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    Litearay Ananlyisis “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the main theme is silence. Silence is the main theme because it caused the Jews to lose everything they held dear. As a result of their silence, the Jewish people lost their lives, freedom, and homes. The first negative effect silence had on the Jewish people was that is caused them…

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    Because of the camps size it was separated into ten different sections, each section was divided by electrified barbed wire fences and also patrolled by SS officers and SS K-9 units. Of the ten separated sections there were individual sections for men, women, and Gypsies. Birkenau was designated as the extermination camp. Around 90% of the prisoners that died at Auschwitz…

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    don’t want to” Love can make you do things that you know are wrong. In this quote you know that you shouldnt take that road home but you can’t help it because you love the person and are going after them. The second quote is “I’m all tangled up in barbed wire/ I’ll get burned/ I don’t learn/I’ll be back everytime/ yea i know it sounds crazy/ but i guess i like playing with fire.” This quote proves that love can be adventerous. Curiousity killed the cat and it got dangerous. It shows that if you…

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    Literary Analysis - The House of the Scorpion Matt is a clone, property of Alacrán Estates a refugee in Atzland, and a drug lord of opium. In The House of the Scorpion Matt, a clone lives life at the fullest with Celia and the person He was cloned from, El patrón. At the age of 7 Matt get’s a bodyguard Tam Lin. Tam Lin takes care of Matt and El patrón. One day Matt is needed for spare parts. Matt escapes to Atzland where He meets Doña Esperanza and takes over opium. The setting plays a big…

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    Shirley Level 3

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    green pasture, as other men tend to the prison gardens near the woods or they are playing a game of basketball by the busy road. Guards are scarcely in sight to watch over the prisoners, but unlike the two other state prisons in the distance, where barbed wire fences keep the prisoners inside of prison grounds and the guards sitting in the lookout towers closely keep their…

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    Ww1 Offensives

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    be be amongst others fighting in an enemy trench system. As early as 1915 british leaders came and decided on a plan that would include large artillery barrages that would intend to dismantle enormous sections of fixed defenses and destroy enemy barbed wire. For example in the Somme these new tactics came to fruition. The movement called “The Creeping Barrage” was used and a creeping barrage involved artillery fire moving forward in stages just ahead of the advancing infantry. This enabled the…

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    Totalitarianism Dbq

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    Totalitarianism is a government that takes total control over every aspect of public and private life. This was the type of government Adolf Hitler transformed Germany into. Before Adolf Hitler came into power he joined a little political party known as the Nazi in the early 20s. The Nazi party was made up of middle and lower middle class and believed that Germany had to overthrown the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism. By 1932 Nazi became largest political party. In 1933 the president…

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    keep their identity and feared it would be lost with reunification. On the other hand, seen from the West Berliner’s point of view in part 2, the wall was more like a prison wall that trapped the Easterners. The wall was covered with graffiti, barbed wire, and watch towers that killed anyone who tried to escape the East. However, West Berliners simply forgot about the wall over time and according to Darnton, only paid attention to it after it fell. When the wall fell, the Westerner’s felt that…

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    Val Ginsburg Biography

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    dream was not fulfilled and he enrolled to study architecture. Val’s hopes and dreams were sadly crushed by what was coming to him. On August 15th, 1941, the Jewish population was crammed into a ghetto in a small suburb of Kaunas surrounded by barbed wire and armed sentries. With had no fuel and barely any food, Val was sent out as a slave labourer and kept his remaining family alive with potato peel, which his mother cleaned and cooked. Nearly 10,000 people were taken away and shot because…

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    The Attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as The Battle of Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941. This was a preventative action taken by Japan in order to stop the United States from interfering with the plans that the Empire of Japan had against the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States as well. The following day, December 8, was when the United States declared war. The events leading up to this war made major impacts on the lives of Japanese Americans. Relocation as well as…

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