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Emeline Michel is an accomplished international singer, songwriter, composer and last but definitely not least an amazing dancer, born in 1966 in Gonaives, a city in Northern Haiti. Not unlike many successful singers, before fame, Emeline Michel used to sing at the choir of her uncle church in Gonaives. She left her hometown to pursue her secondary education in Port-au-Prince, almost immediately after moving to the capital, Emeline Michel was discovered and within a couple of months she released her first single, Akai Kao; the song catchy tunes made it an instant international smashing hit, all while still in high

Writer, Elie Wiesel in his metaphorical speech “The perils of Indifference” argues that the future will never know the agony of the Holocaust and they will never understand the tragedy of the horrific terror in Germany. Wiesel wants people to not let this happen but at the time many modern genocides that are occurring and people shouldn’t be focused on just the Holocaust, they should focus on making this world a better place; moreover, Wiesel expresses his thoughts about all the genocides that has happen throughout the years. He develops his message through in an horrifying event that took place 54 years ago the day “ The perils of Indifference” was published. Wiesel illustrates the indifferences of good vs evil. He develops this message

In The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi presents his arguments on the benefits and problems of assimilation of the colonized. According to Memmi, bilingualism of the colonized is a benefit and a problem for the colonized. In addition, he illustrates how self-rejection, self-hate, and shame are problems of assimilation by the colonized. After providing evidence of Memmi’s arguments, I will analyze whether the arguments he provides on the answer of assimilation in his book still hold up in modern society. Although Memmi provides pros and cons to assimilation being the answer to colonization, there really is no benefit if it means that suffering is the root cause of one choosing to assimilate to the oppressors.

He was finally free, no joy filled his heart but abandonment was drowning it. How dangerous is indifference to humankind as it pertains to suffering and the need for conscience understanding when people are faced with unjust behaviors? Elie Wiesel is an award winning author and novelist who has endured and survived hardships. One of the darkest times in history, a massacre of over six million Jews, the Holocaust and Hitler himself. After the Holocaust he went on and wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir “Night,” in which he spoke out against persecution and injustice across the world. In the compassionate yet pleading speech, ¨Perils of Indifference,¨ Elie Wiesel analyzes the injustices that himself and others endured during the twentieth century, as well as the hellish acts of the Holocaust through effective rhetorical choices.

Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate all the Brutes” explores the idea that genocides have been deeply rooted in European thinking over the last century. It is written in the form of a travel dairy and a historical examination of European racism over the past two centuries. Lindqvist argues that the harrowing racism that led to the Holocaust in the twentieth century had its roots in European colonial policy of the preceding century. The act of genocide itself is not a new one. When we think of genocide today we think Rwanda and the Holocaust. Genocides have been validated by the idea of racial superiority, colonial expansion and imperialism. The most civilized of men are capable of the most brutal acts.

Gruwell taught her class about the Holocaust, the genocide of Jews. While learning about this major event in class the students were able to see how another person’s hatred affected someone’s life. They saw that many of the victims did not survive and were killed simply because of their race. This drew a parallel for the students to see how their hatred and violence against each other was senseless. In the same way Hitler killed Jews because of their race, they were killing each other. From learning about the Holocaust the students were able to step outside from their own personal norms, and examine a situation from a new or different

Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his formal speech,”The Perils of Indifference,” asserts that indifference has causes all tragedy in the past, present, and will continue to terrorize humanity in the future if we do not stop it. He develops his message through examples of what indifference specifically causes. Any wars or serious events like Kennedy’s assassination, WW I&II, etc. He describes these as “failures” that “cast” a “dark shadow” over “humanity” (par. 5). Also, Wiesel shares personal anecdotes in order to give his specific point of view at the scene of something like the Holocaust. His story with the “Muselmanner” illustrates that these prisoners were left to die in the corner of buildings and they eventually “stared vacantly into space” and they were “dead” but “they did not know it.” Ultimately, he ends with his prospects of the future. He hopes that humans abolish indifference for the sake of their own humanity. Wiesel’s purpose is to ultimately warn his audience into stopping the progression of indifference in order to stop the growth of foreign and domestic hostility. He establishes a serious tone for readers by using stylistic devices and rhetorical devices such as repetition, pathos, and rhetorical questions in order to develop his message that the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

In The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi’s essential argument is that the collapse of colonialism is inevitable. According to Memmi, there are only two answers for the colonized to disrupt the system of oppression. The two possible “solutions” are assimilation and revolt. In response to the marginalization of the colonized, both answers carry a high price. In Memmi’s eyes, neither will work in the end. The first of two answers on the road to collapsing colonization is assimilation. Imitation and compromise are not the answer to decolonizing, for neither the colonized nor the colonizer.

