Ben Ross The Wave

All i gotta say is, this book is awesome!! I would rate maus a 4.5 out of 5. The book i'm reading is maus by Art, Spiegelman. This book is revolving around the author's father and his family's experiences in the days of the holocaust. The way the author drags you in by introducing you with a little family comedy is amazing i didn't really expect much out this book because for many years i've learned a lot about the holocaust and thought that i knew it all. The author goes his way explaining a different view that i never thought of. The spigelman family are jewish and the way the author goes about telling their story is by through their memories. I would always try to think what it would've been like as a jew during that time but the author opened my eyes as i was reading this book it was like learning every tragedy all over again. I reason i rated this book so high

It had not added much to the historical field, most of the plans for the rescue of Mussolini, bombing of New York, and outcome of the Battle of the Bulge were well known and researched. What Skorzeny had added to the field, however, was a more social aspect to the order on the Nazi side, as well as a more personal account with Hitler. However, it is deeply entertaining for any demographic, it had actually offered many surprises. The readability of the events was not overly technical, but had just enough that it allowed someone to feel as though they had actually been there. Overall, it had mostly added a personable feeling to the enemies that otherwise would not be obvious to anyone who was simply researching by

Ben Hall? Who was Ben Hall? A victim, hero or a criminal? Good Afternoon fellow students and Mrs. Nielsen. The topic that we will be debating this afternoon is: Ben Hall was a decent, innocent young man who suffered continual harassment by the police for no reason at all. He was driven into crime by the harshness of the authorities. Therefore making him an outlaw hero. A hero is defined as a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal. Today I will be talking about Ben hall’s life and what makes him a hero.

The book Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (Hitler Youth) will teach readers so much they probably didn’t know about the holocaust. It is filled with so many interesting facts and the descriptions are so detailed that they will make the reader feel like they’re there. This is a great

Throughout many writing pieces, and throughout many authors, the main idea is that the Holocaust is bad and nobody should repeat it. This is conveyed through The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, when a girl in a concentration camp sees horrible things. Another piece about the horrors of the Holocaust is The Boy Who Dared, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is about a boy who tries to educate people on how horrible the Holocaust is, but is killed by the Nazis. And by two Scholastic Scope articles, Teens against Hitler, by Lauren Tarshis and Betrayed By America by Kristin Lewis. One technique that the author used in The Boy who Dared that conveyed the idea that nobody should repeat the actions took in the Holocaust is the radio.

Throughout world history, many manifestations occurred which led to horrific demeanors. In 1981, Todd Strasser wrote a fictionalized novel known as The Wave, based on a real life event about an experiment. This experiment, conducted in 1969 by Ron Jones in Palo Alto, California, proves how effortlessly fascism can corrupt people. This experiment begins with a student’s question about the Holocaust which Jones cannot answer. The Holocaust was a horrific event that occurred from 1933 to 1945. This atrocity was initiated by Adolf Hitler, who tortured and murdered over eleven million Jewish people in extermination camps.

With this book, Wiesel has helped to ensure that the holocaust is never forgotten. The events that he and the other Jews endured and put in this book are memorable to any reader. Jews whose job were to help in the crematories, sometimes even help with putting others to death is pretty memorable. One man had to put his own father into the furnace (35). This is very memorable because they had to watch others just like them being burned to death, and one day others might have to do the same to them. They had to work in a place full of the dead, until they themselves were put to death. Another memorable event was when the dead bodies were thrown off the wagon (94) as if they were useless weight. That was memorable because those people had a previous life, with families that loved them, and their dead body meant absolutely nothing to the SS. It is moments like these must be remembered, in honor of the diseased. As Wiesel said, “For the survivors who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and the living...to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” (XV). Using good imagery and drilling the suffering of those who lived in these camps into the reader's mind, he has helped assure that

As for this book investigation, the novel for this assignment is called, When Books Went to War, by Molly Guptill Manning. The purpose of this novel is to demonstrate how books helped soldiers in World War II. Throughout this book, it explains how American troops read textbooks to help escape the world around them. Soldiers turn to books to release the tension they have from the war. Most of the time veterans feel lonely or depressed and by reading novels, it helps them to manage their emotions. This novel is written because it indicates how powerful books are towards people. These books have the power to “... soothed troubled minds and hearts...” (Manning 110). As the author claims, books helped win World War II.

The Holocaust should be taught to 8th graders. The story of the 6 million lives that were lost need to be told. It is very evident at this point that 8th graders are able to understand and process the Holocaust. There is no reason not to teach the Holocaust, and every reason to teach it. This paper argues that the best approach is to teach children about the holocaust early on, because it’s in the interest of everyone that their first encounter with the Holocaust isn’t random, through a TV show or the internet. “...better...to help them navigate what they will learn about

Do you want your children to be brainwashed by the Nazis? That is exactly what a high school experiment known as The Wave did. It was created by a History teacher named Todd Strasser in Palo Alto, California, to teach the students why the Nazis behaved the way they did. This experiment happened in real life, but this essay will be referencing a novel written by Todd Strasser. Although this experiment improved students' grades, The Wave created violence against non-Wave members and caused students to get peer pressured into joining.

Ross was also able to teach a very important life lesson to his students, never blindly follow a leader, the lesson will mean more to them because they experienced it themselves. He had tried to research the answers the students wanted and couldn’t find it, so he decided maybe the students just needed to experience it for themselves. Ben said he, “Just tried to give his students a sampling, a taste of what life in Nazi Germany might have been like.” (Strasser 26). This was why The Wave started and during the assembly, when Ben showed the students their “leader” he says to them, “Yes, you all would have made good Nazis.”

The Holocaust was a time that left a big scar on the culture of our world as a whole and there are still people suffering from it still to this day. In my investigation I will be looking at to what extent did the Holocaust affect the survivors, both mentally and physically upon return home from the concentration camps. I will be looking at books, both present and from the time period that talk about how they felt and what happened when they got home. I will also surf the internet, find interviews with survivors, look for articles, and newspapers from the time in order to get a better idea of what was going on in their life. I will then compare and contrast the facts at hand and pull out and mix what is the same and

In conclusion, my impression of the Holocaust is outraged by the events that underwent during the Holocaust. Personally, the part with the shooting of babies for target practice in “Night” makes me sick. It makes me wonder how people can live with themselves after tricking themselves to believe innocent Jews are the enemy when they’ve done no crime to deserve a

Gruwell taught her class about the Holocaust, the genocide of Jews. While learning about this major event in class the students were able to see how another person’s hatred affected someone’s life. They saw that many of the victims did not survive and were killed simply because of their race. This drew a parallel for the students to see how their hatred and violence against each other was senseless. In the same way Hitler killed Jews because of their race, they were killing each other. From learning about the Holocaust the students were able to step outside from their own personal norms, and examine a situation from a new or different

In “Hungry” and “On Becoming Educated” by Joy Castro as well as “Our Secret” by Susan Griffin, personal and political history work in similar ways to uncover the magnitude of similarities everyone contains. Castro uses her personal stories to emphasize societal norms, in relation to feminism, and how they affect and have affected learning similarly in history and modern times. Griffin takes on a similar task, but she relates her childhood interactions with family to those affected by the Holocaust, particularly Heinrich Himmler. Both writers identify sections in which they utilize elements of autobiography to connect individual life to the larger cultural and political implications by placing similar stories in order and broadening their choice of words and phrases. Castro and Griffin portray exactly how similar actions and occurrences can be due to the way society influences people and their ignorance, deception, and hidden intentions.