On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This would spark the start of WW2, a war between the Axis powers and the Allies. The Axis powers consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan, while the Allies consisted of France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. By the end of WW2, “40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history.” (Britannica).
By 1910, women were not quite equal to men, but they were drawing near. Those that believed the sexes deserved equality continued to fight – men and women
Trauma’s Effect on Identity Life experiences such as trauma shape and reshape people into their individual identities. Things such as faith, mannerisms, and general world views are all affected by a unique human experience on earth. This development of an individual is unveiled in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. Through this novel, he details his experience in a concentration camp during WWII and thoroughly showcases how such agonizing life events affected him, which he usually describes through metaphorical light and dark and his development/loss of faith through this part of his life. In later speeches Eliezer makes, he explains his opinions on indifference in our world as worse than evil and some basic research of trauma responses in humans
Whoever knew how difficult love can be. Love changes like the season. Summer and Spring are your happy moments. Winter and Fall are the bad moments. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston shows how quick and easy love changes overtime.
One major theme authors universally write their stories around concern the power of human relationships. Though writers may take different paths to communicate this, the strength that comes from these unique connections that exist between individuals resonates with everyone. Authors clearly articulate through a myriad of rhetorical devices that maintaining relationships is a fundamental part in personal growth and allows for a stronger sense of self. In finding companionship and comradery. people become capable of evolving and arriving at better understandings of who they are.
What do you think about the holocaust? I think it's a time to remember because of all the terrible things that happened. The holocaust is a time to remember because of all the terrible things that happened to families and you can represent it by showing peace. What is your opinion about this quote, “A prepertrater is not the most dangerous enemy. The most dangerous part is the bystander because neutrality always helps the killer.”
How could one treat an innocent child so cruel? During the time of the genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million people from the Jewish population, children were the main target. By looking at the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, one can see through the use of imagery, diction and conflict that innocent children were starved abused separated from their family,and killed during the Holocaust, which is important because young innocent children should never have to be deprived of their childhood. First, children of the Holocaust were abused or beaten for any wrong move that they made or even attempted to make.
Children are taught by their parents how to behave. Child poem author Shel Silverstein writes about children in several books and poems. In each poem she focuses on a different child setting and conflict. In one poem Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out, she tells the story of a little girl who lacks respect for her parents. Silverstein’s children’s book, Where the Sidewalk Ends is a shining example of the awful, unhealthy message she gives to children because it teaches disrespect, shows children behaving badly, and makes parents look like idiots.
The book I read was Refugee. Refugee was about three family's hometown who was transformed into a war zone. All the conditions cause them to flee their home, to try and find a safer place for them to live. Joseph was a character that stuck out to me in the book. Joseph was a Jew whose house was invaded by Nazi soldiers.
Females go through their whole lives without being noticed of what they do or did for men because they were and may still be seen as just a “keeper.” Woman stopped being known as the “Keeper” because in 1960, Betty Friedan fought back and females everywhere joined in to fight the oppression and the idea roles they were suppose to portray as housewives and
In the novel, The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, the main character tells the readers the story of her life as she deceives others by hiding who she truly is from them. However, Esther’s “lies” make her more trustworthy because she admits to the readers that she is shocked with the truthfulness of her statement. When Jay Cee pulls her aside and asks her what she plans on doing with her life, Esther, as usual, responds with very one-sided answers containing a “hollow flatness” (Chapter 3, pg. 32). Then, without thinking, Esther goes on a tangent about how she believed that she would get a scholarship to study in Europe and then become a professor, admitting that she usually “had these plans on the tip of [her] tongue” (Chapter 3 pg. 32). She does
Political activist, Lillian Hellman once said, “For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.” People have to fight for their freedom even today. Not everyone has the same opinion, but everyone does have that responsibility. Saying, everyday people are just bystanders. Being a bystander doesn’t make the world 's opinion and stereotypes change in any way possible.
The movie “ The long walk Home ” provided the viewer with multiple major characters that seemed to be courageous, like Odessa who stood up for herself in the face of a white dominated society. Although, as courageous as Odessa was, she did fail to outmatch Miriam as the most courageous character in the movie because Miriam was able to not only defend herself but defend others as well, she also breaks stereotypical ideas of woman in 1955, as well as remain unfearful throughout the movie. For example, as explained before Miriam Thompson broke through stereotypical ideas that were held over woman. These stereotypical ideas were that a woman should stay home, take care of the kids, clean up, as well as treat her husband well by making him breakfast and tending to him after a long day of work.
Gender Inequality: A Woman’s Struggle in “The Yellow Wallpaper” In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman captures the lives of women in a society based on societal expectations during the late nineteenth century. She focuses on the issue of gender inequality where women were often discriminated against and expected to fulfill the role of a perfect wife and mother. The narrator is based on on Gilman’s personal experience of suffering from her treatment for postpartum depression due to the social restrictions on women which represents a reflection on women's social status in society. The narrator, who remains anonymous, is depicted as a depressed and isolated prisoner who is oppressed under her husband’s control and struggles to break free.
In the novel, The Bell Jar, the protagonist Esther Greenwood, struggles to reach her own personal goals in a male-dominant society. The main character, Esther was expected to marry a man to become a housewife that will clean the house, support him, and nurture him. Esther has always nurtured her goals of her own and has never wanted to simply help a husband. In the novel, The Bell Jar, Mrs. Willard educates his son Buddy the way society views femininity and the roles of women. As Mrs. Willard explains to Buddy, “What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is the place the arrow shoots off from” (Plath 67).
