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    Being a woman with no rights, treated as an object, and tortured everyday was a huge struggle in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Life in concentration camps was extremely miserable for both men and women, but all of the little difficulties women faced, added up to create one big hardship. It was worse to be a woman in the concentration camps because they were more vulnerable to beatings and torture, had a higher chance of being killed right away, and had a hard time with excessive…

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    Short Stories can have a good or bad influences. It depends on the general situation to whom it is referring to. During World War II the propaganda directed towards the pure hatred of the “inferior races,” in Europe such as Jews, Gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals. Across seas propaganda was on the flip side, trying to build support for the war and to promote nationalism for the country. It all depended on your location, and…

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    Mass Murder Examples

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    by friends of NaziGermany.What about Nazi extermination of people who are sexually attracted to the same sex and the disabled?Historians guess of a number the total number of deaths to be 11 million, withthe victims including gay people, priests, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists, trade people who support labor unions, Jehovah's Witnesses, people who dislike law and order, Poles and other Slavic peoples, black people and resistance…

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    Franz Joseph Haydn

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    The visits to England generated some of Haydn's best-known work, including the “Surprise”, “Military”, “Drumroll”, and “London” symphonies, the 'Rider' quartet, and the “Gypsy Rondo” piano trio. He returned to Vienna and composed a large amount of religious works for chorus and orchestra; including: his two great oratorios “The Creation” and The Seasons and six masses for the Eszterházy family. Haydn composed the last nine…

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    Why Racism Still Exists

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    Worldwide genocides, sexism, terrorism; the list of life impacting issues that plague today’s world stretches on. However, amidst this devastating register of problems, many people have forgotten one issue in particular and dismissed it as a situation of the past: racism. Modern people, for various reasons, have virtually forgotten about the still-existent split between people of different colors. Unfortunately, however, this issue still largely impacts our twenty-first century Earth by dividing…

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    family. The evacuation of the Jews and other races considered unfit started in the late 1930s and ended in the late 1940s by the control of Adolf Hitler. The Jewish community was singled out along with the mentally handicapped, crippled, and the gypsies. The Holocaust killed…

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    Internment Camps In Lord of the Flies Six million lives disappeared in a span of three years during the Holocaust. Lord of the Flies by William Golding can be interpreted as an allegory on the Second World War. The plot follows a group of British schoolboys, whose plane crashes on a deserted island while attempting to flee the bombings in their home country. Without any adults to maintain order, two leaders begin to emerge. Originally, Ralph had the whole of the group’s support, being voted…

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    researchers had mentioned that the results of the orangutan’s ability to recognize historic familiar faces may be shared with humans. However, there is no sufficient evidence presented in this study that suggests such ability. The three participants Gypsy, Julie, and Borneo were all from the Tama Zoological Park; however, since they live in such confined area with a limited population, it is hard to infer from these premises that they possess the same facial recognition abilities as humans. As…

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    “… Dreams are the language of God. When he speaks our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand,” wrote Paulo Coelho. Omens are events that hold great prophetic power, and in the case of Santiago, can change one’s life. Fatima, Santiago’s sheep, and Urim and Thummim are omens and are symbols that project the story of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho forward by shaping a theme of “some risks are worth taking”. In the…

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    Over six million Jews died in the Holocaust. Around seven million Soviet soldiers died in the Holocaust. Over a million Gypsies died in the Holocaust. Over a thousand homosexuals died in the Holocaust. The list of deaths goes on and on. The crimes committed by the Nazis were felt all across the globe. The Devil’s Arithmetic illustrates these atrocities wonderfully. There are a few similarities and many differences between the book and movie of The Devil’s Arithmetic. There are two…

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