Jehovah's Witnesses

Modern Paganisms such as Wicca serve primarily to fulfil the spiritual needs of believers in a manner supporting their pre-existing ideological convictions; as is shown by the diversity of opinion regarding the sacred within this spectrum of New Religious Movements. There are a multitude of sects within Modern Paganism, all claiming roots in the primordial past. In reaction to the growth of secularism throughout the 20th Century, various groups self-organized based upon a revived ‘natural…

the American responses over refugees and persecutions of the critical situations that developed share similar patterns. It has not been a century since the Holocaust took place. Those who were Jews, homosexuals, disabled, gypsies, poles, Jehovah’s witnesses, and political dissidents were the people that faced oppression under the Nazis. Given Hitler’s mastermind of propaganda and inculcation of anti-Semitism and hatred against these particular groups, led to the infamous, “Final Solution”–…

Propaganda has been used to convince millions of people in many different ways. One example of propaganda are commercials and advertisements, one specific example are Subway’s advertisements. Subway advertises their food saying that they use fresh and organic products for their sandwiches with their slogan, “Subway, eat fresh.” This propaganda convinced millions of people to believe that the food is actually fresh. Most of the food at Subway contains conditioners, preservatives as well as…

“useless” to society, a threat to Aryan genetic purity, and, ultimately, unworthy of life.” (“The murder of the handicapped”) “Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.”(“Introduction to the Holocaust”)Young children who survived were considered lucky, since they were automatically separated from their families according to their age. Any children who were too young or weak to do…

New Jersey is full of places where historical events have occurred. One of these places is Journal Square, which is located in Jersey City, NJ. Its history starts when the Lenni Lenape Indians first settled there. In the 1650s, General Peter Stuyvesant had everyone under his rule. Two years later, Stuyvesant engineered the purchase of most of present-day Hudson County from the Indians in return for materials. On November 1660, the Dutch moved in and claimed Bergen Square (now known as Journal…

During the Holocaust, more than 6 million Jews were persecuted by the Nazis in Germany and its surrounding nations. Following World War 1, Adolf Hitler came into power in Germany and formed one of the most powerful fascist totalitarian states at the time. Hitler blamed the economic depression on the Jews and others he believed to be inferior. He wanted to eradicate the people who were seen as a threat to the German people. The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional representation of…

This week on the concepts of culture had me reflecting on my own beliefs produced a series of thoughts around how I view the “human experience”. Culture is defined as an “expression of five basic components of human experience that include human nature, human activity, relations with the physical (natural) world, relationship with the self, and relationship with others”. The Human Experience questionnaire really raised my cultural awareness about my values and beliefs. According to it, I align…

Introduction My essay will be about a movie we watched in language arts class, “The Pianist”. The movie is about the life of a Jewish polish pianist that lived in the time of World War II. The movie shows the difficult time that the Jewish people passed. A Holocaust is a destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish by Nazi regime and its…

The word holocaust comes from the Greek language and means to sacrifice by fire, this is the fate that some of the holocaust victims suffered. The Holocaust or Final Solution was the inhumane killing of over 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 minorities between January 30, 1933-May 8, 1945. The Holocaust took place in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II. The anti-semitism had been going on in Europe way before the Holocaust was even thought of , the hate for Jews comes from the ideas of…

Genocide is defined by the united nations as any of the following actions committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another…