When he wasn’t referring to God as his imaginary childhood friend that promised security and purpose, he was exposing the blunt truth to true believers. At one point in the film he is speaking to a shop owner. In the words of Maher, this shop owner is an “ex jew for Jesus”. He follows him with a very personal question, “What caused you to believe in Jesus?”. As the man takes a deep breath and begins to explain, Bill Maher nonchalantly avoids eye contact and admires an overpriced piece in the man’s store.
He was going to take advantage of the German occupation program to “Aryanize” and “Germanize” many of the Jewish and Polish owned businesses. He employed Jewish workers as he knew that their labor would be cheaper than the Polish. He manipulated his way in with some of the higher ranking SS officers and solidified his position making sure he was protected. His only concern was to make it rich. But something unexpected happened to him during this time.
While many people may have thought that this film was just a beautiful love story between Rick and Ilsa, most did not know that its true meaning was much more significant than that. This was an early war film released in 1942 when citizens all over Europe were fleeing from the Nazis. At this time, most Americans were not too excited about the idea of entering the war to help the fight against the Nazis. Hollywood noticed this and they ended up making Casablanca, which was a pro-interventionist film to try and get Americans to support the war. Throughout this paper I will explain how Casablanca was a pro-interventionist film and how its main character, American nightclub owner Rick, changed his ways.
In the past, Zits didn’t give a flying “plop” about peoples feeling, but after witnessing this Jimmy’s unfaithfulness, Zits says to himself, “I think how I betrayed those people in the bank. Those people in the bank trusted me to be sober and smart and kind. I betrayed them. I’m a betrayer. I want to weep, but it’s kinda hard to do that when you don’t have a body.” Through all the experiences Zits goes through and the knowledge he gained, it made it easier for him to open to someone who wants to care for him by saying, “My real name is Michael.
Thomas Thompson 8/25/12 AP English IV G/T Schmidt “Salvation” Essay In Langston Hughes’s “Salvation,” he describes himself being “saved from sin… But not really saved.” He was young, and he wanted to please the adults he respected, so he pretended to be saved. In reality, though, the adults he looked up to were the ones responsible for his loss of faith, and unwillingness to be saved. Hughes’s Aunt Reed told him that, “when you were saved you saw a light… you could see and hear and feel Jesus in your soul,” but that was not what he experienced. He had heard others describe “being saved” like that as well, so he assumed Jesus was not coming. He had been fed information about what to perceive in an intensely personal situation, but he wasn’t feeling it.
Paul is a good person I would have to say maybe a little lost and miss guided but a good person in general poetic person his deep but you have to know the intentions of his character. His father seemed like a good man trying to make a honest living for him and his family but I could see where he could be stern. His teachers seemed not to like Paul at all repulsed by Paul and his actions. Most of the people in the theatre didn’t seem to mind Paul at all until they were told by his dad not to let him into the theater. 6.
While some prisoners traded in their inner moral compass in order to increase their own chances of survival, very few men stayed true to their values of compassion and honesty. On page 65 and 66, we hear the stories of extraordinary men who walked through the barracks comforting others and giving away their last piece of bread, thereby overlooking their own motives for self-preservation. Although it is human nature to only look out for yourself, Frankl sees the beauty in the kind souls who stay true to their ethics and values despite extreme situations in the Holocaust. I believe that actions such as these restore Frankl’s faith in humanity, providing him yet another reason to live. It was amazing to read about Frankl’s struggles during the Holocaust and the resulting insights that he provides in his memoir.
Kaleemuddin says, “It brought a bit of terror in my chest. I’d wonder, ‘Why are they doing this? I’ve always been nice to them.’” This is an example of someone who was not involved in the terrorist acts eleven years ago, yet still gets discriminated against because of his ethnic background. Since 1961, people still do not have the decency to give others a chance. “Workers have complained of discrimination even in regions known for their diversity.” (New York Times).
He expresses what is right even when I want to do my own thing; conveying the truth to me, even when I could care less to hear it and despite the fact that it will hurt half of the time. It then has a reverse effect making me feel better knowing he’s being honest and looking out for me. When I almost did not attend college one semester, without any knowledge to me, he paid for my tuition and books because he said he felt he should have done it. My car almost broke down on me and having not dealt with this type of situation before, we arrive at the auto shop where he consoles me by saying “why do you look like you have seen a ghost, you are not paying for it.” That was such a relief at that moment in my life. When my doctor revealed to me that my illness had returned, he was there every step of the way, dropped me off for surgery, picked me up after recovery and was at my place every day while I continued to recover.
Some say that Schindler would not have been able to accomplish what he did if he was a saintly, completely righteous and moral person. The Nazis wouldn't have paid any mind to someone they thought of as a "Jew lover" and do-gooder. That they thought he was scum like them allowed them to justify indulging him. There are few other scenes when Schindler’s compassion truly shines throughout out the rest of the movie. Like when he consoled Helen through her brutal and traumatic experiences with Goethe.