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    classmates.Today I will talking about uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto. At the capital of of poland‚the nazis established a ghetto in Warsaw between October‚ 1940.On November 16‚450‚000 Jews and refugees were forced inside the area of the ghetto.There were 2 parts of the ghetto the large part and the smaller one.Enclosed by brick walls that they made with their own hands‚the jews were separated from the rest of aryan people. People in the ghettos had to live with poverty‚hunger‚horrendously bad hygiene

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    “Notes of a Native Son” is a first person narrative about James Baldwin who lived with his family in Harlem during a difficult time for the equal rights movement in America. Racism through Baldwin’s experience shows its potential to feed off of itself in a vicious cycle‚ with one person’s hate leading to someone else’s. He has first hand experience with this through his father‚ a man who‚ while considered free‚ felt the pressures of racism throughout his life. The hate Baldwin’s father had towards

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    of his hair and outfit. Many of the S.S. Soldiers have taken over homes of the Jews. Also today is the last day for all the Jews to move into the ghetto. While the Jews are walking to the ghetto some kids are standing on the sidewalk while screaming and throwing things at them one girl was even screaming “Goodbye Jews.” Once the Jews got into the Ghetto many of us were sitting or standing in the snow giving all the Jews their cards. I am at house party and went down to the basement to get some

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    Harlem Renaissance Variously known as the New Negro movement‚ the New Negro Renaissance‚ and the Negro Renaissance‚ the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918‚ blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s‚ and then faded in the mid-1930s. The Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that mainstream publishers and critics took African American literature seriously and that African American literature and arts attracted significant attention from the nation at large. Although it was primarily

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    The Baddest Dog in Harlem In this analytic essay I have worked with the text “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” and analyzing it down to get a better understanding of the story. “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” is a short story written by Walter Dean Myers. The short story is written in “I person” and the target group of the story is teenagers and people in their twenties. The story is primarily set to get out to black people‚ as the story takes places in a ghetto society. The story is not only set out to

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    Warsaw Ghetto‚ 1943. Thousands of prisoners‚ many of them Jews intended to be sent to the death camp‚ Auschwitz‚ begin an uprising against their German captors. They are out gunned down and outnumbered by the . Most of the Jewish fighters are hungry and weak‚ many of them sick. Any man‚ woman or even a child who can fire a weapon‚ set a fuse or carry message has a part in the conspiracy against certain death. If caught with any links to the plan they will likely be killed on the spot. This monument

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    Jerardo Gomez Professor Enright 04483 3/24/15 Compare and Contrast English Essay Being black and gay in the 1950s wasn’t the best thing you could be‚ being a black male 6 feet tall wasn’t either. James Baldwin and Brent Staples both suffered from discrimination in the 1950s. James Baldwin was an African-American writer who was discriminated in the public for being black‚ while Brent Staples was discriminated in the public because of how he looked and dressed. Brent Staples moved to Manhattan where

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    The ghetto was where the Nazis send all the remaining Jews to live in. It was located on the outskirts of Germany. Most Jews had to watch their families and friends die in front of them. They were done watching people getting killed in front of them. On September 1942 the United Partisan Organization was formed in the Vilna ghetto. They built a secret headquarters and weapon factory in a basement that was hidden from the Nazis‚ mapped all alleys and cellars while traveling without being detected

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    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw was the largest Jewish community in Europe before World War I. After the start of World War I‚ the Nazis invaded Warsaw and turned it into a ghetto. Jews were kept in Warsaw until they could be transported to the Treblinka death camp.The Germans packed Jews into the ghetto from surrounding areas. The ghetto housed from 400‚000 to 500‚000 Jews at its peak. The Warsaw ghetto was so crowded that people were housed about nine people per room‚ still leaving people homeless

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    fight tanks and mounted machine guns with only a few pistols and rifles? Well that is what happened in the Uprising of Warsaw Ghetto in April‚ 1943 when a group of Jewish fighters fought the Nazi power. The Jews were equipped with only pistols and a few rifles. They dug tunnels and bunkers to hide and store stuff. Although the Germans defeated the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto uprising‚ they did not stand a chance until the Jews ran out of men and supplies. “In July 22‚ 1942‚ the Nazis began sending

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