The holocaust is a very important and sad tragic that happened around the 1940’s when millions of jews were tortured and killed by Hitler. Not many kids in today’s society know much about the holocaust. Hannah just like other kids today was shocked when she saw what really happened at those camps. A girl named Hannah doesn’t care to learn about this tragedy until she opens the door to Elijah and has to relive her relative’s experience.…
Personal Response: The book We Fought Back by Allan Zullo was a very interesting book. The book was a non-fiction and different stories from different teenagers in every chapter. They explained what their experiences were during World War II. I enjoyed reading this book and I hope to find a second book similar to this one.…
It does not matter what has happened previously, what matters will come next. In "The Devil's Arithmetic", Hannah Stern has to find something called an Afikoman. Instead, she lets Aaron, her little brother, go look for it. Earlier in the book, she was mean, rude, and grumpy. Now, she is nice and lets Aaron find the Afikoman.…
Personal Response-I Survived The Nazi Invasion, 1944 I enjoyed the story because I like reading about the Holocaust. Learning more about all that happened is cool. Horrible things took place and I think it’s cool how the Nazis were killed after it was all done. Plot-…
Inspiration to Survive Prejudice Judith Miller, a journalist who survived the Holocaust, once said about the Holocaust “It was not six million. It was one plus one, plus one…”(Miller). In the book, Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, Misha Piludski tries to attempt freedom from torture and punishments in a ghetto where he lives. Misha is frequently abused and insulted for possibly being a Jew. In the end, Misha escapes to the other side of “the wall”, often described a heaven.…
Amusing the Million In the late 1800s, society had become increasingly diverse and didn’t have socialization happening within different classes and cultures. It brought together the "high" and "lower" classes. Many different cultures had emerged as one with the help of all these different amusements parks at Coney Island. Each amusement park Coney Island provided had many different cultural entertainments to offer.…
As you may have noticed that Elie Wiesel's book, Night represents the loss of innocence and it can also be known for some other things. It's important that we take the time to consider in how important Elie Wiesel's book is, Night. Knowing what happened in their concentration camp changes lives. The Nazis believed that what they had done was the right thing to do, but, we all know that it wasn't. If something like that can happen then it can always happen again.…
Reiman evaluate the decisions of the authors who wrote WMD and NMR articles, that the author from WMD mention that there is a book is called “Weapons of Math Destruction”. Cathy O’Neil is the author of it. She has a PhD in mathematics from Harvard which is involve with financial crisis data and academia. Her book mainly targeting the advertising also the insurance to education and policing. O’Neil also mentioned big data which are targeting the poor people, reinforcing racism and inequality (Math is Racist: How data is driving inequality).…
The Devil’s Arithmetic, ADD jews to camps, SUBTRACT them from societies lives, MULTIPLY the Jewish problems, DIVIDE the existence of the Jewish population. Every kind of person Adolf Hitler hated when found, would have been tossed into a concentration camp. Those camps and facilities brutalized and shaped the survivors of the Holocaust the people know today. The novel of The Devil’s Arithmetic helps the world remember those events, more than the movie, from its describing of the choosing's, Hannah being called Chaya, and the representations of the numbers The choosing's were a feature the world needs to know more about from the Holocaust through the novel version of The Devil’s Arithmetic.…
Faith and Victory in Dachau is about the experience of Rev. J. Overduin during the Second World War. He became imprisoned for his stance against the attempt of Nazi Germany to infiltrate the Dutch youth by promoting their evil doctrine through the education system. The story begins in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and as it progresses Rev. Overduin is brought to several prisons, the final one being the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. The Nazis tried to invade the Dutch Christian school in Arnhem by planting a teacher, who was secretly a Nazi supporter, inside the school staff.…
A book is a dream that you hold in you hands. Many people love books and read all the time. Many do not understand the real meaning of books. Three stories have the most meaning by far: "Through the Tunnel", "The Bridge", and "The Scarlet Ibis". The story, "Through the Tunnel", is about a boy named Jerry who is eleven years old.…
“Satan” symbolizes the person Armand was becoming with Desiree. Desiree felt miserable because Armand was avoiding Desiree and the baby. It states “from which the old love-light seemed to have gone out.” Desiree felt as…
The first theme is to know your culture and your past. One of the times this was shown in The Devil’s Arithmetic is when Hannah was complaining to her parents that she had to go to her grandparents’ Seder dinner. This showed that she was ignorant and needed to know more about her religion and culture. Another time when the writers showed this was when Hannah didn’t know about the tattoo on her grandfather's arm.…
Assessment Situation The assessment was administered on February 1st, President’s Day. Both Dan and Dan’s mom were off that day, because of the holiday and so it was an ideal time to meet. I visited him at his home to administer the test.…
Computers have all but replaced humans for doing complex calculations. But computers handle numbers much differently than humans do. At this point, the majority of people use base-10 for their math. The base of a number system refers to the number of number symbols used in that system. In base 10 the numbers used are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.…