Righteous among the Nations

1. How did your perspective of the Polish-Jewish past change during the project? Initially, I primarily excused the Poles and saw them as Germans' collaborators. However, during the project I have come to understand that many Poles took part in saving the Jews during the Holocaust. In addition, I learned that their situation sometimes was difficult too. It was a war after all. Thus, today it seems I less blame them as a whole, but rather understand that in each society there were good and…

However, this argument, though a popular one among critics of the bombings, is fictitious. According to Thomas Flagel, author of The History Buff’s Guide to World War II, “the cabinet of Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro agreed to a cease-fire but not capitulation” (284). In other words, Japan would peacefully…

as the words of Rabbi Elijah ben Abuya, “There [was] no Law, and there [was] no Justice” in regards to religion in Nazi Germany (qtd. in Idinopulos 123). Yet, it was not always this way. In order to withhold justice from the Jewish people living among the Christian majority of the German population, the Nazi Party must have first been able to reconstruct the German Christian establishment…

to juvenile male delinquency. After a number of years, though, these critics came to realize that in contrast to gangster movies, westerns did not drive the viewer to relate to the criminal, but instead were moralized and focused on “town tamers”—righteous heroes that saved the day. Fritz Stückrath, an expert on youth and film in West Germany, exemplifies this switch in attitudes towards western films at first damning Wild West films and literature in his publication entitled “The Attack of the…

This idea was the whole basis behind the American Revolution, best put by Thomas Jefferson with “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” While this idea seems simple enough to achieve, first the Americans would have to successfully defeat their Mother Country Great Britain, who was currently the strongest power across the…

states in his work that the United States as a nation is an “ethnic melting pot” (248). The term melting pot implies that everyone who comes to the United States merges or melts into the United States culture. However, this is not true in the States. Citizens of the United States still retain a part of their original cultures. This is why the United States does not have a nation food or language because the nation is a mixture of cultures from other nations. Because of this mixture of cultures,…

The book, The Lord Reigns: A Theological Handbook to the Psalms is written by James L. Mays. It is a book about the book of Psalms viewed as a scripture and a liturgy. The book is concerned with the use of Psalms, and how its central message of the Lord reigns is portrayed. Mays proposes that the word “the Lord reigns” is the main point of Psalms that describes the sovereignty of God. It describes the contents and context of the Psalms individual and as a whole in relation to the other books of…

insincere. Deception is controversial in terms of losing face because using tricks or deception to defeat a stronger enemy can sometimes be justified in Chinese literature. Although deception is considered as unethical in Confucian value, it can be righteous when facing particularly more powerful and hostile opponents according to Sun Tzu’s book Art of War. In competition, there is no absolute superiority and inferiority according to Sun Tzu’s thinking on relativism (Chen, 2004). Consequently,…

shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.” God made the covenant with Abraham as the unequal parties, that God himself that established the covenant, Abraham part was to agree to it and be blessed when he obey of it. The covenant sign of circumcision of forskin, it should apply to Abraham and his sons, from generation to generations. Abraham is the father of many nations, and he is the father of faith. This covenant in theological…

Initially, when Islam started, there were no sects among the Muslims. To understand the uncertain character of sectarianism in Islam, there is a need to highlight the fact that as a religion Islam is complete, and there is no need for the sects in Islam, nor was there a need centuries ago. However, some…