I believe that Maslow is mostly right. The thing that I disagree with is when someone is in several places on the pyramid at a single time. I agree that once you need something low enough on the pyramid that all attention goes to that area. Why can someone not be needing to belong but needs to have water or food. Maslow's Hierarchy of needs includes a very strict and abstract framework to identify where people are on his pyramid. The thing is that people will not always conform to that framework and the what results from that is a person that you can not identify where he or she belongs. This creates an outlier situation or a situation that practically discredits the theory at that given time. What I would do is to make the needs and areas that they encompass cover even more area and then more people so that those outliers do not fall through at all or that often.
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The interview begins with the introduction of Elie. Oprah starts to ask questions. Within the Interview Oprah tries to press Wiesel on many issues pertaining to his time spent in Auschwitz as well as the camps. He gets defensive and states that he does not want to talk about those things that go on in the camp and to take himself back to that time. Oprah asks to what extent had his time with the Nazis and in the concentration camps had effected him and changed him. He replies with the fact that anyone that would have gone through that situation would have been changed drastically and that he was very lucky. Oprah then asks about what it takes to be normal after surviving such an event. Elie replies with saying that what is abnormal about that time is that he is normal now. He survived and lives on today and that is what makes him abnormal. So many people had died and he is one of the outliers, the ones who survived. Oprah then follows up with a question that Elie can not quite answer and that is, why did he not go insane? The answer to a question of this magnitude is that it is a mystery even to Elie himself. Once arriving at Auschwitz Elie immediately lost his mother and sisters but he vowed to stay close to his father, the only family that he had left. For a long time Elie could not believe what he saw in the camps. He tells Oprah that for a long time he questioned if he actually saw some of the actions that were going on in the camp, whether or not it was just a harsh nightmare. Within the interview a question comes up about what Elie thinks about the many people who claim to know nothing about the Holocaust or the millions of people that died as a result of it. Elie has a hard time answering this question just for the fact that he could not and can not think of a world without the Holocaust due to him surviving it. He thinks that it is inconceivable but believes that people need to be informed and have knowledge about that subject. At this point in time, years after the interview had taken place, everyone knows about the Holocaust or at least knows of it. The interview shakes up Elie to an extent and it shows that going back to these memories is a hard task that he is willing to do for the sake of informational needs. Several questions he has a hard time answering and others he answers above and beyond the expectations of Oprah herself.
First off I knowing the result I would not change anything because he survived. A majority of Jews did not have that luxury and he got the stars to align in order for him to live. If I had to change anything it would have been to be more low lying and in the shadows. He was a little too out going in the book for my personality so I would probably change that. In the story he worked with his father a lot and exchanged bread and soup, that was the way that they were able to survive and is one thing that I would maintain if I was in that scenario. I probably would have given away my gold cap right on the spot instead of trying to wait for the SS dentist at the camp. An to be honest, I probably would have been killed before I even left the ghetto because i would have tried to run before they put us on the train. The thing is that no one knows what they would actually do when put in the same situation that Elie was it. People come up with ideas like that they would personally, single-handedly take down the Nazis at the camp. The only thing that that would lead to is a bullet through the head or maybe a trip to the incinerator.
The significance of the story about Moishe is that he is an ordinary person who has some specific knowledge. He tries to tell people of what is happening to the Jews but they decide to not listen and believe that he had gone insane. The story explains that he had came upon Jews digging a trench and then being shot into the trench that they had just built. Small children were used as target practice for the Germans watching over them. This shows that the Jews are nieve and are oblivious to the immediate threat that they are facing. The Jews believe that they have been spare from the war but once the Germans actually came they were proven extremely wrong.
Wiesel says that the soup tastes better than ever because he go revenge. The person getting executed was involved in the removal of his golden crown. It tasted better than ever because Wiesel got what he had wanted and they had payed for the wrong things that they had done. The second time he says what the soup tastes like is when he passes the young man who was not completely dead after his chair had fallen. This show that he thinks that this death is wrong and the youth should not have had to suffer like he did even though he had committed a wrongdoing. Wiesel's views on death change within this section in the book because he differentiates between a rightful death in his mind and a wrongful one.
