Topic Proposal Kurt Vonnegut "Happy Birthday‚ 1951" Kurt Vonnegut wrote many short stories on war and peace‚ a series of which was compiled into "Armageddon In Retrospect‚" by his son Mark Vonnegut. The short "Happy Birthday‚ 1951" portrays the aftermath of cultural devastation and its effects on the generation raised amidst such upheaval. A young boy and an old man struggle for survival surrounded by a city in rubble. (Let’s suppose the city is Dresden‚ Kurt Vonnegut loved to write about the
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Edexcel Unit 2 E1 British Political History 1945–1990: Consensus and Conflict The examination time is 1 hour 20 minutes. Study Sources 1–6. Answer Question 1‚ parts (a) and (b). Source 1 The 5.6% national swing from Labour to the Conservatives was the largest achieved by either party since 1945. The biggest swing was among skilled workers. These were precisely the people we had to win over from their lifelong socialist allegiances. They were confronted by the fundamental dilemma which
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Waterside Dispute 1951 Hayley Ross 13SA 1951 was post war and the country was booming economically‚ for this reason the cost of living was rising substantially. The federation of Labour took out a general wage order through the Arbitration Court and promised everyone in the unions covered by this court to a 15% pay rise. This was meant to include the watersiders‚ but the Waterfront Industry Commission was in control of the watersider’s wages‚ they broke this promise of a pay rise and said that
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Happy Birthday‚ 1951 Summary: The text is about an old man and a young boy‚ who live in a ruin‚ in a former warzone. The city is still full of soldiers and tanks. The man got the baby boy about six years ago from a refugee woman. The story begins with the man wanting the boy to choose a birthday. The boy chooses the following day. The old man puts together a cart for the boy‚ but he also wants the boy to experience a world without war. Next day the boy gets the cart and pretends it’s a tank‚ because
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An Analysis of “Happy Birthday‚ 1951” “Happy Birthday‚ 1951” is a 20th century short story by American author Kurt Vonnegut. In this short‚ but moving tale‚ we see the efforts of an old man to raise a young boy on the tail end of the Second World War. Contrast and characterization are used in this story to illustrate how people are products of their environment Characterization plays a large part in “Happy Birthday‚ 1951”. With the aid of this literary device‚ we are able to understand what
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The topic of marijuana use and legalization has been a controversial discussion. If California Proposition 64 were to be passed‚ marijuana will be common everywhere. I am placing myself in the timeframe of which I am a parent to children of mine. Kids will be curious on what that “skunky smell” is; and as those kids grow up‚ they will likely get into marijuana. It is our job as parents to guide our children into the right path. The topic of marijuana will definitely come up when talking to my children
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distinct groups that clearly emerged in society. These two groups were commonly known as the conservatives and the liberals. Both opposed each others ideas when it came to the subject matter of government in the United States. Among these two groups were some of the greatest men known in history‚ and I am going to talk about two men in particular. Thomas Jefferson‚ a liberal‚ and Alexander Hamilton‚ a conservative‚ shared different ideas on what should become of our government following the creation of
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The Conservative Revolution It seems to be the case that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution‚ or at least more conservative than revolutions in places such as France and Russia. There was no social class upheaval‚ no “terror” like the one in France‚ and no dramatic redistribution of wealth and land. In fact‚ the Revolution was a rather expected and natural event of human history. Part of this has to do with the enlightened age. Enlightened people were thinking of themselves
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Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives In 1975‚ Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party and began to steer it towards what many have dubbed ÔThatcherismÕ. Margaret Thatcher believed in radical change‚ individuality‚ and a strong Government that enforces the law‚ rather than interfering in the economy. She was also opposed to the welfare state. In many ways‚ her ideology was broadly similar to classical liberalism‚ and many theorists see her ideology as neo-liberalism. Under her
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Nintendo 64 Awesomeness Apart from being so old that it’s primarily just a source of nostalgia these days‚ the Nintendo 64 is still amazing. It was really revolutionary in its time‚ and still influences games to this day. The Nintendo 64 was actually originally intended to be called the Ultra 64. Due to the fact that Nintendo wanted to keep the line of game systems titles continuous from the Nintendo Entertainment System‚ and then the ‘Super’ Nintendo Entertainment System‚ Ultra would have been
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