Jewish population was an enemy of his people, a threat. These ideas transpired during World War II, but supposedly dispersed after combat ended in 1945 when Germany surrendered and Hitler lost his life. Yet, once the Pearl Harbor was bombed a similar event occurred....
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