Merchant of Venice Essay The Merchant of Venice is a Shakespearian play whose plot is centered around love and loss. Throughout the play Shakespeare satirizes Jewish stereotypes and depicts acts of extreme bigotry‚ this has lead to a significant amount of debate as to whether or not Shakespeare was antiemetic. However when one makes a detailed analysis of the text it becomes increasingly evident that Shakespeare holds a very biased view of the Jewish people. Throughout the story‚ Shylock is tormented
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In the novel ‘We Are Witnesses’ a 13 year old Orthodox Jew by the name of Moshe Flinker is highlighted through his very own diary entries during the holocaust. I personally I thought it was very easy to make a connection to Moshe and his thoughts/writing. One major connection I was able to make was when Moshe stated that he was very keen on the idea of being a Jewish diplomat in a nationalist-all Jew Israel. I to am a big dreamer and very much enjoy thinking about my future and deciding what I should
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Before the nineteenth century anti-Semitism was largely religious‚ based on the belief that the Jews were responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion. It was expressed later in the Middle Ages by persecutions and expulsions‚ economic restrictions and personal restrictions. After Jewish emancipation during the enlightenment‚ or later‚ religious anti-Semitism was slowly replaced in the nineteenth century by racial prejudice‚ stemming from the idea of Jews as a distinct race. In Germany theories of Aryan
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The Butcher’s Tale The thesis of this book is the matter of bigotry engrained in a society that turns into mass hysteria directed toward the subjects of such bigotry. The author tells the tale of the murder of a child‚ for whom a Jewish butcher is blamed‚ and subsequently causes violence against all Jewish residents in the town. The Jewish butcher was accused of the murder not because of the overwhelming evidence against him‚ but simply because the Christians of that town were made to believe
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How far is Shylock a character for whom we can feel sympathy? How would a contemporary audience’s response to him differ from that of an audience in Shakespeare’s time? Shylock isn’t a character for whom we can feel much sympathy for because he always seems to be thinking about himself and his money rather than other people around him. Through most of the play he seems selfish‚ and it seems in some parts of the play as though he doesn’t care about his daughter. He also has a very strict religion
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“The opposite of love is not hate but indifference‚” Elie Weisel stated after commenting on his thoughts on racism and his years surviving the Holocaust. Weisel was thrown in and out of concentration camps starting at the age of fifteen until finally his final camp where his father had died was liberated. The tragedies that Weisel along with the other millions of people who suffered were unimaginable and even Weisel himself strived for years to find words that somewhat explained what their experience
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A ROLE MODEL OF BUSINESS‚ PIERRE PELADEAU by Felipe Munoz 22 March 2009 IS PIERRE PELADEAU A GOOD ROLE-MODEL FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS? Many of us have heard of Pierre Peladeau‚ a man who built a multi-billion dollar company from a $1‚500 loan. He is one of the most famous entrepreneurs of Quebec history. There is no doubt that he achieved a lot during his life time and there is no doubt that a lot of it was good. He was and is still an icon of Canadian business world. For instance‚ he was known
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Anne Frank- Primary Source Paper The Diary of Anne Frank is a remarkably moving book about the short life of a young girl and her family. The Holocaust was a horrible time for Jewish people and Anne and her Jewish family’s lives were completely turned upside down as a result. The war resulted in the deaths of countless people‚ mostly innocent people. Before the invasion on D-day and the end of the war not too long after‚ the rest of the world didn’t know the real disaster going on over seas. Anne
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On the cover of If I Should Die Before I Wake I put Hilary in her hospital bed reliving some of the events in Chana’s life. There are images of children being questioned by Nazi’s‚ families being taken to the ghetto or concentration camps and people behind fences. Beneath the title there is also a heart rate which represents Hilary’s cardiac monitor while she’s in the hospital. My favorite character in the book is Anya. Anya is one of Chana’s younger sisters. I like Anya because despite
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Tolerance Museum I visited Tolerance Museum last summer with my friend. It is located in Los Angeles‚ California. First‚ I just went there because my friend asked me to come there with them for fun. But when I came there‚ I really was attracted because of the unordinary museum. The first impression of the museum is that at the entrance we were divided into two groups and we must make a decision to entrance two different places inside the museum. It looked like a game and visitors were so excited
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