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The 95 Theses was written by a German monk and professor of theology named Martin Luther in 1517, to challenge the teachings of the Catholic Church and the usefulness of the Pope. Who knew this one man standing up for what he believed in would change the world as they knew it forever. He had always wondered about his faith and didn’t believe he was being told the entire truth. He thought the people were being lied to and didn’t think it was right. He wrote this to show the church that lying to…

The Source Behind Martin Luther’s 95 Theses Early in 16th century Europe all writings were becoming more widely available due to the invention of the printing press, including the Bible and the writings of early church philosopher Augustine. Martin Luther, a monk and a theology professor at Wittenberg University, shared Augustine’s two central beliefs that the Bible has ultimate religious authority and that humans cannot reach salvation by their own acts. These beliefs would later become the…

Ivanna Guerrero English 2 September 9, 2015 Fate and Free Will in “Slaughterhouse-Five” The novel, “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut, is about a war veteran named Billy Pilgrim who goes through war and at the same time goes back and forward in time to a moment in his life. He went from times he was in war, back to when he was an eye doctor, back to war again, then forward to when he was at home writing to the newspaper, back to war again, and so on. He went through hard times in life and…

terrors caused by war (Firebombing). The antiwar novel Slaughter House Five in-depth describes this horrific event that happened during the World War II, mainly focusing on the bombing of Dresden. The novel describes the experiences Billy Pilgrim, survivor of the Dresden bombings, faces during the war. Through the recap of Billy life during the war the reader learn of the horrors each soldier faces in the front lines. Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut illustrates the horrors and inhumanities…

This essay looks into a topic in which authors and directors have tried to paint their own versions of time travel. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a common mental trauma that concerns mainly those who participate in war/war veterans. Slaughterhouse Five goes into the affects of post-traumatic stress disorder (or PTSD for short), the consequences of those affects, and how veterans deal with PTSD differently. The time travel and aliens mentioned in this book are all part of a collection of…

In his book Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut depicts the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, as a connection between human and Tranfalmadorian ideals in society. By doing so, Vonnegut links present, past and future using flashbacks that give us a profound insight into Billy’s suffering of a malcontent post- traumatic disorder derived from his previous war tumult. These lapses between different periods of time in Billy Pilgrims life demonstrate Vonnegut’s anti-war perspective by negatively portraying…

Within the first chapter of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five the reader learns not only how the novel will begin but also, rather unconventionally, how it will end. In addition, Vonnegut presents a peculiar admission: “All of this happened, more or less” (1). Beginning in this curious manner sets the stage for a novel that demands the reader’s attention to more than just plot lines. By divulging such information regarding the ending and also disclosing that the content is not to be viewed…

are easily identified in the music. Television shows, and literature of the two time periods. One of the greatest texts published during the Vietnam era, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, encompassed many of the anti-war ideas feeling that were involved with the Vietnam War. Although Vonnegut began writing Slaughterhouse Five as soon as he arrived home from World War II, it was the time that he allowed himself to write the novel that helped him compose and reflect his post-war ideas through…

The bombing of Dresden was one of the most fatal and controversial bombings during WWII. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a science fiction novel that revolves around his experience at Dresden. Vonnegut’s novel is a valuable read that is worthy of implementation into the junior American Literature curriculum. The historical aspect that comes from Vonnegut’s anecdotal novel regarding not only Dresden and World War II, but also the views during the 1960s, when the novel was published, is…

Through the wild episodes of Slaughterhouse-5, Vonnegut follows Billy Pilgrim, a man whose mind has become “unstuck” due to the horrors of war. The semi-autobiographical novel spirals through Billy’s life, creating a dizzying and broad narrative touching on the countless unnamed people through arbitrarily linked segments. A major aspect of the novel is the trauma Billy experiences throughout the war, conveying Vonnegut’s own suffering and allowing the audience to empathise with both. Vonnegut…