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After many continuous years of warfare the thirty years wars has resulted in many countries invading into the Holy Roman Empire. The Thirty Years War was the product of protestant rebellion after I tried to stop their religious activities. This war involved Sweden, France, Spain and Austria including other major powers in Europe, this war was mostly waged on German soil, the war needed with the Peace of Westphalia. Since this war has blurred the boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire we must reset…

Started by Martin Luther and the creation of Lutheranism reformation of Christianity spread across Europe, reformations like these spread across Europe. The protestant reformation spread throughout Europe with many different sects being created. After losing so many members, the Catholic church realized that they were doing something wrong and had their own reformation which has been deemed the “counter-reformation.” Ultimately the two religious revolutions because the protestant reformation…

The reasoning behind the mix of styles Pontormo’s painting shows may have stemmed from many different sources. In particular, the historical and cultural events surrounding Italy in the early 1500s could have been a factor in the departure from the classicism and naturalism of the High Renaissance. The discovery of Heliocentrism by Copernicus in 1512 was a major deviation from what people had believed to be true for centuries. This dramatic shift in normal thought could have prompted an…

Ben Friedman Mr. Mahoney AP English Literature and Composition October 9, 2015 A Non Linear Journey Through Space and Time: Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut’s semi autobiographical satirical war novel Slaughterhouse-Five journies through the life of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Following his abduction by alien, he becomes unstuck in time; his life is no longer linear, but sees the past, present and future all happening at once. Discovering this. Pilgrim realizes he can never die, because…

Melville portrays Billy as a Christ-figure because he was innocence, young, handsome sailor who has only recently entered into the naval forces. When he go back to the British Isles on board the ship Rights-of-Man, he is impressed into duty by the H.M.S. Bellipotent, a warship was looking for extra sailors. Billy is the only member of Rights-of-Man selected to change ranks by the representative of the Bellipotent, Lieutenant Ratcliffe. Without complaint, Billy accepts his reassignment, much to…

Moreover, Slaughterhouse Five focuses on the pointlessness of war. Vonnegut truly wanted to avoid writing a novel that glamorized war. Thus, he portrays the war being fought by “…young, uncomprehending innocents” (“Popular Fiction in America”, Beacham Publishing). Slaughterhouse-Five defines man's cruelty to man, and the mass destruction of Dresden by serves as a prime example. While Vonnegut is a humanist at heart, he often exemplifies the human capacity for destruction. Moreover, the novel…

Slaughterhouse Five is a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut about a World War II veteran unstuck in time. Billy Pilgrim is dislodged in time, experiencing events of his life like a playlist of memories set on shuffle. Most of the book is centered on Billy’s time in the war, his time on the alien world of Tralfamadore, and his life in between. While reading Slaughterhouse Five, the reader meets a version of Billy who has experienced different moments of his life many times over. While the story is…

From the standpoint of the Catholic Church it may seem as if Luther was very revolutionary but in actual fact he was not. This is because the Church only found Luther revolutionary because he undermined the Church, when in actual fact he was attempting to reform the Church and return it to its former state . Many of Luther’s ideas were previously taught by the Church, or could be found in the Bible, which meant that they were not new nor original and were just his interpretation of passages from…

Kurt Vonnegut, the author of the novel Slaughterhouse, is exceedingly disconcerted with the fact that his novel has burnt in a school's now well-known furnace in Drake, North Dakota. Vonnegut's purpose of the letter was to indicate how shocked and at the same time disgusted, he and his publishers are about the situation that happened at the school. He uses a very vehement tone to prove how Charles McCarthy, the chairperson of the school board, is completely in the wrong by supporting the idea of…

Death. Many fear the word itself. How would you feel to not be able to have a child without causing it, or having someone volunteer for it? The theme of 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut is that there is no reward worth the life of another person, and Vonnegut does many to make this clear. One of the ways he does this is through character dialogue. When speaking to the orderly, the painter states on page 2, “The world could deal with a good deal more mess, if you ask me.” This shows that the painter…