Night of the Long Knives

Joe Haldeman once said, “No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation” (“Joe Haldeman Quotes.”). This means that the trauma of war is as inescapable as Einstein’s laws of relativity. The authors of these books explore the inevitability of war’s trauma throughout their works. In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the authors use the rhetorical devices of imagery, similes,…

While floating down the Mississippi river on the raft, Jim and Huck come upon a floating house. In that floating house, they find many things that they need and can use to help them on their journey. They steal women 's and men 's clothes, a lantern, knives, candles, old medicine, a bed-quilt, beeswax, buttons, fishhooks, a wooden leg, and many other things. Huck and Jim stole things that they believed the people wouldn 't ever come back for, however later when Huck and Tom steal things, they…

Far away and long ago a kingdom stood on a hill, within it sat a contented king, a good man much loved by his subjects. His wife was adored by all for she was beautiful and kind, always willing to help those in need. His son was cheered in the streets as captain of the guard, his days were spent defending the kingdom from the many dangerous creatures that abounded in the dark forests bordering the land. His daughter was followed by the children of the kingdom as her fanciful daydreams made…

(Overy, 2004). Hitler used these men in his policy of terror to both intimidate and reduce his opposition which lead to his ascension to power in Germany. Hitler not only used terror to ascend himself into power but to also consolidate it. The Night of the Long Knives was the…

who lived in the poor condition together with his mother. Keesh lived at the edge of the polar sea. The father of Keesh had been a brave man. But he had died hunting for food. Keesh was his only son. Keesh lived alone with his mother, Ikeega. One night, the village council met in the big Igloo of Klosh-kwan, the chief. keesh listened, then he waited for silence. He said, "It is true that you give us some meat. But it is often old and tough meat, and has many bones." The hunters were surprised.…

felt the need to. I woke up in the middle of the night to screaming , i look around me to see if anybody else heard what i heard, some of the inmates in my barracks were standing near the doors to find out what had happened. Several gunshots fired around us woke up the whole camp , i hear two ss guards outside my barracks speaking about two jewish males that died trying to escape auschwitz , they continue speaking about the two males for a very long time. The two ss guards finally end their…

intimidating. When night fell, I was no longer a typical seventeen year old girl. I became a weapon. Now, as the servants draped shimmering black cloth over my shoulders, I stood straight before the mirror. I lifted my chin, raised my shoulders. Regality. Fear. Be what they want you to be. All in black and silver, I became what the kingdom’s people only dared whisper about. The name caught from the shadowed alleyways, the King’s protector. Them who darkness follows. Nyx. Lady of the night.…

to travel is defiantly in itself a huge sign of respect for her father. I really take into consideration the fact that I would absolutely want him to let her go with me if the tables were turned. Showing Brandon an equal amount of respect has gone a long way with our co-parenting relationship. Respect is a huge line and boundary in any relationship, but especially in one with two parents trying to raise a child in two different…

The energy in Puri's air was very holy, and there I was given the proof of positive thinking that can be beneficial only when doubt doesn't exist and the moment is lived in an innocent state of mind, while wishing truly for the best for others without any return expectations. In India, I was surrounded by so much poverty, at this point it seems appropriate to mention that even though I was better off than the local multitude, I traveled for fourteen months outside my native country, Italy, with…

stay on pace with the story. The story starts out with Paterniti discussing his time at the church and how he laid awake hungry in his hotel room, “Then I find the hotel again. I lie awake until dawn. Fighting down my hunger. That’s what I do the night before the last meal” (5). This is written in the present tense, but quickly the story flips to François’s time period, with Paterniti discussing his cancer, and his background, “He spent much of his waking hours remembering his life . . . He sat,…