In conclusion, silence is just as dangerous as speaking out, and inaction and the absence of compassion is catastrophic. They Jews did not take any action to prevent them from death and stood in silence. They had not revolted against the officers for they knew that death would come. But as they stayed silent and took no action, they are killed. To add to this, God's compassion to the Jews is absent, and they are losing faith. No pity can be felt for one another, for it is a battle of every man for themselves. Given these points, the inaction and absence of compassion leads them to their death because their inactions weakened them and the Jews are killed, and compassion removes their faith and hope which leads them to giving up. The Jews did
Simon Wiesenthal’s book The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness spoke to me about the question of forgiveness and repentance. Simon Wiesenthal was a Holocaust prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. He experienced many brutal and uneasy experiences that no human being should experience in their lifetime and bear to live with it. Death, suffering, and despair were common to Simon Wiesenthal that he questioned his own religious faith because he asks why would his God allow the Holocaust happen to his people to be slaughter and not do anything to save them. During Simon Wiesenthal time as a Jewish Holocaust, Simon was invited to a military hospital where a dying Nazi SS officer wanted to have a conversation. The Nazi SS officer told Simon his story of his life and confesses to Simon of his horrific war crimes. Ultimately, the SS officer wanted forgiveness for what he done to Simon’s Jewish people. Simon Wiesenthal could not respond to his request, because he did not know what to do with a war criminal that participate in mass genocide to Simon’s people. Simon Wiesenthal lives throughout his life on asking the same crucial question, “What would I have done?” (Wiesenthal 98). If the readers would be on the exact situation as Simon was
...f the major Optimism of the Jews is that they could not comprehend the killing of all their people. They see it as a task that contains no possible way to be fulfilled. They justify it by saying “Was he going to wipe out a whole people? Could he exterminate a population scattered throughout so many countries? So many millions! What methods could he use?” (6). The answer to their question is yes but there is many chances to escape this fate, although the Jews of Sighet deny it.
“I looked anxiously. I didn’t see anybody… I’d keep my head up and my eyes open-‘You got a smoke to spare?’” (Walters 3). In Shattered, Eric Walters hauls the reader through the life of Ian, the protagonist who experiences the joy of helping others. Throughout this white pine award novel, Ian continually offers help to people around him reflecting to them that their lives are not perfect and they ought to alter it somewhat. Furthermore, the author effectively compares the significance of family and the importance of acquiring a dream in life. Through the book, Eric Walters demonstrates the theme of compassion through the incidents of Ian helping Jack to overcome his drinking problems, showing Berta the value of patriot and always there for the less fortunate.
Surprisingly, the Christian martyrs did not care that they were sentenced to death. They believed that by dying for what they believe, it would only bring them closer to God and the Gates of Heaven. The document states, “For this cause have we devoted our lives, that we might do no such thing as this; this we agreed with you” (para. 18). To the martyrs, nothing was more important than fulfilling God’s duties.
In the movie Ordinary People, Beth Jarrett is unable to cope with the loss of her eldest son, Buck who died in a boating accident. This situation creates a strain on her relationships with her husband, Calvin, and her youngest son, Conrad. Moreover, Beth is bitter towards Conrad because she believes he is the sole cause of Buck’s death. Meanwhile, Conrad begins meeting with a psychiatrist named Dr. Berger to help deal with his suicidal tendencies. Unlike Beth, Calvin Jarrett longs to connect with his son and give him the love that he needs. The Jarrett family could have avoided these problems if there had been stronger communication and conflict management skills. All the main characters deal with conflicts in one of two ways: silence or violence.
The French Revolution is a war between the peasants and the aristocrats. A Tale of Two Cities is by Charles Dickens and is set in England and France from 1775-1793. The French Revolution is starting to come about because the French peasants are trying to model their revolution after the American Revolution. King Louis XVI of France supported the colonists in the American Revolution; therefore, it is ironic that he does not help the poor, distressed, and oppressed peasants in France. The peasants are trying to rise against the oppressive aristocrats because the rich are unfeeling and mean towards the poor serfs. In A Tale of Two Cities, the symbols help represent the theme of man’s inhumanity toward his fellow man because the symbol of the scarecrows and birds of fine song and feather is helpful in understanding the differences between the poor and the rich, the Gorgon’s head is meaningful because it shows that change needs to occur, and the knitting is insightful because one learns that evil can come out of good intentions.
In Miles Lehrman's documentary, Witness to the Holocaust, he argues, “A perpetrator is not the most dangerous enemy. The most dangerous part is the bystander because neutrality always helps the killer”, This is not a logical claim because bystanders merely witness it; however, they are not committing any crimes against laws or humanity. They may want to help the victim, but they may not do so because being a bystander is simply not illegal. Since forcing someone to be an upstander is illegal, people choose to not be an upstander because it puts them in an undesirable position. After all, standing up for the victim may put the upstander in danger along with the victim. Additionally, becoming an upstander does not guarantee that the victim will be safe and sound afterwards; the perpetrator may continue, perhaps with the upstander as another victim.
