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    enough to survive. In both Night and Sold We see the ability to adapt throughout the book. Night is about a young jewish boy named Elie that gets taken from his home along with his family and put in a concentration camp by the nazis,this book was written by Elie Wiesel himself.Sold is about a young girl named Lakshmi, who gets taken from her home in the mountains and brought to the city to work in prostitution.The author of Sold is Patricia McCormick.By examining the novels Night and Sold we can…

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    I Will Never Forget ”Shall I never forget that night, the first night in camp. Which has turned my life into one long night” Grit is using perseverance, passion, and strength to face life’s difficult challenges. Elizer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. Elie was a Noble Peace prize winner of writing more than fifty books, Elie is a holocaust survivor, and an Author. Elie Wiesel was deported when he was about fifteen years old, along with his family in Auschwitz,…

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    Every day we process what we see and hear most of the time unconsciously, even if we have great self-awareness. They influence the decisions we make, how we see ourselves, the people we meet, and what we focus on. Perception begins when the human brain receive data from all five senses. The mind then processes and applies meaning to sensory information. Viktor Frankl, the author of “Man Search for Meaning” was a Jewish physiatrist who spent three years during world war 3 under unspeakable…

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    She froze then quietly backed out of her room and tip-toed downstairs to her dad’s office. He was not there but she found a note saying he had a meeting in the city and would be back later in the evening. She turned on every light in the house, closed all the curtains, made sure the phone was working, checked her cell phone for reception multiple times and locked all the doors. After an hour of worrying, she told herself to be brave and went upstairs and gathered the bedspread…

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    To correctly teach and convey the meaning behind English words a series of techniques and methods must be used, these have been applied to the words below. Yesterday, the best way to convey the meaning of this word in my opinion would be to uses a combination of visual aids and making sentences. To begin with I would ask the class “What date it is today?” they would then present me with the answer, I would then bring out an enlarged printout of a calendar and whilst the class are watching I…

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    Mary W. Shelley once said “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” The book Night, a memoir on Eliezer Wiesel life in several Auschwitz Concentration Camps, Eliezer faced many challenges throughout the book an example being the death of his Mother, Father, and sister. All of the challenges he faced shaped and changed Elie in a way that affected him throughout his life. This shows that when we are faced with problems we try to adapt and change to solve them. In the…

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    Elie Wiesel published Night in 1955. This book is his testimony to the awful situations he and millions others had to encounter. Eliezer is a devout Jew at a young age. His conviction is flipped upside down when the Nazis enter his life, and he believes God walked out. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer to depict how his once unconditional faith is shaken down to nonexistence during the Holocaust. Before Eliezer’s living nightmare reigns down, he is dedicated to his religion. At twelve years old, he…

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    The world is filled with selfish people, but there are always people who are so selfless that they’d do anything for another person. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel comes in contact with selfless people. Wiesel shows with characterization and significant details that thinking about others before yourself is the right thing to do. Being selfless is key. The way an author describes a person through characterization shows the reader what kind of person they are, in this case it’s how selfless…

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    the book Night, by Elie Wiesel go through many terrible experiences, and are beaten alive while trying to survive the concentration camps during the Holocaust. In the world today, there are many tragedies that happen every single day such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and fires, where people lose friends, families, homes and their valuables. The theme “Emotional Death is very evident in the book night by Elie Wiesel, and is still very evident in the world today. The first example from Night of the…

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    In Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl documents in great details his time as an inmate at Auschwitz in his book where he ties in his personal experiences and analyzes existential concepts concerning the human psyche. While exploring whether human existence is contingent on a person’s responsible-ness, even in the most extreme and unpleasant situations, Frankl illuminates on key ideas concerning suffering, human existence, and the meaning of life. This paper will be exploring…

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