Haftr High School Summer Reading Project Paper By: Haley Wiener The author of Maus‚ Art Spiegelman‚ portrays the different types of people involved in the holocaust in a confusing way. Spiegelman uses animals in the graphic novel to try (and help) the reader understand relationships‚ feelings‚ and situations more deeply. The author uses mice as Jews‚ the Germans as cats‚ the Poles as pigs‚ the Americans as dogs‚ the French as frogs‚ the Swedes by reindeers‚ the British by fish‚ and the Romani
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Cindy Tung Mrs. Maus 010.006 H 22 March‚ 2009 “Time heals all wounds.” Slavery is a major issue in the South. Although it may have been abolished sooner‚ racism is still a prominent issue. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mocking Bird‚ there is a myriad of perfect examples of how time will heal all wounds. Even if racism exists in Scout’s time‚ generations will learn from their mistakes as time “heals“ all of the wounds that are inflicted on humanity. The killing of Tom Robinson truly
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Google Android and Apple iOS and with MAUs (monthly average users) of 35 million‚ it is the fourth most popular game on Facebook. Other games (Exhibit 1) were introduced during the last years including Mafia Wars (June 2008)‚ FarmVille (June 2009)‚ Treasure Isle (April 2010)‚ Frontier Ville (June 2010)‚ Words With Friends (November 2010)‚ CityVille (December 2010)‚ Empires & Allies (June 2011)‚ and many others. CityVille is the largest game on Facebook (MAUs: 70 million) consistent with AppData
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107 volunteers. The Miles’s troops arrived off Guanica‚ Porto Rico near daylight on July 25th‚ and the harbor was entered without opposition. The flag of the United States was raised on the island by staff officers‚ General Gilmore and Colonels Maus‚ Gaskill‚ Black and Whitney. The same day Commander Davis‚ of the Dixie‚ entered the port of Ponce and found that it was neither fortified nor mined. The following morning the troops were mobilized to the harbor of Ponce‚ where Miles’s troops took
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spoke four languages (English‚German‚ Yiddish‚ and Polish)‚ he could build and craft‚ and he had connections in his family and in Anja’s family. In many occasions in the book‚ speaking a different language helped him survive‚ in the last 2-3 pages of Maus I Vladek is asked if he could write German so this one man can get a parcel of food. Vladek said yes and began to write and after a short time‚ the parcel arrived and the man offered Vladek to take anything he wanted from the parcel since Vladek has
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ability to move beyond what has happened and look toward the future. An individual is often shaped by their past experiences. If ensuing guilt is not dealt with‚ however‚ the past can hinder the ability to achieve in the present. In Art Spielgelman’s MAUS II‚ Vladek and Art struggle to live in the present and are laden with guilt from their pasts. When not properly dealt with‚ guilt can become an overpowering emotion‚ governing decisions and depleting self motivation. To move successfully past debilitating
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Graphic Novel Subject Guide 1 Graphic Novels Subject Guide Spring 2010 – Nova Scotia Public Libraries The Misunderstood Medium It is important to understand that the terms “comics” and “graphic novels” describe a medium rather than a genre. The difference is that a genre is a type of story‚ with certain rules that it must follow in order to fit into that genre. “Westerns‚” “mysteries‚” “romances” are examples of genre. A medium is a form of expression like movies‚ novels or poetry. Essentially
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“The Danger of a Single Story” was about a nigerian woman who grew up reading children’s books that all had the same outline of the characters‚ White with blonde hair and blue eyes that played in the snow and drank ginger beer; she had a single story of characters in books. When she started writing that is how all of her characters appeared because that’s all she’s known in literature. The Problem with a single story is There is diversity and it makes children vulnerable to having only one perception
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survive from the catastrophe. His saponaceous and suspicious habits would also be learnt during the suffering in Poland. As a result‚ he changed a lot by having that trauma through a painful way. On the other hand‚ in Art Spiegelman’s famous comic “Maus II”‚ he demonstrated that his father had a bad experience when the first time he moves to New York about black people. So the when the time Artie wanted to help the black people with a free ride‚ his father showed a series of prejudice and
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A topic that was discussed thoroughly throughout the second half of this class in several novels and movies is guilt‚ whether criminal‚ political‚ moral‚ or metaphysical. This guilt concerning the Holocaust was discussed in terms of different groups of people‚ including the offenders‚ bystanders‚ or future generations of Germans. In Schlink’s The Reader (1995)‚ for instance‚ guilt is an integral topic for the book’s main characters and they wrestle with it decades after the Holocaust. However‚ in
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