Night of the Long Knives

to know the price and gain his affections, on the other had Arial has only three days to get the prince to fall madly in love with her and kiss her. The different views between past and present are also shown here. The book version the goal is for a long term commitment, something real and permanent, in the movie version it is suggested that true love can be reached in three days and the goal is completely physical with no commitment needed. The present is focused on getting something for…

For a single party state to not be united, could destroy that party's power. It shows that Hitler stopped at nothing to condensate power. In one night, Hitler created the Nazi Party solely under his control and killed liberal opposition towards the party. Hitler's response to the factions which could limit his power, and threaten the solidity of the party, ultimately, transformed Germany into a state…

soldiers took advantage of his ancestors and how they held their composure and just left to save conflict. Little Tree heard the mockery and ridicule, but yet he didn’t really understand. Little Tree was just as child. A child whose people have came a long…

cook and rather become a medical secretary. As she continued through high school, she continued working as a cook. However she quit night school because work as well as night school was too strenuous. Janice’s parents didn’t play a big role, however her mother supported her aspirations. Janice originally…

should be a stream we’ll rest there” I said cautiously as we walked. A few minutes later we got to the stream and started to set up camp. It was morning I was feeling really warm but I was shivering, must have been the cold air from the mountains. As long as Liam is okay, it'll be fine. “CAPTURE THEM” a ruthless voice said, it was one of the captain of G. “LIAM RUN” I yelled. He started running and I after him. My adrenalin was pumping, and my heartbeat was getting faster; they weren't too far…

board computer HAL 9000 is becoming more and more of a threat. For me as a Sci-Fi enthusiast it is almost an impudence not to have seen Kubrick's 2001 yet. Now, after watching it in class, I realize, however, why I delayed viewing this film for so long Without dissolution, it is almost impossible for me to conceive the background of this film. Apart from this, Stanley Kubrick offers us a stunning and stylistic masterpiece with his mammoth work. A symbiosis of music, perfection down to the last…

The protagonists in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone are forced to deal with the consequences of revenge. In Golding’s novel, young boys are left on an island during WWII with no adults. The leader, Ralph, a foresighted thinker, has a main goal of getting saved and tries to avoid tension at all times while his enemy, Jack, only cares about hunting and cannot stay away from evil. In Beah’s memoir, he describes how his life was roaming around the country of…

In the nonfiction book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson, a historian becomes an ambassador in the key formational years of 1933-1937 in Hitler’s regime. He has many opponents but he stands strong to his Jeffersonian beliefs. His daughter comes along and those two are the center of the story. To begin with, the story starts with Dodd, a University of Chicago professor. He becomes an ambassador in Berlin after many others turned the…

forcing every citizen that owned a weapon back then to purchase a license, in 1938 Adolf Hitler signed a new gun control law, which denied firearm ownership to enemies of the state (Halbrook 2). This paved the way for a historic night now known to be called, Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass). Everyone deemed an enemy of the state had their weapons confiscated therefore; the Jews were left unable to defend themselves from the violence they would endure for the next seven…

During my time at Goodyear, I had received many anonymous note, some serious, some not, but I had never received a note like this before. Somebody had listed my name, and the names of the other three tire managers, with the salary next to each name. I had always worried about being paid less than the men for the same work, but I never had any proof. I was kind of like a wife, nursing a nagging suspicion that her husband was having an affair, with no evidence. But then in 1998 nearly two decades…