Władysław Tatarkiewicz

In the article “Why being A Perfectionist May Not Be So Perfect” by Celestine Chau, explains how you can not always be perfect. She starts the article by asking a rhetorical question “Are you a perfectionist?”. She explains in the article how individuals find themselves perfect in his or her way and how our brain keeps telling us that everything has to be perfect. We tend to tell us that being perfectionist is actually a good thing which I actually thought but as they say for every advantage there is disadvantage. Every weakness has a strength. Perfectionism is what we think is a strength but it a weakness at the same time. Chau illustrates how it is also a weakness by giving us examples of how we become less organized which is somehow reminds…

The Holocaust against the Jewish, based on two different memoir survival of Eliezer Wiesel, who write the book of night, and Wladyslaw Szpilman who write The pianist. In both memoir you can see the similitude about the Persecution they suffer during the holocaust, when they was stripped from their homes and relocate at the ghettos for the German soldiers, the families continue together until this moment, they keep the faith this nightmare will finish any sooner. Little by little they was losing…

What I am aiming to show in my essay is that humans can overcome anything if they have the right type of determination. This essay communicates a message aimed at teenagers. I am writing about this character because he shows that anyone can survive if they have what it takes. The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, presents viewers with the story of Wladyk Szpilman and his desire to survive against all odds, as he endures terrible hardship and pain. He manages to survive this terrible ordeal…

In The Pianist begins in Warsaw, Poland at the beginning of the Second World War,first introducing Wladyslaw (Wladek) Szpilman, who works as a pianist for the local radio. The Polish Army has been defeated in three weeks by the German Army and Szpilman's radio station is bombed while he plays live on the air. While evacuating the building he finds a friend of his who introduces him to his sister, Dorota. Szpilman is immediately attracted to her. Wladyslaw returns home to find his parents and…

The Pianist captures the effects of the Holocaust in a real way, making it hard emotionally to watch. I had only heard about how intense the Holocaust was, but I’d never watched a film showing the experience of it. I think the film captured the Holocaust honestly for what it was. The harsh truth was empowering and made me truly grateful for my life today. It was tough to watch the genocidal behaviors of the Nazis being applied to anyone deemed less than. I think the hardest part for me was…