Tristan Gonzales Gonzales#1 English 9 Honors 5 September 2013 Integrity Essay Integrity is “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness” (Google Definitions). The first person that comes to mind when I hear the word integrity is Nick Carraway from the movie and the novel “the Great Gatsby”. Nick Carraway is Gatsby’s Lovers brother and Gatsby’s best friend‚ he is also the narrator. Nick shows honesty‚ moral principles‚ and moral uprightness
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how Art’s father have little appreciation of what he has been doing and how everything that he has been through can not compare to the things that he is doing right now. The most important part of the scene is Art getting questioned about the book Maus‚ and him walking all over the dead bodies. The dead body significe all the dead body that his dad has talked about throughout the story; it fits into the larger context
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challenged‚ they averted death at the hands of the Nazis. These few went on to be living documents of the senseless and brutal nature of the treatment of Jews in German occupied territory during World War II. In the movie The Pianist‚ one such victim’s story is told‚ Wladyslaw Szpilman‚ a well-known Polish composer of the time‚ lived to write about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and the persecution of the Jews at the violent hands of the Nazi Germans. Director Roman Polanski‚ a Jewish ghetto
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Maus‚ by Art Spiegelman‚ is a graphic novel in which the characters are represented as animals. The comic collection is full of juxtapositions. Vladek and Artie represent the opposition of past and present. The story also illustrates the opposition in the cultural contexts of Nazi occupied Poland and Rego Park‚ New York. The format of the book contrasts images with language‚ and the characters of the book depict the opposition of father and son. These juxtapositions serve to emphasize the transmission
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Animals have such an important role in the world; without animals humans would not be able to survive. If one type of species becomes extinct‚ it would affect one link in the food chain. Humans underestimate animal intelligence‚ their capabilities‚ and their importance. Evolution has changed how humans and animals interact with each other. Charles Darwin brought the idea of evolution to the world and the theory survival of the fittest‚ and recognized animal consciousness (Page‚ 9). He looked at
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was a very brutal for not just Jews‚ but for other minorities in Europe and Russia. Over 11 million people died at the hands of Germany and its allies. Maus is a novel describing a fictional person’s account of the days of and before the Holocaust. The author (and narrator)‚ Art Spiegelman‚ has a father named Vladek that lived in Sosnowiec‚ Poland. Vladek has a wife‚ Anja Spiegelman‚ that has a condition that makes her need emotional support more than normal. He is a Jew and is transported to different
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The Research of Nazi Germany Origins The rise of the Nazi Party began with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on January 30‚ 1933. Soon after his appointment‚ Adolf began to prepare the state for Nazi rule. The Nazi party was guided by authoritarian principles and began to invoke a Volk society in which religious and class differences would be eradicated. Any political enemies of the Nazi party were subject to intimidation and legislation
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It doesn’t require a psychiatrist to identify in Maus I that Vladek possesses many of the qualities which could be typically used to portray a survivor. Most of which are qualities emblematic not necessarily only of a survivor of the holocaust but a survivor of any great life or death struggle. His words and actions toward Art and especially Mala tacitly reveal a man still deeply impacted by tragic experiences decades later. Through his life story we are able to ascribe Vladek’s various tendencies
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Final essay (Maus I) Art: a true Holocaust survivor. Though he was born in Sweden after the war and did not experience the Holocaust personally‚ his life is deeply affected by the event‚ both directly and indirectly. To begin with‚ Art is troubled by nightmares and fears of the Holocaust‚ as he fantasizes when he was a child about certain degrading happenings. Secondly‚ he is impacted by the intense‚ traumatizing toll the Holocaust had on his father‚ which‚ subsequently‚ was transferred onto him
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Cats. The first thing that comes to a person’s mind would be the cute little cuddly furballs that we can cosy up to. Not forgetting How they look at us with their majestic eyes that gleams like emeralds while purring softly and the cuteness overload when their lick their fur to clean themselves. Cats are naturally stereotyped to be domestic pets that one can keep at home and play with. However‚ Not all cats are like that. There is a species of cats known as the jungle cats which are a drastic opposite
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