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    Warsaw Ghetto‚ 1943. Thousands of prisoners‚ many of them Jews intended to be sent to the death camp‚ Auschwitz‚ begin an uprising against their German captors. They are out gunned down and outnumbered by the . Most of the Jewish fighters are hungry and weak‚ many of them sick. Any man‚ woman or even a child who can fire a weapon‚ set a fuse or carry message has a part in the conspiracy against certain death. If caught with any links to the plan they will likely be killed on the spot. This monument

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    Man in the Mine A life in the ghetto is no life at all. Especially in Molesville‚ Pennsylvania‚ a town left in the dust by modern society. Ever since I can remember my mother has been sick‚ this terrible place is the cause. With little sanitation the streets are rat infested and the poor die young. We had not had enough money‚ when my father left us‚ to afford food to live with‚ let alone go get help from a doctor. After my mother’s pregnancies she gradually became more and more sick. I thought

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    San Bernardino the Ghetto

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    environment along with the type of people in the area roaming around‚ I knew the crime rates were gonna be high. I found that in 2010 alone their was 10‚987 total crime incidents in San Bernardino. 8‚967 of these were property crimes. If it were up to me to improve this area‚ I would instill street barriers on some through streets‚ to create smaller communities and make it harder for would be offenders to get in and out. I would incorporate more street lighting and lighted pathways. I would get rid

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    With this many humans confined in such small area‚ living conditions were deplorable and the death toll was very high. The Warsaw Ghetto was only a 1.3 square mile area that was separated by a 10 foot barbed wire wall guarded by armed Nazi soldiers. Life inside the Warsaw Ghetto was one of great suffering. With this many people confined in such a small area‚ there was a lot of disease‚ starvation‚ and suffering. Only a small amount of food was provided

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    The ghetto was where the Nazis send all the remaining Jews to live in. It was located on the outskirts of Germany. Most Jews had to watch their families and friends die in front of them. They were done watching people getting killed in front of them. On September 1942 the United Partisan Organization was formed in the Vilna ghetto. They built a secret headquarters and weapon factory in a basement that was hidden from the Nazis‚ mapped all alleys and cellars while traveling without being detected

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    fight tanks and mounted machine guns with only a few pistols and rifles? Well that is what happened in the Uprising of Warsaw Ghetto in April‚ 1943 when a group of Jewish fighters fought the Nazi power. The Jews were equipped with only pistols and a few rifles. They dug tunnels and bunkers to hide and store stuff. Although the Germans defeated the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto uprising‚ they did not stand a chance until the Jews ran out of men and supplies. “In July 22‚ 1942‚ the Nazis began sending

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    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw was the largest Jewish community in Europe before World War I. After the start of World War I‚ the Nazis invaded Warsaw and turned it into a ghetto. Jews were kept in Warsaw until they could be transported to the Treblinka death camp.The Germans packed Jews into the ghetto from surrounding areas. The ghetto housed from 400‚000 to 500‚000 Jews at its peak. The Warsaw ghetto was so crowded that people were housed about nine people per room‚ still leaving people homeless

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    community are currently living in. A majority of these neighborhoods are poverty stricken for a variety of factors and because of the degradation of the community‚ people are stuck in this cyclical trap of poverty. The conception of the “American Ghetto” is a vicious cycle of factors that are not entirely in the control of the people living in poor neighborhoods. Poverty does not just happen‚ however.

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    realizes she never loved Owen and pretended to be someone she wasn’t. Love sustains with a challenge is the most significant theme in “Brigid”‚ because Owen’s wife realizes she wasn’t as loving as she could have been‚ had no compassion for Brigid‚ and made herself out to be someone she was not. When true loves comes to mind‚ you usually think of that elderly couple that goes for a morning stroll in the park‚ holding hands. You infer they have been through hard times‚ but they had each other. The

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    neither of the those. Although just because I have never been that girl doesn’t mean I haven’t had my own struggles and obstacles I have had to overcome. Obstacles that made me who I am. The ones that gave me my identity. My obstacles started as a baby. I was conceived when my mother was only thirteen years old. She lost custody of me and my older three siblings because she was still young and naive. My grandmother who had raised kids since she was the same age had to pick up the slack and gain custody

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