way to the Dresden slaughterhouse that served as their prison. Vonnegut and O’Hare converse with the cab driver about life under communism while on their way. It is to Gerhard Müller‚ and O’Hare’s wife‚ Mary‚ that Vonnegut dedicates Slaughterhouse-Five. Müller later sends O’Hare a Christmas card with
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Science Fiction: the Vessel for Fatalism Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut creates an environment shaped by elements of science fiction. These elements‚ notably time travel and alien contact‚ make the novel "a science fiction that deals with the topic of free will versus fatalism‚" (Isaacs 408). Throughout the novel Billy remains "unstuck in time‚" seeing his whole life flash before his eyes in a random order of events (Vonnegut 15). This random order forces the reader to examine the
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* Two officers pull the old man that was beating Alex off him‚ when they do; Alex is surprised to find his old friend and old enemy Dim and Billy boy. Billy boy and Dim take Alex to the country side and beat him brutally. * Alex hears a machine towards the country side and goes to a place marked ‘Home’ where he crawls and knocks on the door. A man answers and sees Alex in this state and lets him in‚ not knowing that Alex and his friends had been to his house before when they raped the man’s
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television shows promote cultural Marxism in their programs‚ but these shows usually show only a few aspects of the ideology. There are‚ however‚ shows that promote all aspects of cultural Marxism‚ one being the Netflix original series: “Orange is the New Black”. “Orange is the New Black” is about a privileged white woman being sent to a minimum security prison. It is clear that when writing and casting the show‚ the production
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In act 5 scene 5 of Macbeth by Shakespeare‚ we see Macbeth preparing the castle for the coming battle‚ and then thinking back on how he has changed since he met the witches and resolved to kill Duncan. This scene happens after Malcom and his cousins meet to discuss the march to Dunsinane‚ and before the attack on the castle begins. The main purpose of the scene is to highlight the development of Macbeth’s character throughout the play‚ and is significant because it highlights Macbeth’s inability
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A Clockwork Orange was a very weird movie for me to watch‚ because I didn’t understand why the reasons for such violent behave without guilty at all‚ so this assignment was a good opportunity for me to learn and understand more about this issue. First I thought in analyse the movie with Jacques Lacan language theory‚ but in my research I came across with the “structural” topography. This theory elaborated by Freud‚ was from me‚ the best theory to understand and explain the violent behave of Alex
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Text typology – Genesis The main function of the text is expressive. The text is an extract from the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. The author is a writer‚ journalist and poet‚ whose breadth of experience comes across in this text. The field of discourse is the narrative genre of the novel. The mode of discourse is “written to express views and feelings in an artistic way”‚ which Katarina Reiss refers to as “creative composition” where the sender is at the forefront
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Saving Endangered Languages- Saving Our Diversity Oliver Wendell Holmes said “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” It implies all the languages in this planet play an important role in formation of diversity and cultural identity. Starting with simple grunts and moans‚ for a thousand years‚ the human species has developed a sophisticated language of gestures combined with spoken language. Today‚ along with many advantages that globalization has
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n the article “Anxieties of Empire in Doyle’s Tales of Sherlock Homes” the author‚ Lauren Raheja evaluates the theme in Doyle’s stories. She mainly focuses on the topics related to nature‚ society and thought when comparing “The Speckled band” and “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”. She uses these stories to support her claims of what statement the author is trying to portray through his writing. An example of how she demonstrated this is by picking two main corporates in each story. In the Speckled
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H.H. Holmes is known to be the first American serial killer. Holmes would murder people‚ mutilate their bodies‚ and sell their skeletons to science. His most famous work was the “Murder Castle”. His Murder Castle was his very own hotel‚ which had secret rooms‚ to kill multiple people in‚ most were women. The Castle was located in Chicago and gave Holmes a good chance to kill many people in 1893 during the World’s Fair. Holmes was also a doctor. He studied at the University of Michigan Medical School
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