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The novel, The Book Thief, was published in the year 2005 and falls under the genre of historical fiction. In the novel, death narrates the story beginning in 1938. Liesel Meminger is presented as the book thief and is faced with many hardships at the beginning of the novel. She has lost both her parents including her little brother, Werner. This girl is faced with agony and death at such a young age in her life. This forms Liesel into a person who isolates her inner humanity and compassion…

Kathleen Kerner Dance History Mr. Garfinkel 12/1/14 “Pina” Bausch Philippine, or “Pina”, Bausch created some of the most interesting and radical modern dance works of her time because they are based on human relations and how we interact with each other. Born in 1940, in Solingen, Germany, she was born into a family of business owners with her parents owning a connecting restaurant and hotel. She and her siblings worked for her parents at a very young age. In doing so, Pina would observe…

Themes and Humanity in The Book Thief The Holocaust was arguably one of the most devastating events in history. The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, is an illustration of how dangerous this era was. The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster child who develops a love of books and words after her foster father, Hans Hubermann, teaches her how to read. However, Liesel’s life changes when the family begins to hide a Jew, Max Vandenburg, in their basement. In the middle of…

Having taken this (in my opinion) relatively large step, it is now a lot easier for me to ask questions to other people, including Mr. van Essen and Mr. Hulzebos, as well. The student psychologist has also made me realise that no one in this world is totally, 100% perfect. Everyone makes mistakes every now and then, and has his/her own strengths and weaknesses. Bearing this in mind, I have…

(Akerblom, Perrin, Rivano Fischer, & McCracken, 2015; Niles et al., 2014). Acceptance as an important treatment process and as a Mediator for Change, which leading to increased psychological flexibility and resilience (Cederberg, Cernvall, Dahl, von Essen, & Ljungman, 2015; Hesser, Westin, & Andersson,…

Tienush Rassaf from the University or college Clinic Essen in Germany, ended up being the initial to find out some great benefits of cocoa powder with kidney problem sufferers. Because examine, the particular researchers gave individuals any low-sugar, usual object organized beverage along with several dominant…

Existence of mankind and the extent of human knowledge in terms of reality has been a debatable issue from the time of Greek philosophers till present. The Matrix is a science fiction movie which illustrates the human existence being deceived in a dream world which is far off from the real world. The matrix as in the name of the movie is defined as the dream world, where humans are deceived by the Artificial Intelligence (AI). Throughout the movie, the main character Neo has always questioned…

Through Thick and Thin "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb," a common proverb, suggests that a promise kept between two people is more important than genetic relations. However, relatives and family held great significance for Europe during World War II, where bloodlines and genetics were often the difference between life and death. Blood is a motif of war, and how fitting that The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, set in the bloodiest war in history, is not only a story…

The title of Primo Levi’s memoir if This is a Man has the sense that it is an unfinished statement. I have always envisaged it to be ‘if this is a man, then I don’t know what isn’t’ as a statement to question what defines a man. In his memoir, Levi explores this idea of what it means to be a man. He achieves this by using variation in tense to initiate the breakdown on humanity and through the selection of individuals he writes about who epitomize what it means to be a man, and what it means to…

It is routine and expected from the students, they are not rebelling but meeting the expectations set for them. The student’s conformity to these expectations only feeds further categorization of the students as a group outside of mainline French culture. Within the walls the students are monolithically believed to be incapable of reading ‘real’ French texts, like Voltaire. Outside of the walls — outside the systemic dictates— one student is capable of reading and digesting Plato’s Republic.…