Oskar Werner

The film that I have chosen to analyze is Lessons of Darkness by Werner Herzog. I chose this film because I really enjoy Herzog’s film style, and I also enjoy how he uses specific shots and scenes to portray how he is against the gruesome nature of war and attacks. In this film, I have chosen two sequences where I believe that Herzog is trying to get his point across of the violence that come from war. For example, as Herzog uses the first sequence of the birds, to the bones of the dead, to the…

Bystanders and Upstanders In society, one can play two roles in situations that need to be acted upon: a bystander or an upstander. A bystander, or onlooker plays an important role in any given situation. They choose to stand by and not take action, or involve themselves in the situation in some way. An upstander will take action and include themselves in a certain circumstance. Because of this, the Bystander Effect has been developed over time from casual everyday situations to big events in…

train platform where a single family registers as Jews. The single table becomes many tables, and the single family becomes a large crowd. Close-up images of names being typed into lists provide a sense of the vast number of Jews arriving in Kraków. Oskar Schindler appears in his Krakow hotel room. His face is not shown but the focus of…

Schindler’s List is a heartbreaking film displaying the metamorphosis of Oskar Schindler. Throughout the horror of the Holocaust, Oskar changes his ways and goes from a goes from a greedy womanizer to a kind-hearted hero. He risks his life daily so that others may have the chance to live. Schindler gave up his freedom in order to save the freedom of the Jews he had grown so close to in his factory. In the beginning of the movie, Oskar was a greedy and self-centered philanderer. He constantly…

Oskar Schindler, during the time of the Holocaust, became a hero to 1000’s of Jew lives. Schindler however at the time didn't start as a hero, instead involved into one. The Holocaust took place in Europe, where the Nazi regime created Jewish identities which isolated the community from the universe of obligations. The universe of obligations is when a group of individuals has a commitment to others, and orders are made which cannot be altered, resulting in unneeded crime. The Nazi party…

who primarily stood out in Schindler’s List, Oskar Schindler, Izthak Stern, Amon Goeth, and Helen. These four characters stood out, not only in the movie but in their personas and characteristics. Oskar was the pompous man who turned into somewhat of a decent person, Izthak was the brave Jew who risked his life for many, Amon who was frankly just an arrogant narcissist, and Helen the young women who was shy, yet outspoken enough to make a difference. Oskar Schindler was as you would call it,…

The film, “Schindler’s List,” by Steven Spielberg brings a masterful piece that demonstrates the horrors of the Holocaust. Despite the amount of darkness the film delivers, Spielberg has managed to still captivate the audience with its story. Series of studies will show how Spielberg has accomplished this objective. Introduction Any terrifying events are not the type of memories most people ever want to remember. Though, sometimes recalling these events will help others understand and help…

Frederic Clemson Howe once said, “War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.” This explains the situations of Robert Ross, Werner Heisenberg, and Niels Bohr. They all sacrificed, which only lead to suffering for all of them. Although one is a coming of age novel about a WW1 soldier and the other is a play about an imaginary meeting of WWII scientists, both The Wars by Timothy Findley and Copenhagen by Michael Frayn explore the ways in which war affects individuals…

The Decline of Deutsche Physik Contextual Analysis of the Exodus of German Physicists in the Early Twentieth Century “So we see that we cannot attach any absolute signification to the concept of simultaneity, but that two events which, viewed from a system of co-ordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be looked upon as simultaneous events when envisaged from a system which is in motion relatively to that system” In 1905 German physicist Albert Einstein published the first paper of a new…

Background Progeria is an extremely rare form of dwarfism, affecting a mere 200-250 children worldwide at a time (Gordon, 2013).Classically known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, HGPS is a disease that causes the body to "prematurely age". Manifestations of this disease affects the skin, musculoskeletal system, and vasculature. The term progeria is derived from the Greek word geras, meaning "old age" (Shah, 2015). Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson first described this syndrome in 1886, and…