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Litrature review Adoption and prosocial behavior Adoption can be defined as a social and legal process by which a parent-child relationship is established between persons unrelated by birth. Costin(1972) states that through this process, a child born to one set of parents becomes the child of other parents, a member of that family, and assumes the rights and duties of children born in birth families. Nearly a million children were adopted internationally in Western countries between the end of…

In the “High Holy Days” by Jane Shore we delve into the world of faith and doubt seen through the eyes of a child. In the poem, we see the child mature into an adult and along the way, realize that she is the “Chosen One.” Through the use of diction, tone, imagery and the speaker we see the child come to the realization that it is her responsibility as the “Chosen One” to free her people from anti-Semitism. The writer maintains neutral diction to reflect appropriateness on religious ideals.…

“Judaism is not a religion, it is a relationship.” In Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic, a girl Hannah travels to a world where she takes on the role of a girl her age named Chaya (A.K.A. her hebrew name), and she isn’t sure why. Although some people believe that throughout her time in this new world Hannah is becoming more attached to her jewish religion, she still has the same understanding as she did before. In this new world Hannah, or Chaya meets four girls, Rachel, Shifre, Yente, and…

Conor Brandt Miss D’Antonio English I 2 April 2024 Hitler’s Hatred of the Jews Could you imagine going through the struggles of the Holocaust just because of your religion!? That’s exactly what happened to millions of Jews, including Eliezer. Eliezer was a teenage Jewish boy living a happy, ordinary life with only a little bit of racism towards his Jewish culture. When all of a sudden things change for the worse, Eliezer finds himself in a ghetto, which then leads to a concentration camp death…

The Chosen is a film many people can benefit from watching, as we are given a detailed view of a day in the life of Hasidic- Orthodox and Conservative-Zionist Jews. Observing their day to day lifestyle give us an understanding of their culture and traditions. We see many differences from these two religions, from their dress codes to their very core belief. In the film two young boys, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter, become unexpected friends through a common passion of baseball. Both boys live…

A Gateway to Death In Night, Elie Wiesel explains his sinister experience of the concentration camps and its ruthless captors. When Wiesel witnessed the deaths and tortures of his race, he became bitter and pessimistic. When he watched the Jews burn, starve, or beaten to death by the captors, Wiesel felt that God was no longer on the Jews’ side. He felt that all hope was lost and that his death was near. Wiesel expresses his emotion and experience through figurative language, such as the Jews’…

Paul begins his his letter by introducing himself and sends greeting to the church in Galatia. Then, he dives right in by asking why the church is letting others distort the gospel that Paul has given them. He then goes onto say that this gospel is directly from God, and he can prove that through his own conversion to Christianity. He writes a brief summary of how Jesus called him to turn from his evil ways, on the road to Damascus. Paul continues by talking about how he met the apostles in…

Background I graduated from Pacific Palisades High School June 1969. Spent freshman year at San Diego State Sept 1969 to May 1970 My parents’ financial situation changed, making it necessary to move home (Brentwood, CA 90049) and commute to CSUN beginning sophomore year Sept. 1970 Series of events commenced on Friday evening following the first week of finals. Two finals remained, one academic and the other, a PE class with a written test on the rules of golf, scheduled in the early…

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”Elie Wiesel said this in his speech after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. We must know how to take sides to help us be the voice for all of these people that have been silenced due to dehumanization. The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany systematically murdered some seven million European Jews.…

This can be demonstrated in chapter 1 of Night. “My father had accompanied the deportees as far as the ghetto's gate. They first had been herded through the main synagogue, where they were thoroughly searched to make sure they were not carrying away gold, silver, or any other valuables. There had been incidents of hysteria and harsh blows.” It can also be demonstrated in chapter 3 of Night. “Humanity? Humanity is not…