Essays on Borowski

Reflective Summary on Human Learning (Sixth Edition) by

Reflective Summary on Human Learning (Sixth Edition) by

Introduction

Reflection of the first designated chapters of the Ormrod (2008) textbook on Human Learning (Sixth Edition) provides a broad spectrum of the evolution of the science of learning providing understanding of the cognitive abilities aligned to the human learning experience. From the onset of this reflection and choosing the two areas personally affecting the subjectivity of understanding self, changing beliefs about learning, and influencing the professional goal of attaining the role of teacher, it became apparent there was more to this process than just two chapters. First, Boud et al (1994) and ...

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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was promulgated in 1982 and it brought with it several fundamental developments in the legal system of Canada especially in the Supreme Court. Hon. Justice Frank Lacobucci makes the case that the Charter has led to increased protection of fundamental rights as well as promoting national cohesion. To this end, he examines a few of the cases determined before the enactment of the Charter and after, with a view of demonstrating the developments that the Charter has enabled. Nonetheless, it cannot be said that the Charter has been a magic wand in the improved preservation ...

Cultural criticism is an act practiced by the cultural critics who have literally taken to themselves the work of taking information from one individual to another, give judgments of how a particular behavior impacts a culture and give suggestions on what they think is a more favorable state of the affairs. Some people have gone further and dismissed social criticism as an unworthy course because they think everyone is free to choose what they want to do with themselves or what they have to say as freedom of speech and expression is in most of a counties constitution. There is need to ...

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It goes without saying that life without equality, respect, functional autonomy, and justice for human being is of no relevance. There is no room for any suppression, discrimination, exploitation, and injustice in this peaceful and wonderful world. The very significance of living for any human being is defeated if there is not only a doubt of survival but also a possibility of death. In this backdrop of human doubt of survival, self-identity, exploitation, death, and discrimination, the autobiographical-like description of the book – “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” written by Tadeusz Borowski - deals with a dazzling, painful, mind-boggling, startling ...

In Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber, Borowski adopts a variety of tones for different parts of the story. The everyday activities are often described in a casual manner, whereas the scenes of the end of day transports are much more serious and dark.

When depicting scenes of everyday life in camp, there is often a casual, almost ironic, tone. For example:

"Several of us are sitting right now on a top bunk swinging our legs in a carefree manner. We take out white, extravagantly baked bread: crumbly, falling to pieces, a little provoking in taste, but, for all that, bread that had not been moulding for weeks" (Borowski).

This example effectively demonstrates the tone of day to day life. The ...

The book is one of the collections of short stories that were compiled during Holocaust in Germany. The story centralizes mainly on the experiences, misfortunes, and tortures undergone by the prisoners. The author of the book, Tadeusz Borowski, was not among the Nazi rebels. However, when his anti-Nazi girlfriend was captured he surrendered himself to the authority so that he could be captured too in order to stay together with her. Borowski writes what he sees and experienced at the camp. The stories are linked by various themes, which have been well enhanced by different characters. The main character ...