The Persian

When I first heard about this movie I thought it was some weird story about a boy who wore pajamas. I was completely wrong and I am very glad I decided to watch it. It has one of the most suspenseful endings that I have ever seen in a movie. This movie is set during World War II and is seen through the eyes of an eight year old boy named Bruno. We learn about his innocence during a time where innocent people are treated like trash. In the beginning of the film we see Bruno running around…

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). Beautiful friendship can only be received if there is understanding between each person. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is about two Jewish boys living in Brooklyn, New York, towards the end of World War II era. A disagreement between two contradicting viewpoints of the same religion about the Jewish homeland and tradition is what causes a stir of emotion that becomes the basis of…

The Jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis and robbed of hope and faith in God. The novella “Night” by Elie Wiesel begins in Seguit and continues from Auschwitz to Buchenwald during which time, Eliezer and his father, along with millions of other Jews were enslaved, tortured, starved and killed over a period of nine years. The treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust, broke their physical and mental stability and left them helpless. Hitler achieved his goal of making the Jews feel…

Marc Chagall was an artist who was not defined by his present surroundings, but one who drew directly from his rich cultural past. Chagall was an artist of Belarusian Jewish descent who spent his formative years in a small Hassidic community where he was directly inspired by the rural scenes so essential to his artistic identity. Chagall is hard to categorize into one style or movement, he borrows many visual elements of Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism. He has his own personal,…

dramatically. Items from India, China, and Iran passed easily across the Asian steppes, and these contacts culturally enriched Iran. For example, Iranians developed a new style of painting based on a unique fusion of solid, two-dimensional Mesopotamian painting with the feathery, light brush strokes and other motifs characteristic of China. After Ghazan's nephew, Abu Said, died in 1335, Iran again lapsed into petty dynasties the Salghurid, Muzaffarid, Inju, and Jalayirid, under Mongol…

characteristics that that Judaism share with the Persian religion. The first one is that both faiths view God as being omnipresent, omniscient and eternal. In the same regard, they both agree that God is the sole creator of the entire universe. The similarity extends up to the belief that God tends to operate through and use angles and arch angles to govern. Both Judaism and Persian religion believe that there is an existence of devils and demons. In Persian, the devil is given the name Ahriman…

The Persian Gulf War was the most active role for women in the military. Deploying more than 41,000 women to combat zone. With only fifteen killed and two imprisonment by Iraqi forces. The Persian Gulf War, known as also the Operation Desert Shield and Storm, called for the largest deployment for women in history as of now. The Persian Gulf War helped showed America women incredible roles in the battlefield. Broadcasting how women transported troops, supplies, commanded units, served aboard…

Throughout the centuries great societies have achieved great success and then slowly come to an end. The Persian empire and Roman republic are two great examples of that. Both of these great societies expanded their regions and fought its way through time effectively even through all their ways of achieving this was not the same. They set out conquests, trade routes, routes, and established communications between great deals of people from varying cultures. Each society was apart but in the same…

authors. This can be seen in Isaiah 45 of the Hebrew Bible, which describes Yahweh’s role in aiding the Persian Empire’s King Cyrus. This deliberate attribution of Persian victory to the Israelite God can be understood as a theological response to the Israelite’s concerns at that tumultuous time; the text’s monotheistic focus on Yahweh’s omnipotence shows that, although the Israelites are under Persian rule, they must stay faithful to their god. Isaiah 45 clearly portrays Cyrus’ successes as the…

Looking over the identity wheels and my notes from the interview, I noticed that Mr. D acknowledged certain parts of his identity much more than other parts of his identity. Mr. D is a newly opened bisexual male. He talked about this part of his identity the most throughout our conversations. He talked about how he was a target and how that made him feel. He talked about how his newly found identity was a problem for his wife and that was one of the reasons they got a divorce. How expressed some…