Over the past few years, I have taken a variety of Holocaust courses, met numerous Holocaust survivors and visited the Holocaust museums in both Washington D.C. and in Israel. In all of these settings, one thing that I always questioned was why did the United States not do more. I chose to use this book because in several courses that I have taken involving the Holocaust, I have always heard very negative reviews about FDR. I have learned that he had little concern about what was going on in Europe and that he focused mainly on fixing the economy post the Great Depression, The New Deal and the domestic agenda. I was interested in reading another perspective on how an individual felt who was in favor of FDR. .
I felt that although Beir had an excellent compilation of research regarding FDR's attempts to help during the war, the book was more of a list of reasons why FDR was unable to help. In reading the book, I was able to see and understand a Roosevelt enthusiast's view of why the President was unable to help. At this time, FDR had numerous American based issues on his agenda to deal with such as The New Deal and domestic agenda. Beir explained, "Roosevelt held eighty-two press conferences throughout 1933. The persecution of Jews surfaced once" (Beir, p. 71). Although I now understand more about what was going on in America during this time, it is still appalling to me that little aid was given to the Jews simply because people that worked with and for FDR had no connection to the Jewish people It was truly surprising to me that such a religious Jew, like Beir, wouldto mention this at all. In my opinion as a reader, this leaves me with the impression that just because the government officials were not Jewish or did not have Jewish family members, why should they take time out of there day to help millions of people who were dying. Beir did a great job of setting the stage of what was going on in America, but at the same time, didn't go into details regarding certain key events such as the Olympics, the St.
Within the poem, we see three generations of men taking up a form of "digging.... Our narrator has to figure out how he fits into a family where he carries out an entirely different role. ... This is evident in the quote, "My father, digging. ... The narrator in "Digging" loves his father and grandfather to a great extent. ... "My father digging, I look down" (5). ...
In the poem "Digging," the speaker's success is held within his identity. The speaker of "Digging" struggles with his identity in relationship to his family. ... The pioneer ties who he is to the land; his blood, sweat, and tears pouring into this new dream. ... As a result of this refining process, the pioneer gives up on living off the land and gives into the complications of nature. ... He has a sense of pride from his past, he takes the values of hard work, integrity, love, and pride of his family and country and brings it forward into the present. ...
The poem "Digging" (533) by Seamus Heaney is about a person looking out of a window at their Father digging. ... Then the poem goes on to describe the feelings and emotions that the individual is feeling while the digging is occurring. ... When the spade sinks into the gravely ground." (3-4). ... Digging!" ... On a surface level "Digging by Seamus Heaney was not all that interesting. ...
When Seamus Heaney also writes about his father, in the poem "Digging," he speaks about his fathers work. ... Digging.... In "Digging" Seamus uses metaphoric tools to represent his connection with his father. "When the spade sinks into the gravely ground: My father, digging. ... "He rooted out all the tops, buried the bright edge deep....
In the poems "Digging" and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney, we, the audience, are treated to a look into Irish culture and "place". ... In "Digging", the poet detail the art of digging, and says, "By God, the old man could handle a spade./ Just like his old man." ... Digging is what he knows and understands, and he hold onto it as a foundation. ... "Digging" and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney, dissect the notion of "digging". The poems" show that "digging" is part of the Irish culture and "place". ...
Digging, is but one of the many poems from his collection, "Death of a Naturalist". ... In the first stanza of Digging Seamus introduces to us his pen. ... Seamus is witnessing his "father, digging" through flowerbeds. ... Such words give the imagery that potato digging was a hard and rough job. ... Which metaphorically means digging into his past and writing about his past to commemorate his ancestors hard work on the turf. ...
In Alicia, I feel that I posses and lack some of her main qualities. I am very loyal to my family and friends, and I feel hatred towards the Nazis. However, I do not think that I could stay as collected throughout such hardships faced in the holocuast. Alicia is always looking out for her family a...
In Digging we have three characters: the author (the son), his father, and grandfather. ... He makes the comparison by first relapsing into his fathers" line of work. Then the author goes on into talking about his grandfather and his line of work. ... He then goes into describing each detail that he sees and hears: clear rasping sound, when the spade sinks into gravelly ground, till his straining rump, stooping in rhythm through potato drills. ... My personal interpretation of Digging is that it is a poem of a man who is recollecting of the times we spent with his father and grandfather wo...
In April of 1992 a man named Christopher Johnson McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and hiked into the wilderness just north of Mt. ... How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. ... Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. ... Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons. ... Mesme...