How the Holocaust Could Have Been Prevented Essay

Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Tutsis, Bosnians, Croatians, and Darfuri are all victims of mass murders, also referred to as genocide. All of the genocides corresponding to these people have all happened in less than 100 years. How could we have let this many people suffer? All of these people have suffered, but they will not be the last. Genocide will never be stopped because, people hate each other, people follow others, and people do not always follow the laws that are put in place in their…

In the nonfiction story Flesh and Blood So Cheap, author Albert Marrin uses both explicit and implicit to help him justify his theme that unsafe practices led to the Triangle Fire, which showed that workers lives’ were not a priority. Nobody knows how the fire started, but some say that it started with a cutter flicking hot ash or someone tossed a live cigarette into a scrap bin. There were 146 people who died and of those 146 only 16 were men others were mostly women. Many of them tried to…

The Holocaust transpired between 1933 and 1945, was the genocide of over eleven million people, including six million Jews, under the leadership of Hitler and the Nazi Party. Although the Holocaust took anti-Semitism to the extreme, anti-Semitism has prevailed for over two thousand years. The origins of anti-Semitism lay deep in human history, dating back to biblical times. Prior to the nineteenth century, anit-Semitism evolved from conflict over religious beliefs, into a policy of political and…

The genocide in Rwanda that started on April 7th, 1994, was similar to the genocide of germans, or the holocaust. Over the span of one hundred days, there were as many as eight hundred thousand killed. Most were Tutsis, some were Hutus that did not support the genocide. This devastating occurrence could have and should have been prevented. Sadly it did not and it ended with death and unforgettable events. Rwanda is a small country in Africa, located in the eastern and central part of Africa. The…

There has been a grand total of 129,864,880 books published ever. All of these fall into the category of essential questions that I have learned. Some of the books also contain some of the essential questions that I have found interesting. This year in english class we read Night by Elie Wiesel and the novel contains the essential question of seeking justice and bearing witness about terrible things that have happened like the holocaust and to promote what happened so the act can be prevented…

Even looking back on the Holocaust it’s seen that ordinary people are capable of killing and torturing others. The Stanley Milgram Experiment explained in The Perils of Obedience, shows how common people are willing to harm another for this reason. This also is displayed in the movie The Hunger Games, where the random people from the…

Throughout the book, Armstrong provides a vast amount of information that deals historically with how men and women have perceived God. She provides a chapter, and sometimes more than one chapter, dealing with how each one of Judaism, Christianity and Islam perceived God throughout history. Each historical chapter of the book is rich with information concerning how and why each religion has certain beliefs. However, a flaw of being so rich in information is the lack of simplicity and clarity. It…

This social issue is less common in the present day in comparison to the late 1900’s during the civil rights movement. Racism has affected American history in many different ways. It has done so by fostering inequality, discrimination, and influenced how individuals relate to each other. Racism primarily evolved from slavery. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, slavery was present in Spain, Britain, Portugal, and the U.S. It consisted of…

While fear is typically seen as a motivator there are always consequences both good and bad. We fear negative consequences, as this is how we are raised. When we do something bad and our parents yell at us we learn to fear that previous action. Then our parents use the famous words “don't do that or else…”. This “or else” is what we fear because the “or else,” is that we will be punished…

firearms invariably call for better background checks, banning large ¬capacity magazines and other measures that would make gun deaths less likely. Gun zealots answer that even the most common-sense reforms aren’t relevant because they wouldn’t have prevented the mass shootings that keep horrifying the nation. The forces of “no” keep Congress from acting”. FBI Director James B. Comey argues that the government did not do enough in preventing Dylan Roof, a 21 year old racist who used a .45…