Dresden

explains why corneal ectasia often progresses most rapidly in adolescence or early adulthood but tends to be stable in patients after middle-age (Ashwin and MaDonnell, 2010). Human studies of UV-induced corneal cross-linking began in 2003 in Dresden, and early results were promising. The initial study involved patients with rapidly progressing keratoconus and all of them stopped progressing after treatment. Additionally, 70% of patients had flattening of their steep anterior corneal…

enemy territory in war with only each other for protection and company, and yet they are trying to kill each other. In order to further expose society for it’s inhumane and pitiless tendencies, Vonnegut incorporated his memories of the firebombing in Dresden into…

can outdo differences of political philosophy. Another character is Bernhard O’Hare, A wartime friend of Vonnegut. O’Hare appears when Vonnegut visits him and his wife in Pennsylvania while trying to do research and collect remembrances for his Dresden book. Like his wife, Mary, and Vonnegut himself, O’Hare, a real character, helps open Slaughterhouse Five in reality. Vonnegut has this other…

paradox of evil known as war. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five establishes a strong anti-war message by detailing the atrocities of war. Vonnegut also sparks questions on the justification of war and whether one could rationalize the terror bombings of Dresden. Rather than explicitly choosing a side or presenting any villains in the story, Vonnegut allows for a spectrum of beliefs to come to agreement on war’s incomprehensible evils. Vonnegut acknowledges the acts of terror Nazi Germany committed…

effective way. Slaughterhouse-five 's first chapter begins with the author talking about writing the book we are reading. Vonnegut discusses how he really was in Dresden during the war and all this really has happened, but he says on page two, "I think about how useless my Dresden part…

Function: Often times, people that experience war struggle to conform back into the routines of society. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, protagonist Billy Pilgrim has difficulty dealing with the traumatic effects of the bombing of Dresden during WWII. To cope with his experiences, Billy develops this idea of Tralfamadore, a planet far more advanced than Earth. The Tralfamadorians can see time as humans “might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains” (85). They see all time as a physical…

Over five hundred years ago, cleric Diego de Landa approached an abandoned society lost in the jungles of Central America. His findings led him to make assumptions of these people he marked as savages. De Landa denounced these people as “idolatry, divorce, sacrificial, and slave traders” (qtd. in Gibson 13). Nearly three centuries after de Landa’s account, the U.S explorer John Lloyd Stephens noted his discovery of an altar among the ruins of a Central American city called Copán, with the…

Authors often use setting to present central themes in their novels in a way that the readers can understand. If this is a man is memoir written by Primo Levi in 1947, that documents Levi's experiences as well as his struggles. The novel acts as a testament to the cruelties inflicted on the prisoners but also to their level of endurance. Cormac McCarthy's novel, The road, follows the journey of a man and his young child in a post-apocalyptic world. The novel explores the perseverance of the…

opera, Rienzi, won a huge success in Dresden. With his next three works, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin, Wagner took an important step by shifting his focus from the drama of historical intrigue to the idealized folk legend. He chose subjects derived from medieval German epics, displayed a profound feeling for nature, employed the supernatural as an element of the drama, and glori ed the German land and people. When a revolution broke out in Dresden in…

in Dresden, Germany during the bombing of the city. He writes down all his feelings and emotions together with his friend Billy Pilgrim. The novel’s protagonist Billy Pilgrim is stucked in time, so during the whole book the author is jumping back and forth in time. Billy Pilgrim is born 1922 in New York, went to High School, enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry and went to war in Belgium. Right after his arriving he got arrested by German soldiers. The whole group got sent to Dresden,…