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Hitler's Rise to Power, 2002.
Examines factors in Adolph Hitler's life and personality that contributed to his rise to power as Germany's dictator.
3,414 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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Adolph Hitler is undoubtedly one of the most important historical figures of the 20th century. During his reign in Germany as a dictator, he made a tremendous impact on the events that happened on the European continent. His tyrannical rule, which surprisingly, had the support of the majority of the German people, coupled with his imperialistic notions, created a new chapter in European history. The paper shows that the intriguing aspect of Hitler?s life is how he managed to rise from, literally, an unknown person to the position of "Fuhrer of Germany". Several historians have been interested in this meteoric rise of Hitler and have studied the sudden transition of his life, offering their own interpretations. The paper explores this aspect of Hitler?s life in detail by studying the thoughts of different historians so as to gain a better picture of Hitler?s life and the mystery behind his magnetic personality.
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"The Great Depression in the early 1930?s was one of the main reasons contributing to Hitler?s success. The Weimar government was not able to standup to the economic crisis, which left millions of German?s without job. People who so far showed little interest in politics were lending their ears to new radical parties in the hope of an economic revival. There was an intense yearning for a leader of the status of ?Kaiser? and the instability of the Weimar republic provided a fertile ground for Hitler and his Nazi party. The policies of the Nazi party attracted the German people who saw it as the only hope in chaotic situation. One of the main points of action promised by the Nazis was the reunion of the German people who were segregated from the mainland due to the implications of the treaty of Versailles."
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?Ordinary Men?, 2002.
Analyzes Christopher R. Browning's history of the German Police Battalion in Nazi Germany, comparing it to Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners".
757 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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According to Christopher R. Browning?s aptly-titled history of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101, "Ordinary Men", the most significant single factor influencing any given policeman?s decision to participate in acts of Nazi genocide, was that individual?s personal willingness to obey the orders given to him as a soldier and as a German. In other words, how much was that individual willing to be subject to, for want of a better word, ?peer pressure.? The paper shows that this is in direct contrast to the thesis advocated by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen in his book, "Hitler?s Willing Executioners". Goldhagen stresses that the actions of the policemen, soldiers and citizens who enforced the larger Reich ideological agenda were performed enthusiastically. The paper explains Goldhagen's belief that this willingness was the result of many years of anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany, extending back in historical time to the earliest days of German Lutheranism?s influences on Christianity.
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"The actions of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 become, in essence, even more chilling when viewed through Browning?s schema of explanation. It is easy to rationalize inhumanity as a symptom of German culture, and to state that all human beings have pure free will to resist the pressures of position, country, and ideology. The idea that one can still retain one?s ethical, moral compass (as evidenced by the disgust and horror of the policemen) and act against it when structural pressures persuade one to do otherwise is far more disturbing and a far more bracing slap in the ethical face of one?s judgment."
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?Sophie?s Choice?, 2002.
A review of the novel ?Sophie?s Choice? by William Styron.
2,560 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper discusses how William Styron?s novel "Sophie?s Choice" presents an almost unimaginably terrible moral dilemma to the reader. It looks at how in the novel, the character Sophie and her two children are taken to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Nazi purge of the Jews and how in order to be spared, Sophie must choose the life of one of her children over the other. It analyzes the several ways that one can ultimately view Sophie?s decision to save Jan, her elder boy, such as using a Kantian, a utilitarian, or a relativist moral perspective. It also evaluates how Sophie?s decision, for Styron, ultimately serves as a theological proof, a proof that, by extension, serves to show that Styron believes in an inherent meaning to morality very much in the same manner that Kant does.
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"From the example of the terrible choice that Sophie is forced to make, one might ultimately conclude that Styron, then, accepts a relativist position on morality. Almost anyone would have to reject Kantian values in this application?by applying the categorical imperative Sophie would have almost certainly lost both of her children, and how could anyone call a mother immoral for being unwilling to sacrifice both of her children to the ?higher cause? of an abstract ethical system? Making such a choice would seem terrible, cruel, and inhuman, so we can say of the Kantian analyzing Sophie?s situation that, if he is willing call her unethical, he may be ?theoretically? correct, but he has no heart. Utilitarianism seems similarly flawed, and Sophie?s good faith efforts to save one of her children probably did not work?regardless she is at best uncertain as to her son?s survival and doubts of it."
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"The Pianist", 2002.
A review of Wladyslaw Szpilman's novel "The Pianist".
959 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper examines Wladyslaw Szpilman's novel "The Pianist," in which the author details his account of his survival in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and how he managed to make it through the horrors and atrocities that were committed there during the seven years he writes about. It evaluates how there is no question that the life that Szpilman was forced to endure during the period from 1939 to 1945 was painful for him and many others who were there as well, and attempts to explore why
Szpilman managed to survive the terror while many others succumbed to it and lost their lives during that period in history. It analyzes the factors and forces that Szpilman describes when accounting for his survival so that an understanding of his desire to live and the forces both internal and external that spared his life, can be more easily examined and understood.
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"Another circumstance that accounted for the survival of Szpilman but was also outside of his influence was the kindness of one officer who discovered Szpilman hiding in Warsaw late in his ordeal. He should have killed Szpilman, but instead he brought him food and a quilt. To say that Szpilman was incredibly lucky on that day would be an understatement of the largest degree. This was probably the only kind officer that Szpilman had ever met, but yet his novel does not reflect bitterness or hatred toward the Nazis (Frank, 2000). He saw the German officer that helped him out during that time as the 'only human being in a German uniform that he ever met', and he tried to find out what happened to the man. He eventually learned that the German had been imprisoned by the Russians for sympathizing with the Jews, and remained a prisoner until his death (Pleszczynski, 1999)."
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Edward Lewis Wallant?s ?The Pawnbroker?, 2002.
This paper discusses the character Sol Nazerman in Edward Lewis Wallant?s ?The Pawnbroker?.
755 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper relates from Edward Lewis Wallant?s novel, ?The Pawnbroker,? the story of Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived the World War II Nazi death camps and as an old man has lost all faith in humanity. The author feels that a turning point is when Nazerman cannot support the racketeer?s actions anymore and begins to lend large sums of money to the poor people who bring in valueless items to the pawnshop.The author believes that Jesus? death (the assistant) and the feelings it brings to Nazerman makes the pawnbroker able to move on with his life and even love again.
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"Despite his efforts to be unlovable, many of the people around him are sympathetic to him. They recognize his pain and are awed by the large, inscrutable Jew. A social worker tries to open up to him by speaking of her loneliness. However, he is unimpressed by her discovery that the world is unjust and he refuses to support a charity that she encourages him to support."
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