Both the book night as well as the documentary show striking similarities as will as unique differences. Both go into very specific and descriptive detail about the topic at had; the holocaust. One similarity that both share is the description of how systematic the Nazis were with their handling of the Jewish people. They would impose an absolute control in both situations. In night they talk about the evolution that the Germans took to make the Jews trust them only for the Germans to turn on them and strip them of all they know. The documentary shows that they used the same sort of control but without the trust first part. The Nazis made it so that the Jews had no choice and practically no other option but to comply with what the they wanted. The Nazis wanted fear and they did all that they could to make that happen at all costs. In the documentary, they go very in depth about the camp that they are at whereas night has not gotten to that similar point of progression. The lady in the documentary, who was held at Auschwitz, described in very great detail every faucet of the camp. Night just does not get into that much detail but it gets the point across. Both also show that connections within the system are vital but might not necessarily work out. The dad in Night who is part of the council tries to do everything in his power to help but has no effect while connections in Auschwitz could make the difference between life and death.
synagogue- the Jewish equivalent of a church
kabbalah-Jewish school of thought The Jews first believe that they will not be effected by the Germans but they quickly eat their words. Once the German Officers come they try and act nice and get along with the Jews but eventually things start to heat up. The Jews have to give up valuables and then are forced to stay in their houses and finally are marked to stick out and be noticeable. The Jews are them corralled into ghettos and then one day the Jewish council says that they are going to be moved. Rumors say that they will be moved to a brick factory and that they were moved because they were too close to the front lines. Most do not realize the fate that they have but many are solemn and are distressed because they are not able to practice their religion and gain knowledge of their fates. No thoughts of questions Realism: As a general term, realism refers to any effort to offer an accurate and detailed portrayal of actual life. More specifically, realism refers to a literary method developed in the 19th century. The realists based their writing on careful observations of ordinary life, often focusing on the middle or lower classes. They attempted to present life objectively and honestly, without the sentimentality or idealism that had colored earlier literature. Typically, realists developed their settings in great detail in an effort to recreate a specific time and place for the reader.
Naturalism: An extreme form of realism, naturalism in fiction involves the depiction of life objectively and precisely, without idealizing. However, the naturalist creates characters who are victims of environmental forces and internal drives beyond their comprehension and control. Naturalistic fiction conveys the belief that universal forces result in an indifference to human suffering. To Build a Fire can be defined as a naturalist work due to the actions and events that take place within the story. The main character faces events that he had no control over and therefore could not do anything to avoid the events that took place. The story takes place in a area everything is dominated by the forces of nature. Due to this fact, the main character has hardly any control over what he can chose to do. With the barren cold upon him, he faces the factors of his body freezing as well as the terrors of being alone and in the wilderness of the North. In the story he also has a dog that follows him so many would say that he is not completely alone. He faces the task of building a fire every time he settles down for the day. This skill becomes the sole thing that he relies on for life every day. When he falls into a waist deep river where he could not tell that the ice was weak. This also shows that the story is a Naturalist work because he had no control over anything when he fell through. The main character then faces the challenge of starting a fire to warm himself up. He cannot start the fire and then passes away due to the frost. This is a naturalist work because he had no control over his fate while walking his way to the camp. The weather and the ice could not be controlled by the protagonist and the environment was hostilely depicted. An allegory is a story that has a literal and symbolic meaning to it. The symbolic meaning often relates to a time or event where the event has an actual meaning that pertains to life. Sneeches is a story about discrimination, how star bellied Sneeches feel like they are above plain bellied Sneeches. Throughout the whole story the original star sneeches try and stay above the original plain sneeches. This theme could be closely related to the discrimination of race, gender, and discriminatory factors within the U.S. and throughout history. The man that felicitates the need of the Sneeches and makes a profit off of their need to be different could be closely resembled as the profits from poll taxes or the surcharges for being just that much better. The theme in this story could also be drawn to the actions that come from a neighborhood rivalry. When a neighbor gets something new and another neighbor has to one-up them in order to be better than that person. The starts in the story would be that difference. Whether you are with or without one is the factor that they discriminate against. At the end of the story they get so worked up about being different and making sure that they are better that the other sneeches that they lose who they actually are. In the end they cannot differentiate between the original star and starless sneeches so they have to get along and work together. At this point parallels could be drawn to the period of equality that results form inequality reform. The story literally talks about things coming to take the animals in the wild away. But they do it selectively, one animal then another and then another. This would be the literal meaning of the Allegory. The symbolic meaning would apply more to the holocaust or a related conflict. The terrible things, in the case of the holocaust, would be the German nationalists coming to get the animals which are a resemblance of the peoples that the Nazis' wanted to destroy or all together terminate. The little rabbit who survived the terrible things and goes on to sell the tale would be the survivors and those who tried and succeeded in hiding or evading the nationalists who were coming for all that they deemed "inferior". The definition of an Allegory is a story that has two meanings, one symbolic and one literal, this story has both and would greatly be called an Allegory.
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