The Sunflower Research Paper

“Men to the left! Women to the right! Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words… Yet that was the moment I left my mother… There was no time to think and I already felt my father‘s hand pressed against mine: we were alone… I kept walking, my father holding my hand.” (Wiesel 29).

Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass", is one of the most crucial events in German, Jewish, and World History. Before, the Jews were simply assaulted and verbally abused. However, on the night of November 9, 1938, an unplanned and extremely violent action against the Jews occurred. In two days, over 250 synagogues were burnt down while the fire department did nothing to stop it, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, Jews were murdered, Jewish cemeteries, schools, hospitals, and homes were looted by SS while the police attempted to preserve them but failed. Before Kristallnacht, Jews ' lives were not threatened. Historically Jews were not welcome by many countries which

After reading The Sunflower, I’ll admit I had a lot of questions. When I started reading some of the response essays, I saw some of the same questions asked that I had. One that stuck out to me the most was the essay by Alan L. Berger. Berger’s reason for writing his essay was the issues being inflexible and his students questioning them. What was very evident to me about his essay was how he questioned why was Simon silent, If Karl was sincere, If Simon was the one to answer Karl’s response, and was Simon scarred by the interaction with Karl?

The Germans were pushing the Jewish community towards death to see who survived. The Passover ended, “the curtain rose” (Wiesel, 2008) and the Germans “arrested the leaders of the Jewish community” (Wiesel, 2008). Elie states, “from that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun” (Wiesel, 2008).

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, a young jewish boy and his family are forced out of their home by German soldiers. First they are forced into a ghetto. Then the dreaded day comes when they are then forced into train cars and taken to a concentration camp. At the gate of the camp Elie and

Elie remembers, “‘The time has come… you must leave all this…’ The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples” (16). The Hungarian police had been edict and in charge of everyone there. Yitskhok had a similar experience to this when he is standing outside his window and he watches people get beaten. Another example of a similarity is when they stayed in the ghettos. Elie and Yitskhok stayed in the ghettos for quite some time. Elie writes in the book that “The chaos here was even greater than in the large ghetto… [Elie] visited the rooms that had been occupied by my uncle Mendel’s family” (20). Yitskhok also stays in a ghetto, and he wrote in his diary about how in the ghetto where he was it was a mess with people falling; some people’s stuff even fell out of their bundles. Finally, some

This shows that the Nazis had no regard for Jewish lives as they were seen as nothing but animals, in which they were not hesitant to put down with a single bullet. The violent consequence that would present itself to Elie and the other prisoners if they diminished their pace compelled them to keep marching, even if that means trampling others and leaving family behind. Later, after they arrived at the camp after the treacherous death march, the Elie heard the cry of his ill father, "My son, they are beating me!" (page 109) and confronts the Frenchman and Pole. This reveals that not only does Elie and his father suffer from the hands of the Nazis, but his own people too.

In Simon Wiesenthal’s novel “The Sunflower” brings up a great, thought provoking question of how Simon, our main character should have acted as he encountered Karl at the final moments of his life. In this section of the story, Karl expresses his regret and grief by explaining his experience and life working in favor of the infamous Nazi regime and their plan for establishing an Arian only race and extinguishing all other groups of humanity from the face of the Earth. He goes into vivid detail of the events from the moment he joined the Hitler Youth, a way to finally become a part of something greater than just himself. As he continues, he soon goes into his involvement in the burning a building full of innocent Jews all the way to the point

Tick Tock Tick Tock. The time goes by, every second intensifies the fear. A fear of being sent to the gas chamber, being starved to death, or being sent to concentration camps. Other Jews’ worst nightmare had come true as they were being squeezed between over 100 others in one cattle cart, on their death ride to the heavens. It was like playing cops and robbers, but to the extreme. “A genocide in which six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.” This is the Holocaust. One of the darkest times in history, where the diversity of religion resulted in annihilation. Every Jew that the Nazis found were sent to concentration camps, starved to death and much more. While many

In the movie, Schindler’s list, it contradicts the statement that Jews “went like sheep to the slaughter”during the Holocaust. In the movie there is many scenes were the Jews put up a fight. In the time period of the Holocaust the Jews put up resistance even in the hardest of times.One scene that shows resistance is when all the jewish people were forced out of their homes and they were walking on the streets. Many did follow these orders but many did not some of them stayed hidden in their homes. If Jews were just sheeps to the slaughter they would not of showed this little act of resistance knowing that this would cause them more trouble than they were already in. Them staying in their homes after already been told to evacuate shows they

The sunflower or the Helianthus Annuus commercialized in Russia but originated in North America and there is 67 species. Throughout the centuries you can find the flowers seed colors to be various such as black, red, white, and black and white stripes; the ones who were responsible to cultivate or domesticate the plant seeds were the American Indians.

Being an artist takes time, dedication and commitment, especially to become as talented as Xu Wei and Liu Dan. These famous Chinese artists put in the time, dedication and commitment and their hard work has paid off. Xu Wei, from Saoxing, Zhejiang, did not grow up in the ideal situation, he was orphaned at a young age, but escaped his problems in life by painting and writing calligraphy; where he excelled the most. (BOOK pg. 208) Later during the Ming dynasty, he began to paint flowers and plants. One of his famous works in which we will focus is called Twelve Plants and Twelve Calligraphers (1). (BOOK 209). Another well-known artist from this century is Liu Dan. Liu Dan is also from China and was a fan of studying Confucian classics, poetry and calligraphy with his grandfather. He enjoys creating new perspectives on his pieces and one of his artworks that hits close to home is called Sunflower (2). This artwork is found right here in Minnesota at the Minnesota Institute of Art. In this paper, I will explore the similarities and differences found in the composition of Xu Wei’s Twelve Plants and Twelve Calligraphers and Liu Dan’s Sunflower. The composition can be broken down into space, shape and overall composition.

Sunflower, 1980 by Stefan Bertalan, is part of a series titled I Lived for a 130 Days with a Sunflower Plant. Bertalan studied a sunflower plant for its entire life cycle, documenting its journey each day through drawings, and a written diary. Bertalan mixes gestural drawing of a monochromatic sunflower on the left with a painted one on the right. He doesn’t have a concern for portraying the colors of the plants accurately but has chosen to use a mostly blue palette that is as aesthetically pleasing. The corners are filled with notes and calculations that move your eye around the composition. The spontaneousness of the gesture in the drawings make the pieces feel very free and somewhat abstract.

In a land far away lived two groups of people. One group worshipped the Sun as there god, named Helios. While the other group worshipped Terra, the earth god. The two groups lived in the same town, and they would constantly argue about who's right. Most of the Sun worshippers were rather wealthy, while those who worshiped Terra were poor. In the town there lived a young girl named Elaine Rae. She and her family all worshipped Helios. Elaine was destine to marry a young man named Jay, he was a rich young boy that was next in line to rule the kingdom. But she liked a boy named Kai, of the those who honored the Earth as their god.

Production of sunflower, which is the most crucial or important element of vegetable oil in our country, and it is more (prevalent) in areas which receive rainfall in summer.