Barracks

It is that time of year again. Incoming freshmen at Northern Illinois University are excited and ready to sign up for housing. Picking where they are going to be living is one of the first choices they make on their road to their new independent college student life. Yet Wait! These new incoming freshmen come upon a roadblock. The mandatory freshman residence policy the school had implemented. First-year students must live in the on-campus residence halls unless they are over twenty-one, married…

In autumn of 1941 is when the brick barracks were constructed. Very often more than 700 Jews would be placed in each of them, but the Germans originally intended the barracks to house only 40. Depended on the number of transports arriving that day, will affect the total number of Jews in each barracks. Straw was spread over the wooden bunks for the Jews to sleep on. The floors were earth and there were very few sanitary facilities. The wooden barracks had once been stables. These “stables” let…

Constructions of gender throughout Cuban history have shaped Cuba into the country that it is. Both masculine and feminine constructions have occurred, with Fidel Castro’s beard as a sign of masculinity or how patriarchy before the 1930’s shaped the way that women were sexualized and controlled. In the past century, women’s roles had changed tremendously from before the revolution, during the revolution, and post-revolution. Cuban women were sexualized before the revolution, which increased…

in Cuba’s presidential election of 1952, he seized power before the elections could take place and cancelled them, (withholding) Castro’s opportunity to become a member of Congress in the same 1952 elections. Castro began by attacking the Moncada Barracks in July 26, 1953 in search of weapons to supply his revolution; however, the attack was unsuccessful even though it resulted…

In The Time of The Butterflies The novel, “In the Time of the Butterflies,” by Julia Alvarez shows a persistent amount of courage with the main characters. The background of In the Time of the Butterflies is mid-20th century Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and the story of the Mirabal Sisters. The Dominican Republic is ruled by a fascist dictator named Rafael Leonidas Trujillo or El Jefe, who runs and ruins everybody life who do not listen. The Mirabal…

Eventually as the Soviet Union fell and the new Russian government was established hostility began to arise again. Currently the relationship between America’s Barrack Obama and Russia’s Vladimir Putin can be described as just as bad as relations were during the darkest times of the Cold War. However, this is not an essay over President Barrack Obama and President Vladimir Putin. Rather, this…

In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, published in 1956, he talks about his life during the Holocaust in Auschwitz, Germany. After the first night of the concentration camp, Wiesel woke up by getting beaten, being told to run from one barrack to another. From getting soaked in disinfectant to having wearing clothes that cover you from almost being naked and from being there for more than 3 weeks, Wiesel stood wondering it was a dream. Throughout the book Night, Wiesel expresses his feelings by…

was because of the high number of sexual assaults in the barracks at the time. Also, due to the fact that these sexual assaults mostly included the use of alcohol. Sexual assault by definition is: any involuntary sexual act in which a person is coerced, or physically forced to engage against their will. In other words the rules and regulation were not being held up in the barracks so the Regimental Commander had to make the rules in the barracks more clear, and more strict.…

in some cases, destruction. She often mentions the color black to describe the barracks in the internment camps, symbolizing that these camps are unwanted and therefore are isolated away from American society. The trip to the internment camps was humiliating, long, and exhausting for the Japanese. During the first night of internment, the boy looks outside of the window and observes “the endless rows of black barracks all lined up in the sand. In the distance, [there was] a wide empty field…

The Nazi 's call a number but it’s not just any number it is the number that has taken over your identity, this number is all you have. The calling of this number can be the difference if you die today or if you have to continue to suffer. 1.5 million People murdered right before your eyes. Only 144 people are known to have escaped this horrid place, this place known as Auschwitz. Auschwitz which is known as The Camp of Death was a concentration camp during World War II. When one was sent here…