Adolf Dassler

The use of themes, such as losing innocence and the power of words, are used in The Book Thief and in The Catcher in the Rye to better show the main character's life journey. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, is a story narrated by Death, of a young girl, Liesel, and her journey through life in Germany, 1939. the author, J.D. Salinger wrote the Catcher in the Rye with Holden as the narrator. Holden is a sixteen year old boy who has been kicked out of several private schools, cuts classes whenever…

Shadow Warriors starts off on the seventh of October, 1985, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is the day a large cruise ship was hijacked in the Mediterranean with Americans on board. Though, as the book proceeds, it goes all the way back to the Vietnam War in the 1950’s to the 1990’s while talking about how the Special Forces started from the small core units in the military. This book is most written from the view point of General Carl Stiner (Ret.), who helped write this book. He was very…

World War 2 revolutionized aviation immensely, all countries dedicated a large amount of their funds and time to produce the best planes they could possibly produce for the war. It was established that very early in the war that airplanes would play a critical role. Airframes, avionics, the use of turboprop and jet engines were all introduced during the war. This war caused a huge push towards modern aviation today, and started a golden age for airplanes, which occurred in the 1950’s. In World…

The Jews have been persecuted throughout time. This can be observed in the year 1349, when Jews were given the false accusation of producing the black plague. The Christians in this nation were prejudiced, discriminatory, and persecuted the Jews harshly. They claimed that the Jews had placed poison in their water sources, which therefore caused many deaths. Many Europeans had come to despise the Jews, who conceived wealth from money lending. Which was to be believed to be an evil occupation to…

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,”Roosevelt said with passion and ferocity. Franklin D. Roosevelt was saying this in his “Inaugural Address,” to try and end the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a dark and fatal time for the people of the United States. Roosevelt spoke with such a power in his voice, and he tried to wage war with the Depression just with his words. Later, he actually started physically doing something about the Depression and trying to end it. What did the…

Nuremberg Trials The Nuremberg Trials were held by the four major Allies of World War II which included the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. After the war was over, Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Leader, Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the U.S., and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain signed the Moscow Declaration which stated that the Axis power were to take responsibility for the war. In 1943 US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson got the four…

Fire and destruction. These two words not only describe the mood of Szpilman’s journey, but the majority of what the movie looked like itself. The Holocaust was a time of deprivation, and the way Roman Polanski was able to put it into a motion picture was remarkable. In areas such as Germany and Poland, people were put through many hardships if they were Jewish, or didn’t meet the stereotype of what was desired. In the Pianist, based on Szpilman’s memoir, Polanski is definitely putting the…

In the book Neighbors, by Jan T. Gross it discuss the massacre that took place in a small town of Jedwabne. His story explains who the murders are what was the real intention of them killing the Jews and what really happened to the Jews that live in the small town of Jedwabne. Gross investigation to the 1941 mass-murders was blamed on the Nazi killing squads, Einsatzgruppen. Neighbors documents the murder of the Jews living in a small town in eastern Poland during the German occupation, not by…

Many people believe that Andrew Jackson was a good beneficial president, and many people believe that he was an evil one. I am here to tell you that he was a man of corruption, not because of his persona, but because of his brutal acts towards the Native American people. Andrew Jackson, during his presidency slaughtered and massacred a multitude of Native American people, and took their land. Of course not doing this single handedly, he ordered American troops under his command to follow him…

In Elie Wiesel's Night, symbolism is utilized to demonstrate the dehumanization of the Jewish individuals by the Nazis as the Jews build up a survival mindset, and as Eliezer loses the competency to express feelings. Wiesel utilizes symbolism of the Jews survival mindset to demonstrate the dehumanization of the Jews who were constrained to persevere through treacherous conditions in the death camps. The subjugated Jews encounter the most exceedingly bad types of heartless treatment. As the…