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Comm 102 Reading Report
HOMELESS
Vocabulary:
Consciousness:the condition of being awake and understanding what is happening.
Disguise:to change your usual appearance.
Reveal:to make something known that was previously secret or not known.
Shatter:to completely destroy something.
Precarious:not held in placefirmly and likely to fall.
Summary:

Neiman Susan who is writer of “homeless” is trying to explain relations between Lisbon earthquake and Auschwitz event then she is talking about some philosopher’s ideas on Lisbon Earthquake.According to Levinas, consciousness destroyed all balance in theodicy.Contrary to Leibnz ideas, Levinas defends secular theodicy.Theodicy shows God to people in evil’s face and strengths people’s believes.In addition, theodicy creates a relation with past evils and so prevents faults in the future.
According to Neiman, if we want to understand evil, we should look Lisbon Earthquake and try to understand why Lisbon and Earthquake and we should compare hand-made events like Auschwitz with earthquakes.Lisbon earthquake is the biggest natural event in the Europe.Before fifty years before earthquake, another earthquake destroyed the cities near the Lisbon so it was known that a big earthquake had being come.Lisbon was the one of the cheapest city in the Europe in the 1750s so in the Lisbon Earthquake not only people died but also gold,silver,(totaling millions),books,furnitures,pictures, etc. were destroyed.After the earthquake, fires started and then huge waves came from the Ocean and more people died in these two disaster rather than in earthquake.
According to ortodox theologians, Lisbon Earthquake gave two gift to people.One of these, people remembered the God was controlling the world and people were punished because of their sins.And these orthodox thologians think although it wasn’t known why the God chose Lisbon instead of Paris or London, Lisbon...