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Essay Instructions: THE HOLOCAUST

Alain Resnais, Night and Fog (1955)
I need to write essey about THE HOLOCAUST.


I sould, specifically, put forth a clear argument about how each of these different genres “work Questions I need to ask is : What is the goal or goals of the author (be they filmmaker, documentarian, author,singer/songwriter, cartoonist, poet, photographer)? What arguments are they
making? What techniques or resources do they use to get their point across? How
do they frame or tell their story? Is it effective? Why or why not?

Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986).

Elie Wiesel, Night (New York: Bantam Books, 1892).

Life is Beautiful (Miramax Home Entertainment, 2002).

I have to cite sources at least 2 of above listed.
Thank you

Essay Instructions: The following assignment has five questions that need to be answered and each are independent of each other. So, when it is written you can just identify the number. Each question should be between 1/2 - 1 page long. Questions 1,3,5 should be about one page, and questions 2 and 4 should be about 1/2 a page long. Questions 1 and 5 are more thought based and don't require to incorporate the books mentioned in the questions. Questions 2-4 have to have some reference to the books indicated in the question. No works cited page at the end is required. Here are the questions:

1. How do we go about defining the period of the Holocaust? That is, to what extent do our definitions depend on the names we give it (Holocaust, Shoah, Hurban), the national and religious traditions in which we locate it (Jewish, Christian, German, American), and perspective (survivor, perpetrator, second-American)? What is the Holocaust in each of these world views?

2. Using passages from Chaim Kaplan's Diary, Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz" and Elie Wiesel's "Night", please discuss the differences between the diary and memoir forms of testimony? What kind of understanding do we gain from KAplan that remains unavailable to us in Levi and Wiesel? What do Levi and Wiesel know that Kaplan could not have have known?

3. To what extent is Sara Nomberg-Przytyk's collection of tales from her book "True Tales from a Grotesque Land: Auschwitz" shaped by her self-identity as a woman, as a jew, as a socialist, as a Pole, or as a little of all these things? Please use examples.

4. Discuss the evolution and devolution of "self" in Wiesel's "Night", Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz", Borowski's "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman" or any combination of these writers. In this context, consider the metaphors of "self" each of these writers draws upon, how these metaphors evolve over the course of the books.

5. Why do Holocaust writers write? What are the reasons for reading this literature? At what points do the writers' reasons for writing and reasons for reading diverge? When are they the same?

Essay Instructions: Describe the Holocaust from beginning to end.

1. Discuss events that followed the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939.

2. Refer to the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the "moble killing" operations carred out in connection with this assult.

3. Explain what accurred at the Wannsee conference.

4, Describe the "killing center" operations at the various death camps.

5. Mention - identification, isolation, deportation - leading to the death camps.

6. How did the Holocaust end.

7. What role did the US play.

8. Speculate:
a. Why did the holocaust accur.

b. What lessons may be learned from this genocidal episode?

c. Why do people deny the Holocaust occurred.

Essay Instructions: the essay about the holocaust memorials
Paper asks you to draw upon all of the knowledge we have acquired this semester and select from it to respond to one of these topics: chose only one from these topics..

1. What is the relationship of catharsis and memory in Holocaust memorials? Can we make some observations about what design features are most effective depending on what the purpose of a memorial is and who its intended audience is?

2. Many of you wrote that the one memorial you wished to visit from Wednesday?s selections was the Miami Holocaust Memorial. This is in spite of the fact that representational sculpture has fallen from favor in most modern memorial design. If sculpture is out of step with the times, why does it work in Miami and at ?The Holocaust? in San Francisco? (You might think that this simple question requires only a simple answer, but there?s a lot to say!)

3. Of the Holocaust memorials that we?ve looked at, which one do you think is especially effective, or especially ineffective, and why? (To answer this question, you could set up a compare and contrast between an effective and an ineffective memorial. . . .)

4. Your own topic, with my prior consent.

pleas it is important to write very simple words like International Students