Swastika

“Yeah man, so it was true after all?” an Underground sentry speculated to another that he was patrolling with. “It would have to be so,” the other answered the moment they reached the fourth floor. “You know how the RGA can be at times, right?” The two sentries, once they were in the same hallway that Virgil was inside continued their conversation, unaware and oblivious to the fact that they had just walked past a potential spy and saboteur. “Full of secrets, even for their own good?” the…

Death and Leisel are introduces in this section. Death, the narrator, tells the story of how he met and has ties to Leisel, and Leisel being a small, lost girl is just trying to survive in a big lonely world. Leisel always has captured the attention of Death every time he has seen her. All the three times they have met each other, Death has always taken someone near, and sometimes dear, to Liesel. In all the accidents, Death has seen a color that just sticks out to him. At the railroad…

What comes to mind when you hear the name Adolf Hitler? Is it hatred, pure evil, mass killings? What Hitler did in his 56 years of life will forever be embedded in our history. He created the Nazi Party and masterminded the execution of more than six million Jews. But, what made a young boy with dreams of becoming a famous artist responsible for such atrocities. Born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau Am Inn, Austria Adolf was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Hitler. As a…

The Nature of Nazism Studying the history of the Nazi regime requires the understanding of the nature of the Nazi’s themselves. With help from assigned readings, class discussion, and various movies about Nazi’s, these can bring a person to a conclusion on what the Nazi nature is. On some occasions, Hitler, and his followers have been known to make deals with other countries, groups, and religious leaders. The deals that the Nazi’s made were to ensure the other nations and groups felt safe…

The ride did take all of the forty-five minutes Cédric had foreseen. Not only because of the mist, fog, and black-out conditions, but Cédric was concerned about Elisaveta. Several times he inquired as to how she was feeling and if she needed to walk. She thanked him for his concern but she was doing well. When they arrived at the Monastery’s driveway, the mist had stopped and muted light from the moon shown through the clouds. They dismounted the bikes and walked up the cobblestone drive. Even…

Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Leader of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazi Party. Since the defeat of Germany in World War II. Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the results of Nazism have been regarded in most of the world as synonymous with evil. Historic and cultural portrayals of Hitler in the West is almost uniformly negative, sometimes neglecting to mention the adulation the German people…

By choosing to tattoo the bodies with symbols and signs, usually associated with the gangs that they are in, they prove their loyalty and allegiance to the gang. Tattooing is a painful process by norm. It involves bleeding and coloring your skin layer to form designs. In prisons without proper equipment and sanitation it is a risk and even more painful procedure in getting a tattoo. It's called the free hand method in which the inmate gets ink and a needle and uses the original Polynesian weapon…

1 ANURAN DASGUPTA Filtering the Gaze – The Jala Motif in the decorations of Apsara Bracket Figures in the Cennakesava temple of Belur After the decline of the late Chalukyans, the northern region of their territory (present southern Karnataka) saw the rise of a dynasty named Hoysala. At their peak their kingdom spread from the Tungabhadra River in the north (Chalukyan territory) to the Kaveri river in the south (Chola territory). Originated in the hilly regions of western boundary of the Hassan…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…