Righteous among the Nations

But, the education of virtue, specifically, whether or not it can be taught and then how it can be taught, is all absolutely pointless without a purpose. In this day and age, as a nation, society and as individuals alike, we have developed anything but virtuous admiralties. The endeavors we practice, and the methods we use to fashion our lives, generate deception, recklessness, brokenness, blindness and malevolence. Virtues are…

The Zookeeper’s Wife was a very emotional film taking place in Warsaw, Poland. The couple featured were in charge of a very prestigious zoo containing many different animals ranging from rabbits, to monkeys, to elephants. After being bombed by Nazis, many of the animals died, escaped, or were seized by Hitler’s lead zoologist, Lutz Heck. With the realization of the enormity of their zoo, and the danger that many faced, they decided to take in one of their Jewish friends, hiding her in a spare…

Many memoirs about the Holocaust were published by Holocaust survivors. There are countless videos, books, and articles telling over the stories of those that survived and perished during the war. Many of these works show the heroism of many people to save relatives, others and themselves. Some of these people were non-Jews hiding and helping those in need. Many Jews helped their fellow brothers in whatever way possible, many times risking their own lives. Through all the accounts written about…

ended with hiring them in order to protect them from the concentration camps where the vast majority would find death. Over time, he realized that what was occurring was terribly evil and had experienced a change of heart. Now known as “righteous among the nations,” Oskar Schindler is accredited with saving as many as 1,100 Jews, allowing the 6,000 descendants the opportunity to live that they otherwise would not have had. Oskar Schindler, born on April 28, 1908 in Moravia, joined the…

of the war that he also lived through. Thucydides uses elaborative speeches throughout the text, Pericles’ eulogy being the best of them. While these elaborative speeches and debate are persuading and motivating, they also reflect the oral culture among the Greeks. Thucydides interpretation of the causes and events of the Peloponnesian War is really commendable; his description of the plague gives us an insight that only an eye witness can give. While writing the history of the war, whether…

the case for politics. Within The Righteous Mind: Part III, Haidt’s central metaphor is “We are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee.” This indicates that as individuals we merely work selfishly but also within groups. Given the research that every president has owned a pet and Obama going into his presidency pet-less would not only prevent him from being identified by pet-loving Americans but also former presidents. Owning a dog is simply seen as a sacred act among presidents…

Congress to Generate New American Empire In fact, Declaration of Independence was accepted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1886 and declared the division of the Thirteen American Colonies from the British Empire and constituted as an independent nation, the United States of America. It was the result of a various political, social and intellective alterations in American society. Moreover, between 1763 and 1776, majority of colonists felt unjustly taxed, over controlled by the British…

nineteenth century that demand families appear righteous and moral (112). Similarly, the people of the North and the South who fought in the Civil War may not have truly believed in their side’s perspective on slavery, yet fought anyway for the purpose of being seen as brave and mighty for fighting for their home as society expected the common man to fight for the freedom of his homeland. Ironically, this common man was fighting against his own nation of his own brethren, but what once was…

Religion has fascinated humankind since the beginning of civilization. Indeed, the majority of the world’s adult population belongs to a religious group upon which they attribute their morality and purpose in life. Each assemblage, with its gods and belief systems, professes superiority over others (Norenzayan 21). However, amidst are people who dare to dream of a world without these systems of beliefs. Questions about whether the planet would be better-off or worse-off without religion attract…

of false information that cannot be justified (E). Since the Democratic Party inhabited much of the southern lands of the United States, this perception of the Democrats similarly denounced the ideals of the south. This claim drew a political wedge among the Democratic and the developed Republican Party that Lincoln was a part of. The abolitionist perspective of the North attributed to their growing hostility towards the southerner’s ideals about slavery as shown in Lincoln’s denouncement of…