... to blind faith and how easily it is abused. In his work "Existentialism is a Humanism" (ca. 1946 CE), Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to explain the philosophy of existentialism. Sartre explains that mankind lives through a series of choices and ultimately the individual must make them. The teachings of Sartre would later be adopted by a Holocaust refugee named Viktor Frankl and applied in a real world situation. Frankl, a survivor of the Holocaust, chronicles his ordeal in the concentration camps of World War II in his book, "Man's Search for Meaning". Frankl tries to teach that people must chose who they want to be regardless of the situation they are put in and that conscious decision will ultimately decide how the events of their life unfurl. All of these important lessons come together with the power of the past and the powers of hatred as well as the moral indifference ...

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