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    There’s a video of two teams passing basketballs to each other. One team wears white and the other black. Viewers are told to count how many passes the white team makes. They watch the whole video to see how they did only to find out something crazy. There was a gorilla that walked in the middle of the players! It was invisible to them! (Hence the title “The Invisible Gorilla”) This is the experiment mentioned in the book that Chris Chabris and Daniel Simons performed. This book is very intriguing and possibly mind-blowing. It revealed to me that life, as I know it, is not necessarily what it seems to be. Chabris shares with us what he discovered with Simons about the illusions we see everyday. He categorizes these illusions as the illusions of attention, memory, confidence, knowledge, cause, and potential. These are the main points I got from reading. Chabris explains that the illusion of attention deceives us into believing that we always know what we are looking at. We focus on one thing and become blind to the other things around us, especially to unexpected events. If we’re not looking for something, it’s harder to know that it’s there. Then he goes on to say that our memories are an illusion. We have so much faith in our memories that we believe them to be the absolute truth. However, our minds reference from perceptions and expectations to fabricate a memory. So, what we remember may not actually be true. Sometimes, we hear a story and make it so personal, that we…

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    stories from the fellow prisoners about the crematory. Eliezer and his father are placed in the same group, which they are informed is the one destined for the crematory. Wiesel explains the crematory and its horrors when he says “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes . . . children thrown into the flames” (Wiesel 32). By using the…

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    “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”- Dr. Wayne Dyer. This quote is an example of how symbolism can work, because the way you use to see something can completely change and you will use symbolism to help you explain those feelings in a different way. There are many examples of symbolism in the novel, “Night.” The symbols I will be talking about is; spoon and knife, fire, and lastly “corpses.” The spoon and knife Eliezer received from his father was a use of…

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    When that happened, they were found incapable of working so they would be killed and sent to the crematory or to be barred. Once they couldn’t work anymore, they were no longer needed. They were sent to the crematory. Where they would be burned. If they were not burned due to death rate rising. They would be stacked up on top of each other in a massive grave. In the Photo I was assigned there were thousands of dead corps stack up on top of each other in a giant hole. The German soldiers couldn’t…

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    The book Night is written by Elie Wiesel. He tells about his experience in the concentration camps during WWII. The holocaust was a terrible event that took the lives of many Jews. In the novel three reoccurring symbols define and clarify Elie Wiesel’s struggle to maintain faith in his benevolent God. The first reoccurring symbol in Night is night. Bible begins with creation, God’s first act is to create light and dispel darkness. Night always occurs when suffering is at its worst. Night…

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    Human beings are made up of an array of qualities. Dehumanization is the process of depriving humans of their qualities, to make them feel and/or behave like they are less than what they are. Humans are capable of recalling memories, and many times, incapable of forgetting them because some experiences can make them unrecognizable. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis dehumanized the Jewish people through too many traumatic ways that leave them with nothing but suffer and numbness. Nazi methods…

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    An SS noncommissioned officer orders “’Men to the left! Women to the right!’ (Wiesel 27). The SS officer shows no pity towards the eight life-ruining words he says. Following the separation by gender, they are divided into even smaller groups. Those seen as unfit were forced to strip and perish in the crematories, and those seen as fit were sent directly to the barracks, where this time their name is stripped from them. Wiesel recollects “I became A-7713. After that, I had no other name”…

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    Essay On Elie Wiesel

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    were a Jew. As soon as the Jews got to Auswitz, according to Night, Elie and his father were separated immediately from his mother and three sisters. Most of the Jews that came, even children not past the age 5, were sent to the crematories to be put to death. All the Jews in the concentration camp were only fed bread, water, and a tasteless broth. All men had to not only shave their head but they had to get a number tattooed on their arm. If this was not enough for the Jews they had to march…

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    Experience In Night

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    The Jews were packed into a small cattle train one of the Jew from Sighet named Madame Schachter kept yelling out that she saw fire in the sky, out in the distance. No one believed her until they arrived at Auschwitz they had to be separated, men to the left women to the right. The Jews saws the flames, the flames that Madame Schachter was talking about in the cattle train is the crematory that Nazis are sending Jews to, to be exterminated. Elie and his father are sent to the left, while they…

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    Night Essay There were many things that affected Elie and the Jew’s faith. Elie doubted his faith several times from all the bad that has happened to him. Some of the stuff he saw scared him for life. When Elie first arrived to the camp, he probably lost his faith then. Ellie lost his faith because he just could not believe that his god would not do anything about the holocaust. When Elie first arrived to the camp called Auschwitz he saw such terrifying things. He could see black…

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