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- 3741: The Treatment of Prisoners by Nazis
- ... be learned from them. Everything about the camps includes the organization involved with them. Various subjects evolve from the camps; some are the layout of the working grounds, the medical and command staffs, and the death toll. All these topics are interesting and hold a lot of information that is waiting to be learned. The camps were located in Poland. The Germans built their first camp shortly after they took over ... spring of 1945, more than seventy medical experimentation's were performed on Jewish prisoners. These research-projects included more than seven thousand people. The Nazi medical staff headed by Josef Mengele AKA the Angel of Death conducted their experiments against the will of human beings. One of the experiments was done to see how long a human could live after ingesting certain amounts of seawater. This experiment was conducted to benefit ... two twins were surgically connected along their arms and legs. Countless facts can be cultured by simply studying material pertaining to the camps. Some of these statistics include the layout of the camps, record keeping, death toll, and command staffs. Every day a new person learns about the Holocaust. It is an astounding time in history to learn about. The concentration camps hold so much information inside of them. The ...
- 3742: Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia
- ... Yet after the war national unity was strengthened as well is the Soviet military machine. The Soviet Union became a super power, the U.S. being the only country more powerful than it. After the death of Stalin in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist party. Stalin's death marked the end of supreme power for the head of the party, and Khrushchev condemned Stalin's actions as unnecessary and harmful to the process of moving the Socialist government to it's goal of ... and the equipment was outdated, medical supplies were also scarce. This lead to the gradual decrease of the life expectancy of a citizen. Poor standards of sanitation and public hygiene lead to an increased annual death rate and a drop in the birth rate. All of these factors in a way, lead to the disintegration of the Communist Regime, taking into account all of the social problems and the years ...
- 3743: Romeo and Juliet: The Capulet Family
- ... two families are alike in that way. Even still, if the Capulets believe that they truly are the more dignified, they should have ceased their dispute earlier and prevented their daughter's unhappiness (and eventually death). Instead, they decided to keep the feud going and believe that all Montagues are the same and that ll should be despised. As head of the family, Lord Capulet is largely responsible for everything that ... a few lines but he still communicates the fact that he is angry at Montague and he wants to fight. Later in Scene II he says, But Montague is bound as well as I, In penalty alike and tis not hard, I think, For men so old as we to keep the peace. This verse displays his more compassionate side; the part of him who is tired of fighting and who ...
- 3744: Summary of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ... created was quite unhuman looking. "Evil besides had left on that body an imprint of deformity"(Stevenson,83). Their was no other way of putting it, Hyde was stuck with Jekyll till his day of death. It was of his own doing that he had come to have this counterpart and he had brought him onto himself so much that he could not control his taking over any longer. "He had now seen the full deformity of that creature that shared with him some of the phenomena of consciousness, and was co-heir with him to death"(Stevenson,100). This man was truly ugly in not only the facial manner and could not be destroyed till death. Through the entire book of Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mr. Hyde is described as a man of deformity yet no one can put a finger on why this is so. ...
- 3745: Daddy By Sylvia Plath
- ... Sylivia Plath has been renowned for her style of writing and the power she evokes from her ideas in her poems. The themes of her poems tend to be of a negative nature with war, death and the problem of patriarchal societies as such topics. One of Plath's most famous pieces of poetry is Daddy. The poem focuses on Plath's father, a man who left her at an early ... when she was only eight. In the poem Daddy, Plath, as the speaker, is having a one-way conversation with her father expressing all her feelings, anguish and how she tried to compensate for his death. The poem itself bares no metaphorical reading, only a literal reading which is broken up into three parts. A common technique that Plath uses in her poetry is the metaphor. An example of one lies ... trauma. Firstly to set the scene vivid imagery is used. The phrases "It stuck in a barb wire snare" and " A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen" paints the picture of the notorious concentration camps of death with barb wire surrounding it. Another example of war imagery is when the persona refers to "Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You-." These soldiers of the German army were one of the most feared, ...
