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    pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one,” - Bruce Lee My hook relates to the book Night, a book by Elie Wiesel who is a Holocaust Survivor who had suffered in a concentration camp with his father, because it is saying how you can’t pray for an easy life, you have to be strong enough to live through it.It is about horrors of the Holocaust in first person, and how Wiesel and his father endured it. In Night, Elie and his father’s relationship changes throughout the…

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    hardship. The struggle causes some people to grow distant from one another, yet forces other relationships to grow stronger from working together to brave the difficult times. The change positive and negative changes in relationships holds true for the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, writes about the hardships endured by prisoners in his memoir Night. The daily hardships caused some relationships among…

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    kept that promise. After two years in a concentration camp, Elie Wiesel is finally freed--his first thought as a free man: to eat. Years later, however, he has a new motive--to detail his life in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. In his memoir Night, Wiesel shares about the separation of his family, the violence he experienced at the hands of SS-officers, the malnutrition and times he and the other Jews were pushed to their breaking points. Despite the struggles, Wiesel and the survivors…

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    theories, only children, youngest children, middle children, and oldest children all have different characteristics and personalities. Some of the characteristics that would alter, based on birth order could be: openness, social skills, sharing skills, intelligence, decision-making, etc. Personally, in my family, everyone is similar in ways, but are also different in ways. Out of Paige, Pierce, and myself, I would say Paige is the most independent of the three, mainly due to the…

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    you know my first mate’s real name,” the Captain continued. “Most would simply refer to him as ‘The Strategist.’” ‘Cedric’ was hardly Caelan’s real name, but the statement was one she wouldn’t answer easily. She changed the subject. “And here I thought that if you actually caught me, you’d kill me on sight. How moralistic of you, Captain.” “Merely pestering my prey before the kill,” was his smirking reply. His steps were unhurried and leisure as though striding towards a meek slave girl, not an…

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    as we grow up? The truth is, we are susceptible to almost anything in our environment as we mature, which can either hinder or strengthen our beliefs, relationships and overall health. A great example of this vulnerability is displayed in the novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel, which is told through the perspective of the author first-hand as he tries to survive through multiple Jewish concentration camps during the Holocaust. He has to experience traumatizing scenes throughout the book that are…

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    In Night by Elie Wiesel, a man gives his first-hand experience during the Holocaust. He goes from a young boy to a man that goes through horrible experiences. And in the end, survives them all. In this novel, Elie’s relationships with multiple people change. One of his relationships that change is his relationship with his father. In the beginning before they had went to the concentration camps, Elie and his father’s relationship is difficult. His father tells him he can not study Kabbalah.…

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    It is a record of the conversations between Confucius and his disciples, which were later written down by his disciples. It is one of the major parts of Four Books. Confucius’s philosophies are based on the principle of good conduct, wisdom and proper social relationships. Confucius was the person who said that country should be ruled by moral values rather than with military powers. In the Analects Confucius says, “By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them…

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    In Elie Wiesels life changing memoir “Night” he travels the path of hate, cruelty, and silence. He then recounts his life in the concentration camps, as a young boy named Eliezer, describing his experiences that shaped him into the person he is today. Sharing with us his tragic experiences, and all the feelings he had to hold in during the horrid time of the Holocaust. For feelings were not something to be defined in the camps, in order to survive feelings were not an option. During the…

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    The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel follows Wiesel through the terrifying experiences of concentration camp. Elie is the author and main character of the novel, providing a chance to see inside his mind and a World War II Concentration Camp. Elie is a fifteen year old Jew living in Sighet, Transylvania when he is taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and later to Buchenwald. The camps quickly change Elie into someone he does not want to be, shaping him into someone a little more greedy, silent,…

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