Essay Night

Not only were Jewish prisoners treated like animals the Nazi’s also vocally told them how worthless they were. The Jews were told that they were going to be treated like animals by the Nazi’s. For example, while the eighty imprisoned Jews

The guards were responsible for medical help and starvation. The survival time span in less than two months. They were forced to work on hitler's underground. They didn't feed the prisoners during the winter.

Writing has many tools and devices that can be used to influence the purpose and meaning of the a piece of work. In the two pieces of work, "Private License Plate Scanners Amassing Vast Databases Open to Highest Bidders-which is written in a way that it is anti-license plate tracking- and "Who Has the Right to Track You?'-which is written to be for license plate tracking- many different tools and devices are used by the authors. These pieces of work describe the benefits and drawbacks of collecting data and tracking fellow citizens, but use different forms of pathos, ethos, and logos to portray what they are trying to say. Also, both articles state how many are opposed to this tracking, arguing that it is against the First Amendment,

It was February 23, 1939 Austria a young adult was taken away from his home and his casual day to day life. The second world war. Was taking place. We were swarmed into the streets and being taken out. People in confusion as to why these German soldiers are constantly yelling at us

The Concentration camps had very bad living conditions. The prisoners would wear the same pair of clothing for week or months on end. The clothing could not protect them from the weather during the roll call or work. When it was time for the prisoners to eat the Kapo would sometimes drop there bread in the mud and give it to them anyways. The bread they got in the morning was the only

When the Jewish first arrived to the camp, (tired, dirty, hungry, and thirsty from the train ride), they were immediately split into two separate groups men on one side and women and children on the other. After they were brutally separated from their families all of their personal belongings were taken away, and they were tested to see who could work and who was at this point, too weak. The weak workers were either shot or put into a gas chamber, while the strong workers moved on in the process. After tested for strength and endurance their heads were shaved (both men and women) and they got a number tattooed on there arm, to show what number prisoner they were. When that was over they6 were sent to the barracks, these were wooden or brick shacks full of 3 tiered bunks meant to comfortably hold 100-200 people. However there was an average of 700-800 people per barrack, or even more. The Jewish were fed 3 times a day, but it was a thin soup made of water and vegetable scraps (rotten bits, ends of vegetables, skins etc.) and bread made out of sawdust. Also the “prisoners” were forced to do grueling work such as carrying heavy bricks up a mountain or even collecting the dead bodies of their fellow religion, if they failed to do this work correctly or efficiently they would be beaten, shot, or gassed. By the end of the Holocaust, over 6 million Jewish people and 5 million

All contact outside of the camp was forbidden. So, no one could talk to any friends or family outside of the camps. Starving was another way the Nazis killed the prisoners. The prisoners had the most revolting food. Some of the food they got was rotten. For breakfast they got 10 oz. of plain bread, a piece of salami, and a cup of bland coffee. For lunch the prisoners got plain soup with carrots. For supper they got 10 oz. of bread, rotten salami, or rotten cheese. Starvation was the second cause of death, some prisoners would wake up finding the people on their bunk dead.

Since Auschwitz-Birkenau was only one of the many Nazi concentration camps that was built to imprison Jews, it is clear that tens of millions of Jews were put in these concentration camps (mostly European Jews). Jewish prisoners in the Auschwitz facility "were crammed [by the hundreds] into tiny horse stables, which were overrun with vermin. Toilets and washing facilities were inadequate [at these concentration camps] and prisoners were given very little time to use them. [These imprisoned Jews] were fed with small rations providing about 1,300 calories a day for prisoners and 1,700 calories a day for laborers. [These] prisoners and laborers in the camps were subject to arbitrary punishment at the whim of the SS guards at all times and could be tortured or executed without notice and for any reason" (Auschwitz). In addition to this, Jewish prisoners were also brutally treated along the way to these concentration camps. “In most cases prisoners traveled for days with nothing to eat or drink and without any toilet facilities and many died on the journey” (Auschwitz). Although these were clearly vile and inhumane acts which were taken against the Jews, “the reception of these policies was mixed. Some nations (Poland, for example) willingly gave their Jews to the Schutzstaffeln (SS). Other countries, like Denmark, resisted handing over Danish citizens to be murdered by the Nazis. France was mixed in its reaction. The Vichy government gladly handed over any foreign Jews residing in France, but was hesitant to deport Jewish French citizens“

Regardless of who was healthy or not fasting is not supposed to happen during a time of a fight for survival. If any prisoner had a ration of food

When the Jews arrived at the camp all abled men were ordered to step to the left and women and children were ordered to step to right. After all the prisoners were separated, they shaved the hair from each person and took away all their clothes. Then they were ordered to lineup and they tattooed them with pen and ink. If anyone were to cried they were beaten. They were no longer a person they were a number. Prisoners who were unfit for labor were sent straight to the gas chamber, which was disguised as a shower to trick the victims. All the prisoners were used for forced labor and spent more than 10 hours each day working. The rest of the time was time was taken up by roll-call assemblies, lines for food or for washroom to remove all the dirt and pests from their

The prisoners were put to work making radio equipment, flash lights, and stripping crashed airplanes. The prisoners were very hungry. The Camp had two sections. One section was for the political prisoners who opposed Hitler and the Nazis. The second section was used for jews.

I sprang up ran outside only to see everyone standing around at the bottom of the tower smoking and talking; it was just a test fire. Later that day we received a brief from the platoon that we were replacing about how things in the area had been going, and how much contact they had been taking lately. I turned to one of the privates from the unit we were replacing and asked him, “How much contact have you guys been taking lately?” He looked at me and smiled as he walked off. Our brief included a tour of the COP and all of the watch towers that we had to man at all times during the day as well as dismounted patrols through the neighboring ridgelines and villages. As the day drew to an end, I saw the guys we were replacing start to put on their plate carriers and grab their weapons to go sit near the towers. I was confused, so I asked, “Are you guys heading out now?” One of the team leaders looked at me and explained how they had been taking contact every day for the past few months at sundown. As soon as he told me I ran to go grab my plate carrier and go wait near the mortar pit with my rifle. As the sun began to set back behind the ridgeline that faced us, there was an eerily calming breeze that filled the air. For a moment I almost began to think Afghanistan would be a nice place for camping up in the mountains with your family. My short mental vacation was abruptly ended by the sound of automatic machine gun fire followed by the north tower yelling, “Contact!” before unloading into a mountainside across from him with the M2 .50 Caliber machine gun that was mounted on a tripod. My mind was overwhelmed with different reactions and feelings all at once. I was scared, pissed off, excited, and confused all at the same time. I started to panic for a second until I took a deep breath and remembered what I has been trained to do. I ran to the mortar pit and

1. As it is quite obvious in the story, the narrator does not think that these men and women deserve to die. This is abundant when in the very last line of the story the narrator states, “when will it be light?”

     Without a doubt, one of the darkest episodes in the history of mankind involved the systematic extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and gays by Nazi Germany. In order to get a good sense of the horror and despair that was felt by the interned, one simply needs to read the memoirs of Elie Wiesel in his “Night”, as translated from French by Stella Rodway and copyrighted by Bantam Books in 1960.

Carey et al’s “Report,” alarmed me for two reasons: the lack of importance attached to women’s representation by the American Political Science Association’s members and the lack of country knowledge or experience of the electoral reform consultants. The first, I will rationalize out as realistic, even if I disagree at a fundamental level; and the second, I will criticize as a problem that should be addressed by future electoral reform consultants.