Weston Miller Miller1 Mr. S. Torok CHC2D1 Friday‚ April 19‚ 2013 Swing Kids The 1993 drama “Swing Kids” starring Robert Sean Leonard and Christian Bale is overall a very good movie. The film is set in Nazi ruled Germany in the year 1939 and tells the incredible story of three boys and their love and fight for swing music. Swing Kids is a remarkable display of directing and acting talent. Thomas Carter’s eye for camera technique lends the feeling of actually being alongside the
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Totalitarianism - a centralized system of government where the State has complete power over all aspects of a person’s life (politically‚ economically‚ socially and culturally); totalitarianism tries to abolish all freedom Fascism - the political ideology that considers individuals as inferior to the State. Fascism promotes a dictatorial one-party rule‚ centralized control of private enterprise‚ repression of opposition‚ an extreme form of nationalism‚ and a denial of individual rights. Fascists
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Operation Valkyrie: The July 20‚ 1944 Attempt on the Life of Adolf Hitler By Katherine Stumpf During the period of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany‚ few people were aware of the opposition to him and his party within Germany. During this period of time the world believed that Hitler had the total support of the German people. This was not entirely true; within Germany there was opposition to Hitler. Between 1921 and his death in 1945‚ there
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the world has ever known. There were many key people who participated in this outrageous genocide however some get more attention then others. Adolf Eichmann is a classic example. Eichmann was a self-proclaimed "Jewish Specialist" and head of the Gestapo Department. Eichmann was responsible for keeping every train rolling right into the stations of the concentration and death camps during the holocaust. Now we will take a look into Eichmann’s childhood‚ life experiences‚ and his later actions to see
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According to Kurt Vonnegut‚ “...there would always be wars... they were as easy to stop as glaciers” (Vonnegut 3). And from these wars come the stories of those who struggled through them. Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Maus by Art Spiegelman‚ and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut all show how the choices people make when they are in danger are generally selfish‚ attempting to save their own lives and rarely aiding anyone else. People are selfish by nature and will only look out for their own interests
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A cluttered room‚ filled with books‚ paintings‚ and small sculptures in Vienna served as a contemporary office for nearly half a century. At its centre was a horsehair sofa‚ upon which Freud’s patients reclined while they talked to the doctor‚ who sat in a chair‚ out of view. He maintained a neutrality‚ never passing judgment or offering suggestions. The main goal of the therapy being to bring the patient’s repressed thoughts and memories to a conscious level‚ where they could be acknowledged and
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1st May‚ 2014 Prep Was the use of propaganda the most effective way in which the Nazis were able to control Germany in the years 1933 – 1939? Explain your answer (16) Throughout Hitler’s dictatorship a number of different strategies and plans were used in order to control Germany however some were effective and some were not as effective. Firstly it was propaganda so along with Dr. Joseph Goebbels who was the head of propaganda and a very good man at his work‚ Hitler was of for
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New political and social groups were formed both to support and oppose the Nazi and the Gestapo leaders. One of these groups was known as the Swing Kids who listened to Jewish and black swing music and danced at illegal clubs against the Nazis. The movie‚ “Swing Kids”‚ explains this group of teenagers. The movie opens in Hamburg‚ Germany in the year of 1939. Three best friends are taking a walk and see gestapo officers chasing a Jewish man until he jumps to his death at a nearby bridge. Although
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A common goal for most modern directors is to engage the audience emotionally. It’s a seemingly simple task that is often left by the wayside‚ half finished and ineffective. Those directors that do achieve this task‚ tend to make better movies. Two such directors are Ang Lee and Quentin Tarantino. The ways that they manipulate their audience’s emotions are completely different yet they are both effective. Where Tarantino’s manipulation of tension is unmatched in the modern world‚ Lee’s grace and
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‘The Nazis tried to control every aspect of life -including the mind’ Do you agree? In this essay I am going to be discussing my opinion on the statement‚ ‘The Nazis tried to control every aspect of life including the mind’. I am going to include aspects such as: Family life‚ jobs‚ education‚ leisure time‚ and socialisation‚ by countering factors such as mind control and behaviour control. I am going to start with ways in which I agree that they were trying to control the mind. They used 3 main
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