Raoul Wallenberg

Women around the world have fought a long and hard road for equality between sexes. They have overcome many obstacles in the past fifty years so many men and women think that women have overcame everything, but that is not true. Their biggest and most profound march was in 1913 and it was called “The Suffrage Hike for Women’s Rights.” The biggest leading cause one of their march was for women to be able to vote. Their biggest achievements was in 1920 when they had won the right to vote. In 1920…

refutes the arguments of psychological egoism. While there are many humans that are motivated by self-interest, it is wrong to assume that all humans have the same motivation. In the beginning of the chapter, Rachels opens with an anecdote about Raoul Wallenberg, who was a Swedish businessman who traveled to Budapest and helped save the lives of thousands of Jews from Hitler’s final solution. Within the text, he provides a definition of psychological egoism…

“The Diary Of A Young Girl” was published in the year of 1947. Miep is a courageous woman who is influencing kids and adults to not judge others by their race or religion and to help others when they need it. Miep has won many awards like the Raoul Wallenberg Award and The Righteous Amongst The Nations Award. She claims she is not a “hero” because, “We shouldn 't have to wait for a great leader to make this country a better place”.-Miep…

The involvement the United States had with the Holocaust, and more specifically with the Jewish refugees, has been a very controversial subject throughout the years. This is due to the fact that very few Americans wish to acknowledge and take responsibility for the part the US played in the atrocities that occurred. World War II began in 1939, but the oppression of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and other political enemies to the Nazis had begun quite some time before war broke out. In…

These buildings were placed all over Budapest, such as the Szabadság (Liberty) Square in the very center of Budapest. Also, with help from Raoul Wallenberg (another hero who saved thousands of lives in the holocaust) was able to obtain individual passports to Palestine. But, to use these, he needed information on each person, so he commissioned fifty Jewish citizens to go around in their communities…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said ,“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” A quote spoken in the 1950’s, consisting of many different meanings can be looked at in multiple ways. To me, it means that fighting can’t solve every problem, even if it is faster and the simple way out. Some writing pieces that can relate with this statement are gun violence in the United States, Night by Elie Wiesel, and the history of…

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…

all of the great things that could happen if they step out of their comfort zone. As a reference, Hillary Clinton and Carl Blight wrote the following about Raoul Wallenberg in the New York Times, “Without concern for his own safety, he worked tirelessly to save thousands from certain death at the hands of the Nazis” (Clinton and Blidt). Wallenberg was able to overcome his fears of what could go wrong and ended up saving more than four hundred thousand Jews from their deaths. Yet another person…

It has been said that the best thing about humanity is humans, and the worst thing about humanity is humans.1 When mankind can be so beautiful yet so horrendous simultaneously, the best way to describe this contradiction is to conclude that humanity is a paradox; a paradox that plays out during the most horrific and the most alluring of times in history.2 During World War II, Hitler and the Holocaust demonstrated the ugly things a human can do, but the thousands of people that aided and…

Personal Background When I administered the Qualitative Reading Inventory-6, I chose to work with Elijah Tyler (nephew), a 5th grader at P.S. 194, The Raoul Wallenberg School. Elijah is 10 years old, he lives in Brooklyn, New York with his mother, father, older sister (16 years old) and little brother (6 months old). Elijah is very close with his siblings and cousins. He loves playing video games and playing with his cousins. He likes to watch the Disney and Nickelodeon channels and he likes to…