3-4 pages, plus cover letter and references page
Use Glover’s analysis of Nazism to critically analyze what happens to Primo Levi and others in Survival in Auschwitz. Your introduction should briefly discuss the subject matter of your paper and clearly state a thesis. Please be sure to put your thesis statement in boldface type. Please use one of the following ideas to focus your thesis:
- Engage the concept of moral imagination Glover discusses and use this concept to advance your understanding of what happened to Primo Levi and others in Auschwitz.
- What is more dangerous: the availability of technologies for mass killing or the fading away of a widely accepted moral law?
- How do social pressures against harm to others become weaker or stronger and to what extent are these social pressures related to propaganda or to people’s moral identity?
- What did you learn that is new, and how much were your views and opinions challenged or changed by Survival In Auschwitz, if at all? Did the text communicate with you? Why or why not? Give examples of how your views might have changed or been strengthened (or perhaps, of why the text failed to convince you, the way it is). Please do not write “I agree with everything the author wrote,” since everybody disagrees about something, even if it is a tiny point. Use quotes to illustrate your points of challenge, or where you were persuaded, or where it left you cold.
Be sure to demonstrate your knowledge and mastery of both Humanity and Survival in Auschwitz.
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