Perseverance In Jewish Faith

The film Unbroken honors Louie Zamperini’s ability to persevere the utmost cruel situations. Unbroken was a fairly accurate representation of Louie Zamperini’s life and his survival during World War II, with only minor alterations such as timing. Overall, the director, Angelina Jolie, was not able to capture every detail accurately, yet the details altered only reinforced Louie Zamperini’s extraordinary story of resilience and perseverance.

In the second section of the book, “Unbroken”, the author talked a lot about the experiences of the crew that Louie was with when he joined the army. Louie ended up with Phil and several other men to form a crew with their plane, a B-24 model, which they named “Superman”. They were all great pals who went through thick and thin together, but they believed the chance of survival was slim. One day, they barely managed to get it back to home base on one mission when the enemy relentlessly attacked their plane. However, one crew member was beyond help and several more had injuries that rendered them unsuitable for battle, their plane was also unrepairable. The crew turned into 4 men without a plane, so they got several replacement crewmen. However,

Solomon became King of Israel and divided the kingdom into twelve districts. Solomon decided to divide the kingdom into the districts so his kingdom can be more sophisticated as his Near East neighbors kingdoms. After Solomon became King he built a temple. The temple was devoted in a grand style. The temple was a home of the Ark of the Covenant that cherished Hebrew religious practices. The temple symbolized as the heart of the Kingdom. Once the temple was made Solomon redesigned a “rude” kingdom to a sophisticated kingdom. The Kingdom was known as one of the most untied kingdoms of its time. After the death of Solomon, the Kingdom divided into two halves, the

In the 20th century, World War II began and caused many deaths everywhere in Europe, The war was fought between many countries that formed two different alliances: the Allies and the Axis. One of the leaders from the Axis power, Adolf Hitler, hated the Jews. He believed that the Aryan race was the master race of the people. All who were not considered as Aryan race was discriminated and hated in Germany. Jewish people were victim of the abuse that they received from the "Superior" Aryan race, they were sent towards concentration camp and were treated harshly and killed in cold blood, simply because of their religion, this was called the holocaust. Only a small amount of Jews survived the holocaust, a lot of stories from Jews who had suffered through the horror of concentration camp had surfaced and revealed the horror that they experienced, one of this Jews that spoke up is Joseph Sher.

Most of the known world was devoured by the most notorious epidemic in history. In the 1351 , the infamous Black Death began to chew up and spit out Europe along with Asia and Africa as if being a victim of the Black Death once wasn’t horrific enough, The Great Pestilence hit Europe for the second time in the 18th century, along side that, in the 20th century Asia and Africa were revisited by The Great Plague. According to the background essay, “In five short years, the plague killed between 25 and 45% of the population it encountered.”

Jews had to leave Israel in the first place because they were forced from their homes by the Roman Empire. When the Jews returned to Israel in 1948, Palestinians were still living there. The return of the Jews was a problem because it caused war to break out between the Arabs and Israelis. Wars between the two are still occurring today.

The campsite overlooks the beautiful Missouri River. The weather has not been quite as beautiful as the river. Last night, the rainy weather damaged the roof of my sod house. I hired a man to fix the roof for me early this morning and I paid him in return. My sod house requires regular maintenance, and has taken a lot of damage during the rainy weather this season.

The first covenant God creates is the Mosaic covenant, which includes blessings, and curses. This covenant is conditional and would set Israel away from all other nations. Cross justifies this with a quote from Exodus “Now, if you obey me completely and keep my covenant, you will be my treasured possession among all peoples, though all the earth is mine. You will be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation” (Cross 114). This quote means that the people must comply with God or else it is invalid.

The exile and return of the Hebrews to their promised land. The Israelites were exiled to the surrounding nations due to their wickedness and disobedience to God. They broke the covenant He had made with them in the desert, ignored the repeated warnings by His prophets, and became

Masada is located atop of an western isolated rock cliff at the end of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. The Judaean Desert is in Isreal and the West Bank which is east of Jerusalem and descends to the Dead Sea. It is so large that is stretches from the northeastern Negev to the east of Beit El. The Judaean Desert is being crossed by numerous wadis, a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season, from northeast to southeast. The lowest place in the world is the Dead Sea, which is roughly 1,300 feet below sea level. The Dead Sea is actually shrinking.

The ottomans started very small and soon became large. Byzantium had control of the Silk Road until the ottomans got power. Constantinople (present day name Istanbul and previous name Byzantium) was a walled city and no one could get in. Well thanks to the silk road Byzantium had open arms to the ottos got their hands on cannons very early. (Earlier than any other European nation.) The destroyed the walled city within a couple of months and after that they made their Capital in Constantinople b/c of the walled part. Later they kept expanding and expanding to the point where that controlled 100% of the black sea and they bordered the HRE. After their height like any Hi people get they go and dip below hemostasis and started to fall. They lost

The Jews once lived in Palestine but with changing rulers they were eventually pushed out of the area that they called home. The Jews were forced to find homes in other areas and they ended up being under extreme discrimination in these other areas. So when the ruler in Palestine changed once again, they packed up and headed to the land that they called home. The Jews rebuilt their lives in Palestine and began to flourish. They were on their way to create a Jewish land. The Palestinians were not pleased to learn that their home was going to be taken over by the Jews so the United Nations got involved and split Palestine. The Jews took early action in claiming the land given to them which lead to thousands of Palestinians to flee. This is

Barbarossa was a powerful warrior who led the famous crusades when he went about conquering cities and lands. In 1152, according to John Haaren, author of Famous Men of the Middle Ages, Frederick Barbarossa became king of the Germans. A few years into his reign, Milan revolted, sending Barbarossa over the Alps to put down the rebellion (Haaren; 180) “After a long siege the city surrendered” Haaren claims. Satisfied, Barbarossa and his men returned to Germany, believing the Milanese would not attempt another revolt (180). He was wrong! Milan revolted once more, bringing Barbarossa back to the Lombardy city to put down the new rebellion (180). He did so swiftly, destroying the entire city (180). Other cities of Lombardy allied with Milan and together they rebuilt the city, prepared for the chance of another

“Perseverance isn’t one long race; it is many short races one after the other.” - Walter Elliot. When someone is facing their idea of impossible, they must overcome many small bumps in the road and when they get over that small bump it can make them believe in themselves and make them stronger as a person. But perseverance can be well worth it in the end. Through determination, we can learn why perseverance is essential to making us stronger both mentally and emotionally, but we can’t just understand why but also how perseverance help in making us the strongest people we can be. However being persistent not only affects us as individuals but it also affects our communities and the society we live in. At the end of the day perseverance one

In the book of Genesis, we find of a man whose name was Abraham, who was being called by God to make a covenant with him. But before we continue let us know a little more about father Abraham. Abraham lived in Haran, a city in Mesopotamia with his wife