The beautiful and horrid ways of humanity

Humanity

Definition: The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.

Inhumanity

Definition: The quality or state of being cruel or barbarous.

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1. This photo show what could possibly happen when humanity fails. Not all humanity is good, when humanity fails things can turn disastrous we can have wars or racial discriminations. When humanity fails it takes a long time to get things back on track again, because you have to restore it all over again.

2. We all know how Hitler persuaded German Citizens into believing anything he said and to fallow his actions. Hitler was in no way humane, the way he treated the Jews was awful, His actions were nothing but horrible and this was proved in his book Mein Kampf. Hitler's Inhumanity made him act like a monster, Hitler wanted The "perfect race" and he tried anything to get it.

3 &4. The pie chart shows the percentage of civilians and military people who died during WWII. When you do not have humanity things can definitely take a turn for the worse. WWII lasted 6 years 58% of allied civilians ended up dead, what exactly is humane about that. More civilians ended up dying than the actual allied military. Back in WWI there was no humanity and things get worse when we get to the holocaust.

5. In my novel the Hubbermanns have to hide a Jewish boy named Max in their basement because of Hitler and the Nazis taking them to the concentration camps. In this picture there is a little girl hiding in a shed and during the Holocaust the Jewish men, women, and children have to hind anywhere they can to save their lives, and to stay away from the Nazis for as long as they can.

6. The holocaust definitely sums up the word inhumanity. What Hitler and The Nazis did to the Jews in those concentration camps in the definition of inhumane. 6 million Jewish men, women, and children were killed for now reason at all, well because of their religion. I think that is so wrong and horrible. This photo shows the conditions the Jewish had to live in and what happened to the Jews in those camps. And it also shows some of the people who ended up dying during this horrible time.

7. Even today we have some problems with inhumanity, but it is not as bad as it was back in WWII. In this photo it shows some of the damage that was caused by this horrible moment and it shows a couple men putting up the American flag to remember forever what happened on that day.I would say that the most inhumane thing that has happened today would be the planes crashing into the twin towers on 9/11. Yes we have had some other worse things happen, but that is defiantly one of the worst.

8. I've talked a lot about inhumanity and I have not said anything about humanity. This quote says it all. It basically says that if we all join hands and do this together we can have humanity all over the world, if we just work together.

9 & 10. We have come a long way since WWII and these pictures show just that. It shows how we now celebrate diversity instead of criticizing and discriminating the diversity of races. Both of these pictures celebrate the unity that we all share, and instead of fighting against each other we now work together.

"Definition of Humanity ." Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://www.brainyquote.com/words/hu/humanity174669.html.

"Definition of inhumanity ." Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inhumanity.

when humanity fails. Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://www.generalpatton.org/images/when_humanity_fails.jpg.

Hitler. Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://library.thinkquest.org/10927/hitler.jpg.

WWII. Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://pm3042.k12.sd.us/Event/world-war-ii.jpg.

deaths in ww2. Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/WorldWarII-DeathsByAlliance-Piechart.png.

Hiding . Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/04/29/hiding.jpg.

The Holocaust. Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://romaniroots.webs.com/holocaust.jpg.

9/11. Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://ghostoflincoln.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/9-11-1.gif.

Spread humainty. Web. 25 Apr. 2010. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx1voCKNbHW29R0EYzihzLua7T1NFciLIp7kSBNzHagF950e2nv8PNJNTMyGA0bkfo2OSOMwa7z-FJuVH7uD2ShSBbvstn0bz5fOS00HcufGT2zFrFSmd-6dzTZdEkaL1-M4p_HwCjIXOW/s1600/Join+Hands+Spread+Humanity+1+dot+9.jpg

Humainty celibrate diversity . Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://img.webring.com/r/r/ringofhumanity/logo.

Humanity . Web. 25 Apr. 2010. http://www.sunlost.com/phudivwebsm.jpg

People observe the colors of the day only at it's beginnings and ends.

I vacation in increments.
In colors. (Zusak, The Book Thief 5)
A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors.
Waxy yellows, cloud spat blues, murky darknesses.
I make a point to notice them. (4)
People observe the colors of the day only
at it's beginnings and ends.(4)
I do however try to enjoy every color I see-
the whole spectrum.(4)

When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors,
but it's the three in which I saw her...
black onto white onto red. (14)
Liesel would step outside...
and watch the sky...
cold and heavy, slippery and gray. (45)
The day was gray, the color of Europe. (27)
The graying light arm-wrestled the sky.(11)

Yes the sky was now a devastating, home cooked red,
snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily. (13)
The sky was like soup... In some places it was burned.
There were black crumbs and pepper,
streaked across the redness. (12)
Personally, I like a chocolate- colored sky.
Dark, dark chocolate. (4)

You see, to me, for just a moment,
despite all of the colors that touch...
I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies.(11)
I've seen millions of them.
I've seen more than I care to remember.(11)
Your soul will be in my arms.
A color will be perched on my shoulder.(4)
The question is,
what color will everything be
at that moment when I come for you?
What will the sky be saying?(4)



color names. Web. 20 Apr. 2010.http://totalgadha.com/tgtown/loser/files/2010/01/colornames3.png

Who do you think caused the Holocaust???

