"I was fourteen when I first experienced anti-Semititsm. At Collegiate School, a boy called me a "Dirty Jew" (Beir, p. xxxiiii). These are the words author Robert Beir used to describe his life experiences in 1932, soon after Adolf Hitler had announced that he would be the next Chancellor of Germany. Roosevelt and the Holocaust, written by Robert L. Beir, is a well researched and thought out timeline on what was going on in the mind of Franklin Roosevelt during his time as President. The author considers himself to be a "Rooseveltian" although throughout the book, he occasionally goes against some of FDR's decisions. Beir considers FDR to be a hero and adds How FDR Saved the Jews and Brought Hope to a Nation as the subtitle for his book. Beir's introduction of himself provided insight on his feelings on growing up as a German Jew in the United States and how he believed someone who he later in the book calls a "hero" helped saved to Jewish people from war. The book takes us through the time period when Hitler first took over Germany until the concentration camps were liberated. Throughout the book, the author introduced who worked for and against FDR, along with people who worked directly under FDR during his time in office. Beir also described what they did to find a solution to crush Hitler's Final Solution. The author writes about several key events during the war, such as FDR sending United States troops over to Europe, the President being in contact with the Nazi party and most importantly, him attending UN conferences to help understand what was going on and how the United States could step in and help. During FDRs time in office, there were some key incidents that occurred directly between the United States and Europe: the Summer Olympics of 1936 in Berlin, the S.S St. Louis and the plans for liberation. .
As I am a Jewish American myself, I take much pride in my religion.
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...
