“‘Well, Jacob Weisz, that was a brave thing you just did’ the old man said. ‘Brave, indeed.’” This is what describes Jacob Weisz, the main character of Joel C. Rosenberg’s The Auschwitz Escape, a suspenseful and thrilling historical fiction novel. Jacob is a very courageous, hopeful, and brave twenty-two-year-old that lives in Siegen, Germany. This book takes place in a few different places but the main location is Germany and it is during Hitler’s rise to power. Jacob goes through a lot during this
The Wrongs of Abortion Of the millions of pregnancies that happen every year, almost half of those pregnancies are aborted. What some people do not know is that abortion is murder; the life of an innocent, unborn baby is being ended because the mother does not want that child. Many people say that the baby is unaware of what is going and they do not feel anything; when really, a baby can feel pain just days after conception. A baby is a baby; it still has arms, legs, and a functioning brain just
shatter right before their eyes, as Jacob recalls a “Gestapo man standing in his window, aiming his Luger at him and firing again and again. When he turned back, he saw the last remnant from his grandfather on the ground, the pendant in pieces” (Rosenberg 149). When Jacob lost his pendant, he also lost a part of his grandfather and heritage. Although a
difficult phenomenon to study because the statistics are intimidating and the news coverage is vast, and yet according to Carolyn Ann Vlk, Peter Thomas Senese, and Joel S. Walter “the truth of the matter is that we really do not know how accurate any of the data is or how large of a problem we actually have on our hands” (Senese, P. T., & Vlk, C. A., 2013). In an effort to better understand kidnapping, we will first define kidnapping, as well as subtypes of kidnapping, using the New York State Penal code
When the Holocaust is mentioned, many people think of many of the Jewish people that died throughout it. But was the whole idea behind the Holocaust? The Holocaust is a historical significance because it brought attention to people’s eyes after learning about what a few ideas could create to destroy so many people. This was the first time in history where one man and a few ideas would try and eliminate an entire population of people, due to their different beliefs. Hitler’s ideas and beliefs about
An Examination of Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Notable Modifications Sometimes the greatest test of a theory is its longevity. Over time, some theories will be disproved, some will be modified, and some will become the basis for a whole new group of theories. Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance has stood up to challenge for over forty years, and is considered by many to be the single most important theory of social psychology. Though there have been modifications