Short Story: Ordinarys

In the book Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning tackles the question of why German citizens engaged in nefarious behavior that led to the deaths of millions of Jewish and other minorities throughout Europe. The question of what drove Germans to commit acts of genocide has been investigated by numerous historians, but unfortunately, no overarching answer for the crimes has yet been decided upon. However, certain theories are more popular than others. Daniel Goldhagen in his book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, has expounded that the nature of the German culture before the Second World War was deeply embedded in anti-Semitic fervor, which in turn, acted as the catalyst for the events that would unfold into the Holocaust. It is at this

Ordinary Men is the disconcerting examination of how a typical unit of middle-aged reserve policemen became active participants in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Polish Jews.

Ordinary People by Judith Guest is a book thats being told by 2 different perspectives, the protagonist Conrad Jarrett and the antagonist Calvin Jarrett, who also is Conrad's father. The point of view of each side is in every other chapter. Conrad is a character dynamic in the story, who will change his perspective in seeing things. Calvin is a character static, who’s constantly worrying about his son Conrad. The setting of the book takes place in Lake Forest, Illinois. The story surrounded the Jarrett family and how they interacted with one another along with the people around them. Calvin is a 41 years old tax attorney, a husband, and a father of 2 kids. Conrad is his second son, who is a Junior in High School. About more than a year, before

Helping 1,268 people survive is not easy especially when it is during a brutal genocide. The streets, a pool of blood and corpses,were your normal scenery when driving through the country of Rwanda. An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina is about the Rwanda War between Hutus and Tutsis and the mass genocide that broke out, and how Paul, just an ordinary man with a hotel, saved many people's lives who did not even fathom they would live to tell about the war. Paul Rusesabagina had many past upbringing and experiences that helped him ensure his survival and the survival of others that were in his life, such as how Paul's dad was Hutu and his mom was Tutsi, managing the Hotel Mille Collines,

Ordinary people by: Judith Guest, is a breath taking, beautiful story, about a young boy, Conrad, who struggles to get a grip on reality after his brother, Buck/Jordan ,passes in a horrific accident. The Jarrett’s struggle with keeping their family together and keeping everyone alive, literally.The story puts the family and their close friends feelings and opinions on paper while showing an insight into their lives and worlds. It captures the life of a real teen and his journey through tragedy.

Christopher R. Browning’s “Ordinary Men” chronicles the rise and fall of the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The battalion was one of several units that took part in the Final Solution to the Jewish Question while in Poland. The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101, and other units were comprised of ordinary men, from ordinary backgrounds living under the Third Reich. Browning’s premise for the book is very unique, instead of focusing on number of victims, it examines the mindset of how ordinary men, became cold-hearted killers under Nazi Germany during World War II. Christopher Browning’s “Ordinary Men” presents a very strong case that the men who made up the Reserve Police Battalion 101 were indeed ordinary men from ordinary background, and

Scientifically, it has been proven that one should not make long-term decisions while hungry. Students at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden studied whether or not it is smart to make a decision when you are ravenous. A hormone that is made in the gastrointestinal tract, called ghrelin enhanced this study. Ghrelin is released when your body is searching for food as energy. When you are no longer hungry, the manufacturing of ghrelin halts. Ghrelin is also associated with drug and alcohol intake. Tests were developed to demonstrate how this happens through living organisms, the researchers at the University of Gothenburg examined rats. Although rats are not humans, they can display human-like behaviors. When an extra amount of ghrelin was inserted into the rat, they went against their regular impulses. They would gain a

The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were just ordinary men, from a variety of backgrounds, education, and age. It would appear that they were not selected by any force other than random chance. Their backgrounds and upbringing, however, did little to prepare these men for the horrors they were to witness and participate in.

In the book Ordinary People by Judith Guest the person I relate with most is going to be Conrad Jarrett. Conrad is the son of Calvin and Beth. In the story Conrad was in a boating accident with his brother which caused his brother’s death and Conrad blamed himself for his death. Then Conrad a year later tried to commit suicide and it forced him to have to spend time in a hospital to get better. When Conrad gets out he still feels little purpose in life and no motivation. He starts to see Dr. Berger to help him recover from everything he has been through. My relation with his problems isn’t exactly the same but I can relate in a way. My stepdad had a car accident and the car accident caused his death. Me and my family were devastated when we found out. It can really change a lot when a family member dies.

and it closed softly behind me, the blades snick-ing back into their places and the alarm re-engaging behind my back. I looked around, keeping perfectly still with my body pressed into the shadows against the door, my eyes narrowed and my breath coming and going silently through my mouth. The room was bare except for a white block about the size of a

Although they were trying to survive from this bad financial hit, at that time the world also faced a financial crisis due to sudden economic recession.

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are faced to deal with" (William Halsey). The same can be said about volatile men. This is the quote Christopher R. Browning thought of when he named this book. The men of the 101st battalion were rarely faced with decisions. Even if it had been proposed by Trapp the morning of Jozefow that "any of the older men who did not feel up to the task that lay before them could step out" (Browning, chapter 7, pg. 57), he didn't actually allow them any time to truly think about it. He brought it up moments before they were about to go out to the slaughter. They were blind-sided and the men who didn't want to risk the future of their jobs as policemen or the men

As I previously mentioned, Dahl wouldn’t agree with the fact that the ordinary man can’t better himself or make change, which is the bases of Mill’s quote. “---A has power over B--- is not interesting, informative, or even accurate“ (Dahl, 1957, Pg. 80.) To state the obvious there are certainly authority figures within our lives that have the responsibility to over see us and make sure we do right, yet there is no one group that controls our thoughts or poses a threat to better ourselves as individuals. Dahl gives the example of the president, and how he is the base and we are the response. If the president is making poor decisions for this country we reserve the right to vote another candidate into the white house, or as Dahl mentioned the

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Ordinary. That is how August felt, ordinary, but people did not see August that way every time he went somewhere he was stared or laughed at. I wouldn’t be like that if I were August. It seems as if August has a hard time at school and everywhere he goes. If I were him I would feel terrible, cool, and awkward.