People make good and poor decisions everyday‚ but one person has made history with his poor decisions. Let’s all think for a minute‚ did Hitler make any good decisions or were they all bad ending in disaster. It seems Hitler thought his way was the only right way and everyone else’s ideas were wrong. Then you look at his leadership qualities and they are so unique you wonder how he learned to lead like that. Hitler doesn’t listen to anyone he thinks he is superior to all and everyone else
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Discuss the use of contrast as a literary device in The Great Gatsby byJeannette Ng 5.15 In the book‚ contrast is widely used to bring about the theme of class as well as to greater emphasize the characteristics of a particular character. The book contrasts the setting‚ West and East egg‚ as well as the characters‚ Gatsby and Tom‚ Wilson and Tom and Gatsby and Tom. 1Gatsby is contrasted with Tom in several ways. Tom is overpowering while Gatsby is more reserved. Tom is described as having ‘shining
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A reflection on Class and Gender from a traditional / ethnic background by: Gender: I grew up surrounded by powerful women: Three older sisters who decided what I would wear and which games we would play. A mother and two aunties‚ who held positions of power as teachers. My dad was a passive person and therefore was ruled by the women in our household. So at my young age‚ “Gender” was protection for my dad! My first exposure to gender outside of my household was in the media‚ with the feminist
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I chose the story/nursery rhyme 3 Blind Mice to provide my summary and analysis on. It goes as follows – “3 Blind Mice‚ 3 Blind Mice… See how they run‚ See how they run… They all ran after the farmer’s wife‚ Who cut off their tails with a carver’s knife‚ Have you ever seen such a thing in your life? As 3 Blind Mice”. To summarize the above nursery rhyme I was able to conclude there are 3 mice and each mouse is blind. I found that the mice run and chased the farmer’s wife. I also was able to conclude
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on earth. The gods in this story get angry because “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.” (Pearson 28). In other words‚ the Gods are upset because humans are too noisy. The gods agreed to exterminate mankind by flood because of this. Though one god‚ Ea‚ tells Utnapishtim to tear down his house and build a boat and take animals aboard. Utnapishtim and his family board the boat for six days and six nights‚ and at the end he and his wife are rewarded
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The 24th of August in 1572‚ St. Bartholomew’s Day‚ was the beginning of a massacre that would eliminate a number protestants that no one knows. The St Bartholomew’s Massacre was not an intention of the Royal Court‚ it was an outcome of their choices. This Massacre will lead to a religious war and a rise in tension between the protestant and Catholics in France. The Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was a very interesting and complex event‚ the Massacre was an attempt to end religious turmoil but instead
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However‚ there is something that can indeed cure the cancer that is political ignorance‚ and thus exterminate the aforementioned altogether. Now‚ this cure isn’t quite so original. Doctors like Jello Biafra‚ Mark Levin‚ Murray Bookchin‚ and many before them have stressed so greatly the benefits of self-education‚ as well as the benefits of media infiltration-
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Paul Kelly’s collection of lyrics ‘Don’t Start Me Talking’‚ demonstrates the way Aboriginal Australians are administered amongst society. Through his lyrics‚ Kelly talks of the harsh and unfavourable treatment that was present to the Aboriginals. Through Kelly’s characters he shows that Aboriginals worked for greedy men who payed them very little for their hard work and how settlers came about to take over the land from Aborigines. The Stolen Generation had major effects on the Aboriginal identities
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The Nazis used propaganda to make the German people believe that Jews were bad people‚ so that they would gain more support. It was hard to make the argument to exterminate the Jewish population in the mass media‚ so the Nazis put it most strongly in word-of-mouth propaganda using speakers and public meetings (Randall‚ abstract). The Nazis made sure that only Nazi ideas were discussed on the radio‚ in newspapers‚ and in magazines (Shuter‚ Life and Death in Hitler’s Europe‚ 12). They put up posters
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Choctaws encountered terrible winter storms” (Takaki 85). In another quote from Takaki‚ he describes how horrible they treated the Indians while moving them: “What struck Tocqueville was how whites were able to deprive Indians of their rights and exterminate them” (Takaki 86). Both of these quotes from Takaki show how the United States was trying to create a new United States without cultural pluralism. While reading Fredrickson‚ Models of American Ethnic Relations‚ this helped me understand how people
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