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    The Third Effect of War Throughout human evolution are species has always been at war with each other. This drive to kill and conquer can be caused from many different factors but the end is always the same, which is the physical and emotional effects left on the population. The physical effects include: death of people, maiming, physical loss of property, and economic loss. The emotional effects include: mental loss of family, mental feeling felt after war, and the emotional loss of everything…

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    Kurt Vonnegut’s unique and preposterous novel Slaughterhouse-Five was peculiar in the sense that it was evoked by misleading ideas, abstract humor, and visual imagery to display post- modernistic style- in it of itself reflecting the fractured psyche of the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. It was a combination of a unique blend of being fiction and nonfiction. Vonnegut 's novel engrossed postmodernism because it had no limits, it is free and associates with dissonance. He is living his act, never…

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    Vonnegut uses the first chapter to explain all of the struggles he went through to write the book. Vonnegut reveals that he had been writing this novel since he got back home from Dresden, but he wasn’t satisfied with anything. He knew that he needed to say something, but he was having a hard time getting it across. Vonnegut also reveals that Mary O’Hare, the wife of his war buddy, gave him the push he needed to finish what we now…

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    Otto Dix

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    in his cousin, Fritz Amann’s (fig 1.1) studio which prompted him to start painting along with support from his school teacher. By 1910 at the age of 19 he began his first painting of landscapes. In 1910, he entered the Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden. Only five short years later, World War I began and Dix volunteered to serve in the German Army. In the war he was assigned as a non-commissioned officer of a machine-gun unit on the Western front (4). In August of 1918 he was shot and wounded in…

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    The Mayans Essay

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    Mayans The Mayan civilization is in the eastern third of Mesoamerica, mostly in the yucatan peninsula. There were many dangerous animals were the Mayans lived, some of them were jaguars, crocodiles, Bull sharks and many species of poisonous shakes. The mayans had to avoid these animals when they were hunting for food in the forests. The highlands and the lowlands of the Mayan territory had much different climates. The lowlands were cooler and drier than the highlands and the highlands had more…

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    Salman Khan once said, “A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.” This quote vividly depicts how the heaviest of burdens, such as slavery and segregation, have brought forth valiant black Canadian leaders who’ve helped define our country’s diverse heritage and identity. Despite their great achievements, we fail to recognize certain dynamic Afro-Caribbean Canadians. We sometimes fail to appreciate torchbearers such as Josiah Henson, Rosemary Brown and Abel Tesfaye. When the Abolition Act of…

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    Holocaust Revisionists

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    falsified or intentionally misinterpreted. They also believe that there is an American, British, or Jewish conspiracy to make the Jews look like victims and the Germans look horrible. According to the Revisionists, the Germans suffered the bombing of Dresden, wartime starvation, invasions, postwar population transfers from areas of Germany incorporated into postwar Poland, Victors Vengeance at Nuremberg, and brutal mistreatment by Soviet and allied occupiers. Information by historians is found…

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    The Bilderberg Group Do you ever wonder about the government? How does it work? What plans are they conspiring that we don’t know about? What if I told you we have a second government. The Bilderberg, also known as our second government, is powerful yet secretive group that makes some of the biggest decisions in american history. Though the group does not seem so bad from the outside, their enigmatic actions regarding anything about the group is suspicious. Because of thI think everyone should…

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    are complete fiction. As readers it is up to us to decipher which parts of the story are true and which are works of fiction. Other instances of this breaking of the fourth wall are on page 125 in the scene with the latrine and on page 148 where Dresden is likened to the fictional city of Oz. In both of these scenes, we have Vonnegut making his presence in Billy’s story known. I believe the importance of this insertion is far more important than most people realize. It serves to pull the reader…

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    Uaxactun Research Paper

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    Uaxactun is a sacred place of the ancient mayan people. Located in northern guatemala it was first explored by American archaeologists in 1916. The excavations at the temple pyramids of Uaxactun significantly furthered our understanding of ancient mayan civilization. The scholarly article Multispectral imaging of an Early Classic Maya codex fragment from Uaxactun, Guatemala by Nicholas P. Carter & Jeffrey Dobereiner outlines the process of analyzing small fragments of a codex from an ancient…

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