Dresden

Vonnegut uses time in his novel to discuss the inevitable actuality of life, free will, and death. Billy Pilgrim is a prisoner of war or “POW” after he is captured by the opposing German army. He is taken on trains to camps and eventually to Dresden, Germany days before a series of bombing engulf the city. His war experiences occur all while Billy is time traveling. “Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time...Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he…

death, which led to the deaths of over 40 million people in Europe in just 4 years. One common belief was that the plague was caused by Jews contaminating the wells. This belief led to many pogroms occurring across Europe, such as in Strasbourg and Dresden. By the 1400’s, anti-Semitism continued to spread across Europe, and became commonplace in Spain by 1475. The newly united Spain wanted to make Christianity Spain’s only religion, and with the help of Pope Sixtus, they started the Spanish…

costume designer Edith Head that he wanted the actress Grace Kelly to “look like a princess” in the final ball scene in To Catch a Thief (1955) (McGilligan, 2003, p. 497). In Rear Window (1954), he wanted one of Kelly’s costumes to evoke “a piece of Dresden china” (McGilligan, 2003, p. 488). In other films, Hitchcock showed women wearing tight outfits that restricted their movement, even when they were engaged in life-threatening adventures alongside men. Some examples of this include Eva…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a psychological disorder that can occur after experiencing or witnessing life-threatening situations such as military combat, serious accidents, etc. Unfortunately, not just the people that are diagnosed with this disorder are affected by their past. In the novel, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, a man by the name of Billy Pilgrim, a World War Two veteran, suffered through life, claiming time travel because of his inability to control his flashbacks that…

Heinrich Von Treitschke: Warfare and Nationalism in Germany In the nineteenth century, Germany faced the worst era of political imperial leadership that suppressed the citizens and the economy. For instance, during the ruling of Adolf Hitler, his leadership was characterized with killings and assassination. There was no democracy in the country. Due to this, there was a dire need for the patriotic dedication to push for reforms in Germany. The research paper focuses mostly on Heinrich Von…

What was the state of the Weimar Republic in 1924? The impact of the first world war was still being heavily felt in Germany in 1924. The war had caused Germany a whole heap of problems that they were struggling to solve and deal with. They had pay reparations to France and Britain which they didn’t have the money for due to the fact they did not find a way to pay for the war. Whereas for example Britain raised taxes. They had to pay the reparations as part of the Treaty of Versailles which…

Steven Lee Myers wrote a book titled The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Putin which tells the life of Vladimir Putin. The book gives details about Putin’s experience in the KGB and his movement toward President of Russia. The book starts on the day of November 17 in 1941 with Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (Putin’s father) on a suicide mission to stop the German army from completely destroying the last Soviet fleet left to defend their nation. The setting was about thirty miles from Leningrad and…

Humanity is very delicate during wartime, and takes a lot courage to retain it. The novel, “The Cellist of Sarajevo” by Steven Galloway, is based on a real historic event. This novel is based on the Siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996). Galloway created fictional characters that could very well be real to demonstrate the damage and suffering of Sarajevo and its people within. One of main themes of this novel is that it is possible to retain one’s humanity during wartime, provided that hope of returning…

War, as is its nature, takes much from those who partake in it, whether willingly or no matters not. It steals them from their lives and returns them stricken, not the same person as the one who left. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder often follows them like a wraith cloaked in black. The fulcrum of their lives has been shifted, their eyes opened to the cruel and brutal monstrosity that is the human race. When one has seen what they have seen, returning home to live out a normal life like nothing…

Athena Lemnia, a modern copy of Athena Lemnia’s reconstruction, currently resides in a niche in Carpenter Library of Bryn Mawr College. It used to exhibit in Thomas Great Hall and it was moved to carpenter Library in 1997. and before The statue is made of plaster and slightly over life-size. Its dimension is 228.6 cm x 106.68 cm x 68.58 cm (Height x Width x Depth). The statue was made by August Gerber and was painted black to resemble bronze texture of the original. The original sculpture it…