Shakespeare is known worldwide for his works and he created many of the words we use today, quite the legacy isn’t it? Though, there are those whom believe that it was a fraud, that someone else did the work, and he simply took the credit. Some of them have spent the majority of their lives working on this, and while it’s nice to credit the “true” author, it is much to late for it to actually matter. All you would be doing, is changing the author from one dead person to another. So in my humble opinion, it doesn’t really change anything.
What the ending is i.e. .org would mean it’s an organization.
fact checking the contents of the website
If the webpage looks professional
EBSCO DATABASE
I can access it from the library. EBSCO offers access to multiple magazines and news resources.
WORKS CITED:
I can and from now on will use http://www.citationmachine.net for my citations. This is because it seems to work quite smoothly.
SESSION REFLECTION
I learned that for finding out if a website is fake or not, it will take more then a simple cursory look at the front page. You need to check the information it bares as well.
At first, I thought the Nuremburg Laws were a horrible idea, but thankful that it didn’t majorly affect my job as a doctor. That was, until I was sent to the Ghettos and made unable to practice medicine on anyone. Now I watch as people walk in and out of this building, hoping for me to fix their problems as I once did. Those days were far gone by then, as obvious as it was. They would walk in, sorrow and hope smeared on their faces. I would then diagnose the patient, but when they ask for me to help them, I with a saddened expression tell them I am unable and watch as their hope fades in an instant. I watch both uselessly and helplessly as the sick that I could have cured are hauled off to the work camps and the sick that were hidden by family or otherwise remain to wallow from disease and hunger, simply waiting in agony for death to finally arrive and send them to the next life. The pain that is written all over their faces from sickness and disease is all too much to take in. Almost as if it’s all some horrific nightmare that I can’t escape, but then the smell of feces and disease brings me back to realize that it’s simply a cruel reality that I am unable to escape just the same. The next morning, I heard Nazi soldiers yelling “Jews, out! Jews, out! Jews, out!” one of them I heard close to my home and soon afterward the door was kicked open and I was brought along with many other people. We were marched to what I presumed to be train stations and I watched as the diseased and injured were struggling to keep along and those whom failed to were shot. When we finally got to the station and were boarded many of us were exhausted. When we got there we were treated with horrible conditions and forced to slave labor and I watched as the sick struggled to do as they were told. Years passed with the same poor conditions and slave labor till my camp was finally liberated.
This short story was a fictional account based on history of the Holocaust. The Point of view is first person with the perspective of a Jewish doctor of the time period. The character was a doctor that, because of the Nuremberg Laws, was unable to practice medicine, because of that he could do nothing for the people of the Ghettos, which were already disease and hunger ridden. From this he felt guilt as he knew the cures, but was unable to use them by law. He struggled with the guilt of seeing the sick sent off and the sick whom remain only waiting for life’s end.
I have written this poem based off my own interpretation of a journal entry by Charles V. Ferree about his experience liberating concentration camps from Nazi control. We took out some of the nouns, verbs and adjectives from the entry to find it’s tone. I wrote this poem as a spokesperson for what the soldiers liberating the camps would have seen and how it would stay with them forevermore.
A picture of the liberation of Mauthausen
What one would call rumors,
I call reality.
The Heinus Holocaust
And it’s horrors, it’s unimaginable horrors
The dead and dying piled in heaps,
Tracks overflowing with skeletal remains
From cold, starvation, or disease,
Their efforts all in vain,
They all died anyway.
In every direction, Chaos ensued
Former tormentors, Crazed inmates
And their bloody fists.
Burning odors from the camp,
The crematorium, permeate my mind to this day.
Millions killed in ways to cruel to imagine,
50 years later, I burned my uniform to rid these memories
They still permeate my mind, encapsulating me inside them,
As if it was still back then.
I can still smell the burnt flesh of every pore.
50. years. later.
March 24, 1933 German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers
History: The Enabling Act gave Hitler, the chancellor, the ability to pass acts without the permission of the Fuhrer (president). The act was passed because of the burning of the Reichstag Building, the seat of the German government, which was intentionally burned down by the Nazis so it would appear that there’s a threat to security, in order for Hitler, their leader, to gain emergency powers to protect the country’s security and later on, gaining dictatorial powers from this very act.
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image of the Enabling Act
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Application to novel: The Nazis were the antagonist Group of the novel, as they were the main contributing factor of all of the problems Riva and her family went through. The Conflicts that were cause were both Internal and external, external as the Nazis abused Jews, whom Riva and her family were apart of, as well as made them the rock bottom of society. Along with Internal as it caused a lack of trust within whom were once friends, Riva’s neighbors Harry and his family along with betrayal among the Jewish group, for if one were to leak information on hidden Jews, they’d be spared until they are asked for information again. All these conflicts led to an emotional setting of despair and tragedy for Riva and the rest of the Jewish people. Hitler and the rest of the Nazis were introduced in the first rising Action, right after the exposition, and for those whom know about World War 2, there would be a Dramatic Irony as the reader would already have an idea of the horrors they were about to face.
