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    Anni Albers Essay

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    Kaylan Gerdes Everyday Masterpiece Anni Albers, even from her first memories has always been influenced by vivid and dynamic colors. Her inclinations for arts and creativity at such a young age were values she would hold within herself for the rest of her life. It’s through her use of colors, textures and patterns from everyday objects that she was able to create masterpieces and became a leader in the arts world because of her abilities. She was born Annelise Fleischmann on June 12th, 1899 in Berlin Germany. She later went on to receive her education from the Bauhaus, after which she moved to America where she taught at Black Mountain College with her husband Joseph and then later continued her successful career until her death in 1995. Albers can from an upper class family that afforded her the opportunities of cultivating an interest in the arts at a young age. She painted and studied under impressionist artist Martin Brandenburg. However, she was discouraged after meeting artist Oskar Kokoschka who, after seeing a portrait she was working on, asked her harshly “Why do you paint?” Despite this discouragement from her instructors she attended the School of Arts and Crafts in…

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    experienced corrupt treatment in their everyday lives. Many immoral situations occurred during the Holocaust and a few of these can be seen in Tadeusz Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Borowski recounts various unethical situations and feelings that he witnessed and experienced that correlate with immoral situations and feelings of Holocaust scientists and their experiments. While some claims following may be controversial, all views on the topic should be considered to…

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    I read the novel named Night by Elie Wiesel. After reading this novel, I understood that there were various lessons that you could take. The moral that I took from this heartbreaking novel is one which nobody will have the capacity to overlook; when faced with racism and prejudice, religious faith can be shaken. The characters that represent this theme in the story are Elie Wiesel, the author of this nonfiction autobiography, Elie’s father, Moishe the Beadle, Idek and Dr. Josef Mengele. All of…

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    Josef Mengele Personality

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    Dr. Josef Mengele Josef Mengele was a ruthless man who did not care for humanity. He had no mercy for the people he heartlessly abused. He was a very cruel and pitiless man. He did so many things that physically, mentally, and emotionally affected the lives of Jews. The most common thing that he did was testing on twin children. He often tested their minds or physical features. He was fascinated by twin children. Josef Mengele grew up somewhat normal. He was the oldest of 3 sons. He had a…

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    Josef Mengele, The Angel of Death Josef Mengele was an important and influential person in history that had a negative impact on the world because he medically experimented on the members of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany into a wealthy family. His father, Karl Mengele, owned a local plant that manufactured farming equipment. His mother, Walburga Mengele, was very demanding and had a very short temper (“The Life of Josef…

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    At the German concentration camps, Josef Mengele, conducted depraved experiments by developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses. Many of the people he performed experiments on were Jews and twins. Most of them were tested against their will. He and other doctors performed many experiments, such as the malaria experiments, mustard gas experiments, pharmaceutical testing, spotted fever (typhus) experiments, sulfanilamide experiments, and experiments with…

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    she learned that the soap they were given was actually made out of human flesh. (Caplan 6) Although they were given food, many people still faced starvation. Based on the needs of the people and the labor that they were doing, the amount of food they were given did not provide the proper amount of nutrition needed to keep their bodies healthy. This also served as a problem after the camps were liberated, due to people overeating and bursting their stomachs. In total, there were twenty-six large…

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    The Holocaust took six million Jews’ lives. The nazis and Adolf Hitler were in control. There were many concentration camps that took place during this prejudice time. Most people suffered. There were many causes of death. During the year of 1944, Elie and his family were taken into Auschwitz, a traumatizing concentration camp. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel expresses the theme as humanity vs. inhumanity. First, the SS men took away the prisoners’ names, including Elie’s.They also called them…

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    Horror At Michigan State University A year ago most Americans would not have had any idea who Dr. Larry Nassar was and what he did but today he is the most despised man in America. He was a well respected doctor at Michigan State University who for many years sexually assaulting young women in his role as the lead doctor for United States Gymnastics. Many since they were little girls. More than 265 women were sexually assaulted by Nassar and about half of them testified at his sentencing. Which…

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    Elie Wiesel started off as a fourteen year old kid. He lived in Sighet, Transylvania. When it was Passover, a Jewish holiday, the persecution of the Jewish people began. Jews were not allowed to leave their homes for three days and they had to wear a yellow star. They later had to be crowded into two ghettos. Even though they were forced to live in the ghettos, they lived their normal lives with no concern. One day, Elie's father was summoned to a meeting with the Jewish council. He returns with…

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