The film I watched, called, “RANANA MALKHANOVA -- A WORLD DESTROYED, A WORLD TO REMEMBER” was about a Lithuanian girl named Ranana who was from a family that was separated during World War II. She traveled with her mother, hiding where they could to stay alive. Like the Israelites, she traveled by foot in order to reach their goal, safety for them, and the promised land for the israelites. However, Ranana and her mother weren’t just freed from slavery or any other form of labor like the israelites were. Therefore, they had more physical strength to keep going. Mentally, both parties were completely lost. The Israelites had no direction and were distressed from all of their years as slaves, just as Ranana and her mother had no direction after running away from the Germans who were capturing the Jews …show more content…
In Isaiah 42: 6-8 it says that God commanded us to be a light upon nations which means, as a Jew, we are chosen to spread our values to all people because our Jewish values are human values. Ranana demonstrated the expectation of being a light upon nations by opening a school, becoming a teacher, and receiving her degree in Russian literature. She taught children of all faiths and spread her wisdom and values with them. In Isaiah 49: 6, God says that it is not enough to follow the commandments, you need to be a good person too. Ranana demonstrated the expectation of being a good person that does good deeds. She did this by honoring the righteous gentiles that hid her and her mother for months. The family fed them and they risked their lives to protect strangers. In 1944 Ranana filed forms to Israel's Holocaust Museum to engrave the family’s name into the wall of high honor for brave people. She did a mitzvah and felt it was her duty as a Holocaust survivor to honor those brave people who kept her
The historical documentary directed by James Moll, The Last Days, exemplifies the cruel conditions and sufferings of the Jewish people through firsthand accounts of five survivors. At night, Rabbi Eliahu and his son marched together from the concentration camp in Buna to a different camp in Buchenwald. When they marched to Buchenwald, the son “.had seen [Rabbi Eliahu] losing ground.he had continued to run in front, letting the distance between them become greater” (Wiesel 91). When Rabbi Eliahu’s son sees him fall while marching, the son continues to march forward and leaves his father behind.
They stayed here during the winter while Alicia still searched for food, in the process, making many friends. News came one day that the Germans were beginning to fall back from the Russian fronts and Germany’s grip on the Jews in Poland was weakening. This news made Alicia and her mother move away from the old man who helped them.
In Ronald Takaki’s book “A Different Mirror” it appeared that anytime race relations changed for the better can be traced back to a historical event. Whether it was war or economics the only time policy changed for the minority groups was because it benefitted the people in power or white society. Ta-Nehisi Coates has also stated that changes for minorities will only come when absolutely necessary for those who are in power. Why does it take war or a cataclysmic economic downturn before people see the appalling way minorities are treated? Is it the “It ain’t broke, so don’t fix it” mentality or do people in this day and age still believe that people of color are inferior to white people? In my experience, the people in my world actually
Naba and Ayodele’s stories were similar to many other people. It truly shows the wretchedness of slavery and the negative effects that it has. Unfortunately, the abolition of slavery does not happen for a long time and this sort of mistreatment of human beings continues for years to come.
Following the beginning of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union would start what would become two of the worst genocides in world history. These totalitarian governments would “welcome” people all across Europe into a new domain. A domain in which they would learn, in the utmost tragic manner, the astonishing capabilities that mankind possesses. Nazis and Soviets gradually acquired the ability to wipe millions of people from the face of the Earth. Throughout the war they would continue to kill millions of people, from both their home country and Europe. This was an effort to rid the Earth of people seen as unfit to live in their ideal society. These atrocities often went unacknowledged and forgotten by the rest of the world, leaving little hope for those who suffered. Yet optimism was not completely dead in the hearts of the few and the strong. Reading Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag by Janusz Bardach and Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi help one capture this vivid sense of resistance toward the brutality of the German concentration and Soviet work camps. Both Bardach and Levi provide a commendable account of their long nightmarish experience including the impact it had on their lives and the lives of others. The willingness to survive was what drove these two men to achieve their goals and prevent their oppressors from achieving theirs. Even after surviving the camps, their mission continued on in hopes of spreading their story and preventing any future occurrence of such tragic events. “To have endurance to survive what left millions dead and millions more shattered in spirit is heroic enough. To gather the strength from that experience for a life devoted to caring for oth...
