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The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to take responsibility for World War 1. The Treaty of Versailles had a very harsh impact on Germany. Germany was forced to reduce their military and to give up its land overseas and their small colonies. Germany’s government became incredible week which gave an opening for Hitler to rise for power because the german people needed a figure to look up to. The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to reduce their military power. They could no longer have…

World War II, along with the Holocaust, is one of the most historically meaningful periods in history. The Nazi soldiers, under the direction of Adolf Hitler, were responsible for the genocide of millions of Jews and other undesirables in Poland and the death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, I: My Father Bleeds History and Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began, are graphic novels written my Art Spiegelman. Chronicling the story of the Holocaust through…

The objective of teaching any type of subject is for the student to think critically and for them to be curious. The Holocaust is prime candidate for students to critically think through complex life issues since kids will be need to know about these issues later in life. “The Holocaust provides one of the most effective subjects for examining basic moral issues” ("Why Teach about the Holocaust?"). It is right to teach the kids about the Holocaust now because when they grow up they will be…

Function: Often times, people that experience war struggle to conform back into the routines of society. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, protagonist Billy Pilgrim has difficulty dealing with the traumatic effects of the bombing of Dresden during WWII. To cope with his experiences, Billy develops this idea of Tralfamadore, a planet far more advanced than Earth. The Tralfamadorians can see time as humans “might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains” (85). They see all time as a physical…

The book that I will be discussing is The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. This historical fiction novel's central question is about how humans can do both the most beautiful and the most cruel of things. Therefore, this central question is, what are humans capable of? How are they capable of such great things, as well, as such horrible things? In this essay, I argue that The Book Thief has more than one important theme and all of them helped to advance the plot and influence the story. The Book…

Japanese were not trusted by the Americans. Even though most of the Japanese Americans were innocent, these Japanese-American people were still forced to leave their homes and live in assigned camps. The cause of the novel Night was none other than Adolf Hitler. The SS established many concentration camps to hold groups such as Jews and Roma. These concentration camps were where people were tortured, especially Jews. These concentration camps and the internment camps did in fact have one thing…

Egyptian Mummification The burial process has drastically changes over the years and varies depending on religious preference. The Egyptians began intentionally mummifying the wealthy and famous around 2600 B.C. to ensure they had a nice quality of life in the afterworld. Their religion believed that the body of the corpse was the house of the spirit; therefore it must be preserved, so they could have a place to live in the afterlife. This process took exactly seventy days to complete properly…

“Night”, novel about Eliezer who survived from the cruelest event called Holocaust. He was a laborer and a survival from many camps, such as Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Eliezer need to work for food and for his own life, because he will be eliminate. “Night” itself, is a symbolic of suffering, death, darkness, and lost in faith. “Schindler’s List” is a movie about Oskar Schindler who made money from a war, during the Holocaust. Schindler was a German who opened a factory…

Adolf Hitler once said: “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” This quote explains how if you tell a lie in history enough people will start to believe that it is true. Longfellow could be stretching the truth about what really had happened. The poem it says that Revere rode around alone but that was not true. Many people may find this poem a good source of information, but many people may not. I do not believe this poem was a good source of…

Genocide is one of the many things today that is so hard to prevent. The word genocide comes from the Greek word geno-, meaning race or tribe, and from the Latin word -cide, meaning killing. The genocides range from the Armenian genocide, the genocide in Darfur, in Rwanda, the Holocaust, and so much more. Raphael Lemkin, the person who came up with the word genocide, came up with it because he wanted to describe Nazi policies of systematic murders and the other crimes against humanity. Genocide…