- 3746: Alexander Hamilton
- ... organized for the impending war with France. Washington himself insisted that Hamilton serve in that position as a condition of accepting the position. Hamilton served from July 25, 1798 to June 2, 1800. After the death of George Washington, the leadership of the Federalist Party became divided between John Adams and Hamilton. John Adams had the prestige from his varied and great career and from his great strength with the people ... minister who attended him as he laid dying, "I have no ill-will against Col. Burr. I met him with a fixed resolution to do him no harm. I forgive all that happened." Hamilton's death was very generally deplored as a national calamity. A summary of his beliefs Hamilton's mind was eminently legal. His writings are distinguished by their clarity, vigor and rigid reasoning rather than any show of ... Laws of 1798. Hamilton did not agree with Jefferson that the general public should control government. "Men," he said, "are reasoning rather than reasonable animals." His last letter on politics, written two days before his death, illustrates the two sides of his thinking already emphasized; in this letter he warns his New England friends against dismemberment of the union as "a clear sacrifice of great positive advantages, without any counterbalancing ...
- 3747: Macbeth: The Symbol of Blood
- ... blood changes throughout the play, is to follow the character changes in Macbeth. First he is a brave honoured soldier, but as the play progresses, he becomes a treacherous person who has become identified with death and bloodshed and shows his guilt in different forms. The first reference of blood is one of honour, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says "What bloody man is that?". This is ... is too much charg'd with blood of thine already.". Of which, Macduff replies, "I have no words, my voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out." After the death of Macbeth at the hands of Macduff, the symbolic theme of blood swings back to what it was at the beginning of the play. It is the symbol of honour to Malcolm this time. The death of Macbeth is honoured feat that Macduff is congratulated for. So as we have seen meaning of the symbol of blood change from honour to treachery, and then to guilt, after this, it returns ...
- 3748: Hamlet: Antiheroism in Hamlet
- ... power struggle. Just when Claudius thinks he controls Hamlet, it is really Hamlet who has the upper hand over Claudius. There are very strong philosophical references made by Hamlet in this act regarding life and death. Hamlet tells Claudius, Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable ... in the scene. The forces of Claudius and Laertes have combined against Hamlet. Claudius states, To an exploit now ripe in my device, Under the which he shall not choose but fall, And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe; But even his mother shall unchange the practice, And call it accident. (IV, vii, 65-69) Claudius is willing to undertake any measures necessary to eliminate Hamlet, to the ... child in school, since the king, with the aid of Laertes, is out to kill Hamlet, this time with a passion. Much like a political revolutionary, Hamlet has the system against him and is facing death because of his loyalty and honour towards his father. The fact that Hamlet's life is not indeed in jeopardy attributes to his "hero" status. In addition, his only fault is the desire to ...
- 3749: The Holocaust, An Injustice And Tragedy
- ... eaters" and "life not worthy of life. The murders were done by every means imaginable but most of the victims perished as a result of shooting, starvation, disease, and poison gas. Others were tortured to death or died in horrible medical experiments. Adolf Hitler and his accomplices did not just take over Germany. They tried to create a new Germany based on their ideology. PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS The Nazis targeted ... military group known as the SS and a security service known as the SD. The Gestapo was part of the SD. One of the end results of the Final Solution was the horrible concentration and death camps of Germany, Poland, and other parts of Nazi-controlled Europe. During the first part of this extermination 1,500,000 Jews and other people were murdered by military groups which rounded them up and shot them. Gradually the emphasis changed to concentration camps, where the prisoners were worked to death as slave laborers, and extermination camps, where they were murdered in the gas chambers. The most famous of these was Auschwitz, which was both a labor camp and an extermination camp. About 1,300, ...
- 3750: A Review of the Movie: The Usual Suspects
- ... say goodbye to Edie. But it is not very long before Agent Kujan clears things up a bit. By quickly running through Keaton's history, the indictments, the cover-ups, the prison time, the faked death, the lost witnesses, his image is brought back into that shady realm. Shortly thereafter, a quick almost inaudible exchange between Keaton and Redfoot again reinforces his less than honorable ways, as Keaton lets Redfoot know ... happened at the harbor last night. As the story progresses it quickly becomes evident that some kind of force is at work greater than the characters we have thus far seen. First is Hockney's death, which is highlighted by a bright glow coming across his face as he turns to realize someone has shit him. Next, the object of the hit is shown, in total fear, pleading to his guard ... pick up on the barely noticeable fact that upon his release Verbal is given back his gold watch and a gold lighter, both seen on the dark one on the boat right before Keaton's death. Now, in a final act of exquisite film making, the camera focuses on Verbal's palsied feat as he makes his way down the sidewalk. With each step the limp disappears a little more, ...
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