Are you part of a community and you don’t even know it? A community is a feeling of fellowship with others because one shares common attitudes, interests, and goals. In the remix text “It Takes a Tribe” David Berreby talks about how college students make “tribes” within their school and tribes against other schools. This text relates to my community because the One Direction fandom could be considered a “tribe” full of fans who are against other fandoms of other artists because they all think they 're the best.One direction is a very popular boy band thats known all over the world and very successful. This community meets everywhere , concerts, schools, and social media etc., since one directions fans are everywhere .In the One Direction
In Outcasts United Warren St. John reveals that refugees were getting picked by cops/civilians because of who they were and what they looked like instead of actually doing anything wrong. Chike Chime an immigrant was driving and got pulled over for doing nothing. He then got told to get out of the car and get his driver's license but as he was getting his license. Jordan, the cop snapped and pulled him and pushed Chime onto the back of his car and held his arm behind his back. He then hit him the head and sprayed him with pepper spray. “It’s you-Its Africans Jordan said. I have nothing but problems from you guys. Always love to argue.” pg 84. When he says it's you Africans Jordan says it in a way that shows a negative connotation towards africans because he says it's only the Africans who do bad
Elli Friedmann has returned 50 years later for a ceremony to the spot where she was once liberated by the American army. Living during the Holocaust, she has chosen to give us her story.
Every slave has endured pain. Tituba unfortunately had to withstand various situations and encounters in Barbados. Her beliefs were stripped and people continued to try and change her ways of thinking. She had to deal with racism within her own race as well as from the dislike of others. As she goes through these rough spots she must not forget who she is and where she has come from. Her goals prove to not let anyone break down her barrier that she, her mother, and Mama Yaya had so strongly sought to establish.
In Nina and Gustav’s story, they were in constant fear of the world around them. For Nina, being both Jewish and a girl meant that she would never be safe i...
Captivity narratives capture the trepidation, deprivation, and anguish that occurred within the lives of those torn from their homes and separated from their family and friends. These stories shed light on the horrendous situations that occurred in the past, as well as situations that occur today. Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano are two strong individuals who shed light on the captivity they endured throughout their lives. Through their treatment while in captivity, travel conditions, and religion, Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano can be compared and contrasted.
Even though Rowlandson’s character is visibly troubled by the problems she went through in her story, A Narrative of The Captivity, her character shows strength, courage, and perseverance. Rowlandson’s character has been through so much; she lost her five-year-old child, was separated from her children, and even starved; through all of this, she still finds a way to pull through. Throughout her journey, she has been through hard times of loss and sacrifice. Lots of people have lost their family members, many others have been separated due to war or famine. Today, people still go through similar struggles and have to sacrifice certain things to make it in life. This story is something that people in the modern world can somewhat relate too. Much like the “hidden agenda” too often seen in captivity narratives such as Rowlandson’s, modern-day politics uses the pathos appeal to get sympathy and/or support from the viewer.
The mistakes done in the past cannot define a person’s life, but can be a life lesson to do remarkable things in the future. The movie “Birth of a Nation” is settling a lot of controversy before coming out in theaters, because of the film director, writer, and star of the movie his name is Nate Parker because of his past, when he was a student at Penn State University where he rape a fellow female student and was accused of rape in 1999 and two years later he was free of charge. Nate Parker is not the only one on the controversy along with his longtime friend and roommate at the time of the incident is Jean McGianni Celestin and was also involved in the rape. Mr. Celestin was charged with sexual assault, but his case was appealed.
Prophets of the Hood is the most detailed and a brilliantly original study to date of hip hop as complicated and innovative literary story form. It is written with a refreshing harmonious combination savvy significance rigor as well as brave and creative narrative verve. Imani Perry’s research is an interesting analysis of late twentieth century in American great culture. Prophet of the hood is an excellent and unique book. It draws up a clear division between the negatives and positives involved in hip hop. She takes the discussions of rap to a deeper and greater levels with an insightful analysis of the poetic and political features of the art form. Being a fan and a scholar, Perry is aware the art, tradition of hip hop through an analysis of the song lyrics.
or savages. Later, we meet Dalia Eshkenazi, a Jewish woman who escapes the horrors of