Freedom is the ability to do whatever one wants without restraint. Many people in our country take freedom for granted, while many suffer from the lack of freedom in other countries. Freedom is when you choose all of your actions, which is what was meant for everyone. Making choices of your own is how you learn and grow. When you are in a position without freedom, somebody withholds it. The withholder makes your choices and dictates what you can and can’t do. To do whatever you so desire makes you free. To me, freedom is the most treasured possession you can ever have.
Though freedom is so great, it is often neglected. There is a book based on a true story called The Wave, that is written by Todd Strasser. In this story a teacher conducted an experiment at a high school in Palo Alto. A history class in this school was learning about the Holocaust and how it was started. This class was directed and disciplined by the teacher, and was taught to do everything the way the teacher commanded the students. The students were swept up in the excitement, and gave up their freedom to this movement “the Wave”. Students were then thinking everyone was equal and tried to force others to join the movement. Things progressed into chaos, and the teacher revealed to them that this is how the Germans were swept into the Nazi regime without knowing it. Each group gave
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Freedom is a serious thing; we cannot take it for granted. When you do not cherish it, you forget freedom’s importance such as in the example of The Wave. The First Amendment of our Constitution protects our basic human rights so that we can learn and grow for ourselves. Freedom is a most precious gift - truly a blessing not to be taken for granted. It enables us to do everyday things and act according to our own conscience, thus we must not forget the meaning, importance, and blessing that is called
In chapters 1-9 of The Wave by Todd Strasser Mr. Ross, a history teacher, has always tried to teach his students at Gordon High School in ways that would make them feel like they were living through history, but he has noticed that majority of his students are not interested and do not really try. One day, Mr. Ross showed his history students a short documentary on Nazi concentration camps that disturbed many students. After the film, many of the students began to question why the Germans did not try to stop Hitler and his Nazi regime, but Mr. Ross could not answer their question. Ever since class that day, Ben Ross had been intrigued in finding a way to answer his students’ question. He spent many nights studying and coming up with an experiment
Freedom can have many meetings to many people. Freedom to some may mean to be free in a trapped society filled with rules and regulations. Freedom can be revealed to the naked eye in things such as laws, organizations, and even clubs. Freedom to me is living your life however you choose, wherever you choose, and whenever you choose to do so. Angela Davis had once lost those privileges.
Freedom is a type of living that everyone in the world would appreciate having. Some people live in a communist country or a country where freedom do not exist and everything is controlled by the government. With many rules and regulations proposed by the government, people feel that it takes away from their freedoms. Nonetheless, America was established upon freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. People want to live this way along with protection from danger.
Accurate elements represented of this culture in this novel include their actions and the setting. “Led by dictator Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party in Germany
Memoirs and primary sources give fascinating insights into the ways children dealt with the deterioration of their life, coping with their continually changing perspective on life, both practically and emotionally. This makes a huge impact on kids of today, as it teaches them that the Holocaust was not simply an accident that happened in history; it occurred because choices were made by those who abused power to not only legalized discrimination, but allowed prejudice, hatred, and ultimately mass genocide to occur. The Jewish people did nothing wrong, yet the government blamed all of society’s problems on them. It teaches kids silence and indifference to the suffering of others, can however unintentionally, perpetuate these problems, so stand up against what is wrong. It is also important from children to listen to their elders and the legacy they leave behind when they go to pass down for
Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. The foundation of America is freedom. Freedom from Britain. However, the freedom is limited to white males who own property. When colonists started to immigrate to America, they wanted to escape from under the rule of Britain.
The Wave, a novel by Todd Strasser (published in 1981) is based off of The Third Wave experiment by Ron James, which was inspired by Nazism. The setting of the novel takes place in Gordan High School 1969. Four main characters of the wave include: Ben Ross (“an outstanding young teacher”), Laurie Saunders (“a pretty girl with short brown hair and an almost perpetual smile”), David Collins (“ a tall, good looking boy who was the running back on the football team”), and Robert Billings (“ a heavy boy with shirt tails perpetually hanging out and his hair was always a mess”).
The teacher did a recreation of the Nazi Germany with his students to teach them something. This experiment first started with classroom discipline then it moved on much farther than that. Mr. Ross named this movement “The Third Wave” because waves are very strong, they go in one direction and they are very powerful. Jones also claimed that “Its members would revolutionize the world.” Howard S. Becker said that, “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.”
The High and Low of The Wave When you think an experiment goes well and it goes too far. The Wave was made by Todd Strasser the book is based on a event that happens in 1969. The book was based on the Nazi’s the Halocaust set in Gordan High School in Palo Alto, California. The Wave has positive and negative effects about it.
When reading this book The Wave, by Todd Strasser, you are expected to have some basic knowledge about World War two and how Nazis killed the Jews, Hitler. Without any knowledge of World War two then you would not understand the main idea of the experiment, which was to show the senior history class what it’s was like being a Nazi and getting an understanding of why and how they influenced and brain washed all those people into doing such cruel and inhuman act of killing over 11 million jews. The character of Todd Strasser intuitively understood this need in teenagers, and the rapid spread of The Wave was due in great part to their vulnerability to the most attractive aspects of Fascism and Nazism: belonging to a group that is special in
The day Hitler seized power was the miner’s canary to the implementation of a one party controlled state. Thus, Hitler’s trusted confidant Joseph Goebbels assumed his position as the Reich Minister of Propaganda, and led aggressive methods in order to engage ‘unspoiled’ youth into partaking in state sanctioned activities. Thus, students at German institutions were ordered to participate in Nazi book burnings, and pyres at schools around Germany burned hundreds of thousands of books by Jewish, communist, gay, classical, religious, and by state-critical authors. Goebbels once stated, “The era of extreme Jewish intellectualism is now at an end” to a crowd of high schoolers in the streets of Berlin. Once students were exposed to state sanctioned
In The Wave written by Todd Strasser, the idea of conformity and individuality was brought to my attention. It showed how everyone can undergo a phase where they believe that being part of a group is more important than being an individual. Conformity was the idea of how the teens at school would change their own beliefs along with their morals just to fit in, and to follow the usual standards that are expected of a group. While following the group the idea of being an individual was lost in the minds of most students especially in Robert Billings mind. Individuality is how a person distinguishes themselves from others and the idea of being an individual while a group was taking over the school was nearly impossible.
What is freedom? Is it an absolute right or is it something we can live without it? People born to be free. Throughout history freedom defined differently according to different cultures and different period of time. Freedom shows an alteration cultures to culture.
Freedom means the power or right to act, speak, or think without restraint, and the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. Freedom is the correction to do what he/she wants, live life, and eat what he/she wants. How do we live free? We live free by not judging other people’s freedom rights. Everyone has their own rights.
As American author and motivational speaker, Wayne Dyer, once said, “Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.” These words of the wise man are screaming with meaning and passion as to how important and grand the freedom to choose how we make our lives and how we choose to express ourselves is. These words speak to me greatly and connect almost effortlessly with my own personal definition of the word: freedom. We as a society are developing more and more each continuing day, and as we change our rights begin to change to suit us and allow us to live happier, freer lives.