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Over the course of two decades, Kurt Vonnegut wrote, edited, rewrote, and revised the now classic ‘anti-war’ novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. While much of the fiction about WWll was romantic, and remained so well into the 50s’ and 60s’, Vonnegut refused to approach the war in this manner. Instead, Vonnegut decides to explore the life of Billy Pilgrim, and in doing so, criticizes the banality of the war through the banality of Billy’s ensuing trauma. Vonnegut primarily does this by switching between…

In The Help by Kathryn Stockett the suppression of black maids is the main reason of anger, so racial segregation actions always cause through violence attitudes. During 1960s the segregation of blacks and the superiority of whites dominate the southern United States during this pried. For instance, the black maids get injustice treatment by white women. At the beginning, the main cause of anger is the mistreatment in white women's homes towards the black maids. There are two main black maids…

become famous and rich, regardless of the message that their films convey, what is most important nowadays is if the movie will do great in box office. Spike Lee, however, had the desire to create a film that would infuse a dose of reality in the teapot of the film industry. The cruel reality that is what minorities know as daily life. And, there could not have been a better person to complete this task, since Spike Lee himself grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Spike created a masterpiece, a…

lizard, or an alien spaceship, we're being tricked, he said. Not by NASA, but by our own brains. The phenomenon is called pareidolia, and it explains why we so often find Jesus in our food, the Virgin Mary in tree trunks, a man in the moon, Hitler in teapots and pumpkin-headed aliens on Mars. Rather than being supernatural, pareidolia is deeply biological. It stems from a skill humans have honed over millennia of evolution, an instinctive ability to spot patterns and find the familiar. That…

PREFACE Originally, I planned to title this dissertation, “The Philosophy of Warfare”, then, “The Philosophy of Combat”. I finally settled with, The Philosophy of Fighting. There is good reason behind this besides literary OCD. Fighting is not always a form of warfare, nor is fighting always necessarily combative. Can fighting be used in warfare, or used to be combative? Absolutely. However, just because fighting can be used in this manner does not mean this is what it is at its essence. Though,…

One-fifth of any given person's genes are privately owned, is this invasion overly intrusive of one's personal space or should one not be concerned about this at all? Should gene patent holders be allowed to withhold genes at their will or should one be in charge of what happens to their own genes within their body? Michael Crichton, American best-selling author, who wrote “Patenting Life” and American economist and author John E. Calfee who wrote, “Decoding the Use of Gene Patents” both discuss…

Skloot makes sure that none of the events shown in her book are her portrayals of each character. Their words are not interpreted or altered in any way and the voice of each character is raw and direct from the source. The characters are developed in two ways. From a third person point of view in which she describes the Lacks family’s past or by the direct dialogue between Skloot and the Lacks family. Also, the main rhetorical device to keep the rule of “show, don’t tell” is diction of the…

like the fact dad called her Ashes for a nickname, when he was the one that wanted to name her Ashleigh in the first place. After the divorce Ashleigh’s dad got into some financial problems and asked Ashes to go “borrow” some money out of her mom's teapot…

The differences between the World War II era and the Vietnam era are easily identified in the music. Television shows, and literature of the two time periods. One of the greatest texts published during the Vietnam era, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, encompassed many of the anti-war ideas feeling that were involved with the Vietnam War. Although Vonnegut began writing Slaughterhouse Five as soon as he arrived home from World War II, it was the time that he allowed himself to write the…

Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel, “Slaughterhouse Five” recounts his experiences of World War II through Billy Pilgrim, the main character. Vonnegut’s purpose is to describe his wartime experiences and antiwar view. He adopts a complex and elusive tone in order to successfully engage and entertain his readers. Vonnegut begins his novel in the first person. We are given a first-person point of view in the sections embedded in the first and last chapters of the book. Throughout the rest of…