July 25, 1938 – Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine
History: At first Jewish doctors were made unable to operate on non-Jewish patients, later they were unable to help anyone, whether Jewish or German or anyone else. This made life in the ghettos even more brutal, as not only were there many people, causing sickness to spread very easily, now even the doctors there can only diagnose, not actually cure them. This made deaths in the ghettos increase, which makes sense, as that was the Hitler’s as well as the Nazis, intention.
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A part of the Nuremberg race laws
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Application to novel: The doctors, though flat characters, had a major impact on what happened in the novel as they were unable to cure their patients and only diagnose them because they were prohibited by law. This caused the ghettos to become disease-struck, the sick everywhere you look, and since they were so crowded, if one person became sick, sure enough the others in the house would become sick too. So, not only did the Jews become very poor, they now had a conflict with disease they had to battle. This affected Riva’s little brother Laibelle, as he became sick with Typhus, but the doctor could do nothing, for he could only diagnose, as not only was he prohibited by law to practice medicine, he also, didn’t have the resources to disobey it.
January 25, 1940 – Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
History: Auschwitz was one of the most infamous of the concentration/extermination camps during WWII, as it was one of the most used by the Germans out of the total. This is probably because of the camp’s location in southern Poland, with the Russian army descending upon it and the amount of Jews in Poland there became many prisoners to be held. This was also the largest operation of burning bodies compared to the other camps, for there was smoke coming from the chimneys all day long.
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The gates of Auschwitz
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Application to novel: The Physical setting of Auschwitz was a labour camp, with houses that poured smoke into the sky without end and along the border is a barbwire fence that’s chain link at the bottom and barbed at the top. The emotional setting was that of hopelessness, death, torture and agony. The Conflicts were again both Internal and external, again because of the abuse the prisoners had to deal with, whether Jew or anyone else. Also internal conflict, as while a prisoner in Auschwitz one might question what point there is to living if it will continue as it is, as well as the worry, of how and when they will be executed. In the novel, “The Cage” Riva, the protagonist, and other members and friends of hers, were sent to Auschwitz, as they had no choice, other then unwilling capture or starvation, this was yet another Rising action of this novel. The arrival of Auschwitz into the novel set a tone of worry of what was to come next for the members of Riva’s friends and family.
After reading the book The Cage by Ruth Minskey Sender one would find the ghetto of Lodz to be a pitted death trap where disease, fear, and misery ran rampant, what with the close proximity of people and poor living conditions, it was somewhat expected. Lodz was in south-western Poland and during the regime of Adolf Hitler, Poland was taken over and all Jews were prosecuted. The Jews were forced to live trapped in small, concentrated areas with the only jobs being manual labor to help the war effort where they were “paid” in rations of bread and soup. They were worked to the bone, and if they got sick they were taken by the Nazis, because the doctors in the area could do nothing but diagnose a patient, for they were given no funds nor medication to actually help anyone. Before the Nazis began taking the sick, the diseases ran rampant because of the enclosed space, if one person had was sick, it would be safe to assume that the rest would quickly succumb to it as well. Entire Jewish families were split apart by the Nazis as they sent people to their death camps where they either worked to death, or were killed when they lost their usefulness. When the Jews were taken from their homes, the Nazis would see it fit to gain a little amusement by torturing them as well, in example those whom were bearded had their beards burnt off by cigars.
The short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was a satire on the want for everyone to be equal. The story was set in the futuristic United States of America in 2081, where everyone was finally equal not just in looks, but in abilities as well. For this to happen any person whom excels in anything must be handicapped as to be brought back down with everyone else. After discussing this short story, a list of 14 amendments were created (shown above) to replicate the charter of rights and freedoms. The amendments were to fit to the story of “Harrison Bergeron.” What has been focused on in this new charter are punishments for taking off or refusing handicaps. Also mentioned in this charter are “new” handicaps as well as advantages. The advantage for height, as a person cannot be made shorter, is that persons who are short will be taught how to use stilts. An example of a punishment is amendment #206 which is for those whom tamper with their handicaps will get a fine and prison time depending on the handicap that was tampered with. An example a “new” handicap that was added is amendment #205 where any persons with a higher then ‘average’ eyesight are to be put through laser surgery in order to put them back to ‘average.’ After reading and reviewing the short story “Harrison Bergeron” it is shown that the society’s hope was equality, but that ultimately failed, for their government was corrupt, abusing their power for they were exempt from the handicaps everyone else bore, because of this there was virtually nothing to stop them.
