The Bad Beginning

But the Holocaust was initiated through small steps, and it only continued and happened because people remained silent. They forgot that they could speak up, or they chose to ignore what was happening, because Germany was in a bad state, and it might not have seemed so bad for Hitler to make a few comments about Jews if it got their lives back on track. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the inmates in the concentration camps repeatedly say how Hitler is going to “keep his promise.” That’s the…

treating them. For example, if you were to do something bad you would get a consequence. If you were to do something good, then life would treat you fair and give you something fair, but it all depends on your action. Being proactive could lead to success in the future. There is also an opposite of proactive, which is called reactive. Being reactive is a bad thing because you show off an attitude that could represent your personality, which is bad. For example, if you were at work and say if…

somber. He did not believe that it was good, and instead thought that without the proper upbringing and discipline, people would fall into destructive behavior. He argued that human beings will naturally attempt to satisfy their tendencies, however bad, without order and education, no matter what their environment. His views rival those of Mencius’s, but both have valid (and in some place similar) philosophies and helped to shape Confucianism over the centuries. Mencius lived during a…

that were given to the characters in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” changed their maturity throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout used to be scared of the Radley house because they had different routines than the people of Maycomb. In chapter 1, it says “They did not go to church, Maycomb’s principal recreation, but worshiped at…

the whole play is based around decisions of good or evil. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”(1.1.12) this is a great quote that foreshadows the whole play and the theme of good vs. evil. The quote means that sometimes that the good things are bad and the bad things can be good. Macbeth first becomes Thane of Cawdor because he appears…

“If you want to test a man’s character give him power” ( Abraham Lincoln). Power is something that makes even the weakest people strong, but is it always necessarily a good thing? That is not the case in Poe’s “ The Cask of Amontillado”and Brown’s “The Weapon”. First off, both Montresor and James Graham possess motive that are used to show what their true intentions really are. As well, in both stories it is made clear that the setting leads to these characters becoming murders.…

This includes respecting the idea of family, private ownership, and the law. But in the beginning of the book, Gilgamesh is not a good king in this part as he breaks all three of these social norms. In the start, Gilgamesh was said to take children away from their parents. The boy was taken away and had to fight to show his strength, and the…

people and how the youth’s morals changed from good to bad (129).The narrator even says that “there was a time where courtesy and winning went out of style” also describing that it was the norm to be bad at the time (129). It symbolizes how the youth was poisoned by alcohol, sex and violence which led to the pollution of the…

still live life as before the same after he kills this woman. This quote applies to society because all criminals will either pay the price through their conscience and prison or just prison. This quote applies to me because I believe no matter how bad they person is, everyone has a sense of right and wrong and everyone has a conscience whether they admit to it or…

reciever of memory is his job. At the beginning of the book he thinks his job is all fun and games because he can learn about the past, but he begins to see some of the bad and not all the good. Page 121, it says, “Jonas did not want to go back. He didn't want the memories, he didn't want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, did not want the pain. He wanted his childhood back again.” He hates it. He hates his job, he doesn’t like seeing war memories and other bad things, he wants it all to go…