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The Holocaust was a terrible time. Many Jewish people were captured and taken to concentration camps by the Nazis. Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp, when they get there the are separated with other Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explains how the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not giving them enough food to survive, treating them like animals, and separating them from their families. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis don't give the Jews enough food to…

Elie’s faith stemmed from his father being held with high regard in the Jewish community. From that perspective, Elie must be observant of Judaism, furthermore Elie said, “by day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple” (Wiesel 3). This quote gives off a sense that Elie is a very religious person, especially coming from such a young person. Elie looked up to his dad since he was held up to the highest esteem among everyone in the…

Lord Kitchener and Winston Churchill. Churchill was not about to leave war to naïve generals and admirals and involved himself deeply in running the war effort. He made several visits to the front lines in Belgium, fought hard in the attempt to save Antwerp and never shied away from a chance to observe first hand anything that was going on, even if it put him in a dangerous…

Mechanical engineering is the broadest engineering discipline because it is the foundation for all of the other engineering disciplines. Roughly, it is the branch of engineering dealing with the design, construction, and use of machines. Mechanical engineers are taught how to design, develop, build, and test objects in various aspects of life. Due to the extensive curriculum an engineer must pass, mechanical engineers are equipped with the ability to apply their unique set of skills to solve any…

result of his experiences in the concentration camp. Madame Schachter- A Jewish woman from is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer. Everyone think she is crazy when she screams that she sees fire from a distance. Stein- Eliezer’s relative from Antwerp, Belgium, whom he and his father encounter in Auschwitz. Trying to bolster his spirit, Eliezer lies to Stein and tells him that his family is still alive and healthy. Hilda- Eliezer’s oldest sister,…

Waterloo Campaign 15th June-22nd June 1815 Napoleons army was vastly outnumbered by the allies and knew that he could not defeat these armies after they united; he had to beat them separately. As the Anglo-Dutch army, led by the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussian army, led by Field Marshal Blucher, were closest, Napoleon had to destroy them first. Napoleon began his campaign on the 15th June by leading the Armee du Nord to Belgium to return it to French rule and defeat Wellington and Blucher…

were to launch attacks on September 26, with Mézières as their objective, in order to threaten not only the Germans’ supply line along the Mézières–Sedan–Montmédy railway and the natural line of retreat across Lorraine but also the hinge of the Antwerp–Meuse defensive line that the Germans were now preparing. The British were to attack the Hindenburg Line between Cambrai and Saint-Quentin on September 27 and to try to reach the key rail junction of Maubeuge, so as to threaten the Germans’ line…

Vincent Van Gogh His Style A pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colours are used to generate secondary colours. It is an offshoot of Impressionism and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, except that where Divisionism is concerned with colour theory, Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. The term "Post-Impressionism" was invented by the English painter and…

A new era in world history can usually be marked by some event that causes great social or political upheaval. In England between 1455 and 1487, a dynastic power struggle between two houses of the Plantagenet royal family marks the beginning of the English early modern period. This contention for the throne was known as the Wars of the Roses, and was a large factor in the end of feudalism in England. While most other major powers in Europe had already begun the transition into modernity, England…

The reason I chose this topic is because it was more interesting than the other options that we had to research. Another reason I picked this topic is because I like to play sports and also watch sports. The reason I want to learn about this topic is because I want to know how sports started and what types of sports they had back then. I also wanted to learn about this topic because I want to see how games have changed since back then such as rules and clothing type they used to wear. Sports…