Descriptive Writing Lecture one: Introduction and language Purpose * Describes physical characteristics of a person‚ place or thing * Relies on the fire senses: sight‚ sound‚ touch‚ smell‚ taste * Create a vivid impression When to use * Rarely an entire paper * Common to all essays * Can persuade through description Type of Description * Objective Focus on the object itself rather than on your personal reaction to it * Subjective Conveys your personal response
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later‚ Elie saw Moshe the Beadle again. What story did Moshe tell? T-2 The train carrying Moshe and the other deportees traveled to Poland where the Gestapo took charge. The Jews were forced from the train and taken to a nearby forest‚ where they dug huge graves. The Jews stepped up to the graves they had just dug and were then slaughtered by the Gestapo. 9. How was Moshe able to escape? He was wounded in the leg and pretended he was dead. Later‚ he was able to escape. 10. How had Moshe changed
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And they all confessed ... IN 1936‚ TERROR REIGNED in the Soviet Union and Anna Akhmatova wrote: "I have seen faces consumed‚ glimpsed horror under lowered eyelids‚ cheeks etched by pain." Even André Gide observed after his visit to the Soviet Union in 1936: "In my opinion‚ no country today not even in Hitler’s Germany is the spirit more suppressed‚ more timid‚ more servile than in the Soviet Union." Or‚ as brigade commander S. P. Kolosov whose final fate is unknown expressed it in an anything
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It is hard to imagine the sheer amount of faith necessary for the willingness to sacrifice one’s own safety for the sake of someone else. Various Christian witnesses have demonstrated this faith all throughout the millennia‚ including – probably most obviously – St. Joan of Arc or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. However‚ one man who perhaps best exemplifies absolute Christian faith and martyrdom in recent decades is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His life is the story of a man who essentially sacrificed an opportunity
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The Rise of Hitler Throughout the history of mankind‚ many leaders have come and gone. Worldwide top leaders that marked history are Apple Inc. co-founder‚ chairman‚ and CEO Steve Jobs‚ France’s first emperor Napoleon Bonaparte‚ sixteenth U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‚ Nobel Peace Prize Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher‚ to mention a few. A leader that clearly made a statement and brought a lot of controversy during World War II was Chancellor and Führer
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Night Study Questions with Answers Section 1‚ pages 1-31 1. Describe Moshe the Beadle. He worked at the Hasidic synagogue. He was able to make himself seem insignificant‚ almost invisible. He was timid‚ with dreamy eyes‚ and did not speak much. 2. Describe Elie Wiesel’s father. What was his occupation? He was cultured and unsentimental. He had more concern for outsiders than for his own family. He and his wife were storekeepers. 3. Why was Moshe the Beadle important to Elie Wiesel?
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Guide to GCSE History exam – Unit 2 Depth Study 1 hour 15 minutes Question 1 1a (source inference) What can you learn from source A about…? 4 marks (6 minutes) Source A: From a book about the history of Germany‚ published in 2009. On the evening of 27 February 1933‚ the Reichstag building was destroyed by a massive fire. A young Dutchman‚ a Communist supporter called Marinus van der Lubbe‚ was caught on the site. Van der Lubbe was put on trial‚ found guilty and executed. But his
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such‚ she does not experience the stability of a home base. This is the case when the family is faced with troubles concerning the law; “One night a policeman tapped on our window and said we had to leave... after he left‚ Dad called him the goddamn Gestapo and said that people like that got their jollies pushing people like us around. Dad was fed up with civilization. He and Mom decided we should move back to the desert and resume our hunt for gold without our starter money...” (Walls‚ pg. 34). It is
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Discuss the affect of the Nazi rule on the German people? Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933‚ that same year the ‘Enabling Act’ was passed and Germany transformed from a Democracy into a Dictatorship. Hitler had three main plans in his vision of Germany. Firstly he was to rebuild Germany’s economy‚ secondly he was to make Germany a powerful nation again and thirdly he was to create a ‘pure German’ society by getting rid of racial minority groups‚ especially Jews. When the Nazi party
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The Nuremburg Trials The Holocaust was an unparalleled crime composed of millions of murders imprisonment‚ racism‚ and destruction. It destroyed millions of lives and wiped out over six million Jews during the course of World War II under Hitler’s power. The aftermath of these horrific events proved to be a difficult one since no form of punishment could ever suffice to the torture and pain the Nazi’s inflicted on the Jewish Community. This challenge was attempted by the International
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