Casey Turner Vocab 12 litany(noun) a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession. syn list‚ catalog‚ enumeration ant sentThe mother of the child gave a litany at the funeral. Truncate to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short syn abridge‚ trim‚ curtail‚ abbreviate antlengthen sentThe man truncated the board to fit the frame. 34 Interlocutor a person who
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The USSR (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was found in 1922 by Vladimir Lenin. The USSR was shortly taken over by Joseph Stalin‚ which lasted from the 1920’s to the 1953.(DeSomma‚ 12) During the time of Stalin’s ruling the NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs)‚ a secret police force‚ murdered many soviet citizens and jailed many others to Gulags. Gulags were forced labor camps that people were sent to if they were seen dangerous to the union. The Soviet then destroyed all owned
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The origin of the gothic people What is a goth? In the late 20th century a goth was a member of a subculture favouring black clothing‚ white and black make up and punk rock music with mystical lyrics. In the 18th century the term ‘Gothic’ was used to describe a genre of literature that had elements of horror. In the middle ages it was used to describe a style of architecture characterized by pointed arches‚ rib vaults‚ flying buttresses‚ with large windows and elaborate tracery (in short the Gothic
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age of 93. A total of only 63 people are known to have survived the camp‚ fleeing in a revolt shortly before the camp was destroyed. This camp is known as one of the most vivid examples of the "Final Solution" plan that the Nazis had in mind to exterminate Europe’s Jews. Unlike many other concentration camps‚ where some Jewish people were assigned to forced labor before being killed‚ nearly all Jews that were brought into the Treblinka camp were immediately gassed to death. Only a select few‚ such
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the page. Also‚ the book revealed to me that German officers not only moved into their towns‚ but were kind to each and every person in the town‚ including the Jews. Astounding how they were so kind but only a few months later they were trying to exterminate
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"Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken glass and china. The dining-room was stripped of parquet‚ the skirting was up‚ the door had been taken off its hinges‚ and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators - and destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become." The Second World War had just finished and the boys were living
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died in the Battle of Bataan‚ as they reached the camp many of the soldiers were sick and starved by the Japanese. After being held at the war camp for three years‚ the Japanese war ministry issued a “Kill All Policy” which meant that they will exterminate all the war camps in the Philippines‚ killing all the US prisoners in the camp. At the camp named Palawan‚ over a hundred U.S. soldiers were forced into gasoline filled trenches and burned alive. At camp Cabanatuan the American prisoners were loosing
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Those are the words of Dr. Martin Luther King‚ one of the great examples of a leader of a civil disobedience movement that exemplifies the way that civil disobedience positively impacted society. Lynching and bombings that resulted in deaths of African Americans were a part of daily life in addition to the fact that African Americans were second class citizens as a result of Supreme Court cases and many laws enacted throughout the United States
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as well. Speaking of the government‚ it has nothing to offer for the people except what it has already taken from them‚ not to mention a government as big as ours is big enough to give anyone everything they desire‚ but not to forget it can also exterminate everything a person has and what they have worked hard for. In addition‚ the more someone knows about us‚ the more authority they have over us. Personal data for example‚ is used in our everyday lives especially when making consequential decisions
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The Nazi organization began during World War Two and with it the creation of millions of loyal Nazi members. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party and wanted to from the perfect race of blond haired and blue eyed people. These people would be the Aryan race. Nazi propaganda was used extensively to spread and brainwash the citizens of Germany. Although some say the formation of Anti-Nazi groups proves Nazi Propaganda was ineffective‚ the propaganda was effective because the Hitler Youth was
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