Maslow's hierarchy of needs starts with the basic needs, the needs that when you fulfill them you are fulfilling the basic form of survival. The first part of the needs are physiological needs such as food, water and the ability to sleep. Maslow says approximately 85% of people fulfill these needs. The next part of needs is the safety needs the need to feel safe in the environment or situation that you are in about 75% of Americans are fulfilling their safety needs. The next part is the need for love and belonging or social which would be communication or relationships such as your family or friends or even a boyfriend or girlfriend or husband or wife. When you aren't meeting your love and belonging needs you feel alone or can get anxiety, 50% of the population are meeting these needs. The last part of the basic needs are your esteem needs there are two parts to these needs the first part is reputation and the other part is what you think of yourself some examples of how people meet their reputation needs are driving a nice fancy car or getting plastic surgery or those people that fish for compliments all the time and 40% of the population is satisfying this need. The next step of needs is a step up from the basic needs. These can he known as the happiness needs where you are out of the basic needs that help you survive. The first one is the need to understand or to know more knowledge. The second is the need for beauty, examples would be nature or photography or music. The next one is self actualization needs or making sure you are the best you can be a characteristic of this would be morality. about 10% of the population meet this and only 2% actually meet the full thing. The last need Transcendence needs or looking beyond your needs and having a need to help other meet their needs.
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The story "To Build a Fire" defiantly represents both realism and naturalism. Even if you just read the title you can tell there is going to be naturalism. As the story begins the man realizes very quickly that he is going to have great trouble with nature and the conditions he is in. The temperature there is extreme coldness that if he takes his hand out of his glove for just a few seconds it will start to go numb. The man did have a plan and knew that he was going to struggle with the environmental conditions there and he did prepare but sometimes preparing isn’t enough because you don’t know exactly what nature is going to bring until you are there. The man planned his trip out taking note of the sun’s positioning and when he would need to set up his camp and fire each night. The man had a dog to accompany him which helped because they could share body heat. Throughout this story the man and the dog fight though the intense cold proving that they were using all their skills to fight the depths of nature. One example of naturalism that I thought was a good example is when the man is trying to make a fire and he does and he does it by a tree where he starts pulling things from the tree to keep the fire going and the snow on the tree falls and burns out his fire. Realism is also portrayed in this story where the man knows what is going to happen if he does not take the proper steps to maintaining his safety.
At the Beginning of the chapter he says the soup taste better than ever, later in the chapter he says it tastes of corpse. This is relating to his realization of death and that all the people around him will die. His family, friends and even he will pass because there is no way around it. The camps are meant for people to be killed. By the end of this chapter he comes to the realization of it all. He is no longer oblivious to all the hurt, heartache and death in the camps. The first day he sees it as a new start and by the end of the chapter he realizes it’s the end off everything.
Both Elie and Kitty went through the holocaust, which was a mass murder of jews and anyone that was different. Elie and Kitty went through some of the same things. The main thing that happened to them is that they survived the holocaust, they both did this by never loosing hope and not giving up. Elie and Kitty both also went through many different concentration camps and survived each one. One thing that is different is that Elie was a young male so he was treated different, he had to do hard labor and Kitty was a young female so she did not do as many hard jobs. Elie also talks a lot more about studying the Kabbalah and his faith, Kitty did not mention anything about he faith. Both are teenagers while this horrifying thing is happening to them. Both of them were also packed into cattle cars, Kitty does not really talk about in it in the documentary though, Elie does he talks about the girl on the train that was yelling that she saw a fire and kept screaming so she got tied up and gagged. Kitty just says that the conditions were bad so they are similar in that way.
In the interview with Oprah and Elie, they talk about many of his experiences in the concentration camps. Oprah ask him many questions about his experiences. One of the things that Elie says is "it is easier for a person that is in Auschwitz to imagine that they are free than it is for someone to image the like inside of Auschwitz." He is saying that people can think they can imagine life in the concentration camps, but it is much worse than the life that they imagine. They will never know what life will be like living there. Oprah says, "it was worse than hell." I can't imagine being in this place and being able to survive. I probably would have been one of the people that go there to die, like Elie talks about.
Elie and his family believed at first that they were taking the Jews to Hungary to keep them safe. He talks about the ghettos, and the people that tried to get his family to leave and go with him, his family thought that they were safer in the ghettos because they believed the war would be ending soon. If his family would have went with the lady that asked them to leave and stay with her, his whole family would have been saved. When Oprah asks him about his first nights in the ghettos he says that he cannot talk about those things. He is still distraught about what happened, and does not like to talk about it. He does talk about working in the camps and some of the things he sees. He sees people getting thrown into the fire when they are still alive. He was still with his father and tells him "I am afraid to die in fire" he did not want to be burned alive. The worst part of the video is when they talk about people in America not even knowing, or hearing about the holocaust. And the people that did know about it did not believe it. One out of Three adults did not believe that the holocaust was real, and half of high school students did not know about it. One person that is interviewed says "Yeah I heard a movie about it". Most of the people that were interview when this show aired did not even know what the word Holocaust meant. Since this Interview aired that has changed, and many more people know about it.
The significance of the story of Moishe the Beadle, is that Moishe represents commitment to Judaism and Jewish mysticism in general. He was a poor Jewish boy, yet he tried to treat others with respect even when he didn't get any. He takled about how god is always there watching. He made Elie feel protected and loved. Even when things were going bad Elie knew he wold always be protected in some way. Moishe sometimes struggled with his own faith but he wanted Elie to keep his and never lose it. Moishe believes the ideas are based off questions not the answers. He was a very compassionate man, He wanted to teach Elie about Kabbalah. He is both a man of religious faith as well as one of the first people to witness with his own eyes what is happening to the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis. He tries to warn the people of the dangers to come but nobody believes him.
An Allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Dr. Seuss's episode The Sneetches is a great example for an allegory.
In The Sneetches, the characters had two separate groups where one had a star on their stomach and the other didn't; the group with the stars acted like they were high and mighty, while the others without a star were looked down upon and could not join the ones with a star in any of their activities. What Dr. Seuss was trying to show was segregation: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. These Sneetches are honestly the same, the only difference being that some have a star on their stomach and others don't have anything; otherwise they are completely the same character. Then, a gold-digging man came to this beach (where the sneetches live) and brought a machine that puts stars on the stomachs of those who don't have one. For only $3, the sneetches without a star quickly gave the man their money and left happily with a star. The sneetches who had already had a star were furious. So, the man brought a new machine that removed the stars; thus, giving the sneetches that had one in the past a chance to remove theirs. This feud between the two was so bad that they were willing to give their money to the man without any thought just to be like the others or become different than the others. At the end, after all of the sneetches had no money left to change who had a star and who did not, they realized that they couldn't tell neither apart from the other. They realized that all along that they are the same from the inside out; they are all sneetches. Satire – A literary technique in which people’s behaviors or society’s institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of bringing about social reform and improving society. Satire may be gently witty, mildly abrasive, or bitterly critical, and it often uses exaggeration to force readers to see something in a more critical light. One of the satirist’s most reliable tools is verbal irony. Satirists also use humor and parody.
Verbal Irony- the whole story "A Modest Proposal" is an example of verbal irony. The guy is talking about how eating the babies of the poor people would help their society, because it would be less people to feed if they were just gone. And if they were already poor in the first place, then the kids probably will not grow up healthy if they do not have the proper food and nutrition. Humor- The story has humor because the guy is saying all these things about eating babies, and he does not really mean it and it would be an inhumane thing to do in general. At the end of the story he says he has no interest in doing such a thing and has a family of his own and only wants to improve his country. Sailing to Byzantium:
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