Title Compassion fatigue According to Taylor (2008) the definition of nurse comes from the meaning of the Latin word nutrix, which means “to nourish”. Nursing has a focus on caring for every patient physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. To meet the needs of every patient, nurses must take on many roles, but the main role is care giver (Taylor, 2008, p.14). Caring for another person requires many traits, and the most common is compassion.
“Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung his head around to look at me for an instant with extreme interest, and then he tumbled sideways, broke through the little branches below and hit the bank with a sickening, unnatural thud, It was the first clumsy physical action I had ever seen him make. With unthinking sureness I moved out on the limb and jumped into the river, every trace of my fear forgotten.” (Knowles 59-60). Gene Forrester, one of the main characters in John Knowles' novel A Separate Peace, describes his best friend Phineas' fall from a “tremendous tree, an irate steely black steeple beside a river,”(Knowles 6) at their all boys boarding school, Devon. Gene is an introverted young boy who is very academically gifted. Finny, however, is an extremely extroverted childish young boy who is very athleticaly gifted. Finny's fall eventually leads to terrible things, such as death and guilt. Throughout the novel Knowles uses Phineas' fall from the tree to symbolize his loss of innocence, to show Gene's guilt, and to develop Phinea's death.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel gave a speech called, “Keep Memory Alive.” This speech shares the message: “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormented.” Which basically means that staying neutral, or silent helps the “bad guy” or “bully.” And if we keep silent we are encouraging the silence of the victims. Elie Wiesel is a Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, and political activist. He spoke this speech in Oslo on December 10, 1986. Elie speaks about how someone should not stay silent in any wrong doing. He speaks not just for himself but for the survivors and the children of the survivors. He himself is a holocaust survivor who doesn’t want people to forget what him, his family, his friends, and even complete strangers had to go through, therefore, he created the speech “Keep Memory Alive.” The writer illustrates his theme of this speech by giving a memorable tone using a flashback with a young boy and his father going through the tragedy of the holocaust.
Many people thought that those who were trying to get people to listen to them were just looking for attention and sympathy. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, a Jewish boy and survivor of the Holocaust, Eliezer explains that no one was listening to a man by the name of Moishe the Beadle, who was trying to warn the Jews of Sighet about the Holocaust. Elie describes how people refused to listen to Moishe, saying, “he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad.” The Jews that were making these assumptions did not believe that the warnings were bona fide. These people, assuming that Moishe was imagining everything or “was not thinking right”, did not take his warnings seriously. Another point that Eliezer brought up, is that many people though Moishe was looking for sympathy, saying, “... they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity” Instead of understanding what he was saying to them, the people of Sighet ignored the threats because they did not believe that Moishe was trying to do anything other than gain their sympathy. Rather than noticing the impending danger, these people assumed that Moishe was only seeking attention. Another Holocaust survivor, Hedi Pope, also told of someone attempting to warn her town of the horrors that they would soon have to face.
Restraint and Activism Judicial activism is loosely defined as decisions or judgements handed down by judges that take a broad interpretation of the constitution. It is a decision that is more of a reflection of how the judge thinks the law should be interpreted, rather than how the law has or was intended to be interpreted. There are many examples of judicial activism; examples include the opinions of Sandra Day O'Connor in the Lynch v. Donnelly and the Wallace v. Jaffree trials. Sandra Day argues for the changing of the First Amendment's ban on "establishment" of religion into a ban on "endorsement" of religion. Others include the U.S. v. Kinder, where Congress passed legislation that would require a minimum sentence for persons caught distributing more than 10 grams of cocaine.
Compassion is a type of meditation therapy which is used recently. As a new topic, at least for me, this encouraged me to learn about this topic and gave me the idea for my paper. Compassion has many definitions, one of these definitions is the feeling that emerges in witnessing another's suffering and that motivates a following desire to help (Goetz, Keltner, & Thomas, 2010). Hofmann, Grossman, and Hinton (2011) describe compassion as a path leading to greater awareness, aimed to focus awareness upon alleviation of the suffering of all sensitive beings. Moreover, compassion is thought to have arisen as the affective element of a caregiving system, designed to help raise vulnerable progeny to the age of viability (Goetz, Keltner, & Thomas, 2010).
Elie Wiesel’s speech correlates to other parts of the passage with the help of a few different devices these are, rhetorical questions, word choice, asyndetons, and text structure. There are many locations within his speech where Mr. Elie Wiesel’s most famous line of his Nobel Prize speech relates to others and expands on the thought of taking action. In paragraph ten the following quote is written: “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” This quote is close to a rhetorical question, which is: “‘Can this be true? … Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?’” The rhetorical question
In the typical slave narrative, the intentions are fairly known. The author has written with a certain willingness that would appeal to the reader emotionally. There is a message behind every tear, or in this case, every page. The slave narrative was used to give others an insight of what they had endured. Grabbing the reader’s sympathy, they also now had the reader’s support (wsu.edu). This reasoning could be seen in several narratives from that off Jacobs, Douglass, and Equiano. The theme of their slave narratives was generally to gain the sympathy of readers and promote their rights as humans.