History of the Jews in the United States

In 1953 Arthur Miller wrote a play about the Salem Witch trials. The play was an allegory to the Red Scare that was cascading over the United States at the time. According to New York Times reporter Victor Navasky, “the playwright in Mr. Miller was originally drawn to think about the political and moral pressures of the domestic cold war years”. In every witch hunt the three major factors are…

On September 1, 1939 under one year after the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler attacked Poland. His objective was to wipe out the majority of the Jews. England and France guaranteed to help Poland yet Britain was too far away for their Air Force to help and France was excessively anxious, making it impossible to help on the grounds that they feared the Germans. Poland had next to no Navy and Air Force to battle the Germans. Poland was likewise attacked by the Soviet Union in the meantime so their…

have studied with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial…

until 1922 so the don’t get “Dirty”. Oregon was racist from the very beginning. When it became a state, the 75% of voters were against slavery to happen in Oregon. They saw blacks as a bad element and keep the ground with good element which is whites. About 89% of voters cast their vote so black and mixed colors to be out of the state. They make a law that said that no Negroes, or mulattos in the state. they all said that the person who brings blacks…

the religious oppression of native americans. According to Echo-Hawk, United States settlers used religion to justify the Indian Removal Act. He writes that, “a basic goal of federal Indian policy was to convert the “savage” Indians into Christian citizens…” (Echo-Hawk 277). This drove the white settlers to implement different laws that banned Native American religious practice. Echo-Hawk, also mentions the Lyng law, which states that Indians are not protected under the first amendment to…

Rather, it would be a series of developments spanning the length of nearly an entire millennia which would eventually form today’s crisis between the Western world and the Middle East. In this presentation, I will share the key developments over history in this ongoing crisis crisis. The concept of wars fought over differences in religion, or holy wars, is not a particularly new idea. Since the dawn of time, various groups with opposing viewpoints have commonly struggled to spread their own…

World War II was one of the most deadly and dark wars in the history of the world. It started in Germany with the Holocaust. The Nazis persecuted many different groups of people during the Holocaust. One of the groups that were persecuted were the Disabled Germans. The Disabled Germans were persecuted during the Holocaust through forced sterilization, the Euthanasia program, and propaganda campaigns based on the Nazis belief that they were inferior to the human race. The Nazis made Germans…

henotheistic culture to a monotheistic culture. The Israelites were a henotheistic culture from the Exodus of the people from Egypt and gradually changed over their history and settlement in the land of Canaan to become a monotheistic nation at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 586 B.C.E. During this time as well as the exile of the Jews, the Pentateuch was written as four documents. This is known as documentary hypothesis which is considered the basis of all biblical…

Does Ezra Miller’s mental health justify his history of crime and physical violence? Ezra Miller has worked up a notorious reputation in international media with the recent allegations and incidents surrounding them. From physical altercations to threats to child abuse, many researchers and psychologists speculate on the reasoning behind his actions and what could have potentially fueled him. These incidents of assault and harassment can be explained by Miller’s declining mental health, with the…

loneliness our brain goes into a self-preservation state that brings with it a lot of unwanted effects. The emotions caused by loneliness can strongly trigger depression. Depression is a common mental disorder. Depression causes loss of pleasure in activities, change in sleep, loss of energy, and suicide thoughts. More than 350 million people of all ages suffer of depression (Vann). In the book, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, a polish Jew…