Nazism was a revolution, and revolutions tend to devour their own.” The words of Robert Smith Thompson (2003, 141) have just described the crisis that was facing the Weimar Republic in the years 1933-1939. Adolf Hitler had risen to power and the 14 year old democratic republic was about to be eradicated in favour of something more sinister. Totalitarianism can be described as relating to a form of government that permits no rival loyalties or parties, demanding entire subservience of the individual to the state (the Concise Oxford dictionary). A totalitarian state’s ideologies reject existing societies as corrupt, immoral and beyond reform. They demand total conformity of all the people and their ideas and information is displayed through effective use of propaganda (TV, radio, press and education.)
229) I believe this quote reveals the moral because as he reads this book he find out Crusoe is all alone and isolated and even though Charlie doesn’t realize it yet he himself is isolated and lonely as well. Next the writer demonstrates the lesson by including the character’s dialogue. While Charlie is reading his progress reports with Miss Kinnian he says, “All my frends are smart people but there good.” (Pg. 229) I feel this quote expresses the theme because Charlie doesn’t realize how his friends actually treat him. He thinks they’re all nice to him, but instead they just laugh at him and make fun of him which signalizes that he’s lonely.
Amber Benge Professor Spencer English 101-E102 24 September 2013 A Critique of Wendell Berry’s “Faustian Economics” In the essay Faustian Economics by Wendell Berry, Mr. Berry is discussing the usage of fossil fuel and biofuel by the public. Throughout the essay he states that we use things limitlessly and how in the end, everything will be used up and there will be nothing left. His use of artists as an example shows that he is upset with the world’s use of energy and how it all comes down to the selfishness of the people that will eventually cause the complete usage of all available energy resources available. During this critique we will look at the author’s main argument, how clearly the essay is written and how it was interpreted by the reviewer. Mr. Berry’s main argument in this essay is that the world’s usage of fossil fuel is limitless and even though the people are looking into alternative means of supporting its energy and fuel consumption, it will eventually use up all of the natural available resources.
But Germans blamed it for signing the Versailles treaty and for hunger and unemployment. Hitler set up a fascist style party called the Nazi party. Hitler wanted to tear up the Versailles treaty and unite all Germans so they could form a great German empire. He blamed the Jews and the communists for Germany’s troubles and wanted to destroy them. When the Great Depression 1929 forced many factories to close, desperate Germans voted for the Nazi party.
Centuries later, after Sauron had lost control of the ring, the ring was found once again and a fellowship of good men decided to destroy the ring. The ring could only be destroyed was by throwing the ring into Mount Doom. So the fellowship went on a quest across the land of Middle-Earth to destroy the ring. Michael Torre published an article in the Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture titled “The Portrait of Evil in The Lord of the Rings: Reflections Personal, Literary, and Theological.” This article mainly discusses how J.R.R. Tolkien uses the underlying idea of human kind’s constant struggle against evil, as in the context of Christian values.
By 1942, Hitler had assumed control of the German Army (an army that no longer had the strength and resources seen in Operation Barbarossa) and he listened to his generals much less than he had in previous years. Hitler’s main goals for attacking Stalingrad were to reach the rich oil fields of the Caucasus region; to conquer the main waterway of inner Russia, the Volga River; and to cripple the city so that it could no longer be an industrial or transportation center. These goals were ordered under “directive 41” code named Operation Blue where he ordered all available forces in the southern flank on the long front to destroy the Soviet forces there, allowing the German army to take the oil fields and Volga River . The above reasons were very rational from a strategic stand point, but many argue that Hitler’s obsession with conquering the city named after Stalin clouded his judgment when the battle swung in the favor of the Soviets. His ego forced him to ignore the constant warnings by his generals on more than one occasion.
During the most turbulent time in our history, America needed to undertake it's greatest challenge with limited time and under the most secretive conditions. The challenge would require the world’s greatest minds to come together as a group to create the world’s most destructive weapon known to man. The Manhattan Project required such secrecy, that not even he scientists involved were not informed of the full scope of the project. Their knowledge would be limited to their specific areas of expertise. In order to end the conflict of the World War II, a weapon that surpassed all other conventional weapons of that time would need to be created.
Vikram Seth has depicted the gruesome reality of first-ever nuclear explosion that was dropped on the city of Hiroshima by the US. The bomb was named ‘Little Boy’ and it was dropped because the government of Japan refused to surrender unconditionally in the Second World War. Three days later, another was dropped onto the city of Nagasaki. The cities turned into a living hell with the survivors running with molten skin dripping off their bodies. The smell of charred bodies and painful screams were heard everywhere.
The poet is saying that people should not talk about war as enthusiastically as it gives the impression that war is glorious. Furthermore, he says that the idea that ’it is sweet and right’ to die for your country is entirely untrue. Through this, we are able to form the opinion that war is not okay because it is a serious thing that carries many negative consequences. In Wilfred Owen’s poem Dolce et Decorum est, the use of similes conveys the harsh reality of war on soldiers as it changes them dramatically and kills the majority of them. In the first two lines of the poem, Owen uses the similes “Bent double like old beggars under sacks, knocked kneed, coughing like hags” to paint a grim picture in readers minds of how the soldiers were.
Daniel Dennett (philosopher and cognitive scientist) likens religion to cancer – it grows and is destructive. The late Christopher Hitchens (literary critic and journalist) wrote an entire book denouncing religion titled God is not great: How Religion poisons everything. In it he argues that religion is immoral, man-made and is grounded in nothing more than wish fulfilment. What do all these writers have in common? They are the leading figures of the so-called New Atheist Movement and they want to abolish religion from the face of the earth.