a lot of slang without regards to the origin of the word. Ghetto happens to be one of the words we use out of context. The word ghetto has always described the impoverish part of the city. The word actually originated from the Jews. According to the Teacher’s guide of the Holocaust‚ the Jewish people that stayed in the ghettos had faced prosecution and were forced to live there. When the Holocaust occurred‚ Adolf Hitler used the ghettos for concentration camps. The Nazi’s ran the concentration camps
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Childhood Experience I was born when we were still living in our old ghetto neighborhood. Our house was one of the worst house I have ever seen. The front lawn was never green; only yellow grass and patches of dried up dirt. Our house gutter had big holes where bee’s‚ cats‚ and birds lived in there. Cats were having babies in our roof. We could hear the little kitties cry at night in the living room. Birds were making nest in the corner of our roof. We could hear their babies chirp at night in
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Rob Hill Professor Terry Thuemling WP121G 5 November 2004 Behind the Walls of the Ghetto Commenting on the famed Los Angeles ghetto in which he grew up‚ gangster rapper Ice Cube asserts‚ "If you ain ’t never been to the ghetto‚ don ’t ever come to the ghetto" (Cube‚ Ghetto Vet). But why are American ghettos filled with so much violence‚ drugs‚ and inopportunity? In John Singleton ’s powerful drama Boyz N the Hood the harsh reality of youths growing up in South Central Los Angeles‚ a place
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to occur to where eventually the word becomes a commonly used‚ often randomly with little regard to its primary meaning. Such is the word “ghetto”. This word can be traced back into sixteenth century and here the twenty-first century‚ this original word has become part of our culture‚ but its current definition is far from original. The word ghetto has always been used to acknowledge a particular section of an area. In Venice Italy‚ it was used to describe neighborhoods where the city
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entirely. This is the case with the word “ghetto.” The word ghetto can be traced all the way back into the 1500’s. This word has infiltrated itself into today’s society and culture seamlessly. However the current definition of the word is far from what the original definition was. Perhaps due to the connection that the word ghetto has with urban culture‚ the word has evolved over time to have a more positive‚ less intolerant meaning. The word ghetto‚ which would come to be used throughout
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respect for all of the courage we had to go do all of those missions. When all of the jews had to move to the WARSAW GHETTO.The warsaw ghetto smiled down on us as if it were a human .Benn and I had to sneak in and out of the warsaw ghetto. We had to sneak in and out of the ghetto like we were some dogs sneaking in the kitchen for food.We would sneak out of the ghetto so that we can feed are families food to keep everyone alive.all of the jews got sent to the warsaw ghetto.It was trashy barely enough
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Imagine waking up everyday in fear that you might be stolen away from your home; away from the people you loved‚ away from the only scarce bit of hope you held on to. That’s how the residents in the Warsaw ghetto lived. Always in fear‚ always fighting for freedom‚ but never giving up. Their homes became rooms packed with other Jewish families. Three course meals got reduced to mere bread crumbs a day. Clothes were tarnished‚ living conditions were harsh‚ and yet the Warsaw residents never gave up
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In the eyes of the Jewish‚ ghettos were the worst experience of the Holocaust‚ before all of the Jews went to the death camps. Making the Warsaw Ghetto a significant symbol of the Holocaust. Thousands of people were stuffed into tight communities and were exposed to diseases‚ starvation‚ and deportation. Children had to fend for themselves because their parents were powerless and had to stand by watch. Families in the ghettos also watched their friends and close relatives slowly disappear. To attempt
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One example of a resistance movement that held these traits is the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa‚ or the Jewish Fighting Organization‚ a group of young Jewish rebels living in the Warsaw Ghetto who refused to be deported to extermination camps by German soldiers. The ZOB was best known for staging the Warsaw Ghetto uprising‚ a one-month armed revolt against the Germans. Unfortunately‚ the Nazis ended up crushing
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1933 and continued until 1945. In 1940‚ the Warsaw Ghetto located in Warsaw‚ Poland was created by Nazis to isolate the Jews off from the outer population. This began a time of fear and uncertainty for the ghetto inhabitants‚ which eventually sparked an uprising. Personal accounts help illustrate this disturbing time in history. The stories shared by survivors are critical for appreciating this dark time‚ which must never be forgotten. The Warsaw Ghetto inhabitants endured an inhuman lifestyle inside
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