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If the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were neither brainwashed nor were they killed for choosing not to shoot Jews, then the question arises: why did they do it? Rather than giving one simple answer, Browning proposes several theories as to why these normal men became killers. All of the people do not fall into the same category for “why they did what they did,” but, rather, a combination of many of the reasons best explains these men’s motives. One of the most compelling of Browning’s…

The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews, a classic musical, illustrates how music can serve as an aid to stimulate a learning experience for the children of the Von Trapps during World War II. The sound of music can also serve as a learning tool today, as most teenage students have multiple devices for listening to music. Music surrounds teenagers: “A typical student may not only have TV sets, CD players, and computers with Internet at home, they may also have cell phones...where they can listen…

More than 29.1 million people in the United States have diabetes. Diabetes is a condition in which the body does not make or correctly use the hormone insulin. Without insulin, sugar can’t get into the cells where it’s needed in the body. Instead, it stays in the blood, causing blood sugar to rise. Aside from affecting the person’s blood sugar, diabetes also can cause digestive issues, cardiovascular problems, skin and eye conditions, and nerve damage. Many people with diabetes are taking…

Hierarchies have often been dominant in the world for centuries and are still dominant in the world when it comes to business and the government. Hierarchies are used in life every day because people who are higher up usually have more power in the decisions those groups make. These hierarchies are usually prominent in the military where this type of order rules all the actions the military takes. Susan Faludi discusses how colleges that have a slightly strong association with the military (The…

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s the Common Man! On January 19th, a fire started in a mobile home in Penfield, New York and it wasn’t Superman nor Spiderman that saved the sleeping family, but a boy named Tyler Doohan. Most people, when hearing the word “hero”, think of a man with superhuman strength and a cape soaring through the air, but Tyler, merely an eight year old boy, shows that one doesn’t need superpowers to be a hero, just the capability to put the needs of others before oneself. The…

Man’s relationship to the natural world has always been a competitive one. Since the beginning of human civilization, mankind has strived to develop new technology and inventions through complex innovation but also through the use and help of nature’s resources. Every day, the human race seems to be finding new ways to consume things differently, explore unseen parts of the world, develop faster productivity, and construct radical creations; all to advance collectively as a society. It is…

The Atrocities of the Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic killing of people of Jewish culture. That does not mean that everyone else was safe. They also targeted homosexuals, the mentally ill, gypsies (people of Romanian culture) slavic people (Polish and Lithuanians) and communists. There were many people the Nazi party targeted. The word Holocaust comes from two greek words, holos (whole) and kaustos (burned) (Holocaust encyclopedia). In early 1933, the Jewish…

Using inhumane violence and public belief, the Gestapo, Green Police, and SS struck fear into the hearts of German citizens and Jews during the World War II. To understand how the Gestapo spread fear throughout Europe, one must understand the beliefs and values of a newly-formed Gestapo Soldier. As the Daily Beast explains, “Ordinary policemen were transformed into ideological zealots, trained to root out communists, homosexuals, slaves, gypsies, the work shy… and persecute them without mercy.”…

Ceecret Cummings Mrs. Trapp English III May 2016 Lessons Learned In the two stories, The Great Gatsby and A Lesson Before Dying, there are many things and concepts that could be taken from both of them. Even thought these are two different books with two different plots and topics, when looked deeper into, it can be seen that they have some of the same concepts. One thing is that they both have life lessons that should be learned from the situations that they were both put into. With these…

Sirtuins and Histone deactylases (HDACs) Eukaryotic DNA is packed in a high level structure called chromatin, resulting from the assembly of an elementary unit, the nucleosome, and an octameric structure obtained from eight proteins called histones [1]. Histone deacetylation is a reversible process whereby histone and non-histone protein transfer the acetyl moiety from acetyl co-enzyme A (CoA) to lysines while histone acetylation is the direct opposite process whereby acetyl groups are removed…