Essays Tagged: "rescuers"

This essay is about the rescuing of Jews in the Holocaust and how the Jews hid and the trials and tribulations they went through during their hiding.

tive nature to an otherwise horrific event.Despite the consequences and danger in being caught, the rescuers chose to help the Jews in their time of need.There were two types of people who were involv ...

(6 pages) 105 3 3.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Compare/contrast essay for Peter Shaffer's "Equus" and Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness".

Rescuers From WithinTypical archetypes can span works of literature and remain instantly recognizabl ... re obvious and new similarities emerge. The first drawn parallels show both Marlow and Dysart to be rescuers of sorts. These rescuers are telling the story of their plunge into the darkest recesses of ... ormation of fundamental parallels of plot structure in these novels. The limits of success for both rescuers is similar in the plot, but when we extrapolate onto later events it seems that Dysart is m ...

(8 pages) 54 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Outsiders - summary

o slit his throat. A group of greasers comes and chases the bullies away, saving Ponyboy. Ponyboy's rescuers include Sodapop, a charming, handsome high-school dropout, and Darry, Ponyboy's oldest brot ...

(4 pages) 43 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Report on Lady of Angels Fire

n between jumping out of the window and remaining inside the raging inferno. Firefighters and other rescuers soon arrived, but they weren't able to save all; ninety-two students and three nuns lost th ...

(2 pages) 23 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Flash Floods.

three of them strapped inside a minivan that was dragged for more than a mile by the rushing water. Rescuers on Sunday were still searching for the children's mother and a driver from Texas.Everyone w ...

(2 pages) 44 1 5.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

This essay in an evaluation of the importance of the relationship between Niccolo Machiavelli and the powerful Medici family that dominated Florentine politics during the time of Machiavelli.

etween Machiavelli and the Medici is particularly queer, for the Medici were Machiavelli's imagined rescuers from internal exile, yet at the same time his reason for discontent.This relationship is es ...

(15 pages) 161 1 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

September 11, 2004

remember seeing 2, 110 story buildings crash to the ground, knowing thousands were inside including rescuers. I would never have believed this would happen in my lifetime. I, like many others, was sca ...

(6 pages) 44 0 4.1 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

-Fogelman, Eva. Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust New York, New York. Anchor Books 1994.

In the end, by examining the entire lives of many rescuers through layers of psychological and sociological research, the author provides a new illumi ... of psychological and sociological research, the author provides a new illumination of history. The rescuers testimony about the events that had taken place view their own existance and their activity ... en place view their own existance and their activity as not heroic or extraordinary. "Most rescuers are still bewildered that anyone would make a fuss over what they did." But they ...

(4 pages) 20 0 4.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Summary Of "Flight #116 Is Down", Caroline B. Cooney

ey, we are able to enter the minds of the major characters in the beginning of the novel - from the rescuers to those boarding the plane that will eventually crash. We learn a great deal about them, s ...

(5 pages) 28 0 5.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Man-made mistake cause severe damage to the environment.

rs immediately took out their mobile phone and dialed to the police station. At the same time, some rescuers kept running and shouting to the people on the beach to prevent them from going back to the ...

(1 pages) 1874 0 0.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

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experienced hunter fell into a ravine and was unable to get out. He was there for five days before rescuers found him; they reported that temperatures fell below freezing at night and it rained three ... until a passing motorist called for help. Dusty then went back and stood guard over Mr. Ward until rescuers came. (Carlile, 11) As I have shown here a dog can prove to be more than just a family pet. ...

(6 pages) 7 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Cinderella

as the fairy godmother and the stepmother in Cinderella, (651) she then states, "Males are seen as rescuers; females are more passive." (651) Furthermore, Kelly argues that Vivian "has neithe ...

(2 pages) 10 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

I'll Be Seeing You

in a car pile up on the Tappan Zee Bridge, many people were killed. For some reason the police and rescuers had drained and there was no trace of her dad or his car. It was quite weird that he could ...

(2 pages) 1233 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Acts of Heroism I believe that ordinary people can do

the decision whether or not to give their lives to save others. Luckily for the people in need the rescuers chose to risk and some gave their lives for the safety of others.These people are supreme e ...

(2 pages) 4304 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature