Marilyn Monroe Influence On Berlin

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“I am a history nut.”- Billy Joel.
With the media as it is today is making it harder to learn truth and querying things like, who was Marilyn Monroe, What is Berlin, and what does birth control contribute to society? Choosing three things from the iconic Billy Joel song was a tough decision, but I lucked out in the end. Always intriguing me with posters and t-shirts, Marilyn Monroe, and moreover with her famous photos and flirtatious dances on the screen. Knowing Berlin was a subtopic within our literature unit, it only seemed appropriate to learn more about Germany. Finally the last topic is a highly controversial one, and confusing at that. Choosing birth control as my third topic was a little distant to the other chosen topics, it is often
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Most think being the capital of a country is unique enough, but being a vital place in World War 2 and its cultural background that makes it so historic. The ethnic beginning of Berlin was with fishermen, Romans, and Turkish immigrants. Early on being when the barbaric mood came and settled in with even the noblemen acted like pirates. Now the most obvious thing that I’ve ignored for a bit was the wall. Now it’s gone, but accordingly it brought so much pain and suffering to the Jewish history belonging there. The wall was separating the capitalist west and the communist east that had 40 years of division between the 2 parties. Having this torn down over 30 years ago, it had a reassuring effect that it had both communists and capitalist sides working to tear them down. Even though that Berlin had once been the source of the hatred and disgust for the jews it has different views in the current …show more content…
Now those often ask, “Why choose this topic, because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.” Well I chose this topic with the only goal to inform those who think it is unimportant. It is the exact opposite. Now there are certain disorders and syndromes that can only be fixed with birth control. Even people in ancient times understood this, ex. The Egyptians started to experiment with this concept because women died of illnesses back then relating to this. If you have anemia and are not medicated you could be endangering your life every month. Also there is a sickness called ovarian cyst disorder/syndrome. It is when cysts form all over the lower abdomen, ordinarily making each monthly tradition like the most aggravating time in your life. It affects women both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Just say if you pick a fight with a woman with this syndrome, you will most likely be on their hate list forever. Listing symptoms and side effects of this syndrome would take almost a whole page itself, so for the sake of keeping this entertaining I will just say they are all awful. Women also take it to normalize an unstable cycle or clear a disease unrelated to the reproductive system. When having an ovarian cyst disorder is when your monthly cycle lasts 6-9 days a month that vary either a week early or a week late that just uncontrollable flow. This doesn’t sound pretty and that’s because it isn’t, BUT if women take contraceptives monthly

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