Jerzy Kosinski

The modern world is rapidly changing. Events occur and often time’s only one side of the story gets told. But to every event there are multiple way to view it. Take the history of the United States of America for example. In Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s book A Patriot’s History of the United States, the United States is viewed in a positive light. It tells the facts about the United States in a strait forward manner. However in Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States, the United States is generally viewed in a negative light. Zinn highlights how the country has caused problems while rarely admitting that in fact the United States has done more good for the world than harm. While both books are inherently biased based

paced. This trait is important to Sergei’s character because it shows that Sergei’s character is

In 1937, Kolbe became terribly ill and decided to return to his native Poland. Two years

Greater than any war, plague, or catastrophe and it’s potential damage to human life is beyond calculation, the feeling of dehumanization is a feeling beyond description. Elie Wiesel a Jew Holocaust survivor from Sighet, Transylvania writes a memoir Night. In his memoir he writes about his own experiences in 1944 during the holocaust. Throughout this story Elie goes through lots of challenges that ultimately challenge his faith as a human. In resemblance, Jakob Blankitny a Jew from Maków Mazowiecki, Poland writes his take on his experiences in 1944 throughout the holocaust and how he and his family are treated by the Nazis and degraded as humans. In dire circumstances, these texts argue that dissolving one into a primitive with savage, animal characteristics are necessary for survival under inhumane conditions.

Wladyslaw Szpilman was a pianist for a radio station during the beginning of the Second World War in the Fall of 1939. Living in Warsaw at the time, it only took a few weeks until the German forces took full control over the city. Szpilman and his family decide to stay in Warsaw after hearing that the Allied forces (Great Britain) were joining the war against Germany. From that point on the conditions for Jews exponentially deteriorate, suffering caused by both the German forces and the Polish people. Under the Nazi regime, the Jewish people are exposed to many injustices. Polish businesses that once welcomed all, now strictly disallowed the Jewish people. As well as instances of German forces bullying the jewish community, Szpilman’s father was struck in the face by and German officer and told that he was forbidden to walk on the sidewalk. The Nazi control over Warsaw was the start to the horrors of the holocaust, caused by both the assault of the German forces and the acts of the Polish people under the Nazi

The first act is about how the Russians are amazed by a rumor that caused everyone to believe that Anastasia may have survived the Bolshevik attacks that had killed her entire family. Two wanted con men, Dimitri and Vlad Popov, hear the rumors and decide to do “the biggest con in history”, in which they will find a girl to portray as Anastasia in order to win the reward from the Dowager Empress, Anastasia’s grandmother. Dimitri and Vlad, hold auditions which turned unsuccessful for their plan at the theater in the abandoned Yusupov Palace, where Anastasia’s family had lived. After they had finished and lost all hope, a young woman named Anya approaches them to ask Dimitri about paperwork so she can get tickets for Paris. Vlad and Dimitri dismiss

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools is an intense expose of unjust conditions in educating America’s children. Today’s society of living conditions, poverty, income, desegregation and political issues have forced inadequate education to many children across the country. Kozol discusses major reasons for discrepancies in schools: disparities of property taxes, racism and the conflict between state and local control. Kozol traveled to public schools researching conditions and the level of education in each school. He spoke with teachers, students, principals, superintendents and government officials to portray a clear picture of the

The first man to lose faith and hope was Stein of Antwerp. He survived the concentration camps because of his hope he would get to see his family again. Stein was a family member that had heard about a transport and waited to see if Wiesel and his father had news about his wife and boys. Wiesel knew his mother hasn’t received a single letter since 1940, yet he lied and said, “Yes, my mother’s had news from your family. Reizel is very well. The children too. . . ” (41). Stein would often tell Wiesel’s father to take care of his son that need to eat and get strong so he wouldn’t get picked for selection. Three weeks later Stein had received word about a transport from Antwerp that had just came in. Stein figured they would have news about his wife and children. Stein went off and that was the last time anyone seen him, he must have received real bad news (42).

Nechama Tec’s autobiography Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood tells the narrative of her experiences as a young Jewish girl in Nazi occupied Poland during the second World War. Nechama was able to survive, and protect her family, through the Holocaust by hiding her true identity and pretending to be Polish. She was able to do this because of her blond hair, light skin, blue eyes, and ability to speak unaccented Polish, which made her physically indistinguishable from an “Aryan” child. Nechama Tec’s story emphasizes the themes of identity, cultural assimilation, and passing, both socially and physically, as something that you are not, while also attempting to convey the entirely contradictory, hypocritical,

The person I reached was Arek harsh. He was born in Poland in 1929. He was the son of a carpenter, But his father would make boats for the army as well. His family consisted of his mother Father and Four siblings including him. He was the youngest of his three brothers. When the Germans attacked his family was forced to move in with some relatives in Lodz. It took them three days to get to their destination. Arek said “ I could remember the German motorbikes, tanks, and planes.

"The construction of Manchevski's story is intended to demonstrate the futility of ancient hatreds. There are a few moments in the film in which hatred of others is greater than love of one's own. Imagine a culture where a man would rather kill his daughter than allow her to love a man from another culture, and one will have an idea of the depth of bitterness in this film, the insane lengths to which men can be driven by belief and prejudice" ( Ebert 3).

Wislawa Szymborska's "The Kindness of the Blind" describes the challenge of reading a poem to a blind person. The poet is not the speaker, but the speaker knows what the poet is thinking as he reads the poem, allowing the reader to understand the poet's emotions. Initially, the poet is surprised by his own anxiety over reading the poem; he "did not suspect it was so hard" to read to a blind person (2). He is conscious of his own apprehension, and the speaker notes that "his voice is breaking/his hands are shaking"(3-4). The reader is left wondering why the poet is so nervous, and the speaker explains the source of the apprehension in line 5. Because his audience is a blind man, the poet feels that "here each sentence is put to the test of the dark" (5-6). He cannot rely on outside scenes or the listener's own mental images to enhance his writing; it is laid bare in front of him, causing him to critique his own

Mass media plays a great part in our lives. Television, newspapers, magazines surround us everywhere every day of our lives. All of them are stuck with different kinds of ads. But how often do we pay attention to the real sense of those ads and the ways the advertisers try to sell various products to us? We see dissoluteness and challenging behavior every day in life and we got so used to it in, at first sight, such small pieces of film, and apparently of our day routine, as advertisement, that we hardly notice the big picture. For over twenty years, Jean Kilbourne has been writing, lecturing, and making films about how advertising affects women and girls. In her essay, "‘The Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt':

The story of Jelena and Domir Dokic is quite an intriguing and extraordinary story as it was quite an unhealthy relationship between a famous tennis player- Jelena Dokic and her father; Domir Dokic with Jelena being the victim and Domir being the perpetrator. Jelena did not tell anyone at first but she eventually told authorities, which showed her character strengths such as courage and bravery. When Jelena was just 11 years old she was often would get whipped with a belt and was called a “slut” and a “whore” by her father, Domir, which is absolutely unacceptable to say and do this to anyone let alone his 11 daughter, this could get him in jail if Jelena was to tell anyone! When Jelena was 16 years old and reached the semi-final of the Wimbledon

Giovanni Palestrina was an Italian composer who was born in Palestrina, near Rome. Giovanni was born on February 3, 1525 and died February 2, 1594. He studied with Robin Mallapert and Firmin Label. Giovanni went to school at St. Maria Maggiore. He spend most of his job in the city. Giovanni was influenced by the Northern European style of polyphony. He played organ for his church that he was deeply into.