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    The Gray Zone by Primo Levi In the chapter‚ the gray zone‚ the author Primo Levi describes the human relationships inside the Lager. In describing the gray zone‚ Levi discusses the different roles of prisoners assigned by the Nazi. The prisoners that did the work were seen as being more privileged which at the end of the day helped them get more food and live better. Therefore‚ the concept of the gray zone is analyzing the difference between the privileged and the non-privileged in the Lager.

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    family‚ and even their will to live. In Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses diction‚ imagery‚ and tone to illustrate the loss of humanity during the holocaust. Loss of humanity was a huge theme during the holocaust because of all the things they had lost and the way the Naziz did this. “The three ‘veteran’ prisoners‚ needles in hand‚ tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on‚ I had no other name” (42). Wiesel uses diction to show how much the Naziz wanted the Jews to think that they were

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    his speech in order to deliver his purpose to his audience. Winston Churchill was well known for his speeches that he used diction to support his purpose. In this speech “We Shall Fight On The Beaches” Winston Churchill used a lot of war diction in order to support his purpose of writing this speech. Churchill began his speech saying “rapid retreat” to signify the horrible attacks that lead to the soldiers to back away quickly. Following that Churchill said “the destruction of the fine Belgian Army”

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    The Complex Style‚ Diction‚ Tone and Syntax of John Milton John Milton was inspired to write a great epic‚ much like the works by Homer‚ Dante and Virgil‚ and with this inspiration he created Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is an incredible piece of literature that tries to embody the idea of the epic poem. Milton puts a lot of effort (some even say too much effort) and significant thought into how he writes the story of The Fall of Satan‚ his infiltration of the Garden of Eden and the temptation of

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    human beings are not always capable of overcoming these abuses‚ like ones in the novel by Ruta Sepetys‚ called Between Shades of Gray. All human beings should have every human right‚ but some people don’t have their rights. Like the right to be equal before the law and to be entitled without discrimination to equal protection of the law. In the novel‚ Between Shades of Gray‚ the NKVD discriminated against the prisoner because they were from a different country than them. In the novel a NKVD officer

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    COURSEWORK ‘Elegy is about mourning for one’s own condition’ Stuart Curran‚ ‘Romantic Elegiac Hybridity’‚ in The Oxford Handbook to Elegy (Oxford‚ 2010)‚ ed. Karen Weisman‚ p. 249 Discuss Curran’s comment in relation to the work of Thomas Gray and Percy Bysshe Shelley. ’One of the major tasks of the work of mourning and of the work of the elegy is to repair the mourner ’s damaged narcissism ’[1]. This quote by literary critic Peter Sacks‚ flourishes from Sigmund Freud ’s model of primary

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    Case: Lipschultz‚ Levin & Gray Course Title: Management and Organization Course Code: EMBA 503 Contents: Section 1: Page o Lipschultz‚ Levin & Gray -The People’s Company 3 ❖ The Focus on people 3

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    In our experiment‚ the control group would be the people using the gray trash cans. A control group is the group in an experiment where the independent variable being tested is not applied so that it may serve as a standard for comparison against the experimental group where the independent variable is applied. In our experiment‚ the independent variable are the colored trash cans. The people using the gray trash cans are the control group because nothing is changing when using the normal trash cans

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    We watched as people cried and bled on the streets. What prompted it all? The death of a 25 year old man in police custody. Freddie Gray‚ a man not much taller than any of us here was beaten by six Baltimore police offices and subjected to an incredibly forceful arrest due to the possession of what police alleged was an illegal switchblade. The extent of Freddie Grays injuries was his spine broken in multiple places. On April 19th‚ a week after his arrest‚

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    I went and saw Anatomy of Gray at Orange Community Play House in Orange‚ Texas. I went on a a Thursday night and it was performed by the Orange Community Players. The play was ultimately about a town who does not have a doctor. A young woman prays and wishes for a doctor to come to the town because the community was starting to get sick. When the doctor arrives and begins to help everyone but falls in love with the young ladys mother. Everyone in the community starts to get sick and is begining

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