Determination
Determination
Assignment 001- Unbroken Make a copy of this assignment, complete questions, and submit to Slate. 1. When Louie, Phil and Mac were on the raft, a key factor in their survival was optimism. All three men were young and able-bodied, veterans of the same training, experiencing the same hardships and traumas, yet Louie and Phil remained optimistic while Mac was hopeless, seemingly doomed by his pessimism.…
Strength, honor, soldier, Olympian, and Christian are words that describe Louie Zamperini. Laura Hillenbrand writes about the life of Louie and the traumatic events that he endured through World War II. In Laura Hillenbrand’s novel, “Unbroken- A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” readers will explore how Louie Zamperini’s character and inner strength helped him become an Olympic athlete, survive imprisonment as a Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) and turn his life around upon returning from war. The book begins with Louie as a young boy as a rebellious youth who liked to cause a lot of mischief around the neighborhood of Torrance, California.…
Throughout society today, a plethora of different people endure challenges and a myriad of other significant life changing events. In the novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini, Two women Mariam and Laila show what it takes to endure. For one to endure one must have self-control,strong will, and being able to make sacrifices. Endurance requires self-control, it helps give an answer not impulsively but clearly. For Mariam, self-control keeps her from doing anything that would worsen the abuse Rasheed, her husband, would inflict on her.…
The book night is about a 15 year old boy who lived during world war 2 and had to live in a camp where they were forced to work for little to nothing, were feed very little if anything. His relationship with God hugely, and his way of life. “ Elie and his fathers Relationship changes a lot throughout the story. At the start of the story, Elie and his father (Shlomo Wiesel) had a bad relationship. Shlomo Wiesel “rarely displayed his feeling, not even with his family” (Wiesel 4).…
Elie is now a nobel prize winner and world famous Human Rights Activist. The book Night was a heartbreaking book to read. Witnessing all the horrors through Elie’s perspective made me learn to appreciate the time I live in today. From the little children being thrown into the crematoria, to the small child being hanged in the middle of their block and having to struggle for breath for 30 minutes, it was overwhelming, and almost unbelievable.…
The nurture theory holds that even though genetics may shape certain abstract traits, environmental factors are the main drive behind human behavior. Elie Wiesel, a renowned Holocaust survivor and author of the human document Night, clearly upholds this nurture theory throughout his book, with his poignant descriptions of the inexpiable events that took place. He lost his innocence because of his horrifying experiences toward the end of World War II. As brutality from the Nazis grows more and more prevalent, the division between Elie and everything he has cherished intensifies. The wrath of the SS compelled Elie to disregard even his innermost values, one being the relationship with his father━“It had been his last wish to have me next to him in his agony, at the moment when his…
Courage. One word, seven letters, yet thousands of different definitions and interpretations. What does it mean to be courageous? Do you have to save a life to be courageous? Do you show courage in your everyday life?…
The author of Night writes about his personal experience in the Holocaust, which allows readers to know what he was feeling or thinking in certain situations. When Elie’s father died, Elie said, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like free at last!”. (Wiesel, 112).…
Endurace “Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.”- Virgil Endurance noun en·dur·ance: the ability to withstand hardship or adversity. Endurance is an important factor in everyone’s life and it works in some way or another. There is physical, mental, and verbal endurance. Temple Grandin having endurance to use her abilities to her advantage to prove to the people that didn’t believe in her that they were wrong.…
Love. Some say it's one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It's one that can overcome anything that one may face in the harsh challenges that life presents. Many would urge to say that love is nothing more than a feeling that one has when find a so called "soulmate" however that is only a mere definition of what love is and can be. The love for another person is one all needs in life.…
Have you ever felt like you didn't need to or feel the want to do something, but because there was a person that motivated you to persevere because you didn't to let them down? In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel him and his father are sent to a concentration camp and can hardly survive the harsh weather, the cruelty, and the starvation. Elie Wiesel needs a way to live and his father helps him achieve this by being his motivation to keep his own father alive. Elie’s father becomes weak and old which now leaves it up to Elie to start getting him food and other utilities, “I fought my way to the coffee cauldron like a wild beast.…
The harsh and dreadful conditions of one’s setting or surrounding can drastically affect the way that person thinks and acts towards certain topics. Through the condensed memoir entitled Night, written by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, it is evident that Elie’s tough and emotional journey affects the person he becomes towards the end and after his exposure to the concentration camps. The novel illustrates how the numerous monstrosities Elie endures through his times at the camps change him into the person he is today. Elie explains through his in depth analysis of his experiences that horrifying conditions in the nightmarish concentration camps of the Holocaust can reach and shatter the concerns and ideals held close to a person’s heart. Throughout…
Curiosity can be an incredible tool to propel an individual to heights they have never known. Leonardo Da Vinci was probably the most curious person to have ever lived, and look at how amazing he was. Having an interest in the unknown will build courage as long as it is followed by action. Being generally curious opens up opportunities to learn and build new skills.…
Night: by Elie Wiesel I chose to do a book report on this book called: “Night” written by Eliezer Wiesel. The author, Eliezer Wiesel is an actual survivor of the Holocaust, and he endured the suffering of living in the Auschwitz labour camps. This book is a first hand memoir of the horrors and painful experiences Elie Wiesel had endured when he was only fifteen years old. Throughout the book, Elie describes his struggle to keep his faith in God, as he is unable to believe that a loving God could allow horrible things happen to his “chosen” people. The title of the book, “Night” , refers to the the darkness and silence that Elie went through as a teenager living in a concentration camp.…
In today's society, there’s more than just a small handful of individuals who believe perseverance is worthless and only intelligence can succeed in life. However this has been disproven countless times over already. There are numerous scientific studies that back up the idea of hard work and GRIT almost always winning over mere intelligence. I, being the pessimistic student that I am, scoffed at the thought of this. Then one day my friends introduced me to the movie “Life of Pi”.…