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Society's Perpetual Costume Party
Society’s Perpetual Costume Party: How Masks Play a Role in Today’s World
Freddy Krueger, cyber bullies, and your primary care physician all have one glaring commonality- and this the fact that they all disguise themselves behind masks. In the late 1930s and early 1940s the world was shaken by the persecution that radiated from Nazi Germany. It was this persecution that ignited global warfare in what is now referred to as World War II. The strict governmental enforcement of unification amongst soldiers was seen across the boards as all soldiers wore matching uniforms and had similarly matching haircuts. For many civilians at the time, questions of morality surrounding the justification of wartime murder troubled them. It was shortly after this

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