The act of sacrificing for a greater cause takes courage, bravery and determination because it puts the wellbeing of somebody else above yourself. The excerpt Julia, written by Lillian Hellman, exemplifies a sacrifice filled with love and fear. In my own experience, when someone makes a sacrifice for you, they put aside their happiness and might do things that are outside of their comfort zones to benefitting an individual. Giving something up for the greater good of someone else takes away the…
During the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Josef Mengele, a German officer and physician in the Auschwitz concentration camps, performed a variety of experiments on the prisoners in the camp. Some experiments included High Altitude Experiments, Freezing Experiments, Malaria Experiments, Regeneration and Transplantation Experiments, Sea Water Experiments, and Sterilization Experiment. Due to World War ll, Mengele was ordered to experiment and observe specific conditions/factors put on people in order to…
Knowledge is defined as facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. Also means awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. In our age, it’s the age of information and quickly developing technologies, for modern people, knowledge is a need to survive in this world. Every day people need more and more new knowledge. even in the Bible, God warns men that knowledge brings more…
Night, by Elie Wiesel was published in 1956 and has 120 pages in total I chose event from pages 20, 24, 31, 33, 62, 67, 82, and 88. I felt an attraction to Wiesel’s biography because his story make me thankful to appreciate the life that I have. The main theme are about religion, faith, family, survival, violence. Just to have the themes put in simple terms. This part of history is the 1940’s when World War 2 broke out in Germany. Wiesel went into the concentration camp when he was 15 years old.…
Hernan Cortes was born in 1485-1547 in Medlin Spain. He was a military leader in 1521 Hernando Cortes dad Martin Cotes was a officer at the army. His parents wanted Hernan to be a lawyer so at age 14 years Hernan Cortes went to the university of Salamanca for a while then he failed his test as a lawyer and dropped out at age 19 he went with Diego Velazquez to a journey to Cuba and around 1518 Cortes put in charge on a journey to Mexico. Cortes fought in the war in 1521 hernando discovered baja…
What is a dystopian society? Well first you should know what a utopia is, a utopia is a society where everything is perfect and everyone is happy, nothing should be corrupt. A dystopia is the exact opposite, nothing is perfect and the government is corrupt. In a dystopian society, everyone living there oblivious to everything going on in front of their eyes. I wonder if we are all living in a dystopian society. One pretty well known dystopian society is Nazi Germany. That's the question you’ve…
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. There are a few contributing factors as to why the Soviet Union won the battle against Nazi Germany. I am going to just list a few of the most important contributing factors as to why they won the battle. One of the advantages that the soviet Union had over Natzi Germany is that they were fighting on their own territory this gave them an advantage not only because they wanted to…
“The Fight” is a documentary about two spectacular boxers named Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. Joe Louis was an African American boxer. He was known for his punches and undefeated record. His fame developed at a time that racism was at its prime and America was in the middle of the Great Depression. Max Schmeling in the other hand, was a German boxer who had the support of Hitler and all of his followers. His dream was to become big and well known in the U.S. This documentary is about the life of…
People aren’t born evil, they become evil throughout the years. This is true even for an evil dictator such as Adolf Hitler. People always question what made him become so evil but they need to understand that he was influenced by his childhood, relationships, position of leadership, and beliefs. It started as early as Hitler’s childhood, from not having a good relationship with his father to having been rejected as an artist. On April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria, welcomed to the world,…
Have you ever wondered how many effects a collection white papers can have on two nations? Well, a document named The White Paper, had a ton of effects, both negative and positive. It was a document issued by the British Government in 1939 under Neville Chamberlain. The white paper had both negative and positive effects on Jews and Palestinians. It limited Jewish immigration when the persecution of Jews in Europe was increasing. Also, Palestinians did not want to wait for ten years for their own…