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Did the Salem Witch Trials cause as much hysteria as Hitler did during the Holocaust? Did Hitler abuse his power? As Hitler's power rose during the 1930's, his abuse of that power caused mass hysteria just as the women that were caught casting spells in the woods did during the spring of 1692. The Salem Witch Trials and The Holocaust was alike in a few ways, the mass hysteria that was caused during the two events and the murdering of many to even millions of innocent people.…

Juri Moore Mr. Nash English II-2 22 June 2017 Night Essay - Prompt #5 Dehumanization of others has presented, as well as repeated, itself countless times throughout the world’s history. One of the many records of dehumanizing tactics includes the Holocaust and the Germans’ infamous treatment of the Jews in the 1940s, as depicted and described in Jewish survivor Elie Wiesel’s Night , written in his first person perspective. During Wiesel’s childhood, he was forced to watch, as well as…

“One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic,” is a quote that says a lot in a few words, but has great irony hidden beneath the literal meaning. Joseph Stalin was a leader of the Soviet Union and was known as a brutal dictator and murderer, responsible for the deaths of over twenty million people. Anyone who disagreed with Stalin was immediately executed so it is shocking to hear that he was the one that said this famous quote. Even though he is referring to tragic death and the…

During the June of 1963, President John F. Kennedy toured five Western European nations in the name of altruism and public spirit as well as to strengthen alliances with the United States. First, he visited Germany which had endured the torment of Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship just twenty years before and emerged as an East and West. This became a landmark symbol of communism vs. democracy and suffering vs. freedom. In “Ich bin ein Berliner,” JFK utilizes justice bound diction, emotional appeals,…

Illustration has always been merged as part of human history. Particularly before the influx of media such as photography, film, television and now even now the internet itself. Before the arrival technology, writers and artists used illustrations as an element in their works, in order to convey a message to the viewers. The comic book, which was shaped in the late 1920s, consisted of a sequence of illustrations with text, in order to form a storyline. Generally, comic books were cherished among…

Born in 1940 in Berlin, Germany to a very strict Jewish family, it seemed as though my life was destined to be like any other European Jew at that time: deathly persecution by the ever-present population of anti-semites in Europe. Shortly after the Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, my parents, older sister, and I fled to live with my great aunt in Barcelona, Spain. Looking back on that event, I consider myself greatly blessed to have fled from the evil and persecution of the Nazis, for many…

Giorgio Perlasca was a hero during the time of the Holocaust. He was one of the many people that took a stand and helped the Hungarian Jews escape from the country so they did not have to be a part of this tragedy. Perlasca saved 5000 Hungarian Jews by the time the Holocaust ended. He also sheltered some Jews in his own house or would find someone else that would take them in when it was needed. Giorgio Perlasca was a hero of the holocaust because he saved 5000 Hungarian Jews. Perlasca was…

‘"The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal …"’(Weisel 11). How is something like the Holocaust able to happen? The Nazis used propoganda to brainwash an entire country. The Nazis changed people's lives in seconds. One minute everything was ok, then the next, they were headed to a concentration camp or to a ghetto. Something like this should make people realize how valuable their possessions are. It’s amazing that people were able to go through all that they had to endure, to do that they must…

Eva Slonim was a Shoah survivor who lived to tell her story of surviving Auschwitz. Eva was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia on the 29th of August in 1931. Before the war, she lived peacefully and attended an orthodox school for Jews. Her dad, Eugene was a textile worker and her mom was named Margaret. Additionally, her uncle and aunt were deported to a death camp, but they were forced to write a letter saying they were okay because the Germans did not want any panic from the family. The…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the act of sexual sterilization (SS) for the purpose of eugenics, in regard to mental health patients. This paper will also discuss the law pertaining to this issue and how this issue relates to health care providers, specifically nurses. Background Eugenics is a social process by which the society tries to purify the gene pool with the most desirable mental and/or physical characteristics to that society, which are thought to have a component of…