When it comes to the Holocaust people easily put the entire blame on Hitler, but he could not have caused all that pain and have killed all of those people all by himself. Even though Hitler had help he had a huge part in all of this. In "The Book Thief " Hitler is praised by everyone in Germany. Slowly everyone comes to realize that Hitler is not that great of a person after all. Liesel realizes that once she finds out that he is the one that made her mom leave. The Nazi party are partly to blame because they follows Hitler's every command, and according to Hans in this novel he did not think the hatred the Nazis had could last, but he was wrong. The Nazis had followed Hitler because he had this power of persuasion and he could make anybody to believe him. Hitlers' autobiography Mein Kampf just how powerful his persuasion was. After reading that the people start to believe, yea maybe the Jews are blood sucking vampires and they should be stopped, Hitler's right.

When people think of the Holocaust and who caused it, they never once even consider the Jewish people, because they are the victims in all this. In my novel Markus Zusak points out that the Jewish people did not do anything to stop Hitler. When a Jewish boy Max Vandenburg comes to hide in the Hubermann's basement he mentions that the Jews preferred to simply stand and take things, take the abuse and then work their way back to the top. With the Jews believing in their Jewish Faith it got them in more trouble then it did help them survive. Death plays a part in the Holocaust because without death there would not have been a Holocaust. And this book is told sort of in the perspective of death, narrated by death, and how death sees the events leading up to the Holocaust. Death took a lot of lives during the Holocaust.

The grim reaper- death . Web. 12 Apr. 2010. http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh78/bryle_MoM0ShiRo/grim-reaper.jpg.

Who's up for a book burning

My novel The Book Thief is definitely revolving around books. Books are both significant in this novel and WWII. In the novel Liesel the main character uses her books (most of them stolen) to learn how to read, write, and even how to speak better. Before moving in with her foster parents, when she was living with her mother Liesel rarely went to school, so she really never had the chance to learn what was going on in the world and about religion and culture.

On May 10, 1933 the Nazi party had a book burning in Germany. They believed that burning 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books would start the era of censorship and control of their culture. It was a really public affair, everybody came to watch these books go up in flames because they all believed it represented an element of censorship and that burning books was a literary cleanse.

A book that was of great importance to Liesel, and one that did not actually belong to her but was actually given to her foster father Hans, was Mein Kampf written by Hitler. This book is important because it is Hitler's autobiography, which has his thoughts and feelings about his suffering, his struggles, his political ideology, and his feeling about the Jewish people. In my novel the impact of Mein Kampf will be devastating, because as we all know this book helped cause the Holocaust, and a lot of people's lives are going to be lost, and so many are going to suffer because of this.

This does not emotionally change my opinion of war I think war is devastating and horrible and this book does nothing to change how i feel about war, because they send millions out there to fight and almost half do not make it back. loseing someone close because of the war just makes people resent war more. And this book Mein Kampf does a great job of proving that. Yes this book did not cause WWII but it did help cause the Holocaust and thousands died by the end of it. My emotional response to this book is definatly anger. Towards Hitler and what he helped do in the Holocaust.






book burning . Web. 9 Apr. http://www.lib.fit.edu/pubs/librarydisplays/bannedbooks/burning_book.jpg.


Mein Kampf. Web. 9 Apr. http://www.mymixideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/hitler-mein_kampf_ext.jpg.

How Could One Man Cause So Much Pain?

Hatred is a word that many people have used but don't really know the true meaning of. This little word has had a huge affect on millions all over the world. When someone acts in hatred they have a very strong dislike towards a specific group of people and act out in a violent way.

During the Holocaust that is exactly how Hitler had acted, in pure hatred. It was hate that had driven Hitler to do the things that he had done. And it was hatred that caused all the discrimination towards the groups of people that Hitler thought were not the "perfect race", if you were gay, black, Jewish, in poor health, or basically if you were not blond haired and blue eyed you were discriminated. But out of this group of people being discriminated by Hitler, I would have to say that the group of people that suffered the most during the holocaust, would have to be the Jewish. Hitler had the most hatred towards Jews during the Holocaust than any others, he would take thousands of them into concentration camps and they were torturous, just as Hitler intended them to be: "When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes,but instruments of terror" -Adolf Hitler. While in these camps thousands of men, women, and children were killed just because they were Jewish. I don't think it was right for Hitler and the Nazis to go and kill just because of religion, because they weren't the "perfect race" Hitler thought everyone should be.

Even today there is still a problem with hate and discrimination between different races and religions: "Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world" - Eliot Engel. I still think that the Jewish are still being discriminated today, but definitely not as drastically as Hitler did back in the Holocaust, but there is still discrimination between religions today. Even though there is hate and discrimination today nothing will ever be as bad as Hitler and the Nazis getting thousands of people killed in the holocaust.



Hate is everywhere. Web. 5 Apr. http://thesituationist.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/hate-image2.jpg.
Hitler. Web. 5 Apr. http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/501580764/adolf-hitler_normal.jpg.

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