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    Meet Elie Wiesel Look‚ it’s important to bear witness. Important to tell your story. . . . You cannot imagine what it meant spending a night of death among death. —Elie Wiesel The obligation Elie Wiesel feels to justify his survival of a Nazi concentration camp has shaped his destiny. It has guided his work as a writer‚ teacher‚ and humanitarian activist; influ- enced his interaction with his Jewish faith; and affected his family and personal choices. Since World War II‚ Wiesel has borne witness

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    Jordan Cheatham Kirst ENG 101 March 11‚ 2011 Elie Wiesel’s Night The tragedies of the holocaust forever altered history. One of the most detailed accounts of horrific events from the Nazi regime comes from Elie Wiesel’s Night. He describes his traumatic experiences in German concentration camps‚ mainly Buchenwald‚ and engages his readers from a victim’s point of view. He bravely shares the grotesque visions that are permanently ingrained in his mind. His autobiography gives readers vivid‚

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    Wiesel and McBride’s Hindering Religious Past Religion is one of the many aspects that make up a person’s identity. Religion plays a major role in the search for identity of Ruth McBride‚ in James McBride’s The Color of Water‚ and Elie Wiesel‚ in his memoir‚ Night. Elie is tortured an dehumanized in concentration camps because he’s a Jew. He was seen as inferior because of his religion. Ruth was restricted from doing what her heart truly believed in because she was controlled by her Jewish faith

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    that you are explaining an issue‚ theme or idea to your intended audience. Your reaction to a work of literature could be in the form of an expository essay‚ for example if you decide to simply explain your personal response to a work. The expository essay can also be used to give a personal response to a world event‚ political debate‚ football game‚ work of art and so on. What are its most important qualities? You want to get and‚ of course‚ keep your reader’s attention. So‚ you should: Have a

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    Essay Ideas for Elie Wiesel’s Night 1. Good to Brutal: One of the most tragic themes in Night is Eliezer’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can turn good people into brutes. Does he himself escape this fate? Use specific events to convey your opinion. 2. Advocacy from Experience: Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his championing of human rights around the world. How might his advocacy for human rights have grown out of his Holocaust experiences? What are

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    Mayra I. Robles December 16‚ 2010 Mr. Dubois English 11‚ Lens Essay The Death of my Innocence “Night” a World Wide best seller‚ narrates Elie Wiesel’s experience as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. During 1933 Germany was ruled by Adolf Hitler‚ who belonged to the Nazi party. The Nazi believed the world should be purified by eliminating all races‚ especially the Jews. Their belief was that the Aryan race was the most pure and that the Jews were a disgrace to humanity. Hitler was

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    thinking about the capability of people and what they must have been thinking; not only the Nazis and how they treated the Jewish society‚ but how the Jews felt being under these conditions. Elie Wiesel speaks of his entire experience through the rough time that was the Holocaust in his world-famous novel‚ "Night". This novel illustrates the atrocity and ruthlessness of dehumanization moreover. According to our societal standards‚ subjecting a human being to this unimaginable existence is considered

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    Assignment 1.2: Summary and Personal Response Jennifer English Composition 115 May 10‚ 2012 Assignment 1.2: Summary and Personal Response In “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits‚” (Kim‚ 2004) the author‚ Suki Kim‚ writes about the struggles she faced as an impoverished‚ South Korean‚ immigrant teen in the 1980’s. Suddenly Kim’s world is turned upside down and she must find a way to survive in a foreign land. She writes emotionally about trying to find a place to

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    English 30-1 Hamlet Personal Response March 21 2013 Final Draft Interior Monologue My uncle is dead. Along with everyone else I love and the people they care about. My mother Gertrude‚ Ophelia‚ Laertes‚ and their father Polonius. Dead and gone to heaven forever. I finally killed Claudius! He has died the same way he killed the queen. With the poisoned drink and sword that was meant for me. I’ve been cut by Laertes poisoned covered sword‚ and will probably follow them to heaven any minute now

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    Personal Response Creation Lenses by Leah Silverman The main theme is humans can find it emotionally difficult to conform to society‚ but usually end up doing so. The meaning of this theme is that we all want to do things that are practical to society even if it feels wrong in our hearts.The main driving component which draws people too conformity are the desire to be accepted in certain status groups. People fear that if they do not conform to society‚ they will be

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