Antisemitism

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is one of his most disputable plays for an assortment of reasons. Written in sixteenth-century England, where against Semitism was normal and the nearness of Jews was not, the play suggests numerous conversation starters concerning racial, religious and human distinction. The play is particularly precarious to inspect in the present society, as its hostile to Semitic subjects and dialect can be awkward to look in a world post-Holocaust. Also, the…

The Armenian people and the Jewish people were both placed under horrible, inhumane conditions. The Nazi’s will always be notorious in history for what they put the Jewish and the other minorities through during their reign of terror. The Nazis did horrendous things to those who did not die such as human experimentation, torture, starvation, and other atrocities. The Nazi’s showed no mercy and displayed the most sinister side of mankind imaginable to it’s prisoners. The Turkish people are not…

Two of any human beings rights are, as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “ Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.” and “ Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.” These two rights were violated countless times in the memoir Night. The events that occurred during Elie Wiesels time were devastating. The Jews who lived during this time were stripped of…

2.1 million people in a year on average have to make an emergency department visit for assault. There are 16,000 homicides per year on average. Cruelty follows people in life, regardless of where they are or who they are. In the book, Night, Elie Wiesel tells the horrors of concentration camps from his point of view as a survivor. In the novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote shines a new light on the 1959 murder of the Herbert Clutter family in the small community of Holcomb, Kansas. In both of…

The Holocaust left forgotten victims and survivors who wished they could forget. The crimes that took place during the Holocaust showed humanity’s darkest side. People were tortured and killed. Those who survived are forever scarred by their memories. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, writes about his ordeal in his memoir, Night. For some prisoners, the brutality that the Nazis treat them with leads to their deaths. For others, it morphs them into the animals they are believed to be. The Nazis’…

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess was forty six years old at the time of his trial at Nuremburg in 1946. Born in the year 1900, Hoess joined the Schutzstaffel at age thirty three, and joined the Waffen-SS in 1939. From May 1, 1940 to December 1, 1943, Hoess was established as the Commandant of Auschwitz, with roughly three million people being murdered under his rule. As the commander of the concentration camp Auschwitz, Hoess was put on trial for the atrocities that had taken place at the…

In The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Marx talks about class struggle. Marx describes class struggle as two opposite sides. On one side there is the oppressor while the other side is the oppressed. An example could be the Jewish people in Nazi Germany. Jewish people in Nazi Germany were second hand citizens that faced harsh treatments like being discriminated against and etc. Class struggle can be seen throughout history. Here in one of Marx’s famous concept says, “The history of all hitherto…

Authority’s Influence on Ethics Stanley Morgan a psychologist in the early 1960s had some very important Questions, and some answers that shocked America. His major question was what psychological conditions allowed normal people to act without morals? His experiments were conceived from the mystery behind the Nazis ability to persuade the German people into the massacre of the Jews. Under what conditions were normal people capable of breaking their own ethics willingly? This is what Stanley…

In the book The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, it says, "We landed over a year ago, remember?" "No." "And all of you were dead, all but a few. You're rare, don't you know that?" "That's not true." "Yes, dead. I saw the bodies. Black, in the rooms, in the houses, dead. Thousands of them." "That's ridiculous. We're alive!" "Mister, you're invaded, only you don't know it. You must have escaped" (Bradbury 83). This previous sentence shows how ignorance is fatal. The fact that ignorance is…

Adolf Hitler Hitler once said “To conquer a nation, First disarm its citizens” (To Conquer a Nation) Adolf Hitler greatly affected the history of persecuting Jews, started World War 2, and showed the world the negative effects of the Socialist party. Jews have been persecuted all through history. Hitler and the Nazis took persecution of the Jews. The first crucial action against Jewish and German was the Jewish community. Jews were blamed for all Germany’s troubles. Hitler presumed power…