Carl Heinrich Bloch

believed in Christ, and followed Him. This whole scene shows the Savior’s willingness to serve, and do His father’s will, and to show man the glories of His father. Bloch simply wanted to make a beautiful story come to life in a sense. I believe the message of this artwork is simple, it beckons for us to come unto Christ, follow Him, and be healed. This painting shows Christ’s compassion, and His power, and leaves the viewer feeling hope, and feeling reassured that all things are possible through Him. I believe the artist painted this for everyone, but especially for those who believe in Christ, and who have faith, and hope in Him. This painting is especially meaningful to me, and gives me hope, and leaves me with a desire to give others that same hope that I feel. A question I had about Carl Bloch, is what influenced him to paint “Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda”. As I did more research on the artist, I found that at age 25 Bloch went to Rome on a travel grant. In Rome, Bloch was inspired by the work of the Italian masters, and this influenced him to paint scenes of great events. When Carl Bloch was 31, he was commissioned to paint 23 new paintings for the Frederiksborg Castle Church. These 23 paintings depicted events throughout Christ’s life, and included the painting, “Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda”. Carl Bloch was truly an amazing painter, and I learned a…

the entire novel. Bloch doesn’t place this image in an obvious manner, but knowing the jealousy he experienced when he witnessed his mother and his uncle acting on their incestuous relationship in bed, it was evident that this was not a normal mother-son relationship. Yet, the “creepy factor” continued to increase as he poisoned the two lovers, only to regret taking the life of his own mother, so he dug her up from her grave and kept her in the house with him for all these years. I believe that…

I'm not even going to pretend that I'm qualified enough to critique the masterpiece known as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The film is pretty much near perfection in all regards and there is nothing I could say that hasn't been heard a million times before. However, there is one thing I want to talk about and that is, the differences between the movie and book. Alfred Hitchcock is quoted as saying that everything that is in Psycho was from the book by Robert Bloch. For the most part, that statement…

powerful military groups in all of Germany. The first SS consisted of only eight people who Hitler fully trusted. The SS went through three leaders before getting to the infamous leader Heinrich Himmler. Himmler became the leader of the SS and was influential in the expansion of this organization. He became leader in 1929 after being the Nazi party for six years. Himmler evolved the SS into a paramilitary unit. The organization grew to over a thousand members by 1932 and 50,00 by 1933. Also in…

at any given time. In addition, it was first ran by a man named Rudolph Hoss, who had the help of SS officials. Auschwitz-Birkenau was planned to be used to intimidate Polish individuals, and prevent any opposition to Nazi Germany’s control. In addition, this camp would be used to relocated those that were living in Upper Silesia, due to the fact that it had previously housed individuals who were thought to be pure jews. Therefore, Hitler intended this camp to serve as a prison or jail for those…

Heinrich Himmler was the third most powerful person in the third reich. He is also known to be the mastermind behind the Holocaust.He combined a strong like for philosophy with a cold blooded, fanatical adherence to Nazi racistism.More than any individual, he was the one responsible for the creation of a network of state terror. By which the Third Reich suppressed its opposition, eliminated its internal enemies, and compelled obedience from the German citizens. In short he was an absolute…

to decipher causes. Such thought is no exception to Susan Griffin. In “Our Secret”, Susan converses about the connection between the past and the present as well as the connection between a variety of different causes for one effect. She uses a variety of juxtaposition, anecdotes, and fragmented processes of the nucleus and the scientific machineries throughout her fifty or so pages of memoir to discuss not only the relation between causes and effects of actions but also to answer her ultimate…

not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.” (Burleigh, 2001 p. 720) Who are ‘they?’ Schutzstaffel (SS), Sturmabteilung (SA), and the Gestapo. The Gestapo were well feared and distrusted. They had special powers, such as tapping phone lines or checking mail, or arresting people on the spot with no charges. They were always…

“Never Shall I Forget,” by Elie Wiesel is a poem of a passage in Night, that deals with the Holocaust which had occurred during the time of World War 2. The Holocaust is a very delicate matter and Elie Wiesel handles it in a way where he describes and shows the horrors committed by the Nazi’s of Germany. This poem, “Never Shall I Forget,” is written in the first person in which it illustrates the horrible events and tragic effects of the concentration camps where Elie Wiesel and his family were…

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, once said “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgements are wrong. Only racists make them.” In the 1900s, during World War II, the Germans were ordered by Hitler to gather all Jews. The Jews are moved to concentration camps, first to Auschwitz then to Buchenwald. The Holocaust was a horrifying time for the Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he captures the story of his and his father’s struggle for their freedom. Jews…