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- 1091: Anti-semitism In Nazi Germany
- ... extermination practiced by the Nazis involved the shooting and burying of Jews in mass graves. However, their methods became more depraved and sophisticated as time went on. By 1941, Zyklon B, a form of prussic acid, was being used at the camp at Auschwitz to gas prisoners. Elsewhere Jews were gassed by exhaust fumes from diesel engines. The Nazi extermination machine was so effective that the camp known as Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
- 1092: Greek Gods
- ... don t believe in Zeus? SOCRATES: Zeus? Who s Zeus? STREPSIADES: Zeus who lives on Olympus, of course. SOCRATES: Now really, you should know better. There is no Zeus. STREPSIADES: What? Well, who sends the rain, then? Answer me that. In General the Greeks respected and feared their gods because they understood that they were superior creatures, but they usually felt differently about different gods depending on that God s personality ...
- 1093: Georgians Transformation
- ... the features of the portrait blurred and indefinable; while the minute figure of the hand appeared where the cheek should have been (Hawthorne 16). Aylmer s throwing of the plate into a jar of corrosive acid could well have been a foreshadowing of her fate. Furthermore, while poring over works in her husband s library, Georgiana loyally ignores the journal those reveal his [Aylmer s] many failed experiments. The nadir of ...
- 1094: Heart Of Darkness - Cruelty
- ... 105.) The supposed purpose of the Europeans traveling into Africa was to civilize the natives. Instead they colonized on the native's land and corrupted the natives. "Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen hands beaten with rifle butts until they fell off. Chained slaves were forced to drink the white man's defecation, hands and feet were chopped off for ...
- 1095: Heart Of Darkness By Joseph Co
- ... horror of Kurtz's words: the chain gangs, the grove of death, the payment in brass rods, the cannibalism and the human skulls on the fence posts. Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut to the bone, had their swollen hands beaten with rifle butts until they fell off. Chained slaves were forced to drink the white man's defecation, hands and feet were chopped off for ...
- 1096: Jane Eyre - Nature
- ... that she fears are also part of nature. The hard strength of a rock is the very thing that makes it inflexible. Similarly, the precipitation that makes Jane happy as she leaves Thornfield, and the rain that is the life-force of everything in the heath, is the same precipitation that led her to narrate this passage: "But my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp . . . towards morning ...
- 1097: The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
- ... box used for the lottery and the significance of farming for the community. Farming is also the only known way of life because of tradition. The men in “The Lottery” are “speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes”. This is because the ritual performed in the story is supposed to have an effect on the harvest. “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” used to be a saying heard in ...
- 1098: No Exit And Its Existentialist
- ... time the form has closed in on itself. There is a full object for me to grasp. In the midst of the world I can say "man reading" as I could say "cold stone", "fine rain". (Oaklander, pg. 284) Even more horrifying, Hell has stolen away their ability to close their eyes. There is no way to turn off the sinks! Oaklander gives us a good description of the system, and ...
- 1099: Wordsworth-shelly Comparative
- ... a woman tending to her garden with love and devotion. Along with a heart-rending tone and personification Shelley uses imagery to describe nature. He refers to the clouds in the sky as angels of rain an lightning and the dead leaves of Autumn as ghosts from and enchanter fleeing, he is amazed and mesmerized by the wind, and quietly wishes to one day become one with the wind, little did ...
- 1100: Willy (death Of A Salesman) Vs
- ... Walter's mother thinks although the money is lost, her son has come out as a better person: "He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain .." (Discovering Literature, 1359) Willy and Walter are very similar in many ways. For instance, they love their family. Walter's intention to become rich is driven by his wish to give his family a better ...
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