Alexander Schmorell's The White Rose

In the short story “the White Heron” (1886), Sarah Jewett portrays a young little girl, Sylvia, bear the temptation of money and affection from the young man with mental struggle, and resolutely determined to protect the fairy of nature – a white heron. Through describing Sylvia’s authentic emotions and using of vivid theme colors and exquisite word choice, Jewett delivers the story like showing a lifelike 19-century country-life drama in front of the readers.

As the citizens of Germany endorsed Hitler’s new cutting-edge ideas, they gained enthusiasm and determination to regain their power. Germany came to the conclusion that war was the only solution to their problem when Hitler wrote, “No nation can remove this hand from its throat except by the sword” (Document A). These words reveal that Hitler’s thoughts and opinions affected those around him. By saying this, he suggested that he understood what Germany wanted and knew that they wouldn’t get it unless they followed his methods. People who read what Hitler wrote were hugely impacted by it, so much so that they began to think with their emotions instead of their heads.

Elie Wiesel, a well known survivor of the Holocaust once said, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest” (“Elie Wiesel”). The Holocaust was an organized murdering of 6 million jews by the German Nazis and his followers. Sacrifical of fire is the meaning of the Holocaust. The White Rose is the most famous civilian resistance movement. A medical student at the University of Munich, his sister Sophie, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf, and Alexander Schmorell founded the “White Rose” movement, in 1942. Some of the members paid a terrible price for their standing against the Naiz Germans. When seeing injustice, based upon the example of The White Rose Resistance group, we

The White Rose was an organization in World War II that did not have the luxury of speaking out in public against the Third Reich. People who even spoke one bad word had some sort of punishment. These acts of treason could lead to death. This is what happened to some of the members of the White Rose (pg

In The White Scourge, Neil Foley gives detailed facts about the construction and reconstruction of whiteness and the connection of this whiteness to power, mainly on cotton culture in central Texas. Foley 's book analyzes “whiteness” through detailed analysis of race, class, and gender. What was most intriguing about this book is its comparison of whiteness on various racial groups and classes, for and how each struggled in comparison to the other in order to thrive and exist with one another. In this book, Foley shows a racial system that continues to produce both poverty material wise and poverty of where you stand racially. It is also very interesting that the system exploits not only Mexicans and Blacks, but also the poor whites who competed with them for work.

People are motivated to make a difference when they believe a change must be made and each person has their own motivation to make a change. They realize that they no longer like what is happening in the world, or even in their life, and they decide it must be changed. In A Noble Treason by Richard Hanser, Hans Scholl wants to make a difference and go up against Hitler by writing leaflets under the alias White Rose. Hans Scholl grew up in a family where his parents let him make his own choices and let him believe in whatever he wanted. They never pressured him into their choices and own beliefs. His father did not support Hitler and his beliefs, even though at the time, in Hans Scholl’s life Hitler was an incredibly prominent hero. Hans Scholl joined the Hitler Youth and fought for everything he believed was right. Hans soon realized he and Hitler did not see eye to eye on many things. Hans valued his individuality and Hitler took it from him. Hitler took away all creativity he personally found ugly and forced upon everyone what he thought was beauty. The leaflets Hans Scholl had written was his way of making a difference by bringing forward what the people of Germany may not have noticed was the reality of Hitler's actions. Hans Scholl’s motivation to make a difference was the fact that Hitler put limitations on everything, the more Hans Scholl wanted to learn, the more he was unable to do so, and this caused him to feel that he no longer had his freedom to be an individual.

“Keep Memory Alive” is an award acceptance speech delivered by Elie Wiesel. The speaker recalled the events and personal experiences during the unfortunate and penetrating event known as the Holocaust. Wiesel gave an example of a little young boy asking his father: “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” (Wiesel, 544). That young boy turns out to be Wiesel. Wiesel proceeds to emphasize his belief that everyone should remember the significant events in history and learn to speak up when necessary. Therefore, it is important to commemorate history in order to prevent society from becoming ignorant and often times, repeating identical mistakes as our ancestors did.

Crime is often found in every society. Why? Crime/deviance can be an indication that an area needs attention. Also, it can bring about solidarity or confinement in a community. The “Devil in the White City” shows, that where there is good, there is also evil. Daniel Burnham portrayed the good. He brought dignity and positivity to Chicago, by building the World’s Fair at a point in time when the United States was in an economic depression. Crime was not Burnham’s thing. He used his knowledge to make Chicago a better place, and also had tremendous respect for authority. The World’s Fair brought in thousands of tourists, and revenue into the country. Holmes on the other hand, was the total opposite to Burnham. He was the devil himself. Holmes used his intelligence to charm, manipulate, and kill people for fun. With the presence of the World’s Fair, Holmes used it as a way to lure people into his maze, the castle that he built to kill them. He believed that he was born a serial killer, and everything that he does was for his benefit and no one else around him. Holmes loved the idea of committing crimes and getting away with it. Rules nor regulation, didn’t apply to Holmes because of his mental state.

