All of the events shown in Schindler's list happened during the holocaust that occurred during World War II between the years 1939 - 1945. In the beginning of the story the character Oscar Schindler, who was played by the actor Liam Neeson, a business man who was part of the Nazi party. His goal was was to one day become filthy rich, so he decided to build a factory. But to be able to make money he had to get a cheap source of labor, and to do that he had to bribe Nazi officers in order to get the Jewish workers that he needed. At first he only cared about the profits that the workers made him but after seeing all the massacres that were happening throughout the ghettos and how Nazi soldiers could kill a person without thinking about it, all the cruelty to the Jews, he started to look at everything in a different perspective. Instead of having a factory that provided him with money and wealth, he spent all his money buying the Jews as his personal workers, and bribing Nazi officials in order to keep them from being killed like the rest of the other Jews. The word power has many meanings for me. I look at power is to being able to influence someone, being able to control others actions, and knowing what to do at the right place at the right time. To Oscar Schindler power meant being able to pardon someone, to help them, and to be able to manipulate people to acheive what he wants. But in contrast Goethe felt that having power was to be feared, and everyone having unconditional respect to him. The way they use power would be different for each. Schindler at the beginning hadn't been using the power that he had in a responsible way, althat he wanted was wealth and in order to have that he manipulated people. But as things changed, he was still manipulating people but in order to save others. Goethe used his power to gain fear and respect. He would kill people just to show his power, which wasn't a responsible to use it. I felt that the film had a pretty strong effect on most of the people who saw this film since it doesn't leave out small details in comparison to other movies. It showed it from both perspectives, how the Germans reacted to the Jews, and how the Jews reacted towards what the Germans were doing to them.