"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are faced to deal with" (William Halsey). The same can be said about volatile men. This is the quote Christopher R. Browning thought of when he named this book. The men of the 101st battalion were rarely faced with decisions. Even if it had been proposed by Trapp the morning of Jozefow that "any of the older men who did not feel up to the task that lay before them could step out" (Browning‚ chapter 7‚ pg. 57)‚ he
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decent‚ normal and good person that was put in an extraordinary situation. In his book he states “I did what I believed to be the ordinary things that an ordinary man would do. I said no to outrageous actions the way I thought that anybody would‚ and it still mystifies me that so many others could say yes.” This line says it all. Mr. Rusesabagina was “An Ordinary Man” put in an extraordinary situation and during the ten weeks of the Rwandan genocide he proved that we can all make a difference
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Background Info One of the UK’s most respected chefs‚ Raymond Blanc was born in a tiny rural village in Besancon‚ in eastern France. While his two sisters were taught to cook by the inspirational Maman Blanc‚ his father taught Raymond and his two brothers to work in the garden and surrounding woods. His father gave him a calendar and foraging map for his 10th birthday‚ and what he collected his mother taught him to cook‚ filling her meals with fresh local and seasonal flavours. Raymond’s
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English 102-BB 24‚ April 2010 Love? Raymond Carver was a short story writer who was born in the Pacific Northwest. He was a textbook editor‚ lecturer and teacher while writing. His stories featured some of his trademarks of‚ alcohol‚ poverty‚ and people in real life situations. Carver was influenced to write about these trademarks through experiences he had lived and influences that were brought upon him‚ like alcoholism and divorce. Raymond Carver and his father were alcoholics and had
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pm. April 30‚ 2011 Assignment: What is an Ordinary Life? Word Count: 571 What is an Ordinary Life? To examine what constitutes an ordinary life‚ one must first consider the meaning of the word ordinary. The Funk and Wagnall’s Standard College Dictionary defines ordinary as “of common or everyday occurrence”. That same dictionary defines life as “a form of existence”. Taking these words at their literal meaning would thusly define an ordinary life as common day to day existence. The question
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Raymond Carver Raymond Carver is an award winning short story writer and poet. Carver’s famous writing career started with publishing a collection of poems. During his career as a writer he also published some famous short stories which helped define Carver as a minimalist writer. A minimalist writer makes “do with less‚ the literary equivalent of functionalist architecture. It offers an art of elimination‚ an effort one can associate with creating boundaries around private pain and avoiding public
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Ordinary People‚ by Judith Guest‚ was about a family who has had two tragedies and how they dealt with these tragedies. This story shows how the environment in which one lives affects ones reaction to tragedy. The Jarred family‚ were ordinary people. The family consisted of the father Calvin‚ the mother Beth and two sons Buck and Conrad. They were an upper class family in good financial standing. They apparently had a happy life until Buck died in a boating accident. Calvin was a concerned
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Associate Professor Priyanka Singh- 16 FMS Deptt Sanjay Kumar- 17 NIFT Kolkata Sarwat Pawar- 20 Chandan Kumar- 22 Introduction: Raymond’s: The Raymond Group was incorporated in 1925 and within a span of few years‚ transformed from being an Indian textile major to a global conglomerate. The Raymond Limited was established in September 1925 to acquire the Woolen Mills in Thane known as WADIA WOOLEN MILLS.It was managed by E. D. Sassoon & Co. until November 1944 when the entire share holding was
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there will always be differing opinions over what took place simply because people are often biased in their views of the past‚ seeing only how it affected him or her. Thus‚ I do not believe in such a thing as a true view of history. 2. The culture of hate enabled Hutu murderers to think of themselves as victims because “the person whose throat you do not cut will be the one who cuts yours.” Where do you think that sentiment arises from? How do you think it can be counteracted? The sentiment
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The arguments that Christopher Browning emphasizes in Ordinary Men are based on his beliefs about the Holocaust. His argument touches base on the idea that regular citizens of Germany could commit such horrible acts without being coerced into doing so. He examines the side of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 and tries to figure out just why these gentlemen participated in the mass shootings and deportations of the Holocaust. In fact should these "gentlemen" even be called gentlemen enlight of
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