Chapter Ten The next morning, Franz Sigel spotted Stanislaus at the end of the St. Nicholas Hotel lobby. Sigel offered to show Stanislaus and his family the sights of New York City as a courtesy to Karolina for allowing him to accompany her and her friend Anna at the reception that evening. “A carriage is waiting for your family in front of the hotel,” Sigel told him as they waited for Karolina and her children to catch up. Karolina’s Ohio cousins decided to remain at the hotel but requested their son come with them for a tour the city. Stanislaus and Karolina agreed to have a playmate for their oldest child with them. After they completed their plans, Sigel escorted the group through the doors of the hotel toward the waiting carriage. Outside …show more content…
He met Sigel when the family he worked for told him Sigel would be able to teach him to write English. Sigel, tutoring other German immigrants after his work day offered to teach his employer’s other workers as well. Joseph bowed low to Sigel and pointed him and Stanislaus’s family towards the waiting carriage. Karolina and Stanislaus had never seen a black man before and were startled when they saw him, but Stanislaus shook the man’s hand profusely and settled into the carriage next to Sigel and the two older boys and called for his wife and youngest son to join …show more content…
Stanislaus excited to see the building’s architecture thanked him while he looked out the windows. The carriage traveled up Broadway, crossed over to Fifth Avenue, and passed a large arena, the Hippodrome, covered by a red, white and blue canvas. This structure would be housing P.T. Barnum’s circus opening shortly. The carriage dodged and weaved past other Horse Drawn wagons, carts, and men on horseback and pulled up to a large building still under construction. Joseph jumped down and opened the carriage door. “I told you I would show you something magnificent!” he said and pointed to the large building. The carriage parked directly in front of the centerpiece of the new “Exposition of the Industry of all Nations”, which was scheduled to open in New York City later that summer. Sigel pointed out to them the New York Crystal Palace, a magnificent glass and iron building modeled after the Crystal Palace, built in London for its own exposition two years before. Sigel took his leave and went to discuss his architectural plans with the building’s construction foreman. Stanislaus was fascinated and asked the workmen questions as they were completing construction of the dome. The exterior of the building made of cast iron and glass windows sparkled in the sunlight. The two wings facing the street would contain exhibits of classic pieces of sculpture and portraits of historical
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
During the Holocaust many people were severely tortured and murdered. The holocaust caused the death of six million Jewish people, as well as the death of 5 million non-Jewish people. All of the people, who died during this time, died because of the Nazis’: a large hate group composed of extremely Ignoble, licentious, and rapacious people. They caused the prisoners to suffer physically and mentally; thus, causing them to lose all hope of ever being rescued. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie went through so much depression, and it caused him to struggle with surviving everyday life in a concentration camp. While Elie stayed in the concentration camp, he saw so many people get executed, abused, and even tortured. Eventually, Elie lost all hope of surviving, but he still managed to survive. This novel is a perfect example of hopelessness: it does not offer any hope. There are so many pieces of evidence that support this claim throughout the entire novel. First of all, many people lost everything that had value in their life; many people lost the faith in their own religion; and the tone of the story is very depressing.
Burnham is a well-known architect around the world who previously completed work in “Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Manila, and many other cities” (Pg. 3). He was offered the job to design and build the buildings that would be a part of the World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair), after Chicago won the bid for the fair in 1890, and eventually took the offer with his assistant, John Root. The construction of the fair began in 1891 and did not completely finish until the fair was already halfway over in the summer of 1893. During those two and a half years, the success and reputatio...
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, belonging is a human requirement only topped by mental homeostasis and safety. Human relationships have dictated the role of history, from cooperating to solve worldwide problems, to the establishment of globalization. However, human beings are intrinsically gregarious. The survival of humanity depends on reproduction. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, he recounts the psychological journey the Jews in the Holocaust took. Often regarded as a stain in humankind’s legacy, the Holocaust was a genocide, enforced by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime, in which six million Jews were systematically murdered. Throughout the memoir, an emphasis is placed on the mental effects the
Now that they had everything they needed for the trip back, they began their journey back to the Guild of knights headquarters. By the time they arrived, they were running low on food, but that didn’t matter because they all awaited the feast and celebration when they arrived. Just as they expected, when they arrived, they were greeted with crowds cheering and celebrating. After hours of partying, Henry was pulled aside by the temporary leader named Morgan, Morgan said, “I don’t want to ruin your fun, but where is Sarah?”.
Night, the Holocaust memoir written by Elie Wiesel, portrays the “choiceless choices” name by the prisoners as they attempted to hold onto their humanity in the face of dehumanization. Elie Wiesel, who is on the verge of his Jewish faith, is present while the holiday Yom Kippur is celebrated in the camp Buna; he is fickle as to whether he should fast or eat the food he is given, as it is a principle of Yom Kippur to fast. Due to extremely cold weather, Wiesel’s foot freezes and he must be sent to the hospital; Russians marauders are about to raid the camp where Elie is held captive and Wiesel has to decide whether to stay at the camp in the hospital block or go with the rest of the prisoners to another camp. During the last few week of Wiesel’s
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.
