Eugene

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” A quote from holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel sums up how nearly every person, whether they survived the holocaust or not, felt. This true devastating tragedy is one of the worst things that has happened throughout mankind. With the mixture of horror, torture, and much much more, what the people from the…

Purple Hibiscus, Papa Eugene, the father of Jaja and Kambili, is the source of these many conflicts between himself and his children. The relationship, or lack thereof, between Jaja and his father Eugene Is on the verge of falling apart. Jaja and Kambili’s bitterness sprouts from the physical abuse they receive from their father. The conflicts created as a result of Jaja and Kambili’s connection with their father shape their views and ideals as they grow older. Father Eugene, a devout…

Judith Ortiz Cofer is the writer of the short story “American History”. She was born in 1952 in the town of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. In 1956, Judith and her family moved to the United States and settled in Paterson, New Jersey. However, she dispites the distance and spent portions of her childhood traveled back and forth between Hormingueros and Paterson. This movement between her two cultures became a vital part of her poetry and fiction. In 1962, Judith Ortiz Cofer and her family moved to…

human. Niccol explores how personal identity and happiness are destroyed by pursuing perfection through the characters of Irene, Vincent and Jerome. Irene and Vincent struggled with their personal identities because of their genetic imperfections and Eugene suffered from the burden of perfection. Nonetheless, Niccol shows that these issues with perfection and imperfection can be overcome through the character development of Irene, Vincent and Jerome. Personal identity is destroyed by the…

her father. Her father, Eugene, is a very holy man and is very strict with his children. Eugene is loving and caring except for his punishments, which are not discipline but torture. When Eugene finds Kambili and Jaja observing a painting of their grandfather (who is not catholic) Eugene kicks Kambili until she has to be put in the hospital. After Kambili is released from the hospital, her and Jaja go to stay with their Aunt Ifeoma and they then receive the news that Eugene is dead. Kambili's…

Per Reporter: Nikki and her children lives in what appears to be an abandoned trailer with Eugene (maternal uncle). It is unknown of how long the family has been living in the trailer. Nikki and Eugene claims that they are in the process of fixing the trailer up. The condition of the trailer is not suitable for the children to live. The windows are broken, no beds or toilets. The family goes outside to use the bathroom. There are no working utilities in the home; it is unknown of how long the…

describes the life of African-American Louis Gaines and his time spent as a servant in the White House. However, while Gaines is not a real person, his story throughout the movie is mostly based on African-American Eugene Allen and his time as a servant to the White House. Eugene Allen was born on a plantation on July 14, 1919, in Scottsville, Virginia. When Allen became a young adult, he began working as a waiter at a Virginian resort (cite). He then later moved to Washington, D.C., and found…

characters through the first person lens of a fourteen year old Billy; Billy’s and his father’s cages becomes evident. Early in the story it is clear that Billy is pressured into expectations set out by his father to take care of his older brother Eugene (141), only to…

Charles Duhigg. The book focuses on the life of a man named Eugene Pauly, or E.P. in the medical world. In the early 1990’s, Eugene came down with a terrible illness. His wife, Beverly, rushed him to the hospital, where doctors concluded he was suffering from viral encephalitis, a relatively harmless disease that, in rare cases, makes its way into the brain and causes damage to the tissue where thoughts and dreams are stored. While Eugene made an amazing recovery in terms of a fully-functioning…

World War II was the most destructive war in history. There were many events that led to this war, but one of the main reasons was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide and extermination of people who shared the Jewish culture. They slaughtered men, women, and even children. The man mostly in charge of this act was the name of Adolf Hitler. The Jewish people, or as Hitler called them, “Jews”, were taken to concentration camps all over the world. But, the biggest concentration camp…