Summer Camp Essay

The Olympics originated from the Greeks around 776 BC were actually once abolished after the Romans took over, and it was not until 1894 that the Games were revived (International Olympic Committee). Held every four years, the Olympics are sports competitions with competitors from all over the world representing their own country. The Olympics have developed into such a worldwide competition that it became tremendously popular with a large amount of people. The founder of the International…

Holes, by Louis Sachar is a story chronicling the experiences of a young boy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Upon being unjustly sentenced, he decides to spend 18 months at “Camp Green Lake” instead of prison. Unfortunately, all does not go to plan for Stanley as it turns out he must dig a hole a day for 18 months in the desert. One question lingers in Stanley’s head. What are they looking for? In the search for a hundred year old treasure, the main character Stanley will make friendships,…

were unaware of the existence of Concentration Camps. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established almost 40,000 camp’s used to imprison millions of victims. Amongst those 40,000 camps were Buchenwald, Dachau, Sobibor, Bergen-Belsen, and of course, Auschwitz-Birkenau, all of which are the camp’s most students learn about in any world history class. In his book “Night” Ellie Wiesel tells the reader about his first hand experiences in a concentration camp. He tells the reader how the Jews from…

inhumanely. During the Holocaust the Nazi’s would torture and kill Jews in what were called concentration camps. Auschwitz, one of the biggest concentration camp, which was actually a combination of three different types of camps located in Poland. There was an extermination camp at Birkenau, a slave-labor camp called Buna, and a prisoner camp for political prisoners. At the extermination camps the Nazi would torture and kill the Jews by…

of their lives during the Holocaust. The play is about the lives of gay men who are living in a homophobic era under the rule of Hitler in Berlin, Germany in 1934. These homosexuals were being tormented, hated, and forced to live on concentration camps because of their sexuality. This hatred of gays or homosexuals was highly expected because during this time period of Nazi Germany, Hitler would persecute anyone who was not his ideal blue-eyed, white and tall person. Hitler even organized a raid…

exterminate every Jew, artist, educator, Gypsy, communist, mentally/physically handicapped, homosexual person there was, or anyone who seemed unfit in his eyes. The nazis at Auschwitz examined the Jews as they arrived to the camp to see if they were…

of the concentration camps famously known as Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. These camps became the site of the largest mass murder the world has ever seen (Auschwitz). Conditions in Auschwitz were atrocious, and the amount of deaths the camp yielded was incomprehensible. In 1940, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp rose to power under Hauptsturmfuhrer Rudolf Hoess. Commandant Hoess led the camp to be the largest and most infamous concentration…

Auschwitz-Birkenau was a concentration camp during the Holocaust, during WWII. The camp opened in 1940. It was the largest concentration camp. It included three main camps. One million Jewish men, women, and children were deported, and 960,000 of them died. The SS and police deported millions to the camp. There were three main camps, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, Auschwitz III. Auschwitz I was a labor camp and the main camp of the facility. Auschwitz II was mostly holding of the Prisoners, there…

Introduction In February of 2013 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted wrestling out of the Summer Olympics expected to start in 2020. In the Olympic Games in 708 B.C., wrestling made its debut, which makes it one of the founding sports of the Olympics. This information both saddened and infuriated many people involved within wrestling communities. In order to resolve the issue, many big name wrestlers of the past had come together to save the sport. Within a 7 month period the IOC…

Space and place are important facets of our identity and who we are. It is sometimes said that places have a way of claiming people, or that a place grows on you. This means that not only are we getting used to a place but also that we are developing a strong relationship with that place and that it is becoming a part of our identity. Place identity is the foundation of a person’s self-identity, and consists of knowledge and feelings developed through everyday experiences of physical spaces. Not…