The book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, tells the story of a slave girl named Linda Brent who fought many mental and physical battles throughout her life in order to oppose the system of slavery. This autobiography was written by Harriet Jacobs, known in the book as Linda Brent, and uses a multitude of psuedonyms in order to conceal the identity of those within the book. Harriet Jacobs had succeeded in putting forth a new, unconventional slave narrative that depicted the emotional and mental anguish slave women were subjected to on a daily basis. Through sexual victimization by their masters and the ever-present maternal fear of losing their children to the slave trade, slavery was a far more terrible fate for women than for men. Throughout her twenty-seven year life of being a slave, Harriet Jacobs attempted to defy the idea and social structure of slavery at every turn.

Throughout these acts of indifference, there are acts of resistance trying to end indifference for the greater good. In between WWI and WWII, “many were beaten and killed for speaking out against Nazism.” (A Teacher's). Although these consequences were in effect, many groups of people would rise against them and provide food for the people living in the ghettos, publish underground newspapers that spoke out against the Nazis, and provide illegal radio broadcasts of the events occurring. With these efforts of resistance occurring, many individuals stood out while helping others such as Dr. Janusz Korczak; In particular, when his orphanage was having children taken away to concentration camps, he decided to go along with them instead of staying behind and leaving the children to fend for themselves. Instead of being indifferent, Korczak decides to risk his life in order to help these children during their struggle. Wiesel claims “Society was composed of three simple categories: the killers, the victims, and the bystanders.” (par14). How did people during these “darkest of times” serve these roles and how could they have been changed? Wiesel

The Heavy Burden of Solitude William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" are short stories that at a first glance have nothing common with each other. The story "A Rose for Emily" starts with the death of the main character, then goes back to describing her life. Faulkner changes the sequence of events to keep the suspense until the end and put accents for greater impact on the reader and for the transmissions of thought. In "A Worn Path" a reader again should wait until the end to see why an old black woman takes a dangerous journey through the forest to the town at Christmas times. The narrator gives a hint: probably she wants to see the Santa Claus, she wants a miracle.

Female misogyny in the workplace is the phenomenon of intra-gender misogyny amongst women. These negative relationships within the female gender have been found to exist empirically and anecdotally between women on the same level, directed upwards within and organization and directed downwards from management to junior levels or potential employees (Mavin, 2006a; Sheppard & Aquino, 2014; Ely, 1994).

Madness is a common theme in many works of literature from the Elizabethan era. It is often confused with the work of the devil or love sickness. Due to the combination of widely accepted religious beliefs and the lack of understanding of mental illness, Hamlet’s madness is a defining factor in the storyline of William Shakespeare’s renowned play Hamlet. The theme of madness is first introduced in Act I. Early on in the play, the tragic nature of Hamlet’s character becomes more and more apparent. This is first presented in one of Hamlet’s soliloquys in scene 2, “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,/ Or that the/ Everlasting had not fixed/

When I read Meno and how Plato talks about virtue being different for different people. I agree with his statement to a certain degree, according to Oxford Dictionaries virtue means “a quality considered morally good or desirable in a person.” I can see why Plato would say that virtue is different based on a person’s quality to be taught. But for him to say that it is different for a man and a woman I do not agree with this statement. Plato is making virtue being different due to gender. But either person, male or a female have a biological state or disposition obtaining virtue. I think that virtue is different for some people due to learned behavior in their upbringing. A person can acquire virtue by the values and morals being taught or a sense of behavior, and habits are being formed whether they are good, bad, right or wrong as children. Many of us have formulated our views based on what we have heard, seen, or were taught to believe. I feel that Social class and culture has a great deal to do with some of the displaced morals and values such as ethical subjectivism according to Jean Jacques Rousseau “what a person feels is right is right, and what a person feel is wrong is wrong” (rousseau p.223). In the article on Ethical Subjectivism written by Jean Jacques Rousseau stating that each person determines what is morally right. She gives an example of Emily and Jorge; Jorge steals Emily’s lap top and he feel as though it is okay due to the fact that his lap top