It Is Important To Keep Alive By Sean Lang

During the Holocaust Hitler used guns but in time he included gas chambers because they were more efficient and had a quicker impact on killing the Jews. The rivers and streams ran red with blood where the shooting had taken place. The living conditions for the Jews, were unbelievable, Germans began transporting Jews and others to the concentration camps and death camps in Poland. The first gassing was on the 17 march 1942, the death of the people inside the chambers occurred just after a few minutes as the result of internal suffocation caused by the gas. In order to ensure that no one remained alive, the gas chamber was not opened until half an hour had elapsed. The concentration camps provided an ideal location for executions, The concentration camps were

Sobibor: 250,000 dead. Majdanek: more than a million. Auschwitz: two million. Never in the history of humankind – whose bloodstained history is full of the most horrendous crimes – had so many people been murdered in such small areas in such a short time” (Wiesel, 30). Martin Kitchen said, “Then, on 27 November 1944, Himmler ordered an end to the mass murder of the European Jews and the destruction of the gas chambers and crematoria.

Those who were murdered upon arrival at Auschwitz were for the most part composed of the elderly, ill, women, and children. Most of these people were rounded up from over crowded Jewish ghettos through out Europe. The Lodz, Warsaw, and Krakow ghettos alone held roughly 700,000 thousand Jews. Every day deportations to concentration camps and other ghettos, and random murders took place. Major food shortages emerged within the ghettos alongside epidemics, and people were dropping dead of hunger and disease in the streets. SS Sturmbanfuhrer Hoppner proposed a more humane way of exterminating Jews, rather than letting them starve to death he had gas vans in mind. The vans were tested north of the Lodz ghetto in Chelmno, and they had proved to be an effective and humane way of extermination. These mobile killing units are estimated to have killed 150,000 Jews.

“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor introduces two morally flawed characters. There is Mr. Shiflet who claims to be a man of “moral intelligence”, yet reveals himself to be amoral through his actions. Then there is Mrs. Crater, a mother who acts through selfishness. Though both of these characters have their flaws, Mrs. Crater is the worst person due to her actions regarding her daughter. Mrs. Crater’s obsessiveness and selfishness caused her to lose the most important person in her life.

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther was an astounding book. Granted, it was a bit depressing, but it was a great book because I could relate so closely to the author. The trial of a loved one going through cancer is something I can relate to. Fortunately, my story turns out a little bit better than Johnny’s did.

New statistics shows that the Nazi Holocaust may have kill as many as 20 millions lives. To this day, the Holocaust is thought to have absorbed between five and six million Jews, with an estimated of five million other people also murdered by the Nazi. Amazingly most of the Jews who were in the concentration camps survived and are still alive. Each Holocaust survivor has their own rare and personal story about their experience during those times, and many people are willing to hear these survivor's story and many are amazed by it. This is another reason why the Holocaust will remain a monumental as a historic

To live deliberately is to study one’s self, and live with purpose and intention. Living deliberately means living consciously, we should attempt to learn everything possible from our environment and the people around us. Living deliberately is the opposite of living passively. One must realize they have the choice to do as they please at any given moment and must not live out of habit. Making active decisions is a key defining point of living deliberately. Into the Wild’s Chris McCandless lived deliberately by living on the edge of society, gaining new knowledge from nature and the people around him, and fulfilling his overall purpose with a simple life.

All throughout America, high schools have a set academic structure that guide students in learning the path of our literature. One of the literature techniques that students are taught to learn is dark romanticism. Flannery O’Conner attempted to copy the novel, “The Devil in Tom Walker”. O’Connor set a great example of dark romanticism by writing “The Life Your Save May Be Your Own” due to the desolate locations, the hidden symbols, and the deaths by murder or madness.

In Robert Cormier’s novel, We All Fall Down, is a young-adult thriller that explores the evil side of humanity through a number of corrupt characters. Cormier, to a large extent, accurately depicts manipulative and dishonest behaviour whilst also showing the evil lurking within the prominent characters of Harry Flowers, Buddy Walker and Mickey Stallings who showcase the dark side of humanity. Cormier explores this through Harry Flower’s manipulative actions that result in the suffering of others. Additionally, the constant dishonest behaviour is shown predominantly through the main protagonist of Buddy Walker, who deceives the one he loves. Cormier continues to depict the evil lurking in society through the theme of appearance

This quote is said by John Proctor and he makes quite a good point. The church officials should know that some of the people will swear to anything just so they will not die. I agree to what John is saying. There are so many people who would go against their will to stay alive. They would swear to anything if they knew that by doing that they would not get hung. I personally would want to keep on living. A great example was Tituba. She confessed to witchcraft like she was told, and she also went along to saying that she swears to be on God’s side when she most likely is not. People would generally do whatever possible to stay alive. Even if it means to go against what they believe in.

John Lubbock wrote, "Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it." This is a great opinion, but I also have an opinion of my own. I personally feel that experiences shape you into who you are. Every situation you go through impacts your life in many different ways. One small decision can change your life forever.

The Value Of Life Valuing life is something we are told often. However, can you really put a price on a human life? Money has been a priority to most people, even after one's passing. Life insurance can be bought by families and compensate a fund. Also, having a job is key to recieving money; but inevitably most employees rather not be at their current workplace.

“What is equality?” one might ask. We all have different views on specific topics and can describe what something truly means to one’s self like in the 3 text, “I have a dream,” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (published; 8/28/1963, genre; narrative and argumentative), “If we must die,” by Claude Mckay (published; 1919, genre; narrative and lyric), & “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (published; October 1961, genre; satirical & dystopian science-fiction short story). In all 3 texts the authors are giving their touch on equality. Equality can convey being treated the same when a colored and a white man/woman are next to each other as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr says. You can also see equality as Mckay who thinks it’s being on the same level of strength and worth as a white man being in the shoes of a colored man. Or equality can be being exactly the same in every way as anyone around you in every exact way in Vonnegut’s eyes. All these 3 authors have a particular view on how to answer “What is equality?” and we can compare their ideas.

Sorry for the Loss The story, ”Sorry for the Loss” is a short story written by Bridgett Keehan in 2008. Keehan’s short story introduces the readers into a situation where a chaplain named Evie has a task to deliver a bad news for a prisoner named Victor Zamora. The bad news is about the Victor’s grandmother’s death, and without knowing much information about Victor’s past, she judges him, with his prisoner background. Because of the prejudice Evie had towards Victor she starts to prepare herself mentally to the encounter with Victor, however later in the story Evie realizes that Victor is more different than she expected him to be. Evie is the main protagonist in this short story and the story follows Evie in form of a third person-limited narrator and the readers has the ability to read what Evie is thinking.

Live your life to its fullest, if I had to mention one thing I learned from Mary Oliver 's beautiful poem, "When Death Comes", that would be it. Specifically not letting time pass you by, or letting things like anxiety or anger control your life. The comparisons to death also help with understanding the magnitude of our mortality, and the importance of not taking each and every day for granted. With many fitting and unique metaphors I found it easy to be engaged with the poem. This leads also to a lot of relevant and surprising imagery, employing a more detailed vantage point for the reader. In "When Death Comes", Mary Oliver uses persona, metaphor, and imagery to speak not only of death, but more specifically living life to its fullest before death.