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    The story told in Slaughterhouse Five is very much unique to its setting and the time in which it occurs. The story is told by Kurt Vonnegut‚ who is also a minor character in the book‚ about the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim during World War II. The story centers on a specific event that occurs during the war‚ the Allied firebombing of Dresden‚ Germany. This specific bombing has gone virtually unnoticed by Americans throughout history since the war due to its location‚ being in Germany. However

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    understand the negative properties of war since the firebombing of the German town Dresden during World War II. The protagonist Billy Pilgrim is the antiwar hero because he does not fit the description of the usual war hero. "He didn ’t look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo" (Vonnegut‚ 33) Billy ’s character is a customary figure of fun in the American Army. Billy is no exception. He is powerless to harm the enemy or to help his friends. He wears no medals‚ his physical appearance and

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    baseball or sports will find engaging. This movie is based on a book by Michael Lewis and it gives the audience and interesting take on how to win at the game of baseball and it’s also based on the true story of real life Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and how he turned around the team with the help of an Ivy league graduate computer whiz Peter Brand (Jonah Hill). The chemistry between Pitt and Hill helps drive the movie and gives it life with Pitt giving one of his best performances

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    novel written in third person about a man named Billy Pilgrim. Billy has had a multitude of life

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    like of Billy Pilgrim as he jumps through time and tries to understand how life is supposed to be viewed. The novel presents new and fascinating ideas about time and how life can be viewed. Vonnegut intended for the novel to be about the appalling world of war; Yet‚ when reading the book‚ it’s hard to tell if the book is supposed to be an anti-war novel‚ or a book about the life and time of Billy Pilgrim. Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war novel Slaughterhouse Five was a failure. The narrative of Billy Pilgrim

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    Characterization of Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 12-year-old boy who lives with his father Jackie‚ his big brother Tony and his eighty-year-old grandmother in Everington in Northeast England at the time of the miners’ strike in mid-1980s. He is the protagonist in the story and is principled‚ likable‚ and vivacious with a musical tone in his body. His mother Sarah who died two years before the beginning of the story was a musician and used to play on the piano for the whole family. Unlike the

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    Vonnegut doesn’t only repeat words‚ scenes‚ images but he also repeats stories such as the assassination of Billy Pilgrim by a gunman hired by Paul Lazzaro or the execution of Earl Derby for taking a teapot from the ruins of Dresden after the bombing. He mentions them repeatedly throughout the narrative until they become leitmotivs‚ recurring phrases- like the expression “So it goes”: I‚ Billy Pilgrim‚ will die‚ have died‚ and always will die on February thirteenth‚ 1976. (141) Addressing the symptomatology

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    Tnd the analysis‚ Billy Beane went to work finding a roster of inexpensive players who could get on base and hit. Remarkably – or perhaps predictably – the A’s made the playoffs that year‚ shocking the baseball world‚ given a lineup mostly regarded as a bunch of under-achievers

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    Discuss the Narrative method of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five is a that in no way can be treated as one-dimensional one. It deals with the historical events like the bombing of Dresden‚ socio-cultural reality of America in the 1960s and the alternative world of Tralfamadorians. Although three different realms are combined‚ the novel does not present anything that could be perceived as unseen. Its exceptionality comes from a less

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    II. Motivation The movie “Moneyball” based on true story of the General Manager of the Oakland A’s‚ Billy Beane who decided to challenge the conventional wisdom in the professional baseball which selection and purchasing of players should rely on their performance rather than public perception of a player. Together with a Yale graduate‚ Beane looked at data on actual performance‚ not public opinion which real possibilities emerged for players that had been overlooked and underpaid. Beane exchanged

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