In the movie Swing Kids, there are many persuasive statements that the characters say. A particularly memorable one was said by Arvid, who refuses to play a song that is requested of him and his band because it is a Nazi song. He went on to tell anyone who would listen that sitting idly by while the Nazis killed thousands was contributing to their cause and that he was done being included in that. This statement is a full argument. In order for this to be an argument, there needs to be a premise and conclusion. The premise of this statement is that the Nazis can’t be stopped when people are just letting them get away with murdering countless minority groups. Furthermore, Arvid’s conclusion is that we should all fight against the Nazis. This
After listening to a testimony from Ralph Fischer, a Holocaust survivor I have gained a new level of understanding to what happened in those few years of terror when the Nazi party was at power. On top of that I have learned that they are just like other people in many different ways. As a child, Ralph went to school, played with friends, and spent time with his family. All that is comparable to any other modern-day child. However, as the Nazi party rose to power he was often bullied, left out, or even beat for being Jew. Although not as extreme, I have often been mistreated because I was different, and it’s easy to understand the pain of being left out just because you are not the same. Eventually he had to drop out of school and then had
Argumentation has followed humans from the dawn of time as a way for us to express our ideas and for our ideas to be heard. People naturally obtain the knowledge to persuade others, either backing their opinions by fact or touching others emotionally, from growing up and through their own experiences in life. We can be persuaded by a numerous amounts of different factors pertaining to the argument. There are four different types of strategies in which an argument can be presented and make the argument effective. Martin Luther King is a key example of the utilization of the strategies as he wrote, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and Nicholas Carr also portrays the strategies with his essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Both authors perfectly
When the Germans elected Hitler President in 1932, everyone believed that he would bring peace, prosperity, and equality to Germany. Before the start of World War I, Germany was the most economically advanced nation in Europe. It was second in the world only coming after the United States. The aftermath of the war left Germany economically broken. The movie Swing Kids, takes place seven years after the election of Hitler in Hamburg, Germany. A group of college students defy the Hitler society through their affection for American Swing music, American slang, and fashion. American and British Jazz music, along with music produced by African Americans and Jewish, were among those banned in Germany but these group of young men secretly would get together to listen and dance to it. As their antics increased, their boldness got them in trouble with the Hitler authority. The impact of their frolic is seen to have impacted their friends and family highly.
These actions can benefit and enlighten the youth, to understand the pain these people have gone through. They can have a better understanding of these situations and will know if history will repeat itself again. The Resistance Effort was able to save thousands or millions of Jews; but, they must had understood that indifference is much worse than the hatred the citizens had against the Jews, Gypsies ,etc… “Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.” To think about him or herself by bystanding a situation without actually helping the receiver. Gives more pain to the receiver with a simple inhuman action. To be able to participate can highlight the importance of being a human being and give justice to the outcasted. To be able know the outcome of both consequences of action and inaction, is important. Since, these consequences will give people a better understanding on what’s right and what’s
Crusius, Timothy W., and Carolyn E. Channell. The Aims of Argument: A Text and Reader. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Print.
Songs of peace and harmony were chanted throughout protests and anti-war demonstrations, America’s youth was changing rapidly. Never before had the younger generation been so outspoken. Fifty thousand flower children and hippies traveled to San Francisco for the "Summer of Love," with the Beatles’ hits song, "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" (listen) as their light in the dark. The largest anti-war demonstration in history was held when 25,000 people marched from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, once again, showing the unity of youth.1
Having an opinion and or a belief is better than not having one at all. A great man such as Elie Wiesel would agree to that statement. He believes standing up for what is right by showing compassion for a fellow human being than for letting good men do nothing while evil triumphs. The message he passes was how indifference is showing the other man he is nothing. He attempts to grasp the audience by personal experiences and historic failures, we need to learn from and also to grow to be the compassionate human being we all are.
Propaganda played an extremely crucial part in the Nazi’s rise of power, the brainwashing of the Germans to hating and ultimately killing the Jews. What is being discussed is the power of persuasion and how it is used through various forms of media to gain a stronger anti-Semitic than they had already had.
...erson that shows that there might actually be something going on. That this man is intelligent about this horrific case. If you were a non Jew and you tried to fight back you would end up dead, or severely injured by the punishment that the Nazis inflicted on you. Sadly, this rebellion of non Jews never happened to free the Jewish people suffering in the Concentration camps.
?The effect of such incessant propaganda was to promote hysterical hatred of all things German.?# Any individual who had the audacity to speak against the war was assaulted either verbal or physically, and on many occasions murdered.
Opposing views claim that people during the Holocaust should of gone with the flow and should of let the Nazis push them around. Others believe that if the victims would of went with the flow they would have mixed in; however, they would have to do what the Nazis told them to do. Some commodities they were told to do included manual labor, walking the death marches, and to go without eating for days. Even though these people had to do these things, they would have blended in, and it would of been less likely for the people to get hurt or killed by the terrible Nazis. Believing that you could sit back and not deal with the situation is not the way to stand up for yourself. The people should have fought back and fought back powerfully!
One, are the Hamburg Swings, this was a group of rebellious teens that smuggled American jazz records and British fashion into Nazi Germany. At the time Nazi had expressed that American culture degenerated, and that swing music was only fit for "only negroes and Jew." All of art of and social dancing was essentially illegal. So when the time came, they hosted underground Swing dance parties to rebel against the regime. Later, the police had criminalized the swing kids, naming them "race defilers, fornicators, homosexuals, and robbers." The leader, Tommie Scheel had once said, "“We wanted to tell all these dumb bastards that we were different, that was all.” Now they can be compared to the original British punks in the 70's for their rebellious music and fashion made a real political statement. Though the Hamburg Swings risked their lives to party.
Music plays a critical part in protesting because of its ability to inspire and reach its powerful message to millions.The movie Swing Kids is the story of a group of young men protesting against the Nazis using swing music and dancing. The Nazis thought of swing music being “Jungle Music,” and it was unsuitable for any Germans to listen to. Dreadfully, some of these young men were forced to join the Nazis. Throughout the movie, the main character, Peter struggled with being both a Nazi and a swing kid. This was the internal struggle of knowing what was ethically right and what was wrong. This is an issue many face when deciding if they are going to protest or sit back. Today’s most recent protest relates with the Swing Kids.
To all of them? To the countless families and children. What right did he have to take their world and break it to shambles? They had no right. They had no reason. But still they did. Bertolt is resentful. Resentful to be German. To be associated with the name “Nazi.” To be part of a culture that took the lives of millions upon millions and even screwed with the lives of those who lived under Hitler’s reign. “Neither in the old days nor now did I wish to have my son’s imagination perverted for him.” They’ve corrupted the children. Turned them against their parents by influencing them to join “Hitler youth groups.” The words youth group and Hitler in the same sentence are pure
Tannen uses imagery in her description of examples, she talks about situations where you would also argue and then this places a mental image in your mind. ““Road rage" shows how dangerous the argument culture---and especially today 's technologically enhanced aggression ----can be” (Tannen 406). Tannen backs up these examples with evidence that was found by experts, Tannen was also a well- known linguistics professor. Elizabeth Loftus and Deborah Lipstadt both contributed to Tannen’s article which makes it more credible and understandable. “This accounts, in part, for the bizarre phenomenon of Holocausts denial. Deniers, as Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt shows, have been successful in gaining TV airtime and campus newspaper coverage by masquerading as "the other side "in a debate" (Tannen 405) Credibility gives Tannen the ability to persuade the audience because the more something is credible the more likely it is for someone to believe it. Every tool Tannen used worked in its own way to affectively inform and persuade the