The Blow

Night Assessment In Night by Elie Wiesel there are many themes applied to the situation that Elie was in and how he describes it. Man’s Inhumanity to Man, The Importance of father son bond, the loss of faith, The Dangers of Silence. These are the four main themes that are clear in the novel all of these themes are directly related to how Elie Wiesel progresses in in the novel from caring about others, god and himself. The first theme Man’s Inhumanity to Man shows how Elie and the people around…

Most Jews were only willing to bring harm upon someone else. For instance, on the train ride to Auschwitz the men only beat Mrs. Schacter, they didn’t kill her. “She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal” (26). So in a way they didn’t lose all compassion for her, but if they weren’t in that difficult situation they might have helped her instead of beating her. Another great example is when the men beat up Elie’s…

the Native Americans were being seen less of they prevailed and fought against this change. For example, "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History" gives a blow-by-blow account of the hardscrabble and bloody life on the Texas frontier in the middle decades of the 19th century.” (Found on the Alaska dispatch news). It was not easy to suppress the Indian race. Many tribes fought against the Americans. But…

Ostracism; a technique exercised to manage societies. Ostracism can be defined as a form of social control, in which the general mass utilizes exclusion. WWII is a historical example of ostracism. Adolf Hitler had a desire to develop one race and one religion in Germany: the pure Aryan race. The Aryan race can be described as having, blonde hair, blue or green eyes, and fair skin. Hitler used violence, or in other words, the threat of violence, to exclude Jews from a “pure” Germany. Hitler used…

days showed how unprepared the Red army was against this well trained and experienced German army. Germany started off with heavy air-raids, which were very successful for them. They lost less than 100 planes, while the Soviet Union took a devastating blow of losing 4000 planes. Germans were able to cause chaos in the opening hours of the war when they took out Soviet command and control systems, leaving the Soviets in complete disarray. While the invasion started, the Germans already had a…

BOOK REVIEW- Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War by P. M. H. Bell, published by Yale University in 2011 Reviewed by Abdel Alnimiry The Second World War still has a strong ideal of attractions in many ways. From many books, television programs, and films were all attracted the Second World War. It was mostly everything that covered and dictated the history of the twentieth century. The war mileage seemed endless. In Europe it started with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939…

The nonfiction novel, “The Murder of Helen Jewett”, by Patricia Cline Cohen took place in New York City on April 9th, in 1986 at a brothel. Rosina Townsend, the owner of the brothel, found Helen Jewett, a prostitute, dead in Helen’s bedroom. It began with Rosina locking up the brothel and once she locks up no one is allowed to get in or out without the key. She was woken up by a noise and got up to check on everything. She ended up going to the second floor and saw smoke coming from her room.…

with the help of his friend he began to publish movies in Cahiers Du Cinema. In 1955, he made his first short film. His first real film was “The 400 Blows”, and he received many awards for it. He made films that were about love and emotional. Francois was also the leader of the group of the New Wave. (Truffaut, 2014.) Francois Truffaut film “The 400 Blows”, was an autobiographical film about the life of a 12 year old Parisian boy and the stages and emotions that he goes through during…

a pair of wings look like wing of crow. A boy screamed, the monster had notice them. It staring at the boys, and slowly going to them. “Throw the spear!” A boy shouts, then, the boys throw their spear to the monster. The monster swing his wing and blows away all the spears. It felt hostility, then it starts running to the boys. The boys are afraid, they start running as well, they try to escape from here. But the monster is too fast, it got them immediately. It killed the boys with its paw and…

We all hear stories about our parent’s or our grandparent’s past. Whether it was when we were little at their house, or during a holiday when there was nothing left to talk about. Some would hear stories bigger than what they would ever expect. This happened to Lindo Jong’s daughter. Who heard the story of her mother’s greatest sacrifice. A sacrifice that was made in order to keep a promise. The promise of keeping her family’s honor. Which meant to stay in an arranged marriage with a man she…