Comparison Of Film And The Paper Clip Film

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This unit was to teach us that our beliefs are different and that can cause good and bad things. It is usually bad though. It is usually bad because it can lead to wars. Some famous wars were caused by this. For instance, the Holocaust was started because Hitler and the Nazis were against what some people thought. They murdered six million Jewish people just because of what they believed in. The Nazis killed anyone who was against their ideology, people who were mentally and physically different, people of African descent, and many more. Now onto the Paper Clips movie.

The Paper Clip movie was about a school in Tennessee. They didn’t have much diversity, so the teachers taught the students about the Holocaust. They also learned that people

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