In Night, by Elie Wiesel, there is an underlying theme of anger. Anger not directed where it seems most appropriate- at the Nazis- but rather a deeper, inbred anger directed towards God. Having once been a role model of everything a “good Jew” should be, Wiesel slowly transforms into a faithless human being. He cannot comprehend why the God who is supposed to love and care for His people would refuse to protect them from the Germans. This anger grows as Wiesel does and is a constant theme throughout the book.
The fair had great expectations to rise to the same influence as the Paris Exposition. A main goal of architects and those participating in the fair was to surpass the Eiffel Tower’s prominence from the Paris Exposition. (Di Cola, Stone 8-11) Instead of trying to make every aspect of the fair great, many of the architects focused on making things that could compete with the Europeans’ inventions and architecture. For example, the director of the fair’s architecture, Daniel Burnham, “desired that Chicago would have a waterfront that would rival European cities…” (Wolski 2009) Americans have always competed with Europe. Although there were many activities, the head attraction was the Ferris wheel. Although the Ferris wheel was not an invention that improved everyday life, it brought happiness to some and entertained others. It also puzzled some, but peoples’ emotions exhibited the profound effect of the new inventions. The Ferris wheel was a product of the changing culture. The Columbian Exposition showed America that technology did not only need to be for practical uses. Skyscrapers were the “Eiffel Tower” of the Chicago Exposition. They showed the groundbreaking technology of America and the great metalworking of Chicago. As shown in The Devil in the White City, H.H. Holmes’ built a hotel that he used as his torture chamber for his victims. The hotel does not exist anymore, but its
With the Pantheon being built over 1700 years ago, it’s amazing that architects are still using features and techniques from this work of architecture in modern creations. The use of this type of classical architecture will continue to be used in works for public space due to its remarkable exterior appearance and it’s long lasting structural durability. When both Jesse hall and the Pantheon are compared it is possible to see their similarities from the types of domes that top each, their external facades, and their interior plan. While they share many similarities, the differences that Bell and Binder used in their creation make this work of architecture unique to many other public spaces.
Exposition, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is ‘A large public exhibition of art or trade goods’ (Dictionaries, 2014). Since their birth in 1851, Expositions have always been at the forefront of design and innovation, showing the latest and greatest ideas to the rest of the world as well as breaking architectural boundaries. They reflect the contemporary events and attitudes of society at the given time. Expositions become a microcosm of society bringing the world together for one big show and a chance to top each other at who is the best. President William Mckinley gives a very positive view of exposition through his quote, expressing how much Expos have done for industry and world relations. Prince Albert, whose idea it was to initially hold a world exposition, his aim for the exhibition was ‘a display of international goodwill, as a peaceful pageant of national identities’ (Kemper, 2000) However there was a very dark side to the world fairs amongst the fairground rides and pleasure gardens a darker side lurked. Racism, imperialism,...
When French President Francois Mitterand “personally selected Mr. Pei in 1983 to design the Grand Louvre to give air, space, and light to one of the world’s most congested museums,” (Markham, 1989) there were many critics. The press “lambasted the idea of shattering the harmony of the Louvre’s courtyard with a glass iceberg” (Markham, 1989). But Pei proceeded as planned, taking a major risk in creating a glass pyramid structure at the entrance. He did not focus on what the critics would say about his plans, but hoped that the world would see, upon completion, that his vision of a contemporary, functional entrance would not clash with the Baroque style of the Louvre itself.
The Chicago world’s fair’s official name was the World’s Columbian Exposition, and its original purpose was to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America, however Daniel Hudson Burnham, the foremost creator, wanted it to be something enchanting, a “white city .” While Burnham wanted the fair to be a “white city” the whole fair had to be greater in all aspects than the fair in Paris in 1889, because if the fair failed the honor of the United States would be stained, and the city of Chicago would be disgraced . Burnham wanted only the best American architects of the time and their plans for the buildings were fashioned after neoclassical ideas, they had a uniform height for the cornice, in hopes of creating harmony amongst the prominent buildings .
Oskar Schindler was a wealthy German industrialist, who made much of his wealth by employing Jewish men and women in his various factories. In the movie “ Schindler’s List,” it starts off with Schindler in a restaurant with many high ranking Nazi officers eating there. He starts off by buying a officer a bottle of expensive wine, but it does not end there. Before the night is gone he has boughten dinner for all of the officers. This is how he made friends, friends with power.
There he participate in many social activities. He picked up a drinking habit, he got into fights, and became in debt multiple times. This prompted his dad to talk to him about whether he should consider going to a more prestigious college in Berlin and become a lawyer like his father. He accepted and began studying law and philosophy at the University of Berlin. He later dropped law and began strictly focusing on the philosophy of one of the University of Berlin's professors, G. W. F. Hegel. He later became inducted into the Young Hegelians, an organization that studied and practiced the works and beliefs of G. W. F. Hegel. During his time with the Young Hegelians; he became engaged to an old childhood friend Jenny von Westphalen whom he married in secret. After his marriage and eventual graduation he decided to move to Paris to begin his