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the setting they are placed in. The Book Thief takes place in the late 1930s in Nazi Germany, while Between Shades of Gray takes place in the early 1940’s, in Lithuania, and later the work…

In the Holocaust gas chambers were a big thing used in killing Jews because it was fast and easy. It was a big use in getting rid of them and they were easy to use at the time with how they just pushed people into the chambers and set gas off. Starting in 1939, gas chambers were used as part of the Nazi painless killing program aimed at getting rid of disabled people. Experiments in the gassing of patients were done in October 1939 in occupied Posen in Poland. Hundreds of prisoners were killed…

Jungle is the story of a man named Jurgis Rudkus and his family, who is forced to face hardship after hardship working in meatpacking plants as they limp towards the “American dream”; a dream that was quickly crushed after their immigration from Lithuania to Chicago. An author who knows hardship all too well wrote the book: Upton Beall Sinclair. Sinclair was born in 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland into an extremely underprivileged and impoverished family who struggled with the impact of the civil…

1. Introduction The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination is globally used for the prevention of tuberculosis throughout the world. In Lithuania 97.7% of new-borns were given BCG Danish 1331 strain vaccine in 2014 1. Although this vaccine prevents severe forms of tuberculosis (TB) and has a high safety profile, a variety of complications can sometimes develop. Mostly the complications are encountered in local skin complications2 and regional suppurative lymphadenitis; however, it can also…

Upton Sinclair’s masterpiece The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicago’s infamous Packingtown. Jurgis and Ona move from Lithuania to work in Chicago meat packing industry. After Jurgis and Ona return from a reception they find out that they are more than a hundred dollars in debt to the saloonkeeper. They each pitch in and buy a house which turned out to be a swindle because the house was poorly maintained. Ona gave birth to one child and was forced to go…

empires that had existed for several centuries; Russian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian; gradually stopped existing, and several new nations began to emerge. In the East, Poland was reconstituted and the Baltic republics of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania were also established. In addition Austro-Hungarian Empire and the vast southern part of Europe was also divided into several smaller states. It lasted about five years alongside signing of several treaties for the…

Jiera, had never traveled outside of Lithuania before so she was extremely excited to see the country. However, when she arrived in London she was forced to work as a prostitute. If she deiced to refuse to have sex with the men she was being held against her will to have sex with she would be threatened with beatings. Jiera did eventually run away from the man who trafficked her, with the help of another man from Lithuania, but the police were no help to her. She is now in a shelter…

“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.” (W. Somerset Maugham) This quote demonstrates that tradition can be changed, similar to the way Hasidism changed traditional Judaism. Hasidism began in Southeast Poland-Lithuania and sparked a revolution in Judaism. The breakup of Judaism paired with the lack of trust in Jewish leaders, lead Hasidism to form and pave a new way for Judaism. Kabbalah, Mass enthusiasm and ecstasy acted as the foundation for the movement and fear of separatism lead many…

successful after coming to the americas. This makes the dream not true because it promises you a successful life. The cultural aspect of the novel is the immigrants and how they are treated. The immigrants are from lithuania and are struggling with the change is culture and ways from lithuania to the Americas. In conclusion, this novel was a great help to our society and now a part of our history because of all the changes that were made to the Americas after publishing…

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