Humanity has accomplished so many things and advanced greatly since its beginning. We managed to set foot on the moon, and send probes to research planets across the solar system. We designed new technology and now people from different sides of the world can communicate within seconds. Humanity accomplishes new feats every year. However, because we are all human beings, we all have a tribal instinct. Because of this tribal Instinct, humanity cannot solve urgent problems in the world. Tribal instinct, also referred to as Tribalism, is something all humans have. Tribalism is the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group. These social groups or tribes can be anything; nations, communities, religious groups, etc. RHEG, a website with an informative article about tribalism, has many facts and examples about humanities tribal instincts. Often in tribalism, members of a group gather around an “alpha”. Members of a tribal group idolize these alphas and look to them for guidance in desperate times. Tribalism can sometimes be a good thing, or a bad thing. Popular examples of bad things are sexism, racism, homophobia, and ageism. Although humanity is very advanced …show more content…
The Holocaust in World War II is a great example of a strong presence of tribalism. Over six million Jewish citizens were killed by Nazi Germany. The Nazis believed that their social group was superior to jews, and stopped at nothing to prove it. Their alpha was Adolf Hitler, and the nazi followers looked up to him during the ten plus years he reigned. Once Hitler committed suicide, his followers did not have an alpha to follow, and surrendered to the western allies only a few days after. Unfortunately, the concept of Nazism is even in talks in today's world because of multiple Neo-nazi rallies, and
In the book Night, Eliezer’s father, one of the main characters, shows various changes throughout the story. In the beginning of the book, the book states, “Cultured man, .... He rarely displayed his feelings, .... The Jewish community of Sighet held him in highest esteem; his advice on public and even private matters was frequently sought.” (pg. 4).
During the holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. “ Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.” the book Night revels Elie experiences during the holocaust.
The most important passage in Elie Wiesel’s Night is, “One day I was able to get up after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.”(p ) This passage is important because the book was based on Eliezer’s experience in the Holocaust, and was written from his point of view. The reader learns from this passage Eliezer survived the Holocaust and all of the harmful things that were happening to him, but he felt as if he was dead because of what he had been through. Everything he had gone through during the time of the Holocaust will have changed his whole life
In the beginning chapters of Night, it is shown that the Nazis have developed various strategies to strip the prisoners of their identities. When Eliezer and his family had arrived at Birkenau, the first action the Nazis in charge took was to separate the women from the men. By doing so, Eliezer and his father were taken away from his mother and sister. “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Wiesel, 29). Eliezer’s family had been with him throughout his entire life and helped him grow into who he was at them time and separating them could have caused him losing a piece of himself. In addition, upon arrival the group saw large fires surrounding the camps they soon came
How much can one person change/transform throughout one of the worst times in history? In this horrific story Night by Elie Wiesel it is told from his own point of view because the book is about his own experience in the concentration camps. An important character is Eliezer’s father because Elie has to take care of him a lot throughout the book. Night is about when Elie Wiesel is taken from his house and sent to a concentration camp. He faces selection and many other terrifying things that not only change his outlook on life, but how he thinks about his religion and God. In the end, the soviet union takes over the camp Eliezer is in and he is set free. Change can happen overtime or in a short amount of time. One way people can change is through traumatic events because it can change how one person can think about the world and other people.
Eleven million humans lost their lives during the holocaust, but there were some individuals that were lucky enough to survive through the living Hell of the reign of Hitler. It was a gruesome transition for many, and it really changed the mindset of any remaining survivors. In the book, “Night”, Elie Wiesel changed into a completely different person throughout the book.
It has been said, “the bigger the challenge, the more your sacrifices will impact you.” This statement not only applies to people who face a small challenge, but to people who have been chased by death. In Elie Wiesel’s telling of the Holocaust in Night, the events that he witnessed have significantly changed him. He was sent to a concentration camp as a young teenager, and had to overcome many traumatic situations including: being tortured by the nazis, and watching his father get beat up multiple times. He doesn’t realize how much he has changed till the end of his stay at the concentration camps, but he became more mature and determined.
Seven billion people, seven billion different faces, seven billion unique characters, and most importantly, seven billion significant identities. Trauma, is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience, everyone experience trauma in their life, from breaking their bones to surviving a Nazi concentration camp. Identities are changed during these experiences, negative or positive, one’s identity can be described as your personality and who you are. Everyone’s identity changed during their life from different events that occur in their life. Elie Wiesel’s memoir ‘Night’ and his famous Nobel Prize acceptance speech are two of the most moving and touching examples of how horrible traumatic experiences can be. Traumatic experience is far worse than you think it is, and the changes of one’s identity is bigger than anyone could imagine. Traumatic experiences affect one’s
The more of the world a person sees, the more he/she realizes that it is not as perfect as he/she thinks it is. When one matures, he/she gains knowledge and experiences that affect how he/she act and think. Their perspective of the world changes either positively or negatively. Night, an autobiographical memoir written by Elie Wiesel, tells of the horrors he faced as a child during the Holocaust. The more the readers read about his experiences, the more they see how his perspectives change throughout the novel. Emily Dickinson's poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” explains how one must conquer his/her fear in order to see more of the world. The way we perceive things change as we gain more knowledge and experience of the world we live in.
Why must humans be either inherently good or inherently evil? The narrative Night by Elie Wiesel illustrates humanity in one of the darkest periods of history, to abandon humanity to survive vs keeping it from spiraling down into hopelessness. As Eliezer struggles to survive against starvation and abuse, he also grapples with the destruction of his faith in God’s justice and battles with the darker sides of himself.Throughout the novel, Eliezer feels a conflict between protecting his father who poses as a burden and giving himself the best chance of survival. The narrative also brings up a very important question, ‘’Are humans inherently good or evil?’’ How can we ever compare the kindness of the French girl who healed Eliezer 's wounds to the SS officers that had beaten him cruelly? We can not, and not just for that reason alone. Are humans born inherently good and became soiled by the filth and corrupt of the world, conditioning them to forget their morals and turn against each-other? Or are humans born inherently evil judging by their capability to commit heinous crimes and there is no goodness in this world, just people who are far less evil than others? In my opinion, humans are born neither inherently good or evil. It’s not as if Eliezer was born with a moral compass, he was raised with high morals and to serve God (and abandoning him when he feels God is cruel to let them suffer). His experience in the camps allows him to explore the darker concepts in humanity
During the Holocaust they counted that 6 million Jews died.The Jews faced many difficulties, death being the main one. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he told his story of the difficulties he faced during the Holocaust. The Nazis were horrible to the Jews; they gave them little food, made them march many miles, worked them long hard hours, and when on the train they had little air. Because Elie Wiesel overcame his difficulties he faced during the Holocaust, I feel I can overcome my problems and live a wonderful life.
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“the persistence of the taboo, namely that the original desire to do the prohibited thing must also still persist among the tribes concerned. They must therefore have an ambivalent attitude towards their taboos. In their unconscious there is nothing they would like more than to violate them, but they are afraid to do so and the fear is stronger than the desire. The desire is unconscious, however, in every individual member of the tribe just as it is in neurotics” (Freud 40).
In addition to staging emergency crew, the ISS could stage mission specialists for missions traversing in or near LEO. One example of this is the Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) retrieval mission called the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). The current ARM mission plan is to dispatch an unmanned spacecraft collect and redirect a boulder from a NEA to lunar orbit14. Once there, a human mission would be dispatched to study the asteroid. As the drive of the mission would be primarily scientific discovery, the composition of astronauts would lean heavily toward scientists. To support the mission or series of mission, the mission team can be launched to the ISS as jumping off point allowing the astronauts to become acclimated and practice their