The authors bias opinions are backed up with facts and states that ¨Many of the worst abuses-of land, forests, animals, and communities-have been carried out by ´people who root themselves in ideas rather than opinions´.¨ As a result, he has effectively build his argument to state the migration of individuals can harm rather than subdue our environment. The author, then goes into Rushdie claim that ¨Migrants must, of necessity, make a new imaginative relationship with the world, because of the loss of familiar habitats.¨ This counterexample, in response to Rushdie claim through syntax and backing up his own previous statement, allows the reader to ponder on how can we create a new relationship with the environment, when we keep moving to new territory and doing the same actions there. Hence, why the author gave a prime example of the ¨Dust Bowl¨ and the ¨Spaniards moving into the New World.¨ Plus, the bringing up of the diseases brought by the colonist, shows that the author has thoroughly contemplated on the topics of humanity and our actions.

No matter how many times history repeats itself, people still have the tendency to not learn from their mistakes. This statement is relevant when discussing the topic of genocide. When a person hears the word genocide they think of the Holocaust. But really there are multiple genocides with at least an equal to greater impact on the world today. Most people don't even know what the most devastating genocide wads. It was the Native American Genocide. Another example of deadly genocides is the Cambodian Genocide. This was an attempt to form an utopian society. More so it was a ethnic cleansing of the entire Cambodian population. This essay will compare and Contrast the Native American Genocide to the deadly Cambodian Genocide.

Although the world continues to face tragedy, little compares to that of the horrors millions of innocent Jews like Elie Wiesel faced, as they were deported from their homes, separated from their families and pushed around into different concentration camps where they were brutally tortured, killed, and discarded of by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany Army beginning in 1941. It wasn’t until April of 1945 that Elie along with the limited number of other survivors were finally liberated. This mid 20th century atrocity has come to be known as the Holocaust, a tragic part of history that will never be forgotten. It was because of that experience, that Elie Wiesel extensively depicted the events he faced through written and verbal accounts including the speech he gave entitled “The Perils of Indifference” on April 12, 1999. The speech was given at the 7th Millennium Evening at the White House, with an intent to create a kairotic moment with the public including the audiences it was broadcasted to, as an opportunity to explain a darker side of history, while also hopefully enlightening them for the future.

In his autobiography Night and in his article “How Can We Understand Their Hatred?,” Elie Wiesel claims that indifference is the primary catalyst of fanaticism and therefore terrorism. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, has been the voice of millions of Jews who had also experienced the Holocaust first hand. Wiesel wrote Night to educate others of the problems caused by indifference and fanaticism during his childhood. In Night, Wiesel recalls Jews as lesser beings to the German Nazis because they looked at the Jews with utter contempt. In the article “How Can We Understand Their Hatred?,” Wiesel compares the terrorists responsible for 9/11 to the Nazis, as they were both unconcerned of the victims’ well-being, a direct result of indifference. Through his works, Wiesel hopes that readers never forget the harsh times of fanatic influences as it unites humanity to see one common belief: fanaticism must be abolished. Indifference always emboldens the tormentor and never the victims, so to overcome fanaticism, we must not succumb to indifference by educating ourselves.

Where as Mexico and Mexicans are described in another light with references to a holocaust and “violent and traumatic.” Spaniards were “brutal and callous,” and Spanish law a “chaotic jumble” (7, 10, 13).

Because the genocide was, “conducted in ethnic terms” (Jones, pg. 16), I pray to God that I Immaculee can teach you my greatest gift to love your enemies for they are you.

It is no wonder that how advanced the world may be, there are still a number of human beings, who struggle a lot for their survival; These are the human beings, who are pushed to the margins for the reasons unknown to them, these are the human beings, who are denied a secured place in the world for the mistakes which are not committed by them. These are marginalized people and just like them, their history too is marginalized. Being neglected by the mainstream history, this marginalized history, sometimes has to transform itself and settle in fiction in order to come into light.